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THE
COMMERCIAL, MANUPACTURING
AND
RAILWAY METROPOLIS OF THE NORTH-WEST.
ITS GREAT NATURAL RESOURCES AND ADVANTAGEOUS LOCATION As A SHIPPING PoinT, witH
A REVIEW OF ITS GENERAL BUSINESS INTERESTS, INCLUDING HISTORY OF MILWAU-
KEE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, STATISTICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE, To which
Is ADDED A SERIES OF SKETCHES OF THE PROMINENT PLACES
AND PEOPLE OF THE CREAM CITY, THE RISE AND
PROGRESS OF FIRMS, INSTITUTIONS
AND CORPORATIONS.
I L L U S T R A T E D .
MILWAUK.EE :
E. E. BARTON, PUBLISHER.
1886.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1885, by
ELMER. E. BARTON,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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ILWAUKEE is the metropolis of Wisconsin, one of the chief commercial and
manuſacturing cities of the Northwest, and one of the most healthful and
charming places of residence on the globe. It is situated on the west shore of
Lake Michigan, Ioo miles north of its southern end, 80 miles north of Chicago,
and 1,000 miles northwest of New York by rail, in 43° 3' north latitude, 87° 55' west
longitude (Io° 54.5' west of Washington). The shore of the lake is 6oo feet above
the level of the sea. The Milwaukee and Menomonee rivers unite in the center
of the business portion of the city, about half a mile from their debouchure into
Lake Michigan, where they are joined by a third and smaller stream—the
Kinnickinnic. A bay, 6 miles from cape to cape, and 3 miles broad, stretches
in front of the city, which commands a fine water view, the ground rising
along the shore 80 feet above the level of the lake, then gradually sloping
westward to the Milwaukee river, and again rising on the west and north
to a height of 125 feet. The ground also rises to a commanding elevation
south of the valley of the Menomonee. Few cities present so many natural
attractions of site, as indeed its Indian name indicates (“the beautiful hollow or
bay”); and art has added to nature. In the residence parts of the city there are
miles of avenues from 7o to Ioo feet wide, lined on both sides with elms and,
maples, behind which stand handsome houses with spacious lawns, fountains and
evergreens, giving the appearance of a continuous park. The material used for
building is largely cream-colored brick made in the vicinity, from which Milwaukee
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6 INDUSTRIAL, HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
is sometimes called the “Cream City.” The climate, tempered by the great lake,
is remarkably pleasant and healthy. The mean temperature, as shown by the
records of twenty years, is 46.7° Fahrenheit. The coldest month is January
(average 22.37°), the hottest July (70.4°). During the last eleven years the aver-
age death rate has been but 20 per 1,000.
THE SETTLEMENT OF MILWAUK.E.E.
Milwaukee's first formal historian appears to have been Julius P. Bolivar
MacCabe, who in 1847 published the first Directory of the city, to which was pre-
fixed an epitomized history—“MacCabe's History of Milwaukee.” From this
work the following statement of the first settlement of the city is extracted : “On
the 14th day of September, 1818, a large Michilimackinac bateau entered the Mil-
waukee river, and as it approached the shore it was hailed by numerous red men
of the forest, who were then the only inhabitants of Eastern Wisconsin, and who
recognized in this little craft two French Canadian traders, who were destined to
be the first white settlers in Eastern Wisconsin. These were Solomon Juneau,
Esq., and his father-in-law, Mr. Jacques Vieau. The latter had visited the coun-
try bordering on the Milwaukee river in the summer of the preceding year, and
erected a log trading-house on the Menomonee river, about two miles from its
mouth, and near what has since been known as Pettibone's lime-kiln. But no
white settlement had ever been made here, although several fur traders, for some
time previous, had occasionally visited this place, which was then an important
point for Indian commerce. * * * * The only building erected on the
site of Milwaukee was a rudely constructed log-house covered with cedar bark,
which had been built by Mr. B. LeClair a short time previous, for the accommoda-
tion of traders during the winter months, and stood on a portion of the ground
now occupied by the store of Messrs. Ludington & Co. Mr. Juneau was not only
the first white settler in this place, but was actually the first white resident of
Wisconsin, with the exception of the settlers at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien,
who with the then few citizens of Chicago, were his nearest white neighbors.
Neither Galena in Illinois, nor Dubuque in Iowa, were then commenced. The
country for many miles around Milwaukee was inhabited by the Pottawat-
tamies, and a few of the Ottawa, Chippewa and Menomonee tribes of In-
dians. * * * * * The land first occupied, and afterwards pur-
chased by Mr. Juneau, was the northeast quarter of section 29, town 7, range 22.
It extended from Division street to Wisconsin street, and embraced land on either
side of the river, all of which measured about 132 acres. From the time Mr.
Juneau landed here in 1818, up to the settlement of Capt. Saunders at this point
in 1835, Mr. Juneau's was the only white family residing in Milwaukee. During
the sanguinary Sauk war in July, 1832, those savage aborigines were encamped on
the banks of Whitewater Creek, about 34 miles west of Milwaukee, and in con-
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sequence thereof Gen. Atkinson ordered all the friendly Indians to assemble at
Milwaukee, and remain here until further orders, lest they should be mistaken for
the Sauks, whom the army was then in pursuit of. Their whole number, which
amounted to several thousand, erected their wigwams on either side of the river,
where they remained until the war was terminated by the battle of Bad Axe, near
Prairie du Chien, in September, 1832. The first frame building erected within
the village of Milwaukee was put up by Mr. Juneau in the year 1824. It stood
on the lot at the northwest corner of East Water and Wisconsin Streets.”
Byron Kilbourn, who came here in 1834, and Col. George H. Walker, who
came here in the preceding year, form, with Solomon Juneau, the trinity of Mil-
waukee's founders. They were not, however, the first Anglo-Saxon settlers here,
that honor being claimed for Albert Fowler, Rodney J. Currier, Andrew J. Lansing
and Quartus G. Carley, who came here in November, 1833, just after the Indians
ceded to the general government the land on which the western and Southern
divisions of the city stand. The Indian title to the eastern division of the city was
extinguished in 1831. Byron Kilbourn purchased from the government a tract on
the west side of the river, “with a mile and a half of water front, and an infinity of
morass,” as an early chronicler of Milwaukee describes it. As soon as he had se-
cured his patent, he took steps to improve the land and laid off the plat in town lots.
Col. Walker in 1834 built a log-house on a piece of land long known as Walker’s
Point, which at that time stretched into the river from the South Side. Col. Walker
purchased from the government a large tract of land on that side of the river,
and platted a portion of it into town lots. Solomon Juneau did the same with his
land on the East Side. The East Side, Mr. Juneau's domain, was distinctively
known as Milwaukee. The West Side was for a time called Kilbourntown, after
Mr. Kilbourn, and the South Side was for years locally known as Walker's Point.
The village of Milwaukee, comprising the territory which is now the East Side of
the city, was organized February 27, 1837. Kilbourntown was annexed March
11, 1839. Walker's Point was not annexed until February 15, 1845. The date of
Milwaukee's incorporation as a city was January 31, 1846. The first charter elec-
tion, at which Solomon Juneau was elected mayor, was held in April, 1846. The
population of the city at that time was 9,660. The state census taken in July,
1885, showed the population of the city to be over 158,000, and at this writing it
is undoubtedly upward of 160,000.
THE FIRST ELECTION.
On the 19th of September, 1885, the citizens of Milwaukee celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of the organization of Milwaukee township. The members of
the Milwaukee County Pioneer Association, the members of the Milwaukee Old
Settlers’ Club, and the city and county officials, formed in procession at Court
House Park, and, preceded by a band, moved through the principal streets to
10 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
Schlitz Park, where a programme of music and oratory was carried out. The
orator of the occasion on behalf of the old settlers was Winfield Smith. The fol-
lowing extract from his address is an interesting contribution to the history of
early Milwaukee: *
“On this day fifty years ago, then as now the last day of the week, the eighty
or a hundred persons scattered through the vicinity of the residence of the Indian
trader, Juneau, held by ballot the first election ever seen here. Thirty-nine per-
sons voted, and thus organized a township government. The original record, now
in my hand, opens thus:
“September 7th, 1835, Milwaukee. Met pursuant to an act of the Legisla-
ture of the territory of Michigan to organize the township of Milwaukee. First,
chose Albert Fowler, moderator; second, James Heath, clerk, pro tem.; third,
adjourned to Saturday, the 19th of September, inst., at 9 o'clock A. M.
“September 19th, 1835. Met pursuant to notice. Elected George H.
Walker moderator; James Heath clerk, pro tem.; B. H. Edgerton, inspector.
On motion of B. H. Edgerton, resolved, that all actual settlers have the privilege
of voting at this meeting, and that all our proceedings be referred to the legisla-
tive council for their approval, etc., etc. Elected the following township officers.
“Then follow the names of Supervisor Geo. H. Walker, Town Clerk Horace
Chase, and twenty-two other officers. The meeting took place under the laws
(it would probably, if the stories be true, be too much to claim that it was pursuant
to the laws) of the territory of Michigan, of which this soil was then a part. The
record is not very formal, and it was probably much more formal than the pro-
ceedings. The young men who voted were not fond of legal strictness, but this
paper proves that among them were men of good education and much accuracy in
written statements. The number of ballots cast for the several candidates does
not appear, but in the list of those then chosen as township officers are the names
of George H. Walker, James Sanderson, Albert Fowler, Solomon Juneau, Samuel
Brown, James Heath, Brazillai Douglas, Horace Chase, and Dr. Enoch Chase, names
familiar to many of our citizens, of whom the last two are yet often read by us
in the newspaper accounts of the doings of the day. Our esteemed friend, Horace
Chase, who would probably not yet wish to be called venerable, is still in the same
way of active participation in municipal government on which he entered fifty
years ago. * * We rejoice that Messrs. Horace and Enoch Chase, honored
with the confidence of their fellows in 1835, still live to enjoy it, after fifty years
of industry, of upright dealing, of bodily and mental activity, which have given
them a right to rest which few can show, and which they seem in no haste to
claim.
“ Following the record of the election is the note, ‘Voted, that the ballots be
all received in one box at the next election.” Then the titles and signatures veri-
fying the record: “Officers of the meeting, George H. Walker, James Heath, B.
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H. Edgerton.” The oaths of office are next written and signed, George H. Walker .
as supervisor, and Horace Chase, town clerk, making oath before Albert Fowler,
justice of the peace.
“The affidavit of Mr. Walker follows, signed and sworn to September 21, 1835.
The oath of office of Mr. Chase was taken on the same day, as also those of Messrs.
Finch, Juneau and Harman, commissioners of highways; and Messrs. Brown, Cole,
and Bigelow, commissioners of common schools; and Messrs. Juneau and Finch,
directors of the poor. Mr. Chase took his oath of office as assessor September
24, pledging himself thereby to assess honestly and Impartially the several persons
and estates within the township of Milwaukee, and to observe in such assessment,
to the best of his knowledge and judgment, the laws of the territory directing such
assessments to be made. Immediately following the last record, and without any
break, come these words: “A crop and slit in the left ear. September 31, 1835.
B. W. Finch.” Then further oaths of office, and again the following: “A crop on
the right ear and a hole in the left. September 26, 1835. Joseph Porthier.' Next:
“A slope off the under side of the left ear. April 2, 1836. Clybourn & Chase.' I
understand that these marvelous expressions relate, not to the election or the town-
ship organization, nor to any of the citizens who may be supposed to have under-
gone the punishments therein indicated, but rather to the pigs which were allowed
to run at large in those times, and which were thus branded by their respective
owners. There being, as I am told, no other blank book in the entire county
than the one from which I am reading, the marks of cattle and swine were deemed
important enough to be inserted therein, among those of the newly-elected offi-
cers, and the importance of the act so absorbed the attention of the writers that
they quite forgot to indicate the purpose or character of their entries. In the
record I have been reading the name of the new town is spelled ‘Milwakee,” the
last syllable having two e's and no i, upon which point there was strong dispute
thirty-five years ago. Milwaukee was also spelled ‘Milwalkie' and ‘Milwalky.’
The affidavits call the county ‘Brown,” but speak of the duties as to be performed
in ‘Milwakee' county. The latter county was set off from Brown county Septem-
ber 6, 1834, but had not been organized. A poundmaster—Enoch Chase—path-
masters and road commissioners were elected, and the next spring, fence-
viewers, although there were no pound, no roads, no fences in the county. It is
difficult now to realize the scene which this place then presented. A plat of the
town—now the Seventh Ward alone—had been prepared shortly before by Juneau
and Martin, and recorded September 8, 1835, and some streets began to be
known; while no plat was recorded of lots west of the river until October 8, and
no streets were there to be seen. Water covered most of the land now the Third
Ward, in which grew reeds and rushes, extending from the river to the sandy
beach of the lake. On the West Side a like marsh covered the area between
Fourth street and the river, south of Grand Avenue to the Menomonee. Of the
14 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
South Side, Dr. Lapham writes, in 1845: ‘The city commences about a mile
above the mouth of the river, at a place called Walker's Point, and extends about
a mile and a half along the river. Below Walker's Point the river is bordered by
impassable marshes.’ Walker's Point, to which he refers, is a name meaningless
to our young citizens. But it was a point of high ground running several hun-
dred feet through the marsh northeasterly, to the south bank of the river, near
the present East Water street bridge. On it was built the dwelling of George H.
Walker, the first town supervisor, afterwards mayor, and he entered the land at
the first government sale. That point, then conspicuous enough, was the only
place where a house could stand within a quarter of a mile. Many years ago it
disappeared, as it was cut down and the marshes on both sides were filled. Half a
dozen houses, scattered along for a mile to the south, contained all the population
of the South Side. The ground was high where the point extended back, widen-
ing toward the west. The forest grew heavy, except where it had been cut away
in patches by the settlers, and stumps not yet uprooted indicated how recent had
been the work of the pioneer. No other trace was seen of the hand of civiliza-
tion. Upon the East Side, the marshes that covered the whole of the present
Third-Ward were varied by two islands of dryer land, one near the north end of
East Water street bridge, and the other covering the corner of Jackson and
Detroit streets, as now laid out, the latter of which bore the significant title of
Duck Island. The land in which the present Seventh Ward lies was mostly high,
running by a steep descent into the marshes of the Third Ward, and into the
marsh which also lay along the river front from south to north. The western line
of the bluff crossed Wisconsin street at the northeast corner of Broadway, and
one of my own early recollections of the city is the digging down of the bluff
preparatory to the removal from it of the three-story wooden hotel called the
Milwaukee House, which had been previously kept by Caleb Wall. Some seven
or eight houses, the furthest north of which was near Biddle street, were all that
had yet been built. On the west side of the river Longstreet's and Dr. Graham's
stores, the house of Byron Kilbourn, at Chestnut street, and the American House,
near the site of the present Republican House, were all that were to be seen.
The marsh covered the Fourth Ward, as now laid out, along the Menomonee
river and the Milwaukee as far north as Spring street. Near Seventh street the
ground suddenly rose to the west, and trees covered the bluffs and also the low
land north of Spring street. The forest was dense and unbroken, penetrated by
no roads except Indian trails. These were the white man's only guide on his way
to Green Bay or to Fort Winnebago. Only three or four wagons were in the
southeastern part of the territory, and most of the people were living in the so-
called “Cottage Inn,’ and American House. The line of the river was margined
by no wharfs, and was lost in the rushes which filled the marshes. The lake shore
has remained with little change to the present time, but the mouth of the river
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE. 17
was nearly a mile south of the present harbor, and the channel meandered
through the marshes, considerable portions of which yet indicate to the observer
how the principal area of Milwaukee then appeared. There were some log
houses and some frame houses, built without much reference to streets, or any
other consideration, except rapidity and cheapness of construction. No brick
was seen, and none had yet been made. The citizens at that time had no suspi-
cion of the richness of the earth which was to furnish them a renowned article for
the construction of their sightly buildings, and which should, in time to come,
give name and wealth to the city.”
An interesting fact in connection with Milwaukee's first election is that one
of the electors who took part in it was a negro, who is said to have been the first
negro voter in the United States.
Traveling was by no.means the easy task during the early stage of Milwau-
kee's development that it is at the present day, and it requires an effort of imagi-
mation to realize how completely the people who came from the East, and helped to
build up the city, were cut off from the rest of the world. The traveler in those
days might, with ordinary fortune, be three weeks on the journey from Detroit to
this place. News came no faster, because there was no mail route except by
water. The telegraph was not in use. Three to five weeks might well be
taken for the letter from New York to Milwaukee. The railroad was a light, flat
rail track, running a few miles west from Albany, and all the journey besides to
Chicago was performed in stages, unless the wayfarer was so happy as to get a
boat; and from Chicago hither he walked, unless he rode his own horse. Despite
the difficulty of the trip, and the isolation of the place, however, a stream of immi-
gration poured steadily into Milwaukee. The population, which was 275 in 1836,
had swelled to 1,81o in 1840, and when the census of 1850 was taken, Milwaukee
was a city of close upon 20,000 inhabitants. ,
THE BRIDGE WAR.
Perhaps the most notable episode in the early history of Milwaukee was what
is known as the Bridge War. E. D. Holton has given a succinct and picturesque
account of this bloodless struggle, which is worthy of transcription here. Premis-
ing with a description of the three founders of the city, he plunges into his recital
as follows: &
“Behold the men! Juneau, Walker and Kilbourn, of nearly equal height
and size . The first from Montreal, the second from Virginia, the third from
Connecticut. The domain of the first lay north and east of the Milwaukee
river; that of the second south of the Milwaukee and Menomonee rivers; that
of the third north of the Menomonee and west of the Milwaukee—three grand
divisions. Upon one point these men were agreed, and only one, and that was
that neither of the others was to have a town on their lands. The Virginian
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said, ‘Behold the country at my rear, and the harbor at hand; certainly the town
must be here.” The Connecticut man said, ‘This river has two sides, and it's a
meandered stream, and under the laws of Congress you cannot bridge it. The
country is also behind me, and such a country ! See the fine bluffs for residences,
and the convenient valley for business, and the long line of docks along West
Water street for shipping and other commercial purposes.” Mr. Juneau said, “All
very good, gentlemen, but the people come and buy lots of me, and I sell them.’
Now, as I said, in the early days the two sides of the river were well-defined and
there was no way of crossing it except by a ferry at Walker's Point, and one
at Spring Street [now Grand Avenue]. Those who had come and bought the
Frenchman's lots at length insisted upon a bridge, and the Chestnut Street Bridge
was built somewhere about the year 1839. This led to a long contention in the
courts. How it ever came out I never knew, only that the bridge continued to
stand until it fell over by its own weight. The county repaired it again, and gave
to Mr. James H. Rogers the broad sides of the clumsy superstructure which had
fallen down. These sides were made of heavy pine plank, in a kind of lattice
work. Mr. Rogers, in the summer of 1842, moved them down to Spring street,
and made of them a kind of float bridge which was used for a while to cross upon
by teams as well as by foot. It was so light that if a team did not move pretty
lively it would sink. Several immersions were gained by this process. A freshet
in the fall carried away the concern. In the spring of 1843, John Clifford, Jacob
S. Bean, J. H. Rogers, Holton and Goodall and some few others, made a subscrip-
tion and built the first frame bridge crossing from Spring to Wisconsin street. *
:}; :}; # It passed the heaviest loads, and was in good condition when
taken down after two years' service. Although allowed to stand for the time
being, it was loudly denounced by many of the West Siders. In the summer of
1844, Daniel Wells and others secured the construction of the Oneida street
bridge. This was a frame bridge with a draw sustained by floats. #: #
# #: #: :}; Things ran on pretty smoothly until 1845. The munici-
pal affairs of the town were conducted by two separate corporations, called the
East and West Wards, until 1845, when the . South Ward—Walker's Point—was
added. To be sure, the trustees—five from each ward—met together in the same
room, employing the same clerk and the same records, but their funds and all
their legislation, so far as related to their own wards, were entirely separate. In
other words, the doctrine of State rights prevailed in these little commonwealths.
They of the East Ward could do what they pleased in matters which related to
their own affairs, and vice versa. It so happened that the East Ward had assumed
the support, mainly, of attending the bridges. But after the construction of the
Oneida street bridge, it not only refused to support Spring street bridge, but,
as was asserted, maliciously and wilfully ran a vessel against it and broke
it down. The West Warders considered that they had just cause for wrath
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and retaliation, and thereupon arose a great controversy. The trustees of
the West Ward claimed absolute jurisdiction, territorially, to the middle of Mil-
waukee river, and a resolution was brought forward in the Board of Trustees
to that effect. But the trustees of the South Ward joined with those of the East
Ward—and the decision of the majority was that the river was common ground—
that although it had two banks, yet the water between was common territory,
and to be held and occupied in common by all concerned. This was something
of a damper to the valorous members of the West Ward. For, mind you, the
object of gaining an agreement in council by the West Warders, that the center of
the river was the boundary of each Ward, was that they might, under the right of
absolute and undivided authority in their own dominions, and upon finding that
the middle of the river was the boundary of the Ward, then proceed to remove
exactly so much of all of the bridges as laid west of that line, out of the river. The
proposition, however, after having been stoutly and ably argued, was lost. But
under the old maxim, there is no great loss without some small gain, it was inci-
dentally settled that the boundary of each Ward did actually go to the water's
edge at low water mark, and here the West Warders took their stand—absolute
authority and control in their own territory ! The Chestnut street bridge was a
huge structure, standing upon high, massive abutments, with an immensely heavy
draw, running off upon the west side on a sort of railroad track. It was found
that the entire abutment on the west end of the bridge stood considerably upon
the undisputed territory of the West Ward. Whereupon the trustees of the West
Ward ordered that so much of said bridge as rested upon and was located in said
ward, be removed out of the ward as a nuisance. Accordingly workmen were
directed to so remove the nuisance, and in the prosecution of their work com-
menced by sawing in two the huge draw, and as the East Warders supplied no
support to the part which lay in their territory when that of the West Ward was
removed, the part that belonged to the territory of the East Ward fell into the
river. And now arose among these early inhabitants one of the greatest excite-
ments ever witnessed in the town. Guns were fired, and flaming speeches made,
but no lives were lost. The excitement passed away at length, and cooler and
better counsels prevailed. Not long after, a convention was agreed upon between
the belligerents, which settled the whole basis upon which bridges should be con-
structed and maintained, and since that auspicious time the two sides of the river
have happily grown less and less distinct.”
THE HARBOR IMPROVEMENT.
Another important struggle which was carried on in the early developmental
period of the city had reference to the improvement of the harbor. In the sum-
mer of 1835 the United States War Department authorized Judge J. Duane Doty,
then of Green Bay, to institute such proceedings as were necessary to secure a
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E. 21
preliminary survey of the Milwaukee river, with a view of constructing a harbor.
The first survey was made in 1836, by Lieuts. Center and Rose, of the United
States Topographical Engineer Corps, who recommended the making of a straight
cut from the river to the lake, 3,000 feet north of the natural outlet of the river.
This was the plan favored by the citizens of Milwaukee, and was ultimately car-
ried out, but not without a long struggle. The first government appropriation for
the improvement of Milwaukee harbor was made in 1843. The act made no
reference to the survey of Lieuts. Center and Rose, but provided for “the con-
struction of a harbor at the most suitable situation at or near Milwaukee, in the
territory of Wisconsin, to be made under the survey of an officer to be appointed
by the Secretary of War.” The Secretary appointed for the work Lieut. T. J.
Cram, who decided adversely to the construction of the straight cut, and in favor
of the improvement of the mouth of the river. Great public indignation was
expressed at this decision, which was believed to be detrimental to the interests of
the city. A party of citizens dug a ditch from the river to the lake, in the hope
that the water rushing through would form a channel sufficiently wide and deep
to permit of the passage of large vessels, but sandbars formed at its mouth, and
prevented it from attaining the dimensions desired. The government meantime
went on with the improvement of the mouth of the river, and in May, 1844,
the work of dredging had been carried forward so far that the brig “Virginia,”
drawing seven feet of water, was enabled to proceed up the river with-
out meeting any ... obstruction. The feeling against the natural channel
of the river and in favor of the improvement of the straight cut con-
tinued, however, and in 1848 Byron Kilbourn, who was elected mayor, recom-
mended in his first message to the Council, that the city should raise money by
issuing bonds, and construct for itself an entrance to the river at the point pro-
posed by Lieuts. Center and Rose. A committee was appointed by the Council
to examine the site and estimate the cost of building piers and dredging a chan-
nel. There for a time the matter again rested, In 1852 Congress listened to the
appeal of the citizens for the improvement of the straight cut, and appropriated
$15,000 toward the work. The inadequacy of the amount was so palpable as to
convince the citizens that if they wanted the improvement in their own generation
they must make it themselves. Authority from the State legislature to levy a
direct tax, not exceeding $50,000, for the purpose of making the improvement, was
secured by the city authorities, and in 1855 the money was placed by the city at
the disposal of the government. The straight cut was soon rendered navigable
for vessels, and the old entrance to the harbor was abandoned. The work of im-
proving the straight cut went on for years, and by a train of circumstances which
it would be tedious to describe here the city became liable for a far greater expen-
diture on behalf of the work than had been originally contemplated. The con-
tractors’ claims which the city was eventually obliged to pay amounted to
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$445,971. In addition to this, the general government, between the years 1855
and 1875, expended about $200,ooo for the work. The government has lately
reimbursed the city for a portion of its outlay on the improvement, the benefit of
which is shared by all interested in the navigation of the lakes.
THE MILWAUKEE AND ROCK RIVER CANAL.
Another chapter in the history of early Milwaukee deserves to be adverted to,
although it deals with an enterprise that was never fully carried out, and that
therefore conferred upon the city only a tithe of the material benefits that were
expected to be derived from it. Wheeler’s “Chronicles of Milwaukee '' summar-
izes the matter referred to as follows: *
“As early as the summer of 1836, Byron Kilbourn, of Milwaukee, with the
assistance of several other gentlemen, commenced a series of examinations of the
country between Milwaukee and Rock river, with a view to the construction of a
canal. Having satisfied himself as to the practicability of the works, Mr. Kilbourn
attracted public attention to the scheme by a series of articles written by himself,
and published in the Advertiser in ’37. A bill was introduced in the first legisla-
tive assemby, at its session held at Belmont in 1836, praying for a charter of
incorporation for a company, but no action was taken upon it at that time. The
articles of Mr. Kilbourn aroused public attention, and again, in 1837, petitions
were forwarded to the legislature—then in session at Burlington—for the passage
of an act of incorporation. The company was incorporated in 1838. The capital
stock was to be $100,ooo, with the privilege of increasing the amount to a sum
not exceeding $1,000,ooo, should the same be found necessary to the completion
of the works. In 1842 the dam was built just above Kilbourntown, by Capt. John
Anderson, and in December of that year the water was let into so much of the
canal as had been constructed, viz., from the dam to its present terminus in the
Second Ward, just above the Chestnut street bridge. A celebration accompanied
this event, and a very able oration was delivered by John Hustis. This finished
portion of the canal was immediately invested with a great deal of interest to cap-
italists, and the next year a saw mill was built upon it by Samuel Brown and Ben-
jamin Moffat, and Mr. Rathbone put up a large grist mill, which was shortly after
followed by a woolen factory. The water power was looked upon as the most
important element of the present and future prosperity of Milwaukee. The dam,
430 feet in length and 18 ſeet high, gave a water-way of 400 feet. The estab-
lished rent for the water was $75 a year for Ioo cubic feet per minute. The lots
between the canal and the river, 60 feet front by an average of 130 feet deep,
were worth from $400 to $800. The history of the Milwaukee and Rock River
Canal is long and unsatisfactory. The company, after its incorporation, applied
for and received from Congress a grant of land, commonly known as the canal
grant, and subsequently, the legislature and the company becoming involved in a
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mesh of difficulties concerning the grant and the money accruing from the sale of
the lands, the work stopped, and all that remains at this day of the Rock River
Canal is the still substantial dam, the guard-lock, and one mile of canal, which
empties itself into the river just above Chestnut street bridge. Byron Kilbourn,
having been the originator of the enterprise and having been prominent in its
prosecution from the first, much of the odium attending its failure attached to
him, though there is no one, even at this day, who is not willing to admit that had
the work been consummated according to Mr. Kilbourn's original views as then
set forth, the town would have been incalculably benefited.” Mr. Wheeler's
account was published in 1861. Since he wrote, steam-power has largely sup-
planted water-power in the manufactories of the country. The Rock River Canal
Company probably no longer has a legal representative. Within a very recent
period the old canal has been filled up. The dam, which has been washed out
several times, and rebuilt, is now valued partly because by holding back the water
of the upper Milwaukee it makes that stream navigable for pleasure boats which
Carry parties to the attractive parks and other resorts a short distance north of the
city, and partly because it affords a means of flushing and cleansing the lower por-
tion of the stream, which else would become offensive in the summer time by rea-
son of the burden of sewage which it is made to bear away—a task that is of
necessity imposed upon all rivers flowing through the centers of great cities.
