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Contents. 
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Location and climate :i 
 
 The city government 4 
 
 Educational institutions 7 
 
 Charities 14 
 
 Business affairs 15 
 
 Transportation facilities 18 
 
 Societies 21 
 
 Historical Review 25 
 
 The Rock Island Arsenal 3o 
 
 Conclusion 35 
 
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 I. ENGRAVINGS. 
 
 Grace Cathedral 10 
 
 Home for the Friendless 14 
 
 Mercy Hospital 15 
 
 Ferry-boat 18 
 
 City of Rock Island 19 
 
 Hennepin Canal 25 
 
 Black Hawk 2(5 
 
 Black Hawk's Watch-tower 27 
 
 Colonel George Davenport 28 
 
 General Rodman 33 
 
 Colonel Flagler 33 
 
 Water Power Machinery 34 
 
 Map of Rock Island Arsenal I 
 
 Map of Scott County and Vicinity 
 
 2. PHOTOGRAPHS. 
 
 City of Davenport (bird's-eye view) . . . 
 
 Davenport, looking north 
 
 Davenport, looking east 
 
 Davenport, looking south 
 
 Davenport, looking southwest 
 
 Brady street, looking north 
 
 Brady street, looking north from Fifth street 
 
 Brady street, looking south 
 
 Perry street, looking north 
 
 Second street, looking west 
 
 Second street, looking east 
 
 Third street, looking west 
 
 Third street, looking east 
 
 Soldiers' Monument 
 
 High School 
 
 Schuetzen Park 
 
 Washington Square 
 
 Davenport, from the Arsenal Tower , . . 
 
 Second street, looking west 
 
 Government Bridge (draw pier) 
 
 Government Bridge 
 
 Water-works Station No. i 
 
 Water-works St.ntion No. 2 
 
 Churches 
 
 Schools 
 
 Library Hall 
 
 Turner Hall 
 
 Mercy Hospital 
 
 Orphans' Home 
 
 Sisters' Academy 
 
 St. Ambrose Seminary 
 
 Griswold College and Schools 
 
 Court-House 
 
 Masonic Temple 
 
 Davenport Residences 
 
 Rock Island Arsenal Views 
 
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 V 
 
 VI 
 
 VII 
 
 VIII 
 
 IX 
 
 XI 
 
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 .St. James Hotel 
 
 Kimball House 
 
 T. Kircher 
 
 Aug. Stefien 
 
 Robert Krause 
 
 Sickels, Preston, & Co 
 
 John Berwald 
 
 N. Kuhnen 
 
 Jens Lorenzen 
 
 J. H. C. Petersen & Sons 
 
 Beiderbecke & Miller 
 
 A. Moritz & Bros 
 
 Phceni.x Mill Co 
 
 Reupke-.Schmidt Cracker Co 
 
 Globe Plow Works 
 
 Lindsay & Phelps 
 
 U. N. Roberts & Co 
 
 Der Demokrat 
 
 Davenport Woolen Mills Co 
 
 H. F. Brammer & Co 
 
 Davenport Glucose Manufacturing Co. 
 
 Cable Lumber Co 
 
 Crescent Mills ' ' 
 
 M. Frahm & Son 
 
 Christ. Mueller 
 
 Davenport Gas Light Co 
 
 A. Warnebold (P'arniers Mills) . . . . 
 
 Davenport Steam Heating Co 
 
 Newcomb House 
 
 Isaac Rothschild ' 
 
 Lage & Co 
 
 German Clinic 
 
 Ryan Block 
 
 Young & Harford 
 
 M. Arnold 
 
 A. J. Brownson 
 
 Retail Business Houses, etc. . . . • . 
 
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The City of Davenport t^ Vicinity. 
 
 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT. 
 
 (Illustrations, Pages I. and V'l.) 
 
 LOCATION AND CLIMATE. 
 
 rN the midst of the amenities and natural beauties of 
 the upper valley of the Mississippi rises the City 
 
 of Davenport upon the northern shore of the 
 father of rivers, which here, at a width of about 2,500 
 feet, at a fall of not quite five inches to the mile, and 
 at an elevation of 533' i,. feet above the level of the sea, 
 makes its greatest bend from east to west, of over 30 
 miles, and hastens toward the Gulf of Mexico with a 
 velocity of one to three miles per hour. 
 
 Three and one-half miles in length the city ex- 
 tends along the mighty stream, and ascends gradually 
 upon and over the bluffs, iSo to 200 feet high, and 
 trimmed with a fresh wreath of green oaks, from which 
 stately school houses, church-spires to a height of 120 
 feet, electric-light towers of 125 feet in height, and 
 numerous magnificent and cozy villas like blossoms 
 eradiate. 
 
 Situate upon 40° 30' northern latitude, and 13° 30' 
 west from the City of Washington, D. C, it is, by 
 river, 332 miles from St. Louis and 397 miles from St. 
 
 Paul; by rail, 181 miles west of Chicago, 197 miles 
 from Milwaukee, 1,072 miles from New York, 2,187 
 miles from San Francisco, and aboiit 1,600 miles from 
 New Orleans; and enjoys a decidedly temperate climate, 
 though often subject to sudden changes — generally ex- 
 perienced in the Mississippi valley, but milder than in 
 Minnesota and cooler than in Missouri. The daily 
 changes in the temperature are often strikingly per- 
 ceptible, but a happy combination of heat and cold, of 
 sunshine and rain, promotes the growth of corn and 
 all kinds of cereals, and favors the development of a 
 strong, hardy, and healthy race. 
 
 According to official observations taken from 1872 
 to 18S6, the mean actual annual barometer is 29.369, 
 and the average annual temperature 49.6 degrees fah- 
 renheit; the average rain-fall is three inches per month. 
 
 During the last seventeen years, the first frost oc- 
 curred September 9th, 1883 ; the last. May 29th, 1874 
 and 1884. The highest stage of the water in the river 
 was 18.4, on June 26th, 1880; the lowest stage, .95, on 
 December 12th, 1S62 — the difference being not quite 19 
 feet. The gauge is placed upon the government bridge, 
 and zero is at 533.761 feet elevation above the sea level. 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 THE CITY GOVERNMENT 
 
 is in the hands of a Mayor, whose term of office is one 
 year, and twelve Aldermen, who are elected every two 
 years, and constitute the City Council, which holds its 
 regular meetings twice a month, except in the winter 
 months from November to March, when it convenes 
 only once a month. The Council elects the Street 
 Commissioner, the Chief of the Fire Department, the 
 City Engineer, the City Attorney, the City Collector, 
 and the City Sexton ; has full legislative power under 
 the special charter of the city, and has the supervision 
 and control of the city officers and all the cit}' affairs 
 and institutions. 
 
 The remaining city officers forming a part of the 
 city government are the City Clerk, the City Treas- 
 urer, and the City Assessor, who are elected annually 
 at the city election, the first Saturday in April, and the 
 Police Magistrate, elected bi-annually. 
 
 The Police Dcpartmenf, consisting of the Chief of 
 Police, the Night Captain, and thirteen regular patrol- 
 men, who are annually appointed by the incoming 
 Mayor and confirmed by the Council. Their yearly 
 salaries amount to $10,200. The present force is 
 known for its effectiveness; and in the watchfulness, ca- 
 pability, and reliability of the members and its Chief, 
 stands probably unsurpassed in the state, judging from 
 the decrease of crime and offences and the quick and 
 effective manner in which criminals are brought to 
 justice. The last annual report of the Chief of Police 
 
 shows 516 arrests made during the last year — about 
 two per cent of the population — and property stolen 
 to the value of $1,031, of which property $1,017 ^"^^^ 
 restored to the owners. The Chief of Police has also 
 to attend to the duties of Marshal and Sidewalk Com- 
 missioner. 
 
 The Fire DeparUnent, organized in the spring of 
 1882, contains one hook and ladder and three hose 
 wagons, with a force of sixteen experienced firemen, 
 under the command of a Chief, at an annual expense 
 of about $14,000. The men are on duty day and night. 
 Each wagon is drawn by two horses, which are selected 
 and trained with the greatest care. The effectiveness 
 of the service is considerably increased and hastened 
 by the employment of the fire-alarm telegraph, for 
 which the city paid $5,000. At the instant the alarm 
 is given, the gongs and bells sound, four double stable 
 doors open themselves, the horses place themselves 
 before the wagons, the harness drops down upon them, 
 the firemen mount their seats, and forward they go 
 to the place of fire. All of this is done in fifteen to 
 seventeen seconds. At extraordinary conflagrations, 
 the paid fire department is assisted by the volunteer 
 companies, who are also under the command of the 
 Chief of the Department. The department has been 
 established at an expense of about $35,800, exclusive of 
 the buildings and the fire-alarm. During the last year 
 there were sixty-three fire alarms. The total loss was 
 $9,777.50, of which $8,000 was lost at one fire. The 
 expenses for the year were $13,556.21. 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 THE DAVENPORT WATER COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page VII., Nos, 19 and 20.) 
 
 Before entering into a description of the works of the Daven- 
 port Water Company, it is no idle boast to say that, without excep- 
 tion, Davenport has the most complete system of water-works, both 
 for fire protection and sanitary purposes, of any city in the west. 
 
 The Davenport Water Company is a private corporation, 
 which was organized through the efforts of the late ex-Mayor 
 Michael Donahue. What a monument to the public spirit and 
 enterprise of the Hon. Michael Donahue are the Davenport Water- 
 Works ! He was the originator and founder of them. His capital, 
 and that of his brother, Col. Peter Donahue, whom he enlisted in 
 the cause, built them. Both the brothers are dead, but the good 
 they did in this community will be a memory here to the last gen- 
 eration. Their sons, James P. Donahue, of Davenport, and James 
 M. Donahue, of San Francisco, have inherited their energy and 
 enterprise. The constant improvement of the water-works is evi- 
 dence of it. 
 
 It was on December 4th, 1872, that the City Council chartered 
 the Davenport Water Company, and on February 2d, 1874, the 
 works were tested as to their efficiency with fire streams, and all 
 was done, and more too, than the Company guaranteed. 
 
 The plant of this Company comprises a reservoir, low and 
 high-service pumping-stations, known as Pumping-Station No. i 
 and Pumping-Station No. 2. 
 
 The reservoir is located at the highest elevation in the city, 
 and has a capacity of 5,000,000 gallons. No money was spared in 
 its construction ; the best of material and labor that could be had 
 was used. ' It was built in 1883, and cost $100,000. 
 
 Pumping- Stalion No. i. — Pumping capacity, 11,000,000 gal- 
 lons every twenty-four hours. This pumping-station comprises the 
 original works, and is situated on the Mississippi river, about a 
 mile above the Government bridge. The pumping-house is a 
 large, two-story building, 68x93 ^^t, including the boiler-room. 
 There are two sets of pumps and engines in this station. Pump- 
 ing-engine No. i is a condensing set of duplex engines of 5,000,000 
 
 gallons capacity per twenty-four hours, built by the Clapp & Jones 
 Manufacturing Company. Pumping-engine No. 2, which has been 
 recently placed upon foundations, is a high-duty Worthington 
 duplex compound condensing engine, and capable of delivering 
 6,000,000 gallons per twenty-four hours against a head of 345 feet. 
 
 Pumping-Station No. 2. — Pumping capacity, 5,000,000 gallons 
 per twenty-four hours. The bluff, or high service, or all that por- 
 tion lying above Sixth street, is supplied by reservoir water de- 
 livered by the pumps at this station, which are situated at the res- 
 ervoir. These engines are vertical, of the duplex compound con- 
 densing type. In precisely thirty seconds, the pumps of station 
 No. 2, which are continually running for the high service, can be 
 changed so as to pump into the gravity service, and pump down 
 hill in case the reservoir pressure is not sufficient for fire purposes. 
 Then, too, there is another resource in case of fire, and that is 
 pumping-station No. i can be set in motion and give all the addi- 
 tional pressure necessary. This means that the piping system is 
 so designed that the pumps at station No. i and station No. 2 can 
 pump at the same time at their respective ends of the distribution 
 mains, thereby insuring increased pressure — an almost unlimited 
 supply of water and pressure in time of fire. 
 
 For the fire and sanitary suppl)' of the city, there are 253 
 public and 9 private, or a total of 262, fire hydrants. There are 27 
 miles of main pipe, from four to sixteen inches in diameter, and 
 about 1,200 water consumers. 
 
 The Water Company, aside from its enormous expenditure in 
 establishing the works, is at a heavy constant outlay to sustain 
 them. The operating expenses of the two pumping-stations being 
 no small expenditure. Still, the rates charged for water furnished 
 consumers, in many instances, are lower than those charged in 
 other western cities, and is in but few cases more, and the citizens 
 in other places are by no means so perfectly served. 
 
 The Davenport Water Company is entitled to the thanks, not 
 only of the citizens generally, but particularly of every owner of a 
 home or business block. It guarantees them against loss by fire, 
 as has been shown by the records of the fire losses. It is doubted 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 if any single individual has done more to make Davenport known 
 abroad, or contributed more to its enduring prosperity, than the 
 enterprising late lamented Hon Michael Donahue. 
 
 The present officers of the Company are: Nicholas Kuhn'^n. 
 President; James P. Donahue, Vice-President and Secretary; Thos. 
 N. Hooper, Inspector and Chief Engineer. 
 
 The above named officers, with: Col. James M. Donahue, 
 San Francisco, California, and J. H. Murphy and F. H. Griggs, 
 Davenport, constitute the Board of Directors. 
 
 THE D.WENPORT GAS COMPANY. 
 
 (See llluslralion, Page 8. No. 58.) 
 
 Furnishes gas at a price of $2.50 per 1,000 cubic feet to private 
 consumers, through their main pipe of 26 miles in extent. 
 
 The lighting of the city by electricity was accomplished on 
 February ist, 1886, by the Ft. Wayne Jenney Electric Light Com- 
 pany, and contains 94 lights of 2,000 candle-power each, of which 
 40 are placed on 8 towers 125 feet high, 52 upon mast-arms 30 
 feet high, 5 over the intersection of streets, and 2 upon poles 40 and 
 50 feet high. The wires have a length of over 26 miles, and the 
 light is perfect. Each light is kept up to the agreed strength of 
 2,000 candle-power. 
 
 The city pays therefor about $16,000 per annum, in monthly 
 payments, and the contract runs five years from November 6th, 
 1885. 
 
 THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. 
 
 The City Hall (page III., No. 6), built in 1859, at 
 an expense of $12,000, contains the offices of the City- 
 Clerk, City Assessor, City Collector, City Engineer, 
 and Street Commissioner, and in the upper story the 
 council chamber. 
 
 The Police Station^ established at a cost of about 
 $18,000, contains the offices of the police officers and 
 
 the Police Magistrate, the city prison, and the armory 
 of Company " B," of the state militia. 
 
 The Fire Department. — Of the four buildings oc- 
 cupied by the fire department, three are on ground 
 owned by the city and one on leased premises, and cost 
 the city about $20,000. 
 
 Central Park., bought by the city, for about $13,000, 
 in 1885. 
 
 JVashington Square (page V., No. 16), with a foun- 
 tain erected at a cost of about $1,500 
 
 Lafayette Square^ laid out by Antoine LeClaire in 
 the original plat of the city. 
 
 The City Cemetery., also the public levee or landing, 
 established in 1859, at an expense of $12,000, and at 
 that time estimated at a value of $150,000. 
 
 THE Pl'BLIC STREETS. 
 
 The whole city is divided into blocks — most of 
 them 320 feet square — by 126 streets, 60 to 80 feet 
 wide and of over 80 miles in length. Their annual 
 repairs and improvements amount to about $50,000. 
 Since the year 185S, about 20 miles thereof have been 
 macadamized, at an expense of nearly $1,000,000. 
 These streets are in a good deal better condition than 
 is generally found in the state, or in the west. 
 
 THE SEWERS 
 
 have been constructed since 1858, but the greater part 
 of them were built since 1877. They drain the prin- 
 cipal part of the city, run from the bluff down into the 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 river, and cost from 4^ cents to $1.25 per rnnning foot. 
 
 THE CITY REVENUE 
 
 amounts annually to about $140,000, of which about 
 $20,000 is paid for licenses, and the balance of $120,000 
 levied upon an assessment at about $7,100,000. 
 
 THE CITY DEBTS, 
 
 originating from the loans made in 1856 and 1857, 
 which in 1869 were converted into twenty years bonds, 
 amount to about $280,000, with six and seven per cent 
 interest, payable semi-annually, and are due in 18S9. 
 
 THE BOARD OF HEALTH, 
 
 consisting of the Mayor, acting Chairman, and four 
 members, a majority of whom are members of the 
 Council, appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the 
 City Council, is clothed by state law and city ordi- 
 nances with full power to keep the city in a good and 
 sanitary condition. The city has been free from epi- 
 demic diseases, and the death rate is low in comparison 
 with other cities similarly situated. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 (See Illustrations, Page V., No. 14, and Page VIII., No. 22.) 
 
 The Public Schools. — The Independent School Dis- 
 trict of the City of Davenport embraces the whole city 
 and some territory outside the city limits, of which the 
 western part has been provided with school house No. 
 7. The tuition is free. The management is in the 
 hands of a Board of Education, of six members, who 
 
 are elected every two years. The Board elects every 
 year the Treasurer and Secretary. There are eleven 
 common school buildings and one high school building, 
 which was erected in 1874, at a cost, including the 
 ground and furniture, of about $50,000. All the build- 
 ings, with the grounds and school furniture, represent 
 a total value of about $400,000. The yearly expenses 
 amount to $80,000 or $90,000. The staff of teachers 
 is composed of one Superintendent, eleven principals 
 (one in each school building), seven male teachers, of 
 whom one instructs in music and one in gymnastics, 
 and about one hundred female teachers, of whom ten 
 teach the German language. The attendance is in- 
 creasing every year so that at present an additional 
 building, estimated at $3,500, is required. The last 
 census gave a school population of 9,295, of which 4,468 
 were boys and 4,827 were girls. The average number 
 enrolled was 4,466, and the average daily attendance 
 was 3,236" 10. The school term is ten months. During 
 the winter months there is also a free evening school 
 maintained. 
 
 PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. 
 
 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY. 
 
 (See Illustration. Page IX., No. 27.) 
 
 This institution, situated on the corner of Eighth and Main 
 streets, is devoted to educational interest, and is conducted by the 
 Sisters of Charity of the B. V. M. The photograph represents the 
 present Academy, which was first ready for occupancy in Septem- 
 ber, 1885. Previous to the erection of this imposing structure, the 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 Sisters and pupils occupied the edifice adjoining, better known 
 as the Hill Estate. 
 
 The Sisters Academy is one of longstanding. On July i6th, 
 1857, the Sisters took possession of the old Immaculate Conception 
 Academy, which is now known as the Mercy Hospital. Their 
 saintly founder, the Very Reverend T. J. Donaghoe, premeditated 
 the erection of a noble structure, but financial difficulties prevented 
 his accomplishing his design, and but one wing of the main build- 
 ing was completed. The ground, ten acres in extent, was the gift 
 of Judge Mitchell and Mr. L. Davenport. The site, though excel- 
 lently well adapted for the purpose, was deemed too far removed 
 from the city proper at that period, and after a stay of some time, 
 during which many improvements were made, the Sisters disposed 
 of the property to Reverend Pelam, from whom it passed to Right 
 Reverend John Hennessy, Bishop of Dubuque. The latter con- 
 veyed it to the Sisters of Mercy for hospital purposes, and they 
 not only carried out the intention of Very Reverend T. J. Dona- 
 ghoe, but have added largely to the grounds, and have erected 
 several additional buildings. It is a pleasure to those who experi- 
 enced the discouraging trials attendant upon pioneer life in that 
 spot to note that the seed they planted under so many difliculties 
 has ripened to so abundant a harvest, even though it be gathered 
 by other hands. 
 
 Removing to the city, the Sisters rented the Sargent property 
 on Brady street. Here the school flourished, and so rapidly did 
 the number of pupils increase that it was soon necessary to procure 
 a more commodious dwelling. After some deliberations, the ele- 
 gant mansion of Mr. Hill was chosen as best suited to the purpose 
 in question, and the Eve of All Saints, November ist, 1864, found 
 the Sisters domiciled in their new home. 
 
 The Academy has a past of which it may well be proud, a 
 present which the community delights to honor, and a future which 
 the most sanguine cannot over-estimate. Year after year young 
 ladies are leaving its sacred recesses to enter into the busy world, 
 their intellects having been stimulated, their powers fully cultured, 
 their morals founded on the "rock of ages," thus preparing them to 
 adorn the world they enter, andto give happiness to all around them. 
 
 For many, many years this noble institution of learning, under 
 the care and guidance of the good and accomplished Sisters of 
 Charity of the B. V. M., has been surrounded with the earnest 
 sympathies of a host of friends — Protestant as well as Catholic — 
 who have testified their confidence in its management by bestowing 
 upon it their approval, as well as by giving it a liberal support. 
 
 ST. AMBROSE SEMINARY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page IX., No. 28.) 
 
 The present Bishop of Davenport, Right Reverend Henry 
 Cosgrove, D. D., knowing the advantages of a higher school for 
 young men, sought for years an opportunity to establish one. 
 When Vicar-General of the Diocese, he made known his project 
 to his Right Reverend Ordinary, John McMullen, D. D,, and he 
 being favorably impressed, steps were immediately taken to open 
 the institution. A few rooms in St. Margaret's parochial school 
 building were accordingly fitted up, and the school was formally 
 opened September 4th, 1882. The school received the name " St. 
 Ambrose Seminary." The Reverend A. J. Schulte and Professor 
 Joseph E. Halligan were appointed its first teachers and faculty. 
 
 The first scholastic year had scarcely closed when death robbed 
 the school of its benefactor and patron, the Right Reverend John 
 McMullen, D. D. His death, on July 4th, 1883, was a severe blow 
 to the institution, as his plans could not be carried out. Its perma- 
 nent establishment was left to the future, and fell to the lot of his 
 successor. 
 
 During the following year, Mr. T. J. Mullen was appointed 
 assistant teacher, which position he held until near the close of the 
 year. Having been promoted to the Priesthood, he assumed his 
 duties as Professor the ensuing year. 
 
 With the appointment of the Right Reverend Henry Cos- 
 grove, D. D., the institution's first projector and friend, came new 
 life and hope. The temporary location being inadequate to its 
 wants, steps were taken to secure new grounds. A suitable loca- 
 tion was found, within the city limits, yet well removed from the 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 noise of traffic — a magnificent oak grove embracing ten acres, 
 formerly known as Noel's grove. 
 
 On May 24th, 1885, work began at the new Seminary on 
 Locust street, and on November 3d of the same year enough had 
 been completed to permit the transferring from the old to the new 
 quarters. The new building is large and commodious, and fitted up 
 in the best manner known for the purpose intended. Its rooms 
 are large and airy, and finished in oak and yellow pine. The 
 grounds surrounding the building are of diversified surface, adapted 
 to walks and other outdoor exercise. Its location is in a healthy 
 vicinity, and whatever can be done to promote the health and pro- 
 gress of the student is attended to. 
 
 As the number of students increased, more aid was necessary, 
 and Reverend John T. A. Flannagan was appointed Assistant Pro- 
 fessor, November 3d, 1885. On October 6th, 1885, the institution 
 was incorporated under the laws of the State of Iowa, empowering 
 it to confer the usual academic honors. 
 
 There are three departments — preparatory, commercial, and 
 classical. The preparatory is designed for those whose acquire- 
 ments are not sufficient to enable them to enter the two higher 
 grades. The commercial affords its students the benefit of a busi- 
 ness education. The classical not only gives a complete course of 
 reading in the best ancient authors, but also furnishes a thorough 
 training in modern science and literature. 
 
 A well selected library, of 2,960 volumes, affords the students 
 the means of perusing the best literary works. Among the vari- 
 ous works, we may mention those of reference, biography, science, 
 art, history, etc. Some of these works are of great value. 
 
 Cabinets of geological and entomological specimens, and cases 
 of rare coins and other articles of vertii are provided for the enter- 
 tainment and instruction of the students. 
 
 Various societies have been organized. Among these may be 
 mentioned the debating and the dramatic associations, which are 
 maintained for intellectual exercise and development. These so- 
 cieties afford the students an opportunity of practically applying 
 their acquired knowledge in argumentative discourses and elocu- 
 
 tionary efforts. Other societies of a religious character exist and 
 have a full membership. 
 
 Though existing but a few years, the Seminary has done good 
 work, and will, without doubt, prosper in the future. The first 
 faculty is still at the head of the institution. Every year has 
 marked its progress, and ere long may it rank among the first 
 educational institutions of the land. 
 
 THE GRISWOLD EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 (See Illustrations, Pages VIII., No. 21, and X., Nos. 29 and 30.) 
 
 Stepping from the incoming train from the east, at the Chicago, 
 Rock Island & Pacific Railway station, the eye is attracted by the 
 beautiful " old Trinity," covered with woodbine, and with its grace- 
 ful outlines making good its claims to be one of Upjohn's designs. 
 Its seating capacity was between three and four hundred — was we 
 say; for this picturesque building — the mother church of the city, 
 and one of the oldest in the state — is dismantled and disused, 
 and is rapidly falling into ruin. Would that God might put it into 
 the heart of some one or more of His servants to redeem this 
 deserted temple of the Most High, by placing it in the Bishop's 
 hands as a mission church for the dense population of railroad men 
 and other artisans who will ever abound in this locality. Surely a 
 spot where the apostolic Kemper ministered again and again, and 
 which, though unconsecrated, was for years the shrine of those who 
 laid the foundations of the church in eastern Iowa, should not be 
 lost, when a few thousand dollars would purchase and refit it for 
 use, and make its stones a memorial of the past. 
 
 Passing westward from " old Trinity," for a couple of blocks, 
 Brady street, the most fashionable avenue in the city, is reached, 
 and, as you ascend the hill, the eye is at once attracted by the 
 massive buildings of new Trinity, a memorial of the late Hon. 
 Ebenezer Cook, erected by his widow, Clarissa C. Cook, at a cost 
 of over $50,000. Here is a fine stone chyrch, with upwards of four 
 hundred sittings, and, connected with it, a chapel and guild-rooms, 
 used for Sunday-school and week-day services, and for various 
 parochial activities. This church lacks something of the graceful 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 outlines of " old Trinity," but it is a noble structure, with a chime 
 of bells, and stands out ajjainst the sky with a prominence that will 
 not be overlooked. An intellig^ent and cultivated congregation 
 frequent this beautiful sanctuary, and enjoy their possession of 
 a completely equipped and attractive 
 church, which is the center of abun- 
 dant charities and helpful work. 
 
 On the broad table-land at the 
 sumit of the bluff, occupying nearly 
 ten acres, in the heart of the city, and 
 surrounded by beautiful residences, are 
 the Cathedral - close and the college 
 grounds, separated by Main street, with 
 the fine soldier's monument in a circu- 
 lar enclosure opposite the west front of 
 the Cathedral. 
 
 Fronting on Brady street, but re- 
 moved from the thoroughfare, stands 
 the Bishop's house, one of the finest 
 Episcopal residences in the country. 
 This noble structure, in which is en- 
 shrined Bishop Perry's valuable library 
 of "Americana," liturgies, and_ cannon 
 laws, with belles-lettres and general lit- 
 erature, numbering over thirteen thou- 
 sand volumes, occupies the southeast 
 corner of the Cathedral-close, and was 
 built out of the avails of the invest- 
 ments in land made by the first Bishop 
 of Iowa on his entrance on his see. 
 
