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Among Mrs. Warner's assistants are remembered Miss Mary, daughter of George Allen, of Linn, and Miss Kate Headley, daughter of Rev. Alvah Lilly, of Whitewater. One of Mr. Cook's enterprises was a normal music school, in 1879, which for a few years called pupils from other towns and states.
The principals of the public school, as far as learned, were: Elias ( ?) Dewey, 1855; Dr. Andrew J. Rodman, 1856; O. Sherman Cook, 1858: Rich- ard D. Carmichael, 1859: H. W. Allen, 1861: Horatio B. Coe, 1862; Orville T. Bright, 1863; Osmore R. Smith, 1864; Warren D. Parker, 1867; W. H. Wynn, 1869; John E. Burton, 1870; J. R. (or D.) Cole, 1873; An- drew J. Wood, 1874; Walter Allen, 1877; Edward O. Fiske, 1881; E. S. Ray, 1883; Joseph H. Gould, 1884-91 ; A. F. Bartlett, 1892: John Foster, 1899; Harry W. Snow. 1902: Edmund Decatur Denison, 1907 : Jay Mitchell Beck, 1911. With city government principals became superin-
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tendents. Mr. Carmichael enlisted early in 1861 in Company F, Fourth In- fantry, and died at DeSoto Point, Louisiana, opposite Vicksburg, July 8, 1862.
NEWSPAPERS.
In July, 1848, David M. Keeler published the first number of the Wis- consin Standard, and discontinued it one year later.
Edgar J. Farnum began the Geneva Express in 1854, or earlier; for in June of that year he with his brother, Alonzo L., began the Independent, at Elkhorn. Lemuel Franklin Leland ( better known as Frank Leland) and George S. Utter continued the Express until the spring of 1857, when they, too passed over to Elkhorn with their little printing equipment. In 1858 Henry L.Devereaux came to publish the Generan for eighteen months. In 1860 George S. Utter came back and for a year published the Geneva Lake Mirror, having John T. Wentworth as its editor. About 1871 Mr. Leland divided his weekly edition, heading it, for his subscribers at and near the lake, Geneva Independent. To give better color to this device be engaged John E. Burton as editor of a column or so local to Geneva, which displaced a like space of Elkhorn gossip. This, of course, was to prevent or delay the appearance of another real Geneva newspaper; and, of course, it hastened that which he tried thus to prevent. In April. 1872. Mr. Utter came back once more to publish the Lake Geneva Herald. Mr. Burton, then principal of the public school, Rev. John D. Pulis, of the Baptist church. Rev. Edward G. Miner, of the Congregational church, were named as editors-but Mr. Burton's asso- ciates were much like the "side judges" of the county courts of common pleas in New York from 1823 to 1847. These courts supplied many men at home and in the west with an honorable title, but the opinions of their Honors had little influence on the first judges, each of whom was in effect his whole court. Mr. Burton planned and moved and only he, in that panic period, could have made the Herald at once and permanently successful at Lake Geneva. It was as large as any paper in the county, all home-printed and well printed, and on each page in every week the village, with its current affairs and its near and distant prospects, were "writ large." The office was liberally equipped for all the business that was likely to be brought to a vil- lage printer. Mr. Burton learned his new calling quickly, and in April, 1873, became sole owner and editor. Three years later he sold forty-nine one- hundredths of the establishment to Albert D. Waterbury, and in 1877 James Edmund Heg and Mr. Waterbury became equal and only owners. Mr. Heg, a son of Col. Hans C. Heg, who was killed at Chickamauga, was then recent-
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ly graduated from Beloit College, and he turned easily to editorship. Mr. Waterbury retired in 1878 and John E. Nethercut became in 1888 Mr. Heg's partner, and since 1895 has been the Herald's owner, editor, and printer. This paper was always Republican and since 1904 has been "stalwart."
