. 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 . 7^ o ECHD< Kh w z o f/1 CO <: I?* - K- z o H O < Z W 5 p:; z o Oh Q ■ p: 03 H W X o a; O c^ O H 1—• O A rc W Oh > __ P o o A CO fc w - re OtiLer Officers, Incidents and Anecdotes. 199 JOSEPH TAYLOK AUTHOR OF FAST LIFE. In anotliei- part of this volume I have si3oken of
. 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 . 7^ o ECHD< Kh w z o f/1 CO <: I?* - K- z o H O < Z W 5 p:; z o Oh Q ■ p: 03 H W X o a; O c^ O H 1—• O A rc W Oh > __ P o o A CO fc w - re OtiLer Officers, Incidents and Anecdotes. 199 JOSEPH TAYLOK AUTHOR OF FAST LIFE. In anotliei- part of this volume I have si3oken of railway men■svho have dibhed into the mines of literature, as Poole, Salt andAuderten, and which show that men, however multitudinous theirduties, man} yet find some time to ramble into the fields ofscience, fiction or poesy. I now speak of a gentleman on this side of the Atlantic,viz : Joseph Taylor, who, when I first knew him, was a short-hand writer for General Manager Swinyard of the old GreatWestern Eailway; subsequently he was chief clerk to the late Muir, when that gentleman was General Manager of the G. ^\. E. Mr. Taylor possesses literary abilities of a high order,with a particular bent for writings of a humorous 1874 he wrote a book entitled, A
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