Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-10-09
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1895.
A Glimpse of the Sunny South.

A Glimpse OF the Sunny South.
Louisville, 1.-THE gate city of the
South" presents a curious mixture of
she old and new. While the business
dwellings are of the modern style,
I&Aere is, mixed in among them, a
axreat many of the Southern dwellings
of the old style-grand, massive stone
piles with futed columns, square out
dimes, broad verandas, and giving a
sense of roominess, comfort and hospi-
Gtality. Such are found even on the
business streets. remnants OF a past
age, now generally used as boarding
houses. In no other city that | know
of does the past and present SO mingle
xtogether, but this is about all that re-
sCninds n of the past; in other respects
she city is modern-broad, we'll paved
streets, expansive lawns, beautiful
parks, an excellent street car system,
and all the other ingredients that go
s6o make up Il busy, noisy, modern
4~scities. Whisky and tobacco are the
great staple articles of merchandise
) that constitute the main business
elements of the city, but for fear one
might consider it a wicked city in con-
III SuOulO NC SdlQ budG LIS
acity of 200, 900 Inhabitants has not less
than 20S churches, from which it also
derives the name of the ''City of
saChurches." On a ride through the
city one is struck by the number and
@2nagnifcence of the churches, one of
the finest being perhaps the Jewish
synagogue, Temple Adas Israel, uu
Broadway, built of white marble and
characteristic by its towers and nina
Erets.
The two prominent features of en-
~campment week in Louisville were, of
scourse, the parade and the encampmept
itself. In no other city where the en-
ecampment has been held to my recol-
lection has there been a finer or more
profuse display of decorations, and the
parade, though not as large as it has
been in other places, was fine and Gre
Sated great enthusiasm, Wisconsin, led
Dv the Wolcott drum corps of Milwau-
Aee, and with "Old Abe" and the bad
ger in the van, coming lnsfor its share.
&f the influence eXerted by such gath
earIngs, Nj .Sherley the president of the
Citizens committee, in his address of
welcome to the encampment, men,
ztIOned the fact that on the last Fourth of
July more national flags were dis
played in Louisville than in all former
wears together. But the great event of
The encampment was the address of
welcome delivered by Henry Waiter
son, editor of The Courier-Journal, of
Louisville, a paper exerting more in
fuence probably in Democratic poll
tics than any other newspaper in the
country, North or South. The address
was without question the finest piece
e0f oratory to whichit has been my good
fortune to listen. In its flow of beauti-
Gul language, its magnificent delivery,
zLhe dramatic gestures accompanying it,
st fairly c~aptivated the "boys," and
9when in his p%ero1ation in response, al
most equally eloquent, Major Warner, of
Kansas City, and Mr.. Watterson heart
Sly embraced each other, the audience
went wild with enthusiasm, and
1T seemed as If the applause and cheer
-ang would never cease. As far as Wis
4consin was concerned only one thing
MARE the Louisville reunion. By
oversight or negligence on the
part of somebody Wisconsin had no
headquarters, no place to register or
10 meet friends from other states. This
prevented many old friends and COM
z-ades from meeting each other, and
while it is true that later on a small
roc was provided, it was getting
80 wards the end of the encampment
22nd no notice of opening of headquar-
tiers was given. No city could possibly
have done better for the ''boys" than
did Louisville; everybody seemed
pleased to have US there, quarters were
Drovided for all and there was no ex-
manifested anywhere as far as
my experience went. True, If a man
wanted parlor and bedroom at a high
toned hotel he might have to pay 500 a
day for it, if he occupied it alone, but
the cOmmo people can get along with
out such, and our quarters at So a day
each person were comfortable and
homelike and the table excellent; still
at must be said that they would AVE
been more comfortable and homelike
If the heat had not been so oppressive
and the mosquitoes SO very persistent.
for, curiously enough, in the Southern
cities, at least in hotels. screen doors
and windows seem TO be unknown.
All traces of the war have disappeared
from Louisville; it was never in the
hands of the Confederates, though sew
oaral times threatened, and forts were
a3uilt around it, out the lapse of time
and progress of improvements have
eobliterated them all. Only in the ISL
lent city, 1.-THE beautiful Cave Hill ceme-
Gery, is one reminded of war, for here
rest the last remains of 4 900 Union and
$50 Confederate soldiers who died in
the hospitals of the city.
From Louisville to Nashville, Tenn,
the road runs through the entire width
of the state of Kentucky, and dis we got
further South, many of the names of
che places the train stops at are made
familiar from their associations of the
war. Though the Confederates never
occupied Louisville, they came danger
esously near to it, and Forrest and Nor
42gan in their raids had many a sharp
s<skirmish with the Union troops. The
country through which we pass is not
especially interesting; after leaving the
@t1ills and valleys bordering on the Ohio
river, the country becomes fiat and ap-
pears to be, from a Southern point
of view, a fairly good farming country.
Corn, sorghum cane, grass and sweet
POTATOES seem to be the chief products,
tbut,the soil, a sort OF red clay, looks
Fpoor and the farm buildings are poor
AS compared with those of our
Northern states. Comparatively little
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