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3- My © COMPILED AND RESEARCHED BY MIMI BIRD, THESE VOLUMES ARE HER LEGACY TO WHITEFISH BAY AND AN INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF LOCAL HISTORY. vy
MIMI BIRD, 1933-2002
Mimi Bird knew just what she wanted for a final resting place. After all, she spent years of her life exploring the Town of Milwaukee Union Cemetery, tucked away north of Bayshore Mall in Whitefish Bay. She remembered running through the cemetery as a girl "to scare ourselves on Halloween". Years later, as a neighbor and a historian, she began tending the little cemetery and quite literally, uncovering its history.
Bird died of emphysema Thursday at the Glendale condominium she called home the last four years. She was 69. "She really died from cigarette smoking" said husband John D. Bird. "That's what did it."
She was born Miriam Young in Milwaukee. When she was 4, her parents moved to Whitefish Bay. That was where she grew up and spent her adult life. It was also where she became the undisputed expert on local history, both in the village and the greater North Shore area.
In her earlier years Bird had worked as a secretary. She met her husband when their mothers—concerned about their two twenty-something children remaining unmarried—managed to fix them up for a date. She spent the next decades in volunteer work, including at their children's schools, and working part time for the Whitefish Bay Public Library. In 1976, she began to research her genealogy and that of her husband's family. As that was winding down in the early 1980s, Bird heard about the Whitefish Bay Historical Society.
Her first project involved locating, photographing and researching hundreds of the oldest homes in the village. All kinds of other research followed. Some of the leads took her to the Town of Milwaukee cemetery. There she looked for sunken spots, sticking a spade into the ground. She found dozens of old fallen tombstones, buried by time under the earth. "I just had this wonderful feeling of elation when I'd find an old one," Bird said in a 1983 interview. "The tombstones were the only (surviving) records of births and deaths."
Bird filled volumes with everything from real estate records to the early details of village life, its farms, businesses and people. She pored over the minutes of every Village Board meeting from 1892 until 1950. She interviewed old- timers, acquiring old letters and documents. Bird eventually researched the rest of the old Town of Milwaukee, which includes what's now the North Shore area, and the adjacent Town of Granville. And when Whitefish Bay had a 100th anniversary in 1992, she produced a book on local history. In 1991, Bird was recognized by the Milwaukee County Historical Society. Her research continues to be available at the Whitefish Bay Library, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library, the County Historical Society and the Milwaukee Central Library's local history room.
Survivors include her husband, John; sons David J. and Peter E; brother Carter H. Young; grandchildren; and other relatives...Her ashes will be buried at the Town of Union Cemetery. [Obituary by Amy Rabideau Silvers for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/14/02] Jit Ak+vt ~Xu*4> 1*>F& ^\€U>Sf,^fU\ $ "y
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w^awi- VOL. II. WHITEFISH BAY, WIS, WlSt^NEBDAY, JANUARY 25, 181K,. NO: a. WHITEFISH BAY PIONEER. Village Gossip. With the start Whitefish Bay now has the reetlaeaay. Tha village will grow rapidly OPHOIAL »A"»Ie\ OP TH« VILLAGE during the next three or four yean. Prob^ LAKE FOREST PARK. Mr. and Mre, Remington entertained the *b!y a Httla neighborhood near the depot will *- >UBUSHKO BY rat Cinch Ctab ThantUp evening. be built np to bnaineea plfteea covering tha AT WH1TBFISH BAY. Suburban Newspaper Company, RaaidanU are lookinf to- Mr. Yoeka to sap- main aooenHeli of honaekoepiAg. a hardware :o-n plj theta with lea aax£ rammer. and a geaarai dry goods and. clothing store, /}•; or JOLWJLUXWC. a drug store, a post-office, oner or two scope, MILWAUKEE'S MOST ATTRACTIVE SUBUR0. Mr. Iatnriaf feel* Jubilant over knocking beaide a meat markei aad gioeety w* now *2o •u A* RO««flS. ooi tha propoaad poor flsrm purohaaa. havw^ • Bank (roca thia Utile group many niee lewal OSM, WUtaaek tUy, Wli. - "^ha aohool hbam* oontiauaa at a aland atill CD realdeneee, /ram 13000 to flOOOO or area high and will while tha paaaant waathar laata. l •••• r f»LAT Of* L*K er, will present an appearance«along the FT SabecrtpUoa, ettJO per Ywr. Mr. aad Mrs, H. A. Bogere and Miaa Com , If Paid la Advance, «.<» par Year. atreeta that will give ue quite the appearance CO hart returned to their horn* in Ooouomowoo. of a town. Lawndale and Laka Forest Park CO. VlLLAai OMIO««*. Work la profreaalnf fery rapidly upon the are evidently to be the center of the new Til '7 Lake Shore depot, which will toon & fot lage. The principal improvement* are being r PreeWeat and Sup.rH.oc:* Fred G. leearinc. 0 ready for occupancy. x made here and thoae propoaed are largely for VilUft Board; T. W. Williams, Heary Kastnar, tha two traota mentioned. Burke dr. Menn'f r 9 Israel Lef.bvie, Lewie Schaife, Wm. T. Cousaul Mrs. Rogeri and ohildren are expected O Braat Tioxpal Sr. newly platted tract will however rarf likely home thia week. Miaa Kama will remain for Villa** Clark: CM. A. Roger*. get a number of resident* within the next two S* a while with her aunt. VUU<« Treaanrer: Alvab P. Xaatiafftoa. or three years. These pieces together ooin< s AMMMTI AU|»M ¥. NuNbiuaw. Whoa yoa bear tha doge harking at about pVise enough ground for quite a village in X }u«lloee of iba f««c«i Itwtfc <**•«*: and Gee. A. 12 o'otook tniduight, do not be alarmed •o«.re. themselves and the other trmota will add some o m ; Police Jeatie*: Daal.l W. Laet. about bai-f iars. It ia only tha Cinch Club thing to their growiht #**• '. Constable*: H.nrv Scheife .ndGeo. Rodd. foiofliome. There la no doubt in the world but that a sr « Street Coouniseioners] Charles ftab* and Char* 31 CO Miai Annie Bowen and Trof. Willie Wil >s Laagacbwiq(M, few brief years will find Whitefish Bay an b5f or : kins, the pianist, were visitors at D. W. Leeta important village of the county, with a pop kwX H OTer Friday night. The young professor ulation reaching well up into the thousands. m fe LAND OIRKCTORY, gate a Tory pretty piano recital. LARAMONT HEIGHTS—P. C. Iseariac. pro z Cprietor, Waitsash Bay.. Snow again Tuesday filled up all the beaten CD paihea at Whitefish Bay. Early paeetngera z SOCIAL PARTY. CD IFfEET? MINUTES RIDE from the Northwmtern depot in Ifilwankee; tbr** miaatee walk from AIRMOUNT HEIGHTS-Oathe Daman Uo. going to the suburban looked like dim and '* 5 ttwi L.k<* Hhore Htattoa at Whlt*B«b Hay; Mitl wnliin fwar blocks of tbe WkitHUh Bar tenotaas of eoata of Idlewild, SroHK a THOMAS, JOS Broad* o It CI. F F shadowy ghoeU through the hase of fast fall (>>• Iiunimjr l.ln*. conn** I lug wlil» ail •irro-t nllmfi. way, afliwewke*. S*» A*Tt4»*—rmt Ftianda of Mrs. Wm. Schroeder help bar r 4S CO ing enow. to celebrate her birthday. IIW< (>I IU« 1IWHIXI M>4 . Q. ISKNKtNG buUdUUloo, For lufoimatioa g o o MKWKKH ANI» WATKIt WOHKM u* h«»Mg »tt|.|'«»««l ••» •> •^•ry r*»ld>nl will bntirOvtd«Mtwith tl»^» C4inv.-n».-iur« Fa**!* u» F. G. iMorioa. Whit«a*h Bay. Work will be oomuaeuood putting iu the CO At the beautiful residence of Mr. Wm. r aide tracks for the oetuent and brick company AIRMOUNT HEIGHTS »nd Oakland Avenue m aa soon aa the weather will permit. A good Schroeder on the Port Washington Road, on Qrav«led streets, paved gatters, rnrbing and std*walka, all at tbs rxprnse of the owners of this tract FKticht»~-Special Inducements smll winter. Call o Friday afternoon and evening* Jan. 90th a or and contracts for lota .atered Into subject to aerh lmprovemant*. o«or addraaa G. A.We*t A Co., so* Grand A»e. deal of the machinery for the plant ia in th< wav CO city ready to be put in. heat of friends of Mrs. Schroeder, who ia well i S IGHLAND VIEW—Baautifaljo-acre Tract ad- known in the society of Germane, gathered to o Asilstance will be aifOTOVd to thoeewho wi.h to bnlld. To losers the fatare ol this property all aaa C. It. CSether baa giren orders for another a tracts and d*ada will ba made with restriction. Uraitiag its os* to residence parpoMs only. Hjoiaiaf Beltcvu* Park on the sooth, 1600 ft. Lake do honor and help her in celebrating her 34th I > <] Plwatafe, At terminus of Dummy Una aad adjoin well lor the continuation of Lawndale, North birthday. o ing Laka Ave, I. H. Lowrv. fa If ichican St Lawndale and the Acme Realty Co's aubdi CO* o For plaU, price*, and farther information, apply to . • t The evening waa spent in musie, oard play DLKWILD—Ai ierminua of to. Dummy, Per la- Tiaion. It will be bored near the beach and I ^ ing, singing and other amusements. Mr. fennatioa aaa STOW a A- THOMM, 39* Broadway, a email engiue will be employed to force it li Hohroeder of JaneeviUe gave seveYaJ aoloe, J. H. TWEEDY. «kM, Wta. 5WXA»WM* through the water pliuie. also Mr. Katae-Miller and Willie Hohroedar s H I ARE FOREST PARK—Baautiful Wood.4 tract Mr. and Mre. Curtia, Mr, Jgnd Mrs. Fowl* Jr. giving selections on the piano. The mix *-*J«at plattad. Every lot witbia three minutes Mr. and Mrs. Diabro, Dr. a)^ Mrs. WUliama Z 5 ed quartette of Lindwerm gave tome very CD walk of Laka Shore depot. J. H. Twsaav, Room 7 Mre. Sherman, Bessie Sherman, Mr. Isenring ™ CD Maw Insurance Building. comical songs. After enjoying a bountiful Mr. and Mrs. Langioie, Mrs. La fob T re, Mrs. repast prepared by Mrs. Schroeder, singing, Tierce and Miaa Conley were at the Cinch ARS WOODS INVESTMENT CO.—Choke card playing, tbe waits andfquadrille were in INO Bettdlaf Lota at Lata WOODS, an esciusively Party at Mr. and Mre. Remington's Thursday I o L dulged in until the wee small hour*. Those #JM residence subdivision. S** AJz*rti*«ment. # nighL enjoying the pleasure of the evening were: I AWN DALE—Streets made, side-walks laid and There promise* to be considerable activity Mr. and Mrs. Burr. Mr. and Mra.Schweigert, = Z *-»maay now residences built. Par lull iaforma- in East Milwaukee* near the Lake Shore Mr. and Mia. Bluhm, Mr. and Mre; Graack, ERECTED HER TOMBSTONE. tioa call 00 D. W. Laet, 360-S Broadway. PREEMINENTLY Junction, thie eummer. It ia an . advantage Mr. and Mre. Aug. Schroeder, Mr. and Mre. Itewutrtvlty of <'l%*r»«-4*r lil*f«l»y«itt la 1SINNOLDT . MatihleMin aad Rainhardfa Laka ous point. All traina on the Northwosteru A. Itorwlta, Mr. and Mrs. Itooae, Mrs. Gens, RWood1 . Subdlvtaion No. a. Jtouut 56 I*oan and and Lake tthore atop there and It ia easy U» Mr*. Lemka, Mrs. Mueller, Mre. Kleinhainer, The Liectding, because the Choicest, Subdivision TTUM Building. Uilwaubae. Wla. Sw AU». A rcniiirkul»l«'. Iml |>«rfert\y rrliablo get iu and out of the city at all aorta of hours, Mrs. 8cheirer, Meaars H. Burr, L. Burr, P. story CDini'S from Wultvi whirh Uirown t^uite a number of land companies are be Burr, H. Sohweigert, J. Bluhm, Ernst Hage- at Whitefish Bay. fk stranjff lijjht ujM»n etHMTttririty of coming interested in property in thia vicinity ...ROGERS.-. dorn. The Miasea A. Bluhm, B. Bluhm,' iahLiiractcr. In tht* gravi*v;iril of the [land the impro*nnssa% of the olty'auver parka SweigerW Bice, B.. Schroedar, M. Borgan-"%) «fs>h rhnrch at I'hnrvhstoUr, a small will augment the boom. hagen, after a solo by the mixed *qaartit^yt,,j^w»VTn-V^ntK;wcrvshirf., tlierw ut to WORI IMPROVEMENTS. PKIN^eR Whitefish Bay has now a good achool Mrs. Good Night Ladies" the happy gatherinpr.j b« svrn a' |rrav«*Ktont* wiii«*h U«ars an I BETTER AND MORE BUI> Curtis ia taking extra pains with the young returned to their respective home*. Misi^ription n««'or.linj»' thi» «l«*tith of a FINEST NA OCATION. folka and they are making good progress in laitlrn latly \vliot ni'V«Tthr-U*ss LH atv PAPER R. their studiea. As soon aa the new school .ually living in lK«— vlllajj'i* rrfcrrol NOT HIS FATHER. Oeleimtnclna;, Gl**l»fc thn village hmiee ia nomplvtrd mid largrr room, .oour.d _ (o. mul within u NJI.M t «li-.tu«i««. of lior Cheajvem Prices, Kan ire t Payment., I.onKeat Titno, .ntcicHi of any tlesir» lie atilMiil>aii iraiilaiiro pi«t|>cily lit tlte alMle. i...-. .tit t If* W<»..I.I..-I n« t^,'^^^'^ ECCKNTRiO IDS AS OP JUSTICE. : ttAlNYDAYJN PAMS. Keeping them^h>fu\* •i*#ta^d afford- ii t. /r«WM*A »•»*•' V*> ."W^**^ ng every opportunitw wr , y for tha finest >*j J That A*«rr*«t*e*d la th* Howe of Jon* "* «>»*•»j4 PP *MM»'j iw juia nn*a»,'j,»gA' ttwtfe^Retotionit^ Co., distinction* of anatomical' orUlaism, •}>J•. :*\, T INTRODUCES A PHASE OP and giving: such tarUty of..' contour >'r • In China* according to Jesse Herbert and giving such varUty of contour *' k^JJ^ LIFE QUITE STARTLING. lat* legal adviser to the government ot and *l*« vhat sooner or later *very on* .r, »rl>: looker muai *•* th* palr.of legs that South Cain* and professor of law best satlsfa* his standard of anatomi In tha University of Canton, of rke Farte Girls' Cendaet la the Street •I' LAKEWOODS 5UBDV. jjl) 2. cal perfection. ' ' . fldala are held responsible fot X«* Op to U»e Staadard «f Oar flood When the" rmln Is falling th* stranger/ the conduct of the community. If u Asterlcaa Olrls—Some Sketches from sheltered under th* awning of the- son ha* murdered hi* father not only l> Life. cafe, is astounded and ev*n frightened. ; the murderer cut In piece*, but the The Parisian woman evideaUy abiafr*. This attractive subdivision fronts directly upon the Wfiiteush Bay Drive, house Is pulled down and the ground' draggled skirts. She hold* Her um dug up to a depth of about six feet • (Special Correspondence.) brella with one hand aad with tha Hampton Road, Oakland Ave. t and Dummy Line andjs the finest tract All the neighbors, moreover,, are pun ARIS,*IAN. 16.- other, bold* hlfh her garments, aa If ished* the boy's headmaster la be If one wishes .to yet offered on the east side for residence purposes. For plats, prices about to' wude a, creek of doubtful headed, the magistrate loses his place see the real boule depth. And as she walk* her face Uv and the higher officials, are reduced vard life of Paris, and other information apply to .....,••':*••' >; • either Indifferent or else invite* the- three degrees In rank. one goes to the sdinlratloii of the beholder with aoex- Cafu de la Wis. to There are two officials to, each |M >•>(., pro»klou that seems to say; "Heat one of tho little TELEPHONE 8T0.. Lueder^ ia order that one, might spy upon the thet.e if you can. • Wo strive to. please. marble-topped ta other, the rule being that no official We distance all competitor*." » shall report what he has done, but bles under the awn ROOM 56/ LOAN AND TRUST BUILDING^*! r Perhaps if any one who objected to- only'What the other* has done. From ing, and, sitting this display of symuuetry should^ the highest official to the lowest all there at his ease, remonstrate,. he would get-for hla practice a system of'unblushing rob with drink and auswer that a woman'* leg waa Just aa bery, called "squeezing." The salary cigar or cigarette, watches that famous pretty, nay, prettier, in the public of a viceroy In some cases Is £00 a year; boulevard life flow past him. He will r : MILWAUKEE 1 WHITEFISH llf IT street, set in. a surrounding 6f silk, he regularly draws not less than see much that he has seen in other skirt and lace-edged undergarment^ -^THE BELLEVUE.*- £8,000. Tbe salary of a'judge is £40 a cities, in Chicago or New York for in than it is at the sesahore with a wet' year; be regularly draws at leant stance, lie will also see much that Tho Be>AutifuI Summer Raort at WJi/tef/ach'Bay. stocking and a wet bathing suit about £3,000, There are 1,300 police in <'un only l*arla has to show. U; and if any one would say that never ion, not one of whom receives wages, People will go past him. bearing in I'-ifrj-'i- * -j »•, ; theless such a. street display waa lut- and yet the oflloe Is much sought after. their face and dress the Indelible char - TIME TABLES. nvpral and . acandaloua, the Parisian acteristics of many countries, in many THE MOST DELIGHTFUL RESIDENCE LOCAL The fact is,' we are assured, that the would quote th* famous French say parts ef the earth, and he will come to "V police are on excellent terms with the ing about morals: **Tout cela est si take an Interest in watching faces and ... 1TY FOR SUMMER OR WINTER. DAILY. guild or fraternity of thieves, and they purement'geographlqne," which is un- forms that he has never known before. work harmoniously together. Ily the disputably true, and is not exactly The study of the crowds in the streets, F6UH H0UTEST6 THE CITY BF MILWAUKEE. code a boy under 14 cannot be pun answered by the Anglo-Saxon, "But- always. coming to meet one, always MILAWUKEE < WHITEFISH BAY ished. What the Chinese do is to pop our way is the best" LEAVE LKAVK him into prison and keep him there passing on to appear no more, the L*rj&x DAL*. Trains run over the MilwaukeeQand Whitefish Bay Railway every until he ia 16. If Mr. Herbert were kaleiloscopic crowds of thk streets of asked to summarize the government of a great city hss a certain >amount of fifteen minutes. Beautiful lake and river views; fresh air; natural T.OOa. (5.30 a China he would say the people are interest, conscious or unconscious, for A NEW JERSEY CENTENARIAN. drainage; no ct'ty^ taxes. 8.40 " 8.00 eorainuuistM, managing their own af every intelligent person. i> VOL. II. WHITEF.TBK BAY,; Wta;^^^"BPAY) JANUARY 2f>, 181KI NO- 3. WHITEFISH BAY PIONEER. .*.. Village Gossip. With the start Whitefish Bay now has th* rest is easy. Th* village will grow rapidly j •&©•• n dating th* next thro* or four year*. Prob>] OFFICIAL *>**>•!} Of* THE VILLAQI. 1 LAKE FOREST PARK. Mr. aad Mr*.' Remington entertained th* ably a Httl* neighborhood'near the depot wUl, *5r O * PUBUSHIM) BY THE Cinch Club Thursday *t«ning. be built up to basin*** phtoe* covering th* ,'£3 IT-.., cr AT WH1TBPIBH BAY, Besidtnta at* looking to Mr. Voaka to sup main —entisls of hon*ekeepi*g. a hardware 0 Suburban Newspaper Company. 'On 4 ply them with ice next summer. and a general dry good* and. clothing store* MILWAUKEE'S MOST ATTRACTIVE SUBURB . >. or MiLWAUxan. • "' ., . a drag store, a post-office, on* or two mop*, Mr. Isenring feel* Jubilant over knocking beside a meat market aad grocery wa now out the proposed poor farm purchase. '• $sp'-'"- *\. oaaaTA» s'«a. MhwamkM Oetos, Boom 6, 43* Broadway and will while th* present weather last*. ' :vi-*r- er, will present an appearane* i along th* ; Sabscrlatioa, «L50 per Year. tt Mr. and Mr*. XI. A. Roger* and Miss Cora street* that will give us quite the appearane* i?>" 'l^- 3-O (If Paid la Advsace, 19.00 per Year. hat* returned to their horn* in Ooonomowoo. of a town. Lawndale and Lake Forest Park •V"H en. VILLAOK OMtOlllft. Work 1* progressing very rapidly upon th* are evidently to be the center of the new vil Lake Shore depot, which will soon »-•* TL*.-^ rift. .'Jeifteittj s$f*fcg ^^pss^'^w !#ft ' ^1 NO: $ JANUABY 25, 1893. 3.^ /: ->» ^ ^ ,*. Y^e C^eicest Lets ii> L^tje Y^eeds Sabdiyisiap JN[^ 2; Are to be had at the LiOWESX'' PRlOE jS»j p»ymen^ $5&*> Do*7*** .tfj^'^^f^ir > w - ; p*mIaj|C€ei li| Mmplkli) 1 i>fit*)lip*i|w4 of $f 6*00» © _\ -> Whitefish Bay Heights, m m THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WHITEFISH BAY. FACTS TO BE CONSIDERED: IN MILWAUKEE COUNTY. ist, Natural Beauty of Location:—In this respect Whitefish Bay is the Queen of Milwaukee Suburbs. It combines Lake and This beautiful property has gone off very rapidly, and com River Scenery not excelled for natural loveliness by any residence paratively few. lots are left. Its location upon the Lake Drive locality in Wisconsin* . and Oakland Avenue is so advantageous that it has sold well 2d, Healthfulaess.—According to well authenticated U. S. Cen from the start, and no piece of land in the environs of Milwau sus Reports the bluff shore of Lake Michigan is the Most Hcalihy Lo cality in this country,, or on this continent. The height of the Bay kee contains a larger proportion of handsome building sites* district (100 ft. above the lake) guarantees good air at all times. The streets are all graded and curbed and the side walks will %&£& 3d, Transportation Facilities.—The Lake Shore Road, tbe be laid at once. It is no trouble to sell a lot to any one who - Northwestern, the Dummy Line and, in summer, the trip by boat pro vide the most complete facilities for reaching the city at all hours of sees the property, for there is nothing superior to it-any where. v the day. * v •:.•••,;.,-•• . -^ ;*•*'**. Any one who remotely intend to buy and build at Whitefish 4th, Location with reference to cityo-Whitefish Bay is not Bay should call and see this property before perchasing. The only beautifully situated but is upon the handsomest side of Milwau agent on the ground will be pleased to give you all the infor kee, tha side preeminent for the finest residences, most elegant streets and natural beauty, that is, north-east Milwaukee, the lake shore ex mation you desire. /: tension. *• /'--.-- -.••.--".:;' ?( —'":""-•-•-•.-;-i^-fc*^ A. F. NUSSBAUMER, AGT. ^H Jts; /%9B WHITEFISH BAY PIONEER. Village" Gossip^ ^ Willi the atari Whitsaeh Bay now ha*i the rettbeaoy. The Tfllago will grow rapidly OFFIOIAL PAPER OP TH« VILLAGE, dttiagthenext tlstwo OJT ibwr ytatw. Proh- Mr/axndKra, fte^gtmmfato^^ *hlyaHuWa>eighborh*K>da>earU.^ . .;' ^. ^ '\ '"• VUBUSniOpr THE ^ ; • ;< 'JH ^&wto dab JTwad^xtrta^.i ^. ^f ^ Utmiltup t» bwalmeo* iaa%eeo^eo^faH*« ihe ^lytl^w1thk*»*mt«nnm^ ^ aad a a^neral dry gtodo aasL eleihiag 7*; .' OF MILWAUKEEt •«-'*, •# 5. Ut.ImntfagfaU}nbQxat orar fawddnf a drag atora, a pe***4He« o a. Ait ROOMS, SOITOft* out tbt propoted poor tkrmpuTch**.' beatdoaaMat market and hare^ ^ Book from this BtOo group astray tooa OfBce,'Whitefish Brty, Wit. * ' The fiohool bonte eootiaQeti nt a atmiid fc^fll v r«wideiioe%frwm$»00U$10^ . ' Milwaukee Omce. Room ft, 43ft Breeawsy and will while tbo. ptroent w«mUit* feat*. ] rT or, wiU jirotent an appiWaatjo along tbo fobscHptioii, 0*50 per Ye*7T ~ ~ Mr. nodi Mr*. H. A. Bogen and Miaa Oorm street* that wiU gtr* uo quite the «*ppe*wuaeo *",• , If Paid In Advance, tw,0P per Year. haro retttrnod to thel? Ivotr^ia Ooottojnowoo. of a town. Lawndale and I^kororest Park VILLA*.! OPPIORRSa Work it ptogieealny tory rapidly osjm tho are eridently to be tho center of the mow TH- %\ LakeBhfrre depot. wMeh trill aoonVs^got logo. T1>e prindfrnl imfM^Tt^nejita are being & . Presided and Supervisor: Fred G. It«mring. rendy for oecnpajicj. ^ mad* hero and th i°i ^ £>GERSa^S; SOCIAL PARTY. • :£-~-. afiioiida of -tafia. Wsv Schsoodeg oaip beg to ccJobcate bag bctisdny» ••'". •'•v."*t-.r:jy-^ PAPER HAKOBR. -.--..:> M tho beautiful reaidetwe *f Mr. Wi kOildsxiaeiBtv Glsafcar etc in the village ': 8chroeder on the Pott Wash ington Bond, ear prjies^tlr attested to. ' .-. . '^- j Friday «\ftai*ocn aad o^eainsf Jan.. 30th a 'Itteaof lVitt^af Mr* wtH I known in tho *x>c£ety e/Gea^tma, f^th«r*d|e FRED. G. ISENRING. ;o>**tMsoraiidha*>«*ecfe 4 •••.^.U' -.-- . . \v^ PBOPBDCTOB, birthday* . ^ •.";-'•* £• .-• - •*". • ^ ! ThooresuingwaosmaniimB WHITEFISH BAY PARK ing, aUAgizsg and other IBUSJB***^ Ifr. SelsTOtder of Janeorille gawt awvAti toio*v . KdftT*>w/oooci Family RmmorU alto Mr. yatsa-MiUer aad WQUe Sehroedar j^o^^ O^P yi. y^^^ ^ - ^ WHITEFISH BAT, WIS. IJr.giringBoloctioawosi*^ Tho mix ed quartette of Iindwtrm gi ooiaital tonga. After esrjoying a bountiful ^ v GEO. W. SIZER, repert prepared byMr*. Schrotdtr, singing,: card playing t^woiU and o^ dulged in antfl tha w**.w**nll fam REALESTATEAGENT enjoying tho pl*w*%wrt of the trening won: y.*h?n~%- -'-•''"•*' ^ •• - 4';' - . • - Mr.andMr*.BurrvMr.andMr*J9chweigtt^ - ; CsVtioiafros^sgvwm the We*k*ehaOem*ty Mr. aad Mm. Bluhm, Mr. aad Mr*. Grmaesi] -•-,'-, .^> Lake Region a Specialty. Mr. and Mr*. Aug. 8ch*c«ader, Mr. tnd Mraj A.Borwit»,Mr.M*dMre.Bcea«# Mr*. Genu, HARTIiAND, WISCONSIN. Mr*.X^mk^Mrs.MaaQertMr*. ;Mia.,8cbairur, MetMH. Burr^ Is. Burr, *. Burr, H. 8cb w*igc*t> J. Bl*ahnV LaF-SCHEIFE. ''IX ^> Whitefish Bay - '•Good Ki4dnX LadieeT tho happy gatlseriaj^ (iROOERY returned to their respective home*. ' -> ' GROCERIES, FLOUR AND FEED. (^::'.' FRUITS AND CONFECTIONERY. ii^5:i^>^ ...—: -. • :.•- .: ^TOBACCO AND CIGARS, J^SVW-^- CANNED GOODS, - '~\ TEAS. COFFEES, ETC JUCD oaaaFJaL PAMIJUY «*wppi*in>a> !Tfe^"'V • Goods delivered to any part of the Village daily. L. F. SpHEIPB. & IDLEWILD -^AND— FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. Subdivisions ot Wfiitefistj Boy, STOHE 8t THO]WflS, i PROPRIETORS, 392 BROADWAY, MILWAUKEE. » IDLEWILD.—Bcauiful for situation; the most beau tiful, in fact of any recently Platted T/act in the City oi Milwaukee or any of its Suburbs. At the terminus oi v the Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay Railway. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS-Is a newly Platted Tract about a quarter of a mile south of Idlewild. It comprise* eighty lots The Hampton Poad runs along the south end of tha propety, which is in plain view of Lake Michigan. Lots in Fairmouat Heights are placed at figures which will enable purchasers to make i; handsome profit on their purchase price within the next year. J\ SUM**) lUatflJ F ^ysB*** •*wi^wu*w>isS?i'tiy»' \ Remriohft; R«otthewsofi, $ fteinhardt. v * !y iUrts in thk hfeautifut •Suburb, including ihote on W bitrfisJi Bay, Dnrr, HAITIptcrn. R *•-'•• . ( . • -- • • - {;•;"" Sti"*«t« cnUl b« m« *|.41\¥U^Vnc*** and trtber information. *•#„''• ; i; QetimoWfr Metffte wsen, ;4; BeMi^e|«^,,*, •^ c^ j ; ROOM 56, L.QAN AKL> TRt'ST; DtMLDUtt*^'/ • *#,£'. "«*; Ft, ( ^ *THn.'.BELLEVtJE.i a *** ,V •* |.T**a J*aal*&Jf») Stunntar »t«MM»rt •« WMUfta^ J3f>jU V«i * f^ y " *H>' 77//? .J**f«\r PKLIUHTFCL HfiSfOESi H fOCAl/tM fO# SVUMEK OK U7\TEtC. " < C - iitH'w •imaC'i'H j 1 ••••in 11 I ; >W* WUTES TO T|tB CITY OF MtLWAOTtf- ' ; ,^ * Trains n& over tiw Mtl**utop* ant* Wt»it*fi*h B*y.R*tlwav cy*tttf * fiU^y^jtkinutr^ BeairtiM lafc^ Up** ss|sjR*a«ja«*e«wn ""^-t^l:G^lSeMRING..: :., .*f*." {V Msxttjffor, ^'J:*iTk„ '1 * ' '»„.>•.•?; • 1 »'-) « >^ LAKE FOREST PARK AT WHITEFISH BAY. MILWAUKEE'S MOST ATTRACTIVE SUBUR3. ^aT PLAT OP UKI FOMSST t**«m« S *4 IFTEEN 14TKTJTES R1DK from the Northwestern depot in Milwaukee; thj**» mi nit tee walk from Fthe Lake Sfcore Staiioa si White&sh Bey; «uid within roar blocks of tbe Whit*&sb Bay terwiata of tb« Dunuay Lin*, ccmooctiug with all »Uv»-l rail way a. 8EWEBS AND WATER WORKS are ferity ttoppli*d to thia tract at th* expense of th* owners aad etery resident wU be previdedwith theo* ccmvi»nfonce*. Graveled streets, p*or«d sutlers, rerbtag and »U3«w*ik*, ail *4 tbe «ip*ns« of lh« own*™ of ikUs trt,ct sad csairaeta fw tots eaterod tot? ftsbJKt to *\ach improvesofeni*. Assistance will be afforded to those who wiah to tmild. To insure tha fetor* oi thia property *ll to* tracts and deeds wU) be made with restrictions limiting its see to rceid*nc* purpose* only. v For pUta, prices, aad farther i*Litem*tfJa«, apply to % V •j * K J. H. TWEEDY, i I HOOM 7. NKW INaURANCHaUlLOt^a. #LKMNDKLE^ PREEMINENTLY The liaadlng, becaciae the Choicest, Subdivision at Whitefish Bay. MORS IMPROVEMENTS, -:....'.• »' v v I BETTER AND fWORE BUILDINGS. .FINEST NATURAL LOCATION. Cheapest Prices, Easiest Payments, Longest. Time, Lowest Interest of any desir able suburban* residence property in tbe state. D. W- LEET, 366-8 Breadta?, 6- L- CLA50H, Oter Plaaklatoa Bast TlllFHONI 1755. TULIIPHONi U92. n>S U)f£ (?JJ&^J2J^J^ i-&g'~t&l2> Z$* Lueders, Bernhardt 5( Go., LAKEWOODS SUBDV. NO 2. This attractive subdivision fronts directly upon the Whitefish Bay Drive, Hampton Road, Oakland Ave. and Dummy Line and is the finest tract yet offered on the east side for residence purposes. For plats, prices and other information apply to TELEPHONE 8T9. LuBclers, Reinliardt $ Co., ROOM 56, LOAN AND TRUST BUILDING, OTIE BELLEVUE.i MILWAUKEE & WHITEFISH BAT R'Y. J3t«tion Com** flottft sirvd po»-vu«II Hv Tiie Beautiful Summor R&vrt at WJhitefisJh Bay. THE MOST DELIGHTFUL RESIDENCE LOCAL - TIME TABJLE- ITY FOR SUMMER OR WINTER. DAILY. FOUR ROUTES TO THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE- MILAWUKEE WHITEFISH BAY LEAVE Trains run over the Milwaukeerjand Whitefish Bay Railway every LEAVE fifteen minutes. Beautiful lake and river views; fresh air; natural 7.00 a. nu 0.30 a* in. drainage; no city^ taxes. 8.40 " 8.00 10.OO " 9.30 " MANGER 11.00 " 10.30 " F.G. ISENRING. 12.00 " 11.30 " 2.00 p. m 1.30. p. m. 3. OO " 2.30 " 4.00 4* 4.30 " 5.0O 4.30 " THE LAKE WOODS INVESTMENT CO. 0.30 5.45 " 7.30 ,, Sunday only 7.QO " • , -HAVE FOR SALE Choice puildiog Lots A. W. LYN N, MAHAGIR. IN ^LRKE WOODSY An ISxoluelvely, Kine JRosldonoo Subdivision FOR PARTICULARS APPLY TO. T. II. MALONE, PRESIDENT, Room 67, Colby and Abbot liuildingr. T. M. PERELES, SECRETARY. { H.TOWNSEND, VICE PRESIDENT, T. J. PERELES, TREASURER, f 410 Milwaukee St. 47a City Hall Square. R. BURKE, MAKAGER, Court House. 7A 1 -»*^x* « VOL !. fl.W A l KMfc V, iSi^, 1I "<3*^ ^^m^^xm^^imm^:^ ^tsl MILWAUKEE s^ ^«ff^^lfe%^nJ»d is.thei«esis••fweasily ix;ach«3^if^n and a driveway to i! has been ^fe^^^^^ttwelve years of age ro.the city, p,yW^- , f the north end of the lot. -~^th^.theu:j»ro^ti^;rwdfol.eaudtuiti0J, a8 weH aa •#£^ ^HJJ^wmJ: _ The man who expresses the sciithtunt that T^.J&v&ym^.wte.^ion of the school tax. t i^ight. FRED. G. ISENRING, Whitefish Hay real estate is high is looking .Vmay b^> -the^imreAniser,-: t, Village orpmiaitin is needed,liot only for a chance to buy. ^^n d^nn^ug^loeation. j to cin.ct iinprmvm,nts not lleraandea itt-thc PKOI'JUETOK. ^yery^o^b^ fiicdity he ( to ftt, bat ^ ,>uusoHdate ^^^ Stone and Thomas, large owners of White- |6 suhurbv}tl»t takes the most - ^-- ••-»•. fish Hay lands; have every confidence iu the ; wie .nosi inttf1iHrmimioiis action the rapidlv growing! itra^O^I»r^^y^l|J ^s^Bt may be WHITEFISH BAY PARK future of this suburb. developed iutercsts centering at the Hav, which willtvmtW^Q****^ " >Jae .which is a better „ „ ^ „ , ,,j . , / ^^ftM^^into^^i Mr. Lcfcbvre, popular conductor of the Lcdce SOOQ form vi a l( K r ( named or u ih de|)cnds wholly oumed l^o-iter atv tl^ Shore, aud wiiir s)>ent New Year's day with j This it? a question in which real estate holders,' jidyantuges for quick Which-resulted in -'Fositt relatiws at Fond du T.ac. whether as single lot owners or land -.coiHptt-''t Mr. and Mrs. O. I.. Dori o«f Katikauna ^-improvements. This is a : mes^ arc v5UJ£ iuteie*tetL J t opens the 'wtty3 WHITEFISH RAY. U"is. aiaaeil'c.Iaiffilthe ^ land companieseAino,inJ^, nlftplalt . .. '.. • .'-***; fe^of p^listic adjr^ttt spent a portion of hist .week Mith their daugh to the consideration of some means of obtainJ?j Jy 'fy iy suburb are jointly winter ter. Mrs. \V. H. Sherman. ing a water supply, sewera«c better streets \:aM*oy"erw^llining "r>r V.0 ON 7,\p • -1«»r >. wlu-n liis nu-ad'^-v IIIUMI: | >i« •< I ti<-* - deuces, is th< .rd':i of the day at W'hitetisii . twu ::n«l tlmv times inonv vviit-n my Willi a g:-o<-ery and meat market, a new- 1( «y. - It doc-^'t take much to convince any Whitefish Hay r.-gimi. Ii will n-piirc no lipid exactly " "''•••% ;is Mr. Muldbpiir. lui: Cna-t i..\ i:>. at ten times dieir present valuation. And of roan carriage horses. These with a new longer. That 'iwo heads are better than one IhToujrh the air was presented'"to the, that "houses new houses, line modern new : cutter ami buggy recently bought fixes Kred if one is a sheep's head' may )>•• siipolemi-nte*! sightseers. When he j^ut up and pull-, IN« [|;.\ ro|>s. >! 1. residences" **ould l>c built is inevitable. • KM lor winter ami summer. in this ease with '•two purses aiv better than e.d himself together, he gasped: Where would * man go to 1K», better suited? ••Billy. I was only in fun. That .-/// ki/.'//.." aj Stet/s and A^ricitilural D. W. Leet is negotiating with the patent Where could &e go? One sweet, «n>ol breath wasn't a fair deal.1"' Machinery. • ofikre at. "Washington for letters patent upon olf Lake Mieh'uran:;'. this point is worth the "1 know all about your fun," said- THE RESID?VCF SIJ3URH tin invention of irreat practical value, lie price -I a b-t. -Aud t»o»hui» ,.Uv,.i.!?-'-,• -: -tl M'bL -b..rr.'o • \%'V- «v»« c& holds the invention at s=25.0«Kj. ii.f ;~ r^^.-^afJl f«>r u»e seeiierr. Von pay for these men going about doing these..- Geo. A. Kncb.-^ bris -.p^iMM] a nti-at m-irt - The h'outli Side claims prestige as the sort of things, and when an acciUlau?$V- ;< ^ -s o R T & # O31L£ ^SCi^Zti^i^t. 2DOJ^MJP. f-ZS'-l-fgC Pabst resort drew nation's celebrities to tiny Whitefish Bay BY RICHARD MAURER and during the summer the ride took 20 recipes. It also offered sirloin, porter resort took on a honky-tonk atmosphere. minutes. house and tenderloin steaks, hamburger, A baseball diamond was constructed to When Milwaukee residents opened their But the most direct and oldest access to mutton chops, lamb chops, spring chick draw tourists to the resort. It was very nar copies of the Sunday Sentinel 97 years ago the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort was the en, calf's liver, fried ham and bacon and row with trees on both sides. The Detroit on June 30, 1889, they found a new item Lake Avenue Toll Road. imported frankfurters. Tigers, with Ty Cobb, once played a local on the amusement page. Founded in 1869, the road took "Mil- Five men managed the Pabst resort team there. The Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort had waukeeans out for a Sunday from 1889 to 1914. The last lessee of the resort was Richard opened for business and was inviting the drive. . . north past all this elegance (of Frederick Isenring oversaw operations Becker. He had been the manager of an public to enjoy a visit to a lake-side re the Cass and Marshall streets area) to Ter from 1889 to 1894. He lived on the north other Pabst venture in Milwaukee. treat. race Avenue," according to "This Is Mil end of the grounds during his tenure. Af Becker also made some changes to the Owned by the Pabst Brewing Co. and waukee," a history by Robert Wells. ter his wife's death in 1893, he decided not Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort. The ferris operated by Frederick.Isenring, who later From there the travelers continued "un to renew his lease. Isenring disappeared wheel was removed in 1907 and replaced became the first village president of Whi til they reached a gravel road, 100 feet from the Milwaukee area around the turn by a carousel. The management still tefish Bay, the resort was divided from wide, which was maintained by a turnpike of the century. placed a great emphasis on its food and downtown Milwaukee by miles of coun company headed by Charles Andrews." The years 1894 to 1904, the tenure of offered "Planked Whitefish. Fresh tryside. It was located on a bluff overlook The Lake Avenue Toll Road continued Heinrich Konopka, were considered the Caught Daily in the Bay — 60 cents." ing Lake Michigan at the eastern end of north for about five miles, passing D.D. glory years of the resort. Konopka was The increasing popularity and efficiency Henry Clay Street. - French's Lake Dells and other resorts. born to a noble family in Russia in 1829. of automobile travel spelled the end of the j It was possible to reach the new resort Lueddemann's-on-the-Lake, not to be In 1877, he immigrated to the United Pabst Whitefish Bay resort. In 1898, \ by three methods of transportation. Most confused with Lueddemann's-on-the-Riv- States, made his way to South Dakota and streetcars had replaced the railroad to the romantic was the trip by water on the er, was available for picnickers. lost a fortune farming. community, and in 1905, the last steam- i steamship Cyclone from the Grand Ave The Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort was set He moved to Milwaukee and was em ship docked at the pier at the foot of the j nue docks, adjacent to Gimbel Brothers' back from the road and fronted by a hor ployed by the Pabst Brewery. bluff. In 1913, Lake Avenue Toll Road j store downtown, to the 100-foot-long pier seshoe driveway. A porch faced south It was during the Konopka years that was closed, and later that year the board at the bottom of the bluff in Whitefish and, beyond the porch, on the main floor, the ferris wheel became a major attraction of directors of Pabst Brewing Co. voted to Bay. was the Ladies Parlor. There was a room and outdoor motion pictures were intro plat the resort for residential develop It also was possible to travel to the re for indoor concerts and a 48-foot circular duced at the resort. A hand-cranked ment. • iV--y-- "••:•'• •'* • sort via the Milwaukee & Whitefish Bay bar — one of the main attractions of the projector was placed on the steps of the In its 26 years, the resort had enter- ; Railway. In 1886, Frederick Pabst, the resort. bar, facing the lake. The screen was tained thousands, including famous na owner of the brewing company, and oth Visitors who continued through the bar placed on the bluff. tional figures like Theodore Roosevelt. I ers had organized the railroad because the and exited through the north entrance Konopka was followed by Peter and Jo But a new era had come to Whitefish Bay. i Milwaukee Streetcar Railway Co. had re were brought to the foot of a ferns wheel, seph Sturm, who had been saloonkeepers fused to extend service into Whitefish a major attraction at the resort from 1895 in Milwaukee. They managed the resort Richard Maurer is Bay. to 1907. After the Chicago World's Fair, for two seasons from 1905 to 1906. a local historian. He The southern terminus for the 5.3-mile ferris wheels were the rage. The Whitefish A number of changes were made during leads tours and of line was the corner of Farwell and North Bay ferris wheel had 10 cars and stood 50 the Sturms' tenure. The circular bar was fers lectures and avenues. The trains traveled north along feet high. _ ., -,.,...,, moved to a new wing that was added to seminars on historic Farwell td Downer Avenue, and on to The resort's dining room was located on the west side of the building. The former Milwaukee and is an what is now the corner of Henry Clay the second floor of the resort. Its extensive bar area was used as a central platform for active volunteer and c Street and Marlborough Drive in White- menu provided a variety that appealed to Tyrolean dancers and Bavarian brass researcher at the — fishBay. - everyone. It featured five different prepa bands. Small concession stands were al Pabst Mansion, 2000 The train had a capacity for 180 people, rations of whitefish and three lake trout lowed in the park for the first time and the W. Wisconsin Ave. $ At tvcUJ-A C^ta^h^- B *sU -Ldu/AwJ- & s6* -t**^ •" ^etU&fr>L/<&y -Thursday,.May 25, 1967 Progress Edition — Section TWO Page 1 I- - •* <.,* *:*•£•**-'< - **v HEYDAY—Thousands of men, women and children spent their weekends shows the long, ornate building that faced the lake, its first and second story at the Whitefish Bay resort during the 1890s, when it was operated by Fred porches catching cool breezes on summer days. Paths zigzagged down die em- Isenring, the"villages first president, whose mysterious disappearance about the bankment to the water's edge, turn of the century was never solved. This photo of the resort during its heyday * Page 4 Progress Edition w Section THREE; • Thursday, May &, 1967 ' NO VACANCY—Every table was occupied on the 1890s summer afternoon when a pho tographer took this picture at th! famous Whitefish Bay Re port (Photo provided by Mrs. w!>arkBerry, 5809 N. Santa Monica blvd.) 37 White&h 'B&/ M~,*3*; /rtA-7 II After, his wife died'irtil893,::he| JThe delight;of, the^street car|| it Cuisine ^standards . remained^ | turned the resort over,,to his suc-f passengers those!-; days was thej fhigh, i | and .prices ;: remained I'cessor, Henry Kanopka, a Russian § 'Marguerite' a trolley care design- .1 modes51t Becker's bill of fare of '' immigrant, reputed to be of noble! ed with flags, ^flowers and bunt-^ fered^, the A house' specialty ?* of I birth, who had lost a fortune in I it ing and painted in carnival hues,"y ^planked whitefish for 60 cents, < South Dakota flax farms when; f wrote Joseph Hogan in a. report,, [and a special table d'hote on Sun $ they had been destroyed by prairie J | found in the Whitefish Bay library if days between 12,and 3 p.m, *s for |H fires. Knopka was 65, a storekeep-§ | files. \ • .\ i.^;/ ,*. -V/,v?H^v. «;; <**• only,one dollar. ; •,"' CvrV % er at the Pabst brewery when he* | Street cars handled a big vol- I One ominous line began to ap-- became lessee of the resort. . , $ \ ume of the traffic, and it was not.. pear on the menu: "Special at ri "His decade of operation was*3 I unusual to see 10,000 people at the f tention paid to automobile par Hhe hey-day. of > that establish-^ I resort on, a Sunday. Frequently 1 ities."^ v. -:\V- • - . gment,"vHerzog reports. ". , .1 jrthe park's 18 acres.were strained A V The resort soon found that auto* t> Kanopka, a large man with white | £ to almost half again that number. :1 | mobiles could go farther than -hair and a beard, was a person-Ji f Whitefish Bay for entertainment. &* ality, suave, resourceful and deep- ] -Just after the turn of the cen- i| | Pabst found the upkeep of the fly religious. It was said that he I fury,, Kanopka introduced out- " | resort increasing and offsetting I stood with head bowed while say-1 door movies to the resort. The f the value of having exclusive out T ing a silent grace before he sat § hand-cranked projector was set lets for his brewery products. The -*s frdown to a solitary meal in the f up on the.steps leading to the ftoll road went out of business in f ^crowded dining room. ,1 I circular bar, and the early "flick-, yrune oL1913, ^ - - 7 r ' "An epicure at heart, he per- *% ers" were flashed on. a screen' k sonally supervised the kitchens $ . at the edge of the bluff. It was f and the wine cellar. A wine list J I discontinued, V according ? ; to I The following December, Pabst f ; from his regime shows the finest J rHerzog. ;W1V/.V"-.J- /• «- -^""> fe and his board of directs voted '*} r imported champagnes at $3.50 a') f -! Through the years niany beats f \ to plot the property and sell it | i quart and vintage winds for half / I made fheir way from the Grand *i r ,f for highly restricted residential i I that amount." I | avenue dock to the Bay. Some I buildings. When this was an* i te. A wine list from an 1896 menu | I seasons two1 , boats ran, 'The1 >j nounced in May, 1914, an effort ] ;, included twelve champagnes, 14 J 1 Skater/ "R. J. Gordon/1 I was made to spark a movement i I Rhine wines, 13 Moselles, four | i "Bloomer Girl/' ihe "Barry/ f to have the city or county. buy \ I clarets, a Sauterne, a Sherry, a:\ £. "Eagle,", and "Oval Agitator" | the property for a park, but| I were some who made the rvn* r Pabst maintaincki his thinking on ! Port, three brandies, three whisk-* | The last was the "Chequamegort" |; the original plan. • ; . ,%jt :| des and 12 cordials. And, of course,! I which quit after the 1905 season, |T The site of the Whitefish Bay 1 Pabst included its wide selection] -y' "A record of which to be proud l Resort is now occupied by seven J of beers, porters, and ales to thef I is the fact that not a single boat 4 |f homes: the Ralph Feerick resi-! European: counterparts. I ever foundered," wrote Walter" h dence, 1500 E, Henry Clay at.; I | "We. make a specialty in wine| f William A. Meyer, 1400 E. Henry! eups," the menu reminded its J '-^SffiPSTreport fUedln the- | Clay st. j Kurtis R. Froedtert,| Whitefish Bay library. ^ r* 1^5200 N. Lake dr.; The Dr. A. | Konopka left the Whitefish Bay I Dwight Spooner residence, 5220^ £ There were six soups to choose f f, Resort in 1904 at 75, and wasi fN.vLake dr.; Mrs. Otto A. Bo-1 [from, and a note heading the list i fe pensioned by the brewery. Two^ I of fish offerings emphasized in | I heim, 5240 N. Lake dr.; La Salet-;! I brbthers, Peter and Joseph!, p te Fathers, 5270 JNL Lake dr.; and ?t ;red, "Fish • we serve are fresh I gSturm; who had previously run a? f the Benjamin F. Saltzstein home, 1 |every day and caught in this * I Milwaukee saloon, replaced him. !| P5290 N. Lake dr. . ^ ;^ ;JJ- j I Bay." Whitefish, planked, broiled, ~; | Many, changes were made dur-/;J ! fried or a la Pabst were speciali-1 | ing the two seasons they man-1 |v In. his research preparing for | {ties of the houses. .,• v-^-v'^t «!,%$ faged the resort, but they didn't J I vhis article, Herzog determined the 1 p There .were nine salads including :| I fare well financially. Neither wast| ? site of the old Ferris wheel and 1 |experienced in resort or hotel} > found the brick pier which had [& (Deutscher Haering, and 11 vege- | |;supported part of it. Other" re-\! I tables from boiled potatoes to the 4 v management. * - ;4 , ' . ^''*i I O'Briens, Saratoga and Delmonico § h t During this time the iamous | r ports indicate that the La Salette j | style. Spaghetti, also listed under;! Icircular bar was mqyedto a newf ^Father's residence at 5270 N. I fihe vegetables, included Italian,'! I wing added, to the^west of the P I Lake dr., was the site of; the | |Milanaise, au gratin and a la| fepavilion, leayingf space for enter-i I plateau .occupied by" the resort's » ftainment^On a central platform \ ibandshell and the Boheim home, ff § Madam Gali. ^^^X#^:^>!?v^^J\| l | Tyrolean % i t h e r.: players and | I' which was also former home of 'f |, Eggs ^and omelettes came in f f SchuhplatUer dancers entertained! | .Governor Julius P. Heil revealed 3 r assorted styles and flavors fromdj f;in their best Bavarian style. ,< "3 I the original drain tiles and foun- 4 | poached to au buerre noir,. from f *# ••'' v Goes Honky Tonk i f^ f dation, of the resort when the I |; plain and parlsey to au rum. In ? Small concessionaires formerly! |,home was built in 1924 for Carl ? ^addition to its> cheeses, sand-i !a parasitic fringe at the park's i Herzfeld. .- * fwhiches, included caviar, and| borders were permitted on the ;f r, It is no wonder that a sense | flpoultry range1 d from Wiener f I grounds. These tin-type parlors, | \l of. nostalgia arises during the '*, kBackhuhn, to Chicken Saute J f;„wheels of chance, doll buggy | t long, hot summer months for J tJMeuniere. > \ .- «\ •».«, /-.'. .-J stands all gave the resort a | those "old timers" for, as the ad 1 H Following the V 1893 Chicago! slightly honky-tonk atmosphere. J * on the Dummy Line timetabe | gj World's Fair when Ferris wheels,! /' A baseball diamond ^was laid | Lfor 1891 explained, a day at the "J I became the rage, Bay installed a j |;,out in a cleared space in a grove $ V.Whitefish Bay Resort and a trip £j 50-foot one in 1895: ",., .a modest I so wooded that many a good hit nJ on the Dummy Line was a chance ten car * job erected at the ex-i went into the trees. Nevertheless % "to get out of the Heat, Dust treme^northern end of the park, f ' the Detroit Tigers came to play i and Noise of the city for an hour "Entrepreneurs profited two ways—^ | exhibition games with the focal, - or two...and get a breath of cool; r tickets sold to riders and jrevenue'3 **team. *'k*v -^. --•.'/* fpure air, feasting your eyes on i $ from local firms who paid to have J . The last lessee* of the Whitefish the beautiful blue of Lake Michi- | l their Jiames on canvas tops of the 2 |Bay Resort was ..Richard Becker,* gan,. and the green woods * and :| i who had previously managed the* fields of the North Plateau...you J ;Forst Keller next to the brewery.k tPl In 1898 fthe eiectric street cars* Avill return with a better opinion 1 A[This Jiighly^energetic man made M of * yourself , and the- world {gen* | preached t Whitefish Bay^and. the mahy changes to keep attendance"^ rally."/; >./ '• . .;^!:^U.-...;' « | Dummy Line, now "owned by the and revenues up., :?:,?• ,' t # V lElectric; co,,; passed out of; ex-. ,u The Ferris wheel came dowrij^ pistence. Summertime services fea- ^a carousel went up. To boost beer Iftured open cars like the^'Marg: - ^ sales, pump handles at the wells |uerite7 with signs on the side of I in the park were chained down I roofs that spelled out names in I and waiters pressured guests into Idectrjcjetters^aiootdii Lone ^ound. of ..brew^af ter .another^ 35 f?:f^%fv; * - ;/X;v*^-^Ti ISiiiiiiPliS ^ V' ' :^V ' ^ " * $<- •"- """?- '*>> -'V-'4^**' Y 'sftu>ss- -j k^^. ^>K- •^'•^ ..'-j*..-* <»% v,--:--.'', i-ifT- ~ x f xi ifciiwiiT „ XTy THF. TREE TOPS-Ferris wheels became a "sensation" at the Full length, long sleeved dresses, stiff straw hats and dark suits and ties TTP TO <5y«~^/^W** P+utU. 7OF# 'fa*Jk-/ft? *•/ Once upon a time—more than Professor Bach's military band beer mug on which weer in 60 years ago—scenes such as this played on opening day and on scribed the words "Pabst Park" were frequent in Whitefish Bay-j many occasions thereafter/ * —it must have been among old on holidays and weekends '* Briefly, we list some of the glasses aft the Bay Inn for more throughout the summer. \ Folks items of an 1894 bill of* fare: than 35 years, without being came by boat; special trains and Michigan lake trout, fried. or cherished as a relic of bygone horsecars to enjoy lake breezes, broiled 30c, breaded tomato days. glistening water and beer gar sauce 35c, with sauce Holland- den, where lemonade was also a aise 40cv Whitefish was serve4 " big seller. V , fried or broiled, a la Italienner This picture was taken on maitre d*hotel, with tarter sauce ; June 30, 1889, the date on which or sauce Diplomatic and rangecl Pabst's Whitefish Bay park was in price from 30c to 35c. ~ officially opened. Entrance-was 'Steaks, tenderloin, could" be V located at Henry Clay and. the had for 45c and a porterhouse ; lake, opposite what 4s now the with mushrooms was $1.00; por :•- Whitefish Bay Inn, which has terhouse for two ranged from ? been in the Pandl family^ since $1.30 to $1.75 dependent on the z. 1915/-.-. "vv;•••/;' •-• /~-/;r/\ way served. Eggs were 15c plain ; The Pabst resort was the out- jfried ; potato chips were 5c; veg .growth of a dream for a giant etables, 10c or 15c; salads, 5cto \ hotel conceived by E&nil Sehan- &Qc; cheese, 5c to 15c; toast 5c /dein, Pabst's brother-in-law. to 10c; coffee, tea or chocolate, I Original plans were to erect a 10c a cup, V ; ; hotel, costing a quarter of a mil lion and accommodating 4,000 The wine list included cham guests. Schandein took his plans pagnes from $1 to $1.75 per pint with him on a tour of Europe, and from $2.00 to $3.50 for where he died, and nothing near- quarts; brandies were from $2.50 \y as large as he plannecl;c3nje tO,$4.0O a quart; whiskies $1.50 :,into being. .;y'//v'^ —' to $2.00 per quart; cordials were 15c a glass; beer was from • 15c : i Efforts were jnade • to retain to 25c per pint. ; .; Vrv the name Belleviewv hotel by which the resort was designated A notation on the bottom of the mfenu stated: "See that you i tev Schandein's plans, but the ! m.ENDALE-TOWN TIMES name never caught on. From the are not overcharged, and report start, folks called it Pabst's any inattention of service to the few 20 - Thurs,. Feb. 19, 1958,1 Whitefish Bay park. As many; cashier." ;:.".' ' \ as 10,000 people would throng Jto j Several years ago one of the |he park in a single day.v , - / 1 Pandl boys found an old glass -ZZ. 3 Osu-ef OsLAtt^JZcj) X4ut„ Stomal Jti> £ 32 Edgewood Resort at what is now intersection of Lake Drive and north side of East Lexington Blvd. About 1890. In its 75 years of incorporation, Whitefish Bay has grown from its 314 original citizens to almost 20,000 people, with complete sewage and water, street lighting, fire, police and health departments, a village financed library, 9 schools, 9 churches, 22 •civic organiza Whitefish Bay Resort from end of steamboat pier. About tions and three well defined business areas. Practically all resi 1900. dential land has been used and is being maintained in desireable fashion by a village controlled method of removing old, non-con forming buildings to re-sell the land for better tax use. It has On June 30, 1889, The Whitefish Bay Resort was opened on the land continued to maintain its-original purpose of government and schools, along the lake bluff north of Henry Clay Street. It was a well known controled independent of surrounding areas. eating establishment, specializing in Whitefish caught right from the bay. The seating capacity was 1500 people and there were many Additional and more detailed information may be gained from the weekends when many more than this were served. There also was village records, the Whitefish Bay Library and the Milwaukee County a Ferris Wheel on the grounds and travelers from Milwaukee en Historical Society. joyed sitting and visiting in the well kept spacious grounds of the resort. Travelers from Milwaukee took the Bloomer Girl, a cruise ship from Milwaukee to a dock located at the base of Henry Clay Street or came by the Dummy line or in private carriages along the Whitefish Bay Road. The fare round trip on the Bloomer Girl was 25 cents with bicycles carried free. In 1917 the Resort was 1907 demolished and the land sold for private residential use. i^bq Vi\ DON'T FAIL TO VISIT- £P^8j ~- z \* '' " 4 ^ i »> Kj Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort \ t \ < v, « mg ' cn , f; 4 ' • > * i HIS splendid summer resort on the beautiful shore 3 < \ T of Lake Michigan, is the gathering place of ! ;< *'' the entire population of Milwaukee during the warmer • >< 5: ^- season of the year. Everyday Grand Concert • i ^ by Jos. Clauder's Quintette. Sundays E>* Double Concert by Jos. Clauder's Concert r t is- Ka pel le. Admission Free. Use of the Ferris V tX3 [ Wheel (300 feet above the surface of the lake), and : vi $ of numerous elegant Rowing Boats at very rea sonable rates. Every night Grand Electric Illu mination of the entire establishment with 50 Arc I- Lights and over 800 with Color Effects. Different other attractions. First-class Restaurant. Fresh Whitefish served every day. All Refreshments A No. 1 at very reasonable prices. Regular Dinner Served Every Sunday Elegant spacious pleasure Steamer "Eagle" leaves Grand Ave. Bridge to Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort as follows: Sundays LEAVES MILWAUKEE | | LKAVKS WHITKKISH BAY I 10:00 A. M. j j 11:20 A. M. 1:40 P. M. 3:00 P. M. 4:40 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 7:45 P. M. 10:30 P. M. During the Week 2:00 P. M ,, 3:45 P M. 7:45 P. M. II 10:30 P. M. Round Trip Ticket 20c [ One Trip Ticket, 15c Children - - lOc ' Children - - 5c Electric Cars running to Whitefish Bay every five minutes on Sundays; week days every ten minutes. Take any car and transfer to Whitefish Bajr line. •Phone Toil S2. H. KONOPKA, Lessee ! AJJL. JZAML-. $1 pr*+j a^c^cft Pfi^ (UsudU #1 ^TT^Tri.) 10 HIKK, TWO ttvj VV upptr part of t • oit/. Applj > Bep.smbor ta • • . .. •AKTKD 1MMEDI Tfi.T ATT* •••WiT BOdF.TTU, Mo« to}«n.i,TWW W iHtf . WOMICN, •»* J Voudeook* APUIT t^ta^Buipit!.!. A *gM"LB TSAC .KH W A8rrB£ iiruct inWlc both VOOAI i»H »u»^ Pci»leiub«jB \V MUAH (Cored.) ApplJ to 0. •> -C^ «-Ier«i* Bttblas. , >0 rirBVUEL) FROM THEPRE^ nn„.