Only six
months were allowed in which to revise all rates and bring them into
conformity with the new classification and the new conditions--an
absurdly short time, for the work involved was colossal. But it had to
be done. Robert Morrison, Michael O'Neill and I, took off our coats and
worked night and day. We had the satisfaction of accomplishing the task
in the allotted time, which not every company was able to do. Generous,
as always, Sir Ralph in his speech to the shareholders in February, 1893,
said: "I wish to express that we are greatly indebted to Mr. Tatlow for
the care and anxiety with which he has endeavoured to arrange this
important rates matter. He has worked most energetically; has attended
the Committees of the Board of Trade, and the Parliamentary Committee,
and he is now seeing traders constantly. I may tell you that I and my
brother directors place the most implicit reliance on our manager, and I
am satisfied that anything he has done has been reasonable to the traders
and for the benefit of the shareholders." This was warm praise, and the
more welcome, being, as it was, the spontaneous expression of what I knew
he felt.
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