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HENRY E. LEGLER 
 CHARLES K. LUSH 
 JOHN G. GREGORY 
 JULIUS BLEYER 
 MATHER D. KIMBALL 
 CAPT. CHAS. KING, U. S. A. 
 FRANK MARKLE 
 H. G. UNDERWOOD. 
 
 Edited by 
 
 Charles K. Lush, 
 W. T. Walthall, Jr. 
 
Ubis 36oofe is not 2)eoicate& to 
 
 anyone, but if it were 
 
 tbe name of Cbas. H. 2>ana woulfc 
 
 appear upon tbis page. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PACK. 
 
 INTRODUCTORY, 9 
 
 THE CLUB AT HOME 21 
 
 THE PRESS PAST AND PRESENT, 31 
 
 THE WORLD'S FAIR JOURNALISTS, 47 
 
 COOKERS' AND EATERS' ASSOCIATION, . . . .65 
 
 EASTER AT THE CLUB, 61 
 
 THE CLUB'S ANNUAL OUTING, 71 
 
 WISCONSIN WAR CORRESPONDENTS, . . . -79 
 AFTER-DINNER REMINISCENCES, ..... 87 
 
 To SCUDDAY RICHARDSON, 97 
 
 ROSTER OF MEMBERS, ...... 111-112 
 
 M188867 
 
Copyrighted 1895, by Milwaukee Press Club. 
 
front door 
 
 POUR newspaper men 
 cautiously felt their 
 way down the dark back 
 stairway of the old Sentinel 
 building at 3 o'clock in the 
 
 morning, November I, 1885. ^ n tnose day s 
 was locked at midnight, and there was no elevator. In the 
 cellars of the Sentinel, Heroic! and Seebote the presses were 
 clanking away, turning out the usual assortment of puffs, 
 libels and uncolored truths. " Thirty " had been called twen- 
 ty minutes before, and the quartette hurried down Newspaper 
 Row, turned on East Water Street and headed for an all-night 
 chop-house half-way down the block. As they munched their 
 ham sandwiches and washed them down with the foaming 
 brew indigenous to Milwaukee, the grain was planted that 
 germinated and grew into a Milwaukee Press Club. It 
 seemed a Herculean task to band the boys together in the year 
 1885, for strained relations then existed (now happily altered) 
 between workers employed on the one paper and "the fellows 
 on the other sheets." It must be admitted that ten years ago 
 there was not the spirit of comradery that prevails to-day 
 among the newspaper men of the city whether of high or low 
 degree. Reporters on one paper regarded those on another 
 as the incarnation of all that was unprofessional. It was 
 suspected that among those higher in authority there was 
 cherished a feeling for contemporaries that ached to find 
 vent in personal peppery editorials. Archie Foster's sugges- 
 tion seemed impossible of realization. Only a year or two 
 before a futile attempt had been made in the same direction, 
 the only relics of the Club being an elaborate constitution, 
 
James Langland. 
 
 with by-laws, and a vote of thanks 
 from the managers of the Babies' 
 Home, to whom the proceeds of a 
 benefit entertainment were voted 
 when the Club gave up the ghost. 
 Whether from the cause noted, 
 or because the newspaper men 
 were unusually busy on the 8th of 
 November, 1885, it appears from the 
 minutes of the preliminary meeting 
 held in a room of the Herold build- 
 ing on that day, that but a baker's 
 dozen were present. They were Jas. Langland, Frank Bis- 
 singer, Alex. W. Dingwall, James Bannen, Geo. C. Youngs, 
 Henry C. Campbell, Robert Strong, E. R. Petherick, Curt M. 
 Treat, W. F. Hooker, Archie Foster, Geo. P. Mathes, Frank 
 Markle and Henry E. Legler. One encouraging feature was 
 that every English daily was represented. A temporary organ- 
 ization was effected, with Curt Treat as chairman, and Robert 
 Strong as secretary, and everybody present was put on the 
 assignment book to hustle for members. 
 
 And they did. The growth of the Club was rapid, and the 
 Milwaukee Press Club to-day is one of the most flourishing 
 in the country. By bringing the members of the profession 
 together socially, the asperities of business competition have 
 been confined to business hours and business places, and the 
 younger members of the press gang have come to realize that 
 there are a lot of jolly good fellows working on papers other 
 than the ones for which they scratch for a living. The unique 
 rooms occupied by the lub are the delight of all the Bohe- 
 mians from abroad who have visited them, the public enter- 
 tainments are social events; and the influence of the Club out- 
 side its own membership has been to elevate newspaper men 
 and their work in the estimation of the community. 
 
 It has become the unwritten law of the Club to elect its 
 officers from president down from among the younger active 
 workers on the press, and this rule was suspended but once. 
 
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The first election was held November 15, 1885, and resulted 
 as follows : 
 
 President JAMES LANG LAN i >. 
 
 First Vice- President GEO. C. YOUNGS. 
 
 Second Vice-President HERMAN BRAUN. 
 
 Secretary JERRE C. MURPHY. 
 
 Treasurer ALEX. W. DINGWALL. 
 
 Executive Committee H. P. MYRICK, L. W. NIEMAN, 
 HERMAN BLEYER, FRANK BISSINGER, C. M. TREAT. 
 
 The offices were thus distributed with geometrical precis- 
 ion so as to give the different papers representation. That 
 was ten years ago, of course. In recent elections, the dispo- 
 sition has been on the part of the men on one paper to elect as 
 officers representatives from the other papers in preference to 
 their own co-workers just to show that there are no hard 
 feelings. 
 
 Jerre Murphy notified the Club at its next meeting that he 
 must decline the honor accorded him, and Henry C. Campbell 
 was chosen Secretary in his place. 
 
 The first entertainment was given at the old Academy, 
 December 9, 1885. It is remembered to this day as some- 
 thing unique in that line. The programme lasted, with the 
 numerous encores, till past midnight, and the audience re- 
 mained in their seats till the end, and seemed loath to go even 
 then. It was the first and last time in the history of Milwau- 
 kee theaters that some of the best 
 known people of the city sat con- 
 tentedly (or otherwise) in the back 
 row of the top gallery. The sale 
 of tickets was so unusual that it 
 would have been necessary to en- 
 large the theater to accommodate 
 all who wanted to go. Tickets 
 were 50 cents a piece, and on the 
 programme were such attractions 
 as Abbie Carrington, Thomas W. 
 Keene and a long list of others. 
 
 ii 
 
 J. A. Watrous. 
 
H. P. Myrick. 
 
 The rush to secure good seats was 
 immense. When the box office 
 opened, there was a line of men 
 and boys in waiting that reached a 
 block and a half away, and some of 
 them had been waiting since mid- 
 night. The financial result of the 
 entertainment is shown by 'the 
 records to have been as follows: 
 Gross receipts, $982 75 
 
 Expenses, 85 50 
 
 Profits, 
 
 - $897 25 
 
 A suite of rooms was secured on the second floor of the 
 Herold building. W. W. Coleman, proprietor, signified his 
 sympathy with the boys by offering to pay an annual member- 
 ship fee of $100. Up to this time the membership qualifica- 
 tion was applied strictly to the newspaper men gaining a live- 
 lihood by means of newspaper work. It was apparent that to 
 draw such a close line meant the exclusion of a desirable class 
 of membership comprising well-known ex-newspaper men, 
 and those intimately associated with the various phases of 
 newspaperdom, though not dependent upon that work for 
 their daily bread. As the spirit of good-fellowship in the Club 
 began to expand the constitution was amended so as to 
 include among those eligible to membership a new class to 
 be known as " Associate Members," "to consist of editors of 
 newspapers in the State of Wisconsin, persons formerly con- 
 nected with newspapers and occasional correspondents." 
 Associate members are entitled to all the privileges enjoyed 
 by active members (including payment of initiation fees and 
 dues) except voting and holding office. 
 
 January 3, 1886, the board of officers was unanimously re- 
 elected, W. J. Anderson being chosen to fill a vacancy on the 
 Executive Board. During this administration the Club in- 
 dulged in the luxury of a pool and billiard table, the plan 
 being to pay for it from the proceeds of the fee charged play- 
 ers. It became an unwritten rule that the loser should pay 
 
five cents per game for each cue in action, and thus the poor- 
 est players paid the lion's share towards the purchase of the 
 table, on the principle that they were paying for their experi- 
 ence. Henry Campbell and the writer purchased this experi- 
 ence in the largest quantities. 
 
 The second annual election, held January 4, 1887, resulted 
 as follows: 
 
 President JAMES LANGLAND. 
 
 First Vice- President GILO. C. YOUNGS. 
 
 Second Vice- President W. A. BOWDISH. 
 
 Secretary HENRY C. CAMPBELL. 
 
 Financial Secretary}^. BANNEN. 
 
 Treasurer ALEX. W. DINGWALL. 
 
 Executive Committee GEO. H. YENOWINE, HERMAN 
 BLEYER, H. P. MYRICK, W. J. ANDERSON and GEO. P. 
 MATHES. 
 
 In April following, Geo. C. Youngs and Henry C. Camp- 
 bell purchased the Florence News, and their departure from 
 Milwaukee necessitated their resignations. Thereupon Julius 
 Bleyer was chosen First Vice- President and Chase S. Osborn 
 Secretary. 
 
 The first spirited contest for the presidency occurred at 
 the succeeding annual election, several ballots being required 
 to determine: 
 
 President JEROME A. WATROUS. 
 
 First Vice- President JULIUS 
 BLEYER. 
 
 Second Vice- President HENRY 
 E. LEGLER. 
 
 Secretary W. A. BOWDISH. 
 
 Treasurer A. W. FRIESE. 
 
 Executive Committee JAMES 
 LANGLAND, W. J. ANDERSON, GEO. 
 P. MATHES, GEO. H. YENOWINE 
 and C. M. TREAT. 
 
 There was another warm con- 
 test for President at the next an- 
 
 Geo. H. Yenowine. 
 
Herman Bleyer. 
 
 nual election, January 3, 1889. 
 Five ballots were taken before a 
 choice was declared: 
 
 President -H. P. MYRICK. 
 
 First Vice-PresidentGv.0. H. 
 
 VENOWINE. 
 
 Second Vice- President EDGAR 
 
 W. COLEMAN. 
 
 Secretary W. A. BOWDISH. 
 Treasurer HENRY C. CAMP- 
 BELL. 
 
 Executive Committee CHAS. K. 
 
 LUSH, M. A. ALDRICH, HERMAN BLEYER, J. A. WATROUS, 
 E. W. KRACKOWIZER. 
 
 This year a new constitution was adopted, after the model 
 of the Chicago Press Club's constitution, and the provisions 
 of this document obtain now. The purpose of the Club, as 
 stated therein, is " to bring members of the newspaper and 
 literary professions together in closer personal relations, to 
 further good-fellowship and to provide members with com- 
 fortable Club rooms." 
 
 January 8, 1890, occurred the fifth annual election. Presi- 
 dent Myrick was presented with a diamond scarf-pin and 
 re-elected, the officers for the ensuing year being chosen as 
 follows : 
 
 President H. P. MYRICK. 
 
 First Vice- President GEO. H. YENOWINE. 
 
 Second Vice-President E. W. COLEMAN. 
 
 Secretary FRED. F. HEATH. 
 
 Treasurer A. W. DING WALL. 
 
 Executive Committee H. P. MYRICK, GEO. H. YENOWINE, 
 HERMAN BLEYER, C. K. LUSH, JAS. BANNEN, GEO. W. PECK, 
 JR., W. J. POHL. 
 
 Fred. Heath resigned as Secretary, after serving four 
 months. His successor was M. E. Mclntosh. 
 
 In January, 1891, the following officers were chosen: 
 
President GEO. H. YENOWINE. 
 
 First Vice- President E. W. COLEMAN. 
 
 Second Vice-President HERMAN BLEYKR. 
 
 Secretary M. E. MclNTOSH. 
 
 Treasurer A. W. DINGWALL. 
 
 Executive Committee GEO. H. YENOWINE, C. K. LUSH, 
 JULIUS BLEYER, L. W. NIEMAX, GEO. W. PECK, JR., JOHN 
 R. WOLF, GEO. CLEMENT. 
 
 At the annual election in January, 1892, the election resulted 
 as follows: 
 
 President JAMES BANNEN. 
 
 First Vice- President -W. A. BOVVDISH. 
 
 Second Vice-President -W r . J. POHL. 
 
 Secretary F. F. HEATH. 
 
 Treasurer A. G. WRIGHT. 
 
 Directors H. P. MYRICK, M. E. MC!NTOSH, C. K. LUSH, 
 JULIUS BLEYER, GEO. W. PECK, JR., JOHN R. WOLF. 
 
 Succeeding elections up to date have resulted in the fol- 
 lowing official boards: 
 
 JANUARY, 1893. 
 
 President HERMAN BLEYER. 
 First Vice-President WM. J. POHL. 
 Second Vice-President CHAS. W. EMERSON. 
 Secretary RICHARD B. WATROUS. 
 Treasurer A. G. WRIGHT. 
 Directors GEO. H. YENOWINE, 
 W. F. HOOKER, and old members. 
 
 JANUARY, 1894. 
 
 President WILLI AM A. RUB- 
 LEE. 
 
 First yice-President M. A. 
 HOYT. 
 
 Second Vice- President C. W. 
 EMERSON. 
 
 Secretary J. D. McMANUS. 
 
 Treasurer A. G. WRIGHT. 
 
 Win. A. Rublee. 
 
JANUARY, 1895. 
 
 President JULIUS BLEYER. 
 
 First Vice-President WM. F. 
 HOOKER. 
 
 Second Vice- President JOHN 
 R. WOLF. 
 
 Secretary WM. DUNLOP. 
 
 Treasurer A. G. WRIGHT. 
 
 Directors for Three Years J. 
 D. McMANUs and CHAS. \V. 
 Julius Bleyer. EMERSON. 
 
 With the restlessness appertaining to newspaperdom, the 
 Club has not been content to anchor in one spot. From the 
 Herold building, the Club went into very pleasant rooms in 
 the Evening Wisconsin building. A policy of retrenchment 
 caused a second removal, the fourth story of the Bradford 
 building on Broadway being leased. The lack of an elevator 
 proved too discouraging to the members, and the Club 
 languished until the quarters were moved to the Commercial 
 Club building on Grand Avenue, near Second Street. The 
 decadence of the Commercial had a dispiriting effect on the 
 Press Club, whose members had enjoyed the privileges of the 
 restaurant maintained by the former. A happy inspiration 
 suggested the occupancy of the present abode on the corner of 
 Broadway and Mason, across the street from the first quarters 
 occupied by the Club. A rusty sign that creaks in the austral 
 breeze points the way up two flights of stairs to the most 
 Bohemian newspaper men's domicile to be found in the coun- 
 try. But of this others will speak. 
 
 Swell dinners and receptions and Bohemian lunches and 
 gatherings have punctuated the career of the Club, the one as 
 enjoyable as the other. A list of the former would include 
 receptions given to Justin McCarthy, Mrs. Frank Leslie, 
 George Kennan, and others; a dinner in honor of MaxO'Rell, 
 and a farewell dinner to Walter E. Gardner, Consul to Rotter- 
 dam, given conjointly to James I^angland on his departui'e to 
 
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Chicago; a $2,000 banquet given to the Foreign World's Fair 
 journalists; a farewell banquet to W. J. Anderson, Gov. 
 Upham's secretary, with two or three other similar affairs. 
 In this connection may be mentioned an elegant banquet at 
 the Schlitz, enjoyed by the Club, as guests of E. W. Coleman, 
 in 1889, and a fine supper given by Consul Gardner on his 
 return from Holland. 
 