*u..«R Kft»ar« of Jefferson, Park Pavilion was on theV- preset site of Henry Cr*~*\School. /7)/>SJ3X J6>A7 if / / 1 ""?—^Pz^^^T^ ^-T9*^ JulyMmi96£r~rr~x tBringiffimmmmMmwmndi>^^^cr*^'^: "Hg^gg^^.crr l'^i#§^,4^^ ^V^ SS»^ jlS^**^aa*BrN&sfe*<)^ k«jirf J*iil^&fe^^^^i^^3^g£^ \ and the imprwemenYof tKeTresoffc^ c^/^W 1 grounds and beach wasn't com- ps ;> Fourth of July"ivill provide some \ plete until the day of the open- §| 'of the North Shore's senior citizens \ ing. . .- -. - *- /^-° -. | with nostalgic- memoriesfof past pandVoperate- the famous- steam! | June 25, 1889, more than 300. p Independence Day celebrations at |Dummy Line to Whitefish Bay/a, ^distinguished guests attended the I the old Whitefish Bay; Resort; now ginove which overrode all previous" i official opening of the Pabst t a part of Milwaukee's pasfcii&^Ji [objections. Captain. Pabst and his Whitefish Bay Resort. Manager 1r It was 75. years ago on {Sunday,- Fbrother-in-law E m: ii* Schandein Fred G. Isenring, who had leased : " June -30, /1889^ that?4;Ji^res6rt decided to build a pavilion before * the property from^Pabst for five I; opened* its: hospitality^to the: pub- ^competitor thought/of the "years, was toastmaster andv-: ; lie. Today! the onlyireminders* of i George W. Peck, soon to be mayor £ its existence are a* few drain tilesi *Tfc& Dummy Linc^/ officially |of Milwaukee and the next year,^ t pilings in the lake/ and: the\*re- [known as- the Milwaukee and <; governor of Wisconsin, was the i r mains of the brick pier af the end itefish Bay Railroad Co., was r after dinner speaker. .-A -}<; - '< ^of Henry Clay sV'~'f~L^^H^^ onstructed in 1887-8 and started { 'The North Shore area of Mil- : Its history has been written: jn- s _, North avenue. It ran along J waukee is indeed the original Gar- '• to the records of the Milwaukee I Downer ave. and Farwell to N. : den of Eden/' said the author of County Historical society by the I Ardmore ave. ending at the East f "Peck's Bad Boy." U late Lewis W. Herzog of Whitefish |Henry~€lay st terminal directly 4* The next speaker, A. W. Rich,, Bay. His story appeared in the I across from the entrance to the | lauded Captain Pabst for invest-A March, 1953, issue of the Society's I resort * . '*'~~* *v -<- | ing $30,000 in this venture. ^Historical Messenger. 'Xf ;.-l^r f, According to a story published '/ * "Colpnel Jerome Watrous closed^ f In April of 1877 Fred G. Isen | In "Whitefish Bay — Then and ; the program with bis customary' ring, who later, became the first r Now" by the local League of Worn- I elegance and the diners descend-, elected president of the Village of | on Voters of Whitefish Bay, ". . . > ed the broad stairs to the parlor : . Whitefish Bay/ bought 18 acres | the first trip of its makeshtf en* |.and the pavilion proper where ^ of property north,of the present | of terrified animals, abandoned i many remained to dance to the : At the grand opening of the Whitefish Bay resort, l Henry Clay stand east of Lake dr. |- gine chugging and hissing through I- music of an Italian orchestra un- 1 for $1,600. In November of 1888 he [ the quiet countryside left a wake i til long past midnight," Herzog • ; sold it to the Pabst Brewing co. ' buggies and overturned wagons. £ reported in the Messenger." ^ ^ 'fiiTpavilidn waT "T^a wcSden : for $20,000. - -.- j. -s^-r-r' £ Protests -from- outraged country structure built in the rpsdrt mode ; Captain Frederick Pabst had ; folk deluged the railroad. On the Came by Steamboat of the day: The ground floor was r ;r next trip a life-sized wooden horse I divided into four large apartments.'«-< long dreamed of a resort in White- Two were wipgs/ 70 feet long, of ^'"Eating, drinking, and listening—? fish Bay which would bear the ^—— a harnes_ ws maker'_ s dummy — ^ The public opening was held the day and evening — were the fa # T a circular barroom 48 feet in €&•»,• company's name and dispense its was inou'nted'onT flaTcar and f following Sunday, with crow Once upon a time—more than 60 years ago—scenes such as this were frequent in Whitefish Bay on holidays and weekends throughout the summer. Folks came by boat, special trains and horsecars to enjoy lake breezes, glistening waten and beer gar den, where lemonade was also a; big seller. ' , This picture was taken on June 30, 1889, the date on which Pabst's Whitefish Bay park was officially opened. Entrance was locaited at Henry Clay and the lake, opposite what is now the Whitefish Bay Inn, which has been in the Pandl family since & 1915. W"TheTh e PabsPabstt resorresortt was'liiwas'lfoee outout-- I growth of a dream for a giant beer mug on which weer in hotel conceived by ©mil Schan- scribed, the words "Pabst Park" deih, Pabst's brother-in-Iawl —it must have been among old Original plans were to erect a; glasses aft the Bay Inn for more hotel, costing a quarter of a mil-, than 35 years, without being; lion and accommodating 4,000 cherished as a relic of bygone guests. Schandein took his plans days. / with him on a .tour of Europe, where he died, and nothing near ly as large as he planned came |., Professor Bach's military band into being. * •..,,-<"•- played on opening day and on Efforts were made to retain many occasions thereafter. 7 the name Belleview hotel by Briefly, weHLlsT"some of! tiie which the resort was designated items of an 1894 bill of fare: iri Schandein's^ plans but the Michigan lake .trout, fried or [ name never caught on. Prom the broiled 30c, breaded * tomato start, folks called it - Pabst's sauce 35c,* with. sauce Holland^ Whitefish Bay park. As many aise 40 c. Whitefish was served as 10,000 people would throng to fried or broiled, a la Italitmne, Looking north at Whitefish Bay Resort. : the park in a single day/ - maiitre d'hotel, with tarter sauce n or sauce Diplomatic and ranged Steaksr^teiid^lo i '• MB^W^SSPB! (Z3) c^,^ - As the extinct WISCONSIN NEWS said in an article in its October 22, 1929 issue: "What a contrast between such an environment and 1 service, and that of the average stuffy roadhouso of today, with its ;t strident zazz, questionable tone and illicit guzzling, which is the $ ^high-water mark of recreation for all to many of our young people/' '\ -* i ^vu^xtsxiQfoz^&^tfitmtoku*^ t ycj \o Pabst Whitefish Bay Summer Resort Pabst's Somrn *\T ~~v V" (X7 53 1 ; 3v mt « *.+T.rr iSiHLJiraii,* ^h*<^ Qxst^ M&* 53"^ aa^^- ^f> ft ^^ S4<** • ^t Zte U^Ap /?&> 's€ . * • • / / THE "DUMMY LINE" IN THE BIG SNOW OF I898 (Henry Scheife is in the short coat in front of the cab and John Singftts peering out of the cab) -J WfJfffS • *•'•*' '• - t • -—i * • i i • n i Lin-. 1 *5 ¥ - w • • ft: m 1 1 THE "DUMMY LINE" DURING THE BIG SNOW OF 1898 ^ £,. ^ WATCH THE BIRDIE—Everybody (even the horses) wanted ''in" when the photographer arrived to take pictures at the White- fish Bay Resort about 75 years ago. The sign on the porch roof bears the name of the resort manager, K. C. Isenring, who also! was the first village president. On the tree at left is a sign advertising Mil waukee lager beer. The photographer represented Feiker and Raab, I 102 Walnut st., Milwaukee, who advertised "photographs and cray ons—and tin types taken." | (WFB Herald) The above building, located north of the bandstand on the WFB Resort grounds, housed the manager's office and the workers/staff for the resort operations. Fred.G.Isenring was a son of Gallus Isenring; Mrs. William Hoppenrath was a granddaughter of Gallus?; Fred was EDGEWOOD RESORT—Huge trees dwarfed Edge- The photo is from the collection of W. P. Hoppenrath, wood during the 1890s when it was a popular resort that 1021 E. Henry Clay st. attracted thousands of Milwaukeeans to Whitefish Bay. This photo also from the 5/25/1967 WFB Herald's commemorative issue for the 75th Anniversary of the village's incorporation; photo also loaned by the Hoppenraths. Pabst Brewing Co. had named their resort "Edgewood Resort11 but the name never caught on with the public, who preferred to call the resort the Whitefish Bay Resort. wA v ! FaSiis'Bay Resort/ : J mam& ;ffThe grounds were' so * extensive^ ,. |^ that as!many as, ten thousand per<| /Now But a Memory i ft^ 'sons were frequently served/dur~| J'was reached > via - the Lake^ ave J fating a single day; fand on some few| ,; ; line Whitefish Bay reaort was turnpike»;. which vVsqoii: tj became *; m 4 ffif special p«qccasions as % many •: as' f if-| l V^/important monument (now but #tr teen thousand;.'The gently, sloping] popular/;, artery for.' gay i holidayj I: y^t memory) to cultured and leis- ^>4 bluffi was" landscaped Into grass] traf fic» '|^Xoung r,' Sgentlemen^ withj 4 I'urely V Uving,s in an age when fvV\ covered terraces,; studded > with! their thoroughbred •[:trotter^[ ; 00 !'**GemuetlicnkeitM waa more prey- d: L exotic catalpa trees and brilliant! pacers risked their necks/oji ^un| & . . v oleander, Plants, amid which were! ffalent in Milwaukee county/ Here b t day afternoons much to the annoy?! 'tv ^toadstool",; tables :• and, stoolsj ; fjwas amecca to be visited hy/oele* ance of -the more k stolid, (cithpens| |brities from; all parts! pt/the globe, ski'j "where'* the guests VouldX 'munchl Later the extehsion; of the pummy| |> Scarcely an f important statesman! &•% their 'sandwiches or sip their bev- line, and still later the Milwaukee/ ? /Wage*; The, slopes" of the' circular! BlectHc street cars, provided ?com- p opera, stage or; concert star," ieot ^fknoilf upon which stood the band I' turer . or envoys oti big ; business n fortable ^transportation v for /fam^j Vs,tand weremadeinto two circular I ily parties and others desiring, to I ended his or her visit to Milwau- ^. i terraces)>on 63 "HOTEIi BEIiIiEVUE." TO BE BUTLT AT WHITEFISH BAY BY THE PH. BEST BBEWING COMPANY. ~LZLf _ _ •••• : y$msM r The first School House in Whitefish Bay — on Pennsylvania Ivenue on West side of street ~ right across from the Village Library, rViV." LP March 8, 1938— feet wide on the western edge of the Village. The order was issued by Circuit Court Judge Otto H. Breidenbach after the petition for annexation was presented by E. J. Kitzke, attorney and representative of the village. There areimoxL#ea±dents in the newly annexed territory. vr* _>*. «+.«. „ „„. .-,»*. '^--i^-S^ZS* 3-—ft-;-- S.H'«S This reproduction of a steel engraving made in 1880 shows Whitefish Bay and the proposed Belleview hotel, which was to have a capacity for 4,000 gnests. The Belleview Hotel was an enormous hotel planned by the Pabst Resort owners - it never materialized,but had been planned for the resort site. The photo, opposite, taken in the 1970's, shows the lake bluff on Henry Clay St. and Palisades Road, looking north, to the former site of the W.F.B. Resort. In 1915, Pabst Brewing Co. subdivided their resort land into 17 residential-sites, according to the plat map. Some of the new land owners purchased 2 lots; there are 13 residences on the former resort property now. MUSIC MAKERS—There are few listeners on Bay resort, overlooking the lake just north of E. hand, but a band is ready to play a summer Henry Clay st. Concerts were among the many concert in the bandstand of the old Whitefish attractions of the resort during the Cay Nineties. u% > '7".a £^C XULJL^ SA^L'-JZAJ1 crtc/if/eves. ^/Wi^«^4^^W*^^ ^ gsii*'. "i t 5 u\ /fr ( zaSUal \J**> i© *TTESI» * a CK. USNILI APTRV TO UlBJfi, TWO ue! ww upMrptiiot l • city. * Ppl f / nil (wwik.«i «a *M«IH*H^) <• -T-TT-Aim-D IMMED1 «! TAHK W 1MNTK-T UU.lvr.rL, *•< Imi-n't,TWl»W »Ht WUMB^ and T' ( .nii«-jt-««l>dr«a,t "ho ..»u euini w * j-KM LCI SAC .BH WAIH'KIJ /V lo<«Mii all of lh»bi«..«rBrt«'iy> CtlVuBA fr .ah, ««"! th-M-mHiy co •trust inNnHc, both t^«»l ii"! iu»l*am« W. W NSA«iKKK1«i.M«lii« -XTTiNTKU, r-tVR UU.NUKEL* KU1 , W MO*.% (Ouwi.) Ap»>y to o. *.' | T4-Ur*i* Bfblom. n tut f ^ y\A * JjiXc ft?" '<*• - &&*h M*0 '* fr^* \ I0\trt££l5 tf hM iUAj^diT' BJW-3 *J/N\ DUMMY LINE—The Milwaukee and White- life-size wooden horse on a flat car pushed ahead fish Bay Railway co.,. popularly known as the of the train to fool the livestock. Buttles said this dummy line, operated open-air coaches between did not happen and that during-, the lifetime of E. North ave. and the north shore village from the dummy line; the area traveled by the train 1888 to 1898. An often-heard story about the was generally wooded and not used for farms. line deriving its name from a wooden horse is He noted that a line between downtown Mil termed false by Anson M. Buttles, 8027 N. Na waukee and Wauwatosa also was called the vajo rd., a recognized authority on north shore dummy line and said the name actually came . history. According to the story, the first appear about because these lines were so short that," ance of the train frightened farm animals along they were not considered railroads in the genes the way and so, on the second triu. it: carrip.aU.'-^ MuMm h\ A A> if, (as* y I '6--:p"S' &K > . —} ; JL .£> -6- -6- -6- .b. .. -Q .. v «o o- o- .o- -o .0* . -P.* -Pi ""Ladies Lounge North r r eaau&w , Pownatalrs Dining Room .Hall Quintette* —Upstairs- Henry •0- -6- •o- Farm Horse. Q' *S1rreet •o Pabst Whitefish Ba£ Resort Cars •0- •9' • o- i and — /' Buggyj; Doll Cane Shooting | IT Clay Shed — T Entrance Rack Rack Gallery "» _y Entrance *g7 North Lake Drive North. Lake Drive Str€ei Konooka's Ice Cooks Pechtelfs DUMMY LINE ^ Cars (Fernwood Cottage) House House Delight (Edgewood) Lexington Tintype Studio Turntable ST-/JL-^-— / TEaTtery Heinrichs Blvd. WELCOME PARK Croffts Basehall Field hjP- I P JEFFER S 0 N PARK Henry Kimbark: Place Kimbark Place Bill Staffeld Clay H OI Methodist ST- Church Fernwood Train Shed Dr. T» W. \'; William. S1 cctrie Railway" Tracks * Electric Railway Tracks - - "TJH-TTA T Blectri rToreJ^^iTr5^~ r}W7?Wr" TaTTS Share Railroad TTKgkar Tfeg Lake s»-a?lvanla~Avenu__ . _ e =-H0TJ» E&rlboroueh __; u£j.ve_ -- - - ^e -NCYfc, Driy.R, Pennsylvania Avenue : /a^o * Pabst's Summer- Vergnutjunyxort z«. Whitefish Bay ~\r ^\r ^r . i A 'Vhile Henry Konopka ran the Pabst Whitefish Resort, for ten years—— from 1894 to 1904 inclusive, He always had Joseph CTauder Brass Band play during the summer months. Inside of the pavilion Clauder's Five piece Orchestra, under direction of Herman Kelbe, violinist played Concert music» rs BIRD'S EYE VIEW—"In the good old summer time" during the G;iy park and bluff paths, and that famous brew. This view of the resott was taken A Nineties, Milwaukeeans got away from what they considered "the big city" by from the top of the ferris wheel looking south. This photo and several others going north to Captain Pabst's famous Whitefish Bay Resort—where the order were made available to the Herald by Mrs. W. P. Barry, 5S09 N. Santa Monica of the day called for band concerts, cool lake breezes, leisurely strolls along blvd. & r f^mm^'m^iM} BOUGHT. m:um 3-- ^ - ifhe^labsii W|it.e^.sh _ Bay; B.esort'; waa heing • ;/ : "'H i^-Ao\&e^' tKe HBLJ» mniim *» m ' . ED wood attracted "A SPLENDID STEAMER"—is the way an advertisement during the 1890s described the .Cyclone, which operated between Grand ave. * A> 424 THE PABST BREWING COMPANY 1886 Operations at South Side Brewery were discontinued. The first trained laboratory scientist, Dr. Otto Mittenzwey, was added to the staff. May 1. Strikes were held in Milwaukee; settlement by the brew ing companies was completed by May 7. 1887 Pure yeast culture was introduced at the Empire Brewery. Milwaukee brewers severed relations with Local No. 9, National Union of United Brewery Workmen. .1888 November 12. Directors voted to erect a restaurant and a pavilion at Whitefish Bay, which later developed into a famous amuse ment center. November 25. Emil Schandein died. 1889 March 18. The name of Phillip Best Brewing Company was changed to the Pabst Brewing Company. Capital stock was in- increased to $4,000,000. First "Secret" book was issued. August 25-31. Captain Pabst and the company helped in the en tertainment of the 23d National Encampment of the G.A.R. in Milwaukee. Captain Pabst refused to sell to the British syndicate—the first in a series of refusals. 1890 January 22. Charles Best resigned; Gustav Pabst was elected secretary. September 17. The Pabst Theater opened. June 18. The Pipe Line Act was approved by Congress. 1891 March 4. Pipe line was first used to carry beer to bottle house. Saladin pneumatic malting system was installed on two floors of the Pabst malthouse. November. Settlement was made at Pabst with Local No. 9, International Union of United Brewery Workmen. 1892 October 25. Purchase of the Falk, Jung and Borchert Brewing Company. Capital was increased to $10,000,000. October 31. Gustav Pabst resigned as secretary; Charles W. Hen- ning was elected secretary. November 1. Dr. Paul Fischer succeeded Otto Mittenzw&y in the laboratory. Captain Pabst became the first president of the Wisconsin Na tional Bank. The Pabst Building, Milwaukee, was erected. ' ^7 [ 426 THE PABST BREWING COMPANY , 1905 May 9. Fred Pabst resigned as vice-president. 1906 January 27. Charles W. Henning was" elected vice-president; ~~ * Henry Stark was elected secretary. March. The Gargoyle Restaurant was opened in Milwaukee. July 17. Bond issue was floated through the Wisconsin National Bank. * . v October 16. The company decided to use Crown Cork and Seal Company bottlejops.^ 1907 Blue Ribbon Beer won highest award at the International Hygienic and Pure Foods Exposition in Antwerp. 1908 Electrification of all power machinery was completed. 1909 October 25. Boiler house explosion. 1910 June 18. Capital was increased to $12,000,000; preferred stock issued. 1912 January 29. W. F. Schad was elected assistant secretary. Western Shipping Brewers' Association was dissolved. 1913 May. First issue of the Blue Ribbon News came out, October p.y. The style of Blue Ribbon bottles was changed to shoulder bottled ~—~ ~ — —— j£ December 30. Directors voted to platthe_Whitefish Bay property. 191-4 October 23. Excise tax on beer was raised to $1.50 per barrel. 1916 Gustav Pabst was elected president of the United States Brewers' Association. March 1. First nonalcoholic Pablo sold. i,917 January 29. Charles W* Henning retired; Henry Danischefsky was elected vice-president. October 4. Excise tax on beer was raised to $3.00 per barrel. ^ December 18. Resolution for prohibition amendment was adopted by Congress. " ~~~ 1919 February 25. Excise tax on beer was raised to $6.00 per barrel, v _May 1. Brewing of beer_was prohibited. ^ July 1. Sale of beer was prohibited. 1920 December 4. The Pabst Corporation was organized. Capital $5,000,000. The Pabst Realty Company was organized. December 24. The Pabst Brewing Company was dissolved. 1921 March 14. Henry Stark died; Edward Loebl was elected assistant secretary. April 12. H. W. Marsh was elected secretary-treasurer. <& WHITEFISH BAY PABST RESORT NOTES Fredrich G. Isenring bought "Fernwood Cottage" from Dr. Thaddeus W. Williams in 1889; it was located on the NW corner of Lake Dr. and Belleview/Bellevue Blvd. (present Lexington Blvd.) Prior to the resort's construction in 1888/89, this was probably a rental cottage for summer residents. Dr. Williams was a well-to-do WFB resident and that village's first Health Officer. Pabst Brewing Co. (formerly Best Brewing) bought Fernwood Cottage from Isenring in 1891 and changed its name to Edgewood Family Resort. It was then used to house the help needed to operate the resort across the road - cooks, maids, waiters, etc. The building was torn down in 1915 after the resort had been closed. While Fred Isenring was operating the resort/ he and his family lived in a house on the resort grounds, N of the band stand. In 1894, Henry Konopka took over management of the resort and the house Isenrings had lived in was moved out of the park to the SW corner of Bellevue and Lake Dr. Konopka then lived in that house. On 7/6/1889, Louis Saxe leased to Adam Roth and August Nuss- baumer, for five yearsf property located in Welcome Park, to be used as a saloon and restaurant. (On the NW corner of old Lake Drive and E. Henry Clay St. - old Lake Dr. was a little to the E of the present Lake Drive.) Lease began 7/6/1889 with annual rent of $300.00 to be paid each and every 3 months in advance. Welcome Park was the end of the "Dummy" train line bringing passengers to the Whitefish Bay Resort. On .5/17/1888, Best Brewing Co. sold to the Milw., Whitefish Bay Railway Co., for $565.00, a strip of land in Welcome Park's area to be used for a Depot and Depot platform, for the "Dummy" line. Signed by Fred Pabst, Pres. On 5/15/1891, Pabst Brewing Co. bought for $16,000.00 from Jacob Stoll, Elizabeth Sutton and William J. Sutton, both Wel come Park and Jefferson Park. Jefferson Park was W of Welcome Park, on the site of present Whitefish Bay Middle School, 1144 E. Henry Clay St. Vol. 280 Deeds p. 269. Henry Konopka, after 10 years as manager of the Pabst WFB Resort (1894 to 1904 inclusive) was pensioned by Pabst Brewing Co. After an illness in a hospital, Konopka died and was buried in Union Cemetery, Milw., in Lot 7, Blk. 5, Sec. 31. All ex penses were taken care of by Gustav Pabst and had been arranged by Capt. Fred Pabst, a good friend of Konopka. After the resort closed in 1914, Jefferson Park Pavilion was moved south across Henry Clay St. to the Armory grounds on Henry Clay St. and Ardmore Ave. and in 1919, was used as a school after the WFB School House burned. There was a teacher's desk and 50 seats for pupils. It was also used by churches for services. The Ferris wheel was installed on the resort grounds in ofr 1895. Pabst's Whitefish Bay Resort opened its doors to the public 6/30/1889 and closed in 1914, a victim of the automobile and Prohibition. The advent of the auto allowed people to travel where they wished; they were no longer tied to a rail system of transportation. Managers of the resort were: Fred G. Isenring 1889 to 1894; Henry Konopka 1894 to 1904; Peter and brother Henry, Sturm1905 to 1906; Richard Becker 1906 to 1914. Fernwood train shed was about 100 ft. long, built to accom odate excursion trains bringing people and groups with their own brass bands, etc., to visit the resort in the summertime. The shed extended north along the LakeShore Railway tracks (later the C&NW RR), running on the E side of Marlborough Dr. This vShetf, on the. N side, of .present iexingtpn Blvd., ,was, closed on rrre TT'side and opened onto a platform tTose to the tracks. There was a roof over the shed. A side track had been provided to allow the passenger train to stay until time to return excursion people back to the City. The passengers, singly or in groups, with their own band playing marches, marched E approximately 2-^ blocks along Belle- vue Blvd. (Lexington Blvd.) to the park/resort on the E side of Lake Drive. Lake Dr. was known then as the Whitefish Bay Road. The above information was written by Arthur Rabe, born in the Village of Whitefish Bay in 1886, died in City of Milw. 1981. Arthur Rabe also wrote that his father, Charles Rabe, loaned Fred G. Isenring $700.00, due to be paid back Nov. 29, 1894 one year after the loan, with 7% interest per annum. Fred G. Isenring signed this note, which Arthur Rabe had in his pos sesion. On Oct. 14, 1896 Charles Rabe brought a lawsuit against Isenring in Superior Court, Milw. Co., Document #13936 for $782.90. Judgment was granted - $749.00, interest of $33.90 for a total of $782.90. The above information was given to me by Arthur Rabe's daughter, Helen(Rabe)Grabowski, Mrs. Felix Grabowski in the spring of 1992. 7k*™- /k*j t WHITEFISH BAY PABST RESORT NOTES Fredrich G. Isenring bought "Fernwood Cottage" from Dr. Thaddeus W. Williams in 1889; it was located on the NW corner of Lake Dr. and Belleview/Bellevue Blvd. (present Lexington Blvd.) Prior to the resort's construction in 1888/89, this was probably a rental cottage for summer residents. Dr. Williams was a well-to-do WFB resident and that village's first Health Officer. Pabst Brewing Co. (formerly Best Brewing) bought Fernwood Cottage from Isenring in 1891 and changed its name to Edgewood Family Resort. It was then used to house the help needed to operate the resort across the road - cooks, maids, waiters, etc. The building was torn down in 1915 after the resort had been closed. While Fred Isenring was operating the resort, he and his family lived in a house on the resort grounds, N of the band stand. In 1894, Henry Konopka took over management of the resort and the house Isenrings had lived in was moved out of the park to the SW corner of Bellevue and Lake Dr. Konopka then lived in that house. On 7/6/1889, Louis Saxe leased to Adam Roth and August Nuss- baumer, for five years, property located in Welcome Park, to be used as a saloon and restaurant. (On the NW corner of old Lake Drive and E. Henry Clay St. - old Lake Dr. was a little to the E of the present Lake Drive.) Lease began 7/6/1889 with annual rent of $300.00 to be paid each and every 3 months in advance. Welcome Park was the end of the "Dummy" train line bringing passengers to the Whitefish Bay Resort. On 5/17/1888, Best Brewing Co. sold to the Milw., Whitefish Bay Railway Co., for $565.00, a strip of land in Welcome Park's area to be used for a Depot and Depot platform, for the "Dummy" line. Signed by Fred Pabst, Pres. On 5/15/1891, Pabst Brewing Co. bought for $16,000.00 from Jacob Stoll, Elizabeth Sutton and William J. Sutton, both Wel come Park and Jefferson Park. Jefferson Park was W of Welcome Park, on the site of present Whitefish Bay Middle School, 1144 E. Henry Clay St. Vol. 280 Deeds p. 269. Henry Konopka, after 10 years as manager of the Pabst WFB Resort (1894 to 1904 inclusive) was pensioned by Pabst Brewing Co. After an illness in a hospital, Konopka died and was buried in Union Cemetery, Milw., in Lot 7, Blk. 5, Sec. 31. All ex penses were taken care of by Gustav Pabst and had been arranged by Capt. Fred Pabst, a good friend of Konopka. After the resort closed in 1914, Jefferson Park Pavilion was moved south across Henry Clay St. to the Armory grounds on Henry Clay St. and Ardmore Ave. $nd in 1919, was used as a school after the WFB School House burned. There was a teacher's desk and 50 seats for pupils. It was also used by churches for services. The Ferris wheel was installed on the resort grounds in C& 1895. Pabst's Whitefish Bay Resort opened its doors to the public 6/30/1889 and closed in 1914, a victim of the automobile and Prohibition. The advent of the auto allowed people to travel where they wished; they were no longer tied to a rail system of transportation. Managers of the resort were: Fred G. Isenring 1889 to 1894; Henry Konopka 1894 to 1904; Peter and brother Henry, Sturm 1905 to 1906; Richard Becker 1906 to 1914. Fernwood train shed was about 100 ft. long, built to accom odate excursion trains bringing people and groups with their own brass bands, etc., to visit the resort in the summertime. The shed extended north along the LakeShore Railway tracks (later the C&NW RR), running on the E side of Marlborough Dr. This^shed, the. N side, of .present I^exingtpn Blvd., ,was, closed on The jET'sid on e and opened onto a platform close to the tracks. There was a roof over the shed. A side track had been provided to allow the passenger train to stay until time to return excursion people back to the City. The passengers, singly or in groups, with their own band playing marches, marched E approximately 2^ blocks along Belle- vue Blvd. (Lexington Blvd.) to the park/resort on the E side of Lake Drive. Lake Dr. was known then as the Whitefish Bay Road. The above information was written by Arthur Rabe, born in the Village of Whitefish Bay in 1886, died in City of Milw. 1981. Arthur Rabe also wrote that his father, Charles Rabe, loaned Fred G. Isenring $700.00, due to be paid back Nov. 29, 1894 one year after the loan, with 7% interest per annum. Fred G. Isenring signed this note, which Arthur Rabe had in his pos sesion. On Oct. 14, 1896 Charles Rabe brought a lawsuit against Isenring in Superior Court, Milw. Co., Document #13936 for $782.90. Judgment was granted - $749.00, interest of $33.90 for a total of $782.90. The above information was given to me by Arthur Rabe's daughter, Helen(Rabe)Grabowski, Mrs. Felix Grabowski in the spring of 1992. (/ki^C_ /k^cP ^ .iAL Regardless of means of transportation they all arrived at the same rendevous - a wooden struct ion built in the Presort node of the day, 'The ground floor was divided into four large apartments* Two were wings. 70 feet long, of a circular barroom of equal, size from f ) which trorad stairs'led to the second floor dining room. Just north v af th£ Pavilion stood an octagonal, band stand where Prof.. Bach's military band rendered al fresco entertainment and along the paths between the? Pavilion and the edge of the bluff were scattered the: round white seats, surrounding the white stool tables;, at which the visitor could sip his beer at leisure while looking out over the blue waters of Lake Michigan. Sating,, drinking and listening were the order of the day and the evening too. Never in the 26 years of the resorts history was; there public dancing. That was left to WELCOME PARR and JEFFERSON PARK. Small pavilions within a stone's throw which got the overflow trade and which passed out of the picture within a few years*. The Few-Resort was a success overnight,. For some unknown reason the owners tried to give it the "ritzy,r name of uBellevuerf but no one ever seemed to call it anything but the WHXTEFISE BAY RESORT. Isenring was a good host and his: five seasons of operation were generally successful* He had something of the promotor in him,, •trying' sucg atuata^as; balloon ascensions to increase the crowds-.. After his wife died in..k893> he turned over the- resort to hi.s> succ essor*, "the fabulous Henry Konopka. Konopka. was a Russian immigrant, reputed to be of noble birth who had lost a fortune in South. Dakota Flas farms when they had been destroyed by prairie fires. He was 65 and a storekeeper at the; Pabst Brewery when he took over as lessee of the resort. His decade of operation was the hey-day of that esyablishment, the last ten years before the automobile began to change the entertainment; habits of the nation. Konopka was a large man: with white hair and beardr was a personalityr suave, resourceful & deeply religious* It- was said that he stood with heas bowed whiles saying a silent grace. * before he sat down to a. solitary meal in the crowded dining room. An epicure at heart, he personally supervised the kitchens and. the wine cellar. A wine list from his regime- shows the finest imported Champagne at $3.50' a quartr and vintage wines; for half that amount* Following the World's Fair in Chicago^ in 1893, Ferris Wheels became the rage all over the country. The Whitefish Bay Resort, got one in 1895P a modest ten car job erected at the extreme north en<3L f the Park. The entrepreneurs of this device profited in two I ways—from tickets sold to riders and from revenue? from local firms who paid to place their names on the canvas tops of revolving- cars* The years seemed to speed by more rapidly as: the end of the century approached. In 1898 the Electric street cars reached White- fish Bay and the DUMMT LINR now owned by the electric Co* Passed out of existence, suaaertim*-service featured open: cars; like the Marguerite with signs on the side of the roofs that spelled out names in electrically lighted letters a foot high. The street cars could handle aa big volume of traffic. It was not unusual of a Sunday to see the resort swarming with lo,ooo people and there were times, nit infrequent, when the park's 18 acres were strained tc hold almost half again that number, Sometimes when would-be ?/" visitors saw the tremendous, crowds from the window, they just stayed aboard as the? car made the loop at the terminal and went back home again. :.e pavilion of the. famous old .Vhiteiish 'Day iiesort stretched. 250 feet long the bluff overlooking the Bay. Tho two story section at the , 'v/"flef t housed the parlors on the first floor and the dining rooms en • the second. In the center'of the one story section was the-circular bar, flanked by twe wings where guests could enjoy refreshments and entertainment: indoors.. "The Ferris V/heel seo at the right was at the ^ ... extreme northern end of the park* Tfr$,:^ ' It was a gala night in the early summer of 1889f June 25 to be exact; with more than 3oo distinguished guests at the official opening of the New Pabst 'whitefish Resort . At a .nod from manager Fred G. Isenring,, toastmaster George :7. Peck, soon to be elected mayor'• of Milwaukee and the next year govenor. of Wisconsin, rose and the inevitable after dinner speaking v/as under way.. 7/ith ,ready wit the author. of "Pecks Bad Boy" discovered> that "the north shore area of Milwaukee is Indeed the original Garden of Sdeh But even Paradise needs a benefactor1 whose liberality nhas provided this beautiful garden'1" said the next speaker A* W. Rich,. and has provided this beautiful resort—Capt. Frederick Pabst* Those who sat close to the good captain may have noted the ghost of a smile cross his face as he recalled , the discussions, he'and his associates hah had about, the advlsa/bility of investing some 330,000 in this venture. The Pabst Brewing Co. as such was only three months old—prior* to March 1889,. it had been the' Best Brewing Co. the Capt* had long had a dream of .a spacious resbrt on T5e.autiful wTTitefish Bay tO carry the companyrs new name and to dispense its its amber brew exclus ively, but others held that the site was too far* 5 miles, from Milwaukee to: attract large crowds* Originally the only means of access was the toll road which wound along the^lake bluff. When C-uido- Pfister and associates agreed to build and operate the famed steam DUMMY LINE to Whitefish Bay the captain and his brother-in-law Emil Schandein> decided to go ahead with their plans before setae competitor beat them* The steam Dummy, officially tide Milwaukee and Whitefish' Bay "railway, went into service in 1888 but the work of erecting the pavilion and Improving the grounds and beach was not completed until virtually the day of the official .opening As Capt. Pabst mused the speakers droned on. Col. Jerome Watrous* closed the program with his customary elegance and the diners descended the broad stairs"to the parlor1 and the pavilion proper where many remained to dance to the' music of an Italian orchestra until long past midnight. The public opening on Sunday June 30,. v/as advertised in Milwaukee newspapers over the signature of Fred Isering, proprietor. Pabst,,haying no desire, to operate the resort, had given him a five year lease. The crowds began to arrive at an early hour, on. Sunday morning* Some came on the brand new steamboat Cyclone which made four trips- from the Grand Avenue Bridge to the resort!,s dock "at whitefish* —bay,, at foot of Henry-Clay street. The easy grades of the criss-cross paths led .to the summit. Some came along the toll road, the Lake Avenue turnpike, in their own or rented carriages or-by horse drawn bus. But jthe greatest number came on the DUMMY LINE which ran trains every 45 minutes during the day and evening right to the terminal across the road from the entrance to the ( 0^\ &JL. i.yj Just after the turn •of the century Kanopka Introduced out door movies, A hand cranked projector*, set up- on the steps leading: to > the circular bar, flashed, the early "flickers11" on a screen erected at the edge of the bluff. But this was not successful as the drive in Theaters of 50 years later and was soon discontinued * Kanopka. kept • the property in excellent condition,, more like a private estate than a public, resort. An, article In a Milwaukee newspaper in June 1902, said !,A11 work is how compilete-atthfe Whitefish Bay Resort beds, are In summer attire, The oleander* trees are in bloom and Mr., Kanopka has added new effects in illumination of park and buildings. Joe Clauder band: and the famous quintette play daily from afternoon to evening. An* advertisement; published just before the Fourth of July in the same; year-told, of thev mammoth fireworksdisplay and annnnnced that the Steamer Naomi would: leave the dock at- the Pabst . building on Grand Avenue. at 11 a.m. 2l p.m. 4*30 p/mm and. 7 p/ m. with Clauders band playing on the 2 p/m. trip Many must have read tliis with regret for it meant; that the steamer* Bloomer' Girl of tender memory was rio longer making the Whitefish Bay •run as it had for many seasons. ThrQugh the years many craft had made the trip- from the Grand Avenue docks, 1down the Milwaukee river, out past the breahwater and then "over11" the wavesr* to the bay. The round trip fare v/as twenty-five cents and bicycles were carried free. Some seasons two (2) boats ran.. Among? the other boats f • * . < Skater R.J. Gordon Barry Eagle Oval Agitator- Chequamegon ^i L x J Misc. Information about the "Old Whitefish Bay" ; Fi*ed G. Isenring bought'Fernwood Cottage from Dr*T* "W.>. Williams in 1889. ^ Fabst Brewing Co. bought Fernwood Cottage from. Fred Isenring in 1891 • , Pa^bst changed the name to Edgewood Family Resort* "/:° Edgewood Fajoailyr Resort was used to house the help needed tc eperat&thc Park. (Tooks, Maids, bartenders, waiters etc.' Torn down""in 31915.*' .."" ~ • Fred Isenring while operating the Resort, with .his family Occupied the house near the North Bandstand. Here his daughter "Hattie'* -was born :. Dec. 11, 1880. ' ' When Henry Kpncppkai, in 1894 took over the management .of the Resort,. . this house was Amoved out of the Bark, to the Southwest corner of Lex ington Boulevard and North Lake Drive* Then the house was occupied by : ^Hfem^Z Kono|sk&*_ _ _ •_" _ * ••*: T • ' --r' , o' : • July 6> 1889 Louis S?uxe leased to Mam Roth. -9t Aug.. Nussba{merfor^5 years property, located in Welcome Pari?, to be used as a saloon andf " Restaurant * lease commenced July 6.1889» annual rent $300 to be paid each & every • J months in advance etc. etc. • M~a^ 17> 1888 Best Brewing Co. sold to) Milw. Whitefish Bay Ry. Co. for ai sum of $565 aa strip of land in Welcome Park to be used for1 ai Depot and Depot platform by the Dummy Line which consisted of a 12; ton locomotive light gauge track, i enclosed car for winter useand 2 cars open for summer use. Thej Dummy Line 'started In 1888*. from Whitefish Bay'station located in Welcome Park, went straight South until it arrived sfcb a station at Hampton Road. Continued East-through woods on right,side of Hampton Road until it arrived at Oakland Ave.* Crossed the avemue* and . continued South on the track a little; East of Qakland Ave. Stopped at several depots on the way until it arrived, at its; destination North Ave. and Farwell Ave. Picked up passengers that wanted, to go> North and by way of Downer Ave. gradually got back to. its home in Welcome Part*, The Dummy Line stopped running'in 1898., •The; Electric Railway took over in 1898^running as far North as Day Ave* In 190*4 it extended the line up to the River Road In Fox Point. After residents of the Bay and head official? of the O: & N W Ry* had talked! things over thoroughly, their minds was made up NOT to have car shops.Work started in.1927 and the last, rails removed by 192-9/* On May 15 > 1893L see Deeds Book Vol* 280 Page* 269 Pabst Brew* CO. bought from Eacob _." StollJ Elizabeth; Suttoiir an&( Wm .J.Sutton \ both Parks Wfelcome Park and Jefferson Park.for $16,000* -Lewis Scheife had a grocery store on, Silver Spring Drive, with the. ^.family living upstairs. He sold outto.-John. Singles ih 1898. the 10 7 yearsy" 1888 to 189&;;were spent by Jojia Singles; Henry .Scheife and Paul <, Knap>-in operating the Dunmiy Lin^.. 1 "V .'.,,,;'"' ".;; v(; ''.•<••' rWhile Henry Konopka managed the Reso^ir;, Ed^ under ,vh±mf over all ."bartenders in Round Bar, waiters' eta Eddies father so"' " tickets to enter the Ferris Wheel/* ^ . ° y1' V - ^J H-e(\-mp - August 22, 1892 Deed Book Vol. 296 Page 386 shows the foilowl •'\ Tweedy Land Co. Richard & Elizabeth Burke. John -E. & Catherine Mann for the sun of $lVboV (one dollar) deeded enough land to the Village of- Whitefish.Bay;,t^^^allow for the building of a school house , toilev facilities, and enough for childrens playground. This two-story frame school building was completely destroyed by-fire in 1918.- : Pabst .Whitefish gay Resort opened June 30, 1889...... fl ^ ...... ,." . " •' closed 1916...-.','.., ... The.DUMMY LINE ; started;; 1888 .•• 'Electx-ic street Ry.. • 1898. The Ferris Wheel installed 1895 Managers of the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort. K'Fred- G-. Isenring ; 1889 to 1894 ;;*•• •>"• — Henry Konopka •1894- 'to 1904 -"••• •'; -• Teter & Henry Sturm 1905 to 1906 Richard Becker 1906 to 1914;- - - - ~ Fernwood Train-• Shed; : apprdxf. 100'feet long; was built -to accomodate excursion trains that brought peop?.e, groups withown Brass Band etc. to visit the well known Pabst Whitefish ^•Zk.Ba y Resort in summertime . r,The. Shed extended north from Lexington Boulevard, along the Lake Shore .Railroad tracks. The shed was closed:on the East side and.had a covered roof allowing for possible bad weather. rA side track, had been provided to allow .the passenger excursion :train to be able to stay until the time arrived on which to take its passengers-back to their-own town. - •After getting off the. train. . tli'ey. either singly or in,groups,.."with their own Band playing.marches, they, marched east on Lexington Boulevard approx 3 to 4 blocks to Whitefish Bay .Park,;. :•;-.'••=:. ':>•., ,..-•:- :x'. •-•; .'"••..' "t-^:..;- , ?-.;:-.iO.. r. <:., 7 »* PABSTM'Vhitefish.^Bay Resort opened. June. 30, 1889.* "" ™ * * »»' closed '• 1915* f THE" DUMMY Line ,. started / 188&+ t" Electric Street Ry* m I89Bv • The Ferris Wheel, installed 1895* Managers of the Whitefish Bay Resbrtl Fred G. Insnring 1889; tQ; 18.94 Henry Konopka -• 1894 tQ 19#4 Peter &. Henry Sturm 19#5 to , 19#6 Richard/Becker 3L906 to l19i4Ut Fernwood Train Shedr approx* 100 feet long,, was"built to accomcdatB excursion trains that brought pieople, groups,with Brass Bandetc to visit the well known Pabst Wfeitedfish Bajjr Resort., in the summertime. The shed extended'north from Lexington. .Boulevard along the Lake Shore Railroad Tracks..' The shed .was E closed on the East side and had a covered roof allowing for possible? bad weather.. & side track: had been provided tc allow the passenger excursion train, to be able to stay until the \ time had arrived On which- to takee its passengers back tc their own home town. After getting1 off the tgain they either singly or in groups, with their own Band playing marches,, they marched), east on Lexington Boulevard appros 3" to 4 blocksltd the \ Whitefish BaJr Park. . > . Y ./• , ,, ^ :-.••./ i ' O I. A **»i. • i IV Wtttraw^ Qtf WAS O0n* OPi ANQ H//Y. C+AiJfACSl.. L C « K - $, ^^| ^»3 ^ SP 8871860 OLc- S/CV&K J&P&//J& 7ZPAP -1683 J7o//A/ M 7~W£i&J>y /LA/ ******* t* /SB/ #097-& TutzK&R *£:. /Z.3 A /9 7<9- 3v/?x Sen.3 7~+ £> JR. WL.*^/A\*% $ 0\ /*o#r */+j/j/AJG' •^--mflirtla in milmiiii & ^ In the 1860s, Whitefish Bay was known as !'White Fish Bay," changing in the 1870s to two words. Milwaukee Sentinel, July 16, 1862 1'White Fish Bay. Another party went up to White Fish Bay, yesterday, in Brockwayfs busses, and came back each with a string of fish. Quite a re sort it White Fish Bay.n Milwaukee Sentinel, August 8, 1873 "William H. Burr has ceased to clothe the young and old of this city, and will hereafter devote his time and attention to his stumer resort at White- fish Bay." Milwaukee Sentinel, August 24, 1874 "A post office has been established at Whitefish Bay." \d\ V. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1946 "Piano stools" of varying heights for persons of all sizes bordered the walk in Whitefish Bay park about 40 years ago for the benefit of those who wanted to relax and look out over the lake. The benches faced south toward the bandstand. 3> ^ jo'Lif/ '?> DEED' BOOK "flfri JZ-Z-i BftgJbJS ». •.TSMl^l—lM^ 916. OOP „ ,.r..,., ~ ,.,- JSlizsabe;*!! Suitoni JBOt ., Palast Brewing Co > , . *' •1-J-":- -"*-\ na;;•;: j- Sutton * ' " J0' ""'*" ~" -•'". '" "^ ?epf,: T:.''Trie*: ;•• ':•>». , v.r^. n a .;•';.•. :"J::rv' *IG e--.-.<•-/.'IN en'? "ic Ber-nx;./'.^ . ill that parti of Lot 3L ita the W E H/4r0t 9ec*rrt33)_.-ia Township (8) North of Eange...(22.) Eaat^, "bounded" a~nd? Described aa- . follows.*'; TCMECT* „. . ,. ,., r. r. ,v ,.,. Commencing, at „a, point in. jfche,.South.. line _ of t. said;. .1/4 Sec* 30 "~f~":;~:"f&et.jBaist;...of tn#%~Tr,corner' thereof:,r thence' East along said ' " South linef of ^Lot '&L.I 190~ f e%t^Kthence ' North 'parallel with* the & rawest- rl£he; thereof •'•27/4VT5/'fee-fey thence.CWeslfc. parallellwith the r,,. South line erf saidjkot, 190 f.eet^ thence'".'Sput]E~parallel with "" West line of:1 said "lot' 2.7^4.7?^ feet to the place 'of'"beginning*. S3 l-:: - ALSO 'all tMt' part of the ;F:W l^-cnf-said; Set;"i'-33 bounded 1 '••.••-.-"r and dtestrcibedvas -follows^ <. •TO-^EE' .zi. tv -zsa'.-.;;,, r-.o ... ii, *'f";X "^'^'Ooimending; at ^'pbiht iir^h^'i^^,,^^saia:*i^:'^ct» 30 feet r : ';--.• ''r:.^eg4g pjf-'tjie 5' B ^corner thereof lv thence'^^s't;-along; said South ^ line 170 feet;,, thence North iPaxallelLiWith the East; line of o _ asaid 1/4 sec. 274—75 feet., thence East Parallel with the « M :' •'"' South 'line - of "said-l/4 -.sec -- .:17H f eet^-the'nee.Jbuth Parallel g g t • _with>.the East .line SOLD, on "this date, for the surii of- $5~B5' Dollars- a s?brip:).;.of land to • be; used for a depot and depot platform by the."DDim!!Y" LINE1' . Description, follows: etc. etc. r------•- z.:: ~ signedt— ^Pred.Pabst,.„ President ' 1 i T i \\6 ,n to £~ftft DEED October 6, 1913 BOOK X Ordinance & Plat ToTT "5""7~"8 Page 22 6 VILLAGE OF WHITEFISH BAY T 0 PABST BREWING •GOV A certified copy-of Ordinance No. "69. passed by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Whitefish Bay, at a regular meeting „;:;/r.vo' ^eld/ooi^^ . ";:;:: '*-,z/\<}''' x\J^3r ":'";/i 71; •-— WHEREAS?' •The petition of the Pabst Brewing Co• and the owners of property on Bellevue Boulevard in the plat of Idlewild No*2, praying for the vacation and discontinuance of so much of Bellevue Boulevard as lies easterly, of the NEW .WHITEFISH BAY DRIVE"; as now laid out and asJi^einafter more particularly described, and as appears upon the; accompanying plat, and WHEREAS, this Board of Trustees acting by its clerk did on August 7, 1913 cause a printed notlce_tVbe posted in three public places in said Village, stating the petition would be considered and acted upon at a regular meeting of the Board September~2, 1913* ;L_„:1 J « ' ' - KOW IEHEREFORE' BE'TT RESOLVED :• by 'the Board,' that so much of Bellevue Boulevard in Idlewild Bo»2 which lies" easterly of the following described premises TO-WIT: description follows? W. H. Goodall Pres* ^._ _..•__-._-—z-_~. jr_r„~._::: _...:....:-- ..::...;:::.r: gr rjr Cartel™— Secy • Lots Vacated in Idlewild No* 2 ;=:-;;• Lots,il_to 5 inclusive Block, 1 it 0 Lots 1 .. to 14 Block 5 Lots .1 to 10 Block '6T Lots 1 to* 9 • .-ii".. n^: .:...„_ Block 8 and Lot T Block 9 See Vol. 702 DEEDS Page 620 ^ V-*N>^7 !#* b 4Vtli j4*-" This picture of the.Lewis Scheife Ml grocery store; on the site of the r \present Raydon store, was taken in 1892. Henry SchgJp>l,s on thtne wagon ^gfjand Lewis Scheife is standdlni The li=Ksi=" family lived upstairs unt 8tt* ^ • *.» . when the building was purcfcased'bu"itl5^ y \ John D. Krugles. It burped down the fall of 1914. £?£ H •Eft lli - ' '-^i~ _ 00 CM fr'i "**• - :ii fcgV V ^ *S ' ** "fJBSit -^Sr* vJNfl i S [ n \aS&& ^0&$(- A> s- J3 £dgaMc€*d fe^rf* NWS**"***. «^ 'C , v t^j. ~*T ~*\ " ^ - $ mi*rtntii M- r V;. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO •^Yh BREAKFAST, DINNER AND SUPPER PARTIES. 1- ' ' 7 .--.i \P *" ay . ^^ ^^^ BI FISH'. Michigan Lake Trout, Michigan Lake Whitefish, Fried or broiled % .301 Fried or broiled. " " Breaded Tomato sauce .351 " " a la Italienne " " " Sauce Hollandaise .40 " Maitre d' Hotel... " " Tartar Sauce ...... " " Sauce Diplomate . STEAKS, CHOPS, ETC, Sirloin Steak for one .30 Tenderloin Steak u " with Eggs 40.. " " with Onions... " " " Bacon 40 " "•' " Mushrooms " " " Onions 40 *' f< k la Bearnaise " " " Mushrooms .45 " " a la Bordelaise ". Olives 45 Steak a la Tartare " a la Bordelaise .45' Hamburger Steak Extra Sirloin Steak for two 50 " " with Onions...... " " with Onions 60 " • " a la Imperial...... " " " Mushrooms .65 Mutton Chops, plain, two pieces... " " a la Bordelaise .65 " Breaded, Tomato Sauce " " a la Bearnaise A)^ Lamb Chops, three pieces Porterhouse Steak for one 75 " with Peas *. " with Onions 85 " " Mushrooms...... " " " Mushrooms 1.00 '" a la Soubise Extra Porterhouse Steak for two... 1.30 Spring Chicken, half " " with Onions 1.50 " "• whole " " " Mushrooms 1 60 Calf's Liver with Bacon " " a la Bordelaise 1.75 " *' a la Provincial " " a la Bearnaise 1.75 Ham or Bacon, fried or broiled " " with Eggs I m ported Frankfurter " with Potato Salad EGGS AND OMELETS. Eggs, boiled, fried or scrambled (3) .15 Omelet, plain .20 Poached on Toast 20 " with Onions 25 Qh-:.-<™?rrt;^ . .,..;...... ;.:.....,.-— .20 " '^ " Hp.m .rv^,^? -~;r:;;;p' .25 " " Mushrooms M..,^J&nr " " Rum 2J J®r- Spanish Omelet...., .80 VEGETABLES. Potatoes, Saratoga .5 Stewed Tomato Sautee 5 Stewed Corn " French fried ,,.. .5 String Beans " Julienne 5 Green Peas " Hashed brown 5 French Green Peas " Stewed in Cream 10 Stewed Mushrooms, Lyonnaise 10 Asparagus with Butter or Hollandaise Sauce SALADS AND RELISHES Potato '. .5 Chow Chow. Lettuce 10 Chicken Salad, it la Mayonnaise.... Cucumber ^10 Lobster Tomato /jJX$— Shrimp Cambernation 15 ' Dill Pickles 10 We use only Kaufmann's Mayonnaise Girkens .10 without olive oil. CHEESE. Roquefort 15 American : .10 Swiss (Emmerthaler) per plate...... 15 Bent's Water Crackers .5 TOAST. Butter Toast 5c; Dry Toast 5c; Dipped Toast 5c; Milk Toast 10c; Bread and Milk 10c. COFFEE, TEA, ETC. Coffee, Tea or Chocolate, per cup .10 Cream, per glass...... /. 10 " " " per pot " per bowl 20 Milk, j)er glass .5 NOTE—Timely notice should be givon for Special Dinner or Supper Parties. WINE LIST. CHAMPIAGNES. * PTS. QTS. Due de Montebello, extra dry I *..$1.75 $3.50' Pommery & Greno Sec S 1.75 3.50 G. H. Mumm&Co., extra drv i- 1.75 3.50 Moet & Chandon, White Seal*. 3- , A 1.75 .3.50 Cooks Imperial, extra dry ...... J 1.00 2.00 RHINE )AJINES. PTS. QTS. Erbacher HKNI^'ULL & Co., Mainz $ .75 $1.50 Liebfraumilch "» " *> •./. 1.00 2.00 Rauenthaler ": u ". ,• 1.00 2.00 Ruedesheimer Berg.. " " " 1.25 2.50 MOSELLE WINES. PTS. QTS. *E$rfcif*g CLARETS. PTS. QTS. St. Julien 1881 F. PICARD & Co., Bordeaux $ .50 $1.00 Pontet Canet 1877 " " u 1.00 1.75 Chateau Pontet Canet,. / CRUSE & FILS FR^RES... 1.25 2.50 SAUTERNES. PTS. QTS. Haute Sauternes, ....F. PICAUD & Co., Bordeaux. .$1.00 $2.00 ,r» SHERRY. PTS. QTS. Fine old Table Sherry. .$ .75 $1.50 PORT. PTS. QTS. \*.. Fine old Table Port. r.$ .75 $1.50 -i^ BRANDIES. .._;, QTS. GLASS,. r'^S. G.T.1 OtaTd7T3upuy & Co., very choice?."*'*.';r:..?Z...».~.7 Otard, Dupuy & Co., f * + t-..«- • \ J. Hennessy & Co., **'*..•>• • •-\ WHISKIES. QTS. S. C;Jjerbst^Private Stock ...... $2.00 $1.00 Very old Maryland Rye 2.00 » LOO Jno. E. Fitzgerald Bourbon and Rye 1.50 CORDIALS. GLASS. Vermouth ....,.,.. , , ... ; $ ,35 Chartreuse: ?...... \ » ..., ; '., J5 CrSine de Menthe...... * ::...... !l5 Gilka Kttmmel...... >, : *15 Orange Bitters J5 Maraschino / . J5 Curasao.....,...; [... >;...... !l5 Anisette.....;. I ...... 4 .15 ^ Absynthe t#. .15 Benedictine ...! .*; .15 Abricotine . . 15 Old Tom Gin [..Z\\\Z\[\Z\\[Z !l5 BEER, ALE AND PORTER. PTS. QTS. Bass Ale, White Label ,.... $ .25 McEwans Scotch Ale ; ,. .25 Guiness' Dublin Stout ; ' ,, .25 Best Tonic... , : .25 Ginger Ale, CON^ROLL & COCHRANE, Dublin.... .25 Club Soda... * *] " ' « .25 Apollinaris.. . .20 .35 I dan-Ha Natural Water bottled as it flows from the famous Soda Springs, Idaho i «. .20 .35 Pabst Select bottled Beer i .20 .30 " Hofbraeu , ,c .15 .25 Bavarian.... f : .15 .25 •' Bohemian 11 .15 .25 Export , .15 .25 ' '-{. See that you are not overcharged, antl Report any Inattention of Service to the Cashier. IH-r ' ' • £',," |L. - ^' '.".' J't'i -\& £ " •d.iMftpes; - asw-i^'J*»a«»t"»y Hiie iuuut:in .ivw resi deed any organization formed looking to the crop, when his meadow mip;ht produce proved*. ' riod succeeding it. He released. •_ }tfa dences, is thr »ro**u of the day at Whitefish special needs, interests, advancement of this Willi a grocery and meat market, a news- lipid exactly ori-^,i! two ::nd three times 'y --v. when my Bay. It do* <'t take J^~ ^i to convince any • as Mr. MuldoonV papi r and postottiecand prospects of a school- Whitefish Bay region. It will require no swutJir Ins mie/ i J)t nrm back aii^ <•?!•?!ss Mixture is used,( double the man of the ^^dom off lvestment at this w house—who sa\s Whik.fish Bay isn't bceom-- argument from us to convince those interest • -landed^.. it :. Hill's short ribs., mimher of cows might reed in the pas beautiful nor crn sulfur^. Lots are cheap in.cr a eiry? 4 ed in real estate anywhere out this way that Ther_ e_ w.a...s a. ho' . aml.a momeat later. ture v.iien my Clover Grass Mixture is yet. They v- I always be cheap, though sold ! K. w-.o died at Whitefish Bay,xat the age:.. of 97 j on the plastic tdnd of youth is not to bo light- been laid out and improved. For particulars tbe flies. There'll be just as much ex h'airniniinr Htiyrlirs. years s months and 23 days, of consumption. ! lv estimated. (Irand scenery, grand influen-; we refer you to the advertising eoluians of! citement, aud the expenses will ^eless ces make gr^d men . and women, and in,. T«K.PIOXJBK. For references you need only than at any other track in the city. She was quite a remarkable old lady in many % O, I've studied the subject "— Chicago other respects and the story of her premature j choosing a hope the wise parent will have jto look at the lands 'themselves,- to verify ail, Tribune Whirdish Bay Imp. Co. taking off has been handed down with various due regard forsweh considerations. The lake and inore than all, we have said. DEVOTED >* i$*4 «AV #-**^ V*T>AIC^r. " VOL. I. it DAY, JAM AKY 16, 18f>2. MILWAUKEE d«i Note?. :,)i: >. r nations and is the basis is easily reaelied, if not absolutely iu vi« *"A ^iViiied elephant h*^ boon tta-r" Vt}, . i ike shore is not a health from any of the Whitefish Bay plats. It is' earthed near Jasper, Jfta. ^ LAKE . 