. 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 . e ambition, seemed to place within hisdeserving reach ; and Inasmuch as the passing from earth of this strong soul towhere time is not, nor days, nor months, nor years—an everlast-ing now— has left a gap in the ranks of the great army of hisco-workers and friends, by whom will be
. 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 . e ambition, seemed to place within hisdeserving reach ; and Inasmuch as the passing from earth of this strong soul towhere time is not, nor days, nor months, nor years—an everlast-ing now— has left a gap in the ranks of the great army of hisco-workers and friends, by whom will be heard no more his burstof humour and quaint conceit, his ready and abundant wit, whichscintilated from his quick brain like sun-flashes from polishedbrass, his sometimes wholesale sarcasm, neither sparing in modestcriticism his friends, nor rending the cloak of their self-respect;and Inasmuch as no longer will be heard the melody of songwhich found expression in his rich voice, tunefully sympatheticwith and ever dear to his always eager listeners, nor longer willbe felt the magnetism of his manly nature attracting to itself thequick resjDonse which mind gives to mind when inspiriting in-vitation indicates the pathway to fields of mutual enjoyment: and Inasmuch as his native modesty bespoke a well-balanced. JOHN BURTON. General Freight Agents. 189 mind, making bis life like to a pendulum vibrating between tbesteps of bigb ambition on tbe one hand and lowly self-apprecia-tion on tbe otber, and as bis daily bearing, in bis home regard-fully affectionate; among bis friends, acceptably equipoised;and in his business pursuits, broadly liberal and confident; chal-lenged the admiration and esteem of all with whom he came incontact; and as his pursuit of and familiarity with classic andcurrent literature had for him its delights and allurements,rounding his life and stimulating his brain so that while pursuinghis business with the unflinching exactitude of arduous require-ment a cha
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