The last census showed a population of 19,991 inhabitants, but if
anyone asked "Holm at the Corner" how big the place was, he would say
"between twenty and thirty thousand"--a figure he considered
reasonable enough, counting the annual increment in the families he
knew.
The town had its own traditions. Natives could speak with pride of
the days, now long passed, when the firms of C. B. Taline and Veuve
Erik Strom had great cargoes of coffee coming direct from Rio, while
Danish vessels by the dozen lay alongside the warehouses discharging
corn, and unwieldy Dutchmen took in baulks large enough to cut up
into arm-chair sections--ay, there was proper timber in those days,
not like the thin weedy sticks that come down the river now!
anyone asked "Holm at the Corner" how big the place was, he would say
"between twenty and thirty thousand"--a figure he considered
reasonable enough, counting the annual increment in the families he
knew.
The town had its own traditions. Natives could speak with pride of
the days, now long passed, when the firms of C. B. Taline and Veuve
Erik Strom had great cargoes of coffee coming direct from Rio, while
Danish vessels by the dozen lay alongside the warehouses discharging
corn, and unwieldy Dutchmen took in baulks large enough to cut up
into arm-chair sections--ay, there was proper timber in those days,
not like the thin weedy sticks that come down the river now!
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