The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-05-09
Ghe geausha Telegraph
Thursday, May 9Th, 1857.
Kenosha in 1967--A Dream.


Mr.. EDITOR Il want to tell you my dream
and / want you to tell it to all of your readers.
1t is a strange dream but well worth listening
to. l once heard or read that coming events
cast their shsdows," and if that is true, per-
haps my dream is the shadow of what is to be
in the future.
One fine morning not long since, / awoke
and found that l had been dreaming. AS
am citizen of Kenosha, it is not at all strange
that my dream should be about our city. The
strange part is, that should dream of Keno
sha hundred years from now. l dreamed
that l was living in the year OF our Lord, 1867.
Kenosha was one of the finest cities in the
west, numbering about three hundred thou
sand inhabitants. In the extreme suburbs of
the city, a few wooden buildings were seen,
and only a few. Those who could not afford
to make their houses of marble and granite,
used much finer and better kind of brick than
is made in the present age. All the streets in
the city were brilliantly illumipated with
new kind of gas said to be much cheaper and
better than the gas of this age There was
lamp at every street corner, and somebody
had made an invention by which all these
lamps could be instantaneously lighted by one
person. little boy Only six years old had
charge of these lamps-light ting them at night,
and putting them out in the morning.
Our harDor had been improved SO that no
harbor in the world of 1867 could compare
with it. 4 boat considerably larger than the
Great Eastern run from Chicago to Milwaukee
and back two or three times'eyery day stopping
here each way for freight and pleasure par
| ties; though travellers who were in hurry
usually went in the new "Flying Machine" or
"Air Boat"
About five thousand of our citizens did bust
ness in New York and Boston but came home
to stay with their families every night, and if
l l. hon
to dinner. Those who did business in Chica-
go always came home to their meals, and fire.
Quently, half dozen times a day BESIDES
| When any one had occasion to go to Europe
on business he started in time to get there in
business hours, and was seldom gone from
you all I saw in my dream but l must say
there was no occasion for street cars for nearly
every family owned a little "Air Boat" large
enough to carry five or six persons.
| The only thing that really troubled me in
my dream was the clothes wore for dream
ed was dressed according to the most APP
proved and fashionable style of 1867 which
made me as much an object of curiosity as
Adam would be if he should come among us
as he appeared in the garden of Eden.
| Among the improvements of the city | no.
ticed that Main Street extended in straight
line to the northern and southern limits of the
lefty. An attempt had been made to change
the name and call it Broadway, but the good
sense of the people prevailed and the name
was not changed. All the rough places in the
city were made smooth. The bridges were all
raised to level with the rest of the street;
and, made firm and wide enough so that
buildings were put up in such manner that
a stranger passing over would never think that
he was on bridge
| heard some men say that just one hundred years
before, Kenosha and the country, was infested by
some kind of an animal known Canine, though
oftener called Dog Some expressed considerable
doubts about the dog being animal, for they had
heard about the bark of the dog and hence
| concluded the dog some kind of a
tree. This however soon decided to be mis-
| take, for proclamation from the Mayor who pre-
sided over the city in 1867. produced which
/ showed that these animals were likely to run mad
/ and bite folks. This proclamation had been the
means of exterminating the whole canine race. As
a live dog had not been for nearly hundred
| what sort of an animal it was. The general opinion
however prevailed that ii was bird. for some one
remembered reading story about Il dog that flew
at little boy and bit him. Right in the most in
eresting part of this discussion some one came in
| to my room and after giving me most unmerciful
shaking informed me that breakfast was ready.
! was sorry was not allowed to finish my dream for
| doubt not the last would have been better tina n
i the first.
l want to say here that am relation to Slice P.
Head. Ny name is Go A. HEAD.
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