 Lee Hall, the former residence of 
 Bishop Lee, and now occupied by the 
 theological department of Griswold col- 
 lege, is a substantial brick structure, oc- 
 cupying the entire southwest corner of 
 the close. Here the divinity students, 
 
 GRACE CATHEDRAL — COMPI.liTED, 
 
 to the number of eight or ten, are accommodated with pleasant 
 rooms, well furnished, and with a pleasant outlook from the 
 windows, and here the " head of the house," a theological pro- 
 fessor who has charge of the students, gathers them as a Christian 
 
 family to prayers, and gives to them 
 the comforts and culture of a home. 
 In the spacious rooms of Lee hall is a 
 well selected theological library ; and in 
 a suit of apartments specially fitted for 
 the purpose, the Dean of Davenport, 
 the Reverend Charles R. Hale, S. T. Z?., 
 who has charge of the department of 
 liturgies in the school, has his home. 
 The Bishop's house and Lee Hall 
 occupy the southern portion of the 
 close, in the center of which is the 
 Cathedral, which, although its tower 
 and spire are unfinished, is confessedly 
 the most beautiful church building in 
 the west. Built by the first Bishop of 
 Iowa, to whose wise master-building 
 the Episcopate fund, the Bishop's res- 
 idence, the college building, and the 
 larger portion of its endowments, as 
 well as the Cathedral, are due; its erec- 
 tion was chiefly accomplished by the 
 gifts of the late David J. Ely, Esq., 
 of Chicago and New York, who gave 
 $15,000 to make a memorial to a be- 
 loved daughter, Mrs. Sarah Ely Par- 
 sons, and the late John David Wolfe, 
 Esq., who, with his daughter. Miss 
 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, of New 
 \'ork City, contributed upwards of 
 $25,000 to make more complete and 
 beauUful the Cathedral of the Diocese 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 II 
 
 of Iowa. The building is one of the happiest of the many admir- 
 able designs of Mr. Edward T. Potter, and in its erection neither 
 pains nor expense were spared. The churchmen of Davenport 
 and the Diocese gave but little — in all not a tenth of the $75,000 
 expended in its erection. It was a gift to the Bishop and Diocese 
 of Iowa, and it will ever attest the taste, the far-seeing wisdom, 
 the churchliness, and zeal of Henry Washington Lee, to whom 
 the conception and execution of the plan of this Cathedral-church 
 are wholly due. The beauty of the exterior is surpassed by the 
 tasteful effects of the interior. The adornments are lavish, and the 
 chancel is well filled with beautiful memorials of the departed or 
 gifts to God from the living. The noble organ, made by Johnson, 
 of Westfield, Massachusetts, is tastefully built around the great 
 wheel-window of the west front, itself a memorial of the apostolic 
 Kemper. An exquisite faldstool, placed " between the porch and 
 the altar," is the gift of the Reverend C. T. Olmstead, of Utica, 
 New York, the memorial of a beloved brother, who entered into 
 the rest of paradise while preparing ibr holy orders. The baptis- 
 tery and the chancel have their memorials of departed connections 
 of the present Bishop and Dean. Part of the beautiful brass fur- 
 niture of the altar was a gift of the late Reverend Doctor John 
 Cotton Smith, of New York. The windows, of the best American 
 stained glass, bear each a name for a memorial, and the whole in- 
 terior, as revealed by the "dim, re'igious light" streaming in 
 through the painted windows, or as made glorious by the flood of 
 gas-light for the night services, is most attractive. The deep recess 
 of the chancel will accommodate more than a score of clergy. The 
 Cathedral is one hundred and forty-two feet in length, and has sit- 
 tings for upwards of seven hundred worshippers. 
 
 On the north side of the west front of the Cathedral stands Ely 
 House, built by Mrs. Caroline D. Ely, of New York, as a residence 
 for the incumbent of the theological chair founded and endowed by 
 her late husband. It is a convenient and attractive building of 
 brick, and was erected at a cost of between $6,000 and $7,000. 
 
 Directly opposite the west front of the Cathedral, and sepa- 
 rated from the Cathedral-close by Main street, stands Wolfe Hall, 
 
 a stone building, three stories high, with a basement, named in 
 memory of the late John David Wolfe, Esq., of New York City, 
 who advised the purchase of the Iowa College property by Bishop 
 Lee, and whose liberal gifts made this step possible. Wolfe Hall is 
 a lasting memorial of a good and generous man. Even on his 
 death-bed, this excellent churchman was not forgetful of this 
 charity, and with his last words he made provision for a gift to 
 Bishop Lee for the maintenance of the college, which largely owed 
 its inception and continued existence to his charity. In this sub- 
 stantial structure of stone are contained the college chapel, the 
 library, with upwards of seven thousand volumes, the cabinets, the 
 study-hall and recitation-rooms, with apartments for professors 
 and a limited number of students — all under the broad overhang- 
 ing roof, from the cupola of which is a view of wonderful beauty, 
 embracing the cit}', the river, the islands, the bluffs, and the neigh- 
 boring cities of Rock Island, Moline, and Milan, the homes and 
 haunts of a population of fifty thousand and more. 
 
 On the southeast corner of the college grounds stands Kemper 
 Hall, the preparatory and grammar school of Griswold College, with 
 accommodations for a head-master, three assistants, and forty boys. 
 This noble structure, just completed, perfect in its plan, and fitted 
 preeminently for its purpose, is one of the most attractive and best 
 equipped school buildings in the country. It was erected at a cost 
 of $25,000, by the trustees of the college, and has, since its opening 
 in September, 1SS5, offered to its patrons all the advantages prof- 
 fered by the great schools of Concord, Southboro', Faribault, and 
 Racine, adding to the attraction of a new and spacious hall, nobly 
 planned and completely furnished, a sound, churchly training, 
 coupled with the careful oversight and home restraints that can 
 only be had in a school of limited numbers. For good learning, 
 for culturing and improving surroundings, accompanied with the 
 advantages of a military drill, for the personal labor of an enthus- 
 iast in education and a devoted minister of Christ, for the loving 
 care and constant supervision of the Bishop of the Diocese, 
 Kemper Hall well deserves the fullest support. The curriculum of 
 study is that of our best eastern schools. The teachers are all tried 
 
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 men. The location combines healthfulness and ihe advantages of 
 easy access from north and south, east and west. Heated by 
 steam, Hghted by gas, with every provision for the comfort and 
 care of the boys, the school could not be !m{)roved. The home 
 attractions and the highest and holiest influences are maintained 
 by the constant intercourse of the boys with cuhivated men and 
 earnest christian instructors. The churchly character of the school 
 gives to its religious training a distinctiveness and point. The 
 Cathedral services on Sundays and the daily prayers at other times, 
 the presence of the Bishop and city clergy at the hall from day to 
 day, the receptions and other means of imparting a refinement of 
 manner and a familiarity with the requirements of a social life, will 
 all unite to give to Kemper Hall the foremost place among our 
 Iowa schools, and make it rank with those eastern institutions 
 which cannot be surpassed. 
 
 It is proposed, should the means be secured, to add to Kemper 
 Hall a gymnasium and college hall, to front on Eleventh street, and 
 to form part of the quadrangle contemplated as the final develop- 
 ment of the schools. $5,000 will put up and equip this mdispensa- 
 ble addition to our work, and give us a structure seventy-one feet 
 in front by thirty-one feet in width, in which all the apparatus for 
 the physical development of the students will be provided, and 
 there will be also a commodious hall for exhibitions, lectures, and 
 other purposes of the school. 
 
 On the northeast corner of the college grounds is Sheldon 
 Hall, formerly the residence of Professor David S. Sheldon, LL. D., 
 whose connection with the college dated back to its very birth, and 
 whose fame as a scientist and educator was not surpassed by that of 
 any savant in the west. Sheldon Hall is one of the most beautiful 
 of the creations of the architect of Kemper Hall and (new) St. 
 Katharine's Hall, Mr. E. S. Hammatt, and is a great addition to the 
 grounds. 
 
 Griswold College, which comprises the various institutions 
 known as " Bishop Perry's Schools," has a noble landed domain in 
 the heart of the city of Davenport, valued, with the buildings, at not 
 less than $150,000. Its endowments are nearly or quite $80,000. 
 
 This is exclusive of the property of St Katharine's Hall, to which 
 Miss Sarah Burr, of New York, bequeathed $30,000 (not yet re- 
 ceived), and of which the ground, buildings, and furnishing repre- 
 sent an outlay of nearly another $100,000. The endowed chairs 
 and special trusts of the college are as follows; 
 
 CAPITAL. 
 
 Ely Professorship 1121,325 
 
 Crocker Professorship 21,250 
 
 Anthon Professorship 11,300 
 
 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Professorship 20,000 
 
 Mary Buttles Scholarship Fund 5,000 
 
 George B. Boal Scholarship Fund 500 
 
 179,375 
 Sarah Burr bequest to the college, with accrued interest (not yet 
 
 received) |i 1,200 
 
 Sarah Burr bequest to the girls' school 33i6oo 
 
 |44,8oo 
 
 Descending the hill as fir as Third street, a walk of nearly two 
 miles brings one to Christ church, a very pretty timber church with 
 one hundred and fifty sittings, filled Sunday after Sunday with 
 a congregation drawn from the neighborhood, while the largest 
 church Sunday-school in the city attends the zeal and success of 
 the rector and his fellow-laborers. Beside the church is a pretty 
 brick rectory, erected at a cost of nearly $3,000. Christ church has 
 an endowment fund of $2,000, bequeathed to the parish by the late 
 Mrs. C. C. Cook. 
 
 Near by is the Clarissa C. Cook Home for the Friendless, 
 a noble charity founded by the devoted and liberal churchwo- 
 man whose name it bears, and endowed with a capital of nearly 
 $100,000. The home was erected at a cost of $20,000. 
 
 On one of the loftiest bluffs in the eastern part of the city, with 
 its outlook across the river upon the cities of Rock Island, Moline, 
 and Milan, stands preeminent St. Katharine's Hall, the Diocesan 
 school for girls, founded by Bishop Perry and opened in Septem- 
 ber, 1S84. 
 
 St. Katharine's grounds comprise six acres, and on the highest 
 point stands the Hall, which, as originally erected, was designed to 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 13 
 
 be the most palatial private residence in Iowa. Seventy-five thous- 
 and dollars were spent on the house and grounds; and when the 
 bequest of the late Miss Sarah Burr, of New York City, of $30,000 
 for the establishment of a girls' school, to be under the control of 
 the Bishop of Iowa, was announced, the first thought of Bishop 
 Perry was to secure this most desirable property. Negotiations 
 were at once entered upon, and in the summer of 1884 the 
 purchase was made, possession being given but a month before 
 the building, refitted and completely furnished for its new use, was 
 formally opened with an office of benediction, and devoted to its 
 Christian and churchly purpose. The school, placed by the Bishop 
 in the charge of Miss Emma A. Rice, for some years the accom- 
 plished and successful head of St. Mary's, Faribault, was filled 
 within a few weeks of its opening, and ere the close of the first 
 term the necessity for enlargement was evident. 
 
 Plans for an " annex," more than doubling the size and capac- 
 ity of the original structure, were adopted, and at the beginning of 
 the second year the entire building, with every convenience, and 
 even lu.xury, was opened to applicants, and was again filled to its 
 utmost capacity ere the first half of the school year had passed. 
 Such success, gained without resort to advertising or to any at- 
 tempt to underbid schools of a similar grade, is sufficient evidence 
 that Bishop Perry undertook this work not a moment too soon. 
 
 The further enlargement required was made in the summer of 
 1886, and although it was intended never to exceed the limit of 
 fifty-eight house-pupils, it was evident that provision for even this 
 number would not supply the demand for accommodations in this 
 popular school. The secret of this success is the combination here 
 offered of thorough culture united with personal oversight and 
 care, and accompanied by every possible attention to the comfort 
 and happiness of the pupils. The school is a Christian family. 
 The surroundings, the influences, the general tone and temper of 
 the school, are refining, culturing, home-like. Through the spa- 
 cious halls, corridors, library, reception and school rooms the 
 pupils move freely, and, while decorum and good order are main- 
 tained and constant personal oversight exercised, there is the fullest 
 
 liberty consistent with study and the necessary restraint of a loving. 
 Christian home. The furnishings of the school and recitation 
 rooms, the parlors, the dormitories, are all in exquisite taste, and 
 neither care nor pains nor lavish outlay have been spared to make 
 St. Katharine'.s, in everything save expense, the " Ogontz " of 
 the west. 
 
 There are fourteen teachers on the staff, and a limited number 
 of day-pupils are received, making the whole number under in- 
 struction at the hall in its second year between seventy and eighty, 
 and in its third year reaching one hundred. Every care has been 
 taken to ensure safety from fire and to obtain perfect ventilation and 
 the most complete sewerage. The immense boiler for the steam- 
 heating apparatus, with the various appliances for laundrying, are 
 all out of the hall in a building by themselves. Every device that 
 ingenuity can offer for the saving of labor and the quick and effi- 
 cient accomplishment of work is at hand. The numerous bath- 
 rooms afford capacity for a hundred or more baths each day. The 
 arrangements for cooking are sufficient for many more than the 
 school family can ever number. Ample provision is made for 
 acquiring the best table manners, and the monthly receptions, to 
 which special invitations are sent out from the ladies of the Hall, 
 and which have proved most enjoyable as well as most popular, 
 afford the opportunity to the girls to familiarize themselves with 
 the requirements of society; while full care is taken of each in- 
 dividual pupil in all matters of health and habits. 
 
 The children of the Hall attend morning prayer on Sundays at 
 the Cathedral. Evening prayer is said in the school-room until the 
 school chapel is built. During Advent and Lent the Bishop con- 
 ducts special services each week. 
 
 Such are the foundations for church work in Davenport: 
 Realty (land and buildings) valued at $350,000; furnishing (libra- 
 ries, cabinets, apparatus, bells, organs, etc.), $25,000; endowments 
 in hand or in prospect (the $40,000, with interest, of the Burr be- 
 quest not being paid over), $125,000; in brief, upwards of half a 
 million of dollars worth of property, of which a little more than 
 one-third of the whole sum was contributed outside of the Dio- 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 cese. The excess represents the appreciation of our property, the 
 gifts made from our own people, and the results of a wise and care- 
 ful husbandry. 
 
 There also exist two colleges for the edtication of 
 business men — the Davenport Business College^ since 
 1865, and the Iowa Commercial College^ of a more 
 recent date. 
 
 Private Schools are only nine in nttmber, of which 
 two are kiudergardens, one a free German school, and 
 the other six are parochial schools. 
 
 CHARITIES. 
 
 "i-C/li'tr 
 
 W%^ ilWiif -^i \ 
 
 
 cook's home for the friendless. 
 
 HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS. 
 
 Clarissa C. Cook's home for destitute and indigent females was 
 opened in the year 1882. After the building (the home of the 
 friendless) had been completed upon the fifteen-acre tract donated 
 by Mrs. Cook, in the western part of the city, at a cost of $20,000. 
 
 Women who are residents of Scott county, and over sixty years of 
 age, are here admitted as permanent inmates, upon paying an ad- 
 mission fee of 5^100. The building has a capacity for twenty-five 
 inmates. The Toundress has provided the institution with an en- 
 dowment of over $90,000, the interest of which is to be used annu- 
 ally by the trustees for the support of the home and its inmates. 
 
 THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. 
 (See Illustration, Page VIII., No. 23) 
 
 Through the benevolence of Mrs. Clarissa C. Cook, a suitable 
 building for a library, centrally located, on Brady and Si.xth streets, 
 has been erected at a cost of $13000, upon a lot purcliased with 
 the proceeds from individual donations It contains over lOjOoo 
 volumes of standard works. Upon the reading -tables are found 
 twelve leading magazines and eight newspapers. The number of 
 volumes annually drawn is about 13,400, and the number of visi- 
 tors 34,000. 
 
 IOWA soldiers' orphans' home. 
 
 (See Illuslration, Page IX., No. 26.) 
 
 The State ot Iowa can point with pride to what her loyal 
 citizens have done, and are doing, tor the orphans of her heroic 
 dead, and to what is being done for equally unfortunate indigent 
 children. 
 
 The soldiers' orphans' home was organized in 1863, and 
 opened for children in 1864, at Parinington; was removed to Dav- 
 enport in 1865, and occupied the barracks in what had been a 
 soldiers' camp during the war, the general government having 
 given them to the State of Iowa for this purpose. These tempo- 
 rary and unsuitable buildings gradually gave way to substantial and 
 permanent ones, which consist of one central building, 50x90 feet, 
 three stories high, to which is attached a dining-hall and kitchen, 
 66x92 feet, two stories high ; a school building, 35x68 feet ; sixteen 
 cottages, 31x51; laundry, with boiler-room, and a spacious barn; 
 all built of brick, except the barn, which is of wood, with stone 
 foundation. Since its organization upwards of fifteen hundred 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
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 soldiers' orphans have been cared for, of whom but forty-five now 
 remain. In 1876 the home was opened to indigent children, since 
 which time about five hundred have been received, of which num- 
 ber two hundred and sixty-four remain, making three hundred and 
 nine in all now at the home. 
 
 The support and maintenance of the indigent children is paid 
 for by the several counties from 
 which they are sent at the rate 
 of $100 per year for each child. 
 The state provides $10 per 
 month for the support of 
 soldiers' orphans. All salaries 
 and running expenses are paid 
 out of these amounts. 
 
 That the home is accom- 
 plishing the object for which 
 it was established is attested 
 by the fact that of the large 
 number who have already left 
 the home, very many are known 
 to be prosperous and happy, 
 and proud to say they were 
 brought up at the home. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Pierce, 
 as Superintendent and Matron, 
 with a body of efficient help- 
 ers, very successfully conducted 
 the affairs of the home for nine- 
 teen years. The present Superintendent and Matron are Gen. and 
 Mrs. A. C. Litchfield. 
 
 MERCY HOSPITAL. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page IX., No. 25.) 
 
 Mercy Hospital, in all of its departments, is one of the best 
 institutions of the kind in the country — one with which there is 
 not another in Iowa for comparison. The grounds cover about 
 
 thirty acres, located just outside of the city limits on the north. 
 The main building is a massive brick structure, four stories high, 
 and 60x150 feet in size. The institution was opened in December, 
 1868, and has grown to magnificent proportions. The entire 
 control and discipline is in the hands of the Sisters of Mercy. The 
 hospital is subject to constant visitations by county officials, who 
 
 point to it with a feeling of pride. 
 "Z i ~~^ The institution has the entire 
 
 confidence of the official board 
 and of the city physicians and 
 surgeons, who regularly visit 
 the place. The upper build- 
 ing, as shown in the cut, rep- 
 resents the St. John's Asylum, 
 which was built for the comfort 
 of the male insane patients. 
 The asylum has just been built 
 at a cost of $23,000. It has a 
 frontage of 45 feet, with a 
 depth of 91 feet, and the east 
 and west wings are 12x20 feet 
 each. 
 
 MERCY HOSPITAL. 
 
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS. 
 
 Of the extensiveness of the variotis btisiness 
 dealings of the citizens of Davenport, we give the 
 following instittitions, industries, man ti factories, and 
 other business branches as an approximate represen- 
 tation : 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 BANKING HOUSES. 
 
 The First National Bank^ organized June 27th, 
 1863 — the first in the United States under the national 
 banking law — with a capital of $100,000, a surplus of 
 $50,000, a deposit of $549,133, and undivided profits 
 of $60,000. 
 
 The Davenport National Bank^ organized in 1S65, 
 with a capital of $200,000, a surplus of $40,000, a de- 
 posit of $350,505, and undivided profits of $18,000. 
 
 The Citizens National Bank^ organized in 1868, 
 with a capital of $100,000, a surplus of $100,000, a de- 
 posit of $873,116, and undivided profits of $34,000. 
 
 The German Savings Bank^ organized in March, 
 
 1869, with a capital of $300,000, a surplus of $60,000, a 
 deposit of $2,584,938, and undivided profits of $92,375. 
 
 The Davenport Savings Bank, organized in March, 
 
 1870, with a capital of $120,000, a deposit of $1,084,182, 
 and undivided profits of $53,812. 
 
 The Scott County Savings Bank, organized in 
 December, 1883, with a cash capital of $50,000. There 
 has since been added by stock dividends $20,000; ac- 
 cordingly, the capital is now $70,000, deposits $660,000, 
 and undivided profits $90,000. 
 
 These savings banks pay depositors five per cent 
 per annum interest, and loan their money upon good 
 security. The savings in these three banks amount 
 to $4,329,120. 
 
 THE WHOLESALE TRADE, 
 
 the volume of which was estimated in 1881 at $8,000,- 
 000, in 1883 at $10,000,000, and may now amount to 
 
 over $12,000,000, is represented by thirty-six wholesale 
 houses, of which seven deal in wines and liquors ; four 
 in groceries and provisions; three in dry goods; two in 
 tobacco and cigars; two in cloths and clothing; two in 
 crockery and glassware; two in fruits; two in hardware; 
 one in boots and shoes; two in paper stock; one in coal 
 oil; one in hides, pelts, and tallow; one in iron and 
 wagon stock; one in paints, varnishes, and oils; one in 
 leather and saddlery; two in cand}', nuts, etc.; one in 
 carriages and buggies, and one in sash, doors, and 
 blinds. 
 
 THE RETAIL TRADE 
 
 is carried on by about seven hundred business firms, 
 including sixteen druggists. 
 
 MANUFACTORIES. 
 
 As taken from the statistical tables of the year 
 1882, the capital invested in manufacturing industries 
 amounted to -^4,610,280, the value of products to $g,- 
 874,006, and the number of hands employed to 2,290. 
 During the last four years these establishments have 
 considerably increased, and to-day all of them are in a 
 flourishing condition. 
 
 There are now in operation, two awning factories; 
 twenty bakeries ; twenty four blacksmithing establish- 
 ments; one blank-book manufactorj^ ; one boat-yard; 
 one boiler factory ; three book binderies ; fort3--four 
 boot and shoe factories ; three box factories ; three brass 
 foundries; five breweries; six brick-yards; one brush 
 factory; one bustle factory, emplo3'ing thirt}-- eight 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
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 hands ; four cand}^ factories ; one canning factory ; 
 thirty-nine carpenter shops; seven carriage factories; 
 seven carpet weavers; one cheese factory; two churn 
 factories; thirty-nine cigar factories, with a product of 
 13,743,425 cigars during the year ending December 
 31st, 1886; two cigar-box factories; two coffee and spice 
 mills; twentj^ confectioneries; four cooperies, employ- 
 ing eighty-five coopers ; two cracker factories ; one 
 creamery; forty dress makers; two dying works; three 
 flour mills; eight foundries and machine shops; three 
 furniture factories; one glucose factory, the first in 
 Iowa, employing ninety-five hands, and produced last 
 year 32,200,000 pounds of grape-sugar; three grist and 
 corn mills ; two gunsmiths ; six hair works ; nine har- 
 ness makers; eight hatters; one hay press; one horse- 
 collar factory; seven job-printing houses; one ladder 
 manufactory; nine laiindries; four malt houses; four 
 marble works; twenty-seven meat markets; twenty- 
 three merchant tailors; two mineral water manufac- 
 tories; four mustard factories; one oat meal mill ; four 
 packing - houses ; twenty -six paint shops; one paint 
 factory; one pants, shirt, and overall factory; one 
 piano factory; two plow factories; one pottery; two 
 pump factories; three sash, door, and blind factories; 
 four shirt factories; one show-case factory; two soap 
 factories; two soda water factories; seventy-nine stone 
 masons; one stove-polish factory; two tanneries; one 
 tent factory; one threshing machine factory; one trunk 
 factory; three vinegar works; sixteen wagon shops; 
 three washing-machine factories; one wheel factory; 
 
 sixteen watchmakers ; one wood engraver, and one 
 woolen mill. 
 
 OTHER BUSINESS BRANCHES AND OCCUPATIONS. 
 
 Six agricultural stores; six architects; fifty attor- 
 neys; one auctioneer; twenty-two barbers; one bill- 
 poster; ten book stores; twenty- nine brakemen; six 
 carpet stores; two cane chair repairers; eleven conduc- 
 tors; nine civil engineers; fourteen cigar stores; twelve 
 clothing stores; ten coal dealers; seven commission 
 houses ; three cutters and grinders ; four crockery 
 stores; nine dentists; sixteen druggists; fourteen dry 
 goods merchants ; two employment agencies ; seven fish 
 dealers; nine florists; fifteen flour and feed stores; three 
 fruit stores; ten furniture dealers; three furriers; thirty 
 grain dealers ; one hundred and five groceries ; eight 
 hardware dealers ; two harness dealers ; six hay and 
 straw dealers; two hospitals; one house-mover; five ice 
 dealers; twenty -five insurance agents; sixteen jewelers; 
 twelve hundred and forty-eight laborers ; four lime and 
 cement dealers ; fourteen livery stables ; two mercantile 
 agencies ; five midwives ; eleven milliners ; three music 
 stores; sixteen music teachers; nine newspapers; five 
 news stands; eight notion dealers; three ocean steam- 
 ship agencies ; two oil dealers ; three thousand opera- 
 tives ; six paint, oil, and glass dealers ; four dealers 
 in paper bags and boxes ; three paper hangers ; two 
 pattern-makers ; six photographic galleries ; forty-nine 
 physicians; seven dealers in pictures and picture - 
 frames ; seven plumbers and gas-fitters ; fifteen public 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 weighers ; one dealer in rags and iron ; eighteen real 
 estate agents ; four repair shops and stencil cutters ; 
 twenty-four restaurants ; one rubber-stamp factory; one 
 hundred and sixty-two saloon keepers; one sand dealer; 
 six second-hand stores ; ten seed stores ; eight sewing- 
 machine agents ; twelve stock dealers ; one stock-yard ; 
 six hundred students ; one hundred and forty-three 
 teachers ; one hundred and eightj'-four teamsters ; two 
 telegraph offices ; two tele- 
 phone companies; six toy 
 stores ; ninety-seven travel- 
 ing agents ; two trunk 
 dealers ; five undertakers ; 
 four veterinary surgeons, 
 and twelve wood dealers. 
 
 TRANSPORTATION 
 FACILITIES. 
 
 THE RAILROADS. 
 
 Forty-four railroad trains 
 sound their bells daily 
 through the city. 
 
 The Chicago^ Rock Island & Pacific Railway, with 
 its main line in Iowa, and the southwestern branch, 
 and the Albert Lea and its Illinois divisions, extends 
 over 1,700 miles of track. Just now a subscription of 
 liberal citizens to the amount of $10,600 has secured 
 the city the erection of new work-shops, with a capacity 
 of three hundred operatives. 
 
