Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24

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to prink and pout With all the arrog-
ance or a peacock. while the world
passed by and envied.
But mean little Todville stood in the
a The charmed point that ran out
into the sea. lofty and ironic. with it's
magnificent view up and down the
coast. from whose heights one could
stare in pity across and beyond the
very submits of naughty Corinth-the
grasp OF those who most desired it's
beauty. 1t belonged to a very close
corporation of philanthropists to whom
the comfort of antiquated sailormen
was OF more consequence than the co;,-
ISOLATION of ambitious jewellers in pal
aces.
Years before. when Corinth was not
I 'lrse proud and lordly, these kindly
gentlemen established the Aged Sea-
mems Home on Lords Point. a deed
NJ perpetulty guaranteeing the dwellers
therein against eviction. Unhappily
Tor the present generations IN Cor
NTH, the heirs of the original promot-
efs. With n or tive exceptions. reSid-
ed in New York. Boston or Philadel-
phia. and they, holding Corinth i'm some
disdain. stubbornly refused to entertain
a proposition to join in the effort to set
aside the first grant. with the provision
that the home be transferred to anoth-
ef n less imposing section of the
coast. some distance removed from
Lords Point.
Aud so it was that the Ancients re-
manned almost under the nose-or
more properly speaking, under the eye,
of Corinth by the sea. secure in their
rights and far from clannish in their
s eSe'2 GsasR "a RI sFo& sS4 f5 8 h1sp t ,se fh2
water front bar rooms of Corinth.
Like migratory ants. the Ancients
swarmed down from the Point and
struggled back again-physically un-
able to swarm-each paying his 1.-THE
to the municipality and taking away in
turn a copious share of grog. from the
effects of which he recovered with a
matutinal fortitude that his
more holy but less hardy neighbors.
Particular attention is drawn to Hor-
ace Blagden in view Of the fac that his
own grandfather was one of the prime
movers in establishing the now obnox-
lou home on Lords Point. Moreover.
r Blagcen's home, the grey house
on the hill, was so close to the line
separating the Todville reservation
from Corinth that he could have thrown
a stone from his stable yard we'll into
the preserve. provided, of course, that
he was in the habit of throwing stones.
But Mr.. Blagden never threw stones,
either literally or figuratively. He was
content to let h people do that,
relying on his own aloofness to escape
without bruises to himself.
No n ,could afford to throw stones
at Mr.. Blagden. He was the great
man of Corinth.
After g single. Intellectual attempt on
ms own part to. get possession of the
Point for himself, he settled back and
looked the other way. Thereafter. the
town of Corinth did all Of the talking,
and voiced all of the resentment to-
ward the lowly village of Todville, seat
ed, as 1t We're, almost under the gates
of Nineveh.
The venerable sea dogs from the
Horace Blagden because they owed
nothing to him since he had tried to
take away from them that which his
grandfather had given. They We're
quite alone in their privileges. 1T may
be said. in explanation of this rather
ambiguous remark. that nearly very
n else In Cornith WED something. in
n way or another, to the expansive
Mr.. Blagden.
He was the president Of the private
banking house of Blagdeh & Co, be-
sides being the head of such institu-
tons as the Street Railway
the Short Coast Steamship company.
the Building & Loan association he
Merchants Protective society. the Cor
NTH Brick & Lime works. the Country
club. the town board. and. last but by
no means least, the Congregational
Sunday school. I almost forgot to in
clude the Greenvale Cemetery associa-
tion. Only the most violent politics kept
him from ascending to the presidency
of tho S%ean:en's Home society.
I appreherd that no one who reads
these lines will undertake to dispute
my claim that Mr.. Blagden was the
most influential person in Corinth. I
think 1 have established the proof in
these brief sentences that he was a
very superior sort of mortal, II. indeed,
he was no a little more than that.
While Mr.. Blagden was very power
ful N very good, and very proud of
1T, he was not what one would call
popular. He was not liked for the en-
emies he had made; although, If he had
an enemy. he did not know it. Even
the venerable sea dogs were somewhat
punctilions in this respect: they did
all OF their talking in the bar rooms.
ana We're as close as CLAIMS when they
got outside. guarding against the Sc
mote possibility that he might. by
chance. be in the slums collecting rents.
They would net put it above him. Still
they fell with common accord into tho