Charles H. Burdick and George E. Earley began in 1879 a daily paper, having its presswork done at Elgin. Within a few weeks Mr. Burdick, as remaining owner, sold whatever there was to buy to Joseph S. Badger, who equipped the Lake Geneva News as a weekly paper. His brother, Charles E. Badger, seems to have been associated with him until 1883. These young men, who were good printers, were sons of Prof. Joseph A. Badger, for some time principal of Walworth Academy. About 1883 Asa K. Owen replaced the younger Badger, and in 1885 was left to his own pleasant editorial de- vices. N. W. Smails in 1895, Walter A. McAfferty in 1899, and the Lake Geneva Publishing Company since 1905 were the later owners. . One of the later editors was Frederick Kull, of an old county family. At present Frank ยท M. Higgins is manager and editor. This paper has always been Republican- formerly in an independent way and latterly in the way of the progressive element of the party.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A Young Men's Committee, formed in November, 1881, became in June, 1883, a Young Men's Christian Association, which was incorporated in 1888. In October, 1890, Mrs. George Sturges gave to this body, for two years, the use of her cottage and ground at the oblique meeting of Main and Lake streets. In 1893 and 1894 the association acquired lots and buildings in Main street, and afterward established itself in a brick building of its own at Main and Cook streets, the upper story of which is a large auditorium.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
Mr. Simmons noted that a public reading room was opened in Walker's block, Main street, December 31, 1877. Its books were supplied chiefly from private libraries. In 1889 this first public library was transferred to the care of the Young Men's Christian Association. These five hundred volumes were materially increased by liberal gifts of summer residents. In the summer of 1894 Mrs. Mary Delafield Sturges gave her house and ground, previously tenanted by the association, to the city for its use as a library and park. This was conditional, but it was only required that the city should buy the rest of
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the little block and should vacate so much of Lake street as lay between the block and the water's edge. This gift was most willingly accepted and the conditions were fulfilled at once. The inner arrangement of the house was so changed as to make it convenient for its purpose, until it may be found practicable to replace it with a fire-proof building of suitable design. The public library was opened in the same year with 2,300 volumes in hand, and it now has nearly 5,000 volumes. The circulation of books in the first year was about 20,000 volumes, and has not since varied widely. Miss Gertrude J. Noyes, now and for some years past librarian, is a granddaughter of the young Ulysses of the Brink-Payne war. Both she and her assistant, Miss Eugenia C. Gillette, are daughters of soldiers of the Civil war.
BANKS.
Erasmus D. Richardson began his private banking business in 1848, and until his death, in 1892, his bank was regarded as one of the soundest in the state. It had weathered the storm-and-stress periods of 1857 and 1873, and his ability and character were not doubted; but, at settlement of his affairs the concern was found partially insolvent. The First National Bank of Lake Geneva opened, with capital of fifty thousand dollars, under the presidency of Frank Leland with John A. Kennedy as cashier. It is now in business with Levi A. Nichols as president and Josiah Barfield as cashier. The Farm- ers National Bank was organized in 1900 with Dwight S. Allen as president and E. D. Richardson ( who is not a relative of the pioneer banker) as cashier. Its present officers are Albert S. Robinson, president ; F. E. Wormood, cash- ier. Its capital is fifty thousand dollars. These banks are quartered in new and in every way suitable buildings, and so furnished as to suggest at once security, convenience and business-like elegance.
WATERWORKS AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
James E. Heg. Dr. James C. Reynolds and W. H. Wheeler proposed in January, 1890, to build and operate a city system of waterworks and electric lights. The council gave them a franchise for fifteen years, agreeing to pay yearly two thousand five hundred dollars for the use of water and seventy- five dollars yearly for each street light. Needful buildings, engine, well of one thousand two hundred feet depth, and tower were at once provided and before the end of the year five miles of pipe had been laid, and later exten- sions have met the growing demand. In 1894 the company procured a lease
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of the water power. In March, 1896, Herbert E. Haskins supplied the stores and homes with incandescent lights. A new company was formed in 1897, taking the place of the old one. It is styled the Equitable Electric Light Company. Its buildings with machinery are on the site of the Warren grist mill. At present the officers are Charles S. French, president; James G. Allen, secretary and treasurer: John S. Allen, manager. These, with Mary C. Allen, are directors.
FISHING AND NAVIGATION.
