Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-04-11
fANkTON S EAsTsRa AGENT.
The work OF Mr. Bicknell in Behalf
Our City and County

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The work OF Mr Bicknellin Behalf of
Our City and County
For several months past Yankton has
employed on eastern representative in
the person OF I. F. Bicknell, of Boston,
who has travelled over various p .rtlone
of New England in the interest of this
section and has turned valuable atten-
ton in our direction. Rev. Ir. Ward,
WHO has recently returned from the east,
YVES eeen to-day relative to the work OF
this agent and q pleasant conversation
lepsued.
"Did | meet MIR. Bicknell?" said DIR.
Ward. eyes. / made his office. twenty
five Globe Building, on Washington
street, my headquarters while IN Boston,
thus seeing him at all hours Of day and
evening"
"Do you think him a man we'll fitted
to work for us?'
eyes, most emphatically for he Is by
nature q very winning man, attracting
by his hearty sympathy and his sansuine
faith. Then he has a very wide ac-
quaintanoe all ovsr New England, He
has been prominent as educator and
editor and so has access to Leading
minds. He had very many plans nearly
matured to bring men here when the
blizzard came. 1 saw all the correspon-
dence, and it was funny ss we'll as sg.
graveting to read the letters that came
after the storm. Eastern people actually
seem to think that we, on the whole,
prefer that kind of weather, and far.
ther that we manufacture il right here
L don't care to live with such people,
-'In stay here where L am safe, ever if
1t ie hard to get along'-'No billiards. is
mine These and others like them were
the expressions in the letters that same
in the last of January. Yet after all,
some Of these same men came around
afterward TO talk about their comInR,
and | confidently expect they will yet
be here. OF course, even had there been
no storm, the best results OF Mr.. Biok-
nelrs work would not appear at once.
This ie not possible, in the nature of
things. Even in this country OF changes
men cannot make changes SO extensive
AS to involve the whole Of o life time in
a month or even q year"
chen you think that we will get re.
suits from this work ?"
Certainly / do. We shall get returns
from it for at least three years to come.
Though Mr. Bioknell is no longer our
paid agent he is working for us, answer
ing letters, giving lectures, making
journeys to help those who have become
interested in Yankton through his
efforts"
"What were his lectures? ?"
HE had q stereoptican by which he
| gave views of various Dakota and Yank.
ton scenes. Our artesisn we'll was o
greet wonder to all who saw it, and in
varlably led to 8 deeper interest in Yank.
ton. It only remains for US here to use
this power to develop ourselves into 9
large manufacturing center. This was
the universal conclusion OF all who saw
1T. These lectures were given in town
halls, before farmer clubs, or as 8 par
OF the regular village lecture course
"What was the effect of the eastern
blizz ard2
1.-THE people we're in the first place
greatly astonished that they should be
subjected to such o visitation. Then
they were convinced that they had been
unduty critical of the west. 1t also
made them feel that they in their wealth
and power were yet subject to the power
of God just as absolutely as the scatter
ed settlers on the bleakest prairie. Or
the Whole il was a good thing for both
east and west"