He worked with a will, delighted that someone as enthusiastic and
even younger than himself was now in charge. He little suspected, I am
sure, how ignorant I was of practical matters, as I kept my own counsel
which was my habit when prudence so dictated. I knew the names of things
and was well versed in the theory and statistics of repairs and renewals,
but that was all. A fine worker was and is R. G. Miller. Well over 70
now, healthy and energetic still, he occupies the position he did then.
Age has not withered nor custom staled his juvenility. I met him on
Kingstown promenade the other day walking with an elastic step and with
the brightness of youth in his eye. The ordinary age-retirement limit,
though a good rule generally, was not for him. Daylight failed and night
came on before our task was finished, several carriages remaining
unexamined. These and the Sunday running vehicles we subjected to
scrutiny during the following week. At the next meeting of the Board I
presented a report of what I had done, and urged that a number of new
carriages should be contracted for without delay, enlarging upon the
return we might confidently expect from a responsive traffic.
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