Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-08-19

mountains, among which many Mel
bourne residents have their summer
homes. There is Just one fly in Mel
bourne's charming social ointment:
democracy and wealth diffusion are so
strongly marked that the ever-present
servant problem seems unsolvable.
And so the city, like it's civic sisters
in America, is becoming more and
more community of apartment houses
and flats"
Horse racing Is a passion with the
Melbourners of today and each season
huge pools and purses are made up
on the outcome of contests between
famous horses. Perhaps the prize
complex" of the modern Melbourner
is a case of history repeating itself
for Melbourne is literally prize
town" Gold was first discovered in
parts of Australia outside Melbournes
trade territory" The citizens met in
a sort of pioneer boosters club and
decided that the city needed only a
home-talent gold mine to make it a
bigger and better Melbourne" There
upon a gold discovery committee" was
formed and a prize of about $1,000
offered to the first person to find the
yellow metal within 200 miles of the
city. Prospecting was stimulated and
before long nuggets by the sackfu
were being carried to Melbourne from
Ballarat, only 20 miles distant.
Adelaide Ranks Third.
- Al
is Adelaide, third city of Australia.
Adelaide is in reality an inland city,
but it has good port, Port Adelaide,
six miles distant, and the city has
grown to the port. 1t was at Port
Adelaide that a small unit Of the fleet
anchored.
The selection of a site for Adelaide
around the southeast corner of the
continent from the existing settle
ments and 600 miles westward along
the southern coast gave the new colo
nists an isolation that produced a
marked individuality for the city be-
fore railroads came along to bind il
back again as neighbor to New South
Wales and Victoria.
Adelaide is the only great city in
Australia not directly on the coast. II
was established six miles up the Tor
rens river from ST. Vincent gulf. AL
most simultaneously, however, Port
Adelaide was built some six miles
from the city and seven or eight miles
up the coast from the rivers mouth
Connected with the city, first ty high
ways and later by rail, the port is now
practically a part Of Adelaide. The
situation is not unlike that of Los
Angeles, also established inland, which
has built its port on the nearest salt
water; or like that of Lima, Peru,
which has its port. Callao, eight miles
distant.
Adelaide is surpassed in Australia
by Sydney and Melbourne. Its popU.
lation of about 100000 makes it com
parable to Portland Ore, or Denver
1t is we'll built and is particularly rich
in parks One unique feature is the
ringing round of the business district
by zone of park land beyond which
lie the residential sections. Wide
streets and substantial buildings,
combined with the parks, give AIDE
laide at once the appearance of q
thriving mart Of trade and a substan'
tial home city.
Adelaide owes much to its immedt
ate surroundings. 1t is set down in
vale of plenty. The plain of Adelaide,
which surrounds the city and extends
up and down the coast, is a level and
fertile region closely packed with
farms and gardens Back of this
ifteen-mile strip, about seven or eight
miles from the city, rises the Mount
Lofty range of hills, affording excel.
lent pasturage. The gentler slopes are
used for fruit growing and wine pro-
duction.
Parks do not stop with Adelaide's
municipal limits Numerous nationa,
parks and reservations have been sci
| apart in the hills. Good highways con.
meet them with the city and a govern
ment tourist bureau operates motor
buses TO these pleasure spots. In the
other direction Adelaide has bevy o.
| seaside resorts within easy reach.