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SERIES I: COMPTROLLER FILES
BOX and FOLDER
1 001 to 002-4 Appointments l95l-62
Memberships, various associations
Correspondence: Traffic Executive
Association, Association of American Railroads (AAR)
Railway delivery of mail
2 002-4 Correspondence: AAR l949-6l
Info. furnished to the public
Meetings and minutes of Committee Freight and Passenger Accounts
Statistics
Boston Terminal Co
New England Transportation Co.
3 002-4 to Association of American Railroads: l955-6l
004-l4 Meetings and minutes of Committee on Disbursements
Special Committees
Meetings and minutes of Eastern
Accounting Conference
Textbooks
Misc. correspondence: advertising
Board Meetings:
New York Connecting RR
Boston Terminal Corp.
New England Transportation Co.
4 004-14 to Accrual for injury, loss, and l949-60
002-6 damage reserve
Sale of passenger lines
Various studies
ICC examinations
Agreements with employees
Freight operations
Communications: correspondence
Subscriptions, membership
campaigns, donations
United Fund campaigns
YMCA membership drives
Collection and payment of accounts,
personal injuries
Statement of unpaid bills
Damage to property reserves
Injury settlements of $25,000 +
Tolls
New England Transportation Co
New York Connecting RR
5 l06-5-B to l948-62
202-l5 Newspaper and milk shipments
Correspondence: Grand Central
Terminal
Income and Expenses
Revenue forecasts
Shortages on accounts
Avoidable cost studies
Estimated operating revenues
Budget Bureau
Gross operating revenue
Audit by Arthur Anderson Co.
6 202-l5 to l949-65
300 Information furnished to other companies
Board of Directors Meetings: NHRR
Executive Committee Meetings: NHRR
Companies
Pressprich Co.
Bowery Savings Co.
McGraw Hill Co.
A.W. Benkert and Co.
Standards and Poors
7 300 to l949-6l
502 Board of Director's Meetings: NHRR
Executive Committee Meetings: NHRR
Massachusetts state taxes, real
estate taxes, etc.
New York State taxes, etc.
Correspondence: federal,
state, and local taxes
Correspondence and reports to
the ICC
Rhode Island State taxes, etc
Sale and use taxes on locomotives
Federal excise taxes
Uncollectable items and bills
8 502 to l949-60
503 Correspondence: freight
Freight commodity statistics
Stamford derailment
Corrspondence: piggy-back service
Freight claims
Freight auctions
Correspondence: passenger service
Study of passenger service
9 503 to 1953-61
507 Passenger service problems
Passenger statistics
Bad checks received for passenger
service
Revenue accounts: dining service
Pullman mileage statistics
Pullman co. audits
Increased passenger fares
10 507 to l95l-60
602 Increase in fares
ICC hearings: correspondence
Dining car inventories and summary
of operations
Elimination of grade crossings
Authorities for expenditures
11 602 to Abandonments l955-6l
70l-l Sale of scrap
Equipment purchase and sales
Real estate digest
Welded rail program
Rental and lease of buildings and
office spaces
Wages, salaries, and pay increases
Increases in forces and rates
12 70l-8 to Force and rates l948-60
705 Overtime
Payroll deductions
Delivery and cashing of checks
Employee travel accounts
Western Union franks
Passes
Use of personal vehicle on
company business
l3 708 to Vacations and sick time l942-6l
002-4 Retirements, pensions, and
gratuities
Requisitions for stationery
Condition of work reports
Information furnished to other
companies
Accounting department staff meetings
and minutes
Safety Program Committee meeting
and minutes
Study of Auditor of Freight
Receipts office
Committee on Statistics
Alexander Proudfoot Co
l4 002-4 l957-60
Correspondence: Committee of Stat-
istics, Association of American RR
l5 002-4 to l956-60
0l2 Uniform system of accounts,
proposal for
ICC subjects
Correspondence: charities,
associations, Chambers of Commerce
16 0l2 l950-63
Correspondence: associations, clubs,
charities, and Chambers of Commerce
l7 0l2-000 to l950-64
002-4 Correspondence: charities, clubs,
associations, Chambers of Commerce
Correspondence: Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Correspondence: Executives of member
roads and members of the Board of
Directors
Association of American Railroads
l8 002-4 l94l-64
Association of American Railroads:
Board of Director's meetings
Highway and waterway matters
Committee on Statistics
Cost research programs
Carload routing practices
Report on railroads in twenty-
five countries
Facts on featherbedding
Eastern Accounting Conference
meeting
l9 004-l to l950-65
004-2 Annual computation of float rates
Witholding, retirement, and unemploy-
ment taxes
Statements of expected revenue
Annual reports to the ICC
Annual audit of accounts
Detail of injury, loss, and
damage reserve
Benefit plans
Fare increase
Correspondence: subsidiary companies
Wage increases
Vacation payments
Companies
New York Connecting RR
Connecticut Co.
