Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
WISCONSIN. PRESS ASSOCIATION.

m end too soon.
The annual convention of the Wisconsin Press
Association for 1886 is thing of the past ana
we think we may safely affirm that more EN-
joyable time was never spent by the members OF
the fraternity From the time our special cars
left Milwaukee at p. M Monday, August 10,
until weturned our faces homeward ON the AFTER
noon of Friday, the Goth, the hours were one
round of pleasure, and the only lament we
heard was that we were not to be gone montn
instead of week.
The ride over the Milwaukee Northern ROAD
from Milwaukee to Marinette was accomplished
in little more than four hours, the last twenty
four miles being passed 10 twenty seven minutes.
Everyone expressed surprise at the short time
in which the journey was made, and our sur
prise was still further increased when, upon
reaching Marinette. we found carriages in wait
ing to convey the members of our party to their
separate stopping places. The reception Gem
mittee consisted of Messrs 81. o. Fairchild, Isaac
Stephenson, ]. K. Wright DR.. J.J. Sherman and
C. NJ Fairchild, and we must say they made an
excellent one.
Tuesday morning the editors assembled at the
Stephenson Opera House to transact matters of
business connected with the association and to
| elect officers for the coming year. w. D. Hoard,
| of Fort Atkinson, and ]. E. Heg, of Lake Gene.
va, were reelected president and secretary, re-
spectively; ]. C. Bartholf, Milton, assistant
secretary; David Atwood, Madison, treasurer;
vice-presidents: Sam Ryan, Appleton. NJ. H.
Barnum, Wausau, E. Decker, Green Bay, II.
E. Legler Milwaukee, 7. K, Dunn, Elroy, w.
! L. ,Jorris, Watertown, U. P. Rindlaub, Platte
vile, B. J. Price, Hudson; executive committee:
Edwin Hurlbut, Oconomowoc. Frank Tilden,
Green Bay A. L. Fontaine, Grand Rapids, O.
! G. Munson Viroqua.
After dinner carriages were sent for our party
to take q ride about Marinette and Menomtnee
under the guidance of MI. Henry Schwartz. With
his beautiful gray team taking the lead, We pro-
ceeded over fine hard roads, over roads of sand,
over roads of saw-dust and over green grass, to
he part of Menominee River where the logs are
marked for the different mills. To those of US
who came from the southern part of the state
the scene was one of novelty and great interest.
The river between Marinette ard Menominee is
completely filled with logs floating down stream
to their respective mills and when we cons;d-
cred that every one of these logs must be marked
two or three different times we realised the vast
amount of labor necessary to convert them into
lumber for building purposes. Standing in the
river on the planks which form the pockets for
the logs, and watching the dexterity with which
the men CIT the different marks into each log,
we could form a faint idea of the immensely
of the lumber industry of Northern Wisconsin.
Returning from the river, we attended the
horse races at the driving park and then drove
to Menominee. The two places (Marinette and
Manonoipaol ORC cOOneote1 h- 10oo hridps
and as the roads are unsurpassed, the drive is a
delightful one Menominee, like Marinette,
has many beautiful residences, The two towns
being greatly alike in other respects as we'll.
We were impressed by the enterprise of the two
places, and could not but notice the contrast the
towns of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan pre-
sent to those in the southern part of Wisconsin.
In the former all is new and teeming with activ-
ity aud energy, while the latter are content to
continue in old ways and afford but few chances
for prosperous business. There may be some
/ who will say that as the principal resource of
the former is their lumber facilities, when they
have gone these new towns, with which every
one is SO infatuated, will disappear as rapidly as
they have grown up. But to such we would re-
ply that the vast forests give no indication that
the humber supply is beginning to tell, and that,
in all probability, the time will be long beyond
our generation before such will be the case.
But to continue with our account Tuesday
evening. at the Stephenson Opera House. we
were entertained by speeches of welcome by
Hon. H. o. Fairchild and Judge Noyes. of Mari
nette, which were responded to by Judge Ryan.
of appleton. Interspersed was music, both vo-
cal and instrumental by the Sparta Ladies'
| hon oF
had accompanied our tourists. Mrs Louise
Phillips. of Madison read the annual poem,
which was greatly liked for its brightness and
wit. One of the younger editors expressed him
self as much impressed by the following lines:
.'Who owns heart as well as cheek,
Possessed of spirit proud, yet meek,
And lives on fifty cents week?
The Editor"
Following the poem was an excellent address
by President Hoard. He spoke of the aim of
true journalism, and of tne false idea many have
in regard to newspaper work, viz, that "jour-
nallsm and type-setting are kindred. and the
latter is the foundation of the first" He said:
ssThere is an abundance of born printers and
few BON journalists, the same as there are
thousands of carpenters and but few good ar
y chitects. To be a printer is to be a
| power among the type-to be editor is to be
| all human effort can be gauged by two things
viz, the ideal of standard which measures that
effort and is the source of 1t, and the energy
with which the ideal is carried to completion.
| Ideas govern everywhere, and ideals are found
ed on ideas This is the editors field. To him
is referred the task, in common with the pulpit
and the school teacher, of charging the under
standing of the people. How painful then. to
see mummy in either place"
So full of practical value were the ideas ex-
pressed that we wish space permitted the pub
LEGATION of the whole speech After the presi-
dent had concluded, s. d. Peet made some
remarks upon the history of this state, and the
quartette then sang $50 the Story Goes" after
which Judge Ryan read an obituary notice Of
Gen. Albert G. Ellis. The evening was ended
with music, after which our weary editors dis
persed. -
Wednesday morning dawned COOL bright and
beautiful, and o'clock found all our editorial
party, with many of Marinette's citizens, on
board the steamer Welcome which was to take
us to Sturgeon Bay. A more pleasant day in re-
gard to both weather and company could moi
have been imagined, and when we reached
Sturgeon Bay and found carriages at the doc /
ready to take us to the hall for an elaborate
dinner, we thought we were indeed fortunate
and decided that an editors life was happy