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lived and fully enjoyed the living for 
eight years. 
For a year or two I was a member 
of the town council, and when a city 
charter was obtained I was elected the 
first Mayor. During my administration 
the streets were graded and surfaced 
with gravel. Two wooden bridges, on 
piles, one crossing the stream that con- 
nected Oconomowoc and Fowler lakes, 
while the other spanned the outlet of 
Lake Fowler as it emptied into Lake 
LaBelle, were replaced by ornamental 
iron truss bridges which remain in good 
order to-day. 
During the past half century much 
water has passed under these bridges 
carrying messages of love and good will 
and hopeful aspirations down the 
streams, and under other bridges, until 
the great Gulf is reached. Many of the 
children and lovers and anglers, who 
have frequented these waters, have 
passed down the stream of Time to the 
unseen shore of the unknown and un- 
chatered sea. But the prattle and 
laughter of the children are still heard 
on the banks, the vows of lovers are 
still whispered under the summer moon 
as their boat drifts idly on, the tuneful 
voices of merry parties still ring out in 
the gloaming, keeping time with their 
rhythmic oars, and the voices of the 
brothers of the angle, merry and hilari- 
ous after a well-fought victory, or of 
those not so fortunate but still cheerful 
with anticipation — all these are passing 
upon the bridges, and will continue to 
pass world without end. 
I N those days fishculture was in its in- 
fancy. It was but fifteen years pre- 
vious that Dr. Theodatus Garlick and 
Dr. H. A. Ackley, of Ohio, the pioneers 
and fathers of fishculture in America, 
followed in the footsteps of Remy and 
Gehin, of France, and successfully prop- 
agated the brook trout by artificial, or 
rather, domesticated, fish culture. After- 
ward Seth Green, Fred Mather and a 
few others were operating private fish 
hatcheries at the time of which I write. 
This was several years before the Unit- 
ed States Fish Commission was estab- 
lished, but the state of Wisconsin had 
already a Fish Commission that was do- 
ing excellent work in the cultivation of 
fishes and in stocking and replenishing 
depleted waters. At a wonderful spring 
some fifteen miles from Oconomowoc 
there was a private brook trout hatchery, 
one of the proprietors being also one of 
the Wisconsin Fish Commissioners. I 
was a frequent visitor at this hatchery, 
and became pretty well versed in the 
method of trout culture. On North 
Lake, a few miles from my home, my 
friend, Colonel Shears, was operating a 
small trout hatchery as a pastime, which 
I visted quite often. 
The artificial culture of the trout, 
salmon, whitefish and shad is a very 
simple matter, inasmuch as the ova or 
eggs are separate and can be easily ma- 
nipulated. But the eggs of the black 
bass, and all the fishes of the sunfish 
family, are extruded in a gelatinous 
mass from which it is almost impossible 
to separate them; it is therefore imprac- 
ticable to pursue the same method as 
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