The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-23
Wankasha. WISCONSIN.

breeze from the northwest this Al
gust day will not prove unaccept:
BILE to your readers, / venture t
give brief sketch of this section {
country and its people. l woul
pause to say q word of Chicago e
route, if it were not already know
as one of the most enterprisins
thorough business centres of tn
union-a city whose wonderful ca
pacity and intense energy must i'm
press all who enter therein. Blu
we pass on to Milwaukee, les
known to the southern people, bu
certainly not less beautiful. Situa
ted on the banks Of Lake Michigan
built almost entirely of the celebra
ted Milwaukee brick, which is
light cream color, with parks ant
drives along the waters edge, wher
you pass in swift succession on
splendid home after another, whose
broad bay windows look down upol
terraced green or sloping lawn GU
over the blue lake whose wave:
wash its borders and limit it's con
fines. l understand the street.
Prospect and Lake Avenue are con
coded a place in the ranks of the
most beautiful in the United States
and many travellers even go so fal
as to compare this portion of the
city with Naples. The most noted
place of interest in Milwaukee, how.
ever, is 'MitchelPs Home" where
we find a half million dollars invest
ed in single private residence
But q description of this place
would make a letter of itself, so ]
shall leave it for the present, suffic-
ing to say, it is a wonderland OF
beauty; art and nature so ingeni-
ously interviewer, that it Is hard to
draw the line of demarkation, and
difficult to imagine anything more
complete in loneliness. This re
minds me of our little girls naive
question, after driving for several
hours and joining in our frequent
EXPLANATIONS of pleasure and de-
light, said, "Mama, are there no
more adjectives? 1 have said beau
tIful, lovely and splendid, so many
times" But l have given much
more time to Milwaukee than in
tended, and fear l have exhausted
my adjectiYes before reaching the
beautiful country surrounding Wau-
kesha, of which wish to give a
brief glimpse. Waukesha, the town
of springs, takes its name from the
celebrated Indian chief of that name
who founded it. He lies buried in
one of the parks here, with his two
wives on either side of him, and his
descendants still make their annual
pilgrimage to his grave. With its
bright, fresh-looking double Gotta
yes, large yards with flowers, ham
nocks, garden chairs and bowers,
streets bordered with silver poplar
md maple, broad plank walks lead
ng to all points within the corpo-
ate limits-altogether Waukesha
8 very pretty place indeed. The
springs are all situated in beautiful
parks where walks and drives, rus
JIG bridges and bowers, bright set
5ees, artificial lakes and all that can
end its aid to brighten and make
a place where thou
sands frequent in search of health
Or pleasure. Certainly tits pleas
INT to go to the famous Bethes-
la in the morning and see scattered
around you so great variety of hui
all in their best attire and
lumor. You may see the poor,
invalid, who has to be
in his chair to the spring,
with its broad marble basin and
pebbly bottom, where men and boys
stand ready to serve you at any mo-
ment, while not a dozen yards off
sits the pretty cOquette teasing her
-over, or a group of ''lilies'.' gor-
geously arrayed, summing themselves
and their costumes in the warm
sunlight, for indeed the sun here is
seldom too warm, and there are few
days we have experienced here too
warm for flannel The southern
lady now and then appears in
pretty white dress, but she always
looks chilly unless protected by
shawl. But 1 was speaking of the
at Bethesda and the fes-
tive appearance of the park at this
hour particularly, when couples are
strolling or driving in every direc-
ton, parties playing lawn tennis or
children delighting them
selves with the swing or the carous
ei,-not the carousel with the tent
and drum that played with our
nerves so mercilessly in P, but
simply the animals to be mounted
and moved around at the will Of the
little folks. A coy reading room,
where you are supplied with all the
leading daily papers, a handsome
upright Knabe, divans, rocking
chairs and everything to make you
Sitting here reading
your paper or watching the crowd,
while the Italian band discourses
,he sweetest music-music that
may please the most fastidious ear,
L re-assert it is pleasant. But
not the less pleasant and even more
are the open air con
,erts at Silurian spring, which take
place every Saturday, beginning at
Il, p. IN. The grounds are illumi-
hated with colored lights in many
new and pleasing designs. The
music stand is constructed in the
center of small lake and reached
only by boat. Around the lake
of seats are placed for the
immense audience who not only fill
them, but every bower or rustic
bench and all standing room within
hearing; for the Milwaukee band is
Justly famous in the northwest and
such q musical treat as we pay two
Or three dollars for at home, and of
rare occurrence. The colored Ian
terms are festooned from the music
stand across the lake to the outer
confines of the large circle, and seem
TO dance to the music as the breeze
sways them gently to and fro, and
the waters catch the reflected bril-
Iiancy and graceful motion. 1t is
picture worth seeing; one which we
! ttamnt to cobv fail bfullV with orr