The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-30
RECOLLECTIONS OF TIE EAR
LIZ HISTORY OF KENOSHA.
Continued from last ,oeek.

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The season of 1886 closed with a
supply of most kinds of dry goods and
groceries, but a great lack of prOvi-
sions; as a consequence they were
scarce and high. Flour was from SIS
to SIS a barrel, and meat not to be had
before spring, only as it was brought
| by teams from Chicago, yet the winter
was passed very pleasantly.
In the winter of 1867. Mr.. Samuel
Hale had built boat-we called it the
Lighter-for landing passengers and
goods; it was of the old batteaux pat
tern. sharp at both ends, and would
carry easily seven tons. By this boat,
after the twenty-sixth day of April,
until in the summer of 1910, all goods,
household and merchandise, were
landed, and nearly every passenger,
whether from steamer or other vessel.
The spring of 1887 opened with a
good deal of activity. Buildings went
up as if by magic. Deacon Hollis
Whitney led off early in the spring by
the building of a good-sized block
house for a temperance hotel, which
was well patronized as such for several
years. Mr.. Toby, who was keeping the
ReSigue House on the island, had early
this season fair-sized building for
public house on the south side of Park
street, where were entertained such
men as Hon. John Wentworth, of
Chicago, Mr.. George Smith, afterwards
the Milwaukee banker, and many others
who have since been well known as first
class business men.
On the oath of May, the schooner
Illinois, Capt. Pickering, from Cleve-
land, O., arrived with a supply of pro-
visions for Mr.. Calvin Truesdell, and
building material for VIM. Bullen &
Co. Late in the afternoon storm Of
rain with high wind from the west
began and rained or poured through |
the night. In the morning everything |
was afoat, and soon after the sand bar |
across the stream gave way, the water |
rushing through the gap like mill
race, taking all before it into the lake,
and washing out the channel to the
depth of over fourteen feet several |
rods into the lake, being distinctly Wis
ible, thus revealing its course the only |
time the channel was ever discovered |
to any real depth, or to be followed |
any distance into the lake, and by |
which we were able, at later day, to
tell Capt. Cram that he was laying the
north pier of the harbor directly in the |
channel, as proved to be the case |
when the pier was built and the har-
Dor dredged out.
A few days later, the twenty-sixt h |
the feat Of hauling a fOre-and-after |
schooner (The Ceris, Capt. Morris,) up
the channel and into the basin above |
was successfully performed.
blow set in, and filed up the gap with
sand, making again the usual road on
to the island.
The season of 1887 may be said to
have been an active and prosperous
one for the town of Southport There
were but few days of fair weather but
one or more vessels were engaged in
loading goods of some kind or paSsen-
gers as the number of arrivals will
show-being, of schooners, "a; two
briggs, Queen Charlotte (the British
Flag Ship taken by Commodore Perry,
Capt. Keith, and the Rocky Mountain.
Capt. Haziden, and SO steamboats-in
all, rone hundred and forty-two. Al
though on this lake navigation opened
early, Lake Erie was blocked with ice
until after the middle of May, the
steamer James Madison being the first
boat to pass up that season, and the
schooner Illinois, Capt. Pickering, the
irst sail craft. The Madison did not
'top on her way up, but put straight
'or Chicago, and returning landed the
family of Gen. Bullen with E. M. Kin
1ey and several others on the 30th of
May.
On the 25th of October the steamboat
Detroit. Capt. Crawford, came ashore.
after riding out all night and until
;hrse o'clock in the afternoon in
violent northeast storm; no lives were
ost, but the boat was all broken up.
The season of 1887 closed with the
pest of feeling all around. Business of
Ill kinds had been good everything
lad prospered. / cannot give the num-
Der of buildings put up, nor by whom,
Tor where they all were located.
ITO be continGed.)