Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-09-15
WAKEMAN'S WANDERINGS
THE GREAT SEASIDE RESORTS or
ENGLAND.

Bright. Breezy. Historic Brighton-A
London-by-the-sea - The Associations
which Made 10 Famous, and the As
poets which Keep 10 Glorious.
Copyright. 1891. by Edgar L. wakeman.l
BRIGHTON England. Aug 81.-With
whatever one may be out Of sorts in Eng
lish travel. whether WEAKNESS. dreariness
or positive illness may have prompted the
coming. with whatever desperation one
may have escaped London and its irrevo-
cable griminess and hardness. a sunniness
and good natured lazness possess the soul
whenever Paddington is left behind and
ones face is az last set toward that most
famous Of all English watering places,
bright, breezy. historic and glorious old
Brighton.
How the odd things and folk of old
Brighton and new come crowding into the
mindi History. romance and song all send
their familiar hosts. There Is old King
Canute, so pulled with his own greatness
that when his chair was placed upon the
Goodwin Sands he commanded the incOm-
ing tide 10 stay its onward march, and got
for his bravadO an ingloriOus ducking in
the presence of his entire court. The lord
ly figure OF William, the Norman con-
querer. cannot be disassociated from the
place. Then every school child knows Of
Earl Goodwin, earl Of Brighton manor,
who. tempting his sovereign to play the
fool, was choksd TO death in attempting TO
swallow bread crust The rare old Flem-
ish pirates came over once and took all the
town away. BrigthelmstOn IL was called
in those days, and when il was built up
again the French came and made a bonfire
Of t. Il was time now for Brighton TO be
put In a state Of defense. So they built a
blockhouse. a gun garden and four gates,
"al done Of hynte. lyme and sand in a
warlyke manner"
Then came theera Of the "Auncient Mari
ners," when war ragged for two centuries
between landsmen and seamen over the
election OF 'headboroughs" and council
ors, 4" when the "Auncient Mariners" swore
by the good old rule,
The simple plan.
That they should take who have the power.
And they should keep who can.
that they should evermOre rule in Brighton,
and the laudsmen swore, "Odds fish. hand
spikes and tacklingr' that "by the rood,
we'll have our share" the final cOmprO-
mise being that the sea folk should elect
eight and the landsmen four out Of ''the
twelve nuncientest. gravest and wysest in
habitauts Of the town for assistants 10 the
oonestahlc in every publique cause, out oi
all Of which came many OF the raciest and
most lnlrth provoking ballads that oldeI
| England ever knew In Henry NlIPi
time. at the dissolution Of the monasteries
the manor Of Brighton, with the rectory
and advowson. were given by the king e
Anne Of Cleves for life.
About a hundred years ago the Londor
1 mail coaches were bowled down to Bright
on at a mad gallop during daylight, and
the present steamship service between New
/ Haven aud Dieppe was toreshadowed by
service Of packets between Brighton an'
Dieppe. The route was advertised a
bringing London and Paris ninety mile
nearer than by way Of Dover and Calais
and a trim ,pacquet" sailed every even
ing the moment the fcaming horse
dashed up with the London coach to tn
"Old Ship" inn and the mails and passen
gers could be hustled on board Half tn
literature OF the last century teemed wit
! scenes and incidents from these then won
derful old Journeys, and the crack O
whips the notes Of the coach horns an
the screech Of the wheels down the frost
hillways seem to float into your carriag
window TO this very hour welcome an
meiodiOus still.
But George ". good old Or. Richar
Russell and Thackeray. thethree who mos
made Brighton famous, send you the cleal
est cut faces and most pleasant companion
with which TO enter Brighton Who hs
not the memory of broad beamed Marth
Gum, ''the principal bathing woman" {
Brighton, who once had the honor OF ducl
ing King George. and who can still B
seen here in AN hundred buxom prototypes
as well as her own, original self. In a weir
crayon drawing. holding pink faced DO
In lawn with chestnut curls, the infar
king Of unsavory memory, With the coba
sea at her feet, and "A lone bathing machir
labeled Smoker 4 Co. in the awful pc
spectivei 10 IL a sight that will leave
smile on your face past many wear
iourney. Then there was the principl
] bathing man." who also ducked Kin
George. He was known TO local fame I
'Old Sneaker" and appears and reappeal
deathlessly through old tales and ballad
ever ripe fer use as the travelling play &C
ors' utility man. He is here still. bic,
himl in scores Of gray old fellows. bronze
and broad CHEEKY and mellow, sort
salty cross between Santa Claus, NeptuE
and a porpoise, m6fe tempting than sire
20 the embrace Of the waves.
But more than Martha Gum, ''Ol
Smoaker' or George Nv 70 Brighton vi
that luminous old pudge, the true patrc
saint of the place, DIR. Russell How
must have chuckled 70 himself when
sent broadcast through Britain that gre
treatise. The Efficacy Of Sea Water
Glandular Diseases" and saw Brighton q
most instantly grow rich as Canterbury
the time Of the pilgrimages. The old iok
knew that the universal British pulse az
purse lay just beneath the universal Bri
ish glandular disease; and BY the cove
mention Of the peculiar adaptability an
efficacy Of Brighton salt water In partic
lar. a stream Of people and gold bega
flowing toward this one cove Of the .
that has never ceased increasing
Then dear, delightful Thackeray wrot
1t Is the fashion % run down George q
Fourth What myriads Of L0ndoners ougl
% thank him Tor inventing brightonl o.
Of the best physicians our city has en-
known IS kind. cheerful. merry DR.. Brig
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