Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-25
Mr.. Summers First Days in Wash
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Senator Sumner recently met an old
friend who enjoyed the honor of being
the only man in Washington to live in
the same house with him when in 1884
the future Senator first visited the Cap
1tol. This was DIR. Blake, President of
the Metropolitan Bank, and member
of the Board of Public Works. DR..
Blake was boarding at the house of
Mrs. PeytOn, at the corner Of the avenue
and Four-and- street, when young
Sumner, tall, fresh, and Bostonian,
came there to lodge. He had just seen
the first slaveon the stage road between
Baltimore and Washington, regarded
him with wonder, curiosity and indig-
nation. Before the guests had made
up their minds what kind of youth he
might be, the Marshal of the Supreme
Court stopped with his carriage and
left, the cards of all the Justices for
him, formality which made no little
talk. This courtesy was due to Judge
Story, whose pupil Mr.. Sumner was,
and who had advised him at the ter
mination of his studies to attend the
Supreme Court and get the spirit and
association of that Tribunal At that
time all judges messed together in Mrs.
Carriers clearinghouse, which was
recently torn down to extend the Capt.
tol grounds They drank what was
called the Judicial Madeira, an impor-
tation direct from Madeira Island,
which George Washington ordered
through the port of Alexandria, and
seeing the world-famed name in the
order, the shippers picked out quite a
superior pipe. When Gen. Washing
ton died, his nephew Bushrod, who was
Justice in the Supreme Court, con-
tinued the annual order, and next John
Marshall fell heir to it, so that to hear
Mr.. Sumner relate the sequence gave
one kind of musty hilarity such as
might have been felt at the tomb of
Washington, if the old General had got
up by request to join us in glass of
the original importation. The Justices
of the court used their dining table for
consultation, and after they had messed
together the cloth was removed, and
with nothing but the Judicial Madeira
and the laws of the Republic, they
tempered justice with mercy in their
decisions.-N. Y. Graphic.
The Great Lakes.
An elaborate report compiled by D.
Farrand Henry, of this city, upon the
great lakes, contains the following:
"The length of Lake Superior, on a
curved line, is 400 miles; greatest
breadth, $50 miles area, 80, 875 square
miles; area of watershed, 81 $50 square
miles; discharge at outlet, 80, 1888 cubic
feet per second length of coast line,
! l, 100 miles temperature of surface wa
ter in summer, 50 to So deg Fahrenheit;
Of the water below 200 feet, 80 deg.
deepest sounding, LOLA feet; elevation
of it's surface above the sea, 600 feet.
The length of Lake Michigan is 800
miles ; greatest breadth-from Milwau-
! kee to Grand Haven-84 miles; area:
! 20, 1913 square miles ;area of watershed,
36,678 square miles deepest sounding,
$40 feet; elevation of surface, 578 feet
Lake Huron's length is $50 miles :;
| greatest breadth, 100 miles; area, &c.
383 square miles area of watershed
31,712 square miles; discharge at out
let 233, 726 cubic feet per second !;
deepest sounding, 702 feet; elevation Of
surface, 578 feet. Lake Erie-length,
24O miles; greatest breadth, 60 miles !;
area, 1922 square miles; area of
watershed, 21,371 square miles; dis
charge at outlet, 242, 1894 cubic feet per
second; deepest sounding, 2O4 feet !;
elevation of surface above the sea, 565
feet. Lake Ontario-length, $50 miles
greatest breadth, IS miles; area, 7,181
square miles; and of watershed, 21, 587
square miles; discharge at outlet, $685.
839 cubic feet per second greatest
depth, about 900 feet; elevation of sur
face above the sea, 232 feet. The graud
total of the lakes Gncluding several
smaller lakes) is 108,631 square miles
ofthe watersheds, IT'S, 81 square miles,
showing that our lakes constitute about
one-third of all the fresh water on the