Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-01-18
A Talk sbaas fIiIsau. &c.

From The Madison Journal.
Entertaining a desire to visit the
Metropolis of Wisconsin, and to look
about the city little more carefully
than we have been In the habit of do
ing when attending hastily to business,
we took occasion to spend some three
or four days In Milwaukee during the
past week, and now propose brief
talk about what we have learned of that
goodly city and its people during this
visit.
The general appearance of the city is
remarkably pleasant. It's location, we
think the finest upon the western lakes,
In point of pleasantness and beauty.
We are aware that Cleveland has high
reputation in this respect; but we have
often been III that beautiful city and
admired it very much, still we must
give the preference to Milwaukee.
There may be one or two streets in
Cleveland that are superior to any in
Milwaukee; bat there are so many fine
points in the latter city, that it GER
tainly stands first. taken as a whole.
Its general appearance is grand by ma
ture, and much is being added TO its
natural beauty by the good taste and
skill of its citizens.
The improvements in Milwaukee
during the past year have been very
numerous, and many of the new struc-
| tures are very elegant, both IN design
and finish, adding materially, not only
to the beauty of the city, bnt to its
general business interests. OF course
we cannot, in a brief article, go into
any detailed account of the building of
the past year, but will mention a few
only of the more prominent structures.
Butwe must not particnlarize further;
a general summing up must answer our
purpose. The number of buildings
erected in the city during the past sea
son, consisting of stores, hotels, church
es, dwellings, &c, is near nine hundred,
as we were informed, and the cost of
which will not fall below 50, 500, 600 A
large number of these improvements are
of high order of architecture, and
they add very much to the beauty of
the city.
So many and valuable improvements
would not spring up at a time when
\ material and labor are so high, If the
business of the city did not demand
| them. This, perhaps, is the most en-
couraging feature indicated by these
! improvements; aud we are gTatified to
learn, from somewhat extensive in
quiry among the business men, that
facts fully justify these Indications
that the business of Milwaukee was
never so good as 1t has been during
the past year; and the prospects for
the future are extremely encouraging
to its business men. This should be
gratifying to every person In Wiscon-
sin; while we may well rejoice in the
success and prosperity of any location
in the whole country, our rejoicings
are little greater in the success of
towns within the boundaries of our own
state. This is a natural, and without
question, Just feeling. Every citizen
should feel becoming pride in his own
state, and do all he can, by honorable
means, to promote its interests. An
exercise of this laudable state pride on
the part of the people, throughout
other parts of the state, met by enter
prise and liberality on the part of the
business men of Milwaukee, would
render the future prospects of that city
extremely bright, and give it rank
among the frst-class cities of the conn
try, in business aspect, as well as la
its beauty of location, and IN its splen-
did residences and public buildings.
There Is really no reason why Mil
yankee should not receive a large share
of the trade of the people of the state.
By this we mean especially the whole
sale trade; for we hold, as a rule, that
people should sustain their own local
business men in the retail trade. -
While this rule holds good with the
masses in reference to the local retail
trade, it is equally incumbent upon the
business men of the small towns to
replenish their stocks from establish
ments within the borders of their own
state. That this can be done In Mil
Yankee, on as favorable terms, al
things considered, as In any other
place, we have entire confidence, from
careful investigation of the matter
1t would be well for local retail dealers
in the state, who object to the idea of
people going away from home to trade,
to remember that there are wholesale
dealers in the state who have the same
right to object to their going to eastern
cities TO make their purchases. Let the
rule of buying at home be generally
practiced' in the state, and great advan-
tages would accrue from it, both to the
people and to the dealers of every
grade.
That country dealers can receive sup
plies of nearly everything needed, 10
their own state, and on reasonable
terms, we have only to refer them to a
few of the leading wholesale houses in
Milwaukee where they can test the
matter for themselves.
In hardware, John Nazro & Co.,
have an establishment rarely exceeded
In the United States. 1t is over twenty
four years old IA great age for the
West, and has grown into mammoth
proportions; and the business is trans
acted in the most systematic manner;
making no mistakes, and giving the
best of goods. This firm imports
largely, and is enabled to furnish the
trade on terms that will be more advan-
tageous than Eastern dealers can do.
We looked through the rooms of
Messrs. Seaman & Co., and were sur
prised with both the extent and quality
OF their wares. They furnish Chicago
largely with goods, and have an i'm
- Il IL.