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was appointed its Secretary, and Mr. Croker Barrington its Solicitor. It
was further decided that one general case for the associated railways
should be prepared and presented to the Commission by one person, who
should also (under the direction of the Committee) have charge of all
proceedings connected with the Inquiry. I, to my delight, was
unanimously selected as that person, and to enable me to do the work
properly, I was allowed to select three assistants. My choice fell upon
G. E. Smyth, John Quirey, and Joseph Ingram, and I could not have chosen
better. We were allotted an office in the Railway Clearing House; my
assistants gave their whole time to the work, and I gravitated between
Broadstone and Kildare Street, for of course I had to look after the
Midland Great Western as well as the Commission business. That I could
not, like Sir Boyle Roche's bird, be in two places at once, was my
greatest disappointment. I may record here that each of my assistants
has since, to borrow an Americanism, "made good." Smyth is now Traffic
Manager of the Great Southern and Western Railway; Quirey is Chief
Accountant of the Midland Railway of England, and Ingram became Secretary
of the Irish Clearing House, from which be has been recently promoted to
an important position under the Ministry of Transport (Ireland).
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