08E p.: piac* ?<;.;.*Mj whose lungs or throat is only a few moments walk across the strip News he l'loncer :tr< e,.r,i... < •.* , ,..,...i . I WESIlM R'Y. ; ?*»."- '%>touc h of catarrh orasth- from the river to the lake, and the more qui<-? The Value of land iu Berlin has ia-v . invited. creased So tier ceiit ia the Jast tear - *D>».Bv. +-Kx<-<•[/( ^tj»ul:iv .rnvrv * » os :,er traceable foundation et, but none the less pictures^e, views of the l r The se ries • socials sit the U.-litvue havt years. * \t •T.>:ir;.l front Milwaukee. * Wsiukee. > *. i;what exists in the tan- former are an important factor in making the bcui discoptinued for tie- winter. The wettest place in tin? world is a^v AM-:j?..r,f|. Hurley. Iron- ( S:30 ;i.m. , * side real estate boamer's Whitefish Bay region particularly attraeiivc- wood, B'-^r-enn-r ;uid - r There has been some good sleighing on tin Clujrra Ponjee, iu the Khasi hills ot^ ' l :.»r» p.m. ibrain. to>« •r* opinion of a few, ! as a'place tor a home. fJhin»'l.-mdVr \ Whitefish Kay drive the past week. Assam. The fall of-rain for a sinsrhmB Wausau. Oconto .tiul > •."5:4;") p.m. | phvsieia;: •>.-. nobs to appear] r month has ranged from IdU Lo 2Q0^ SM;i\vano \ *- 1 :. »o p.m. Mrs. Glodrey's new house opposite the de- j *jian *0 t ;.:•* truth. Ifpur^ffEoIe- A FEW POSTERS V pplcton.N'vv Lonrimi. ) :;:rMM.. pot is apparently completed and ready to be \ ninronvillc .ntri An- - •: - *.ir. *S:30n.m. lsomc }) r r is detrimental"to lungs ; r : :n£' .uiri 11:55 p.m. occupied. * | -j . ak or strong, what be- Among the things that ueed sjitfia! atten MANAGER HtLL*S MUSCLE* '1:10 -yr - +3:45 p.m. v tion at the Bay, and which the addition of; FWt Washington. She- *7'.<£ pin **:.'*) a.m. Mr. and Mrs. < iregg have been eu** rs*^ <' >ry of consumption? It 4 When Ue l>rt»]ta| It ?« I*?keTv to 0«t H^ hoy tf«m, M n n i t c i w< >c. e?:a6 a.w* !l:5f> p.m. ! ing three of the*' r grandsons during *iU ^°fr"v.*j.- 1 each new family makes more necessary as.! Kankaanr* *ome weak, two-thirds- t0:50'a.m. : J- A: '-'e"**/. ' -':„ •to AH - +7:55-a,nr. day vacation v have died on tLe shore well as practicable, are,— +7:00 a.m. ••10:50 a.m. F. G. Isenring recency bought op - -*''>fi of the school distrsct.and ; W'!e;e'Kh B;n .... ; j tfl:l0a.m. | tt:4&p*a.' •wmi " ***** i I J5j4»p.io.i /^»p.m. subdivision:; of Idlewild a*rd.&$$M$&*> .* *&'&#. .«i$iitncnt of a se]>arato seho^J-wifcthj h PufiK-c Buffet Sleeping Carson niu'lit train* : ^ fl,^..J ;. V -v«-. W,|syy^;*; —S—« m.~Wernich is talking about huying a 'im "*#• **Tt-is out of tit" i tion for people atf^f^Eiv^; I'ay office, ift) Wisconsin Street. down near the depot and erecting ahous^i^,^ .^^^ the Bav to obtain scho pn v ileges for their \^Vi€M* 3 Lake ^liore Depot, foot of Wisconsin Street. upon it for his own use. ••<' T ., •.. : .* ,. . . * children under the present arrangement,' and i "HUliJ' au& nbthih^ ^plt|iifm ind?cat«»| l^_ ^ . , • . . . . . i .vr v. iitwt consideration in the deveJop- Mr: Remington 8 new barn is complete*! >? , * , V • ^i i- •.,..• ., , to be obliged to send boys i\m\ girls under! unusual strength. •''.Hi^'V'-mvitelea . at* _, _, , . _ ,_^ , ;_j . ._^^*«cnt ofP a subap> is the facilitie s anordeff d to twelve years of age to the eitv. paying rail- weUdeveloped, however^ an4 heha and a drivewa y 2to Ziit ha s Tbeen opened %l>ns C A H IX t purchaser? for improving their properties. road fare and tuition as well as their full ^XtraordlDarvideas of his own phw the north end of the lot. ; In the inten-r ivalry between different sub- , .. , , ,, ...... ; cal power. VVheuever he drinkft 4i The man who expresses the sentiment that! portion o i,ie school tax. LSU X right. , ^ ^DS to exhibit b nubs this que^lon may be, to the purehaser. imm diately Whitefish Bay real estate is high is looking ; -. \ nhige orgamvatio,. L. r.eeded, not only ; h. Ha nearly choked a ma FRED. G. ISENRING; ithe deciding jfiut in determining a location. str0ugt for a chance to buy. to chVet lmproveufnts not demanded in the. ; to death.in Cincinnati some time &£< It is im})ort:m* that every possible facility be PROPBIKTOK. Stone and Thomas, large owners of White-) town at large, but t«> consolidate and bring! attempted to break anotiier trmn^i .ttiftbrded and i|ie suburb that takes the most fish Bay lands; have every confidence in the ; into harmonious action the rapidly growing : in auup^town oyster saloon and, •precaution hi ^iis respect may be de\•elopeti WHITEFISH BAY PARK i futwe of this suburb. t j- > interests centring at the Bav, which will \ vigorously thrashed for his effo much i nore ia.|ifiM^^ua '*one. .which is a better Then ne otinto a row witb Mr. Lefehvre, popular conductor of the Lake soon form a village whether NO^mrned or notJ S ^^ natu:.< . locatl<|«9ult \vhich depends wholly nf I t d FoS ter ] : Shore, and wife spent New Year's day with This is a question in which re:,! estate holders, I J ? f , 1 ^ * * In^erlt^m^ upon tho-je wPrira*! advantages for <]uick ; ! relatives at Fond du Lae. , .. -ii. i j which resulted in iosterbeinff whrptx sales and raffd improvements. This is a whether as smgie lot owners or land eomi>a- . kw „«*tw« «,.» .« t »~ :-.,. 'n .. .'v „5}"-a : Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Dort erf Kaukauna nies, are vitally• interested., , -by another man, and so on througffcji matter in whhji all the land companies, plat rested. 11 opens the way . e ^ ili tic adventure*. f«f * WHITEFISH BAY, Wis. 1 spent a portion of .last.week with their daugh-, to the consideration g ri of puo; s «".•»••••« vi> o|any suburb are jointly inter- oi some means of obtain- j ly he Stfock"" a snag of iarge„t!db • ter. Mrs. W. H- HherBaan, ing a water supply, sewerage. better streets -. . v • •••• •".» •;.*<*-hejftnay together de\-»^(- a jdan nth and overwhelming proportions. ,- mo^th hai^^ !*•*•<• a system of lighting, and all 1 v pi-jv a ir v l u i wrestler. iUr. iiill waa ^Ikin^ion^ •; |m* ki^QS-t^itf^^ ^fiHtel'* : ''No-M 11 V ' t '" ' '" 'acetin^; everv : e inutiiv:.pai iorm ut -• -*• n \i(\t any one, of them alone Twenty-sixLii street oaf PlgW^^ '; ausd o#. — (Iftsvf^&outVz-r >UtyJ~} «<7MJ2. e. j3xsrz~c ^£jrLr.j^. jLsGJ&r^&zrz-jE&sr. Tiili^i^'-titZ /d^CUU^ *•« fcs •v I CO *^^ l •o ^ cst ^ o H\ Whitefish Bay from the foot of Henry Clay st., one of the most attractive lake shore spots in Milwaukee county. —Journal color Photo *~3la2- /UZ*U*C&UXL. $ &£JL st > \3^8 X s R i \$> ^ N.' WHERE DID FREDERICK G. ISENRING GO? The following pages are the newspaper accounts of Frederick Isenring1s disappearance in December 1899, taken from the Milwaukee Journal and Milwau- kee Sentinel, The research was done by Judy Kloman, typing by Mimi Bird. April 1982 iyj ^ Milwaukee Journal, December 26, 1899 ORDER ISSUED TO ARREST EX-SHERIFF F. G. ISENRING GUILTY OF CONTEMPT FOR REFUSING TO OBEY A WRIT OF MANDAMUS SERVED UPON HIM HE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND OFFICERS DONfT KNOW WHERE TO FIND HIM This morning, Judge Ludwig issued an order of attachment to arrest ex-Sheriff Frederick G. Isenring and produce him before the court at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, when punish ment for contempt of court will be,imposed because Mr, Isenring failed and neglected to pay any attention to the writ of mandamus served upon him, and upon which he admitted service commanding him to account to the county for fees received during his term of office. At the sheriff's office it was stated this morning that a brother of Mrs. Isenring had been inquiring for the ex-sheriff since last Friday night and it is reported that he left home the day before the return on the writ was due in Judge Ludwig's office. Upon the affidavit of Assistant District Atty. A. C. Umbreit, presented to Judge Ludwig, it is stated that personal service of the writ of mandamus from Judge Ludwig's court was obtained, and • that Isenring had neglected and refused to make return on the writ or appear at court Saturday, when the writ was returnable. Mr. Umbreit said he was not aware that Mr. Isenring had gone but had heard rumors and did not think it improbable. Charles Robinson, the deputy sheriff who served the writ of mandamus, found Mr. Isenring at his home in Whitefish Bay last week. Nobody can be found who has seen him since and he has failed to make a return to the writ commanding him to produce his accounts with the county for the latter part of his term as sheriff one year ago. Mr. Isenring even failed to appear before Judge Ludwig Saturday to ask for an extension of time to make return and the assistant district attorney was indulgent enough to permit a con tinuance of the matter until this morning. The district attorney said this morning that he did not know in what condition his accounts were, nor has he knowledge of any shortage. The reason for the writ of mandamus, he said, was to compel Mr. Isenring to give his quarterly report to the county board of supervisors and account for certain fees collected during the latter part of his term. Three of Mr. Isenring1s bondsmen were in Judge Ludwig's court this morning when the case was called, and they stayed until Judge Ludwig issued his order of attachment to arrest Mr. Isenring, if he can be found. The men who signed his bond are Postmaster E. R. Stillman, R. L. Estes, Ernest Timpel, W. John Zettler, Edwin Rey nolds, G. M. Hinkley, James S. Church and F. J. Ziemer. The amoun, of the bond is $25,000 and each of the bondsmen holds himself liable for $5,000. The bond was filed in December 1896. "We had to take this step", said Mr. Umbreit this morning, "as he was given every chance to come to the county board with his reports and then he has been given two chances to come before Judge Ludwig to answer the mandamus. He has absolutely ignored the pro- cedings altogether. I do not know in what shape his accounts are. That is what we want to find out. His bondsmen appeared but are as much in the dark as to his whereabouts as we. If Mr. Isenring can be found tomight, he will be brought before Judge Ludwig at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning." FAILED TO MAKE REPORT The trouble of ex-sheriff Isenring dates back to the latter part of 1898, when his quar terly report of the fees collected by him in his office failed to be returned to the county board. Neither was his last quarterly report filed, and the matter dragged along until this fall, when a resolution was introduced in the county board, instructing the clerk to. request Mr. Isenring to file his account. He was seen and requested to file the account and promised to do so, but failed. Another resolution was introduced and still another, the last ordering mandamus procedings. The mandamus was delayed under the belief that he would render an account, but he did not, and a writ was secured December 20, from Judge Ludwig. It was returnable December 23, but no return was made. This morning, Mr. Umbreit made affidavet to these facts and the order for arrest followed. Mr. Isenring has been a prominent figure in Milwaukee county politics for a number of years, Hr represented the village of Whitefish Bay, upon its incorporation, in the county board in 1892. He distinguished himself by fighting a land purchase by the county, which was to be lade at an outlandish figure, and in recognition was made chairman of the board. He was elected sheriff in 1896. He was born in Milwaukee in 1854 and received his education here. MONEY IN ISENRING1S HANDS It is estimated in the clerk of the court's office that Isenring has in his hands about $20,000 in fees and proceeds from sheriff's sales. \b^ Milwaukee Sentinel, December 27, 1899 ISENRING NOT ON HAND ORDER FOR ARREST ISSUED FOR THE EX-SHERIFF, FAILED TO MAKE RETURN ON THE WRIT OF MANDAMUS ACCORDINGLY AN ORDER FOR ARREST ON ATTACHMENT WAS SIGNED BY THE COURT, BUT THE FORMER OFFICIAL COULD NOT BE FOUND. TOLD HIS FAMILY HE WAS GOING TO FOND DU LAC, BUT HE HAS NOT BEEN HEARD FROM SINCE LAST FRIDAY. Ex-sheriff Frederick G. Isenring, against whom an order for arrest on attachment was issued yesterday morning on his failure to appear before Judge Ludwig in the mandamus pro ceedings recently instituted, has disappeared, and the members of his family as well as the sheriff's officers are unable to learn his present whereabouts. He left home Friday morning ostensibly on a business trip to Fond du Lac, and since then, nothing has been seen or heard of him. Yesterday's order is returnable at 10 o'clock this morning, when, if Isenring should appear, punishment for con tempt of court would be imposed. HAD NEGLECTED TO MAKE RETURN When the case was called in the Superior Court yesterday forenoon, Asst. District Atty. Umbreit presented an affidavit to the effect that a personal service of the writ of mandamus issued last week had been obtained and that Isenring had neg lected to make return on the writ or appear Saturday when the latter was returnable. Mr. Umbreit explained that he had heard rumors of the ex-sheriff's disappearance, but that he had asked the court for a continuance until yesterday to give Mr. Isenring another chance to appear. Judge Ludwig thereupon issued his order of attachment for the person of the former sheriff and the papers were placed in the hands of Sheriff Durner for service shortly before noon. When Mr. Durner made the trip to the Isenring home at Whitefish Bay, he was told by Mrs. Isenring that her husband had gone Friday and had not been since heard from. "He said he was going to Fond du Lac on business," said she, "but he did not tell me whom he was going to see or what the nature of his errand was. We were sure he would come back for Christmas and we had the baby's Christmas tree waiting for him in hopes he would arrive at the last moment, but he didn't come. But I shouldn't be surprised to see him back at any time and I am sure he will be here sooner or later." MR. ISENRING-S BONDSMEN The bondsmen of the ex-sheriff are eight in number, as follows: E. R. Stillman, R. L. Estes, Ernest Timpel, John Zetteler, Edwin Reynolds, G. M. Hinkley, James S. Church and F. J. Ziemer. The bond was for $25,000 and w^s filed Jan. 4, 1897. None of the bondsmen has made up his mind what action to take in the affair, nor has any meeting been called to dis.- 0p ' - 3~ cuss a course of action. Mr. Stillman is uncertain whether or not he is legally liable for his share. He made application for withdrawal of his signature shortly before Isen ring entered upon his duties. At the time of Mr. Stillman's application, his request was denied and he has not yet looked up the question as to whether his liability is still in force. Mr. Church and Mr. Ziemer said yesterday afternoon that they supposed that the bondholders would ultimately be obliged to pay the shortage, which amounts, it is estimated by James S. White of the sheriff's office, to about $4,000.00, although by some the amount is placed at a considerably higher figure. FAILED TO FILE REPORTS It was in the spring of 1897 that F. G. Isenring stepped out of office as sheriff of Milwaukee County. At that time, he had failed to.file reports for the last two quarters, but this omission did not arouse suspicion, as it had been customary to hold back final reports, while the last months' affairs were being put in shape. As time went on and Mr. Isenring neglected to attend to the filing of his reports, the county board began to grow impatient, but it was not until eighteen months had elapsed that s resolution was intro duced that he be compelled to attend to the omission. Mr. Isenring, when approached on the subject, asked for more time, offering as an ex planation of his delay, that several items were still unsettled in connection with various papers he had served (while) in office. The matter again rested several months until the board finally instructed a formal demand for an accounting to be made on the ex-sheriff by the district attorney. This was done and when, after sufficient time had elapsed to show that the demand was apparently not going to be compiled with, mandamus procedings were instituted. Deputy Sheriff Charles Robinson served the papers, finding the ex- sheriff at his home last Thursday afternoon. When the case before Judge Ludwig was called Saturday, the person summoned failed to appear either personally or by attorney, and the continuance until yesterday was allowed. The next step in the procedings follow ing the order issued yesterday will be looking toward a settlement of the shortage by the bondsmen, though it is not unlikely that the matter will be deferred for a suitable time to permit the ex-sheriff's return. NOT SEEN IN FOND DU LAC EX-SHERIFF'S FRIENDS IN THAT CITY SAY HE HAS NOT BEEN THERE Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, December 26, 1899: Chief of Police Simon Schaeffer, who knows the ex-sheriff Isenring of Milwaukee, says he has not been there. <3l Milwaukee Journal,' January 5, 1900 The county board's special committee appointed to in vestigate the accounts of Ex-Sheriff Isenring will meet tomorrow afternoon. Milwaukee Journal, January 6, 19 00 The special commission appointed by the county board to devise some plan to ascertaining the condition of the accounts of ex-sheriff Isenring with the county, met this afternoon at the county clerk's office for the purpose of organizing and talking over the method to be followed in the search for the records. The members present were 0. M. Wiesenthal, Chairman; T. Y. McGovern, Christopher Dorsch and Fred Hartung. A. C. Umbreit, assistant Dis trict Attorney, has a plan, which if followed, may result in the finding of a reasonably close estimate of the short age of Mr. Isenring, but it will not be divulged for some time yet. Milwaukee Journal, January 10, 1900 ISENRING BOOKS. SPIRITED AWAY DELIVERED FROM THE JAIL IN AN OLD TRUNK SUNDAY MORNING EX-SHERIFF CHARLES BOTTENBERG SENT FOR THE TRAIN HE IS CITED TO APPEAR AND TELL WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE BOOKS COMMITTEE GROPING IN ISENRING'S STATUS The books of account that were kept by Frederick G. Isen ring during his term of office as sheriff were in the office of Sheriff Durner up to last Sunday morning. Now the records are gone and the special committee investigating Mr. Isenring's accounts are confronted with a profound mystery in the dis appearance. The books were taken by some unknown prestidigi tator, whose quickness of hand and foot were not detected by the eye of Jailer Tom McNally, who was at the jail when the trunk was carried away. The potent factors of the mystery are an old trunk that has been in the sheriff's office since Mr. Isenring left; a sorrel horse, a wagon described as a "country rig", ex- Deputy Sheriff Charles Bottenberg, an unknown young man and an unknown older man, a mysterious note, William Brazier and several other smaller things, to say nothing,of course, of the books of account, which according to the witnesses sworn today, had not been of enough importance to be noticed. OFFICIALS GROPING AFTER FACTS All the time the district attorney's force had been trying to find out if they could get hold of the books, they were in the trunk in the sheriff's office. Nobody .knew what was in the &i ~s~~ w h trunk unfastened the clamp from his lips until this morning. The first details of he filching of the records was brought out by Asst. District Atty. Umbreit at the meeting of the special committee this morning. There were present, besides Mr. Umbreit, Supervisors S. R. Bell, J. Wiesenthal and Fred Hartung. Messrs McGovern and Dorsch were kbsent. Six people were sworn before the committee this morning, all of whom had been or are now connected with the sheriff's office, and a subpoena has been issued for Charles Bottenberg, a former deputy sheriff, to appear at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning and tell what he knows about the taking of the books. Those sworn this^morning were Sheriff George Durner; William Brazier, a bookkeeper for the ex-sheriff; Louis Mayer, the Under Sheriff, and Tom McNally, Jailor. Sheriff Durner was first put on the stand. He told that he had heard of the removal of the trunk from the jail, but was not present when the act was done, and he knew nothing about it, nor did he know that the trunk contained books. He knew nothing of Mr. Isenring's receipts of fees. HOW THE BOOKS WERE TAKEN The next witness was William Brazier. His testimony was sensational. He said that Sunday, an unknown man came to him with a note from Charles Bottenberg. He did not say what was in it, but after he received the note he showed the man where the trunk was, and the man took it outside and put it in a buggy. He said he never before saw the man who brought the note, but he gave the trunk just the same. He was somewhat reluctant to give the name of Mr. Bottenberg when asked who wrote the note. The only man at the jail at the time waa Jailor McNally. It was about 9 o'clock Sunday morning. Mr. Brazier said he would not state anything in regard to the amount of fees Mr. Isenring secured during his last two quarters without having access to the books to refresh his memory. Undersheriff Louis Meyer said that he did not see the trunk moved, but that he thought it was about 11:30 Sunday morning. Jailor McNally told his story. He said that Mr. Brazier had been at the jail but a moment when a young man, whom he had never seen before, handed him a note for Mr. Brazier. McNally pointed out Brazier and the note was delivered. The next thing that happened, the young fellow went outside and brought in another man, who helped carry the trunk, and then the two drove away to the north with the sorrel horse and the tumble down wagon. Mr. McNally said he noticed the rig particularily and remarked to somebody that it was a country rig. That was about all that could be learned from the witnesses. Mr. Bottenberg will be before the committee tomorrow to tell what he will about his part of the mystery. Mr. Brazier was very chary about committing himself and had to be questioned hard before he would tell, although he finally did answer all the inquiries put to him. ~&~ tf UP- TO CHARLES BOTTENBERG Mr. Umbreit does not know who the men were, but says that is, not material, so long as it is known that they were mes sengers of Charles Bottenberg, for he will be called upon to give the proper explanation. Three dockets, A, B, and C, were found in the vaults at the sheriff's office yesterday, and were used before the committee this morning. Between now and tomorrow morning, when the committee meets again, the dockets will be footed up and some ideas of the volume of business of the office will be obtained. Docket D, which is most wanted, cannot be found. Under section 709 of the revised statues, it is said, Sheriff Isenring's sureties cannot be held liabel for any losses due to the sheriff's shortage, as the section provides that no orders for services of the sheriff shall be signed by the county clerk until the sheriff makes a sworn statement that he had delivered to the county treasurer all the money taken in by him. FAMILY BELIEVES ISENRING IS DEAD William Isenring, brother of the missing ex-sheriff, denies the story that a letter has been received stating that his brother had sailed from New Orleans to Puerto Rico and says that it is his belief and that of the family that Fred G. Isenring is dead. He had been despondent for a long time and is believed to have taken his life the day before he was to appear in court and show cause why he should not file his re ports as sheriff for the last two quarters of his term. Milwaukee Journal, January 12, 1900 ISENRING SHORT NINE THOUSAND THE ESTIMATE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HOVERS ROUND THIS FIGURE APPROXIMATION MADE FROM FEES FOR CORRESPONDING QUARTERS DISTRICT ATTORNEY THINKS THE BONDSMEN MAY PRODUCE THE BOOKS When the county board committee investigating the accounts of ex-sheriff Fred. G. Isenring met this afternoon, District Attorney Brazier said that he had found the means of getting at the approximate amount of the shortage. He said it would run from $6,500 to $8,300 for the last two quarters of the term and that to that sum must be added $1,168.18, which was due the county at the time the previous report was made. This would make the shortage between $7,658 and $9,468 and the district attorney inclined to the higher figure. During the previous year the receipts from fees amounted to about $17,000 and on that basis, the fees for six months would be $8,500 and with the balance of $1,168 included, the shortage would be about $9,600 or $9,700. NO -7- The books of Deputy Sheriff Tegtmeyer, who was in charge of executions, and others will make a reasonable basis for the computation. Committee Clerk Klefish will have his book footings ready tomorrow so that the committee can finish its work. Mr. Brazier will put the amount high enough when he begins suit to possibly induce somebody to find the books if they will reduce the figures.1 Bookkeeper Brazier was not well this afternoon and was excused by the committee for the time and ex-Deputy Sheriff Delger was examined. On the day before Isenring disappeared, there was $687.47 to his credit in the bank and the money is still there. Milwaukee Journal, February 27, 1900 F. G. ISENRING NOT FOUND YET SYSTEMATIC HUNT FOR THE EX-SHERIFF TO BE INSTITUTED PERMANENT WRIT OF ATTACHMENT ISSUED BY JUDGE LUDWIG COUNTY BOARD TO TAKE STEPS TO INVESTIGATE HIS ACCOUNTS Sheriff Durner has failed to locate his predecessor, Frederick G. Isenring, and this morning, Judge Ludwig issued a writ of attachment to arrest which will have permanent existence and a hunt for the missing official will at once be instituted. A deputy sheriff heard a rumor that Mr. Isenring went to his home on a Whitefish Bay car last night, but failed to find him. The district attorney believes that he has left Milwaukee County. There has been no clue to his whereabouts since some time last Friday, the day before the mandamus was returnable. The attachment to arrest, issued by Judge Ludwig yesterday morning, returnable at 10 o' clock this morning, expired at that hour, and another was necessary in order to prosecute the case. Assistant District Attorney Umbreit was on hand to obtain it, and waited with the court until 10:45, to give the absent man any benefit of a delay on his way to the court house. The county board will meet next Tuesday afternoon, and at that time, some measure will be taken toward an investigation of the accounts of the ex-sheriff. There will be an arrange ment for the complete review and examination of his written accounts from the time he went in the sheriff's office until he left Milwaukee last week. There are many rumors as to the amount of money that is in his hands as sheriff, and the estimate of $20,000, as a conservative figure, is generally accepted. Since his retire ment from office, he has conducted several sheriff's sales, and it cannot be learned whether the proceeds of all these have been turned over to the courts or not. So far, the bondsmen of Mr. Isenring have taken no action, and whether they do or not, it is not likely that their interference will have much weight. One of the bondsmen said to day that he believed Mr. Isenring's property had all been transferred several years ago, and could not be used by the bondsmen if they should be called upon to pay anything to the county. -k * * * * * Anson M, Buttles „ ., , 8Q27 N- Navajo Rd. Milwaukee, MI 53217 MILWATKI-K'S (»UI:AT INIHSTKIKS. FRED. G. ISENRING, Real Estate, Insurance and Real Estate Loans. _-t- OFFICE: COR or BRANCH OFFICE: PENNSYLVANIA AVE. I 220 Third Street, WOODLAND PLAGE, MILWAUKEE, WIS. WHITEFISH BAV REAL ESTATE A SPECIALTY. No one is certain where this home stood. It wasn't at the corner of Pennsylvania Ave. (now Marlborough Dr.) and Wood land Place (now Fleetwood Place) in Whitefish Bay. It also wasn't at 220 Third Street, which in the 1890's wasn't built up on a hill the way it is pictured. N2 S^y THE ISENRING FAMILY The 1860 Town of Milwaukee census, taken in June 1860, shows Gallus Isenring and his family as living in what is now Whitefish Bay. Their property then became the present area of Shore Drive and Lake View Avenue. Gallus met his wife, Wilhelmina Zetteler (also known as Minnie and Mary), on the boat coming to the United States, according to their granddaughter, Hepworth Wilhelmina Isenring Kearby. Wilhelmina Zetteler was a daughter of Wynand John B. and Annie K. (Peters) Zetteler, born in Rotterdam, Holland. Her brother was Tobias T. Zetteler, who settled in Fox Point, as did Gallus and his wife, for a while. Gallus married Wilhelmina about 1851, but there is no record in Milw. County Gallus and his wife, their son Weinand, daughter Anna and her husband, David A, Milbrath and their daughter, are all buried together in Union Cemetary, Milwau kee. From Milwaukee County Birth Records, Vol. K, pg. 125, 126 and 127: Children of Gallus Isenring: Fred born 4/1/1854 Maria Elizabeth 10/26/1861 Wynand " 1/16/1856 Jan William 12/24/1863 Annie " 7/6/1858 In later years, Jan William reversed his name to William J. Isenring. Gallus was born 4/7/1826 and came to Milwaukee in 1847. History of Milwaukee:, Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881, p. 1493 had the following information: "Gallus Isenring worked on a farm for three years, then opened a grocery store and saloon on the Port Washington Road, which he con tinued for four years. (This was on Green Tree Rd. and Port Washing ton Road) He bought a farm in which he lived for eleven years. (This was on Lake View Ave. and Shore Drive area) He sold this and moved back to Milwaukee, where he again opened a dry goods and grocery store on Third Street. He continued in business there for about ten years, then became proprietor of a saloon at 679 Ninth Street.(old numbering system) When in the Town of Milwaukee, Gallus was Road Commissioner and Constable for two years, Town Treasurer in 1859 and County Super visor in 1862." Gallus and Wilhelmina's daughter, Anna J., married David A. Milbrath and lived in Whitefish Bay. Daughter Maria (Mary) married Carl Schober and lived in Whitefish Bay. Son Wynand died fairly young. Jan William (William J.) married Minnie Peters and they had Archie, Clarence, Hepworth, Gladys, Alice and Wynand G. Isenring. Edna Peterson, a Whitefish Bay woman, married Archie; he died and she married his brother Clarence. Hepworth married and moved out of the area; Gladys married Harold Landwehr and lived in Whitefish Bay. Wynand G. married, lived in Whitefish Bay in later years. His son, Warren Isenring, had a TV and appliance store on Silver Spring Drive, later moving it to the Bender Road, where Larry Dorst TV is now located. Fred G. Isenring married 1st to Hepworth S. Chandler and they had Mary, 1876, and Hattie (Hepworth) in 1881. Hepworth, his wife, died in 1894; daughter Mary died in 1904. Both are buried in Forest Home Cemetary. Daughter Hattie married Frederick Dryer and lived in Whitefish Bay a short time. Fred remarried and had another daughter, Mildred, who was just a baby when he disappeared. Mildred married Lester Eifler and lives in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin (Nov. 1983). ^3 t- J * ~ J ^ «. Excerpt from Anson W. Butties' 50 year diaries, 1856 - 1906: Wednesday, August 27, 1856 Started this morning electioneering for my father for the Assembly. Went over to Bender's and then the Green Bay Road. Saw a number of persons and they all think favorably of it. Done some surveying for Gallus Isenring this P.M. on Section 28 Town 8. (Note: Section 28 Town 8 is in Whitefish Bay, facing Lake Michigan. This must have been about when Gallus Isenring left his residence on the southwest corner of Green Tree and Port Washington Roads, and took up residence in Whitefish Bay.) From Anson M. Buttles, grandson of Anson W. Buttles. Gallus Isenring was Frederick G. Isenringfs father. Note from Anson M. Buttles: Two days before Christmas 1899, my father, Ansom M. Buttles, Sr., met Mr. Isenring on Grand Ave. (Wisconsin Ave.) It was just before noon and after a short visit, Mr. Isenring asked my father would he like to have noon lunch with him. My father accep the offer. They had a fine lunch and a nice visit, after which both went on their way. Mr. Isenring spoke as though all was well and fine, and. acted the usual way as my father had always known him, having known each other cince boyhood days. Mr. Isenring disappeared one or two days after they had lunch together. Mr. Isenring was born on the southwest corner of the Green Tree Road and Port Washing ton Road, where his father, Gallus, had a saloon. Fred was born with two front teeth. Myygrandfather, Anson W. Buttles, a Justice of the Peace, united Fred G. Isenring and Hepworth S. Chandler, in marriage on October 11, 1875. M // "1 - yittAj Caseo)rthe missing ex-sheriff V^k Bay lawman vanished with $20,000 more than 30 years ago By Amy Rabideau Silvers . - !. back for Christmas and we had the baby's Christ-, mas tree waiting for him in hopes he would arrive 'of The Journal Staff r at the last moment, but he didn't come ,... I am Whitefish Bay, — He was the black sheep of sure he will be here sooneror later." Whitefish Bay. ^ „ \ , But he was never seen again. ! \- 'Vv»- - He was Fred Isenring, one of the area's most ' j | Body never found - /J '•['„: : prominent citizens at the turn of the century. * - The stories continued to make the papers for : And, one day, he disappeared. ( .: • weeks. A headline in The Milwaukee Journal on It was later learned that an estimated $20,000 in Jan.. 10, 1900, declared: "Isenring Books Spirited funds he was responsible for as Milwaukee Coun Away." The story called the disappearance of an ty sheriff were unaccounted for. old trunk in the sheriff's office, which may have contained Isenring's missing records, "a profound , Even today there are no answers on what may mystery." - ^ • -• » ; have happened to him. A Whitefish Bay historian, The trunk later turned up, without the most- Judy Kloman, has' been as fascinated with the wanted records, and had, probably been taken by questions as Isenring's contemporaries were. Isenring's friends, Kloman said.' ^fter all, at one time or another in the' 1890s, Later that month, Isenring's brother told The Isenring was Milwaukee County sheriff, the first : Milwaukee'Journal that the family believed.he village president of Whitefish Bay and the vil was dead. He said Isenring had been despondent lage's representative to the County Board. He also for a long time and might have taken his life the was manager of the posh Whitefish Bay Resort Fred Isenring day before he was to have appeared in court His and developed three subdivisions in Whitefish body was never found, however. Bay.' ;.. _ - v *\ Does Kloman thinks Isenring committed sui "He had a really good name and was much be- cide? *, :- loved," said Kloman. "He and his first wife were He left office in 1897 but failed to file financial reports for at least 18 months. :, "I don't buy that he was depressed," she said. leaders in the community. He started out as a very 1 "Not any guy who could hold off the authorities respectable citizen." Finally, after repeated delays, the County Board v made a formal request for the district attorney to for a couple of years. He was a hustler." She speculates that the troubled economy of the "One of the rumors is that family or business day began Isenring's problems. He owned the investigate the matter. Papers were served on Is enring, ordering him to appear in court. He did associates did him in," she said. "There must have equivalent of about eight city blocks in the village been such embarrassment and humiliation over so and probably bought them at the boom prices of. not An order was issued for the former sheriffs arrest only days before Christmas in 1899, but by many months, not to mention the financial prob the early.1890s. - - lems. He fell from grace. It was an embarrassment. "By 1898, there was a depression," she said. that time he had disappeared. . , "Maybe he thought he could make it up as any .'... One school of thought is that he's down at the »"The bottom fell out of the real estate market But bottom of the lake somewhere." he still had to pay taxes at the higher value." embezzler would," said Kloman. "I don't think, basically, he was a dishonest man but that he Yet another is that Isenring may have simply ,t Money from sheriffs sales ^ - wasn't very smart or didn't think things through moved and started a new life. Rumors persisted in He also may have incurred bills from his daugh far enough ahead." the months after his disappearance that he had ter Mary's hospitalization for "rheumatism." She . At the time, his second wife told a local news fled to Puerto Rico, Alaska or even south to start a later died in 1904 of tuberculosis, then considered paper that her husband, then about 45 years old, wine business. a disease caused by filth and a source of shame, had said he was going to Fond du Lac on business. * "Maybe he just got oh a train and never came back," Kloman said. "It was easy to get lost then. and probably never had rheumatism, said Kloman: "He did not tell me whom he was going to see 1 '-- The missing money was from the sheriffs sales or what the nature of his errand was," she was He could step off a train and change his name. Isenring conducted after he was elected in 1896. quoted as saying. "We were sure he would come Nobody knows what happened to him." Gallus Isenring 1826 - 1905 Page 1 Ped H18 Gallus ISENRING 07 APR 1826 10 OCT 1905 ORIGINAL IMMIGRANT 1826 APR 07 Born St. Eborat*> St. Gallen, Switzerland (Milwaukee Journal 19 MAR 1898i re Swiss Club) *St. Eborat possibly wrong community. 1847 JUN Arrived port of New York. (Immigration papers* Milwaukee County Historical Society. 1848 OCT 31 Signed Letters of Intention. Henry Unite, Clerk. 1850 Census - Uisconsin, Milwaukee, District 18 Jacob Mullie 48M Farmer $300 Holland Cathrine Milliie 49F Holland G.C. do 23F Holland Louisa M. 13F Holland J.J.C 13F Holland Gallus Isenring 24M Farmer $140 Switzerland 1851 FEB 22 Married Uilhelmina Zettler. Father: 14. John Zettler Mother: Annie Peters (Death Record USHL) (Date from Uilhelmina obit) Father: Uynand John Zettlen Mother: Annie K. Peters (per Hepworth Kearby, MB1) 1850 ca. Bought ten acre tract of land on the Sauk-Uashington Road. South west corner of current Port Uashington and Green Tree Roads. (AB2) 1852 ca. Birth and Death of Gallus Isenring 1854 APR 01 Birth of Fred G. Isenring 1855 CENSUS Milwaukee Twp Page 1 Gallus Isenring 3 M 2 F 4 Foreign Born 1855 NOV 16 Birth of Uynand DeSota - possibly adopted 1855 Bought from Hannah Consaul, a 15 acre farm about where Day Ave is. (AB) 1855 - 1858 Elected Milwaukee Twp. Road commisioner and constable. 1858 JUN 06 Birth of Annie Isenring, m. David Milbrath, d. 1920 (grave Union Cemetery) 1859 Milwaukee Twp. Treasurer - one term *MB = Uhitefish Bay Local History Collection, Uhitefish Bay Public Library, Collected by Miriam Bird. 2AB = Letters and correspondence with Anson Buttles, by Uarren & Helen Isenring Prepared by'. Diana Taylor Isenring , • (& !!,51 aa i^lf i 10I-M3-3775 Gallus Isenring 1826 - 1905 Page 2 1860 JAN 14 Naturalization papers signed. Frederick T Zettler and Nicholas Doby (de By) witnesses. I860 Census - Uisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee V3:93 Dwelling 698/86 Gallus Isenr ing 34MU Farmer $1500/$200 Switzerland Uilhelmina Isenring 39FU wife Holland Fredk. 6MU Uisconsin Ueinand 4MU Uisconsin Emma 2FU Uisconsin 1861 OCT 26 Birth of Maria Elizabeth Isenring 1863 DEC 24 Birth of JOHN UILLIAM JUSTICE Isenring. (Jan Uilliam, per MB) 1866 Sold farm to Josias LeFeber and moved to the City of Milwaukee and opened a grocery, dry goods, and flour and feed store. (AB) 1870 Census - Uisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, 6th Uard v"3:63 474/525 Eisenr ing, Gall is 45MU Grocer $101D O Switzerlan Uilhelmina 49FU Holland Frederich 16MU Uisconsin Uynand 14MU Uisconsin Anna 12FU Uisconsin Mary 8FU Uisconsin Ui11iam 6MU Uisconsin Tausram, Math el 24FU domest ic Russia(sp) 1871 Moved store to 631 (old tt) North Third St. 1871 Death of Uynand (grave stone Union Cemetery) 1875 OCT 11 Fred Isenring married Hepworth S.Chandler. She died 11 NOY 1894, and Fred married Addie E. Dreyer on 25 JAN 1897. 1875 ca. Annie Isenring married David Milbrath. 1880 CENSUS Uisconsin, Milwaukee, p43,sdl,edl32 679 Ninth Street Dwelling 263/363 Isenring, Gallus wm54 Saloonkeeper Switzerland,Swiss,Swiss Uilhelmina wf59 wife Keeping house Hoi land,Hoiland»Holland Mary wfl8 dau Clerk in Store Uisconsin,Holland,Hoi 1 and Uilhelm wml6 son Clerk in Store Uisconsin,Hoi 1 and,Hoi 1 and Dwelling 263/364 Milbrath, Dav. wm28 Carriage maker Prussia,Prussia,Prussia Anna wf22 wife Keeping House Uisconsin,Swiss,Hoi 1 and Mina wf 3 dau Uisconsin,Uisconsin,Uisconsin Abba wf 2 dau Uisconsin,Uisconsin,Uisconsin David wm 1 son Uisconsin,Uisconsin,Uisconsin Note: Apparently a large building with 9 families 1885 JUN 24 Mary Isenring married Karl Shober. \H1 John Uilliam Isenring 1863 -1926 Page 1 Ped H14 John Uilliam Justice ISENRING...24 DEC 1863,..23 SEP 1926 1863 DEC 24 Birth of John Uilliam Justice Isenring, son of Gal 1 us Isenring and Uilhelmena Zettler. Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Uis. 1870 Census - Uisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, 6th Uard V3J63 474/525 Eisenring, Gal 1 is 45MU Grocer $1000 Switzer1 an Uilhelmina 49FU Holland Frederich 16MU Uisconsin Uynand 14MU Uisconsin Anna 12FU Uisconsin Mary 8FU Uisconsin Uil1iam 6MU Uisconsin Tausram, Mathel 24FU domest ic Russia(sp) 1880 CENSUS Uisconsin, Milwaukee, p43,sdl,edl32 679 Ninth Street Dwelling 263/363 Isenring, Gallus wm54 Saloonkeeper Switzer1 and,Swiss,Swiss Uilhelmina wf59 wife Keeping house Hoi 1 and,Hoi land,Hoi land Mary wfl8 dau Clerk in Store Uisconsin,Hoi 1 and,Hoi land Uilhelm wml6 son Clerk in Store Uisconsin,Hoi 1 and,Hoi 1 and Dwelling 263/364 1885 AUG 23 Marriage of John Uilliam Justice Isenring , son of Gallus Isenrir. and Minna S Isenring: born in and resident of Milwaukee, a dry goods clerk: to Minnie G. Peters, daughter of Fred Peters and Mary G. Peters, born in Milwaukee: in a religious ceremony performed by Urn. Geyer, in the city of Milwaukee. Uitnessed by: Charles Glienke, Paul Meyer, Robert Kissinger. . (Mar. Rec. USHL) 1886 MAY 26 Birth of UYNAND FRED ISENRING 1888 APR 16 Birth of Archibald C. Isenring, m. Edna Peterson, after death of Clarence. 1890 MAY 22 Birth of Gary Isenring 1894 DEC 12 Birth of Clarence Isenring. m. Edna Peterson, d 11 May 1931, from effects of gassing during UU I 1897 APR 10 Birth of Gladys Isenring, m. Abe Desomers 1899 NOV 02 Birth of Hepworth Chandler Isenring, m. Harold Kearby iq? John Ui 11iam Isenr ing 1863 -1926 Page 2 1900 Census - Uisconsin - Mil wau kee - Uhitefiis h Bay Vol53ED193 32/32 Isenr ing, Ui11iam J. Head wm DEC 1863 36 m Uis/Swis/Holl Grocer Minnie Ui fe wf NOV 1865 34 m Uis/Ger/Uis Uynand S wm May 1886 14 8 Uis/Uis/Uis at school Archibald S wm APR 1886 12 8 UlS/wis/UIS at school Garry 8 wm MAY 1890 10 s Uis/Uis/Uis at school Clarence 8 wm DEC 1893 6 8 Uis/Uis/Uis at school Gladys d wf DEC 1896 3 8 Uis/Uis/Uis 1902 MAY 23 Birth of Al ice Isenringi> m. Grover Dedi 1905 CENSUS - Uisconsin. Milwaukee Cty. City; of Milwaukee. 19th Uard. 4P. PP5563-5564. Family H448 ISENRING. U J head UM 41 M u is Switzerland Clerk Poor Office Minn ie wife UF 38 F Uis Germany Uis Raymond son UM 19 S Uis Uis Uis Copyist sten. Archie son UM 17 S App. elec. Garry son UM 15 s Clarence son UM 12 s Gladys dau UF 8 s Hepworth dau UF 5 s Al ice dau UF 3 s 1907 OCT 30 Uynand married Gussie Schroeder, daugher of Henry Schroeder (born Germany) and Kathrine Ruppel (born Germany) His occupation: Steward. Her occupation: Dressmaker. Uitnesses: Archie Isenring, 3415 Lisbon, John Schroeder, Milwaukee: Rev. Enno Duenling - 764 - 36th St, officiating. (Uis BVR) 1926 SEP 22 Uilliam Isenring Died Milwaukee County Hospital of Hemmorhage Cerebral, Acute, Birthdate: 24 DEC 1863, Age: 62y 8m 29d, Father: Gallus Isenring - Switzerland, Mother: Uilhelmina Zettler - Holland, Occupation: Bookkeeper, Interned: Evergreen Cemetery (Uis BVR - 40L 659) 1926 SEP 23 Death Notice Milwaukee Journal ISENRING, Uednesday, September 23, 1926, J. Uilliam Isenring, Husband of Minnie Isenring (nee Peters), aged 63 years survived by four sons Uynand, Archie, Gary and Clarence, also 3 daughters Mrs Gladys DeSomers, Mrs. Hepworth Kearby, Mrs. Alice Dedi and grand children. Funeral will be from the Gospel Tabernacle 7th& Lee Saturday, Sept 26 at 2:30 PM Internment at Evergreen Cemetary Remains will be at Kaufman Bros 928 Center St Thursday evening until Saturday PM. 1927 NOV 27 Minnie Peters Isenring, Died. Milwaukee 1171 74th St. of Infection of Gall Bladder, Bronchitis. Certificate signed by: RU Boerner MD Informant: Uynand G. Isenring of 226 Lexington Ave, Uhitefish Bay. Birthdate: 11 NOV 1866, Age: 61y 16d, Father: Frederick Peters - Germany, Mother: Mary Graf - New York, Occupation: Housework ,Interned: Evergreen Cemetery. Kaufman Bros - Undertaker (Uis BVR - 40H5548) m Uynand Gallus Isenring 1886 - 1941 Page 2 1941 Aug 18 Obituary Milwaukee Journal BAY TREASURER IS DEAD AT 55 Uynand Isenring Served Town 20 Years: Rites Planned Uednesday The Uhitefish Bay village treasurer, Uynand G. Isenring, a member of a family which has been active in Milwaukee county civic affairs for three generations, died Sunday afternoon at Milwaukee hospital after an illness of several weeks with heart disease. He was 55. Mr. Isenring had been treasurer of the village since 1920. During his two decades inoffice he never had opposition. Born in Uhitefish Bay, educated at the schools there and at the old evening normal school, Mr. Isenring taught school for a time a Brown Deer. He later became assistant superintendent of the old county poor farm, serving there about six years. In 1910 he became secretary-treasurer of A. Ueigell & Son, Inc» a wholesale bedding concern. Uas Trustee Two Years Mr. Isenring seved as a Uhitefish Bayvillage trustee from 1918 to 1920. In 1920 he was elected village treasurer. He carried on the treasuryship in addition to his private work until last January, when, because of the growth of the Bay, it was felt that it should have a full time treasusrer. Mr. Isenring then resigned his position with the bedding firm. The Isenring family has been connected with Uhiutefish Bay for nearly 100 years. The family's founder here was Gallus Isenring, who came to Milwaukee county from Switzerland in 1847. He lived for some years in Uhitefish Bay, which then was a part of the town of Milwau kee. During that period he was successively township road commis sioner, constable, town treasurer and supervisor. Two of Gallus Isenring's sons were prominent in Uhitefish Bay affairs. One was Uilliam J. Isenring, Uynand Isenring's father, who was president of the school board. The other, Fred G. Isenring, was the first president of Uhitefish Bay after the village was organized. He also was a state seneator, county supervisor, and sheriff. Funeral Services Uednesday The home of Uynand Isenring is at 1036 E. Lexington blvd. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Uednesday at the Fass funeral home, 3601 n. Oakland av, under auspices of Silver Spring lodge, F. and A. M. of which Mr. Isenring was a member. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery. Survivors are Mr. Isenring:s w:ife Gussie, a son, Uarren, a grand child, two brothers, Archie and Gary, Milwaukee, and three sisters, Mrs Gladys Desomers, Orville Calif, Mrs. Heppworth Kearby, Oconto, Uis., and Mrs. Alice Dedi, Milwaukee. 1941 AUG 21 Obituary Uhitefish Bay Herald UYNAND ISENRING, BAY TREASURER, SUCCUMBS Uynand G. Isenring, who served in the capicity of treasurer for the village of Uhitefish Bay for the past tow decaeds and was a member of a family which has been active in Milwaukee county civic affairs for three generations, died Sunday after being ill for several weeks with heart disease. During his 20 years of service he ne\/er had any oppposition for the office. He was born in Uhitefish ISO ® Uynand Gallus Isenring 1886 - 1941 Page 3 Bay and attended the old evening normal school. Later he taught school for a time at Brown Deer. He served six years as assistant superintendent of the old county poor farm. In 1910 he became the secretary and treasurer of A. Ueigeil and Son. Inc. Mr. Isenring served as a trustee on the Uhitefish Bay village board for two years from 1918 to 1920 until he was elected treasurer in 1920. He carried on with his duties as treasurer in addition to his private work until last January, when because of the development of the village, the services of a full time treasurer were deemed necessary and Mr. Isenring resigned his position from A. Ueigeil and Son. The Isenring home is at 1036 E Lexington blvd. Funeral services were held Uednesday at 2 p.m. at the Fass Funeral home. 3601 N Oak land ave.. under the auspices of Silver Spring lodge F. and A. M.. of which Mr. Isenring was a member. Burial was in Graceland cemetery. Honorary pallbearers were Village President Grover F. Knoerna- schild. Village Commissioner Ralph H. Cahill and the members of the board of trustees of the village. The survivors are Mr. Isenring's wife GussieJ a son Uarren: a grand child: -two brothers. Archie and Gary. Milwaukee, and thrre sisters. Mrs. Glady De Somer. Orville. Calif.: Mrs. Heppworth Kearby. Oconto Uis.. and Mrs. Alice Dedi Milwaukee. 1958 JUL 20 Death of Augusta Schroeder Isenring. of 523 Calumet, a female white widow, housewife: Father Henry Schroeder: Mother Kathrine Ruppel: Born 8 FEB 1886. Milwaukee: Age 72 years: Cause: probable Cerebral Apoplexy Informant Uarren Isenring: Signed (illegible) Medical Examiner Burried Graceland Cemetary 23 JUL 1958 (UIS BVR 40 00) 1958 JUL 24 Obituary Uhitefish Bay Herald Services were held Uednesday at the Fass funeral home for Mrs. Augusta Isenring 72.535 U. Calumet rd.» who died Sunday at her home. Mr. Isenring. a former village trustee and treasurer of Uhitefish Bay. died inn 1941. Mrs. Isenring was a member of the First Church of Christ. Scientist. Uhitefish Bay. and is survided by a son Uarren. Glendale. and a brother. John U. Schroder. Bayside. ^^^^^^ft^^^^'^V^W W^^ '9/ vp *2 w! ICsKfin, formerly of MHwwkM. Eifler, Mildred MSldid In death by husband Lwter Bg**0" Age 93, of St. Germain, formerly of Milwaukee. Robert 8ufvlvSdbyd»«9hwr && W SSffi! Preceded in death by husband Lester and son &Pst GeWn! daughter-in-law Dorothy RMtw Robert. Survived by daughter Betty Jane Radtke «i Meauon 4grandchildren and 8 flfMHE!"?, of St. Germain, daughter-in-law Dorothy Fischer of Mequon, 4 grandchildren and 8 great-grand children. Funeral services Thurs. June 27 at 1 p.m. at the Chapel of the Chimes, Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield. Visitation 12 noon- ~ 1'P-"1- Thurt, ' • - XJ-,- " 1 p.m. Thurs. I SI \S£ "/-a- m(> DEED BOOK April 21. 1886. "^ VOL, 2- 3 6 8 •^^ ? ^ Dr. T.w# Williams: TO Fred G. Isenring <£• wife Alice A lease for the premises described lying and being in County of Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin. TO-WIT; That part of theN.W, 1/4 of Sec. £33) in Township £88) North of ) Range ('22) East and lot numbered 1 of said sec. of said premises containing1: (50 acres more or less and ite boundaries and Dimen sions-, being shown in the plat or diagram hereto annexed & marked EXHIBIT B (the leased premises being designated Lot 1. and Lot 2: therein^, togethewith the summer Hotel known as fernwood cottage, located there and the appurtenances,, furniture & fixtures thereto) belonging- aa enumerated and Trained in the schedule hereto' attached and marked EXHIBIT A which said schedule is made part, of lease. The LESSORS reserve the right of way for a road (.50) feet wide, over said premises as shown: on. EXHIBIT B.. TO HOLD for the term: of (5) years from May 1,. 1886 the said Lessee yielding and paying therefore the annual rent of $600 to be paid in even and equal portions; on the first days of each and every month in advance, the first payment to be made on the: day of May following the date of this Indenture.Not to under lease this lease, etc etc . ff. CF. Richter T.W. Williams Henry P. Scheife Alice Williams Fred G. Isenring. NOTEr Fred G. Isenring bought FERNWOOD COTTAGE from Williams in 1889. IS5 ISH DEEDS BOCK February 27. 1892^ $ 2500 ^3f]]f^ Page ISO Fred 0. Isenring, ft wife. Hepworth TO T. W. Williams Lota 16-17-18 Block 4 Stone ft Thomas Idlewild No.2 NOTE: These lots are mentioned by Pabst Brewing Co. as being fraudulently conveyed to Dr. Williams. DEEDS BOOK April 3t 1895 $ 1.00 eto. Vol. 3 4 7 Page 6 2 9 Fred a. Isenring ft wife, Hepworth T 0 Dr. T. W. Williams Lots 5-6-13-23 Block 1 Lots 6-19-14 Block 2 Lots 1-2-3-4-5-7 Block 3 Lots 11-12-17-18 In Block 4 In Isenring Subdivision No. 2 NOTE; These lots are mentioned by Pabst Brewing Co. as being fraddftlefat^y conveyed to Dr. Williams • DEED BOOK October 26, 1899 * i.oo eto. Vol. 4 2 1 a Page 4 2 6 T. W. Williams to Justus Cahn An undivided 1/2 Interest in Lots 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-11-12- 13-14- 15 and 16 Block 9 in Stone ft Thomas Idlewild No.3 EXCEPT; a strip of land 27.49 feet In width along the west side of the aforesaid Lots 9-10-11* NOTE; These lots are mentioned by Pabst Brewing Co. as being fraudulently conveyed to Dr. Williams. ci fss /S6 A summary of "Who has_ the moneyt? ft Who QWP£ the property ? Mrs. Patza. Fred G. Isenring. Bottenberg. Sohacht ft Williams. Apr. 1, 1895 Isenring for $1000 paid to him by Mrs. M. l>atza gave her a mortgage as security: Lots 1-2-3-4 Block 2 Idlewild No.l Apr. 3. 