 DAVENPORT AND ROCK ISLAND ^ERR^■ 
 
 The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, with 
 a total length of over 4,450 miles, more than any other 
 single corporation in the world, is loading freight cars 
 in either of the three cities — Davenport, Rock Island, 
 and Moline — for au}^ point upon its line or connections. 
 Besides these, the city has, through the roads enter- 
 ing the City of Rock Island, railroad connections with 
 Indianapolis and Cincinnati, with the inexhaustible coal 
 
 fields of Coal Valley, and 
 Rock Island and Mercer 
 Counties, in the state of Illi- 
 nois, and with all points on 
 the line of the Chicago, 
 Burlington & Quincy i^rt'zZ- 
 rc«fl^, extending 3,714 miles. 
 The City Council has 
 granted several side-tracks 
 in the most liberal manner. 
 In the year 1882 the 
 Chicago, Rock Island & Pa- 
 cific Railway received for 
 this place 10,922 car loads, 
 and forwarded from here 
 10,486 car loads. In the same year 13,443 engines, 
 with trains attached containing 21,023 passenger 
 coaches and 209,438 freight cars, passed the govern- 
 ment bridge. 
 
 RIVER NAVIGATION. 
 
 Two steamboat lines and several independent boats, 
 besides the ferry boat, are engaged in carrying pass- 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
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 engers and freight on the Mississippi to and from this 
 port. Probably one thousand passengers are carried 
 
 and 988 rafts passed through the government draw ; in 
 1S86, 2,393 boats, 139 barges, and 784 rafts. The 
 
 from this point during the year. Hardly an hour | traffic and communication with the City of Rock 
 passes without a steamboat in sight ; and the electric Island is carried on by way of the government bridge 
 
 THE CITV OF ROCK ISLAND. 
 
 lamps attached to many boats during the last year 
 illuminate at night the picturesque shores in the most 
 gorgeous manner. In 1882, 2,614 boats, 394 barges, 
 
 and by the ferry-boat. What number of passengers or 
 what quantity of freight is carried by the ferry has 
 probably never been reported. In 1882, 332,481 teams, 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 and 534,058 foot passengers passed the bridge. The 
 Davenport and Rock Island Street-Railway Company 
 are in possession of the charter for a street-railway 
 over the bridge and the Island, granted by congress, 
 and also have a charter granted by the City of Daven- 
 port October 7th, 1885,. but have not yet succeeded in 
 making the connection of the tri-cities. 
 
 The Davenport street -cars run both waj-s every 
 fifteen minutes. 
 
 THE BUSY POST-OFFICE. 
 
 The solid progress of Davenport is pretty well illustrated in 
 the annual report of Postmaster De Armond. The statements will 
 interest the people all the more because they show a substantial 
 increase of business in Davenport. The financial statement for the 
 year 1886 shows the following receipts and disbursements, exclusive 
 of money-order business : 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 Stamps, envelopes, wrappers, and postal-cards 137,164.90 
 
 Newspaper and periodical stamps 838.24 
 
 Postage-due stamps 139.58 
 
 Waste paper and twine 11. 32 
 
 Box rents 550.75 
 
 Total f38>704.79 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 Railway mail service $iit3S7-5i 
 
 Carriers 6,460.12 
 
 Clerks 8,001.64 
 
 Rent and expense bills 2,576.14 
 
 Mail messenger 444.00 
 
 Deposited with Assistant Treasurer of U. S 97835.38 
 
 Total 138,704.79 
 
 MONEY-ORDER BUSINESS. 
 
 ISSUED. AMOUNT. 
 
 Number ilomeslic money-orders 6,013 | 61,615.40 
 
 Fees on domestic money-orders 562. 98 
 
 Number postal-notes 4,612 9,018.75 
 
 Fees on postal-notes 137.28 
 
 Number foreign money-orders 446 5,640.58 
 
 Fees on foreign money-orders 74.10 
 
 Surplus deposits from other offices 665,905.00 
 
 PAID. 
 
 Number domestic money-orders 12,942 189,288.74 
 
 Number postal-notes 7,4*<7 16,780.50 
 
 Number foreign money-orders 1,203 6,643.09 
 
 UNPAID. 
 
 Number money-orders 54 562.47 
 
 Number postal-notes 41 79.27 
 
 Surplus funds remitted to postmaster at Chicago . . 529,600.00 
 
 Grand total of money-order transactions. 11,485,908.18 
 
 LETTER CARRIER BUSINESS. 
 
 l8Ss. 1SS6. 
 
 Registered letters delivered 5,939 
 
 Mail letters delivered 1,398,312 1,716,946 
 
 Mail postal-cards delivered 234,753 273,052 
 
 Local letters delivered 76,952 136,727 
 
 Local postal-cards delivered 78,567 125,761 
 
 Newspapers delivered 604,838 788,868 
 
 Letters collected 630,830 838,753 
 
 Postal-cards collected 169,948 250,120 
 
 Newspapers collected 54i320 104,559 
 
 Postage on local matter 14.377-59 
 
 Carrier expenses 6,581.78 
 
 SPECIAL DELIVERY BUSINESS. 
 
 Number mail special letters delivered 922 
 
 Number local special letters delivered 499 
 
 Whole number special letters delivered 1,421 
 
 Number special letters failed of delivery 21 
 
 Number special letters for Sunday delivery 33 
 
 Number special letters arriving on II p. M. train 98 
 
 Number special letters mailed to other places 1,013 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 21 
 
 Number special stamps sold I>I50 
 
 Amount paid messengers $113.60 
 
 Average time of delivering special letters 23 minutes. 
 
 It will be seen from the ioreg;oing that the money-order trans- 
 actions amount to nearly $1,500,000. The important position of 
 the Davenport post-office is apparent. It is the depository for the 
 surplus money-order funds for about one hundred and fifty post- 
 offices in Iowa and Illinois, 
 
 The sum of nearly $10,000 deposited with the assistant treas- 
 urer of the United States at Chicago is the cash postal surplus 
 after paying employes' salaries, rent, and all other office expenses. 
 In other words. Uncle Sam has that amount of profit in the Daven- 
 port post-office. 
 
 The ligures show the greatly increased work of the letter- 
 carriers, who handled 998,857 more pieces of mail in 1886 than in 
 1885. The amount of work performed by these faithful servants 
 may be imagined from the statement that during the past year each 
 of the nine carriers handle an average of 1,561 pieces per day. 
 
 With a laudable pride in our city, it may be confidently 
 asserted that the Davenport post-office is earnestly striving to give 
 the people the very best and most efficient postal-service. 
 
 SOCIETIES. 
 
 The societies the citizens have formed and sustain 
 for benevolent, gymnastical, literary, musical, religious, 
 scientific, or other social purposes, are particularly the 
 following : 
 
 THE DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 
 
 Sketch by W. H. Pratt, Curator. 
 
 The Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences was organized 
 December 14th, 1867, by a few individuals who had long desired by 
 
 r 
 
 co-operation to increase their facilities for the pursuit of studies in 
 natural science, and especially to endeavor thus to encourage an 
 interest in this direction throughout the community. They accord- 
 ingly began by the ado|jtion of a constitution setting forth as the 
 object of the association " the increase and diftusion of a knowl- 
 edge of the natural sciences by the establishment of a museum, the 
 reading and publication of original papers, and other suitable 
 means," and the late Professor D. S. Sheldon was elected president. 
 Several of the organizers transferred their own private collections 
 to the Academy as a nucleus of the " museum " which it was hoped 
 to establish. 
 
 The society commenced its existence without any funds what- 
 ever, and the first initiation fees were applied to the purchase of 
 one plain case to contain the specimens contributed. This was 
 located and the meetings held in the real estate agency office of 
 one of the original members, in the present post-office block, corner 
 of Third and Perry streets. 
 
 A considerable number of persons were immediately elected as 
 corresponding members, thus soliciting their interest, influence, and 
 co-operation ; and several of them responded very promptly and 
 kindly, and additions to the collections soon began to come in from 
 associations and individuals. 
 
 Monthly meetings were held, to which the public were invited ; 
 and as the new organization began to attract the attention of 
 citizens, new members were received and their fees were appro- 
 priated to procuring additional cabinet-cases as they were required, 
 and ere long more space was needed than the small quarters where 
 the Academy was born could afford. 
 
 In 1868 a proposition received from the Library Association 
 offering the privilege of a joint occupancy of their rooms on the 
 third floor, northeast corner of Brady and Second streets, was 
 accepted, and the cabinets and books were placed there and meet- 
 ings held there for over four years. 
 
 Next the Academy rented a small back room on the second 
 floor, first door east of the Davenport National Bank, which was 
 its home for one year, during which time several of the natural 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 history specimens and books were destroyed by a fire- which 
 occurred in the building ; fortunately, however, the loss sustained 
 by the Academy was very small. From this place the institution 
 was moved, in 1874, into rooms on the second floor of the Odd 
 Fellows' building, on Brady street above Fifth, where it remained 
 until January, 1878. 
 
 In 1873 the Academy turned its attention to the exploration of 
 the ancient mounds which were found to be very numerous, though 
 hitherto quite neglected, and it was discovered that the Davenport 
 Academy was situated in the midst of one of the richest fields for 
 such researches in the whole country. The first explorations were 
 made in the mounds at Albany, Illinois, thirty-five miles up the 
 river on the Illinois side, with results which gave encouragement to 
 pursue the work, and from this time forward the Academy con- 
 tinued the investigations chiefly under the direction and by the 
 active efforts of Reverend J. Gass. Thus the search has been ex- 
 tended, and hundreds of mounds explored throughout Scott, Mus- 
 catine, and Louisa counties, Iowa, and Rock Island and Mercer 
 counties, Illinois, and with what may certainly be considered quite 
 remarkable success, having resulted in bringing together by far the 
 largest collection ever made of the stemless "curved-base" mound 
 pipes, a type totally unknown to any existing tribe on the continent; 
 a large number of primitive implements of hammered copper, many 
 of them still showing their ancient cloth wrappings, impregnated 
 with and preserved by the carbonate of copper ; and very numer- 
 ous beads, charms, and other ornaments, made of shell, bone, horn, 
 and teeth. Aside from this, and in addition to the numerous scat- 
 tering contributions from other parties. Captain W. P. Hall, by his 
 persistent labors, chiefly in the lower Mississippi valley, has added 
 to the collections several thousand ancient stone and flint imple- 
 ments from almost every part of the country, and many hundreds 
 of specimens — some very remarkable ones, too — of the ancient 
 pottery of the southern mound-builders. A valuable collection has 
 also been secured of human crania from the mounds both north 
 and south ; all together constituting one of the finest museums of 
 archaeological relics in the United States. An especial value 
 
 attaches to these collections from the fact that almost all of the 
 specimens have been obtained by the direct researches of members 
 of the Academy, and thus all the circumstances of their discovery 
 are perfectly known, instead of having been received at second or 
 third hands, and of uncertain history. 
 
 Although the especial work above referred to has commanded 
 particular attention, the general objects of the institution have not 
 been lost sight of, and original observation and investigation have 
 been carried on in other branches of natural science, as the means 
 and opportunity of the several members would permit. 
 
 In the fall of 1875 it was decided to undertake the publication 
 of the proceedings and work of the Academy ; and in the next year, 
 mainly through the active exertions of a number of enthusiastic and 
 public-spirited ladies. Volume I. of the " Proceedings" was brought 
 out. This was quite extensively distributed, and exchanges solic- 
 ited, and the verdict of the scientific world upon the work thus far 
 of this little western institution was awaited with considerable 
 anxiety. On the whole, this verdict proved decidedly favorable, 
 more so than those engaged in the work had dared to expect. 
 Since that time the publication has been continued more or less 
 irregularly, as circumstances would permit, and four well-illustrated 
 volumes of over 300 pages each have been published, and the fifth 
 is now (1887) in progress. From the entire want of a publication 
 fund, the successful prosecution of this work has been one of great 
 difficulty, but the means have been procured and the work con- 
 stantly pushed on, chiefly by the unremitting efforts and able 
 management of Mrs. M. L. D. Putnam, Chairman of the Publica- 
 tion Committee. These volumes contain full descriptions of the 
 archaeological investigations made, and of the remarkable collec- 
 tion thus secured, with numerous papers on original researches in 
 geology and paleontology, botany, conchology, and various other 
 subjects, by members and other contributors, and an especially im- 
 portant and thorough monograph on the Solpugidae, with other 
 entomological studies, by the late J. Duncan Putnam, and have 
 been widely distributed, not only throughout the United States, but 
 also in foreign lands, and have made the institution, though a 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 23 
 
 young, small, and pecuniarily feeble one, well and favorably known 
 in every civilized country. 
 
 In 1877, by the munificence of a wealthy lady ol our city, 
 Mrs. Patience V. Newcomb, the Academy became the owner of a 
 iavorably situated building-lot. This was presented uncondition- 
 ally, but the Academy immediately proceeded, largely through the 
 influence and direct efforts of the ladies above mentioned, to pro- 
 cure means by contributions, entertainments, and life-memberships, 
 to erect a building for the museum, library, meetings, and all the 
 purposes of such an institution. A plan was adopted providing 
 such a building as seemed desirable, and the rear portion, which 
 was as much as the means at hand would allow, was built at a cost 
 of #14,500, and the institution was moved into it in January, 1878. 
 Since that time the work of the several departments has gone 
 steadily on, though often slowly, and though the workers are few 
 and some of the best already gone forever, additional ones are 
 gained from time to time, and among those who cannot take an 
 active part the friends and well-wishers are many, and large and 
 important collections have often been added in each department. 
 The museum now contains something interesting and instructive in 
 almost every department of natural science, including many very 
 beautiful specimens, ami one of the most important and valuable 
 collections in archaeology in the country, in some respects quite 
 unequaled. 
 
 As the direct result of the publication and distribution of the 
 Proceeding.^, a valuable scientific library has been built up, contain- 
 ing over 6,000 volumes of scientific books, including government 
 and state surveys, proceedings of great numbers of scientific socie- 
 ties, scientific, historical, and archaeological works, and many agri- 
 cultural, mechanical, and technical journals, etc. 
 
 For several years past a curator has been employed, whose 
 whole time is given to the care of the building and the work 
 required in connection with the library and museum. The rooms 
 are open for a number of hours every day, without charge for 
 admission, and the visitors number several thousand in the course 
 of each year. 
 
 It is worthy of note that while this institution has become 
 widely and favorably known, many similar attempts in diflferent 
 parts of the country during the same period — indeed a large pro- 
 portion of them — have failed from want of interest and support. 
 Some of the circumstances which have made this survival and meas- 
 urable degree of success possible are : First. The fact that in its 
 inception the Davenport Academy was based upon work, and did 
 not wait for " endowments," " state aid," or other outside support. 
 Second. It was situated in a rich field for researches, such as could 
 be successfully conducted without much money. Third. It had 
 enlisted in its support a few determined, unselfish workers who were 
 willing and eager to devote their available time and means to the 
 interests of science and this institution, to make it instrumental in 
 the great object of promoting " the increase and diffusion of knowl- 
 edge." Fourtli. It wisely adopted and persistently held to the plan 
 of publishing its Proceedings ; and finally, though by no means of 
 least importance, women have from the start joined earnestly in 
 the work, ant! been welcomed to the councils and offices of the 
 institution. 
 
 THE CHURCHES. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page VIII., No. 21.) 
 
 Thirty-two churches and one synagogue represent the religious 
 societies of tiie city. Of the nine Christian denominations, there 
 are four Baptist, four Catholic, one Christian, three Congregational, 
 five Episcopal, four Lutheran, six Methodist, four Presbyterian, and 
 one Unitarian. 
 
 Davenport is also the see city of the Bishop of the Roman 
 Catholic Diocese of Davenport, containing the southern half of the 
 state, and the sec city of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the 
 Diocese of Iowa. 
 
 LODGES, ETC. 
 
 (See Illuslratioti, Page X., No. 33.) 
 
 About fifty-five lodges and eighteen other secret societies are 
 organized and divided as follows : 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 Five lodges of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons — now en- 
 gaged in building their Masonic Temple, at the northeast corner of 
 Third and Main streets, at a cost of over #60,000 ; seven lodges 
 of the Ancient Order of United Workmen; one Ancient Order of 
 Hibernians ; one of the Catholic Knights of America ; one Danish 
 Brotherhood of America ; one Danish Ladies' Society of America ; 
 five lodges of Druids ; one Free Brotherhood ; two lodges of Haru- 
 gari ; five Indepedent Order of Odd Fellows ; one Iowa Legion of 
 Honor; one Irish National League; one of the Knights and Ladies 
 of Honor; four of Knights of Pythias; two orders of the Knights of 
 Labor, and five other labor organizations ; one Modern Woodmen 
 of America; one National Union; one Royal Arcanium ; one V. A. 
 S. Fraternity; seven lodges of the United Brotherhood of Iowa 
 one Independent Order of B'nai Brith. Besides these there are: 
 One Grand Army of the Republic ; one of the Sons of Veterans ; 
 one of the Army of the White Cross, and fifteen relief and sick 
 societies. 
 
 FORTY- SIX OTHER ASSOCIATIONS. 
 
 About twenty societies are formed and maintained for social, 
 literary, and musical purposes. Three societies belong to Grace 
 Cathedral ; three to St. Marguerite's Cathedral ; three to Trinity 
 Church ; three Temperance Societies ; one Young Men's Christian 
 Association, and one Military Association — Company " B," Second 
 Regiment, First Brigade, I. N. G.; two Boat Clubs ; two Shooting 
 Associations ; one Cremation Society ; two Charitable Societies. 
 Particular to mention are the Davenport Loan and Building Asso- 
 ciation ; the Old Settlers' Association ; the Scott County Medical 
 Society, and the Davenport Board of Trade, organized in 1S55 by 
 a few enterprising and public-spirited business men for the pur- 
 pose: "To collect and record such local and general statistical 
 information relating to commerce and manufactures as may pro- 
 mote the interests of Davenport, and to protect and advance the 
 welfare of the commercial and manufacturing, and all other classes 
 of citizens; to promote just and equitable principles in trade; to 
 establish uniibrmity in the commercial usages of the city." It has 
 done valuable services in promoting business interests, railroad 
 
 connections, in making efforts for the building of the Hennepin 
 Canal and the Davenport, Iowa & Dakota Railroad. It is the 
 parent association of the Produce Exchange, which was organized 
 in the spring of 1882 by a number of dealers in grain and produce, 
 including millers and pork-packers It now has about thirty- five 
 members. It receives daily market reports from all commercial 
 centers in the United States, and opens its rooms to strangers. 
 
 The two Davenport Turner Societies, of wiiich the Davenport 
 Turn-Gemeinde, the first society of the kind in Iowa, embraces 
 about four hundred members. It is now engaged in building a 
 new hall at the southwest corner of Scott and Third streets, at a 
 cost of $70,000. (See Illustration, Page VIII., No. 24). 
 
 THE ADVANCE CLUB. 
 
 An extract from the annual report to the Advance Club by its 
 President, Robert Krause : 
 
 Allow me to congratulate you upon the encouraging outlook 
 and new manufacturing and building enterprises already secured 
 since our organization fifteen months ago, and the confident feeling 
 existing among all of our citizens as to the future prosperity of our 
 lovely city ; and allow me to briefly mention what projects were 
 either in part or in whole brought to a point of realization by the 
 joint efforts of your Board of Directors and members of the Club. 
 The first and most important was the petition for a railroad ta.x, 
 the victory for progress at the polls, and again in the district court. 
 At present we are patiently waiting the decision of the supreme 
 court, which I trust will not fail to approve the efforts of those of 
 our citizens who have no other desire than to build up our city, 
 extend our commerce, and erect factories and work-shops for the 
 people. Should the supreme court unfortunately decide against us, 
 it will nevertheless be admitted by all of our fair-minded citizens 
 that this Davenport, Iowa & Dakota Railroad project has been 
 principally instrumental in waking up our people, and if the tax 
 now fails in consequence of technical errors committed, and could 
 be again submitted to the people, it would be carried by an over- 
 whelming majority. 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 25 
 
 NEW ENTERPRISES FOUNDED. 
 
 The second enterprise, already fully established, and promising 
 to double its capacity very soon, is the Bettendorf Metal Wheel 
 Company, in the old Donahue 
 machine - shops, which began 
 operations late last fall, is now 
 giving steady employment to 
 sixty mechanics. 
 
 The third is the incorpora- 
 tion of the Canning Works, for 
 which enterprise the buildings 
 and machinery will be erected 
 immediately, and which, during 
 the coming season, will give 
 employment to about two hun- 
 dred hands, and next year 
 probably three hundred. 
 
 The fourth is the enlarge- 
 ment of the Chicago, Rock 
 Island & Pacific Railway shops 
 to more than double their 
 present capacity, which now 
 we can no longer doubt : and 
 before another winter, will 
 give employment to probably 
 two hundred and fifty mechan- 
 ics, while in the meantime the 
 Railroad Company employ 
 more builders and laborers 
 than our present population 
 can furnish. 
 
 Besides those projects above mentioned, several new minor 
 enterprises have been established during the past six months in our 
 city, and others have been increased in capacity, all of which 
 employ fully one hundred hands in addition to the regular force 
 
 THE PROPOSED HENNEPIN CANAL. 
 
 heretofore employed, which includes the Moeller & Aschermann 
 Manufacturing Company, the Globe Plow Works, the Artificial 
 Stone Company, and the Robert Krause Overall Factory. Besides 
 all of these, I know of important projects now under consideration, 
 which, however, I cannot men- 
 tion here. 
 
 To add to all of the above, 
 there is, in consequence of our 
 citizens' confidence in the 
 future growth and prosperity 
 of our city, already a building 
 boom inaugurated that prom- 
 ises to exceed a half-million 
 dollars within the next twelve 
 months. As a part of the new 
 buildings may be mentioned 
 the Masonic Temple, the 
 Turner Hall and Opera House, 
 the Court House, the new Bap- 
 tist Church, the new addition 
 to the St. James Hotel, and 
 four new brick business blocks, 
 also many new elegant res- 
 idences, which aggregate fully 
 $ioc,ooo. It is safe to add that 
 the enterprises and buildings 
 mentioned will necessitate the 
 drawing to this city of a large 
 force of mechanics and labor- 
 ers, who will find ready employ- 
 ment at remunerative wages. 
 Davenport, Iowa, March 15, '87. 
 
 HISTORICAL REVIEW. 
 
 A history of Davenport, tracing back the events to 
 Adam, or to the discovery of America, or even to the 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 14LAi_k HAWK 
 
 time of the declaration of independence, would be an 
 impossibility. History, however, informs us that the 
 Mississippi river was discovered in the year 1519; 
 that the French built the City of New 
 Orleans in 171 7, and ceded the large 
 territory of Louisiana in 1763 to Spain, 
 who returned it in iSoo to the French 
 Republic, which controlled it until 
 1803, when it was sold by Napoleon to 
 the United States for $11,250,000 ; but 
 the aborigines of Davenport never 
 owed any allegiance to either France 
 or Spain, nor had they any official connection with 
 these governments ; only in the year 1804 we learn 
 that tliey came in contact with civilization, when the 
 Sacs, Saukees, and Musquakees or Foxes ceded to 
 the United States, through General Harrison, all the 
 lands lying on Rock river and elsewhere, but this 
 treaty was not signed by the celebrated Black Hawk 
 until the year 1S16, being the same year that Fort 
 Armstrong (page I., Views of Rock Island Arsenal) 
 was built by the United States upon the western point 
 of the Island of Rock Island, nearly opposite the City 
 of Davenport, and right above the cave wherein the 
 great and good Indian spirit lived. Black Hawk is 
 reported to have spoken at that time the following 
 words: "We did not, however, object to their building 
 a fort on the island, but we were very sorry, as this 
 was the best island on the Mississippi, and had long 
 been the resort of our young people during the sum- 
 
 mer. It was our garden which supplied us with straw- 
 berries, blackberries, plums, apples, and nuts of various 
 kinds; and its waters supplied us with pure fish, being 
 situated in the rapids of the river. In my early life I 
 spent many happy days on this island. A good spirit 
 had care of it, who lived in a cave in the rocks immedi- 
 ately under the place where the fort now stands, and 
 has often been seen by our people. He was white, with 
 large wings like a swan's, but ten times larger. We 
 were particular not to make much noise in that part of 
 the island which he inhabited for fear of disturbing 
 him ; but the noise of the fort has since driven him 
 away, and no doubt a bad spirit has taken his place." 
 
 In 1823 the larger portion of the Foxes and Sacs 
 removed across the Mississippi, headed by the Chief 
 Keokuk, but Black Hawk refused to vacate the Sac 
 Village on Rock river. 
 
 In 1827 difficulties commenced between the white 
 settlers and the Indians, and while the Indians were 
 absent on their periodical hunt some reckless frontier- 
 men applied the torch to some forty lodges, which 
 were consumed. 
 
 In 1829 the lands upon the Rock river were thrown 
 into the market, against the terms of the treaty of 
 1804; and in 1830 and 1831 Black Hawk and his fol- 
 lowers were notified by the government agent at the 
 island to move, or troops would be sent to drive them 
 off. During this time, in the spring of 1831, the 
 squaws had commenced planting corn, which the 
 whites had plowed up, whereupon Black Hawk became 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 27 
 
 so enraged that he tlireatened to dri\e the whites away 
 by force, but the Governor of Illinois ordered out the 
 militia, and General Gaines, with 1,600 men, took pos- 
 session of the Sac Village, and Black Hawk retreated 
 across the river. In 
 the spring of 1S32 
 Black Hawk again 
 tried to recover his 
 lands; but after failing 
 to receive assistance 
 from other tribes, he 
 sent his women, chil- 
 dren, and baggage up 
 Rock river in canoes, 
 and ventured an at- 
 tempt to capture Fort 
 Armstrong; but not 
 succeeding therein, he 
 followed his people up 
 the river. The troops 
 under General Atkin- 
 .son, Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Zachary Ta3'lor with 
 Lieutenant Jefferson 
 Davis under him, and 2,000 Illinois volunteers under 
 command of General Whiteside — Abraham Lincoln 
 was Captain under him — followed the Indians up 
 Rock river, and after miich fighting, from the battle 
 at Stillman's Run, May 15th, where 50 braves routed 
 300 troops, until the battle at Bad Axe, on the Missis- 
 
 BLACK HAWK S U'ATCH-TOWRR. 
 
 sippi, August 2d, where Black Hawk's whole band was 
 nearly destroyed, the Black Hawk War came to an end. 
 General Scott, with troops from the east, arrived at 
 Prairie Du Chien a few days after the battle, and went 
 
 from there down the 
 Mississippi to conclude 
 a new treaty with the 
 Indians, on September 
 2ist, 1832, at the old 
 depot grounds of the 
 Chicago, Rock Island 
 & Pacific Railway, 
 within the present 
 City of Davenport, by 
 which six million acres 
 were ceded to the 
 United States for an 
 annual payment of 
 $20,000 for thirty 
 years, the payment of 
 the debts of the tribe, 
 and the support of a 
 blacksmith and gun- 
 smith among them. In 
 the treaty the Chief Keokuk had a section of land 
 reserved to the wife of Antoine LeClaire, under con- 
 dition that she should build a house on the spot which 
 General Scott's marquee had occupied during the 
 treaty. This section was surveyed as the " LeClaire 
 Reserve," and in its southwest corner the original 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 town of Davenport was laid out by Major Gordon 
 into fort}' -two blocks, three of which were public 
 squares. " The necessity of a town between the upper 
 
 and lower rapids, the 
 unexampled fertility of 
 the adjacent country, 
 the magnificent beauty 
 of the location, its free- 
 dom from malarial 
 marshes and facilities 
 for drainage, and the 
 propinquit}^ of immense 
 opportunity for water- 
 power," were reasons 
 * advanced for the choice 
 of the location. The 
 town was named after 
 Colonel George Davenport, a native of England, who, 
 after ten years' service in the United States Army, was 
 employed in the commissary department at the time 
 Fort Armstrong was built on Rock Island, where he 
 settled with his family (page i. Views of Rock Island 
 Arsenal), and where he was murdered by robbers, July 
 4th, 1845. He was generally known and much beloved 
 for his great humanity. 
 