 The Bohemian lunches of the Club have been numerous 
 and enjoyable. One that marked a red-letter night took place 
 on the occasion of the occupancy of the present quarters, when 
 a delegation of Chicago newspaper men participated in the 
 " Stag Party." Other events that were thoroughly enjoyed 
 comprise Charlie Lush's shoat supper, Ed. Loewe's bean 
 soup reception, the sour goose night at which Lando was 
 presiding genius, Julius Bleyer's Easter egg festival, the Ben- 
 jamin Franklin Anniversary celebrations, Henry Campbell's 
 tenderloin masticating exhibition, the jovial gatherings in 
 which have participated at different times Sol Smith Russell, 
 F. Hopkinson-Smith, Henry Watterson, Trentanove, Nelly 
 Bly and others; a reception given Louis Auer, Chas. King, 
 Frank Hoyt and Geo. Peck, Jr., on their return from a 
 European trip; last, but not least, the annual outings at Louis 
 Auer's on Lake Pewaukee, rich in all that is picturesque and 
 unconventional. 
 
 Newspaper men from outside have always lound the latch- 
 string convenient on the outer panel. On the occasion of con- 
 ventions and national gatherings, such as the Saengerfest, 
 Grand Army of the Republic meeting and National Pythian 
 Conclave, visiting newspaper men were made to feel at home 
 and every facility was extended to aid them in their work. 
 
 These are but the bare outlines of the Club's history, told 
 without adornment. Its real history exists in the incidents 
 and the associations which have created for each member a 
 history for himself a history made up of good-fellowship and 
 pleasant recollections. This history each member will read 
 
 for himself between the lines. 
 
 HENRY E. LEGLER. 
 
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Gbe Club at 
 1bome. 
 
HE rooms of the Club are on the top floor 
 of the ancient three-story brick building at 
 the northwest corner of Mason Street and 
 Broadway, and they can be reached only by means of an out- 
 side stairway, which is enclosed in a cigar-box sort of a cover- 
 ing. Just outside this entrance hangs the Club sign, a repro- 
 duction of which will be found in these pages. It is of iron, 
 the lettering in brass and the border composed of copper one- 
 cent pieces, and it was presented to the Club by Frank A. 
 Hall, of this city. It had hung for two years, creaking through 
 all sorts of weather, until one day last winter it was missing. 
 Immediately there was great consternation in the Club, and 
 the rumor was that some enterprising hobo had made off with 
 it for the money in the border. Volunteers at once went to 
 work to obtain a clew, if possible, and in the midst of the 
 excitement in walked "Van." "I guess I know where it 
 is," he said. " Frank Hall met me a few days ago and stop- 
 ping me, suggested that it would be a good thing to take it 
 down and clean it up a trifle. He 
 said it was rusty. I didn't say 
 anything at all." 
 
 " Gentlemen," said one of the 
 members solemnly, "we have lost 
 something that no amount of money 
 can buy back the rust of ages. 
 But there is no use of crying over 
 the matter, and all we can do is to 
 let the sign start in again to grow 
 old with us." And so the sign 
 came back, all polished up, with 
 the pennies new and bright again, 
 
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 Horace Rublee. 
 
Wm. E. Cramer. 
 
 and Mr. Hall received a letter 
 thanking him for his kindness 
 but every now and then, in the 
 dark of the moon, a member sneaks 
 down and douses that sign with a 
 cup of water and, thanks to the 
 laws of decay, the rust is coming 
 back again. The stairway that 
 leads up into the Club rooms are 
 steep and the passage is dark and 
 dingy, so much so that a member 
 who had just escorted Eugene 
 Field up into the rooms felt called upon to say: " Our stair- 
 way is pretty tough, Mr. Field, but we are going to paint it 
 in a few days." "Paint it?" exclaimed the poet. "Why, 
 what you want is cobwebs, not paint. Never touch it; its 
 lovely as it is now." 
 
 A detailed description of the rooms and their decorations 
 would make dry reading at the best, and be superfluous, in 
 consideration of the fact that they are so well reproduced in 
 this book by means of pen-and-ink drawings and half-tones. 
 But there is something that neither the artist's pencil nor 
 the camera can catch, and that is the atmosphere that clings 
 about these old rooms, an atmosphere of good-fellowship and 
 Bohemianism that makes a guest feel like taking off his coat, 
 tossing his feet up on a chair and helping himself to a pipeful 
 of the tobacco that can always be found in the big urn on the 
 center-table of the lounging room. It is the same feeling 
 that comes over the man who returns to visit the scenes of 
 his boyhood days, and what man has ever looked at the muddy 
 old " swimmin' hole" and not felt a desire to peel off and lave 
 in its murky waters again ? And if you don't 
 believe that the Milwaukee Press Club's 
 rooms take a fellow back to the days when 
 he used to " do the local," "cover the night 
 police" or "jeff for the beer " at five in the 
 morning, why, ask Henry Watterson, Moses 
 
P. Handy, Eugene Field, Opie Read, Julian Ralph and scores 
 of others who have been there and who will bear me out in 
 what I say. And men who have never been in active news- 
 paper work but who have .that old spirit of I don't know what, 
 men like F. Hopkinson-Smith and Leigh Lynch (Lynch 
 couldn't stay away after I had cooked one meal for him and 
 passed the roll of honor), just speak to a man of this type and 
 they will maintain that "it" is there, and whatever "it" 
 may mean it covers it, and that is all there is to it. 
 
 Nobody knows exactly how the Club rooms came to be as 
 they are now, and certain it is that they were not made that 
 way by any one man, or any lot of men working with any 
 defined object. The most plausible theory is that they grew 
 that way, growing day by day, the walls gathering now and 
 then the inspiration of a Club member or the contribution of 
 some friend and guest, while the atoms of dust put the dull 
 fresco of age on the whole with never-ceasing industry. In 
 the earlier days of the Club's occupancy of the rooms it was 
 the custom to keep the individual accounts with the purveyor 
 in the basement on the fire-place with a bit of chalk, and 
 while all these accounts have either been liquidated or out- 
 lawed they stili remain as a reminiscence of some jolly 
 moments, and they bid in time to become of some historical 
 value, in view of the fact that some of the men whose names 
 now stand out in chalk have grown exceedingly sedate and 
 proper. One of the most highly 
 valued features of the rooms is a 
 large charcoal sketch by Charles 
 Graham, staff artist of Harper's 
 Weekly, entitled "A Wisconsin 
 Scene." It was drawn on the occa- 
 sion of the opening of the rooms 
 when Mr. Graham and "Biff" 
 Hall came up to assist in the cere- 
 monies, and Graham began to draw 
 the picture at exactly 11 o'clock in 
 the evening, and ten minutes and 
 
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Qeo. W. Peck. 
 
 thirty seconds later it was finished. 
 Mr. Graham had traveled right 
 with the band-wagon up to the 
 time of starting in to draw the pic- 
 ture, and the result of his efforts 
 were none the less surprising to 
 him the next day than they were 
 to the large company that saw him 
 make the sketch. It is really a 
 remarkable production, the shad- 
 ing, perspective and general effects 
 being fully up to the standard 
 attained by first-class artists in works requiring as many days 
 to complete as Graham took minutes. A portion of the pic- 
 ture shows in the reproduction of the photograph of the sitting 
 room in this book. Around the walls of the general assem- 
 blage room, which is fitted up after the style of an ancient 
 German ''Bier Stube," there are inscriptions from men of note, 
 most of them having been left as a pledge of good faith and 
 not for publication. Now, instead of going into details as to 
 the precise contents of this room, which would read very much 
 like the inventory of an artist's studio and a junk shop com- 
 bined, I submit the following bit of historical work as better 
 calculated to give an idea of the room and what might take 
 place in it: 
 
 It was in the small hours at the Press Club on Christmas 
 morn, and the bird in the cuckoo clock had just come out and 
 hoarsely coughed three times. Around a table were seated 
 six men, five of them young, but with that peculiar pallor that 
 comes from midnight toil. The 
 gas jets threw strange shadows in 
 the room, and brought out in bold 
 relief the many queer figures on 
 the walls. On all sides were 
 strange creatures, 
 painted in a curious 
 jumble, monkeys, 
 
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birds, devils, ballet dan- 
 cers, crocodiles, dogs 
 and cats. Hut the young 
 men confined their atten- 
 tion to a large punch 
 bowl, from which 
 steamed a delightful fra- 
 grance. 
 
 After the loving cup had made two or three rounds, the 
 young men became talkative and began telling stories, which 
 chiefly related to incidents of the day before, brought about by 
 that cheerful little task of preparing a Christmas number for 
 the delectation of thousands of readers of the Sentinel. 
 
 " I am so full of Christmas carols and Christmas chimes 
 that I can hardly move without jingling. I have had wheels 
 in my head, but now I have bells," said the sporting editor. 
 " Pshaw !" said the man on the police run. "That's noth- 
 ing. I started that stabbing fray in the nigger quarter to-night 
 by saying: ' And the Star of Bethlehem shone in the North- 
 ern sky.' I started in again, but before I knew it, I was 
 once more giving a Christmas carol tone to my stuff." 
 
 "Its awful," chimed in the court-house reporter. ''I got 
 my Christmas story mixed up with Forth and his assistant 
 postmaster, and you can bet I had a harder job unravelling it 
 than he had straightening out mat- 
 ters." 
 
 "To sum it all up," said the 
 fourth young man, " we get the 
 long end all the time. On the 
 Fourth of July, when everybody 
 else is out celebrating the day of 
 American Independence, we poor 
 slaves have to hustle harder than 
 ever, telling all about how other 
 people are enjoying themselves and 
 taking a day off for patriotism. 
 Then there's Decoration Day with 
 
 
 
 C. W. Emerson. 
 
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 A. J. Aikens. 
 
 half a dozen bicycle races, games 
 and flower services to report. You 
 bet on Decoration Day I am one of 
 the real, genuine mourners for the 
 distinguished dead and wish that 
 they hadn't ever died. But Christ- 
 mas Day is the hardest bump of 
 all. We have to sit around and 
 write about Christmas trees when 
 we haven't seen one for ten years, 
 and to tell about joy and mirth and 
 chase around all day after sermons 
 and Sunday-school festivals, to be followed in the evening by 
 a carnival of Christmas murders and stabbing affrays. I 
 tell you, it's tough. But somebody pass that punch again." 
 "Yes," said the sporting editor. "This is a hot place for 
 a fellow to feel cheerful in, with crooked monkeys, red-faced 
 devils, and a blamed Hottentot glaring at you from the walls. 
 It's enough to give a fellow the side jumps." 
 
 " I had just been thinking about that," said a quiet little 
 fellow who hadn't taken a part in the conversation, " and 
 here's a stumbling sonnet that I have scribbled off as a sort 
 of commemorative Christmas nightmare." And here he read 
 the following: 
 
 Queer monkeys climb about the 
 
 dingy walls 
 
 And fraternize with queerer- 
 looking men; 
 A dog upon a raging kitten 
 
 calls, 
 
 While gnomes exult at free- 
 dom from the den 
 And guy strange, wingless birds that on a branch 
 
 Do sit, too careless of the lack of wings. 
 Fierce, masky demons make us start and blanch, 
 And here,full-beered,a happy Dutchman sings; 
 A blooming savage with a tamborine 
 
 Invites to dance a wretched crocodile. 
 The place is kin to Goethe's Brocken scene, 
 
 Where virgins frown and ballet dancers smile. 
 In all we see the raging mental storm 
 Which seeks expression in a grotesque form. 
 
The production 
 was greeted with ap- 
 plause, and the sport- 
 ing editor said : 
 
 "That's a hot 
 tamale, Scudday, and just to show our appreciation of it, we 
 will drink to the health of the poet," with which he solemnly 
 filled up the loving cup with hot punch and passed it around. 
 The cup made other trips, and soon dull care and melancholy 
 gave place to song and laughter. Just how many times the 
 steaming concoction passed from lip to lip nobody ever knew, 
 but suddenly the sporting editor jumped up and exclaimed 
 wildly : 
 
 "Get on to that! His geeser, the Hottentot, has got a 
 mash on the Lily Clay soubrette." And then they all started 
 up, and, sure enough, there were the Hottentot and the ballet 
 girl waltzing on the wall, and the curious part of it was that 
 nobody felt any surprise, and when a gnome slipped down 
 from the limb, upon which he had been perched in the pleas- 
 ant task of guying two birds, and came in and sat down on 
 the table by the punch, he was greeted with open arms and 
 presented with a hummer. Then somebody looked in the 
 other room, and noticed that the entire menagerie was in an 
 uproar. The wingless birds were sputtering and walking 
 about, the crocodile and the monkey 
 were playing a game of seven-up, 
 and the stork had left the baby in 
 charge of the weiner-wurst man 
 and was capering gayly; the ballet 
 dancer and the Hottentot were 
 having a tete-a-tete, and over in a 
 corner the trained dog was show- 
 ing his ingenuity by telling the 
 difference between a pretzel and a 
 rocking chair. All of a sudden 
 the Hottentot arose and, shaking 
 his tamborine to impose silence, 
 
 M. A. Hoyt. 
 
Chas. k. Lush. 
 
 "^\ announced that the performance 
 
 3f would begin. And such a per- 
 
 H JS^jf |P formance as it was. Never before 
 
 was there such variety, such wit, 
 such humor, such exhibitions of 
 agility as were shown by this won- 
 derful collection in the Press Club 
 menagerie. But suddenly, while the 
 fun was at its height, a pale-faced 
 man stood in the midst of them. 
 
 "Santa Glaus!" shouted the 
 sporting editor, familiarly, although 
 the new comer didn't look a bit like old Santa. " Come sit 
 down, Santa, and don't interrupt the performance." 
 
 But the damage had been done, for, quick as a flash, every 
 performer was back in the old place on the wall the Hotten- 
 tot with his tamborine poised in the air, the crocodile still in 
 bondage, the baby ready to drop from the stork's bill, and the 
 beautiful lady dancer with her painted smile. Santa Claus 
 didn't speak for a few minutes, and as the revelers looked at 
 his face it seemed to grow more and more familiar. Finally he 
 said, speaking in a mild and even tone: 
 
 " What, what! Don't you boys think it's about time to go 
 to bed? It's about six o'clock now, and there's a lot of work 
 to-morrow." 
 
 At the sound of his voice, everybody woke up, and began 
 looking for overcoat and hat, and in a twinkling they were 
 tumbling down the stairs. When they had gone, Santa Claus 
 took a seat near the punch bowl, heaved a sigh and said: 
 " Well, I don't blame them. They have had a hard week." 
 
 Then the managing editor took a willy himself and went 
 home to bed. 
 
 And being the sixth member of the party, much given as I am 
 to observation and silence, seldom speaking while in company, a 
 man of action rather than words, I immediately made a few 
 notes, and thus it is that it now serves the purpose of in a meas- 
 ure describing the Press Club rooms. CHARLES K. LUSH. 
 
paet an& present* 
 
VERYONE who knew that patriarch, Klisha 
 Starr, has heard him tell that when a prin- 
 ter's apprentice he shook hands with Lafayette, at Canandaigua, 
 New York, in the year 1824. The old fellow was a publisher 
 rather than an editor, and talked more entertainingly than he 
 wrote. He always embellished this anecdote with a vivid 
 picture of the gathering at night, in front of the hero's hotel, 
 where a man stood holding up a lantern so that everyone might 
 see the face of the distinguished guest. What a contrast 
 between that primitive illumination and the splendor of the 
 electric lamps in front of the Pfister, which make the street 
 at midnight as light as day ! Scientific and mechanical 
 progress has been the marvel of the age ; but in nothing else 
 has it wrought its revolutionary wonders so astonishingly as 
 in the making of the newspaper. The Art Preservative, as 
 Elisha Starr learned it, preserved much, but failed to preserve 
 itself. The printing office with which he was familiar is as 
 distinctively of the past as the lan- 
 tern with its tallow candle by whose 
 feeble beam the crowd of Canan- 
 daiguans studied the features of 
 their friend from France. News 
 comes by wire, instead of by boat 
 or post. Even the types and the 
 type-setter are hastening into the 
 desuetude of the platen press. Yet 
 one factor in the making of the 
 newspaper has survived the sport 
 of change the editor. When we 
 
 John G. Gregory. 
 