1895 Isenring sold the same lots to Chas. Bottenberg for $1 etc. Deeded them to him. Apr. 1, 1896 Chas.Bottenberg sold the same lots to Wm. AM Schacht for $2800. Gave him a deed for same. AuS. 11, 1899 Magdelena Patza started foreclosure proceedings. Jan. 5, 1900 Wm. Schacht sold the same lots to Dr. T.W. Williams for $L eto. Gave him a deed. Jan. 30, 1900 The Court granted Magdelena Patza a Judgment. Apr. 1, 1901 Magdelena patza bought the lot>8 for $1000 when Sheriff ZiMmer had a public auction. Apr. 5, 1901 Sheriff Zillmer gave a Deed to Mrs. Patza as proof of her ownership. May 27. 1910 Mrs. Patza Deeds the lots to her son Benjamin. i May 3. 1921 Ben Patza and wife Elizabeth for $1 etc. sold the lots to Edward'C. Wolf and his wife Lillian. May 4, 1921 Dr. T. W. Williams gave a quit-Claim Deed for the lots to Mrs. Patza and Ben. r 157 C \5% Superior Court Milwaukee County D0C. # 13936 Charles Raba versus Fred G. Isenring Amount of Judgment: $ 782.90 Costs ft Disbursements: m Sheriffs Fees 1.70 Attorney • 25.00 State Tax 1.00 Tax for Clerks salary 6.20 IT'33.90 La Boule ft Hunt, Attorneys: for Charles Raba. I certify that at the City of Milwaukee, in said County of Milwaukee on the 14th day of October 1896, I served the within Summons and Complaint annexed on the within named defendant Fred. G. Isenring personally by delivering true copies thereof to and leaving the same with him. , FEES Service % 1.00 Wm« s* stanl«y . Sherlfi Travel .20 per D. L. Hunter, Deputy, Copies .50 % l.W That on or about the 29th day of November 1893, the above named defen dant, Fred G. Isenring for a valuable consideration, duly executed and delivered to the above named plaintiff Charles Raba, his promissory note In writing, whereby said defendant agreed to pay to the plaintiff Charles Raba one year after said date the sum of $700 with interest thereon at the rate of 1% per annum. The following is a oopy of Isenring's Note. One year after date I promise to pay to the order of Charles Raba $700 at 1% interest per annum, Value Received. Due Nov. 29, 1894 signed; Fred G. Isenring STATE OF WISCONSIN § g Milwaukee County Charles Raba being duly sworn on oath says that he is the plaintiff in the above entitled aotion, that he has heard read the foregoing complaint and knows the contents thereof, and that the same is true of his knowledge. signed: Charles Raba Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of Oct. 1896. John La Boule, Notary Public. Judgment granted $ 749.00 Interest 33.90 Total: $ 782.90 S°l IU>0 Excerpts From: tfre Lewis Herzog Files. i Pabst Brewing Co. brought action in Circuit Court ia 1901 against Fred G>„Isenring. Pabst Brew. Co. had obtained a judgment against ^ > • * in 1896, for (it 4407 ,.0& ). They claimed Fred G> Isenring was owner of Lot I Block 1 and other Real Estate at the time when the indebtedness upon which the judgment was rendered occurred. Pabst Brewing Co. claimed further that Isenringon. or* about: April 1,. 18951being then in debt t© Pabst,did fraudulently convey said Lot 1 - Block 1 and other property to DR.T.W. Williams. Pabst: asked that: the transfer be adjudged fraudulent and sell aside. - No action orr record of action on this suit. On Nov. 15#. 1927 obtained a court order to dismiss the suit to clear , Tittle on certain of the parcels of property involved* DEED BOOK % May 1- 19Q1 BOL.. 4 4 8 P*ge 1 0 2 Theodore Zillmer, Sheriff-Milwaukee County TO Richard Burkm Trustee Richard Burke, as trustee fort Plaintiff3. Washington Becker, James J. Perkins, Thomas H. Mai one, QSL»r»nce J. Allen., Robert B. Tweedy. J.H. Tweedy, Jr. Grant Fitch. James M. Pereles Versus Defendants. . gred G. Isenring, and Adelheitd Dreyer Isenringjai his wife, John J. Burke, John Luick, Pabst Brewing Co. Win J. Morganffrank H. Thompson,, aa receiver of the Commercial Bank of Milwaukee. Charles Rabe„ Second Ward Savings Bank. Hiram B.. Kahder, Milwaukee Brewing Co. and the Whitnall - Rademaker CO. Sheriff Zillmer in pursuance of said judgment, on Apr, 29., 1901 sold at Public Auction assets for S12Q0 to Burke as Trustee: The East 15 ft. of Lot 1 and all of Lot 2 in Block 1. In Idlewild Sub-div. NO. 1 f {^ Sheriff Zillmer conveyed the above premises to Richard Burke, as Trustee i^f J l(*3L IWb. • January 141. 1884. U 3800 ) : Deed Book • Vol. 203 Page 469 Lake Shore Homestead t t 0 Park Company to Alice J.Williams WD 1-14-1884. That part of the N W 1/4 of Sec.33 in Township 8 North of Range 22 East and Lot Nc (1) of said Section bounded & described as follows: \ • Commencing at a point in the West line.of the east half of BE W 1/4 of Sec.33 in Township 8 North of Rangp 22 East, known, as the Eighth, (1/3) sections, line, (11.73) chains North of the South line of said 1/4 Sec running Thence East on a line parallel, to the South line of said 1/4- Sec. (38.31) chains to Lake Michigan,, THBNCB north 32 degrees West 3.47 chains to a point, Thence West on a line parallel to the South line of said 1/4 Sec.(36,55) chains tcp said 1/8 Sec. line , Thence South on said 1/& Sec. line to the place of beginning,. CONTAINING (11) acres, excepting there- -from the Right of Way of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and 7/estern Ry. as now located1 over and: across said premises; together with all and singular- the hereditments and appurtenances thereunto belongf- -ing and; in anywise appertaining. Lake Shore Homestead Park Company Wm F, Jordan, Pres. EJff- Finnegan Secy* ' * ' * < • . . 1 «.. • - • • * .. < •• .. - , , • : £ /63 - /*W Ltoytma Fred G. Isenring: „ January 20, 1897 < Doc. #16433 Sheriff: -versus- Wm. S. Stanley, late sheriff: Milwaukee County: All record books are withheld by said Wm. S. Stanley, late Sheriff of Milwaukee County, from has successor in office, Fred G. Isenring. It is ordered and directed that Wm. S. Stanley show cause why he should not be compelled to deliver all books, records etc. etc. to Fred G. Isenring. D#C- Jonnaon, Circuit Court Judge. On Jan. 4, 1897 Stanley did turn over books. Peter Van Vechten, Jr._ Peter Van Vechten Jr. testified he was under sheriff for 10 years and sheriff for (2) two years. Custom has always been for each retiring sheriff to take with him all dockets books, and papers con nected with his official term, except his Jail docket which is by law to be kept and delivered to his successor. That each sheriff commenced with a new set of books and after finishing his business, books and papers were boxed up by him, and stored safely wherethey oould be found by him at any time to explain all matters entrusred to him and defend himself when attacked. That during all the time deponent, (Peter Van Vechten Jr.) served as sheriff and undersheriff as aforesaid, the present system of paying the Sheriff a salary prevailed and all books used in the office were furnished by the County. 11*5 !u>Li** DESD BOOK May 1, 1901 Page 10 2 ~ Vol* 4 4 8 Theodore Zillmer, Sheriff-4^Wiukeej3o\mty ^0 Richard Burke, Trustee Richard Burke?, as trustee fq^ Plaintiffs :T Washington Becker, James J. Perkins, Thomas H. Malone, Clarence J. Allen, Robert B«_ Tweedjr, J. H, Tweedy, Jr0 grant Fitch, James M. Pereles* - versus- ~ Defendants_ - Fred G-. Isenring, and Adelheld Dreyer Isenr 1 ng, his wife, John J. in Burker John Lulck, £fl^AJ^^y ^ ^°» )fljlv ,_J». Jlpj^gSn* Frank H, Thompson, as receiver of the Commer c 1 al Bank of Ml1waukee,, Oharles Raba , Second Ward Savings Bank, Hiram B« .fonder, Milwaukee Brewing Co and the Whitnall-Rademaker Cq« Sheriff Zillmer in pursuance of said judgment, on April 29, 1901 sold at Publlc A^L^\° ?L- assets for 11200 to Burke as Trustee: The East 15 ft. of Lot 1 and all of Lot 2 In Block 1 in Idlewild Sub-dlv/ No^l Sheriff Zillmer conveyed the above premises to Richard Burke, as Trustee 71 Doc, #15809 PABST BREWING- CO. versus Fred 5. Isenring That Fred &. Isenring Feb. 14, 1896 made a promissory note to Pabst Brewing co. for $ 4337#86 Judgment entered April 30, 1896. D. Ho Johnson, Judge Circuit Court. On April 30, 1896, Pabst Brewing Co. had obtained judgment for $ 4337, 86 against Fred &. Isenring. As noted above. In 1901 Pabst Brewing Co. brought action against Fred a. Isenring. They claimed Fred G. Isenring was owneft of Lot 1 Block 1 and other Real Estate at the the time when the Indebtedness upon which the Judgment was rendered occurred. Pabst Brewing co. claimed further that Isenring on or about April 1, 1895, .being then in debt to Pabst, did fraudulently convey said Lot 1 Blocfc 1 and other property to Dr« T, W. Williams. Pabst asked that the transfer be adjudged fraudulent and set aside. \\/h April 16. 1901 Doc. #18432 ' r '" H. K. Curtis was granted a Judgment against Fred G. Isenring. • Damages: $ 1102*. 50 Costs: $'34.15 Total: $1136.65 —:— "~ That during the years 1897-1898 the defendant was sheriff of Milwaukee County and that during those years plaintiff Curtis as attorney, performed work, labor and services for Fred G. Isenring,f in giving him and his under sheriff and deputies advice and in performing other work for him'at his special instance and request for an agreed price of $500 per annum for the years 1897-1898. Fred G. Isenring paid only $100 April 1, 1899 and the rest ia owing. ALSO: assistred Fred G. Isenring5 In foreclosure proceedings: Jqh,n Kremer et al plaintiffs: against Robt. L. Rudolph et al. Isenring promised to pay $50 but did not pay. , J"ly 7i I896 Doc., j 16000 In July 7, 1896, Sheriff Wm. Stanley served a summons on Fred G. Isenring relative to: Commercial Bank of Milwaukee against Fred G. Isenring. Isenring's note for $700 plus an annual Interest of 1<& makes a Total of $899.77. On October 8, 1896 Sheriff Stanley reported ha could not find any, property to attach. or i * f\ r* a f*f - 7 C • ' - — — - - February 14, 1696 i V S ".; 3 Doc. # 15808 On February 14, 1896 Pabst Brewing Coy was granted a Judgment against Fred G. Isenring for $ 4337.86 with 6% Interest per annua until paid. On April 30,, 1896 the above amount had grown to $4407.08 . The following Is a report by Sheriff Stanley. v~»» T hereby certify that after due and diligent search and Inquiry cannot find any property either real er personal within my oounty, belonging to the within named defendant Fred G. Isenring from which to make the amount of the within «iudgneht or any part thereof and I hereby return the within execution, wholly unsatisfied and unpaid. Fee $1.50 Wm. Stanley, Sheriff:"" 15779 June 17. 1901 < ,.Po«» t Maria S. Dlokmann, versus Fred G., Isenring, Hepworth, his wife Fred G. Isenring Land Co. and Robert Geyer. Sheriff Zillmer at a sheriff's sale realized $15,605.00 — — --. -— for Mrs. Dlokmann. /(/7 C 110 November 15, 1927 Doc. #226521 Pabst Brewing Co. Plaintiff: Fred G. Isenring ) Adelheid • wife Dr. T.W. Williams ) Defendants: Alice ~^~ wife Justus Cahn ) Mrs. H wife. Affidavit^ Wallace Lanhara, Secy, of Lanhara and Son, said Corpo ration is vested with an estate in fee simple: The West 30 feet of Lots 19 and 20, also the 20 feet immediately West of and adjoining Lots 19 and 20 (being a vacated alley) in Block 2 in Isenring's Sub-division No. 2 in the S E 1/4 of Section 33. That it became vested of such estate by mesne conveyance from Fred G. Isenring. 20 years have elapsed and have a buyer to sell to, and need a clear title on property. NOTE: Court granted their wish. Judge Gustav Gehrz. John Proklefke Jr. Constable for Milwaukee County: Served a summons on all above mentioned defendants, EXCEPT: Fred G, Isenring . He could not be found . Left summons with his wife at his home. Description of Property: Feb. 27. 1893 Fraudulently conveyed to Dr. T. W. Williams Lots 16-17-18 Block 4 Idlewild No. 2 Deeds Vol. 313 " Page 150 April 3, 1895 Fraudulently conveyed to Dr. T. W. Williams Lots 5-6-13-23- Block 1 Lots 6-19-14 Block 2 Lots 1-2-3-4-5-7 Block 3 Lots 11-12-17-18 Block 4 In Isenring's Sub-dlvlslon No.2 DEEDS VOL. 347 Page 629 For Justus Cahiu, See DEEDS BOOK 421 Page 426 Pabst also attached any unpaid money due Isenring from the sheriffs office. n\ n^ H si T % c 13 \ IPOEM ON WHITEFISH BAY . 7^. IN 1892 COPY OF THE PIONEER Emphasized the Community's ture called up by the verse, which is . Excellence As a Home here reproduced: Section "Loads of lumber and'barrels of nails A copy of the third issue ol! the Household furfiitu+K"^ biu^ts and j |Wnitefish Bay. Pioneer, dated Janu pails; - f\ ' : Building material, posts, sttingles and ary 30,- 1892, has been unearthed by 1 ihe HERALD, and provides an inter- lath,' , Brick apd cement following their testing insight into the Lakeshore path; ^'community, before it had been or- All a moving, all one way, .ganized as a village. Everywhere' in Bound for the north, for Whitefish /the paper was' evidenced the rapid Bay. fgrowth of the Bay. ^ | In fact so vital was the conscious ness of growth, that a poem on the Carpenters, tinners and common, 1 (subject was published on the front hands, Jpage in the news and notes column. Painters and masons, alone and in fReaders will be interested in the pic bands; •Workmen of every description and £ kind, ' . pme plunging ahead/ some lagging I ' behind, |But all a moving, going one way, |Bound^ for the north, for Whitefish \ Bay. .Coaches packed on the Dummy roafd, jLake Shore trains * groaning under their load; ^Teams and wagons and men on foot,* |Horseback, bicycles, hand-cars to \ boot; All a moving,' every day, pBound for the north, for Whitefish U Bay. 6 ^Lively music in all kinds of weather, .Saws, and hammers going ' together; kThe mason's trowel starts up a new strain, > - ' And shinglers and lathers keep/ up ; the refrain, kSiich is life from day to day, f?Up to the north, at Whitefish Bay. ^Beautiful houses, bright and new,, jElising everywhere-on the view; $Out on the lawn in the stirring I breeze, ' k ;.'_ ; , '•''."'..>: /'" '';".' |Or peeping up o'er the tops of the trees; '• .;• JHomes for the homeless, bright cpl- | ored, gay, '.•••" ? feay, what do you think of Whitefish |; Bay?:/J[ ' ' ; ': '.:';• . ;: '\~C I The spirit of excelling/ as a com- |munity of homes still reigns in the [village, and though the poem is thir- !ty-seven years old,'it is still timely. A number of other revelations of life] in the village at that time will be given iu another issue of " the HERALD. v' ', {& \1t> (Wisconsin Historical Society file) WHITEFISH BAY PIONEER VOL. II NO'. 3 January 25, 1$93 0. A. Rogers 436 Broadway Gossip Remingtons entertain the Cinch Club: Messrs and Mesdames Curtis, Fowle, Disbro and Langlois, Dr. and Mrs. Williams, Bessie Sherman, Mr. Isenring, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Lefebre and Miss Conley. Voeks supplies ice. Isenring happy re knocking out of proposed poor farm purchase. Schoolhouse at standstill acct of bad weather. Work progressing on Lake Shore depot. , I \',! w' .o'/) Side track started for cement and brick company. A good deal of machinery for plant is ready to put in. C. R. Gether has ordered another well for the continuation of Lawndale. it will be \bored near the beach and a small engine will force the water through pipes. All trains on the M.W. and Lake Shore will stop next summer near .bake Shore Junction in East.'Milwaukee* WFB now has a good schodl. Mrs. Curtis is taking extra pains with the young folks. Present quarters are cri^ded. Ads Stone & Thomas 39? Broadway Lots 1/3 cash 3 years C3 6$ Lake Forest Park (Tweedy) Sewers and .waterworks supplied (Plat does not show -extension of Dummy Line) Milwaukee and WFB railway. Station .corner North and Farwell, A.W.Lynn,Mgr* The Bellevue F.G.Isen^ring, Mgr. Fred. G. Isenring Prop. WFB Park and Edgewood Family Resort. if* Pabst resort once drew thousands (continued from page 5) v In 1913, the Pabst board of directors voted Heights needed a one-third cash down pay to plat the resort property and sell it as lots VH ment, with the balance paid in three years. for highly restricted residential building. I The interest rate was six percent. According to a 1953 history of the resort;rJ | The ad contained a stern postscript, how- the Pabst plan sparked a movement to erf- I ey,ex: "Property Sold only to Persons of courage the village or the county to buy the Good Character, who will be Valuable Ac property for a public park, but Pabst> quisitions to these^ Future Important officials held firm to their decision to sub Our heritage: Suburbs." ^ - divide the property. ^ ^ Scattered through the brochure are ad The resort was razed in 1918, and the vertisements for popular products of the elegant lakefront homes which now occupy ^ day such as carriages; hammocks, lawn the site were built soon after. ' ^ -•* tennis, croquet and baseball supplies; horse ._ The subdivisions hailed in the brochure Earjy land buys covers, leather belting and lacking; bicy dicUnot develop on schedule either. The cles* the Speneerian Business College depression of 1893 virtually halted home- building in Whitefish Bay, and it took many (which promised it prepared students "for in the Bay , business pursuits.. .in the shortest time and years for the area to become the residential v at the least expense"); ice cream, and, of By Emily Hokanson quired a farm of 26 acres on community envisioned by those hopeful real :. For ihe Post course, Pabst beer. estate promoters long ago. ...•;,; the Port Washington ;Road. Despite the brochure's glowing accounts i In 1B44 William Consaul, a John had to clear the U»r,d of, In a related Historical Socity activity, a I farmer from Toledo, Ohio of a promising future for the resort and special exhibit showing methods of weeds, stones, and trees. Like nearby residential developments-^ thei*esprt- purchased 70 acres of land for other early settlers, he used J transportation to and from Whitefish Bay in $362.70. His land extended oxen with the yoke on the lasted scarcely 25"years and home-lSuiidihg" the early days will be on display during ; was long delayed. \„ _ •:-:,i' ?&$tioZ from Lake Drive to Santa oxen's head so thai the pulling June at the .Whitefish Bay Library, Monica Blvd. The names of Although the resort was hkiled as gear was high enough to pass 1 N Assembled by Historical Society mem some other early land owners over tree stumps. Rabe was "an overnight success " when it op'enecf ifcf * bers Joan Mosby, 1003 E. Sylvan Ave., and were G» Grober, 15 acres, 1889 and (the brochure predicted it would be allowed to sell the wood he cut ,, Joan Larschied, 4796 N. Ardmore Ave., the ) whose descendants sold their and keep the money he ac "a joy forever )J the advent of-'the exhibit recalls when Lake Dr. was a dusty . land to the Bay Shore Shop quired from the sale. automobile doomed the resort after the turn toll road, large excursion boats docked at ping, Center. Fred Grams and The Bavarian Inn is now sit of the century, as travelers, sought enter the foot of Henry Clay St. and the so-called Tom Severn also pucrhased uated on the original farm. tainment and recreation farther afield. Dummy Line railway ran trains fromJM- farm land in the Whitefish Mary Jane Sheife, born waukee to Whitefish Bay every 45 minutes. Bay area- The latter Grams Mary Jane Consaul, daughter home is on Lake Drive and of William Consaul, remem part of their farm is now bered that two families who Klode park. lived near her parents' home John and Sophie «Rabe ac- took part in the Pike's Peak or Bust Days, traveling for two years in a covered wagon. I Carl Schurz, the well-known German Socialist spoke to a gathering of German Social ists from all over the stte state jpoor pay for doctor in 1849. A French Liberty hat was flown atop a flag pole for P. /W the event which was held in a ? The doctor serving the "gold coast" village of The Tbs-F field on what is now Day Ave Itfhitefish Bay in 1912 as village doctor, resigned corn- /.?7£ nue and the lake. laining that all he had to do was delouse children's f ead lice. His salary-$50 a year. , ^kW */*/r*3' iSl^Jx '-££*.**"* V j: By Mary Schuchmann - r ;5:: andria PL, Barrett PI. and Elizabeth Ave.. /*. before all the fine building locations will be destined to make it one of the most desira The other subdivision, Idlewild and Fair- ~. taken." 7 - . ~ . ble and popular summer resorts in the coun- - T A walking tour of the area that was once . mount Heights, was bounded on the west by *y Another appeal—ironically, by today's the famed Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort will *•• try." - .„ * - , - . ,, - :-H - i the present Idlewild Ave., on the south byr's real estate market—was "the low price of, Mineral *• springs "equal to^ the? highlight the fourth annual meeting of the . Henry Clay St., on the east by N. Lake Dr. property;" according to the booklet "Peo Whitefish Bay Historical Society on Sunday " , medicinal springs» of Waukesha", were : and on the north by E. Lexington Blvd.. ple who have platted property there have reportedly located at the southeast corner * from 3 to 5 p.m. ' ' . ' (known then as Bellevue Blvd.) It also in-, had the good sense to keep prices down to a The tour will begin at Pandl's Whitefish \ of the Fairmount Heights subdivision (near "* eluded the triangle of land between E. Lex- ; reasonable basis," the booklet stated. the present Big Bay Park), and the soif was h Bay Inn, 1319 E. Henry Clay St—itself a ,; ington Blvd. and E. Birch Ave., and Idlewild *~ "Lots are being sold from $10 to $25 per piece of local history—and walk north on N.' '. regarded as a "valuable clay." 1 .proven tol- r J Ave. to Marlborough Dr. (known then as, foot there now, which are almost certain to : Lake Drr " -" ~" " possess qualities for making fine stone-1 Pennsylvania Ave.) It was platted by Stone , double in value in two years—The property ware." ; ^ S~ ^~~Z~-~~* TT'J'^T' The meeting and tour are open to the & Thomas. - , %-x* -* ' **-,- _~v , £, in the vicinity of the bay is plainly so cheap public at no charge. Anyone interested in at Other original street names in the sub that anyone who has the means should buy "Stone & Thomas spared .no praise "nT: tending is asked to call Pandl's, 964-3800, for ; division were Park Ave., Belmont Ave.* there as an investment, even if he should describing their development' Calling it \ a tour reservation. - - --: - --~~- "Most Charminly Located^-jtheir. adver- - Idlewild PL and Fernwood PL not care to build." ~ . tisement in the brochure touted the Vubdivi-1 Some of the area to be viewed is featured For residents living in those early sub- <; * Anyone buying a home site, according to in a souvenir brochure recently reprinted sion as "the most BeautifuLof any ^Recently f divisions—and for anyone interested in the booklet; had the advantage "of living on Platted Tract in the City otMilwaukee, or.; by the Historical Society. The booklet, titled^ Whitefish Bay history, for that matter—the. the Bay near the steam-boat landing, on • "White Fish Bay—Milwaukee's Favorite any of its Suburbs." \ JS,T^ 1~ ,*% t \ booklet is a fascinating look at the area that r Lake Ave., and near the depot of the White 1 Buyers in. Idlewild and^Fairmount | Resort," will be available at the meeting for appeared, in the 1890s, to be on the brink of Fish Bay Railway, advantages for beauty/ $2.50. After the meeting, it will be sold at the ' a housing boom. . and scenery and convenience which are (Continued on page 7) 1 Whitefish Bay Library for $3. The Whitefish Bay Resort, with its 250- * , The 24-page booklet was reprinted by Mil foot-long pavilion and 18-acre park, - was -v; waukee's Hammersmith-Breithaput Print- ^ seen as a moving force in residential devel ing Co. from an original copy, now yellowed. 7 J opment of the surrounding area.. _ , and faded, owned by Jack Pandl. ^ (According to a 1953 historical account, •-4 The original booklet gives no publication"^ "for some unknown reason the owners tried date, but it appears to have been issued in - * : to give -. *•**«* jr*>-^s»fit-^^-*s/J ;*&.£xt&,S, .^ . %dFA (hiaJd % Ki -^ \ * fci rfi< Mw'mk $1 Wm IK C«;|B| P^IIi *^\S*; 5* m SJlSrliti 111 ^9 l-M ^KrV rfS^ ^'. Hoppenrath is mistaken as to sidewalks • V/hen Arthur Rabe graduated from 8th grade,. JUNE 22, 190G, there were side walks many years before< v* * EARLY CROCERY STOfa -^ Lewis F.^Schiefe, owned and Lewis* famify lived upstairs until the I building was sold, to,/J; *. L operated his grocery store during the 1890s.it what is now the vpB,B,Bg,„,8,wv«y «wic UWIMI.S me I07U&W wnai IS nOW tne Krugle„.„.s, i,.n. >w1898,v, , Th.,,«e olsto^^ e Wburne«M.C«d ..in. I71914I-T . MenierSchiefee a Milwaukee River 870 Milw. Cement Co. 874 Mill Road 856,,85 7 Posting of Notices/taverns 853 4,7,10 Mile Houses Post Offices 858 Port Washington rd. re location 864 Powder mill explosion 878-•879 St.Johannes Luth.Church, 869 earliest members Schools, early 883-•887 Truck farms/gardeners 855,.85 6 Thien/Hermann/Pierron mill 857,.85 8 Taverns 859,,860,875-87 7 Upper Milwaukee 852 Whitefish Bay Pabst Resort 862,.86 3 notes \<& > s* Mimi Bird 1992 HISTORICAL TID-BITS ""Upper Milwaukee" is the name of a new city just laid out in the SWi Sec. 29 T8 N R22 E on the W bank of the Milwaukee River, ten miles above its mouth and i mile from the lake. This town was formerly the site of an Indian village and forms the lower part of a beautiful prairie, the only one in this region. The waterpower here is so considerable that it will be sufficient for any number of machines and the soil is fit for any agriculture. The roads from Milwaukee to Green Bay, Sauc Village and Sheboygan lead through here. Here is the only place where the canal to connect the great Mississippi with the Milwaukee River can possibly terminate. THis canal will take the Menomonee River as a tributary above the falls and then and here. This "Glorious Prairie" is east of the Green Bay road somewhat below Bender's water-powered sawmill; one has to add this." From "Milwaukee" by Rudolph Koss. (The prairie was on the south side of Bender Road, running S to Silver Spring Dr. There were several Indian mounds in this area, destroyed by the progress of roads and houses.) LOCAL BRIDGES An early Green Tree Rd. bridge, Silver Spring Dr. bridge and the bridge over the river on the Port Rd. were built by William Stabelfeldt, with helpers; built of wood. From Anson M. Buttles to Mimi Bird, 1989. The Green Tree bridge .originally was a little south of its present location and was rebuilt in 1917 by the House of Correction prisoners, due to the lack of a labor shortage because of World War I. The old Bender's bridge was named "the old red bridge" since it was built of steel and rusted. (From Gilbert Sellin, who lives at 6345 N. Sunny Point Rd., site of Bender's early saw mill.) It was originally built on a NE/SW angle north of its present location and led from Bender's sawmill, located on the E side of the river, to the W side of the river. C&NW RAILROAD'S NEW TRACK NORTH OF BENDER ROAD This track was laid in 1927/28 after the removal of the N/S tracks running through Shorewood and Whitefish Bay. The new track connected to existing tracks on the west at 43rd St., south of Mill Rd., curving to the north just E of Richards St. (St. Monica Blvd.) to connect with the existing north/south track. There had been a large hill in Kletzsch Park, created when the sand and gravel had been removed from that area and sold. The dirt from this hill was pushed by 120 mules and pulled by another 120 mules to create the new hill for the RR trestle. The mules often broke their legs on the steep incline of the new trestle hill. (Also from Anson M. Buttles.) Dirt was also removed from the now flat area north of the 4 new tracks between St. Monica Blvd. and Port Washington Rd. The Marsh Co. put in the railroad bridge over the river north of Bender Rd. The Hickcox barn, located in present Clover- nook Subdivision (subdivision named after the Hickcox farm) was used to house the mules and also for feeding the railroad construction workers. GRAVEL PITS Beginning in the late 1890's, local farmers sold off parts of their farmland for the removal of sand and gravel, to make ends meet. The gravel was used for road repair and creating new roads; there was a heavy demand for this material. There are existing ponds W of Green Bay Rd. created from digging out the sand and gravel. The Kleist family owned much of the land around the Green Bay/Green Tree Rds. area and had their own gravel company. West of the Silver Spring House and the Kehillat Torah Synagogue, in the 6700 block of Green Bay Rd., these ponds exist. Several subdivisions have been built around other ponds in Glendale. There were gravel pits under present Bay Shore Mall, later used as dump sites by the Village of Whitefish Bay and Town of Milwaukee. The Grober and Lutz families operated these pits and dump sites. POSTING OF NOTICES IN 1866 and THE CEDARBURG ROAD The five most public places to post notices in the Town of Mil waukee were Ernst Mesicke's Tavern, Krocker's Tavern (S of the present Silver Spring House on Green Bay Rd.), at the tollgate on Washington Rd. (Port Washington Rd. - perhaps in the Keefe Ave. area), at the tollgate on Green Bay Rd., and at the 4 Mile House on the Washington Rd. (Schuetz's "Heidelburg Inn" in the present 5400 block of Port Washington Rd., now site of the defunct Holiday Inn motel, 5423 N. Port Washington Rd.) The Seven Mile House was on the Cedarburg Rd. (43rd St.) at Good Hope Rd., the Ten Mile House was located on Brown Deer and the old Cedarburg Rd. (now the Green Bay Rd, overpass at Brown Deer Rd.) Both were in the former Town of Granville. The Cedarburg Rd. was merged with and became Teutonia Ave., merged again with Green Bay Rd. N of Bradley Rd. and only exists today in the Village of Brown Deer as Deerwood Ln. and in a small area SW of Green Bay Rd., S of Dean Rd. (if Dean Rd. existed in that area.) LINDWURM ISLAND - LINCOLN PARK INFO. Located in the Milwaukee River at site of present on-ramp to 1-43 S of Hampton Rd. Named for William Lindwurm who owned most of the land know known as Lincoln Park (formerly Lindwurm Park). The island was removed during the reconstruction of the river, along with other islands, because of the massive overflowing of the river south of Henry Clay St. There is a natural rise of stone under the river on the E side of the Port Washington Rd. bridge - about ^ block E - and it was at that location that the Indians crossed the ^ $53 river because of the river's shallowness. The C&NW RR tracks crossing Port Washington Rd. S of Henry Clay St. were originally laid on the ground; the tracks were elevated in the 1920's. The large hill on the S side of the tracks, W side of 1-43 was created when the river was dredged and rerouted in that area to stop the flooding across the Port Rd. The mud and muck taken from the river was deposited on the S side of the tracks to create the present hill. The old District #10 school was located on the S side of those tracks, W side of Port Washington Rd., built in 1868 on land leased by Lindwurm to the School District. The school was razed in 1919 or 1920. The tracks were laid in 1872. CRYSTAL SPRING PARK AND TAVERN This was located on the W side of Port Washington Rd. at approximately River Front Dr., beginning in the late 1880fs, early 1890's by Max Zabel. There are still springs underneath the ground in this area, as many residents can attest to, with their wet basements, and the Dept. of Transportation discovered during the reconstruction of 1-43 in the spring of 1991. These springs created a small lake to the west of the Crystal Springs tavern, large enough to row boats on, with picnic areas around the edges. At one time, there was a sign on the tavern saying "Hoppen Walz - Gatten Haus" meaning "love to dance" and a ballroom was later added to the tavern. There were also small cabins around the tavern used by "women of the night." During prohibition, gallons of beer were poured into the horse trough in the basement of the Crystal Spring tavern. In the late 1920's and early 1930's, the lake was filled in, the area was subdivided into lots and named the Crystal Spring Subdivision. BOTANICAL GARDENS and TOWN OF MILW. TOWN HALL Gustav Trostel (Trostel Tannery Co.) purchased 41 acres between the old Port Washington Rd. and the Milwaukee River, site of present Nicolet High School. Trostel sold a 5 acre parcel to Charles Solomon, who .built the house at 6789 N. Elm Tree Rd. in 1910, still standing. Solomons then sold the house and land back to Trostel. Trostels then used the house as a summer retreat, developing the remaining 36 acres into a private botanical garden and working farm. The subdivision known today as Clovernook, located on the W side of 1-43 and Jean Nicolet Rd., was purchased in 1902 by the Gilbert Hickcox family. The 20 acre land was turned into a dairy operation, but they converted a portion into the Wild Life Protective Society, for use as a preserve. The society was incorporated and then sold off a portion to the Wisconsin Town Lot Co. for $6000.00 on 4/28/1926 - the beginnings of de velopment in that area. The Hickcox family named their farm "Clovernook" and the name is still preserved in the subdivision. The house at 901 W. Green Tree Rd. was built in 1889/90 by Waldemar Wernich, who sold it and TO acres of land to Wilhelm Alfred Richter in 1890, for $5000.00. Richter turned his land into a fruit farm, registered as "Waldhof Fruit Farm & Nursery" and left it to a son, Walter. Howard and Louise M. Greene of City of Milw. conveyed to the Milw. Arboretum, a corporation of Milw., WI, on 8/22/1908 a piece of land approximately 92' wide on the N side of Bender Rd., running 1000' N, but widening out into a bulge in the middle of its N/S length. This natural preserve was just N of the present North Shore Walter Filtration building, on the NW corner of Bender and Jean Nicolet Rds. The old Town of Milw. Town Hall sat in front of this preserve, on a piece of land 50 x 100' wide, N side of Bender Rd., loaned to the town by Max Zabel. The frame building, built 1872, replaced the meeting room in Bender's grist mill where town elders met on its 2nd floor. TRUCK FARMS/GARDENS Most Town of Milwaukee farmers had small farms; there were few farms over 30 acres. The soil was not as good in this area as that farther to the west. The truck farmers "trucked" their produce to City markets or to Commission Row during summer months. Many small farms grew lettuce. The Grober family raised strawberries on their farm on Port Washington Rd. Meissners, also on the Port Rd., near Henry Clay St., raised cucumbers for their pickle factory. Geilfuss' on Bay Ridge Ave., just S of Silver Spring Rd., raised cauliflower, claiming to have introduced it to this area. Later, nurseries became popular. Alex Schmidt had a sizeable wholesale nursery on the E side of River Rd., just N of Good Hope Rd. The Grades and Schroeders had nurseries on Good Hope and Port Washington Rds. George Kitzerow had his nursery on the W side of Port Washington Rd., just N of Silver Spring Rd. Florist Ave. was supposedly named for farmers growing flowers there in the 'teens through the 1940's. Apple Tree Rd. was so-named by the Degner family - early settlers - for their apple orchard on the E side of Port Washing ton Rd. The two largest dairy farms that I am aware of were the Kryzsch family's, on 80 acres they rented from William Swain between St. Monica Blvd. and Idlewild Ave., Silver Spring Rd. to Henry Clay, and the Hickcox dairy in present Clovernook Sub division. Gardeners shown in the 1902 Town of Milw. directory with their Post Office addresses: Armhein, Ignatius - Station E Benzing, Engelbert - 515 Cramer St. (lived in Shorewood) Bischoff, William - Silver Springs Dassow, Gustav - Whitefish Bay Dickmann, Theodore - Silver Springs Dulau, Charles E. _ East Milw. Ernst, Gottlieb - Silver Springs Filter, Emil - Silver Springs Geilfuss, Bernard - Silver Springs Grober, William - Station E Grober, Gustav - Silver Springs Haessler, Herman - Station E Hupfer, Charles - Silver Springs Ische, John - Silver Springs Keipper, Philip - Station E Koehler, William - Silver Springs Mayer, John - Station E Mohr, Philip - Whitefish Bay Neumann, Samuel - Station E Paul, Ernst - Silver Springs Peterson, John - Dillman Pulze, Theodore - Whitefish Bay (should be Poize) Sawtell, Jos. E. - Station E Schmidt, John A. ditto Schoof, William ditto Schuetz, Charles ditto Schulpius, Chas. A. ditto Sellin, Frank - Silver Springs Siewerth, William - ditto Timpel, Ernst - Whitefish Bay Webber, Joseph C. ditto Witte, Adolph - Silver Springs BENDER'S GRIST MILL, SAW MILL, MILL RD. AND BENDER RD. The grist mill was built by Peter Bender's sons right after the Civil War, named Bender's Superior Mills. It stood on the W side of the Milw. River, at the approximate location of W. Mill Rd. and the river and stood 3 stories high. The 2nd floor was used for Town Hall meetings until 1872, when a Town Hall was built near the NW corner of present Jean Nicolet and Bender Rds. In later years, the grist mill was used as an ice house, along with many other ice houses in the area along the river. Ice blocks were cut out of the river, wrapped in insulating paper, completely covered with hay and straw and kept until summer when it was used for ice boxes - forerunners of our refrigerators. Farmers were able to supplement their incomes this way. The grist mill was torn down when Jerry Klein purchased the land and built his Town 'n Country Nightclub on the site in the late 1920's. It was an era of roadhouses throughout the county and country! Jerry Klein's father, Frank Klein, had the old tavern on the NE corner of W. Mill and Green Bay Rds. Its site is at the SW edge of Kletzsch Park; the tavern burned to the ground in 1982 (owned by Larry Gruen at the time.) Directly across the river from Bender's grist mill was his saw mill. The angled portion of Sunny Point Rd., immedi ately N of Bender Rd., led directly to this mill, located at the river's edge at present 6245 N. Sunny Point Rd. The early bridge across the river was built S of the mill and its stone work can still be seen on the E side of the river, N of Bender Rd. The 1st bridge angled NE to SW. On 11/13/1850, Every Agnes and wife, Elise, to Charles G. Everts, all of town of Milw. for $100.00 for 4 acres in SW^ Sec. 20 to be used for a ditch to lead water from the Milw. River to a mill to be erected on the E fraction of Lot #1 Sec. 30 T8 on E side of river and the right to leave the earth excavated on E side of said ditch beyond the 25 ft. men tioned. (See BENDER family for complete land description in deed.) This ditch was a mill race for Bender's saw mill. A deed dated 10/8/1851 states "land on which premises is a sawmill owned in part by Peter Bender subject to a mortgage of $1200.00 " and "a strip of land lying west of and including the mill race and a strip of land on the E side of the mill race." To Peter Bender, 1/17/1852 for $50.00 for constructing a dam across the Milw. River opposite to and adjacent to land of Garrett and Mary Ann Barry in the NE^ Sec. 30 T8 N R22 E. Remments of the mill race can still be seen within Kletzsch Park, S of Green Tree Rd., leading to the S edge of the curve of the river at "Sunny Point." By digging this ditch, Bender was able to forego sending logs down the river and around the large curve there; the mill race continued on the S shore of the river along what is now Sunny Point Lane. Bender's 1st dam was constructed of logs and stood in the approximate location of the present dam in Kletzsch Park. In the area of Green Tree Rd. at the Milw. River, John Henry Thien had built a log dam for his grist mill, located on the E side of the river, S side of Green Tree Rd. The dam was just N of the old bridge. Dams were needed for a rush of water to power their mill wheels. The area known today as Bender Rd., between Port Washington Rd. and the river, was originally named "Brown's Rd." for James Brown, a large landowner/farmer on the N side of that road. Bender's Rd. was between the river and Green Bay Rd. After Alvin Peter Bender married Evelyn Rhoda Brown, dau. of James, the entire road was renamed Bender Rd. I do not know when Mill Rd. was named, but there were mills at both ends of this road in the 1850's - one out at the W end of the Town of Granville near 124th St, and Bender's mill at the E end of this road, thus ensuring the name of "Mill" Rd. The millrace and mill at the W end was on the Menomonee River. One of the 1st houses built of logs sawn at Bender's saw mill still stands at 6365 N. Sunny Point Rd. - the Agnes house. The Consaul house, 716 E. Silver Spring Dr., also had siding sawn at this mill. Information comes from descendants of the Agnes and Consaul families to Mimi Bird. THIEN/HERMANN/PIERRON GRIST MILL - GREEN TREE RD. Carl Hermann purchased 24 acres in NW^ Sec. 20 Town 8 land on the S side of Green Tree Rd., E and W sides of the V 3*7 Milw. River, including 20 acres of the former John Henry Thien's mill property. Thien left the area to found Thiens- ville; Hermann purchased the above land in Jan. 1866 from Thien's estate and 4 acres from Xaverus and Louise Stark of Racine Co. Thien's mill was a grist mill; Hermann and his step-sons, William and Charles Pierron, converted it into the Silver Spring Mills, manufacturing starch and cereals. Later, it became a split pea factory and they built an ink factory on the W side of the river, S of Green Tree Rd. Thien had built a log dam just N of Green Tree Rd.; an early bridge existed just N of the present bridge. The dam was used for waterpower for the mill. (From Janet Pierron Jacobi Holland, great-granddaughter of Louis and Catherine Pierron; Catherine marr. as her 2nd husband Carl Hermann. Janet's grandfather was William Pierron.) When Kathrina Hermann, widow of Louis Pierron and Carl Hermann, died 1897, she left among other real estate, the SW fract. of NWi Sec. 20 lying E of the Milw. River, including dwelling house, mill, other buildings and improvements. The mill no longer existed when Janet Holland was a child in the 1 teens. POST OFFICES Most postal stations were located at/near railroad stations; others had mail dropped at a RR intersection, then taken to a nearby saloon or grocery store for pick-up. By 1902 there was rural delivery in many locations - horse drawn wagon delivering mail to farms. The 1902 Town of Milw, directory lists the following as area postal offices: Berthelet: Changed from former Lindwurm Station. Lo cated at Milw. Cement Works in SW£ Sec. 4 T7 Town of Milw., about i.mi. N of Milw. City limits. Daily mail. Brown Deer: Station on CM&St.Paul RR (Lake Superior Div. also known as Ten Mile House, on Cedarburg Plank rd., 7 mi. N of Milw. City line in NWi Sec. 12 Town of Granville. Louis Heuer, postmaster. Daily mail. Dillman: P.O. on Port Washington rd., NE^ Sec. 8 Town of Milw., about 8 mi. N of Milw. city limits. Station is on C&NW RR in SW^ Sec. 4, about f mi. distant. Mail Tues. and Sat. (Station was on Brown Deer Rd. at approximately Regent Rd.) East Milw. (now Shorewood): An incorporated village in Town 7, Milw., between Milw. Rier and Lake Michigan, just N of north city limits. Good Hope: Discontinued post office; mail now to Brown Deer and North Milw. (This was the intersection of Good Hope and Green Bay rds., the Good Hope Inn was located on the NW corner, a saloon and overnight stop while traveling.) Lake Shore Junction: Station on C&NW RR about ^ mi, N of Milw. city limits. Lindwurm: Station on C&NW RR in NE^ Sec. 5 Town 7; post office is Berthelet. (Lindwurm station was on the S side of 8*8 Hampton rd., W of St. Monica Blvd. at the C&NW tracks.) Silver Springs: P.O. and station on C&NW RR in SE^ Sec. 30, Town of Milw., on Green Bay Rd. about 3 mi. N of Milw. city limits. Daily mail. George Hammer, postmaster. Ten Mile House: See Brown Deer. Whitefish Bay: Station and incorporated village on C&NW RR in NWi Sec. 33 Town of Milw., about 3 mi. N of Milw. city liits. Connected with Milw. by street railway, daily mail. Postmaser, John D. Singles. Williamsburg: Territory N of Milw. city limits between the Milw. River and Cedarburg Rd. (Teutonia Ave.) Post office changed to Station E. TAVERNS Saloons/taverns played a large part in the lives of early settlers and the generations after. Taxes were paid, town meetings, sheriff's sales and land auctions were held there; several were rest stops for travelers and their horses. Men stopped in any time, women were allowed in only with men and usually for a social event such as a dance. The 1902 directory lists the following: (Use P.O. addresses listed above) Dittman, Fred - Station E, Milw. Gaulke, Otto H. - Station E. (NW corner Hampton ad Port Washington Rd.) Grober, Louis - Whitefish Bay (6030 Port Wash, rd., site of present Pizza Hut restaurant) Hammer, George - Silver Springs Hartman, Peter - Silver Springs Herbst, Christ. - Brown Deer Hoffmann, Herman - Silver Springs Johns, Mrs. Frances - Station E (NE corner Green Bay and Hampton rds.) Hubert, Karl - East Milw. Keipper, Phil. - Brown Deer (Keipper's Park was on E side of present Green Bay Rd., N side of Dean Rd., if Dean Rd. continued east in this area.) Kleinhans, George - Station E Kleist, John - Silver Springs (Silver Spring House on Green Bay Rd.) Koeppel, Wilhelmina Mrs. - Station E Konopka, Henry - Whitefish Bay (Whitefish Bay Resort on side of Lake Dr., N side of Henry Clay St.) Kuetemeyer, John - Dillman Luebke, Arthur C. - Berthelet Maierfeldt, Fred. - Dillman Manegold, George J. - East Milw. Mead, Peter J. - 1043 Oakland Ave. Mueller, Fred - Station E Patzer, Emil - Silver Springs Rahn, George -Station E & \ 259 Reichenbach, J. Frank - Station E Rust, Henry - Station E Schuetz, Henry - Station E (old Heidelburg Inn, W side Port Washington Rd., 5400 blk.) Schultz, Edward - Whitefish Bay (SE corner Silver Spring and Port Wash, rd.) Schweitzer, Theophile - Brown Deer (tavern still there on SW corner River Lane and Deerwood Lane.) Timm, Louis - Station E Toll, Charles - Station E Tretlin, Louis - Whitefish Bay (saloon on Lexington Blvd. near Lake Dr.) Winter, Herman A. - Berthelet Wondergem, Isaac - Whitefish Bay (Crystal Springs Park, W side Port Washington rd., approx. 6000 blk.) Zaage, Henry - Station E Zelade, Ernst R. - Station E Ziegert, Herman - Brown Deer Some of the saloons had blacksmith shops next to them; one I know about was Otto Gaulke's on the NE corner of Hampton and Port Washington rds. The blacksmith shop was E of the tavern1. Wilhelm Schroeder sold that NE corner to Schlitz Brew ing Co.in 1885; Gaulke built the tavern in 1891 and, naturally, only Schlitz beer was served! In 1915, George Bentley (who began the present Pandl's Whitefish Bay Inn) ran the tavern and finally, in its last years, it was Venzl's. Today, an apart ment building is on the site. FAIRMOUNT RIDING ACADEMY Located on the W side of Lydell Ave., at FairmouriirAve. in present Glendale. Land for the building was sold to that corporation 6/18/1928 and the large wooden building was built shortly afterwards. Used mainly for horseback riding lessons until the late 19'40's; horses were also boarded on the premises. THE EARLY BEACH ROAD IN FOX POINT AND FOX POINT BRICK YARD Several of the Dutch settlers farmed along Lake Michigan on the top of the bluff and below, but their land was not locked in. The Beach road, known today as Beach Drive, existed fromthe late 1840's on, beginning its southern extremity at the east end of Green Tree Rd. A dirt trail led from there, down the bluff, to the present road behind the homes in the 7000 to 7300 blocks. That trail still exists as a path for those who traverse the area. The Fox Point brick yard was located on the "flats" with its pier on the site of present 7328 N. Beach Dr. There, the road turns west, away from the road at the edge of the beach, continues a short distance, then turns south towards Green Tree Rd. The "flats" were so-named because of the flat expanse of land on the west side of the road. The brick was made of the sand and gravel found right there and sent away in boats that docked at the pier. The pier was built between 1848 and 1854 by Gerret Wolters who lived in the area; he purchased in 1848 and died in 1854. The only example of the Fox Point brick I've seen was shown to me by Anson M. Buttles. It exists in a house at 5965 N. Bay Ridge Ave., WHitefish Bay. Originally the brick was used for a farmhouse (whose I don't know); when that house was torn down, the brick was reclaimed for the existing house. The brick is a dark brown speckled brick. Fox Point brick was apparently not as substantial a brick as the Cream City brick made in the City of Milwaukee, and went out of business. The old Beach road traversed the same route the present road does, continuing northwards, but today's road ends at the site of 8130 N. Beach Dr. In those earlier times, the dirt trail continued up the bluff to meet the southern end of today's Fox Lane. Portions of this old trail also exist for those who walk in this area. ^ §W WHITEFISH BAY PABST RESORT NOTES Fredrich G. Isenring bought "Fernwood Cottage" from Dr. Thaddeus W. Williams in 1889; it was located on the NW corner of Lake Dr. and Belleview/Bellevue Blvd. (present Lexington Blvd.) Prior to the resort's construction in 1888/89, this was probably a rental cottage for summer residents. Dr. Williams was a well-to-do WFB resident and that village's first Health Officer. Pabst Brewing Co. (formerly Best Brewing) bought Fernwood Cottage from Isenring in 1891 and changed its name to Edgewood Family Resort. It was then used to house the help needed to operate the resort across the road - cooks, maids, waiters, etc. The building was torn down in 1915 after the resort had been closed. While Fred Isenring was operating the resort, he and his family lived in a house on the resort grounds, N of the band stand. In 1894, Henry Konopka took over management of the resort and the house Isenrings had lived in was moved out of the park to the SW corner of Bellevue and Lake Dr. Konopka then lived in that house. On 7/6/1889, Louis Saxe leased to Adam Roth and August Nuss- baumer, for five years, property located in Welcome Park, to be used as a saloon and restaurant. (On the NW corner of old Lake Drive and E. Henry Clay St. - old Lake Dr. was a little to the E of the present Lake Drive.) Lease began 7/6/1889 with annual rent of $300.00 to be paid each and every 3 months in advance. Welcome Park was the end of the "Dummy" train line bringing passengers to the Whitefish Bay Resort. On 5/17/1888, Best Brewing Co. sold to the Milw., Whitefish Bay Railway Co., for $565,00, a strip of land in Welcome Park's area to be used for a Depot and Depot platform, for the "Dummy" line. Signed by Fred Pabst, Pres. On 5/15/1891, Pabst Brewing Co. bought for $16,000.00 from Jacob Stoll, Elizabeth Sutton and William J. Sutton, both Wel come Park and Jefferson Park. Jefferson Park was W of Welcome Park, on the site of present Whitefish Bay Middle School, 1144 E. Henry Clay St. Vol. 280 Deeds p. 269. Henry Konopka, after 10 years as manager of the Pabst WFB Resort (1894 to 1904 inclusive) was pensioned by Pabst Brewing Co. After an illness in a hospital, Konopka died and was buried in Union Cemetery, Milw., in Lot 7, Blk. 5, Sec. 31. All ex penses were taken care of by Gustav Pabst and had been arranged by Capt. Fred Pabst, a good friend of Konopka. After the resort closed in 1914, Jefferson Park Pavilion was moved south across Henry Clay St. to the Armory grounds on Henry Clay St. and Ardmore Ave. and in 1919, was used as a school after the WFB School House burned. There was a teacher's desk and 50 seats for pupils. It was also used by churches for services. The Ferris wheel was installed on the resort grounds in fl£ 262 1895. Pabst's Whitefish Bay Resort opened its doors to the public 6/30/1889 and closed in 1914, a victim of the automobile and Prohibition. The advent of the auto allowed people to travel where they wished; they were no longer tied to a rail system of transportation. Managers of the resort were: Fred G. Isenring 1889 to 1894; Henry Konopka 1894 to 1904; Peter and brother Henry, Sturm 1905 to 1906; Richard Becker 1906 to 1914. Fernwood train shed was about 100 ft. long, built to accom odate excursion trains bringing people and groups with their own brass bands, etc., to visit the resort in the summertime. The shed extended north along the LakeShore Railway tracks (later the C&NW RR), running on the E side of Marlborough Dr. ThiSvShed, oji the. N side, of present lijexingtpn Blvd.. ^was, closed orrxneT'side and opened ontfo a platform tfTose to the tracks. There was a roof over the shed. A side track had been provided to allow the passenger train to stay until time to return excursion people back to the City. The passengers, singly or in groups, with their own band playing marches, marched E approximately 2^ blocks along Belle- vue Blvd. (Lexington Blvd.) to the park/resort on the E side of Lake Drive. Lake Dr. was known then as the Whitefish Bay Road. The above information was written by Arthur Rabe, born in the Village of Whitefish Bay in 1886, died in City of Milw. 1981. Arthur Rabe also wrote that his father, Charles Rabe, loaned Fred G. Isenring $700.00, due to be paid back Nov. 29, 1894 one year after the loan, with 7% interest per annum. Fred G. Isenring signed this note, which Arthur Rabe had in his pos sesion. On Oct. 14, 1896 Charles Rabe brought a lawsuit against Isenring in Superior Court, Milw. Co., Document #13936 for $782.90. Judgment was granted - $749.00, interest of $33.90 for a total of $782.90. The above information was given to me by Arthur Rabe's daughter, Helen(Rabe)Grabowski, Mrs. Felix Grabowski in the spring of 1992. ^ 9fr3 PORT WASHINGTON ROAD RELOCATION - 1859 On June 30, 1859 at E. Diercks house (was in present 8700 block of Port Washington Rd., W side), the road supervisors vacated the old Washington road - "all that part of said road lying between the burying ground in Sec. 29 T8 N R22 E (Town of Milw. Cemetery) and the NW corner of William Sohns' land in SE^ Sec. 32" ...... that the road is of no use to the public. We vacate all that part of the old Washington road and locate the same as follows:commencing 64 rods rods and 4 ft. N of town line commencing 64 rods and 4 ft. N of town line between towns Town 7 and Town 8 (Hampton Rd. is dividing line between Town 7 and Town 8) in N & S i section line of Sec. 32, then N 255 rods and 1 2J> ft., then N 21 chains and 80 links, then N 36° 30' E 45 