. The ways of our railways . y to keep in touchwith all the ramifications of the department. Inaddition to all the things already mentioned, thecommissariat manager of a large railway generallyhas several laundries under his charge, for thewashing of the linen of the company and its London and North-Western has no less thanfive laundries at various centres ; and in connectionwith the one at Willesden, where the London washing(amounting to about 75,000 articles per week) is done,the North-Western keeps about 250 chickens and100 pigs—^the former to supply eggs for the EustonHotel, and
. The ways of our railways . y to keep in touchwith all the ramifications of the department. Inaddition to all the things already mentioned, thecommissariat manager of a large railway generallyhas several laundries under his charge, for thewashing of the linen of the company and its London and North-Western has no less thanfive laundries at various centres ; and in connectionwith the one at Willesden, where the London washing(amounting to about 75,000 articles per week) is done,the North-Western keeps about 250 chickens and100 pigs—^the former to supply eggs for the EustonHotel, and the latter to convert the waste food ofthe hotel and restaurant-cars into pork; In a fewcases the buying of the wines—a work requiringspecial skill and judgment—is not done by the com-missariat manager, but by an outside expert. Butas a general rule the manager supervises the buyingas well as the selling of everything; Skilful buyingis, in short, the basis of success in the caterersbusiness. ^my^^-^ ^:\ r LJ : 5 t^ ^.. CHAPTER Work of the Wagons. THE work of the goods departments of ourrailways does not bulk so largely in the publiceye as that of the passenger branch of theorganisation. Everybody is interested more or lessin the running of the crack expresses, and every-body has a grievance, more or less acute, anent theunpunctuahty, slowness, or inconvenient timing ofsome passenger train by which he or she is wont totravel ; whilst the arrangements of stations, theintricacies of time-tables, and the behaviour of guards,porters, and ticket-collectors vie with the weatheras subjects of conversation when casual acquaintancesmeet. The doings of the luggage-trains, on theother hand, do not interest the general public, exceptso far as they interfere with the passenger working,when their presence on the lines is sometimes regardedas a highly censurable lapse on the part of themanagement. To the attention of people who lookat railways from this point of view, I must agai
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