Some Scarborough Faces Past And Present

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ISBN 13 : 9781332197873
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book Some Scarborough Faces, Past and Present written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Scarborough Faces, Past and Present: Being a Series of Interviews "Certainly, my dear sir, come up and have a talk by all means, Sunday afternoon; don't come in the morning, I'll be at church. A Mayor should always set a good example." It was the Sunday before the Ninth. I had been requested by the editor to write an interview with the ex-Mayor for the first number of "Scarborough." Why the editor had selected Mr. Dale he did not say, but I concluded that he felt, as most of us feel, that the town owes much to the subject of this article, that it would please his readers, and moreover that it would be a small tribute to the man to whom we owe a debt which we cannot repay - nay, if I know John Dale aright, and I think I do, the debt would never have been incurred had possibility of repayment existed. This is no flattery, and those who know the ex-Mayor best will bear me out in the statement. So far as eliciting anything fresh was concerned I might just as well not have conducted the "interview." There was nothing fresh to learn. I had been a dozen times in the same study, had seen its wealth of books and admired the collection of engravings; had wondered at the method of the man who never rests from work while there is work to do, and who, amongst masses of paper on all manner of subjects, can always lay his hand on what he wishes to refer. Mr. Dale never has to seek for a cutting or a letter or a date - he has had a business training. Such method must have saved him much labour. Yes, there was one new thing - the proof sheets of "Round the World by Doctor's Orders." Upon my suggesting that such a literary effort must have cost him a great deal of thought and labour, he smilingly replied - "Well, you see, I was compelled to do something, so I kept a diary carefully, tabulated facts as I went along, and put down everything which interested me. Thus the work was completed, so far as I was concerned, when I stepped ashore in England. Proofs are a nuisance." "Yes, much of the ground has been covered before, but not quite in the same way, and I am told that my notes on Alaska are of considerable value, and that they alone justify the issue of the book, from which my publishers expect a good deal." This talk about the book cleared the way, and we spent a pleasant half-hour, but, as I have said before, there was little that is new to learn. It was characteristic of John Dale that when on a holiday he "must do something." The son of Francis and Jane Dale, of Lancaster, he was born and educated in that town. On his mother's side he comes from a good old stock - the Birkbeck's of Healam, co. Durham. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.