F. W. Friese. 
 
 study the files of the Milwaukee 
 newspapers of twenty, thirty, forty 
 and fifty years ago, remembering 
 the limitations under which he 
 wrought, the work of the editor 
 commands our unqualified respect. 
 It is fitting that a volume issued 
 under the auspices of the Milwau- 
 kee Press Club should contain a 
 word in recognition of the old-time 
 editors. 
 
 One of the earliest of Milwau- 
 kee's editors, Harrison Re.ed, who was in charge of the Sen- 
 tinel from February 6, 1838, till May 27, 1842, is still in the 
 land of the living. He conducted the paper at a time when 
 the duties of its editor-in-chief had a more expansive scope 
 than now. Besides writing leading articles, he "hustled" 
 for news and for advertising, and in his leisure moments he 
 set type and worked the press. Mr. Reed has held the office 
 of Governor of Florida, and is a resident of that State at the 
 present time. 
 
 J. A. Brown, who during the early '4o's edited the Courier, 
 now the Wisconsin, was as eager to " scoop" his rivals as any 
 newspaper man of the present day. The story of the race 
 which he ran from Chicago, against John S. Fillmore of the 
 Sentinel, to give the readers of the Courier the full text of the 
 President's Message of December, 1845, * n advance of all 
 competitors, has been told so frequently and so graphically 
 that it need not be repeated here. 
 
 J. A. Noonan was the owner of the Courier for several 
 years, and its editor for a time. He was a factor in poli- 
 tics, and was the first Milwaukee editor whose services 
 were rewarded with a postmastership. The postmaster whom 
 he superseded, moreover, was none other than Solomon 
 Juneau. 
 
 David M. Keeler and C. L. McArthur made the Sentinel a 
 daily newspaper in December, 1844 Milwaukee's first daily. 
 
Their names deserve preservation, though their experiment 
 was only an artistic, not a financial success. 
 
 Rufus King was editor of the Sentinel from September 20, 
 1845, to April 12, 1861. His name is brilliantly associated 
 with the struggle of Milwaukee to emerge from villagehood 
 into cityhood. Few men have lived here whose public activi- 
 ties were more various than his. Member of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention, captain of a volunteer fire company, major- 
 general of militia, organizer of the city's first public library, 
 vice-president of the Musical Society, superintendent of 
 schools these were some of the responsibilities which he 
 assumed in addition to that of editor of the Sentinel. He did 
 not make a fortune, but he helped to make a metropolis. He 
 left Milwaukee with a commission from President Lincoln as 
 Minister to Rome. Relinquishing that honor to come back 
 and wield his sword for his country, he rendered gallant service 
 in the field during the war, and died in 1867. His son, Adjt.- 
 Gen. Charles King, inherited his father's pen as well as his 
 sword, and is a member of the Press Club who sheds literary 
 luster upon its name, 
 
 S. M. Booth cannot be overlooked in writing of Milwau- 
 kee editors. He was a man of tireless energy, who wrote in 
 a highly colored, passionate style, that commanded attention, 
 and who made it his business to keep the community in hot 
 water. His identification with the anti-slavery cause in the 
 period of its infancy, and particu- 
 larly the leading part which he bore 
 in the Glover rescue, will surround 
 him with a glamour in history. He 
 demonstrated ability in money-get- 
 ting as well as in championing the 
 cause of reform. He was not 
 exempt from human frailties. But 
 he made what even the critics of 
 to-day would call a "rattling" 
 paper. He also made Milwaukee 
 too hot to hold him. For many 
 
 33 
 
 W. T. Walthall, Jr. 
 
H. E. Legler. 
 
 JjljilHL years Mr. Booth has been a resi- 
 
 dent of Chicago. 
 
 * * a fc : 4Mlil * s ' man * n Wisconsin, and 
 
 K| probably no man in the United 
 
 _jj(^ States, has passed so many con- 
 
 secutive years in the active editor- 
 ship of a daily newspaper as 
 William E. Cramer. He wrote 
 editorials for the Albany Argus 
 under Edwin Crosswell, during 
 the reign of " the Regency," and 
 gained political wisdom from inti- 
 mate association with William L. Marcy and Silas Wright. 
 Coming to Milwaukee in June, 1847, ne purchased the oldest 
 newspaper plant in the city, that of the Courier, which had 
 been founded on the Advertiser, started in 1836. He changed 
 its name to the Wisconsin, and under his editorship it has 
 flourished from that day to this. Despite his infirmities of 
 sight and hearing, he has kept in constant touch with men 
 and affairs, and has been a power in the politics and the 
 progress of the city and the State. One of the few occasions 
 on which he has left his editorial chair to go to Madison for 
 the purpose of exerting personal influence upon members of 
 the Legislature was in 1869, when, with A. M. Thomson, 
 then editor of the Janesville Gazette, and Speaker of the 
 Assembly, he was instrumental in bringing about the coup 
 which dashed the plans of the professional politicians and sent 
 the brilliant Matt. H. Carpenter to represent Wisconsin in the 
 United States Senate. To-day, at 78 years of age, he is still 
 in the harness, and no one who knows him believes that he 
 will stop writing until he stops living, for his active spirit and 
 his alert and cheerful interest in the world and its work give 
 not the slightest intimation of abatement. A man of com- 
 fortable means, he has always preached the gospel of giving, 
 and, with a consistency that preachers sometimes lack, he has 
 incited rich men to be generous not less by his example than 
 by his words. 
 
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When Horace Rublee came to Milwaukee in 1881, and 
 founded the Republican and News, which finally absorbed 
 the Sentinel, he had won the degree of past master of the 
 editorial art. The greater part of his newspaper work had 
 been accomplished as editor of the Madison State Journal. 
 He had spent several years in the post of Minister to Switzer- 
 land, and as chairman of the Republican State Central Com- 
 mittee had successfully directed the famous honest money 
 campaign of 1877. If ever a compiler of English literature 
 seeks material in the files of Milwaukee newspapers, he will 
 clip copiously and fearlessly from the writings of Horace 
 Rublee. The iceberg myth that has been associated with Mr. 
 Rublee's name originated, no doubt, in the discriminating 
 judgment with which he selects the objects of his enthusiasms. 
 To schemes which his conscience and his intelligence disap- 
 prove his heart is wintry cold, but many are the acts of quiet 
 and friendly encouragement with which he has warmed the 
 atmosphere of the profession for younger men. 
 
 A. M. Thomson is a writer of leaders who has been a 
 leader himself. He left farming and school teaching in Ohio, 
 and became active in Milwaukee journalism before the war. 
 In the time of the railroad farm mortgage excitement he pub- 
 lished a paper which was the mouthpiece of the five thousand 
 farmers who had pledged their all that Wisconsin might have 
 iron highways of commerce. He was concerned in one of the 
 unsuccessful attempts to revitalize 
 the Milwaukee Free Democrat, 
 but subsequently scored a brilliant 
 success with the Janesville Gazette. 
 Having figured with credit for two 
 terms as Speaker of the Assembly, 
 he came back to the metropolis in 
 1870, and for several years, as one 
 of the owners and the editor-in- 
 chief of the Sentinel, was a star of 
 prime magnitude in Republican 
 politics. The governorship was 
 
 35 
 
 W. F. Hooker. 
 
Francis B. Keene. 
 
 at one time seemingly within his 
 reach. Vicissitudes have not broken 
 his spirit, nor soured his temper, 
 nor chilled his interest in life. For 
 many years he has divided his 
 time between the plow and the 
 pen, and when he writes he com- 
 mands the attention of intelligent 
 readers. 
 
 Lewis A. Proctor gave more 
 than twelve years of scholarly and 
 faithful labor to the editorial page 
 of the Wisconsin, before he accepted an appointment on the 
 State Board of Charities and Reforms. Since his retirement 
 from that position he has done editorial work in Chicago. He 
 is at present taking otium cum dignitate in Milwaukee. 
 
 Sir Walter Raleigh was so proud of his connection with 
 the introduction of the use of tobacco into England, that he 
 caused the device of a pipe to be emblazoned in the armorial 
 bearings displayed on the front of his house. Why, therefore, 
 should not George W. Peck be proud, if he choose, of the fact 
 that he is the only Milwaukee editor, with the exception of 
 P. V. Deuster, whose name has been given to a brand of 
 cigars ? He is also the only Milwaukee editor ever elected 
 governor of Wisconsin. As publisher of Peck's Sun, which 
 he removed from La Crosse to this city in 1878, he gained a 
 circulation of 80,000, a national reputation as a humorist, and 
 a bank account which enabled him to live as generously as he 
 pleased and yet lay by thousands for a spell of damp weather. 
 He is "a man who fortune's buffets and rewards has ta'en 
 with equal thanks," and if he had nothing left but a crust of 
 bread, he would sooner share it with some one else than eat 
 it alone. 
 
 Col. E. A. Calkins learned the trade of bookbinding with 
 Silas Chapman. Then he became a type-setter. In 1850 
 S. M. Booth gave him employment as a writer on the Free 
 Democrat, and a writer he has been ever since a writer who 
 
has written few dull lines. Chicago got him several years 
 ago, as it has got several other conspicuously successful Mil- 
 waukeejournalists, including 'Raish Seymour. C. B. Harger, 
 for many years connected with the Wisconsin, who established 
 the Milwaukee Globe, a 2-cent morning daily, in October, 
 1884, an d abandoned it in the following month, after a heroic 
 struggle lasting six weeks, is now editing a musical monthly 
 in Chicago. It is recorded to Mr. Harger's credit that though 
 he abandoned his paper he paid his printers. 
 
 " Nym Crinkle," otherwise A. C. Wheeler, the sparkling 
 critic of the New York World, was city editor of the Sentinel, 
 circa 1860, and while engaged in that capacity wrote and pub- 
 lished his " Chronicles," the first considerable attempt at a 
 history of Milwaukee. Henry A. Chittenden, who has been 
 editorial writer for the New York Herald and Telegram for 
 many years, and is at present connected with the latter paper, 
 was the senior of the dashing group, including the Chitten- 
 dens, W. H. Bishop, E. B. Northrop and Eugene S. Elliott, 
 which conducted during the 'jo's that lively Milwaukee daily, 
 the Commercial Times. Bishop stepped from journalism 
 into literature, in the lighter walks of which he has achieved 
 more distinction than any other Milwaukeean with the excep- 
 tion of Capt. King. Northrop drifted into business, and is 
 known in London as well as in this country as the promoter 
 of large enterprises connected with the development of the 
 mineral wealth of the New North- 
 west. Maj. Jonas M. Bundy, with 
 prestige gained during service on 
 the Wisconsin and the Sentinel 
 during the war lime, went to New 
 York, where he became the editor 
 of the Mail and Express, a posi- 
 tion which he held till his death, a 
 few years ago. H. N. Gary and 
 Fred F. Burgin are ex-city editors 
 of the Sentinel who are doing well 
 in New York. Dr. J. L. Kaine 
 
 37 
 
 M. E. Mclntosh. 
 
John R. Wolf. 
 
 wrote breezy editorials for the 
 
 f Republican and News and the Sen- 
 
 ^JSPIB tinel for twenty years before going 
 
 East in 1893, 
 
 Sterling P. Rounds, who after- 
 ward held the office of government 
 printer, had a brief newspaper 
 experience in Milwaukee in 1851, 
 as one of the proprietors of the 
 Daily Commercial Advertiser. T. 
 C. Crawford, whilom Washington 
 correspondent and story-writer, 
 and press agent of the Buffalo Bill Wild West aggregation 
 when it astonished Paris in 1889, was once city editor of the 
 old News. " Brick " Pomeroy was also for a time connected 
 with the News. So was John M. Binckley, a gifted man who 
 came here in broken health and spirits after a brilliant news- 
 paper career in Washington, and brought his life to an abrupt 
 close in the waters of Lake Michigan, one winter night in 
 1878. W. Innes Martin, long identified with journalism in 
 Chicago, St. Louis and St. Paul, did his early work in this 
 city, on the Daily Life, the News and the Sentinel. Judge 
 John R. Sharpstein, who afterward sat upon the bench 
 of the Supreme Court of California, was editor of the News, 
 and stepped from that coign of vantage into the postmaster- 
 ship of Milwaukee, in 1857. C. Latham Sholes, the inventor 
 of the typewriter, was at different times editor of the News 
 and the Sentinel. He was a writer of marked ability. Ex- 
 Mayor John M. Stowell was editor of a literary periodical at 
 St. Louis, before coming to Milwaukee in 1855, and was sub- 
 sequently a member of the editorial staff of the News. John 
 W. Hinton is one of the oldest living representatives of the 
 men who gathered news in the early days. He was city man on 
 the Sentinel when Rufus King was editor. Subsequently he 
 was city editor of the Wisconsin. In recent years he has written 
 voluminously in defense of the tariff, and has contributed inter- 
 esting Milwaukee correspondence to the Waukesha Freeman. 
 
The most conspicuous of all the editors of the old News 
 was the late George H. Paul, who was chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic State Central Committee in 1873, when it planned and 
 conducted the startlingly successful campaign which carried 
 the State for William R. Taylor. Mr. Paul's long service as 
 a member of the Board of Regents of the State University 
 began when that institution was little better than a cross-roads 
 academy, and did not close until it had been raised to the first 
 rank among the educational forces of the country. His writ- 
 ings were distinguished by logical and forcible presentation ot 
 ideas and by superb literary finish. 
 
 George Godfrey's Daily Guide, which lived for several 
 years during the closing '6o's and early '7o's, was Milwaukee's 
 pioneer cheap daily paper. Mr. Godfrey began his journal- 
 istic life as local editor of the Wisconsin, in 1856. Three 
 years later he was commercial editor of the News, and not 
 long after that he established his daily commercial report. In 
 his later years he was concerned in the publication of the Wis- 
 consin Greenbacker and the Daily Signal. 
 
 F. W. Friese is one of the men who worked on the Free 
 Democrat. He has been commercial editor and musical critic 
 for the Sentinel for more than thirty years. For many years 
 he was associated with George Godfrey in the ownership ot 
 the Milwaukee Daily Commercial Letter, which is now his 
 exclusive property. 
 
 The late Col. E. Harrison Caw- 
 ker was city editor of the News in 
 1867, and left Milwaukee in charge 
 of a colony for Kansas. Return- 
 ing to Milwaukee, he founded and 
 conducted for many years, with 
 marked financial success, a month- 
 ly trade publication, the United 
 States Miller, which lately became 
 the property of Otis Colburn. 
 
 Alexander C. Botkin came to 
 Milwaukee from Madison after 
 
 39 
 
 0. E. Remy. 
 
** %^- 
 
 \ 
 
 graduation from the State Univer- 
 sity, and worked for the Sentinel 
 until he felt firm on his pinions. 
 Then he entered the service of the 
 Chicago Times. He became editor- 
 in-chief of the Sentinel after the 
 retirement of A. M. Thomson, and 
 held the position for nearly four 
 years, leaving to become United 
 States Marshal for Montana. By a 
 stroke with which he was seized 
 Dan B. Starkey. while i ncum bent of this office Mr. 
 
