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communications forgot to order in early days and to some extent in some countries even in these times in shipping lines it was thought necessary to furnish the crew with a gill of rum as part of their rations to have it handy for steamboatmen miners and many other workmen in cluding lumbermen the crews could not be induced to leave the towns where whisky was to be had freely unless they were assured they could get some where they were going this was the condition in northern wisconsin when john h knapp and william wilson bought the upper mill on the red cedar river june 1 1846 they found they had bought a small stock of goods including a barrel of whisky they were both positive temperance men pro hibitionists and did not at all like the idea of dispensing liquor they talked it over with the men but the crew thought they must have it or quit ; so it was by suffrance that the traffic was continued for a while captain wilson looked after the sawing of the lumber and the selling of the little stock of goods making a memorandum of sup plies needed etc ; while mr knapp took the rafted lumber down the red cedar chippewa and mississippi rivers to the various little towns where as opportunity offered he sold the lumber usually having to give considerable time to the purchaser bought the sup plies called for by the memorandum — usually at galena and st louis — and then returned to the mill bringing the supplies with him by steamboat to the foot of lake pepin and by canoe bat teau or keelboat up the swift current to the mill discussing the whisky question one day captain wilson said well mr knapp you buy the whisky and bring it up so i have it to sell yes captain that is true but you make out the list of what you want and i buy just what your list calls for if you did not list whisky i would not buy it it was the custom when the keelboat came to rapid across nearly a mile below the mill for the mill to be shut down the crew going down to the boat manning the tow rope and pulling the keel
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| Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 9, number 1, September 1925 |
| Article Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 9, number 1, September 1925 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Series | Wisconsin Magazine of History ; v. 9, no. 1 |
| Format-Digital | xml |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| ISSN | 1943-7366 |
| Identifier-Digital | vol09no010000 |
| Description | This issue contains an overview of Wisconsin’s free school system, a biography of William Penn Lyon, Martha E. Fitch’s recollections of her childhood in early Milwaukee County, the history of the military road from Green Bay to Prairie du Chien, and the memoirs of merchant Henry Stern. |
| Volume | 009 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year | 1925-1926 |
Description
| Title | 98 |
| Page Number | 98 |
| Article Title | Communications: "Forgot to order" |
| Author | Knapp, Henry E. |
| Page type | Column home |
| Format-Digital | jpeg |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| ISSN | 1943-7366 |
| Identifier-Digital | vol09no010102 |
| Volume | 009 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year | 1925-1926 |
| Full Text | communications forgot to order in early days and to some extent in some countries even in these times in shipping lines it was thought necessary to furnish the crew with a gill of rum as part of their rations to have it handy for steamboatmen miners and many other workmen in cluding lumbermen the crews could not be induced to leave the towns where whisky was to be had freely unless they were assured they could get some where they were going this was the condition in northern wisconsin when john h knapp and william wilson bought the upper mill on the red cedar river june 1 1846 they found they had bought a small stock of goods including a barrel of whisky they were both positive temperance men pro hibitionists and did not at all like the idea of dispensing liquor they talked it over with the men but the crew thought they must have it or quit ; so it was by suffrance that the traffic was continued for a while captain wilson looked after the sawing of the lumber and the selling of the little stock of goods making a memorandum of sup plies needed etc ; while mr knapp took the rafted lumber down the red cedar chippewa and mississippi rivers to the various little towns where as opportunity offered he sold the lumber usually having to give considerable time to the purchaser bought the sup plies called for by the memorandum — usually at galena and st louis — and then returned to the mill bringing the supplies with him by steamboat to the foot of lake pepin and by canoe bat teau or keelboat up the swift current to the mill discussing the whisky question one day captain wilson said well mr knapp you buy the whisky and bring it up so i have it to sell yes captain that is true but you make out the list of what you want and i buy just what your list calls for if you did not list whisky i would not buy it it was the custom when the keelboat came to rapid across nearly a mile below the mill for the mill to be shut down the crew going down to the boat manning the tow rope and pulling the keel |