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SECTION 2 PAliK 6-PI.AIMDEALER-KRIDAV. APRIL 15. W77 Looking Back IMMIGRANT'S VOYAGE GERMANY TO ILLINOIS. 1851 Thousands of Irish and Ger­ man immigrants entered Illi­ nois every year in the late 1840s and the early 1850s repelled by economic and poli­ tical conditions in their home­ lands and attracted by the promise of America. The trip itself was difficult - by sail across the Atlantic to New Orleans and by steamer up the Mississippi to St. Louis. The following account from a letter of Harbert J. Reiser to a friend in Germany is dated March 6, 1852. from Red Prairie and describes a transat­ lantic voyage of 52 days and a 16-day trip from New Orleans to his ultimate destination. * "We thank God. and we are glad that we are here, here in the country' of love and of peace, of freedom and abun­ dance. We wish this high happi­ ness to all our brothers longing in body and spirit in East- Freiseland, who are alarmed about their livelihood in the future. "Our ship was riding at anchor at the river Weser, per­ haps half an hour distant from Bremerhaven, until September 8, 1851. in the forenoon at 10:30. Then it sailed in a strong and not very favorable wind into the ocean. Almost everybody was immediately seasick, and vomiting, similar to drunkenness. They usually laugh, however, because they known that it doesn't mean very much and will soon be over. "In the evening the helms­ man announced that the ship was leaking and had 8 feet of water in the hull. This was an inexplicable matter in the case of a new ship. All able men were called on deck, and ten men had alternately and unceasingly to pump water with four pumps. Six feet of water remained in the ship. At daybreak, a leak was found in the oblique lead tubes of the toilets into which the stupid new cooks had thrown bones, and since they had been blocked, pounded them with large iron bars and so caused the leak. The leak was immediately repaired, the ship was pumped out, and seasick­ ness faded away. "The ship sailed as quickly as an arrow through the chan­ nel and so near -passed England's coast that we could clearly see the houses in the streets illuminated with gas light. Everybody was in good health again and gay and cheer­ ful. On the 13th we saw still to the right the chalky hills of England and to the left the city of Calais in France. "Always quickly forward. On the 15th we passed a pas­ senger ship which had left the harbor eight days ahead of us. From the 15th to the 19th there was a very strong wind in the Spanish sea so that we all, except my wife, again took seasick for a day. A bride from the village Giften near Hilde- sheim gave birth to a son on the 19th. "We sailed quickly forward, so that we, on the 22nd, had already covered half of our trip. Our captain avoided the trade wind, and he hoped to complete the whole trip d about 30 days. But it did no go that way. On the first of October there came a calm which lasted for nine days, so that we did not sail forward but came backward daily about two English miles. The whole surface of the ocean looked like a sheet of glass, so quiet and still. We now had beauti­ ful, very hot weather so that everybody went barefoot and sweated day and night, dress- sed only in a shirt. "On the 10th the wind in­ creased, and we encountered a ship with the name of 'Phoenix' from Bremen which wanted to sail from Peru to Baltimore. It hoisted the emer­ gency flag, whereupon we put alongside. It had been on the way for lbO days and the food was gone. Our ship provided it to them gratuitously. On the 11th one child died,'24 weeks old, bom in Stuttgart, in Wuerttemberg. Later, on the 17th, another died, 17 weeks old, born in Hessencassel. Upon request of our captain, I delivered the funeral oration while the corpses were being dropped into the ocean. "On the 14th of October we saw the island of Puerto Rico Jhrough the telescope, far away. On the 16th we saw to the left the island of Santo Domingo with its high moun­ tains which towered over the clouds and on the 17th to our right the island of Cuba. We sailed from Cuba's eastern tip, ssed by Cuba and through the Gulf of Mexico ten days until the evening of the 26th, when we arrived at the mouth of the Mississippi. Here, a thun­ derstorm moved up from the west. The captain, who hoped to be able to stay near the coast during the storm, let the ship sail at night very quickly under full sails 30 German miles back again into the gulf, and we had to sail until the morning of the 28th before we again reached the mouth of the Mississippi. "Now we saw the continent of North America, far in front of us, and we all were very glad that we had made the trip without real discomfort. A steamer came immediately and towed us over the breakers into the river, where we lay at the banks the whole day because the steamer towed three other ships. In the evening, the steamer towed four large three- masters and sailed with them to New Orleans where we arrived on the evening of the 29th at four o'clock under great jubilation and set foot on the long-yearned-for land with profound feelings of thanks and praise. "...On the evening of November 1st we sailed with the steamer Glenco and captain Lee to St. Louis where we arrived on Sunday morning, the 9th of November. The farther to the North we came, the colder and colder it be­ came, so that we really suff$- ed from it. In St. Louis the ground was already covered with snow. The quick cliungc 'of the weather, the drinking of the Mississippi water, and the poor room which we had on the steamer, beginning from New Orleans, had affected our health very disadvantageous^, so that we all arrived unwell. On Thursday, the 14th, to our great joy, your father and your brother Harbert came with two wagons and took us to Red Prairie where we found the friendliest reception..." -- • • • * Most humans could improve their minds by doing more listening and less talking. • • • • A tradition is some news of the dim past