GREEN BAY 



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GREENE 



were worth only thirty-five cents for each dol- 

 lar. Since then their issue has been fixed at 

 $346,681,016, the amount in circulation at the 

 time, and they are redeemable in gold. See 

 SPECIE PAYMENT, RESUMPTION OF; MONEY. 



GREEN BAY, Wis., the oldest city in the 

 state and the county seat of Brown County. 

 It is situated at the southern extremity of 

 (liven Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan, at thr 

 point where it receives the waters of the Fox 

 River. Milwaukee is 113 miles south, and 

 Chicago is eighty-five miles farther south. 

 Transportation facilities are offered by the 

 Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee & Saint Paul. Green Bay & Western, and 

 Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western railways; 

 there is steamer connection with other ports 

 on the Great Lakes during the summer sea- 

 son. An electric line extends through Fox 

 River Valley to Fond du Lac, sixty-five miles 

 southwest. The population increased from 25,- 

 236 in 1910 to 29.353 in 1916, by Federal esti- 

 mate. 



Green Bay is located in a popular summer 

 resort region, the small lakes and rivers of the 

 district providing picturesque scenery and fine 

 boating, fishing and bathing facilities. The 

 residence district of the city is made beautiful 

 by wide streets with double rows of trees on 

 either side. Six bridges span the river. Of 

 the city's eight parks, Union Park is the larg- 

 est ; it contains Tank Cottage, the oldest house 

 in the city, built in 1789. Bay View Beach, 

 the "Coney Island" of the city, is seven miles 

 north, and offer the amusements of an ideal 

 beach resort. The Oneida Indian Reservation 

 is west of the city. 



Buildings and Institutions. Besides a county 

 courthouse and city hall, the city has a $180,- 

 000 Federal building, the $150,000 Minahan 

 Building, a fine school building and a number 

 of handsome churches. Saint Mary's hospital, 

 the Wisconsin Deaconess hospital, Brown 

 County insane asylum, the county poorhouse 

 and the Good Shepherd Home are institutions 

 worthy of note. Besides its public and paro- 

 chial schools it has Saint Joseph's Academy 

 for girls. The Kellogg Library, containing 30,- 

 000 volumes, is the joint gift of Rufus B. Kel- 

 logg and Andrew Carnegie. 



Through its harbor, which receives the larg- 

 est vessels on the Great Lakes, and its excep- 

 tional railway transportation facilities, Green 

 Bay has become one of the great distributing 

 centers of the state. . The leading export 

 through the harbor is grain, and the largest 



single import is coal; there is an extensive 

 trade in fish, and that in lumber is iin|H>n,mi. 

 There are about forty wholesale and jobbing 

 houses, and they do a large business in agri- 

 cultural and dairy products. There are also 

 paper mills and sawmills, canneries, breweries 

 and manufactories of crockery, hardware and 

 machinery. Over 2.000 people are employed 

 in the large machine and repair shops of the 

 railroads serving the city. Green Buy \\;is in- 

 corporated as a borough in 1838 and as a city 

 in 1854. In 1895 the town of Fort Howard was 

 annexed, and in 1916 the commission form of 

 government was adopted. H.A. 



GREEN BRI'ER, the name applied to a 

 number of plants of the genus smilax, of the 

 lily family. The name especially relates to a 

 greenish, prickly, climbing shrub, with thick 

 leaves and small clusters of flowers, found in 

 the United States and Canada. See SMILAX. 



GREENE, NATHANAEL (1742-1786), a general 

 of the Revolutionary War. known as "the man 

 who saved the South," was born at Patowomut. 

 R. I. During his early boyhood days he lived 

 the quiet life of the Friends, as his father 

 was a prominent 

 Quaker. When 

 the Revolution- 

 ary War cjouds 

 gathered he 

 turned his atten- 

 tion to colonial 

 defense. A slight 

 limp in his walk 

 was first thought 

 to unfit him for 

 hard service, but 

 he rose quickly 

 from the ranks 

 of the "Kentish 

 Guards" and was chosen brigadier-general. 

 When news of the Bunker Hill battle reached 

 Rhode Island his regiment marched to Boston, 

 and when Washington reached (Cambridge he 

 was sent to welcome the new commander-in- 

 chief. Washington discovered that he was u 

 valuable officer and made him a major-gen- 

 eral. 



After the British were defeated in New York 

 and New Jersey in 1776 and 1777, they turned 

 their attention to the South and captured 

 Savannah. Greene succeeded General Gates 

 in 1780 in command of the army of the South, 

 which had been so often defeated that it was 

 known as "only the shadow of an army," but 

 Greene's judgment, patience, kindness and 



NATHANAEL GREENE 



