Old Salem scrap book . oyant Hon. John F. Hurley, at 80, worehis tall silk hat at a jaunty angle, waltzed lightlyand commented brightly on politics and the ways ofthe human race. Right on deck was his sloganthat kept him going. Tanners, too, lived long. Some explained that thesmell of bark, used to tan leather up to the nineties,was good for the throat and lungs. The Salem Senate, chalking down age records onthe walls, once made up a list of seven tanners, allactive, whose ages averaged 77 years. Is there anyrecord of longevity like that in any trade in thiscentury. The Salem Senate, a group o
Old Salem scrap book . oyant Hon. John F. Hurley, at 80, worehis tall silk hat at a jaunty angle, waltzed lightlyand commented brightly on politics and the ways ofthe human race. Right on deck was his sloganthat kept him going. Tanners, too, lived long. Some explained that thesmell of bark, used to tan leather up to the nineties,was good for the throat and lungs. The Salem Senate, chalking down age records onthe walls, once made up a list of seven tanners, allactive, whose ages averaged 77 years. Is there anyrecord of longevity like that in any trade in thiscentury. The Salem Senate, a group of elder tanners, metin Joshua B. Grants store, in Blubber Hollow, wherehe made tables and tools for tanners. Joshua, as ayouth, sailed to California in 1849 to hunt for gold,returned home and for many a year kept his shop, 10 Old Salem Scrap Book and then retired to liis farm in Ipswich where helived to be four score and more. His clerk, Frank Wade, of such sound sense thathe was called The Ipswich Lawyer/ also retired. MATTHEW ROBSONA Busy Man At 90 to his farm, and the records say that at 90 he ^fished,hunted and skated. On Washingtons birthday, in the year of 1923. Old Salem Scrap Book 11 Matthew Eobson, in honor of his 90th birthday, wasgreeted by friends and fellow citizens assembled inAmes Hall of the of which he was presi-dent. He was also a leading church man, and a builderof houses of worship, a trustee of the Bertramlibrary, president of Salem hospital, director ofISTaumkeag Trust Co., and director of AmericanHide & Leather Co., his years in the leather indus-try being about 70. He whimsically remarked thathe had wondered what a man should do after he wasfour score and ten, and, after thinking it over, de-cided to keeping on doing what he had been doing,which he did for four years more. It seems, looking back to the nineties and there-abouts, that some folks then knew^ the way to geiitljglide down the stream of life. Has the art beenlost? If so, how may it be
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