 Botkin lost the use of his legs. But he has never lost the 
 use of his head. Fortunate mining investments are under- 
 stood to have brought him considerable wealth. He is at 
 present Lieutenant-Governor of Montana, with an eye on the 
 United States Senatorship. Frank A. Flower, of the Superior 
 Leader, was editorially connected with the Republican and 
 News and the Wisconsin in the early '8o's. Walter E. Gardner 
 was with the Wisconsin as city editor and afterward as editorial 
 writer for many years before his appointment as Consul at 
 Rotterdam under President Harrison. He is now owner and 
 editor of the Green Bay Gazette. Louis Lange, the proprietor 
 and editor of the Fond du Lac Reporter, gained his insight 
 into the mysteries of newspaperdom on the Wisconsin. T. 
 F. Strong, until lately editorial writer for the Reporter, 
 handled telegraph on the Republican and News, and on the 
 old News. Col. Nicholas Smith, editor and part proprietor 
 of the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, was also for a time a 
 newspaper worker in Milwaukee. 
 
 Jere. C. Murphy, Deputy Railroad Commissioner, won 
 reputation as a pyrotechnic paragrapher while connected with 
 the Milwaukee press. Chase S. Osborn, proprietor and editor 
 of the Sault Ste. Marie News, and Game Warden of the State 
 of Michigan, and George C. Youngs, of the Florence Mining 
 News, are others who carry certificates of graduation from the 
 school of practical journalism in this city. Gov. Upham's 
 
 40 
 
private secretary, Col. William J. Anderson, was the Milwau- 
 kee correspondent of a Chicago paper, as was and is his imme- 
 diate predecessor, the private secretary of Gov. Peck Col. G. 
 P. Mathes. Will A. Rublee left the city editorship of the 
 Sentinel to serve his country as Consul at Prague, and came 
 back to write editorials for the Sentinel at the conclusion of 
 his term abroad. Col. M. Almy Aldrich, now editor of the 
 Grand Rapids Democrat, won his newspaper spurs before 
 coming to Milwaukee. He was associated in an editoral capa- 
 city with various newspapers in this city, and held a govern- 
 ment office during Cleveland's first administration, tendered 
 in recognition of his services to his party. Theron W. Haight, 
 now engaged in the practice of law at Waukesha, was editorial 
 writer for the Sentinel during the regime of N. S. Murphey, 
 and has since contributed to the editorial page of Yenowine's 
 News. He is master of a vigorous and polished literary style, 
 and is remarkably deferential to facts. 
 
 C. C. Bowsfield has founded more newspapers than any 
 other man who ever flashed athwart the journalistic horizon of 
 this city. He started the Sunday Telegraph with Col. Calkins, 
 in 1878. At last accounts he was out West. 
 
 Col. J. A. Watrous began as a country editor, and worked 
 up. He was a controlling spirit on the Fond du Lac Com- 
 monwealth when Fond du Lac was Wisconsin's second city. 
 Coming to Milwaukee, he acquired an interest in the Tele- 
 graph, and subsequently became 
 sole owner. 
 
 M. A. Hoyt has a head for bus- 
 iness as well as for writing. W T ith 
 his partner, W. H. Park, he has 
 built up a daily newspaper property 
 which is valuable in esse and in 
 posse. 
 
 L. W. Nieman came to Milwau- 
 kee in 1878, and rapidly worked 
 up from compositor to managing 
 editor of the Sentinel. He is now 
 
 Col. W. J. Anderson. 
 
W. I.. Dunlop. 
 
 the chief owner and editor-in-chief 
 of the Milwaukee Journal. 
 
 Henry Bleyer is an old-timer 
 who towers among the newspaper 
 workers of the present like a cen- 
 tury-breasting oak. He has lived 
 in Milwaukee since East Water 
 Street ran into a marsh, and his 
 active career as a writer has 
 spanned the life of a generation. 
 Whenever a doubt arises as to a 
 date or a fact in the city's early 
 history, it has only to be referred to him to be resolved. His 
 private collection of documentary material relating to the 
 pioneer history of Milwaukee is the richest in existence, and 
 his personal knowledge of men and events is a store of bullion 
 which ought to be coined into books. Robert B. Johnson, a bril- 
 liantly gifted man who lavished a life of early promise, wrote, 
 when a boy in his 'teens, for an amateur publication, a serial 
 story in the style of Oliver Optic, and it was as good as any thing 
 that popular author ever produced. He also published a book 
 of ambitious size, " The Art of Rowing in America." He was 
 a reporter for the Wisconsin and the Commercial Times, and 
 was city editor of the Sentinel for a short time in 1882. Bob 
 had a wide acquaintance with books, and a lively fancy and 
 imagination. He disdained the physical exertion of chasing 
 after items in the days when there was scant street-car service 
 and the telephone was unknown. But with his chair tipped 
 back, and his heels on his desk, he would turn out yards of 
 handsome copy with a facility that was remarkable, and it was 
 written in a style that made it very interesting reading, even 
 though it was not news. Will Stapleton was a contemporary 
 of Bob, and in one respect antipodal to him, for Stapleton was 
 never so happy as when exerting himself to get at the bottom 
 facts. When Alec Botkin discovered Stapleton, and invited 
 him to join the city force of the Sentinel, Will was a teacher in 
 the old Engelmann Academy. His first work was on local 
 
 42 
 
specials, and was done with a careful finish that caused the 
 other boys to say that it was magazine writing. Stapleton 
 resented this, and very soon gave proof that he could hunt 
 sensations to their lairs as well as the best of them. When 
 the State Senate was in secret session to receive the report of 
 the special committee on the charges in the impeachment 
 proceedings against Judge Small, Stapleton, hidden under the 
 floor, in the register, got a juicy report, at the imminent peril 
 of his life, for it was a cold day, and the janitor built a fire 
 which nearly roasted him alive. At another time, when Col. 
 Bird and a number of other prominent Democrats held a secret 
 conference in the Plankinton House, Stapleton got onto the 
 ledge of the window of their room, and heard all they said, 
 startling the politicians of the State the next day with a detailed 
 report of the meeting, in the Sentinel. From Milwaukee, 
 Stapleton went to Denver, and became editor of the Rocky 
 Mountain News. He held a lucrative position in the mint. 
 He is still living in Denver. 
 
 Some of the best sensational reporting ever performed in 
 Milwaukee was done in Storey's day for the Chicago Times 
 by Northrop and Marshall and Louis Bleyer. Northrop wrote 
 up the burning of the Newhall House for the Times, several 
 years before it occurred. Louis Bleyer made a record in the 
 Bush-Sartoris affair of which a Pinkerton detective might have 
 been justly proud, and kept the whole country agog for days 
 with his letters to the Times. 
 
 The friendly relations which 
 have always existed between the 
 forces of the German-American 
 Press in Milwaukee and their 
 English-writing brethren, almost 
 warrant encroachment upon ground 
 that will no doubt be adequately 
 covered sooner or later in a volume 
 representing the press organiza- 
 tion of the German-Americans. 
 The late W. W. Coleman, of the 
 
 43 
 
 H. S. Dankoler. 
 
Herold, was one of the early members ot our Club. Bern- 
 hard Domschcke, Frederick Fratney, Moritz Schoeffler, 
 P. V. Deuster, George Koeppen, Herman Sigel, Dr. Knotser, 
 and Dr. Senner are among the men who writing in German 
 have done much that has enhanced the credit of journalism in 
 Milwaukee. 
 
 JOHN G. GREGORY. 
 
 44 
 
Worlds fair 
 Journalists. 
 
"I f ^-^ 
 
 J0VRNALI5JS, 
 
 1 1 E 22d of June is written large 
 and with color in the annals 
 j[of the Milwaukee Press Club. 
 Furthermore, it is commemorated by the Club's annual out- 
 ings, which now occur regularly on that date, or as near 
 thereto as is consistent with the ability of the members of the 
 Club to absent themselves from business en masse. This 
 latter tribute to a day of pleasant memory is peculiarly appro- 
 priate. The luridity of the annual outbreaks of the Club, 
 and the exuberance of fellowship in the wilds of the Auer 
 "farm," recall the stately but equally felicitous gathering which 
 gave lasting grace to the day, and the ruddy finale at the Club 
 rooms that joined two days with uninterrupted merriment. 
 The Club's outings are banquet and "commers" combined, 
 with sylvan garnishments. They occur on the longest day 
 and the shortest night of the year, but by a magical inversion 
 the day becomes simply a brief prelude, while the night is 
 drawn out into a period of revelry 
 equal in length to the merry Club 
 nights of the winter solstice. 
 
 The date we celebrate received 
 its chaplet in 1893 " World's Fair 
 year" when Chicago captured 
 the whole cake, and when her am- 
 bitious neighbors each strove to 
 get something more than mere 
 crumbs. Early in the year schemes 
 were advanced to attract the atten- 
 tion of visitors to the World's 
 
 47 
 
 H. G. Underwood. 
 
A. Q. Wright. 
 
 Columbian Exposition, and, il pos- 
 sible, to induce them to visit Mil- 
 waukee. A boom prevailed in real 
 estate and business circles, and in 
 consequence there was great fertil- 
 ity of expedient. Various propo- 
 sitions were made, and the Com- 
 mon Council was asked to consider 
 the advisability of appropriating 
 $100,000 for advertising purposes. 
 It was suggested that great signs 
 could be erected in Chicago, on 
 vacant lots, bearing extravagant announcements in giant let- 
 ters. Somebody advocated the enlistment of an army of 
 "sandwich men," to literally carry Milwaukee to the front. 
 An exceedingly ambitious inventor proposed to build an 
 aluminum air ship that would rise to the upper atmosphere in 
 disobedience of natural law and with a big screw wheel bore 
 a hole into the air between the two cities and let the ship slide 
 back and forth through it at the rate of one hundred miles an 
 hour, carrying visitors to and from the World's Fair. When 
 the nightmare of ingenuity was at its height, the Press Club 
 came to Milwaukee's rescue. One of its most esteemed mem- 
 bers, Chas. K. Lush, conceived the happy idea of luring from 
 the Fair for one day the small army of newspaper correspond- 
 ents from foreign countries, and entertaining them so hospit- 
 ably that they would, in common gratitude, write to their 
 respective newspapers about Milwaukee's enterprise and 
 beauty, and thus advertise the city to the uttermost corners of 
 the world. The Club submitted the scheme to the merchants 
 and manufacturers of the city, and the enterprising men of 
 business recognized its merit in an instant, and expressed a 
 desire to co-operate with the Press Club in entertaining the 
 foreign journalists. 
 
 A committee of the Press Club discussed the matter at 
 several meetings with a committee of business men, and the 
 preliminaries were satisfactorily arranged. The Club was 
 
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represented at these meetings by President Herman Bleyer, 
 Geo. H. Yenowine, Chas. K. Lush, Ed. Quin, and Dr. E. \V. 
 Krackowizer, and the business men by Henry C. Payne, 
 August Richter, Jr., and others. 
 
 Without loss of time a committee, consisting of Geo. H. 
 Yenowine, Chas. K. Lush, Harold G. Underwood, Frederic 
 Heath, and Dr. E. W. Krackowizer went to Chicago to perfect 
 the arrangements, bearing with them the formal invitation, 
 which was framed as follows: 
 
 The Milwaukee Press Club 
 Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a 
 
 Banquet 
 
 Tendered in Behalf of the Citizens of Milwaukee 
 To Distinguished Foreign and American Journalists, 
 
 Thursday, June 22, 1893. 
 R. S. V. P. 
 
 The committee encountered a number of discouraging ob- 
 stacles, but it stuck to its task with journalistic pertinacity, 
 and eventually succeeded in making all necessary arrange- 
 ments for the success of the happy enterprise. It learned, 
 when it reached Chicago, that the dedication of the Ferris 
 Wheel was to take place on the date fixed for the recep- 
 tion and banquet, and that Maj. Moses P. Handy, Chief of 
 the Bureau of Publicity and Promotion of the World's Fair, 
 who had been counted on to act as dean of the visiting news- 
 paper men and Exposition officials, 
 was down on the programme for a 
 speech on the occasion of the first 
 turning of the Brobdingnagian 
 wheel. As Maj. Handy could not 
 be spared, the committee brought 
 every influence it could enlist to 
 bear in favor of a postponement of 
 the dedication exercises, which 
 was eventually accomplished. In 
 this effort the committee was earn- 
 estly assisted by President Stanley 
 
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 Fred Dougherty. 
 
Willis L. Moore. 
 
 Waterloo, Opie Reid, John Fuller 
 and other members of the Chicago 
 Press Club, which invariably ex- 
 tends every courtesy within its 
 power to the members of the Mil- 
 waukee press. 
 
 On the day previous to the re- 
 ception and entertainment Geo. H. 
 Yenowine, Harold G. Underwood, 
 A. W. Dingwall, M. D. Malkoff, 
 Geo. W. Peck, Jr., W. J. Ander- 
 son and Dr. E. W. Krackowizer 
 went to Chicago as a committee of escort. The weather was 
 threatening and showery, but it transpired that this cause of 
 anxiety was Nature's contribution to the conspiracy of the 
 Press Club's friends in favor of a perfect event. The 22d 
 dawned as perfect a June day as was ever recorded by 
 weather observers. The atmosphere was clear and invigorat- 
 ing, and not a particle of dust was afloat. This made the run 
 from Chicago over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- 
 way a preliminary treat. 
 
 The train arrived at the Union Depot at 11:15 o'clock. It 
 consisted of a parlor car, two ordinary coaches, and a baggage 
 .car. and was comfortably filled, the ladies and their escorts 
 occupying the parlor car. A committee of business men and a 
 committee of the Press Club welcomed the city's guests. 
 Gov. Peck was with the committees. He had intended to go 
 to Chicago to assist the escort, but official duties at Madison 
 made it impossible for him to do so. Among those who were 
 at the depot were Horace Rublee, W. T. Walthall, Jr., P. V. 
 Deuster, Paul Bechtner, Francis B. Keene, W. J. Pohl, Geo. 
 Koeppen, Henry E. Legler, Herman Bleyer, Julius Bleyer, 
 E. C. Wall, Col. W. J. Boyle, Henry C. Payne, John E. 
 Hansen, Henry M. Mendel, H. J. Steinman, E. C. Eldridge, 
 Col. J. A. Watrous, August G. Richter, Jr., J. T. Bannen, 
 Richard B. Watrous, John R. Wolf, W. F. Hooker, B. B. 
 Hopkins, Willis L. Moore, W. D. Carrick, Ed. S. Quinn, 
 
Capt. Mason Jackson, C S. Clark, A. C. Dick, H. C. Camp- 
 bell, P. J. Shannon, Capt. I. M. Bean, H. H. Rand, Curt M. 
 Treat, A. W. Dingwall, Fred. Wilkins, J. D. McManus, 
 Herman Schultz, R. B. Wescott, C. W. Emerson and Frank 
 Schultz. 
 
 The visitors were escorted to a special train of trolley cars 
 which had been made up on Third Street, in front of the 
 Davidson Theater. When the cars had received their brilliant 
 freight they were photographed. Some difficulty was experi- 
 enced in getting a picture, owing to the immense crowd of on- 
 lookers that occupied the streets and walks. Vice-President 
 Henry C. Payne's elegant private car led the train, carrying 
 the ladies and their escorts. Among the occupants of this car 
 were Mrs. Eugene Field, Mrs. John F. Ballantyne, Mrs. 
 Dogget, Miss Erickson, Gov. Geo. W. Peck, Mayor Carter 
 Harrison of Chicago, Maj. Moses P. Handy, Henry C. Payne, 
 Hakky Bey, the Turkish Commissioner, Henry M. Mendel, 
 Geo. W. Peck, Jr., Geo. H. Yenowine and Herman Bleyer. 
 
