. 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 . SECTIONAL VIEW FULL LENGTH OF TUNNEL ENGINE EMERGING FROM PORTAL. The St. Clair Tunnel. 179 The following interesting sketches of the varied railway-careers of Messrs. Wright, Percy and Lanning are mainly takenfrom the Toronto Mail, of March 20, 1894, and I have greatplea
. 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 . SECTIONAL VIEW FULL LENGTH OF TUNNEL ENGINE EMERGING FROM PORTAL. The St. Clair Tunnel. 179 The following interesting sketches of the varied railway-careers of Messrs. Wright, Percy and Lanning are mainly takenfrom the Toronto Mail, of March 20, 1894, and I have greatpleasure in giving them a place in these records of Grand TrunkBail way prominent officials. EGBERT WRIGHT. Mr. Piobert Wright, the Treasurer of the Grand Trunk Eail-way, has placed his resignation in the hands of the General Mana-ger of the Company. Mr. Wrights health, under pressure of hisarduous duties, broke down at the end of last summer, and hewas forced for some months to seek a rest on the other side of theAtlantic. Not finding that speedy relief and improvement thathe expected, he has returned to Canada with the object of set-tling his personal affairs and closing up his official duties. was born at Darlington, England, on November 5th,1843. He entered the railway service in 1858 as a junior clerkin the accountants office of the Sto
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