Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-30
Letter from WiscOn sin.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, March "a, II

/ Letter from Wisconsin,.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, March "a, II.
Dear Herald - Once again I salute
youl once again crave the boon of one
of your columns, and dedicate myself to
your services, hoping such dedication
may be productive of something satisfac-
to yourself, and to your 4 hope) prompt
paying readers and subscribers.
There is something indescribably pleas
ant in thus taking up the pen, and renew
ing or continuing, through paper and lam
guage, those bounded thoughts of former
association, former ties and friendships,
and former pleasant, well-remembered
haunts, which always cling to those who
have left home to dwell in new land.
Verify the poet sings truly, in singing !:
" Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and beauty cheer'd the laboring
| swain;
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summers ling ring blooms delayed
/ Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth. where ev'ry sport could please
How often have loiter'd DER thy green,
| Where humble happiness endear'd each scenel"
Spring is now upon us with its mud,
it's wind, and its disagreeable weather
generally. Still. every countenance here
is beginning to glow with bright antici-
/ pations of the coming summer. For,
without Boosting, can truly say that in
summer there is not pleasanter, more
beautiful, more healthy, and conse-
quently more comfortable, city in the
Union, than the pleasant, beautiful,
oomfor table city of Milwaukee
The future of said city lies in manu-
features; the iron interest, especially, is
becoming an extensive one here; the Bay
| View Rolling Mills, started few years
years ago now employing 600 or 800
men-sre doing an immense business
also the " Reliance Works" Of Edward P.
Allis & Co, employing several hundred
men, are becoming extensively known
throughout the West, for the magnitude
of their business and the excellence of
their manufactures,
i Milwaukee is just recovering from the,
for time, overshadowing influences of
the "disreputable" city of Chicago. In
the latter city, the pot, so to speak, is al
ways boiling, over-heated, man don't
know when he is down, or when he is up.
Here in Milwaukee there is steady
thrift, a solidity of purpose and business
which is slowly but surely pushing the
city ahead in prosperity and growth.
Milwaukee has nearly doubled her popu-
lation in the last ten years. Surely city
thus increasing affords no cause for the
"disreputsble" city of Chicago, not that I
would speak disrespectfully of the great,
wonderful, wicked city of Chisago; Chi
cago, the Eldorado of the dead Beats"
of the young men who have run away
from fond parents, of pettifoggers in
every profession, especially the law also,
Chicago, the city of mercantile palaces,
wonderful energy, and go-aheadativeness.
Not that would speak unexpectedly of
the great city of Chicago-ob, no but
"I merely remark, and my language is plain,
sThat for ways that are dark, and for tricks that
are vain,
"The city of Chicago ID peculiar which the same
| l am free to maintain"
One important and predominant ele-
ment in Milwaukee is the German. Con.
sequent thereupon, is the vast production
and vast consumption of lager beer and
sauer -kraut-"the rankest compound of
villainous smell, that ever offended
nostril." The best lager in America, alas
is said to be made here. / am sure it
would shock the morals of the good peo-
pie OF Rutland to stroll about here some
Sunday afternoon, and observe the numer-
GUS lager beer gardens, parks, resorts,
and theatres in full blast; at the same
time it might excite their amusement to
observe the quantities of the "base liquid, !"
which a moderate sized German could
swallow, disorganize and consume, with
out in the slightest upsetting his equili.
| brium.
We are soon to have Grand Peace
Jubilee and Celebration by the Germans
here, in commemoration .of the close of
the war, and the return to Father
land of the victorious battalions of
civilian Rex" by the grace of God, con-
queror of Lonis and I,'"-Emperor of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, etc, etc.,
at which celebration, if the city is not
overdowed with milk and honey, it will
De at least with "lager and Rhine wine.
struggling in the midst of which will be
seen crowd of jolly Dutchmen seeking
to drive dull care away and to exhibit
their patriotism BY reducing themselves
to that cordial state wherein q man is said
to be Enthusiastically called "intoxi-