 The train moved through the city by a circuitous route, the 
 members of the Press Club acted as guides, calling the atten- 
 tion of the occupants of the cars to objects of interest on the 
 way. When the Soldiers' Home was reached a tempting 
 lunch was found in readiness, in the pavilion a thoughtful 
 provision made at the suggestion and under the direction of 
 Chas. K. Lush. Here Dr. E. W. Krackowizer introduced Gov. 
 Peck, who made a few humorous 
 remarks, in the course of which 
 Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago 
 announced in his happy style that 
 the governor was the gentleman 
 who was made famous by his " Bad 
 Boy." " Yes," rejoined Gov. Peck, 
 "you are the ' Bad Boy.' " After 
 lunching in the balmy air of the 
 Home grounds the refreshed guests 
 were again enlivened by Gov. Peck, 
 who appeared on the balcony and 
 
 George W. Peck, Jr. 
 
1 
 
 Frank M. Harbach. 
 
 delivered a humorous address. 
 Miss Alice Raymond, the famous 
 cornetist, then sounded the bugle 
 calls with drum accompaniment. 
 As the assembly call, reveille, 
 assembly of the guard, detail, 
 adjutant's call and the tattoo 
 pealed forth, the pleased veterans 
 of the war paid the fair musician 
 hearty tributes of applause. In 
 response to these acknowledg- 
 ments Miss Raymond played 
 " Marching Through Georgia," and " Dixie." 
 
 Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, then delivered a witty 
 and eloquent address, rallying Gov. Peck and paying a 
 warm tribute to Milwaukee, which he said was the home of 
 music and the future American Baireuth. In behalf of 1, 800 
 veterans of the Home, he read a letter signed by E. \V. Xagle 
 greeting the visitors to the Home and extending to them, 
 through Hon. John L. Mitchell, "an Irish welcome, which 
 means an honest welcome multiplied a hundred fold." Mayor 
 Harrison laughingly substituted his own name for that of 
 Senator Mitchell. After humorous allusions to Gov. Peckand 
 himself as soldiers of the war, Mayor Harrison pronounced a 
 stirring eulogy on the heroes of the war of the rebellion. 
 
 At the conclusion of the speaking the guests and their 
 escorts were photographed on the lawn, and then seated in 
 carriages for an extended drive. The brilliant procession 
 swept into the city, winding through a number of private 
 grounds on the way. Capt. Fred. Pabst received the party 
 with hearty salutes and handshakes, as he stood on the porch 
 of his palatial residence. A short halt was made at the brew- 
 ery of the Joseph Schlitz Company, where refreshments were 
 served. When the procession swept down Prospect Avenue, 
 giving the visitors glimpses of the beautiful bay through 
 handsome residence grounds, there were loud exclamations of 
 delight. These exclamations developed into enthusiastic ad- 
 
miration as the carriages turned into Juneau Place and Mil- 
 waukee Bay lay in full view from the top of the bluff. The 
 bay was a revelation to many of the strangers, who declared 
 that it was one of the most beautiful views they had ever 
 enjoyed. The drive ended at the Lay ton Art Gallery, where 
 the carriages were dismissed. 
 
 The banquet at the Hotel Pfister in the evening was a 
 brilliant function. The regal splendor of the table accessories 
 and the pristine beauty of the spacious dining hall met the 
 requirements of the great occasion to the fullest extent, and 
 the feast set forth by the hotel's chef was an exposition of 
 culinary skill. The menu was as follows: 
 
 BANQUET TENDERED TO THE 
 
 FOREIGN AND AMERICAN JOURNALISTS 
 
 BY THE MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB. 
 
 Radies. 
 
 MENU. 
 Little Neck Clams. 
 
 Niersteiner. 
 Consomme Printaniere aux Quenelles. 
 
 Amontillado. 
 Timbale de Riz de Veau Rachel. 
 
 Almonds Salee. 
 
 Saumon bouilli, Sauce Cardinal. 
 
 Salade de Concombres. Pommes Dauphine. 
 
 Haute Sauterne. 
 
 Filet Pique aux Truffles, et Champignons Frais. 
 Petits Pois Francaise. 
 Mumm's Extra Dry. 
 Asperges en branche, au beurre. 
 
 Sorbet Imperatrice. 
 
 Becasse Roti Flanques sur Canape. 
 
 Salade de Laitue et Tomate. 
 
 Chateau de la Paix. 
 
 Gateaux aux fraises. 
 
 Fruits. Fromage. 
 
 Cafe. 
 
 Hotel Pfister. 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
 
 Juin 22, 1893. 
 
 Olives. 
 
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 Jno. F. Crai 
 
A. W. Dingwall. 
 
 The table of honor extended 
 along the south side of the hall, 
 and the other tables reached across 
 the hall at right angles. Over 200 
 persons participated in the ban- 
 quet, which was thoroughly enjoy- 
 able to the visitors because of its 
 informality. Cordiality reigned and 
 exchanges of courtesies were fre- 
 quent. A number of German jour- 
 nalists arose from their places and 
 proceeded to where Dr. Ernest 
 Hart, the eminent editor of the British Medical Journal, was 
 seated and courteously toasted him. They then paid the same 
 conspicuous compliment to Horace Rublee. During the 
 evening the orchestra in the balcony played the national airs 
 of the leading nations of the world. As the music recalled 
 home and country, the joyous guests were moved by an 
 irresistible feeling of patriotism to cheer their national hymns. 
 Many sang the " Marseillaise " and " Die Wacht am Rhein," 
 while the band played those airs. 
 
 When the cigars were reached, President Herman Bleyer, 
 of the Press Club, who sat at the center of the table of honor, 
 with Horace Rublee, the toastmaster, on his right, and Gov. 
 Geo. W. Peck on his left, began the intellectual programme 
 by greeting the guests of the evening and declaring that the 
 day had been a proud one for the Press Club. He said that 
 from the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition, the 
 members of the Milwaukee Press Club had felt that they 
 would like to gather in the little army of busy press workers 
 who were telling the world of the beauties of the greatest Ex- 
 position that had ever been conceived by any country under 
 the sun. The Club had finally succeeded in doing this, and 
 now it earnestly hoped that its guests had had a good time. 
 "We have! We have! " came from all parts of the hall. 
 
 President Bleyer closed his remarks by introducing Horace 
 Rublee, who was greeted with enthusiastic applause. Mr. 
 
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Rublee spoke at length, sketching the history of Milwaukee 
 and making interesting observations in regard to American 
 institutions and the American people. His address was 
 scholarly and eloquent. 
 
 The toast "Wisconsin" drew a characteristically happy 
 speech from Gov. Geo. W. Peck. 
 
 James G. Flanders responded to the toast "Milwaukee" 
 with a speech in which he recounted the city's growth and set 
 forth her advantages. He presented facts and figures that 
 would have overburdened a less eloquent address, and thus 
 showed that he fully appreciated the purpose of the gath- 
 ering. 
 
 The World's Fair correspondents had an eloquent and 
 witty spokesman in Maj. Moses P. Handy, who joked Gov. 
 Peck about his stories in regard to Milwaukee, and matched 
 one of the Governor's tales with a tale about a St. Paul 
 boomer. 
 
 W. Austin, of the London Morning Post, made eloquent 
 acknowledgment for "The English Press." 
 
 Rudolph Cronau, of Leipsic, spoke briefly in German, and 
 Adrian Paradis, French Commissioner of Fine Arts, delivered 
 a short address in French. Franz Berg, who represented 
 Herr Wermuth, the German Imperial Commissioner, made 
 an eloquent speech in English. 
 
 J. S. Larke, Executive Commissioner for Canada, made 
 one of the wittiest and most enter- 
 taining speeches of the evening. 
 
 Thomas Watt, Commissioner 
 for British Guiana, proposed three 
 cheers for Milwaukee, which were 
 given in many languages and with 
 a polyglot " Tiger! " 
 
 Eugene Field recited two of his 
 poems, "Casey's Table d'Hote," 
 and " Wynken, Blynken and 
 Nod." 
 
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 M. C. Douglas. 
 
M. D. Malkoff. 
 
 JJi %O After the banquet the Press 
 
 jT Club held a reception, or " com- 
 
 I llfit *K mers," in its rooms, to which the 
 
 guests repaired in a body. The 
 spirit of the grotesquely pictur- 
 esque apartments is infectious, and 
 all immediately abandoned them- 
 selves to thoroughly Bohemian 
 enjoyment. Refreshments were 
 plentiful and cigar smoke dense 
 and all-pervading. Eugene Field, 
 Paul Hull, Dr. Ernest Hart and 
 
 Will Vischer convulsed the crowd with recitations, poems, 
 dialect sketches and songs. Nearly every member of the 
 Press Club assisted in entertaining the guests, who occupied the 
 Club rooms and the rooms of the German journalists on the 
 floor below. The assemblage was a remarkable one. It in- 
 cluded representatives of many nations, who fraternized as 
 they drank and smoked. Even the picturesque representa- 
 tives of Japan, who could not understand a word that was 
 said, participated in the merriment of the occasion. The 
 " commers " lasted until daylight. 
 
 At 10:30 o'clock on Friday morning, June 23d, the Chicago, 
 Milwaukee & St. Paul special train steamed out of Union 
 Depot with the visitors, on the return trip to Chicago. Every- 
 body was pleased, and on every hand could be heard re- 
 marks in grateful acknowledgment of the courtesies and the 
 lavish hospitality which had imparadised the stay of the visi- 
 tors in Milwaukee. Among those who were present to 
 "speed the parting guest" were Gov. Peck, Horace Rublee, 
 Herman Bleyer and other members of the Press Club,' and 
 Geo. H. Yenowine with Mrs. Eugene Field and Mrs. Ballan- 
 tyne of Chicago, and Mrs. Dogget, of St. Louis. The depart- 
 ing journalists cheered lustily as the train moved out of the 
 depot, continuing their hearty acknowledgment of Milwaukee's 
 generosity until they were lost to view. 
 
When Chicago was reached the following message was 
 sent back over the wires: 
 
 CHICAGO, June 23, 1893. 
 Secretary Milwaukee Press Club. 
 
 Returning from excur>ion, we wish to tender the members of the 
 Milwaukee press our best thanks for the liberal and fraternal hos- 
 pitality extended to us. Our visit to your beautiful city will remain 
 everlasting among the finest souvenirs of the Chicago Exposition. 
 
 DALFERO, 
 Secretary Italian Royal Commission. 
 
 Eugene Field and wife, Mrs. John Ballantyne and Mrs. 
 Dogget remained in the city as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. 
 H. Yenowine. They were entertained at luncheon by Horace 
 Rublee at his residence on Prospect Avenue, together with W. 
 Austin, of the London Morning Post, and Edmund Mitchell, 
 of the Melbourne Age and Sydney Telegraph. 
 
 The distinguished party which was entertained by the 
 Press Club was composed as follows: 
 
 Thomas B. Bryan, vice-president Columbian Exposition ; Moses P. 
 Handy, chief, John T.Cramhall, assistant, and Victor Sarner, German 
 editor, bureau of publicity and promotion; Adolph Wermuth, German 
 imperial commissioner, represented by Franz Berg, assistant commis- 
 sioner; Sir Henry Truman Wood, secretary Royal British Commis- 
 sion; J. S. I.arke, executive commissioner for Canada; T. J. Bell, 
 official reporter for Canada; W. M. Andrews, superintendent transpor- 
 tation department of Canada ; N. Avery, commissioner for the province 
 of Ontario; C. W. Young, official re- 
 porter for the Ontario Cornwall Free- 
 holder; F. Howard Annes, assistant 
 reporter for the Ontario Whitby Chron- 
 icle: Charles F. Law, commissioner 
 British Columbia; W. P. Perley. com- 
 missioner Northwest Territory; Fitz- 
 William Terry, superintendent liberal 
 arts New South Wales, Australian Press 
 News; J. J. Grinlinton, special com- 
 missioner, Ceylon; L. Wiener, commis- 
 sioner Cape of Good Hope; I. I. 
 Quelch, special commissioner British 
 Guiana; G. V. Dalfero, secretary 
 
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 W. W. Pollock. 
 
H. C. Campbell. 
 
 f Italian Royal Commission; Prof. J. 
 
 Hubert Vos, R. B. A., acting commis- 
 ^ 1 sioner fine arts Netherlands; Ibrahim 
 
 Hakky Bey, Imperial Ottoman commis- 
 sioner general; Marquis de Chassel- 
 oup Laubat, special commissioner 
 French Republic ; Adrien Paradis, spe- 
 cial commissioner fine arts France; 
 Axel Welm, secretary Royal Swedish 
 Commission; W. Austin, Morning Post, 
 London; James Milne, Daily Chron- 
 icle, London; Francis Edlam, Pall 
 Mall Gazette, London; J. S. C. Brown, 
 Leader, Edinburgh; Richard Owen, 
 Banner and Times, Denbigh, Wales; A. Cookman, Roberts' Musical 
 Times, London; E. R. Dolby, The Engineer, London; Alice M. 
 Hart, Ernest Hart, British Medical Journal, London; Charles A. 
 Baker, British Colonial Druggist, London; Thomas Watts, Press 
 News, British Guiana; H. Gilbert Stringer, Daily Times, Dun- 
 edin, New Zealand; Edmund Mitchell, Daily Telegram, Mel- 
 bourne, New South Wales; Joseph Wilson, Builder and Contractor 
 News, Sydney, N. S. W. ; George E. Wray, West Elgin Mercury, 
 Canada; Heinrich Blau, Londoner Feuilletonistische Nachrichten; 
 Rudolf Cronau, Gartenlaube, Leipzig; Mrs. Anna Simson, Nord und 
 Sued, Breslau; Dr. Constantin Noerrenberg, Rhein- Westphalia, 
 Essen; Mrs. Louise Weber, Mecklenburger Tageblatt; Theodor 
 Phillipp, Hamburger Nachrichten; Carl Boettcher, Breslauer Zei- 
 tung; Mrs. Adele Boettcher, Leipziger Tageblatt; Dr. L. Kayler- 
 Post, Berlin; Hermann Helger, Berliner Lokalanzeiger; Otto Liebe, 
 truth, Nordhausener Zeitung; H. C. Schultz, Strassburger Post; 
 Christian Benkard, Ueber Land und Meer, Leipzig; Miss Elise Voll- 
 mar, Schweitzer Familienblatt, Zuerich ; Leopold Jockel, Neuigkeits 
 Welbblatt, Wien; M. Schmidthofer, Welzer Anzeiger; Dr. Hugo 
 Hunfalfy, Magyar Hirlop, Buda Pesth ; A Verdure, du Bethomez 
 Journal, Paris; S. M. Loubrie, La Gironde, Bordeaux; H. Percy 
 Guy, Le Rappel, Paris; Dr. Alexis Rieunier, Journal deCelte; Louis 
 Hennis, Illustriret Tidende, Copenhagen; A. Edling, a Swedish syn- 
 dicate; Ragnar Sohlman, Aftonbladet, Stockholm; Harold Kimbarz, 
 Nya Dagligt Allehanda, Stockholm; Etienne Barszesewski, Kurza 
 Warsawski, Russia; Jenny Ericson, Altonblat, Helsingfors, Finland; 
 Anna Molander, Hemmet Och Samhallet, Helsingfors; HranoAsadow, 
 Arelvelk, Constantinople; Paul S. Ourfalian, Monzeuma, Constanti- 
 nople; M. Terakado and T. Ineno, Osaka Mainichi Shinban, Tokio; 
 Ph. H. Stynis, Haarlemsche Courant, Haarlem, Holland; H. H. 
 
