MILWAUKEE 



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MILWAUKEE 



THE STORY OF MILWAUKEE 



.ILWAUKEE, milwaw'kee, Wis., 

 the largest city of the state, and the county 

 seat of Milwaukee County, is situated in the 

 southeastern part of the state on the western 

 shore of Lake Michigan, at the point where it 

 receives the waters of the Milwaukee River. 

 Exceptional transportation facilities are offered 

 by the Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul, Chi- 

 cago & North Western, Minneapolis, Saint Paul 

 & Sault Sainte Marie, Pere Marquette and 

 Grand Trunk railways; the last two make con- 

 nections with the city by ferries across the lake. 

 Additional transportation is afforded by fifteen 

 lines of steamers which communicate with all 

 important ports on the Great Lakes. Interur- 

 ban lines connect with Port Washington and 

 Sheboygan, north; Waukesha, Oconomowoc and 

 Watertown, west; and Racine, Kenosha and 

 Chicago* south. The population increased from 

 373,857 in 1910 to 436,535 in 1916 (Federal esti- 

 mate). For many years people of German birth 

 predominated; but recently, Poles, Italians, 

 Russians, Dutch, Bohemians and Scandinavians 

 have entered the ranks from other nations, and 

 at present only seventeen per cent are German 

 born. The city occupies twenty-four square 

 miles, a smaller area than that of any other city 

 of the United States of about the same size, but 

 it does not present the uncomfortably crowded 

 conditions so frequently a feature of great 

 cities. 



Suburbs. The population has spread into 

 several suburbs of considerable size, among 

 these being West Allis, containing the immense 

 machinery plant of the Allis-Chalmers Manu- 

 facturing Company; Wauwatosa, where are lo- 

 cated a National Soldiers' Home occupying 400 

 acres, the State Fair Grounds, a group of county 

 institutions, including almshouse, hospitals and 

 asylums, a number of industrial establishments, 



a Carnegie Library, Lutheran homes for the 

 aged and orphans, stone quarries, large market 

 gardens and nurseries; Cudahy, largely devoted 

 to meat-packing, heavy machinery and rubber 

 industries; South Milwaukee and North Mil- 

 waukee, with large manufacturing establish- 

 ments; and Saint Francis, the seat of Pio Nono 

 College and other important Roman Catholic 

 institutions. 



Parks and Boulevards. Milwaukee has a 

 beautiful location on a bluff overlooking Lake 

 Michigan from a height of 150 feet. Much of 

 the residence district is built on this bluff, and 

 it is noted for its attractive shaded avenues and 

 handsome dwellings. Grand Avenue, Prospect 

 Avenue, Waverly Place and Lake Drive are 

 classed with the finest streets in the Union. 

 The city has assigned about 1,000 acres to its 

 thirty-six parks; of these, Juneau Park, extend- 

 ing along the lake bluff, is the most picturesque ; 

 it contains statues of Leif Ericsson, the naviga- 

 tor, and Solomon Juneau, founder of the city. 

 Lake Park, also on the shore; Evergreen Park, 

 the largest; Mitchell Park, with its rare collec- 

 tion of plants and flowers, and Washington 

 Park, with its zoological garden, are among the 

 other noteworthy recreation grounds. Statues 

 of Solomon Juneau, the founder of the city; 

 Ericcson, Goethe, Schiller, Burns and Kosci- 

 usko and a soldiers' monument occupy con- 

 spicuous positions in advantageous spots in the 

 city. 



Buildings and Institutions. Milwaukee has a 

 number of fine public and office buildings. For- 

 merly so many of the residences and store build- 

 ings were constructed of cream-colored brick, 

 a product of the vicinity, that the city became 

 known as The Cream City. Other building 

 stones have recently been used in the con- 

 .struction of some of the noteworthy buildings, 



