630 THE GREAT ALPINE TUNNELS. 



There are heroes on our railways as there are in our arni}^ and navj'^, 

 and they deserve better recognition. May I plead on behalf of our 

 inspectors and superintendents of our great railway stations, who are 

 in many cases almost worked to death, and yet have to be attentive 

 and courteous to all; albeit, except in certain honorable exceptions, 

 they are unable to make proper provision for old age? And should it 

 be necessary for a station master, after six years' work at a great rail- 

 way junction, to drop into his grave with the simple epitaph "tired 

 out?" 



