Litchfield enquirer., 1872-10-24
For the Enquirer. TOURISTS NOTES.
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MILWAUKEE SCHOOLS.

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 MILWAUKEE SCHOOLS. a@sa
 The reopening of the Public Schools,
 and the entering of a niece on her duties as teacher, called my attention to the pub
 lished reports of the educational commit tee. Nowhere is better provision made for the education of the rising generation
 than in this city. Not only is there fine graded school in each ward, whose very teacher is subjected to a most rigid exam ination before position is slowed her,
 but there is also High school and Fe-
 male college. beside many private schools,
 and residence here is very desirable to
 those having children to educate. The teachers salaries are liberal. That of the different Principals, who are generally
 gentlemen, is in nearly every instance
 $1, 400 per year. The assistants are ustl- ally females, over one hundred in all at
 an average salary of five hundred dollars per year. The buildings are of Milwau- I kee cream colored brick, commodious and
 we'll ventilated. The cream-colored brick | is distinctive feature of the city. They
 kill two birds with one stone; grade a
 street, and burn the clay they wish to re- | move, into the brick to be used for it's
 buildings. But very few wooden houses
 are erected. When they wish to go be- yond brick, marble and iron are the re- sorts, and the grand new courthouse is of Lake Superior granite, kind of redstone
 very agreeable to look upon, and supposed 1 to IasG forever, though uoe yec tested ia
 that particular It is to be hoped it's fire
 enduring qualities will not be tested as l were those of the Fire proof court house of Chicago, last year. Although Milwau-
 kee was not sufferer from the element itself, at that time, yet the Chicago disas- ter was felt here in more ways than one. Many had friends there and suffered while in suspense for theis safety. Fires were raging in the country on every side of them, and should one break ont ill their midst, not an engine remained in the city to assist in subdning it; SO apprehension for their own safety was added to the fear ful anxiety for friends. Altogether the reign of Fire was as extensive as it was horrible
 I thought had formed some concer
 tiOn of it's extent, and destructiyeness in Chicago, from the stories of eye witnesses, and the papers, but on riding through the burnt district. Sept. 10th, I felt ''the half had not been told me-" have just seen it stated that five miles of store fronts are being built, and can readily credit the estimate. The confusion and almost i'm possibility of the streets in the "burnt district are indescribable. Not only are many retuains of the ruins yet there, but the building materials crowd the pedes- trian from the sidewalks fo the middle of the thronged streets, where ono needs eyes both ip iront and rear to avoid being run dov4i by the over-crowded vehicles. Very Shankful was to escape to place of safe ty on board of the cars. But for the care of a gentleman used to this confusion, I should inevitably have been r'ln over by an omnibus. The walk from his store, v Dearborn St., to the depot, was quite short Endeavoring to follow closely in his footsteps, i've were obliged to go In dian file'), was startled by seeing him turn, and strike horse that I then saw just grazed my shoulder, and was only turned from his course by the blow MT. Crawford struck with my handbag that he was carrying for me. A gentleman who was driving close behind the Omni- bus, called to MT. Crawford, ''have that driver arrested, he has knocked down three already" Mir. Crawford said that an example of such reckless driving restrain ed, must be given, and entered his com plaint to Police officer at the next cor ner. On my return to the city, week la- ter, took care to keep as much as possi- ble out of the "Burnt district" Had my baggage checked by omnibus to the Mich. Southern R. R. and left the cars at the second stopping place after entering on the Burlington and Quincy Road; which was Sixteenth Street. That part of the city is as free from confusion as any city, and a long ride on one of the street cars is not an unpleasant change after hundred mile trip by steam. When spend ing few weeks here, thirteen years ago, Michigan and Wabash Avenues were the only ones much spoken of, Now Indiana and Prairie Avenues are equally In request for nice retired residences, while very many of the business men seek homes for their families entirely out of the city Him. it's. zE5st z |
 Riverside, on the west, is unique. It is twelve miles out, and from the railroad is presented curious spectacle. Numer- ous fine residences are built on an unen- closed prairie with not fence of any de- scription separating one persons grounds from another's. No person can buy a building lot, here, without binding him. self to erect house of several thousand dollars value. He may go as much be- yond the stipulated sum as he pleases, but not under. Evenston, at about the same distance north of Chicago, is snoth- CT place of homes, colleges, snd high schools. Here tdle literary element large- ly predonainstes. The husband of the friend was visiting feels great pride in it's prosperity, for he has done much to promote it. He has chosen his own resi- dence little back from the lake, where he has an uninterrupted view of the broad prairie stretching far to the west of him, A=A. ..s l> s.. e -nEn as.ca<4