A Decade of American Government in the Philippines 1903 1913
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It was apparent that Mr. Wright's sympathies inclined more toward meas- ures for industrial development than to the political train- ing of the Filipinos or to public instruction of the child. As Secretary of Commerce and Police he had already given extensive study to the question of increasing railroad fa- cilities in the islands, and the most important achievement of his administration was the interesting of American cap- ital in railroad building. President Roosevelt appointed to the Commiss...ion to succeed Mr. Wright as Secretary of Commerce and Police, Mr. W. Cameron Forbes of Mass- achusetts, then a young man of thirty-four, who had had successful experience in financial reorganization of electric roads and similar business in the United States. Building of Railroads. Except for a short steam tram- way running from Manila to Malabon, the islands had but one railway, of 196 kilometers length, running north from Manila through the rich level plain of Luzon to Dagupan on the Gulf of Lingayen.
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