At least I think so now; and, as Hamlet says,
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
One immediate advantage I gained by entering the Midland Great Western
service. Until then I had no chance of joining a superannuation fund.
The Glasgow and South-Western had none, neither had the County Down; but
the Midland Great Western was a party to the Clearing House
Superannuation Corporation, and of it I became a member.
The Midland Great Western, as I have said, is the third largest railway
in Ireland. It stretches from the Liffey to the Atlantic, serves the
plains of Meath, the wilds of Connaught, and traverses large expanses of
bog. Galway, Sligo, Westport, Athlone and Mullingar are the principal
towns on its system.
When I became its manager, Sir Ralph Cusack had been chairman of the
railway for nearly a quarter of a century and was in his sixty-ninth
year. He attended daily in his office, devoting much time to the
company's affairs. Although my position was not all I could have wished
in the matter of that wide authority I coveted, and which, in my humble
opinion, every railway manager should possess, it was in many respects
very satisfactory, and every lot in life has its crumpled rose leaf.
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