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CITIES, AMERICAN. (LOGANSPOBT, LONDON, MANKATO.) 



business portion of the city. The river is spanned 

 bv 2 iron railroad bridges. The total value of 

 public buildings in Little Rock is $2,418,925. 

 Among these are the Capitol (which cost $125,000), 

 the Government building ($285,000), the United 

 States Arsenal ($250,000), the county court house, 

 tin- State School for the Blind (80 inmates), 

 the State Insane Asylum (369 inmates), the Deaf- 

 Mate Institute (125 inmates), the Penitentiary 

 (cost $500,000), a city hall, a Children's Home 

 Annotation, and an old ladies' home, the two 

 last costing $10,000 each. The churches number 

 27; and the public-school buildings, 14 in num- 

 ber, are valued at $143,000. The Little Rock 

 University and a female college each have 100 

 students, while there are also a Masonic, a medi- 

 cal, a business, and a colored college, a convent 

 of the Sisters of Mercy, and a Lutheran parochial 

 school. The Board of Trade building cost $25,- 

 000, and there is a theatre. The city has street 

 railways, gas, electric light, telephone and tele- 

 graphic facilities, and 4 daily papers are pub- 

 lished, in addition to 14 weekly, 1 bi-weekly, and 

 several monthly periodicals. One weekly is in 

 German, and one is for deaf mutes. 



Logansport, a city and the county seat of 

 Cass County, Indiana, at the junction of Wa- 

 bash and Eel rivers, which furnish a water 

 power of about 2,000 horse-power. Four rail- 

 roads, with their branches radiating in ten dif- 

 ferent directions to such terminal points as Chi- 

 cago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Toledo, Indianapolis, 

 St. Louis, Evansville and Louisville, encircle the 

 city and give it unsurpassed railroad facilities, 

 giving employment also in their shops and on 

 their trains to about 1,500 residents. In 1889 

 about $250,000 was expended on buildings within 

 the city limits. Water works with 16 miles of 

 mains, electric-light works for public and private 

 lighting, gas works, and a superb natural-gas 

 plant supplying factories and 3,000 private con- 

 sumers, with a street railway, an unexcelled fire 

 department, numerous fine bridges, a handsome 

 new court house, 9 school buildings (erected at a 

 cost of $300,000), and numerous church edifices 

 (costing in the aggregate about the same amount) 

 are the principal public improvements. Manu- 

 facturing is carried on extensively, its chief 

 products being plow handles, hubs and spokes, 

 cooperage, linseed oil, flour, baby cabs, overalls, 

 furniture, wind pumps, galvanized iron works, 

 and paper. One of the State hospitals for the 

 insane is one mile west of the city, and its site is 

 considered remarkably beautiful. There are 2 

 national banks and 1 safe-deposit company, 3 ho- 

 t-K a fine opera house, a handsome passenger sta- 

 tion, and a great many superior business blocks in 

 the city, 90 miles of improved streets and 50 miles 

 of walks. The population in 1860 was, in round 

 numbers, 3,000 ; in 1870 it was 8,000 ; in 1880 it 

 was 1 1,000; in 1890 it was 14,000. 



London, the chief city in Western Ontario, Can- 

 ad.-i : population, with suburbs, in 1890, 35,000. It 

 is on the forks of the River Thames, about midway 

 b'twiM-n Niagara Falls and Detroit. It is regu- 

 larly laid out, with wide, shaded streets. The 

 principal public edifices are its 2 cathedrals, 

 churches, university, medical and ladies' colleges, 

 custom house. 2 orphan asylums, Government 

 asylum for the insane, convent, and military 

 school. In the last-named a detachment of 



Canada's small regular army is maintained. The 

 principal manufactures are house and school fur- 

 niture, agricultural implements, engines, stoves 

 and hardware, bolts, railway cars, tobacco, cigars, 

 biscuits, ales, corsets, boots and shoes, scales, pe- 

 troleum refining, chemicals, and pottery ware. 

 The city is' in the center of a fine agricultural dis- 

 trict, and has extensive wholesale interests. It 

 is a railway center, more trains arriving at and 

 departing from it in a day than arrive at or de- 

 part from any other city in the Dominion. Lon- 

 don is governed by a mayor and 18 aldermen, a 

 water commission, a public-school board, and a 

 hospital trust. Twelve newspapers are printed 

 here, 2 of which are published daily. On his 

 visit to the district, Feb. 13, 1793, Gov. Simcoe 

 selected the site for the city, and named it 

 Georgina-on-the-Thames. He intended it to be 

 the capital of Canada, but the British Govern- 

 ment failed to remove the seat of government. 

 Not till 1826 was a house built here. Since then 

 the place has made steady progress. 



Mankato, the largest city of southern-central 

 Minnesota, the county seat of Blue Earth County, 

 at the great bend of Minnesota river and immedi- 

 ately below the confluence of the Blue Earth, its 

 largest tributary. It is nearly equidistant from 

 the eastern and western boundaries of the State, 

 and 86 miles southwest of St. Paul. It was first 

 settled in 1853, and was incorporated as a village 

 in 1864, and as a city in 1868. In 1880 the popu- 

 lation was 5,550, in 1885 it was 7,871, in 1890 it 

 was 8,-805. The city is on the Chicago, St. Paul, 

 Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, the Chicago, 

 Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago and North- 

 western, and the Minneapolis and St. Louis. 

 The site of the town, as well as the adjacent 

 country, was originally covered with a heavy 

 growth of forest trees, mostly hard wood, and 

 the profusion of native trees still remaining and 

 the many bluffs, valleys, and ravines adjacent 

 afford some of the most picturesque scenery to 

 be found in the West. The country tributary, 

 largely the southern part of the extensive forest 

 region known as " the Big Woods." is one of 

 singular beauty and productiveness. Partly to 

 this, but more* to its central location and its 

 rapidly increasing manufacturing interests, is 

 due the recent growth of the city. These inter- 

 ests include one of the largest plants in the Un- 

 ion for the manufacture of hydraulic cement, 

 drain tile, sewer pipe and fire-brick works, lin- 

 seed oil works, the largest butter-tub factory in 

 the world, fiber-ware works, two flouring mills 

 (one having a capacity of 1.200 barrels a day), a 

 woolen mill, several carriage and wagon facto- 

 ries, plow % factories, a canning factory, butter 

 and egg packing houses, 4 grain elevators, a 

 large brewery, and numerous others. From the 

 limestone quarries in the suburbs are shipped 

 vast quantities of superior building and bridge 

 stone. Lime is extensively manufactured at the 

 same quarries. Brick making is also a promi- 

 nent interest. There are 3 national bank?, 1 

 daily and 7 weekly newspapers, and an opera 

 house with a seating capacity of 1,500. An ele- 

 gant new four-story hotel, a court house of great 

 beauty (constructed of stone from the local quar- 

 ries), a hospital, a four-story office block, a sew- 

 erage system, and a system of water works are 

 among the improvements completed in 1889. 