 So the town had been surveyed and received its 
 name, but it was not legally organized until it received 
 its charter by the legislature of the Territory of Iowa, 
 on January 25th, 1839. February nth, 1842, it re- 
 ceived a new charter, which the citizens adopted by 
 
 COLONIiL GEORGE DAVENPORT. 
 
 a vote of seventy-two against ten. This act was 
 repealed b}- an act to incorporate the City of Daven- 
 port, passed and approved February 5th, 1851, by the 
 legislature of the State of Iowa — organized since 1846 
 — and adopted by a vote of ninety-seven against 
 seventy -one, which, with the amendments thereto, 
 passed January 24th, 1853 (extending limits), Janu- 
 uar}' 22d, 1855, ^^1^ January 23d, 1S57, constitutes the 
 present organic law of the city, and guarantees to its 
 citizens self-government under the laws of the land. 
 
 The original seal of the town was an American 
 eagle of the twenty-five cent piece — adopted May 4th, 
 1839 — but November 30th, the same 3'ear, changed to 
 an American eagle of a ten cent piece, for which the 
 present seal — the half-dollar American coin, having 
 on it the Goddess of Liberty — was substituted June 
 29th, 1844. 
 
 In May, 1836, the first lots were sold at public 
 auction, mostly to speculators who had arrived from St. 
 Louis on a boat ; but only fifty or sixty lots were dis- 
 posed of, at from $300 to $600 apiece. In 1838 single 
 lots brought onl}' from $50 to $200; and in 1850-51 
 some of the poorest situated lots were sold at only $15, 
 while in the years 1855-56 the prices went up to $4,000 
 and $5,000; depreciated again in the beginning of the 
 rebellion to $1,000, but since that time gradually ad- 
 vanced to $16,000 apiece. 
 
 In the same year, 1836, the first hotel — the "Daven- 
 port Hotel" — was erected, which still stands in a dilapi- 
 dated condition on the northwest corner of Front and 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 29 
 
 Ripley streets. Two blocks below the hotel, in the 
 same year, James Macintosh opened the first grocer}?, 
 at the corner of Third and Ripley streets, and D. 
 C. Eldridge opened another shortly afterward ; A. 
 McGregor opened the first law office ; A. LeClaire 
 became the first United States Postmaster. Postage 
 amounted to twenty-five cents. The mail arrived once 
 a week from the east via Chicago, and once in two 
 weeks from Dubuqne via Davenport to Fort Des 
 Moines (now Montrose).' In the same year, A. 
 LeClaire established the ferrj? — a mud boat, which 
 was substituted by a horse-ferry, and this was super- 
 ceded by a steam-ferry in 1852. 
 
 In 1837 D. C. Eldridge erected the first patent 
 flour mill, operated by horse-power; Doctor A. G. 
 Donalson became the first physician ; Harvey Leonard 
 operated the first brick-yard, at Sixth and Harrison 
 streets ; A. Logan started the first printing-ofiBce, and 
 published the first newspaper, " The Iowa Sun," and 
 " Davenport and Rock Island News." 
 
 May 25th, 1839, St. Anthony's church was dedi- 
 cated — the first house of worship in the town. The same 
 year the first fire company was organized ; the Misses 
 O'Hara opened the first seminary for young ladies, and 
 a Mr. Blood taught the first school ; Riddle & IMorton 
 opened the first paint-shop ; S. P. Whitney the first 
 wagon factory ; C. Lesslie the first drug-store ; L. B. 
 Collamer the first shoe-store ; Jacob Lailor the first 
 harness-shop ; a Mr. Armitage the first butcher-shop, 
 and R. L. Linbaugh the first watch and jewelry store. 
 
 In 1840 Antoine LeClaire had completed the erec- 
 tion of the " LeClaire House," at a cost of $35,000 ; it 
 was for a long period favorably known as the best hotel 
 on the upper Mississippi. It contained a reading-room, 
 with fort}? newspapers, a barber-shop, and the post- 
 office. The Davenport Lyceum was organized, where 
 once a week social, political, moral, and other questions 
 were discussed. The same year, on August 24th, the 
 contest about the county seat, which had raged between 
 Rockingham and Davenport, was decided in favor of 
 the latter place. Davenport received three hundred 
 and eighteen votes against two hundred and twenty-one 
 for a ninety-acre tract of land at the mouth of Duck 
 Creek. 
 
 In 1 84 1 the first brick buildings were erected, 
 among them the court-house and the county jail, with- 
 out cost to the county. The court-house was taken 
 down in 1886 to make room for a new one (see page X., 
 No. 32) now in course of erection at a cost of $150,000. 
 The old court-house was sold at auction and removed. 
 In August of the same year Alfred Sanders established 
 the " Davenport Gazette." 
 
 In 1846 John Bechtel erected the first plow factor}-, 
 and A. C. Fulton the first steam flour mill. 
 
 In 1847 appeared the newspaper, " Democratic 
 Banner." Cook & Sargent organized the first banking 
 house, which failed in 1859. The first large German 
 emigration, consisting of twenty persons, arrived di- 
 rectly from Schleswig Holstein, Germany. In 184S M. 
 Frahm erected the first beer brewery, at the same place 
 
3° 
 
 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 uow occupied by the large brewery of Frahni & Son ; 
 his products were from two and one-half to five barrels 
 per week. 
 
 In spite of the hard times following the financial 
 crisis of the year 1857, when most all money had dis- 
 appeared, and the "Sun" complained that in Davenport 
 " even counterfeit paper and bogus money have almost 
 totally disappeared," the town had grown gradually, 
 and even so progressed in business that in 1849 there 
 was reported as imports: Merchandise, $148,500; pine 
 and oak lumber, 790,000 feet; shingles, 1,120,000; 
 square timber, 6,000 feet; lath, 310,000, and reaping 
 machines, 42. There was reported as exports : Flour, 
 30,200 barrels; pork, 1,425 barrels; lard, 720 barrels ; 
 wheat, 16,700 bushels ; barley, 5,020 bushels ; beans, 
 200 bushels; potatoes, 800 bushels; onions, 11,160 
 bushels; flax-seed, 120 bushels; bran and shorts, 3,200 
 barrels; hides, 20,400, and bacon, 212 hogsheads. 
 
 In the year 1850 the citizens commenced talking 
 about the necessity of railroad connection with the east. 
 The project of a road from the eastern shore of the 
 Mississippi to LaSalle, there to connect with the canal 
 from Chicago, was so much favored that the Davenport 
 people had already siibscribed their share of $75,000 
 before the Rock Islanders had discovered the import- 
 ance of the undertaking. About the same time there 
 was much talk about the bridging of the river and 
 the building of a road from Davenport west, through 
 the state to the Missouri river. In November the 
 
 Rock Island & LaSalle Railroad Company was organ- 
 ized, and $85,000 in stock taken by Scott county. 
 
 In April, 185 1, the subscription books of the 
 Chicago & Rock Island Railroad were closed, after 
 $300,000 had been subscribed. Judge Grant, of Dav- 
 enport, was elected president of both of said companies. 
 
 On May 2 2d, 1852, the city loaned $40,000 for the 
 construction of the Chicago «Si Rock Island Railroad. 
 February 2 2d, 1854, the road was completed to Rock 
 Island, and the connection made between the Atlantic 
 and the Mississippi. On September ist, the same year, 
 the corner-stone of the bridge was laid, and under a 
 charter from the State of Illinois, dated January 17th, 
 1853, the erection commenced in spite of an order from 
 Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War, issued to the 
 United States Marshal for the District of Illinois, to 
 clear the island of all intruders. This order was not 
 made applicable to the bridge contractors and their 
 operatives. The cost of the structure was estimated at 
 $250,000. Over the main channel of the river, on the 
 Davenport side, the length was 1,582 feet; on the Illi- 
 nois side, 474 feet. The elevation was 21 feet above 
 high water mark, and it was to be completed by 
 December ist, 1855. 
 
 On April 21st, 1856, the first locomotive — " Des 
 Moines" — passed over the bridge. The first bridge 
 (page I., Views of Rock Island Arsenal) over the 
 Mississippi was now a fait accompli^ in spite of the 
 vehement opposition of all steamboat companies and 
 all steamboat men ; but the opposition was not yet at 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 31 
 
 an end, because, when on May 6th, 1856, the steam- 
 boat Effie Afton, while passing through the draw, had 
 driven against a pier, taken fire, communicated the same 
 to the bridge so that a portion thereof was destroyed, and 
 the boat had become a total wreck, the owners of the 
 boat brought suit against the bridge company, and the 
 enemies of the same made their last effort to induce 
 the United States Supreme Court to declare it an 
 obstruction to navigation and a nuisance erected con- 
 trary to the Constitution of the United States, but 
 without result. 
 
 The first bridge was removed after the National 
 Government had completed the present bridge, which 
 was turned over to the war department in February, 
 1873. This monumental structure (page VII., Nos. 
 17 and 18, and page IX., No. 34) is 13^ feet above 
 natural high water, 1,550^ feet long, containing five 
 spans and one draw. The wagon-road and foot-walks 
 are on the lower deck, which is 12^ feet high; the 
 railroad track is on the upper deck, which is 17 feet 
 high; total width, 16^3 feet. The cost, as estimated 
 June 27th, 1886, is about $1,296,292.11. 
 
 In January, 1853, the Mississippi & Missouri Rail- 
 road Company was organized by Ebenezer Cook, James 
 Grant, John P. Cook, Hiram Price, and others, with a 
 capital stock of $6,000,000, in shares of $100 each, to 
 extend the expected Chicago & Rock Island Railroad 
 to Council Bluffs, on the Missouri river. July 9th, 
 1853, the city took $75,000, for which bonds were 
 issued; the county took $50,000, and $125,000 were 
 
 taken b}^ individual subscription. September ist, the 
 first ground was broken under great festivities, and 
 December ist, 1854, 57 miles of the road was completed 
 — to Iowa City, then the State Capitol. This road was 
 thereafter extended to Council Bluffs and Oskaloosa, 
 Iowa. On September 25th, 1866, the entire road, 
 including the land grant allowed by congress and the 
 state legislature in 1856, was sold by order of the 
 United States Court for the District of Iowa at public 
 auction to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway 
 Company for $2,100,000. This land grant contained, 
 according to the last report of the Iowa Railroad Com- 
 missioner, 550,193 acres, for which, in the course of 
 time, over $4,000,000 was realized. This road has now 
 920 miles in operation in the state. 
 
 The Davenport & St. Paul Railroad, now in pos- 
 session of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway 
 Company, a corporation operating over 3,400 miles of 
 road in the state, received its right-of-way and depot- 
 grounds on Front street, between Harrison and Ripley, 
 May nth, 1870. The road was completed in 1872, 
 and the citizens took about $125,000 in its stock. 
 
 The Davenport, Iowa & Dakota Railroad Company 
 received its right-of-way from the city September 12th, 
 1S82, and September 25th, 1886, the citizens voted a 
 railroad tax of about $125,000 — one-half payable in 
 1887 and one-half in 1888 — which tax has just been 
 decided legal by the supreme court. 
 
 The city has two street-railways in operation: The 
 City Railway, running from east to west along Front 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 and Third streets, received its charter in 1867, and the 
 Central Railway, running from Second street north on 
 Brady to Central Park, and branching off on Fifteenth 
 street, running toward East Davenport, received its 
 grant November 2d, 1870. 
 
 To show what effect the construction of railroads 
 and an increased immigration had upon business and 
 trade, the reports of 1854 enumerate: One hundred 
 and twenty -five stores; three banking-houses; six 
 steam mills ; one foundry ; seven blacksmith shops ; 
 nine churches ; seven hotels ; two public school-houses, 
 one built at a cost of $6,000 ; four saddle, harness, and 
 other leather manufacturing establishments ; the Iowa 
 College ; one Masonic Lodge ; two Odd Fellow Lodges ; 
 one Maine Law Club ; one Division Sons of Tem- 
 perance ; ten land agents ; fourteen doctors ; twenty- 
 two lawyers; four weekly newspapers; one bi-weekly 
 newspaper, and a good county poor-house, with farm 
 attached. 
 
 The value of all taxable property in Davenport 
 Township in 1855 amounted to $4,408,433, and in May, 
 1856, the manufacturing interests of the city were 
 compiled as follows: Hands employed, 526; capital 
 invested, $586,000 ; value of manufactures for the year 
 past, $1,522,516; the sale of lumber, etc., amounted to 
 17,420,187 feet, 6,496,000 shingles, and 8,000,000 laths, 
 and of this amount 10,000,000 feet was manufactured 
 here, 3,500,000 came from Chicago, and the remainder 
 was rafted down the river; 20,800 hogs were packed, 
 and 454,000 bushels of wheat brought in. The same 
 
 year the citizens voted a loan of $59,000, by a vote of 
 628 against 216, which was approved by the council 
 August II, 1856, and ordered to be applied as follows: 
 $20,000 for water-works, $10,000 for the fire depart- 
 ment, $4,000 for shares in the Gas Company, and 
 $25,000 for the improvement of the streets. The next 
 year the citizens, by a vote of 674 against 153, author- 
 ized a loan of $200,000, to-wit : $15,000 for a hospital, 
 $35,000 for a cit}' hall, $50,000 for water-works, and 
 $100,000 for street improvement. This loan was ap- 
 proved by the council May i6th, 1S57. These loans 
 were consolidated in 1869 by virtue of a state law, and 
 new bonds issued, payable in twenty years. 
 
 The failure of the crops in 1857 and 1858, and the 
 collapse of a number of private banks, which had over- 
 flowed the country with wild-cat notes, caused a number 
 of bank suspensions and a general stagnation of busi- 
 ness, the effects of which increased with the beginning 
 of the rebellion, and were still felt at the close of it. 
 After the war better times set in, and the United States 
 census of 18S0 reports the city of Davenport with 
 189 industrial establishments, with a capital stock of 
 $2,861,222, employing 1,498 males, 82 females, and 150 
 children, expending $689,571 in wages per year; value 
 of material amounting to $2,979,698, and the value of 
 products, $4,494,790. 
 
 The Population of ilic City amounted, at the close of 
 1836, to 100 inhabitants and 7 dwellings; 1837, ^S^ 
 with 15 dwellings; 1838, 50, and 1840, 100 dwellings; 
 1840, 700 inhabitants; 1842,817; 1845,1,000 (?); 1847, 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 33 
 
 918; 1850, 1,848; 1854,5,203; 1857, 18,000 (?); i860, 
 11,267; 1863, 12,113; 1865, 14,068; 1867,17,550; 1869, 
 20,065; 1870,20,038; 1873,21,250; 1875, 21,234; 1880, 
 21,831 ; and 1885, 23,830 inhabitants, with 4,732 houses. 
 Among this last number the state census specifies 6,139 
 inhabitants as native Germans, or more than one-fourth 
 part of the whole number. 
 
 THE ISLAND OF ROCK ISLAND. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page i. Views of Rock Island Arsenal.) 
 
 The Island of Rock Island is about two and three- 
 quarter miles long from east to west, atid from one- 
 quarter to three-quarters of a mile wide; has an eleva- 
 tion of from seventeen to 
 twenty-three feet above the 
 highest high water, and con- 
 tains an area of nine hundred 
 and seventy acres. The ground 
 rests upon a foundation of gray 
 magnesian lime-stone, which 
 in a few places crops out to 
 the surface, but is generally 
 covered with from one to eight 
 feet of earth, upon which the most luxuriant forest 
 of ash, elm, linden, hickory, and walnut grew seventy 
 years ago. It was the most beautiful island in the 
 upper Mississippi, and the Sac and Fox Indians elected 
 it their garden place of resort and principal fishing 
 ground. The forest was filled with game and birds, of 
 
 THE I. ATE GENERAL RODMAN. 
 
 which fifty species had survived some three years ago; 
 it furnished them with berries, plums, apples, and nuts 
 in abundance; the by-rushing stream supplied them 
 with pure fish, and the great spirit living in the cave of 
 rocks took care of it. 
 
 In September, 1815, the Eighth regiment of United 
 States infantry was ordered from St. Louis here to build 
 Fort Armstrong, which was completed in 1817. It was 
 occupied by a garrison until 1836, when it was evacu- 
 ated, but remained in charge of government Indian 
 agents until 1840, when an ordnance depot was estab- 
 lished, and continued until 1845, when the stores were 
 removed to St. Louis Arsenal. Thereafter a civil agent 
 employed by the war department had it in charge until 
 the National Arsenal was 
 established. 
 
 The subject of a western 
 armory was much talked of 
 in 1840 by the inhabitants 
 of Davenport. The island 
 was prominent as affording 
 the best position for its es- 
 tablishment; fuel in abund- 
 ance, immense water-power. 
 
 COLONEL D. W. FLAGLER. 
 
 facilities for shipment of material, the healthfulness of 
 the location, its connection by the Mississippi with 
 important places and the seaboard, were reasons justly 
 urged for the selection of this point. Meetings were 
 held and the usvial resolutions passed all over the west, 
 and petitions sent to congress. In September, 1841, a 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 committee appointed by congress gave the island a thor- 
 ough examination, but reported in 1842 in favor of Fort 
 Massac, on the Ohio river, in Illinois. In the year 1849 
 strong efforts were made to improve the navigation of 
 the upper rapids. Two conventions were held ; the lat- 
 ter one in October, representing four states and one 
 territory by one hundred and fifty delegates, declared 
 the improvement to be a work concerning the whole 
 universe, and endorsed the 
 plan of Major Lee and rec- 
 ommended him to prosecute 
 the work. 
 
 One report of 1864 says 
 that the survey of the chan- 
 nel had been made, the con- 
 tracts let, the contractors 
 ready to proceed when the 
 water would permit, and 
 $250,000 would be spent 
 within the next two years; 
 but the real damming and 
 blasting of the rapids com- 
 menced in 1867, and up to 
 1887 the National Government had expended the sum 
 of $1,169,829 for that purpose. 
 
 On September 4th, 1861, the City Council of Daven- 
 port appointed a committee to proceed, with the proper 
 committees appointed by the cities of Rock Island and 
 Moline, to Washington to urge the establishment of an 
 arsenal on the island, and appropriated for that purpose 
 
 ARSHNAL WATER-POWKR MACHIN1-;RY. 
 
 $100; November 6th, $500; February 5th, 1862, $250, 
 and on July nth, 1862, congress located the National 
 Arsenal on Rock Island and appropriated $100,000 
 for the purpo.se. 
 
 Ground was broken September ist, 1863, and the 
 corner-stone of the first building laid April 20th, 1864. 
 This building stands upon the western point of the 
 island, and contains in its projecting tower one of the 
 
 best clocks in the United 
 States. Its four dials are 
 twelve feet in diameter, and 
 its striking bell weighs 
 tliree thousand eight hun- 
 dred pounds. 
 
 General Thomas J. Rod- 
 man assumed the command 
 on August 3d, 1865, and held 
 it until his death, June 7th, 
 1S71. According to his 
 plans the great improve- 
 ments are made and the 
 great buildings erected, for 
 which the National Govern- 
 ment has expended $5,403,520.47 from 1863 to 1876. 
 Colonel D. W. Flagler assumed the command after 
 General Rodman, until he was superceded by Colonel 
 Baylor in the summer of 1886. 
 
 The principal buildings are the ten great shops, in 
 two rows of five shops each, named after the letters 
 designating the companies of a regiment in the army, 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 35 
 
 viz: Shops A, C, E, G, and I on the south side of the 
 main avenue, designed for the arsenal, and B, D, F, H, 
 and K on the north side of the main avenue, for the 
 armory. Each building consists of two parallel wings 
 60x300 feet, 90 feet apart, leaving an interior court of 
 90x238 feet, and covering an area of a little more than 
 one acre. 
 
 A IVatcr-pozacr of nearly 4,000 horse-power has 
 also been constructed by the government. Here it is 
 intended to manufacture small arms and equipments 
 for the infantry, cavalry, and artillery ; all amunition of 
 every kind for cannon, rifle, carbine, and pistol, and 
 also rockets ; all cannon and gun carriages for field, 
 siege, garrison, mountain, and prairie service, and all 
 equipments for the coast, consisting of harness, tools, 
 implements, battery-wagons, and forges. More than 
 one-half of the equipments for the western army are 
 now manufactured here, such as the scores of articles 
 that enter into horse equipments, infantry equipments, 
 and cavalry equipments. This work gives employment 
 to about ninety hands the year around. During the last 
 year $130,000 was expended here for the above purpose. 
 This arsenal, when completed as planned, will be suf- 
 ficient in time of war to arm, equip, and supply an 
 army of 750,000 men. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 The historical review of the city demonstrates a 
 gradual, steady, and healthy development ; its location, 
 its climate, its healthiness, and its municipal govern- 
 ment are not excelled by any other ; the wealth of the 
 citizens is on a solid foundation ; their enterprising and 
 liberal spirit stands forth unsurpassed; its business and 
 social life, in connection with the transportation facil- 
 ities by rail and by boat, have made the city a meet- 
 ing-center for political conventions, soldiers' reunions, 
 and all kinds of festivals celebrated by lodges, singing 
 societies, shooting societies, turner societies, and various 
 other organizations, have induced thousands of visitors 
 to come and enjoy the hospitality of its citizens ; to 
 come and see the rich collections of the Academy of 
 Sciences, the monumental national buildings on the 
 island, and see and enjoy the best operas and dramas at 
 the Burtis Opera House and German Theatre ; and 
 thousands of people, again, to deal and transact busi- 
 ness with our manufacturing and mercantile establish- 
 ments, and to consult our prominent attorneys, physi- 
 cians, bankers, and church dignitaries. 
 
jPlFFENDIX. 
 
 T 
 
 IDixectox-y of Lea. ding IBtxsira(ZSS Hlou-Ses 
 and. In.d uLstxia.1 HI,stablisJn.nne;n.ts. 
 
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THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 E. S. BALLORD, President. 
 
 S. F. SMITH, Vice-President. 
 
 GEO. E. MAXWELL, Cashier. 
 
 S. D. BAWDEN, Asst. Cashier. 
 
 CAPITAL. $200.000. 
 
 • • • • Davenport National Bank, • • • • 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 E. S. BALLORD. 
 
 GEORGE H. FRENCH. 
 JOHN L. MILES. 
 
 [See Illustration, page 11, No. 20.] 
 
 JOHN B. PHELPS. 
 
 WM. RENWICK. 
 
 D. T. ROBINSON. 
 
 S. F. SMITH. 
 
 I. H. SEARS. 
 
 ROBT. SICKELS. 
 
 A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. 
 
 I. H. SEARS, President. 
 
 H. F. PETERSEN, Vice-President. 
 
 J. H. HASS, Cashier. 
 
 C. A. FICKE, Attorney. 
 
 • • • • 
 
 CAPITAL. $70,000.00. 
 
 Scott County Savings Bank, 
 
 OF DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 [Office IN Davenport National Bank Building, Corner Third and Brady Streets.] 
 
 • • • • 
 
 FIVE PER CENT INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE AND PERSONAL SECURITY. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 I. H. Sears. C. A. Ficke. A. P. Doe. G. M. Schmidt. 
 
 J. H. Haas. H. F. Petersen. J. L. Miles. Otto Klug. J. B. Phelps. 
 
 Office open from 9 A. M. to ? P. M., and on Saturdays to 8 P. M. 
 
 [See Illustralion, page 11, No. 20.] 
 
 -o 
 
jPlffenidix. 
 
 M. ARNOLD. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page lo, No. 67 
 
 West Second street, and 125 and 127 Main 
 1S72, the resort which has been so long and 
 tlie purchasing public as Arnold's Bazaar, 
 a by-word with the ladies of the three cities 
 years, and now owns a deserved reputation 
 
 M. Arnold, 129 
 street, established in 
 favorably known to 
 This place has been 
 for the last fifteen 
 for reliability. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Arnold occupied but a small store and employed 
 but two clerks. His business, however, constantly increased, and 
 after one and one-half years he removed to Brady, between Second 
 and Third streets, which at that time were quite commodious 
 quarters. But the ever-growing patronage with which he was 
 favored soon compelled him to seek still larger rooms, and he 
 removed (about ten years ago) to his present store, where he 
 employs from fifteen to twenty hands the year around. This 
 house does a constantly increasing business every year, and now its 
 annual sales aggregate as much as any other house of its kind in 
 the state. The principal specialty is ladies' and children's cloaks, 
 in which Mr. Arnold controls the market for a hundred miles 
 around. He certainly deserves credit for the way in which he has 
 built up, by his own unaided exertions, such a good and paying 
 business. 
 
 Arnold's Bazaar has a frontage of 24 feet on Second street and 
 40 feet on Main street, and has a depth of 80 feet. An " L" 
 40 feet square extends to the Main street entrance. It has the 
 same space on the second floor devoted to the cloak trade. 
 
 BEIDERBECKE & MILLER. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 4, No. 43.) 
 
 The firm of Beiderbecke & Miller comprises as members Chas. 
 Beiderbecke and F. H. Miller. They started in the retail business 
 
 in 1856, gradually added jobbing, and after they had built their 
 present commodious and large building, went into the exclusive 
 jobbing business. Two years ago they added an addition 36x75, of 
 five floors, which, with the main building 33x150, of five floors, 
 gives them ample room. The buildings are as fire-proof as pos- 
 sible, and contain three elevators and a gas engine to facilitate 
 work. The help consists of twenty-one persons, including five 
 traveling agents. The volume of business of the firm is constantly 
 increasing. 
 
 JOHN BERWALD. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 3, No. 39.) 
 
 The above firm occupies 214 West Second street (three stories 
 and basement) with the largest assortment of stationery, toys, and 
 fancy goods in the tri-cities, and does an importing, jobbing, and 
 retail trade. The business was established in i860. The European 
 steam-ship business is a specialty with this firm, being the agency 
 for the best transportation lines. Newspapers and magazines are 
 also furnished regularly. 
 
 H. F. BRAMMER & COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 6, No. 52. 
 
 The above establishment was started on an exceedingly small 
 scale by the senior partner, Mr. Brammer, in 1876, who, by close 
 attention to business and excellence of workmanship, soon pushed 
 to the front. In 1882 the business had become too extensive to be 
 handled to advantage by any one man. In the above year Mr. E. 
 H. Schmidt was admitted to partnership. Since then the business 
 has nearly doubled each succeeding year. In 1884 the box depart- 
 ment was added. To-day the establishment employes forty-two 
 persons the entire year. Their lumber-yards occupy a lot 150x150, 
 containing all grades of seasoned lumber. The manufactures con- 
 stitute by far the greater part of the business. The reputation of 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 . . J. C McHART, . . 
 
 Real Estate and Loan Agent. 
 