that happens to fit in with someone's present plan. SPECIAAAN BALLOT To be voted at the City of McHenry, County of McHenry, State of Illinois, to be held Tuesday, April 19, 1977. Ward No. 2 - Whispering Oaks Community Center, 4513 Front Royal Avenue, McHenry. INDEPENDENT • • For Mayor (Vote for One) JOSEPH B. STANEK GEORGE L. HARKER • For City Clerk (Vote for One) BARBARA E. GILPIN • • For City Treasurer (Vote for One) WILLIAM BRDA ROBERT P. BLAKE • • For Alderman (Vote for One) C.B. "CLINT" CLAYPOOL EDWARD DATZ HOW TO ENDTHOSE DISHWASHING BLUES When dinner is over and the table is cleared, it's time to relax - watch television; er\joy a good conversation, play a game or read an interesting magazine article. Right? Not necessarily. It may be time for your husband and children to do these things. For you, however, it may be time to wash the dishes all by yourself. If you have an automatic dish­ washer, of course, you'll be join­ ing the family after just a few minutes. If not, you may be prac­ ticing your dishwashing handi­ craft while they enjoy them­ selves without you. Perhaps your family isn't aware that you would like to join them in these after-meal get-togeth­ ers. In that case they need some enlightenment, particularly your husband who may have to be persuaded to purchase a de­ vice to get you out of the kitchen and into the family fun. "I agree, but what can I do about it?" you may say. "How do I con­ vince my husband that a new dishwasher in the kitchen is as important as a new table saw in the basement?" You can, of course, use the direct approach. "You and I are work­ ing partners in maintaining the health and well-being of this family,"you might begin, "lb do our jobs well we each need good tools. An automatic dishwasher is one of the tools I need in the kitchen." Although sometimes effective, this sort of address is difficult to deliver without sounding like a lecture or a sermon. You might want to try a more subtle means of persuasion. One simple but effective strat­ egy is the "interesting tidbits" approach. Stumble from the kitchen at a late hour and col­ lapse in a living room chair opposite your husband. Wearily pick up the day's newspaper and begin to share "items of interest" with him. You might say, for instance, "According to this article the typical wife in a family of four spends an average of 3.2 weeks each year washing dishes. I don't think I spend that much time, do you?" The next evening you might say, "I sure would like to use this recipe for pheasant in wine sauce, but I'd have to use an awful lot of dishes." The following evening you could say, "Did you see this article about the woman in Duluth, Minnesota? It seems she was trying to remove the baked-on food from a casserole dish and got so frustrated that she threw the dish out the kitchen win­ dow. It struck a neighbor, and he's suing her for $50,000" In sharing these interesting -- but fictitious -- items with your husband, timing is crucial. If he is watching television, for in­ stance, try to slip them in dur­ ing the sports scores on the late evening news. After several weeks of exposure to "interesting tidbits," your husband should begin to realize two things: 1) you spend too much time hand-washing dishes; and 2) he would know a lot more about the sports scene if you had an automatic dish­ washer. If the "interesting tidbits" tech­ nique doesn't trigger your hus­ band into suggesting the two of you buy a dishwasher, it may be because he still views the dish­ washer as a kitten conve­ nience rather than what it is -- a machine every bit as fascinat­ ing as a table saw. Tb overcome this obstacle, you might want to try the "curious student" approach. During the course of your regu­ lar shopping with your hus­ band, arrange to pass an appli­ ance store display window at least once a week. Choose the stores with working dish­ washers equipped with "see- through" front doors. Pause each time by the display and pose some question about the design or operation of the machine. "I wonder how they manage to keep those machines so quiet," you might ask, or "How do you suppose a dishwasher can clean dishes without some kind of mechanical scrubbing device?" The sight of all that surging water at work and the sound of your questions should help im­ press your husband that the dishwasher is not a kitchen toy, but a machine which merits serious examination. If he likes knowing how machines work, he'll want to examine it. When he does, he'll find all sorts of interesting information to answer your questions. Most dishwashers, for instance, are insulated to help dampen noise and some are equipped with special scouring cycles. The Whirlpool dishwasher's Super Scour cycle can handle even stubborn baked-on foods. He'll discover that dishwashers are marvels of design as well as mechanical and electrical engi­ neering. The upper racks on some models, for instance, raise and lower to accommodate odd- size items, and Whirlpool even recesses its silverware and cut­ lery baskets in the door to leave more room inside for dishes. Once your husband is hooked on the mechanics of dishwash­ ers, you can introduce the aes­ thetics - where it would fit and how it would look in your kitchen. Since these matters are usually in your province, you'll probably end up doing most of the talking about portable-versus-under- counter models and reversible front panels on Whirlpool dish­ washers to match your appli­ ances. But if your husband seems interested in the prob­ lems of installing an under- counter model or customizing the front panel to match your cabinetry, you can bet the dish­ washer is virtually yours. If you try all these approaches and your husband still thinks that a new table saw is more important than a new auto­ matic dishwasher, you'll have to use the most direct and con­ vincing argument available. In­ sist that his share of the house­ hold duties includes helping to wash and dry the evening dishes. 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