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To cc how fook Life, like ice glories, glides away,And the stern footsteps of decay Come £t«n]ing on.And .while we cyo the rolling tide Down which our lljwing minute* glide Away so fast,* hot ustha present hour employ,And deem each futuredrcatn n joy Alreody past.Let no vain hope deceive the mind—No happier let us hope to find,Tc» morrow ihun to-day;Orr golden ilremnt of yore were bright. Like them the present ahull delight—Like them decay.Jur lives like hasting streams mu**t be,Hint into one ingulfing sea.Are doomed to full— rhcsca of death whose waves roll on,!)'or king and kingdom , crown and throne. And ivvaliow all.Hike Hie river's lordly iidnF Alike the humble riv.ietr glido To Chal sau wave ;Death levels povcity and pride, tnd rich mid poor e Iwp 6»de by side Within the grave.Dur birth i» hutn starting place,Life is the running of the r»t:e And death the goal;Photo .ill tho^»e glitbM Lng toys arc bought, rhat piitli alone, of nil unsought.Is found of nil.Jiiy then how poor and little worthIre nil ihoat glittering toysofcarlli,That lure us here ?Dream* of asleep that death snuet break, Alim 1 before it bids tie wrtkc.Ye dkappcur !«ong ere the clamp of earth can bright,?hc check’d pure glo.-a uf red and white. Has passed uwny ; foulh smiled, and nil was heavenly fair,iciently settled and developed, the undertak-i g vaa deemed premature. The public miad I 3W«rer, of each place still dwelt upon the en-t ^rpriseand continued to press it, till a charter t as finally obtained for that purpose, and a c unpany organised under the control of citicena lt;: Milwaukee, who were supposed to be moat c deply interested in it. The citj ofMilwau-toe as an evidence of her appreciation of the i uportance of the road, agreed toloan her credit t »wards its construction to the amount of $ 200,000. Fond da Lac stood ready to loan her c edit for the same purpose and for the same a nount. These two sums, together with the 1 beral sudscriplions at West iJend and along t te line of tne road, would have formed a i ample basis for the commencement, and v ilh the credit of her Company founded on that t tsifl, for the speedy completion of the work. 1 utby some unforeseen or unfortunate circum-s ances, which 1 allude to not as matter of t arae, but- as matter of fact, the enterprise fail-e i of its anticipated accomplishment, and the c carter was merged in, or consolidated with, t tat of the La Crosse *fc Milwaukee Railroad Company. This was a grievous disappoint-n ent to the citizens of Fond du Lac, as I pre-* hub it was also to the citizens of Milwaukee. I jnd du Lac proud of Milwaukee as the great c umnereial emporium of her State, and belieY-i g that the natural advantages of her own poa-ilioii, aided by the Railroad facilities to which s 10 was entitled, would enable her to assume a r -nk next in importance, felt the failure of this fi vorite undertaking most sensibly and moat k ;enly. It seemed for a time to cast a light o 'or the briliant prospects of her future. Just a This period I he Rock River Valley Road c langeu hands: and the new or consolidated c lt;mrany offered her citizens an outlet to Mil-w ankee by a connection of the Valley Road with the La Crosse road. Disappointed in ob l ining the direct route, her citizens embraced tl e next opportunity of ingress and egress by s; id road that was afforded them; and then for the first time concluded to loan and did loan, t) e credit of the city to tho Valley Road to the a nount of $200,000, and hero let me remark♦ 1 (it fin f. ill ill i r llinn nml .1 .. n. . *1.1— __mark in t the Air Railroad in the ma whilst th the count they be a Country d hardly grThis boiiroad stocl diction th fall behin one of the constructdu Lac A comparati distance, that vast manna of Air Lin show at a that no ro business i this opin most inte as tome c ineu of Fc the surpti ment to ii sary for i the best iThere i and anyCrosse 01 road on tl ness for e the regtot dispense more dens vated, as road fftcillocated, w It is then view, whi iam where present ca of Milwau
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Daily Free Democrat
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Thu, May 15, 1856
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