River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-26
Editors in Convention.

The meeting of the association of edi
tors and publishers at Lake Geneva on
the 18th instant was attended by extraor-
binary social conditions that gave every
body the most perfect Relation of heart
felt hospitality. The literary work OF the
association was scarcely up to standard.
The exercises of the first evening were
wanting in real strength of manner for
making favorable initial impressions, and
the audience, made up of editors and
their immediate friends, was disappoint-
ed in the response to the welcoming adj
dress as well as in the set speech of Mr..
Smith, which should have been given
with spirit and in an audible tone, for
the body of the address, blending person
alitv with principles of journalism, would
have been entirely acceptable to the In
telligent audience if it had been read in
an agreeable manner. The music of the
Whitewater band ELECTED favorable com
ment from all parties. Pres. Fiheld and
See Coe were interchangeable in promoting
the business of the association and the
pleasure of the ladies and gentlemen,
these officers having learned the art of
making everybody comfortable. The
election of +. ID. Coe as president insures
for the meeting of 81 a well managed af-
fair, whatever its character shall be.
The presence of Gov. Rusk and of x-Gov.
Fairchild with other distinguished gen.
tlemen, gave special personal interest to
the meeting, and Geneva's generous cit
liens gave unsparingly the hospitality
that makes the stranger at home within
the gates of the city. The two days
boat rides, the dancing party Wednesday
evening, and the bOuntiful lunch on
Thursday afternoon, reflect credit upon
Geneva and were enjoyed to the utmost
by the craft and citizens. The local press
did ample personal and professional SER
vice to the printers in the delicate style
for which the press is noted, and the rail-
roads gave of the best bountifully for ed
itors and their families, atfording all an
opportunity to go and return by Chicago
during the week, and the lake boats
"Newberry" and "Lady" were generous
ly placed at the editors command. The
chief object of this article, however, is to
dwell upon the magnificent natural adj
vantages of Lake Geneva and the superb
homes which have grown up upon its
banks and the palatial excursion craft that
ply its waters. About twelve years ago
some gentlemen who were i'll the direct
DRY of the G. q n. w. Railway secured a
connecting link of road to Geneva and en-
tered upon the erection of summer resi-
structures as gave assurance of perma-
hence of interest in the enterprise of
making Geneva one of the chief watering
places accessible by the lines of that great
corpOratlon,- being only seventy
miles from Chicago, and possessing now
ample daily train service to that city.
Geneva is also reached by four miles OF
staging from Springfield, station on the
G. NJ. Il st. z. Railway, tifty-seven miles
from Milwaukee. Since that time Chica-
COS wealthiest citizens have created es-
adjustments in the village of Geneva
and upon the splendid dry bluffs of the
twenty miles margin of the lake, that ri
val anything known elsewhere III the
country,-not simple summer dwellings
that, for few months, swarm with dis
contented humanity, but palaces built in
the most durable manner, having adjacent
improved farms extending back from the
water, out buildings of the most APPROX
ed STYLES, ground laid out in the height
of sylvan beauties, relieved by lawns,
meadows and fountains that remind one
of the imagery of Arabian ni.ll.ts.
Probably no Wisconsin lake is as free
from low marshy shores,-has 50 Goutin-
Gus high banks, and is supplied with
springs that afford such cold, crystal wa
tiers throughout the year, as Lake Geneva.
Realizing the salubrity of these features,
the wealthy citizens Of Chicago have
brought to their aid the art that las
transformed the entire lake region to
most delightful homes that are inhabited
the year round, are accessible by wind
ing carriage drives i'll the rear, and by
water in the front, the magnificence of
horse flesh and carriages being lavishly
represented on the former, and by num-
TO
the latter From Geneva village around
the north side, an observer sees the
Struges' residence nestled i'll the grove
backed by "Linden Lodge" ilanked by
sixty acres of pasture receding from the
lake, upon which herds of Jerseys and
southdOwn feed in peace,-the sweeping
arms of a windmill at the rear'repreSent-
ing $4,000 of motive power for raising
water grinding feed, and enhancing the
asthetic,-all which constitutes type
for all the beautiful homes of Fairbanks,
Letter, Runior, Dunlap and others. But
while the privacy of these selected points
is of great interest to the general sight
seer, as he sails the first-class steamers
"Newberry" and Lady" making the
round of the lake in four hours, he is in
vited to debark at its numerous public
watering places where for a reasonable
sum he may luxuriate in hotels of first
class appointments, upon grounds that in
vite the weary and careworn, which
constitute an exchange for ladies and
gentlemen from all parts of the country,
or he may select cottage that itself is
an isolated gem, yet near to the superla-
tive beauties where men do most congre-
gate.
The village of Geneva has not stood
still in this period of transformation OF
the lakes margin, but has kept pace with
the improvement, and its homes are de-
lightful and hospitable, and its citizens
have exhibited rare sense in public inn
provements as well as in the manage
ment Of complex municipal affairs affect.
ing the mutual interests of the old and
new residents.
We acknowledge with gratitude the
personal consideration of Geneva's exec
utive committee, the bountiful hospitality
of numerous private citizens, and the
newly formed acquaintance Of many men
and women of the craft, and warn the
tourist to fail not at his aesthetic peril to
take in Lake Geneva in his annual
rounds.
The following officers of the associa-
ton were elected for the ensuing year:
President, +. d. Coe, Register, Whitewa-
ter; Secretary, J. f. Heg, Herald, Lake
Geneva; Treasurer, David Atwood, State
Journal. Executive Committee: +. A.
Calkins, Sunday Telegraph, Milwaukee;
Samuel Ryan, Post, Appleton; r. J. Flint,
Netrs Menomonie. Vice Presidents, one
from each congressional district, were
chosen as follows: N. Smith, Gazette,
GAINESVILLE; +. Hurlbut, Free Press Ocon-
omowoc; &. w. Peck, Peck's Sun, Mil
waukee; |. n Ross, Times, Sheboygan;
T. b. Reed, Post, Appleton; d. w. c. Will
son, Leader, Viroqua; J. Ii. Reyes, Free
Press, Eau Claire; l.. b. Noyes, Eagle,
Marinette.
Hymeneal.
In compliance with cards of invitation