chains 48 links to intersection of the old Washington road near the SchoolHouse in Sec, 29." From Arthur Anello to Mimi Bird 1982: records from Town of Milw. Road Supervisors minutes. CRYSTAL LANE From the 1860's until the mid-1930's, an east/west dirt road existed between St. Monica Blvd. and Lake Drive, about ^ block south of 6224 N. Berkeley Blvd. It ran east into the driveway of present 6226 N. Lake Dr., when that land was the Scheife farmland and connected three families to old Richards St. (St. Monica Blvd.) Lake Drive did not continue north beyond Day Ave. until the mid-to-late 1920's. (To go north out of Whitefish Bay, one had to go to Port Washington Rd. or Richards St., continue north to Green Tree Rd., turn east on Green Tree and continue to Barnett Lane. Barnett Lane then led into Bridge Lane to connect with Lake Dr. near Calumet Rd.) "Crystal Lane" was just named as a private lane in early land deeds to give the Scheife family (who settled in the 6200 block of Lake Dr.) access to Richards Rd. In a 11/4/1925 QCD to Ernest C. Cornelius, who had built a house no longer standing at 6225 N. Berkeley Blvd., at the NW corner of Berkeley (which then didn't exist) and Crystal Lane, the lane is named as "Christian" Lane and that it was 12' wide. In a 1929 Deed, the name is corrected to read Crystal Lane, but I never did find out why it was so-named! '9W BRIDGE LANE'S HISTORY FOX POINT Bridge Lane, in the 7200 - 7300 block, originally served as a portion of the old Lake Drive. It "bridged" the ravine allowing carriages, wagons and early cars to continue on from Lake Drive from the north, across this ravine, to Barnett Lane. From Barnett Lane, one continued onto E. Green Tree Rd., heading west to either the Richards Rd. (Yates Rd. today) or Port Washington Rd. farther west. There was no continuation of Lake Drive south from Green Tree Rd. into Whitefish Bay until the mid-to-late 1920's. It is unknown as to when the first wooden bridge was built over the ravine, but by the time the Village of Fox Point was incorporated in 1929, the wood bridge had become dangerous for vehicular use and was designated only for pedestrians. By 1931, the bridge was closed off even for walking due to its rotting boards. A second wooden bridge was built, but only for pedestrians. There were several attempted suicides from this bridge; one was successful it was reported. There is a creek 70' below. Today, the 272' steel frame bridge is also only for use by walkers and cyclists. The bridge was repaired in 1968 with a new deck, railings and struc tural repairs costing $94 , 511.00. Lake Drive was moved one block west to its present location when it was put through north of Green Tree Rd. to meet the other portion at Calumet Rd. GROOTEMAAT'S WIND GRIST-MILL The only wind propelled grist-mill within the Town of Milwaukee was John Grootemaat's, located on Green Bay Road. The other grist (and saw) mills were water propelled and located along the Milwaukee River. John Grootemaat is shown on the 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses as a miller and "wind-miller." Unfortunately, I do not know exactly where his mill/store was located, but it was on the north side of Burleigh St. I also do not know when it was razed. See the Grootemaat family history in this book for a picture of his establishment. ^ m BENDER'S MILLS/MILL ROAD On 11/13/1850, Every Agnes and his wife, Elise, to Charles G. Everts, all of town of Milw., for $100.00 for 4 acres, beginning at the SW corner of Lot #3 in the SW^ Sec.20, then 25 ft. wide on the W line of Lot 3 until a certain ravine is intersected, then NE along the ravine to N line of Lot 3 in the Milw. River; the 4 acres to be used for a ditch to lead water from the Milw. River to a mill to be erected on the E fraction of Lot #1 of Sec. 30 T8 N R22 E on the E side of the river and the right to leave the earth excavated on the E side of said ditch beyond the 25 feet mentioned. The above description was for the mill race that was constructed from the Sunny Point bend of the river (at the end of N. Sunny Point Lane) south to where the sawmill was built - at the edge of the E side of the Milw. River on property at present 6245 N. Sunny Point Rd. On 10/8/1851, Deed: Every and Alice, his wife, Agnes to Lyman P. Swift for $1500.00 for one undivided half of the E factional Lot #1 Sec. 30 on which premises is a sawmill owned in part by Peter Bender, subject to a mortgage of $1200.00; Swift to pay $240.50 with interest according to conditions of said mort gage, and all of lot 5 or the SE fraction of Sec. 19 lying W of and including the Mill Race to said above mill and all that piece of land on S^ Lot 3 Sec. 20 lying W of and including the mill race and a strip of land one rod wide on E side of Mill Race and running from S line of Lot 5 to the N line of S^ of Lot #3. In the mid-1860's, Peter Bender also built a grist mill on the W side of the Milwaukee River, at the E end of present Mill Rd., IF Mill Rd. continued E to the river (which it did in the "old" days.) The grist mill was a tall 3 story frame building located a little north of the saw mill on the E side of the river. Town meetings for Town 8 were held in this grist mill until the Town Hall was built in 1872, on the site of the pres ent North Shore Filtration plant, NW corner of Jean Nicolet and Bender Rds. A mill was also built in the 1850's at the far west end of W. Mill Rd. on the Menomonee River, town of Granville - thus insuring the name "Mill" Rd. Bender built the first dam on the river north of his grist mill for added water power for the mill's paddle wheel. Later, that log dam was rebuilt and still exists today on the river in Kletzsch Park. EARLY TOWN OF MILWAUKEE NORTH SHORE CHURCHES The 1st church in pesent Fox Point was known as the Reformed Church of Bethlehem, also known as the Holland Church since it was begun by Dutch settlers. In 1852, John Vruwink donated a plot of ground on what is now Fox Lane, S of Doctor's Park, for a church, school and cemetery. All that remains today is the cemetery. The school was built in 1853; church services were held there until a church was built on Bradley Rd., not on Fox Lane. In 1854, Rev. Gerard Brandt and wife, Helena V. V. Brandt moved to present Fox Point from Oostburg and purchas ed a 10 acre farm on the E side of Port Washington rd. S of Dean rd. On 1/15/1856 the Brandts sold to the trustees of the First Dutch Reformed Church of Bethlehem, Town 8 for $150.00 for a "cite" for a church 20 rods E and W, 40 rods N & S from the SW corner of E^ of SE^- Sec. 8. This parcel was on the present NW corner of Seneca and Bradley rds. The trustees were Gerard Brandt, Abram Loison(Looisen) and H. Schiet; witnesses were C. G. Everts (who lived in present Whitefish Bay) and Kate T. Brandt (I believe she was the Brandts' daughter Catherine.) Brandt was killed in 1859. On 9/1/1860, James Jacobus Brandt, administrator of Gerrit Brandt's estate, sold to Maria Muiderman, (2nd wife of Gerrit Brandt) "now wife of Peter Tellier" for $200.00, the 10 acre farm the Brandts had owned. The land surrounding the church was sold the same day by the then trustees Abram Looisen, Johannes deSwart, Johan F. Wilke and Hendrick Jan Vruwink to Gerret J. Davelaar, for $180.00, "except for a piece of land 2£ rods E & W by 32 rods N & S taken off from the SE corner." On 2/17/1868, John and Susanna Vruwink sold to "the religious society known as the congregation of Reformed Church of Bethlehem" for $1.00, a piece of land on the NE corner of Dean rd. and Lake Dr. Eventually, the Dutch settlers moved out of the area and the land reverted back to the Vruwink heirs. In Nov. 1880, a German Evangelical Church was dedicated on the NE corner of Port Washington and Calumet rds. The land was donated by the Van den Huevels (another Dutch family, who stayed in the area) and services were held there until 1912. The building was razed in 1917 and the land reverted back to the Van den Huevels who used it as a garden plot. Today, St. Eugene's Catholic congregation owns the land. On 8/5/1859, August and Dorothea Wussow sold to Gottlob Buettner (Bittner), Friedrich Fink and Ludwig Magritz, Trustees of Ev. Lutheran Religious Society, for $5.00 a parcel in the NW corner of. NW^ NW^ Sec. 7, beginning at said corner stake, then 5 rods E, 8 rods S, 5 rods W and 8 rods N = £ acre, for a private school house site. Perhaps a church was also associa ted with this school? The land was on the SE corner of Brown Deer and Range Line rds. tf w In 1866, a Lutheran congregation was formed by 12 families;a log church was built next to their existing cemetery, on the E side of Port Washington rd. in the 7800 block. The church was St. Johannes; its 1st minister was Rev. George Praeger who also served St. Peter's Lutheran Church (now St. Peter- Immanuel) on W. Mill rd. and 55th St. The log church was built in 1870, replaced in 1888 near its site, with a frame steepled church. For this new church site, Johann and Sophia Bucchholz sold 1 acre of land to the trustees in 1869; Johann and Dorothea Koehn (who lived on the S side of the site) added nearly 1 acre in 1870 for $1.00. The Koehn house still stands on the S side of Nic Ehr's Floral/Garden Shop; Nic Ehr owns that house. A frame school was built near the church; torn down in 1920, it was replaced with a brick building across the road, on the W side of Port Washington. That brick school is in the process of having a large addition built (summer 1992). The frame church on the E side of the road was later sold to Edward A. Bacon for $300.00 in 1930. He moved the church several blocks S to his property, placing it on the site of the present Dunwood School, added a wooden fence around it and painted it white. For many years, this was known as the Fox Point Meeting House and was the scene of many weddings. It was also used by St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, St. Eugene's Catholic Church and the Lake Drive Baptist Church for services while building their individual churches. The frame church was torn down in 1959 and.Dunwood School was built there. In 1929, St. John's Lutheran Church built a 3rd church, this time on the W side of Port Washington rd., next to their brick school. Both buildings still exist, with additions. The 1900 to 1904 Whitefish Bay Assessment Rolls show an Episcopal Church on the W^ of Lot 13 Blk.2 Lake Forest Subdivision, which today is the site of the Community Methodist Church - the SW corner of Danbury rd. and Silver Spring Dr. The earlier church served everyone; its 33 members represented 13 different denominations! The frame church, which had become an Episcopal/Methodist church, burned to the ground in the winter of 1922/23. %6? ST. JOHANNES LUTHERAN CHURCH EARLIEST MEMBERS Today known as St. John's Lutheran Church, 7877 N. Port Wash ington Rd., the early church began across the road in 1866. The earliest recorded names, as shown in the membership book, were, as written: Augustin Schulz, G. Herm. Baumgarten Schumann, Andrew Braefke, Carl (Praekfe) Schramm Buchholz Schroeder Burkhard, Christian (Burchard) Stabelfeldt, Christian Caesar, Ferd. Tillmann (Dillmann ?) Degner, Carl Grinitz, Frd. Degner, Aug. Haman, Fritz Differt, Fred. Lubke (Luebke) Goecks, Aug. Witt Goecks, Fred. Fehlhaber, Albert Koehn, John Sr. Dumann (Dummann) Koehn, John Jr. Hoffmann, Geo. Lippert, John Riemer, Aug. Luneberg, Chr. (Lueneberg) Bittner, Gottlob Loke Bittner, Fritz Nowak,. F. (Nowack) Borchert, Chr. Nowak, Gott. Burmeister, Fritz Nuelk Koehn, Joachim Pagels, Aug. Dibbert, Karl Pagels, John Mueller, F. Schulz, Aug. Meyer, Martin Schulz, F. Milbrath, Ferd. Schulz, G. Praefke, Franz Vick, Wilhelm (Fick later) ^ f %<*Q kb&hi S £- r When Milwaukee River Sparkled {Walter H. Bender, president of the Mil- h, waukee county park commission, recall* tions are those associated with dam. That was a perfectly de* IT; ing his boyhood on the Milwaukee river Vs* in a letter to Donald C. Slichter, presU fishing from the dam, the cur lightful area for boating. . , . bjrVoint of the Greater Milwaukee Commlt- I want to support as strongly^ k, tee. in which he pledges co-operation in rent carrying my baited line $ improvms the river. down stream. The catch con as I can every measure for the I don't know whether you river's restoration because of sisted of black bass, northerns, the great contribution which its faave ever had an experience jarge shiners and catfish. •Where a physical situation has restoration can make to pres* Then school called me to the ent day Milwaukee. been so close to you that it has city, but it could not divorce been integrated into a substan me from my love of the river. tia) area of your life. I have Its charm still held me. After pad such an experience with school on Friday my chums and |tbe Milwaukee river. I would walk the miles from source unknown ^ I was born on the westerly Franklin pi., where I lived, outf ^hore of the river near the to what is now Estabrook park, present .Bender rd. 85 years where the river shallowed and ago. My earliest recollections the cement mills were located. ffire' associated with the gristTakin g off shoes and stockings, "*"' which my grandfather we waded in the shallow water, te^ilt on the river at what is lifted the flat pieces of lime Jjqvg Kletzsch park. My grand- stone and captured dozens pf r and his sons cut tbe logs small crabs which were used (under authority of a spe- as bait for perch on the Sat£> act of the legislature) built day fishing trip to the goverj* [the. original of the dam at the nient pier. iQCptfon of Kletzsch park. This And in the winter the river jjam powered the grist mill. was a wonderful playground 'Amojig my earliest recollections for us boys. We put our skates far-* : watching the ponderous on above the dam. Many of us stones in the grist mill revolve, built "skate sails-' — canvas grinding the wheat, which then stretched in a large triangular fell onto "bolting cloth," which area and held in place by a i [vibrated, separating the chaff light bamboo frame. With a favorable wind, these skate sails frpm the wheat flour. made possible really high speed :, There was also a flume on on skates. When the ice was [She east side of the river, car free from snow, we skated rying a current of water from north on the river to points be above the dam which furnished yond the present Bender rd [power for a saw mill below the As the years passed the in $ara. This ;.miil operated until terests of us boys began to turn the supply of logs in the area to boats and those who were hyas exhausted. fortunate enough owned or had p't have always loved to fish. the use of a light rowboat or a [Among my earliest recollec- canoe on the river above the I itfii$^ 2°; gqo DISTILLERY IN PRESENT LINCOLN PARK To August Grau, 5/1/1866, for $4000.00 for 1/3 part undivided land beginning at a point in the middle of the Milw. & Green Bay Plank rd. 56.30 rods E and 68 rods S 11° E from the NW corner of SEi Sec. 31 T8 N R22 E, then S 11° E along middle of said road 36.59 rods, then due E 33 rods to the low water mark of the Milw. River to a point of said bank and to a line running due E and W 56.80 rods N from last mentioned point 28.88 rods, then SW 34.40 rods to the beginning = 7.362 acres with distillery and all fixtures therein and all the wood. Sold by Heliodore J. Hilbert and Josephine, his wife. This distillery was located on the E side of Green Bay Rd., S of Villard Ave. By 1876, there was another distillery on the S side of Hampton Rd., along the Milw. River, on William H. Lindwurmfs land, E of the bridge over the river in present Lincoln Park. "The Meadow Spring" Distillery was located on the Milwaukee River, five miles from the city and had incorporated in 1873, with W.Bergenthal, Pres., A.M.Grau, Vice-President and August Bergenthal, Secretary. The officer's address was at 476-478 4th St., Milwaukee. "History of Milwaukee County," p.1474 states they produced "hand-made sour mash, Bourbon and Rye," using 1000 bushels of grain a day. The distillery also marketed Palmetto and Rosebred gin and imported Rhine and Moselle wines. Wilhelm Bergenthal was born in Westphalia, Germany 1844 and came to Milw. in 1867. By 1869, he was in the distillery business. On 6/8/1874 he married Anna Margaretha Grau, dau. of August and Catharina(Vetzthum)Grau, according to Catholic Church rites, by pastor Laurentius Varwert of the Capushin Convent. Wilhelm was the son of Conrad and Elisabeth(Rabe)Bergenthal, born Niederschleider, Prussia according to their marriage record, (With this marriage, the beginnings of Red Star Yeast and eventually, Universal Foods, began. Wilhelm and Anna Margaretha had a son, Victor Bergenthal, who started Red Star Yeast Co.) On 9/16/1873, August Grau granted permission to use the following described premises for the purpose of distilling spirits, subject to the provisions of the law and is hereby expressly stipulated that the lien of the United States for taxes and penalties shall have priority and that in case of forfeiture of the distillery premises or any part thereof, title shall rest in the United States. c\ f $71 Beginning at a point in the middle of the Milw. and Green Bay Plank road, 17 chains southeasterly of the intersection with the N line of the SE^ Sec. 31, then N 49° E 14.20 chains to the Milw. River. Again, from the point of the beginning (stated above), S 11° E along the middle of said road 32^ links, then N 81° E 7.75 chains to the Milw. River, then northeasterly along the west bank of the river to where the first mentioned line in tersects said river = 3.15 acres. Signed, August Grau Milw. Sentinel May 11, 1875 Agents of the IRS seized half a dozen establishments in Milwaukee and vicinity yesterday, beginning at daybreak and ending at dark. The agents had been watching these distill eries for unpaid taxes, refilling barrels, etc. Among those seized were Charles Grau's distillery in the town of Milw., value $10,000 and F. Bergenthal's distillery, town of Milw., value also $10,000. The probable cause of the raid is the practice of refilling whiskey casks 3 and 4 times on which duty has been paid only once. This is done by tearing off the stamps and using them over and over again. The tax is .90$ per gallon or $36.00 on a 40 gal. barrel, while the cost of production is .10-.15$ per gallon. Milw. Sentinel July 10,1875: More seizures to enforce payment and assessments - among those involved in the proceedings being taken for forfeiture of bonds in the U.S.District Court were: Charles Grau, Wm.H.Jacobs and Jacob Blum - $11,100.00 Francis Bergenthal, Wm.Bergenthal, Louis Fuldner and August Bergenthal - $20,000.00. The indictments are to collect revenue and punish violaters of the law. Milw.Sentinel Aug.13,1875: Sale of Grau1s distillery on Green Bay road held yesterday by public auction. The government began the bidding at $5000 and William H. Lindwurm, an old spiritualist, bought the pro perty for $5025.00 and costs of sale. Today Bergenthal's distillery will be auctioned. CERTIFICATE OF PURCHASE - U.S.Internal Revenue Collectors, First District, State of Wis. On 7/8/1875, the gov't, seized the above mentioned 3.15 acres, being the Charles Grau Dis tillery and distillery appurtenances and sold same to satisfy a tax of $6,365.30 against Chas. Grau. Wm. H. Lindwurm being the highest bidder at $5005.00 (a diff. of price from the Sentinel article) who then sold same to August Grau on 8/16/1875 for $5500.00. 2> £7£ Milw. Sentinel 8/31/1875: Tax Collectors notified that August Grau to resume business, Most of the other 7 distillers also gave notice of their inten tions to return to business. Milw. Sentinel 5/30/1876: Judgments entered for Christian Guenther and Nunnemacher, $25,000; Henry Schoenfeld and Edw.Wirth, $11,006.97; Leopold Wirth and Chas.Hintz, Aaron Schoenfeld, Edw. Wirth and Herman Nunnemacher, $13,818.34. Chas. Grau consents to $8,182.00. Milw. Sentinel 7/11/1876: William Bergenthal and Charles Grau, two of the smallest distillers in the district, were sentenced to 4 months in the County jail and fined $1000.00. Bergenthal has already paid the assessments against him. Grau paid $9500.00 and today will pay the remaining $3500.00 assessed against him. August Grau died 4/4/1878, age 65 yrs. at his residence at 416 Galena St. DAM ACROSS MILWAUKEE RIVER, E OF PORT WASHINGTON RD. Johann Schroeder purchased, among other property, a 6 acre parcel on the N bank of the Milw. River on the W line of Lot #133 "Comstock & Williams" Subdivision of Lot 1,2,3,4 & 5 in Sec.5 and SE^ Sec. 4 and NW^ Sec. 4 Town 7=6 acres in the 1860s. This was a long triangular piece of land beginning on Hamp ton Rd. on the W side of the road through Estabrook Park to the river - a pie-shaped parcel. Johann leased this land to his son, Wilhelm, in 1874, then left it to him, among other land, through his will. Johann died in 1876. William, in turn, left the land to his heirs, his will dated 6/5/1895. The 6 acres were subject to a reservation contained in a deed recorded in the Office of Register of Deeds, Milw. Co., Vol. 144 Deeds p.502: "reserving to said parties of 1st part, their heirs and assigns, the right of building and maintaining a dam across the Milwaukee River opposite to or below the land hereby conveyed and of banking the water of said river in front of such land to such height as said parties of 1st part, their heirs and assigns may from time to time elect, and also reserving the exclusive right of taking stone from the bed of said river opposite to said land. f $1Z MILWAUKEE CEMENT CO. The largest employer in the Town of Milw. in those early times was the Milwaukee Cement Co., operating between 1876 and 1914. The tract of land on which this operation took place was 350 acres between Capitol Drive and Hampton Rd. Joseph Berthelet had seen a type of rock in Louisville, KY from which hydraulic cement was being made by dehydrating and pulverizing. Berthelet was engaged in pipe manufacturing which required a cementing component. In 1873, a bridge was being built over the Milw. River at North Ave and caissons were used for construction of the footings. Berthelet recognized the broken rock being removed from the caissons as similar to that seen at Louisville. He immediately began a search for an outcrop of this rock which would enable easy quarrying, finding it along the river between Capitol Dr. and Port Washington Rd. The Milw. Cement Co. was incorporated, with Berthelet as a leading figure, in 1875, with a capitalization of $350,000.00. The first mill was built on the east side of the river, south of Hampton Rd. and west of the railroad track. It began ship ments in the Fall of 1876. A second mill, on the west side of the river, just north of Capitol Dr., was built in 1878. The initial capacity was 100 barrels a day, increasing ulti mately to 2,000 barrels per day. Annual capacity reached 150,000 barrels and it became the largest producer of hydraulic cement in the country. The work was seasonal, but between 200 and 300 men (and sometimes women) were employed for eight months of the year. Their jobs showed up on census records beginning in 1880. The need soon consumed all of the farm labor available in the vicinity and a boarding house was built in 1880 for those workers whose regular residence was too far to enable daily travel. Prosperity attracted competition. The Cream City Cement Co., controlled by George Brumder, opened up to the south and the Consolidated Cement Co., controlled by Charles Kienert, opened in what became Fox Point, on the lake shore. However, the rotary kiln was developed in the early 20th century, enabling the use of any limestone and other materials to make Portland cement. In 1910, the original Milw. Cement Co. mill burned; in 1914, their newer mill suffered the same fate. Neither was rebuilt and the operation shut down. The Milw. Cement Co. operation produced the infamous "blue hole," reputed to be bottomless. In reality, the quarry pit was filled by the overflow of the river. Many went swimming in this quarry; some were severely hurt by diving and several were killed. Eventually, the "hole" was filled in. After the cement operation, some industrial use of the land occurred but without significant employment. In 1916, the Milw. Cement Co. land east of the river became Estabrook Park. The house Joseph Berthelet had occupied, as General Su- perindent of Milw. Cement, on the south side of Hampton Rd., east side of Port Washington Rd., became the residence of the Supervisor of the Park. After World Warr II, the house was razed. It had been built in the late 1860fs by the Miller/ Mueller family, of brick and later, the Billeb family had lived there. $& -%V GREEN TREE TAVERN This tavern, known in its earliest years as the "Gruen Baum" tavern (German for Green Tree) was in existence by 4/1/1854 when Fred G. Isenring was born there. He became the Village of Whitefish Bay's 1st President in 1892. It stood on the SW corner of Green Tree and Port Washington Rds. No one knows which came first, the road or the tavern. Anson M. Buttles stated to me there had been a wooden sign with a tree and "Gruen Baum" printed on the sign. This may be in his grandfather's diaries. The tavern was also a store, with living quarters in the rear and bedrooms above. Gallus Isenring (father of Fred) sold the building to Mathaues Hahn, who, in turn, sold same to Chris tine Pfeil, wife of Joseph Pfeil, for $1,000.00 on 12/11/1860. The deed reads "for 10 acres in NW corner of S^ NE^ Sec. 20 T8 R22 E to the center of the (Port) Washington road, then S on the road, then W, then N, with buildings and improvements thereon, but subject to the mortgage to Wilhelm Kirschke. In 1984, I interviewed Irma(Kuetemeyer)Rahn Praefke, dau. of John and Emma(Dethlefs)Kuetemeyer. She told me she was born in this tavern/home (she was 86 in 1984) and that by that time, the tavern was a two story frame building with a partial field- stone basement under the kitchen. There was an outside cellar door for the wine and beer kegs to be taken through. Inside the kitchen, there was a rickety stair to the cellar. Irma and her sisters would have to go down those to pour wine into small bottles and bring them up to their father. Sometimes, she said, they would sample the goods and occasionally forget to turn off the spigot tightly; the beer or wine would then run out onto the dirt floor. She said the living room and kitchen were in the rear of the tavern with bedrooms upstairs. The children's bedrooms were cold; the parents' room had a heat ventilator by then and the children, upon rising, would rush into that room to try to get warm. The tavern had the only telephone in the area, used mainly for emergencies, or to call Steinmeyer's (grocery store) on Third St. for grocery deliveries. Taxes were paid in the tavern (a usual custom for most taverns). A dance hall, attched to the tavern, was there by 1893 when Kuetemeyer bought the place. There was a large pot-belly stove in the tavern and on Sunday nights the children did their homework around the stove - the tavern was closed that night. Mrs. Praefke also remembered the wooden sign with a green tree painted on it. f $7S POWDER MILL EXPLOSION The Thanksgiving dinner festivities of the quiet neighborhood at the corner of the section line road (Capitol Drive) and the Whitefish Bay Turnpike (Lake Drive), Nov. 28, 1873, were scarcely over, when a sudden, sharp shock aroused everyone. The family of William Swain, a well-to-do farmer, was greatly startled. Mr. Swain rushed to the door and saw a cloud of dust and smoke in the direction of the powder mill over by the lake. He naturally guessed there had been an explosion. Upon his arrival at the top of the bluff, he saw that his surmise was true, for hardly a vestige of the powder mill building remained on the beach below. He found two bodies of the workmen and hurried off to town with his team, for assistance./ Killed in the explosion were James W. Cummings, proprietor of the mill; Frank Bontley; Michael Sacreiter, Jr. and Michael Sack- reiter, Sr., who was visiting his son. The SackreiterS lived about two blocks from the powder mill on a small farm. Sackreiter, Jr. had a wife and five children. Mr. Cummings was a native of Rochester, New York and had come to Milwaukee to start the manufacture of "Dua- line" blasting powder, which had been invented in England, known there as Horsely's blasting powder. Frederick Fischer, a carpenter at the scene of the explosion, was only slightly injured. A major ingredient of the blasting powder was nitroglycerine, which, crystallizing at 29% became extremely dangerous to handle. There was a considerable amount of this on the premises at the time. Several Milwaukeans had become interested in Mr. Cummings'.proposition and on the verge of forming a Company, capitalized at $200,000, to be known as the Northwestern Powder Company. Dualine was supposed to be much safer to handle than blasting powder, in that it could only be exploded by percussion. Because of this, Mr. Cummings permitted much carelessness in handling it. Employees smoked while at work and other wise showed lack of caution. The mill was heated with a stove and to prevent explosives from freezing, they were placed near it. Mr. Fischer testified that jars of the explosives were being carried to another part of the mill when the explosion occurred. It was feared that there might still be a large quantity of ex plosive buried under the debris, and the locality was shunned for a long period. In 1875, it was rumored that the owners would reward anyone sufficiently daring to remove the dangerous stores or blow them up. Edward Simpson, a Civil War veteran, and deputy collector of internal revenue, visited the ruins and determined to earn the reward. Simpson covered the remains of the rooP with shavings, saturated the whole with kerosene and then laid a train of saturated shavings to the top of the bluff. He fired the train, and accompanied by a lad named Rodway, retreated to a safe vantage point. The roof burned fiercely, flames shooting to a considerable height. The roof fell in, followed by a terrific explosion which scattered what remained of the building and shook the earth for miles around. A recent inspection of the location of the powder mill, on a plateau-like'terrace'above the beach level, at the end of a vacant lot just north of 4222 N. Lake Drive, east of the junction with Marion Street, yielded probable evidence of the powder mill explosio- A large number of field stones were found, many of them bearing mar of being shattered, cracked and blackened as if by an explosion. Several old rusted powder drums were also found. Shorewood History Project #7164 1938, Vol. I Compiled by E. G. Henkel The above article was written on January 18, 19 38, by E. G. Henkel. ^ m POEM ABOUT SOME EARLY SETTLERS by Anson W.Buttles 1* Dullemgn in poultry is hard to beat He takes it where he can He sells it all but what he eats Tied tight with calico bands. 2. DeSwarte so pious and sincere To church he always goes. His actions then you may not fear Both good and bad he fears. 3. Tellier a miser so content His soul it might be bought. To bait a trap with half a cent All not worth half a groat. 4. Walters in black ash largely deals Non-residents feel it much. Timber grows scarce as it he steals From all but the Low-Dutch. 5. Vruwink1s a man who stays at home To cherish his dear wife. Don't trust her much fabout to roam For to create a strife. 6. Koeslag for news cannot be beat A paper you should take. He has the news of every street All over this town eight. 7. Cappon the life and soul of trade Is ready for a swap. And when proposals are all made You're sure to get a rap. 8. Wilke to church goes every Sunday His reiigion there to show. He always steals black ash on Monday : From lands he does not know. 9. Meyers the bully of the woods. Gave Dulleman great pain. Does everything but what is good His conducts in that strain. 10. Buttles an office will not have He*s all alone in fog - No office from the dutch does crave For fear they will him flog. 11. I want a pipe (says Wussow) small It will help save my cash. My breeches small my cap and all To wear upon my calabash. 12. Bittner in honesty is all right Not second to first rate. He works hard day and night As any in Town eight. 13. Barrick intends a feast to give Of his old buckskin breeches. For they're so much like a sieve They will not hold the stitches. 14. Terhuren he does make good hoaps Deny it all who can. He buys his timber and his soup And licks the frying pan. 15. Schaaf is a cautious steady man His aim is to go straight. He risks not much, that is his plan What'er may be his fate. 16. Mullie makes sport of all around In his own jovial way. If he in fun can flog you out He's sure to gain the day. 17. Zettler is keen for building piers The wind woj;k he does good. Before 'tis done I greatly fear We shall be out of wood. 18. Our Martin Bruce is a good man (should be Bruss) His neighbors he'll not wrong. Tries to do all the good he can That's his religious song. 19. Gallus is wavering and alone Industriously inclined. Before he's got his job half done He's sure to change his mind. 20. Joseph Anderegg I hear of late Will soon go hand in hand. With one who is to be his mate And bring Annie on his land. 21. Warner to whiggery is inclined Democracy won't him fit. Jealous of all but his own kind To them he's the true grit. 22. Ben Phelps near the lake does dwell For fiddling he is great E. Keene alone does him excel The best throughout the state. $ m 23. Young people who to fun incline Oit Phelps you all should call. One dollar to each he*ll give in time To join his opposition ball. 25. There is a party and a clan Stand ready for a strouse Zettlerf Hope and Joseph to a man To oppose the ball at Cornstra's house. 25* My neighbor Ranson I would swap Take anything in his place. I do not wish you to entrapp By trading away disgrace. 26. Sanderson a dealer is in hogs He takes his neighbors, I've been told. Don1t think how deep he is in fog And in wickedness is growing bold. 27. Lipscomb for meat to feed his cat For skins of every kind. Would pledge his coat, his cap and hat And leave his wife behind. 28. Old Jones in dotage we'll pass by Wells Jones he is too little. I will tell you the reason why His wife would be in nettles. 29. A Bare we have within this town Of stature rather small. He's posted up to go the rounds But lacks in speech to growl or ball. 30. Everts is good at Methodist preaching For Esq. and drawing wills. As superintendent for school teaching Also to build saw mills. Note: Joseph Anderegg (#20 above) married Jane Eliza Siegfried 10/22/1856; it may be she mentioned in the poem as "Annie." The poem was undated, but Anson M. Buttles stated it was written in the late 1850s or the early 1860's by his grandfather. QQcL SCHOOL HISTORY FOR TOWN OF MILWAUKEE'S ORIGINAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS This historical overview begins with School District #10 and works backward to School District #1, now in the City of Milwaukee. ^ School District #10 was a vast area, north of North Ave, - the original north end of the City of Milwaukee - and everything between the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan to County Line Road, during the 1840's, According to diaries Anson W. Buttles kept, a log school was built on the grounds of the Town of Milwaukee Cemetery, in the present 5900 block of N. Port Washington Road. Buttles was an early road surveyor, Town Clerk, School Supervisor and, later, a surveyor for the railroads. His diaries were very detailed, probably due to bis nature and his engineering background, and covered the years between 1849 and 1900. They were in possession of his grandson, Anson M. Buttles, who recently died, and are probably in his widow's possession now. Anson M. Buttles advised me that the log school was on the earlier Port Washington Rd., that ran more to the east than the present road. The old dirt trail entered the middle of the cemetery approximately where the Federated Realty/Pier I building is today, on the north side of the cemetery. The trail wandered through the titiddle of the present Bay Shore Mall, exiting onto today's Mohawk Rd. at Silver Spring Dr. This school was virtually in the center of the area laid out for School District #10 and, obviously, only those living within one or two miles wuld attend this school on a fairly dry day or when the snow wasn't too deep. Gallus Isenring, another early settler, built the log school and drew its plan. ',s descendants still have that sketch and detail of the school. It was constructed of logs, 18 ft. x 22 ft. and one story high. There were 6 windows and 2 doors. There were 12 desks, each about 4 ft. long, made of pine lumber. Description dated Jan. 22, 1859, and at that time, the school had existed about 10 years. The school was called the Lyons school, most likely for a teacher named Lyons; that family owned land close by and it is probable that an older son or daughter (or the head of the household) taught school. The school name is also from Buttles1 diary. There is no legal description of a school on this section of land - the SE 1/4 Section 29. That means the land owner(s) did not deed any part of their land to the school district, but did allow a school to be built on a piece of the land. It was a cannon occurance in those early years for schools to be named for the teacher; a similar situation occured in the Town of Granville with its School District #2 being named the "Enos" school for a number of years. District #5 (Green Tree School) was called the "Shaughnessy" school for Mr. Shaughnessy, the teacher. In Feb. 1854, the Sandersons sold 3/4 acre: to the trustees of the newly incor porated Town of Milwaukee Cemetery and no mention of a school was in that description In 1868, both Green Tree School and Lindwurm School were built. Lindwurm School was designated as School District #10, so presumably the school in the cemetery was no longer used as such - and may have been used for cemetery purposes, or even as a house. i< Vc i< -k -fc V School District #9 - the Lake or Holland School In 1852, John and Susanna Vruwink donated a plot of land in the SW corner of present Doctor's Park for a church, a cemetery and public school. Due to the number of Dutch families in what became Fox Point, the school was known as both the Lake School (for its location) and Dutch School. All that remains today is the fenced-in cemetery on Fox Lane. The 18 x 22 ft. log school was constructed of hand hewn timber by Garret H. Wolters, who lived on a farm on the lakeshore, on the property that today is the Audubon Center. The school was ready for classes in fall 1853 and was also used by the Re formed Church of Bethlehem (a/k/a the Holland Church) for its services until a church was built in 1867, Fox Point School On 6/29/1874 a meeting was held and a new school site was chosen (1/2 acre) for a school on what is now the SE corner of Lake Dr. and Dean Rd. This was just south of the Holland Church building; the land was sold by Carl Filter to the district for $50.00. The old log school was sold to J. Tellier for $20.00 and the new school was built with a 12' stud and stone foundation. In later years, this school was known as the Fox Point School of District #9. In 1914, a new brick school was built directly north of the 1874 frame school, at 8340 N. Lake Dr. Emil Mueseler sold 1/2 acre to the district. By 1933, this school was too crowded and the School Board voted for another larger building. The new school opened for classes Jan. 1935 at 7301 N. Longacre Rd. There were 4 subsequent additions to this building. The first teacher and principal was Peter Stormonth, and -upon his retirement in 1964, the school was named for him. In 1976 the school became Fox Point's Community Center, named the Stormonth BUilding; today it is being remodeled and will be returned to classrooms in 1992. In 1927, School District #9 deeded the school on Lake Dr. to the newly created Fox Point School District. When Stormonth School was ready for students in 1935, the brick school on Lake Dr. was transferred to the village for its village hall. The brick building was razed in 1958 upon completion of the new Municipal Building at 7200 N. St. Monica Blvd. 9\c Iff SCHOOL DISTRICT #8 - MAPLE DALE SCHOOL On 3/8/1859, Everard Mayer sold 1/2 acre of his land for $2.50 to the school district for a school on the NE corner of Port Washington and Bradley Rds., with the stipulation "when District #8 removes the schoolhouse the land to revert to Everard Meyer." Apparently Meyer was making this a legal transaction since a 1c school had stood on this land since 1850. On 10/25/1850, Sara van Melle bought the land from Jacob Cappon for $70.00 and the school was mentioned in that deed; it was again mentioned in the deed of 4/5/1853 when Isaac de Swarte purchased the surrounding 5 acres. On 12/16/1871, John Koester and wife sold to District #8 the present site, the SW corner of Dean and Port Washington Rds., which has since been enlarged. The Joint School District #8 granted this land to the Town of Milw. on 11/9/1936; in turn, they turned the land over to the Village of Fox Point when this area was annexed by Fox Point in 1954. The early log school was sold for $12.50 and used as a blacksmith shop. The second school, of frame construction, was replaced with a brick school in the late 1920fs. It has had several additions, including a total remodeling and addition in 1990. SCHOOL DISTRICT #7 - GOOD HOPE SCHOOL By 1858, a log school was located on the E side of Green Bay Rd., about one block S of present Good Hope Rd., on the Bertram farmland. At that time, Good Hope Rd. angled sharply southward to meet Green Bay Rd.; the school was on that SE corner. On 7/12/1869, Gottfried and Hannah Brendel sold, for $120.00, a piece of land about one block N of the old NW corner of Good Hope and Green Bay Rds., measuring 148' x 162'. A one rocm frame school was built that stood just north of the frame tavern on that NW corner (known as the Good Hope Inn), owned by a Mr. Wussow. Later, Y Bertram owned the tavern; for many ye&rs prior to its 1965 razing, it was owned y/ John KLabough and known as Klabough's Inn/Tavern. George Jr. and Elizabeth A. Breul owned the school land next and on 2/18/1924, sold for $1500.00, another piece of land measuring 248' x 280', nearly doubling the school land. Another room was added to that 2nd school. In the late 1920's, a new school was built on the SW corner of Good Hope and Green Bay Rds., and John Klabough bought the old frame school, using it for storage since it stood immediately north of his tavern. The 3rd school, built in 1927, was of brick and had two rooms with a full basement. This school faced Good Hope Rd. and stood on the high ground on that SW corner, but remember, both Good Hope and Green Bay Rds. were MUCH narrower than they are today and that school stood closer to the middle of that intersection. This brick school was razed in 1965 when Good Hope and Green Bay Rds. were widened. The present Good Hope School, at 2315 W. Good Hope Rd., was built in 1958, with additions in 1960, '62 and '65. SCHOOL DISTRICT #6- SILVER SPRING SCHOOL August and Emma Hahn sold one acre of land to School District #6 on 12/24/1903, for $556.80, in the SE 1/2 Sec. 31. This was on the W side of N. Green Bay Rd., approximately 1-1/2 blocks S of Villard Ave. Today the Silver Spring School is located at 5131 N. Green Bay Rd., a descendant of that earlier frame school. ^ * 8S5 SCHOOL DISTRICT #5 - G^^ Frederick and Dorothea Schramm to School Dist. #5 on 9/21/1868 for $50.00, for .50 acres of land beginning at a point in the center of the "so-called Washington road" on the E and W 1/2 Sec. line of Sec. 20, then W 20 rods, S 8,65 rods, E 8.50 rods to the center of the Washington rd., then NE along the middle of the said road to the place of beginning. At that time, School District #10 - that large area - had been divided into two school districts instead of the original one. The Schrarrm land was 165-1/2 ft. x 142.72 ft., located on part of the land on the W side of Port Washington Rd., N of Daphne Rd., opposite present Coventry Court and E of present 1-43. That land has become Nicolet High School's athletic practice field. The existing underground tunnel from that field to Jean Nicolet Rd., under 1-43, is close to the early site of this early school. The old Port Rd. curved closer to present Jean Nicolet Rd. than today's Port Rd. and was straightened out to its present configuration in 1955 when old Highway 141 was built. The Dist. #5 school was a one room frame building on a fields tone foundation. By 1902, an addition was built on the west side of the old school; it now consisted of two rooms! Classes were held in this building until a new school was built, in 1929, on 2-1/2 acres of the Blankenberg estate, now the site of the Midway Motor Lodge, 7065 N. Port Washington Rd. The earlier frame school was sold and converted into the Schoolhouse Tavern. This tavern stayed in business until the old Port Washington Rd. was rebuilt and Highway 141 was constructed to the west of the Port Rd.; the tavern was razed in the 1960!s. The new school had a two story wing built in 1954; in 1955, the Fox Point area became detached from the Green Tree School District #5 and that same year, Green Tree School became a 1st - 6th graded school. The 7th and 8th grades were sent to the former Eline Candy Co. building (owned by the Uihlein family), renamed Riverview School at 4650 N. Port Washington Rd. It was later purchased by the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. Green Tree School closed its doors in 1976 and the school was torn down in 1981 for the Midway Motor Lodge. SCHOOL DISTRICT #4 - SH0REW30D Frederick W. Allerding owned 56+ acres on the SW corner of Oakland Ave. and Capitol Drive; by 1858, there was a log school on that corner. Both Frederick and his brother, Johann, were large land owners, both in the Town of Milwaukee and the City. That log school burned in 1864 and a new one was built on the NW corner of that same intersection. The new school was of unfinished ltiriber and was destroyed by fire in 1895. Another school was built on the same site, but of white pine, and was long remembered as "the pink school" due to its original red paint fading. A single story building, a later 2nd floor was added, and eventually became a social center, comcnunity church and village hall. In 1908 another, larger, 4 room school was built to serve as both school and comnunit center. It was replaced in 1915 with the present Atwater School, built originally as an 11 room school. Lake Bluff School was built in 1924 and has had several additions and remodelings. In 1925, the first building for Shorewood High School was completed. The Shorewood Middle School, on Menlo Blvd. was built in the early 1970's. SCHOOL DISTRICT #3 Frederick and Elisabeth Moscowitt to the Director of School District #3 Town of Milwaukee on 10/20/1855, for $100.00 for a piece of land beginning at the NW corner of the S 4-90/100ths of an acre of the N 7.40 of an acre of Lot 6 in Section 9 Town 7 = 50 x 100'. This is now Humboldt and Vienna Aves, - the SE **m corner. ^ SCHOOL DISTRICT #2 On 9/1/1856, Henry and Minna Wettstein, for $15.00, sold 3/10's of an acre on the Green Bay Rd. for school land. This was on the W side of Green Bay Rd., to Atkinson Ave., north to Keefe Ave., in that triangle. By 1872, the school house was located on the E side of Green Bay Ave., about 1-1/2 blocks N of Keefe Ave,, now in the City. DISTRICT #1 Heinrich and Elisabeth Wilke, on 7/5/1854 to the Town School District #1 for $50.00, for land between Center and Hadley Sts., on a triangular piece of land bounded by Hopkins St. and 13th St., now in the City of Milwaukee. The early dividing line between the City and the town of Milwaukee was North Ave. It was later moved north to the Edgewood/Keefe Ave, dividing line and stayed there for many years. ^ ^^sfSErx Mary Jane Scheife " 1350 Words *®*" FROM 1868 to 1921 N A LONG FISH STORY AND LOTS OF FISH Th© first Pond net in *hlteflsh Bay wan put in in 1862 by Mr* John Luck, a fisherman from the fishing district near Green Bay. It was a very warn day in May when he came down through the orchard and rapped at the door of our home and father went to the door* The man said his name was John Luck and he had come down with his boats and net and three helpers and now all he wanted was a nice landing place. Father asked him in but he said he was in a hurry so lather told him to pull the boats on the beach and it would be alright, and he(fath0r) would come there. In a short 44iite the bargain was made and work began and by five o'clock they had skidded^ up the boats all hi#i and dry and everything was ready for the night. The next day they went over to the tamarack swamp just north of Devon Street near the river to look for stakes. They found all the nice, tall trees which they bought and began cutting down, trimming off the branches and getting them ready to take up to the lake for shaving and pointing off. It was a busy time and by the first of June the nets were set and fish coming in fine. -Mr, Luck fished on our beach for two years and then moved down about five blocks south about opposite Circle Drive where he fished about ten years, good fishing moat of tha time. He lived in the house that is now 942 last sylvan/%enue} a very nice house at that time but not as large as it is now*. It has boon remodeled two or three times. The next year father and his brother, Captain 'i'heodore Consaul started fishing. They hired a fisherman from %een Bay for about two months to help get the nets in and everything started. The manfs name was William Deloung, a very nice man and a good worker. Father built his own boats during the winter, one twenty-four foot flat bottom and one fifteen foot. It waa a warm spring and they wanted to get tbe net in for the early spring fishing. They got the nets in ready for business but that night a big northwest storm came up and lasted for two days. The lake was very rough so the net could not be lifted for two days, father was very much worried as he expected to find his nets all torn to pieces by the rough weather. & \°\ ~2- and the drift wood, but t© his surprise they only found one big hole where a big log had torn through, and with about four hours mending it would be fixed like new. They rowed out to the po* and found everything all right and there they had quite a surprise. When they lifted the net they found it contained fifteen sturgeon and about two bushel of small fish, mostly trout, sheepshead and bass but no whitefish. When they returned to the beach there was quite a crowd of people waiting for fish so most of them were sold ri$ht there on the beach. Most of the sturgeon had been order ed, so my plder brother put the saddle on the old horse and went out to tell the farmers we had plenty sturgeon on the beach and were going to lift the nets again about one o'clock in the afternoon. They did and at that time came in with forty-five sturgeon, all sizes from two feet to four and one-half feet long* This sounds like a big fish story but it is the truth* We had no strict fishing laws in those days like we have now. I was five years old at the time but remember this a though it happened yesterday* Father fished about eight years, good fishing most of the time. Then the nets were mended and stored away in the fish shanty. The next spring my older brother William T Oonsaul went to Cheboygan and worked for a fisherman by the name of Jewel Cassen. When he came home in the fall he asked father if he would sell him his nets if he could find a good partner to go into business with. Father said he would and would let him use his landing and also the team until William could get a team of his own* Brother found a partner$ one of the young men of the neighborhood by the nam© of frank Koja, a |ood worker and about six feet and three Inches tall. By spring they had everything r$ady for early fishing, fhey caught lots of fish and about the middle of Jun& they bought a forty- five foot net and set it straight out from the first one. %ey hired a man by the name of Alphas Illiott to help drfcss and pack the fifth* I ram&aber they dressed, salted and packed twenty-three fish barrels of whitefish in one day. %©y were first packed in common salt and let stand for three days; were then taken out aai repacked in fine rook salt; after this they were ready fcr inspection before «»3*» they could be sold. The fishing was good all that s^wter. The second year they got their nets out quite early. The weather was fine so they had a good start, ^h&y fished a number of years and did very well but they both decided they would like to quit the fishing business and work at something else. They sold their nets, boats and everything belonging to the fishing business to Lewis Scheife and *Charleyt! Langsehwagw who started fishing the next spring. The landing place was changed about five blocks north on Lewis Schelf&'s fathers beach. X&it same spriiag *'re& G.Isenring put in a net about one block south of where the resort used to be. He had everything all set for fishing but on the second day a heavy northwest stormmm up and tore th# net, washed out some of the stakes and just about ruined the whole thing. Mr* Isenring had no time to fix up tha nets so he sold out to a young man by the name of Otto Bomn* It took about four weeks to get the nets in order again so he only fished through the one summer. Scheife and tangaohwagw did very well. %e fourth year ^cheife bought Langschwager9s share of the net and started out for himself. Ie hired a man to help him during the fishing season. He furnished $11 the fish fcr the Whitefish Bay Besort, from thre^ hundred pounds to six hundred poinds a week. He sold most of the fish fresh, went out twice a week with the wagon, sometime to the city and sometime out in the country. He fished for eleven years, quitting in 1892. In 1899 Pet® Schaefer bought the nets and used the same landing. He lived in Mr. 3cheife*s house most of the time. Mr. %heifer was a jolly, good natured old bachelor and knew how to fish. He had many friends and was a very good neighbor He died Hcveafcer 16, 19S0 after having been ill since August of that year. The next spring, 1921, Mr. Frank Hode bought the nets and started fishing, I think not so much for a business as for the pleasure he would get out of it. He was very font of fish and it would be much easier to dip ten or fifteen pounds out of the pond net with a little dip net then to sit on the beach and pull them out of the lake one at a time with a hook and line. Mr. Klode fished for three years and seemed to enjoy it very much, '^his was the last of tbe pond net fishing in ^hitefish Bay* &»< My two brothers, Will and-'rank Consaul, and Henry %effen always went out with Mr. Klode to help lift the net and take care of the fish. Mary Jane ^chelfe. Of Or JAUNTS WITH JAMIE long Career Remembered JAUNTS WITH JAMIE ARTHUR A. RABE was the workers at Geuders. My born 87 years ago in White- first official job was auditing fish Bay when that communi the books of the kitchenware Whitefish Bay ty was little more than woods firm. and farms. While not as spry "I spent 15 years with the as he used to be (arid who AFL and made several trips is?), the old gentleman is still to Washington, D. C My job Oi Yesterday nimble of mind. Memories was helping with organizing, I JUST HAD a long and in there was the 'Dummy Line,' come bubbling up like foam auditing and appearing in court. I retired 15 years ago a little steam engine that ' on beer. teresting visit with Mrs. at the age of 72." Charles H. Kestermeier and pulled three small passenger No, Rabe did not attend a, IN 1909, RABE married her.. 87 year old father, Arthur cars on narrow gauge track." one room school. "My first Florence Creed. She worked A* Rabe, who was born, along The Whitefish Bay Resort school on Port Washington for the Pere Marquette Trans n played an Important part In Rd., he said, "had two portation Co, Rabe met and with three brothers and five rooms, one for the boys and fell in love with her when she sisters, on his father's 15 acre Rabe's life. In his early teens one for the girls." came into O'Neil's to order farm In Whitefish Bay when he began "fooling around AFTER TELLING about paint. They had six daugh this now thriving community with a $2 violin — case in the Pabst Whitefish Bay Re ters, four of whom are still w a i mostly farmland and cluded." At 16 he began tak living. The oldest is Mrs. sort, described in some detail when the Lakeshore and ing lessons from Herman Tuesday, Rabe skipped to the Charles H. Kestermeier, who retired in July, 1972, as ad Eastern Railroad ran through Kelbe, who conducted the in turn of the century when he door orchestra at the resort attended Hoffman's Business , ministrative assistant to th« property. His German ' '^ge at 3rd and State Sts. Francis McCormack, clerk of born father had settled there and often substituted for Jo- courts. in 1849. seph Clauder, the outdoor i finished my business / Sister Mariana, a Daughter band leader. courses in 1903,'' he said, of Charity, is at St. Mary's . "We raised cows, hogs and "and got a job as office boy Hospital, Daly City, Calif. -chickens," Rabe said, "and LATER, RABE played for with the O'Neil Oil and Paint Mrs. Andrew G. Magruder peddled butter, eggs, vegeta the silent movies, theaters* Co.. on E. Water and Detroit lives in San Jose, Calif,, and bles and apples from the back dances and parties. He has a Sts. I was with this firm for of a wagon in the neighbor Helen, the youngest daughter, record of every performance 20 years and was purchasing hood of Humboldt and North (usually four hours in the agent when I quit to become Mrs. Phillip Grabowski, is a Aves." public health nurse who lives evening) and how much he president of t h e National Rabe and his father helped earned for each job. One no- Paint and-Varnish Co. We at 4920 S. 14th St. Her father >; t a t i o n reveals that he re resides with her. to develop the village of had seven stores scattered Shorewood and remembers ceived $3.50 for playing at about the city. But each time During our interview, Rabe the famous Pabst Whitefish Wareham's Palm Garden, 3rd we opened a store, a compet showed me a picture of a Bay Resort overlooking Lake and State Sts. Christmas gathering at the ing firm opened one next Michigan near Henry Clay St. Rabe also taught the violin. door and undersold us. This old Whitefish Bay h o m e- and N. Lake Dr. stead. There were 27 rela "During the depression of the firm prospered and we went '30s," he said, "I had to stop broke. I lost my life savings. tives in the group from babes "IT WAS AN amusement in arms to grownups, repre- teaching. My students had park," Rabe said, "with a big run out of money," "I went to work for Geu- s e n t i n g four generations. Ferris wheel that gave its ri der, Paeschke and Frey Co., "My mother," said Rabe, ders- a breathtaking view of Mrs. Kestermeier inter- manufacturers. of kitchen- "known to everyone as the- lake. There were other rupted her father, "Mother ware, as a laborer. After 10. 