An Address on the Railroad Evil and Its Remedy: Delivered at Platt's Hall, Saturday, August 2, 1879Pamphlet titled "AN ADDRESS ON THE RAILROAD EVIL AND ITS REMEDY..DELIVERED AT PLATT'S HALL,; SATURDAY, AUG. 2, 1879". Published in 1879. The pamphlet also contains biographical information about Alfred A. Cohen, a capitalist and lawyer born in London, England in 1829, who died in 1887. Cohen is noted for his sale of the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad Company's line to the Central Pacific Railroad Company, which resulted in a lengthy legal dispute.