To
quote again from Mr. Mills' book on the Institution:--
"Mr. Joseph Tatlow, at the Dinner in aid of the Institution held in
Dublin on October 23rd, 1902, said: 'It is now 30 years since I first
became a collector for this Institution, and when I look back on the
past, if there is one matter in my life which contains no grain of
regret, it is my connection with the Institution, as in regard to it I
can feel nothing but honest pride and gratification.'"
I am still a member of the Irish Committee, as well as of the London
Board of Management, and those words, spoken sixteen years ago, express
my feelings to-day.
Whilst writing the final words of this chapter the news reaches me of the
death of Mr. Mills, at the fine old age of eighty-seven. He had a long
and useful life, and the railway service owes him much. He it was whose
zeal and enthusiasm firmly established the Railway Benevolent as a great
institution. When, in 1861, he became its secretary, the income was only
1,500 pounds, and on his retirement in 1897, at the age of sixty-five, it
had grown to 53,000 pounds. His mantle fell upon his son, Mr.
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