Thus much space has been devoted to a partially unsuccessful enterprise,
because it is believed that notwithstanding its incompleteness it was an important
factor in giving a manufacturing tendency to the city. The flour mills alone that
stand along the site of the now dismantled canal, give employment to hundreds of
operatives and contribute in no small degree to Milwaukee's prosperity. The
establishment of the old water-power was the enterprise that brought them into
being. *
Before the era of railroads in Wisconsin, several plank-roads leading out of
Milwaukee were constructed by stock companies composed of enterprising
citizens. They became avenues of an important traffic between the city and its
tributary territory.
THE BIRTH OF MILWAUKEE’s RAILWAY SYSTEM.
Alexander Mitchell, than whom no man is a better authority, has given it as
his opinion that if, when railroads began to be built in the West, the citizens of
Milwaukee had remained passive, and had done nothing to command the trade
of the great region to the north and west of them, the city would have missed her
opportunity, and would have been relegated to the position of a quiet country
village.
The first railway train which ever ran out of Milwaukee took an excursion
party from this city to Waukesha in February, 1851, over the Milwaukee &
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Mississippi Railroad, one of the lines which subsequently coming under one
management, form what is now known as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-
way system. The first earth for this railroad had been moved in the fall of 1849
from a spur of high land near elevator “A”, in the Menomonee valley. The
energy, perseverance and courage required to construct a railway across Wiscon-
sin at that early date, the first to touch “the Father of Waters,” can hardly be
understood now. The country was sparsely settled, and the inhabitants were poor.
Money was difficult to borrow, and railroad supplies were costly and distant. To
that pioneer railroad more than to any other one thing, except her location on
Lake Michigan, Milwaukee is indebted for her steady growth and her present
commercial prominence. The first directors of the enterprise were Byron Kil-
bourn, J. H. Tweedy, Dr. L. W. Weeks, Anson Eldred, James Kneeland, Alex-
ander Mitchell, Dr. E. B. Wolcott, E. D. Clinton and E. D. Holton. Mr. Kil-
bourn was the first president. Mr. Holton, in an address on the occasion of the
opening of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, in 1858, which was sub-
sequently published in the collections of the State Historical Society, gave the
following interesting and picturesque account of the circumstances under which
this important railway enterprise was undertaken and carried forward:
“It was a great undertaking for that day, under the circumstances. We were
without money, as a people, either in city or country. Every man had come to
the country with limited means, and each had his house, his store, his shop, his
barn to build, his land to clear and fence, and how could he spare anything from
his own individual necessities? Some wise men looked on and shook their heads,
and there were many croakers. But in the minds of those who had assumed the
undertaking, there was a sober, earnest purpose to do what they could for its
accomplishment. It was demanded of our own people that they should lay aside
all their feuds and personalities, and one and all join in the great work. To a
very great extent this demand was complied with, and gentlemen were brought to
work cordially and harmoniously together, who had stood aloof from each other
for years. The spirit of union, harmony and concord, exhibited by the people of
the city, was most cordially reciprocated by those of the country along the con-
templated line of road. Subscription books were widely circulated, and the
aggregate sum subscribed was very considerable. I said we had no money, but
we had things, and subscriptions were received with the understanding that they
could be paid in such commodities as could be turned into the work of construct-
ing the road. This method of building a railroad would be smiled at now, and
was, by some among us, then. But it was, after all, a great source of our strength
and of our success; at any rate, for the time being. The work was commenced
in the fall of 1849, and for one entire year the grading was prosecuted and paid
for by orders drawn upon the merchants, payable in goods—by carts from wagon,
makers, by harnesses from harness makers, by cattle, horses, beef, pork, oats, corn,
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE. 27
potatoes and flour from the farmers, all received on account of stock subscriptions,
and turned over to the contractors in payment of work done upon the road. A
large amount of the grading of the road from here to Waukesha was performed in
this way. Upon seeing this work go on, the people began to say everywhere:
‘Why, there is to be a railroad, surely, and the work rose into consequence and
public confidence. It having become settled in the minds of the directors that they
could make headway against all difficulties in casting up the road-bed, the pressing
inquiry was, “How can the road be ironed? Iron costs money, and money we
have not got.’ In this emergency, a mass meeting of stockholders was called at
Waukesha in the spring of 1850. About three hundred people assembled, mostly
farmers. The question propounded was, ‘How can $250,000 be obtained for the
purchase of iron to reach from Milwaukee to Whitewater P’ It was during this
meeting, and after much discussion, that Major Joseph Goodrich, of Milton, said:
‘See here; I can mortgage my farm for $3,000 and go to the East, where I
came from, and get the money for it. Now, are there not one hundred men *
between Milwaukee and Rock River that can do the same P If so, here is your
money. I will be one of them.’ This was a new idea. It was turned over and
over. It had serious objections, but after all it was the best thing that was pre-
sented, and the plan was accepted; and here arose, so far as I know, the plan of
raising farm mortgages in aid of the construction of railroads. The one hundred
men were found, who put up the required amount of mortgages, and an attempt
was made to negotiate them. But this was found, at first, impossible. It was a
class of security entirely unknown, and no market could be found for them. In
the attempt to negotiate these securities, it was found that while they would not
sell, the bonds of the city of Milwaukee would. Whereupon an application was
made to the city to come forward and issue $234,000 of her bonds in aid of the
road. The city promptly and cordially responded. The bonds sold for cash at
par, the money was at once invested in iron, at very low prices, and the success
of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad was set down as fixed. I have dwelt
thus long upon this road, because it was the great pioneer road of this city and of
the State, and upon its success all the other roads built from the city have found
both their origin and their success.” -
The city's experiences with railroad enterprises were not all of a happy char-
acter. Wheeler, in his Chronicles, after relating the history of the municipal
encouragement of the Milwaukee & Mississippi, or as it was first called, Milwaukee
& Waukesha Railroad Company, says: “ Apparently the facility with which the
city had been inveigled into the encouragement of railroads, received, as it merited,
public attention; and invited a combined movement upon its quality of yielding-
ness by all those whose sagacity is ever awake to discern the means of their
individual advancement in the complication of the embarrassments into which
organized society may be plunged. This movement resulted in the act of the Legis-
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lature of the 2d of April, 1853, entitled “An Act to authorize the city of Milwaukee
to loan its credit in aid of certain railroads,’ and the act in addition thereto passed
July 12th, 1853, and the act of March 31st, 1854, amendatory thereof; by force
of which acts the city was authorized to loan its credit, in the manner therein
particularly specified, “to any railroad company duly incorporated and organized
for the purpose of constructing railroads leading from the city of Milwaukee into
the interior of the State,’ as well as “railroads to intersect and connect with any
other railroad having its terminus in said city,’ which, in the opinion of the Com-
mon Council, might be entitled to aid from the city. A provision was also con-
tained in said acts requiring the question of the issue of bonds to any such rail-
road company to be first submitted to the voters of the city, and their approval
of the measure by the ordinary test of the ballot was a necessary preliminary to
such issue. Pursuant to this legislation, elections were held from time to time
—always resulting in favor of the issue—and ordinances passed by the Common
Council, under which there were issued and delivered to the several companies
deemed to come within the provisions of the acts, 7 per cent. bonds of the city
amounting to $1,380,000, in addition to those before issued to the Milwaukee &
Waukesha Railroad Company. * * * * * These latter bonds were to be
merely loans of credit on the part of the city to the several companies, and the
city was to be amply indemnified by said companies against all liability on said
bonds, either for principal or interest. And at the times of the several issues
to the companies, the city officers took to themselves the credit of assuming that
the securities that the city received for such indemnification were sufficient. But
partly from a misapprehension of the value of said railroad securities, and partly
from too great compliance on their part—not to raise the question of connivance
and rascality—those securities, or such of them as the city has not suffered itself
to be wheedled out of, are now found lamentably inadequate. * * * * *
Whatever of palliation there may have been for the encouragement originally
given by the city corporation to the Milwaukee & Waukesha Railroad, when that
enterprise was essaying those feeble steps that have since widened into the strides
by which it reached the Mississippi, there was none for the wholesale system,
which, with the connivance of the Legislature, the city afterward adopted, of
extending a credit, to which it was by no means entitled itself, indiscriminately to
all the roads projected to terminate in the city, as well as to all their branches
and connections which did not come within many miles of the city.” In March,
1861, a readjustment act was passed which contained a provision prohibiting the
city from issuing any new bonds until its bonded debt should be reduced to
$500,ooo. In 1871, when the city determined upon the construction of water
works, the passage of a special enabling act by the Legislature was necessary before
the city could issue bonds for the purpose, as even at that late date the city debt
was above $700,ooo. While the city reaped a rich reward for the aid which it
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extended to legitimate railway enterprises in their infancy, it had to suffer for many
years for the indiscretion which prompted the indiscriminate extension of its credit.
Still, he who looks calmly back over the history of the matter will be inclihed to
say that it was better that there should have been some waste along with Milwau-
kee's liberality to the early railroad enterprises, than that the city should have
refrained from granting those which were legitimate the encouragement of financial
aid. Alexander Mitchell, who has been before quoted on this subject, said what
must command the assent of all clear-headed men, when he remarked : “The
location of Chicago, at the head of Lake Michigan, forced greatness upon
her. The citizens of Chicago, individually, or in their corporate capacity, did
comparatively nothing for the first railroads which entered that city; while, if it
had not been for the enterprise and public spirit and liberality of the citizens of
Milwaukee, both individually and collectively, Milwaukee to-day might have been
no larger than Manitowoc or Sheboygan.”
THE MILWAUKEE OF TO-DAY.
THE MUNICIPALITY.
Milwaukee is governed by a Mayor and a Common Council of thirty-nine
aldermen. The streets and public buildings are under the charge of the Board of
Public Works, composed of three commissioners and the City Engineer, all subject
to the Common Council. A bountiful supply of water is obtained from the lake,
and the streets are well supplied with sewers. The value of the property
assessed for taxation in 1885 was $78,861,366. The Tax Commissioner states that
the churches and other untaxed property aggregate in value $8,000,ooo more.
The city debt is $2,561,000, mostly for the water works, which are city property.
There is an efficient system of public schools under a superintendent and Board of
School Commissioners, the value of the buildings with their sites being estimated at
somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000,ooo. For the higher education, there
are a high school, a normal school and three commercial colleges, while the Roman
Catholics and Lutherans have several excellent denominational seminaries and
colleges. A public library belonging to the city contains upward of 32,000 volumes.
The public museum, also the property of the city, is another educational institution
of great value. The area of Milwaukee is about twenty square miles. At
the end of 1884 the City Engineer reported the entire length of paved streets
in the city to be 27.2 miles, and of streets otherwise improved, 137 miles.
It is probable that the new streets opened since the making of the above report,
are ten miles in length, which would make the present length of the city's improved
streets about 175 miles. The length of the water mains was, at the date named,
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III miles, and is now probably 120 miles. There were then I 18 miles of sewers,
and there are now about 135 miles. There were 5,351,549,821 gallons of water
pumped by the water works during the year 1884. The fire department has ten
steam fire-engines, and other apparatus in proportion, and an elaborate fire and
police telegraph alarm system is in vogue.
THE POPULATION.
The total population of the city, as returned by the enumerators who took
the State census in July, 1885, is 158,509, a gain of 42,931, or 37 per cent. in five
years. The comparison is made with the federal census of 1880. Classified
according to nativity, the population of the city consists of 93,812 persons born in
the United States; 48,306 born in Germany; 2,290 born in Great Britain ; 2,790
born in Ireland; 2 II born in France; 546 born in British America; 1,570 born
in Scandinavia ; 630 born in Holland, and 8,354 born in other countries. The
census blanks made no provision for the separate classification of natives of Poland.
It is probable that next to the Germans, the natives of Poland are more numerous
than any other foreign-born residents of Milwaukee. The three wards in which
the Polanders chiefly reside—the First, Eleventh and Twelfth—contain nearly two-
thirds of the inhabitants classified in the census blanks under the heading, “all
other countries.” Of the white population of the city, 78,453 are males and 79,737
are females; of the colored population, 206 are males and 1 13 females. The fol-
lowing table shows the population of Milwaukee by divisions, with the increase
during the five years from 1880 to 1885: t
g 18&o. r&85. Ancrease.
East Side............................. 25,093 28,323 3,23O
South Side...... .................... 30,875 46,792 I5,917
West Side........................... 59,61 o 83,394 23,784
Total........................... I I5,578 I58,509 42,93 I
Following is the per cent. of increase from 1880 to 1885:
East Side............... ................................... nearly 13 per cent.
South Side............................... ................... over 51 per cent.
West Side......... a tº e º e º # * * * * * * g º e º e s e º 'º .* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - nearly 4o per cent.
Total increase............................... * * * * * * * * nearly 38 per cent.
The per cent. of increase in the several divisions from 1870 to 1880, the pre-
ceding period of ten years, was about as follows:
East Side...... .... ............................................... 18 per cent.
South Side................................. ....................... Io2 per cent.
West Side .......................................... .............. 78 per cent.
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MILWAUKEE’S TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
The railway system of Milwaukee extends to every part of Wisconsin, to the min-
eral regions of Northern Michigan, to Iowa, to Minnesota and Dakota, to the West
and Northwest, and through Northern Illinois and Central Iowa to the Missouri river
in the Southwest, comprising upward of ten thousand miles of completed railroads
having terminal facilities at this city. Extensive additions to the mileage of all of the
roads have been made within the past few years, and the system is now rapidly
approaching a stage of practical completion. The natural results of these stupendous
works in the development of the country and the consequent growth of commerce
and manufactures will be felt for generations to come, and will, from year to year,
exercise an ever-increasing influence upon the prosperity of Milwaukee.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY.
The most important of the great railroads starting from Milwaukee, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, now comprises 4,804 miles of completed
and fully equipped railway, all under one management, located here, and all
owned by one company, of which a citizen of Milwaukee has been the efficient
president from its first organization, beginning with but little more than 200 miles
of road. The present Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul system includes four great
east and west trunk lines, with numerous branches, extending from Lake Michigan
westward to the Missouri river and Upper Missouri valley, and two north and
south trunk lines running parallel with the Mississippi, extending from Rock
Island, Ill., and Davenport, Ia., to St. Paul and Minneapolis. The most southerly
of the east and west lines extends from both Chicago and Milwaukee to Council
Bluffs, the respective distances being 487 and 506 miles from the two Lake Michi-
gan depots. The most southerly point at present reached is Ottumwa, Ia., 95
miles southwest of Marion, on the Council Bluffs division, but an extension to
Kansas City is now in contemplation, and will be built before long. All the other
east and west lines radiate from Milwaukee. The next line extends directly west-
ward from Milwaukee to the Missouri river at Chamberlain, D. T., 595 miles, with
branches tapping the great river at three other points, viz., Sioux City, Yankton
and Running Water. The third of the east and west trunk lines extends from
Milwaukee via La Crosse and Southern Minnesota to Woonsocket, D. T., 584 miles
from Lake Michigan. The fourth, including that portion of the last-named line
between Milwaukee and La Crosse and that portion of the River division from La
Crosse to Hastings, extending westward from the latter point to its present
terminus in Dakota, constitutes a continuous northwesterly line ſrom Milwaukee of
642 miles in length, exclusive of branches. The last three trunk lines are connected
near their western termini by a north and south line 167 miles in length, extending
through the famous James River valley, pointing toward a connection with the
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Northern Pacific at no distant day. The Chicago and Milwaukee, together with
the La Crosse and River divisions, constitute the principal route of through travel
between the Northwest and the East, connecting with the Northern Pacific at St.
Paul and Minneapolis. This is also the fast mail line.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY.
The Chicago & Northwestern Railway system, including roads owned and oper-
ated or controlled by that corporation, consists of 6,ooo miles of completed railway,
in construction and equipment probably unsurpassed by any other railroad on the
continent. About two-thirds of the whole system lies north of a line extending
due west from Milwaukee, penetrating Northeastern Wisconsin and Northern
Michigan and Northwestern Wisconsin to the shores of Lake Superior at Mar-
quette, Ashland, Bayfield and Superior, and the central and southern portions of
Minnesota and Central Dakota to the Missouri river, 7.25 miles west of Milwaukee.
It is but a few years since Milwaukeeans regarded the growth of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway in the territory referred to with serious apprehension, since
it then had no connection with Milwaukee except by an inconvenient and circuit-
ous line. The construction of two connecting lines, however, the first from Mil-
waukee to Fond du Lac, and the second from Milwaukee to Madison, brought
the whole system in Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Minnesota and Dakota, into
closer relations with Milwaukee than Chicago, so that it might now be more
appropriately named the Chicago, Milwaukee & Northwestern. A liberal share
of the trade of this city is derived from the Chicago & Northwestern Railway,
now one of the main arteries of its commerce. The company has found it nec-
essary to greatly enlarge its terminal facilities here from year to year, and is still
engaged in this work.
The other three railroads terminating at Milwaukee, viz., the Wisconsin
Central, the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western, and the Milwaukee & North-
ern, have been vigorously pushed toward completion during the past year. The
first two may now be fairly classed among the trunk lines of the Northwest.
WISCONSIN CENTRAL RAILROAD.
The Wisconsin Central system consists of the Wisconsin Central Railroad
proper, 354 miles in length; the Milwaukee & Lake Winnebago Railroad, 96 miles;
the Wisconsin & Minnesota Railroad, 54 miles, and the Minnesota, St. Croix &
Wisconsin Railroad, 1 16 miles. Total mileage Wisconsin Central Line, 62o. The
company is now engaged in building an extension of its line from Schleisingerville
to Chicago, and will build another line from Milwaukee to Waukesha. tº
The distances from Milwaukee via the Wisconsin Central are: To Ashland,
Lake Superior, 346 miles; to St. Paul, 372 miles; and to Portland, Oregon, via
Ashland, 2,296 miles. The Northern Pacific has a track to Ashland, and Milwau-
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE. 35
kee enjoys communication via the Wisconsin Central to all points on its lines and
connections on the Pacific slope.
MILWAUKEE, LAKE SHORE & WESTERN RAILROAD.
During the past summer the locomotives of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore &
Western Railroad have for the first time awakened the echoes on the shore of
Lake Superior at the rising young city of Ashland. The company has constructed
at that point extensive ore docks and other terminal facilities at an outlay of about
$4oo,ooo. Among the new railroad enterprises of the Northwest none has grown
into substantial existence more rapidly or with better promise of success than the
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western. The company has now in operation 527
miles of road, of which 150 miles have been built with reference to the develop-
ment of the iron mines of the Lake Superior country The docks at Ashland
have a capacity of receiving from cars and loading into vessels 5oo,ooo tons
of ore in the season of navigation. The company acquired the ownership of the
line known as the St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway, and completed the
road during last year to a junction with the main line at Clintonville, from which
point it extends in a northeasterly direction to Oconto, one of the most important
lumber ports on Green Bay. In its early stages the road had to encounter sharp
competition from competing roads, as well as from Lake Michigan. From the
head of Lake Winnebago northward, following the divide from which the streams
flow east into the lakes and west into the Mississippi, it occupies a territory with-
out competition nearer than fifty miles on either side of the main line, hitherto
uninhabited, but abounding in unlimited resources of business. At Ashland it
forms very favorable connections with the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad, extending to the timberless
plains of Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. Milwaukee was fortunate in becoming the
southern terminus of this vigorous young railroad, which opens to her merchants
and manufacturers a new and important avenue of trade, extending into a region
in which the advantages of rates and distances are and must ever remain largely
in their favor.
MILWAUKEE & NORTHERN RAILROAD.
The pioneer of Milwaukee's northern railway system, which terminated for
several years at Green Bay, with a branch to Menasha, and thence along the
water-power of the Fox River to Appleton, is steadily pushing its way through
the pine forests north of Green Bay. The main line has reached a point 185
miles from Milwaukee and about twenty miles south of the iron district in which
the celebrated Chapin mines are located. A branch about twenty-one miles in
length, extends from a point on the main line near Lake Noguebay to the port of
Menomonee, on Green Bay, where the company has lately been making extensive
improvements to accommodate its lumber traffic and prospective iron ore business.
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The projected extension of the main line extends through the center of the iron
district of Northern Michigan, and when completed will furnish an almost air-line
from Milwaukee to the great mines southwest of Marquette. Another branch,
starting from a point about thirty miles from Menomonee, and extending in a
northwesterly direction, will connect the main line with the Ontonagon section,
tapping the well-developed mines of the Iron River district. When completed,
this road will form much the shortest route from Milwaukee to Northern Michi-
gan and Lake Superior. The company now has in operation 228 miles of road
connected with Milwaukee, and twenty miles on the Lake Superior end extending
southward from Ontonagon.
The systems of railroads thus briefly sketched radiating North, West and
Southwest from Milwaukee, and having terminal facilities here, represent a total of
not less than 10,000 miles of completed roads directly tributary to this city.
Every mile of the vast territory traversed by these roads, abounding in numerous
and inexhaustible resources of business, is accessible to the merchants and manu-
facturers of Milwaukee.
EASTWARD TRANSPORTATION LINES.
The facilities for the shipment of freight eastward from Milwaukee Include a
regular line of steamers plying between Milwaukee and Ludington in connection
with the Flint & Pere Marquette Railway, which, with the Detroit & Milwaukee
line of iron steamers, making daily trips throughout the year between Milwaukee
and Grand Haven, and the two all-rail lines via Chicago, in addition to the great
water-way of the lakes during the season of navigation, affords shippers a choice
of routes, abundant facilities, and reasonable freights to all parts of the East and
-South and to Europe during the entire year.
MILWAUKEE HARBOR.
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The harbor of Milwaukee is admitted to be the best inland harbor on the
entire continent, and it is a fact the importance of which cannot be overestimated.
The superiority of the harbor was enhanced by cutting through the narrow strip of
Iand lying between the Milwaukee river and Lake Michigan, forming what is
known as the “Straight Cut.” This “cut” is 260 feet wide, 1,370 feet long, and has
an average depth of 17 feet of water, thus affording, at all seasons, a perfectly safe
entrance to vessels of the heaviest draught. The wharves on the rivers are numer-
ous and commodious, both banks being docked for miles. No matter to what
extent Milwaukee's shipping interests grow, there will always be wharf-room. As
Lake Michigan is one of the chain of lakes connecting the East and West, and as,
through the St. Lawrence river, access is had to the Atlantic, it follows that Mil-
waukee, through her shipping interests, even as with her thorough system of rail-
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roads, can carry on uninterrupted communication with the outer world, being a
port of entry. As far back as 1859 a Milwaukee merchant consigned the cargo
of the “Hanover" of this city for Hamburg, Germany. The “G. C. Trumpf,”
the “Gold Hunter,” the “M. S. Scott,” the “Juniata Patten,” and other ships
have cleared from this port for Europe with wheat cargoes. Various lines of
steamers ply between this city and other points upon the lake daily, during summer
and winter. *
The custom-house records show that the number of vessels which entered this
port during 1884 was 5,176. Of these, 567, with a tonnage of 354,807 tons, were
side-wheel steamers; 2,061, tonnage 1,796,594, were propellers; and 2,548, ton-
nage 486,424, were sailing vessels.
The first vessel that ever landed goods at Milwaukee was the “Chicago
Packet,” a schooner of 30 tons, commanded by Capt. Brittam. She was chartered
by Solomon Juneau to take a cargo from Chicago to this place in 1823.
The value of the lake marine, as reported upon the register of the Treasury
Department of the United States, is over $60,000,ooo, and it represents a com-
merce that exceeds the total foreign commerce of the United States. Milwau-
kee's share of the 3,087 vessels composing the lake navy in 188o was 362, with an
aggregate carrying capacity of Ioo,ooo tons. Of these 269 were sailing vessels,
and 93 steam vessels. The cash value of the fleet was estimated at $3,677,ooo.
As a port of construction, Milwaukee has always ranked high, because of the
excellence of its shipwrights. There are two large shipyards here, giving employ-
ment to 3oo men. The ship chandlery establishments of Milwaukee do a large
business.
With the view of converting Milwaukee bay into a harbor of refuge, the
United States government is at present engaged in the construction of a break-
water some distance off shore, reaching from near the extremity of North Point
three-quarters of the distance toward the entrance to the harbor proper. It is
designed that under stress of weather ships shall run behind this sea-wall, into the
haven, where the water will at all times be smooth. One of the government
life-saving stations is located on Jones’ Island, at the entrance to Milwaukee
harbor. The crew has done good work on several occasions, during heavy storms,
rescuing many imperiled seamen from a watery grave.
THE WATER WORKS SYSTEM.
The first water works in Milwaukee were those which supplied the old United
States Hotel, at the corner of Huron and East Water streets, upward of thirty
years ago. The source of supply was a spring just south of Wisconsin street,
between Jackson and Van Buren streets. The pipes were of tamarack wood,
bored and laid by James Brooks. The connecting pieces and taps were turned by
the late Henry Bleyer. The main from the spring to the hotel went south under
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the alley to Michigan street, thence along the south side of that thoroughfare to the
alley at present flanked by the Chamber of Commerce and the Mitchell building,
and thence south to the hotel. Many residents along Michigan street, as well as
the people of the hotel, were supplied with pure, cool water by this primitive
system. Long after the burning of the hotel, in 1854, the water continued to
pour into its basement through the tamarack pipes. Soon after the burning of the
hotel, an agitation to secure water works was begun, which at length resulted in
the passage by the Common Council, in June, 1857, of an ordinance authorizing
the grant of seven acres of city property and the issuance of city bonds to the
Milwaukee Hydraulic Company, to aid the latter in establishing a system of water
supply. The plans of the company, however, were never carried out. In March,
1859, Hubbard & Converse, of Boston, proposed to build a water works system
with 25 miles of pipe, completing the same before January 1, 1861, at a cost of
$450,000. Their proposition was favorably received, and would doubtless have
been accepted, but for the war cloud which loomed up while it was under con-
sideration. In 1860, as heretofore noted in this work, a readjustment act was
passed, prohibiting the city from running further into debt. Nothing of import-
ant result in the matter was undertaken until 1868, when the Common Council
secured the services of E. Chesbrough, a noted Chicago engineer, to examine and
report a plan for securing a water supply and improving the sewerage system of the
city. His report was made to the Council in the following year, and by that body
referred to a special committee. As, however, under the provisions of the read-
justment act of 1860, the city could not add to its indebtedness for municipal
improvements while its outstanding liabilities amounted to $500,ooo, the water
works project continued to sleep until 1870, when the debt had been reduced to
within $250,000 of that amount. A committee appointed by Mayor Phillips, of
which John Black was chairman, reported in August, 1870, favorably upon taking
immediate steps to secure water works. A bill for submission at the legislative
session of 1871 was prepared, empowering the city to issue water bonds, and
appointing a board of water commissioners, constituted as follows: Edward
O'Neill, President; Matt. Keenan, Secretary; David Ferguson, Treasurer; E. H.
Brodhead, George Burnham, Alexander Mitchell, John Plankinton, Fred. Pabst
and Guido Pfister. The bill passed the Legislature, and the board organized in
April, 1871, making its first report in the following December. The City Engineer,
Moses Lane, in company with Matt. Keenan, had meantime made a tour of
examination among the Eastern cities having water works systems, and in Septem-
ber, 1871, had commenced work on the Milwaukee system in conformity with one
of the plans proposed by Mr. Chesbrough. Water was first pumped into the
reservoir October 24, 1873, the length of pipe laid at that time being about 55
miles, and the supply being temporarily taken from the Milwaukee river, north of
the dam. Water was first pumped from the lake into the reservoir through the
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force main across the aqueduct bridge, December 23, 1874. In 1875 the com-
missioners turned over the works to the Board of Public Works. The disburse-
ments to that date aggregated $1,948,009.60. The West Side branch pumping
works were constructed in 1878 at a cost of $165,000.
THE SEW ERAGE SYSTEM.
