Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . he pensionagent; as well as those of the clerks of courts, thejudges and the postmaster, are conveniently groupedunder one roof. The structure forms one of our il-lustrations. Postmaster E. AV. Keyes has markedindividuality. For eight years he has served aschairman of the Republican State Central Committeewith such good fortune, that, when recently assailed,his vindication was welcomed by men of every his return from Washington, his welcome homewas an ovation in
Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . he pensionagent; as well as those of the clerks of courts, thejudges and the postmaster, are conveniently groupedunder one roof. The structure forms one of our il-lustrations. Postmaster E. AV. Keyes has markedindividuality. For eight years he has served aschairman of the Republican State Central Committeewith such good fortune, that, when recently assailed,his vindication was welcomed by men of every his return from Washington, his welcome homewas an ovation in which judges and others, disseveredfrom him in political life, bore a conspicuous Keyes studied law under George B. Smith, andis a member of one of our most respected legal father was a pioneer of note in the early days ofWisconsin. Madison must feel pleased that the ex-ecutive ability of the party which has so long con-trolled the state has, from the beginning, been vestedin a prominent Madisonian. The factories and business houses can only be brieflymentioned. Breckheimer, Fauerbach, Eodermund,. HISTORY OF MADISON. 143 Hausmann and Hess are the brewers; there are fivecarriage and wagon building firms; two bookbind-eries; four book and job printers, English, and oneGerman; seven carpenters and builders; one distillerand rectifier; thirteen dry goods houses; two expressagencies; five furniture warehouses and factories; twofounders and three machinists; three grain dealers;thirty-three grocers; six dealers in hardware; twen-ty-six hotels, including the Park, the Yilas, the Cap-itol and the Kasdall, which are the principal in theorder in which they are named; the Madison Mutualand the Hekla are home insurance companies, andthere are many agencies; there are four livery stableswell appointed; manufacturers of and dealers in to-bacco are six in number; there are fifteen merchanttailors; two omnibus lines; three daily papers, fiveweekly, one tri-weekly, one semi-
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