Date: 1891
A good man from the army, with his papers all correct and certificates from his commanding officer, may, after depositing twenty pounds to pay his home passage, in the event of his services being dispensed with, enter the Company's service on something less than one hundred rupees a month and rise in time to four hundred as a station-master.  A railway bungalow — and they are as substantially built as the engines — cannot cost him more than one-ninth of the pay of his grade, and the Provi dent Fund provides for his latter end.  Think for a moment of the number of men that a line running from Howrah to Delhi must use, and you will realise what an enormous amount of patronage the Company holds in its hands.