Previous to the year 1869 about three miles of sewers had been built in Mil-
waukee, but no general plan of sewerage had been adopted. E. S. Chesbrough,
the Chicago engineer who was employed by the city to furnish plans for systems of
water works and sewers, recommended a system of sewers conveying the drainage
of the city into the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers, to be carried
by them into the lake. By the first of January, 1879, 93% miles of sewers were
in existence—partly small brick conduits, and partly pipe not exceeding 18 inches in
diameter. The rivers being sluggish at most seasons of the year, the emptying of so
much sewage into them was found to be attended with unpleasant results. In 1879
a committee of experts, which had been engaged to determine upon the best means
for the abatement of the nuisance, reported in favor of the construction of a system
of intercepting sewers, and the pumping of all the sewage directly into the lake. In
188o the State Legislature passed a bill, introduced by Senator Paul, prohibiting the
deposition of any obnoxious matter from any slaughter house or factory in any of
the rivers, and making it the duty of the Board of Public Works to provide for
the disposal of all the filth of the city. The intercepting sewer plan was adopted.
It contemplates the interception and removal by gravitation to one or more pump-
ing stations of the sewage proper and liquid refuse from an area of 8,700 acres
included within the limits of the city, together with one-ſourth of an inch of rain-
fall in 24 hours from the same area. The capacity of the works embraced in this
plan is calculated for a prospective population of 280,000 inhabitants, within the
present area of the city. A portion of these works is already built. The cost of
the whole system will be $600,ooo. The pumping works for the South Side sewer-
age district are located on Jones’ Island. The sewage passes from the mainland
to the pumping works through an inverted syphon 520 feet long and 50 inches in
diameter. The syphon is the largest in the world.
THE GAS COMPANY.
The darkness of the city was dispersed by the benignant rays of the Milwaukee
Gas Light Company for the first time on the evening of November 23, 1852. The
company at the outset consisted of John Lockwood, James Kneeland, W. P.
Lynde, James Rogers, and D. P. Hull. On the evening of November 24 a banquet
was held at Young's Hall to celebrate the event. Eighty guests were present, most
of whom are now dead. Now there are about 6,ooo meters, with 1,000 miles of
pipe. The number of street lamps was 2,105 on September 30, 1885. The city's
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gas bill last year was for 36,000,ooo feet. The price of gas has fluctuated very
little, and since 1869 it has decreased invariably. Up to 1868 $3.75 and $2.50 per
I,ooo feet were the prices charged the general public and the municipality respect-
ively. In those days the meter rent was about 50 cents a month in addition to
the price paid for gas. In 1868 the price of gas went to $4.50 to private persons,
the highest figure that it has ever sold for in this city. In 1871 it went up to
$3.75 and in 1872 to $3.50. The meter rent was abolished in 1872. Since then
the decline of prices has been as follows: 1873, to $3.50 per 1,000 feet; 1875, to
$3; 1876, to $2.50; 1878, to $2.25 ; 1882, to $2 ; 1883, to $1.80; 1884, to
$1.60 ; 1885, to $1.4o.
STREET RAILWAY LINES.
All the notable points in the city are easily accessible by means of the street car
lines. There are three street railway companies in Milwaukee, which own and
operate a total of fifty miles of double track, each having also several spurs of
single track in various parts of the city. The Milwaukee City Railway Company,
the pioneer street car line of Wisconsin, operates thirty-one miles, the West Side
Company ten miles and the Cream City Line a trifle over nine miles of road—
really, it is said, equal to eighteen miles, counting, as is generally done, by the
length of the several lines which are run over the double track. The probability
is that at least ten miles of additional street-car track will be built in Milwaukee
during the year 1886. Each of the three old lines has applied for right of way on
streets leading to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Company's depot in the
Fourth Ward, and one or two ordinances granting the right-of-way to proposed
new companies are now in the hands of the Common Council.
CHAMBER of CoMMERCE.



MILWAUKEES TRADE AND MANUFACTURES
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
HE Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce was organized on the 22d of October,
1858, in a basement room of the Newhall House, on the northwest corner of
Broadway and Michigan street. Previous to that date the dealers in grain met on
the freight platform of the old Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad, or at one or
another of the warehouses. The wheat which came to Milwaukee was all
received in bags, and carried from the depot to the river warehouses and the mills.
Warehouse receipts, such as are now used, were unknown. There had been one
or two attempts at organization by the grain dealers previous to the date named
above, but for some reason they failed of success. On the 22d of November,
1858, the infant Chamber of Commerce met for the first time in a hall at No. 1
Spring street, now No. 1 Grand avenue, which had been secured as an exchange
room. The room was formally dedicated to the use for which it had been secured,
addresses appropriate to the occasion being delivered by E. D. Holton, Dr. L. W.
Weeks and J. B. D. Cogswell. The first president of the Chamber was L. J. Hig-
by. The membership at the outset was not more than 50. In 1863 the members
of the organization, then 270 in number, took possession of a new building on the
site of the present Chamber of Commerce, which had been erected by Alexander
Mitchell and S. M. Ogden, at a cost of $50,000. The opening of the new Cham-
ber of Commerce rooms occurred on the evening of February 3, 1863. Thomas
Whitney, who was the orator of the occasion, remarked in the course of his
address : “One of the main and most important uses of an institution of this
character in this city, I conceive to be the establishment of a just and equitable
mercantile tribunal, which shall take cognizance of all matters relating to the mer-
cantile interests of Milwaukee, speaking out and letting its voice be heard in tones
of stern reprobation and condemnation of all dishonorable and unmercantile
customs and practices in this, as well as in other communities, while at the same
time it inspires and encourages to true, pure and lofty purpose, as well as to high-
minded, noble, manly action and effort—a tribunal which shall be a beacon in this
community, elevated upon high and lofty grounds, warning against perilous and
dangerous courses, while at the same time it allures to those of safety and sta-
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bility; one which shall at all times make a correct public sentiment here upon all
questions pertaining to our commercial welfare and prosperity, a sentiment which
shall be known and felt all through Milwaukee, and which can neither be with-
stood nor opposed.” To the high principles so earnestly advocated by Mr.
Whitney, the Chamber of Commerce has always remained true. No body of
men in the United States have earned for themselves a more enviable reputation
for integrity, energy, enterprise and liberality than those who compose the
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce. The moral and material support which
the Chamber of Commerce gave to the Federal government during the war
is more properly part of the political than the industrial history of Milwaukee,
and here need be only alluded to in passing. Whenever charitable, patriotic
or public objects have wanted financial assistance, the members of the
Chamber have always been found open of purse. Many important public
measures have gained their first impetus in the Milwaukee Chamber of Com-
merce. The financial stability of the Chamber is a matter worthy of mention.
Even during the panic of September, 1873, when chaos reigned on most of
the other boards of trade throughout the country, the members of the Milwau-
kee institution never lost their heads. From September 22 to October 4 of that
year, the price of No. 2 spring wheat was held in Milwaukee at ten to twelve cents
above the Chicago market. The members of the Chamber met daily, only to
adjourn, and, in accordance with a resolution adopted on the first day of the crash,
payments were carried over the entire period of disaster. The magnificent build-
ing which the Chamber now occupies is held under a lease from Alexander Mitchell
for a period of twenty years, dating from May 1, 1881. It was opened on Novem-
ber 18, 1880, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, in the presence of an assemblage of
visitors comprising a large part of the population of Milwaukee. Previous to the
formal exercises, several trades were made by operators in the pit. It is on record
that the first transaction in the new Chamber was the purchase by Thomas E. Bald-
ing of 1,000 bushels No. 2 spring wheat for January delivery, the seller being Alex.
C. Ray. Within ten or fifteen minutes upward of 300,ooo bushels had changed
hands. President Bodden then called the members to order. After music by a band
and the “Chamber of Commerce Choir,” under the direction of Will Graham, the
formal exercises of dedication were proceeded with. A letter of regret from Alex-
ander Mitchell, who was out of town, was read, and John Johnston, as his repre-
sentative, tendered the key of the building to President Bodden, making at the
same time a brief address, to which the president appropriately replied. A letter
from Angus Smith, one of the men who have been prominent in the wheat trade
of the city, was then read, and George Godfrey, a pioneer commercial reporter,
entertained the assemblage with reminiscences of the Chamber's early days. In
the evening the members of the Chamber and a number of invited guests sat down
to a magnificent banquet in the dining hall of the old Newhall House. Following
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is a list of the presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, and a statement of
the number of its members at the beginning of each fiscal year since its organiza-
tion:
Mo. of Mo. oſ
Fiscal year. President. Members. | Fiscal Year. A restdent. Members.
1858–59—L. J. HIGBY......................... 99 1872–73—F. H. WEST........................ 338
1859–60—JOHN BRADFORD.................. I22 1873–74–O. J. HALE.......................... 442
1860–61—HORATIO HILL..................... I79 1874–75–O. J. HALE.......................... 43O
1861–62—DANIEL NEWHALL................ 239 1875–76–N. VANKIRK........................ 569
1862–63—S. T HOOKER....................... 3O3 1876–77—N. VANKIRK........................ 575
1863–64—J. J. TALLMADGE.................. 348 1877–78–CHARLES RAY....................... 569
1864–65—J. J. TALLMADGE.................. 353 | 1878–79–CHARLES RAY....................... 561
1865–66—WM. YOUNG........................ 332 | 1879–80—M. BODDEN......................... 561
1866–67—WM. YOUNG........................ 389 1880–81—M. BODDEN.............. ........... 561
1867–68—JOHN PLANKINTON....... ....... 37 I 1881–82—CHAS. F. FREEMAN............... 561
1868–69—EDWARD SANDERSON............. 365 1882–83—CHAS. F. FREEMAN............... 630
I869–70—ANGUS SMITH......................392 1883–84—ROBERT ELIOT.................. ...629.
1870–71—ANGUS SMITH................... :..341 | 1884–85—ROBERT ELIOT..................... 628
1871–72—F. H. WEST...................... .338 1885–86–JOHN JOHNSTON.................... 624
The position of secretary of the Chamber of Commerce has been held for
nearly twenty years past by W. J. Langson, the present incumbent. Mr. Langson
is one of the most accurate and comprehensive commercial statisticians in the
Northwest, and to his valuable reports the compiler of this work is indebted for
much of the statistical information which these pages contain.
THE WHEAT TRADE.
For a long series of years Milwaukee was beyond dispute the greatest primary
wheat market in the world, and though her pre-eminence in this respect seems
now to have slipped away from her, on account of the diversification of the agri-
cultural industry of her tributary territory, which was formerly devoted almost
exclusively to wheat-raising, her wheat trade is still a conspicuous and important
branch of her commerce. John Johnston, in an address on the occasion of the
dedication of the new Chamber of Commerce, in 1881, sketched the origin and
development of the wheat trade of Milwaukee in the following words: “Wiscon-
sin, little over thirty years ago, raised scarcely enough wheat for its own food, and
the means of conveying any local surplus to market were very deficient. There
were as yet neither plank-roads nor railroads. The price of grain scarcely justified
the hauling of it by wagons over ungraded roads, unbridged streams and undrained
sloughs for distances varying from twenty to seventy miles, and many a pioneer
farmer can tell how on his return home from a journey to Milwaukee with a load
of wheat he found that the expenses of the journey had exhausted the money he
received for his grain. A Racine county farmer informed me the other day that
at the time when the Cathedral was being built [1847–1852] he hauled wheat to
Milwaukee and sold it for 35 cents per bushel. The first load of wheat which ever
entered Milwaukee was received in 1839, and brought 50 cents per bushel. The
first wheat sent from Milwaukee was shipped on July 8, 1841, on the schooner
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“Illinois,’ Jonas Pickering, captain, and consisted of a cargo of 4,000 bushels. It
took three days to load it. With our present facilities for handling grain, 4,000
bushels can be shipped in about fifteen minutes. The construction of the Red
Warehouse, in which a single horse did the elevating, was considered a great
advance in the manner of handling grain, and still more of an advance was the
Blue Warehouse, for in it two horses were used Even as late as 1853, when the
population of Milwaukee was over 25,000, the shipments of wheat had not reached
a million of bushels per annum. The receipts of wheat and flour continued to
increase until they attained their highest point on the crop of 1873, being then
forty millions of bushels.” Thomas Whitney, in his address on the occasion of the
old Chamber of Commerce building, in 1863, says of the first load of wheat, referred
to above by Mr. Johnston as having been brought to Milwaukee in 1839, that it
was brought here from Caldwell’s Prairie by a farmer who was not satisfied with
the result of the transaction. “This load of wheat,” Mr. Whitney continued,
“was bought by Messrs. Ludington & Co., and elevated to the upper loft of their
warehouse upon the shoulders of Mr. Harry Ludington, who thus acquired to
himself the fame of being the first wheat elevator ever established in Milwaukee.
This grain was sold to Messrs. Ludington & Co. at 50 cents per bushel, and
re-sold by them (whether at the same price or not, I am unable to say) for ſeed,
there being no other use to which the article could at that time be put.” At the
time when Mr. Whitney's address was delivered, Milwaukee had already acquired
supremacy in the wheat trade over all competing cities. One reason for the
increase of this branch of the city’s business which he gave, is worth noting from a
historical point of view, namely, the blockade of the Mississippi during the war.
The total receipts of wheat at Milwaukee in 1884 were 13,193,922 bushels—an
increase of about four million bushels over the receipts of the previous year. The
through movement for the whole year was 3,026,401 bushels, making the net
receipts consigned to and sold in this market Io, 167,521 bushels. The amount
that went through by mail consisted mainly of wheat in which Milwaukee merchants
were interested, billed through to Chicago and other markets at such times as there
was any apparent advantage to be gained in doing so. Of the aggregate receipts
8,559,018 bushels were received over the various divisions of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul railway, 3,442,684 bushels by the Chicago & Northwestern railway,
618,312 bushels by other roads, and 573,908 bushels by lake—the latter chiefly
from other Wisconsin ports. The total shipments, including the through move-
ment, were 7, 187,838 bushels. Excluding the through movement, the shipments
were equally divided between the lake and rail routes. The mills consumed 4,839,-
613 bushels, leaving 3,963,981 bushels on hand in the elevators, outside ware-
houses and at mills at the end of the year.
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The following table exhibits the total receipts and shipments of wheat at
Milwaukee annually for twenty-seven years:

Years. Receipts. Shipments. Years Receipts. Shipments.
1884.............. | I3, I93,922 7, 187,838 || 1870............ 18,883,837 16, 127,838
1883.............. 9,278,922 3, Io9,439 || 1869............ I7,745,238 I4,272,799
1882.............. 8,058,422 2, 193,539 || 1868............ I2,750,578 9,878,090
1881.............. Io, I 76,098 7,992,665 || 1867............ I2,523,464 9,598,452
1880.............. II,756,463 9,952,629 || 1866............ I2,777,557 II,634,749
1879.............. 19,649,352 I5,060,222 || 1865............ I2,043,659 IO,479,777
1878.............. 21,763,312 17,254,453 || 1864............ 9, I47,274 8,992,479
1877.............. I9,814,949 I8,298,485 || 1863............ I3,485,419 I2,837,620
1876.............. 18, 174,817 I6,804,394 || 1862............ I5,630,995 I4,915,680
1875........ • * * * * * 27,878,727 22,681,020 || 1861............ I5,930,706 || 13,300,495
1874.............. 25,628, 143 22,255,380 || 1860............ 9, IoS,458 7,568,608
1873.............. 28,457,937 24,994,266 || 1859............ 5,580,681 4,732,957
1872.............. I3,618,959 II,570,575 || 1858............ 4,876, 171 3,994,213
1871,............. 15,686,611 13,499.407 ||.............................................................
The fear has been sometimes expressed, by not very well informed critics,
that Milwaukee is apparently too near Chicago for a healthy growth of her trade.
The fact of Milwaukee's decreased wheat business, as compared with former years,
has been noted in support of this assumption. Not long ago, a New York jour-
nal, commenting on the matter, said: “Country customers are going to Chicago,
because there is no speculation in Milwaukee, which is over-shadowed and dwarfed
by the great city at the foot of the lake.”
Much of the purely speculative activity which was observable in the wheat
pit of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce five or six years ago has disappeared.
If the seat of gambling in wheat options has been transferred from Milwaukee to
Chicago, the fact need cause no solicitude to the friends of this city. To the
thoughtful observer, the weakest point in Chicago's panoply of commercial fame
is the feverish proneness to pure speculation which is characteristic of her citizens,
and which has led to the concentration upon the floor of her Board of Trade of
a species of fictitious business operations that is the bane of modern commerce.
Milwaukee is not “too near Chicago for a healthy growth of her trade.” Indeed,
it may be said, with a close approximation to absolute truth, that the only direc-
tion in which her trade is not steadily growing, is a direction in which growth
would be incompatible with health. *
A study of the statistics of transportation will reveal the fact that an enor-
mous amount of the product of the Northwestern wheat fields now passes through
Milwaukee in the form of flour instead of in that of grain. This fact is indeed
one of the most striking proofs of the rapid development of the Northwest in
recent years. This development, which has comprehended the growth of manu-
facturing centers like Racine, Janesville, Neenah and Menasha, as well as Minne-
apolis, among the Northwestern wheat fields, has incalculably increased Milwau-
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kee's possibilities as a commercial metropolis. The merchants of this city have
taken advantage of these possibilities, and Milwaukee's trade has been enormously
extended of late years.
THE LEADING BARLEY MARKET.
Milwaukee holds supremacy as the leading barley market of the West, Chicago
ranking second in this respect. The net receipts of barley at Milwaukee during
1884—that is, the barley actually consigned to the city—amounted to 4,702,766
bushels; while the net receipts at Chicago were only 4, 178,638 bushels. Next to
wheat, barley is the most important cereal product handled at Milwaukee.
OTHER GRAINS.
In a large part of the territory directly tributary to Milwaukee corn is a less
profitable crop than wheat and other grains, and is therefore grown to a compara-
tively limited extent; yet Milwaukee's corn trade has at times reached important
proportions. In each of the years 1872, 1880, 1882 and 1883, the receipts of corn
at Milwaukee were over 2,000,ooo bushels, the exact figure for the last-named year
being 2,256,862 bushels. The shipments of corn for that year were 1,799,936
bushels. In 1884, however, the receipts of corn at Milwaukee were only 841,560,
and the shipments 360,833. s
The receipts of oats at Milwaukee during 1884 were 2,973,786 bushels, and
the shipments 1,870,309 bushels. Secretary Langson, of the Chamber of Com-
merce, in his report for 1884, says: “The production of oats is constantly increas-
ing in the territory lying tributary to the market of Milwaukee, but being of lower
weight and value per bushel than any other grain, oats will not bear the charges
per bushel for storage or transferring that might not seem excessive on the heavier
and more valuable grains. Hence it is that only a small proportion of the surplus
product goes into store at the usual points of accumulation, and the prevailing
elevator charges have practically turned the whole transportation of this crop from
the waterways to the railroads. Sales in this market and Chicago for Eastern
shipment or export are now made almost exclusively on track, and, as has been
seen, a constantly increasing proportion of the shipments passes directly through
both these markets by rail.”
The receipts of rye at Milwaukee during 1883 amounted to 62o,873 bushels,
and the shipments to 549,020 bushels. The crop of oats in 1884 was exception-
ally light, and the receipts for that year were only 340,948 bushels, the shipments
being 235,34o bushels.
THE GRAIN TRADE SUMMARIZED.
The aggregate receipts of all kinds of grain and flour at Milwaukee for the
year 1884 represented a total equivalent of 41,761,336 bushels, which was an
aggregate increase over the total movement of the previous year of 4,8oo,414
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bushels. Of the total amount received in 1884, the equivalent of 28,922,629
bushels was consigned to Milwaukee, and 12,938,707 bushels were shipped through
by rail without transferring at this point.
The storage capacity of the public grain elevators in Milwaukee is 5,630,000
bushels. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company has about three
millions available room, and the Chicago & Northwestern Railway about a million
and a half. During the winter of 1884–5 all of the elevators were taxed to their full
capacity, and, in fact, were obliged to put nearly a million bushels of wheat on
board of vessels wintering in the harbor, at a considerable loss of storage. A stock
company, with a capital of $100,ooo, has just been formed, which will put up a
new 8oo, ooo-bushel elevator at once.
LUMBER AND COAL.
The total volume of the lumber trade of Milwaukee for 1884 did not vary
materially from that of the two preceding years. The receipts of lumber proper
by lake, mainly from Michigan, showed a decrease of about ten million feet, and
those by railroad, all from Northern Wisconsin, an increase of about fifteen million
feet. About 59 per cent. of the total supply came from Michigan. In addition
to the receipts at Milwaukee, a very large amount of lumber is shipped westward
from the pineries of Northern Wisconsin by Milwaukee lumber merchants and
manufacturers. In this respect the lumber interest of Milwaukee has increased
very largely within the last few years with the extension of her railroads and their
connections throughout the northern part of the State. The receipts of lumber
in 1884 were 230,162,000 feet, and of lath, 13,386,ooo feet. One hundred and
eighteen million two hundred and forty-one thousand shingles, and 1,210,444 cedar
posts were also received during the year. The shipments were: Lumber, feet,
57,275,000; shingles, number, 45,777,ooo; lath, feet, 4,090,000.
The increasing receipts of coal at Milwaukee during recent years constitute
one of the notably encouraging features of the city's commerce. The record of
1884 showed an increase of 91,577 tons over the receipts of the .previous year,
reaching the large amount of 703,161 tons, against 177,655 tons in 1874, and
44,503 tons in 1864.
THE JOBBING TRADE.
The general mercantile and manufacturing business of Milwaukee is in a
highly prosperous condition. The jobbing trade is more active than that of any
other city of equal size in the country. The estimates of commercial agents placed
the total sales of merchandise for 1884 at $130,000,ooo. The estimate is regarded
as below the actual amount of business, for the reason that the smaller classes of
business, which make up a large aggregate, are invariably overlooked or underrated
in all such calculations. The hardware trade was estimated at $4,500,ooo; drugs,
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oils and paints at $5,500,ooo; wholesale grocery trade, $25,000,ooo; woodenware
and woodwork of various kinds, $2,500,ooo; spices, coffee and baking powder,
$3,000,ooo; dry goods and clothing, $12,000,ooo; leather tannery and rubber
goods, $5,200,ooo; furs, hats and caps, $2,500,ooo; tobacco and cigars, $5,500,-
ooo; notions, $3,000,ooo; millinery trade, $1,250,000; china, glassware and
crockery, $1,000,ooo; iron and wood machinery, $5,000,ooo; stoves and other
manufactures of iron not included in hardware estimate, $5,500,ooo; products of
the glass works, $400,ooo; brick and lime, $2,200,ooo; carriages, wagons and
sleighs, $1,200,ooo. Other important items which go to round out the aggregate of
the city's business to the figure given above are the sums received for the products
of the packing houses, the breweries, the boot and shoe manufactories, books and
paper, liquors and wines, vinegar, and soap and candles. The figures above reported
are not given to the public with the assurance of accuracy, but, as far as they go,
are believed to be within reasonable bounds.
No intelligent business man can fail to observe the marked improvement in
the jobbing as well as the manufacturing business of Milwaukee within the last
two or three years. With scarcely an exception, the wholesale merchants of
Milwaukee have completely outgrown the accommodations which served them a
few years ago, and have found it necessary to either absorb adjoining buildings or
remove to more commodious quarters. In every line of business this evidence of
enlargement is apparent. When one contemplates the great field of operations
that is now open to the merchants and manufacturers of Milwaukee, without even
going beyond the territory occupied by her own railroads, and her wonderful
resources and development, it would be difficult to find a location better adapted
than Milwaukee for building up an extensive mercantile trade or the, successful
prosecution of manufacturing enterprises. Intelligence and energy in either direc-
tion cannot fail to be rewarded by success.
MILWAUKEE BANKS.
The banking facilities of Milwaukee are first-class in every respect. The
stability of the Milwaukee banks is a fair indication of the character of the leading
commercial and manufacturing interests of the city, and has justly earned for them the
confidence of the public at home and abroad. Their management is, in the fullest
sense of the term, liberally conservative, affording all the facilities that their patrons
could expect consistent with sound business principles. Their credit is practically
unlimited. The deposits received by the banks of Milwaukee during the year
1884 aggregated $553,224,030.
MILWAUKEE AS A MANUFACTURING SITE.
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many kinds of raw material which come from forests, from mines, and from farms.
She has a good water power, and she can buy fuel cheaply. The tract of country
naturally tributary to her is large and rapidly filling up, and her transportation
facilities, both by land and by water conveyances, are unsurpassed. The econom-
ical administration of the city's government, and the consequent low rate of taxa-
tion here, is another desirable feature of Milwaukee as a manufacturing site which
deserves to be taken into account. The happy fitness of Milwaukee as a dwelling
place is an incalculable addition to the other advantages which the city possesses
as a manufacturing site. The best class of workingmen are attracted to it so
strongly that in many cases their services may be secured here for lower wages
than they would be willing to work for in any other town—a circumstance due, of
course, partly to the cheapness of living in this city.
The first manufacturing enterprise of note instituted in this section of the
country was a saw-mill, erected within what is now the city limits, in the year
1835, by a Mr. Darling, better known in the community at that time by the not
very euphonious, though, perhaps, appropriate name of “Old Fixings.” This mill
was located on the Milwaukee river, a short distance above the present dam, and
is reported to have done a very flourishing and successful business for the times.
Like the scriptural grain of mustard seed, the germ of Milwaukee Industrial enter-
prise, so favorably planted, has been succeeded by a marvelous growth.
Milwaukee is fast becoming a great manufacturing city. Between 1870 and
188o her population increased 6o per cent., while the number engaged in manu-
facturing increased 150 per cent. There are thirteen cities west of Philadelphia
whose inhabitants number over Ioo,ooo. Of these great cities, Pittsburg and Cin-
cinnati are the only ones which have a larger percentage of the population engaged
in manufactures than Milwaukee. Milwaukee not only has a percentage of popu-
lation engaged in her manufactures greater than any other city west of Philadel-
phia of Ioo,ooo inhabitants, except Pittsburg and Cincinnati, but the number is
absolutely larger than in Buffalo, Louisville or Detroit, and about equal to the
number in Cleveland, although the population of Cleveland was 45,000 greater
than that of Milwaukee at the date named. A feature of Milwaukee manufact-
ures worthy of mention, is their diversity. In Pittsburg, almost half those engaged
in manufactures are connected with iron. In Milwaukee, no one species of indus-
try overshadows the rest so much that any disaster overtaking it would work great
harm to the city. In 188o the manufacture of men's clothing employed the
greatest number of hands, being over 4,000. Next come the foundry and machine
shop products, which employ some 1,400; then come the breweries, with 1,040;
then follow the packers, the tanners and the trunk manufacturers, closely followed
by the coopers and the sash, door and blind manufacturers. Bay View is not
included with Milwaukee in the census reports, neither are the St. Paul Railway
shops, or the showing would be still better.
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE. 57
STATE CENSUS FIGURES.
In connection with the State census taken in Milwaukee during July, 1885, under
the supervision of the city clerk, an effort was made to secure statistics relating to
some of the more important industries of the city. Many establishments declined
to report, while the proprietors of others, inspired by fear of the assessor, did not
give figures commensurate with the actual facts. Despite these drawbacks, how-
ever, the following summary of the result of the industrial census will be found
interesting and impressive: “During the year the total value of iron products and
manufactured articles of iron in the city reached $3,130,500, and the value of
leather and manufactured articles of leather was $4,590,400. There were 3,300
wagons, carriages and sleighs manufactured, representing a value of $412,700.
There were 969,420 barrels of beer manufactured, valued at $6,054,336; and
4oo,ooo gallons of whisky, at a total value of $500,ooo. Vinegar seems also to
have been in demand as 3,907,ooo gallons were made, all being valued at $426,560.
The product of woolen fabrics is estimated at $115,000; of earthenware, $33,500,
and of drain tile, $38,000. The number of cigars and cigarettes manufactured
during the year was 49,318,8oo, estimated at $1,397,436, while the total amount
of all other tobaccos manufactured was 3,637,ooo pounds, an aggregate value of
$858,000. The flouring mills of Milwaukee show up well, having turned out
1,057,953 barrels of flour during the year, representing a money value of $5,094,-
479.39. All other manufactured articles are classed under one head, and the value
of their products is estimated at $11,413,359.63. The total value of the real
estate and machinery used in the local manufacturing enterprises is $8,395,066.53;
of the stock and fixtures, $7,552,851.23, showing a total investment of $15,947,-
917.76. The amount of wages paid for labor performed in the enterprises cited
above during the year, was $6,210,165.72, while the number of men employed is
set down at 15,456. The total value of the products of the local manufacturing
interests, according to the reports received by the city clerk, is $34,069,271.02,
while the total amount of money invested, including wages paid, during the year,
is $22,158,083.48.”
THE IRON INDUSTRY.
