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more than eleven hundred persons, about sixfold the 

 staff of my early days. 



I must not pretend to a complete msight mto the 

 whole of the improvements effected at Liverpool by 

 the eminent public servant to whose official life I have 

 thus briefly adverted, but I doubt if even the depart- 

 ment know, and I am quite sure the public in Liver- 

 pool do not know, half that Mr. Eich has brought 

 about. 



The city of Liverpool has shown herself, in a 

 hundred ways, in sympathy with every advance of 

 science — by her University College, her electric rail- 

 way, her vast new waterworks, etc. But to my mind 

 the latest, and by far the cheapest, work is not the 

 least interesting. 



There is now a complete line of telegraphic or 

 telephonic communication all round the Bay of 

 Liverpool for life-boat service. Crosby and Formby 

 ' speak ' direct to Bidston, New Brighton or the 

 Orme's Head. This is a system which I trust is 

 the forerunner of other systems of similar com- 

 pleteness to be undertaken by the Post- Office around 

 the coast. 



