Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-12-07

rocks where Lne SUI never peleLfdLeS.
There were plenty of tracks that do
not resemble anything that could have
been made by any existing specie of
animals. Moreover, these tracks, In
solid rock, were made when this par
ticular stratum was soft like stiff mud,
way back in some remote geological
period. The tracks we saw seemed to
be made by foot having a soft heel
like portion and two or three hoof-
like toes. An Amherst student invited
me to come up to Amherst and see z
clay model of a Dionosaurus; but
looked in me dictionary and found a
picture &C one, instead, with this def
milton: "a Mesozoic order of archi-
saurian reptiles with ambulatory feet,
two-headed ribs, perforate actebula,
and no intercl6gicle, comprising the
Iguanodontio or Orthopoda, SaLrischia
or Cetiosauria, and Megalosauria." 1
declared right then and there that
wouldn't care to meet one. / had sus-
pected from his petriied tracks that
he was half as bad as that. What did
he eat and why did he traverse this
gorge, | asked; but of course the
gorge was not there at that time, and
the scores of layers of shale that now
comprise the walls Of the gorge were
all formed since then, and have been
cut through by water action, in quite
recent times-say hundred thousand
years ago, for guess. There were no
humans, then, to dispute with hila. He
probably was not ferocious, or else
lacked brains, and therefore became
extinct.
One day we telephoned to Cousin
Carrie Warren HARDWOOD at Enfield,
Mass, and made date. Carrie is one
of Deacon Joseph Warren's daughters
and was born out here on Lovers
Lane, just south of Muirdale, and lived
there as young lady for fifty years.
Then came Big BEN call him Big
Ben, not because he strikes like Big
Ben in the City Hall tower, nor yet
because Of his sonorous voice, but
rather because he weighs 225 lbs md
writes his name "Benj. HARDWOOD"
Everybody remembers what lot of
antique furniture and relics Carrie had
inherited or otherwise accumulated.
Well, we drove up to Enfield to visit
her in her new home; but there was
little to be seen that was less than a
hundred years old, except this young
married couple and they had been
married ten years. We Just found 1.-TWO
birds of feather" for Ben had as
much antique stuff as Carrie had
just fifty-ffty. In fact, Carries
grandmother and Ben's grandfather
were sister and brother, and both born
in that house. After giving the and
irons, snuff boxes and candle sticks
the once-over, / wanted to go twice
over the queerly worded old books of
Colonial days; but time is so limited
that if one tries to read back numbers,
or live single hour in the buried past,
he misses something of the present
that is hurrying by. However, the
verdure of the valleys, and the trees
on the mountain sides are possessed
of perpetual youth. | backed my car
very carefully off the main road into
their side lawn, set the brake securely
and got some chunks out of the wood
shed and blocked the wheels. There
wouldn't be anything worth going
after if the car hal followed its nat
ural inclination. We were on ter
race on the side of Mount Joe looking
into Swift River Valley, two hundred
feet below--not precipitous, but about
suitable for a donkey to negotiate.
They say that all through there the
early settlers had farms, back in 1850
and later, even on the tops of the
mountains, where there are now only
garden patches. Across the road to
the west, Mt. Joe rises SO steepsy that
the Harwoods never have any after
noon sun in the winter time, and in
midsummer the sun goes down before
FIVE.
The Metropolitan Water Works Co.,
of Boston, has surveyed and estimated
that with comparatively small out
lay of few millions, a great retain
ing dam 100 #. high can be built
across the valley at Big Quabin
mountain just south of Enfield and
make an enormous reservoir for sup
plying Boston, Lynn, Worcester,
Lowell and other cities so miles away
with never failing supply of clean
water. Thirty-nine square miles
would have to be condemned and pur-
chased including a thousand buildings.
Everybody wants to sell, however, and
no one has made any improvements to
his holdings for years, anticipating the
scheme. This Quabin basin is not the
only region in the East where all the
farms are for sale ami no buyers.
Benz. Harwood's house was built by
Benz. HARDWOOD, the great grand
father of both he and his wife. The old
brick oven is still there in which they
used to build fire with hard wood,
then rake out the COILS and put in the
bread, and let it bake from the heat
in the brick. Tbe fireplace still con-
tains the original brackets or pot
hooks where the cooking and broiling