 City and Farm Property Bought, Sold, and Exchanged on favorable Terms. Special atten- 
 tion given to all kinds of Investments on Commission. Loans Negotiated and 
 General Collections attended to. Houses, Stores, and Rooms for Rent. 
 We take full charge of properly for sale or rent when so placed in our hands. All business 
 
 entrusted to us will he promptly attended to at reasonable charges. 
 Correspondence Solicited. OFFICE, m WEST SECOND ST., Vieie's Block, 
 
 Between Brady and Main Streets, Davenport, Iowa, 
 
 lO^^AT^^ 
 
 COMFLHTB 
 
 IN ALL ITS DEPARTMENTS. 
 
 THE MAIN BRANCHES ARE 
 
 Book-Keeping, Actual Business Prac- 
 tice, Banking, Commercial Arithmetic, 
 Commercial Law, Civil Government, Spelling, Penmanship. Corresi>ondence, Telegraphy, 
 Short Hand and Type-writing. Send two-cent stamp for a trial lesson in Rapid Calculation, 
 sample of Penmanship, and many other valuable points. Three hundred and seventy-eight 
 students in attendance during i8S6. Circulars free. Address, 
 
 IVOOD <2f VAN PATTEN, S. IV. Cor. Second and Brady Sts., 
 [See Illustration, page lo, No. 65.] DA VENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 V 
 
 lENNA BAKERY AND TOAST FACTORY, 
 
 (ZWIEBUCK FABRIK.) 
 H. KORN, Proprietor, 
 
 jjj and Jig Harrison Street, Davenport, lozva. 
 
 LT NISSEN 
 
 UNDERTAKER 
 And Dealer in all kinds of 
 
 FURNITURE, 
 420 IV. Second St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 ^ H. MARTIN, . . . 
 Attorney at Law, 
 
 N. E. Cor. Second and Brady Sts., 
 
 Davenport, loiua. 
 
 P^ HOMBRECHT, . . 
 
 Boots and Shoes, 
 utica shoe store, 
 
 214 Brady St., Davenport. Iowa. 
 
 pARL BRAUN, . . . 
 Dentist, 
 
 Deutscher Zahnarzt, 
 A' F. Cor. Second and Riplfy .Sts , 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 ^ 
 ^ 
 
 M. CARROLL, * 
 
 I)?}' (roods, ?foUom and Fancy Goods, 
 
 Ryan's Block, 105 West Second Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 [See Illustration, page lo, No. 65 
 
 J. S. WATSON & CO., 
 
 Manvfadurers of Fire Proof 'Roof Painl 
 
 Roofs Painted and general Roofing; done. Iron, Gravel, Asbestus, and Warren's three or 
 four ply Kelt Roofing. Roof Paint for sale by the Barrel. 
 
 We also carry a large stock of Copper Liglitniiig Rods, Weathervanes, Balls, Arrows, 
 and other Rod Ornaments. Old Rods Repaired. 
 
 Office with C. G. Hipwell, 
 
 430 Brady St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 q^ J. O 'MEAR A & CO. 
 
 Dealers in Boots and Shoes, 
 
 126 W. Second Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 p H. KOCH, .... 
 
 Attorney at Law, 
 
 Justice of the Peace. 
 Third and Alain Sts., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 L 
 
 EOPOLD MILLER, . 
 
 Manufacturer and Dealer in 
 
 FINE CIGARS. 
 
 Miller's Best, 10 cents. 
 
 Leading 5-cent Brands. 
 
 IS" E. Third St., 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 T B. FRAHM, .... 
 
 i • Commission Merchant 
 
 And dealer in all kinds of Produce. 
 Specialties : Barley, Wheat, Potatoes, and 
 Onions. Refers to Citizens National 
 Bank, and Davenport National iiauk, 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 pETER EVER, . . . 
 PLUMBER, 
 
 Gas and Steam Pipe Fitter 
 
 No. 416 West Second Street, 
 
 Davrnport, louia. 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 the washer extends all over the northern part of the United States, 
 sales being- made to regular established agents in every state north 
 of Mason and Dixon's line. They have also shipped several orders 
 to Australia and Europe — hope to establish a regular trade there 
 soon. New buildings have been erected as needed. Their shops 
 now consist of one 2/^-story building 40x80, one 2)4-stOTy build- 
 ing 40x60, and one i -story building 40x80, arranged in the form 
 of a double " L," with engine, boiler-room, blacking-room, and 
 machine-shop in the court. If the rate of increase is maintained, 
 it will be but a short time beibre more commodious quarters will 
 have to be secured. 
 
 BROWNSON, THE HATTER AND GENTS' FURNISHER. 
 
 (See Illustration. Page to. No. 67.) 
 
 The old reliable hat-store on the corner of Second and Main 
 streets, Davenport, Iowa, established over twenty -seven years, 
 always had, and has at present, the reputation of carrying in stock 
 the finest and most reliable goods ; buying strictly for cash and of 
 manufacturers, thereby saving the jobbers' profit, which enables us 
 to sell a better quality of goods for less money than many are 
 asking for inferior goods. He handles strictly first-class goods 
 
 — goods that speak for themselves. Sole agent for the celebrated 
 Dtinlap Hat, which has no equal either in quality, style, or finish 
 
 — one price to all. All other leading makes in stock, from the 
 cheapest to the best. The furnishing goods are complete in every 
 department, handling in that, as well, the finest and most reliable 
 goods. Agents for the celebrated Wilson Bros ' shirt, of which he 
 carries a large stock, and made to order, if desired. Also novel- 
 ties in neckwear, suspenders, hosiery, gloves, and underwear. In 
 fact, everything that comprises a first-class furnishing-stock. 
 
 Mr. Brownson succeeded Mr. E. H. Ryan, September ist, 1885, 
 since which time trade has constantly increased, even beyond his 
 expectations, for which he extends thanks to his many friends 
 and patrons. 
 
 CABLE LUMBER COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 7, No. 54.) 
 
 The Cable Lumber Company, a company incorporated under 
 the laws of the State of Iowa, with an authorized capital of 
 $200,000, manufactures and deals in lumber, etc. The mill of this 
 company is located in East Davenport, and gives employment to 
 about one hundred and ten men and boys. The mill is a gang and 
 rotary mill, and has a capacity of 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 feet of 
 lumber per annum, besides laths and shingles. During the last 
 season their cut was 19,100,000 feet of lumber, 4,000,000 laths, and 
 3,500,000 shingles. 
 
 DOW, OILMAN, HANCOCK COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 7, No. 55.) 
 
 The original Crescent Mills were built by Dow, Gilman & 
 Hancock in 1868, and contained ten run of buhr-stone, with a daily 
 capacity of about 300 barrels. At the time it was built it was the 
 most complete and best equipped mill of its size west of Albany, N. 
 Y., and turned out flour far superior to any of the local mills at that 
 date. But time brings changes, and the art of milling, in which 
 there had been no radical change in the last hundred years, has 
 been so thoroughly and completely changed that Oliver Evans 
 himself, could he be brought to view a modern mill, would not be 
 able to tell what it was. The advent of the roller system has 
 entirely revolutionized the old way of milling, and to keep up with 
 the times, in 1882 the corporation of Dow, Gilman, Hancock 
 Company was formed, and a new 500-barrel roller mill was built, 
 complete in every detail. Golden Crescent and Snow White, two 
 of their favorite brands of flour, are known in every family within a 
 radius of two hundred miles. The motive power is furnished by 
 a three hundred horse-power Corliss engine, built by the Lane & 
 Bodley Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and while being very useful 
 is quite ornamental — a credit to the builders. Steam is furnished 
 from a battery of four boilers. Employment is given to about 
 forty people. 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 J 
 
 OHN HOYT, 
 
 moie,a/e and Retail Mustccil Merchandise, 
 
 STEINWAY AND OTHER PIANOS. 
 
 No. joj Brady Street, Davenport, loiva. 
 
 [ See Illustration, page l. No. 35.] 
 
 HOMPSON & BAHLS, 
 
 T 
 
 . . • MERCHANT TAILORS, ... 
 
 And Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Cloths, Cassimeres, and Vestings. 
 
 118 East Third Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 ■pvAN B. HORNE, [ successor to John Hill.l 
 
 Livery, Sale, and Boarding Stable, 
 
 Horses and Carriages of all kinds, at all Hours, at Reasonable Rates. 
 
 Telephone 37 g. 215 West Third Street, 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 •T^ W. McClelland & CO., T. W. McClelland-C. p. McClelland. 
 
 Sash, Doors, Blinds, Etc. 
 
 Factory. J04 to 312 Main Street, 
 
 Lumber Yard, Corner Fourth and Harrison Sts. 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 E. 
 
 S. HAMMATT, 
 
 ^^ Architect. ^^ 
 
 REFERENCE TO WORK: St. Katharine's, Kemper, and Sheldon Halls. [See page 
 X, Nos. 29 and 31.] Roddewig Block. [See page 10, No. 68.) 
 
 Office, S. IV. Cor. Third and Brady Sts., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 J^EYNOLDS & GIFFORD, . 
 
 Ira L. GiFFORD. 
 S. M. Reynolds. 
 
 Deaie,jjn JfardiTure, Painls, and Oils, 
 
 22^ Brady Street.^ Davenporl., Iowa. 
 
 [ See Illustration, page 11, No. 20.] 
 
 T 
 
 ECHENTIN & HOYER. 
 
 HENRY TECHENTIN. 
 
 HENRY HOYER. 
 
 Established zSsj. 
 
 A/am^/ac infers of Ha7ness, Saddles and Collars. 
 
 Also, Agents for the Household and Domestic Sewing Machines. 
 
 jo5 West Second Street^ Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 TTO ALBRECHT & CO., 
 
 Established 1854. 
 
 Ma7iufactnrcrs of the Celebrated Rob Roy a7id Modoc Cigars, 
 
 And Dealers in Tobaccos, Pipes, and Smokers' Utensils, 
 
 ^06 West Second Street^ Davenport, loiva. 
 
 Q TARK & RUSER . 
 
 Watches^ fewetry, Frefich and Airierican Clocks^ 
 
 Solid Silver and Silver-Plated Ware, Etc. Repairing. Adjusting, ami Rating of Watches a 
 Specialty. Strangers are cordially invited to examine our goods and prices, and compare 
 with other dealers. 
 
 No. 128 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 M. 
 
 E. NABSTEDT, 
 
 • • AMERICAN WATCHES, • • 
 
 Waltham. Elgin. Hampde7i. Howards. 
 
 '^ DIAMONDS ^' 
 
 And a full line of Jeivelry, Clocks, Silver and Silver-Plated Ware. 
 
 Only Agent for the noted Columbus Watch. 
 A Si-F.ciAi.TY.— Repairing and Engraving Promptly Done. 
 
 406 West Second Street, Davenport, lo-iva. 
 
 [See Illustration, page ii. No. 4.] 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 The present officers are : Josiah Dow, President ; S. F. Gil- 
 man, Vice-President; John L. Dow, Secretary; F. H. Hancock, 
 Treasurer and General Manager ; H. F. Johnston, Head Miller. 
 
 DAVENPORT STEAM HEATING COMPANY. 
 (See Illustration, Page 8, No. 60.) 
 
 The Davenport Steam Heating Company, which was organ- 
 ized but some five or six years ago, is a fair illustration of what 
 energy and perseverence can do in Davenport, the most beautiful 
 of Mississippi river cities. Its managers, although confronted by 
 long-established competition at the commencement of business, 
 have, by their thorough knowledge of the same, fair dealing, and 
 doing only the best quality of work, at moderate prices, placed 
 their company in the lead of all competitors, and gained for them- 
 selves a high reputation throughout the state, extending as well 
 into Illinois, Kansas, and Nebraska. Two years ago they erected 
 their present building, occupying a space with a frontage of 40 feet 
 and a depth of i6o feet, being the most complete and best equipped 
 shop in their line of trade in the west. Besides furnishing and 
 constructing steam heating and ventilating apparatus, they do a 
 general plumbing and gas-fitting business, and carry at all times 
 the largest stock of any like concern in the state of brass and iron 
 goods for water, steam, and gas, gas-fixtures, hose-packing, well 
 and cistern pumps, iron, lead, and sewer-pipe, etc. 
 
 The officers of the company are: D. H. Hartwell, President; 
 J. C. Emeis, Vice-President and Superintendent ; G. T. Ahrens, 
 Secretary ; A. F. Cutter, Treasurer. 
 
 DAVENPORT GLUCOSE MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 
 (See Illustration, Page 7, No. 53.) 
 
 The Davenport Glucose Manufacturing Company was incor- 
 porated in 1873, and has grown up from a small factory to its 
 present gigantic proportions, with a capacity of working 3,500 
 bushels of corn per day. The buildings and yards cover about 
 six acres of ground. There are employed in the factory one 
 hundred to one hundred and twenty hands. Three side-tracks run 
 
 to the difterent buildings to facilitate the receiving of corn, coal, 
 and sundry supplies, and in shipping their products. The capital 
 is now $300,000. The company owns elevators and corn-cribs at 
 Casey, Adair, and Marne, Iowa, with a capacity to store about 
 300,000 bushels of corn. The products of this company are favor- 
 ably known all over the country, from Portland, Oregon, and San 
 Francisco, California, to New York and Boston During the year 
 1886 about $70,000 worth of cooperage was used to ship their pro- 
 ducts, the most of which was manufactured in Davenport. 
 
 The officers are : H. H. Andresen, President; Robt. Krause, 
 Secretary ; Louis P. Best, Superintendent. 
 
 DAVENPORT WOOLEN MILLS COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 6, No. 51,) 
 
 The Davenport Woolen Mills Company was organized Feb- 
 ruary 17th, 1 88 1. The original woolen mills were built and 
 operated by Joseph Shields, in 1863, and gained a reputation for 
 making the very best flannels for the trade of any offered in the 
 western market. The present management have enlarged and 
 increased the capacity of the mills to about double the original 
 capacity and employ about one hundred hands. The new looms, 
 being the best made, are fully up to the times, and can turn out 
 1,000 yards per day of those superior western flannels, besides 
 blankets from the finest to heavy Mackinac, and for the past five 
 years they have made a specialty of those extra heavy govern- 
 ment cavalry blankets, and hope to continue, as in the past, making 
 the most desirable goods offered in their line. 
 
 The present officers are: Wm. Renwick, President; W. D. 
 Petersen, Vice-President; S. A. Jennings, General Manager; H. 
 V. Drebing, Superintendent; J. B. Phelps, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 DER DEMOKRAT. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 6, No. 50.) 
 
 " Der Demokrat" is the oldest German newspaper in Iowa, 
 and with the exception of the "Anzeiger des Westens," in 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 STANDARD WORKS FOR ElERY LIBRARY. 
 
 % % T. F. COLLIER, Publisher. % % 
 
 Complete editions of the BEST STANDARD WORKS \\\ elegant bound volumes. 
 Encyclopaedias, Family Bibles, and Fine Albums, all sold oti Easy Payments. 
 
 Just issued — the latest edition of 
 
 CHAMBERS' ENCYCLOPEDIA, 
 
 Revised up t<i 1SS7. Couijilete in eight massive \'olumes, 40 colored majis, 6,300 pages, 
 
 including a very elatiorale American Supplement. Compiled by an able corps of 
 
 American editors. This magnificent work delivered (complete) on 
 
 payments of J2.00 per month. 
 
 p. F. COLLIER, Publisher, 
 
 100 to no Attorney St., New York. 
 
 Branches in all the principal cities in America. 
 
 Davev/>ort House, 125 and I2j iMuin Street. 
 
 G. F. PEPPER, Manager. 
 
 [See Illustration, page 10, No, 65.] 
 
 J. C. SCHRICKER. F. G. RODLER. 
 
 SCHRICKER & RODLER, 
 
 PROPRIETORS OF 
 
 City Marble Works, 
 
 DEALl-.FS IN 
 
 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MARBLE, 
 
 Monume7its, Headstones, 
 
 Tablets, Posts, Table-tops, Shelves, Etc., Etc. 
 
 Scotch and American Granite Monuments Furnished to Order. 
 Cemetery Work of all kinds Neatly Executed. 
 
 Orders promptly Filled, and Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
 
 222 Harrison Street, DA VENPOR T, 10 WA. 
 
 Mason's • Carriage • Works 
 
 CARRIAGES, HARNESS, AND 
 
 Mason's • Patent • Runner • Attachments 
 
 FOR WHEELED VEHICLES. 
 
 Factory, jjg and 121 East Foiirtli Street, \ 
 Repository, under Kimball House, J 
 
 Davenport,^ lotva. 
 
 [See Illustration, page 2, No. 34.] 
 
 • • REIS, • • 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 Watches, a Jewelry, 
 cLocKs, 
 
 Silver, arid Silver- Plated Ware. 
 
 Repairing, Adjusting, Etc., Promptly Done. 
 
 Alo. 208 West Second Street, 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 St. Louis, and the " Illinois Staats Zeitung," in Chicago, it is 
 also the oldest German paper in the great west. The paper was 
 founded in 1851 by Theodore Guelich, now of Burlington, and on 
 November 17th of that year the first issue appeared in the modest 
 form of four pages of five columns each. Right bravely it took up 
 its lance for freedom and social reforms, and, indeed, has maintained 
 constantly during the almost thirty-six years of its existence a firm 
 position for the liberty of the people. In 1852 Mr. Guelich associ- 
 ated Mr. R. Reichmann, now of Tama county, with himself, and 
 soon thereafter the paper was enlarged. At first it was liberal 
 democratic, but at the commencement of the Kansas-Nebraska 
 troubles left the democratic party and joined the " Free Soil " 
 party, and then its successor, the republican party, and whose first 
 candidate, John C. Fremont, the " Demokrat " most energetically 
 supported. 
 
 Upon Reichmann's withdrawal Guelich alone conducted the 
 paper and made it a daily, commencing on January 3d, 1856. 
 with Heinrich Ramming, an Austrian refugee, as assistant editor, 
 Soon thereafter, in April, 1856, Guelich sold the "Demokrat" to 
 Henry Lischer and Theodore Olshausen, who had come from St. 
 Louis, and were possessed of valuable and practical newspaper 
 experience. Mr. Olshausen, who since then died in Germany, was 
 the editor. These two gentlemen, in i860, purchased the " West- 
 liche Post," in St Louis, and removed there, after selling the 
 "Demokrat "to John A. Daldorf and H. Ramming. Times were 
 bad in those days ; owing to the ominous political forebodings 
 which preceeded the civil war, all business was depressed, and 
 the publishers felt compelled, from May 7th, 1861, to again make 
 the paper a weekly ; and succeeding but poorly in this, Mr. Lischer 
 on June 28th, 1861, again took the paper, and this time as sole 
 proprietor, remaining, however, two months yet in St. Louis to 
 complete a term in the militia, in which he had pnlisted upon 
 Lincoln's first call. In August he returned to Davenport and 
 revived the " Demokrat " by publishing it from August 28th, 1861, 
 again as a daily and weekly. On September 17th of the same year 
 the experienced writer, Mr. Jens Peter Stibolt, became the editor. 
 
 and has conducted the paper in the furtherance of the people's 
 rights with incessant energy, wisdom, and firmness to the present 
 time. Through this course, and the excellent business care and 
 integrity of its proprietor, " Der Demokrat " has become one of the 
 best known and most influential papers in the entire west ; and its 
 daily, weekly, and (since 1879) semi-weekly issues have an exten- 
 sive circulation, not alone in the United States, but even has its 
 readers on the steppes of Russia, and in Africa and Australia. 
 
 The paper has, of course, been steadily increased in size 
 during these years; in 1861 the Daily had only sixteen small 
 columns, but now thirty-two and often thirty-six columns, and the 
 Weekly has fifty-four columns of a goodly size. 
 
 At first the paper was often compelled to move its location, 
 but the removals were easily accomplished. In April, 1862, the 
 office was established in the building on the northwest corner of 
 Second and Main streets, and remained there for sixteen years, 
 until finally it was moved, on August 19th, 1878, into a new home 
 of its own at Nos. 207 .ind 209 West Third street, where every 
 arrangement exists which could be desired for the publication of a 
 paper, as also for conducting a book and job-printing establish- 
 ment. The elegant front of " Der Demokrat" building, in gothic 
 style, is an object of admiration, and can be seen photographed in 
 our Album. 
 
 M. FRAHM & son's CITY BREWERY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 7, No. 56.) 
 
 Our German-American citizens appear to take the most promi- 
 nent position in establishing and successfully conducting the lead- 
 ing breweries in this country. This applies to but few with greater 
 force than to the above-named gentlemen, proprietors of the City 
 Brewery of Davenport. 
 
 Mr. Mathias Frahm came to the United States from Germany 
 in 1848, and located at the southwest corner of Sixth and Harrison 
 streets, where at present his brewery stands. When he first arrived 
 in this country he was a practical brewer, having devoted his whole 
 life to the manufacture of beer. From the original establishment 
 of this brewery, he has constantly added to its size and equipments 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 until now the City Brewery is one of the best in the state, and 
 produces lager-beer, the excellence of which is acknowledged by a 
 large number of dealers and consumers in this and other vicinities. 
 Henry Frahm, the son -partner, made the most profound 
 studies in the manufacture of this noble beverage at the City of 
 Worms, and other German cities celebrated in this particular busi- 
 ness, during a sojourn in that country of over three years. 
 
 GERMAN CLINIC. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 9, No. 64.) 
 
 The German Clinic, established in Davenport, Iowa, in 1882, is 
 a private institute, conducted by three physicians who are regular 
 graduates from reputable medical colleges of Germany. These 
 gentlemen are not only engaged in the Clinic, but also practice as 
 family and visiting physicians in Davenport and vicinity. The 
 institute has its general, gynecological, surgical, and orthopedical 
 departments. The arrangement and equipment is such that all the 
 requirements of the most advanced science and knowledge in 
 medicine are complied with, and, together with this, a home-like 
 comfort of the patient is provided. 
 
 The German Clinic is located near the street-car line, upon the 
 hill in a most salubrious and fashionable neighborhood, and away 
 from all factories or other disturbing influences. Its spacious park 
 comprises nearly one-half a block, bounded on the west by Harri- 
 son street and on the north by Sixteenth street, and with its trees 
 and shrubbery, gravel-walks and flower-beds, is attractive in ap- 
 pearance and cheerful in its surroundings. In fair weather this 
 affords the patients out-door exercise and recreation. In the winter 
 a roomy conservatory filled with tropical and other plants, warmed 
 by steam and provided with fountains, singing birds, and other 
 pretty sights, supplies the place of the park. 
 
 It should be especially understood that the three physicians 
 who conduct the Clinic, and also tlieir families, live in the institute 
 itself, and consequently are within call, and, indeed, upon duty con- 
 stantly at any time of the day or night; so that by this means, 
 together with the assistance of skilled and trusty nurses, each 
 
 patient receives uninterrupted supervision and attention. All the 
 wants of the patients are provided for in the Clinic. 
 
 Physicians and others are cordially invited to visit them 
 and examine for themselves their location, equipments, and sur- 
 roundings. 
 
 The more particular object of the establishment is to treat 
 those who cannot well receive adequate attention from the single 
 physician whose large practice, long drives, and distant visits may 
 leave him but little time for each ; and whilst offering to such a 
 constant attendance, they seek to supply them also with the most 
 approved apparatus and greatest possible domestic comfort. Of 
 course, in the most instances, the family physician will be the one 
 upon whose judgment a patient should be advised to go to them, 
 but for the information of those who have no such advice, they will 
 state their more particular plans : 
 
 The leading principle of the Clinic is to keep the patient from 
 his home only so long as is absolutely indispensable for effecting a 
 successful cure. In all cases in which the patient can be relegated to 
 the family physician for a prolonged treatment or a dietetic regime 
 it is so done, and thus the patient has the pleasure of returning to 
 his family, and they have the satisfaction of receiving reports from 
 a competent source of the condition of their former patient. 
 
 The following are the principal departments of the German 
 Clinic: General, Gynecological, Surgical, and Orthopedical, in 
 which are treated with the best attention all kinds of diseases. 
 
 Those desiring admission or any information are requested to 
 write to the German Clinic. Dr. Gustaf Hoepfner, 
 
 Dr. Adolph Jaenicke, 
 Dr. Carl Matthey, 
 
 Directors and Resident Physicians. 
 
 GLOBE PLOW WORKS. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 5, No. 47.) 
 
 The Globe Plow Works, successors to the Davenport Plow 
 Company, established 1850, reorganized and incorporated Decem- 
 ber 15th, 1886, manufacturers of plows, cultivators, harrows, and 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 II 
 
 other agricultural implements and farm machinery. The names of 
 the officers are well-known as those of pushing, experienced, and 
 successful business men, Aug. Warnebold being President; E. G. 
 Henderson, Vice President ; H. G. Scharfenberg, Secretary and 
 Treasurer; John C Lafrenz, formerly with Buford's Plow Works, 
 Superintendent. The first and the third of these four gentlemen 
 have long been connected with the old establishment, and in the 
 two others the very best business qualifications unite with the best 
 of the old to inspire the enterprise with new life and vigor. The 
 shops and the office are at 
 the same place as before, on 
 West Third street, between 
 Harrison and Ripley streets. 
 The present capacity of the 
 works is one hundred men, 
 which number will soon be 
 reached, if the encouraging 
 prospects for business are 
 only partially fulfilled, and it 
 is pretty sure they will. The 
 authorized capital stock is 
 $250,000. The principal 
 business territory of the new 
 company will be Iowa, Illi- 
 nois, Kansas, Missouri, Ne- 
 braska, Dakota, Minnesota, 
 
 THE GI.OBK ADIUSIAM.H STIKRIN.. I'LOU 
 
 whatever there remained of ready-ware. Now the two principal 
 patents of the Globe Plow Works are : 
 
 First. Hen. Y. Butler's Hercules Tricycle Sulky Plow, of whose 
 strength, durability, and work all farmers who have seen it handled 
 or handled it themselves speak highly ; indeed, it possesses all the 
 points of superiority required to make it the best sulky out; is drawn 
 from the axle, and is easily adjusted and managed by the driver. 
 
 Second. The Globe Adjustable Stirring Plow, which has a 
 malleableTjiron beam, and is lighter in draft than any other plow 
 made The beam can be given different positions, there being an 
 ingenious mechanicism to move it sideways as well as up and down, 
 as desired. Another important feature of this plow is a protruding 
 heel^under the rear landside, which protects the landside from wear. 
 In general, it can be said that this/plow is so constructed as to 
 
 make it almost unnecessary 
 for the driver to take hold 
 of the handles when the 
 plow has once been set for 
 a furrow. It was awarded 
 premiums at the New 
 Orleans Exposition, at the 
 American Institute in New 
 York, at the Mechanical In- 
 stitute in Baltimore, and at 
 the St. Louis Exposition. 
 It will not be amiss to 
 
 and Texas, from most of which parts of the United States orders 
 are continually arriving and being filled. It is unnecessary to 
 dwell upon the single implements manufactured at the works, as 
 far as they are not patented, but made in common with other similar 
 concerns, for it goes without saying that no piece that is not fully 
 up to all reasonable requirements shall leave the shops. Special 
 attention, however, should be called to two of the company's 
 patents, by which it cannot fail to secure numerous new customers 
 in addition to the old ones who frequented the works during their 
 unvoluntary suspension, buying there in preference to other firms 
 
 add that the connection of the company with the best steel and iron 
 firms, as well as their capital, enables them to manufacture those 
 splendid first-class implements at prices worth considering by the 
 purchaser before he goes to another factory. Farmers and dealers 
 should call and convince themselves of what the Globe Plow Works 
 is doing for them. 
 