Kohlsaat, Inter-Ocean; Eugene Field, News; Charles D. Almy, Maj. 
 John B. Warde, Leroy Armstrong, Herald; H. E. O. Heinemann, The 
 Brewer; J. P. Pollard. Figaro; Frank S. Pixley and J. J. Lane, 
 Evening Post; John Ritchie, N. M. Reed, Jr., Banner of Gold; S. 
 Wright, Dunning, Fred. C. Laird, M. Hennius, German Press Club 
 all of Chicago; Dr. Ad. Wiener, Oesterreich-Ungarische Zeitung; Dr. 
 Henrick CooJing, Skandenaven; M. DeYoung, Chronicle, San Fran- 
 cisco; Will Vischer, Spokane News; John Fay, New York World; 
 Thomas O. Quincy, North American, Philadelphia; George L. Bovee, 
 Herald, El Paso, Tex. ; Maj. George A. Tappan, Donahue's Magazine, 
 Boston; Carter Harrison, Chicago; A. Broletti, Perseveranga, Milan; 
 E. Patrizi, Lombardia, Milan; Rome; E. Candiani, Industria, Milan ; 
 G. Campi, Arte et Natura, Milan; G. Pogliani, Rivista Internationale, 
 Milan; F. Tryegnoli, Villaggio, Milan; P. Rossi, Gazzetta, Venice; 
 V. Flipponi, Gazzetta Piemontese, Turin; G. Peterso, Gazzetta, 
 Naples; E. Conti, Commercio, Milan; A. Besetti, Commercio, Flor- 
 ence; G. Ciambeti, Italio American, New York. 
 
 The bread of hospitality which Milwaukee cast upon the 
 waters in entertaining the foreign journalists and foreign 
 officials on duty at the World's Columbian Exposition was 
 plentiful in quantity and accompanied by a generous outpour- 
 ing of the choicest wines of refreshment, but in accordance 
 with the predictions of the promoters of the happy enterprise 
 it was returned like the bread of the proverb, multiplied many 
 limes. For months after the reception and entertainment 
 newspapers came to the Milwaukee Press Club from all parts 
 of the world, containing World's Fair correspondence in which 
 Milwaukee was described with glowing words, and her beauty 
 and her enterprise and hospitality 
 praised in the superlative degree. 
 The writers of these letters will 
 never forget the enjoyment of the 
 perfect June day during which they 
 were the guests of Milwaukee, and 
 the city will be pleasantly men- 
 tioned whenever they have occa- 
 sion to say anything about the 
 people of the New World. 
 
 Of all the cities that tried to 
 advertise themselves to advantage 
 
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 J. C. Garrison. 
 
among the visitors to the World's Fair, Milwaukee alone 
 succeeded in spreading her name and fame to the utter- 
 most parts of the civilized world; and through the kind 
 offices of the Milwaukee Press Club she obtained this diffu- 
 sive advertising for a comparatively small amount of money. 
 Had the Common Council appropriated $100,000 for the work 
 it could have secured no such results as were achieved by the 
 Press Club for only a small fraction of that amount. 
 
 JULIUS BLEYER. 
 
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EASTER AT THE CLUB. 
 
 HAT ho, the Press Club gathers ! Behold, 'tis 
 
 Master night, 
 And all the Knights of Pencil and of Pen 
 Are mustered in their quarters; the board is all bedight 
 
 With the fruit of the meek and gentle hen. 
 With a face as red as fire, the valiant Julius Bleyer 
 
 Comes fresh from bending o'er the kitchen range 
 And waves aloft on high, not the spider and the fly, 
 But the spider and the eggs a welcome change. 
 
 Now, then, who'll have peraties ? Oh here they are, all hot ! 
 
 Are there any actors here ? Who'll have the ham ? 
 Here are eggs boiled, fried and scrambled. Here, take 'em 
 now or not. 
 
 And the platter strikes the table with a slam. 
 From the grill-room with a rush, comes the omni- 
 present Lush 
 
 With a smoking pot of coffee in his hand, 
 And with a gentle roll, bearing high a salad bowl, 
 
 Wallie Walthall next appears, and takes his stand. 
 
 Gambrinus isn't slighted the amber fluid flows; 
 
 And the rattle of the knife and fork abounds. 
 The fun is fast and furious, the corn-cob pipe soon 
 glows 
 
 And many a song and jest that night resounds. 
 Then rising on their legs all take to picking eggs. 
 
 Frank Keene succeeds, till china eggs are barred, 
 And the gallant Colonel Peck shows an egg without a speck 
 
 And carries off the prizes, which is hard. 
 
 Oh, nights of fun and laughter that these old walls have known! 
 
 Where all forget the wrangles of the day. 
 And where the ancient grievances in clouds of smoke are blown 
 
 Forever and forever far away. 
 
 Long may the boys here gather long may the grill- 
 room stand, 
 
 Long may the guests endure a friendly roast. 
 " To the good Milwaukee Press Club " here take 
 
 your glass in hand 
 
 And drink with me the honored Press Club toast. 
 H. G. UNDERWOOD. 
 
doofcere' ant> Eaters' 
 
 (Xlmftea.) 
 
A550CIATIO/1 (LIMITS) 
 
 i HE Cookers' and Eaters' Association 
 is an organization of club members, 
 and was born of a rebellion caused 
 by a good appetite and a decided disinclination to attempt to ap- 
 pease it on a continual diet of spareribs and sauerkraut. After 
 quite a period of agitation the chairman of the room committee 
 was granted permission, about a year ago, to place a gas stove 
 in the billiard room and to also purchase a small outfit for 
 cooking purposes. Many of the members scoffed at the ven- 
 ture and predicted that the stove would never be used to any 
 extent. But the little band of cooking promoters went right 
 ahead, their first efforts being devoted to the kindergarten 
 course of frying eggs, making oyster stews, and frying ham 
 and bacon. Their progress was rapid, and it was not long 
 before the most proficient could broil a porterhouse to a turn, 
 plank a whitefish or produce an 
 omelet that even an epicure could 
 relish. This little coterie took to 
 having a regular noonday dinner at 
 the Club, everybody standing his 
 share of the cost of the raw mate- 
 rial and assisting in the cooking. It 
 was found to be a very satisfactory 
 way of satisfying the inner man, 
 and many a time I have sat down 
 to a dinner of sirloin steak, pota- 
 toes, bread and butter and coffee 
 
 A. J. Van Leshout. 
 
T. S. Andrews. 
 
 where the individual assessment 
 
 flRPv^Lk would not exceed fifteen cents, and 
 
 such a steak as it would be ! Not 
 one of your restaurant affairs, but 
 a great, sizzling cut of meat, an inch 
 and a half thick, with strips of 
 bacon lying across it and plenty of 
 gravy. In the early days of Feb- 
 ruary one of the honorary members 
 of the Club, General Louis Auer, 
 was an about-to-be married young 
 man, and it was decided to give 
 him a dinner which should be cooked and served by the mem- 
 bers of the Club who had made a practice of cooking in the 
 rooms. The dinner was given as planned out, and a jolly affair 
 it was, and before the party arose from the table the Cookers' 
 and Eaters' Association had been formed the officers being 
 Chas. K. Lush, President; Francis B. Keene, Secretary; Geo. 
 H. Yenowine, Treasurer; W. T. Walthall, Jr., and Prof. 
 Thiese, Directors. Fifteen persons were served at this dinner, 
 and the menu was as follows: 
 
 Oyster Stew. Cold Slaw. 
 
 Brown Link Sausage. Baked Potatoes. Buttered Rolls. 
 
 Apple Dumpling. American Cheese. 
 
 Claret Punch. Coffee. 
 
 So successful was this inaugural dinner of the Association 
 that President Bleyer, him sell a charter member of the Asso- 
 ciation by reason of having produced a very fine quality of 
 corn-bread for the especial purpose of securing admission, 
 decided to have the next Club dinner cooked in the rooms and 
 to act as chef himself. Covers were laid for thirty-two, and 
 the dinner was cooked and served by Mr. Bleyer, assisted by 
 Thomas Andrews and J. D. McManus. It consisted of oyster 
 stew, roast beef, baked potatoes, stewed corn, stewed toma- 
 toes, hot biscuit, Indian pudding and coffee. Later an "egg 
 festival" was given by Mr. Bleyer, at which about thirty mem- 
 bers were served with eggs cooked in every variety that could 
 
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be thought of. While the Cookers' and Eaters' Association 
 will, from time to time, give a formal dinner, this is by no 
 means the primary object of the organization. The idea of the 
 founders is to foster a spirit of independence by teaching each 
 member to be fully able to take care of himself in all matters 
 culinary. With women folk entering all lines of industry 
 there is bound to be a falling off in the supply of good cooks, 
 with the consequent result that the day may not be far off when 
 it will devolve upon the masculine portion of the community 
 to "cook or cut bait." And, as it is even now, the members 
 of the Association enjoy a peculiar thrill in sitting down to a 
 well-cooked steak and realizing that, even should one's wife 
 visit her mother for a month and the hired girl go on a strike, 
 he would not be at the mercy of some slatternly wench 
 trained to throw a piece of meat in a greasy frying-pan upon 
 hearing the command, " One on the fire ! " 
 
 CHAS. K. LUSH. 
 
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Club's 
 annual uting, 
 
E annual picnics of the Press Club have been 
 held, for the last three or four seasons, at Gen. 
 
 Louis Auer's farm, "Villa Auer," at Lake 
 Pewaukee. And what an ideal spot that is ! Arcadian groves, 
 crystal springs, superb boating, bathing and fishing facilities, 
 ample accommodations for all emergencies, and, above all, 
 the unlimited and unstinted hospitality of the princely proprie- 
 tor. Let it be recorded here, as it has been for long, in the 
 hearts of Press Club members who have enjoyed that hospital- 
 ity, that the Badger State does not hold a more open-hearted 
 and free-handed host than Louis Auer, one of the few honorary 
 members .of the Club. With the freedom of his sixty-acre 
 farm at one's disposal, his boats and fishing tackle, his hunter's 
 shacks, his tents and hammocks, his men servants at com- 
 mand, and the presence of his energetic self, to plan, suggest 
 and help on with the business of 
 having a good time, one cannot 
 help after the fun is over, and a 
 sense of its fullness steals over him 
 one cannot help recalling a line 
 of Young's and feeling himself to 
 have been a 
 
 "Poor pensioner on the bounty of an 
 Auer." 
 
 The poet does not spell it in just 
 that way, but let it go for senti- 
 ment's sweet sake. 
 
 M. D. Kitnball. 
 
Though varying in. features, 
 from year to year, the picnics of 
 the Press Club have been in the 
 main similar, and a brief account 
 of the last one (1895), may suffice 
 
 ^Ka for all. The date was June 22. The 
 
 JH attendance numbered about forty 
 
 ^^4lH BHaBBHfe members and a few invited guests. 
 
 MB IK^Pi Upon arriving at the farm, we were 
 
 EK conducted to ample tents which had 
 
 been pitched for our accommoda- 
 
 Curt M. Treat. t j on> Here ^e gang was turned 
 
 loose upon a supply of lumbermen's flannel suits of poly- 
 chromatic hues and misfit proportions: trousers of collossal 
 amplitude; frocks of giant girth; hats of all degrees of lati- 
 tude and altitude, from the expansive Mexican sombrero to 
 the pointed poke of a Welsh peasant. When the transforma- 
 tion had taken place, there emerged from the tents a group 
 with which Falstaff's tatterdemalion soldiers were dudes in 
 comparison a bit of living marquetry that would have made 
 the Midway appear of sombre hue. 
 
 Meanwhile the appetizing aroma of a savory soup, of frying 
 sausages and of O. G. J. coffee pervaded the sylvan shades, 
 and eke the nostrils of these nondescripts. The business of 
 the next hour seemed to be an effort on the part of many to 
 expand their girths to the amplitude of the garments aforesaid. 
 The provisions held out, but appetite, as you know, is not 
 infinite, and as they rose from the table the drapery of their 
 checkered and striated tunics still hung in graceful and 
 pendulous folds, as though the struggle had not been. 
 
 There was revelry that night in the hunter's shack. A 
 couple of old-fashioned fiddlers sat on a table in one corner of 
 the capacious cabin and scraped off reels, jigs, hornpipes and 
 other lively music until midnight. This was the "Dance of 
 the Stags," according to the printed programme. The dances 
 were interspersed with exhibitions of pugilistic skill (gloves, 
 of course), acrobatic feats and fancy steps, some of which 
 
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would have done credit to a vaudeville stage. The fiddlers, on 
 this long-to-be-remembered occasion, were John Eastman, who 
 claimed to hold the belt for long-winded fiddling, and L. S. 
 Bemis, a septuagenarian, who was in demand at all the 
 pioneer dances in this part of the State "back in the forties." 
 Whatever their past record, they fiddled themselves into fame 
 that night in the hunter's shack, and the glory of the "old- 
 fashioned fiddlers " will go down to posterity with that of the 
 " Um-pah Band," which stirred the sleeping echoes of Pewau- 
 kee Lake at the picnic of 1894. 
 
 A plunge in the cool waters of the lake at six o'clock the 
 following morning, freshened us for the day's programme. The 
 great event of the day was to be a clambake, which was set 
 for two o'clock, afternoon. Some preliminaries pertaining to 
 this having been attended to, the intervening hours were spent 
 in various sports. Chief among these was a game of ball 
 played under the rules of the league when slow pitching was 
 admissable. It was intended that competing nines from the 
 morning and evening newspapers should be pitted against 
 each other in this contest, but when the ball players were 
 counted a complement was lacking and a "scrub " game was 
 the result. 
 
 By one o'clock the ball-tossers had settled their dispute and 
 returned to camp, the sunfishers had put away their tackle, and 
 those who had spent the morning lounging in hammocks, or, 
 in shady nooks, had engaged in the 
 exciting sports of " Duck on the 
 Rock," and " Baby in the Hole," 
 had likewise sought the center of 
 interest. That center was a barrel 
 containing eleven hundred freshly- 
 imported clams and a second barrel 
 filled with sea weed. For upwards 
 of an hour following, Hunger, 
 Appetite, Curiosity and all their 
 cousins, stood around the fiery pit 
 watching the process of converting 
 
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 J. D. McM 
 
George F. Kerr. 
 
 KMMk India rubber bivalves and spring 
 
 chickens into something which, 
 though it may not have had the 
 consistency of ambrosia, was at any 
 rate fit food for gods or men. The 
 process was slow, and, moreover, 
 it was a long time since breakfast. 
 Thus it happened, just at the point 
 when certain indescribable deli- 
 cious odors came steaming up from 
 the simmering mass, that a gaunt 
 and wasted figure whom some rec- 
 ognized as Famine, stepped up and touched Curiosity on the 
 sleeve. Whereupon Curiosity and her brood withdrew. It 
 must have been that Messrs. Carrothers and Higgins, who 
 were conducting the clambake, witnessed this episode, for 
 shortly after the order was given to the darkey, Bell (sur- 
 named Shadrach on this occasion for the intrepid manner in 
 which he walked in and out of the fiery furnace), to rake out 
 the clams. A great feast followed. Curiosity, Appetite, Famine 
 and half a hundred hungry clamoring mortals were satisfied. 
 It was the first clambake of any importance attempted in.Wis- 
 consin, so far as the writer knows, and it was a splendid 
 success. 
 