The area, depth and clearness of the Genevan water invited navigators and fishers. Bass, catfish, ciscoes, perch, pickerel, suckers and other kinds native to the lake, abounded. Since 1874 millions of young fry-bass, salmon, trout and other game fish-have been added from the state's hatcheries. This culture has also engaged the attention and interest of public-spirited Chicago owners of lakeside estate. In 1858 E. F. Brewster brought from Fox river the steamer "Atlanta." of twenty tons. It was sixty-five feet long, twelve feet abeam, and could carry one hundred and fifty persons. Edward Quigley launched the "Lady of the Lake," a larger boat, in 1873. A yet larger steamer, the "Lucius Newberry," home-built, was launched in 1875 and was burned in 1891 as the "City of Lake Geneva." In 1883 three steamers were sold and two new ones launched. There were then nineteen steamers afloat. In '1890 six new ones were added, three of which were home-built. In 1910 the assessed value of the lake fleet was nearly forty thousand dollars, and its true value was placed at seventy-five thousand dollars.
CEMETERIES.
The old burying ground was placed well westward from the village plat, but in time was overtaken and enclosed by the growth of the city. It lies between Maxwell and Warren streets, with Dodge street southward, and falls a few rods short of Park Row. It is kept in order, as is most becoming; for on its shafts and headstones may be read names often mentioned in these pages, inseparable from local history. It was in its day creditable to the taste and feeling of Genevans. It had become evident in 1880 that more room was needed. A new place was chosen, in its area forty acres, on a high knoll north of the city. It is supplied with water from a deep well on the ground and from the city waterworks. Lake Geneva cemetery overlooks the city, part of the lake, and miles of surrounding country. In planning it and in caring for it nothing that should have been done has been left undone.
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THE LAKE SHORE.
Since the city itself stretches along the greater part of that shore line which is of the town of Geneva most of the owners of lake front property, on each side, are of the town of Linn and those at the upper end of the lake are of Walworth. The city is their principal port of entry, so to say, though Williams Bay and Fontana are also reached by rail from Chicago. Dr. Philip Maxwell, then in service as an army surgeon, had invested as early as 1836 in the claim at the mill section, and soon afterward entered land in sections 15, 26, 27 of Walworth. Leaving the army in 1842, he settled into professional practice at Chicago, and in 1853 became state treasurer of Illinois. In 1856 he built a large house on his lakeside property at Geneva and brought his family there as summer residents. This was held at Springfield to disqualify him as an officer of Illinois, whereupon he became a resident of Geneva until his death in 1859. It is told that he advised a son-in-law to acquire all the shore land that could then be secured, assuring him that great profit would arise therefrom and that, too, in time not long to come. This wise counsel was not followed. though much of the land might have been bought at twen- ty-five dollars an acre.
Gurdon Montague sold in 1870 ninety acres lying in section 35, having a front on the lake near its bay-like end, to Shelton Sturges, of Chicago. who in the next year built a large house or villa on the wooded slope outside of the village plat, but in full view from the eastern side of the bay. Julian S. Rumsey, an ex-mayor of Chicago, built at the eastern end in 1872. These three examples were well followed and both shores are lined with summer retreats built for permanence, much more substantially than bungalows, their grounds improved without needless violence to nature. As seen from mid- lake the view on either hand is not marred, but its native charm is heightened; for the least possible has been taken away and much has been added with taste and judgment. Most of these dwellers by the waterside, perhaps, own one or more vessels of the lake fleet; and their influence on road-making and other public improvement has been more or less salutary. The building. im- proving and service of their houses and grounds employ many local artisans and laborers, and so contribute to the city's general prosperity. In effect, these owners, of whom many have been or are of the wealthiest and best known of Chicago, have made these shores as truly suburban of their city as are Evanston and Rogers Park.
