. 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 . C-^^^^-r^ Audit Office. 169 of my age and liability to be called hence. None of us know howsoon the dread summons may come, and your quotation, Be yealso ready, is appropriate to all of us, young and old. W. J. SPICER, GENERAL MANAGER. The record of many Grand Trunk and old Great
. 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 . C-^^^^-r^ Audit Office. 169 of my age and liability to be called hence. None of us know howsoon the dread summons may come, and your quotation, Be yealso ready, is appropriate to all of us, young and old. W. J. SPICER, GENERAL MANAGER. The record of many Grand Trunk and old Great WesternRailway officers is so good, and so many of them have risen fromoffice boys up to the highest position of railway rank that, inspeaking of then gradual rise, one can hardly avoid the repetitionof terms, owing to the similarity of their careers. In describingthe career of any one individual, the same remarks are almostequally applicable to the rest. In introducing another railwaymanager, to whom the above observations will in particularapply, Mr. W. J. Spicer, I do so with very great pleasure, havingwatched his upward progress for very many years. His life is anexample of what steady conduct and perseverance will do for aman, and one which any young man would do well to imitate. Mr. Spicer, on leaving s
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