The Newtown bee., 1903-12-18
WHAT THEY DO OUT WEST.


The September day known in the
Cream City as "Governor's Day."
dawned fair and beautiful. Lake
Michigan smooth as blue ribbon,
murmured and rippled in the sunshine
as though it had never known storm.
Lake Michigan be it known, is like
the little girl in the nursery rhyme;
she had little curl right in the mid
die of her forehead.-When she was
good, she was very very good, and
when she was bad, she was horrid.
A more beautiful body of water was
never seen, when skies are bright. AS
you go by train from Milwaukee to
different points north, you see .splen-
did residences, terraced up from the
shore; gardens are laid out and fancy
beds of colens and bright geraniums
dot the sloping sides. Many people
having library and parlor on the back
of the house, and kitchens and porte
cochere in front; George w. Peck Of
"Peck's Bad Boy fame" built his in
that way, and many others. Large
steam erS cross the lake and yachts and
pleasure boats dot it's surface. But
let the day be cloudy, and oh what an
angry sea surges and swells, and the
| whole vast body of water churns and
boils like hop yeast! No sailing on
such day. On the Michigan side
| icebergS are seen and the climate
there is colder than Wisconsin,, al
though in Milwaukee the weather is
cold, the mercury falling often % be-
low zero. But that is not September
and "Governor'S day. at the Exposit-
ion. The long train creaking and puff
ing, comes to stand still, and out
come the crowd, from many towns
along the way, but an unusual crowd
from Madison, the capital of the State.
Conspicuous among the throng is the
white haired Gov Rusk with some Of
the members of his staff, his wife and
large party of ladies. United States
Senator Spooner is there with party,
Of which we have the honor of being
a member. Carriages are in waiting
for those who choose to ride to the
grounds. Cars, then drawn by horses
are there in abundance, and some
choose to walk and admire the view Of
the lake, the broad streets, with little
parks laid out between, all brilliant
with autumnal flowers. Milwaukee
people love flowers They are every
where possible for them to be anC
make the city more attractive anC
homelike. The Governor takes car
rage. He looks wistfully at the driv
er's seat, for "Uncle jerry" as he i
affectionately called, once drove a stage
and knows how to handle the ribbons
, he knows how to handle the affairs 0
, the state and it so judiciously, that HI
I was called to Washington to help a bi
there, and did his part very we'll a
secretary of agriculture, and we ma
thank him perhaps for our annual gift
of garden seeds. The affairs of stat
are laid aside to-day, and the Governo
smiles and bows right and left to thos
who are eager to salute him and we
come him to the Cream City.
He takes in every feature of the E,
position and eagerly as boy, shown
dis preferences, perhaps, by pausing
little longer in the room where fin
wagons and carriages are exhibited
fine harnesses and saddles have IA
share of attention, and the lates
thingsin bits are very interesting. H
70 stays a long time in the room wher
the implements of war are exhibited
all battered and torn, the flag mel
strips Of red, white and blue. Unc]
Jerry fought under that flag. 1t is a
: real to him. Senator SpoOner did a
N so. He was colonel when the Civ
" war closed. There are the blackene
u guns, wicked looking still. VIVA
n wicked work they did, because the
n had to. 'Thank God it's over" "
ii heard one man say, as they went OF
n Of the door.
Y We were so long in getting from th
" Chicago & Northwestern train to tt
Il exhibition grounds. Our space #
q this week is filed and what the Cove
~ nor came to see the GROWING glory