Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-19
A WESTERN JOURNEY.
mpnzss1oxs GATHERED BIZ AN
OLD SOLDIER on HIS TRIP.
IN CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE,.
pecn,ar,.fes of the wisconsin CITY
powie,. City of zion-In the IL
tnof. Mctroro1is-Gen. Walter c.
xevberry and HIS Ixinsfo1k.
.rpn-..1oxs GATHERED BIZ AN
OLD SOLDIER on Hrs TRIP.
IN CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE,.
recn,ar,.,e. of the wisconsin city
Enr thu Disnatch.l

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ler. Richmond July 18th, at P. NJ. by
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
changed time by IN hour from eastern
TO central time at Clifton Forge. changed
cars at Cincinnati. passed through In
diana and Illinois. indianapolis and Chi
cago. and arrived at Milwaukee at +.
NJ. July 18th, over one thousand miles in
q little over thirty hours.
This Right over the county OF I'LL
nois" was very interesting to me. 1t
drought back George Rogers Clarke and
his huclzskin-clnd rifenlen from South
west Virginia and his march down tho
Big Sandy and across the prairie to VIM
comes aud toward the Lakes.
Msryla,sd was pertinacous q regard
TO the western lands, Virginia had an
nexed all the territory west of the Ohio.
and east Of the Mississippi and named it
the county OF Illinois," and was con-
tendinE her Jurisdiction and establish
ing her courts there but the MaTvlanders
INSISTED that as the territory had been
wo. In the common struggle Of all the
States, 1t of right ought to be held for
the common benefit OF all, and they re-
fuses to sign the article Of confederation
until Virginia executed a deed for the
northwestern territory, and 1t was deliv-
cred to the President Of Congress. after
the peAcc, Maryland having borne her
part in the war as an Independent sover-
e!gn nation. putting in her last man and
har last dollar for the common object,
for. said the Marylanders. Tho cause OF
Boston IS the cause Of all
HOW DIFFERENT IT MIGHT HAVE
BEEN.
These recollections stirred my heart as
sped over tae grand prairies filled with
bursting barns and herds and fiocks. and
I thought II the daughter of Virginia had
stood by the mother in time Of stress,
how different he history Of North AmerI-
ca would have been.
Milwaukee is S miles north of Chicago,
on the west sid,s Of Lake Michigan. built
on a high bluff which gives il advantages
uneoualled by any town on the cosatinent.
II is the most beautiful place in the
United States.
The streets are broad avenues lined by
rows of elm, maple, lindens, and other line
trees, well grown and handsome. and
Prospect avenue on the bluff is the, hand-
soonest street in the United States: The
town has 100000 people, largely OF tore.gn
birth-Germans. Scsavs, Russians, Poles,
Eoumanians, Dutch, etc, etc. and at
times the foreigners have possession.
We had street fair with some out
landish Polish name. and ! spent IN eve
ming at it But it disappointed me. l
only saw one suit of red clothes and
woooen sh pes and several women in red,
but the IA kirs and the side-shoWs were
like all the rest, except the preponder-
ance of beer saloons. while men and wo-
men sat on she front porch and drank
Milwaukee be,;r.
SOME. NOTABLE FEATURES.
There is fine Federal building of gran
tie. containing the post-ofire courts, and
all the Federal offices, monument of the
power of the great government 1t repre-
sents.
A great library furnishes books for all
IN the town. given by a rich citizen. A
munifcent butcher has founded the Lay
ton art Gallery. free to the public at spec
tiled hours where there is great col
lection Of paintings being gathered, and
nm art exposition, where there is large
collection of Verestagin's works.
But the work of nature is more interest
ing than The Work OF art Inc ldfe &c
Eion of Wisconsin, which feeds the Mis-
sissippi, is The greatest coilecuon OF lakes
KNOWN to geographerss.
At Cconomoe. thjrts-two miles north OF
Milwaukee, is chain of forty-three lakes,
from six miles by four, down to smaller
dimensions connected by small stream.
So YOU can get from one to another with
a naphtlla launch.
The islands and the shores are occu-
pied by nlillonaires from Chicago and l
was shown Il stable that cost 100000,
filed with fine horses. The lakes lack
the mountains of Geneva or Lucelne,
hut the water is clearer and more beau
r.ful than in Switzerland. 1t is pure
spring water. ::
From Milwaukee ran over here in tw.
hours It was almost continues toWl:
all the way. ! passed through Do"ie' S
o!ty Of Zion, where a process is gong on
like Joe Smiths. DCwie announces him.
self as the incarnation of all of the pro-
Dhets. and gathers from his believers one
tenth of their annual earnings and in
comes, and with this fund has bought a
great tract Of land on the lake, where he
has founded the city of Zion, where he
has already from 10000 to 10000 inhabi-
tants. It seems to be an exact copy Of Joe
Smiths Nauvor, and will be copied also
in the expulsion Of the lunatics from the
State to Mexico. They will hardly stop
in the United States.
GENERAL WALTER NEWBERRY.
At Chicago I had the pleasure of visit
tnc General Walter c. Newberry. who
will be remembered by many old Rich