A postoffice was established in 1837, its one weekly mail brought from Racine by way of Franklin ( Spring Prairie). Solomon Harvey, of the lat-
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ter village, carried the mail in his hat and coat pockets, and often rode his horse into Geneva with a bag of grain behind him for grinding at Goodsell's mill. A stage route from Kenosha to Beloit, in 1840, increased the useful- ness of the postoffice. It is now an office of the second class, and has a city carrier system and four rural free delivery routes. Postmasters: Andrew Ferguson, 1837; James J. Dewey, 1849; Timothy C. Smith, 1853; Lewis Curtis, 1861; Charles E. Buell, 1871; Charles A. Noyes, 1879; William Brown, 1886; George S. Read, 1890: William J. Cutteridge, 1894: Charles S. French, 1898; Frank S. Moore, 1906; Henry H. White, 1910. Buell and Noyes had been soldiers of the Civil war.
Much must be left untold or scarce half-told of this city by the lake. But this matters little, for there are men and women there who, like Mr. Simmons, can write in prose or verse and who, like him, might say that they were a part of that of which they write. The recollections of one per- son or one person's gathering of many recollections must still leave the story incomplete. Nor need the past be recalled in all its minor though locally in- teresting details. Cities are not Aladdin-built, by rubbing rings or lamps. One who now sees broad, dustless streets, shaded by day and lighted by night, with all needful evidence besides of past and present intelligence, enter- prise, and high hopefulness, and who meets men and women who know how to enjoy the present and to make better the time near at hand, needs not the minuter record of uneven and often difficult steps by which they have reached the prosperity and bright prospects of 1912. Lake Geneva has many as yet unsatisfied wants, but contentment with the present is not the most conspicuous of American virtues.
VILLAGE AND CITY CHARTERS.
The village of Geneva was chartered in 1844. At its first election Charles M. Goodsell became president, and with him was a board of trustees, a ma- jority of whom were temperance men. This they proved by an ordinance which forbade the sale or gift of liquor after July 2d. Thomas D. Warren was convicted and fined for having sold the evil prohibited, over the Lake House bar, on the nation's birthday. He appealed to the territorial district court, but a change of statute overtook the slow course of the law and at last the proceeding was dropped; but, as it may be guessed, without loss to learned counsel. The next legislative session took from the trustees and gave to the town supervisors the power of granting or withholding licenses, and Geneva was not again tormented by thirst. For eleven years the village
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record, if ever regularly made, was lost. Of early presidents Mr. Simmons remembered only R. Wells Warren, Benjamin E. Gill and Anthony Dobbs.
A new charter was given March 28, 1856, to an enlarged village of Geneva, and this was amended in 1867. In 1879 the citizens voted to set aside their special charter and to incorporate under a general statute for government of villages. About fifty miles southward is Geneva, Kane coun- ty, Illinois, and mail was often missent to each of these namesake villages. To relieve the Wisconsin village from this long endured annoyance its name was changed in 1882 to Lake Geneva. An act of the Legislature of 1885 enabled the citizens to accept a city charter at an election held March 31, 1886. In 1897 Lake Geneva became a statutory city of the fourth class.
PRESIDENTS OF THE VILLAGE.
Erasmus Darwin Richardson ___ 1856 70-1, 77
Ethan Lamphere Gilbert 1866
Harrison Rich to fill vacancy.
Dr. Alexander S. Palmer 1857-8
Samuel Henry Stafford. 1872, '79
Shepard O. Raymond. 1860-I
'80-2
Moses Seymour 1862
Dr. George E. Catlin 1878
Joel Barber 1863, '68
Maurice A. Miner 1883-4
Jonathan H. Ford 1864
Charles Edwin Buell 1885
Edward Quigley .1865
VILLAGE CLERKS.
Jonathan T. Abell 1856-66
John E. Burton 1873
John A. Smith 1867-8
Maurice A. Miner 1874, '76-9
Erasmus D. Richardson 1869
Thomas Henry Ferguson 1875
Stephen Bemis Van Buskirk 1870
Charles S. French 1880-4
Charles Edwin Buell 1871
Charles Herbert Burdick 1885
Herman E. Allen 1872
VILLAGE TREASURERS.
Thomas Baker Gray ( probably ) _1856 Schuyler S. Hanna 1864, '66.
