The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-30
BRISTOL.

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distant full days journey from
Bristol. At present it is reduced
to half an hour Then the round
trip to Chicago occupied three or
four days, at present so many
hours. At present the writer can
partake of late breakfast in Bris
toll and then visit the Fair III Chi
cago daily and return to tea at 6
p. m. This is great economic
convenience. It saves time, ex-
pense and exposure. Although the
product of the soil has been quad
rupled within the last forty years,
vet the great metropolitan cities of
Milwaukee and Chicago furnish a
ready market for all surplus prod
uce of the country The old log
cabins of forty years ago, the oxen
ald OK carts have all disappeared,
and in their stead we witness state
ly mansions, fine horses and car
riages, with gay drivers who never
earned the luxuries they enjoy.
The time when young men went
sparkling in hickory shirts and COW
hide boots is past, and the young
men of to-day who cannot furnish
fine horses and carriages for their
dear dulcineas will get left on the
lee shore, perfect wrecks of human
ity. The old settlers who SO gen
erously mortgaged their farms to
the Kenosha & Rockford r. r. with
the intention of doubling their
wealth have nearly all settled down
quietly in the county cemeteries,
while their sons and daughters and
grandchildren are taking excursions
at reduced rates over the road. For
term of. thirty years the road at
forded but meager accommodations
for the old stockholders. There
was but one go as you please mixed
train of hogs and passengers that
run daily against country teams,
and the teams generally came in
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everything else the railroad service
has improved We now witness a
daily passenger, mail and express
train that makes connections at Ke-
nosha with Milwaukee and Chicago
trains, also three or four freight
trains that pass and re-pass daily,
all of which indicate enlarged bust
ness and better accommodations.
In addition to the Rocky Mountain
there are three other roads in the
county running from Chicago to
the extreme limits of the State, and
now we are promised fourth line
between Milwaukee and Chicago,
which line is surveyed through the
village of Bristol, and when said
line is completed the Bristolites will
get all the railroad racket their ears
can endure; but we hope it will be
ready for the Chicago Fair. The
writer landed in Kenosha fifty years
ago and saw a city in embryo whose
foundation was sand, inhabited
principally by feas. He has marked
It's annual progress to date and now
perceives that the city begins to
put on metropolitan airs. Her mer-
camille, marine and manufacturing
industries give employment 10
thousands. Many Of her old set
tiers amassed wealth, while many
died in debt, were buried on tick,
and departed the city total bank
rupts. We miss the old familiar
faces that used to greet us on the
streets, their good names are re-
corded on monuments of marble,
while their good deeds are mani.
| tested in mansions of brick and
mortar. The first generation have
passed away, the second are grow
ing gray, the third are nearing
their nuptial day, the fourth il
swaddling clothes and bibs recline
in sweet repose in their willow
cribs. The city has been generous
in the past and deserves success il
the future. The electric lights anC
motors are the latest novelties
which mark progressive progress
The aerial banks are next in order
The old settlers of the first anC
second generations purpose to es
tablish perpetual Park at Pad
docks Lake in the town of Salem
The park will comprise five acres
of land lying between the lake ant
highway. The site is elevated
about twenty feet above water an(
is covered with beautiful grove O.
timber. The land will cost abou
seven hundred dollars. It is pro
posed to build hall or pavilion
there which will probably COS
seven hundred more. The lake oc
cupies about $50 acres of space, i
is we'll stocked with fish and clea
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