 T. KIRCHER. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 2, No. 35.) 
 
 T. Kircher, Jeweler, 301 Brady street. This business was 
 established in the year 1852 by Wm. Rutenbeck. After his death, 
 

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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 ■c 
 
 
 * 
 
 First National Bank, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 The First National Bank in operation in the United States. 
 
 Capital, $100,000.00. 
 
 Surplus, $50,000 00. 
 
 4^ 
 
 
 Undivided Profits, $50,000.00. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 JAMES THOMPSON, President. J. E. STEVENSON, Vice-President. JOHN B. FIDLAR, Cashier. GEORGE HOEHN, Asst. Cashier. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 WALKER ADAMS. JAMES THOMP.SON. NATHANIEL FRENCH. HENRY W. KERKER. 
 
 A. BURDICK. AUGUST STEKFEN. CHRIST. MUELLER. J. E. STEVENSON. 
 
 S. F. GILMAN. 
 
 AUGUST STEFFEN. 
 G. W. CABLE. 
 
 CHRIST. MUELLER. 
 
 HENRY KOHRS. 
 
 A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. 
 
 LSee Illustration, Page VI., No. 2.] 
 
 WALKER ADAMS, President. 
 
 LOUIS HALLER, Vice-President. 
 
 JOHN B. MEYER, Cashier. 
 
 OTTO L. LADENBERGER, Teller. 
 
 . CASE CAPITAL, $120,000.00 DEPOSITS, OVER $1,000,000.00. 
 
 Davenport Savings Bank, 
 
 Office in First National Bank Building, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 FIVE PER CENT INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE AND PERSONAL SECURITY. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 WHIT M. GRANT. 
 
 H. KOHRS. 
 
 A. STEFFEN. 
 
 [See Illustration, Page VI., No. 2.] 
 
 WALKER ADAMS. 
 
 LOUIS HALLER. 
 
 A. BURDICK. 
 
 JAMES THOMPSON. 
 
 WM. O. SCHMIDT. 
 
 F. H. HANCOCK. 
 
 $ 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 13 
 
 in 1868, the business was purchased by Fred. Goos and Otto 
 Kircher, under the firm name of Goos & Kircher. Under their 
 management the business prospered to such an extent that their old 
 store-room on Second street became too small, and larger and 
 more commodious quarters had to be provided. They selected 
 the present site — the northeast corner of Third and Brady streets 
 — where they erected a large building for their use. 
 
 Alter the loss of Mr. Kircher on the steam-ship Schiller, in 
 1875, his interests were assumed by his widow, Mrs. T. Kircher, the 
 firm-name remaining unchanged. 
 
 After the demise of Mr. Fred. Goos, in 1877, Mrs. Kircher 
 assumed control of the entire business under the present firm-n;ime. 
 The business is conducted in the large and nicely-furnished store 
 at 301 Brady street. The stock carried is a very fine and well- 
 selected one. It is valued at about $40,000, and consists of watches 
 of all kinds, diamonds and other precious stones, fine gold jewelry, 
 and the largest stock of solid silverware in the state. It also com- 
 prises a very large stock of plated ware, clocks, and optical goods. 
 There are at present six employes engaged in the business — two 
 watchmakers, one jeweler, one engraver, and two clerks. Mrs. 
 Kircher continues to give her prosperous business her undivided 
 attention. 
 
 ROBT. KRAUSE. 
 (See Illustration, Page 3, No. 37.) 
 
 Robt. Krause's wholesale and retail cloth and clothing busi- 
 ness, at 115 and 117 West Second street, has grown from a small 
 retail business establishment, in 1854, to the largest in the State of 
 Iowa in that line, and since 1S83 a factory of forty sewing-machines, 
 operated by steam-power, employing fifty hands, has been added, 
 in which pants, vests, jeans suits, shirts, and the celebrated " Crow 
 Overall " is manufactured. The working force is eight traveling 
 men and fourteen employes. The building occupied is the base- 
 ment and three stories, each 40x150 feet. The annual business 
 is $350,000. The house is favorably known among trade all 
 through Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, northern Missouri, Dakota, and 
 the western part of Illinois. 
 
 NICHOLAS KUHNEN; 
 
 iSee Illustration, Page 3, No. 40.) 
 
 The cigar manufacturing industry of Davenport is fully repre- 
 sented by the large factory of Nicholas Kuhnen — one of the 
 largest cigar factories west of New York City. This business was 
 established in 1854, and has constantly increased since that time. 
 Six floors, each 25x140, besides two basements of the same size, 
 constitute the factory, while two buildings of three stories each, 
 situated in the rear of factory and fronting on Perry street, are 
 occupied for the storage of leaf tobacco. The product of this 
 factory finds a market in every state from New York to California, 
 and from Minnesota to Texas ; in fact, Mr. Kuhnen's leading brand 
 of cigars, the " Pappoose," might be said to enjoy a national rep- 
 utation, and has done good missionary work as a Davenport 
 industry. 
 
 J. LAGE & COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 9, No. 63.) 
 
 J. Lage & Company's Eagle Brewery, 1235 West Fifth street, 
 has kept up its reputation as one of the most reliable and best 
 establishments of its kind in the state for over thirty years. The 
 members of the firm, Messrs. J. Lage, Geo. Mengel, and H. Klindt, 
 pay their personal attention to the business, and have succeeded in 
 manufacturing a beverage appreciated by all consumers for its 
 purity and healthiness, combining the strength of the North- 
 Albingian with the Rhineland's suavity. 
 
 LINDSAY & PHELPS. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 5, No. 48.) 
 
 The Lindsay & Phelps saw-mill was erected in 1S66 — com- 
 pleted by the addition of a gang mill the next season, built by 
 P. W. Gates & Company, of Chicago. This was the first gang 
 mill in operation in this vicinity. Some improvements have been 
 made from time to lime, and the capacity has been increased so 
 that the annual product amounts to about 18,000,000 feet of lumber, 
 4.500,000 shingles, and about 3,500,00c laths. The present owners 
 
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 were from the lumbering regions of Essex County, New York, 
 where their ancestors were lumbermen from fifty to sixty years ago, 
 and lived to see the Adirondac pine, spruce, and hemlock nearly all 
 cut oft and marketed. The first logs cut for this mill were from 
 Clark County, Wisconsin, and cut from lands entered by the senior 
 member of the present firm, Mr. J. E. Lindsay, at the United States 
 land office, in 1856-57. 
 
 JENS LORENZEN. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 4, No. 41.) 
 
 Jens Lorenzen, dealer in china and crockery, 221 and 223 West 
 Third street. The commencement of this firm dates back as far as 
 the year 1857, when a room i6xig was amply sufficient for the size 
 of the business ; but only for a short time, for with increase of busi- 
 ness it became necessary to seek larger quarters ; but no permanent 
 location was secured until the erection of the magnificent block on 
 Third street, comprising four floors 150 feet deep, of which every 
 inch is occupied. The firm's wholesale trade extends over the 
 States of Ipwa, Illinois, and Missouri, and requires three traveling 
 salesmen's constant attention. The firm's claim of being the leader 
 in fine goods is nowhere disputed in the west. 
 
 MOELLER & ASCHERMANN MFG. COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 14.) 
 
 The Moeller & Aschermann Manufacturing Company, manu- 
 facturers of cigar-makers' supplies, all kinds of boxes, and apiarian 
 supplies. This company was incorporated a year ago with a capital 
 stock of $200,000, and is one of the most prominent establishments 
 in the city. Their principal line of manufacturing is the newly- 
 invented cylindrical cigar-shaper (Elges' patent). Bunches made 
 in this shaper cannot be distinguished from hand-work, and this 
 machine will without doubt, in a short time, be adopted by every 
 cigar manufacturer in the world, and make Davenport known all 
 over the globe. 
 
 The following gentlemen, well and favorably known in the 
 business world, comprise the company, and their names and capital 
 
 can be justly figured upon regarding the great success this institu- 
 tion will have: President, Hon. R. Guenther ; Vice-President, Ed. 
 Aschermann ; Secretary and Treasurer, Aug. Kleinguenther, who 
 is also General Manager : H. F. Moeller, G. D. Elges, Emil Berger, 
 and John Hill; Book-keeper and Cashier, Julius Grunewald. 
 
 A. MORITZ & BROTHERS. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 4, No. 44.) 
 
 A. Moritz & Brothers, clothiers and gentlemen's furnishers, 
 121 and 123 West Second street, have been established for twenty 
 years. This is one of the largest and most notable business houses 
 in Davenport. It is an old and honorable firm, and one that not 
 only successfully conducts an immense establishment, but also con- 
 ducts it in such a liberal and enterprising spirit as to equally benefit 
 the city as themselves. They occupy one of the finest buildings 
 (24 feet frontage, with a depth of 150 feet), and have more space 
 devoted to their trade than any other clothing house in the Stale 
 of Iowa. Their four floors, besides the basement, which is also 
 utilized, comprise 14,400 square feet. The interior is arranged 
 splendidly, with everything that modern taste and wisdom can 
 suggest for the accommodation of the patrons of a great clothing 
 store. The high, airy, and dry basement is the storage and ship- 
 ping-room. The first floor is the retail department; the second, 
 third, and fourth floors are devoted to the exclusive wholesale 
 trade. Their tremendous stock consists of everything that comes 
 under the comprehensive head of clothing, from the coarse overall 
 to the finest broad-cloth suit, together with an immense line of 
 furnishing goods of every description. Strangers in the city are 
 cordially invited to visit this grand establishment. 
 
 MUELLER SAW-MILL. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page S, No. 57.) 
 
 In the year 1849 Mr. Strong Burnell commenced the founda- 
 tion of a saw-mill on the present site of the new Chris. Mueller 
 mill. The capacity of the mill, when operations were commenced. 
 
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 LIME. CEMENT. MARBLE r^^ GRANITE 
 
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 McCOSH & DONAHUE. 
 
 308 TO 312 East Third Street. 
 
 Jj ECKER'S HALL , (Formerly Lahrmanns.) 
 
 GUST. BECKER, Proprietor. 
 
 BILLIARDS / RESTAURANT. 
 
 WARM MEALS AT ALL HOURS. 
 
 HALL FOR PARTIES AND DANCES. 
 
 329 West Second Street, DAVENPORT. IOWA. 
 
 [See Illustration, Page 11, No. 14.] 
 
 S ECURI TY FIRE INSURANCE CO, 
 
 [See Illustration 
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 DAVENPORT. IOWA. 
 
 g.a.:f>it.a.l, $100,000.00. 
 
 FIRE. 
 
 LIGHTNING. 
 TORNADOES. 
 
 OFFICERS: 
 
 S. F. OILMAN, President. GEO. P. McCLELLAND, Vice-President. 
 
 ERASTUS a. BENSON, Treasurer. E. J. BABCOCK, Secretary. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 S. F. OILMAN. E. J. BABCOCK. JENS LORENZEN. GEO. P. McCLELLAND. 
 F. H. GRIGGS. J. B. PHELPS. ROBERT SICKELS. ERASTUS A. BENSON. 
 
 M. L. MARKS. J. S. WYLIE. A. F. WILLIAMS. 
 
 J OHN J. DAHMS. 
 
 REAL ESTATE 
 
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 LOAN AGENCY. 
 
 128 EAST THIRD ST.. D.WENPORT, IOWA. 
 
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 was five thousand feet per day, but in a few years was increased to 
 ten thousand feet. The mill changed owners several times, and in 
 1867 Schricker & Mueller took hold of it and operated it until the 
 death of Mr. Schricker, in 1883, when Mr. Mueller .issumed the 
 entire ownership. On December 15th, 1885, the mill was totally 
 destroyed by fire. The capacity of the mill at that time was ninety- 
 five thousand feet per day. 
 
 In the spring and summer of 1886 Mr. Mueller erected a new 
 mill. He spared neither pains nor means to make this mill one of 
 the most complete and practicable saw-mills in the northwest. The 
 mill contains three band-mills with all the requisite machinery, 
 edgers, trimmers, lath and shingle mills, etc., and it is said that 
 lumber can be manufactured and handled cheaper here than in any 
 other mill in this vicinity. The capacity of the mill now is 140,000 
 feet of lumber, 30,000 shingles, and 35,000 lath per day. The num- 
 ber of hands employed is one hundred and ten, and the pay-roll 
 amounts to over $1,000 weekly. 
 
 NEWCOMB HOUSE AND VIELE BUILDINGS. 
 
 {See Illustralion, Page 9, Nos. 61 and 62.) 
 
 This block of buildings is situated on the north side of Second 
 street, between Main and Brady streets, and occupies the entire 
 south half of block 43 in the city of Davenport, Iowa. It was 
 originally constructed by the late Aiitoine LeClaire, Esq. The old 
 and well-known " LeClaire House," built in 1839, formerly occupied 
 the southwest corner of this block, and for many years was one of 
 the most noted resorts in the Mississippi valley. It was a favorite 
 summer resort for the citizens of St. Louis, and during the heated 
 term was generally filled to overflowing. The building on the 
 corner of Second and Brady streets was constructed by Mr. LeClaire 
 in 1852, and the intermediate building in 1853. In the former of 
 these structures was located the old " LeClaire Hall," which for 
 many years was the place for all public meetings, lectures, and 
 theatrical performances. This valuable property was purchased by 
 the Hon. Charles Viele in 1863, through the instrumentality of his 
 brother-in-law, the late Daniel T. Newcomb, Esq. Soon after the 
 
 purchase of this property by Mr. Viele, the old " LeClaire House" 
 was thoroughly remodelled and improved, and its name changed to 
 the " Newcomb House." This, for a long time thereafter, was the 
 principal hotel in the city ; and it was in this house that the late Dr. 
 John J. Burtis commenced his career here as a landlord. With the 
 erection of other hotels in the city, this house became unremuner- 
 ative, and a few years since its occupancy for such purposes was 
 discontinued. At the present time it is principally occupied by the 
 famous notion store of Emerson & Company. This block of build- 
 ings is one of the most central and eligible in the city for business 
 purposes, and its store-rooms are always in demand. Being situated 
 back from the line of the street about eight feet it thus affords a 
 twenty-foot sidewalk, which is consequently a favorite promenade. 
 It embraces sixteen stores and a large number of offices. The 
 east part of the block is occupied by the Business College of 
 Duncan & Hawks, one of the largest and most popular institutions 
 of the kind in the western country. Among the present occupants 
 of this block are Isaac Rothschild, E. S. Ballord, and the Messrs. 
 Webb, who have been tenants of Mr. Viele during almost his entire 
 ownership of the property. Charles E. Putnam, Esq., of Daven- 
 port, Iowa, acts as the agent of Mr. Viele in the management of 
 these buildings. 
 
 J. H. C. PETERSEN & SONS. 
 
 (See Illustration, Paj^e 4, No. 42.) 
 
 The wholesale dry goods and notions firm of J. H. C. Petersen 
 & Sons commenced business in 1872 in a small store (21x50) with a 
 very small capital. On account of their departure from the old way 
 of doing business, viz : long time and large profits, instead of which 
 they inaugurated a cash system on the basis of small profits and 
 large sales, their business increased so rapidly from year to year 
 that they were compelled to occupy more room annually. They 
 now occupy one large four-story building, 33x150 feet, of which all 
 the floors are connected by two fine hydraulic passenger and freight 
 elevators, and two two-story stores adjoining the above building, 
 each 21x150 feet; also basements of same dimension under each 
 building. They employ seventy-five clerks in their retail, and fifteen 
 
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 Restaurant, 
 
 And all kinds of Refreshments, 
 
 122 and 124 Main Street^ Davenport^ Iowa. 
 
 P J. RAIBLH. 
 
 Man,.facturerof FINE CIGARS, 
 
 And dealer in Tobacco^ Pipes, and Smokers^ Articles, 
 
 210 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 P H. WORLEY, 
 
 First-Class Livery, Feed, and 
 Sale Stable, 
 
 Telephone No. 208. 42s and 427 Brady St. 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 ADSELL & CO., 
 
 Paper Box Manufacturers. 
 Boxes made to Dimension. Special atten- 
 tion given to Shelf and Shoe Boxes. 
 104 East Front St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 n R. E. H. HAZEN , 
 
 Specialties : Eye, Ear, Nose, 
 
 and Throat. 
 
 Office Hours, t) to 11 a. m., and s to 5 p. m. 
 
 Cor. Second and Brady Sts., 
 Kyan Block, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 J^ H. FLUKE , 
 
 Books, Stationery, IVall Paper, 
 Art Material, Fancy Goods, 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 WET GOODS, 
 
 116 East Third Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 H J. WITT. 
 
 Manufacturer of Mineral Waters, 
 
 Bottler of Beer, Porter, Ale, and Cider, and Wholesale dealer in Bottling Supplies. 
 
 S02, jcf, $06 W. Front Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 W. WIRTEL 
 
 Wholesale Manufacturer of 
 
 Trunks and Travelhig Bags, 
 
 Nos. 220 c3^ 222 Brady St., 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 HAS. KARST, 
 
 Manufacturer and Dealer in 
 Fine Imported and Domestic Cigars and 
 Smokers' Articles. 
 228 Brady St. , Davenport, Iowa, 
 
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 ARRISON'S PHARMACY, 
 
 J. H. Harrison, Proprietor, 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 C. BILLS & CO., 
 
 Proprietors of 
 
 Davenport Showcase Manufactory, 
 
 Manufacturers of all kinds of Showcases. 
 
 The Improved Metal- Comer Cases 
 
 a Specialty. 
 
 434 Brady Street, t'oi, 103. 105 Fifth Street, 
 
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 clerks in their wholesale department. They also have two branch 
 houses, one being at Geneseo, Illinois, which occupies three store- 
 rooms, employing twenty clerks; and one at Muscatine, Iowa, occu- 
 pying two store-rooms and employing fifteen clerks. Their sales 
 are without doubt the largest of any house of the kind in the state. 
 
 PHOENIX MILLS COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Pag;e 5, No. 45 ) 
 
 The Phoenix Mill was first built in 1862 by M. Donahue & Com- 
 pany. In 1866 James Johnston bought it and run it unlil 1871, when 
 H. Pohl & Brother leased it for one year After their lease expired 
 H. P. Beattie bought and operated it until it burned down in 1879 
 He rebuilt it and put in some stone rollers These rollers not ])rov- 
 ing a success, the property, in October, 18S0, passed into the hands 
 of the Phoenix Mills Company, which is a stock company, with F. 
 H. Griggs as President, and F. T. Blunck as Secretary and Treas- 
 urer, and H. Pohl as Superintendent; they remodelled the mill and 
 put in the Stevens steel rollers. These rollers worked very satis- 
 factory. On the morning of September 26th, 1881, the mill was 
 struck by lightning, and the main building, with all the milling 
 machinery was destroyed. Immediately rebuilt and enlarged, it 
 was furnished with Allis & Company's porcelain rolls, which give 
 entire satisfaction. The buildings cover one hundred and five feet 
 on Front street and one hundred and forty feet on Western avenue. 
 The mill has a daily capacity of four hundred barrels of flour, and 
 employs thirty-one persons. It has an enviable reputation for 
 making extraordinary fine flour. 
 
 REUPKE-SCHMIDT CRACKER COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 5, No. 46.) 
 
 Among the many manufacturing interests of the growing north- 
 west none deserve more favorable mention than the Reupke- 
 Schmidt Cracker Company, wholesale cracker and biscuit manu- 
 facturers, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 This firm has gained an excellent reputation throughout the 
 coimtry wherever their goods have been introduced Established 
 in business ever since July, 1874, their increasing trade has made it 
 necessary to require the full capacity of the present buildings, being 
 about four times the original size, with an extensive branch house 
 at Des Moines, Iowa, as a distributing depot for their western terri- 
 tory. They give employment to thirty-five hands, manufacturing 
 ninety varieties of crackers and biscuit, and using ninety barrels of 
 flour per day. Their success may be attributed to the superior 
 quality of goods manufactured and careful attention to the wants of 
 the trade. Orders will be promptly filled either from headquarters 
 in Davenport or from their branch house in Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 ISAAC ROTHSCHILD. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 9, No. 62.) 
 
 Isaac Rothschild, proprietor of the largest exclusive retail 
 clothing, merchant-tailoring, and gent's furnishing-goods store in 
 the state. Nos. 203 and 205 Brady street, and 102 and IC4 Second 
 street. Established 1865. 
 
 What honesty, industry, and square dealing will do : This 
 establishment has grown from a small business, in 1865, to its 
 present proportions, and now occupies a double store, three stories 
 high, together with the second and third stories on the opposite 
 side of the street (45 feet front with a depthof 150 feet). 
 
 The first floor is occupied with the choicest stock of ready- 
 made clothing, imported and domestic woolens, and a full line of 
 gents' furnishing-goods. The second floor, overcoats of all descrip- 
 tions, and a complete line of hats, caps, and rubber clothing. The 
 third floor, trunks and valises. The two stories on the opposite 
 side of the street are occupied by skilled tailors, under the man- 
 agement of Mr. Henry Kamp, formerly of New York City, employ- 
 ing in this department thirty-five men all the year around. Total 
 number employed in the establishment, forty-five. 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 UENRY BERG, 
 
 Dealer in Sportsmen's Goods, Fishing Tackle, 
 
 N. E. Corner Third and Harrison Streets. 
 
 Base Ball Goods, and Bicycles, 
 
 QHAS. NAECKEL & SON, 
 
 Picture Frames, Wall Paper, Window Glass , 
 
 Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Etc. 
 405 W. Second St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 JOHN H. SCHUETT, 
 
 Dealer in Groceries, Crockery, and Glasszvare, 
 402 West Third Street. DAVENPORT. IOWA. 
 
 J^OUIS HANSSEN, 
 
 Dealer in General Hardware, Farming Tools, 
 
 And all kinds of Seeds. Agent for IVasliing Machines, Churns, Etc. 
 213 and 215 West Second Street, bet. Main and Harrison Sts., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 P^ J. LERCH & BRO., 
 
 Stoves and House-Fnrnishing Goods, 
 
 120 West Third Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 Tin, Copper ami Sheet-Iron Ware. 
 
 yHOMAS THOMPSON, 
 
 T/ie Central Book Store — Wholesale and Retail. 
 
 Books, Stationery, IVall Paper, Pictures, Frames, Etc. 
 Corner Third and Brady Streets. 
 
 gCHAUDER'S HOTEL AND ORCHESTRION HALL, 
 L. ScHAUDER, Proprietor, 
 
 126 West Front Street. Near Ferry Landing, DA\'ENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 n O. D. STEAM LAUNDRY AND SHIRT FACTORY, 
 C. Cruys, Proprietor, 
 
 112 and 114 West Third Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 (^HRIST. KUEHL, 
 
 Dealer i?i Staple and Fancy Groceries, Crockery, 
 
 Glassware, Hardivare, Paints, Flour a?id Feed. 
 
 Telephone No. 5. Cor. Eddy and Mound Streets, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 n F. KNOSTMAN & SON, 
 
 Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of Furniture, 
 
 Carpets, Oil Cloths, and Afattiiigs. 
 Telephone No. 120. 207 and 209 East Second Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 pARMER'S HOTEL, ( koester's.) 
 
 J. L. SIEGFRIEDT, Proprietor. 
 Good Accommodations at Reasonable Rales, 
 
 Good Stablings Connected ivitk the House. 
 212 and 214 Scott Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 p H. GRUENAU, 
 
 Dealer in Boots and Shoes, 
 No. 408 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 Q M. SCHMIDT, 
 
 Dealer in Ladies' and Gents' Fine Shoes, 
 
 Cor. Second and Harrison Sts., 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 p & E. KOENIG, 
 
 Millinery and Fancy Goods, Zephyr Worsteds, Embroideries, ■ 
 
 Materials for Embroidery, Notions, Trimmings, and Stamped Goods. 
 318 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 yHE IOWA REFORM, 
 
 Semi- Weekly and Weekly German Neivspapcr. 
 ADOLPH PETERSON df BRO.. Proprietors. GUSTAV DO.WALD, Editor. 
 N. W. Cor. Second and Scott Streets, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 J^EIMERS & BRAUCH, 
 
 Dealers in Stoves and House-Furnishing Goods, 
 
 No. 414 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 J^AHRMANN'S HALLE, 
 
 B. H. Lahrmann, Proprietor. 
 
 .S. W. Cor. Second and Ripley Sts., 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 A TLANTIC HOTEL, 
 
 George Pahl, Propr. $150 per Day 
 
 Cor. Fifth and Perry Sis., 0pp. C. R. I. & P. Depot, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 P)AVIS & CAMP, 
 
 Manufacturers 0/ and Dealers in Granite and Marble Monuments 
 
 and Headstones, Marble^ Slate, Iron, and IVood Mantels and Grates. 
 Don't forget the place, and come and see us before purchasing, and you will save money. 
 
 224 East Third Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 WM. O. SCHMIDT, 
 ^^ Attorney at Law, 
 
 5. W. Cor. Second and Harrison Sts., Dave7iport, loiva. 
 
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 U. N. ROBERTS & COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 6, No. 49.} 
 
 1 I /HE business of this firm was established in 1865 by Mr. U. N. Roberts, 
 ®1® and thus for twenty years has had a continuoiis and growing pros- 
 perity. Since the death of Mr. Roberts, in 1S77, the business has 
 been under the exclusive management of Mr. Uriah Roraback, who has been 
 a member of the firm since 1S71. The firm are manufacturers of and whole- 
 sale dealers in glazed sash, doors, blinds, mouldings, stair-work, etc. The 
 house stands high in the trade, and their goods have a first-class reputation. 
 Their trade extends east to Indiana, west to Utah, north to Dakota and Min- 
 nesota, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. The measure of success attained 
 by this well-known and old-established concern is largely due to the personal 
 attention given to details by the manager and his employes. Their commo- 
 dious and well-arranged store-rooms, built by them exclusively for their use, 
 afford the best facilities for handling the large amounts of material which 
 daily pass through their hands. 
 

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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 
 FERD. RODDEWIG'S SONS. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page lo, No. 6S.) 
 
 Ferd. Roddewig's Sons, importers of and wholesale dealers in 
 foreign and domestic wines, liquors, cordials, etc., Nos. 4og and 411 
 Harrison street. The wholesale trade in fine wines and Hquors has 
 a worthy representative in Davenport in the old-estabUshed and 
 prominent house of Ferd. Roddewig's Sons, whose fine premises, 
 so centrally located, have no superior in the west. The immense 
 business conducted here has reached the thirty-second year of its 
 e.xistence, having been founded by the late Mr. Ferd. Roddewig in 
 1855, and ably, honorably, and successfully managed by him up to 
 his sudden demise in December, 1885. The firm was continued by 
 his three sons, Paulo, Peter, and Ferd. Jr., and the business has had a 
 steady growth, indicative of the purity and high quality of all goods 
 handled. 
 
 The building has been planned throughout to secure the great 
 essentials of light, air, and convenience. Its thick walls and 
 sturdy foundations, heavy girders and solid partitions, all indicate 
 the honest character of the work, while every modern improvement 
 has been introduced by the enterprising owners. The main floor, 
 devoted to the firm's splendid and unrivalled stock, is 32x152 feet in 
 dimension, with a ceiling fifteen feet high The cellarage accom- 
 modations beneath are unexcelled, which, with the warehouse in the 
 rear, completely filled, enables them to fill the largest wholesale 
 orders. 
 
