Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-12


, to spend their free hours in crowds,
, watching base ball games, dancing,
or swimming in crowds. Others like
to go Off quietly into the woods and
fields, where they cannot hear the
noise OF people and automobiles.
Many OF the latter are all week shut
in offices or stores perhaps working
with uncongenial people, and long,
above all things, for few quiet hours
on Sunday when they can go into the
country and get rested for the COM
ing week. People with these tastes
are constantly increasing in num-
bers. They are largely people who
are little heard from because they are
too busy and often too retiring to
speak for themselves.
AS the road is now located it leads
directly to the amusements, and still
leaves the west side Of the north end
Of the park quiet, and it's natural
beauty untouched, so that all the peo-
pie have share in the park.
But ii the road is located anywhere
on the west side of the railroad, the
park will be cut into narrow strips
and will be merely a setting for a
wide automobile road And the ma
ture lovers will be excluded, for there
can be no quiet or rest in a place
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people are rushing through in auto
mobiles every Sunday, besides the
large travel all the week.
| cannot think that if this is brought
clearly before the public, that they
will wish to deprive a quiet, harmless
group of people of the pleasures of
the state park
The south end of the park has many
cottages, and the hotel, and it's own
wide road, and it will not take the
place of the lovely bit of wood and
field at the north end of the lake
Remember that every year there |
will be less and less open country |
where people can escape from the |
noise and fatigue Of the towns. And |
remember that Wisconsin has many |
beautiful automobiles roads, so that |
it is not necessary to destroy the |
state park in order to make another |
Many of us had hoped to see the /
state parks places where the poorest |
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eye of enjoying the peace and beauty |
of woods and fields, and it will be |
sad thing if small group of peo-
pie are willing to prevent this in the |
Devils Lake State park.
In Devils Lake, the people of the
state have very wonderful and beau
tiful possession, that should be
guarded in every way, for if it is
once spoiled nothing can give it back
to them.
Everyone now realizes that it was
a terrible mistake that the railroad
should have come through the lake
valley, that can never /be changed
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no further mistakes are made.
No one can stand on the top of the
terminal moraine at the north end
of the lake and look northward over
that tranquil stretch of field dotted
with the fine old trees that were so
carefully saved, and then turn to that
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secrets at the foot of the bluff, with
out feeling that such a scene will be
for all time an inspiration and COM
fort And surely all who have SO
seen it must realize how rare and
wonderful it is, and will hesitate to
destroy it.
Some of you must remember it in
the evening when the wood thrush is
still singing in the woods, and as you
stood there the dusk fell and the
stars came out, and across the hills
in the warm-scented darkness came
the call Of the whippoorwill. Those
who have had that privilege and have
known the exquisite pleasure Of such |
happy moments land all may know
them) will not wish it changed. And |
let no one think that such an expe-
rience can come to one on busy |
automobile road.
All over the state, indeed all over
the country are people who treasure |
some memory like this, and would |
grieve to think that never again could |
they Or anyone else have that joy.
Surely it is our duty and privilege
who are on the spot to protect and
save this beauty for the sake OF those |
who loved and guarded it long ago, |
for those who love it SO deeply now, |
and for those who will come after us, |
and who will need it still more than |
we do, because the world will have
far less open spaces than it has now.