20 004-2 to l943-64
004-ll Connecticut Company:
Correspondence, sale of
Board votes
Board of Directors' meetings
History of the Connecticut Co.
Taxes, fuel, sales, etc.
Dissolution of New York and
Stamford Transportation Co.
Cash forecasts
Payroll comparisions
Annual reports
Wage increases
Companies
Connecticut Co.
New York and Stamford County
Transportation Co.
Boston Terminal Co.
Berkshire Street Railway Co
2l 004-ll to l944-62
008 Correspondence: subsidiary companies
Rail savings operations
Massachusetts Option Plan
Telephone charges
Workmen's compensation
Excess automobile liability
Various insurance matters
Companies
Berkshire Street Railway Co
New England Transportation Co.
Springfield Street Railway Co
Old Colony RR
Worcester and Eastern Connecticut
Railway Co
22 009 l945-63
013 Destruction of records
Various publications
Newspaper clippings
Donations to charities, clubs,
and associations
23 0l8 to l944-64
l06-5-l3 Correspondence: contracts and leases
Collections and payments of accounts
Accruals for personal injuries
Statement of lost time due to injuries
Examination of treasurer's accounts
Audits
Correspondence: Grand Central Terminal
Correspondence: Biltmore Hotel and
Hotel Commodore
Gross receipts for rentals for
concessions: Grand Central Terminal
24 l06-5-B to l947-65
202-15 Port Morris power plant, disposal of
Correspondence: Grand Central Terminal
Cash forecasts
Purchase of U.S. Treasury Bills
Financial statements
Income accounts
Budgets
Flood loan agreements
25 202-5 to Responsibility reports: Acct. Dept. l949-69
2l9 responsibility for budget mgt.
Information furnished to the public
Eastern States Exhibition, 1960
Press releases
Investments, correspondence on
Annual reports to SEC
Audits
Correspondence: Fruit Growers Express
and Providence Produce Warehouse Co
Working funds
Stock purchase plans
Companies
Mercer Storage Co
Providence Produce Warehouse Co.
Fruit Growers Express
26 2l9 to Proxy information l945-6l
305 Annual report to stockholders
and working papers
Weekly reports to trustees
Various items of interest
concerning the railroad
27 305 to Correspondence: Federal, State, l954-6l
402 and local matters
Correspondence: ICC dockets, hearings
Information furnished to the Public
Utilities Commission:
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York
Information about the Massachusetts
Transportation Commission.