'Grandma Lisette,' was a outdoor attractions, includ played the piano and an eve years, I became interested in great cook and we raised ing a beer garden and band' ning at bur house was real theN American Federation of most of the food on the stand. It was crowded week ly something. Dad's musician ' Labor and helped to organize farm." ends by patrons who arrived friends would drop in from on the Bloomer Girl and 6th- the outside world and we'd tifi C 3L ) I want to thank Mrs. Holland for inviting me to speak to you about Old Whitefish Bay* My name is Arthur Rabe*- I Was horn in Whitefish~Bay on Feb. 23, 1886/ That makes me 88 years old. I was "born in the Rabe home on Woodruff St. (then Avoca) a block ._ North of Hampton Road* My grandfather John Rabe and his wife Sophie had come from Germany in 1849. They lived briefly with a friend Mr. Dietrich on Atkinson Ave. Milwaukee near the Port Washington Road/ Mr. Dietrich told grandpa he owned 26 acres of land oh the Port road about four miles north of Milwaukee. If John would clear his land of stones, weeds, and trees, John could sell the wood and the money received would be his. John and his wife built a shack, and managed to get a pair of Oxen and cleared Dietrich's land from the Port road west to the river. Along the river John left a few trees: and this; was now a fine spot for picnics. Later this property was taken over by a Bavarian Henry Schuetz who built a home on it, and also* a Bar- room and a large dance hall. He called it the Pour Mile house. Grandpa found a man on 3rd & River sts. in Milwaukee who would tak^ a£Ll the wood John could bring and pay him cash money for it. In those days wood was a. necessity, to keep your house warm in winter, for baking bread, cakes etc. There were no electric stoves in those days*. We did use kerosene to light a lamp in the house, or a lantern to feed cattle at night. In early Whitefish Bay there were many trees so John had to clear the land of trees before he cmild' plow the land. ^ With a growing family John had to raise potatoes, cabbage, "~^ carrots and other vegetable for food, and also raise oats, wheat,, rye, hay to feed cattle and horses. On Jan. 251 1868 John boLight 5 acres of land for $250, located on the west side of Woodruff Ave* On Sep). 30, 1868 he bought 10 acres on the east side of Woodruff Ave* and touching Hampton Road. This became the Homestead of the Rabe family. John Rabe was not the first settler to buy land in Whitefish Bay. I have the names, number of acres they bought, and the amount they paid for their land. They had bought in 1853- 1854; 1864KL865 and 1867* Grandpa and wife Sophie had a family of 3 girls and two boys. As they grew older they were sent out to earn their- living. My father was one of those boys. They all found on the Lindwurm 80 acre farm, on the Port Washington Road, the job they needed. My father had to^ milk <20 cows when he came to work in the morning. He did other work during the day. He had to milk the cows, again at night before going home. He became an expert. They had to work 12 hours ever y day. The cows had to milked Sundays also. In time Grandpa's children had married and had homes) of their own. His wife had died so John lived alone at various;: places in Milwaukee. He often came to visit the Rabe family in Whitefish Bayv I was about 8 years old and walked in to Milwaukee to visit him. I" brought in wood for his stove from a shed nearby. I went with him to a store to buy food. I stayed one night with him and walked home the next day/ . tf& ( 2 ) My father, Charles Rabe & Lisette Burchard had married and were raising a family. This in time grew to 4- boys and 5 girls. Grandpa spent his last years with us. That made 12 people for breakfast, dinner and Supper. We had 2 horses. 3 cows, 6 pigs and 30 chickens. .On Saturdays we drove to Milwaukee to bring butter, eggs, potatoes, and apples to people that had ordered them. We brought home meat, Bakery, and other stuff that tasted good after the samw fare every dajp. Our mother and sister Lottie baked "pies. 12 people sure emptied all of the pie tins. I am now going to talk about something every farmer knows. A farmer cannot raise crops on a farm without having manure; that is a fertilizer/ that he plows under two or three years. Every farm'has a manure pile, where horses, cows, pigs and even chickens contrubute. This excrement plowed under the soil brings new life to the soil. This stuff is so precious that my father had an agreement with a livery stable in Milwaukee that had many horses. M3.lwauk.ee has an ord nance that barn -yards must be cleans and odorless all the time. So quite often we went and helped ourselves to all the manure our wag OIK would hold and dump it on our. manure pile in our yard, In April the farmer knows how many acres are to be used for planting potatoes. He and some helperwill -haul manure from the farmers yard and scatter it evenly on the field, then he will plow it under. Then plant the potatoes. With weather gradually growing warmer the seed potatoes will soon come up and bloom. Now for the tough -part. There is such ax thing as a potatoe bug. Nature tells.him when to come up. In cold winter he is by nature buried deep in - the ground and in spring nature tells him when to come up and he will eat the leaves of the potatoe. But we are ready for him. With a wisk broom and a light mixture of poison, (Paris Green) we sprinkle it on him and the plant. Not strong enough to kill the plant, but HE IS DEAD. Then we go up and down the rows with with a hoe to kill all weeds, so all the strength goes into growing large, healthy potatoes. The following will tell what is needed badly in OLD WHITEFISH -BAY. The Bay has no doctors, barber shops, fire department, sidewalks, sewers, no School House, library , electric lights, and only 1 Marshal for law & order. My sister Lottfe was 6g- years old and I was 5 years. My father talked to us one day: He said after many meetings it does not look as if White- fish Bay will have a School House in the near future. He said he wants to see us children have a good, schooling and with jobs that pay a living wage: or better, without too hard work. He said I think you two aught to go to that little school in. the Lindwurm Farm on the Port Washington Road. So Lottie and I walked about 2 miles or more, on a road that no sidewalks, and then home again. With bad weather setting in we went there no more. More meetings were held by the Whitefish Bay voters about building a School, but too many were against it, because it would cost money to build and there werea lot things that needed attention too. ^ # ( 3 } • . My sister Lottie was 61 years old and I was 5 years. My father talked to us one day: he said after many meetings it does not look as if Whitefish Bay will have a,school in the near future. I want to see you kids have a good schoolingm and with jobs that pay a. living or better without to hard work* I think you two aught to go to that little school on the Lindwurm farm on the Port road. So we walked 2 miles there and 2 miles again to get home*. With bad weather settingin we went there no more* In 1888 The Dummy Line with Engine and 3 cars smarted at Henry Clay road and Welcome Park to go south till it arrivec at North Ave. & Farwell Ave* in Milwaukee.BUT families living on the. North side of the village had to-walk: to Henry Clay & Welsome Park. Many meetings, were held but some were against voting for a village, because it was going to cost money to build a school house and take care of other things. A Mr. Rogers worked for a newspaper in Milwaukee, arid he also printed a weekly paper for the Bay. He was listened to* He said let us; appoint a committee to see Judge Johnson circuit Court in Milwaukee for advice. Once we become a legal village we can elect officersm build a school house and do other things* My father was a member of the committee that visited Judge Johnson. He said you must take a census: to find out how many families, and children the village has, You must have at least 316. Also must have 13„000 acres of land. Then come back and report to me. Henry Scheife took the census on March 16,. 1892. The census showed there were 316 families & children, and 13,000 acres of land. After papers: had been shown Judge Johnson he declared we had a legal village. The Tweedy Land Co*, Richard 6b Elizabeth Burke, and John and Catherine Mann for one dollar each, deeded enough land to the village to allow building a two story school house, for toilet facilities, and a play ground for the children. The building of the school house was given to John Eohlmeta and v/as finished in 1892. In bad weather we were allowed to play in the basement. We now started building sewers, side walks and electric lights were had in 1903. In 1907 we installed lights all over the village. My father had been elected road commiss ioner and he wasted no time in visiting the man that had charge- of the cement mills on Capitol Drive and Humboldt Ave. Arrangements were made that the village could pick up all the material the cement mill could not use. This would the village in getting rid of muddy roads. Five men with strong horses and large wagons started to bring this material to our roads and clean up a bad situation. 3*1 ( 4 )•" Our first teacher in our new school was Mrs. H*K* Curtis, wife of a lawyer. We had been having school in Jefferson Park and in the rear of the Stoheife Store. After a year or* two, more families, came: to live in Whitefish Bay and brought more children to go to our new school. So more teachers were needed .and men taught the upper class. I was glad that Harry Hayden taught us in 1900 and the year before. He taught us how to make speeches. One time teacher Hayden had written the parts for four of us scholers to settle a debate: Shall the United States annex the Phillipine Islands. Earl McDougall & Norman McAllister pitted against Lawrence Remington and Arthur Rabe. We won the debate. What counted a lot is how we delivered our speech. Judges: Chas. McG-ee, a lawyer, Doctor William^ and the third man I have forgotten. On my graduation in 1900:' I was expected to and did memorize a speech: "The Grand Army of the Republic*tt? In the year 1887 Capt. Fred Pabst of the Pabst Brewing Co. the largest brewery in Milwaukee on 8th & Chestnut sts., and a crew of his1 Real Estate men came to take photographs and decided to have a park in Whitefish Bay to sell his beer# The village and he agreed where the park woyHldl be and called PStbst Whitefish Bay Resort, The Dummy Line was discarded and Electric trains took over. In coming to the^ park by buggy or wagon along the Lake Shore Drive, you had to pay money to ride on the toll road. Pabst, with his connections was. able to get the toll road abolished. He also managed to get perm ission to have the Lake Shore Drive come west on Henry Clay st. one block and then continue North* Pabst building were far enough from the lake front to allow plenty room to have tables and stools to sit on so people could en— j$y beer1, soda, etc and enjoy the lake at the same time. The build ing housed the Famous Round Bar, where only waiters selling beer, soda etc. could be waited on. The next part of the building had tables and chairs and the Famous Clauder Quintette under direction of the well known Violinist Herman Kelbe. The came the ladies room for them to do up their hair etc* Upstairs from there was a kitchen and large dining room that could hold 1500 people. The visitors could eat fresh caught fish, meat and other dainties. Naturally Champagne and Pabst peer was also served. After 25 years Pabst decided to close the park. Automobiles were coming into the pictmre , and would make it possible for people to go farther for amusment. All the building were torn down and seven families allowed to build a home near the lake front. As time went on Whitefish Bay became more and more a quality community and a symbol of fine leisure living. Misc. Information about Old Whitefish Bay0 Fred Isenring, while operating the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort, with-.Ms family \ occupied the house near the North Band Stand. Here his daughter Hattie -was horn Dec. 11, 1880. When-Henry Kanopka, in 1894-' took over the management of the resort, this house was moved' out of the Park., to the Southwrst corner of Lexington Boulevard and' North Lake Drive, Then the house was occupied by Henry Kanopka© May 17, 1888 Best. Brewing Co. sold to the Milwaukee -Whitefish B.ay Ry, Company for the sum of $565. a strip of land in.Welcome Park, to.be uged for a Depot, and Depot Platform by the Dummy Line which consisted of a 12 ton. Locomotive, light gauge track, one enclosed car for Winter use and two open cars fpr summer use-. The Dummy Line started in 1888. from the Whitefish Bay station located in Welcome Park, went straight south until it arrived at a station at Hampton Road. It.continued East through woods on \ right side &£ Hampton Road until it,arrived at Oakland Ave. ,, crossed Oakland and continued south on the traclc on Oakland. Ave., crossed the iwenae and continued south on the track on Oakland Ave&ue. Stopped at several depots on the way until it arrived at its destination - North Ave. & Farwell Ave. In Milwaukee. Picked up passengers that wanted to go North, and by way of Downer Ave. gradually got back to i$s home in Welcome Pari. The Dummy Line stopped running- in 18980 The Electric Railway took otfer in 1898, running, as far North as Day Ave. In 1904. it extended the line up to the River Road. - in Fox .Point. On Mqy 15, 1891 Pabst Brew. CO. bought from Jacob Stoll, Elizabeth Sutton And Wm. Sutton, both parks, Welcome and Jefferson for $ 8000.00 each park, maling a total of $16,000.00. See DefttBook 280 - Page 269. Lewis Saheife had a grocery store on Silver Spring Drive, with the family living upstairs. He sold out to John Singles in 18980 Ten years, 1888 to 1898 were spent by John Singles, Hiera^cheife and Paul Knap in operating the Dummy Line. Humdoldt Ave,, commenced in Milwaukee in 1800, came as far North as H ampton Road. ; in Whitefish Bay. "It'was extended North from Hampton Roadi in June 4ff 1929* Now it is called Marlborough Drive0 Holy Family church bought Kruse property from C. & N.W. Ry. Nov. 17, 194.31* Fred Isenring was the first successful man to run Whitefish Bay Resorl. Apr. 1, %$77 he bought the property for $1600 and in Nov. 18$8;a&£ sold it to Pabst Brewing CO. for $22^000, He then leased It from Pabst Brew. Co. Anson Buttles was a civil engineer. Justice.of the Peace? and surveyor for 50 years beginning in 1849. He lived in tfAMAJwt Qjwto< t^ilL - Village of Whitefish Bay started putting in Electric Lights in 1903. The village paid young Bill Mohr $50 a month for carrying a torch at end of a long pole to light theTlamps at night - Later with more Lamps, he was paid $90 a month. In 1907 the Village installed regular electric lights,. 321 Here Is some necessary information- about Olri Whitefish Bay. A Russiaii, Noble man, Henry Kanopka , lost his money with flax fields burning up, and Capt. Capt. Pabst hired him as ft storekeeper in the Pabst Brewery. A manager was needed to run the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort and Mr. Pabst chose Henry Kanopfeka for the job. After looking things over for a day or two Kanopka came to Bill Staffeld, the lone Marshall of the village, who lived near the park. He told Staff eld he needed a man that cam be very reliant,' have a good team of horses and thus help him rum the park* Bill .Staffeld told him to walk two blacks west,, then turn left which is south, and in about 10'blokes you will find the Rabe home. He1s the man for you. Many times the Bay kitchen ran short of milk for meals, and I bought our cows home at 2 0!clock in the afternoon. I remember one hot day the Park ran short of ice, so necessary for food & drinks. Bill Staffeld and I hitched up out'* team and hurried to the Joins' Icehouse and did get some ice to tide them over© I used to help the men In winter to fill the Parks ice house. My father took Mr. Kanopka, at his request out toward Mequon.He needed a tree in the Park. He satf a tree out in a farmers field, looked it over, and bought it from the farmer. He tied a colored handkerchief a certain way on the tree and asked that it would not be taken off© Thus the tree would stand In the Park the same way/ it had been in1 the field. Pabst brewery furnished block, tackle, chains and a low wagon to bring the tree to the Park. At the Park a hole had already been dug to hold 'the new tree. It was being brought from Mequon with all the roots frozen on and carefully covered with burlap for the trip. /Konopka saw to it that the Park finally got a Ferris Wheel. From it you got a good look at Lake Michigan© They also made Ice Cream with the help of the Ferris Wheel. Near by was a Band Stand on which Clauders 2U piece Band piayec Fire works are usually sent up in the air on tHe Fourth of July. Kanopka advertised the time Fire Works would be seen going up at night from the pier. It attracted many people, just came to see the fire works, and naturally sprent some money. , No doubt the fame of the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort, attracted many people to Whitefish Bay Park. Long platforms were built near Lexington Boulevard, so people could be unloaded from the train and march east the the Bay Resort with their own Band playing. Excursion trains were run from Chicago, St. Louis, GleTOlaxad, Jolie't Ills1, and many others. *N0TE: The Johns1 icehouse was located on the Milwaukee River, just north of Hampton0 Rd. on the west side of the river. The Johns had a tavern on Green Bay Rd., north side of Hampton Rd. op * 7< Out in the yard strong, heavy hard wood was fastened deep: in the yard ground with heavy sledge hammers. Long strong wooden sweeps were fastened to this contraption. There were four of these sweeps. and on everyone two horses were fastened, to go around &nd around* Thrie bridles were fastened to the sweep ahead of them. The horse power was connectened to the machine on the barn floor with a long strong pipe, about two or more inches in diameter. And thus we had Ebrse*Power. After a few years a good threshing machine was built and also a steam engine. It was ny job to stand on the horse power and keep ttack of the horses. Here is some necessary information about Old Whitefish Bay. A Russian Nobelman, Henry Kanopka, lost his money with flax fields, burning up, and Capt. Pabst hired him as a storekeeper in the: Pabst Brewery. A manager was needed to run the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort and Mr. Pabst chose Henry Kanopka for the "job.. After looking things over for a few days Kanopka came to Bill Staffeld, the lone Marshal of the village, who lived near the park. He told Staff eld he needed a man that can be very reliant*, have a good team of horses and thus help him run the park. Staff eld'' told him to walk two blocks west, then turn left, which is south and in about lo blocks you will find the Rabe Home. HEfs the man for you. Many times the PARK kitchen ran short of milk for meals, and I had to bring the cows home,at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I remember one hot day the Park ran short of ice, so necessary for food and drinks. Bill Staffeld and I hitched up our team and hArried to the Jones Icehouse and did get some ice to tide them over. I used to help the men in winter to fill the Park!s Ice House. My father took Mr. Kanopka, at his request out toward Mequon , He needed a tree in the park. He saw a tree out in a farmers field looked it over, and1 bought it from the farmer. He tied a colored handkerchief a certain way on the tree and asked that it not be taken of. Thus the tree would stand in the Park the same way it had been in the field. Pabst Brewery furnished block, tackle, chains and a low wagon to bring the tree to the Park. At the Park a hole had already been dug to hold the new tree. It was being brought from Mequon with all the roots frozen on and carefully covered with burlap, for the trip. Kanopka saw to it that the Park finally got a Ferrig Wheel*. From It you got a good look at Lake Michigan. They also made Ice Cream with it. Near by was a Band Stand on which Jo£ Clauder's 24 piece Band played. Fire works are usually sent up in the air on the 4th of July, Kanopka advertised that Fire Works would be seen going up at night from the PIER. It attracted many people, just came to see the Fire Works, and naturally-- spend some money. No doubt the fame of PABST "WHITEfflSH BAY PARK attracted many people* Long platforms were built near Lexington Boulevard, so people could be unloaded from the train and march east to the Resorfc, with their own Band playing. Excursion trains were run from Chicago St. Louis, Cleveland, Joliet,Ills, and others. J Now a lot of things may go wrong on an Engine & Cars that need repairs. The ChicagofSt. Paul Ry. has a repair shop in Mil- wakee. Now our Railroad the Northwestern had ideas'of having a repair in the Bay# In 1887 a Mr. Cleveland contacted a Mrs. Pagers about buying her eleven acres. He offered her $1,000 an/{ acre accepted, and received her money. Then they changed their minds and did not build a repair shop. Pagel's Eleven acred bordered our 10 acres with just a fence- in between. When Grandpa Rabe heard about the SI,000 an acre, he said thats fine, so my land is also worih the same price. The Bay now had more people than ever before and they started to complain about the speed of the trains, and annoyance of the whistles which according to State Law, had to be sounded at each crossing. So the C.& N.W. train officials; said they would ntirt continue running through Whitefish Bay. Work started in 1927 and the last of the rails removed by 1929. Managers of the Whitefish Bay Resort Fred G. Isenring 1889' to 1894 Henry Kanopka 1894 to 1904 Peter & Henry Sturm 1905 to 1906 Richard Becker 1906 to 1914 On June 7. 1892, a public election was held and Whitefish Bay was voted into existance by a vote of 72 to 14. Four weeks later the : Following Officers were chosen: President: Fred G. Isenring Trustees: T.W. Williams Louis Scheife Ernest Timpel Israel LeFeber Adolph Ehlers Wm. Consaul Clerk: George Rogers Treasurer Alvah Remington Assessor: August Nussbaumer Justics of the peace: Hugh Gregg Police Justice: Daniel Leet Constables George Rood Henry Scheife Street G'cnmnsas: Charles Rabe Chas. Langschv/ager School Commiss: C. R. Gether J.E. Langlois Walter Ellis H» Desmond: offered to act as Village Attorney for 3£ 5 a year. Four pupil© graduated in 1900,, from the First School built. HelerL King Earl McDougall Norman McAllist*s f Arthur Rabe. Just after the turn of the century Kanopka introduced* out door movies. A hand cranked projector, set up on the steps leading to the circular bar, flashed the'early "flickers" on a screen erected at the'edge of the'bluff.. But this was not successful as the drive in Theaters of 50 years later and soon was not continued* Kanopka kept the property in excellent condition , more like: a private estate than a public resort. An article in a Milwaukee newspaper in June 1902, said "All work is: now complete at the Whitefish Bay RESORT. Flower beds are in summer gggoidentt Hg^g^ll Anniversary Message. On the occasion of ©ur ?|^k Mm^vefm^fy W© must peRML* to re— fleet what has happened in these years. Our 2.1 square miles has changed from a rural community with a well known resort to a modern suburban area. At the same time, our. population has gone1 from a small 516 to about 18,500 at present. Though'a village In government structure, Whitefish Bay is urban in the services it provides. 3uoh a growth cannot be done without the concerted effort of many people.'"This- includes trustees, village managers, engineers and presidents. In addition, we must include the appointed members of the various boards and commissions. With the aid of these people and many more*,, your government has grown and developed as the. need arose. When the necessity for a stronger central administration became apparent, we adopted the manager type of goversmenlM With the growth of our village, the need for a plan commission became obvious and one was established In 1939. These are but two examples of the way your village government has modernized Itself to keep pace with the changing times. The results- of the past governments are easy to see if you but look around. Though we are almost completely built-up.. Whitefish Bay is still a residential village in character. Our streets are paved,, With iidewalks, full curbs and gutters. Sewers, and water mains are up^to-date and in good working order. We have our own joint*water utility with Fox Point and Glendale which we can control and regulate at the local level. Our street lighting is complete and now being modernized as the need arises.Certainly our protection services, police and fire, cannot be ignored. They, like the rest of the vill age, have grown in strength and efficiency so that they can cope with all situations.. In addition, both services are combined with other North Shore communitiei In a.iiuiiiial. aid pact.. Such an agreement assures extra strength to our department if necessary. Our public facilities have also been updated. New or replaced items includes the library, the:- department of: public-works1 building the parking utility, fire station and recreational shelter building. Already in the planning stage is our new village hall and police station.We must make mention of our Whitefish Bay school system. Without the excellent facilities and reputation the school board has created to complement our- village* I doubt if Whitefish Bay would be the village you and I support. The future, as I see it, requires much work to maintain our village in a form which will be acceptable to the residents and still within their means. I am sure we all agree that for a price we can have anything. Our task is to strike the balance between the rising costs and increasing demand for service. At the same time, we must inventory what we have and try to increase our property value rather than let it erode.. S&ch forward planning is a great challenge and wiUL require the cooperation of many citizens to establish realistic goals and the necessary plans to reach them. Your village government headed by it§ president and board of trustees, is pledged to this tn&. $ks ptsi ?? years have given us a great base and heritage to work from We oftnsaid must move forward and upward to the challenge of the future & ® <<8) On June 7, 1892 a public election was held and Whitefish Bay voted into existance by a vote of 72 to 14. Fo-pr1 weeks later the following village officers were chosen. President: Fred G. Isenring Trustees: T#W. Williams Louis Scheife Ernest Timpel Israel LeFeber Adolf Ehlers Wm* Consaul Clerk: G§ergeeR&ggr&e Treasurer: Alvah Remington Assessor:- August Nussbaumer Justice of : Hugh Gregg the peace \ George Rogers Po&iceoJustice: Daniel Leet Constable: George Rood Henry Scheife Street Commiss: Charles Rabe (Charles Langschwager School Commiss: 0. R* Gether J.E.LanglSi^. Walter Ellis H*, Desmond: offered to act as village attorney for $gi a year. The first school teacher was Mrs..HtK#- Curtis. At the time of incorporation, the population was 3 1 6. Eighteen years later In 1910 the population had increased to 8 12. Now 18,000. May 15, 1891: Pabst Brewing Co. bought from Jacob Stoll, Win.. and Elizabeth Sutton Welcome and Jefferson Park for $16,000. Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort opened June 3ffl, 1889. II ' * n II it closed 1915. The Dummy Line started 1888. The Electric Railway n 189S. Manager of Resort Fred Isenring 1889 to 1894. Henry Konopka 1894 to 1905:. Peter & Henry Sturm 1905 to 1906 Richard Becker: 1906 to 1914. Four pupils graduated in 1900, from the First School. built. Helen King Earl McDougall Norman McAllister Arthur Rabe V^ .Description of a log School House, located in the fowffi- <£&- Milwafe&ee cemetery, was drawn up by Gallus Isenring. It was constructed of logs 18 by 22 feet, and one story high. It had 6 windows and tw8 doors. There were 12 desks in all, each about four feet long, made of Pine Lumber. Dated Jan. 22, 1Q59. In L959 the school house was already ten to twelve years ""old. therefore it must have been built in 1847. Mv father Chas. Riabe attended that school, 10 years old., Anson Buttles was a civil Engineer, Justice of the Peaee, and sur veyor for 50 years, beginning in 1849.• He lived in Fox Point. Here is an excerpt from T;Tie"T5Iir^^ry of Anson W. Buttles. On May 30, 1872., he married Minna Rabe, my aunt to Frederick Reincke at the home of their employer Wm.- H. Lindwurm, Port Washington Road. On a very raing; night October 11, 1875 Fred G. Isenring and Hepworth S. Chandler came to the home" of "Anson Buttles to be married Children: Mary Sarnie"; BORN: Dec. 11, 1876> Hepworth #Hattierp " Dep^ll^ 1880. 2r. Hattie Isenring married June 26, 1897 to Fred Dreyer CHILDREN: Chester C, BORN: April 26, 1898. Esmeralda " lay 5<9: 1909. In early days when Ered G. Isenring owned the property where boats landed and unlodeci..".people- coming tb the^Wffit6ffsh"Bay Resort there was no trouble unloading people because Dr. Williams & wife were friends with the Isenring Family. When Isenring's wife died, he sold his holdings to Capt. Pabst, minus the shore line. WWfen the Williams family heard of Pabst taking over they made him pay $6000, for then owning Pier, Beach and Shore Line*DEED BOOK-250 - Page 583: "This Transaction """dated April 10", 1S8"9T Fred Isenring had bought the property on top of the bluff for $1600. AgSii 1, 1877 and now ±m November 1888 he sold^it to the Pabst Brew* company for $20,000 and then leased it from the Brewery. The Village of Whitefish Bay started putting in Electric Lights in. 1903. The Village paid young Bill Mohr $50 a month for carrying; .a torch at the end of a long pole to light the Clamps .at night- Later with more lamps he was paid $90 a month. In 190? the village in stalled regular electric lights. 9$> A Mr* Rogers worked for a newspaper in Milwaukee, and he also printed a weekly paper for the Bay. He was listened to. He said let UB appoint a committee to see Judge Johnson, of the circuit court in Milwaukee for advice. Omce we become a legal village, we can elect officers, build a school house, and do many other things. My father was a member of that committee that visited Judge Johnson. He said you must take a census to find out how 9isny families and children the village has, you must have at least 316. Also must have 13,000 or more acres of land to spread out if necessary. Then come back and report to me. Henry Scheife took the census; on March 16, 1892. The census showed there were 316 families & children , and 13,000 acrea of land. After papers had been shown Judge Johnson he declared we had a legal village. The Tweedy Land Co., Richard and Elizabeth Bur&B, his wife, and John and Catherine Mann for one dollar each, deeded enough land to the village to allow building a two story school house, for toilet facilities, and a play ground for the children. The building of the school house was given to John Kohlmetz and was finished in 1892. In bad weather we were allowed to play in the basement. W'e now started building sewers, side walks, and electric lights were had in 1903. In 1907 we installed lights all ocer the village. My father had been elected road Com missioner and he wasted no time in visiting the man that had charge of the cement mills on Capitol Drive and Humboldt Ave. Arrangements were made that the village could pick up all the material the cement mill could not use. This would helpcthe village in getting rid of muddy roads. Five men with strong hors In those days.no machinery was available. The farmer had to do things the hard way. He used a scythe to cut grass, oats and grains. The grass after cutting lay some time in the sun, then was turned over so it would be cured nice and dry, and then was brought into the barn. Oats, wheat, and rye had to be tied into a bundle and stacked in the field with the grain showing on the top. With good summer With good summer weather it was ready in a few days to be brought into the barn. Now laying a certain amount on the wooden floor of the barn, two men used a flail to ^eoarate the grain from the straw. The home made flail was a six foot length of hard wood with a hole at one end, and with a strong rope or leather another two feet of hard wood was fastened,.. Each man then took, turns to bring the flail down on the grain to separate it from the straw. Then the grain was put into a large sieve to separate the grain. Later a fanning mill was invented and all you did was turn a handle. to do the job. This was slow work. ^ First sale of land here was in 1837: First Resident in 1844. The first Landowner in Whitefish Bay— it was., then called Michigan Territory, was Joel Buttles. However, the first resident here was C. G. Evarts. Buttles bought land here in 1838. Evarts settled here in 1844 and resided near Day Avenue. Coming to this area from - Columbus, Ohio, Joel Buttles on Oct. 5, 1835, bought 350 acres through the United States government at Green Bay for $1.25 per acre. This land, now part of River Hills, Included his home, now 705 W. Bradley re, the residence of the Edwin B. Bartletts. In 1837" he acquired 160 acres bounded by what are now E. Silver Spring dr. N. Lydell ave, E. Hampton rd. and N. Santa Monica -blvd. Buttles bought another 80 acres, bounded by E. Henry Clay st, Santa Monica, Hampton and N. Idlewild ave. He also bought 10 acres in what is now Fox Point, boosting his holdings, to 570 acres. Shortly after, he returned to Ohio on a visit and died. Account-s of his: holdings appear in records owned by a distant relative, Anson M. Buttles, who now lives at 8027 N. NavaJo road. Anson's grandfather and Joel were cousins. Born in Canada, Alfred Lipscomb was born in Chatham, Canada on July 4, 1815. He bought 70.58; acres here from G. Wright on July 8, 1847 for $362.70 and built a log cabin on it. He and his wife, Maria, sold: 35.58; acre® of their property to William H. Consaul for $1,200 on Aug. 15> 1854. The Consauls built a home that is now 716 E. Silver Spring drive. Diaries kept by Anson W. Buttles show that another early settler was C*.. G. Evarts. He owned a 20 acre farm extending from the lake to Santa Monica along what is now E. Day Ave. He sold the property t®> A. W. Elliott foi* $2,050 on Jan. 28, 1875. Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Swain farmed at what is now E. Silver Spring di and N. Hollywood ave; at that time we had Civil .War. An entry in Buttles diary on Sunday Jan. 18, 1863> states: I rode the gray colt down to Swains today and after being there a little while, he; and I went; to Humboldt and while we were gone his barn took fire and burned down with four horses, all his hay and about 400 bushels of Wheat. No insurance. I am sorry for this, as he is a particular friend of mine. "The Swains had no children of their own. They were fond of one of Anson W. Buttles1 daughters, who stayed with them on occasion. They offered to give their 80 acre farm to Buttles, for his daughter, Lollie. Buttles who had seven daughters, refused. Some of the Swains original apple trees still stand south of the municipal parking lot on the east side of Hollywood south of Silver Spring Drive. "^Buttles conducted weddings"- Early settlers were Andrew and Albertina Bruss Mohr, whose wedding was performed by Buttles on Sat urday, Nov. 28f 1863^ In 1885, the Mohr's daughter assisted Buttles as a German interpreter while he was taking the census. A descendant William Mohr lived at 5126 N. Santa Monica Blvd. where his widow at;ill resides. Buttles also performed the wedding of Joseph Bouch 'and Sophia. Rakolph, on May 5, 1864.. Buttles also married the auntof Arthur A. Rabe, "Minna Rabe to Frederick Rienke at the home of their employer Win. H. Lindwurm, Port Washington Road. On a very rainy v night Oct. 11, 1875, Fred G. Isenring: and HEPWORTH S. Chandler came to> the home of Ansom Buttles to be married. FIRST PRESIDENT OF WHITEFISH BAY - LOST IN MYSTERY What happened to Fred G. Isenring, Whitefish Bay's first village President.? Was he "eliminated"' by enemres ? Disposed of in the lake. ? No oae knows'. Active politically and socially, he disap peared around the turn of the ceritury, never to be heard of again. It was shortly after he was defeated in a bid for re—election as County Sheriff. The son of Gallus Isenring who came to Milwaukee from Switzerland in 184:7. He was born April 1, 1854, in the old Milwaukee Township. His parents home^ at that time being at what is: now the corner of N. Port Washington and Green Tree rds. in Glendale. Gallus Isenring operated a saloon and grocery store from 1850 to 1855, then bought a farm that extended from the lake front west to what is now N. Santa Monica Blvd. The farm home, still in use, now is 808 E. Lake View ave. according to records of Anson W. Buttles, 8o27 N. NavajO rd. The home, originally, the Wm. Consaul. residence, .was sold by Gallus Isenring "to Jozia LeFebre in 1866. Fred Isenring according to records, was one of the best dressed men around town and drove fine horses and a deluxe carriage,/ He was manager of the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort for several years. Fred Isenring owned the property where the Pabst Park: was to be., He had bought the property April 1, 1877 for $1600.00. ^Isenring *Mfca sold it to Pabst Brewing Co. Nov* 1888 for $20,000. And then leased ttii.ifc from Pabst Bre^ei^r. His wife died, and he designed as Manager a and moved the family out of the park. The house they hjad been living in was moved out of the park to the south west corner of North Lake Drive and Lexington Blvd, and was occupied by the new manager of the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort, the russian Henry Konopka. A Land Office was opened at Green Bay, in 1834 and with the advent of moret pioneer families, Wisconsin was admitted into the Union in 1848. Milwaukee v/as divided into the Town of Lake on the South and the' Town of Milwaukee on the North side with" the dividing line at the present site of Greenfield Avenue. As early as 1894, a sewage system had been developed and by 1915, water mains were laid with water coming from Milwaukee, This continued until 1962:, when Whitefish Bay, Fox Point and Glendale bpilt their, own water system. On June 23. 1893. the village school was completed" and dedicated. Mrs H. K. Curtis, teacher was engaged to teach fiftfc children for ten months, at the attractive salary of $100.00 a month. Also a Mr. Nicholas was employed as Janitor and was paid $75 a year. April 10,,1889. Pabst Brew. Co. bought from T.W. Williams & wifi Alice, property running along theMichigan Lake shore. This"gave Pabst control of Pier, Beach & Shore Line. He paid them $6000. (See deed Book Vol. 250 - Page 583) »# I*- In coming to the Pabst. Park: by buggy or wagon along the Lake Shor* Drive you had to pay money to ride on the toll road. Pabst with his connections was able to get the toll road abolished. He also managed to get permission to have the Lake Shore Drive come west on Henry Clay street, one block and then continue north. Pabstfs buildings were far enough from the lake front to: allow plenty room to have tables and stools to sit on so< people: could enjoy, soda water etc. and enjoy the lake at the same time. The building housed the Famous Round Bar where only waiters sel ling beer, soda water and cigars could be waited on. The next part of the building had tables and chairs and the famous Clauder Quintette under direction of the well known Violinist Herman Kelbe * Then came the ladies room for them to do up their hair etc.. Upstairs from there was a kitchen and large dining room so visitors could eat fish, meat and other dainties. After 25 years Pabst decided to close the park. All buildings; were torn down and Seven families allowed to build a home near the lake front. As time went on Whitefish Bay became more and more a quality community and a symbol of fine leisure living. The farmer settlers were followed by persons of prominence in many fields/ great industrialists: and business men, educators, persons of wealth and society. Names prominent in the Bay's 75s years-include Uihlein, Pabst, Blatz, Pfister, Klode, Padway, Knoernschild, Isenring, Consaul. Cahill, Froedert, Boheim, Groot;, ematt, Scheife, and Puelicher. There are many others;;, Wisconsin Govenor Julius Heil lived in the Bay. When I was 23 years old in 1909, I married and' moved to Milwaukee to work for a large firm on East Water St. They sold paint, sogp), Laundry supplies, Basoline and oils. I want to call your attention to thingsj about farm animals, and the lack of proper machinery to do, a good job. Cows have two: stomachs. In eating grass in the pasture for some time after every mouthful will be swalloed down to the first stomach. After that the cow will manage to bring up grass from the first stomach and chew its cud. I mean give it a good chewing. Then swallow it into the second stomach. It >has now become milk. Other animals goats, deer, buffalo, cancels, etc chew their" cud. In thos early days no machinery was available. The farmer hal to to do things the hard way. He used a scythe to cut grass, oats, and grains. The grass after cutting, lay some time in the suft, then was turned over so it wpuld be cured nice and dry, and then brought into the barn. Oats, wheat and rye had to be tied into a bundle and stacked in the field with the grain showing on the top. With good summer weather it was ready m a few days to be brought into the barn. Now laying a certain- amount on the wooden barn floor, ,two men used a flail to separate the grain from the straw. The home made flail was; a six foot length of hard wood with with a hole at one end, and with a strong rope or leather another two feet of hard wood was fastened. Each man then took turns to bring the flail down on the graing to separate it from the straw. Then the grain was put in a large sieve to separate the grain. Later a fanning mill was invented and all you did was turn a. handle to do the job. This was slow work. Later on a threshing machine of sorts was built, but a steam ^ engine had not been thought of. So we used Horse ""Power. # ^ / A Mr. Rogers worked for a newspaper in Milwaukee, and he also printed a weekly paper for the Bay. He was listened to. He said let us appoint a committee to see Judge Johnson, of the circuit court in Milwaukee for advice. Once we become a Legal Village we can elect officers, build a school hou&e and do.many other things My father was a member of that committee that visited Judge Johnson. The Judge said you must take census to find out how many families- & children the village has. You must have at least 316. Also must have 13,000 or more acres of land to- spread out if necessary. Then come back and report to me. Henry Scheife took a census on March 16, 1892. The census showed there were 316 families and children, and 13,000 acres of land to allow for spreading as we grew. After the Judge had seen the Census he said we now had a Legal Village . The Tweedy. Land Co. Richard aHd~Elizabeth Burke, his wife and John and Catherine Mann for One Dollar each, deeded enough land to the village to allow building a two story school house, for toilet facilities, and a playground for the children. The building of the school house v/as given to John Kohlmetz and was finished in 1892. In bad weather we were allowed to play in the basement. We now started building sewers, side walks, and electric lights were had in 1903. In 1907 we in stalled lights all over the village. My father had been elected iroad commissioner and he wasted no time* in visiting the man that had charge of the cement" mills on Capitol Drive'and Humboldt Ave. Arrangements were made that the village could pick: up all the material the cement mill could not use. This would help the village in getting rid of muddy roads. Five men e&Oil with a team of strong horses and large wagons started to bring this material to our roads and cleaned up a bad situation. Our first'teacher in ouJr new school was mrs, H. K. Curtis, wife . of a lawyer. We had been having school in Jefferson Park and in the rear of the Scheife store. After a year or more, more families came to live in Whitefish Bay and brought more children to go to our new school. So more teachers were needed and men taught the upper classes** In those early days we children had a slate, some pieces of chalk, wftite, and an eraser. There was nox ink or pencils for us. I was glad •th»t teacher Harry Hayden taught us.; in 1SQ0 and the year before. Teacher Hayden taught us how to make speeches. One time teacher Hayden had written the parts for four of the scholars: to §@ttle the debate. rr— Shall The United States annex the Phillipine•Islands• r®*u Earl M&Dougall and Norman McAllister pitted against Lawrence Rem ington and Arthur Rabe. Rabe & Remington v/on the debate. What counted a lot is how we delivered our speech. Judges: Chas. McGee a lawyer Doctor Williams, and the third* man I have forgotten. On my graduation I was expected to and did memorizeca speech. In the year 1887 Capt. Fred Pabst of the Pabst Brewing Co. the largest brewery in Milwaukee., on 8th & Chestnut sts. decided to . build a large Park in Whitefish so as to sell ijaore beer. Mr.. Pabst and a crew of his real estate men came to the Bay to take pictures and get acquainted with officers of the Bay. Agreement was reached just where to park and be Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort. The Dummy Line was to be discarded and Electric trains took over . s^v Courtesy of - Arthur A. Rabe - Map of 1876 - =*foitefish Bay = Distillery Lindwurm 18.71 Arthur £. Rabe; 4920 South 14th st. Milwaukee, Wise. Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort opened June 30. 1889. closed 1915 The "Dummy Line1* started 1888 Electric Street Railway lf 1898 The Ferris Wheel installed 1895 * tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt ) tt tt Fred G. Isenring Manager 1889 to 1894 Henry Konopka.. n 1894 to- 1904 Peter & Henry Sturm in 1905 to 1906 Richard Becker tt 1906 to 1914 * •* * •* * * * * # # #-. * # The Electric Street Railway started from Milwaukee 1898 to go as far North as Day Avenue, Whitefish Bay. In 1904 went farther north to the River Road in Fox Point.. *• * **••*•**• -* tt When. Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort closed in 1915 the following be.came. residents of that space: * tt * * * * * tt * * • '# * On May 15, 1891, Pabst Brewing Co. bought from Jacob Stoil, p & lc0me Wm, J, Sutton & Elizabeth, his wife, Jefferson ^ o^ Park for $ 8000.00 ea ch 'peed Book Vol. 280 - Page 269. z 3& Fromi Helen B. Partridge, 1237 Liberty Street, , . * v~. Oshkosh, Wisconsin,. -54901. ^m^ QMXM March 5. 1966. Dear Arthur Rabe: U3KJ&^^ bAyt The reprint of my pld yellow paper has come back at last,, and Is a- good copy, except that the pictures are not as plain as the printing. But you can see it tells of the village being organized and the school started. And theres complete lists of the men elected to hold office. W§ moved there from Oconomowoc the summer of 1891. At first we lived in an old white house in the block south of Day Ave. Then we moved to a small place west of the store on Silver Spring Road. Just there a few months, and then moved again to a larger, more suitable house across the road from the high bank, 160 feet down to Lake Michigan. The bank right along^ there had changed from trees, grass and shrubs to all clay and had eroded so much along the edge that the road was not used any more.. Our house was two or three blocks north of Silver Spring Drive, and two blocks South of Day Avenue. We had no near neighbors, the people lived in widely scattefea~p^^ there Day Avenue was opened up, a water* works; put in for that street, the power house on the beach, and a long flight of wooden stairs put down to it* Several houses were built and the first teacher in the new- School, Mrs. H!. K. Curtis, lived in one of them. She had the older children, and Miss Francis Macintosh taught the smaller ones. There were four of our family in that picture. Yes, I remember the OLD DUMMY LINE that my father went back and forth on every day, on the road through the big woods to get to it. There were, no houses in the woods at that time, and there were just loads of spring and summer flowers there every year, and I remember one old couple who lived in a house at the; west end of the block we lived in. Mr. & Mrs. Gregg, and they had one donkey and a cow. We went there every morning for milk. That part of the village was laid, out in blocks, and many streets had wooden sidewalks. I hope this paper will help, the ladies a little, anyway with the list of names, some of those families, may have relics of things back to the civil war. But we don't know anything about the place before^-1991 and we moved to Chicago in 1896* I had a brother and a sister born there* Frank in 1892 and Frances in 1895. My brother Walter, in April was 81 years old and lives in Skokoe, north of Chicago. .'"