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,270 WISCON~IN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
The New8 is of later date. It has been the organ of the
dominant party, and in the reception of patronage, and for the
ten years spoken of has been under the management of various
persons. I~FJ circulation is large and its influence wide among
its political friends.
But all have been most noble and faithful friends to every
measure which stood related to the commercial interests of the
city.
Of the German press I have not spoken. Mr. MORITZ
SOHCEFFLER established the Fieconsin Banner in the fall of
1844. It made weekly issues until 1850, when it became a
daily, This is now, as it ever has been, the leading German
paper. The Volksjrezilzd was established in 1847, by FR.
In
FRATNEY. 1855 it became merged with the Banner. Sev-
eral other German papers have been heretofore and still are
published in this city. They have been respectively iduen-
tial in inducing large numbers of Germans to emigrate to our
city and state.
The newspaper presses of this city, as a whole, have not
only been aiders and abettors of the commercial interests of
the city, but the conservators of every good and virtuous cause,
and are justly the pride of all Milwaukeeans at home and
abroad.
The Bridge War.
It may not be known to those who have within the last few
years made Milwaukee their home, that the beautiful river
which passes through the heart of our city, had two sides to
it. But however much ignorance or thoughtlessness there may
be on this point now, it was a well understood fact in the early
days. Mr. JUNBAU-the noble and good Mr. JUNEAU, peace
to his ashes!-had planted his cabin in 1818, somewhere near
the Lndington Block. Col. GEORGE H. WALKER had located
himself near the Walker's Point Bridge, in 1835. Mr. KIL-
BOURN settled at the corner of West Water and Chestnut
Streets, also in 1835. Behold the men! JUNEAU, WALKER