28 402 to l933-66
502-8 Information furnished to the Public
Utilities Commissions
PUC investigations
Correspondence: tax relief
Correspondence: taxes
Carloading reports
Freight commodity statistics
War reparations cases
29 502 to l954-65
502-2-A Freight commodity statistics
Correspondence: piggy back service
Freight: coal cars
Statements of loss and damage to freight
30 502-2-A to l952-64
503 Freight claims
Per diem: correspondence
Use of business cars
Passenger train earnings committee
Correspondence: passenger service
Passenger service circulars
31 503 l953-64
Passenger circulars
Special studies of passengers
Study of gross revenues and statistics:
passenger service
Discontinuance of passenger service
trains
Passenger service revenue: checking
bags and trucks
32 503 l958-65
Passenger service studies
Summer train earnings
Correspondence: passenger service
Passenger department: circulars
Passenger service: statistics
33 503 to Train service discontinuances l952-67
506 Passenger service revenue
Study of local passenger trains
Revenues of parlor cars
Correspondence: Railway Express Co
Handling of U.S. mail
34 503 to Handling and storage of mail l956-62
506 Passenger fare increases
35 507 to l954-64
604 Increased passenger fares
Rates of pay for laborers
Payrolls
Sale of Van Nest shop
Reduction in forces
Cost of living adjustments
Salaries and expenses of officers
Decisions concerning labor
Labor agreements
36 604 to 701.9 Payments for time lost due to illness
Christmas baskets
Payroll statements and audits
Legislation concerning retirement and
unemployment benefits
Increased passenger fares
Dining cars: summary of operations
Abandonments
Purchase and sale of equipment
37 701.9 to Puchase of equipment l947-65
800 Additions and improvements
Real estate and roadways
Expenses paid to employees
Personal automobiles used on
company business
Traveling expenses
Letters of congratulations for
40 and 50 years service
Accounting department rosters
Accounting department staff vacations
Working conditions: hours, etc.
Material and supply inventory
38 800 to Material and supply inventories 1944-65
002 Survey of reports
Statement of industrial concerns
Correspondence: fuel oil
Condition of work reports
Inventory material control
New Haven College of Executive
Development
Scrap accounting procedures
Correspondence: stenographers,
clerks, Comptroller
Appointments (closed files)
Associations (closed files)
39 002-4 1952-57
Correspondence: AAR
40 002-4 to 1939-56
004-1 New York City utility taxes
Correspondence: New York Connecting RR
41 004-l to 1933-56
004-8 Board Meetings
Correspondence: subsidiary companies
Audits
Companies
New York Connecting RR
The Connecticut Co
42 004-2 to 1945-55
004-8 Correspondence: subsidiary companies
Companies
County Transportation Co
New York and Stamford RWY Co
Harlem River and Port Chester RR
Boston Terminal
43 004 to 1942-56
8 Corrspondence: subsidiary companies
Tax matters
ICC applications, deeds, etc.
Charters and by-laws
Companies
Boston Terminal Co
Union Freight RR Co
Berkshire Street RWY Co
44 004 to 1945-55
l4 Correspondence: New England
Transportation Co
45 004-14 to l9l6-56
007 Correspondence: subsidiary companies
Insurance matters
Companies
N.E. Transportation Co
Holyoke and Westfield Co
46 008 to l945-56
0l3 Destruction of records
Weekly review by staff
Publications and newspaper clippings
Charity drives
Manufacturers Trust
47 013 to l940-57
106 Charity drives
Examination of accounts
Contracts and leases
Accounting department circulars
Audits
Information furnished to the
Board of Directors concerning
personal injuries
48 019 to l934-56
116 Status of outstanding bills
NY and Harlem tolls
Joint facilities and agreements
Balance of accounts
Companies
Boston and Maine RR Co
49 ll7 to l949-56
202.5 Statements of income
Budgets
Income accounts
Income and expenses
Monthly financial statements
Floods
50 202-15 to l945-56
215 Flood areas
Information furnished to the public
Press releases
Accruals for sinking funds
Mortgage bonds and notes
Investments and securities
Custodians files
51 215 to l942-56
215-5 Correspondence: SEC
