MILWAUKEE 



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which include the city hall, the $3,000,000 

 Northwestern Mutual Life building, built of 

 marble, the Marshall and Ilsley Bank, First 

 National Bank and the Wells, Pabst and Ma- 

 jestic buildings, the $2,000,000 granite Federal 

 building, and the county courthouse, constructed 

 of brown sandstone. Other prominent struc- 

 tures are the public library and museum con- 

 taining 288,360 volumes and a noted collection 

 of firearms; the Auditorium, the Art Gallery 

 and the Jesuit, Saint Paul's (Protestant Episco- 

 pal), and Immanuel (Presbyterian) churches. 



Milwaukee is the see of a Roman Catholic 

 archbishop and a Protestant Episcopal bishop. 

 It is a city of homes, numbers of laborers 

 owning their dwellings. There are about 190 

 churches, and a fine public school system which 

 provides for the 

 education of the 

 blind and the deaf, 

 a business school, 

 a fresh-air school 

 and a school of 

 trades for boys 

 and girls, the first 

 of its kind in the 

 United States. In 

 addition to these 

 there are paro- LOCATION MAP 



chial schools, () To Saint Paul, 325 



TT .' miles; (6) to Madison, 82 



Marquette Uni- miles; (c) to Chicago, 85 



versity (Catho- miles - 



lic),Concordia College (Lutheran), Milwaukee- 

 Downer College arid Milwaukee-Downer Semi- 

 nary, both for women, Wisconsin Industrial 

 School for Girls., the National German-Ameri- 

 can Teachers' Seminary and one of Wisconsin's 

 state normal schools. Of the city's eighteen 

 hospitals, Saint Mary's and Mount Sinai, mod- 

 ern, excellently-equipped institutions, are the 

 most noted. 



Commerce and Industry. For commercial 

 purposes the city has a fine location on the 

 Milwaukee River and its tributaries, the Me- 

 nominee and Kinnickinnick rivers, which have 

 been widened to permit vessels to enter the 

 heart of the city, making the harbor one of the 

 best on the Great Lakes. These rivers divide 

 the city into three sections, which are con- 

 nected by a number of viaducts and bascule 

 bridges, and the shipping facilities they provide 

 contribute toward making the city one of the 

 chief manufacturing and commercial centers of 

 the north-central section of the United States. 

 The principal articles of its extensive commerce 

 are wheat, barley, oats, corn, rye, flour, lumber, 



coal, iron ore and salt. The annual receipts of 

 grain amount to 87,000,000 bushels, and the 

 grain elevators have a storage capacity of 16,- 

 500,000 bushels. In the production of flour it 

 has a high rank among the cities of the United 

 States. 



One of the most prominent industries, and 

 one for which Milwaukee is famous, is that of 

 brewing, the annual product exceeding 4,000,000 

 barrels of beer. There are also vast rolling- 

 mills, and manufactories of leather, in which it 

 ranks second in the United States, and iron, 

 steel and heavy machinery; in the three last 

 named, nearly 22,500 people are employed, the 

 annual output being estimated at over $61,000,- 

 000. Two of the city's tanneries are among the 

 largest in the United States. Other important 

 manufactures include boots and shoes, malt, 

 electric and telephone supplies, railroad equip- 

 ment, furniture, stoves and furnaces. 



History. Father Marquette and Louis Joliet 

 were the first Europeans known to have visited 

 the site of Milwaukee (1673), and about a cen- 

 tury later a French fur-trading post was estab- 

 lished here. In 1818 Laurent Solomon Juneau 

 and several associates built their homes and be- 

 gan the settlement of the city, Juneau being 

 generally considered the founder. The east side 

 was platted in 1835; the settlement of the west 

 side soon followed, then the third settlement 

 on the south, known as Walker's Point, was 

 platted independently. These three settlements 

 were incorporated as the city of Milwaukee in 

 1846, and Solomon Juneau was elected the first 

 mayor. Immigration from Germany began in 

 1840, and continued for half a century, bringing 

 to Milwaukee many Germans of the educated 

 class, and for many years German customs pre- 

 vailed. During the War of Secession an entire 

 company was formed of German Turners. The 

 first newspaper, the Advertiser, was published 

 in 1836, and the first bank was established in 

 1837. In 1851 the first train sped over the Chi- 

 cago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway to Wau- 

 kesha. Chicago was connected by telegraph in 

 1849 and by rail in 1856. The city was visited 

 by a fire in 1892 ; about 2,500 people were made 

 homeless by the destruction of 300 buildings, 

 the loss being estimated at $6,000,000. Mil- 

 waukee is an Indian name which means good 

 land. H.A.P. 



MIMEOGRAPH , mim ' e o graf, a copying de- 

 vice invented by Thomas A. Edison. The origi- 

 nal mimeograph consists of a steel plate about 

 eight inches long and three inches wide, with 

 a large number of very fine lines engraved on 