~ Sincerely yours, Helen E. Partridge. * NOTE: Letter written by Helen Esma Rogers Partridge, daughter of George Rogers. He started Whitefish Bay's 1st newspaper. The house "across the road from the high bank" was 306 E. Beaumont Ave. TUT • • n • J Mimi Bird Z Misc. Information about "OLD //HITilFISH BAY" _ Fred G. Isenring bought Fernwood Cottage from Dr. T.W. Williams 1889. Pabst Brew. Co. " r* n; " Fred G. Isenring 1891 11 fl !! changed the name to Edgewood Family Resort. Edgewood Family Resort was used to house the help>- needed to operate the Whitefish Bay Pari. Cooks, maids, bar tenders, waiters etc. It was torn down in 1915* Fred G. Isenring while operating the Resort, with his family occupied a house near the North Bandstand. Here his daughter "Hattie"' was born, in Dec. 11, 1880. When'Henry Konopka, in 1894T took over the management of the resort, this house was moved out of the park, to the southwest corner of Lexington Boulevard and North Lake Drive. Then the house was occupied by Henry Konopka. July 6, 1889 Louis Saxe leased to Adam Roth & August Nussbaumer for 5 years, property located in Welcome Park, to be used as a saloon (Si- restaurant. Lease commenced July 6> 1889, annual rent to be $300 to be paid each and every 3 months in.advance, etc. etc. May 17, 1888 Best Brewing Co. sold to Milw. Whitefish Bay Railway CO. for $565 \a strip of land in Welcome Park, to be used for a depot and Depot Platform, by the Dummy Line.Description follows: Signed Fred Pabst, President. On May 15. 1891 Deed Book Vol.28o Page 269; Pabst BrewingCo* bought from Jacob Stoil. Elizibeth Sutton &• Wm. J. Sutton both Welcome & lefferson Park for $8,000 each, _., .. , _ „ , Henry JtonopSaj aprter 10 years manager or Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort 1894 tO 1904 inclusive, was pensioned by the Brewing CO. After an illness in a hospital, he died and was buried in Phion Cemetery 3173 North Teutonia Ave* MilwaukeerTbt^T^"~BTocT 5 iJec. "5TTXL- expenses were taken care of by Gustav Pabst as had been arranged by C&P^* Pabst the good friend of Konopka. Eraeral^ sej^ices at Ritter & sonT^iffH-and State"^sTree^s. ~ ' ™ ~ " ~~ Lewis 'Scheife^Tiacra-: grocery store on Silver Spring Drive, with the family living upstairs. He sold out to JohnJD*_ Sin^les^ in 1898. The previous 10 years, 1888^ to 1898" were' spent"by John T)"SihgTes, Henry Steheife, and Paul Knap:> in oigejraLti^ the Duinmy Line. In August 22,. 1892- Deed Book "Vol. 296 Page 3&6~ 'sWfS^Tweedy Land CQ Richaj^^and^ Elizabeth Burke, and jTohn & Catherine Mann, for one» ^aefr " dollar each:" dee"decf"eribugE^aiiHTto fKe Tillage'Wf Mi"tefish Bay %df~~ allow for the building of a school house, for toilet facilities,and playground for the children. It was 2 stories high and basement. John Kohlmetz was chosen to build the School House. It was finished building in 1892. and dedicated in 1893. Unfortunately this school burned to the ground in 1918. No one ever learned what caused the fire. A class of four graduated from this school June 1900. Helen King Earl McDougall Norman McAllister Arthur Rabe. Jefferson Park Hall was used for both School & Church purposes. In the hall was a teachers desk and 50 seats. tt tt tt tt tt tt # tt tt # FERNWOOD TRAIN SHEDrapprox. 100 feet long, built to accomodate excursion trains* that brought people, groups with Brass Bands, to visit the well known Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort in the summer time, The shed extended North from Lexington Boulevard along the: "fMfe side-^ Railroad tracks. The shed was closed on the east side f had a: covered roof allowing for possible bad weather. A side track had been pro vided for to allow the passenger excursion train to be able; ta> stay until the time had arrived on which to take its passengers back to their own home town. After getting off the train here they either single or in gr©s$a, with, their own band playing marches, they marched East on Lexington Boulevard approx. 4 blocks: to the Resort. ***tttttt*-~tt Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort opemied June 30V 1889. " " , " " closed 1915. The Dummy Line starred 1888 The Electric St. Railway "f 1898 The Ferris Wheel installed 1895 Managers of the Whitefish Bay Resort. Fred G. Isenring 1889 to . 1894 Henry Konopka 1894- to 1904 Peter & Henry Sturm 1905 to ' 1906 Richard Becker 1906 to 1914 February 14, 1896.' DOC. #15808 On February 14, 1896: Pabst Brewing Co. was granted a judgment against Fred G. Isenring for $ 4^37.86 with 6% interest per annum until paid. On April 30, 1896 the above amount had grown to $4407.08 The following is a report by Sheriff Stanley. I hereby certify yhat after due and diligent search and inquiry I cannot find any property either real or personal within*my county belonging to the within named defendant Fred. G. Isenring from which to make; the amount, of the within judgment or any part thereof and I hereby return the within execution wholly unsatisfied and UNPAID. Fee SI.50 WM. Stanley, Sheriff. tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt j&> A • <*'<>&> (COPT) Milwaukee,. February 14-,. 1966.. E idee 7 j§5?-L?Bi!iy st?lir Oshkosh,. Wisconsin. HTow sha 11 I address this ? ? One Old schoolmate to another ??• or To my old friend Esma Rogers.. The Whitefish Bay Womens Club have started a movement to pool their knowl edge of, OLP WHITEPISH BAY and are currently soliciting help from any and all sources that can. contribute, something in the way of old news paper articles, magazine articles about this subject and so on. The Womens CLUB for the most part is made up of persons thair are "Johnny cone Lately"1 and personally are helpless and need inspiration and help from people that"have actually lived there and have first hand knowledge* To be frank: something authentic. X might as well tell you I am Arthur A. Rabe, Born Feb.2'3„ 1886.. Graduated from the New School in Whitefish Bay built in 1892 and dedir- cated in I believe June 1893- 1 graduated there in 1900* with class- mated Helen King, Earl McDougall and Norman McAllister. About two weeeks ago I was appealed to by the Womens Club t:o solicit and help them o in; their project. It appeared that I was the only old—timer still alive md ava ilable with concrete knowledge by having been born and lived. ~there from 1886 to 1909, when r married and still am to the same bride of 56 years ago. Of course, (they did not know of her). Helen 10-ng lives: north in Fox Point.. I spoke.1 to her only a few weeks ago, by phone. She had just come home from a brief hospital visit for a-heart ailment* She told me her cousin Pauline McGee, Pauline had twins, many years ago}/ and is now living somewhere in California. I'll bet you remember these people. Tour father George A* Rogers, with his PIONEER WEEKLY newspaper did a whale of a job assisting in getting the "Village incorporated in May 10,. 1892. I visited the Milwaukee County Court House and copied the: names of a 11 families as shown in a census taken by Henry Scheife* Census shows: Mr, & Mrs. Geo. A. Rogers, Eugene 12 yrs„, old E.rEsmai IP- „ waiter 6- n Mary J n Cecil In- fact,, I got- to thinking how to go about getting facts. So, on the phone I tried to find Eugene, Walter and Cecil in Milwaukee directory* I called and spoke to Cecil"s wife. y«Y A) Jw uig> It ..,„- *1.!J" ..!Wi l-fc- <* "*# SsSSKSOE From Helen 3* Partridge, 1237 Liberty Street,: ••'.*.' Oshkosh, Wisconsin* —'54901. \ •' - - • March 5. 1966:. Dear Arthur Rabe: ., The reprint of "my old yellow paper has come back at last, and'is a good copy, except that the pictures are not as plain as. the printing. But you can see it tells of the village being .organized and the school started. And theres complete lists of the men elected to hold office. .Ufa moved there' from Oconomowoc the • summer of 1891. At first we lived in an old white house in the • block south of Day Ave. ' Then we moved to a small place west of the store on Silver Spring Road. Just there a few months, and then moved again to a larger, more suitable house across the road from the high bank, 160 feet down to Lake Michigan. .The bank right along- there had changed from trees, grass and- shrubs to all clay and had eroded so much along the edge that the road was not used any* more* Our house was tv/o or three blocks north of Silver Spring Drive, and two blocks South of Day Avenue. We had no near neighbors, the people lived in widely scattered places.~WhIIe~we~were there Day Avenue was opened up, a water works put in for that street, the power house on the beach, and a long .flight of wooden stairs put down to it. . Several houses were built and the first teacher in the new School. Mrs. H. K. Curtis, lived in one of them. She had the older children, and Miss Francis Macintosh "taught the smaller ones. There were four of our family in that picture. Yes, I remember the OLD DUMMY LINE that my father went back and forth on every day, on the road through the big woods to get to it. There were no hoiises in the woods at that time, and there were just loads of spring and summer flowers there* every year, and I remember one old couple who lived in a house at the west end of the block we lived in. Mr. & Mrs. Gregg, and they had one donkey and a-cow. We. went there every morning for milk. That part of the village was laid out in blocks, and many streets had wooden sidewalks. I hope this paper will help the ladies a little, anyway with the list of names, some of those families may have relics of things back to the civil war. But we don't know anything about the place before 1891 and we moved to Chicago in 1896. I had a brother and a sister born there. Frank in 1892 and Frances in 1895. My brother Walter, in April was 81 years old and lives in Skokoe, north of Chicago. Sincerely yours. Helen E. Partridge. ki ^C2L to f THESE ARE T1 IE PEOPLE WHO INCORPORATED THE VIL1AGE OF "WHITEFISH BAY. Mr. C. Burmeister Mr. Phillip Mohr Mr. W. Consaul Mr. A. Nussbaumer Mr. H. K. Curtis Mrs. S. Pagles Mr . H . Desmond Mr. C. D. Powers Mr. A. Ehlers Mr. John Puis Mr. A. Elliott Mr. Charles Rabe Mr, 0. G. Everts Mr. F. Reisinger Mr . C. R. Gether Mr. A. Remington Mr . Fred Grams Mr0 G. Rodd Mr. H. Gregg Mr. G. Rogers Mr. F, Isenring Mr. L. Schief Mr. Fred Kleinhans Mr. Ferdinand Schrieber Mr. J. Koje Mr. John Schindhelm Mr. Adolph Kruse Mr. John Singles Mr. Charles Langschwager Mr* Charles Steffen Mr. D. Leet Mr. E. Timpel Mr. I. Lefeber Mr. T. Williams Mr. A. Markert 1$ p During the first year of his service, ft dO ^^alLiSup(MMJ^^ Mr. Mohr received only $50.00 per month. The following>year, when the number of lamps had been increased to 114, his salary THE VILLAGE LAMPLIGHTER was increased to $90.00 a month, partly Even as late as 1910 many of the out- as a reward for his good service. His work % districts of large cities were still day necessarily varied with the seasons limned with gas street lamps. Whitefish and the changing periods of daylight Bay remained in rural darkness as a and darkness. After driving to the corner pioneer settlement for years after its of what is now Santa Monica Boulevard incorporation as a village in 1892. Each and Fairmount Avenue, where the Wells individual, or family, venturing forth to bach Company had erected an 800 gallon church, a party, for a neighborly visit or storage tank to fill his gasoline cans, emergency call, carried a lantern to light he would make his morning round to fill the way along the village's few streets and the lamp tanks and extinguish any lamps paths which ran alongside dark patches still burning. This circuit took three hours. of woodland. It was in 1903 that public sentiment THE DUMMY LINE - 1888-1892 in Whitefish Bay crystallized into a "To Get out of the Heat Dust and Noise dema,nd for artificial lighting. The village of the city for an hour or two, take a ride board entered into a contract with the on the Dummy and get a breath of cool, Wellsbach Street Lighting Company to pure air, feast your eyes on the beautiful install gasoline street lights of six hundred blue of Lake Michigan, and the green candlepower, each at: a charge of *30.00 woods and fields of the North Plateau, and a year per lamp, which included the cost you will return with a better opinion of of both installation and maintenance. yourself and the world generally." Fifty lamps were placed the first year. These proved to be satisfactory, and These were the alluring words featured sixty-four lamps were added in 1904. on the timetable issued by the company Ten foot iron poles were used, topped by operating the railroad in 1891. It was in je globes eighteen inches high and June, 1886, that the common council sixteen inches wide. of the city of Milwaukee amended the franchise held by the three horse-car In looking around for a young man who companies operating in the city, permit would be trustworthy, reliable, and faithful ting them to use "other than animal to his task, the Wellsbach Company power" for streetcar propulsion. The selected William Mohr, a grandson of one desire for a better transportation system of the early settlers o£ Whitefish Bay, from Milwaukee to Whitefish Bay resulted as cairetaker and lighter of the lamps. in the organization of the Milwaukee Gasoline was treacherous stuff to handle and Whitefish Bay Railroad Company, then, even as it is now, as Mr. Mohr found officially known as the "Dummy Line." out to his sorrow onf one occasions Some Backers of the new railroad line were one had maliciously removed the drain Wm. H. Bradley, Guido Pfister, P. V. Deuster, plug to the can attached to one of the: lamps. When placing his ladder against I. H. Laury, Otto Zweitusph, V. Dume, the post to refill the tank some of the T. W. Williams, Richard Burke and Val escaping gasoline dripped on his shirt Blatz. The line started front Thinking it had evaporated by the at East North and; time he had completed his task, he attempted to light the lamp. As he drew back his torch, his shirt became ignited. He tried to roll in the grass to smother the flames, but only succeeded in setting fire to the dead grass. Next he ran to his >;on and pulled the blanket from the scat By wrapping himself in the blanket he managed to put out the fire, but not until after he was severely burned about the chest 3^ In winter, the lamps consumed a quart of fuel overnight while in summer no more than a pint was needed. His after noon trips in winter began at 2:00 PM, but in summer he could wait until 5:00 PM before starting his round. As several hours elapsed' between the lighting of the first lamp on the circuit and the last Mr. Mohr worked out a system of grad uating the amount of gasoline placed in the lamps to be certain that all lamps burned until daylight Whenever the men came to fill the large storage tank, Mr. Mohr would assist them and in payment received fifteen additional gallons of gasoline. In this manner, he accumulated a surplus which he used to completely fill the one-gallon cans on the lamps. In this way, he could occasion ally have a Sunday off by lighting the lamps on Sunday morning, allowing them to burn through the day and evening until Monday morning. In 1907, the Electric Company made a contract with the village to install electric street lights, and the gasoline system was discontinued. At the start, however, the electric lighting was far from satisfac tory as most of the lights were strung along the streetcar tracks for the con venience of patrons of the line, rather than for general illumination of the village. # History lives in Whitefish Bay Schools have been important to by Mary Ann Lillich. , Whitefish Bay ever since its be- . "It has been my purpose from the ginning 100 years ago, so there Theater start to educate as well as enter could be no more appropriate By Jay Joslyn tain," Weiss-McQuide said. "I try place to launch the village's een-. to make school meaningful , \ *., tennial celebrations than in the why steps may not be taken to through the arts." schools. bring the division about." A graduate of the University of That's exactly what Nancy And steps were taken. Wisconsin — Milwaukee's the Weiss-McQuide's Imagination On June 7,1892, 88 residents ater department, she organized Theater is doing. went to the polls and 74 of them the Imagination Theater Compa- > cast ballots in favor of incorpo- -^ ny in 1977. While much of her ac Back in the Gay '90s, Whitefish rating the Village of Whitefish tivity has been as a solo perform-. Bay was famous for its magnifi Bay. The village was organized er she has, from time to time, cent summer resort and cozy recruited additional performers by August and one of the first : parks that brought many visitors tasks of the new government was^ as the jobs dictated. into that part of the Town of Mil to move toward organizing a new Recently, her most consistent 9 waukee. school. partner has been her daughter, ' Sarah, a second grader who has ; But the residents of the town ? On Feb. 28,1893, Mrs. H.K. demonstrated a natural talent for } ship's northernmost reaches were Curtis was engaged at the salary unhappy and a little angry — the the stage. " -\ of $ 100 a month to preside over, i "It was Sarah who gave me the I township officials would not rec 50 scholars in a one-room school ognize the area's drastic need for key to my Mrs. Curtis role," |. \ for 10 months. The school was Weiss-McQuide said. "And she { j a new school in a more accommo constructed in the triangular- m dating location. helped in the adaptation and per-ll shaped plot that is now appropri f ormance of our 'Little House on 3 There was only one school in ately known as Old School House the Prairie' act."... ,_* Park across from the village li the 2.2 square miles that became A performance of the latter at -1 Whitefish Bay. It was located brary, 5420 N. Marlborough . Drive. ~ Audubon Court Books, 383 W* j near what is North Lydell Ave Brown Deer Road, led to Sarah's ] nue and Port Washington Road in During this centennial year, performance with her mother fori the far northwest corner of the Weiss-McQuide will become Mrs. the Milwaukee Symphony's Kin-,U community. In 1892 the fastest- Curtis as she visits the village's derkonzert last May. | growing part of the community six public and private elementary \ Following Sarah's suggestion, \ was in the southeast area. schools. r * * Mrs. Curtis will meet a class as fl.] G.A. Rodgers devoted the edi • Weiss-McQuide's "History an elderly teacher — "hair in a ^* torial columns of the third issue Alive!" program is one of the ac-. -.: :bunI , little eyeglasses" — and then of his Whitefish Bay Pioneer to tivities of the Whitefish Bay His- . in flashbacks she returns to the protest, declaring* "to send chil torical Society, of which she is age at which she took the job. dren three miles through the the secretary. The society's Mimi She also will play both sides of , snow and storm is not to be Bird, who is preparing the vil- scholar-teacher exchanges and thought of A new district is lage's souvenir history book, will pantomime the favorite re- the only practical solution of the helped in the research. Mrs. Cur-^ "cess activities of youngsters at question, and we see no reasons tis' visits are being coordinated that time.:^ ! v Ql :' *''".' • yj^r-^^y-^^ ^C^u •\ ^ Whitefish Bay: *.s.\ \ ( ByMaryDooley rather than an upper-crust communt- ! of The Journal Staff ty. , • ' t.' .. . •;,? ! Whitefish Bay — It's easy to have Chose the Mikkey ' K a one-sided view of Whitefish Bay — Their No, 1 housing choice wasn't}[ I the view from N. Lake Dn The state the, bungalow, but the Mikkey, la, "<5^\ ly homes on sprawling lawns give classic, two-story colonial designed the unmlstakeable impression of' and built by Fred Mikkelson, a Dan V- wealth. ish immigrant. But just as much a part of White- The homes, typically three bed fish Bay are the tidy colonials scat- , rooms and \y% baths, were popular . tered throughout the village, the throughout the state in the 1940s and , cement-block bungalows on the west '50s, but Whitefish Bay has one of i side along Lydell Ave. and the more the largest concentrations. Almost no than 400 apartments that make up block here is without a Mikkey or an the modest Whitefish Bay Town imitation. *•'•"•• j house complex in the southwest cor- Mikkelson felt that Whitefish Bay ,• ner. — with its neat lots and tree-lined "We don't all have deep pockets streets •— was the ideal setting for , and big houses," says Patrick Mat the home. In 1955, he built an elabo- ! thews, president of the Whitefish rate version of the Mikkey for his ; "Whitefish Bay schools have moved Bay Village Board. own family at 6260 N. Lake Dr. j ahead with the times, but we haven't In fact, Whitefish Bay, with a pop The price of a Mikkey, including iost sight of the fundamentals. ulation of 14,664, is more diverse the lot, was about $8,000 in 1945, "The track record is there, kids do than it is given credit for. Home according to Jack Mikkelson, who. well when they leave here." prices range from about $60,000 to helped his father build the homes. Once people settle in Whitefish more than $400,000. And according Whitefish Bay Mikkeys sell for a Bay, the moves they make are likely , to the most recent census, you would minimum of $80,000 today, a local to be within the community, said be almost as likely to find a car sales real estate broker said. That's about, Michael Harrigan, the village manag man as a company president living : $10,000 more than the same house! er. .' .-, y y:. .y ' ; v. .-:..-•=•. here. would cost in Cudahy, where the "It's surprising how many families The stereotype of a Gold Coast Mikkelson also did a lot of building. started out in the [Whitefish Bay] suburb steeped in wealth and snob townhouses, then moved to a starter bishness is one many residents are rightly uncomfortable with. j home here, then to something a little Why will home buyers pay more , nicer when they could afford it." Historically, they have brought I for a Whitefish Bay address? Matthews agreed. ''People tend to some of it on themselves. In 1923, Matthews* the village president, stay all their lives," he said. "That residents tried to block construction said it was a small-town feeling. ' makes the village stable and safe." of an apartment building at 1700 E. "The neighborhood school^ the Chateau PI. saying it would "bring a parks, the businesses along Silver A pair of researchers included class of people we don't want out Spring Dr. are gathering places," he Whitefish Bay in its list of a dozen here/' said, "and they help give Whitefish "Safe Places for the '80s." To quali fy, a community had to have a low : When the apartment building's Bay an identity newer suburbs lack. crime rate and be near a big city. developer, Et Roy Tompkins, mur "People can walk to a grocery dered his wife and burned her decap store or a theater. And when they get . Residents' satisfaction with the itated head in the building's incinera- there, maybe they know the butcher community makes village officials tor, opponents of the project were who sells them their meat, or the kid reluctant to change things. Maintain scandalized but smugly satisfied that who takes their ticket/' ' ing its high standards, while avoiding they had been proven right. < Matthews said this feeling of inti tax increases like the 32% hike the ' Residents argued in 1945 that the macy made residents more aware of village had in 1984, is proving small, concrete-block "war homes" what they could give their communi enough of a challenge, they said." being built by returning World War ty in return. II veterans should be outlawed be cause the houses had showers instead "So they take good care of their • of bath tubs, and people who took yards, and they maintain homes," he showers weren't as clean as those said. "They become involved with who tooks baths. , the PTA, or their church or village The bath tub argument failed, and government." ' yki*j .K*4 the veterans, perhaps more than any Concern about schools other group, influenced Whitefish Bay's development as a middle-class, Lawrence Grant, principal at Whitefish Bay High School, said the 3- zt- /?w school system also attracted resi dents. "One thing people here share is a concern about education," he said. *n< Worthastop For spectacular views of Lake Michigan, visit Big Bay A capsule history Park, at the east end of E. Fairmount Ave., or Klode Park, in the 6000 block of N, Lake Dr. A lighted fountain Probably the only industry the village ever had (or at the much smaller Schoolhouse Park, in the 5400 block ever will) was the fleet of fishing boats that tied up to its of N. Marlborough Dr., is scheduled to be turned on in jbay. That was in 1862. ,: three weeks. The fishermen and a handful of German farmers had Whitefish Bay's first village hall is still standing, al the area pretty much to therriselves until 1889 when though it has been used as a home since 1919. The two- Capt. Frederick Pabst, Milwaukee's beer baron, spent story frame building was moved from the corner of E. $30,000 to build a fashionable beer garden, restaurant, Lexington Blvd. and Marlborough to 314 E. Beaumont amusement park and beach on 18 acres along what is Ave.... Houses built as summer homes by wealthy Mil- , today the 5200 block of N. Lake Dr. waukeeans around the turn of century can be found on E. As many as 15,000 people would come on a summer Day Ave., east of Lake Dr. Sunday to ride the resort's Ferris wheel and watch "flickers" on large, outdoor.screen$. "If you can't find it here, you won't find, it anywhere." That's the motto at Winkie's Variety Store, 629 E. Silver But while Whitefish Bay was a great place to visit, it Spring Dr. The store, which sells everything from candy seemed few people wanted to live there. When the vil " by the pound to ribbon by the yard, was built just a few lage incorporated in 1892, it had just 314 residents. feet from the site of Whitefish Bay's first general store. The split from the whitefish served at the 70-year-old Jack Pandl's Milwauke e^ Whitefish Whitefish Bay Inn, 1319 E. Henry Clay St., used to corhe stemmed from its from the bay for which the village was named. That has refusal to allow changed, but the restaurant's quaint look and many of its Whitefish Bay to other specialties, including German pancakes, haven't.., establish a cen For some of the best popcorn around, try the Fox-Bay trally located Theater, 334 E. Silver Spring Dr. school. The vil lage founders • . ' v , \\ r}\:••-.. ' * ' " promptly built Fleetwood School Beople/past&present on a triangle of land, now known » as Schoolhouse Fred Isenring, Whitefish Bay's first village president Park. The school- and Milwaukee County sheriff, was more infamous than ; house was de famous. He disappeared with $20,000 in county funds in stroyed by a fire 1899 ... Julius P. Hell, a German immigrant who became in 1918, a millionaire, lived in Whitefish Bay before being elected A building governor in 1938. boom began in the Actor Jeff Hunter was known as Henry McKinnis 1920s and contin-. when he lived here and led the Whitefish Bay High ued tb the early School football team to its first suburban championship. '50s, with inter Hunter's most famous role was Christ in the 1960 movie ruptions during "King of Kings." ... Another Whitefish Bay High School the Depression graduate, Bernadine Dohrn, made the FBI's most wanted and World War II. list for her alleged participation in a series of anti-war bombings in the late 1960s and early 70s. WTMJ-AM radio personalities Gordon Hinkley and Jim Irwin live here. Bob Reitman, of WKTI-FM, and Lar ry the Legend Johnson, of WZUU-AM, are former resi iiluiuJ. <^Zuf jkf/MS' dents. j Village of Homes Whitefish Bay is a village of homes. Village Manager John Katz- ban reports that as of Jan. 1, 1967, there were 4,476 single family residences and 34 duplexes in the village. Of this suburb's total land area of 1,357.7 acres, 1,212.7 are used for residential purposes. Land uses: Per Cent District Use Acres of Total 1 Lake shore residence 140.0 10.3 2 Single family residence ....* 1,029.2 75.8* 3 Two family residence HI -8 4 Churches, public buildings and grounds 125.7 9.3* 4A Clubs and lodges : 1.0 .1 5 Apartments , 32.4 2.4 6 Business 14.9 1.1, 7 Automobile parking — 3.4 .2 TOTAL 1,357.7 100.0 includes 321.4 acres of streets, alleys and railroad. DISTRICT 4 BREAKDOWN District Per Cent Use Acres Per Cent of Total Churches (including parochial grade schools but not Divinity-Divine Charity which is zoned business 16.3 13.0 1.20 Public schools 33.6 26.7 2.47 Dominican high school .. 5.5 4.4 .41 University school 21.0 16.7 1.55 Parks (village 29.4 and county 12.6) 42.0 33.4 3.09 Village buildings and grounds 2.4 1.9 .18 Armory * 4.8 3.8 .35 Sewerage commission and pumping station ... .1 .1 .01 TOTALS , 125.7 100.0 9.3 DISTRICT 6 BREAKDOWN District Per Cent, Use Acres Per Cent of Total Silver Spring area 11.3 75.7 .83 jlampton area (Santa Monica) 2.2 14.9 .16 Oakland area 1.1 7.4 .08 Montplaire-Santa, Monica ,3 2.0 .02 TOTALS R9 ioo!o L09 & fL V Day was first Bay street By Emily Hokanson see the street car coming take a short snooze on the had originally been a sum For the Post north from one's kitchen or beach at Day Ave. typing the mer home of a merchant Day Avenue was one of the spy the car going back to the horse and wagon. Mrs. from Chicago. In the early first streets in Whitefish city. Then it was time to Blankenhorn being a good 1900s, it was destroyed by Bay to be developed. A num rush to the corner or if one's business woman would be a fire so they converted the ber of the homes on the husband was coming homfe bit upset with him when he barn into a home. There was street were actually sum from work, quickly put the returned...sometimes the another smaller barn across mer homes, where the resi chops on. groceries weren't delivered the street which housed a dents could get away from I remember the first gas on time. Later the Klanns farm horse, two cows, and the city heat and enjoy the station on Silver Spring and son Harold became the chickens and a few geese. cool lake breezes and water Lake Drive. The Mobil Co. youngest postmaster in the There was a large raspberry during the summer months. has had one there for many U.S. working out of their and current "patch" and we The first residents built years. This particular one store. When I was a very grandchildren were paid 5 their own''water works" for was a Wadahms station with small child it was fun to cents a pail at harvest time. the street. A power house its ornate Chinese pagoda walk from Birch Ave. with But the most fun was when was constructed on the architecture. Across the our maid, (would rather call Uncle Gus, my grand beach of Lake Michigan at street wsas the grocery and her my substitute mother) father's brother who worked the foot of the bluff. This post office of Mr. Schmidt. Ida, to the Schmidt store. I as a dray man, would come provided electricity for their The store was later owned would have a difficult time on a Sunday. First he had to homes. They planted maple by the Klanns' and a rela trying to decide on four have a'' schneck'' and cup of trees to line the street which tive of the Klanns, Mrs. windmill cookies, crammed coffee and then he would lift now add dignity and beauty Blankenhorn managed it with slivered almonds or me up in his wagon and off to the street. Four of the when Grandma Klanh some licorice sticks ...all we would go to the families were the Brad- couldn't do all the work by displayed invitingly in glass farm...showing me and al lesys, who had a park like herself. Grandpa Klann still cases. My grandmother and lowing "By Emily Hokanson For the Post Whitefish Bay was settled by rugged cided to buy land from the Tweedy your neighbors to see you, if you're so individualists. In 1892 a group of men Land Company, Richard and Elizabeth ber you don't need any lights." An helped G.A. Rodgers, a journalist in in Burke and John and Catherine Mann early resident said one had to be care corporating the village. The original for.$l each. The deeded land was ade ful where he walked after a rain. Frogs impetus was for the establishment of a quate to construct a two story school were abundant. Not until 1903 were school for the village. To be in with toilet facilities and playground. sewers and sidewalks installed in the corporated the village had to have 316 Formerly the children had attended lower half of the village. A ''lamp presidents and 13,000 acres of land. On school in the unheated dance hall in lighter" filled the few gasoline lamps ^ March 11,1892 Louis Scheife took a cen- Jefferson Park, a popular amusement every morning which were in the lower Isus and the village was incorporated. place of the community. There were 50 half of the village. * The first officers were Fred Isenring, seats in the new school and a desk. Henry Clay school,-almost on the site .manager of the Pabst Resort, Mrs. H.K. Curtis, the wife of an at of the Jefferson Park building was : Trustees— T.M. Williams, E. Tempee, torney was hired as a teacher Septem opened in 1919 with 8 class rooms and JA. Ehlers, Louis Scheife, I. Lefebre, ber, 1892. The builder;was John an auditorium. The writer attended # sand William Consaul. Clerk, G. Kalmitz. The site chosen is directly school here for a time. Children Nwho *Rodgers, Police Justice—D. Leet, Con- across from the Whitefish Library could not walk to school rode to school ^stable-G. Rodd and H. Scheife. Mr. H. today on N. Marlborough. on the street car under the kindly eye of I Desmond offered to serve as Village At The village board had other concerns the street car conductor, who knew the torney for $5 a year. in the early days of the village. There families of his passengers. I Board meetings were held in the were dirt roads, wooden sidewalks and As the village grew, two new schools, ^store and post office of Louis Scheife on no street lighting. One rugged individ Cumberrarici (1927) and Richards ISilver Spring and Lake Drive. The ualist said' when lighting was sug (1928-1929) were constructed for |Scheifes lived above the store. gested "Why should anyone want children in the south end and northern « At one such board meeting it was de lights? If you're drunk you don't want section of the village. $>•> $ Ao-aJv&z- u^cJic ISTUjlA Fishing once Bay's chief industry Commercial fishing was an impor school board refused to accept these Day Avenue, she remarked that the tant industry from 1862 to 1921. Captain pupils, a high school had to be built. reason she and her husband chose to Theodore, father-in-law and brother of Before it was completed students in move to the Bay was that the children the Consauls, with the help of Will Con high school attended classes in one would experience rural schools....but saul and Frank and Henry Steffen wing of Richards school. she soon found out that "modern" fished in the bay. They used pond nets - The early 1900s were a period of Henry Clay was the school. Because the which were stretched out to trap fish as growing. More families moved to the children were young and the distance they swam near shore. This net would Bay. With transportation , provided, from Day Ave., to school was lengthy, be stretched out between posts which the street cars and trains, it was pleas she entrusted the children to kindly were pounded into the bottom of the ant village to live in, almost rural in Mr. Peterson, the "daytime" con lake. The nets would be put out in the aspect. ductor of the street car. He had late afternoon and early the following The 1920s found even more growth. charges the length of the street car- morning would be pulled in. Fresh fish Henry Clay school was in operation. line to Henry Clay, an early version of were then delivered to the Whitefish When interviewing an old resident of the school bus driver. Bay resort and to customers on the .lower east side, some of them being sold too at the fish market in downtown Milwaukee. They sold the business to Louis Scheife who sold from 300-600 pounds of fish to the Whitefish Bay re sort weekly. In 1921 a law was passed prohibiting this type of fishing for com-^ mercial sale. More On Lighting In Whitefish Bay Not until 1903 was there light on tne streets. Before that lanterns were car ried. Gasoline street lights of 600 can dle power provided illumination. Each light cost $30 a year for maintenance. There were 50 lamps the 1st year and 64 in 1904. They were placed at each inter section. William Mohr was contracted to check and fill the lights. Early 1900s By 1910 the population census was 812. There were electric lights, paved streets, sidewalks and adequate schooling. There were now the following pri mary schools in Whitefish Bay Henry- Clay (1919), Cumberland School (1927), Richards school (1928) and still later, Lydell School. The high school was built rn 1932. Previously students Rustic had attended Shorewood High school as The Donges Bay area was more rustic in the early part of the century. The entrance to Donges tuition students. When the Shorewood Bay, clearly marked, opened onto an area almost completely undeveloped and unpeopled, ex cept for an occasional resort. a a Sunday ootir \e en\oye : 1910 i*tffsr^°in /> %> r ; r f v y^y;t y-'- ^>'^^>i ^ y-v-^^''- y:y^y^ ' V . #*y^ #'•/*•<.*.•'}>- ;>'-^<»U ^^V^y^l fv.\\ ^ lt^Was/a-/False;Alarrr^ 1 -'• -Memory'..pf/jOnfe ; ;•" Here", What""Happeiled i|/w;? 1/8TTCW? 08«Q, 'tr'nAvoyears' agowon Sepfia^l-t 3/ ' fl>V.-' " lJ ' '^ll'L'.L .1.. ' ' _ ' ' . .' ''' . ' '*' :,'>'' ' " ' ' '"' ,l V'* ' '-'•VT',.':*,>*1! we Wefce living with ,6Ur;;// parents on their farm lh' / Whitefish Bay. The iartp-K • extended,'-froinN what: is,v; now. Richards'st to the jlake. Our house ; * „ was built of logs/ just 'as most of the;; / houses were in those days,' and was;?, ;« located on Silver Spring i drive; about"., .. 100 feet east of take drive.*;!; c l';\' j ^:x / On that September day: my.'• three ^-. * sisters and I were playing in the front, y yard, while father and my older broths; ' er were working around the barn, when >' suddenly we heard shouting^ We rah.r- .to the gate and,saw.two men on horse- '\' ' back .galloping u]p the .'road/ waving : | their hats.and shouting, "The IhdlansV • : : 'are coming! Everybody 'go to Milw,auT V" \ 'keejK;,',;; V >•';•,;•%•.,;; '',-."••. t\''v;•;">•'.;:;: ;, /Of'course\we were flightened; and .: father was particularly worridd/be-w cause mother was in bed with our baby',;; : brother, only 3 daysold, and he thought.V - we-would have to; stay. I U£JT {38 years' ago Sept. 3 we were living with our parents oh their farm in , Whitefish Bay. The farm extended '.from' what, is now Richards st to the lake. Our house was built of logs, just "as most of the houses were in those days, and was > located on Silver Spring drive, about 100 feet east of Lake drive. >' On that September day my three sisters and I were playing in the front ' yard, while father, and my older broth er were working around the barn, when suddenly we heard shouting. We ran to the gate and saw two men on horse- , back galloping up the road, » waving their hats and shouting, "The Indians /• are coming! Everybody go to Milwau- - keel". • ; ' •,'.;'/: Of course we were frightened and father was particularly worried be cause mother was in bed with our baby brother, only 3 days old, and he thought we -would have to, stay. A dear old neighbor woman was staying with. mother, helping with the work.and tak-.. • ing care of the baby. I was not quite. 4 years old, but.I remember hearing her say.to father,, "Now, William Henry, the best thing for. yoU to do is to take your family to Milwaukee' to your els- ; ter, Lydia's, and stay a few days.*'' Mother also thought this would be best. "Go down to the barn and^ turn all the stock out in the pasture and lock the doors/', she continued, "for if the... Indians dd come they will set fire to • the buildings. By the time you are back with the horse and wagon I'll have.: Ruth and the children ready."' She then ordered us all to get busy and collect our clothes, There was no time to pack suitcases or boxes. Every thing was tied in.small bundles and in a few minutes we were ready. Mr. Everts, Husband of the neighbor woman, and . another neighbor "jjame in and helped father hx a bed in the back of the wagon, Mother and baby were made comfortable; in it, sur rounded by bundles and pillows. Fa ther and we other rive children sat in front, and we started our long drive'. clown the Lake road. Mr. Everts and the other neighbor loaded guns and < stayed to see what might happen. Mrs. Scheife, who recalls the Indian scare of 1862 'TpHE Lake road was not much like. the. either side, and only a few log houses there was quite ,a large house and A Lake drive of today. Then it was , between Silver Spring drive and the ' picnic ground where city people used, only a; narrow trail, with woods on middle of Lake park. At that.point picnic. ; •" • ! P>A ^auMAt M/3i//93c$ rem Two men on horseback rode up, shouting ^The Indians are coming!" , Our aunt lived on Biddle st, hear what had happened during-the night thef and some of the, neighbors were/;5!; Broadway. It took us a long time to .it was a'long day for us, children, fitting'on a pile of loss-in the yard/-vl make the trip, for father drove slowly, waiting for theA. to/return, and exT telling stories and talking about the ;>/.', and I think the old horse was not much pccting to hear that pur home had been / scare. I remember hearing father say, >;>; of a speeder at its best. But eventually { destroyed. Our cousin took us' down *'l think it would be a good plan to go ^,. we did arrive, • \ A to the old Market square to see a com- into the woods v • shoot some',squh>>i/;: ) A*~sh T,rri*n ww us coming and ran pany of soldiers march down E. Water relst to get th' -uhs cleaned out" * • .:.o\9\ 1 J ; ' ' -'r'•>?•« nnoHttT 4 r\ Incite- T\/J> TTrorff Ion. J ffainT*- " fan %ri\A ' & tf * Two men on horseback rode up, shouting ">The Indians are coming! Our aunt lived on Biddle st., hear what had happened during-.the night, the? and some of the neighbors were Broadway, It took us a long time to It was a* long day for us, children, "sitting on a,pile of logs-in the yard, make the trip, for father drove slowly, waiting for 'therfi to/return, and ex-;. telling stories and talking about the and I'think the old horse was hot much pecting to hear that pur home had been ; scare. I remember hearing father say, , of a speeder at its best. But eventually destroyed. QU£ cousin took us' down >1 think it would be a good plan to go we did arrive. to the old Market square to see a com into the woods and shoot some.squir Aunt Lydia saw us coming and ran pany of soldiers march down E. Water rels, to get these guns cleaned out." out to meet us, The first words she said st. I think they were ready tot leave Mr. EvertS'laughed. "I think," he said, were, "Are you burned out?" Father the city, for there was a big crowd of* "that the squirrels shot with the loads answered, '"The Indians are coming, so people^ cheering and shouting* goodby. in those guns wouldn't be much good we got out," , • <"' for the table. We loaded them to kill In In a little while we were all set jpATHER and the other men came dians, not squirrels." > v •' tled, with mother and the baby snug in * back just before dark and reported Three of the children who made the' bed. After supper our cousin took that everything was all right, No In drive to Milwaukee for protection that up to Juneau av. (Division st. then) to dians had appeared. When, early next day are still living in Whitefish Bay see the soldiers drill. morning, some of our neighbors drove on different parts of the old farm* : The next morning father and two in and said that the Indians had left They are Mrs. Susan Consaul Marsh,' a men who lived in the house next door their camp near Cedarburg and started 140 Silver SpringxLrive; Mrs. Mary,Jane to to Ami', Lydia started out to Whitefish for Green Bay, we went back home. Consaul Scheife, 118 Beaumont avM and Bay with the horse and wagon to see The morning* after we returned fa- Frank Consaul, 2424 Richards St. ^ * -^ *™ ^e&rztim-' av".^ •rarwwwsjiraSSil Tto< j . ^UAyPtJl #-?'/?3& ?/v Another to -build a residence in the Bay was I. H. Lowry, the Page 22 - Thurs., 19, 1953 Blatz and fister well known member of the Mil waukee Chamber of Commerce. Among First to He erected a summer home in Early Day 4ve; : „ the Bay in 1885. At one time he had purchased 51 acres of Bay Residents Paid for 1 Build Bay Homes . land with a frontage of _1,700 I Valentine Blatz and Guido Track Extension I Pfister, according to the Indus- Alonzo Fowle', L. L. Disbrow, | trial - West published in June, C. R. Gether and Reinhard Knop I 1888, were among those to first were among the first to build on I realize .the beauty of Whitefish or near Day ave. They did so / I Bay for all-year round homesites about 60 years ago, when the,; \ and not just for summer habita- Lake Shore rd. formed a com ; tion. pany which purchased the land* I Of the Blatz residence, Indus- now bounded by Silver Spring y trail West has this to say: "The rd., Santa Monica blvd., Carlisle j area occupied by the residence ave. and the lake and platted.thei I _ and grounds of Mr. Blatz is about subdivision of Lawndale. ;..-'•». I seven acres, lying between the After most of the lots' were I main driveway and the lakel A sold, the suburban service on the : large, roomy mansion, spreading Lake Shore rd. was discontinued, ; its ample roof over ten .times the and residents of the district were \ * area required for a family of compelled.to walk a full mile) | ordinary size, shows the ability to the terminus of the Dummy : and the indulgence of 'the gener- line at Henry Clay st. ; ous heart and abundant means A meeting was held in the * for the accommodation of a large : school house to determine what circle of appreciative friends. to do. Citizens agreed to donate Tireless Windmill a strip of land for the right of "A thorough system of water- way to continue the Dummy line < works manipulated by the coax- to Day ave. Gether was depu j ing wings of a tireless windmill tized to carry on negotiations \ constantly blinking its eyelids and residents agreed .to lay the I toward the sun and in the breeze, track at their own expense. gives an abundant supply of Guido Pfister lived in this palatial house with its surrounding park-like grounds back in When Gether introduced an I water from some 300 feet of 1880, according to Industrial West, June, 1888. ordinance to secure a franchise I depth; a house that would dis- from the village board, Henry C. in the process of time developed gash on the fair cheek of the "Industrial West" reported: Payne, head of .the Milwaukee \ count in large degree many of into a beautiful wild-wood glen, beautiful peninsula, has become I the houses of -the wealthier men "Several fine mineral springs Traction Co., immediately ap for the Storm King saw fit to as beautiful a glen as any lovers plied for a franchise for his com I in city life, is nestled in among tear out a portion of the land and ever wandered in. exist-on Mr. Lowry's tract, from, j the trees as the residence of the Which gush forth continual pany and a controversy sprang plunge it into the sea. The Erects Water Works up among board members, three-" keeper of the place . . ." restorative proclivities of Dame uMr. Pfister has erected water streams of clear, cold and .health Guido Pfister erected his home Nature saw* fit to make atone ful water. He intends to erect favoring Gether's side and three works, by which his estate is a handsome pavilion over the favored the Payne faction. The on an eleven acre tract, north ment by smoothing the rugged abundantly supplied with pure seventh trustee was on the fence. of tthe Blatz estate. To quote edges of the chasm and grading water directly from the lake, largest of these springs, and the from the old magazine: "Mr. its sides with the beautiful green- independent of the city main. An time may come when they will The controversy went un Pfister has displayed a wonder She planted here and there the artesian well was also sunk a become the rendezvous for seek solved for half a year until the ful taste, and his grounds are a seeds for trees of various growth; few years ago, and at the depth ers aftfer health, equaled only in Gether group won out. fit companion to the beautiful they too, were of many kinds, of about 800 feet a stream of reputation by the springs of In an interview with a WPA grounds already described. One Waukesha; writer in 1939, C. R. Gether some were sturdy and some were pure water was struck. Mr. Pfis stated that the day after the little freak of Nature was in supple, there was the shrub, the ter concluded to go still deeper, "The banks along the shore of dulged in in the establishing of franchise had been granted Trus^ oak, the maple, the elm, -the and penetrated into the.depth of the bay are composed of a valu tee McGee called on Frank Bige- the boundary line. The level of birch, the hickory. The trailing the earth's crust -to the distance able clay, which has by a num idie ground above the waters of low, First National Bank cashier, plants had also their seed supply, of 1,700 feet. Here a stream of ber of tests been proven to who wished to know whether the the lake is somewhat over 100 and in the quiet nights and days water was struck with an abun possess value for making fine feet, but at some time in the past, Gether crowd had won out. of successive seasons, the wound dant flow, but so filled with stoneware. Several gentlemen When informed that it had in one of the erratic perform- made by the Storm King was mineral solutions of different who have investigated the matter ^jances of the Storm King, a trick Gether quoted Bigelow as having slowly, gently, gracefully and kinds as to void its being used •have become enthusiastic over said: "Mr. McGee we have heen flayed upon the surface caused beautifully healed, so that now for drinking purposes. The sup the prospect for turning this clay the formation of a gully, which what was once a wild, rude, ugly 9 carrying your company's note ply is inexhaustible. te> a practical use. ' (Continued on Page 23) ... - , %GP$SE^ ^iPFPi^iP WHTTKFISH BAT HERALD V Thurs.,, Feb.-19, 1953 - Page 23 ybh^ee/qriJ Irish First '&. t J ^XCJUL*^ 1*^W- * * *~ DayAve.:[. .7 Families to Locate in Bay ^ (Continued from; Page 22) ' . .- •Jff-ot- (King-Fowle 8s McGee) for $25,- (Whitefish Bay's first settlers One of the greatest factors in 000 for a long time and I fear were mostly of Yankee or Irish contributing to the western de unless Gether is stopped in this stock, who settled near the shore velopment of the village was the matter we shall have to call for of the lake or river for trading removal of the Lake Shore divi w I immediate payment." or industrial purposes. Water sion tracks of the Northwestern I Hearing of this Fowle said ways and Indian trails were the Railroad, which ran through the i(still according to-Gether's in first avenues of travel and trans heart of the community. A cut terview: "Well boys I'm in favor portation. ^ off line branched ^to the west of sticking to our guns and any The real estate boom did not between Hampton rd. and Fair- way what difference does it take hold .in the village until the mount ave. and connected with \ ?/«i§§| make whether we go broke now 1890's when subdivisions were the Wisconsin division. It was. "f ^||| laid out, streets graded, and Tom Buckleyr-then~ Whitefislr* ^tgp or a year hence. The way things Bay's village engineer, who was Y^i are going we are sure to go wooden curbs and sidewalks put r it. Lots sold for as high as $1,000. the leading spirit in having the .' >'|g» broke anyway." railroad company tear out a. * &&$ When Charles Pfister, also one However, the panic of 1893 main line tracks and move them j '; -y;j§ of the directors of the traction caused the bottom, to drop out of this development and it was westward. Removal of the tracks - ;, "f company heard that the Gether eliminated many dangerous sur- ; 'AV; 4 faction won out he said: "That's not until after World War I that face crossings through tooth *-/V3igf all right. Gether has no money the suburb began to have swift Shorewood and Whitefish Bay.;-^^|| with which to build those tracks growth. Among the first to settle in the growing community were Both Whitefish Bay. :' and ''^5^8 and my bank (the First Nation v> al) certainly won't loan him professional and business men Shorewood shared in the costs " , {$> any." . ' with fair to good incomes, who of acquiring and building a new . '$« wished to get away from crowd cut-off north of Whitefish Bay tf ?| Gether quoted another direc ed city conditions and fofing up to connect the Wisconsin divi--rV^I% tor as saying, "Perhops so, but their children in a clean, whole sion, in return for which the rail- ;, ^tpj when Gether went to Whitefish some and moral environment. * road deeded its right-of-way to w^fgjj Bay he said he was going to have the two villages; -_ ' :-.^*:^^"?§t improved streets, with sewers; During the depression years that he would build a water after 1929 there was little build Whitefish Bay was deeded i^l^gf ing until 1935 when people who 21.45 acres and Shorewood 6.96, ^VtS plant and a gas plant. He had f •no money then, but all these were able to finance homes in Total cost of building the new ij?; ^ [things have been done and that the $10,000 to $20,00 bracket be cut off was over $300,000, of£^|3p ipart of the community now looks gan to take advantage of FHA which Whitefish Bay paid $138,- t-^^1 in the construction of homes. 000; Shorewood $49,000 and the •'£%$$ 'like a garden. I'm afraid if he The home financing plan has made up his mind, he will railroad assumed the balance of ^T^;1j£| get .the money some place and started the westward and north- the costs, which included remov- ward march of home building in | aj ,0f the' tracks. ~*m accomplish his aim."* whitefish Bay, south and east of I A month later the .track was Country Day school, the entire The two villages acquired ^completed but the traction com length of Santa Monica blvd. and j these „ former railroad sites pany refused to run its trains streets to the west. jover it", v. but finally the Trac z-± through bond issues, favorably tion Co. agreed to purchase the voted upon at special elections dummy line extension from held Nov. 3, 1925. Gether and his friends at $2,600, which it cost them. At the time However, it was not until the company was beginning to June, 1927 that work on relo think of electric cars. - cating the railway was started* Track laying was begun in Sept., 1928 an*3 *he cut-off was com pleted i in use by January, WHITEFISH BAY HERALD 1929. Page, 26 - Thurs., Feb. 19, 1953 ^^^^^ Wlese ^iSj^ack Gossman;^four drivers; ^Clarence Domask, ^ Eu gene Boueiha,* Fred Heebner and Harold Hemmari^|and^l2ipij)e- menr^vV '#%f^ $%v$%£'W$-^ ^ -Two former members of the department are , oh retirement. They are former Chief Asen and William Hoppenrath.? ^ f < ! Current ambitions of village officials is to erect a new fire house. Present quarters for fire fighting equipment and firemen is too cramped. Fire fighters are on 24 hour duty and during this time eat and sleep at the station. wntery^yyyyyyyy^ V.