Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-10-26
CROSSETTE FILMS.
Trio Taking Pictures Along the Wis
consin River Valley Tell Of Their
Visit in Wausau.
WAUsAU, Wis,
MONDAY, AUGUST Both.

| lures. LII SplU6 Oh Gl0 1dCO IIldI we
could not make pictures today we de-
cided to look over the ground and
lay out our work for the time when
we could, and with that in view Mr..
Chellis, the secretary of the Wausau
Advancement Association, took US to
the Wausau Granite Works to look
over the machinery and see if there
was anything worth making pic
ture of and we found some very inter
esting machinery. The granite is
first chiseled off by hand and then
mounted on block under big pneu-
matte hammer and literally pounded
fat first with coarse hammer, and
finally it is leveled off with perfect
ly smooth trip hammer. 1t is then
taken in to the polishers and finished.
We decided to make pictures of this
machinery.
In the afternoon we were taken 70
| Alexander's stock farm, known as
the "Lone Pine Farm" and this was
an education in itself and well worth
visit. Here we saw dairy farming
as it should be. Everything was
immaculate; the floors were like con-
crete floor in hotel and cleaner than
most of them. The cattle were all
pretty and clean and when it came
to the little calves with their pink
noses and beautiful sleek hides for
one could not resist the desire to hug
them. Each COW had it's own water
cup and the cows are MIXED with a
machine and they seem to like it
much better than by hand; at least
they stood ten times as still as / ever
saw a COW stand that was being
MIXED by hand, and after a person
has seen these machines at work one
would be willing to pay twice as
| much for milk secured in this fashion,
as the milk is not exposed to the
usual dirt from the cows body and
in fact it is not exposed to the air at
all until it is out of the barn. We
were told that these COWS gave about
their own weight in milk each month.
We also saw some beautiful Shet-
land ponies and decided as soon as
the weather permitted to come back
out here and make enough pictures to
show plainly all the things 1 am tell
ing you about.
| TUESDAY, AUGUST 3lst.
Bright and clear. Mr.. G. S.. Curtis
called us this morning at 6 a. m. to
tell US he was going to call and take
us out to the dellS of the Eau Claire,
so we all hurried, including Mrs Cros-
settle who had heard of our spills
and decided to see for herself if we
were still alive. She appeared at two
in the morning and by some error Fat
was sleeping in the room that had
been assigned to me, and when the
phone rang at two o'clock and the
clerk said "Your wife is here" Fat
almost had a spasm, as he is still a
single man but expects to break over
the line very shortly. He wondered
if he was perfectly sober or fully
awake but at last managed to think
that it was probably my wife.
Mr.. Curtis put in an appearance at
7 a. m. and we started out at once
for the Dells. 1t is a twenty mile
run and we made it in just one hour
and when we arrived were dunn
founded to find regular miniature
Yellowstone Park or perhaps Grand
Canyon. The scenery was beautiful
and we made some dandy pictures,
climbing around for several hours.
We started for Wausau about IL a.
m. and on the way home saw about
as good an example of a farm that
had come to the front right from the
log cabin days as could be found, and
we made a picture showing the old
log cabin and log barn and the new
modern house and modern barn with
the silo attached.
| We reached WauSau at noon and
| Mr.. Curtis took us to dinner at the
WauSau Club and after dinner we
went to the Curtis & Yale plant to
make a picture of very wonderful
machine they have there that makes
doors or at least makes the lumber
| for doors out of little blocks of wood |
in very interesting manner | will !
not describe this operation as it would |
take too much space and the picture |
will tell very much palmer.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st.
Bright and clear. Today is the |
| first day of the Marathon county fair |
and this afternoon we are going to |
make some pictures out at the grounds; |
but this morning we went to the |
county insane asylum that l told you |
about in the last installment and
made pictures, also of several other |
interesting things around Wausau.
In the afternoon we visited the fair |
grounds and took pictures of Reckless
Russell in his Ride for Life, which
was really very thrilling; also a bear
driving an auto all over the grounds
We got many interesting pictures, in
Guiding one very exciting horse race
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd.
Bright and clear. Today we took
pictures at the Granite works and
more at the fair in the afternoon
and last went to the Lone Pine Farm
and took pictures of all the wonder
full things l told you about early in
this issue.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd.
Bright and clear. We had our
boats hauled TO Mosinee last night