Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-01-13
AS Others See Us.

this city which appears in the Saturday
Chicago Herald. Pictures are given in
the article of Dr. n. 2. Valerius, Sena-
tor W. f. Voss, Hon. Jesse Stone,
Timothy Johnson, Watertown's first
settler, and the Richards residence.
Watertown's struggle through the rail
road bond litigation fight is enlarged
upon, followed by a sketch of Carl
Schurz's life and experience in this
city; then there is resume of limo
thy Johnson's settlement of the place,
with various recitals of adventures,
privations and escapes in the lives of
the early pioneers, many of them, how
ever, being purely imaginative.
Under the head of ''The Products of
Peace" we copy below the closing por-
ton of the article
But one must turn from the past whose
many dark days are hidden, to the present Of
peace which those dark days have purchased
This is a great barley country. The firm
of VIM. Buchheit father and SON. has grown
rich here handling grain, and has added
mailing house with capacity Of 500 bushels
a day. Just how much beer can be produced
but that they can produce quality that in
duceS orders from every part Of the union
and quantity whose returns have made
them rich no one can doubt. Besides them,
and in the same line are Hartig & MANI,
brewers from Brewville, with great piles of
buildings on the bank of the river, with a
park on the sunny side of their towering
walls, and with reputation as wide as Wis
cOnSin.
The Waterfowl Shoe Company is another
large concern. It's wares are as standard
Rochester f1VOT9hIV
known throughout the country Cigars go
from WATERFOWL to the trade at large, and OF
q quality that would not be ashamed in the
presence of Cubanos. The great beehive fac
tory and lumber-wOrking concern of G.. b.
Lewis q Co. stands on the river bank, with
ore big mill above and another below the dam
There is the p II. Heinrichs Company. man
ufacturerS of bedsteads: there are q half
dozen yards where the cream-white bricks
are made; there are scoreof other factories,
each one deserving of the lkindeSt mention.
One in particular may be mentioned as in
many ways illustrative of the excellence of
all. That is the cracker concern of Woodland
q Stone. Mr. Woodland has for years been an
invalid, and can take no active part in bust
ness. His partner, Jesse Stone, is an active
vigorous, forceful man, who came here in
1862 and added power to the little bake shop
that had been creeping along since 1860. From
nothing the plant grew until the year just
closing will realize a total of S310.0 in bust
ness handled They make nothing but crack
ers and confectionery; the fOrmerin all var-
cites of cookies, waters and drops; the latter
everything known to the candy trade. They
use 1900 barrels of flour a year and 1000
pounds of sugar in a day. They find custom
eTS in all the tributary country, being partic-
nlarly strong in the northern peninsular of
Michigan They employ SiXty-tive hands at
home, and keep seven men constantly on the
road hustling for orders They are the one
institution OF any Importance in the West
not controlled by the cracker trust-a trust
which includes every great baker for the
trade in Chicago. They handle 800 900 worth
or cheese year, finding all their product in
m mt IN,,.11
lean cheese seem the particular pet of Dodge
and Jefferson counties.
Another of the men who have stood by
WatertOWn in all her trials and who enjoys
to-day the honOrs a careful life has won, is
Senator William F. Voss. He was born in
Prussia-a fact that will bar him from the
presidential chair but which in no wav short
ems his usefulness in the field he fills. He came
here child and has spent his life in Water
town He was for five years assistant post
master and then for limited season tried his
fortunes in the West; but he whose boyhoOd
feet have once been bathed in Rock river al
ways comes back again For twenty years Mr..
NOss has been teller in the Wisconsin National
Bank, and III that time he has served three
terms as mayor, twice as school commission
err and once as president of the board
OF education and city treasurer not to
speak of the four terms he has represented
his ward in the city council 1t should
be remembered that scarcely single one of
these offices has an accompanying income. 1t
is much public service with the single recon-
pense of knowledge of duty discharged In
le9l Mr.. OsS was elected to the senate of
Wisconsin. He is q Democrat of course
1t is great town for horses DR.. Valerius
is at the head of the biggest business in this
lire in the country. He does not confine his
efforts to the breeding Of fine stock. but inn
ports great many of the best horses pur-
chasable abroad. and does the one thing in
addition which few others have attempted
he exports horses. He has sent from his sta
bleS at WATERFOWL many an animal that has
found favor among the best fanciers abroad.
There are more than a hundred employees at
q nTa6 h
Iaftner Northwest are a score of agents al
ways looking for a likely bit of hOrSefieSh.
Nothing is too costly for his use if his iudg-
ment approves it, and disappointment is the
rarest of visitors at his home.
The Riverside Stock Farm is also located
near WATERFOWL, dividing attention between
cattle OF the Durham breed and any other
stock that seems to promise well
One cannot overlook the farming country
hereabout: 1T is the commOnest kind of a
thing for farm land to sell at 800 or 800 an
acre There is no richer soil in the state and
drive in any direction will reveal the class
OF farms that speak volumes for prosperity
and THRIFT. Growing out Of this wheat pro-
ductiOn are the mills of WATERFOWL The falls
of the river provide power enough for ten
times the machinery used here, and the grain,
which flows in as steady stream as do the
waters OF the rushing river. combine to make
possible such institutions as the Empire Mills
ana the city mill of Koenig Bros.
WatertOWn is supplied with churches.
There is a comfortable Catholic representa-
ton and the usual quota of English Protes-
tant SanctuarleS, Dutthe German does prevail
Oh the county line of Jefferson and Dodge
There must be dozen different churches of
the TeutOn persuasion, all Protestant, but all
clinging to the tenets of a belief not wholly
wesleyan. This is the nest where was hatch
ed that fervid opposition to the Bennett law
which rest the state and r9voutionized it in
the late election The whole appearance of
the city shows a strong German cast. The
older business houses affect the outside stair
way, with an outside covered gallery if they
be upon corner. The names impressed on
signs are largely suggestive Of the kaiser's
dominion. In their Northwestern University.
in their two German newspapers. in the
sports on holidays, and in der Viehmarkt''
"a monthly market day-the stranger here
finds himself looking past the nineteenth
century garb to the long pipes and steady
cheer OF old New York. Maybe the patience
and phlegmatic mood of the German was all
that saved the city in this tedious strife when
active lawyers were Fostering them day and
night for payment of notes that never knew
consideration. Perhaps if the population had
been purely Yankee, or largely French or
Italian, the result would have been reached
sooner, but far less favorably. They are
Americans, devoted to the institutions and
the laws Of their adopted country. upright,
metbodic, slow and sure In the adjustment
of affairs there will be no laggards from that
onward march they have hoped for 50 long.
AStray.
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