Foundries and machine shops in 188o gave employment to 1,467 operatives
in Milwaukee. There were thirty establishments of the kind, in which $1,286,445
was invested. The value of the materials annually consumed was set down at
$3,795,289, and of the finished product at $4,204,708. As has been heretofore
stated, the census returns do not include Bay View or the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul railway shops in the report of Milwaukee industries. Otherwise the iron
manufactures of Milwaukee would figure as employing more operatives than any
other division of manufacturing business. A small foundry and machine shop,
established on the canal in 1842, is probably entitled to the credit of having been
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the pioneer in its branch of industry. By 1844, mill building was in progress in
this city on a large scale. There are now two mammoth establishments in this
line in the city, besides a number of smaller ones. There is a demand for Mil-
waukee-built flouring mills and sawmills from every part of the globe where such
machinery is in use. In the manufacture of steam engines, steam boilers, galvan-
ized iron, tools, and architectural iron of every description, Milwaukee has a rep-
utation for good work second to that of no city in the country. There are two
large stove foundries here, a bell foundry and a large number of machine shops.
There are also two type foundries and five or six brass foundries. Like all the
other branches of her trade, Milwaukee's foundry and machine shop business is
Constantly growing.
The rich mineral deposits in Northern Wisconsin and the northern peninsula
of Michigan have attracted the attention of Milwaukee capitalists. A number of
iron mining companies, which are developing the mineral riches referred to, are
composed entirely of Milwaukee men, several of whom have acquired handsome
fortunes in mining. º
The works of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, at Bay View, one of
the environs of Milwaukee, give employment to upward of 1,500 men, one-half of
them skilled laborers, who earn from $2.50 to $6.oo per day. Originally these
works were constructed for the manufacture of railroad iron. This industry being
insufficient to use the product of the two blast furnaces, a merchant iron mill was
added. Iron rails having been superseded by steel, the manufacture of the former
was abandoned three years ago. The old rail mill was converted into a nail plate
mill and a large nail factory added, containing Ioo nail machines, having a pos-
sible annual capacity of 3oo,ooo kegs of nails. The nail mill has proved a suc-
cess. During 1884 it turned out 163,000 kegs of nails, all of which were disposed
of. The company also manufactured at its Bay View works during 1884, 38,000
tons of angle, bar and plate iron, Io,050 tons of muck bar and 28,000 tons of pig
iron. The amount of raw material received at the company's works by lake and
railroad during the year was 2 1 1,700 tons. The figures will convey some idea of
what one successful manufacturing establishment alone contributes to the com-
merce and prosperity of Milwaukee, for in everything but municipal government,
Bay View is practically a part of the city.
THE LEATHER INDUSTRY.
Few persons not directly interested in the business realize the extent of the
leather manufactures of Milwaukee. Everybody knows that tanneries have been
in operation here for thirty years or more, and that for about the same length of
time the center of the tanning industry has been steadily moving west, owing to
the exhaustion of the hemlock bark supply in the East. But there the general
information stops. Nobody, except persons who have made the subject a special
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study, is aware of the extent to which Milwaukee's tanning industry has developed.
Of late the growth of the business here has been so rapid as to render the showing
made in the census of 188o obsolete. Since 1880 the capacity of the tanneries of
this city has been increased 4o percent. There are fifteen tanneries in the city.
Harness leather, upper and grain leather, kipskins, calfskins and sheepskins, in
bark and colored, are the principal products of the tanneries of Milwaukee. Three
of the tanneries tan sheepskins exclusively. The leather tanned by the other tan-
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of the Northwest, the heavy hides from the grazing regions being employed chiefly
by the sole leather tanners of the East. The bark used by Milwaukee tanners is
hemlock. Three-fifths of it comes from Michigan and the remainder from this
State. About 30,000 cords of bark, worth on an average $8 per cord, are con-
sumed here every year. One thousand men are employed in the tanneries and
currier shops. The capital invested in the business is about $2,000,ooo, and the
value of the leather tanned and curried in the various establishments aggregates
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advantages over their competitors in the neighboring city of Chicago. One is
that port charges for unloading bark are lower here. The other is that the wages
of labor are also lower, on account of the relative cheapness of rent and board in
this city. By reason of these advantages, Milwaukee tanners are enabled to shade
prices in competition with the tanners of Chicago. Two-fifths of the leather
manufactured in Milwaukee goes East. The rest is consumed in Chicago, Cin-
cinnati, Louisville, Milwaukee and the other boot and shoe and harness manufact-
uring cities of the West. At times large quantities of Milwaukee leather have
been exported to Europe, but little has gone out of the country during the past
two or three years.
THE MANUFACTURE OF FLOUR.
Milwaukee was an importer of flour up to 1845. In that year she became an
exporter of this article, and has since continued such to a very large extent. In
1840 the entire State of Wisconsin had but four flouring mills, turning out 90o
barrels of flour annually, besides twenty-nine wind and water grist mills, yielding
altogether an annual income of only a few thousand dollars. Milwaukee to-day
has twelve roller flouring mills, with an aggregate daily capacity of 6,500 barrels.
The product of these mills during 1884 was 1,070,860 barrels of flour. The total
receipts of flour at Milwaukee during the year were 4,076,871 barrels. The ship-
ments during the year amounted to 4,601,267 barrels, leaving a balance of 546,474
barrels, representing the home consumption and the amount on hand December
31, 1884.
BEER AND MALT.
Milwaukee beer has made a reputation which has extended beyond the bounds
of the continent. There are nine breweries in the city, with an aggregate capacity
of 1,643,000 barrels per annum. During the year 1885 the Milwaukee brewers
expended over $575,000 in improvements, and with but one exception, the
capacity of every brewery in the city was materially increased. The amount
of beer brewed in Milwaukee during 1884 was 1,136,401 barrels, and the sales of
beer during that year aggregated 1,112,449 barrels, the gross proceeds of the year's
work of the brewers being about $8,900,ooo. Fifteen hundred men are employed
in the breweries of Milwaukee.
A large malt business is done in this city. The receipts of malt during 1884.
were 298,073 bushels, and 3,124,837 bushels were manufactured in the city. Of
this supply, 1,041,526 bushels were shipped, 2,381,384 bushels being consumed by
the breweries in the city.
THE PACKING INDUSTRY.
Milwaukee is not as relatively prominent as a packing point as she has been
in former years, but she nevertheless does a very considerable and steadily increas-
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ing business in this line. One of her packing houses, that of John Plankinton &
Co., gives employment to 1,000 men when working at full speed, and has a
capacity for killing and curing 6,ooo hogs per day. The hogs packed here
come from Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, Iowa and Dakota. In the great Milwau-
kee packing houses not a scrap of the “porker” is wasted. The eatable portions
are utilized as food, the intestines are cleaned and used as sausage casings, the
bristles are made into brushes, the hair is curled and put into mattresses, and
the blood and refuse from the tanks are taken by the manufacturer of fertiliz-
ing materials, who sells them to the farmer to use in enriching the soil and growing
corn, which in turn is converted into hog again. During the summer season
which closed October 30, 1885, the hog packing at Milwaukee was 33 per cent. in
excess of that for the corresponding season in 1884. The aggregate of the pack-
ing was 235,911 head of hogs. The packing in the summer season of 1884 was
I36,529 head, and in the winter season of 1884–5, 298,537 head.
THE CLOTHING TRADE.
The two largest Milwaukee establishments for the manufacture of men's cloth-
ing were in existence prior to 1850. Started on a small scale and developing
gradually, their growth has been commensurate with the growth of the city. One
of them now gives employment in the busy season to upward of a thousand
hands. The United States census of 188o shows that there were, at that date,
fifty-two clothing manufactories in Milwaukee, employing 4,252 hands, represent-
ing an invested capital of close upon two millions of dollars, using $2,243,365
worth of materials in each year, and turning out an annual product valued at
$3,763,987. Besides these, the census reported the existence of four manufac-
tories of women's clothing, employing nearly 200 people and having an annual
product valued at $147,160. Clothing manufactured in Milwaukee is sold in
every State and Territory in the West and South. In the larger establishments
machinery driven by steam power is employed, greatly increasing the production
and decreasing the cost of the goods. . As to quality, style and workmanship, the
clothing manufactured in Milwaukee is equal to the best produced elsewhere.
The inferior grades of goods in this line are not manufactured here. The showing
made by the census falls far short of representing the present condition of the
trade. The number of operatives now engaged in it is not short of 6,ooo, and
there has been a corresponding increase in the amount of the annual product as
compared with 188o.
OTHER INDUSTRIES.
Milwaukee has five wholesale millinery houses, which give employment to
upward of 25o hands, and do a business aggregating upward of $1,000,ooo a
year. This is exclusive of other establishments devoted to particular branches of
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ladies' headgear manufacture, the product of which, if included, would swell the
aggregate to nearly double the amount named. The trade is assuming constantly
increasing proportions.
A fleet of steam and sail vessels and nearly 1oo men belonging to Milwaukee
are engaged in the lake fisheries. The catch of an average season is about
6oo,ooo pounds of whitefish and trout.
The manufacture of soap in Milwaukee is assuming proportions which entitle
it to notice. There are five or six extensive soap manufacturing concerns in the
city, and all are obliged to from time to time increase their facilities in a large way.
Within the past few years the knit goods' industry has assumed far more
important proportions in this city than most persons are aware of. Among the
outward and visible signs that the industry is a flourishing one, is the fact that the
proprietors of one of the largest of Milwaukee's knitting establishments have
lately completed and moved into a commodious new five-story building in the
Kinnickinnic valley, which they have erected at a cost of $50,000. There are
fifteen or more establishments of this kind in different parts of the city. The fine
work is done by hand, but in all the factories where the heavier grades of goods
are produced, machinery is employed. The operatives are mostly girls. It is esti-
mated that between 500 and 7oo girls find employment in the knit goods manufac-
tories of Milwaukee. Authentic figures bearing on the value of the aggregate
annual product are not at present attainable, but that it reaches a large amount is
beyond question. The proportions of the industry are the more wonderful in view
of the fact that its growth, from a very small beginning, has taken place in less
than half a decade.
Five hundred men are employed in the Milwaukee manufactories of trunks
and valises. The business has increased materially since 188o when the annual
product was valued at $250,000. One of the trunk manufactories in this city is
among the largest in the United States.
About 1,000 men are employed in the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds,
and the annual out-put of the Milwaukee factories is valued at a million dollars.
The furniture factories employ 8oo men and produce nearly $1,000,ooo worth of
furniture in the course of a year. Recently the demand for parlor frames and
other fine furniture manufactured in this city has very largely increased, and these
goods are now sold by Milwaukee manufacturers as far east as New York. Car-
riages and wagons made in Milwaukee are sold as far south as Texas and as far
west as California. There are upward of 40 cooperage establishments in the city,
and the annual products of the cooperage industry here are worth in excess of
three quarters of a million dollars.
The distilleries of Milwaukee produced 21,036 barrels of highwines in 1884,
valued at $967,656—nearly a round million. Vinegar distillation has also attained
important proportions in this city within the past few years.
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There are 1,000 cigarmakers in Milwaukee, and 300 men and boys are
engaged in the manufacture of chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff. The
value of Milwaukee's tobacco products is about $2,000,ooo per annum.
A large factory of sewing machines was established in Milwaukee in 1881.
It is doing a flourishing business. The manufacture of glass, also recently intro-
duced here, has rapidly attained important proportions. Window glass and bottles
are made in large quantities, and preparations for the manufacture of art glass
have just been completed.
MILWAUKEE CEMENT.
On the east bank of the Milwaukee river, a short distance north of the city,
are the quarry and works of the Milwaukee Cement Company. The works are
the largest under one superintendence in the United States, and the cement is of a
quality as perfect as first-class machinery and business skill can make it. The nat-
ural deposit of rock from which the cement is manufactured was discovered only
a few years ago and has been worked since July, 1876. In superficial area the
deposit covers between one and two hundred acres, with a depth of indefinite
extent. The mill, kilns and other works of the company are modeled after the
most approved plans. Spur tracks communicating with three trunk lines of rail-
way run alongside the warehouses. The amount of cement manufactured and
sold by the Milwaukee Cement Company during the season of 1884 was about
240,000 barrels. The capacity of the cement works at the present time is half a
million barrels. The ordinary production in a day of ten hours is over 1,000 bar-
rels, or about 30,000 barrels per month.
UNITED STATES CENSUS FIGURES.
Despite the fact that the statistics which it contains have been in a large
In ea.SUlre outgrown during the five years which have elapsed since its compilation,
the following table, taken from the United States census of 1880, will be found
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Bread and other bakery products...------. 36 61,35o Io2 16| 29 37,254 255,449 358,866
Brick and tile. -------------------- * * * * * * 5 328,500 346|------ 43 89,720 77,276 225,808
Brooms and brushes.--------------------| 4 I3,OOO 5O 5|- - - - J 5,24O 16,720 47,62o
Carpentering----------. tº gº tº e º 'º as as sº e * - - tº ſe º 47 I49,78o 745|------ - * * * 3II,581 543,315 986,685
Qarpets, Tag - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - es e s tº a ºn e tº sº tº as a 5 5, IOO I9 25|- - - - 4,900 I2,55o 22,35o
Qarriages and wagons.-------. tº º dº º º - - tº gº º II 97,ooo; I48|------ 2 62,265 76,500 184,000
Qlothing, men's ------------------------| 52 1,895,128 1,902 2,35o 50 912,657 2,243,365 3,763,987
Slothing, women's.--------- - tº e s as º ºs - e º gº is 4. 64,000 34] 163|---- 29,900 Io9,ooo 147,160
Coffee and spices, roasted and ground.--. 9 257,621 I25 I9 I5 89,550 693,042 931,640
Confectionery.------------------------- 4. I44,054 IIO 3o 20 || 43,542 378,370 474,922
Sooperage ::------------ • - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 39| 142,250 526|...... 35| 234,115| 337,88ol 680,445
Qoppersmithing:-------------------- • - - - 3 4I,500 2O - - - - - - e - e. e. Io,692 22,87o 44,392
Sordage and twine.----------------- - - - - 3 5, ooo 9}• - - - - - - - - - 3,200 IO,OOO 16,600
Dentistry, mechanical...... © tº º tº º ſº º º - º ºs e ºr 5 8,000 IO If 2 4,500 IO,5oo 30,000
Drugs and chemicals.---- tº e - * * * * * * * * * * * * 6 4o,872 I5 I2] - - - - 9,386 55, I79 85,393
Flouring and grist-mill products --------. II 1,066, oool 265|------ • * a s 136,266| 3,795,289 4,2O4,708
Foundry and machine shop products.----. 3o 1,286,445 1,437|------ 3o 673,392] I, I 73,907 2,252,784
Furnishing goods, men's.--------------- 3 7, Ooo 7 9| I 1,890 I7, Ooo 28,850
Furniture...----- * = * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I6 329,8ool 497 I4] I5| 212,50I 223,3OI 568,268
Furs, dressed.--------. is ºs º a e º s e s = e - we tº as as a 3 61,000 I4 38 5 25,000 89,500 136,000
airwork ------------------------------ 3 8,500|------ III - - - - 2,800 6,050 I3,2Oo
Hand-knit goods-------------------. • - - - || 5 26, ooo 2| 538 52 I4,500 45,500 83, ooo
Hardware......... : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 II,7oo I9|- - - - - - IO 8,600 I4,900 32,16o
Hats and caps, not including wool hats... 3 26,000 8 I4] - - - - 7,500 I7,928 34,OOO
Jewelry ..... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 I5,Ooo 18|------ - E - ºt 8,316 31, Ooo 47,ooo
Leather, curried. ::------------..... ---. 17 8oo,425, 375|------ - as sº s 160,441 1,874,595 2,219,978
Leather, dressed skins. ------------------ 5 71,500 46]------ - * * > 2O,900 67,925 IoA,581
Leather, tanned.... ... ----- * * * * * * * * * * * * * 17 I, ooë,525. 407|------ ----| 173,861| 1,612,400] 2,101,195
Pithographing ------------------------. 4. 69,125| II6 2| I3 57,751 79,640 I66,860
Liquors, distilled-------------, ---------- 2 I42,OOO 2Ol - - - - - - - * s s 9, 18O 95.425 145 65o
Liquors, malt. ------ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I3 4,732,909| 1,040|------|----| 525'573| 2,259,345 4,034,319
Looking-glass and picture frames........ 4. I2,975 IOI - - - - - - tº º 'º a 7,222 I9,900 35,47O
Lumber, planed.---------. * * * * * * * * * • • - - || 3 7o, oool II.5 4| II 35,000 50, ooo II 7,ooo
Marble and stone work.----------------. II 95,300) 167|-----. 2 73,256 IoG,450 220,396
Masonry, brick and stone.--............. 4. 8,500 27: - - - - - - || 2 12, OOO I4, Ooo 34,750
Mattresses and spring beds..... * * * * * * * * * 4. 3,800 8 5| 2 2,550 I2,000 I7,500
Mineral and soda waters...... . tº gº e º ºs e ºs e is 6 33,2Oo 44 5| 5 I4,208 31,450 62,950
Painting and paper-hanging.--------..... 31 53,950 204|- - - - - - || 2 68, ro5 95,607 206,546
Plumbing and gasfitting..... * * * * * * * * * * * g. 8 47,600 95|- - - - - - I 43,600 71,700 I38,400
Printing and publishing........ & e s - ºn as • - - 24 434,700. 518 43| 48 268,270 2Oo,486 675,387
Pumps, not including steam pumps....... 4. 4,075|| 9|- - - - - - - * * s 3, I 50 4,622 Ir, 5oo
Saddlery and harness. ------...--...--...-- • | 29 73'30.ol roz]------| 38 44,451 II2,620 I99,525
Sash, doors and blinds......... • - - - - - - - - 7 261, ooo 512|------ 18 139, Ioo 3O3,OOo 557, Ooo
Shipbuilding ---------------------------| 8 136,500 227|------|---. Iro,413 133,963 3OI,7oo
irts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -... • - - - - - : - - - - - 3 2, Ioo 4. I7 - - - - 4,990 5,790 17,655
Slaughtering and meat-packing, not includ-
ing retail butchering establishments..... 7 789, oool 928|------ 25, 187,596, 5,529,618; 6,099,486
Soap and candles. ---------------------- 5 I2O, ooo 5o 4 II 24,620 2O4, Ioo 28o.ogo
Stone and earthen-ware ................. 8 69,700| 67 ------ • * * * I7,51. I 21,755 66,600
Tinware, copperware and sheet-iron ware. 29 95,950. I5O - - - - - - 4. 56,687 Iod,994 215,544
Tobacco, chewing, smoking and snuff.... 3 331, ooo; 200 6, 20 78,500 786,645 978,281
Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes........... 56 238,375|| 733 4| 77|| 301,934 344,939 835.500
Trunks and valises.---------------------| 4 183,000] 218|------ 45 76,720 II.5,8oo 244,600
Upholstering. -------------------------. 6 11,909 46]------ • * * * 22,800 97,500 I46,500
Inegar - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - • * sº e º e • - - - - - || 5 62,000 32|- - - - - - • * * * 18,415 42,000 I49.oOo
Watch and clock repairing............. • - 4 4, 1 OO 8|-----.] I 3,78o 4,800 12,675
Wheelwrighting ---------...... • - - - - - - - - || I3 47,500 67|----- tº - º & © 27,870 29,8oo 8o,95o
Wirework....... • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * s 5 4,750 8.--------- 3, T40 3,185 Io,885
Miscellaneous industries (*).............. 69 2,084,830, 2,16ol 468 125| 1,059,440, 3,728,oor 6,437,945
. .”.The sixty-nine establishments classed as “miscellaneous industries,” are grouped in order that the business
of individual establishments may not be disclosed to the public. In this group are embraced agricultural implements;
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66 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
The census returns show that, while the population of Milwaukee increased
between 1870 and 188o a little over 60 per cent., the part of the population
engaged in manufacturing increased 150 per cent, and the capital employed in
manufacturing increased 125 per cent. The following table shows how much
greater proportionately the manufactures of Milwaukee were in 188o than in 1870:
Aſands Value of
Population. Capital. Employed. A roducts.
1870 - - - - - - - - - 7 I,44O $ 8,200,ooo 8,433 $18,798,122
1880 - - - - - - - - - II 5,587 18,766,914 20,886 43,473,812
From the above, it appears that during the decade referred to, the number of
hands employed in manufacturing in Milwaukee increased from 8,000 to 20,000.
No authentic statistics bearing upon the subject are obtainable, but it is probable
that the relative increase of persons engaged in manufacturing has been still
greater during the six years which have elapsed since the taking of the last Federal
census. It may be interesting to mention, for comparison with the number of
artisans given above, that the number of Milwaukeeans engaged in rendering per-
sonal and professional services in 1886 was 12,979, while those engaged in trade
and transportation numbered 9,322.
artificial feathers and flowers; artificial limbs; bags, paper; baking and yeast powders; boot and shoe uppers; boxes,
cigar; boxes, fancy and paper; boxes, wooden, packing; bridges; carriages and sleds, children’s; carriages and
wagon materials: drain and sewer pipe; dyeing and cleaning; electroplating; engraving and die-sunking; engrav-
ing, woºd ; fertilizers; files; food preparations; furniture, chairs; galvanizing ; gloves and mittens; ink; inon and
steel; lightning-rods; lumber, sawed; mixed textiles; models and patterns; musical instruments, organs, and mate-
rials; musical instruments, pianos, and materials ; oil, linseed; paints; patent medicines and compounds; pickles,
preserves and sauces; refrigerators; roofing and roofing materials; safes, doors and vaults, fire-proof; scales and
balances; show-cases; starch ; steam fittings and heating apparatus; stencils and brands; stereotyping and electrotyping
straw goods; tools; toys and games; type founding; wood preserving; wood, turned and carved, and woolen goods.
A WALK ABOUT THE CITY
SOME OF THE POINTS OF INTEREST TO THE STRANGER.
| MILWAUKEE'S fitness for residence purposes is primarily due to Nature
herself. Built on a hilly amphitheatre at the edge of an inland sea, and
thoroughly drained by three beautiful streams, the city is possessed of a situation
at once healthful and picturesque. Its air and its water are as pure as can be
found in the world. The natural advantages of the place have not (as in the case
of some other cities) been countervailed through the ignorance or indifference of
its inhabitants. Its public and private architecture is tasteful and attractive; its
streets are handsome and clean. More than one disinterested, traveled visitor has
said of it that, with the exceptions of Paris and Washington, it is the most beautiful
large city on the globe.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS, ETC.
The Government building, at the northwest corner of Milwaukee and Wis-
consin streets, is of marble quarried at Athens, Ill., and cost $161,779, exclusive
of the ground on which it stands, and of the expenditure which has been made
upon interior alterations. It is 11o feet in length, 60 feet in width and three
stories in height, and contains the postoffice, United States Court and other Federal
offices. Its erection was begun May 1, 1856, and it was taken possession of Jan-
uary 1, 1859. The business of the Federal officers at Milwaukee has grown so
much in recent years that they are now cramped for room, and a new Federal
building, of greater dimensions than the present one, has become an imperative
necessity.
The Milwaukee County Court House, which contains the county and circuit
court rooms, the city council chamber, the county offices and most of the city
offices, is situated at the north end of the handsome public Square on the East
Side which is known as Court House Park. The square is bounded by Biddle,
Jackson, Oneida and Jefferson streets, and was given to the city by Solomon
Juneau, the founder of Milwaukee. The architect of the court house was the
late L. A. Schmidtner. The building was completed in the spring of 1873, at a
cost of $650,000. It is constructed of Milwaukee brick, veneered with Bass
Island sandstone. The colossal Corinthian columns, which form a striking and
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68 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
handsome feature of its exterior, are of iron. The greatest length of the build-
ing, from east to west, is 210 feet; the greatest width, from north to south,
I3o feet. The distance from the ground to the main cornice is 8o feet, and
from the ground to the topmost point of the gilded figure, which surmounts
the dome, 208 feet 6 inches. The park in front of the court house is set
out with elm trees, grass plats and ornamental walks. A large and handsome
fountain enhances the beauty of the square.
The Central Police Station, situated at the northeast corner of Broadway and
Oneida street, is a model edifice of its class. It was erected in 1884 and taken
possession of in the spring of 1885. The numerous fire-engine houses in different
parts of the city are well adapted to the purposes for which they were constructed.
The water works pumping-houses, of which there are two, are among the points
of interest to visitors. No city in the country has finer public school buildings
than Milwaukee. There are fourteen district school buildings and several branch
schools. One of the State Normal Schools is also located in Milwaukee, and the
building which it occupies is large, handsome and well arranged. The new County
Jail, in process of erection, on Broadway, near the new police station, will be as
handsome as is compatible with the use for which it is designed, and will embody
the modern improvements in jail architecture.
Among the important institutions of Milwaukee is the Milwaukee Insane Asy-
lum, organized and governed under the State law. It is situated in the town of Wau-
watosa, a short distance west of the city. The large and handsome buildings of the
asylum are surrounded by ample grounds, and are set in the midst of beautiful
rural scenery. The most modern and approved methods of treatment are in vogue
at this institution, which is both an asylum and a hospital, and it is regarded as a model
establishment of its kind. It is the only public institution in the State where the
care and treatment of the insane and inebriates at private cost is provided for by
law. The cost of the maintenance of the inmates maintained at public charge is
borne partly by the county of Milwaukee and partly by the State of Wisconsin.
The affairs of the asylum are under the immediate control of a board of trustees.
-> One of the embellishments of this work is a fine illustration of the magnifi-
cent new depot which the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company is
erecting in Milwaukee. The new depot will face north on Everett street, with the
Fourth Ward Park in the foreground, and will occupy the width of the block
between Third and Fourth streets. The main building is to be 320 feet long by
62 feet wide. Outwardly the style of the building will be a modern treatment of
the Gothic. The foundations are of limestone, with a granite facing above the
grade. The building is to be built of red pressed brick, trimmed with red sand-
stone and red terra cotta. It will be surmounted by a slate roof, on a fire-proof
foundation of tile, supported by iron beams. Over the main entrance a clock
tower will rise, its height to the top of the finial being 173 feet. The building is
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to be warmed by steam and thoroughly ventilated. The inside finish of the prin-
cipal rooms on the first floor will be hardwood, with cut glass windows and stained
glass transoms. The corridors will be finished in enameled brick and marble.
South of and joined to the main building will be a train building, wide enough for
five trains. This building is to be of iron and open on three sides. The cost of
the depot will be about $300,ooo.
Milwaukee's leading hotel, the Plankinton House, is owned by John Plank-
inton, who was moved to build it more by public spirit than by money-
making considerations, although the establishment is now and has for several
years past been a source of considerable profit. The architecture of the hotel is
French Renaissance in style. The interior is commodious and elegantly finished
and furnished, the large dining-hall, wainscoted with colored marbles and richly
decorated, being one of the most magnificent apartments of the kind in this
country, and standing well in comparison with the celebrated hotel dining-halls of
Europe. The hotel has, at present, accommodations for 6co guests, and an addi-
tion is now under way by the construction of which its capacity will be nearly
doubled.
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Exposition Building.
The Milwaukee Exposition building occupies the entire square bounded by
Fifth, State, Sixth and Cedar streets. The main entrance is on Fifth street. The
building is in modified Queen Anne style, and is surmounted by a huge polygonal
dome 175 feet in height. The material of the structure is Milwaukee brick,
trimmed with light sandstone. The building is pronounced one of the handsomest
of its class in the country. It was finished in July, 1881, and cost $200,ooo.
John Plankinton, who made to the Exposition Association a loan of $70,000,

70 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
which enabled the erection of the building to be proceeded with without delay,
was elected the first president of the Association, and has held the position ever
since. He is the largest stockholder in the Association.
It is a matter of just local pride that since its inception Milwaukee's Exposi-
tion has been successful in an artistic and educational as well as a financial sense.
Its art gallery has from year to year contained what is universally admitted to
have been the finest series of picture collections ever shown in the West. Its
machinery department has been large and well-ordered, containing much of inter-
est and valuable suggestiveness. Its display of the natural products of the North-
west has been such as to each year newly impress the beholder with the variety
and vastness of the resources of this rapidly-developing section. In short, the
Milwaukee Exposition is not, as enterprises bearing that name sometimes are, a
sham, and the visitors who annually come to Milwaukee to see it go away delighted
and come again the next year.
At the northeast corner of Mason and Jefferson streets work has been begun
upon an art gallery, which will cost about $100,ooo. The structure is being
erected, at his own expense, by Mr. Frederick Layton, whose intention is, when
it is completed, to present it and the ground upon which it stands to the
city. T he building will occupy a plat of ground 120 feet Square. It will
be constructed of Milwaukee pressed brick, Ohio gray sandstone and terra cotta.
