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the Newhall House, which was burned with 

 great loss of life in 1883. Among other uew 

 buildings are the depot of the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee, and St. Paul Railway, St. Paul's 

 Church, the Board of Trade Building, and the 

 Light- Horse Squadron Armory. The city is the 

 headquarters of three railways; the Chicago 

 and Northwestern Railway also passes through. 

 The public schools were attended in 1873 by 

 about 12,000 pupils, and the private schools by 

 about 7,000. Now the 28 public-school buildings 

 accommodate nearly 30,000 pupils. A new high- 

 school building was erected in 1886 at a cost of 

 $75,000. There are also a State Normal School, 

 a Girls' College, and many other institutions of 

 learning, among them a German- American 

 Teachers' Seminary, and a German- American 

 Academy. In 1885 work was begun on a new 

 park on the lake-front, commanding a fine view 

 of the lake from a height of 80 to 100 feet. It 

 is named Juneau Park, in honor of Solomon 

 Juneau, the pioneer of Milwaukee, and con- 

 tains a monument to his memory a figure in 

 copper on a base of marble. A Washington 

 monument was raised on Grand Avenue in 

 1885. A National Soldiers' Home is three miles 

 west of the city. Milwaukee is the market for 

 the products of a large section of country north 

 and west, including the ore from the newly 

 discovered Gogebic iron-range, an immense de- 

 posit of Bessemer ore. The grain-trade of Mil- 

 waukee has fallen off greatly within ten years, 

 owing to the western extension of railroad 

 lines. It reached its maximum in 1873, when 

 the combined receipts of wheat and flour were 

 over 40,000,000 bushels. The grain-trade, how- 

 ever, is still large. Ten elevators, with a stor- 

 age capacity of 5,630,000 bushels, are employed 

 in it. The total net receipts of all kinds of 

 grain in 1885 were as follow : 



Wheat, bushels 9,846,89* 



Corn, bushels 637,068 



Oats,bushels 1,666,94S 



Barley, bushels 5,392.106 



Eye, bushels 279,264 



Total 17,822,280 



Flour, reduced to bushels 10,046,430 



The receipts of lumber from the Michigan 

 saw-mills in 1885 were 238,000,000 feet, with 

 86,718,000 shingles, besides lath, posts, etc. 

 The receipts of coal in 1875 were 228,644 tons ; 

 in 1885, 775,750 tons. The number of persons 

 employed in 1870 in manufactures was 8,433; 

 in 1880, 20,866. This does not include the 

 employes in the Bay View or West Milwaukee 

 Iron-Works. An important industry is the 

 manufacture of beer. In 1885, 969,420 barrels 

 of 31 gallons each were made, valued at $6,054.- 

 336 ; 400,000 gallons of whisky; and 3,907,000 

 gallons of vinegar, valued at $426,560. In 

 1873 the product of the breweries was valued 

 at $2,600,000; of the distilleries, $1,500,000. 



Minneapolis, a city, capital of Hennepin Coun- 

 ty, Minn., on both sides of the Mississippi 

 river, at the Falls of St. Anthony, 14 miles 

 above St. Paul by the stream, and 8 miles in a 

 direct line west-northwest of that city. The 



population in 1875 was 32,721 ; in 1880, 46,- 

 887; in 1885 it was estimated at 129,200. 

 Among the finest buildings are the Exposition 

 Building, the West Hotel, which cost $1,500,- 

 000; the Post-office, which cost $750,000; the 

 Lumberman's Exchange, the Tribune Build- 

 ing, the Syndicate Block, and the Masonic 

 Temple. It has about 30 public schools, two 

 daily newspapers, and 100 churches. Among 

 the higher institutions of learning are the State 

 University, Macalester College, Hamline Uni- 

 versity, and Augsburg Theological Seminary. 

 About $70,000,000 is invested in banking; 16 

 railroads have connections in the city, repre- 

 senting 15,000 miles of track. There are 20 

 elevators, with a capacity of 15,000,000 bush- 

 els. The commerce in 1885 exceeded $140,- 

 000,000 in value. Minneapolis is said to be 

 the greatest wheat-market in the world. There 

 are 19 lumber-mills, cutting 300,000,000 feet 

 of lumber annually ; 26 flouring-mills, with a 

 daily capacity of 36,148 barrels. The Pillsbury 

 " A " Mill is the largest flouring-mill in the 

 world. The manufacturing interests aggregate 

 $54,000,000; $8,975,200 was expended in 

 building operations in 1885. 



Nashville, a city, capital of Tennessee and of 

 Davidson County, on both sides of the Cum- 

 berland river, 192 miles above its mouth, a little 

 north of the center of the State ; latitude 36 

 10' north, longitude 86 49' west. The popula- 

 tion in 1875 was 25,865, of whom 9,709 were 

 colored; in 1886 75,000 (colored, 18,000), with- 

 in the post-office delivery limits. The river is 

 navigable for steamboats nearly 400 miles above 

 the city. In 1883 a new charter was given to 

 the city, abolishing the ward system, and pro- 

 viding for the government by an unpaid Coun- 

 cil of ten elected from the city at large, with a 

 mayor elected for two years, and a salaried 

 Board of Public Works, holding the general 

 control of affairs. There are 66 churches, 47 

 periodical publications, and 2 free libraries ; 

 14 public-school buildings accommodate 8,000 

 children. The school property is valued at 

 $233,000. Higher institutions are Fisk Uni- 

 versity for colored teachers, Central Tennes- 

 see College for colored students, Vanderbilt 

 University with over $1,000,000 endowment, 

 3 medical colleges, Roger Willinms's Uni- 

 versity, colored, and 28 academies, semina- 

 ries, and private schools, with an attendance 

 (1885-'86) of more than 13,000 pupils and 423 

 teachers and professors. A new wagon and 

 foot iron truss-bridge has been built over the 

 Cumberland, 639 feet in length. The capital 

 of the national banks is $3,100,000. The indi- 

 vidual deposits in these and the private banks 

 aggregate $4,000,000. The manufacturing in- 

 terests of Nashville are large. Of a capital of 

 $10,865,000 invested in manufacturing in the 

 four leading cities of Tennessee in 1884.it had 

 $4,995,500. Of the 2,670 business firms and 

 companies, 708 are engaged in manufacturing ; 

 700 commercial travelers are employed in the 

 wholesale trade, which aggregates annually 



