 | New York (State). Governor - 1864 - 588 páginas
...benefit the boatmen and carriers more, even, than one cent a bushel remission of tolls. It would be more real utility to navigation than five or ten times...the rapacity of cormorants who fatten on jobs." I have thus briefly sketched the outline of a policy which is the best method to promote cheap transportation,... | |
 | Theodore Pease Cook - 1876 - 470 páginas
...larger space, it would not be necessary to alter the culverts or other structures, or to carry the walls below the present bottom ; and the benefit would be...the rapacity of cormorants who fatten on jobs." I have thus briefly sketched the Outline of a policy which is the boat method to promote cheap transportation,... | |
 | Theodore Pease Cook - 1876 - 460 páginas
...benefit the boatmen and carriers more, even, than one cent a bushel remission of tolls. It would-be of more real utility to navigation than five or ten...the rapacity of cormorants who fatten on jobs." I have thus briefly sketched the outline of a policy which is the best method to promote cheap transportation,... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1876 - 936 páginas
...benefit the boatmen and curriers more, even, than one cent a bushel remission of tolls. It would be ot' more real utility to navigation than five or ten times...who seek the fame of magnificent constructions, and ot engmeers who build monuments for exhibition to their rivals, or to awaken the rapacity of cormorants... | |
 | Samuel Jones Tilden - 1885 - 666 páginas
...benefit the boatmen and carriers more, even, than one cent a bushel remission of tolls. It would be more real utility to navigation than five or ten times...the rapacity of cormorants who fatten on jobs." I have thus briefly sketched the outline of a policy which is the best method to promote cheap transportation,... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1900 - 1292 páginas
...improvement of the Erie canal would be effected by a thorough system of ordinary repairs, which should give the waterway its proper and lawful dimensions:...awaken the rapacity of cormorants who fatten on jobs." Every word uttered by him in those two messages 01 1875 and 1876, and in the Constitutional Convention... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1909 - 1074 páginas
...benefit the boatmen and carriers more, even than one cent a bushel remission of tolls. It would be more real utility to navigation than five or ten times...the rapacity of cormorants who fatten on jobs." I have thus briefly sketched the outline of a policy which is the best method to promote cheap transportation,... | |
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It would be of more real utility to navigation than five or ten times its cost expended in the average manner of so-called improvements on the public works. But it is too simple, too practically useful, to enlist the imagination of projectors who seek... 