Its ground dimensions will be about 8oxioo feet, and it will be a single lofty story
in height. The style of its architecture will be what is known as Thompsonian
Greek—a style in which Egyptian solidity is happily tempered with Greek grace.
Besides retiring rooms for visitors, a curator's room, unpacking rooms and other
offices, the building will contain a sculpture gallery, 25x38, in the center; small
picture galleries, each 25x40, to the right and left of this, respectively, and the
main picture gallery, 30x80 feet, in the eastern end of the museum. The floors of
the sculpture gallery and the entrance way will be of marble. The offices in the
front of the building will be lighted by windows in the walls. All the galleries
will be lighted from the roof. The building will be heated by steam. The archi-
tects are W. and G. Audsley, of London, and E. T. Mix & Co., of this city.
The corner-stone of the new Light House Squadron Armory was laid with
imposing ceremonies on the 14th of August, 1885. The site upon which the
building stands was purchased by the Squadron with money the chief part of
which was contributed by public-spirited citizens. The money with which the
building was erected was loaned to the Squadron by the State. The armory stands
on the east side of Broadway, between Oneida and Biddle streets, and adjoins the
new police station. It covers a ground space of 120x120 feet. The front por-
tion of the building, comprising 40x120 feet, is three stories in height. The
remainder, about 24 feet in height, constitutes one story, on the rear of the
lot, and is used for a mounted drill and exercise room. Several other military
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E. 71
organizations have leased apartments in the front part of the building. The
armory is severely plain and solid in construction, in keeping with its purposes.
It is built of brick, faced with Waukesha limestone. Its cost has been in the neigh-
borhood of $30,000.
The house of the Milwaukee Club, a social organization comprising most of
the more prominent business and professional men of the city, is a sightly build-
ing standing upon the northeast corner of Jefferson and Wisconsin streets. The
architecture of the building is modern English, and the material is pressed red
brick. The cost of the building and furniture was, about $100,ooo. The club
took possession of the handsome establishment in the spring of 1884. Several
other cities have club houses that are larger, but none has a club house that is
better appointed or more elegant.
The Mitchell building and the Chamber of Commerce are perhaps the finest
business buildings in the city. Both were erected by Alexander Mitchell. The
former is occupied by the offices of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Company, the Northwestern National Fire Insurance Company and the Wisconsin
Marine and Fire Insurance Company’s Bank. The Chamber of Commerce is par-
tially held under a long lease from Mr. Mitchell by the commercial body whose name
it bears; the remainder of the building being rented for business offices. Both build-
ings are magnificent structures. The two together have a frontage of an entire
block, on the south side of Michigan street, between East Water street and Broad-
way. As Charles L. Colby once remarked, they “stand side by side, like Chang
and Eng, united by a ligament through which the stream of life is constantly
flowing.” They are built of granite and light gray sandstone. Illustrations of
both buildings appear in this work. s
The Colby and Abbot block, at the northwest corner of Mason and Mil-
waukee streets; the new office building of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company, at the northwest corner of Broadway and Milwaukee street, and John
Plankinton's Library block, on Grand avenue, between Fourth and Fifth streets,
are all large, substantial and elegant business buildings, which would do credit to
any city in the country.
T. A. Chapman's dry goods store, at the southeast corner of Milwaukee and
Wisconsin streets, is one of the sights of Milwaukee. It is spacious, elegant,
artistic and in many respects unique. The store occupies the site of the one
destroyed by fire on the 23d of October 1884, and its erection was begun almost
before the smoke of the conflagration had cleared away. The depth of the store
from the Wisconsin street front is 2 Io feet, and from the Milwaukee street front
120 feet. The height is five stories. The main entrance is on Wisconsin street
and the carriage entrance on Milwaukee street; both are very handsome. At the
latter is a handsome Greek portico of white granite, with columns and shafts of
polished Scotch granite. The style of the building is modified classic. The
72 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
foundation is of rock-faced red sandstone, and the superstructure of brick with
trimmings of red sandstone and terra cotta. The exterior is richly and elaborately
decorated in colors. The pediment of the Wisconsin street front is appropriately
surmounted by a large phoenix in terra cotta. Of the interior arrangements
and decorations of the store it would be impossible to speak in detail in this
brief sketch. It is sufficient to say, that the lighting, heating, ventilation and
all the provisions for comfort are as nearly perfect as they can be made. The
triangle-shaped chimney, with three fire-places, with its triple mantel of carved
English oak, is one of the first things that attracts the notice of the visitor.
Another notable adornment is the series of large decorative paintings of “The
Seasons,” by Tojetti, a well-known Italian artist, living in New York. An illustra-
tion of the exterior of the Chapman store appears on page 59.
Architecturally, the most notable ecclesiastical edifice in the city is St. Paul's
Church (Episcopal), at the northeast corner of Marshall and Knapp streets. The
building was begun in 1882 and, although its main tower is not quite finished, has
been occupied for upward of a year. The church and chapel occupy the entire
length of the lot, 180 feet on Marshall street, while the front of the church and
rectory, that is to be, will fill nearly the depth of 127 feet on Knapp street. The
church is cruciform, the front flanked on either side by towers, between which runs
an ample vestibule. A high-arched cloister joins the west transept with the chapel
and is a beautiful feature of the exterior design. The style of architecture is
Norman, the round-topped windows adding in effect to the massiveness of the
material, a rich-brown sandstone brought from Bass Island, Lake Superior. The
high clerestory carries up the roof to a height of 67 feet, giving to the exterior a
grand and imposing effect, which is relieved from heaviness by the graceful lines
of the great windows, with their mullions of yellow sandstone. The deep recesses
of the doorways, with their clustered columns of red granite, the rich carving
abundantly bestowed, the solidity and reality of everything, make the building one
which has been seldom equaled in this country, and one which will be, for many
years to come, without a rival among the churches of the West. The interior is
solidly and richly finished. A notable feature of the church is its decorative win-
dows of stained glass, many of which are unsurpassed in the United States. Each
of the large transept windows cost $3,500. The cost of the church, when com-
pleted, will be $250,000.
Immanuel Presbyterian Church, on Astor street, between Martin street and
Juneau avenue, is one of the conspicuously handsome church edifices of the city.
It was dedicated January 3, 1875. The building, site and furniture cost $200,ooo.
The church is built of gray, rock-faced limestone from Wauwatosa, with trimmings of
red Potsdam stone. The main entrance is flanked by two square towers, the larger
of which rises to a height of 147 feet. The smaller tower is Ioo feet high. The
peak of the main roof is ninety feet above the sidewalk. The main audience-room
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE. 73
of the church seats 1,400 people. The architects of Immanuel Church were E.
T. Mix and P. B. Wright.
An illustration on page 37 shows the property of All Saints' Cathedral
(Episcopalian). The property embraces six lots—60x120 feet each—and com-
prises one-half block on the north side of Juneau avenue, bounded on the east by
Marshall street, and on the west by Cass street. The Cathedral occupies the
Marshall street corner, and is shown on the extreme right of the cut. It is a
handsome and substantial structure of Milwaukee pressed brick. Next to it stands
Cathedral Hall, a building used for Sunday-school, meetings of charitable societies,
diocesan councils, etc. Adjoining this is All Saints' Chapel, in the wings of
which the church-school is held. On the Cass street corner of the block stands
the clergy-house. Back of the latter, and fronting on Cass street, is St. John's
Home, an asylum for aged ladies. The Home is built of brick. The other
buildings, except the Cathedral, are frame structures.
Calvary Presbyterian Church, at the southeast corner of Grand avenue and
Tenth street, was erected in 1870, at a cost of $60,000. It is a large and hand-
some Gothic structure, of Milwaukee brick, ornamented by two graceſul spires of
unequal height. -
The Methodist denomination has several large and handsome church edifices
in different sections of the city. Summerfield M. E. Church, at the northwest
corner of Van Buren and Biddle streets, is shown in an engraving on page 38.
It was dedicated in 1858. The interior was remodeled in 1879–80. The Grand
Avenue M. E. Church is a commodious and sightly edifice of Gothic design, which
was completed and dedicated in 1871.
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, a Gothic edifice, at the southeast corner
of Prairie and Ninth streets, attracts much attention from strangers for the beauty
of its exterior design, as well as the richness and tastefulness of its interior finish.
It is built of Milwaukee brick and trimmed with Illinois sandstone. The tower
is supplied with a clock and a chime of bells. The building was dedicated in
1880. The architect was F. Velguth. Another handsome Lutheran church is
that which the St. Peter's congregation have just erected at the southeast corner
of Scott street and Third avenue, at a cost of $30,000. It is of Gothic architect-
ure, with massive buttresses and a high and tapering spire.
Among the more notable of the numerous Roman Catholic churches in the
city are St. John's Cathedral, on Jackson street; St. Mary's Church, on Broadway;
St. Gall's, on Sycamore street; and the Church of the Capuchin Friars, on Fourth
street, near the reservoir. The last named is in the Norman style of architecture,
and has one of the finest interiors in the city. Several others among the eighty
churches, which the city contains, are worthy of the sight-seer's attention, but
space does not permit descriptions of them here.
The Milwaukee Young Men's Christian Association, which was organized in
74 JNDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
1876, will soon be in possession of a handsome building, plans for which have
already been prepared. The structure, with its furniture, and the site upon which
it is to stand (on Fourth street, near Grand avenue), will represent a value of
upward of $75,000. The money was raised by subscription, and cheerfully con-
tributed by citizens of all denominations. The building is intended to be a center
of recreation and culture for young men. It will contain a lecture room, a read-
ing room, a gymnasium, a natatorium, and class rooms. All its privileges will be
free. The Y. M. C. A. maintains a department for work among railroad men,
which has headquarters at 294 South Water street, and also a German department,
with headquarters at 34o Third street.
The residence of Alexander Mitchell, a beautiful engraving of which adorns
this work, is pronounced by competent critics to be one of the finest city resi-
dences in the United States. It is situated on Grand Avenue, opposite Grand
Avenue Park. A few blocks west, on the same thoroughfare, is the palatial
residence of John Plankinton, an illustration of which also appears in this work. One
of the handsome residences which have recently been erected on the East Side is that
of Valentin Blatz, situated at the southwest corner of Van Buren street and Juneau
avenue. The residence of John L. Mitchell, on the South Side, is a magnificent
structure, and is finished in princely style. Numerous other wealthy Milwaukeeans
have dwellings on which the architect and the decorator seem to have lavished all
the cunning of their respective arts.
The eastern end of Grand Avenue Park is adorned with a monument of granite
and bronze, surmounted by a heroic statue of George Washington, which is said
to be the only public statue of Washington west of New York. The monument
was designed by R. H. Park, of Florence, Italy, and presented to the city by Miss
Elizabeth Ann Plankinton, being unveiled with imposing ceremony November 7,
1885. It cost $20,000. The monument stands on a foundation of solid masonry.
The base is light gray granite from Mount Desert, Me. It is thirteen and a half
feet Square on the ground and thirteen feet high. The heroic bronze statue of
Washington surmounting it is ten and a half feet in height. Two supplementary
figures, also of bronze, which stand upon the two uppermost of the steps leading
to the pedestal, are about life-size.
Miss Plankinton's liberality and taste have stimulated like qualities in other
wealthy citizens, and Milwaukee is promised a soldiers' monument, a monument
to Solomon Juneau, and statues of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and Matt H. .
Carpenter, one or more of which will probably be placed in position during the
coming year. f
The Western Branch of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
is located one mile west of the city limits, in the town of Wauwatosa. The
grounds belonging to the Home comprise 4 Io acres, beautifully laid out, and
partly under cultivation. The portion not devoted to agriculture—about one-third
of the whole tract—constitutes one of the most beautiful parks in the country.
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MII, WA UKEE. 75
The new buildings erected in Milwaukee during the season just closed aggre-
gated in value $4,500,ooo. The real estate sales recorded during the year ended
September 1st, 1885, aggregated $4,654,158.
The architectural beauty of Milwaukee is an element of the city's attractive-
ness which cultured visitors never fail to note. To E. Townsend Mix, more than
to any other man, the Cream City is indebted for the sightliness of the great edi-
fices which adorn her principal business streets. The Mitchell building, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Plankinton House, the Library Block, the Exposition
building, the new Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul depot, the Evening Wisconsin
building, the Chapman store, the Milwaukee Club House, St. Paul's Church, and a
number of other important edifices, combining in their construction the essential
elements of good architecture—fitness, stability and beauty—are creations of the
genius of Mr. Mix. Besides contributing so much to the fair appearance of
Milwaukee, the firm of E. T. Mix & Co., of which Mr. Mix is the senior member,
has at different times furnished designs for and superintended the construction of
large and handsome buildings in most of the important cities of the Northwest.
MILWAUKEE NEWSPAPERS.
No city of equal size in the country has a more creditable newspaper press
than Milwaukee. The oldest newspaper in the city, by succession, is the Evening
Wisconsin, which is the direct descendant of the Miſwaukee Advertiser. The
latter was the first paper in Milwaukee and the third in the State. Its first issue
made its appearance on Thursday, July 14, 1836. D. H. Richards was the first
manager of the paper, and Hans Crocker acted for a time as its editor. In
March, 1841, Mr. Richards sold the Advertiser to J. A. Noonan, who changed its
name to the Courier. John A. Brown became editor of the paper in 1843, and
in 1845 William H. Sullivan became the publisher. The Courier was a weekly
publication until March 19, 1846, when it began to be issued as a morning daily.
On the 9th of July of the same year the daily publication of the paper was
suspended, the weekly edition being continued. On June 2, 1847, the paper
passed into the hands of William E. Cramer and Joseph Curtis, who con-
tinued its publication under the name of the Wisconsin. Mr. Curtis sold out
his interest in September, 1850, but Mr. Cramer has ever since remained
senior proprietor and editor. A. J. Aikens became a partner of Mr. Cramer in
1857, and John F. Cramer entered the firm in 1864. The style of the firm,
“Cramer, Aikens & Cramer,” has remained unchanged since that year. In 1879
the establishment was moved into its present quarters, in a spacious and handsome
building, at the northeast corner of Michigan and Milwaukee streets, erected by
the proprietors with a view of making a model printing office. Such it certainly
is. No printing office in the country is better arranged for the comfort of its
employés and facility of work. The Wisconsin has no superior among the after-
noon dailies of the country. In politics it is independently Republican.
76 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
The Sentinel, the principal morning newspaper of the city, is another journal
which reflects credit upon Milwaukee and upon the State at large. It was founded
as a weekly in 1837, by John O'Rourke, the capital with which the office outfit
was purchased being furnished principally by Solomon Juneau. The first issue of
the daily edition appeared December 9, 1844. A history of the vicissitudes of
ownership which the Sentinel has undergone, would occupy far more space than
can be devoted to the subject here. A long line of brilliant writers has been asso-
ciated with the paper. The name that is most closely identified with its earlier
history is that of Gen. Rufus King, who occupied its editorial chair almost unin-
terruptedly from 1846 to 1861, when he received the appointment of United
States Minister to Rome. The Sentinel is now owned by the Sentinel Company,
of which Charles Ray is president. Horace Rublee is the editor-in-chief. The
literary tone of the Sentinel’s editorials is very high, and it has a finely organized
news service. The paper has been an exponent of Republican principles ever
since the Republican party was formed.
The ZXaily Pournal, a comparatively recent addition to the English press of
the city, is a bright two-cent afternoon newspaper, of Democratic predilections,
and has a large constituency of readers. It is owned by the 9 ournal Company.
L. W. Nieman is the editor, and Michael Kraus the publisher.
Milwaukee has three dailies printed in the German language—the Herold, the
See-Bote and the Freie Presse. The Herold is published every morning by the
Aerold Company, of which W. W. Coleman is president and chief stockholder.
When he entered upon the management of the paper it was a puny, ill-supported
sheet. Now it is one of the largest and most influential German newspapers in
the United States, and a source of wealth to its proprietors. In politics the Herold
is an independent supporter of the Republican party. The See-Bote, which was
started in 1851 by a stock company, is owned by P. V. Deuster & Co. Mr.
Deuster has been its principal proprietor since 1856. It was an afternoon paper
until February 25, 1886, when it began to be issued in the morning. The See-
Bole is a handsome, well-edited journal, devoted to the cause of Democracy. The
Areie Presse is an independent Republican newspaper, and is published every
afternoon except Sundays. It is owned by the Freie Presse Publishing Company,
and ably edited by Hermann Sigel.
THE MILWAUKEE COLLEGE.
(FOR Ladies.)
This institution was established in 1850 while the city was young, has been
frequently enlarged and improved to keep up with the growing demands, and
is now one of the best organized and most fully equipped schools either west or
east. It has adequate facilities for every grade, primary, preparatory and col-
legiate; regular courses leading to graduation, and for special courses; and for both
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78 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE.
- Few cities can be found so well adapted for the location of a ladies' college
as Milwaukee; its beauty of situation, variety of relief, broad streets lined with
shade trees, and especially the vigilant care of its sanitary conditions, provoke
enthusiastic praise from all visitors as well as from its own people, now numbering
150,000. The facilities for all educational interests are constantly growing and
multiplying: the Public Library, the Public Museum of Natural History, the pro-
spective Layton Art Gallery, the Industrial Exposition and the music concerts of
societies, all indicate the spirit of the place, and are more or less available to all
students and studious people in the city.
The College Home, contiguous to the College, has excellent accommodations,
for the President’s family, the ten resident teachers, and fifty boarding students.
These students are divided into six groups of families, each under the special care of
a teacher in charge, acting under the general direction of the president. The
family government thus distributed, and the basis of the government being personal
worſhiness rather than a set of rules for universal application, has proved here
eminently successful. All apartments in both the College and the Home are
heated with steam, lighted with gas and well ventilated; all floors are provided
with bath-rooms and hot and cold water; the class-rooms and study hall have
also open fire-places for ventilation.
The several departments of study are equipped with all useful aids and instru-
ments; as that of Astronomy, with a complete observatory, a five-inch refracting
telescope by Clarke & Sons, a transit instrument by Browning of London, solar
and siderial chronometers by Tobias, of London; that of Natural History, with
cabinets of mineralogy, geology and zoology, by Ward, of New York; articulated
and inarticulated human skeletons from Paris, manikins and models from Berlin, etc.;
that of Physics with Ritchie's large rotary air-pump, Duboscq's heliostat and solar
microscope with a power of 1500 diameters, a Toepler-Holz electric machine, a
fine thermo-electric pile, and astatic needle, etc.; that of Chemistry with a labora-
tory well arranged and furnished for real practice as well as for illustration;
also with cabinets of materials for examination by the pupils; that of Painting and
Drawing with sky-light studios and full-size casts of the most important antique
statues and busts. .
The libraries have 3ooo volumes, mainly books of reference, the balance
being selected not so much for general reading as for collateral use in connec-
tion with the various lines of study. .
The methods of instruction are eminently practical, employing the senses to
the utmost, where it can be done at all, so that the concrete may come before the
abstract, things before words, and phenomena before scientific statements or dis-
cussion. . . . . . . . . . . . -
The frequent lectures by the President in the several departments are generally
illustrated with Steward's large optical lanterns from London and selections from
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E. 79
the stock of more than 50oo transparencies; these lectures, together with class
visits at the various commercial and manufacturing establishments in the city, are
highly valued in the work of education. The department of Vocal and Instru-
mental Music, under the direction of Prof. Dwight F. Stillman, has won a high
reputation by thorough instruction and careful training, embracing critical attend-
ance upon concerts and operas in the city.
President of the Board of Trustees: W.M. P. McLAREN, Esq.
President of the College : CHAS. S. FARRAR, A. M.
THE CATHOLIC NORMAI, SCHOOL OF THE HOLY FAMILY AND
PIO NONO COLLEGE.
St. Francis, Wis.
Pio NoNo College.
This institution was founded by the Rev. Dr. Salzmann in the year 1870, and
opened on the 2d of January in the following year. In appreciation of such
a praiseworthy and beneficial project, the generous Louis I., King of Bavaria,
before all others, donated the sum of $1,704 towards the erection and completion of
this institution, the first and only Catholic Normal School in America.
Beautifully located two miles south of the city limits of Milwaukee, near Lake
Michigan, on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, the building presents an
aspect at once grand and inviting. Elegant in its proportions, it is constructed and
arranged with the utmost care and regard for the comfort and convenience of
pupils. The house is thoroughly supplied with water from an artesian well, lighted
by gas, heated by steam, and amply provided with all modern improvements. As
special care is taken to promote the health and vigor of mind and body, the
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80 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
and in bad weather a large hall is provided for healthful exercises and youthful
recreation.
The entire building comprises two departments, viz.: The Catholic Normal
School and the Pio Nono College. In the former, Catholic young men are edu-
cated, trained and prepared for the profession of teaching. In the latter depart-
ment, Catholic youth are grounded in the principles of Christian faith and educated
for the various branches of literary and commercial life.
The united effort for the restoration of Cecilian music to its pristine purity and
grandeur had its origin in this institution, under Dr. Salzmann, in the year 1873,
when a society known as “the Cecilian Society’’ was established under the presi-
dency of Sir John Singenberger, graduate of the Musical School at Regensburg,
Bavaria, and Professor of Music at the Normal School.
The members of this society, extending as it does, over the whole United States,
now number almost five thousand (5,000), amongst whom are many priests, bishops
and archbishops. Sir John Singenberger, who is yet president of the Society, edits
“The Cecilia,” a beautiful literary organ of church music, published at the Normal
School.
The faculty of the Institution are: Rev. Chas. Fessler, Rector and Professor
of Exegesis, Pedagogy and German; Rev. Aug. B. Salick, Master of Discipline,
Professor of Christian Doctrine and German; Rev. J. F. McMullen, Professor of
Christian Doctrine and English; Chevalier J. Singenberger, Professor of Vocal and
Instrumental Music; Mr. J. T. Kelly, Professor of English, Geography, History
and Penmanship; Mr. Dominic Schuler, B. S., Professor of Natural Science,
Mathematics and Book-keeping.
The course of studies in the Normal School comprises four years. The
programme of studies embraces Christian Doctrine, Exegesis, Liturgy, Church
History, Pedagogy, Music (vocal and instrumental), English, German, Latin,
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Natural Science, Geography (political and phys-
ical), U. S. History and Government, Penmanship and Drawing.
In the College department, the course of studies comprises Religious Instruc-
tion, English, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Geography, Commercial Law, Book-
keeping, U. S. History and Government, Penmanship, Drawing and the optional
studies, viz.: German, Latin, Music and Natural Science.
Connected with this institution is the St. John's Deaf-Mute Asylum, under the
direction of Rev. Chas. Fessler. It was founded in the year 1875 by the Rev.
Theo. Bruener, now Rector of St. Boniface Church, Quincy, Ill.
Every care and attention is paid towards promoting the knowledge and ad-
vancement of these pupils. The boys are instructed by Mr. Louis Mihm, and the
girls are taught by the good Sisters of St. Francis.
D BUSINESS COMPENDIUM
OF
Representative Mercantile and Manu-
facturing Establishments
OF
MILW A U KEE.
T. A. CHAPMAN.
N the following page is a portrait
of one of the best known merchants
of the Northwest, Timothy Appleton
Chapman. Mr. Chapman is a typical
American. A farmer's son, he went forth
before he had attained the age of man-
hood, to seek his fortune in the world of
business, and, by the exercise of his
native capacity, energy, enterprise and
honesty, has achieved in his chosen pur-
suit a measure of success as full as it has
ever fallen to any man to enjoy. Mr.
Chapman was born in Gilead, Me., on
the 23d of May, 1824. During his boy-
hood he assisted his father on the farm.
His education was obtained in the district
school of his native town and the acad-
emies of Bethel and Yarmouth. For a
time, in the intervals of attending school,
he was occupied as a teacher. At the age
of 20, with less than $10 in his purse, he
(6) *
went to Boston, where he remained
thirteen years—the first six years as a
clerk in a dry goods store and the
remainder of the time in business on his
own account, in company with his
brother, under the firm name of T. A. &
H. G. Chapman. Becoming convinced
that the West would be a better field for
his operations, Mr. Chapman came to
Milwaukee in 1857. He established him-
self in business on East Water street,
under the firm name of Hassett & Chap-
man. Mr. Hassett retired at the end of
five years, and was succeeded by Charles
Endicott, who remained three years.
Since the retirement of Mr. Endicott,
Mr. Chapman has been alone. His
business has steadily expanded. In 1872,
the necessity for increased room having
become imperative, he erected at the
southeast corner of Milwaukee and Wis-
consin streets one of the largest and most
handsomely appointed store-buildings in
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the West at that time, and removed from structure, with its entire contents, was
his old quarters. In 1883, his new store destroyed by fire. Milwaukeeans looked
was outgrown, and he built an addition upon the fire as a public calamity rather
nearly doubling its size. Not content than a merely private loss. Business men
with building for utility only, he called asked the question, “Will Mr. Chapman
decorative art to the aid of architecture, rebuild P’ with much concern, for they
and created an establishment that fitly appreciated that the beautiful store and
came to be spoken of as “the Palace the large and elegant stock which Mr.
Store,” and was the wonder and the pride Chapman always carried had brought a
of the whole Northwest. On the night great many people and a great deal of
of October 23, 1884, this magnificent trade to the city which would go else-


INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
83
where if the store were not replaced. Most
men of Mr. Chapman's years would have
been inclined under similar circumstances
to avoid the responsibilities and risks of
beginning anew. His insurance money
and his other property would have en-
abled him to “crown a life of labor with
an age of ease.” But after carefully sum-
ming up the situation he decided upon
the opposite course, and before the ashes
of the old store were cold he had com-
pleted plans for rebuilding upon even a
grander scale than before. An engraving
and a description of Mr. Chapman's new
store appear in another part of this work.
The store is conceded to have no superior
in the world, for the purposes for which
it is designed, and in many of its excel-
lent features it is entirely unique. One
of these is light. The store is so arranged
that there is not a dark corner nor a deep
shadow in the whole building. The ven-
tilation is as perfect as science can make
it. Three large open fireplaces, which
contribute to the purification of the air,
give a cheerful and homelike effect to
the store. Ample provision is made
for the comfort of the employés as
of the estab-
It is not alone his high stand-
ing as a business man that gives Mr.
Chapman his place in the esteem of his
fellow citizens.
well as the patrons
lishment.
He is more than a suc-
cessful man of business. Broad-minded,
cultured, and public-spirited, a patron of
art and education, he is looked up to as
one of the representative men of the
time.
The portrait which is presented here-
with will be recognized as a very good
likeness of Mr. Chapman.
G00DRICH & WAGNER,
Successors to Ball & Coodrich,
Wholesale Grocers.
3O1 and 3O3 East VVater Street.
MONG the large wholesale firms in
the city of Milwaukee whose names
have attained a prominence in the history
of the Cream City, we particularly men-
tion the house of Goodrich & Wagner.
The business was established in 1845 by
P. W. Badgley, whose name was for
many years connected with the solid
commercial interests of the city of Mil-
waukee. A few years after the business
was organized, J. A. Dutcher was admit-
ted into the firm, then taking the name
of P. W. Badgley & Co. In 1853 Mr.
Badgley died, and the firm became
Dutcher & Sexton. Mr. Goodrich be-
came connected with the firm in 1853
as book-keeper, and a member of the
firm in 1856, the name being changed at
that time to Dutcher, Sexton & Co. In
1859 Sexton retired, and in 1862 Mr.
Ball became interested in the firm, then
being known as Dutcher, Ball & Goodrich.
Mr. Dutcher retired from the firm in the
year 1868, the business being continued
under the name of Ball & Goodrich.
In 1878 Mr. Ball died, the firm, how-
ever, continuing under the same name
until March 1st, 1885, when Mr. Wagner
purchased the interest formerly owned
by Mr. Ball, when a final change was
made and the present name assumed.
The business has been carried on in
the same location since its organization,
having added, however, another store to
their first quarters, and now have four
floors 52x150 feet in dimensions.
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
They employ twenty-four persons in
the establishment, and eleven traveling
Salesmen. Their goods are sold through-
out the West, and among their customers
are numbered some of the largest dealers
in the Western country. Mr. John R.
Goodrich was born New York,
and came to this city in 1850. He has
for sixteen years been a member of the
Board of Trustees of Beloit College, is
Vice President of the Exposition Asso-
ciation, and director in the Merchants’
Association, and has filled other offices
with credit to himself and honor to the
societies which he represented. Mr. A.
H. Wagner was born in Germany,
coming direct to Milwaukee in 1860.
