45 O HISTORY OF COH ASSET. 



speech making very handsomely in a brief address, and Mr. 

 Johnson read the first toast to the Old Colony Road, which called 

 forth Mr. Derby, its president. He complimented very justly 

 the ladies of Cohasset for the fine appearance of the hall and the 

 bountiful supply of the tables, and ended with a toast for Boston, 

 which was responded to by three cheers for Ex-Mayor Quincy. 



A toast to the good old Commonwealth of Massachusetts was 

 responded to by Mr. Amasa Walker, who is truly as much the 

 embodiment of Massachusetts spirit as any man. He gave in a 

 few words a striking view of what Massachusetts has done for 

 railroads, and what they have done for her. 



Mr. Degrand, of Boston, in his inimitable manner demonstrated 

 that the South Shore Railroad had cost $100,000 less than noth- 

 ing. It had raised the value of land for a mile on each side of 

 it on an average of $50,00 an acre. Sic vos, non vobis, the 

 stockholders might say; but Mr, Degrand did not mind that. 

 He went on to advocate a road to San Francisco, and to prove in 

 the same way that it would cost less than nothing. 



When the City Government was toasted, our friends Kimball 

 and Woodman did the honors, with an unction which showed 

 how well they deserve their seats in that honorable body. Moses 

 related how a certain roaring " Bull of Bashan " opposed the 

 mortgaging of the State for the Worcester railroad, and how 

 another common but dangerous bull of Worcester County op- 

 posed, to his cost, the progress of the first locomotive which 

 traversed that county. And then he drew a parallel, which 

 brought down the house, between the one bull and the other; at 

 last letting the ignorant know that the Bull of Bashan was B. F. 

 Hallett. 



The Press being toasted, unfortunately the only thing in the 

 shape of an editor was the Ishmaelite of the Chronotype, who, 

 alluding to the remarkable fact that though Hull belonged exclu- 

 sively to the Courier, he had some interest in Cohasset, having 

 partly educated one of its Parsons, and gave for a toast : " The 

 People of Cohasset : from the liberty with which they have used 

 their ladles to-day, they deserve to dwell on the brim of the great 

 chowder pot of the world." 



Time would fail us even to name all the good things that were 

 said and toasted. At the hour of four the immense throng piled 



