WORKING AT NINETY-ONE

Evening Star, Issue 19020, 15 August 1925, Page 9

WORKING AT NINETY-ONE

NONAGENARIAN’S ACTIVITY,

DAILY JOURNEY TO BUSINESS,

Ninety-one years’ -association with the City of London is the remarkable, and possibly unique, record of Mr W. H. Grosor, IB.Sc. Air Grosefj who represents, and is, the firm of William Groser and Sons, refiner of precious metals, a business house of nearly 100 years’ standing, was born on the premises at Clorkcnwell, ninety-ono years ago.

Despite bis advanced age, Mr Groser still goes daily to business. He leaves homo at 9 o’clock, walks half a mile to tho railway station’at Crouch End, works for seven hours at Glerkcnwell, and, on returning homo, walks another half-mile from tho station. Mr Groscr’s business is one of the romances of the city. A refinery of gold, silver, and platinum, it is run by a staff of only three —Mr Groser, who started in the business at the ago of eighteen as assistant to his father; Mr. Matthews, tho manager; and Mr Gough, tho melter. Both Mr Matthews and Mr Gough have been with Mr Groser over forty years. Asked Iris opinion of tho times, recently, Air Groser replied: ‘‘l think people are more courteous and obliging than they were when 1 was younger. 1 experience great kindness and courtesy oven from strangers, and 1 am sure that people’s manners have improved.” Nor would Mr Groser join with the pessimists in admitting that children have deteriorated, and, as a Sunday school superintendent for thirty-three years, and a member of the Council of the Sunday School Union for sixtyseven years, he should know something of them. He said, with the same grave deliberation: “ Human nature is pretty much tho same as it was. There may be some loss of reverence in young people, but I do not think that in children as children there is much difference. They are just as winsome as ever.”