He was for twenty-two years and up
in
to the time of his connection with
this firm, connected with the Englemann
Transportation Company, and also the
Northwestern Transportation Company,
Both gentle-
men occupy prominent places in the
commercial world, and the firm receives
the cordial support of its many patrons,
and is rapidly extending its trade rela-
tions throughout the Northwest.
as secretary and treasurer.
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MILWAUKEE CEMENT CO.,
Manufacturers of Hydraulic
Cement.
Office, 154 VVest VVater Street.
Fall the industries of the city none has
so large a shipment, with the excep-
tion of the breweries, as the Milwaukee
Cement Co. It is an enterprise of which
Milwaukee can be proud, and has ex-
tended its name and fame to all parts of
the Union. The works of this company
are situated on the Milwaukee river,
within a few miles of the city. In super-
ficial area, the territory of this com-
pany contains about 300 acres, with a
depth of cement rock of an indefinite
extent, of the best quality, and fully ade-
duate to meet the requirements of this ex-
tensive industry. This territory lies on
both sides of the Milwaukee river, and is
in close connection with three principal
trunk lines of railway. This company
was incorporated in 1876 with a capital
of $350,000. The first kiln was com-
pleted during the same summer, and
from that time to this the mills have been
The full
capacity of manufacture is about 1,000
barrels per day, or nearly 35o,ooo bar-
rels per annum.
in almost constant operation.
The amount manufact-
ured at the present time is at the rate of
250,000 barrels per season. The busi-
ness has been extended to about twenty
States, and the sales are much larger than
from any other mill in the West, and per-
haps larger than from any one mill in the
country. The purchasers of this cement
in large quantities are the government of
the United States, and all the principal
railroads of the West, including the C.
M. & St. P., C. & N. W., C. B. & Q.,
A. T. & S. F., B. & M., and Canadian,
Northern, Central and Southern Pacific
Railways. Nearly all the large govern-
ment buildings, as well as the principal
railroad bridges crossing the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers, erected during the
past five years, have been built with the
aid of this material. The superiority of
this cement over all others, as regards the
average tensile, breaking and crushing
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strength, and greater adhesion to brick,
has been unquestionably established by
upwards of 3,000 most careful and severe
tests, as well as by the most complete
analysis, These have been made under
the direction of Mr. D. J. Whittemore,
for many years Chief Engineer of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad,
and other gentlemen of practical character
and scientific attainments. Ten kilns, 22
feet square and nearly 50 feet high, are in
operation. The pulverizing mill, three or
four heavily timbered warehouses for the
storage of cement, and numerous large
dwelling and boarding houses for accom-
modation of employés, are especially
noticeable on the premises, and built in
the most substantial manner. The ma-
chinery is new, and of the most complete
patterns, equal, and in many cases supe-
rior, to any of the best concerns in this
country. They have in successful opera-
tion nine run of burrs of the most per-
fect mechanism for the purpose to
which they are applied. The motive
power for driving the ponderous machin-
ery is supplied by four boilers and two
large steam engines, having an aggregate
of 160 horse-power. Nearly 1oo men are
employed in the works. The shipments
are two large train-loads of cement every
day. The peculir quality of the soil
where the mills are located, was first
known to Prof. I. A. Lapham, one of
the most skillful geologists of the country.
The following gentlemen constitute the
present officers: H. Berthelet, President;
Geo. H. Paul, Secretary; John John-
ston, Treasurer; Goe. S. Bartlett, Sup-
erintendent of Sales; J. R. Berthelet, Jr.,
Superintendent of Works. It is by the able
management of this corps of officers that
the company has achieved a success so
highly creditable to themselves, and of so
much importance to the city of Milwau-
kee. The various departments of this
company are connected by telephone
with their city office, 154 West Water street,
owned and operated by themselves, so as
to insure prompt shipments and attention
which the trade demands. The company
have published in pamphlet form a hand-
book for engineers, architects, masons,
contractors and builders, giving the most
practical information regarding hydraulic
cement, which will be sent by mail on
application.
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R. P. ELMORE & G0.,
Dealers in Coal and Pig Iron.
Office, 4OO East Water Street.
ROM the earliest period in the world’s
history until a comparatively recent
date, wood was the universal article of
fuel.
The subsequent discovery of coal was
providential, as the demand increased
with the development of higher civiliza-
tion and the necessities of the arts and
manufactures. Coal mining is now one
of the great industries of the United
States, and coal is rapidly supplanting
wood as fuel, even where the latter is to
be found in abundance, owing to its
cheapness and ease of handling, as well
as its superior quality as fuel.
R. P. Elmore is the pioneer coal-dealer
in Milwaukee. The firm began in 1851
as S. L. &. R. P. Elmore. Later it be-
came Elmore Bros., but for twenty years
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87
past has been R. P. Elmore & Co. The
following clipping from the Milwaukee
AVews of Jan. 23d, 1867, will give an idea
of the beginning of the coal business
here:
“Prior to 1851 there was no coal kept
in this city. Those who were compelled
to use it in manufactories or preferred it
for domestic consumption, supplied them-
selves as they best could from vessel own-
ers and warehousemen who generally had
a little on hand. It was then sold by the
bushel. During this season Messrs. S. L.
& R. P. Elmore concluded to engage in
the business, and opened a small yard on
East Water street, a short distance east of
‘Walker's Point ’ bridge. As their capi-
tal was small they could not afford to
make a trip East to buy of miners, or
their agents in person, so they made a
contract to take a small quantity of Ohio
bituminous coal “unsight, unseen,” as
the saying is. The price was paid in
advance, and in due time the coal arrived.
As they had never seen any bituminous
coal, and knew almost nothing of its
quality or the best methods of using it,
they were naturally anxious to inspect
their new purchase, and when it came
they were dismally disappointed by its
appearance. They stood looking at it
mutely for some minutes, then both
turned away and walked down the street
together for several blocks, neither saying
a word. They both felt the venture was
a failure, and strove to draw forth ſrom
his own heart the consolation he failed to
find in the countenance of the other. A
further investigation of the subject, how-
ever, and a better acquaintance with the
wants of the market and the merits of
bituminous coal, enabled them to dispose
of the lot without loss, and thus lay the
foundation of the present trade of R. P.
Elmore & Co.
Their first winter's supply was about
6oo tons, which proved ample for all de-
mands, and was so far as they knew, the
total amount of coal of any kind sold in
the State.
The Elmores put up the first coal
scales in the city, and from that day to
this they have kept pace with the growth
of the city and country. Some years
ago Mr. Elmore found it necessary to add
to their permanent facilities for storing
and delivering coal and wood, and made
a purchase of dock property on River
street, and adding to it from time to time
they now have an immense retail yard,
affording ample room for all seasons of
the year. From the difficult sale of 6oo
tons in 1851, they have advanced to a
business over eight States, amounting to
nearly one million dollars annually.
Besides the yard mentioned, they have
two shipping yards on the different rail-
roads, and have a dock front of 1,400
feet.
They do an extensive wholesale busi-
ness, handling all the various kinds of
anthracite and bituminous coals, imported
and domestic pig iron, foundry supplies
land plaster, cements, etc.
R. P. Elmore, the founder of this enter-
prise, was born in Connecticut in 1815,
He has
an enviable reputation as a business man,
and came to this city in 1851.
and is accorded a prominent place among
the esteemed citizens of Milwaukee. His
long connection with the business inter-
ests of the city has earned him a name
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that will always be identified with the
leading men in the State.
He has the finest coal office in the
city, in the Iron Block, corner East Water
and Wisconsin streets.
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MEINECKE & CO.,
Importers and Jobbers of Toys,
Fancy Goods and Notions,
Children's Garriages, etc.
348 and 35C East VVater Street.
MONG those houses in Milwaukee
entitled to special notice, is that of
Meinecke & Co., importers and jobbers of
toys, fancy goods and notions, at Nos. 348,
350 and 352 East Water street. They are
principally engaged in the wholesale trade,
which extends throughout the entire
Northwest. They occupy the whole
building, which comprises four floors and
the basement, 6ox12o feet in area, and
carry the most extensive stock in their line
in the West. The great proportion of their
goods come from Europe, although some
They also
have a large stock of willow-ware, chil-
are of home manufacture.
dren's carriages, etc., which are manufact-
ured at the factory of A. Meinecke &
Son, at the corner of Mason and Front
streets, and elsewhere mentioned in this
volume. Besides stock already mentioned,
they also carry a complete stock of Bohe-
mian glass and china ware, druggists’
sundries, bird cages, fishing tackle, etc.
They employ a force of thirty-five hands
in the store, and do an immense annual
business. The members of the present
firm are A. Meinecke, Sr., A. Meinecke,
Jr., C. Penshorn and F. Goetz.
MENDEL, SMITH & CO.,
Importers and Wholesale Grocers.
East VVater and Huron Streets.
N presenting a review of the mercan-
tile houses of Milwaukee, the above
house is representative. They are cen-
trally located on East Water street, and
occupy the whole of their large store,
consisting of five floors and basement.
Twenty-five employés are on their pay-
roll, besides seven commercial travelers,
who represent their firm throughout the
West. Their strict integrity and the
superior quality of their goods has gained
them a standard reputation with the
trade, and the popularity of their house
is constantly increasing. A great many
articles are prepared especially for them
to order, and are marked with the famous
“Cabinet Brand.” They make a spe-
cialty of teas and tobaccos, importing the
former from Japan, where it is put up
expressly for them and known as the
“Badger Brand,” and has been highly
satisfactory to their large number of cus-
tomers. Their trade lies exclusively in
Wisconsin, and they endeavor to meet
the wants of the home merchant in every
case, and their large and growing trade
warrants the assumption that they have
been successful, as their annual sales do not
reach less than one million dollars. This
satisfactory result has been achieved by
the exercise of a straightforward system
of dealing, and the house of Mendel,
Smith & Co. has attained a prominence .
accorded only to those whose operations
have been characterized by the strictest
principles of mercantile honor. Henry
M. Mendel, the head of the firm, was
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89
born in Germany in 1839, and came from
there directly to Milwaukee in 1854. He
occupies a high position in business
circles. He is a director and vice-presi-
dent of the Exposition Association, pres-
ident of the National North American
Sångerbund, president of the Milwaukee
Musical Society, which is one of the old-
est organizations of the kind in the coun-
try, and is also a trustee of the Academy
Mr. Ira B. Smith was born at
Fox Lake, Wisconsin, in 1850, but has
resided in Milwaukee the greater part of
his life. He is well known throughout
the city and State, and is the oldest son
of Ex-Governor Wm. E. Smith, who was
one of the founders of this business and
senior partner until his sudden death two
of Music.
years ago.
THE HOFFMAN & BILLINGS
MFG. CO.,
[LIMITED],
Manufacturers of Steam, Clas,
Plumbers’ and Brewers’
Supplies.
Office and Salesroom, 141 to 147
VVest VVater Street.
WORTHY example of business
1 M thrift, illustrating what energy and
enterprise can accomplish, is the house of
the Hoffman & Billings Manufacturing
Company. For thirty years they have
been connected with the business inter-
ests of this city, and have always been
the recognized leaders among the manu-
facturing industries of this community.
Beginning with but one lathe, operated
by foot power, this establishment has
advanced step by step, increasing their
trade and resources, until they have grown
to be one of the largest houses of the
kind in the Northwest. The business
was established in 1855 by Mr. J. C.
Hoffman on State street, between Sixth
and Seventh, on a very small scale and
limited capital. He received Mr. Chas.
F. Billings into partnership in 1870,
under the style of Hoffman & Billings.
In this relation their business steadily
advanced, and they were very successful
in every branch of their trade. In the
spring of 1882 the present firm was incor-
porated under the laws of the State of
Wisconsin, with a large capital, which was
necessary for the extension of their grow-
ing trade. This firm manufactures, on a
large scale, a full line of brass and iron
goods for steam, gas and water service,
supplying dealers and fitters all over the
North and West, and even ship to East-
ern markets, where their goods are in
great demand. They have many import-
ant inventions of their own. The most
important of the many articles manufact-
ured by this house is cast-iron pipe,
heating apparatus, radiators, tools, steam
pumps, cocks, gauges, whistles, coup-
lings, valves, expansion joints, fittings,
boiler tubes, flanges, branch T's, steam
and gas fitters' tools, and engineers',
brewers' and plumbers' supplies in gen-
eral. They also carry a full stock of
rubber hose, belting, packing and leather
belting, besides being agents for various
kinds of pumps, the principal of which
are the Knowles steam pumps and Rum-
sey iron well pumps. Their , extensive
catalogue is replete with a list of every
article manufactured and handled by
them, and no dealer should be without it.
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It can be procured free of charge by ad-
dressing the firm. The value of their
large stock reaches to upwards of $150,-
ooo. The large salesrooms are situated
at Nos. 141, 143, 145 and 147 West Water
street, the dimensions of which are 75x
150 feet. The main works are located
between Sixth and Seventh streets, on
Cedar, occupying one-half of the block,
and include three large buildings, fully
equipped and used for a machine shop,
brass foundry and iron foundry, respect-
ively. This part of their works has had
the misfortune of being burned out several
times, but they have always repaired the
damage, and continued, if anything, on a
larger scale. They are also establishing
a plant on Becher street, in the southern
It consists of an area
on which are being
limits of the city.
of three acres,
erected mammoth buildings for shops,
foundries, etc., where all the latest im-
proved machinery will be introduced,
among which we mention the Colliau
patent furnace for melting iron, the
4o,ooo-pound boring mill, the ten-ton
traveling crane, and the large engines
used to drive this vast machinery, which
aggregate Ioo horse-power. Upwards of
20o skilled mechanics are employed in
the various departments. The sales,
which extend to every part of the Union,
amount to nearly one-half million dollars
annually, showing the importance of this
large industry to the city of Milwaukee.
The officers of this company are: J. C.
Hoffman, president; B. Hoffman, vice
president, and J. B. Kalvelage, treasurer
and secretary—all efficient business men,
and fully conversant with every detail of
their vast business.
The firm court the meyer two years earlier.
patronage of dealers in all sections of the
country, and are prepared to do any kind
of work in their line promptly and at
living prices. All large contracts receive
their special attention, and parties desir-
ing bids will find it to their interest to
open correspondence with this house.
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BUNDE & UPMEYER,
Manufacturing Jewelers.
121 arid 123 VVisconsin Street.
HIS popular firm, although of recent
origin, has become as well known as
many of those of earlier date. It was
established in 188o as a wholesale, retail,
and manufacturing concern, and has met
with deserved success. It is one of the
representative houses in the city, and is a
great point of attraction for shoppers of
superior jewelry. Their rooms are nicely
fitted up with show cases, and they are
just preparing to make other large and
important additions to their facilities in
this line. The firm started on rather a
small basis, but a system of upright and
honorable dealing, combined with energy
and perseverance, have placed them at the
head of all other concerns of the kind in
the city. They employ thirteen skilled
and experienced artisans in their shops,
and are continually turning out jewelry
of all kinds, most exquisite in design and
finish. They make a specialty of watches
and diamond settings, their stock of
diamonds being especially complete and
valuable. Both gentlemen are natives of
Milwaukee, Mr. Louis W. Bunde having
been born here in 1859, and Mr. Up-
The former has
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had eleven and the latter thirteen years'
experience in the business, so that both
are especially fitted for conducting the
large establishment of which they are pro-
They have lately added in-
creased facilities in the way of new ma-
Chinery, adapted to all their wants, mak-
ing them better prepared than ever to do
prietors.
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W. H. LITTLE & CO.,
Milwaukee Beef and Pork Packing
Company.
114 to 12O Sy cannor'e Street.
HE packing industry of our city is
among the first in importance. One
of the four leading houses of this kind in
the city is that of W. H. Little & Co.,
formerly established by Mr. D. C. Abbey.
It is situated at Nos. I 14, 116, 1 18 and
12o Sycamore street, and consists of a
large two-story brick building, roo by
120, with basement. The various depart-
ments of this establishment are ample in
every respect for the large and growing
trade. The plans for the construction of
this building, which was erected in 1872,
were elaborate and perfect, and taking
into account its central location, it is the
most accessible of all the packing houses
in the city. The building is fitted up
with all modern appliances for handling
and preparing beef and pork. Every-
thing for the packing and curing of beef
and pork is carried on in this building,
with the exception of slaughtering, which
is done at the city abattoir. It contains
facilities for all departments associated
with a business of this kind—cutting,
drying, salting, barreling, etc. The vari-
ous apparatus for steam and kettle lard
rendering, and rooms for smoking and
curing hams and bacon, are among the
largest in the city. The capacity of the
large refrigerator room is 1,600 tons of
ice, and will contain Ioo hogs, or 25 head
of slaughtered cattle. The excellency
and reliability of the various products of
this firm have long been established, and
Little's lard has an unrivaled reputation -
throughout the United States for purity
and cleanliness. The boiler used for the
generation of steam is of forty horse-
power. Upwards of fifty hands are
employed for conducting this large busi-
ness. The shipments extend all over the
United States. The aggregate sales per
annum are upwards of half a million dol-
lars. Mr. Little is a native of New York
city and came to Milwaukee in 1868, and
was interested with his brother in the dry
goods business, until he entered the pres-
ent establishment with Mr. D. C. Abbey
in 1872.
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GOLL & FRANK CO.,
Importers and Dealers in Dry
Coods, Notions and Gents'
Furnishing Goods.
Corner East Water and Euffalo
Streets.
T IS with pleasure that mention is made
of the mammoth institution of Goll &
Frank, at the corner of East Water and
Buffalo streets. It is the largest business
of the kind in the city, and one of the
largest in the West. It dates its birth
back to 1850, when it was established in
a limited way on East Water street, by
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Mr. Julius Goll. Two years thereafter
Mr. August Frank was admitted into the
firm, and it has since continued under
On January 1, 1885, the
firm was incorporated, with the following
President, August Frank;
Treasurer, Julius Goll; Secretary, O.
Loeffler. The capital stock is $250,000.
From the start the success of the firm was
assured, under the efficient management
their name.
officers:
of the two partners, and its business soon
assumed such magnitude that their quar-
ters were not sufficient to allow them the
room necessary, so they decided to build,
and erected the handsome and imposing
structure which they now occupy, and
took formal possession in 1862. It is five
stories in height, with high and well-
lighted floors, and presents a front on
East Water street of one hundred feet and
on Buffalo of one hundred and thirty feet.
Its interior is systematically and tastefully
arranged, the office appointments being
elegant and well adapted to their purpose.
The basement is large and well lighted,
and contains the domestic goods. On
the first floor are the offices, and dress
goods in large variety. On the second
floor can be found a large and varied stock
of embroideries, laces, gloves, hosiery and
notions, covering everything in this line.
The third floor is devoted to the woolen
goods, and the fourth is given up to
jeans, flannels, blankets and manufactured
goods. Fifty employés are on the pay
roll in connection with the establishment,
and besides these the company employ
outside parties in the manufacture of
furnishing goods, this force consisting of
several hundred. Eight commercial trav-
elers represent the house throughout the
of everything
Western States to the larger retail firms.
During the thirty-five years of this firm's
existence they have built up a reputation
for honest dealing and good goods second
to none in the West, and this city is
deeply indebted to the energy and perse-
verance of these gentlemen, which has
resulted in the building up one of the
finest institutions in the West, and of
which its owners may justly feel proud.
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CONWAY, CLEMENT & WIL-
LIAMS,
Manufacturers and Dealers in Fur-
niture.
137 and 139 VVisconsin Street.
T the above location we find the ele-
of Conway,
Clement & Williams, occupying a fine
gant establishment
large structure five stories in height, in-
cluding the basement, with a frontage of
forty-five feet and a depth of one hun-
dred and sixty-five feet. Within we find
a most magnificent and complete stock
in the way of fur-
niture, some the most elegant in
design and finish. Fine chamber suits
with marble-topped stands and French
plate glass mirrors are here found in every
style at all prices, with all the splendid
appointments in demand by the public.
This institution was established here the
present year, and started with a stock of
$35,000, which has recently been increased
to about $75,000, in order to meet the in-
creased demands of trade. Notwithstand-
ing its recent origin, it now takes its place
among the first of the furniture houses,
and
and enjoys a large patronage,
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t
counts some of our most wealthy and
influential citizens among its customers.
Mr. Conway was born in Danbury,
Conn., in 1851, and came to the city the
present year. He served for two and
one-half years in the late war in the 2d
Connecticut as a private, and was an
active participant in several hard-fought
battles. Mr Clement is a native of Nee-
nah, this State, was born in 1861, and
had been engaged in business at that
point for three years before entering the
present firm. Mr. Williams was born in
Columbia county, Wisconsin, Dec. 14,
1848. He has been for the last fourteen
years employed as Sālesman by the large
furniture firm of Matthew Bros. in this
city, and thoroughly understands the
The business is under
the supervision of three very energetic
wants of the trade.
business men, who deal in a systematic
and honorable manner with their cus-
tomers, and it will doubtless be num-
bered with our substantial institutions.
A cabinet department is run in connec-
tion with the store, and a specialty is
made of manufacturing upholstery to
order.
J. P. THOMPSON & CO.,
Dealers in Dye Woods, Chemicals,
Acids, Oils, etc.
No. 1 O5 VVest VVater Street.
HE Northwestern Woolen Manufact-
urers’ Supply House is situated at
IoS West Water street, where are found
all kinds of dye woods, chemicals, acids,
oils, woolen machinery, supplies, burlaps,
wool sacks, twine, needles and hop sack-
ing. This enterprise was started by the
present firm, J. P. Thompson & Co., in
1868, at 124 West Water, where they
remained for six years, after which they
removed to their present central and
commodious quarters. The building they
occupy is ample in every respect for the
storage of their large stock of supplies.
The structure is two stories in height,
with a commodious basement, and has a
frontage of 25 feet, with a depth of 120
feet, the location being enhanced by the
fact that they have the corner store, using
all that side on Clybourn street, which
during the busy season presents a lively
scene. The specialty of this firm is
Woolen Mill Supplies, which they handle
in large quantities to supply their grow-
ing trade. Their dye woods are received
through the large importing agencies of
the East, while their acids are all obtained
here in Milwaukee. Besides enjoying a
fair city trade, they also have a large
patronage throughout Wisconsin, Min-
nesota and Iowa, which aggregates up-
wards of $75,000 per annum, the stock
carried being valued at $20,000. This
firm are Northwestern agents for Beach
& Co., Hartford, Conn., who are United
States agents for Brooke, Simpson &
Spiller, of London, the great manufact-
urers of aniline colors. Mr. Thompson,
the sole proprietor, is a native of Con-
necticut, and came to Milwaukee in 1863,
and soon after established his present
business, which, by his personal attention
and practical business methods, has
grown to take such an important posi-
tion among the commercial features of
this city.
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KIECKHEFER BROS. & C0.,
Manufacturers of Stamped, Ja-
panned and Pieced Tin-
Ware, etc.
113 to 123 Clybourn Street.
N establishment of most rapid growth,
the result of continuous earnest toil
and ability, well directed, is that of the
above named firm. From an individual
business of comparative insignificance
the three members of this firm united
themselves but a few years ago into a
company for the manufacture of all forms
of tinware, with a capital of $15,000.
They have been able in the short period of
their existence to increase their business
to that extent that it has reached colos-
sal proportions, excelling anything of its
kind in the Northwest, and carrying a
stock of over $100,ooo. The firm was
incorporated in 1880, and leased the
three upper floors of the Reis Block,
southeast corner West Water and Syca-
more streets. They manufacture all forms
of tinware and sheet iron goods, but in
the short space of two years their busi-
ness grew to such magnitude that they
erected a large commodious building of
their own on Clybourn street. It is 80
feet front with a depth of 12 o feet, and
has four floors. The establishment of
this industry effected an entire revolution
in pieced tinware and sheet iron goods
throughout the city and country. Their
large factory is furnished with dies,
presses and all ingenious devices and
contrivances by which the separate
pieces, or the entire article, are at once
struck into the required shape, reducing
the work of the tinman to the mere act
of soldering the different parts. By this
means the firm has been able to manu-
facture these wares at so great a reduc-
tion in price that retail dealers, who here-
tofore manufactured these articles, can
purchase them from this establishment
cheaper than they can make them. In-
credible as it may seem, this firm has
lately again enlarged their premises by
the erection of a large brick block ad-
joining their old one. It has just been
completed and is five stories high and 50
by 140 feet in size. They have among
their innumerable machinery undoubtedly
the largest and heaviest presses used by
any similar establishment in the Union,
with a weight of from 3,000 to 40,000
lbs.
by a superior Corliss engine of over fifty
All this vast machinery is propelled
horse-power. In all the departments of
their business they require the aid of
about 200 operatives, many of whom are
skilled artisans. This important home
enterprise turns out every description of
pieced and stamped tinware, dripping pans
and elbows, besides dealing extensively in
stamped, japanned and granite wares.
The shipments of this firm are to almost
every State in the Union, reaching from
New York to San Francisco, and have an
annual trade of upwards of $300,000.
The tin plate is procured direct from
England, while the sheet iron comes from
Pittsburg. The members of this firm are
F. Kieckheſer, W. Kieckhefer and S.
Walter, all native Milwaukeeans, and are
among the most enterprising business men
in the city. The trade is largely indebted
to this energetic firm for many important
improvements—inventions of their own
—in this direction, which have been
adopted by other large tinware factories.
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ALBERT TROSTEL,
(OF THE LATE FIRM of TROSTEL & GALLUN.)
Tanner and Dealer in Leather, Find-
ings, Tools, Oil, Etc.
1O24. VVest VVater Street.
NE of the most successful houses of
the leather industry in our city, is
that of Albert Trostel, the senior partner
of the late firm of Trostel & Gallun.
Mr. Trostel began with a small tannery
twenty-seven years ago on the Milwau-
kee river, adjacent to the present site of
the State street bridge. Without a store,
and doing only job work for his custom-
ers, he steadily advanced in business, and
about nine months subsequently, took
August F. Gallun into partnership.
Their progress was rapid, and at the out-
break of the rebellion they were among
the fortunate ones to hold large stocks,
and reap the benefit of a heavy increase
in value. Their first tannery of import-
ance was the “Star” tannery, well known
for its production of the celebrated “Blue
Star” harness leather. About eight years
since they built the Empire tannery,
and subsequently purchased the Phoe-
nix tannery on the canal. A dissolution
of the firm was effected May 1st, 1885,
Mr. Trostel retaining the Star tannery,
891 to 903 North Water street, and also
the Phoenix tannery on the canal, the
main buildings of which are respectively
60x150 and 6ox3oo, besides the necessary
buildings, land and dockage to accom-
modate his supplies, and his immense
stock of bark, the majority of which he
receives by vessel from Michigan while
the lake is open to navigation. A forty
horse-power engine is used in each tan-
nery, with four large boilers to drive the
various machinery, and every modern
device and appliance of actual benefit in
the manufacture of leather. From 15o
to 200 men are constantly engaged by
this firm, who turn out annually upwards
of 65,000 sides, kips, and calf skins, all of
the best green, and green salted western
slaughter stock, which calls for the use of
8,000 cords of bark. The specialties
made by Mr. Trostel from these hides
and skins are russet and black harness,
saddle, collar and line leather, boot and
shoe grains, wax upper, kip and calf
skins. The old store at 202 and 204
West Water street having been retained
by August F. Gallun for the purpose of
carrying on a similar business with his son
(though not as the “successors” of the late
firm of Trostel & Gallum), it became nec-
essary that Mr. Trostel should find a store
for the sale of his products and for his
extensive retail trade in findings, tanners’
and curriers' tools and supplies, oils, etc.
He was most fortunate in securing and
purchasing the fine four-story and base-
ment brick building conveniently located
at Ioa West Water street, near Huron
street bridge, in the fitting up of which
he displayed commendable taste and good
judgment. Extensive as the sales are,
they are still increasing, and embrace a
territory bounded only by the oceans,
The stock
carried by this firm varies from $200,ooo
gulf and British provinces.
to $300,ooo, while the sales aggregate
Mr. Trostel is
a native of Wurtemburg, in Germany
$500,ooo per annum.
and came to this country in 1852.
Being a thorough practical tanner, he
is acquainted with every feature of the
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business. This, together with his ster-
ling integrity and straightforward busi-
ness principles, has enabled him to reach
the high position accorded him in com-
He
has two sons undergoing instruction in
the “art,” “trade” and “mystery” of the
tanning business, who, when graduated,
will take their places as members of the
firm, and will undoubtedly prove valued
acquisitions to the business of their es-
teemed parent.
mercial and manufacturing circles.
BRADLEY & METGALF,
Manufacturers of and Wholesale
Dealers in Boots, Shoes, etc.
389, 391 and 393 East Water St.
