The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-08
THE WORLD OF AMUSEMENT.
DULUTH-THE NORTH sHoRE-THUNDER
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CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK,
Cor. Chicago Tribune.
DULUTH
The centre of all eyes, the focus of bus
mess hypothec alton, the Mecca of specu
Ilators from near and far, rushing to tn
head of Lake Superior by every boa
from below, by every train over the I'm
ballasted road from ST. Paul the shan
tied pride of Milesians, the hunting
ground of the gambler, the consumer O
whiskey, the flower of which never bios
SONS forty rods away from benzine.
What it was, what it is, what it may be
These were the three topics of discussion
in the Free and Easy Club, as we came
Jay Cooke, rising out Of the hill sides
like a gigantic mushroom among stumps
yet green and sapful
First, its location. One hundred years
ago, Duluth, q French exp orer, coasted
these shores, and was the first white man
to reach the head of the lake. Foolish
man that he was, he never stopped TO
take couple Of sous out of his pocket
and purchase this region for the benefit
of his posterity. Not a suspicion flashed
through his Gallo head that there
was city sleeping under his feet SO he
crossed the country to the Upper MlsSls-
sippI. AMI descended it to st Paul, where
he and Father Hennepin, in the midst of
heir cups, probably speculated ON the flu
ture Of st. Paul, both city and apostle.
In the meantime, Duluth kept sleeping
down in its beds of slate waiting for the
I time of fruition, which came about a
year and half ago In the summer of
1888, Duluth was a populous town Of one
shanty, on the sloping hillside of the
northern shore of the lake, with long,
narrow sand spit, Minnesota Point, put
ting out into the lake, behind which the
st. Louis River, after its long, trouble
some journey through miles Of cascades,
finds a peaceful outlet and makes har-
Dor for Superior city, six miles southwest,
as the crow flies, lying dead as door
nail OH level plateau, the deeds of the
corner lots resting in the pockets of John
@. breckenridge, bats in the caves Of the
houses, and squaws in the front parlors-
the entire freight for the city of Superior
on the steamer Meteor, this trip, being, as
am a sinner, u pocket handkerchief full
of cucumbers. h
En- passG,st, John g. breckenridge was
u fellow traveller with. US. Time, the
ayenger, has done his work. This man,
handful of years ago the rising man of
Kentucky, the idol of the young men of
the South, great political leader with
Presidential aspirations, able eloquent,
and influential No mans star shone
brighter He could rise in the midst of
the debate, when attacked by swarm of
wSsps, and hope he never should forget
he was in the United States Senate, and
by simple dignity alone silence his assail.
ants He was far reaching enough in his
business grasp to know that at some fu-
ture day business must seek an outlet at
the head of Lake Superior, and he laid
out Superior City. Then came the be
travail of party, you know, and then fol
lowed the betrayal Of country. Heplung-
ed into the rebellion and to day IS an un-
pardoned wanderer with a seal upon his
lips, prematurely gray, making few ac-
quaintances in the party on the boat, few
seeking him, yet still dignifed and i'm
pressive, one whom you wonld pick out
IN thousand. The worst OF all catastro-
Plies to a political aspirant has overta-
ken him-failure Time, the avenger,
has stripped from him the confidence OF
all parties. Time the avenger, has not
yet given the coveted pardon which can
restore him TO citizenship and loose his
lips. Time, the avenger, has killed hi,
magnificent city on Lake Superior, and
left him with title deeds to barren reach
es of sand. And this man, the organizer
IF great parties, the candidate for the
Presidency, the leader of great armies
the builder of a city, employing his i'm.
pressive dignity in game of euchre
against Peregrine Pickle! Co7p0 di BAG
clio ! What a descent It is on record in
the annals of the Free and Easy Club
that John c. Breckenridge does not play
euchre we'll. Time, the avenger, record
ed four straight games against him on
board propeller Meteor, Saturday eve
nlng, July %.
But, to my muttons. You have seer
what Duluth was--one surrounded
shanty, two years ago, with city Of
great expectations six miles away. To
day, Duluth has 1890 souls dwelling
about forty deep in implanted shanties
A few fortunate real estate men and law.
yers, who have focked hae like vultures
to the carrion, have got painted houses
and make some Ibences to civilization
These $500 s9ulsTare German souls, lay
ing the f9ltAtions of Duluth in lager
beer; NoFwegion souls, redolent of her
Iringand waiting to go out and settle on
the kailroad /; Milesian souls, squatting in
sha1ties on Minnesota Point, thirty OF
forty in shanty, in miscellaneous CON
glomerate of pigs, hens, squaws, dogs
geese, and lumber piles, with the favor
tie green puddles in front of the mansions,
each shanty propped up on stills, as if
it had rolled up the legs of its breeches
to keep out of the filth in which it is To-