> •» (Continued, from Page 18) /"; behind a good roadster and driv ing out through Prospect ave., getting a view of North st. as it stretches in a straight line to the horizon on the west; thea passing thence to Lake ave., which is in reality . but a con Incllewild and Fairmount Heights were developed as a tinuation of "Prospect; then on subdivision in 1888. The Idlewild tract was located imme until Whitefish Bay is reached. diately adjoining the boat landing and at the terminus of the To reach Whitefish Bay from Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay railroad. It was subdivided Milwaukee you have the choice into 161 lots. Fairmount Heights comprised 80 lots. One of of four routes: the first homes to go up in Idlewild was the residence of 1. Take any street car in the F. T. Stone, shown above.. city that will leave you at or near the corner of North st. and has a 1930 Seagrave combination Farwell ave.* then take passage A/olunteersPut pump and truck with pumping in the dummy line. Trains leave capacity of 500 gallons per min every 15 minutes during the day ute and an ambulance used in and evening. Out Bay Fires rescue work, in administering oxygen and in conveying in 2. Take steamers at Grand jured and ill persons to hospitals. ave. bride, (now Wisconsin ave.) 60 Years Ago ride down through the river, out Until 1916, Whitefish Bay fires For a short while, the fire en into the harbor, enjoy ten miles were extinguished solely by a gine was manned entirely by on the deep sea-green expanse volunteer fire department, which volunteers but this was of very of the lake, and land at the pier when fully staffed included 35 short duration for soon Henry just under the rugged bank by Asen came from the Milwaukee the site of the great hotel. members. Tbe department had fire department to head the Bay no fire fighting apparatus. ' ' department. He had a crew of 3. Take the cars of the Mil In 1916, the new village con seven full-time firemen and six waukee, Lake Shore & Western tracted with the Milwaukee fire additional firemen. Railway at the foot of Wisconsin . department for protection at the st. and get off at the station rate of $20 per hour on fire Gradually the department has about two minutes walk from call to the village. grown until the village fire fight the Bay. \ And this was the fire fighting ers number 21, including Chief 4. To be exclusive, take an service the village had until Joseph Kasal, who succeeded open carriage, and drive up the Sept. 28, 1928 when the village Asen on his retirement a few beautiful avenues that border the purchased a 750 gallon pumper, years ago. Kasal has been with lake, and are in turn bordered by an American LaFrance. Cost of the department for 17 years.; j some of the most elegant resi the engine was $2,500. This 1928 The department includes itwo dences in the beautiful city by vehicle is still in use by the de captains: Erwin Hess and George the beautiful lake. You will be partment. In addition it now Kranich; two lieutenants: Arthur come enthusiastic at the rich scenery on either hand, and en-? joy a trip giving occasion for a| [long and sweet remembrance. :"1 TP ^SfK'U'- iPummy HorsesrPrecede First Steam St. Cars to Keep Peace With Dray and Carriage Horses It was in the late 1880's that ness maker's wooden horse of the, north shore area of Milwau- full size mounted on it, precede i kee county began to be looked the engine. Whether it was this • upon, as something more than "dummy" or eventual familiar i land on which to grow potatoes ity, calm' and security finally i or corn. • " " • fr came to carriage and dray horses "{JW. I% I9S--3 i People who had been coming as the monster with its make- ^ out to Whitefish Bay on pleasure believe horse steamed by. : .tours, and to live in summer Each train included three pas I homes along the lake and river senger coaches with a total seat began to look upon the area as ing capacity of 180 persons. Seats \ conducive to all-year round liv- ran the width of the car to the l ing but lack of transportation running board/Two cars of each l facilities were a stumbling block. train were open and one closed. 5 Milwaukee's common council in The locomotives were upright r 1886 amended the franchise held boilers installed on what appears r by three horse; car companies to be a regulation streetcar.Xow-' l operating in the city, permitting catchers jutted menacingly from : i tthe use "other than animal pow- the front; end../I r%>. *• er" for street car propulsion. W. H. Bradley, wealthy lum - This change allowed the use of berman, was president of the 1 steam and later electric power Milwaukee and Whitefish Bay and opened the way to White- railway. Controlling interests in' fish Bay's development. i i the company were held by Guido 'Interest in securing some sort Pfister, I. H. Lowry, J. V, IXipre, of street car transportation 'to secretary; P. V. Deuster, editor fthe Bay started in 1885 but it and politician, who was the com- •*was not until .the following* year pany's treasurer* Otto Zwei- that a right of way was eon- tusch, ;T,- Wf Williams, Richard , tracted for. Efforts were to have Burke, Val Blatz, M. J. Higgins, | facilities ready for "The Saeng- superintendent of the road, had | erf est" to be held that summer. charge of it$, construction. f The unbuilt line began to be Building of the railway was I talked of as "Saengerfest road." said to have added from $500 to 5 However, the Saengerfest came $1000 to, every acre of land lying I and iwent without the road and north of Milwaukee and within jj ditLwals not until 1887 that a com- a half mile of the line. , , i pany 'was formed to operate the Among those knowri as de^ f.lkie< It was the Milwaukee i& veloping north shore real estate, Wihitefish Bay Railway with more than 60 years ago were "capital stock df $60,000. Drs. Sherman and Beebe, Messrs. Track laying commenced the Merrill and Dupre; W. H. Rod- following May and in June, 1888 way, George D. Bellows, Brad the line ^ ^ Rem em be r Way Back When ' Whitefish Bay Will, A back copy of;the files of the Herald car-, • ries a story of the finding of a Whitefish Bay,. Plant 100 Trees in Pioneer which was dated Jan. 30,. 1892. The| issue of the Pioneer published a poem whichj Village This Spring The beauty of Whitefish Bay provides an interesting insight into the lake; : will be further enhanced this shore community before, it was organized asj spring with the addition of 100 a village. • , ' '' V ' ' r ! '. * - . i new trees to be planted about the The poem reproduced here is as follows:*' village. The tree planting pro "Loads of lumber and barrels of nails, 1 gram was approved by the Bay village board at its regular Household furniture, buckets and pails; \ meeting held on Monday night of Building'materials, posts, shingles and lath,? this week. The trees will be : Brick and cement following their path J X purchased through the WPA of All a moving, all one way, ' , ' ' ^ fice at a very! reasonable price and I Bpund for the north, for Whitefish Bay.>? will be planted by WPA • labor. These trees j will be planted on ' Carpenters,' tinners and common hands, \1 streets which are ^ not supplied I Painters and masons, alone and in bands; J with shrubbery at * the present 'Workmen of every description and kind, V-j time and for filling in gaps on Some plugging ahead, some lagging be- other streets' where removal of i r . hind, ! . , .,'> >;\. * /. trees has been necessary. |; • { But all a moving, going one way, l President Knoernschild ] ap pointed the new trustee, R. C. Bound for the north, for Whitefish Bay. \ N -Coaches packed on the Dummy road, T* \ Zimmerman, as chairman of the I Lake shore trains gr0aning under their V personnel committee and Zimmer : man was also named to serve on *• i load; \, '" ' *' * ! • • " i' ??£** the finance, claim, streets and Teams and wagons and men on foot, health committees, | Horseback, bicycles, hand-cars to boot; j The board agreed that the vil- * All a moving, every day, / „ , • • lage^of Whitefish* Bay would1 join Bound for the north,, for Whitefish Bay.; * " with the village of Shorewood in ]Beautiful house, bright and new,; / \,^';t presenting its briefs to the state supreme court, in the ''question of ]' Rising everywhere on the view; ' ' ; the validity of the fire and po lOut on the lawn in the stirring breeze,! \ lice departments pension bill. \ Or peeping|up o'er the tops of the trees; ; The publication of a request for - Homes for the hopeless, bright colored, gay> bids for two new trucks for use Iv Say, w£at do you think of Whitefish Bay?" in the village was also approved The poem is significant at this time in that by the board. • ^ ,, { It still reflects the present day/ although it \ dates back 43 years. Today Whitefish Bay is Greater Milwaukee's {"most rapidly gaining [residential community, building activity/in* khe village this year far exceed^ that of any v other,similar,Jcommlunity,liii"the county, Vv-r^ In.tl92,0 Whltefish^Bay had ^potn ulation 6f«:882, while in 1927>it^ad| v reached ^, 5 0 0."'. This represents 'an in- 3 icrease ln'VpopulaUon";Qj^97;-pW centi; * During these same gear's Shorewqod's \ population'increased-248 percent, v* j [v * 'I y *»* * y< • •'• •" •'••?f, €<& ^y*1 \ ft • W.i.«!• - I WHITEFISH BAY HERALD Page 30 - Thurs., Feb. 19, 1953 First Industry Started in 1862 Fishing was probably Whjte- fish Bay's first industry. And the first commercial fisherman was John Luck Who brought his nets and fishing equipment from Green Bay in 1862 and arranged with William H. Consaul for per mission to set the nets off the beach of the Consaul property. Two years later Consaul him- jself entered the fishing industry land. Luck moved his location a j* (-Continued on Page 31) U*4/fa+*J *//f//9f3 ^FEEtST INDUSTRY . . . (Continued from P«tf» 80) Round Trip by half mile south. Eventually he purchased a 50 acre farm from Boat 25c Idlewild to the lake and from Henry Clay to Lexington. He Travel to Milwaukee from sold this land in 1870 to William Whitefish Bay today is rarely by H. Burr, who operated a tavern water, but when roadways were ;on the eastern end of the land mere rutted trails through as a forerunner.of the Whitefish woods, and even later when a Bay resort. toll road flourished and a dum my street car came to Whitefish Bay, many of the-picnickers and holiday-bound folks came to the Bay from Milwaukee via steam- < er. 'Steamers to and from the Bay fluorished, particularly in the heydey of Whitefish Bay as a resort community. There were the "Bloomer • Girl," the "Chequomagon" and / "The Cyclone." All decked out in holiday fashion were they and seldom did they travel in either direction without full capacity. The steamer R. J. Gordon, commanded by John M. Craw ford, was making daily trips from the Grand,ave. bridge at 10 a.m., 2:30 and 8 p.m., and on Sundays, trips were at 10 a.m., 1:30, 4 and 8 p.m. The fare was 25c a round trip. And what a holiday of fun! SENTINEL Sentinel File From 125, 100, 75, 50, 25 and 10 years ago June 26,1862 Whitefish Bay — Omnibuses leave at 9 a.m. Sunday for a grand excur sion to Whitefish Bay from the Walk £ er House. Fare for the round trip is 50 cents. The Girl Scouts of WhitefisI* ^t^.H^.T, & p— in -./-.--M""^ ^ Bay will then give a history of the* flag. Other numbers included iiv. the program arranged by Henrjr l*^ D. Allen include military cere Gala Celebration Commemorates ? ./^t^Kife mony by the Veterans of Poreigi^ Wars and American Legions post** and musical renditions"' by the- Cudworth Post Sons of American- Golden Jubilee of Whitefish Bay§^ Legion drum and bugle corps. * \ ,- v •Jt^j^tfe^, •**•£ ^^*> 3 The'narrative for the pageant^ Last minute details are befBgrS^S* *' which will be directed by Donald ^ ^*M?J checked as June 7, the fiftieth atn-4 f^ Weller," assisted by Edith Mahler, -""<£:•& niversary of the village of WMte~.^vv was written by Mrs. Wallace Lo-; -J^L, J fish^Bay, draws near; Grover^FV;^ V*^9^f^ , „i,^ . Aia aji* H -^;- Village Newspaper, the Herald jfeeorge Hage, 7& 'ffo/jWo eoH-h^^- K cheaper and more profitable than | natural cement; /The method of I procuring limestone was proving I expensive. As the outcrop of lime- I stone was below the Lake Michi- I gan level, the miners of lime-/ • • stone had to tunnel under the bluff; V K to find rocks., u^h\<{ /< >' V ^0 fc' A" mine shaft was located at % t about N. View pi. and Barnett la. f I This led to the tunnels for the,, ; mine from which the stone .was" I removed.'v *> • ^V "r ' *''>, ?^§»/*.^' ,; Dynamite Stone ^ : Extra timber was hauled to thel ; site from farmers in the vicinity i t, of Glendale, River. Hills, BaysideJ I; and Fox Point. / . *^| {., The woods along the Milwaukee! t river belonged to * Consolidated! r Cement Co., although his portion J I of the 140 acre tract (70 acres)! f was in1 the name of Charles L.I f: Kiewert, president pf the compa-J * ny. * . ; * • • • . Ty j I The mill had a huge steam pow-1 > ered plant and a tall chimney or j i smoke stack of 60 feet or more in I height and could be seen fori I miles around. The morning noon,} and evening steam whistle was! jvery shrill and could be heard] quite a distance. •. -»] j. The mill had four cement kilns. 3 A spur line ran up to the mill.; from the main line of the North! Western railroad, crossing Lake' j dr. At what is now Holly crt. atj about View and | Barnett la., the] i track became Y ishaped the track! [to the left or^nprth was used to] * bring in coal for the power plant; 4 the one to the south was for out-1 going material, j \ . _ >A (to be continued)', %* , 4 * - y \ > * ', • * - ' I is) j Land offices were opened at Green Bay in 1834 and with the adver? f$|||§f|| 5 of more pioneer families, Wisconsin was admitted into the Union in Wftffiffiftu 1848. Milwaukee was divided into the Town of Lake on the mth and the Town of Milwaukee on the north with the divide i at InAOuf) &t I ty &S* the present site of Greenfield Avenue. A-^y I) ft 6 Vrtf North Shoreans $leep in Street Cars, Car Bdnps; Officers Robert Koeplin and Alex Boeder remained on duty, Police Station, City, Hall/and Tqverns— Every- with but short snatches of»sleep pne Enjoys time's Standstill.; <\ :; , v for more than 48 hours./. y Sleep on Cars ' y Blanketed with $now, life in fun. Evjen~more~fun "was /the, Many • Shorewood and White- the v North Shore Thursday re excitement, r watching snow fish Ba^ people,slept on street verted back to near ^pioneer plows root up the snow; watch cars Wednesday night. Among days, and somehow after the ing jeeps make it where other* them the Sam. Rothmans, E. first strain of not being able to cars failjed. -.,».... Elmdale ct., who had been down; ^get anywhere (much) and not |, It was1 a; holiday such as the to the Davidson to see Walter \ able to do anything except tend youngsters: never before ex^ Huston.^' - , > y_ • ^, Jt \\ ^ires/and, ^hovel walks, every- perienced. Hadn't they all gone tbody was/rather gay about it. / to bed with the thought of school4 People' trudged the streets,. Whitefish Bay Jsome on skiis or snow shoes, all with oversho,es or high boots to With- its own streets "clear, Whits Milwaukee's main artertes return withV arms laden with Shorewood opened the road- I were pill weighted under tons (of i groceries—:, just/ in case / there Way on .Maryland av,e.. from I snow **| Saturday,,, Whitefish Bay's might be more snow, more whid E. Edgewood ave. to E.'Hart f\ streets {were*wide open to traffic and to further tie the city up. ford *aveV,;sathat police codid \ * foot travel.' -' in fact they were t open Some;, folks were out just for have a clear way to Columbia I to jra^el'JFhurfday. Whitefish Bay did the fun and comeraredie of life/ hospital,* ?which Shorewood \f not wait , for >the blizzard to subside ':; be ford 'tt'^senfr its workmen 'out. , for* it was fun talking to broad uses as ah emergency hos y i grinned people'you didn't know, pital. :•'*',, ' 1*> W?rkmen> \ started clearing paths as N \-[soon as' snow began falling, so that, to neighbors and friends you'd l been too busy fdr. It was like v* everi'^ttiough they could pot keep ftahead.of'the storm they could in some Christmas and Maytime com tomorrow in their minds? Yee- j S peel It was fun to have "no f< measure be not'too far behind. Day bined. / There was, the white a v and night the* crews worked so that earth and the temperature up in school today." , . : ^hardships on H local « citizenry be not Whitefish Bay police Friday f the mild regions. tyotf-great'. ' . ' Dogs * and ^ children romped conveyed two persons to Col ; j Bulldozers and snow-plows accom- through they snow. It was fun umbia hospital. William Allen, t'plished/ 'miracles under the loyal that had long been denied by 647 E. Lake Forest ave., was ^hands;of'village,employes, while Mil- civilization ? ,and modern r life. taken to Columbia suffering Y^waukee]* slept helplessly under Us bur- Manjr dogs ran away froni their With a skull fracture following #detiyofsnow.^\Efforts at snow re- ihomei to the* consternation of a fall at Silver Spring dr. and ; Jf movattwere faint hearted in Milwau- fowriers if or with ;snow on the N. Hollywood ave. His condition \ kee^y$*M£lwaukee "simply could not Aground,;-.how cfiT dogs smelT was reported as fair. yaccomplish wliatthe surrounding Greeley's advice, and gravitate toward the west, bottom; the fishermen's seines show dearth of WHITEFISH BAY. where they are soon embraced by the lovely Mil rocks, and heavily laden boats show grand success waukee River. in capturing this favorite of the depths. It is the To the eastward there is an expanse of limitless lake fisher's paradise. Its Natural Attractions and Improvements green, and the grand old lake is seen in all its maj The smooth and pebbly beach sparkles with a Made by Man, in his Capacity of esty. There are no reefs in view with suggestions joyous lustre when the waves break, and is a glori of danger; nothing but the deep, green waters, ous place for children to play when the winds are Beautifier. where the dawn gives radiance to the scene, and the gone and the ripples kiss the sands. The zephyr is beams of the rising sun kiss the morning and dim the child of the wind, and will play with children the stars. < to their hearts' content; will make them brown rHITEFISH BAY sets in from the lake When the winds are asleep, there is a mirror of and ruddy, fill their cheeks with color and their in a bowl-like form. On its northern beauty, broken only by the white wings of sailing blood with life; help them build up their sand boundary is Fox Point, stretching a craft or the lazy smoke of a steamer on the horizon. houses when the wavelets wash them down with a bold front out into the deep green But let the sleeping winds awake, and the gods rippling laugh; toss their curls in the sunlight, and waters of the most beautiful of the great lakes, of the storm come down on a northeast cloud, and kiss their cheeks with a fragrant breath. Lake Michigan. Its companion on the south forms there is a grandeur to be seen that no other, geo The bather, whether 'man, woman, or child, can the barrier dividing it from the city of Milwaukee graphically considered, locality on the lake can sur have here his heart's desire in bathing. There are no and her bay. The distance from the respective pass or even rival. The mighty battallions of the ragged stones to wound the feet, no hidden bould point headlands is about six miles. The distance sea, urged on by an uninterrupted force of whirling ers to abrade the knees, no hidden springs to cause from the respective heads of the two bays is about winds for 200 miles come down with their mad waves a sudden fall, no wicked deep-sea crabs to catch the the same, thus giving a symmetry of form equaled rolling, their white crests flashing in the sunshine ; toe, then shake a claw and laugh derisive scorn. only by the beautiful curvature which makes so in their mighty, ranks on mighty ranks of seemingly The shores are clean with well-washed sand, and teresting a feature in the landscape at Newport's resistless power move on in sullen grandeur, Or .pebbles of many a varied hue. The depths are famous watering place on the Atlantic coast. Like double on themselves as if in elephantine sport, reached by gradual slope, so that .the timid may Newport, there is a beach where most beautiful then hurl themselves against the rocky shores on have no fear. The fearless swimmer and the bold drives may be enjoyed. Like Newport, too, when the southern side, to be broken, baffled, beaten, and plunger may take a skiff and seek the deeper green. the sun is creeping down behind the bluff, the then, like many a politician, crawl out of sight in breezes creep up from the emerald depths, an undertow. We look around on the landward side, and here lovingly caress the fevered brow, and help the Here, too, is the home of the famous whitefish of are beautiful drives, roadways, and walks. There wearied mind forget all care. the lakes, and because of the monster schools which are groves of native trees; the oak in various kinds; The bluffs rise boldly from the water's edge. seem to make this place their special rendezvous we the bending ash and the white-barked birch; the They break the line at nearly 100 feet, then gently have the name. The government surveys have stalwart hickory and the bushy thorn; the butternut slope to the river, a mile away. No washings from given enormous depths to the waters off the shore; with laden branch; the pliant basswood and the the surface touch the lake. They take Horace their explorations have shown a clean and gravelly spreading elm; the flowering maple and the noble beech. All these are here, and evergreens are* sprinkled in with generous hand. 94 - The birds are here, and here they bnild their Tne banHs on the lake front win be terraced, With the attractions nature uus given and the ^nests. The robin with his ^iolian trill greets the and walks and resting places in cozy nooks and cor genius of man has supplemented by beautiful roads, j scintillations of the rising day; the lark's gay twitter, ners are being built. The streets are being paved convenient trains and elegant steamers, Whitefish and the peedee's chirp; the bob-o-link's call and the with gravel from the shore. Bellevue Boulevard is Bay is destined to be a place of suburban homes dove's coy note, all go to make the place a haven of 120 feet in width, with trees and shrubs and flowers second to none in the West. rest from worry, a place to make all care forgot, to to form the center piece. Private residences are To reach Whitefish Bay from Milwaukee you bring refreshment to the body, and Heaven's pure bargained for and many are already bought. Pa have the choice of four routes:. ozone to clear the brain. latial homes, not for the summer alone, but for all 1. Take any street car in the city that will leave ; the year, are now on paper, preparatory to their you at or near the corner of North Street and Far- | And here are fish. A pond has been built nest realization in the near future. % well Avenue, then take passage in the dummy line. ling in among a grove of willows, where crystal I Few cities on the continent can show a richer and Trains leave every fifteen minutes during the day springs had broken from the ground; an ^ warrants it, the equipment will be north of the city during the summer seasons. increased. Before next winter W. H. Bradley, the wealthy and well-known lum Heights was a convincing argument of there will undoubtedly be a num berman, is the president of the company. Mr. the feasibility of the scheme. The road ber of closed cars added to the Bradley is a gentleman whose business sagacity was commenced in October, 1887, and equipment. Trains will be run j would alone be sufficient to warrant the success of the greater part of the grading was ac carefully, yet quickly enough to the undertaking. He with his friends own a con complished during the winter. Tne fully accommodate the patrons of trolling interest in the company. Guido Pfister lateness of the spring has delayed the the line. It will be the means of and I. H. Lowry are also among the heavy stock completion of the work, but tracklaying, which was bringing within easy distance the holders in the company, Mr. Lowry being the vice- commenced in May, has at last been finished, and entire section north of the city too president. J. V. Dupre, whose efforts have gone far the line is now in good running order. Its# south far away to be reached by the or- towards placing the project on a strong footing, is ern terminus is at the intersection of Farwell Ave J binary street cars." Besides the secretary, and Hon. P. V. Deuster, the well-known nue and North Street, and it runs in a northerly regular traffic of suburbanites, it editor and politician, is treasurer. M. J. Higgins, direction about midway between the lake and the will undoubtedly be the route an experienced railroad builder, has had charge of river, its present terminus being a point opposite taken by many thousands of ex the construction, and has charge of the operation the boat-landing at Whitefish Bay. From the start cursionists who will desire to visit of the road, with the title of superintendent. ing'point it runs to Bradford street, thence to the numerous pleasure Glen Avenue, and thence on Glen Avenue to the cityh~mits7r From that point it runs through the center of Sec tion 10, the property through which it takes its route, being owned by,various parties, full descriptions of the various tracts being given elsewhere. ; There will be three com modious .depots, one at each terminus, and; at Dahlman Station, besides numerous plat forms for the convenience of passengers. As the trains will be run for the convenience of its patrons, they will stop on signal at any point along the line, and will thus combine the convenience of horse-cars with the acceleration to be gained by the use of steam. When ballasted, the track will be smooth and easy-riding. It is of the standard gauge, built of heavy rails, with few curves, and no heavy grades. The equipment will at first comprise two engines, of the latest improved "dummy" pattern, each train to consist of three passenger coaches, with a total seating capacity of 180 persons. Two cars of each train will be open cars-and one will be closed, the former having a seating capacity of seventy and the latter of forty persons. As the business of the line ^cO by £/n/7y \ JTie. TZzt" Qur heritage: //atenSOKj \ Oct. ZO, /?7 Modest start marks North Shore 1 "Until 1647, the land which is the east continue their journey, they paddled for killed by Winnebago Indians. side, .Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, and two hours along the lake shore until they French traders and missionaries Fox Point was a silent wilderness, reached the mouth of a river. The river from 1634-1763 were the only inhabitants the inhabitant Menominee Indians and was the Milwaukee River, and the bay along with the Indians. /;' - an abundant supply of game. was Whitefish Bay. After the French and Indian War, the „ In November, 1647, an explorer, Fa According to records, M. LaSalle vis-% British took over the Northwest Terrk „ ther Marquette, on his way to visit In* ited in 1679 and Father Cosmo in 1699., tory in which Wisconsin was included, Jj The first trader dig not arrive until 1785. Furs were the main source o(^ dian friends in Illinois, was driven : commerce. .ashore by a violent storm. When, after He was Alexander Laframbois who stayed until 1821 when his brother was •, Not until 1833 was Wisconsin surveyed two days, he and his party were able^to by the federal government. Solomon *wfci*i £fcb£i*ijL-»fcL ^lUi.f -.' * Juneau, founder of * Milwaukee, had come as a fur trader. In 1833 Morgan L. Martin, .a <|an# dealer bought half of what Solomon Juneau owned. His hold-; 7??e Thst ings were east of the river. Byron Kii-yf bourn, the west side, and south of the | Day was first Bay street Menominee River, George Walker de- y veloped a village. ^| By Emily Hokanson see the street car coming In 1846, Township 7 was separated/-J take a short snooze on the had originally been a sum from the city of Milwaukee. An in- | For the Post north from one's kitchen or beach at Day Ave. typing the 1 Day Avenue was one of the spy the car going back to the mer home of a merchant corporation meeting was held at the '?• horse and wagon. Mrs. . from Chicago. In the early home of G. Mathias on April 7, 1846. At < first streets in Whitefish city. Then it was time to Blankenhorn being a good Bay to be developed. A num rush to the corner or if one's 1900s it was destroyed by the meeting it was decided to raise $200 | business woman would be a fire so they converted the for schools, and 150 for officers and con-.4 ber of the homes on the husband was coming h6mfe bit upset with him when he street were actually sum- from work, quickly put the barn into a home. There was 1 tingent expenses. (This Is the first in a i returned...sometimes the another smaller barn across /.series of looks at the background ott^^i .; mer homes, where the resi chops on. groceries weren't delivered dents could get away from 1 remember the'first gas the street which housed a / NprttLShare by several writers/);/-'-g:>>^ on time. Later the Klanns farm horse, two cows, and the city heat and.enjoy the station on Silver Spring and son 'Harold became the cool lake breezes and water Lake Drive. The Mobil Co. chickens and a few geese. t youngest postmaster in the, There was a large raspberry during the summer months. • has had one there for many U.S. working out of their 'The first residents built years. This particular one and current "patch" and we store. When 1 was a very grandchildren were paid 5 their own "water works'* for was a Wadahms station with small child it was fun to the street. A power house its ornate Chinese pagoda cents a pail at harvest time. : walk'from Birch Ave. with But the most fun was when/ was constructed on the architecture. Across the our maid, (would rather call beach of Lake Michigan at street wsas the grocery and Uncle Gus, my grand aher my substitute mother) father's brother who worked the foot of the bluff. This * post office of Mr. Schmidt. Ida, to the Scfcmidt store. I provided electricity for their as a dray man, would come The store was later owned would have a difficult time on a Sunday. First he had to . homes. They planted maple by the Klanns' and a rela- trying to decide on four trees to line the street which have a "schneck" and cup of * tive of the Kjanns, Mrs. windmill cookies, crammed coffee and then he would lift ;. now add dignity and beauty Blankenhorn managed it with slivered almonds or to the street. Four of the me up in his wagon and off when Grandma Kiann some licorice sticks ...all we would go to the. families were the Brad- couldn't do ail the work by displayed invitinglyln glass lesys, who had a park like farm...showing me and al herself. Grandpa Klann still cases. My grandmother and.. lowing * me to hold the yard, ' the Knops, Millers delivered groceries but un granfather lived on a small and the Stephans. One could • reins...out of sight of beknownst to Mrs. Blanken gentleman's farm near Mother's watchful eye. horn would occasionally Klode park. Thleir homey THE I JUSTRIAL WEST: JUNE, 1888: ~ - . * 'p.. •. • v., ; - • ••••••:.• > .••..'. v : ,/'. -y*?S* -/&>' ^5> Whitefish Bay's 75th Birthday % to Make Quiet Village Swing By ALKX P. DOBISH loon. Later, he bought a farm to the land, and by 1918, the Of The Journal Staff which extended from the lake- ; village's permanent residents Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee front west to what is now totaled 900. ;/ ' county's oldest suburb, will ,N. Santa Monica blvd. By 1930 the population was kick up its heels a bit next Isenring, Whitefish Bay's weekend to celebrate its 75th 5,300, many of them profes first village president and a* sional people and business birthday. It became a village county board/ member, was men.' In 1950 the population June 7, 1892. one of .the best dressed men was 14,600. Except for a possible speech in the area. He drove fine here and there, there won't horses and had a posh car No Vacancy be anything stodgy about the riage. He gained fame as the Today there aren't * enough manager of the Pabst White- vacant lots to count on the fish Bay resort, built in 1889 fingers of one hand. There on the lake bluff just north are 4,476 single family of what is now E. Henry houses, 34 duplexes and a Clay st. handful of apartments, in Built by Brewer cluding one big complex, in This magnificent ornate, the village. There is one ma white wooden house of opu jor business district (Silver lence was built for $30,000 by Spring dr.) and three minor Capt. Frederick Pabst, the ones. brewer. Visitors came from The schools are excellent. miles around to spend balmy But, as in many bedroom weekends there. They arrived suburbs, the cost of munici by horse and carriage, by ex pal services is causing con cursion steamer and by rail, cern. Henry F. Mixter, the vil including the old Milwaukee lage's 20th president, is and Whitefish Bay "dummy" cautiously optimistic. line, which started at E. "The future requires much —-By a Journal Artist North av. work to maintain our, village At the turn of the century, in a form which will be ac party Friday and Saturday the dummy line was replaced ceptable to our residents and for the granddaddy of the by the Milwaukee Electric still be within their means," county's 18 suburbs. Railway and Light Co., which he said in his anniversary Beside parades, a shapely extended service to the north message. Our task is to strike miss will be crowned Miss shore. a balance between rising costs Whitefish Bay. Bands will The crowds, as many' as and increasing demands /fox- play and two public dances 10,000 on a Sunday, kept service. will be held. coming until 1914, when auto "We must inventory what mobiles began to change out Fights Forgotten we have and try to increase ing habits and the resort had our property value -rather Friend and foe alike have to close. The crowds, how than let it erode by sitting been invited to the festivities ever, had exposed the public still." honoring one of the state's \ wealthiest suburbs. They in- j >>£ There wasn't any fight over I elude Gov. .K^nowles and/ over the two and a half Mayor Maier, who can be ex- | 1 square miles of wooded area, pected to have kindness in his j I and on June 7, 1892, the vil heart while helping celebrate j lage of Whitefish Bay Wc|S the diamond jubilee. : created by a vote of 72 to 14. i The village then had 316 resi The Whitefish Bay of today j dents. The population now is (equalized valuation $138,- \ about 18,500. 720,000) is a far cry from the ! small fishing hamlet of Fred \ Isenring provided the sub- \ G. Isenring. A mustached poliy urb with a major mystery. tician and resort manager, \ I Around 1900, he suddenly Isenring got < peeved at the; disappeared, never to be \ idea of youngsters walking j I heard from again, shortly af- two and a half miles to school j / ter being defeated for reelec in ihe old town of Milwaukee, j tion for sheriff. He was a widower. He had plenty of reason, j including a 6 foot snowfall j He was born in 1854, son that horses had a tough time j of a Swiss immigrant who getting through. Isenring de- ! came to Milwaukee in 1847 cided to incorporate and \ His father, Gallus, ran a sa- create a new school district. ! 3.4i Fistijng once chief industry •* ;: y'. ••• !.••*• H<-/'' -;: / ;" •' . by £w/f/&fohScAJ Commercial fishing was an impor 'school board refused to accept these Da^- y Avenue*•• , sh^ e remarked thai. th*' tant industry from 1862 to I92J. Captain • pupils, a high school had to be built. reason she and her husband chose k Theodore, father-in-law and brother of Before it wa,s completed students in move to the Bay was that the children Uhe Cpnsauts, with the help of Will Con high school attended classes in one would experience rural schools....but saul andyFrank and Henry Steffen wing of Richards school. • ,.y she soon found out that "modern" • fished in the bay. They used pond nets The early 1900s were a period of Henry Clay was the school. Because the • "r which were stretched out to trap fish as •'* growing. More families moved to the children were young and the distance Uhey swam near shore. This net would ; Bay. With transportation provided, from Day Ave,, to school was lengthy, be str,etchpd out between posts which she entrusted the children to kindly the street cars and trains, it was pleas M were pounded into the bottom of the ant village to live in, almost rural in Mr. Peterson, the daytime" con lake. The o^ts would be put out in the aspect. ' ductor of the street car. He had late afternoon and early the following The 1920s found even more growth. charges the length of the street car , morning would be pulled in. Fresh fish Henry Qay school was in operation. line to Henry Clay, an early version of were then delivered to the Whitefish /. Wheq interviewing an old resident of^ the school bus ^rtyer^y^^^y^y*-- ^ay resort and to customers on the lower east side, some of them tyeing sold too at the fish market in downtown Milwaukee. They sold the business to Louis Scheife who sold from 300-600 pounds offish to the Whitefish Bay re- / /kc4L *XJU r 'Growing Pains9 ^fP\'\\ Are Bay Tradition ^ Village hall "growing pains" ' are not new to Whitefish Bay. »• First meetings, which led to incorporation in 1892, were herd in . ttejp&fe gtQ!B. a.t H.qa&e and y^Rnvpr Spring ^rc A small vil lage hall was erected on the /school grounds and board meet-; ings were held there until 1923,, when the new and present hall; was erected for $13,263. ;; In April, 1928, tthe Shorewood- Radio, forerunner of the Herald, | reported that the Whitefish Bay? ^village board had discussed the' .need for a new village hall, noting that "the present building is com pletely outgrown." ; ' h The village then started con demnation proceedings and ac quired an additional 200 feet of frontage to the west of the hall on E. Lexington blvd. The land I was purchased from Charles Web er, whose home was razed. The hall was enlarged to the west and a second story was built. : Prior to 1930, Catholic, Luther an and Community church serv ices were occasionally held in the ?hall. -^ v.,-'**,-,,> > > . : ! An architect now is working on plans for the new village hall, i which will be built on the north east corner of Lexington and N. Marlborough dr., on land once .occupied by railroad and Trans- < port co. tracks. J IBBPHiTrofi^ \ / A A & ;^ff .#-^7v-^*a**f^". •-^ys^vvr;c> <*»vi•^•^tt^.r^y^ sarp$i By Karen Rothe tw^ Milwalk^^§S* $750;000! *& federal grant/that^ls^exi^cte^^o^ r .Jy spark la $3 million renovation^ of * Seating, air conditioning, ventilation, N Wjlliam R. Drew, commissioner oi />Downtown's historic/Iron Block/ /plumbing and electrical systems,/ rttie.Department of/ City .Develop^ t wan architectural Tanty oecauseui iu» j /The StatC^^e HistoricaT l SodetyCwilljf /^prefabricated!?*iron-block ; coiistruc-i / be involvw in the restoration of thej ? tion. It is one of only two such builds Jt. iron block^exterior of the building/ ' ings remaining in the country.^i^ #f L >Vill. I - Beach said. Since the building is on": ' \ The appearance^ ii the four-story^ v the National Register, exterior resto- ; landmark has deteriorated in recent; \y ration must be as close as possible to „ years, leadingto .suggestions^that it i ;; the original appearance, he said.'4yy! : r kf/bedemolished.^%^^ ' *§$A tt:%Th!e\buiidln^at 205^%Se%8ln| |f?/the building^ is rusted, streaked ^4the;developers now wilLfifm u^ It?' The upper floors of-the buOdihM] | and has some noticeable holes in the, financing arrangements,' seefecon<> fan* vacant/The, first .floor is leased |K, ,/Avel, is 6iT the National Register of; v f iron facade/However,:architects/ ^struction bids and determine whether^ " * ^ri8tjaffp^r-/]v^Jfe\^^\ Historic Places. TheVteveloperWTMB^ / have found that the general condition/ the costs: will fall within the ^^"1 i '/Beach said other parts of thefinan^ Development Co. and the Carley Ctyhb££. fid th^.cast-iron skin appears: to^bej lion; estimate, and exercise theff/op^ ^^Groupr both oM4adisonf plantof / good and that the bolts holding thel V- tion to buy the property, Beach dGPSSr I - cial package include: ^ 74/y f^ >vate the building for offices and/ ; )i*es and restore its historic facade,' I blocks together are in^ good cond^l ^ -•A' $1/ million short-term cpn^V| v TMB partner Robert r Beach said , struction loan from conventionaljl ytioni Beach &aid;A,i 'i4^^£y^^S lenders./ Talks are being held with\ The relatively small size of thSp r % First Wisconsin : ; National Bank,|4 |,iiThe Iron^ Block/is on an/, 8,400? building and the high cost of renova^ * Beach said.-" 4 " ,&'"- "-JL,^^% tion have blocked past efforts to re-1 : u square-foot site and has 20,000 >-*f^y t^*> ^, s-r "-- * i- j*\'« ***J square feet of office space and 8,000, | store the building ^^^^£il ; /•;• A 10-year, /$350,000 agreement^ -square feet|.of retail space, Beach 1, that Is "essentially a land contract"^ ^said; It will be renovated to current' | The approval of the federal Urban ; : Development; Action Grant ahd a< ^ . with tiie present owners, a group ofT| | standards for retail and office space, Milwaukee investors called they iV he said. ^.Kut;^.. ^ - *rr*,.\ 25% ta^t dredit now allowed in reno-^ f : » :. vation of historic Ipuildings have Promised Land Co; Inc. /->, fW ? Plans are. to begin worfe^fn fall, v helped to make the project feasible, [.with occupancy of the building oc- [-Beach said.^vi /.~J!:i,-*- MESSA6E ^Z^ "^>^ yfsu^fi- y^^^y y ^ ^y^ V tf * # o *^HuL HtA^jyy 7~/&-/??& Table of contents »*':'•' 1 In 2092, someone wMhd, ,. . ':%&M& :• "."• .,, ... Among the items buried'ui^the 1 Michael Harrigan.'^ timft capsule, to be openedinr2692> • Menu:frbm JackPandl'sWJaite- werei^x. ..•:.' "'^ ~&&^: fishBaylnn. ' ;•;-•<•'•',;.'..• '."'r • Original copy of Jan;: 16? 1692 • Parking meter* used on" Silver edition of the Whitefish Bfiy Pioneer ; y : SpringDriveinl992? ?y =v - newspaper. . " ;> : .''"'• . • Four, bannersv-flown r6n Silver • Original 1894 sewer" system Spring Drive during various seasons. map for the village. , 3f£*: Four Whitefish Bay? street • Gream City brick fwmfotindal- VV'; signs tion of Carl Schwartz General Store, *&.< •', Copies of construction plansfor ._built.;in 1916 at what is now East Klodo and Big Bay-Buckley Parks. Silver Spring and North^Maribor- '_ ; • Copy of 1992^ centennial event ough drives. ' "'/ schedule and* Fourth of July • Photo packet compiled by schedule. •'..••'..-. Whitefish Bay historian Mimi Bird. • -1992 Centennial Historical •: - •: '. k book printed by the Whitens!* Bay • • Photos of Klodo Park recoil Foundation. ••?..' Btruction, dedication ceremony bro • Village budgets for 1990, 1991 chure and related newsclippings. : • Official key to the village from and 1992. ' v former Village .President Patrick Whitefish Bay Herald, Milwaukee < Matthews. ,. v • "- Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal • Official Whitefish Bay Depart fromweekof July 6.. .-•;-'< " -- * ment of Public Works baseball hat. • Video tape of the July 6, 1992 • • • Official shovel from the ground Village Board meeting- breaking of the village hall in 19,70 Centennial poster. andgrouhdbreakmgfor the time cap • list of sale prices of all village sule in 1992. v - properties sold in 1991 and 1992. '.-. • 1991 Chevrolet Caprice squad ; • '-.Copy of the highest, .lowest car hubcap. -Police .officer badge and average tax bill for 1991. #16 and uniform shoulder patch. ; •-Copy of current Whitefish Bay •• f • Parking citation #A54126„.\\ Directory. '• • North Shore Crimestbppers : •Copy of Whitefish Bay Herald £'. brochure. ; .50th and 75th anniversary editions. • D.A.R.E. bumper sticker and • Letter to the Village Manager bookmark. f TV*: . in 2092 from 1992. Village Manager • 1992 Brewer baseball card set. 20\ -3l? WL..efishBay Vill^eplans weeklong 100th birthday party • On July 9, there's a Brewers Parker Drew, at the Fox Bay The Patty Matthews said, "We hope Celebration includes atre, 334 E. Silver Spring Drive, for these events will give people a % game against the Kansas City Roy Brewers game and an als and a tailgate party with food at $2. chance to look backward and for 1892 prices. Tickets, at $10 each, Free events include a sock hop ward." all-village'blockparty. are available at the Community on July 10 at the Cahill Square Journal files show the village Services Department, located in tennis courts from 5 to 7 p.nx and was incorporated primarily because \\Tiitefish Bay — Residents wiU Whitefish Bay High School, 1200 the Brady Street Cbmedy Troupe residents wanted their own school. have 4$ planijEd^eyents an4 activi E. J^airmount Ave., or from John from 7 to 8:15 p.m.; and an all-vil In 1892, the area was part of the lage block party, featuring the band Town of Milwaukee, and children ties to help cd&rate;^^vl^ Cdunsell at 332-2630. x 100th birthday n^ week • On July 7, residents can at Java, from 8 to 11 p.nt on July 11 had to travel about 2 /i miles to Only two have admission charg tend a 8. p;m. performance, of in the Silver Spring Drive business school es* "Mark Twain Revisited," starring district. When residents could not get The celebration is expected to the school location changed, they cost the Whitefish Bay Centennial decided to incorporate. The move Society about $10,000, most of ment was led by G.A. Rogers, edi which comes from membership tor of the weekly Whitefish Bay fees, said Patty Matthews, who is Pioneer. By a vote of 72 to 14 in co-chairman of the /event, along June 1892, the incorporation mea with her husband,** F. Patrick. sure passed Soon afterward, the About 120 couples and businesses village formed a school district and Tkdar • I&t^al 7- 3- /??£ each paid $ 100 to join the society. hired a contractor to build a school. Centennial Week events in clude: _ Bay days: Whitef isjafipy rnarks • fourth of July — A parade July 4 down Silver Spring Drive, fireworks and daylong events at KlpdePark. il Heritage Day — Sunday. A spanned 18 acresalong thc^oluns lfifird,-rwnV iias: compile! Jvol- picnic from 5 to 8:30 p,m. at By BETSY THATCHER umes/of information about the of Hake Michigan, was a place for Klode Park. Catered food will be Sentinel staff writer village, traced its history back to visitors to imbibe, dine and listen available, and the Air Command Whitefish Bay — One hundred the time when the residents lived to music. At one point, a Ferris Band will perform in a Big Band years ago, people who lived here in the town of Milwaukee and wheel was added to the resort. concert. wanted a school near their were angry that their children The first business of any conse- • Seniors Day — Monday. homes. When they couldn't get had to hike more than two miles quencelyas fishing, which gave Daytime trolley tours of the vil one, they started their own vil to school. ffie/# y& 's/7sjtttf\ First Sale of Land Here Was In 1837; First Resident in 1847 The first landowner in White- Spring dr. and N. Hollywood ave., fish Bay— it was then called at the time of the Civil war. An Michigan territory — was Joel entry in Butties' diary on Sunday, Buttles. However, the first resi Jan. 18, 1863, states: dent here was Alfred Lipsicomb, "I rode the grey colt down to Buttles bought land here in Swains today and after being 1837. Lipsicomb moved here in there a little while, he and I 1847. went to Humboldt and while we Coming to this area from Co were gone his barn took fire and lumbus, Ohio, Joel Buttles on burned down with four horses, Oct. 5, 1835, bought 350 acres all his hay and about 400 bushels through the United States gov of wheat. No insurance. I am ernment at Green Bay for $1.25 sorry for him, he is a particular per acre. This land, now part of friend of mine." River Hills, included his home, The Swains had no children of r™ now 705 W. Bradley rd„ the resi their own. They were fond of one dence of the Edwin B. Bartletts. of Anson W. Butties' daughters, 20 Presidents In 1837, he acquired 160 acres who stayed with them on occa bounded by what are now E. sion. They offered to give their Silver Spring dr., N. Lydell ave., 80-acre farm to Buttles for his From Isenring E. Hampton rd. and N. Santa daughter, Lollie. Buttles, who had Monica blvd. Buttles bought an seven daughters, refused. To Mixter .£ other 80 acres, bounded by E. Some of the Swains' original Henry Clay st., Santa Monica, apple trees still stand south of Twenty men have served White- Hampton and N. Idlewild ave. the municipal parking lot on the fish Bay as village president dur He also bought 10 acres in what east side of HoUywood south of ing its 75 years. Is now Fox Point, boosting his Silver Spring dr. Longest term of service was by holdings to 570 acres. Shortly Conducted Weddings Frank Klode, who was president after, he returned to Ohio on a Also early settlers were An a total of 14 years. It was not ' visit and died. drew and Albertina Bruss Mohr, consecutive service however. '•* Accounts of his holdings ap- whose wedding was performed Klode was president 1914-18 and pear in records owned by a dis by Buttles on Saturday, Nov. 28, again 1924-34. tant relative, Anson M. Buttles, 1863. In 1885, the Mohrs' daugh . Runner up in length of service is who now lives at 8027 N. Navajo ter assisted Buttles as a German Tom E. Hayes, who was president rd. Anson's grandfather and Joel interpreter while he was taking 12 years before retiring in the were cousins. the census. A descendant, Wil spring of 1966. The presidents: - Born in Canada liam Mohr, lived at 5126 N. Santa Alfred Lipsicomb was born in Monica blvd., where his widow Fred F. Isenring /;? 1892-1895 Chatham, Canada, on July 4, still resides. :. ..„ ; T. W. Williams , / 1895-1896 1815. He bought 70.58 acres here Fisherman James McGee 1896-1900 from G. Wright on July 8, 1847 Another prominent early resi- T. W. Williams 1900-1903 for $362.70 and built a log cabin • dent was Carl Scheif, who lived Conrad Kassel 1903-1905 on it. He and his wife, Maria, at what is now 6200 N. Lake dr. John Shingles r? , 1905-1906 sold 35.58 acres of their proper The property entrance was from Alonzo Fowle 1906-1908 ty to William H. Consaul for Santa Monica, as Lake dr. did H. A. Croffs / " • 1908-1911 $1,200 on Aug. 15, 1854. The Con- not extend that far north then. W. D. Corrigan ••':/."• 1911-1912 sauls built a home that is now Scheif owned a fishing business. George Cassel 1912-1913 716 E. Silver Spring dr. His son, Louis, owned a general W. H. Goodall i 1913-1914 Diaries kept by Anson W. But store where Winkie's now is lo Franke Klode 1914-1918 tles show that another early set cated, 629 E. Silver Spring dr. H. A. Richter 1918-1922 tler was C. G. Everts. He owned E. Carlisle ave. was named for H. A. Uihlein v 192M923 a 20-acre farm extending from Richard Carlisle, who was town Edward L. Tracy 1923-1924 the lake to Santa Monica along of Milwaukee clerk in 1849 and , Franke Klode 1924-1934 what is now E. Day ave. He sold 1850. . Harold Connell 1934-1937 the property to A. W. Elliott for Early railroad development in G. F. Knoernschild 1937-1945 $2,050 on Jan. 28, 1875. Whitefish Bay is reported in But Frank Drew . 1945-1951 Barn Burned tles' diaries. ' Oliver Grootemaat . 1951-1954 Mr. and Mrs. William Swain Hired to Survey Tom E. Hayes 1954-1966 farmed at what is now E. Silver On June 21, 1870, Buttles wrote Henry Mixter 1966- that he had been hired to survey the lake shore. The line was the route of the railroad along the lake shore. The line was called the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad (now North Western). In August, 1870, a route change was proposed to connect it with the old Milwau kee and LaCrosse Railroad. Had this proposal been carried jDut, there might never had been a. rail line through Whitefish Bay.: Later, Lindwurm station was lo- catcd at what is now the cross-! ing at Santa Monica and Hamp-i ton rd. Consaul's station, also called' Whitefish Bay depot, was on the site of the present parking lot south of Silver Spring between N. Marlborough dr. and N. Hoi-, lywood ave. , ; b L;^";v^!^ K - •••v/SHP $y> # fiAlLRoA'oe in •20fi °V - 3o") 0 * 4t£ fflif. .Ihiarshairfoe r th^Village^as'a"result , OWfRgiiaeritS |A|of {his^wbrfe^h*appreheWih fcK |^5?caped luuatic; responsible for several ^^'robberies in the district., He resigned »^. AstouadedgAl X5 ihis job * a«-telegra|>he^Mn^Mil^attkee ^4/Jand took over his, police duties for e.s*i ay.s A^rowtli, y?t-/the salary of $65 a month, In a short ||timeV|° he^fqundi^that/j-he^ ^as also ^ stree^ • Jcommissioner,:'J;Veed y commisr ' ' Former Chief of/ Police in sipne|/;deputy sheriff and water reg- iBtrarS gradually/as the village grew •blggerphe.wasfrelieved ot^these\ex-t l^ra^dutfes^but'•> remained as chief of 'Someone must have found *AladJ police up to the time he moved from llll^f (^Continued on page four)yyjfji r ^t din's lamp and used it/to transform mw^y '^'"x ' a ' ' ' - '^y~l ^f\j/ the/ylUage/'into^whatsit:-jts' today,',' 1 ^j^/was^the/ comment • of' Mryand^Mrs/ |CP,0ntinued from the front page). * -[,/^T: $• Callahan/*old-time residents of ^^n^| Capture le^ii^^i^f:^/d Oonvictt ) ;^y Whitefish * Bay visiting for f"a*< few ^p| the mostlyivid recollections i;|„:weeks with Mir. .and Mrs. .'Frank f^^^#|ortoefc^hieM f "of police re- I & Consaul, N. Richards street, y ??y*V/ ^Ins'^gu^Vith^h^ capture of Her- f^/5'|^ j -'-Mr.', Callahan, .«,wJio held many of- ^an^^strowl \ escaped > convict/ from a astrow |fJ^ T#^ hadt terrorized tief^illa-ge; committing a number of abblried^ Callahan finally caught |:/y.^ ^ five years. tIn 1,925 the,Callahans left ^im^on; a street car coming in from *•-' ^ { Whitefish/, Bay and moved to Call- ^oxVPoint.\ He arrested him unassist- / f ornia. * During the, * last u couple