 Some one appeared on the scene, shortly after dinner, with 
 a bag full of greased pig. Entries were made, at a quarter 
 each, making a purse of some four dollars. The lubricated 
 porker was turned loose in the woods and there was a wild 
 and exciting chase for his capture. Shadrach caught him. 
 Take him all in all, Shadrach was " hot stuff." 
 
 Thus ended the annual outing and clambake of the Press 
 Club. The spontaneous cheers which were given as the steam 
 yachts carried the party away were for Louis Auer, but the 
 enthusiastic "tiger" which followed expressed 
 the satisfaction which was felt over the all-around 
 good time which was had. But as I recall it 
 
since, as I often do, I am conscious of an old song running 
 through my head : 
 
 " Oh, the days of the. Kerry dancing ! 
 Oh, the ring of the piper's tune ! 
 Oh, for one of those hours of gladness, 
 Gone alas ! like our youth too soon." 
 
 The recollection of those spring chickens, saturated with 
 the flavor of a thousand clams, will suggest another sort of 
 song to some, but to me comes only the strain "Oh, the 
 ring of the piper's tune ! " I think I am to thank the old- 
 fashioned fiddlers for that. 
 
 MATHER U. KIMBALL. 
 
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Wisconsin TKHar 
 Correspondents. 
 
Otis Colburn. 
 
 J. W. Campsie. 
 
 
 C. S. Osborn. 
 
 W. A. Booth. 
 
TIIK time when "Our Washington Letter" and "News 
 from Our Special Correspondent at the Front" began 
 to appear in the Milwaukee newspapers marks the 
 period when the first attempts to secure news from without the 
 State were made. The general desire of the reading public 
 for war news and particularly for news of the Wisconsin 
 soldiers was so pressing that the Milwaukee papers were com- 
 pelled to make arrangements for a special service, and thereby 
 obtain matter which was not to be had through the regular 
 channels of the Associated Press. The latter included but 
 little beyond what was suited to the purposes and policy of 
 the War Department or of commanding officers, hence a valu- 
 able field was open to the special correspondents, and quite 
 often the news of important exploits in the field was in the 
 possession of the editor before it was reported to Washington. 
 As a rule the arrangements for special service made by the 
 Milwaukes press were with officers or enlisted men. Several 
 stepped out of the editorial rooms into the recruiting station 
 and developed into the most satis- 
 factory correspondents because of 
 their previous experience. Four 
 men from the editorial rooms of the 
 Evening Wisconsin and two from 
 the Sentinel entered the military 
 service. Two of the former were 
 killed in battle. 
 
 The reports from war corre- 
 spondents to the Milwaukee papers 
 were necessarily sent by mail. The 
 use of telegraph wires was not then 
 so general as it has since become. 
 
 79 
 
 Frank Markle. 
 
R. B. Watrous. 
 
 Jmm The Milwaukee papers were not 
 
 alone in this respect; Chicago papers 
 did no better. Telegraph charges 
 in those days were heavy, and only 
 publishers with resources equal to 
 James Gordon Bennett's could in- 
 dulge in war news by wire to any 
 considerable extent. It is related of 
 one of the war correspondents of the 
 Evening Wisconsin that he misin- 
 terpreted his instructions and sent 
 about half a column by wire one day, 
 creating a financial crisis in the counting room of that paper. 
 
 Several years before the outbreak of the rebellion Warren 
 M. Graham came to Milwaukee from Ozaukee County, and 
 appealed to Mr. A. J. Aikens for an opportunity to learn the 
 printer's trade. His persistency was finally rewarded, and 
 he was put to work in the mechanical department. A short 
 time after he had " learned the boxes," he was transferred to 
 the editorial rooms, and subsequently became commercial 
 editor of the Evening Wisconsin. When but nineteen years 
 old he enlisted in Co. B, First Wisconsin Infantry, the first 
 regiment to leave the State. While in the service he wrote 
 letters to the Wisconsin describing his army experiences. 
 \Vhile in camp at Hagerstown, Md,, he captured a rebel news- 
 paper outfit at that place and became its editor, revolutioniz- 
 ing the sheet from an organ of secession to one with a radical 
 union sentiment. Mr. Graham's military as well as journal- 
 istic career was abruptly cut short in July, 1861. At the 
 battle of Falling W T aters he was mortally wounded, but he 
 faithfully reported a description of the battle, concealing his 
 own sufferings. He died Aug. 26, 1861, and was the first 
 soldier to be buried in Forest Home. The deed of the ceme- 
 tery lot was purchased by the Milwaukee Chamber of Com- 
 merce, and the expenses of bringing the body home and of 
 burial were defrayed by that organization. 
 
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Everett Chamberlain was born in Newburg, Vt., in 1839, 
 and in his eighteenth year came with his parents to Burling- 
 ton, Wis. He taught school for several years, and in 1863 
 entered the editorial rooms of the Sentinel. In 1864116 raised 
 a company for the Thirty-ninth Regiment and served until 
 the regiment was mustered out. During the period of his 
 military service he wrote letters to the Sentinel. After the 
 war closed he returned to Milwaukee and continued with the 
 Sentinel until 1868, when he went to Chicago. He became 
 commercial editor of the Tribune, contributed to periodicals, 
 and was the author of three books. The first was a volume 
 on the political campaign of 1872, followed by a volume on 
 the Chicago fire and another on Chicago and her suburbs. 
 He was a versatile, trenchant writer, a fine musical critic, and 
 also a musical performer and composer. His health failing he 
 went to Florida and died at Jacksonville, February 19, 1875, 
 of pulmonary consumption. He left a widow and three chil- 
 dren who reside in the town of Vernon, Waukesha County. 
 Mr. Chamberlain is remembered as an amiable, honorable 
 gentleman, and one of the most gifted newspaper writers the 
 West has produced. 
 
 Jonas M. Bundy spent his boyhood years in Rock County, 
 where he became a protege and admirer of Senator Matt. H. 
 
 Carpenter. Coming to Milwaukee he assisted Mr. Wm. E. 
 
 Cramer on the Evening Wisconsin, and subsequently became 
 
 editor-in-chief of the Sentinel. 
 
 While the war was in progress he 
 
 enlisted and became a member of 
 
 Gen. Pope's staff, which gave him 
 
 superior facilities for getting war 
 
 news. After the war he went to 
 
 New York and joined the editorial 
 
 force of the Mail, subsequently 
 
 rising to the position of editor-in- 
 chief of the Mail and Express. In 
 
 1880 he went to Mentor and pre- 
 pared a biographical sketch of 
 
 81 
 
 John J. Poppendieck, Jr. 
 

 John Schnitzler. 
 
 ^^^BSfew- Garfield which was said to be the 
 
 JBr' best which appeared during the 
 
 '.. -.-iVf. presidential campaign of that year. 
 
 He also wrote a sketch of Disraeli 
 %p which was acknowledged in flatter- 
 
 ing terms by that English states- 
 
 ^^^S^ /' man. Maj. Bundy was consider- 
 
 ^^^^ able of a pianist, and his rendition 
 
 of the "Swanee Ribber" was high- 
 ly praised by Christine Nilsson. 
 When Col. Shepard obtained con- 
 trol of the Mail and Express he 
 sent Maj. Bundy to Paris, where he died. 
 
 George M. Bleyer, one of the family of Bleyer brothers so 
 unanimously identified with the Milwaukee press, began as a 
 carrier, and subsequently worked as printer and city editor in 
 the Evening Wisconsin office. Leaving his desk at the first 
 call to arms, he enlisted in Co. A, First Wisconsin Regiment, 
 for three months, at the expiration of which he re-enlisted for 
 three years. He subsequently became second lieutenant of 
 Co. B, Twenty-fourth Regiment, and was mortally wounded 
 at Stone River, Sept. 30, 1862. He lingered in the hospital 
 until death came to his relief on January 25, 1863. He wrote 
 letters to the Wisconsin during his service in the field, his 
 last work being a description of the battle in which he was 
 shot. Lieut. Bleyer was also a writer of verses, his poetry 
 being readily accepted by the magazines, and his bright 
 humor was a source of pleasure to readers. 
 
 L. L. Crounse spent his boyhood years in Wahvorth 
 County. Sometime in the '5o's he came to Milwaukee and 
 was employed by Sherman M. Booth, then publisher of the 
 Free Democrat. He did not enter the military service, but 
 he was with the Army of the Potomac during its most event- 
 ful campaigns. He accompanied an expedition down the 
 Potomac which contemplated a destruction of rebel batteries, 
 and distanced all competitors by an elaborate report of the 
 Battle of Gettysburg, which he sent to the New York Times. 
 
 82 
 
It was a big achievement for those days, and the Times was 
 justified in crowing over its defeated contemporaries. Mr. 
 Crounse was also an occasional contributor to the news col- 
 umns of the Evening Wisconsin. 
 
 Sylvanus Cadwallader, who was associated with the late 
 George H. Paul in the Milwaukee News, had previously 
 made a record as a war correspondent. Gen. Rawlins had a 
 liking for Cadwallader, and he had superior facilities for ob- 
 taining news which he sent to New York papers. Mr. Cad- 
 wallader served four years at Madison as assistant secretary 
 of state, and subsequently drifted to the Pacific coast. 
 
 With the establishment of two additional daily newspapers 
 in Milwaukee the Republican and News in 1881 and the 
 Journal in 1883 competition between the new and the old 
 became sharp and led to an enlarged use of the wires in secur- 
 ing news. Prior thereto the Milwaukee papers were con- 
 tented with the Associated Press reports from Washington, 
 supplemented by an occasional letter from some office-holder 
 at the capital. As a result of the sharp rivalry between the 
 Sentinel and the Republican and News, the former was the 
 first to establish a news bureau in Washington, with a special 
 wire under its control during the night hours. This was in 
 1881, and the writer of this was sent to Washington as cor- 
 respondent, with license to use the wires daily and liberally 
 whenever necessary. This was the beginning of a special 
 news service by telegraph which 
 has since been adopted by all the 
 dailies of Milwaukee, according to 
 their respective needs. Twenty 
 years ago Washington specials to 
 the Milwaukee papers came by 
 mail almost invariably. Since the 
 change of methods in 1881, nearly 
 all of them keep their own men at 
 Washington and the wires are 
 freely used. Of those who have 
 served as Washington correspond- 
 
 83 1^^^* 
 
 J. J. Schindler 
 
ents may be mentioned T. C. Crawford, who was city editor 
 of the Milwaukee News. Mr. Crawford's work for the Chi- 
 cago Times, Chicago News and New York World has given 
 him a wide reputation. James Langland, for several years 
 telegraph editor of the Sentinel and now associate editor of 
 the Chicago Record, served as Washington correspondent of 
 the Chicago News during the years 1881 and 1882. F. A. 
 Moore was located at Washington for many years and sent 
 news to the Evening Wisconsin. J. A. Truesdeil, formerly 
 of Beloit, was the Sentinel's correspondent at Washington for 
 a couple of years, followed by Arthur J. Dodge. Others who 
 have been sent to Washington by their respective papers are 
 S. M. Curtis, of the Sentinel, and Fred Puhler and J. J. 
 
 Schindler, of the Journal. 
 
 FRANK MARKLE. 
 
after Dinner 
 Reminiscences. 
 
A. Thiese. 
 
 C. P. Salisbury. 
 
 
 E. C Eldridge. 
 
 Geo. C. Neusse. 
 
ITTIXGat one of our Press Club dinners a few years 
 ago an occasion that had been rendered even more 
 than usually enjoyable by the reading of a paper on 
 
 Ben Franklin in his capacity as a printer my thoughts 
 drifted back through the haze of cigar smoke to a time far 
 beyond the war days, to a date when only a gravel pit occu- 
 pied the site whereon stood the fine hotel in whose dining- 
 room we were, and to a point in the history of Milwaukee 
 newspapers when the Sentinel had just started its first steam 
 engine and the steam engine had started its Hoe press, and I 
 stood, a wondering youngster, watching the process by which 
 in a single sheet, printed on one side only, two of the four 
 pages of the paper for the following day slowly reeled out 
 and slid down smoothly along a light wooden framework, like 
 a gate to a miniature picket fence, which gate suddenly 
 turned on a horizontal axis at the bottom, whacked the sheet 
 down on a steadily growing pile of its mates, and then as 
 suddenly jerked back into position 
 for the next one. 
 
 Friendly faces were grouped 
 about the press and kindly voices 
 bade the youngster look at this 
 thing or that about the Sentinel's 
 new toy, but he hung fascinated 
 about the stern end of the machine, 
 only occasionally casting a half 
 timid look over his shoulder at the 
 fly wheel of the engine that worked 
 not ten feet awav, for his attention 
 
 Capt. Charles King, U. S. A. 
 
W. G. Bruce. 
 
 was riveted upon that admirable 
 piece of machinery at the rear. 
 For the life of him he could not 
 help thinking that its real use was 
 a spanking device and that at any 
 moment he might be hoisted upon 
 the footboard and, vis a tergo, 
 made the recipient of its measured 
 strokes. 
 
 The kindly voices are all stilled 
 now, save one. We heard it ses- 
 sion after session in the halls of 
 legislation at the capital, and none was better known or better 
 loved. The friendly faces once so familiar in the old com- 
 bined job and composing and press room of the Sentinel 
 seemed to come floating back from spirit land through that 
 haze of fragrant incense, for surely not one was there in the 
 flesh. Of all the forty fellow-workers gathered at the board 
 that night not one was on the Sentinel's force the day the old 
 new engine fired up and set the walls to quivering, and George 
 Dyer's workmen in the saddler shop next door ran out on the 
 river bank behind us and gazed up at the back windows of 
 the grimy brick building to see what was going on. It was 
 called the Ludington Block in those days, and stood on the 
 corner where the great Pabst building towers now, and in the 
 second story front to the right as you entered was the counting 
 room and business office, where for years the present secre- 
 tary of the Chamber of Commerce kept the books. From 
 this office through a rectangular hole in the party wall and 
 down a dirty step or two you passed to the combined compos- 
 ing and press room, the cases and the compositors being 
 towards the East Water Street end and the engine and presses 
 towards the river. Above the counting room and on the 
 third floor was the editorial sanctum, looking out upon the 
 busy street, where on hot days one could hear the hiss of 
 Alcott's soda water stand in the shop across the way, the first 
 of its kind in all Milwaukee, and watch the portly figure of 
 
its most persistent patron, George H. Walker, waddling, 
 red-faced and perspiring, from the Walker House, where 
 stands the Kirby now, to demand "extra sody " at the cool- 
 ing fount. Melms had the ground floor then, and lager beer 
 was just coming into vogue, and Americans were beginning 
 to drink it and admit that there was something palatable 
 about it, and Melms' saloon had many a patron from the inky 
 regions above before the days pf the pint trade, but not before 
 the advent of the "growler." Well do I mind me how 
 "improper" it was for minors to be seen in Melms' at any 
 time except on those warm noontides when despatched 
 thither with a dime and one of those little brown glass 
 flagons in which German wines were imported in the old, 
 old days; for thrifty housewives up along the breezy bluffs 
 had learned the soothing and sustaining qualities of lager 
 when it came fresh and cool. Therefore did it happen that 
 to the admonition to keep in the shade going and coming 
 there was now added, now that the steam engine had 
 come, "and don't you stop at the Sentinel office." 
 