N reviewing the business interests of
Milwaukee, it is our desire to briefly
mention those houses who have attained
a reputation as representatives in their
particular lines of trade. There is no
establishment that has done more for the
benefit of Milwaukee, or more widely
advertised it as a desirable manufacturing
point, than the firm of Bradley & Metcalf,
manufacturers and dealers in boots and
shoes. This is one of the oldest establish-
ments of the kind in Milwaukee, having
first been instituted in 1843, and has since
been under the supervision of its origina-
tors. Their building is at Nos. 387, 389,
391 and 393 East Water street, and con-
sists of twenty-four floors, 20x120 feet in
dimensions, besides three basements of
the same size. The four lower floors are
devoted respectively to the retail and
wholesale departments, and warehouse.
The manufactory is divided up into the
various departments, both for heavy and
(7)
light work. First we come to the cutting-
rooms, of which there are two, where the
The
One hun-
dred and eighty-five girls are employed
in this department, besides a large num-
ber of machines. In the next depart-
ment, we find several machines being
operated in cutting soles, turning them
out very rapidly and perfectly. In this
department we see the Fisher Channel
Turning “machine,” which does the work
formerly, and until lately, done by hand,
and which is a very great saving of time
and labor.
uppers are cut for boots and shoes.
next are the stitching-rooms.
In the next department,
called the “bottoming department,” we
find several objects of interest. First is
the “Standard ” screw machine, which is
a comparatively recent invention, and
one which is destined to take the place of
all other modes of fastening the uppers
and soles together. The screws come in
a continuous roll weighing about seven
pounds, and this machine cuts them off
and screws them into the soles at the rate
of ninety a minute, placing them half an
inch apart. Three years since, Messrs.
Bradley & Metcalf put in one machine
at a cost of $400, but felt it was taking a
large risk. The machine was such an
unqualified success that they soon added
another, and still another, and now have
four. Here we also find the National
Heeling machine, which, with the assist-
ance of a man and boy, heels 8oo pair
a day. They have four of these machines,
costing $500 each. Here we also find
the McKay sewing machines, for sewing
on soles. This right was bought of the
Inventor some twenty years since for
a small sum, and the purchaser has real-
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
ized from this one machine $10,000,ooo
in royalties. In the shoe department we
find the Reese Button-hole working ma-
chine, cutting and stitching much better
than can be done by hand, and finishes
three thousand holes per day. This is a
new invention, and is a very valuable
We then come to the last
department, where the bottoms are fin-
machine.
ished, sand-papered and burnished, and
stamped with their trade-mark. The
fine work is then put in boxes bearing
the trake-mark, kind, size, width of
This firm is
the owner of the patent on a machine for
sole, and number. also
making a patent corded seam, which was
invented by Mr. Shaw, who for thirty
years was foreman of this establishment.
It makes a good seam, less prominent
and objectionable than is generally used,
and is cheaper to make. They have
equipped and fitted a new stitching-room,
which they occupied lately, and which is
the finest in America. It is on the top
floor, and finely lighted by ten large sky-
lights. They have in the last two years
increased their capacity from 3oo to 2, ooo
pairs of shoes a day, and are now mak-
ing preparations to increase this large
number one-half, which will necessitate
the employment of 150 more hands.
This large concern is under the supervis-
ion of Mr. John A. Walden, who was
educated in the business from his boyhood
in Worcester, Mass., and has been Super-
intendent of various factories since nine-
teen years of age. Five ten-horse gas
engines are employed for driving the
machinery. The working force is up-
wards of 425 persons, and the weekly
pay-roll amounts to $4,000. The stock
kept on hand is estimated at half a
million dollars, and the yearly sales reach
an immense sum. They employ from
eighteen to twenty commercial travelers,
and their goods are in demand over the
entire country. Mr. Bradley was born in
Massachusetts in 1818, and came to Mil-
waukee in 1843, with a valuable business
experience obtained in New York City.
Mr. Metcalf is a native of New York,
was born in 1822, and came to Milwau-
kee with Mr. Bradley. They commenced
business the same year together, on a
small scale, which has gradually increased
until it is second to none in the Union,
thus showing what a spirit of energy and
perseverance will do. Milwaukee is justly
proud of this vast enterprise, and it is
with pleasure we give it a place in these
pages. gº
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HARRY S. SUTTER,
Photographer.
No. 128 Wiseonsin Street, and Cor-
ner Oneida Street Bridge.
R. SUTTER'S establishment at No.
128 Wisconsin street, is well known
throughout the entire Northwest. He
has by far the most complete and elegant
gallery in the city, and occupies two
floors, 20x120. On the upper floor are
two sky-lights, laboratory and darkrooms,
especially designed by Mr. Sutter for the
purpose of producing nothing but strictly
artistic work in all the various branches
of photography.
Mr. Sutter opened in 1873, and has
established a trade that is vast in its pro-
portions. His business amounts to over
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
99
$2 sooo per annum. His register of neg-
atives shows the enormous number of
78,000. The duplicate orders from these
plates are a source of a large revenue,
which is especially gratifying, inasmuch
as it shows that his untiring study and
work are well received and appreciated
The studio
on Wisconsin street, spacious and well
appointed as it is, falls short of room, and
by his friends and patrons.
consequently obliged Mr. Sutter to pro-
cure the Grand Central Gallery, corner
Oneida street bridge, one of the hand-
somest buildings in the city, and espe-
cially built for the purpose of doing plat-
inum and chemical prints—pictures rang-
ing from 8x10 to 54x100 inches. This
studio contains besides photographic
portraiture, rooms for artists doing water
coloring, India ink, crayon, etc., in all
sizes. The most important part is the
Mr.
Sutter has devoted many days and nights
in his efforts, and after years of persistent
study and labor, finally accomplished the
desired result. He owns not only the
first electric plant in this city, but is the
first one who purchased such a costly
outfit for this purpose in this country.
This plant contains a seven horse-power
engine, and a dynamo which produces
Io,ooo candle power, furnishing light at
all times to work eight solar cameras.
Mr. Sutter is more than a mere “taker
of pictures;” he is an artist in the best
sense of the word, and also an inventor,
an originator of new ideas and new meth-
ods. He has taken out patents for sev-
eral useful, in fact indispensable, articles
of studio furniture, among them a com-
posing chair, and an automatic grader of
tints for making life-size vignettes. A
printing to any size by electric light.
large and paying part of his business is
photographing samples for factories and
wholesale houses—such things as Crock-
ery, glassware, furniture, etc., etc. He
has a light specially provided for this class
of work, and is thus enabled to do it
quickly and in first-class style. Mr. Sutter
uses American-made materials altogether,
finding that they are far superior to the
best imported goods in the market.
Harry Sutter looks like Dan. Manning,
the present secretary of the treasury, and
is one of the really live, energetic and
intelligent business men of the city. He
was born in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1855,
and came to America and to Milwaukee
two years after. He is a charter member
of the light-horse cavalry of Milwaukee,
and has served on the staff of the 4th
battalion, 1st regiment Wisconsin militia,
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ExCELSIOR BUSINESS AND
SHORTHAND COLLEGE,
H. M. Wilmot & Co., Proprietors.
S. VV. Cor. East VVater and VVis-
consin Streets.
HE great benefit derived from the
schools and colleges of our land is
quite apparent, and the importance they
hold in a community is unquestioned. But
of all institutions of learning, a well
ordered and conducted business college to
a large city is of inestimable value. They
impart an education which, while espe-
cially important to all aspirants in purely
business or mercantile pursuits, is also of
great value and use in every other human
vocation. In fact, there is no branch of
education that can be mastered in the
same length of time, which is so useful,
100 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
practical, beneficial and productive of a fine reception-room, office and recita-
good results as a “business education.” |tion-rooms. Prof. H. Mitchell Wilmot
In this line we wish to direct our many is principal, and with five efficient assist-
readers to the claims presented by the ants constitutes the faculty of the insti-
“Excelsior Business and Shorthand Col-ltution. Its course in book-keeping is
lege,” which is situated in the “Mack superior, as it comprises the work of at
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Wisconsin streets. The building is one of about fifteen years' actual experience of
the newest and finest in Milwaukee, easy the principal as an accountant and
of access by street cars from all parts of teacher. The systems of shorthand
the city. That part occupied by the taught are the standard and are employed
college has been finished especially|by fully 80% of all reporters in the
with separate study-rooms and ward- United States. Thorough and prac-
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
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manship, correspondence, arithmetic,
business law, business ſorms, business
Students of
both sexes are admitted to day or evening
sessions at any time, and allowed to
pursue any one or more studies or courses,
according to means or inclination.
Those who cannot conveniently attend
practice, typewriting, etc.
the college, on account of business or
otherwise, can take a course in shorthand
by their improved and perfected method
of postal instruction by mail. School
teachers, lawyers, ministers, merchants,
clerks and others, will find this a grand
opportunity to improve their spare time,
and acquire a thorough and practical
knowledge of this most fascinating and
useful art.
Rates of tuition are very reasonable
and compare favorably with the rates of
Eastern colleges, and the reduction of
price in commodities generally. This col-
lege was founded in the “Iron Block” by
the present proprietor in 1881, but on the
completion of the “Mack Block” in 1883,
moved to its presents quarters. During
the four years of its existence there has
been an enrollment of 500 scholars. All
departments are fully represented, and
the method of instruction in all branches
is superior to many of the larger colleges
of our country. Prof. Wilmot is a native
of New York, spent his boyhood in the
West, but returned East to finish his
education in the schools of New York
city. He is also a graduate of the
Northwestern College, Madison, Wis.,
where he, prior to his removal to this city
in 1880, successfully conducted a sim-
ilar institution.
0. L. PACKARD,
Machinery and Tools for Iron and
Wood Workers.
Nos. 85 and 87 West VVater St.
HE trade in machinery and tools has
now an important part in the commer-
cial history of this city, a representative
and leading house in this branch of trade
being that of O. L. Packard, founded
Jan. 1st, 1866, on a small scale, at 138
West Water street. Gradually increasing,
and always maintaining that high grade
of excellence among its specialties for
which it is so well noted, this house long
ago reached the front ranks of the com-
mercial industries of this city. The first
great question for the accommodation of
its trade, was the means for greater facil-
ities and more commodious quarters,
which finally were found at 85 and 87
West Water street, the present location.
The firm occupy six floors, two large
basements, 25x100 feet each, with two
sheds, 20x50 feet in the rear, used for
storage. The building is fully fitted with
every facility and all modern appliances
for this branch of trade. All the manu-
facturing done by this firm is confined to
articles for the salesrooms and repairing
of machinery. A duplex engine, lathes
and drilling machines of the latest pattern
are found in the workshop. This house
deals in all kinds of machinery and tools
for iron and wood workers, Sturtevant’s
blowers and exhausters, shafting, pulleys
and hangers, engines, boilers, mill, foundry
and machinists' supplies, steam and cen-
trifugal pumps, inspirators and governors.
The stock of this firm is drawn from vari-
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
ous localities from New England to Mis-
Souri, and is the largest and best general
assortment of any house of this kind in
the West. The sales have aggregated
upwards of a quarter million of dollars
annually, extending from Lake Superior
to Florida, but mainly through this and
adjoining states. About a dozen persons
are employed, three of whom are skilled
and experienced mechanics of long stand-
ing. In the firm's opinion, manufactories
in wood, iron, wool and glass, would
materially advance the commercial inter-
ests of our city, and reward the sensible,
diligent and wide-awake manufacturer.
The native place of Mr. Packard is Lons-
dale, R. I., where he was born in 1836,
coming to Milwaukee in April, 1865, and
the following year commenced his present
business. Mr. Packard is a gentleman
possessed of large practical experience in
all the branches of his business, and gives
close personal attention to the successful
workings of every department. He has
been secretary of various Masonic, Co-
operative, Loan and Building, and Relig-
ious associations, also secretary, general
agent, treasurer and manager of several
iron manufacturing establishments.
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H. BERTHELET & CO.,
Manufacturers of Hydraulic Ce-
ment, Sewer and Culvert Pipes.
Office, 132 West Water Street.
N important branch of industry, and
one requiring special mention in a
brief review of the leading business inter-
ests of this city, is the large manufactory of
cement stone sewer-pipe of H. Berthelet &
Co. This is entirely a home industry
which was begun in a moderate way by
the present firm about twenty years ago
in the lower part of the Third Ward.
The rapid growth of the city brought in
demand this article of manufacture, and
the firm receiving the patronage of the
city, as well as from the public in general,
looked around for more extended quar-
ters where they could have ample room
for their increasing trade. In the year
1870 they moved their manufacturing
establishment to what was then the ex-
treme southern limits of the city, at the
junction of Kinnickinnic Ave. and Clinton
streets, with the office at No. 650 Clinton
street. The city office is now at No. 152
West Water street, which is in direct tele-
phonic communication with their factory,
and it is here where Mr. Berthelet, the
head of the firm, is always found superin-
tending the city trade. The factory
proper consists of a large building 98 by
I 16, while the grounds occupy nearly
three acres. The history of the manu-
facture of this article would be full of in-
terest, but time and space will not permit.
They have a large, latest improved, lo-
horse-power engine, which besides run-
ning the various machinery operates the
large Blake Crusher, used to prepare the
stone for mixture with the cement and
sand. They also manufacture chimney
tops of all forms and styles, drainage,
connection and well pipe of all descrip-
tions. Their specialty, sewer pipe, which
has acquired such an extensive use and
reputation, is made of the best hydraulic
cement and crushed gravel. They are
perfect in their interior finish, and in point
of economy, durability and perfection
are superior to any other pipe manufact-
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OF MIL WA UKEE. 103
ured for sewerage and drains, as acids or
alkaline matter will not affect them and
grease will not adhere to them, besides the
egg shape of the large pipe aids this latter,
besides giving the pipe great strength.
The annual products are over 25 miles of
pipe. The shipping facilities are perfect
the N. W. R. R. having a switch located
in their yard. Mr. Berthelet was born in
Detroit, Mich., and came to Milwaukee
in 1860, since which time he has built up
this large industry and gained the envi-
able position he now occupies among the
standard concerns of the Cream City.
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WAL. BLATZ,
Brewer and Maltster.
O form some idea of the greatness of
Milwaukee's popular industry, all that
is necessary would be to visit the institution
of Valentin Blatz, which has gradually
risen from a primitive beginning to its
present proud position as one of the lead-
ing breweries in the United States.
In the year 1851 Valentin Blatz be-
came the proprietor of the brewery, which
was then located on the corner of Broad-
way and Division streets, occupying only
half of a city lot. Its sales at that time
were 150 barrels annually and its storing
capacity 8o barrels of lager beer. Year
after year its sales increased, owing to
the superior quality of its product and
the enterprise of its owner, rendering
additional facilities and storing capacity
necessary, so that now the brewery proper,
with its connecting buildings, occupies
two blocks of the most valuable property
right in the heart of the city of Milwau-
kee. Mr. Blatz furthermore owns forty
lots bordering on both shores of the Mil-
waukee river, below Racine street bridge,
about a half a mile from the brewery,
which are occupied by coal sheds—where
coal is delivered by the cargo—and by a
number of spare ice-houses.
To illustrate the popularity of Blatz
beer and to show how it has ingratiated
itself with the trade and the public in
general, the following figures will demon-
Strate :
Aarrels.
Sales for 1868.................. I 5,366
“ “ 1873.................. 44,639
“ “ 1878.................. 48,671
“ “ 1879.................. 77,493
“ “ 188o ................. 94,935
“ “ 1881.................. Io?,065
“ “ 1882.................. I 17,976
6 & & 1883 • e º e º gº tº e s a e º 'º e s e e e I25,273
“ “ 1884 . I36,143
After the close of 1885 the sales are
anticipated to foot up at least 150,000
barrels.
In 1872 the malt and ice houses on the
corner of Johnson street and Broadway,
together with their entire contents, were
destroyed by fire. Their re-erection was
immediately begun and in the incredible
short space of three months the buildings
loomed up, enlarged and provided with
all modern improvements. Beginning in
a very small way, the establishment has
attained its present high rank through the
energy and indefatigable industry of its
owner, whose sole propaganda was and
still is his superior brew. Using nothing
but the choicest of materials attainable,
both in this country and abroad, which
he procures regardless of cost, he has been
enabled to manufacture beer which has
received the highest encomiums where-
ever introduced.
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At the Philadelphia exposition the Val.
Blatz beer was awarded a gold medal,
the highest premium, for its excellent
qualities and because it excelled in point
of body, flavor and purity.
The fact remains that the beer has won
an international reputation for its unsur-
passed quality, and in order to satisfy the
demands of the trade, agencies have been
established in all of the leading cities in
the United States and elsewhere. Special
wagons and over Ioo horses are in con-
The machinery and accom-
modations in use at this brewery are of the
latest designs and best inventions known
to science.
Making a tour of inspection through
the different departments, where the most
delicate cleanliness is observable, there
are found two enormous brewing kettles,
holding 5oo and 350 barrels respectively,
several large mash tubs with a capacity
stant use.
BLATz's BREwery.
depots under the management of efficient of 9oo and 7oo bushels each, a powerful
agents are now located as follows: At
Chicago, corner Union and Erie streets
and corner 16th and Canal streets; at
Kansas City, Mo., foot of Walnut street;
at Minneapolis Minn., 245 Second Ave.
South; at St. Paul, Minn., 282 Jackson
street; also Iron Mountain, Mich. ;
Marinette, Florence, Berlin, Wis.; and
various other places.
The capacity of the brewery at the
present time is 200,ooo barrels and its
storing capacity 60,000 barrels. The
number of employés is about 200. 50
Corliss engine of 150 horse-power, to
which is attached a fly-wheel 14 feet in
diameter, weighing twelve tons. Mention
is made of these utensils to show how the
establishment has enlarged. Its proprietor
is still adding to its buildings and machin-
ery, making improvements every year.
At present a large grain elevator is being
built to hold 3oo, ooo bushels of barley,
and an additional malt kiln is under con-
struction. The brewery turns out the
very best of domestic beer, and the orig-
inal “Wiener” beer, which is the pride of
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
105
Mr. Blatz has the credit of establishing
the first bottling department in Milwau-
kee, which now occupies capacious quar-
ters on the corner of Knapp and Broad-
way streets, one block from the brewery.
Messrs Torchiani and Kremer have the
management of this branch of the bus-
iness, which is carried on by them in an
enterprising way and with the most
signal success. They are the sole bottlers
of Val. Blatz’s Premium Wiener Export
Beer, which they ship to all inland and
foreign points at the rate of 2,000 bottles
per day.
During the recent exhibition held at
New Orleans, a wonderfully unique and
well adapted exhibit was displayed, rep-
resenting Mr. Blatz’s manufacture, which
has been described at length in the daily
papers owing to its grandeur, and which
no visitor passed by unnoticed.
Mr. Blatz was born at Miltenberg on
the Main, Bavaria, in 1825. Being a
practical brewer, he took an active part in
business and by hard labor and business
foresight has successfully brought it to its
present foremost rank.
He was elected an alderman in 1872,
ably representing his constituents in the
city council. Mr. Blatz is connected with
the Second Ward Savings Bank of Milwau-
kee, being its president since Jan. 2, 1866.
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GEORGE S. LYON,
Practical Plumber, Gas Fixtures
and Plumbing Material.
41O Grand Ave., Library Block.
HERE is no branch of industry that
adds more to the general welfare of a
city than the plumbing business. Classed
with the prominent and practical plumb-
ers of Milwaukee is the above named
house of George S. Lyon, formerly Spence
& Lyon. His establishment is located at
41o Grand Avenue, in the Library Block,
and consists of two floors, 20x130 feet in
dimensions. His office and Salesrooms
are as fine as can be found in the city.
Mr. Lyon makes, at the annual industrial
exposition, a fine display of goods in his
line which attracts much notice and favor-
able comment from all. His exhibition
of gas fixtures, chandeliers, lamps, shades,
etc., for variety and beauty cannot be sur-
passed by any other firm of the kind in
the city. He is agent for the Siemen's
patent regenerative gas-lamps, which are
so popular with the public. For economy
and illuminating power it is acknowledged
to be the best lamp of the kind patented.
Mr. Lyon is thoroughly acquainted with
every branch of the plumbing, steam and
gas fitting business, and by carefully
Selecting competent workmen, and per-
sonally superintending their work, has
built up a sound reputation for prompt-
ness and reliable work in this important
line. He has under employ from 30 to
5o hands, according to the season. He
opened up his present business in 1883,
after having dissolved partnership with
Mr. George A. Spence, with whom he
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
Mr. Lyon's fine stock of goods is procured
in the East and represents a value of
$10,000, while the sales will aggregate
fully $50,000 per annum. Mr. Lyon has
been closely connected with this industry
for years, and has always been an advocate
of the idea of appointing an inspector in
this branch of business, which has lately
been accomplished.
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R. W. PATTERSON,
Undertaker and Embalmer, and
Dealer in Metallic Cases, Cask-
ets, etc., etc.
No. 461 Milwaukee Street, between
Mason and Oneida.
TWO floors at 461 Milwaukee street
• 1 are occupied by Mr. R. W. Patter-
son, one of the oldest and most success-
ful undertakers in the city. The business
was established in 1869 and has been
characterized by gradual and substantial
growth from the start, until to-day the
establishment ranks among the leading
houses of the kind in the West. Mr. Patter-
son is a man well adapted for the work, hav-
ing the accomplishment for the embalm-
ing part of the business of a thorough
knowledge of anatomy, being a graduate
of Victoria School of Anatomy at Coburg,
Ontario. Several assistants are employed.
Fine caskets from the leading manufac-
tories of the country are used, while there
is always a full line of goods for peo-
ple of limited means and in moderate
circumstances. Mr. Patterson, with that
refinement and delicacy of feeling which
characterizes the man, has recently
remodeled his premises in such a way
that everything in any manner relating
to the business is kept out of the public
view, and so people who pass his store
are not shocked by seeing in the show
windows a display of caskets, coffins, and
other things of a like cheerful and enliv-
ening character. This is a reform in the
right direction, and it ought to be fol-
lowed by every coffin dealer and under-
taker in the land. Mr. Patterson carries
a stock worth from $6,000 to $10,000,
and does a yearly business amounting to
about $30,000. Born in Canada, July
4th, 1831, Mr. Patterson came to Mil-
waukee in 1855, and after engaging" in
photography several years, established
the business which, under his careful per-
Sonal management, has grown and de-
veloped with the growth and develop-
ment of the city.
Speaking of some of Milwaukee's pres-
ent needs, Mr. Patterson remarked that
more factories of all kinds ought to be
put up without delay, there being no
city that has a more favorable location
than this one for the successful running
of factories.
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IRA. M. DAVIS & CO.,
Cieneral Commission Merchants.
1635 and 167 VVest VVater Street.
IN a detailed account of the leading
houses in the commission business in
this city, prominent mention is made of
the firm of Ira M. Davis & Co., whose
transactions in this important branch of
commerce are among the most ex-
stensive the city. The business
was begun by Mr. Ira M. Davis,
the senior member of the firm, in 1861,
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUK.E.E.
107
at 157 West Water street.
permanently located in the large and
handsome block at 165 and 167 West
Water street. They took up their posi-
tion here about nine years ago, and in
Now they are
that time have won the reputation of not
only being the oldest, but also most suc-
cessful commission house in the city, and
have the largest produce trade of any
The building they
occupy is three stories high with a large
basement. It has a frontage of 40 feet
and a depth of Ioo feet, affording ample
facilities for the storage of all consign-
firm on the street.
ments made them, which are received
The
specialties of this firm are butter, eggs,
from all sections of the country.
cheese, apples, oranges, lemons, seeds,
etc. From thirteen to fifteen hands are
constantly employed and two beautiful
large wagons are run in connection with
their city trade. Their country trade is
very great, and includes all the North-
west. Liberal cash advances are made
on all consignments, and prompt and
Mr.
Davis is a native of New Hampshire and
satisfactory returns are rendered.
came West in 1861, locating and enter-
ing the present business in Milwaukee
the same year.
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EDWARD KEOGH,
Printer.
437 East Water Street, Corner
Mason.
HE business of the job printer has
attained such a degree of perfection,
that some of the finest lithographic designs
will scarcely excel in beauty, excellence
and finish, the work of a practical job
printer. In variety, style and price they
have a great advantage, while it takes less
time to turn out work, and allows the
In
the first rank of Milwaukee firms we find
the name of Mr. Edward Keogh. In
1867 he established a small business, with
The
superior quality of the work turned out
customer to choose his own styles.
a few cases of type and one press.
soon established a reputation second to
none, and the large increase of orders
compelled him to add to the facilities of
his house from time to time, until he now
occupies two floors with his printing and
ruling departments, has three modern
printing presses and a four-horse-power
Otto gas-engine, and a fine stock of the
latest styles in type. He employs ten
workmen, and has an extended trade
throughout the State. He makes a spe-
cialty of job and book work, and has also
a book-bindery in connection. Mr. Keogh
was born in Ireland, Jan. 21st, 1835, and
came to this country in 1841, first settling
in New York. In 1842 he came to the
Cream City, working at his trade until
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business. What he has accomplished has
been gained by untiring energy and devo-
tion to business, united to an inherent
capacity for business management. That
he is deservedly popular among his
acquaintances is shown by the fact that
he has represented the 3d district in the
assembly for nine years, having first been
elected in 1860, and thereafter consec-
utively in 1861, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878,
1879, 1880 and 1881. In 1862 and 1863
he served as state senator, having been
elected by a good round majority. He
is now the city printer.
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HADFIELD & CO.,
Dealers in Coal, Wood, Lime,
Cement, Salt, etc.
Office, 119 West VVater Street.
HE enormous proportions to which
the wood and coal trade has attained
in this city, brings before the notice
of the public the firm of Hadfield &
Co. They also deal in lime, cement,
stucco, salt, land plaster, plaster hair, fire
brick and fire clay. The city office is
conveniently situated at 119 West Water
street. They have three large yards,
capable of holding a sufficient amount of
coal for their extensive city and country
trade. The yards are located at First
Avenue and Canal street, SouthWater near
National Av., also at Canal and Muskego
Ave.
Waukesha, which are unexcelled by any
in the State. This firm has been engaged
in their present business for years, and are
They own large stone-quarries at
well known throughout the commercial
circles of this city as enterprising and
practical men in this branch of trade.
The firm consists of J. Hadfield, G. A.
Hadfield and A. H. Hadfield. Through
their efficient management the trade has
grown to large proportions, represented in
the States of Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa,
Illinois and Dakota.
of 50,000 tons of coal per season.
They ship upwards
The
shipments from their stone quarries are
forty to fifty cars daily, besides manu-
This
firm employs over 150 men to assist them
facturing 1,000 bbls. of lime daily.
in the various departments of their busi-
ness. Having advantage of railroad
and water transportation, with all the
facilities for extending and increasing
their already large business, this firm
holds an important relation with the com-
mercial features of this city.
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WM. FRANKFURTH HARD-
WARE COMPANY.
(LIMITED.)
Wholesale Hardware.
116 and 118 Clybourn Street.
N an historical review of the old estab-
lished and prominent mercantile houses
of Milwaukee, it is a pleasure to give space
for a sketch of the widely known and
universally respected establishment of the
Wm. Frankfurth Hardware Co. It traces
its origin as far back as 1862, when it was
established by Mr. Wm. Frankfurth, who,
in 1874, took as partner Mr. Lorenz
Maschauer. During these twenty years
this house has maintained a prominent
position among the representative busi-
ness establishments of this kind in the
city, and has come to be well known
throughout the Northwest. From a com-
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paratively small beginning the business
has grown to its present magnitude, and
is still rapidly extending its business rela-
On April 15, 1885, the interests
of Wm. Frankfurth & Co. were merged
into and absorbed by the Wm. Frankfurth
Hardware Company (Limited), with a
tions.
capital stock of $200,ooo, at which time
they took possession of the splendid new
structure which was then just completed
and ready for occupancy, where, in quot-
ing their own language at the time, “they
aim to retain the confidence which the
old firm enjoyed, and to serve old and
new customers promptly and satisfac-
torily.” The dimensions of their new
building at 116 and 118 Clybourn street, is
5ox2co feet, being four stories high and
built of brick with terra cotta trimmings.
This building is fitted up in the most
complete manner and arranged expressly
for the large business controlled by this
house.