Cost Study
Companies
Columbia Packing Co
Fruit Growers Express Co
Providence Produce Warehouse Co
52 221 to l953-57
302 Correspondence: stockholders'
annual report
Report to stockholders
53 302 to l948-58
304 Annual reports to the stockholders
Board meetings: NHRR
54 401 to l944-58
402 Correspondence and reports
concerning the ICC
Correspondence on taxes
55 403 Taxes, revenue agent l936-58
Audits
Correspondence concerning taxes
56 403 to l948-58
502 Operating and traffic statistics
Freight correspondence
57 502 to l942-57
502-2-A Freight
Statements on loss and damage
Pickup and delivery service
58 502-2 to l944-57
503 Freight claims
Per diem charges/waybills
Correspondence: freight
Correspondence: passenger service
Companies
Boston Market Terminal Co
59 503 to l944-57
506 Passenger counts
Passenger statistics
Pullman Co: accruals
Pullman Co: audits
60 506 to l943-57
602 Correspondence: U.S. Mail
Mail freight increases
Dining cars
Sidetrack policy
Correspondence: AFE's
Authorization For Expenditure
statements
61 602 to l935-57
604 Authorization For Expenditures
Abandonment of lines
Retirement of property
Depreciation
Equipment: purchase, sale, and repair
Handling trailers
62 604 to l948-57
701-2 Real estate and roadway
Sale of real estate
Real estate meetings
Wages, salaries, and payrolls
Cost of living increases
Increase and decrease in forces
and rates
Decisions on labor
63 701-2 to l924-56
701-12 Decisions on labor
Management and employee relations
Various agreements: labor
Vacations and holidays
Union shop agreements
Overtime
Payroll changes
Payroll statements
Use of transportation orders
64 702 to l94l-56
711 Passes
Applications for employment
Service records
Accounting department rosters
Forty years of service
Vacations and leaves of absence
Working conditions
65 712 to l946-57
905 Retirements, gratuities, and pensions
Strikes
American Management Assoc. educational
and training programs
Employees: courses, relations,
and inoculations
Condition of work reports
Electronic processing machines
Junior committee
Increasing efficiency
Companies
Boston and Maine RR Co
66 905 to l952-69
915 Freight accounting
Correspondence: personnel matters
Accounting for material and supplies
Accounting department equipment
Moving offices and equipment
Staff meetings: Accounting Dept.
Companies
Western Maryland RR Co
67 908-1 to l932-56
920-5 Correspondence: Providence Terminal
Employees suggestions
Correspondence with P.B. McGinnis
Management seminars
68 920-11 to l932-58
004-2 Intercorporate billing
Transit advertising
Companies
NY Connecting RR Co
The Connecticut Co
Berkshire Street and RWY Co
69 004-8 to l942-62
012 Correspondence: subsidiary companies
Destruction of records
Analysis of record keeping
Subscriptions, memberships, and
contributions
Companies
Boston Terminal Co
Berkshire Street RWY Co
New England Transportation Co
Norwich and Worcester RR Co
70 0l9 to l944-68
202 Correspondence: Grand Central Station
Various audits
Cash forecasts
Intercorporate billing
Income and expenses
71 202 to l944-68
208 Checks and vouchers
Personal injury reports
Income and expenses
Budgets and income accounts
Information furnished to the public
72 208 to l945-58
502 Custodian's correspondence
Correspondence: taxes
Operating and traffic statistics
Piggy back service
Correspondence: Freight
73 502 to l948-59
604 Correspondence: freight
Freight claims
Damaged freight
Pickup and delivery
Passenger service
Passenger traffic
Dining cars
Mail handling
Authorization For Expenditures:
correspondence
74 604 to l950-59
705 Correspondence: equipment
New trains
Damage to property
Increase in payroll
Wages, salaries, etc.
Traveling and personal expenses
Cost of living expenses
75 705 to l943-58
905 Fifty years of service
Educational training
Retirements, pensions, and gratuities
Increasing efficiency
Correspondence: UNIVAC and IBM
Freight stations
Data processing machines
76 905-15 to l950-59
002-4 Correspondence: ICC
Taxes, regulations, etc.
General Committee meetings
77 002-4 l954-57
Heller Associates report
Freight and passenger bills
Hoover Commission
Changes in ICC reports, etc.
