Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-08-20
A Trip to Camp Cleghorn.

/ nearing OF Il praJleaiIy hitherto nm
! explored country in the northern part
OF the State. two intrepid travellers
| bearing the uuassuming unprenten-
tious and unobstrusive cognomen of
Cain aud Musk respectively. set out
one fine morning last week upon a
tandem designated hereafter The
Thing ito make investigations through
out this wild land and to reach, If pos
| sible, the famous Camp Cleghorn,
which is situate upon the Chain O Lakes
in the county of Waupaca Wis. Pos
| sibly when reading the above you will
bring your mind to bear metaphor
callyl upon some ancient Indian settle
ment or perhaps upon the remains of
| the old mound builders and their habi-
tations. This, however, is a mistake.
Camp Cleghorn is the summer home of
a number of up-tO-date people and is
carried on under the auspices of the
!. o q. i. We set out in high spirits
and with full pocket books. We had
a good supply of fresh air in our tires,
a good supply of gall to our faces and
a full supply of blissfnl assurance as
| to the ultimate success of our expe-
| dition. We were armed with an old
! 80 and a box of shots, a package of
grub and few hard boiled eggs. Woe
| betide any unfortunate native who
| should try to cross our path or in any
way attempt to ball1 US in our purpose
| 1.-The Thing" which was built, | should
imagine about the year a. D. 1895. has
| been laying in various corners of Wau-
watosa since that time. and came into
our possession early this year. The
sum necessary for its transference from
it's owner to us was So Therefore see
| ing that it was such an expensive piece
of machinery, one is naturally led to
expect some wonderful performance
made upon it. 1t weighs somewhere
| in the neighborhood Of one hundred
| pounds, and after being brushed over
with innumerable coats of paint looked
IA thing of beauty and a JOY forever, ="
especially the former when we were
astride it.
AS | said before, we started out long
before the early roosters disturb the
SAUNDERS of weary man, long before
Old Sol shows his smiling face above
the horizon and no SO very long after
the silvery moon sank to rest in the
distant West. | have to say all this to
make it sound poetic really couldn't
swear to. at, or about, any of it, Any
way it must have been at least 80 de-
grees when we glided past the depot
Toiling up Wauwatosa avenue we met
nobody. On, on. we went till we struck
the new Fond du Lac road oh, tell
us, somebody, when was this new?
Tell us please is it even a road. or is it
just a relic of medieval days? Dust
and gravel, gravel and dust and repeat
for eight long weary miles. We were
beginning to congratulate ourselves
upon getting to slightly better surface
when HisS-iss-is-ss-ss, our back tire
was flably and lifeless. We were lucky
in our choice of houses at this punct-
ure. The one we called at for water.
etc, for repairs, happened to be the
home of two ardent country cyclists, |
so that in about an hour, we were once
more upon our way rejoicing (more or
Less, nothing eventful happened till
we reached Menom0nee Falls Here.
both of US being SO unused to such un-
usual hardships, bad to refresh our
selves with ice cream soda, whilst s'The
Thing rested outside surrounded Nv
an admiring crowd of children and
astonished rustics.
Again we started off. We left the |
town amidst the waving banners and |
the cheers OF the whole populaco, but /
ere we had gone twenty yards had to
disgrace ourselves 10y getting off The
hin was too much for us. The road |
got from bad to worse. Wagon loads !
of gravel had just been dumped and |
the stones were left just as they
dropped Riding was impossible, SO
we did what most people in the same
circumstances would have done We
walked Certainly they did not know
we were coming or | believe the town
authorities would have seen that things
were IN better shape If you could |
have heard our remarks you would |
have taken up for State Commission
on roads Our criticism were severe.
but certainly not strong enough And
they tell me the Wisconsin roads are
among the best in the Union Further
comment is unnecessary. OF course,
when we didn't ride we walked and
eventually arrived in West Bend. The
road into the town was fairly good, So
we rode into the place in style Here
we wanted Il little relaxation, so took
the opportunity to visit a German pic
ME which was from Milwaukee. Leav-
ing this thriving little county seat we
made our way with difficulty through
kewaskum, Campbelisport and Eden
to Fond du Lac. This town is thirty
ing city upon the beautiful Lake VIM
nebago, and it is all appearance very
much alive. Here we rested When
next we set ont we headed for Oshkosh |
These were the only good roads we met
with ON the whole trip and even they
would not stand a days rain After
leaving Oshkosh we struck something
worse than gravel 1t is said that a
little sand is all that an enterprising
Young fellow needs to assist him to
success. | cannot vouch for the accu.
racy of this statement if this same
young man happens To occupy one of
the two seats of tandem bicycle.
Sand we had, Sand enough To carry
all the enterprising young men of Wis