Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-18
A PICTURE.
A Snap Shot at Wausau by One of the
Citizens of Madison.

A few weeks ago Wausau was visited
by gentleman from Milwaukee; he
was charmed with Wausau; with her
scenery; her handsome buildings, but
as to her streets he was silent until he
reached his home. then he sat down and
wrote his friend as follows:
I'm passing through the central part
of the state, | was most forcibly i'm
pressed by the extreme beauty of your
city. Was ever city more beautifully
situated-up on high land and still
totally surrounded by hills, with old
| Rib majestically looming up in the
distance: Do you people realize what
you haves DO you appraise it at its
full valueg Nature appears to have
been exceptionally liberal in dealing
out her choice gifts to you. You are
fortunate, indeed
From one of your bridges, which
hangs suspended over a rapids, | be-
held that other wonder, the Big Bull
Falls How the water roared and
Kissed and tumbled over the rocksl
One cannot but gaze and wonder, but in
gazing one cannot fail 20 note that the
beauty is most strongly marred by some
horrible blotches of paint. The words
of Rudyard Kipling in his American
Notes, relative to the famous Cliff
House; occur to me: Originally the
cliffs and their approaches must have
been pretty, but they have been so
carefully defiled with advertisements
that they are now one big bistered
abomination.' Your merchants appear
to have had some kind of contest in
which they contended TO see which
could produce the biggest sign, or
which could paint the most beautifully,
or, perhaps, which could write the best.
And then some artistically Inclined
person with venturesome spirit has
boldly perched some little buildings at
the very edge of the water. | turned
quickly my glance to the long line of
manufacturing establishments and was
more pleased.
incidentally had the opportunity of
driving to the southern end of the city,
but, behold! we should have had boat.
Really, if lived in Wausau l should
buy few blocks of what my friend
dubbed Grand Ave- (Horrorsl) and
begin sanitarium. / should build a
high board fence and advertise for
patients to take treatment of mud
baths. Was ever place more appro-
pirate? Good light, better air, and the
best of mud.
Still, if that enterprise should fail, |
should establish an axel grease factory
land of course should not neglect to
advertise it at the Big Bull Falls.) The
supply is apparently unlimited. for
some holes have not been fathomed,
and the demand, no doubt, would be-
come very great as the excellence of
the article became recognized. And /
have heard that you have a crusher and
steam road roller-but the roller is
probably used as an automobile; still
that is hardly possible, fer the roads
give no evidence of their having seen
such machine.
Toward evening / was up ON East
Hill, and / forgot all about the enter
prising merchants, and about that
Grand Avenue, for, as | beheld the
peaceful city bathed in the evening
sunlight, all thoughts of the disagreeable
had fled before the beautiful. | saw
the green trees lining the streets, saw
your Court House, your numerous
church spires, and yoar new High
School, and, winding among the houses
and lumber yards, the silvery river, and
| had to acknowledge that with justice
you could boast of beautiful city If
she but had lake think in time Wau-
sau might even excel Madison in pic
turesqueness and beauty"