The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-07-14
IN HOARD'S CITY.
Burnett" Visits Fort Atkinson
and Sees Dairy Machinery.
BUTTER THATBRINGs GOOD PRICES

erS-L. Bs CaSWe1IS LIZ fears In congress
Where Black Hawk Tarried-A Pref
ty Home City of 5000 People.
Madison, Wis, July 11.-Fort Akin
son is familiar to all Wisconsin, and
much of the world outside as the home
of Ex-Governor Hoard and l.. B. Cas-
WELL who served fourteen years in
congress, which is long time, and
with little if any precedent in this
state.
Mr. CaSWell was a Woodworking rep
resentative of the people and his work
in favor of pure food products, with
sharp warfare on "OleO," and in reduc-
ing postage from to cents has made
his name familiar in the annals of
statecraft. Mr.. Caswell shone in con-
scientious, diligent committee work,
giving little time to speechmaking. He
still practices law, in which profession
he has an enviable standing. Mr.. Cas-
we'll has three sons, both Of the city's
banks claiming a representative.
Fort Atkinson cut a figure in Black
Hawks war in 1882, which was about
the end of Indian terrorism in the
Badger state General Atkinson, an
eastern man, threw up stockade
Arrowheads, ETC., and skeletons are
found to this day. The story is that
the whites supposed they had the red
skins surrounded in a swamp, but the
next thing known of Black Hawk was
with his followers at Blue Mounds, in
western Dane county.
Developing a Lake Resort.
It is pretty little city of 5000 pee
pie on the banks OF the Rock river.
That river has q host Of cities that lie
the same way. The main business
street strikes the river at right an
gle, and citizens stand on the bridge
at midnight, or at any other time, and
think great thoughts as they see the
beautiful, clear stream roll toward the
sea. A handsome steamboat was
locked by it as | stood there the 9th
er day. 1t is an excursion boat and
will carry 200. 1t is new. 1t runs to
Lake KOshkonOng, six miles below, to
Arthur HOard's tone Of the eX-gOvern-
Or's sOns) hotel resort, where he has
invested some $4,000. Ferdinand
Peck, the Chicago society man and now
chief Paris exposition commissioner,
formerly owned it for q country place.
Young Mr.. Hoard Che is about 35) has
made money very fast in the fancy
creamery business. He lives in the
handsOmest house in the city and has
taken up the development of this lake
property as hobby and an invest
ment The people and visitors enjoy
the excursion trips and the lake is
equipped for success. 1t is famous
fishing territory, for the reason that
it is bead on Gtring-the Rock rlv-
er flowing uninterruptedly through it.
Thus it is fed constantly by fish. The
finny residents may go up and down
the lake for miles and hatch their
young, all of whom occasionally turn
up in KOshkOnCng to see what is being
offered in the way of minnOWs with
or without hooks"
Lake Ripley, twelve miles away, the
hope of Cambridge, is a modest little
body Of water, but it already boasts
two busy hotels in the summer season.
In fact, every lake or pond big enough
for the dainty feet Of milliOnaire's
child to paddle in; every reservoir in
Wisconsin deep enough for a club to
turn round in, has q feature. At least,
let us hope so.
Jefferson county, in which Fort At
kinson is Situated-"The Fort" it is
commonly called by the older residents
is choice dairy country, as everybody
knows. The Germans have come in
much of late years, and with Water
town. Lake Mills, Jefferson and Fort
Atkinson and the smaller places, it's
$4,000 population cuts an important fig
ure in southern Wisconsin.
The settlement OF Fort Atkinson
dates from 1886, one year earlier than
Madison's, by the way. But whereas
the last capital city's pioneer passed
away in Darwin Clark, Fort Atkinson
is proud of Uncle Stephen Rice and a
number of citizens of that far distant
day, still with them to tell the story Of
pioneer hardships and herOism.
Hoard in His own Barnyar,i.
Everyone in Fort Atkinson has a
pleasant word for William Dempster
Hoard. They are proud of his remark
able career and on every side one sees
evidence of the material prosperity
which he and his energetic sons have
brought to the town. The ex-governor
has carved his own way to success,
and his admirers are not through ex-
pecting higher things. He missed the
cabinet very narrowly once or twice
along the line of this interest that he
is putting in his best work. His father
was a Methodist circuit rider down in
New York state. The territory which
the old saint covered for the munif-
cent salary Of $500 year is now oc-
cupied by over thirty Methodist
churches. When the young Hoard was
q we find him in Dodge county, a
farm hand in summer and a singing
master in the winter time. Those OF
us who meet the ex-governor of late
years think him more quiet He still
tells good stories, and his eyes twinkle
premonitions of good things sure tC
follow. But his public speeches al
ways carry vein of growing serious
ness, and the inevitable reference tC
popular rights and an "anti-machine'
flavor convey to those who know his
tory a feeling that something ran
kIes in the mans breast.
The vicissitudes of politics and the
growing weight of 63 years might rea
sOnabiy make any man thoughtful
R,It his iOfimateS pSnpoia1lV his OLE