 The gentlemen are popular and respected citizens, noted for 
 their honorable methods and sterling integrity, and worthily main- 
 tain the lead as importers of wines and liquors, controlling, as they 
 do, the best class of trade in this city and all through the state. 
 
 RYAN BLOCK. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page lo. No. 65.) 
 
 This block of buildings, situated on the southwest corner of 
 Second and Brady streets ( the two principal business streets of the 
 city), is four stories high, with large, airy basement, and is the model 
 office building in the city. The basement is occupied almost entire 
 
 by H. A Pearne as a candy factory, working about fifteen hands. 
 The first floor has three store-rooms, the corner, No. loi, being 
 occupied by the Boston store, Harned, Pursel, & Van Maur, pro- 
 prietors ; the middle store, No. 103, by H. A. Pearne, wholesale and 
 retail candies, and the west store, No. 105, by M. Carroll, dry goods. 
 On the second floor Dr. J. B. Morgan has the handsomest dental 
 parlors in the state ; Miss Hazen, art studio ; Dr. Hazen, an elegant 
 suite ; the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Messrs. Lyman 
 & Miller, agents, and W. T. Dittoe and W. M. Chamberlain, attor- 
 neys, have each handsome rooms. On the third floor the North- 
 western Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, have three 
 elegant rooms finely fitted, and are as handsome office rooms as 
 can be found in any city, George E. Copeland, general agent. In a 
 large, airy front suite the Equitable Life, of New York, holds forth, 
 Charles G. Bliss, general agent. The entire west half of this floor 
 is made into a very handsome little hall (24x75) for dancing parties, 
 with reception-rooms adjoining. 
 
 The entire fourth floor is occupied by the Iowa Commercial 
 College, Wood & Van Patten, proprietors, and is the largest and 
 best-equipped school of the kind in the state. Here actual busi- 
 ness principles are taught — telegraphy, short-hand, and steno- 
 graphy — besides the ordinary penmanship, book-keeping, etc., of 
 ordinary commercial schools. 
 
 The entire building — store-rooms, each office, and the college 
 — is heated by steam, and has every convenience of a modern 
 building. The offices are rented to tenants, including steam-heating 
 and janitor service, Mr Ryan having a janitor employed by the 
 year to take care of the offices, keep the halls and stairways always 
 neat and clean, and there is no such kept building in the city, 
 which fact makes the building, together with its unexceptional 
 location, a most popular office and business building. 
 
 SICKELS, PRESTON & COMPANY. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 3, No. 3S.) 
 
 Sickels, Preston & Company, wholesale hardware, metals, tin- 
 ners' stock, rope, paints, and oils. This house was established in 
 
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 -=FURNITURE=- 
 
 CARPETS, AND DRAPERIES. 
 317 AND 319 W. Second Street, DAVENPORT. IOWA. 
 
 W. 
 
 P. HALLIGAN & CO., 
 
 Dealers in Anthracite, Blossburg, and Soft Coals, 
 
 S. E. Cor. Fifth and Harrison Streets, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 HEO. KLAHN, 
 
 WESTERN LANDS A SPECIALTY. 
 
 LAND AND STEAM-SHIP AGENT, 
 
 225 West Second Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 ■pAMOUS" : : 127 W- Second St., DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 BOOT AND SHOE HOUSE. 
 A. F. JUDIESCH, THE LEADER IN LOW PRICES. 
 
 C L LINDHQLM. 
 
 No. j/6 Perry Street, Davenport, loiva, 
 
 MERCHANT TAILOR. 
 
 Work at Lowest Prices Warranted. 
 
 Dealer in Imported and Domestic Piece-Goods . 
 
 F.. D. ROBESON & SONS. 
 
 STOCK DEALERS, 
 
 And Wlwlesate and Retail dealers in 
 
 Fresh and Smoked Meats, 
 
 Telephone 204. No. 426 Brady St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 ANS F. GRILK, 
 
 Agent for Burks' Stoves and Rajiges. 
 
 Dealer in Stoves, Tin and Copper Ware, 
 
 And House-Furiiishi-iig Goods, 
 304 Harrison Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 JV^ NIEGGE & HARTUNG 
 
 Manufacturers of Fine Cigars, and dealers in Smolrrs' Articles, 
 For a good Ten- Cent Cigar, smoke Signal Service and Commerce. 
 
 Five- Cent Brands: Red Cloud and Special. 
 327 Brady Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
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 HAS. SCHAKE, 
 
 MERCHANT TAILOR AND CLOTHIER, 
 
 jjo West Second Street, detzveen Harbison and Ripley Streets, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 P. B. HARDING , ^^-- ^- 
 
 The Osborne Steel-Frame Self-Binders and Mowers, 
 
 the Advance Threshers atid Etigines, 
 
 And Dealer in GENERAL FARM MACHINERY. 
 
 Also agent for the American, Standard, and Helpmate 
 SEWING MACHINES. 
 
 N. W. Cor. Second and Harrison Sts., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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24 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 The Fair * EMERSON ^ The Fair 
 
 MAIN ENTRANCES 
 
 5 and lo Cent Store, China Hall, gg Cent Store, Pictures, Paintint^s, and Picture Frame Departuient, 
 
 1 20 West Second Street. 122 West Second Street. 124 West Second Street. 124] West Second Street. 
 
 ^Wholesale Department, Third Floor.^ 
 
 BARGAINS IN ALL KINDS OF MERCHANDISE. 
 
 CKClCKERY, CHINA, SILVER-PLATED WARE, TRUNKS AND SATCHELS, TOYS, 
 
 C;LASS\VARE, clocks and watches, hooks AND STATIONERY, NOTIONS, 
 
 TINW.^RK. JEWLERY, FISHING TACKLE, FANCY GOODS, 
 
 WOODENWARE, GUNS AND REVOLVERS, SPORTING GOODS, BIRD CAGES, 
 
 HARDWARE, HARNESS, JAPANESE GOODS, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, 
 
 LAMPS AND SADDLERY, [lABY CARRIAGES, HASKKT GOODS, 
 
 LAMP CJOODS, WHIPS, ETC. WILLOWWARE. 
 
 EVERYBODY INVITED TO VISIT OUR MAMMOTH STORE. ' EMERSON & COMPANY, Proprietors. 
 
 [See Illuslration, Page 9, No. 61.] 
 
 Ill West Second Street, W DEUTSCH DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 Dealer in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods. 
 
 Always the Latest Novelties at the Lowest Prices. 
 
 MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OE LADIES^ MLSSES' AND CHILDREN'S CLOAKS. 
 
 Cloaks and Wraps made to order. 
 
 H. DEUTSCH, 111 West Second Street. 
 
 [See Illustration, Page 4, No. 43 ' 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
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 1853, and has steadily increased in magnitude of business. It now 
 ranks among the largest houses in its line in the west. The main 
 business of the firm is conducted in their wholesale store, Nos. 121 
 and 123 West Third street, a large and capacious store fully stocked. 
 They have also a large retail establishment, No. 226 West Second 
 street, where, in addition to a full line of hardware, they carry the 
 largest stock of belting and mill-furnishing goods in this section. 
 They also have two large warehouses on Front street for the 
 storage of nails, wire, pumps, wheelbarrows, building-paper, and 
 other bulky goods 
 
 AUGUST STEFFEN. 
 
 tSee Illustration, Page 2, No. 36.) 
 
 August Steffen, wholesale and retail dry goods and notions, 
 Nos. 226, 228, and 230 West Second street, corner of Harrison, 
 commenced the above business in 1878, being exclusive retail until 
 1882, when the jobbing department was opened. The business in- 
 creased to such an e.xtent that they were compelled twice to enlarge 
 their establishment, and now occupy three floors and basement. 
 The first or main floor is used for retail, and measures 44x150 feet, 
 and the wholesale department occupies the second and third floors, 
 each of which have the enormous dimensions of 66x150 teet. 
 
 Four traveling salesmen and forty-four employes constitute the 
 working force of this establishment. The annual sales amount to 
 $500,000. 
 
 ST. JAMES HOTEL. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 2, No. 33.) 
 
 The St. James Hotel is located opposite the ferry-landing, 
 corner of Front and Main streets. It was built by Judge James 
 Grant in 1876, and was first opened by Mr. Charles Ryan, and 
 afterwards run by Mr. James Bellows, until it fell into the hands of 
 its present manager, Mr. Gough B. Grant, who became proprietor 
 September ist, 1879. The above hotel has a capacity of forty-five 
 sleeping-rooms, nearly half of which are double. The St. James is 
 largely patronized by commercial travelers, and ranks second to 
 none as a $2.00 per day house. Its popularity has continued to 
 grow to such an extent that Mr. Grant is putting up an addition, by 
 
 which he will be able to accommodate twenty-five to thirty more 
 guests. The new building is situated on Main street, with a front- 
 age of forty-one feet; will be three stories high and forty-five feet 
 deep. It will be a hanHsnme structure, and add much to the 
 appearance of Main street 
 
 A. W.-VRNEBOLD (FARMERS MILLS). 
 
 (See IHustratioti, Page 8, No. sy.) 
 
 The Farmers Mills, situated on Harrison and Eighth streets, 
 were built by Winn & Blagrooz in 1873. This firm done a flour- 
 ishing business until July, 1S77, when they sold their interest to 
 Warnebold & Wittenberg. These gentlemen being so well and 
 favorably known for their sterling business qualifications, under 
 their superior management the mills soon began to show signs of 
 rapid improvement. The demand for their flour increased so that 
 in a short time they found that in order to keep their trade fully 
 supplied they would have to enlarge the capacity of their mill. 
 Finally, in 18S1, the mill was changed to the new roller system with 
 double capacity. The flour since jiroduced by the new system is 
 universally acknowledged to be equal if not superior to any in the 
 market. They give employment to twenty-one men. 
 
 On June i6th, 1887, Mr. Wittenberg sold his interest to A. 
 Warnebold, who is now controlling the whole mill. 
 
 M. WEIDEMANN. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page 3, No. 37.) 
 
 M. Weidemann, wholesale dealer in notions, white goods, em- 
 broideries, laces, and trimmings, hosiery and millinery goods, a 
 resident of Davenport since 1852, was engage in the wholesale 
 and retail dry goods business until 1873, but for the last two years 
 has been conducting the present business at No. 113 West Second 
 street. 
 
 YOUNG & HARFORD. 
 
 (See Illustration, Page lo. No. 66.) 
 
 This firm was founded in i860, by D. T. Young, and was con- 
 tinued by him until 1880, when George H. Young was admitted as 
 a partner, the firm name being D. T. Young & Son, until 1881 It 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 GIIS HAASE. WM. HAASE. 
 
 HAASE BROS. 
 
 Hliolem'lc 'Dealers in ]\ ines and Liquors, 
 
 No. 216 West Third Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA 
 
 r^ ANN ON & McGUIRK. 
 
 Collectwtn promptly attended to. A I I R N EY b Al LAW. 
 
 Telephone No. .f2$. S. II'. Cor. Third and Brady S/s., Davenport, loiva. 
 
 CTEAM MUSTARD MILLS , 1 IT SONNTAG 
 
 The Theo. Tiedemaim Co.. Plumber and Gas Fitter, 
 
 Manufacturers ol and Wholesalers in all ■•^'"' ^"'"^ agent for Hydraulic Beer Pumps, 
 
 kinds of Mustard, j2t West Third Street, 
 
 624 W. Third Street, Davenport, Iowa. Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 TJINCHER'S SUMMER GARDEN, 
 
 Popular Summci Resort. 
 
 Concerts every Wednesday evening, and Sunday afternoon and evenijtg, 
 by Strasser's Uyiion Band. 
 
 Teleplioiic 343. Twelfth and Brown Sts., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 n^HE FEDERAL LIFE ASSOCIATION 
 
 -*• is recognized by the Insurance Department ol Iowa as one 
 ol the leading- companies in the State. 
 
 It has an accumulated Keserve Fund of over 520,000, which is being added to constantly. 
 
 It has paid in death losses over S40.000. It pa\s all valid claims i)romptly and in fidl. 
 
 Cost of insurance stated definitely, and nia\ he paid Iti yearly, semi-annual, or quarterly 
 payments. All securities for investments made are deposited and held by the Auditor of 
 State. It will pay you to investigate the plans and workings of the 
 
 FEDERAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, 
 F O. Block, Cor. Third and Perry Sts , Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 H. HUEBINGER. 
 
 CONFECTIONERY, 
 
 FANCY BAKERY AND RESTAURANT, 
 
 ICE CREAM AND CAKES. 
 
 Dinners and Suppers to order. Warm Meals at all hours. 
 
 Difiner from 12 to z F. 3/. 
 
 Telephone No. 60. 322 Brady Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 'OHN M. KILLIAN, 
 
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 J Decorative Paper- Hanger, House and Sign Painter, 
 
 AND GRAINER. 
 Whitening done on short notice. 
 
 Shop, ^12 West Second St., bet. Scott and Western Aves., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 H. WHITAKER, 
 
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 SCHNECKLOTH, 
 
 Contractor and Bnitder, 
 Manufacturer 0/ Sash, Doois, and Blinds^ 
 loio to 1016 East Front Street. 
 
 Davenport^ Iowa. 
 
 BOTTLER,- 
 
 516 Harrison Street, Davenport^ Iowa. 
 
 \ LBERT F. MIEKLEY, . 
 
 Cotitractor, House Builder, and Carpenter , 
 
 No. 314 West Fifth Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 URMEIER & RASCHER. 
 
 Henry Kurmeier, Frank Rascher. 
 
 Cooking and Heating Stoves, Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware. Jobbing and Roofing Done. 
 224 Second Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 T)1CHARDS' DRUG STORE AND PHARMACY, 
 
 212 Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 7 L. REID 
 
 I • Dealer in Stoves and Tinware, also New and Second-Hand 
 
 Furniture and House-Furnishing Goods. 
 
 218 Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 was then reorganized under the firm name of George H Young & 
 Company, the company being Mr. E. S. Ballord, a gentleman of 
 liberal means, and one being identified with Davenport interests. 
 The business was materially enlarged and was continued until the 
 spring of 1884, when T. W. Harford purchased of E. S. Ballord his 
 interest in the concern, and the name was changed to Young & 
 Harford, under which it now exists. George H. Young has been 
 fully schooled in every detail of carriage building, and is fully com- 
 petent to superintend the work with which he has been so long con- 
 nected. T. W. Harford has long been upon the road, and has the 
 care of disposing of the out-put of the firm. The specialties of this 
 
 firm are spring wagons and top buggies, of which they will manu- 
 facture none but the best — such as can be fully recommended and 
 warranted. But not every buyer of a buggy cares for these 
 qualities, but rather looks for cheapness. For such customers 
 Young & Harford carry a full line of the machinery-made buggies, 
 which are having a large sale. They are agents for the Standard 
 Wagon Company, of Cincinnati, who build the best cheap work on 
 the market. Their trade extends throughout Iowa, Minnesota, 
 Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas, and by the united efforts of the 
 partners, their business is mcreasing rapidly, and it bids fair to be 
 one of the prominent manufacturing firms of the city and state. 
 
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 A. HuEBINGER. 
 
 M. HUEBINGER. 
 
 CoDicr Tliiid and Bradv Strccls^ I^ai'fupoii, foiva. 
 
 Large Portraits a Specialty. 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 /CO NSOL IDATED TANK LINE CO 
 
 Carbon and Lubricating Oils, 
 M. MAXON, Manager. 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 H. 
 
 B. POHLMANN. 
 
 U AT FACTORY. 
 
 Propri/'tor of the Brick Yard. 
 1233 Marquette St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 Orders from the city solicited. 
 
 Also, goods delivered. 
 
 F. A. BUSSE, Proprietor, 
 
 JZ4 Brady Street^ 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 W. 
 
 STERNBERG. 
 
 [ENS HANSEN, 
 
 Proprietor 
 West Davenport Machine Shops 
 
 AND BRASS FOUNDRY. 
 
 1642-44 West Locust St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 Manufacturer and dealer in 
 
 Fuvnititre of all Kinds, 
 1522 West Locust St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 D RAMMER & OTT, 
 
 JUI.IUS BRAMMER. LOUIS OTT. 
 
 Dealers in Groceries, Crockery, Hardware, 
 
 Paints, Oils, Etc., 
 1647 and 1649 West Third St., 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 C BI & NEUMAN, 
 
 Founders and Machinists, 
 Manufacturers and dealers in 
 
 FARM MACHINERY, 
 Telephone i6s. Cor. Front and Gaines Sts. 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
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 LINDBLOM, 
 
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 DAMS MFG. CO. 
 
 Merchant Tailor, Cleaner, 
 and Repairer, 
 
 125 East Third St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 Installment dealer in Wringers, Silver- 
 Plaled Ware, Clocks, Smyrna Rugs, 
 Sad Irons. Carpet-Sweepers, Rub- 
 ber Coats, Circulars, and other 
 Household Necessities. 
 Agents Wanted. C. F. Dhwend. Mgr. 
 
 i/g Main St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 T)0^nrr)M STOR.P ^"'^^ mustration. page 10, No. 65.] 
 
 HARNED, PURSEL & VON MAUR, 
 
 Dcnlcrs in Foreign and Domestic 
 
 'Dry and Fa /in' doods, % '^ % 
 
 Cor. Second and Bradv Sts., DAVENPORT, IOWA 
 
 rOHN D. BROCKMANN, 
 
 J Dealer in Ge^ieral Merchmidise , 
 
 Sole agent for Budweiser Bottled Beer. Goods delivered free of charge. 
 
 329 Marquette Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 J OSEPH OTTEN, 
 
 Proprietor of the Brick Yard, 
 
 1422 Marquette Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 C>rders from the city solicited. 
 
 Also, goods delivered. 
 
 :MITH & HUGHES, 
 
 Bag Manufacturers, 
 iig Brady Street, 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 AVENPORT NURSERY, 
 
 Nichols & Lorton, Proprs. 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 Q EO. H. ECKMANN , .... 
 
 Dealer in Groceries, Crockery, 
 
 and Hardware , 
 
 901 and 903 West Third Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 U ABEL. JR. & CO. 
 
 Dealer in Best Grades of 
 Hard and Soft Coal, 
 
 Coke and Blossburg, 
 Offices, 307 West Second St.. Cor. Second 
 and Davie Sts. Telephoue 121. 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 "W ASHINGTON PARK, 
 
 John Wiese, Proprietor, 
 
 Leonard and Marquette Streets, 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 B. LINDSAY, 
 
 Plumbing, Gas and 
 
 Steam Fitting, 
 
 No. 128 East Third Street, 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 ■^ M. CHAMBERLIN, .... 
 Attorney at Law, 
 
 S. W. Cor. Second and Brady Sts., 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 gUELAU & LANTAU. 
 
 -^ BOOTS ^^ ±^D '^ SHOES,w 
 
 No. 312 W. Second Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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 Abstracts. 
 Brown, L. J., 203 W. 3d . , . 
 
 PAGE 
 
 . 34 
 
 Agricultural Implements. 
 
 Ebi & Neumann, 112 and 114 Gaines 28 
 
 Globe Plow Co., 310 to 324 w 3d, tel 259 ... 10 
 
 Hanssen, Louis, 213 and 215 w 2d 20 
 
 Harding, P. B., nw cor. 2d and Harrison . . .23 
 
 Architects. 
 
 Claussen, F. G., 205 w 3d 32 
 
 Hammatt, E. S., sw cor 3d and Brady 6 
 
 McClelland, T. W. & Co., 312 Main 6 
 
 Ross, J. W., 131 e 3d 36 
 
 Attorneys-at-Law. 
 
 Chamberlain, W. M., Ryan Block 28 
 
 Claussen, Ernst, 320 w 2d, tel 3S4 
 
 Gannon & McGuirk, sw cor. 3d and Brady, tel 
 
 425 26 
 
 Heinz & Hirschl, nw cor. 3d and Main, office 
 
 tel 307 32 
 
 Hoersch, William, 225 w 2d 
 
 Koch, G. H., cor. 3d and Main 4 
 
 Martin, W. H., ne cor. 2d and Brady 4 
 
 Peters, Bleik, 325 w 2d 
 
 Schmidt, William O., 301 w 2d, tel 81 20 
 
 Bakers. 
 
 Davenport Steam Cracker Bakery, Reupke, 
 Schmidt, & Co., props., nw cor. 4tli and Iowa, 
 tel 31 19 
 
 Korn, Henry, Vienna Bakery, 319 Harrison . . 4 
 
 Banks. 
 Citizens National Bank, nw cor. 2d and Main, 
 
 tel 265 37 
 
 Davenport National Bank, se cor. 3d and Brady, 
 
 tel 249 2 
 
 IlSTHDEZX: TO -A.ID\7"EI=S.TISER.S. 
 
 ♦-^sA*^-* 
 
 Banks — Continued. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Davenport Savings Bank, sw cor. 2d Main . . 12 
 First National Bank, sw cor. 2 and Main, tel 
 
 260 12 
 
 German Savings Bank, 204 w 2d 37 
 
 Scott County Savings Bank, se cor. 3d and 
 
 Brady 2 
 
 Billiard Halls. 
 
 Becker, Gust, 329 w 2d 16 
 
 Hartung, Albert, " Eldorado," 1 16 e 3d, tel 245 18 
 Hill, John, 122 and 124 Main 18 
 
 Books and Stationery. 
 
 Berwald, John, 214 w 2d, tel 270 3 
 
 Fluke, W. H., 317 Brady, tel 22S 18 
 
 Frisius, Adolph, 316 w 2d, tel 138 36 
 
 Pepper, G. F., manager Collier's agency, se cor. 
 
 2d and Main, up stairs 8 
 
 Thompson, Thomas, sw cor 3d and Brady, tel 
 
 283 20 
 
 Boots and Shoes. 
 
 Baumgarten & Co., 226 and 228 w 3d 34 
 
 Gruenau, P., 408 w 2d 20 
 
 Hombrecht, A., Utica Shoe Store, 214 Brady . 4 
 
 O'Meara, T. J., 126 w 2d 4 
 
 Schmidt, G. M., 301 w 2d 20 
 
 Suelau & Lantau, 312 w 2d 28 
 
 Bottling Works. 
 
 Collins & Baker, 432 w 5th 34 
 
 Schneckloth, H., 514 and 516 Harrison. . . . 26 
 Witt, H. J.. 302 to 306 w Front, tel 386 IS 
 
 Box Factories. 
 Brammer, H. F. & Co., 317 to 323 Warren . . 3 
 
 Hadsell & Co., 104 e Front 18 
 
 Moeller & Aschermann Mfg. Co., 519 w 5th, tel 
 218 15 
 
 l^rahm & Son, 516 and 518 Harrison, tel 186 . . 9 
 Koehler & Lange, Front and Mound, tel 37 . . 34 
 Lage & Co., 1235 w 5th, tel 198 13 
 
 Brick Yards. 
 
 Otten, Joseph, 1422 Marquette 28 
 
 Pohlmann, H. B., 1233 Marquette 28 
 
 Builders, Carpenters, and Contractors. 
 
 McClelland & Co.. 312 Main, tel 267 a 
 
 Mickley, Albert, 721 Harrison 26 
 
 Whitaker, J. H., 1014 e Front 26 
 
 Business College. 
 Iowa Commercial College, sw cor. 2d and 
 Brady, third floor 4 
 
 Candy Factories. 
 Pearne Bros., 103 w 2d, tel 310 30 
 
 Carpets and Oil Cloths. 
 
 Hill, Charles, 317 and 319 w 2d, tel 117 23 
 
 Knostman, G. F. & Son, 209 e 2d, tel 120 . . 20 
 
 Carriages and Buggies. 
 Mason, J. L., 119 and 121 e 4th, tel 219. ... 8 
 Young & Harford, 202 to 206 e Front 27 
 
 China and Glassware. 
 Lorenzen, Jens, 221 and 223 w 3d, tel 275 . . . 15 
 Schueit, Joachim H., 402 Ripley 20 
 
 Churn Manufacturers. 
 Brammer, H. F. & Co., 317 Warren, tel 388 . . 3 
 Moeller & Aschermann Mfg Co., 519 w 5th, tel 
 
 218 l.r, 
 
 Cigar Manufacturers. 
 Albrecht, Otto & Co., 306 w 2d, tel 347 . ... 6 
 Haak, Ferd, iioS to 11:2 w 7th 34 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
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 ~^HAS. H. MEIER'S fire, life, and accident 
 
 INSURANCE AGENCY, 
 
 Representing a large line of OLD and TRIED Firr Insurance Companies, both honir and 
 
 foreign, whose record for prompt payment of losses — large or small — cannot 
 
 be excelled. Policies carefully 7uritfen. 
 
 ■ LIGHTNING TORNADOES ■ C) CLONES 
 
 Office: 228 W. Second St. (Steffeti's Block), DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 CHAS. L. ri'ngr:. p. FEPDKBSHN. |R. 
 
 n UNGE & FEDDERSEN, . 
 
 Dealers in GENERAL HARDWARE, 
 
 425 West Second Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 T_T A. PEARNE, successor to PEARNE BROS 
 
 Manufacturing Confectioners^ 
 
 RYAN'S BLOCK Dealers in Fruits, Nuts, and Cigars. 
 
 loi and 103 West Second Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 TIERED. MEHT-, mantfacturer and dealer in 
 
 306 Harrison Street, 
 
 FURNITURE- 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 C^^^ 
 
 -"^i^ 
 
 DIAMOND 
 
 * * 
 
 WORK A — 
 
 t a ft ft 
 
 SPECIALTY. 
 
 OVER S09 BRADY STREET, 
 
 DAVIS BLOCK, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 P E. PF/JT). 
 
 LEATHER AND FINDINGS, 
 
 Maiiufaclnrcr of 
 
 BOOT ANT) SHOH L'l'PERS. 
 
 ^09 West Second Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 JOHN OCHS' SONS 
 
 Reai, Estate and Investment Brokers, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 T) UDOLPH ROHLFS & CO., fire, life, and accident 
 
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 INSURANCE AGENCY 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 HERMANN VOSS, established 187 i. 
 Wholesale Dealer and Importer of 
 
 WINES, LIQUORS, ETC. 
 
 411 West Second Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
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 F. T. Schmidt. J. B. ScHMinr. G. C. Schmidt. 
 
 RITZ T SCHMIDT & SONS, proprietors of . . . 
 
 Ri ACK Hawk Vineyards, 
 
 And Wholesale liquor Dealers and Importers, 
 315 West Second Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 31 
 
 Cigar Manufacturers — Continued. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Karst, Charles, 22S Brady 18 
 
 Kniegge & Hartung, 327 Brady 23 
 
 Kuhnen, Nicholas, cor. 2d and Perry, tel 142 1:5 
 
 Miller, Leopold, 130 e 3d 4 
 
 Raible, F. j., 210 w 2d 18 
 
 Cigar-Box Manufacturers. 
 Moeller & Aschermann Mfg Co., 519 w 5th, tel 
 218 15 
 
 Cloal<s and Ladies' Furnishings. 
 Arnold, M., 129 w 2d, tel 252 3 
 
 Clothing. 
 
