. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . this description. You lose a little strip along the line of the road, which partially changes its character; while, as the compensation, you bring all this rural beauty,— The warbling woodland, the resounding shore,The power of groves, the garniture of fields. within the reach, no
. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . this description. You lose a little strip along the line of the road, which partially changes its character; while, as the compensation, you bring all this rural beauty,— The warbling woodland, the resounding shore,The power of groves, the garniture of fields. within the reach, not of a score of luxurious tourists, but of thegreat mass of the population, who have senses and tastes as keenas the keenest, and who but for your railways and steamerswould have gone to their graves and the sooner for the privation,without ever having caught a glimpse of the most magnificentand beautiful spectacle which nature presents to the eye of man—that a glorious combing wave, a quarter of a mile long, as itcomes swelling and breasting towards the shore, till its soft greenridge bursts into a crest of snow, and settles and dies along thewhispering sands ! RISEN FROM THE RANKS. In perusing the many sketches of railway men in this work,it will be noticed that nearly all of them have risen from the I. SIR W. C. VAN HORNE. Some Raihuay Statistics. 305 ranks, and I now give from McClures Magazine for January,1894, a list of a number of men in the United States, who, fromthe most humble beginnings, have risen to the highest eminencein railway positions. The best engineman has been a fireman ; the best con-ductors are made of brakemen; the best officials are promotedfrom the ranks. Mr. John M. Toucey, General Manager of theNew York Central, was once a trainman. President Newell, ofthe Tjake Shore, used to carry a chain in an engineering corpson the Illinois Central. President Clark, of the Mobile & Ohio,was a section man, afterwards a fireman. Another man whodrove grade sta
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