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proprietors ai^reccl to withdraw their coaches from 

 the Eirming'haiii Road, and to throw the weight 

 of their interest and influence on the side of the 

 railway. In return, they Avere given the contract 

 for the parcel agency of the line. Chaplin had 

 perceived, as Eaxendalc had already done in the 

 case of the goods traflic, that this agency would 

 he very valuahle, and to his far-seeing counsel 

 Home OAved much. 



Henry Home, one of I3enjamin Worthy 

 Home's nine hrothers, hecame a partner with 

 him in 1836, and Avas a memher of this firm of 

 Chaplin & Home for many years. He survived 

 his hrother, and Avas at the head of afl^airs Avlien 

 the London and North-AVestern Hallway took 

 over the parcel husiness and the London receiving 

 offices in 1S7L Henry Avas the kindest-hearted 

 of men, and old coaching-men doAvn on their luck 

 ahvays found him a sure draw for a loan or a 

 gift. AVise by dint of long experience, he laid 

 down a golden rule that it Avas cheaper in the 

 end to give £50 than to lend £100. 



When the fierce old fighting days of the road 

 were ended and the husiness of Chaplin & Home 

 AA^as set afoot, the restless energies of Benjamin 

 Worthy Home found an outlet in the manage- 

 ment of the goods business in connection Avitli 

 the raihvay, and he Avas constantly in and out 

 at Euston and Camden. In those early days the 

 London and North-Western llaihvay headquarters 

 staff Avas managed on somewhat lax and primitive 

 lines, and if a departmental manager thought he 



