Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-16

Captain Thompson, who was at the
| wheel, the captain at her side, anC
steered the steamer round the lake
proud even to this day of making
the landings" with ease at kirkland
and the Cliff House. Her father
and her brother also were aboard
she recalls, also Mrs. Louise "
Gowan and Mrs. A. H. Wilmington
residing not far away, intimate
friends of the Claudes, all not
many years before from the same
neighborhood in old England. Miss
Claude still reside at Devils lake
of summers with her mother, but
comes to Madison each winter, liv
| ing with her brother, Louis w.
Well-known architect.
Captain Thompson, by the way
was a genius, who had been a boat,
builder in England; who construc
ted a shell in which he won at
single SOULS over competitors FROM
Chicago, st. Paul and elsewhere at
regatta on Devils Lake; who
carved with the skill of Swiss F.;
who was a crack shot, and who
finally, could make his own violin
and play it with no little grace.
Long since, 1890, he was laid to
rest in the Baraboo cemetery.
recall him well as operating mod
est carpenter shop on Oak street,
near Fifth avenue. 1t abutted on
our garden,-a quiet, kindly, genial
type.
Samuel M. Williams, Baraboo
boy now a Milwaukee attorney,
thus writes:
Agatha Pearl was d granddaugh-
ter of Aunt Dolly Pearl, who was
sister of Col. Stephen, Van Rem
sselaer Alderman, and who used to
go fishing with my brother Char
les and myself in the Baraboo
river at Ableman. Tom Thompson,
knew very well indeed. He was
as you say, a very unusual man.
Unlike General Grant, | once i'm
bibed almost too much of Mr.
Noble Kinks wine. But that was
before the amendment to the CON-
stitution. My loyalty to that
document, and respect for law,
would not permit me to do so
now"
Some twenty years ago re Min
newaukan, now a derelict, burned
on the Claude beach. It's three
toned whistle is a cherished SOU
venir in the State Historical Mu-
scum. Some day hope to have
it sounding regularly from the
university service building.
Mrs. Emma Chapman Mertzke,
still residing at Baraboo, remem-
bers her aunt, Mrs. David Nun
son, telling that there was con
siderable excitement in our neigh
borhood when word came that
General Grant was at Devils Lake
Some Of us got together and decid
ed to go to the lake, see him if we
could, but not to intrude upon his
privacy We drove over in carriages
tied our horses to trees some dis
lance west of the Cliff House, and
walked slowly toward the hotel,
hoping the General would appear.
Soon he and some of the party
did walk out on the lawn south
Of the hotel and stood looking over
the lake. We noticed he glanced
our way two or three times, then
one of the men near him Ct think
it was a Baraboo MANI walked
over to us and said; The general
would be pleased to meet you if
you cared to walk over there We
needed no second invitation Eacn
one had the privilege of taking his
hand. We stood for a few min
utes in informal conversation and
then, as l remember, rode around
the lake in the boat with him."
Mrs Mertzke is of the impress
sion that Col. d. K Moves and DR.. |
B. F. Mills, with their families,
were of this party Colonel Moves.
who lost his right foot at Antietam
in 1862, naturally would not have /
missed such favorable oppor-
tunity to greet again his old com
Mrs. H. n. Jennings re-
calls hearing DR.. Mills also men
ton Col D. S. Vittum, Terrill I
Thomas and Col. R. w. Strong. |
as of the party.
R. B. Griggs, retired Baraboo 1
at once hurried to the
lake when he heard that Grant 1
was there and stood near when
some one asked: