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Professor James Mark Baldwin, in his book “The Individual and Society,” says, “Business has to do with the production of and distribution of valuable things—money, utensils—anything for which there is a demand in society, on which society or some individuals of it set value”; and again, “To produce such things in response to the demand and to distribute them to those from whom the demand comes is the undertaking of business.” The transportation, or the distribution, of the numerous products of New England and of her food and fuel is a most important business, not only in itself but in its relations to all other forms of business and to society generally. Some of my friends in New England, New York, and Philadelphia have asked me to come back to the East and to help in the development of this great transportation business, and I am very glad to come, although I realize Rh