. 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 . y to Mr. Seargeantsworth and ability, the following extract from Director Hubbardsaddress at the annual Grand Trunk meeting, 1892 : I must say I have not found a director here who is not asanxious as you are to keep expenditure down to the last are all of the same mind
. 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 . y to Mr. Seargeantsworth and ability, the following extract from Director Hubbardsaddress at the annual Grand Trunk meeting, 1892 : I must say I have not found a director here who is not asanxious as you are to keep expenditure down to the last are all of the same mind, yet instead of working together aswe ought to do, and instead of creating good feeling amongstourselves, unpleasant observations are continually made at thesemeetings. These reports go out verbatim, and they are read bythe officials, and discouragement exists because there is no con-fidence placed in those who work for us. Then, with regard toour General Manager, I am told that if you go to Exeter andSouth Devon they will tell you what they think of Mr. , I can tell you what the opinion is. I was chairman of theSouth Devon Piailway—Mr. Seargeant was General Managerwhen I was there—and the opinion everyone has is, that we haveat the head of our road a man thoroughly devoted to its interests. W. WAIN WRIGHT. Directors and Managers of G. T. R. 157 and capable of establishing it on a better basis than everbefore. WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT. Mr. Waiuwright, a native of England, was born on April30th, 1840. At eighteen years of age he entered the services ofthe Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Kailway as a juniorclerk in the chief accountants office. He was afterwards secre-tary to the general manager of the same line. In 1862 came to jNIontreal and for a year served as seniorclerk in the accountants office of the Grand Trunk Kailway; thenhe was appointed secretary to the Managing Director, and inthat capacity continued for three years. We next find himf
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