Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14
THE FRESH AIR CLUB.

Ever join the Fresh Air club {? It's
one of the best clubs what gives. :"
Anyone and everybody is eligible to
become one of its members. No ap-
plicants were ever blackballed. No
matter whether you are a married
man or a Swede, a republican or a
Seventh Day Adventist, you can join.
Since the past few days of warm
weather has come, the clubs member
ship has been materially increased.
Get up early some morning and you
will see some of the clubs members
on any street your eyes search. They
are getting the fresh, morning air.
You will at once want to join. After
you have become full fiedged men,
ber you will scorn the man who sleeps
away his life in bed during the best
part of the day Some men die with
their boots on, but most men die in
bed. Get out on the street and see
how Wausau opens up in the morn
ing. The best time to begin is at
about four O'Clock. Some men stay
up all night so they can enjoy the
walk home in the morning. But
they are not members of the club.
The best place to make your obser-
yations is along Third street at either
the Scott, Jefferson or Washington
street corners. While you are stand
ing on one of these corners observing
the excellent condition of our Third
street pavement, you will presently
hear footsteps approaching in one of
the Wausau Ice and Fuel Co.'s or
Healy & Browns wagons. Though
the ice men are like bears in that
they hibernate all winter, they are
The first out on the streets in sum-
mer. In the early morning they
make their down town deliveries, be-
fore supplying the residence districts.
The noise of the wagons, as they
thunder along our excellent block
wakes up few fellows
who have been leaning against build
ings taking short snooze.
You will now observe a number Of
fellows with fish poles across their
vending their way to the
falls, in search of fish story.
BY this time you have met police
man who propounds the question,
"Who's going to pitch today? Dun
bar or Lakoff?' While you are dis
cussing the error column of yester-
days game, along come the men who
unlock the places the building-leaner
has been trying TO break into. The
latter is nervous and wants nerve
tonic, but dare not trust The drug
stores.
The next people you see are the
meat market men, who must cut
their meats and put up their orders
by the time their delivery wagons are
ready to start out.
You then hear some more rumbling.
This time it is the brewery wagons.
They must make their deliveries, for
the man who was awakened by the
ice wagon is going to be on the job
again today.
At about the same time you hear
the changing of bells. This time it is
the bakers boy, supplying the hotels,
and free lunch empori-
ums.
BY this time the town is beginning
to hven up. The hotels turn out
their lodgerS for the Northwestern
early train. The l.50 per day fellow
comes along with his dinner pail.
The trolly wire begins TO sing, or
rather zing, denoting that the car
men are out for their days work.
There is hustle by the dinner pail
brigade to get the best seats or straps.
The bell clangs. They're Oft. The
ticket Duncher is the poll horse.
The seven o'clock whistles blow and
there is general scurrying. The head
clerks unlock the stores for the days
business. The street sprinklers be-
gin their journeys. The clerks are
out sweeping off the sidewalks. Be
tween seven and eight the merchants
begin coming down town. And 50 it
goes from day TO day throughout the
summer.
Join the Fresh Air club and SEQ
how WauSau wakes up in the morn
ing. The fresh, morning air is good
for the lungs, and your sleep at night
viii be more reStful.