William Jewett
-1857
William H. Lec. 1865, '69
William L. Valentine 1858-61
Sylvester Curtis Sanford. 1867, '71
George M. Barber 1862-3 William Alexander 1868
Joel C. Walter I867.
Timothy Clark Smith 1869
James J. Dewey 1859
Dr. Benoni O. Reynolds 1874-6,
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George W. Sturges 1870, '74-8 Charles Edwin Buell 1880-3
John Burton 1872-3
Robert Bruce Arnold 1884-5
MAYORS OF LAKE GENEVA.
John Bell Simmons 1886
Charles S. French 1888
William H. Seymour 1892
Wesley Newton Johnson 1894
Ilorace Greeley Douglass 1908
Alexander T. Seymour 1895
Frank Augesty 1912
CITY CLERKS.
Charles Herbert Burdick 1886
Louis B. Warren 1893-4
Charles C. Kestol 1887-8
Charles F. Case. 1889-91
Charles H. Gardner 1896-1904
William H. Hammersley. 1892
Arthur G. Bullock. 1905-12
CITY TREASURERS.
Thomas Baker Gray, elected _I886
William L. Valentine 1887-8
Ephraim E. Sanford 1889-90
Ethan L. Gilbert 1891
Andrew E. Williams 1905
Reinhold Briegel 1892-3, 1901-3
George P. Wheeler 1894-5
Emery A. Buell 1896-7
Andrew Williams
1912
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR VILLAGE AND CITY.
Warren Beckwith 1886-91
William F. Best
1910-II
Lewis G. Brown 1901
Francis A. Buckbee. 1881-96,
1902-5
Hugh A. Burdick 1900-I
Samuel S. Case 1881-2
Bezaleel W. Farnum 1865
Arthur M. Kaye. 1904-9
James Leonard 1908-II
Cyril Leach Oatman.
1861-2,
66-9, '72-3
Richard D. Short 1892-7, 1902-3
James Simmons 1873-4
John A. Smith 1867-9
Theron Dallas Stroupe 1905-7
Thomas F. Tolman .1885
Franklin J. Tyrrell
1910
William H. Hammersley 1879
Frank S. Moore 1898
Edward F. Dunn 190I
Ebenezer Davidson 1902
Benjamin O. Sturges 1895
Walter A. McAfferty 1898-9
Charles Lawrie 1900
William W. Ross 1904
Lloyd D. Sampson 1906, 1910
Theron Dallas Stroupe 1908
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John Theodore Wentworth
Julius L. Wind 1900-1 1863-4, '70-I
It is not unlikely that Abell and Oatman, with, perhaps, a few more justices named in the town list, were, in fact, chosen for the village, though the record at the circuit clerk's office does not make it appear so.
POPULATION AND VALUATION.
The village population in 1870 was 998. In 1880 it was 1,969. The city population in 1890 was 2,297. In : 1900 it was 2,585. By wards in 1910: First ward. 948; second ward, 775; third ward, 1,356; total for city, 3,079.
Valuation of real estate in 1910 was $3,553,000; of personal property, $752,000. (Nineteen automobiles were returned for the city in 1910, but their number now owned here and about the county has so increased as to make such statistic already worthless.)
CHAPTER XXVIII.
TOWN OF LAFAYETTE.
This town, at first included in Spring Prairie, was set off March 21, 1843. It is town 3 north, range 17 east, less section 31, set off in 1846 to form the town of Elkhorn. Beginning on its north line, and following the direction of the sun, it is bounded by Troy, Spring Prairie, Geneva and Elkhorn, and Elkhorn and Sugar Creek. Its surface varies between 855 and 1,015 feet above sea-level-the lowest point a creek valley in section 8, its highest near Elkhorn, near section 31. Sugar creek crosses from west to east a little north of the middle line of the town, and affords a small amount of mill power, but its several branches are inconsiderable in volume. In the earlier years it was well wooded with the several varieties of oak, and at points along the creek with sugar maples from which the Indian occupants of the, county hunting ground derived a noteworthy supply of crudely made sugar. A few fine oak groves remain, and these are in themselves more than merely fair to look upon. Taking them with the green levels and the gently rolling fields, in the larger prospects, they make the town well worth a summer-day drive through it, in any direction, to see in what kindly mood was Nature when she formed Lafayette. Nature, however, did not work by town, county, or state lines; and this town is but a small segment of the Eden-like Mississippi valley. The older forests were cut away to build cabins and fences and for the fuel of town and neighboring village. When the railway was built across the town its de- mands for ties, timber, and fuel quickened the previously slower spoliation to the pace of a forest fire. But the town is far from treeless, thanks to the valuable and carefully conserved later growth.
