The question of revenue to the companies need not be ignored
for proper and efficient control would produce order, moderation,
neatness, artistic effect--and profit.
With the principal clerks of the office staff my relations were very
pleasant. The consideration with which I was treated by my chief, and
the footing upon which I stood with him, gave me a certain influence
which otherwise I should not have possessed. Till then there had been
absent from the company's staff any gathering together for purposes of
common interest or mutual enjoyment. The _Railway Benevolent
Institution_ provided a rallying point. I had been appointed its
representative on the Glasgow and South-Western Railway and we held
meetings and arranged concerts in its aid. Then, after a time, we
established for the principal clerks and goods agents and certain grades
of station masters, an annual day excursion into the country, with a
dinner and songs and speeches. "Tatlow is good at the speak," said
publicly one of my colleagues, in his broad Scotch way, and so far as it
was true this I daresay helped me. I was made permanent president of
these excursions and feasts, and often had to "hold forth," which I must
confess I rather enjoyed.
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