SERIES II: DEPUTY COMPTROLLER FILES
BOX and FOLDER
78 004t-2 to l9l5-l966
004-l6 Balance sheets
Expenditures
Sales agreements
Payrolls
Depreciation
Board meetings and votes
ICC correspondence
Statement of income
Uncollected bills
Accruals for cargo, personal
injuries
Progress Report
Bankruptcies and reorganizations
Mass Option Plan
Companies
Connecticut Co.
N.E.T. Co.
79 004-22 to l95l-68
70l Agreements
Reorganization plans
Taxes, balance sheets
Severance allowance for telephone
Operations
Health insurance plan for Traunman
Insurance
Workmen's Compensation
Employee benefit plan
Freight passenger revenue
Hospitalization insurance
Health and welfare plan
Insurance correspondence
Wages, salaries, and payrolls
Companies
Boston Providence RR
Holyoke Westfield RR
Providence Worcester RR
N.E.T. Co.
Berkshire Street RW Co.
80 701 1953-69
Wages, salaries, and payrolls
Gross earnings
Decisions on labor
Labor agreements
Equal Employment Opportunity
Audits of payroll
Full crew law
Time reports
Vacation allowances
Sick leave, widows
Snow removal: labor tax
Freight traffic department
reorganization
Reorganization of Public Relations Dpt.
Audit of Passenger Receipts Dpt.
81 70l to l945-68
002-4 Wage increase agreement
Payroll information
Association of American Railroads:
Committee on Statistics
Correspondence
Information letter
Bureau of Railway Economics
Grading and tunnel bores
National Railway Labor Conference
Transportation displays
Taxi concessions
Federal income taxes
Connecticut Company:
Audit of
Board votes
82 002-4 to 1955-68
004-2 Sale of Connecticut Company
Board votes: County Transportation Co.
Correspondence: NY State Assoc. of RR
Correspondence: Traffic Executive
Assoc. of NY
Chief accounting officers
Associatin of American Railroads:
General tax committee
Correspondence
Gross revenues
Government correspondence
83 002-4 to l95l-69
2l5-l Correspondence: Association of
American Railroads, various equipment
accounts and statistics
Correspondence: Secretary and
Executive Committee
Correspondence: Fruit Grower's Express
84 2l5-5 to l905-69
90l Fruit Growers Express audits
Providence Warehouse Co.:
audits
financial statements
organizational charts
board votes
board meeting
correspondence
85 2l5-5 to l949-69
704 Correspondence: Prov. Warehouse Co.
Correspondence: savings bonds
Passes
Western Union charge cards
Personal and traveling expenses
Travel and entertainment expenses
86 704 to l9l8-69
705 Applications for employment
50 years of service
40 years of service
Personnel histories
Service discards
Correspondence: employment
Accounting Dept. rosters
87 706 to l949-69
7l2 Grievances and claims correspondence
Freight claims
Vacation holiday agreements
Working conditions
Tardiness
Pension plans
Retirements, pensions, gratuities
88 7l2 to l94l-69
70l-l Pensions committee
Retirements
Increase in wages
Correspondence: general tax account-
ants, car service accountants,
freight and passenger accounting
89 70l-l to l949-68
7l3 Shop craft federations
Decisions on labor
Labor agreements
Payment for loss time
Payroll changes
Payroll reports
Cashing of paychecks
Personal income taxes
Resignations
Grievances
Accruals for vacation payments
Strikes
Marine strike
Hurricane Donna and Long
Island strike
90 l950-69
Strikes
Correspondence: dining car
Stevedores, lighterage, barges, cars
Marine operations
Sidetrack contracts
Authorization For Expenditures
approvals of abandonments
91 603-l to l956-57
603 Abandonments: various lines
92 603-l to l958-68
604-2 Abandonments
Purchase and sale of equipment
Statistics on equipment
Correspondence: real estate and roadway