The town is underlaid, as supposed by geologists, with Niagara lime- stone for most of its area, and along its western border with Cincinnati shale. A few borings have reached rock at 800 to 840 feet above sea- level, which may indicate that the glacial drift is from 55 to 175 feet deep. The land area is 22, 198 acres. The total value, 1910, was $1,650,300. The crop acreage was: Barley, 1,188; corn, 3,927; hayfield, 3,124; oats, 2,532; orchard, 98; potatoes, 99; rye, 150; timber, 1,859; wheat, 102. The as- sessed valuation of all property was 3.66 per cent of that of all property
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in the county. The population at each federal census was: 1850, 1,048; 1860, 1,122; 1870, 1,032; 1880, 1,028; 1890, 933 ; 1900, 924: 4910, 894.
Neighboring villages and especially Elkhorn account for a small part of this loss of population. Elderly farmers retire from active life and find rest in the village.
Before the establishment of rural free delivery there was a postoffice at Bowers near the junction of two highways from Spring Prairie to Elkhorn, east side of section 26. In earlier times this office was a few rods distant and was named Grove. There was also an office at Fayetteville (which railway men persistently call "Peck's Station"). The town is now supplied with its mail mostly from Elkhorn.
Isaiah Hamblin and family led the immigration to Lafayette in June, 1836. He settled on section 25, and built his cabin immediately. He also , bought land in section 13. Within the year Solomon A. Dwinnell, Elias Hicks, Alpheus Johnson, Charles Chauncey Perrin and Isaac Vant fol- lowed. Messrs. Dwinnell and Hamblin passed the cold winter of 1836-7 in their new quarters. In the next three years came Nathaniel Bell, William Bohall, Alexander H. Bunnell, Morris Cain, Harvey M. Curtiss, George W. Dwinnell, David S. Elting, Thomas Emerson, Daniel, MeDonough and Samuel Harkness, Riley Harrington, Daniel Hartwell, Charles Heath, Mason .A. Hicks, Henry Johnson., Dr. Jesse C. Mills, Anthony Noblet, Emery Singletery, Duer Y. Smith, Sylvester G. Smith, Daniel Kingsley Stearns, David Tower Vaughn, John Wadsworth, Stephen Gano West and Jesse Pike West, his son.
Others who entered land at the Milwaukee office were William Allen, George Franklin Babcock, Asahel Bailey, Rufus Barnes, James Alexander Bell, Watson Beman, Levi Blossom, Jr., Franklin Ephraim Booth, Joseph Bowman, Gershom P. Breed, Edmund Baldwin Cherevoy, Azariah Clapp, Curtis Clark. James Coleman, James Craig, Sprowell Dean, Reuben M. Doty, Julius Edwards, Isaac Fuller, William Nicholas Gardner, Clement Hare, Thomas Harrison, George Hicks, Ethan A. Hitchcock, William Hodges, Samuel M. and Willard K. Johnson, Sylvanus Langdon, Ambrose Brown Lockwood, Alexander, Duncan and Murdock Matheson, Peter Nob- let, George and Charles Paine Osborn, Jared Patrick, Jr., Uriah Payne, Peter Perry, Robert K. Potter, James Quiggle, Israel Scott, George and Dewitt C. Sheldon, Zephaniah Short, five Siniths, named Elbert Herring, Ezekiel Brown, Henry, Horace, and Martin, Ebenezer Soule, Lorenzo Stewart, Abel B. and Elijah B. Terrill, John Trumbull, Charles Wales, Eleazar Wheelock, Joseph D. Whiteley, William Montague Whitney, George Whitton, Absalom
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