THE OFFICE BOY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 16, 9 May 1914, Page 4

THE OFFICE BOY.

In the City of London there is an office boy, in the service of a firm of stockbrokers, who drives to the office in a Rolls-Royce car. But he does not keep it up out of his salary, which is 15s a week. Tho boy's father is one of the wealthiest merchants in the city, and the boy is learning tho business of stockbroking. The father insisted that his son should le.irn the whole routine of the office—and so, although he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, that mouth is to-day used for licking stamps. According to a city merchant wealthy office boys are by no means uncommon. "Business men who have made money by their own exertions," he said, "know the advantage of starting from the bottom, and they often place their sons in the offices of friends and don't in the least resent it if their boys are set to lick stamps and post letters—at first. I know one boy who, when he is twenty-one, will come into an income at least twice as large as that of his present employer. I remember his 'boss' asking him to stay late one evening. You would have smiled to hear the 'office boy' ask to be excuse 1 as he was dining with his people at the Savoy and had to hurry home and dress."