Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-11

Eclipse wind mill, all the wav from BE-
lott. He has some very fine pasture land
and raises a good deal of first-class stock
but his main business is the production of
corn and cotton. | doubt whether there
Is a more beautiful crop grown than cot
ton. Everything about it in all STAGES Of
its growth is attractive and it is especially
so now. Where the cotton does well the
foliage is very thick and heavy and of SO
many rich shades of green; then there
are the large blossoms varying all the wav
from the snowy white, upon first opening,
through almost score of shades of pink.
ending in deep crimson Just before fall
ing to the ground. Owing to the frequent
rains corn is very rank. I measured a
stock, not long ago, growing in our neigh
| boris garden and found it to be AZ
feet high. [ think the average height Of
stalks on Col. SCOTS plantation is about
feet. After seeing southern corn can
readily understand why they do not cut
it up and shock it as we do at the north.
The stalks are so large and hard that
cattle could not eat them at all and no
thing short of an axe could cut them
down, so they strip off the leaves while
they are green and bind them up in little
bundles and in the winter they constitute
the principal part of the fodder for horses
and mules. The splendid outlook for
crops of every kind is daily increasing
the activity in real estate. Our cotton
factory has, heretofore, made only thread
and Irvine. large addition is now being
built and looms will be introduced as
soon as it is finished. The new cotton
compress is we'll under way and will be
ready for the next crop in October An
other cotton seed oil mill has been COM
menced and | noticed yesterday, in my
walk about town, at least twenty large
brick buildings nearly completed, in
Guiding a wholesale block, a foundry. a
warehouse and machine shop. But the
man. of all others, noted for energy and
the one who gives us genuine Yankee
surprises is our Mr. P0llak to whom 7
referred in one of my letters not long AGO.
[ went down town last night and was
attracted by an electric light in an unac-
customed place. Upon examination I
found it to be il the midst of the ruins
of what in the morning was the carpet
department of Mr.. PolIak's large store.
1t was an old two story building and not
large anOugh TO accommodate his growing
business. The only way to enlarge it
was by pulling it down and putting on
additional stories. This he is now doinc
and in order to make quick Job of it
he has a large force at work by dav
and an equally large force at night. Mr..
Pollak's store fronts on Court Square,
four or five doors from the corner Of
Court and Market streets. Market
street is very popular street and Mr..
Pollak has long waEted an opening
on it to connect with his store He has
now bought the store on Market street
that touches the rear of his store on Court
street but he cannot get possession for a
year. Now rather than wait so long tor
it be has already begun the work of put
ting two additional stories on the Market
street store and will run an elevator, from
the ground floor to them until he can get
possession of the whole store apd thus he
| will have, at once, an entrance on Market
as we'll as Court street. I can not help
but admire the genius of that man. Ten
or twelve years ago he came here stran-
ger and without money. He began bust
ness in a small way, with two or three
partners. Everybody laughed at him
and called his store the fifty cent store.
White people would have nothing to do
with it and because it was patronized so
much by the colored people it was called
the "nigger store" Now il is one of the
largest stores in'the south and is thronged
from morning till night, at all seasons of
the year, by both white and colored. The
firm now consists of Mr.. Pollak and his
brother. The business here is managed
entirely by our Mr.. Pollak. The broth
er lives in New York City. Mr.. Pollak
has done wonders for the poor in this
region. When he came here business
was carried on in old fashioned ways and
even the most common and needful ar
ticles were very high. Then an ordinary
pillow share cost the colOred man from two
to three dollars, now he buys a better
share for from a dollar to a dollar and a
half. Almost everything in the way of
merchandise we can buy cheaper of Mr..
Pollak than the same thing can be
bought in the best houses in Chicago.
AS an illustration of Mr.. Pollak's cour-
age in business matters [ will mention
two transactions lately entered into by
him. While in New York City cargo
CT silks and satins came to some
firm there. They were unable to make
the necessary payments on it so it was
ordered sold out in lots to realize it's cost.
Mr.. Pollak laid down one hundred and
seventy-ive thousand dollars and took
the whole. He went on to Boston to
look over the shoe market It was not
the time for laying in stock but he found
bargain and brought home with him
fifteen hundred cases. Mr.. Pollak has
in his employ 500 hands and his is no
longer the Scots. store or the "nigger
store but it is Pollak & Co.'S. great dry
goods establishment known and appreci-
ated by all the good people of this city
and over large portion of the state. I
know nothing of Mr.. Pollak's political
faith but do know this, that the poorest
and most ignorant colored person that
comes to his store is treated as kindly
and with as much consideration as the
richest and most highly cultured white
person, Last night stopped for few
moments by the ruins of the old store
and more than one southern white man
said, if we only had few such men as