 Perhaps that admonition would have come anyway as a 
 necessary sequence of the steam engine, for mechanical effects 
 had ever a fascination for the first born of the editor-in-chiei 
 as well as for several of his juvenile friends who could get 
 into that press room and concomitant mischief and printers' 
 ink only through the mediation and guidance of the eldest 
 hope aforementioned. People won- 
 der why the name of Printer's 
 Devil is applied to the juveniles 
 with smutty faces and bedaubed 
 aprons who hang about the press 
 rooms now, and the only wonder 
 that I have is that printers could 
 apply any other name to the preda- 
 tory small boys who occasionally 
 raided the job office in the days 
 gone by. Yet we couldn't keep 
 away ! Even choleric old Mr. 
 
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 H. B. Aldrich. 
 
W. A. Friese. 
 
 Corbett who chased one of our 
 gang into the river the day we 
 upset a keg of printers' ink and 
 sent a tarry stream a-billowing 
 over the floor and down through 
 the rope holes of the old-fashioned 
 " lift " upon the stacks of card- 
 board and bales of paper in the 
 room below, even old Mr. Cor- 
 bett had no real terrors for us as 
 compared with the joys of contem- 
 plating such complicated machin- 
 ery, and cracking hickory nuts unbeknownst to him in the 
 slow revolving cog-wheels. The engineer was a genial soul 
 and had some proper appreciation of boys, not all he might 
 have had, perhaps, because he did rebuke a future United 
 States Senator for giving an extra pull to the throttle and 
 suddenly doubling the speed of every wheel in the floor, to 
 the dismay of the operators and the manifest disturbance of 
 the walls. But he didn't mind our worrying Corbett in the 
 least. Then there was one awful day when most of the 
 hands had gone out to dinner, or were to have gone out, and 
 we had been waiting for their departure to enter and do some 
 printing on our own account. Two of us had opened a kite 
 shop and we needed a sign board, and another had started a 
 candy and cigar stand across the street from where we lived 
 and had been promised a printed schedule of his wares in 
 exchange for a prepaid portion thereof, and Corbett, once so 
 ready to print anything or everything for that eldest hope, 
 had tired of his trade and not only refused to lend his own 
 hands after the episode of the capsized keg, but had forbidden 
 his "hands" to lend theirs, and the only way to escape 
 defalcation was to do the job ourselves. Even in those days 
 the proprietor of "Jim's Store," now a shining light in a firm 
 whose name is as long as his first business title was short, 
 was possessed of a legal mind. He knew where most of his 
 cigars came from and so did I though the editor-in-chief 
 
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didn't until some time later, and we knew that if that printed 
 schedule were not forthcoming coercive measures might be 
 resorted to. When Corbett went to dinner and the engine 
 slowed down for the noon hour the press room was often 
 deserted by all but one or two semi-sympathetic souls upon 
 whom we could rely to set up the necessary wooden type, 
 provided we promised to "set up" an equivalent. We had 
 been watching the premises and killing time at the river 
 bank behind, and the devil, always finding mischief for idle 
 hands to do, had placed there a long stack of pig iron, 
 belonging, it was discovered later, to a hardware store close 
 at hand. One of our number made the accidental discovery 
 that one of those pigs dropped over the edge of the dock 
 made a famous splash, and in the course of the next ten 
 minutes, encouraged by the smiles of a communistic citizen 
 lolling, out of work and elbows, over the railing of the 
 Spring Street bridge, we derived much exercise and comfort 
 from heaving over pig after pig until half the stack was gone. 
 But still Corbett seemed to stick to his work. Then it came 
 the owner's turn to get exercised, if not comforted, for he 
 rushed out of the basement, where now dry goods and hard- 
 ware are no longer dispensed, and pounced on our party with 
 a rawhide and then on the proprietor of the Sentinel with a 
 bill. It was an easy matter for three agile Milwaukee urchins 
 to escape the rawhide and take refuge among the dark and 
 inky stairways of the Sentinel. 
 Later we were busily at work in 
 the composing room under the 
 tutelage of a gifted young printer, 
 who made a gallant soldier later 
 on, and "Jim's Store's " schedule 
 of prices was well nigh ready for 
 the press when the editor came in 
 with that bill in one hand and a 
 stick in the other not a compos- 
 ing stick. This was forty years 
 ago, but I recall it as though it 
 
 91 
 
 Victor L. Berger. 
 
W. A. Bowdish. 
 
 Bk were yesterday. That hour marks 
 
 the initial point of the process of 
 
 ^B^ JP5* alienation which has gone uninter- 
 
 ruptedly on, the breach between 
 the Press and me began when I 
 was barely ten. 
 
 Yet life in the grimy old office 
 was not, as perhaps it might justly 
 have been, associated solely with 
 spanking machines. Sunshine 
 penetrated even there, and smiles 
 were radiant when the circus and 
 other showmen came around. They used to have their print- 
 ing done of local practitioners in those good old times and 
 often paid for it in tickets big stacks of tickets, and never 
 in a life of fifty summers have I known the smiles of such 
 popularity as surrounded the son of the Sentinel for two suc- 
 cessive seasons at the First Ward school. Spalding & Rogers, 
 Signor Blitz, North's Menagerie, Christy's Minstrels, all had 
 their posters and programmes from our job room, and a kind- 
 hearted foreman, sympathizing with the sorrows of the 
 youngster, forbidden henceforth to enter its sacred precincts, 
 more than once shoved a little pile of tickets into his willing 
 palm and sent him off to school full tilt, a boy to be envied 
 and fawned upon and nattered until the shows and the tickets 
 were gone. 
 
 Then the public school system, though young, was 
 efficient. Ever since his coming to the infant city in '45 the 
 editor had thrown himselt con aniore into every public enter- 
 prise. Editors nowadays are presumed to do quite enough 
 when they give undivided attention to the elevation of man- 
 kind or the running down of contemporaries, but the editor 
 of those days headed every scheme and subscription that 
 could be suggested for public weal or private benefit, fore- 
 manned the engine company, generated the militia (and uni- 
 formed not a few of its officers), chairmanned every reception 
 committee, dined every new arrival, lobbied the legislature, 
 
 92 
 
floor-managed every fireman's ball, regent-ed long years the 
 University, superintended the public schools and filled pretty 
 much every office in the gift of the people that had not a 
 salary attached to it. It is true that after having served with- 
 out a cent of pay for nearly fourteen years as superintendent 
 of schools, having examined the teachers, performed all the 
 clerical work and furnished the stationery out of the Sentinel 
 office, a grateful people did enact that hereafter that incom- 
 parable official should receive an annual compensation of some 
 two thousand dollars; but before he had enjoyed these fruits 
 of his labors a twelve-month the discovery was made by a 
 Democratic council that this important office had now been 
 held by one of the opposing political faith for more than four- 
 teen years and it was high time for their side to be recog- 
 nized, which recognition was promptly accorded at the next 
 election. 
 
 The manifold functions of the head of the Sentinel had 
 not diverted his attention from the great political questions of 
 the day. The torchlight procession in honor of old " Rough 
 and Ready" and the illumination (with candles) of half the 
 windows in Milwaukee had their inspiration within the 
 wooden walls of the old sanctum. The banner of Scott and 
 Graham was flung to the breeze from its first flagstaff, and on 
 the death of Whiggism the principles of the Republican 
 party were first expounded to the Northwest through the 
 columns of the growing sheet. 
 Well do I remember the grand 
 procession of flag-bearers started 
 from the Sentinel office on that 
 dismal November day that did not 
 result in the choice of Fremont and 
 Dayton. The editor had provided 
 big white cloth banners, each let- 
 tered in huge characters with some 
 appropriate device. " Fremont and 
 Dayton " said the first flag, " Fre- 
 mont and Free Speech" said the 
 
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 Thompson Mulboliand. 
 
next, " Fremont and Free Press 
 a third. There were two dozen 
 in all, and two dozen young Re- 
 publicans were marshaled to bear 
 them through the streets, the exile 
 of the composing room at their 
 head. One block we marched into 
 the bowels of the land and the 
 direction of the Third Ward a 
 hapless choice, for at Michigan 
 Street we encountered a patriot of 
 V. J. Schoenecker. opposing political convictions and 
 
 perhaps twelve summers. He was of the class described in 
 our dialect as Micks, a resident of an aggressive district, 
 and no Sentinel inspired aggregation could pass unchallenged. 
 The bearer of the foremost banner thought he had the right 
 of way, and the patriot landed on his chubby jaw forthwith, 
 leaving on one side the impress of a dirty but determined 
 fist, while the mud of Michigan Street defiled the other. The 
 outrage occurred within full view of an attache of a rival 
 sheet, and he seemed to find it funny. Even getting knocked 
 down for the Sentinel did not entitle one, in those days, to 
 the undivided sympathy of the populace. 
 
 But there were two features in the journalism of the time 
 in which I can proudly claim to have borne a hand and served 
 an apprenticeship that should entitle me to some recognition 
 in the Guild. The mailing room was then a corner of the 
 main office. Wrappers, paste and pen and ink were on one 
 end of a table, a stack of Sentinels on the other, and many's 
 the time the mailing clerk has farmed out much of his job to 
 the little squad that trailed in with me, hoping to earn half 
 a dime to invest in peanuts. A desk mate at school was one 
 of the carriers, and many a summer's morn has seen us 
 through the old First Ward pelting doorways with tightly 
 rolled Sentinels for projectiles. And this, too, came to an 
 untimely end, for once in a while a window would be left 
 open on summer nights, and it was so much better to fire the 
 
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paper through that, the owner was so much surer of his 
 morning bulletin, especially, as once happened when a near 
 neighbor received a flying billet in his face, and appeared 
 forthwith at the window in an abbreviated garment and a 
 towering rage. Again my efforts at forwarding the circula- 
 tion of the Sentinel met with discouragement, for he, too, 
 complained to the editor and I came in for another para- 
 graph. 
 
 In fact not until the organization of the Press Club and 
 the institution of its dinners has my connection with the pro- 
 fession been of unmixed benefit either to myself or its 
 patrons, but the mists of the past bring no damper to the 
 gladness and the sunshine of the present, the memories of 
 the old tribulations never mar the glad associations of the 
 day. Out from the legends and traditions of the old times 
 in the old office I gather over and again the reminiscence of 
 many a kind word and deed. Through the dust of years I 
 see the cheery "faces and over the ring and bustle of the 
 -crowded streets I hear the echo of beloved voices long since 
 stilled. Glancing about our board I see in many a face a 
 look that tells me that here, too, is one who well recalls the 
 men and memories of those bygone days, and who turns 
 from the contemplation of the old 
 life only the more keenly to appre- 
 ciate and value the friendships and 
 the fellowships that, engendered 
 here, surround and bless the new. 
 CHARLES KING. 
 
 Frank Barry. 
 
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'George.' 
 
to 
 
 On reading his sonnet entitled, 
 
 " The Press Chtb." 
 
 (See page 26.) 
 
 Scudday Richardson. 
 
 THESE were but curios, bizarre at best, 
 To vulgar visions (such is mine, I own), 
 Suggesting only some ephemeral jest, 
 
 Unspoke, save to my inner self alone 
 Till Scudd'y, one night at his frugal snack, 
 
 Wrote, say, a dozen lines upon his knee, 
 Which snatched them from the realm of bric-a-brac 
 
 And made their meaning clear as day to me. 
 Much then I marveled at this sapient youth, 
 
 Who, munching his unbuttered bun the while, 
 Could thus discern and phrase a solemn truth 
 
 Where I had only found vain thing ! a smile. 
 
 If inspiration comes from eating "hoppin," 
 
 Great Scott ! let's eat and eat 'em without stoppin'. 
 
 MATHER D, KIMBALL, 
 
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THE AMERICAN 
 
 NFW YORK. CHICAGO MILWAUKEE, APRIL, 1895 
 
 JULIUS C/ESAR EDUCATIONALIZED 
 
 THE MODERN ROMAN SENATE "COMMITTEE OF FIFTEEN.' 
 
 Marcus Antonius (School Board) Oh, pardon me, thon patient prey of 
 That I am meek and gentle with these botchers.- jauvt C.BAX, , m.s~ i. 
 
 no 
 
IRoeter of fIDembere. 
 
 Sctive. 
 
 AIKEKS, A. J. 
 ALDRICU, H. B. 
 ANDERSON, W. J. 
 ANDREWS, THUS. S. 
 BANNEN, JAMES. 
 BLEYER, IIKKMAX. 
 BLEYEK, JULIUS. 
 BOWDISH, W. A. 
 BRAUX, HERMAN. 
 BRUCE, W. G. 
 BERGER, VICTOR L. 
 BARRY, FRANK. 
 CAMPBELL, II. C. 
 CRAMER, WILLIAM E. 
 CRAMER, JNO. F. 
 COLEMAN, E. W. 
 CURTIS, S. M. 
 COLBURN, OTIS. 
 DINGWALL, A. \V. 
 DEUSTER, OSCAR. 
 DANKOLER, II. S. 
 DOUGHERTY, FRED. 
 DOUGLAS, M. G. 
 DINI.OF, W. S. 
 EMERSON, C. W. 
 EVERETT, WINTER. 
 FRIESE. P. W. 
 FRIE8E, A. W. 
 GARRISON, JAMES. 
 GREGORY, JOHN G. 
 HOYT, M. A. 
 HOOKER, W. F. 
 HANNAN, JOHN J. 
 HARBACK, F. M. 
 KRACKOWIZER, E. W. 
 
 KING, CHARLES. 
 KEENE, FRANK. 
 KERR, GEORGE F. 
 LEGLER, II. E. 
 LUSH, C. K. 
 MARKLE, FRANK. 
 MYRICK, II. P. 
 
 M'INTOSH, M. E. 
 MALKOFF, M. D. 
 
 MULHOLLAND, THOMPSON. 
 
 M'MANUS, JGS. D. 
 
 NEUSSE, GEO. C. 
 POLLOCK, W. W. 
 PECK, GEO. W. 
 PECK, GEO. W., JR. 
 PUTNAM, FRANK. 
 POPPENDIECK, JOHN, JR. 
 RUBLEE, HORACE. 
 RUBLEE, W. A. 
 REMY, O. E. 
 
 RICHARDSON, SCUDDAY. 
 STARKEY, D. B. 
 SCHINDLER, J. J. 
 SCHOENECKER, V. J . 
 SCHILLING, ROBERT. 
 S'.'ll MT/LER. J. J. 
 TREAT, C. M. 
 TOFI-T, A. J. 
 UNDERWOOD, II. G. 
 WA TKOl'S, J. A. 
 WALTHALL, W . T., JR. 
 WOLF, JOHN R. 
 WATROUS, R. B. 
 YENOWINE, GEO. H. 
 
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Bssociate. 
 
 BOOTH, W. A. 
 CAMPSIE, JOHN W. 
 ELDRIDGE, E. C. 
 HOWARD, SAMUEL. 
 KIMBALL, M. D. 
 MOORE, W. L. 
 PAIXE, C. M. 
 
 OSBORX, C. S. 
 GARDNER, W. E. 
 
 AUER, LOUIS. 
 BROWN, SHERMAN. 
 CARRINGTON, MISS ABBIE 
 HOBART, H. C. 
 KEENE, THOS. W. 
 LITT, JACOB. 
 
 PECKIIAM, GEO. W. 
 SALISBURY, C. P. 
 SCHULTZ, H. C. 
 THIESE, A. 
 VAN LESHOUT, A. J. 
 WRIGHT, A. G. 
 
 LANGLAXD, JAMES. 
 
 COLEMAN, W. W. 
 FOSTER, A. 
 KRAUS, MICHAEL. 
 
 MENDEL, H. M. 
 PABST, FREDERICK. 
 PAYNE, H. C. 
 RICHTER, AUG., JR. 
 WHITTEMORE, I). J. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 PAGENKOPF, H. W 
 QUINN, ED. S. 
 DANKOLER, E. D. 
 
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