Identifier: railwaysotherway00penn (find matches)
Title: Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Pennington, Myles, b. 1814
Subjects: Railroads -- Canada Canals -- Canada
Publisher: Toronto : Williamson & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f the railway coach in various attitudes of prostration, lookingas though they had passed through a pulp mill. SHUNTED AND STUCK. Another about Crewe Station :—Poole said that a lady com-plained to the directors of the London and North Western Kail-way that she had been grossly insulted by one of the porters atCrewe station. An enquiry was made into the matter, and thesuperintendent called upon the porter to explain his conduct.The man spoke in the broad Lancashire dialect, and said, he never suited a lady, he said, ah Mor gooing past a lot okerridges and ah seed a woman ione oem and ah hoppendthdoor, and ah said, yo mun ger aat or yole be shunted andstuck. Meaning that the lady must get out as the coach would be.shunted into a siding, and she would be left behind. INSTRUCTIONS ON A CLOCK. In a railway station in Iowa is the following placard over theclock :— This is a clock ; it is running; it is Chicago time; itis right; it is set every day at 10 oclock. Now keep yourmouth shut.
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Anniversary—My Valedictory. 379 CHAPTER XXXVI. ANNIVERSARY MAMMOTH CAVE PRINTING PRESS MY VALEDICTORY. CELEBRATING THE 40tH ANNIVERSARY OF LANDING IN CANADA. MR J. B. JONES, of Toronto, agent of the Dominion line ofsteamships, and Mr. Myles Pennington, of the GrandTrunk Eailway, on Friday evening last, celebrated in the way ofa private banquet at the residence of Mr. Jones, Simcoe street,the 40th anniversary of their landing in Canada. Messrs. Jonesand Pennington came out from England on the SS.Sarah Sands,one of the ocean pioneers of the St. Lav^rence route. On the festive board, round which the celebrationists and asmall companj^ of friends gathered, there stood a miniaturemodel of the Sarah Sands, her hull represented by an oblongcrystal, and her decks, smokestack and top works artisticallyconstructed of flowers. Close to the ship ran a miniature rail-way, with a tiny G. T. R. locomotive upon the rails, both roadwayand engine partially hidden by the choicest specimens fromthe flo

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