 Heeschen & Freese, 103 w 3d 36 
 
 Krause, Robert, 115 and 117 w 2d, tel 126 . . .13 
 
 Moritz & Bros., 121 w 2d, tel 130 15 
 
 Rothschild, Isaac, 102 and 104 w 2d, tel 296 . . 19 
 " Why" Store, J. Froehlich, propr., ne cor. 2d and 
 Main 36 
 
 Coal Dealers. 
 Abel, Henry Jr. & Co., 307 w 2d. tel 121, and 2d 
 
 and Davie, tel 26 28 
 
 Frahm, J. B., 320 Harrison, tel 389 4 
 
 McCosh & Donahue, 310 and 312 e 3d, tel 118 . 16 
 
 W. P. Halligan, 429 Harrison, tel 171 23 
 
 Wylie, J. S.. 217 Brady, tel i ; 420 Harrison, and 
 
 cor. 4th and Front 34 
 
 Coffee and Spice Mills, 
 Boldt, William, 109 Brady 34 
 
 Confectionery and Fruits 
 Huebinger, Henry, 322 Brady, tel 60 26 
 
 _ Dentists, 
 
 Braun, Carl, 332 w 2d 4 
 
 Kulp, W. O., 114.} w 3d, te! 232 
 
 Druggists. 
 
 J. E. Driscoll, 308 Brady, tel 204 34 
 
 Harrison's Pharmacy, 305 Brady, tel 229 .18 
 Richards, C. L., 212 Brady, tel 281 26 
 
 Dry Goods, 
 
 pa(;e 
 Petersen. J. H. C. lS: Sons, 217 lo 221 w 2d, tel 
 
 399 l"? 
 
 Stefifen, Aug., 226 to 230 w 2d, tel 381 25 
 
 Arnold, M., 129 w 2d, tel 252 3 
 
 Carroll, M., Ryan Block, 105 w 2d 4 
 
 Harned, Pursel & Von Maur, cor. 2d and Brady, 28 
 Deutsch, H.. iii w 2d 24 
 
 Dyers. 
 Sebelien, A., 223 Perry 
 
 Flour and Feed. 
 Carstens, H. L. W., 413 w 2d . . 
 
 36 
 
 Foundries and Machine Shops, 
 
 Ebi & Neumann, cor. Front and Gaines, tel 165.28 
 
 Sternberg, William, 1642 w Locust 28 
 
 Warhus & Quirk, Front and Brady 32 
 
 Furniture Dealers. 
 
 Hansen, Jens, 1522 w Locust 
 
 Hill, Charles, 317 and 319 w 2d, tel 117 . . 
 Knostman & Son, 207 and 209 e 2d, tel 120 
 
 Mehl, Fritz; 306 Harrison 
 
 Nissen, H., 420 w 2d 
 
 Gents' Furnishing Goods. 
 
 Brownson, 131 w 2d, tel 135 
 
 Cameron, W. S. & Son, 127 e 3d, tel 250 . 
 Krause, Robert, 115 and 1 17 w 2d, tel 126 . 
 
 Moritz & Bros., 105 w 2d, tel 130 
 
 Rothschild, Isaac, 102 and 104 w 2d, tel 296 
 
 28 
 23 
 20 
 30 
 4 
 
 Glucose Manufacturers. 
 Davenport Glucose Mfg Co., Rockingham road 
 west of City Cemetery, tel 155 7 
 
 Grinders. 
 Waldniann, George, 30S Harrison 36 
 
 Grocers. 
 Beiderbcckc & iMiller (wholesale), 107 and 109 
 w 2d, tel 261 3 
 
 Grocers — Continued. 
 
 PAGB 
 
 Brammer S: Ott, 1647 w 3d, tel 390 28 
 
 Brockmann, J. D., 326 Marquette, tel 164 . . .28 
 
 Eckmann, George, 901 and 903 w 3d 28 
 
 Eckmann & Westphal, 801 and 803 w 4th and 
 
 710 Harrison 34 
 
 Kuehl, C. D., 129 Mound 20 
 
 Guns and Ammunition. 
 Berg. Henry, 230 w 3d 20 
 
 Hardware. 
 Lamp, Peter, & Co., 211 and 213 w 3d, tel 383 . 36 
 Sickels, Preston, & Co., 121 and 123 w 3d, tel 
 
 241 22 
 
 Eckmann & Westphal, (retail) 901 and 903 w 3d 34 
 
 Hanssen, Louis, 213 and 215 w 2d 20 
 
 Reynolds & Gififord, 223 Brady, tel 240 .... 6 
 Range & Feddersen, 425 w 2d, tel 124 30 
 
 Harness-makers. 
 Hageboeck, John, Jr., 113 and 115 e 3d . . . . 34 
 Techentin & Hoyer, 50S w 2d 6 
 
 Hat Manufacturer. 
 Busse, F. A., 324 Brady (up-stairs) 28 
 
 Hatters, 
 
 Brownson, 131 w 2d tel 135 5 
 
 Cameron, W. S. & Son, 127 e 3d, tel 250 .... 
 Krause, Robert, 115 and 117 w 2d, tel 126 . . 13 
 Richter, T., 323 w 2d, tel 251 
 
 Hospitals. 
 
 German Clinic, 217 w i6th, tel 337 10 
 
 Mercy Hospital (Sisters of Mercy) sw cor. Mar- 
 quette and Gaston, tel 294 15 
 
 Hotels. 
 
 Atlantic Hotel, 422 and 424 Perry 20 
 
 Farmers Hotel, 212 and 214 Scott 20 
 
 Kimball House, ne cor. 4th and Perry, tel 217 . . 
 
 Laclede House, 208 and 210 e 3d 32 
 
 Pennsylvania House, 402 e 3d 36 
 
 Schauder, Louis, 126 w Front, tel 358 20 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 f] C. THHH & SON. 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 FRESH AND SALT MEATS. 
 
 No. 324 Bradv Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 P G. CLAUSSEN, 
 
 ARCHITECT, 
 
 Office : Der Demokrat Building. 
 
 TT HANSEN, manufacturer of 
 
 Farm and Spying Wagons. 
 All kinds of repairing promptly attended to. 
 S. IV. Cor. Third and Harrison Sts.. 
 
 DA VENPORT, lOlVA. 
 
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 ALTER HENDER & SONS, dealers .n 
 
 Stoves, Till and Copper Ware, and House- Furnishing Goods. 
 
 Walter Bender. W. H Hender. W. E. Hender. 
 
 No. 21 g Brady Street, 
 
 DA VENl'OR T, lO WA. 
 
 TTEINZ & HIRSCHL, Fred. Heinz. A.J.Hirschl. 
 
 LAWYERS 
 
 202 West Third Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 T^HE BEST $1.00 AND ^1.50 HOUSE IN THE CITY. 
 
 • • LACLEDE HOUSE. 
 
 H. L DeBATTIE, Pruprietor. 
 
 208 and 210 East Third Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 gCHUETZEN PARK. 
 
 iSee Illustration, page V., No. 15.] 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 J. WICHELMANN, Lessee. 
 
 The Most Popular Resort for Family and Public Pic-Nics. 
 
 "ll^ARHUS & QUIRK, .... 
 
 Boilers, Engines, Blake's 
 Steam Pumps, and General 
 
 Machinery Supplies. 
 Foot 0/ Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa, 
 
 ■pOBERT CLAYTON, ... 
 
 Plumber, Gas and Sieam Pipe Fitter, 
 
 Lead and Iron Pipe, Cistern Puvips^ Well 
 
 Pumps, Steam and Water Supplies. 
 
 4o8BradySt., DAVENPORT, lOlVA. 
 
 J 
 
 OHN ZIMMERMAN, manufacturer of 
 
 •'^'" WEBER P.ANos. FIRST-CLASS PIANO FORTES. 
 
 Ware-room and Factory : 120 Main St. < Three doors below First National Bank. 1 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 G 
 
 EO. F. KRAMER . 
 
 Justice f^ Peace, Notary Public, § Police Magistrate, 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 OTXESEN, 
 
 MILLINERY, EMBROIDERIES, 
 
 MATERIAL POR FANCY WORK, 
 WORSTEDS. ETC. 
 
 412 West Second Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
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 — Continued. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 St. James Hotel, nw cc-. Front and Main, tel 
 268 25 
 
 Household Fi lishing Goods. 
 Adams, C. F., 119 Main 28 
 
 Infirmaries. 
 German Clinic, i6th bet. Main and Harrison, tel 
 
 337 10 
 
 Insurance Agents. 
 
 Babcock, E. J., cor. 2d and Main 16 
 
 Meier, Charles H., 228 w 2d 30 
 
 Montague, A. J., 304 Brady, tel 11 1 :!4 
 
 Rohlfs & Co., 209 w 3d .30 
 
 Insurance Companies. 
 Federal Life Association, over post-office ... 26 
 Security Fire Ins. Co., First Natl. Bank bldg, tel 
 376 16 
 
 Jewelers and Watch-makers. 
 
 Kircher, Mrs. T. , 301 Brady, tel 40 11 
 
 Nabstedt, Martin, 406 w 2d ■ ' . 6 
 
 Reis, Henry, 208 w 2d 8 
 
 Stark & Ruser, 12S w 2d 6 
 
 Tilton, J. C, Davis block, Brady 30 
 
 Job Printing. 
 Der Demokrat, 207 w 3d, tel 256 7 
 
 Justices of the Peace. 
 
 Koch, G. H., cor. 3d and Main 4 
 
 Kramer, George F., rooms 3 and 4 Davis block, 
 
 tel 355 32 
 
 Laundries. 
 Cruys, C, 112 and 114 w 3d, tel 372 20 
 
 Leather and Findings. 
 Peto, F. E., 309 w 2d 30 
 
 Lime and Cement. 
 Claussen, William, Front and Ripley, tel 147 . 34 
 McCosh & Donahue, 310 and 312 e 3d, tel iiS . 16 
 
 Liquor Dealers. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Haase Bros., 216 w 3d, tel 106 26 
 
 Roddewig's Sons, 413 and 415 Harrison, tel 184 22 
 
 Schmidt & Sons, 315 w 2d 30 
 
 Voss Herman, 411 w 2d 30 
 
 Livery, Feed, and Sale Stables. 
 
 Burrall, Charles E., Commercial Alley, tel 278 . 34 
 
 Home, Daniel, 215 w 3d, tel 379 6 
 
 Wiese, Fritz, & Sons, 114 Harrison, tel 145 . . 34 
 Worley, Charles H., 427 Brady, tel 208 .... 18 
 
 Loan Agents. 
 
 Dahms, J. J., 128 e 3d 16 
 
 McHart, J. C, 112 w 2d, tel 415 4 
 
 Lumber Yards. 
 
 Cable Lumber Co., cor. Front and .Spring, tel 9. 5 
 Lindsay & Phelps, Eddy e of Mound, office sw 
 
 cor. 3d and LeClaire, tel 29 13 
 
 McClelland, T. W. & Co., cor 4th and Harrison, 
 
 tel 267 6 
 
 Mueller, Christ, 2d and Scott, tel 167 ir> 
 
 Marble Works. 
 
 Davis & Camp, 224 e 3d 20 
 
 McCosh & Donahue, 211 Perry, tel 118 .... 16 
 Schricker & Rodler, 222 Harrison 8 
 
 Meat Markets. 
 
 Robeson & Sons, 426 Brady, tel 204 23 
 
 Thee, H. C, 416 Brady, tel 201 32 
 
 Merchant Tailors. 
 
 Heeschen & Freese, 106 w 3d 36 
 
 Lindblom, A,, 125 e 3d 22 
 
 Lindholm, C. L., 316 Perry 23 
 
 Rothschild, Isaac, cor. 2d and Brady, tel 296 . . 19 
 
 Rieck, Louis, 223 w 2d 34 
 
 Schake, Charles, 330 w 2d 23 
 
 Thompson & Bahls, 118 e 3d 6 
 
 Milliners. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Emerson & Co., 124 w 2d, tel 334 24 
 
 Forward & Co., 314 w 2d 36 
 
 Koenig, P. & E., 318 w 2d 20 
 
 Ottesen, Julia, 412 w 2d 32 
 
 Petersen, J. H. C, & Sons, 217 to 221 w 2d, tel 
 
 399 • 1~ 
 
 Steffen, August, 226 to 230 w 2d, tel 381 .... 25 
 Withrow, Mrs. A. C, 108 w 2d 36 
 
 Flour Mills 
 
 Crescent Mills, 510 to 524 e 4th, tel 28 5 
 
 Farmers Mills, Sth and Harrison, tel 195 . . . 2.') 
 Phoenix Mills, cor. Front and Western av., tel 
 160 19 
 
 Music Stores. 
 
 Hoyt, John, 303 Brady, tel 230 6 
 
 Wallace, J. C, 116 w 2d, tel 297 36 
 
 Zimmerman, John, 120 Main 32 
 
 Newspaper. 
 Der Demokrat, 207 w 3d, tel 256 7 
 
 Notions. 
 Eckmann & Westphal, 801 and 803 w 4th ... 34 
 Emerson & Co., 120 to 124 w 2d, tel 334 . . .24 
 Petersen, J. H. C, & Sons, 217 to 221 w 2d, tel 
 
 399 I'' 
 
 Steffen, August, cor. 2d and Harrison .... 2.5 
 Weidemann, M., 113 w 2d 25 
 
 Ocean Steamship Agencies. 
 
 Berwald, John, 214 w 2d, tel 270 3 
 
 Klahn, Theodore, 225 w 2d 23 
 
 Oil Dealers. 
 Consolidated Tank Line Co., Federal and Swits, 
 tel 416 -^2 
 
 Packing Houses. 
 Zoeckler, John L., 1337 w 2d, tel 158 34 
 
 Painter. 
 Killian, J. M., 930 w 2d ■!!■ 
 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 J 
 
 OHN L. ZOECKLER 
 
 POJ^/sT PACKER- 
 
 Office: No. 1337 W. Second St 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA 
 
 w. 
 
 F. BAUMGARTEN & CO., dealers ,n . 
 BOOTS AND SHOES 
 
 VV. Third St., N, E. Cor. Harrison (Berg's Block), DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 I J. BROWN'S . . LOANS NEGOTIATED. TITLES EXAMINED. 
 -'• NOTARY PUBLIC. 
 
 Abstract^ Conveyancing, and Real Estate Office, 
 
 No. 203 W. Third .Street, S W. Cor. Main, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 T H, RIECK, 
 
 Mercliant lailor, 
 
 223 W. Second St., Bet. Main (5' Harrison, 
 DAVENPORT, JOM'-.-l. 
 
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 OLLINS & BAKER 
 
 MANLFACTURERS OF 
 
 Soda and Mineral Waters. 
 
 432 West Fifth Street. 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 w 
 
 'lESE & SONS, ESTABLISHED 1875. TELEPHONE I45. 
 
 LIVERY AND BOARDING. 
 
 Carriages Furnished at All Hours at Reasonable Charges. 
 II / and 1 1 4\ Harrison JSi., Bet. Front and Second^ Davenport, Iowa, 
 
 J 
 
 E. DRISCOLL, 
 
 Druggist and Chemist. 
 Perfumery^ Toilet and Fancy Articles, etc. 
 
 Prescriptions a Specialty. 
 308 Brady St., DA VENPOR T, lOIVA. 
 
 A J. MONTAGUE, 
 
 Real Estate, Loans, and Insurance. 
 
 Have Always Ready Bargains in Real 
 
 Estate. Eirst- Class Loan 
 
 Securities. 
 
 304 Brady St., DA VENPOR T, 10 IV A. 
 
 r^QAT .... J. S. WYLIE. DEALER ,N . 
 
 HARD AND SOFT COAL, 
 
 Lehigh a Specialty. 
 
 F' 
 
 |ERDINAND HAAK, . . Great Western Cigar Manufactory. 
 
 MANUFACTURER Op 
 
 RosadeOro. La Doncella. FT f AT 17 r" TT' J f? C Pure Quill. 
 
 Tea Rose. Little Dot. HaaksCuba. ri l\ H, ^l^r^tly^) MyBeaut\. 
 
 1110 & 1112 W. Seventh St., DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 T^OEHLER & LANGE, ' 
 
 ARSENAL BREWERY- 
 
 H. KOEHLKR. 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 ^\\ / M. CLAUSSEN, wholesale and retail dealer in 
 
 Cordova aiid Sugar Creek Lime, 
 
 Plaster Paris, Sand, Plaster, Plastering Hair, St. Louis Fire-Brick 
 
 and Fire- Clay. DA VENPOR T, lO WA. 
 
 THE ARC-SCALES 
 The Little Wonder Postal Scale, 
 the Posta.iie-Rate Scale, the Home Friend, 
 the Everlasting, the Plantation, and 
 the Double-Index Counter Scale. 
 
 ARC-SCALE MFG. CO MP A N } ; 
 Works : Rock Island St., DA VENPOR T. 
 
 VV A/,„ 
 
 .LIAM BOLDT, 
 
 Manufacturer of and Wholesale 
 Dealer in Roasted Coffees., Spices., Bluings, 
 
 Elavoring Extracts, etc. 
 no East Front Street, 
 
 DAVENPORT. 10 IV A. 
 
 r^ E. BURRALL, telephone 278. 
 
 LIVERY, FEED, f^^ SALE STABLE, 
 
 Commercial Alley. 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 E 
 
 CKMANN & WESTPHAL, dealers m . . . Terms Cash. 
 Groceries, Crockery, and Provisions, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 801 and Soj W. Fourth Street, 
 
 and yj6 Harrison Street, 
 
 Telephone No. i. 
 
 DAVENPORT IOWA. 
 
 TOHN HAGEBOECK, manufacturer and dealer in 
 
 Harness, Saddles, Collars, Bla^ikets, etc. 
 Ill and 113 East Third Street, DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 35 
 
 Paints, Oils, and Glass. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Naeckel & Son, 405 w 2cl '20 
 
 Reynolds & Gifford, 223 Brady, lei 240 .... 6 
 
 Photographers. 
 Huebinger Bros., 3d and Brady 27 
 
 .• Physicians, 
 Hazen, E. H., Ryan's Block, cor. 2d and Brady 18 
 Hoepfner, Gustav, i6th bet Harrison and Main 10 
 Jaenicke, A., i6th and Harrison 10 
 
 Pictures. 
 
 Berwald, John, 214 w 2d, tel 270 3 
 
 Fluke, W. H., 317 Brady, tel 228 18 
 
 Thompson, Thomas, sw cor. 3d and Brady, tel 
 
 283 20 
 
 Piano factory. 
 Zimmerman, John, 120 Main 32 
 
 Picture Frames, 
 
 Berwald, John, 214 w 2d, tel 270 3 
 
 Frisius, Adolph, 316 w 2d, tel 138 36 
 
 Naeckel & Son, 405 w 2d 20 
 
 Thompson, Thomas, sw cor. 3d and Brady, tel 
 283 20 
 
 Plow Manufacturers. 
 Globe Plow Co., 322 w 3d, tel 259 10 
 
 Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters. 
 
 Clayton, R. C, 408 Brady 32 
 
 Davenport Steam Heating Co., iiS w 3d, tel 11. 7 
 
 Eyer, Peter, 416 w 2d 1 
 
 Lindsay, J. B., 128 e 3d 22 
 
 Sonntag, H., 227 Harrison 26 
 
 Real Estate Agents. 
 
 Brown, L. J., 203 w 3d 34 
 
 Dahms, John J., 128 e 3d 16 
 
 Klahn, Theodore, 225 w 2d 23 
 
 McHart, J. C, 205 Brady, tel 415 4 
 
 Montague, A. J., 304 Brady, tel III 34 
 
 Ochs', John, Sons, 126 Main 30 
 
 Restaurants 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Becker, Gust., 329 w 2d, tel 170 16 
 
 Hill, John, 122 and 124 Main 18 
 
 Huebinger, H., 322 Brady, tel 60 2(i 
 
 Roofers. 
 J. C. Watson cS: Co-, 430 Brady, tel 375 4 
 
 Sash, Doors, and Blinds. 
 McClelland, T. VV. & Co., 304 to 312 Main, (el 
 
 267 6 
 
 Roberts, U. N. & Co., 4tli and Harrison, tel 190.2I 
 
 Scale Manufacturers. 
 Arc-Scale Mfg Co., 411 and 413 Rock Island . . 34 
 
 Seeds. 
 Hanssen, Louis, 213 and 215 w 2d 20 
 
 Sewing Machines. 
 
 Harding, P. B. , 2d and Harrison 23 
 
 Techentin & Hoyer, 308 w 2d 6 
 
 Shirt Manufacturer. 
 Cruys, C, 112 and 1 14 w 3d, tel 372 20 
 
 Show-case Manufacturers. 
 Bills, John C. & Co., 434 Brady 18 
 
 Sleigtis. 
 Mason, J. I^., 119 and 121 e 4th, tel 219 .... 8 
 Young & Harford, P>ont and Perry 27 
 
 Soda-water Factories. 
 
 Collins & Baker, 432 w 5th 34 
 
 Witt, Henning, 302 to 306 w Front, tel 386 . . 18 
 
 Steamship Agents 
 
 Berwald, John, 214 w 2d, tel 270 3 
 
 Frisius, A., 316 w 2d 36 
 
 Klahn, Theo., 225 w 2d 23 
 
 Stoves and Tinware. 
 
 Gnik, H. F., 304 Harrison 23 
 
 Hender, Walter, 219 Brady 32 
 
 Stoves and Tinware — Continued. 
 
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 Kurmeier & R;ischer. 608 \v 2d "26 
 
 Lerch, A. J. & Bro., 122 w 3d, lel 231 20 
 
 Reid,J. L.,2iS Brady 20 
 
 Reiniers & Branch, 414 w 2d 20 
 
 Tobacco. 
 
 Albrecht & Co., 306 w 2d, tel 357 6 
 
 Kuhnen, Nicholas, sw cor. 2d and Perry ... 13 
 
 ■ Toys. 
 
 Berwald, John, 214 w 2d, tel 270 3 
 
 Emerson & Co., 124 w 2d, tel 334 24 
 
 Frisius, A., 316 w 2d '. . 36 
 
 Trunk Factory. 
 Wirtel.J. W'., 220 Brady 18 
 
 Undertaker. 
 Nissen, H., 420 w 4tli, tel 449 4 
 
 Wagon Shop. 
 Hansen, Hans. 305 w 3d 28 
 
 Wagon Stock. 
 Lamp, Peter & Co., iii and 113 w 3d, tel 383 . 36 
 
 Wall Paper. 
 Fluke, W. H., 317 Brady, tel 228 ...... 18 
 
 Naeckel, Charles F., 405 w 2d 20 
 
 Thompson, Thomas, 3d and Brady, tel 283 . . 20 
 
 Washing-machines, Churns, and Boxes. 
 Branimer & Co., 317 to 323 Warren, tel 388 . . 3 
 Moeller & Aschermann Mfg Co., Scotland 5th, 
 218 14 
 
 Wood Dealers. 
 Abel & Co., 307 w 2d, and 2d and Davie, tel 126. 2S 
 
 Woolen Mills. 
 Davenport Woolen Mills Co., Front e of Bridge 
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 THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
 rOE FROEHLICH, 
 
 ne " IV/iy " One-Price 
 
 Clothing House, 
 
 Corner Second and Main Streets, 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 H 
 
 EN RY SCHNITGER , . . . 
 Lessee City Street- Railivay. 
 
 Res. Spring St., North of Front St., 
 
 Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 /\ DOLPH FRISIUS, r./......... 
 
 Importer and Jobber in 
 
 Toys, Stationery, and Fancy Goods, 
 
 Druggists' Sundries, Cliina, ]?oliemian Glassware, Musical Instruments, 
 X'iolin Strings, Etc. 
 
 316 West Second St., bet. Harrison and Ripley Sts., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 A 
 
 UG. SEBELIEN'S 
 
 Iowa State Steam Dye and Cleansing Works, 
 
 And Repairing Establishment. 
 22s Perry Street, bet. Second and T/iird Sts., Davenport, loiva. 
 
 G 
 
 EO. WALDMAN, 
 
 Cutler and Grinder, 
 
 Dealer in all kinds of Cutlery and Barber Supplies. 
 
 Razors, Shears, Clippers, Lawn Mowers, and all kinds of 
 edged tools Ground and Repaired. 
 
 30S Harrison St , Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 H EESCHEN & FREESE, 
 
 ^ MERCHANT * TAILORS, ^ 
 
 106 West Third St.. Davenport. Iowa. 
 
 J. 
 
 W. ROSS, 
 
 C. WALLACE, 
 
 Architect and Superintendent 
 
 of Buildings, 
 
 Eldridge Block, Cor. Third & Perry Sis. 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 Gold String, and other Pianos. 
 
 iig H^est Second St. Telephone 297. 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 P ETER LAM P & CO. 
 
 Steel, Iron, Heavy Hardware, 
 
 Carriage and Wagon Woodware, Etc. 
 
 Third St., between Main and Harrison Sts. 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 M"^ 
 
 RS. A. C. WITHROW, 
 
 108 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
 A fine line of Millinery, including Special 
 
 and Exclusive Shapes not to be found elsewhere. 
 
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 ENNSYLVANIA HOUSE, 
 
 Jos. Traeger, Proprietor. 
 
 Best One-Dollar-a-Day House in the City. 
 Good Stabling in Connection. 
 
 N. E. Cor. Third and Iowa Sts., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 FORWARD & CO. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail 
 
 'Millinery and Fancy Goods, 
 
 .41 Loivesl Prices, at the Forward Store. 
 We make a Specialty of all kinds of Embroidery Materials. 
 
 314 West Second St., Davenport, Iowa. 
 
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THE CITY OF DAVENPORT AND VICINITY. 
 
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 Capital, 
 Surplus, 
 
 
 H. LISCHER, 
 
 President. 
 
 German Savings Bank, 
 
 DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 
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 $800,000. 
 60,000. 
 
 Five per cent interest Paid on Deposits. 
 
 Money Loaned on Real Estate and Personal Security. 
 
 Doors Open from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m., and on Saturdays to 8 p. m. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 H. H. ANDRESEN, 
 
 Cashier. 
 
 L. WAHLE, 
 
 Vice-President. 
 
 JOHN F. BREDOW, 
 
 Asst. Cashier. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 OTTO ALBRECHT. JENS LORENZEN. 
 
 H. H. ANDRESEN. F. H. GRIGGS. 
 
 DANIEL GOULD. NICHOLAS KUHNEN. 
 
 L. WAHLE. HENRY LISCHER. H. TECHENTIN. 
 
 Citizens National Bank, 
 
 OF DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
 
 CAPITAL, $100,000.00. 
 
 SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS, $130,000.00. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 F. H. GRIGGS, 
 
 President. 
 
 E. S. CARL, 
 
 Cashier. 
 
 ROBT. KRAUSE, 
 
 Vice-President. 
 
 ADOLPH PRIESTER, 
 
 AssT. Cashier. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 T. VV. McClelland. Nicholas Kuhnen. F. H. Griggs. 
 
 Robert Krause. P. T. Koch. Daniel Gould. 
 
 Otto Albrecht. D. N. Richardson, H. H. Andresen. 
 
 W. C. Wadsworth. Jens Lorenzkn. 
 
 A GENERAL BANKLNG BUSINESS TRANSACTED. 
 Foreign Exchange Sold at the Lowest Rates. We issue our own Drafts on all the Principal Cities of Europe. 
 
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