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CITIES, AMERICAN. (LYONS, MANISTEE, MONTPELIER,) 



the State for the institution, from the time of its 

 establishment, in 1855, to 1891, amount to $861,- 

 966. The faculty numbers 96, and the yearly 

 running expense is $90,000. There are more 

 than 360 students. The Capitol, begun in 1871 

 and occupied in 1878, cost $1,500,000, and cov- 

 ers 4 blocks. The State library contains over 

 40,000 volumes. The manufacturing establish- 

 ments of Lansing employ upward of 3,000 per- 

 sons. They include a factory of farming im- 

 plements, sleds, and stoves, with capital of $300,- 

 000, having an output in 1891 of $650,000, and 

 employing 400 men ; iron and engine works ; 

 factories of carriages, roads carts, cutters, wheel- 

 barrows, trucks, etc. ; a pressed-stone company ; 

 lumber yards ; a condensed-milk company, with 

 capital of $100,000, the output of which for 1891 

 was placed at $300.000: a knitting factory; 3 

 flour mills; and a factory of gasoline and other 

 engines, pulleys, shafting, and machinery. 



Lyons, a city of Iowa, in Clinton County, on 

 Mississippi river, opposite Fulton, 111., 2 miles 

 from Clinton, the county seat, 78 miles below 

 Dubuque by river, and 58 miles by rail, 140 miles 

 west of Chicago. It has a population of 5,799 

 by the census of 1890, an increase of 1,704 over 

 4,095 in 1880. It is finely situated where the 

 great cliffs of the river descend to more moder- 

 ate bluffs and rolling upland, and possesses 

 beautiful scenery. Its railroads are the Chicago 

 and Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 and St. Paul. During 1891, $332,600 were ex- 

 pended in improvements, $90,000 of which were 

 for the high wagon bridge of iron and steel 

 opened on July 4 of that, year, 2,652 feet long, of 

 which 1,552 were the bridge proper. On street 

 improvements, including a sewerage system, 

 $6.000 were spent. $15,000 for water, which is 

 supplied by the water works of Clinton drawing 

 from artesian wells, and $20,000 for gas, also 

 supplied from Clinton. There are also 40 electric 

 street lamps. The city is connected with Clin- 

 ton by an electric street railway. The old water 

 works of the city are kept in operation for fire 

 protection, and there are 5 volunteer fire com- 

 panies. The customary telegraph, telephone, 

 and express facilities are afforded, and there is a 

 transfer company operating between the city 

 and Fulton, 111. More than 1,000 pupils attend 

 the 4 public schools, and in addition there are 

 a high school, a Catholic seminary, and several 



S'vate schools. Two of the 8 churches are 

 tholic. A triweekly and a weekly newspaper 

 are published. The public library contains 

 5,000 volumes. Two national banks have a joint 

 capital of $200,000, and there is also a savings 

 bank. Three large saw mills constitute the 

 leading industry, and in 1891 these turned out 

 62,625,000 feet of lumber, 15,328,000 laths, and 

 13,826,000 shingles. There are also a sash, door, 

 and blind factory, gal van ized-iron cornice works, 

 a paper mill on which $20,000 were expended in 

 1891. a pressed-brick and paving-brick company, 

 machine shops, and brickyards. 



Manistee, a city and port of Michigan, county 

 seat of Manistee County, on the eastern shore of 

 Lake Michigan, at the mouth of Manistee river, 

 and along the west shore of Manistee lake. 72 

 miles north of Muskegon, 30 from Ludington, 

 and 45 from Traverse City, By the census 

 of 1890 it had a population of 12,812, an in- 



crease of 5,880 over 1880. In 1751 a Jesuit 

 mission was established here, but the first actual 

 white settlement took place in 1841, when a saw 

 mill was built. In 1855 the county was organ- 

 ized, and in 1866 the village contained 1,100 in- 

 habitants. In 1869 it was incorporated as a city, 

 and in 1871 was destroyed by fire, $1,000,000 

 representing the loss of property. It has an 

 altitude of 604 feet above sea level, and is built 

 upon hills, the residence portion commanding a 

 prospect of great extent and rare beauty. The 

 railroads entering the city are the Flint and 

 Pere Marquette, the Manistee and Northeastern, 

 the Manistee and Grand Rapids, and the Manistee 

 and Luther, the last connecting with the Grand 

 Rapids and Indiana. The harbor is excellent, 

 and there are 5 lines of steamboats. Of the total 

 tonnage of the port for 1890, 634,600 tons, 28,135 

 tons were receipts and 606,465 shipments, the 

 largest item of the latter being lumber; 133.122 

 tons were salt. The school property in Manistee 

 is valued at $84,000. During the year 1888-'89 

 the school expenditure reached $38,883. There 

 are 5 public-school buildings, including the 

 high school, and 39 teachers are employed. The 

 school enrollment was 2,665, and the average 

 daily attendance 1,445. In addition, there are 1 

 German, 1 Lutheran, and 3 Catholic parochial 

 schools. Of the 14 churches, 3 are Catholic, 2 

 German Lutheran, 2 Congregational, 3 Metho- 

 dist, 2 Baptist, 1 Scandinavian Lutheran, and 1 

 Episcopal. One daily and 4 weekly newspapers 

 are published, one of the latter in the German 

 language. Two of the 3 banks are national, 

 the other being a savings bank. The supply of 

 water is abundant, and there are gas and electric 

 lights, telegraph and telephone companies, free 

 mail delivery, and an efficient fire department. 

 A hospital has been completed recently, at a cost, 

 of $85,000, and presented to the Sisters of Charity 

 by one of the pioneers of the city ; there is a 

 county infirmary, and an industrial home. The 

 grounds of the Driving Park Association contain 

 23 acres. There are 8 firms manufacturing 

 lumber, lath, shingles, and salt, the output of 

 one of the largest being 12,000,000 feet of lumber, 

 33.000.000 shingles. 8,000,000 laths, and 500 bar- 

 rels of salt a day. Other industries include iron 

 works manufacturing in addition to stationary 

 and marine boilers and engines, twin engine, 

 steam feed, saw-mill machinery, and salt-well 

 outfits ; a factory of saws and tools ; boiler 

 works ; a foundry and machine shops ; two furni- 

 ture factories, and one of cigars, the last em- 

 ploying 25 men. 



Montpelier, the capital of Vermont and 

 county seat of Washington County, on Winoo- 

 ski or Onion river, 200 miles from Boston and 

 40 miles from Burlington. Its population was 

 3,219 in 1880, and 4.160 in 1890. It has an alti- 

 tude of 484 feet above sea level. It is an im- 

 portant railroad center, having the Vermont 

 Central, the Boston and Montreal, with a branch 

 to Barre and Williamstown, and the Montpelier 

 and Wells River Railroad, connecting at Wells 

 river with the Boston and Lowell system for all 

 points in the White mountains. It became the 

 capital of the State in 1805, and the Statehouse, 

 of granite, has a frontage of 177 feet, with a. 

 dome and cupola 56 feet high. The crowning 

 statue of Agriculture is 120 feet above the 



