. 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 . ied schemes and to those towhom allotments of scrip were made. Its demoralizing effect upon all classes was terrible andmade hosts of defaulters. Clerks who were receiving salaries ofj680 or £100 per annum would reason thus : Here am I servinga whole year for the paltry salary 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 . ied schemes and to those towhom allotments of scrip were made. Its demoralizing effect upon all classes was terrible andmade hosts of defaulters. Clerks who were receiving salaries ofj680 or £100 per annum would reason thus : Here am I servinga whole year for the paltry salary of £100, while my nearneighbour, by a lucky stroke of railway speculation, makes his1,000 pounds in one day. When the great crash came, and scrip went down, downevery minute of the day, men groaned, and went about withblanched cheeks; thousands uj)on thousands were ruined, manycommitted suicide. Directors and speculators ran off to the 80 Railways and Other Ways. Continent. The scene was described by a noted writer, inimitation of the well-known words of the poet: Oh ! many a stag late blithe and brave,Forlorn, mounts the ocean wave ;And many a letter has been torn,And countless scrip to trunks be borne ;And many an antlerd head lies low,Which whilome made a glorious showAnd many a fast coach now crawls slow I. GROUP OF iS6o. Henry Bailey,James Hardman. Walter Shanly. flll Myles Pennington. Reminiscences of Early Days of G. T. R. 81 CHAPTER YI. KEMINISCENCES OF THE EARLY DAYS OF THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY. A STAKT FOE CANADA. IN July, 1853, I sailed from Liverpool with my wife and familyby the auxiliary screw steamer and full-rigged sailing shipSarah Sands for Quebec. James Hardman, John Eoberts andI came out on a five years engagement with Mr. S. P. Bidder,General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, andunder the auspices of Peto, Brassey,* Betts and Jackson, thenoted railway contractors and builders of the Victoria Bridge,and East of Toronto. Jas. Hardman was audi
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