{"id":185,"date":"2012-04-14T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2012-04-14T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T19:17:44","slug":"burglars-umbrellas-punchbowls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/14\/burglars-umbrellas-punchbowls\/","title":{"rendered":"Burglars, Umbrellas & Punchbowls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tA few new odds and ends:<\/p>\n

LOST AND FOUND<\/h3>\n

September\u00a01, 1914, Denver Post<\/em>.\u00a0This day the Lost and Found column had two curious items in a row.<\/p>\n

The first concerns a pearl pin, duck-shaped, with diamonds, lost at Tabor’s Grand Opera about 8:00 pm on Saturday night, and belonging to Lou’s old friend, Harry Tammen, co-publisher of the Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The second is from Lou himself, requesting the return of an umbrella shamelessly appropriated “from the iron bench in front of Scholtz drug store.”\u00a0The culprit\u00a0was obliged to please return it to Bert Davis’ cigar store — Lou’s name was engraved on the handle.<\/p>\n

BURGLARS TAKE WOMEN’S DRESSES<\/h3>\n

July 12, 1909, Denver Post<\/em>. Lou was the victim of a serial thief most interested, apparently, in women’s clothing, including dresses, shoes, and undergarments. Detectives thought it likely the thieves were women, “their identity, however, remains a mystery.”<\/p>\n

AN ARTISTS CREATION<\/h3>\n

December 26, 1894, the Denver Post<\/em> reports that there is\u00a0“great admiration” for a punch bowl being exhibited by Sam. The work of Miss Birdie Atwood, the bowl is described as hand-painted with grapes, leaves, spiders and webs, with a gold stem. “The entire effect, designed by Miss Atwood, is charming and is highly creditable to the artist.”<\/p>\n

BURGLARS DRIVEN AWAY FROM RICHES<\/h3>\n

November 22, 1912, Denver Post<\/em>. Burglars again, this time breaking a window to get into Sam’s house, 1125 Clarkson Street, while he and the wife were away on vacation. Fortunately a private watchman arrived just in time to scare them off.<\/p>\n

Problem is, they were still apparently out of town when this was published. The Post<\/em> only made it worse with the following:<\/p>\n

Blonger and his wife are out of the city, and, had the burglars not been interfered with, they would have been at liberty to ransack the house from top to bottom.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like a dare to us. The Post<\/em> reported the potential booty\u00a0to be\u00a0“thousands of dollars’ worth of Oriental tapestries, curios gathered from around the globe and silverware in abundance.” Thanks guys.<\/p>\n

WOMAN UNDER THE HEELS OF RUNAWAY COLT<\/h3>\n
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March 22, 1906, Denver Post,<\/em> front page. Mrs. M.J. Orr was badly injured when one of Sam’s horses bolted. The colt was pulling a sulky up Sixteenth Street\u00a0when workmen began using an electric riveter, sending the animal into a frenzy.\u00a0The driver\u00a0attempted to keep the horse under control, but when the harness broke the frightened animal took off at a gallop in the direction of Stout Street.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0the driver finally convinced the colt to turn in to the side, he kept charging, trampling Mrs. Orr on his way across the sidewalk and through the plate glass window\u00a0of Fitwell’s clothing store. Both Mrs. Orr and the pony sustained nasty but non-lethal injuries. The sulky was a wreck.<\/p>\n

TAX SALE<\/h3>\n

Several\u00a0Salt Lake Herald<\/em> listings from 1889\u00a0indicate Sam’s property at lot 4,\u00a0block 28, plat G was to be auctioned in light of Sam’s delinquent tax bill, amounting to\u00a0a measly $.75, all of\u00a0three quarters.<\/p>\n

In 1891 Sam\u00a0bought back the same lot, and lot 1, from the county. Four months later he and wife Sadie signed the property over to Lou.<\/p>\n

Via Con Dios,\u00a0Sam Blonger<\/h3>\n

Finally, here’s Sam’s obit en espa\u00f1ol, from Estrella<\/em> (Las Cruces, N.M.), February 20, 1914:<\/p>\n

Samuel H. Blonger, uno de los m\u00e1s notables hombres de sport del oeste, y residente de Denver por m\u00e1s de treinta y cinco a\u00f1os, muri\u00f3 en su casa en Denver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is:<\/p>\n

Samuel H. Blonger, one of the most remarkable men of sport in the west, and a resident of Denver for more than thirty-five years, died at his home in Denver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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