FEELING FIT AT THE AGE OF 102.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1590, 6 November 1912, Page 10

FEELING FIT AT THE AGE OF 102.

' 9 ——' VJiTKIiMX WHO WOfIKBP WITH GEUIiGE STEPHENSON. . At ilottinghani Fawn, nea.T Ellham, England, there lives, in'oxecUent health— lit, so he said, to- get nji and ''box" "The Daily News awl tender" ijcju'eseutatiVe, who called on him —Jli\ William Brown, known locally as Fanner Brown, who celebrated his liiiind brrthdgy recently. Sir.' Brown's memory is as sound .as Ms health. He recalls that ho earned Ms first ss. when, at the a.?e at e'leren year?, he worked oh the rwHtruetion of tlie ftvst Wltlvay front' Chester to Livcrnool, liis chief boius George Stephenson. Ife tfas a keen ami imfuslrious worker., aiid later, as a contractor, he laid « line of fa'ilwiy i'iwn Kritli to Woolwich. "I. atssv laid a silicic line atiTiochester." 1m added. "There -\vris n e.iiifil where Hie <nitranee to th« station is lunv, and wo had to drive tlie water hack. But the lilies were vevy different from What t'hey aro now." / ' ' slr. Brown is very prowl of fh : e fact: that iie rose entirely wi't.li.oi'it- irtfhtoivc'p, hy llis own mianled efforts. lie took Jifliliinsrlwm Farm ill 183?. Thirty years afto !\o started a/HroJifUvs" Ivosf," wluH'e he ciive- a : niiihitoifeiliß 'to destitute wayfarm's, Mv. Brown Ink many friends. On Id's last birthday lie reSei'ved ■ 200 letters rvf congratulation, one of thei'n frAm the King.