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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MILWAUKEE 
Milwaukee was originally an Indian village. The 
first white man, Solomon Juneau, a French Canadian, 
came in 1818. Milwaukee was incorporated as a village 
in 1837 and as a city in 1846. The same “Milwaukee 
or “Mahn-a-wau-kie” means “in the valley.” The first 
white population consisted of Yankees, young men who 
came from the New England states and New York “to 
grow up with the West. Then came a foreign immi- 
at convenient proximity; fuel at low rates; the finished 
product shipped economically to the four ends of the 
world. The ten leading industries are iron, machinery, 
packed meats, leather, beer and malt tonics, building, 
boots and shoes, electric supplies, agricultural imple¬ 
ments, railroad equipment, hosiery. 
The metropolis of Wisconsin, one of the most resource¬ 
ful states in the Union. The great receiving and dis¬ 
tributing center for the agricultural, lumber, mining and 
dairy products of the state. Ranks eighth in American 
Hotel Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Convention Headquarters of the National Association of Nurserymen 
gration of Irish, German and Scandinavian, the German 
element leading in numbers. These were followed by a 
large Polish contingent. In more recent years there 
came an influx of East Austrian, including Slavonions, 
Servians, Croatians, also Italians, Greeks and Turks. 
In 1914 the population was 417,000. 
The second largest in the list of manufacturing cen¬ 
ters of the United States. A skillful, industrious and 
peaceful labor constituency. The supply of raw material 
cities on exports; fourteenth on imports. The jobbing 
and wholesale houses have extended their trade from 
ocean to ocean. The retail stores have assumed mag¬ 
nificent proportions. 
Its transportation facilities are unexcelled. It has 36 
railroad and steamship outlets. Has largest tonnage of 
any city on C. M. & St. P. Ry. system of 8.721 mileage; 
second largest on C. & N. W. Ry. system having 9,663 
mileage. Railway belt line now completed. It has the 