The shelving is especially com-
plete and convenient, being constructed
on a plan which does away with the step
ladder for reaching the higher shelves. It
will repay any dealerin hardware, whether
in the city for business or pleasure,
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large scale in this, the model hardware
house in the Northwest. A walk through
the house will give any one new ideas as
to how completely a business of this mag-
nitude can be systematized. These large
premises are filled with a full line of
foreign and domestic hardware, including
every kind of mechanics' tools, builders’
hardware, shelf goods, heavy hardware,
locks, latches and house-furnishing goods
of every description pertaining to this
branch of trade. In connection with
their general trade, they manufacture all
forms of tinware, wire screens and stove
polish. Among a few of the numerous
articles which are inventions of this firm,
are the copper-rimmed tinware, “Daisy”
ash sifters and patent fuel savers. Their
Sales are very extensive, and shipments
have been made as far distant as South
America. The annual sales will reach no
doubt to one-half million dollars. Mr.
William Frankfurth is a native of Ger-
many and came to Milwaukee in 1850,
since which time his name has become
familiar to the whole country in con-
nection with the hardware trade, the
standard of which he has so materially
aided in elevating.
The original firm of Wm. Frankfurth &
Co., a retail establishment, is located at
367 Third street, but has no business con-
nection with the Wm. Frankfurth Hard-
ware Co., as now existing.
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GEO. A. SPENCE & CO.,
Fine Gas Fixtures and Plumbing.
132 Grand Avenue. 0
BUSINESS that adds much to the
comfort and health of the inhabitants
6f a city, is the gas-fitting and plumb-
ing industry. One of the principal firms
engaged in this business in Milwaukee, is
that of Geo. A. Spence & Co., at 132
Grand Avenue. This establishment was
founded in 1867 by J. P. Rundle, on
Milwaukee street. It was then changed
to Wisconsin street, and in 1869 moved
to the present quarters. Mr. Thomas
Spence entered the business in 1870. In
1881 the establishment was sold to Mr.
Geo. A. Spence and Geo. S. Lyon, and
was conducted under the firm name of
Spence & Lyon, the business soon there-
after passing into the hands of the pres-
ent firm. The commodious quarters of .
this firm consist of two floors, 25x110 ;
feet in dimensions, and a large basement.
The first floor is divided into salesroom
and office, and their exhibition of the
most costly and latest designs of gas fix-
tures, shades, lamps, chandeliers, polished
brass and bronze goods, constitutes as fine
a display as can be found in the city in
this branch of trade. They employ up-
wards of fifty men to meet the demands
of their large and growing trade. Their
fine stock of goods and most of their
material is purchased in the East, and
is valued at $20,000. The business of
this firm extends all over the city and
various portions of the Northwest, and
aggregates an amount of $125,000 per
annum. They are exclusive agents for
the Mitchell, Vance & Co.'s gas fixtures,
and the Detroit Combination Gas Ma-
chine, and also the Jas. L. Sharp “Dome,”
“AEtna ’’ and “Active” gas stoves, which
are meeting with such great success. The
members of this firm are both Milwau-
keeans, and are proficient in their busi-
ness, and are in every way worthy the
support and patronage accorded them.
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE. 111
ADOLPH MEINECKE & SON, establishing himself at Milwaukee. This
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Manufacturers of Baskets, Willow he finally did in 1855, and a fancy goods
Ware, Children's Carriages, etc and toy store was the starting point that
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grew into a wholesale and importing
establishment.
IRST and foremost among the manu- finer willow ware and ladies' baskets, gave
facturing firms of Milwaukee, we find rise to the manufacture of these goods on
that of A. Meinecke & Son, by rea- the place. In 1864 work was begun with
son of their large trade extending over a German foreman and a few hands.
the length and breadth of the United Innumerable obstacles presented them-
States, and on account of the business selves, which, with competing low prices
ability of the two gentlemen conducting of imported goods, were soon overcome
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the establishment. Adolph Meinecke, by a well regulated working plan, making
Sr., was born in 1830, near Bremen, |goods more adapted to the requirements
Germany. His father was a country of this country, and by raising the
physician, and allowing him a good edu-
cation, he passed the mercantile school
in manufacture on their
own plantations. Under
willow used
this system
at Osnabrück, and served an apprentice-
ship in a business house at Bremerhaven,
and came to America in 1848. After
being employed some years by an im-
porting house in New York, an occasional
trip west drew his mind to the idea of
the demand for Milwaukee baskets grew
largely, until now many of the most
extensive dry goods and notion houses
from every part of the United States
receive their supply from the Milwaukee
Willow Works, as the factory was named.
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The extensive works which were put up
at the foot of Mason street, occupying
nearly the entire block, were erected in
1870, and employ over three hundred
hands, and has many outside shops con-
nected therewith. Besides baskets, the
works make a specialty of children's car-
riages, of which over fourteen thousand
were made last year. There are also
made hobby-horses, boys' wagons, cro-
quet games, toy furniture, rattan and wil-
low ware, and various other articles too
Another of their
specialties is the manufacture of wooden
numerous to mention.
shoes, these being extensively used by the
Germans in warm weather. This work
was formerly done by hand, but they have
invented a machine which does the work
better, and in a much less time. They
have induced the farmers in this neigh-
borhood to grow willow on the banks of
brooks, and this has turned out to be a
Their business has
constantly been on the Increase, and the
good investment.
sales last year amounted to the sum of
$250,000. Ferdinand Meinecke, the son,
was born in 1856, in this city, and, was
admitted to the firm in 1878, since which
time the business has been conducted
under the name of A. Meinecke & Son.
They have engines and boilers of one
hundred horse power in their factory, and
other labor-saving machines and inven-
tions. Their name is known far and
wide, and bears a high reputation in the
commercial world for the honorable and
business-like manner in which their affairs
are conducted, and their straightforward
manner of dealing with all.
STRONACH LUMBER CO.
Manufacturers of Salt,
Lumber and Timber.
Office 149 VVest VVater Street.
NE of the important factors of com-
mercial advancement in this city is
that of the lumber and salt trade. A
well known and exceedingly popular
establishment of this branch of industry
is the Stronach Lumber Co., with exten-
sive mills and timber lands in and near
Manistee, Mich. Their main office is in
this city, 149 West Water street, where all
the business of the firm is transacted,
The capacity of the mills of this com-
pany is 18,000,ooo feet of lumber and
Piece
too, ooo barrels of salt annually, and they
employ upwards of 200 men. This com-
pany was incorporated Some 15 years ago
with mills and office as above stated.
They manufacture piece lumber and
timber for all kinds of construction and
The
trade of this company is very extensive,
manufacture salt in connection.
large sales being made to firms of this
city, Chicago and the Northwest, but
principally in Milwaukee, reaching to over
$200,ooo annually. The officers of the
company consist of John Thorsen,
President; W. R. Thorsen, Secretary, and
Mr. John
Thorsen has charge of the business at
this place and Chicago, Mr. W. R.
Thorsen giving his attention to the mills
at Manistee, while Mr. Remington looks
after the interests of the company's large
tracts of pine lands. A new and import-
ant feature of this company’s business
is the manufacture and sale of salt,
W. B. Remington, Treasurer.
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
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which has been found in large quantities
near their mills. They have just begun
working this new branch, and in the start
were very unsuccessful with their well,
losing a large number of tools, besides
so much valuable time. Being men of
mettle and determination, however, they
still pushed forward with that energy
which is indicative of success, and now
manufacture 4oo barrels per day, which
finds a ready sale in this market.
superiority of these wells may be assumed
when it is stated that the brine contains
97% of pure salt.
SIELAFF, LOEBER & CO.,
Wholesale Paper and Twine Dealers.
1 O3 VVest VVater Street.
T No. 103 West Water street is situ-
ated the wholesale store of Messrs.
Sielaff, Loeber & Co., dealers in all assort-
ments of paper and wooden wares, twines
and ropes. Their large building, two
stories high, with a basement, is fully
stocked with a complete line of wares for
their large trade, which extends to all
parts of the Northwest. For the past
four years, since the incorporation of this
firm, they have succeeded in establishing
a large and growing trade. A specialty of
this firm is becoming popular all over the
country, and is known as “the Yak-Tail
Duster,” for which they are sole agents
in the United States east of the Rocky
Mountains. The superiority of this dus-
ter over all others is so great that it does
not admit of comparison. It is match-
less for beauty, symmetry, durability, use-
fulness and cheapness. Aſter the tail of
the yak has been prepared for artificial
The
use, it is about twenty inches long, fine
and flexible as human hair. It is jet
black, and can be used on the finest and
most delicate surface, without marring it
in the least. Its merits are readily
attested, from the fact that it is in use by
all the large railroads, hotels, banks and
public buildings of note in the country.
This firm are also large dealers in, and
always have on hand, a full assortment of
wrapping and building papers, and are
manufacturers' agents for woodenware,
brooms, brushes, manilla and sisal rope,
manilla and sisal clothes-lines, and are
also agents for Bentley & Gerwig's twines.
Their telephone, No. 171, puts them in
communication with all parts of the city.
All in all, this is a standard house.
THE WISCONSIN MARINE
AND FIRE INS, CO.
BANK.
HE Wisconsin Marine and Fire In-
surance Co. Bank is the pioneer
bank of the whole Northwest. It was
established as early as 1839, and for forty-
five years it has had the same president
and the same cashier. Between 1840
and 1850 it furnished currency for the
whole country between Detroit and St.
Louis and, although this circulation had
no security but the personal honesty of
the officers of the bank, every dollar pre-
sented at its counter has been redeemed
in gold. It still does the largest business
of any bank in Wisconsin, and maintains
its high character for honesty and con.
servative management. Its bank build-
ing, of which we give a cut on page 55,
is a fine specimen of architecture, and
is a credit to the city.
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PHILLIP BEST BREWING CO.,
Manufacturers of Beer.
Milwaukee, Wis., U. S. A.
HE manufacture of beer has contrib-
uted more to make this city famous
MAIN BREwery.
It is noted all over the civilized world for
the superiority of its products in this
line, and some idea of the importance of
this industry may be formed when it is
stated that over $8,000,ooo are invested,
and the sales amount to upwards of
1,500,ooo barrels annually. One of the
oldest and most important establishments
of this kind, not only in Milwaukee, but
in the world, is that of the Phillip Best
Brewing Co. This company has over
three and one-half million dollars in-
vested, and the product of their brewer-
ies is the standard for excellence and
The busi-
ness was founded in 1842, on a small
scale, by Jacob Best and his four sons,
Phillip, Jacob, Jr., Charles and Lorenz.
The amount produced was only about
purity wherever it is known.
3oo barrels a year. After a number of
changes, the entire business was taken
charge of by Philip Best, in 1860, who
laid the foundation for the immense busi-
ness now controlled by this company.
In 1864, Capt. Frederick Pabst, his son-
in-law, was admitted to partnership.
The next year Phillip Best withdrew from
the business, and Mr. Emil Schandein,
also a son-in-law, was received into part-
nership. The firm was then called Phil-
lip Best & Co. So extensively had the
business grown, the demand surpassing
the supply, that in 1873 a stock company
was formed, and the name of the busi-
ness changed to the “Phillip Best Brew-
ing Co.,” and was incorporated under
the laws of the commonwealth of Wis-
The following officers, who are
Capt. Fred-
erick Pabst, president; Emil Schandein,
consin.
still serving, were elected:
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For the benefit of visitors to our city,
and information to the readers of this
work, we give an account of the location
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South SIDE BREWERY.
and description of the mammoth build-
ings of this company. Their plant, or
main buildings and beautiful general offi-
ces, are situated on both sides of Chest-
nut street from 9th to 11th.
located on six different blocks, and the
life and action in these quarters is equal
They are
to that of a small city, yet everything is
done with a precision and dispatch that
The monster struct-
ure of this establishment is the Empire
is truly wonderful.
Brewery, consisting of six large buildings,
ºffrom the top of any one of which can be
| obtained a commanding view of the en-
tire city, the surrounding country and
Lake Michigan. These buildings are
well fitted with all modern improvements
and machinery of the latest patterns.
The capacity of these buildings alone is
over 400,000 barrels per year. The
yards, fire-engine house and “pitching
department,” with their full force of well-
disciplined firemen, constitutes one of
One of the
largest buildings in the world, of this
kind, is the extensive malt house. It is
ten stories high, and has the best and
most perfect arrangements for malting in
the world. Just east of this large malt
house is the company's elevator “A,”
which has a storage capacity of 3oo, ooo
bushels. The general offices are next to
elevator “A.” They are beautifully dec-
orated and fitted up in the most perfect
The business is all transacted
here by a great number of clerks, book-
keepers, etc. The elegant private offices
of President Pabst and of Secretary Best
are also situated in this building. The
extensive stables are situated on the cor-
the interesting features.
Inanner.
ner of Chestnut and 11th streets. Other
interesting features are the engine-room,
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and elegant residence of Capt. Fred.
Pabst, with its fine grounds, adjoining.
Then, there is the South Side Brewery,
with a capacity of Ioo,ooo barrels per
year, and the bottling department, where
over 200 hands bottle nearly 15,000,ooo
bottles of beer per annum, where the
railroad and lake facilities for shipping
are not equaled by any other establish-
ment in America. Near here is also situ-
ated the large malt house, elevator “D,”
and Vice-President Schandein's beautiful
residence and grounds, on the bluff near
the brewery. His private offices are also
connected with this brewery. There are
also two large and commodious shipping
depots, one connected with the Chicago
& Northwestern, and the other with the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
The business of this company, from a
small beginning, has reached the enor-
mous sales of nearly 500,ooo barrels an-
nually. The company manufacture dif-
ferent varieties of beer, to satisfy the vari-
ous tastes of their patrons. Each variety
is marked by a peculiar characteristic,
and made of the purest materials and by
the best processes known to science.
These varieties are known as the “Ex-
port,” “Select,” “Bohemian,” “Bava-
rian ’’ and “Standard.” They ship in
bulk to all parts of the United States
and Mexico, and in bottles all over the
civilized world.
This company secured the gold medal
at both the Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia, in 1876, and at the great
World's Fair at Paris, in 1878. This
company’s exhibit also took the first
prize at the famous Southern Exposition
at Atlanta, and at the World's Cotton
Centennial Exposition in 1885. The
monster strides of this company’s busi-
ness can readily be seen from the simple
statement that the production increased
from 3,677 barrels in 1863, to 385,049 in
1884. The capital invested is $3,387,825;
number of employés, 643; wages paid
per year, $385,523.22; number of horses,
207 ; taxes paid in 1883, $30,246.18;
revenue taxes, after deducting 7% per
cent, rebate, $348,1 50.50; beside other
expenses on the same large scale, making
their total expenses for the year 1883,
$3,042,551.28. The company has branch
offices and wholesale houses in nearly
every important city in the Union.
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CENTRAL WAREHOUSE.
E. J. Tapping, Agent.
Office, 136 West VVater Street.
NEW feature of commercial industry
was added to Milwaukee with the
opening of the Central Warehouse, about
two years ago. It is every way just what
its name indicates, central to the business
part of Milwaukee, and commodious for
the storage of any kind of goods, includ-
ing furniture, household goods, pianos,
organs, flour, wool, vinegar, sirups, etc.
It is in the Reese Block, which is four
The
dimensions are Ioox200 feet, and the
stories high, with large basements.
facilities are enhanced by its location on
the river. It includes nine large stores,
and every department is fitted up with
elevators and all conveniences necessary
for a great storehouse. The management
of this enterprise is under the direction of
Mr. E. J. Tapping, an efficient and ex-
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
117
perienced business man, who conducts it
after the plan of the large New York
warehouses. It is mainly through Mr.
Tapping's personal energy and attention
that this warehouse has met with such
great success. Not only is the patronage
of the city received, but parties all over
the United States consign their wares
direct to this warehouse, to be managed
and sold by them. All forms of mer-
chandise are received for storage on
moderate terms. Storage rooms are also
rented to firms in the city, or large estab-
lishments who ship in large quantities to
this place, and desire to have a central
distributing point for their goods. Insur-
ance can be placed on all goods desired,
So as to render them safe ſrom loss.
Goods can be forwarded to any destina-
tion from this warehouse; also sold on
Commission, if desired. Goods can be
packed, unpacked, re-packed, also re-
paired and polished, when desired. As
the merchants of our city and country
understand the convenience of this ware-
house, the more they patronize it, until
now it plays no small part in the city's
trade.
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JABEZ M. SMITH,
Confectionery, Fruits and Cigars.
44.1 Jefferson Street.
G” candy has become one of the
J necessaries of life with many worthy
people in this progressive age, and it is,
therefore, a sweet satisfaction to know
that good candy is sold in our otherwise
bitter world, and that Jabez M. Smith, at
44.1 Jefferson street, keeps always a full
stock of the best and purest candies in
the market. He keeps also fruits and
fancy confectionery generally, as well as
an alluring variety of things to please
and charm the young people. Mr. Smith
was in the grocery business a great many
years, at 419 Milwaukee street, having a
large trade and being among the leading
He estab-
lished himself where he is now in 1875,
men in that line at that time.
beginning in a small room with a small
stock, and enlarging and increasing year
by year, until the present respectable
proportions were attained. As an old
settler, Mr. Smith is full of interesting
information about early times in the city
of cream-brick houses. Born in Trow-
bridge, England, in 1839, he came to
this country when only three years old,
and lived with his people in various parts
of York State until 1852, when he came
to Milwaukee, which was then a town of
less than 20,000 inhabitants. Mrs. Smith's
father, as is well known, was the Rev.
Chas. S. Macreading, who, for forty
years, was a most zealous worker in the
field of ministerial Methodism. In an
early day he had charge of a church
which stood opposite where the Plankin-
Mrs. Macread-
ing was an active and faithful worker in
ton House now stands.
the missionary cause.
The “Eureka” Mineral Spring was
discovered by Mr. Smith some years ago,
while boring a well on his premises in
this city, and advertised by him exten-
sively, by means of circulars and certifi-
cates, throughout the country, but the
time was hardly ripe for mineral water,
and the enterprise proved to Mr. Smith a
failure. If the well could be re-opened,
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and its wonderful waters put on the mar-
ket now, a fortune could be realized
thereby, as the water is said to be supe-
rior to that obtained at Waukesha and at
Sparta.
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SCHLITZ’S PARK,
Accommodations for 20,000 Per-
SOſ) S.
Milwaukee, Wis.
CHLITZ'S Park is one of the largest
and most beautiful pleasure resorts
of the Cream City.
about eight acres, and is situated at the
It covers an area of
north end of Eighth street, near Walnut.
It is accessible by three of the principal
It has all the
hotel accommodations and attractions
street railways of the city.
connected with a first-class pleasure re-
sort of this kind. This beautiful place
formerly known as “Quentin's
Park,” and was arranged and occupied
by him as a family residence until his
W2.S
death, in 1862, when the grounds were
fitted for public use and managed by his
They
kept charge of it until July, 1879, when
heirs, and subsequently by lessees.
it was purchased by the brewing company
whose name it bears. They invested
over $150,000 in improving and refitting
it. In the centre of the park is “Look-
out Hill,” on which is erected a lofty
pagoda, from the summit of which can
be obtained the finest view of all parts
of the city, Bay View, west and north-
ern suburbs, and a large portion of Lake
Michigan. The next point of interest is
the Park Theatre, which is fitted in the
most attractive and comfortable manner.
It is used for concerts, theatricals and
balls, and has a seating capacity of 5,000.
The stage scenery is as perfect as any
theatre in the city. The Schlitz Park
Hotel is a large establishment, 8ox 150
feet in dimension, near the main entrance,
and is run in connection with the park
It is
two stories in height, and is furnished in
and under the same management.
the most beautiful manner. It contains
restaurant and dining-rooms, parlors and
four bowling alleys, the largest and best
To the right of
the main gate is located the park men-
arranged in the State.
agerie, containing various domestic and
wild animals, which are a source of great
attraction to visitors. The main entrance
grounds to the park are fitted up with
two large, beautiful fountains, 25o colored
gas globes formed into an arch, terraces
and rustic scenes, besides flowers and
plants, all of which add greatly to the
attractions of this popular resort. The
entire park, hotel, opera house and
grounds are emblazoned with thirty-two
electric lights, which present a most
beautiful sight, and remind one of the
Oriental gardens of old.
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F. W. HARTMANN & CO.,
Distillers and Jobbers in Fine Whis-
kies, and Importers of Wines
and Liquors.
2O6 and 208 VVest VVater Street.
HE headquarters for pure unadulter-
ated wines and liquors is at F. W.
Hartmann & Co.'s, which is one of the
best known and the largest wholesale liq-
uor firms in the city. It was established
in 1864 under the firm name of Her-
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mann & Hartmann, at 258 Third street.
In 1868 the firm was dissolved, and Mr.
Hartmann retained charge of the business
for the next seven years, locating at 278
West Water street, at which place he re-
mained until 1875, when he removed to
206 and 208 West Water street. In 1877,
Mr. Henry Schoenfeld, who had hereto-
fore been engaged in the distilling busi-
ness, entered into co-partnership with
Mr. Hartmann, and has continued in the
same up to the present date. In 1883
the present quarters were enlarged, ex-
tended and improved, so that to-day they
have the most commodious, conveniently
located and best arranged establishment
in the city. The building is three stories
in height, with a large basement, all of
They
Carry One of the largest and most exten-
sive stocks in the Northwest, consisting of
the choicest wines and liquors of their
which have an area of 40x110 feet.
own importation from the most celebrated
and reputable houses in the old country.
They also have on hand a large supply of
Kentucky bourbon and rye whisky, in
bond and free, besides domestic brandies,
gins, cordials, etc., of their own manu-
facture. This firm are also noted distil-
lers of alcohol, cologne spirits, bourbon
Their entire stock is
Both
Messrs. Hartmann and Schoenfeld are
and rye whiskies.
valued at upwards of $200,ooo.
well known among not only the bus-
iness circles of this city, but also the
large houses of the old world. Twelve
men are under the employ of this
firm to assist with their large trade, and
the fame of this firm as distillers and job-
bers is extended all over America, espe-
cially in the Northwest, where the greater
portion of their sales are distributed. The
business of this house amounts to about
$350,000 a year. Mr. F. W. Hartmann
was born in Prussia in 1835, and came
direct to Milwaukee in 1855. Mr. H.
Schoenfeld is a native of Syracuse, N. Y.,
and settled in this city in 1866. Both
gentlemen have been prominently con-
nected with the business interests of the
Cream City, and have built up a profit-
able business, which represents their abil-
ity and sound business policy.
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J. M. FOX,
Dealer in Staple and Fancy
Croceries.
117 VVisconsin Street.
HIS house dates its inception from
1869, having passed through sev:
eral hands before Mr. Fox become the sole
proprietor. It is one of the oldest and
best equipped stores of the kind in this
city and enjoys a large patronage among
all classes of people. A large stock of
staple groceries is always kept on hand,
while they have as fine and complete a
stock of foreign and domestic groceries
and table luxuries as can be procured in
this or other countries, and of a quality
that will meet the wants of the best trade.
His line of canned goods embraces every-
thing that can be obtained, soups, meats,
fish of all kinds, fruits and vegetables.
Also keeps relishes, preserves, dried fruits,
nuts, teas and coffees, crackers, spices,
fine flavoring extracts, baking powders,
etc. His coffees and teas are especially .
superior, being the best in the market,
and strictly pure and unadulterated. Mr.
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE.
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J. M. Fox together with his brother pur-
chased the business in 1882, and con-
ducted it under the name of Fox Bros.
His brother retired in 1885, and he is
now the sole proprietor. Mr. Fox was
born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1851, and
was long engaged in business in that city.
He is a pushing business man, and has
succeeded in establishing his enterprise
on a firm foundation.
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H. C. K00H & CO.,
Architects and Superintendents.
Corner VVisconsin Street and
Broadway.
NE of the standard firms of this city,
who are architects and superintend-
ents, is that of H. C. Koch & Co., who
have conducted business here for a number
of years, and have achieved a reputation
or sound and artistic workmanship. The
business was begun by the senior partner
in 1866, who entered into co-partnership
with Mr. G. W. Mygatt, then one of the
leading architects of Milwaukee. Ten
years prior to this time Mr. Koch entered
this office as an apprentice, just after com-
In 1862 he
enlisted as a private in the 24th Wiscon-
pleting his academic course.
sin Volunteers, but his profession soon
brought him into prominence, and he was
placed on Gen. Phil. Sheridan's staff as
topographical engineer, where he served
He has
in his possession some valuable letters of
until nearly a year after the war.
recommendation from Gen. Sheridan,
attesting to his ability and the great service
rendered his country. In 1870 he sev-
ered his connection with Mr. Mygatt,
and the present firm was organized. The
special feature of the work of this firm is
that of designing public and assembly
buildings, in which they rank foremost
among the architects of the United States.
Over a dozen court houses in the West
have been built after their plans. In
188o they took the third premium out of
a list of ten, offered by the sanitary engi-
neer of New York to the architects of
the United States for the best designs and
plans for school buildings, 184 plans being
submitted in all. Mr. H. P. Schnetzky,
a brother-in-law of Mr. Koch, is the Com-
pany of the firm, and is eminently quali-
fied for such association. He is the in-
ventor of the patent Malt House Ventila-
By
the introduction of this system more equal
tor, which is by far the best in use.
and richer malt can be obtained, while
This firm
occupies commodious quarters in the
Pfister block,
Broadway. From eight to ten persons
are employed in the various branches of
this business. One of the features of this
firm is plans for malt houses, ice houses,
the process is much cheaper.
corner Wisconsin and
elevators, kilns and breweries. Prominent
among their work we mention the Hos-
pital and Memorial Hall at the National
Soldiers' Home of this city ; the Milwau-
kee County Insane Asylum ; the State
Insane Asylum at Oshkosh; Science Hall,
State University, Madison ; court houses
at Madison, Racine, Appleton, and Jef-
ferson, this State, Oskaloosa, Ia., and in
various parts of Illinois, Iowa and Min-
nesota. Specimens of their work in this
city consist of the Opera House, Calvary
Presbyterian Church, numerous promi-
nent residences, and most all the public
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school buildings erected during the past
ten years. They well merit the promi-
nent position they have gained as architects
and superintendents, and all those desir-
ing work of this kind will find able expo-
nents in this firm.
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CITY CARRIAGE WORKS.
R. Sherin & Co., Manufacturers of
Fine Carriages and Sleighs.
448 Milvvaukee Street.
HE City Carriage Works of Milwau-
kee were established on a small scale
in 1869, but business began to increase
at once, and it was not long until the
present roomy quarters at 448 Milwaukee
street were occupied. The room here is
ample, there being two floors, each 4ox
I 20, and so arranged that the utmost
economy of space is secured. From
fifteen to twenty skilled workmen of the
first class are constantly employed. Four
departments are maintained, and every
vehicle turned out is completely finished
in the establishment.
the blacksmithing, the painting and the
trimming are all done, and well done, in
The woodwork,
the company's works at 448 Milwaukee
street. Fine carriages and sleighs of all
kinds are manufactured. The best of
material is used, and the best of work is,
Much of the work
is made to order, and some of the best
of course, the result.
private carriages, buggies and coupés in
the city bear the well-known trade-mark
of the City Carriage Works. The sleighs
manufactured are sold largely in Minne-
sota, where the sleighing, as a rule, is
more reliable than in Wisconsin. From
three to five thousand dollars worth of
stock—manufactured vehicles—is usually
kept on hand.
Mr. R. Sherin, the genial and gentle-
manly head of the firm, is a native of
Ontario, Canada, where he was born, in
1827. He has resided in Milwaukee 21
years. While a citizen of Canada, Mr.
Sherin held several municipal and other
offices, but since coming to this city he
has held aloof from politics and given all
his time and thought to his business.
He also did military duty in the Domin-
ion, and knows something about “the
pomp of glorious war.”
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F. R. BUELL & CO.,
Shippers of Anthracite and Bitumi-
nous Coal.
Office, 337 Broadway.
OAL is rapidly becoming the chief
article of fuel, and the number en-
gaged in the trade in this city is large.
Among these, deserving of especial men-
tion, we name the firm of F. R. Buell &
Co., of No. 357 Broadway, in the Cham-
ber of Commerce building. This con-
cern was first started in 1882 as Guthrie
& Buell, and so continued until June 1st,
1885, when Mr. Guthrie withdrew, the
firm being now conducted alone by F. R.
Buell, the “company ” being nominal.
He is engaged solely in the wholesale
trade, doing business mainly in Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa and Ne-
braska, and his sales aggregate a quarter
million and upwards per year. He
receives all of the best grades of anthra-
cite and bituminous coal from large
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
123
Eastern mines, and handles the famous
“Enterprise’’ coal of Wilkesbarre, and
also from the mines of the Grassy Island
Coal Co. and Edgerton Colliery, of
Scranton. His yards are on the North
Menomonee canal, and his shed is 175x
250 feet in dimensions. Trade has more
than doubled each successive year since
its inception, and the future outlook is
gratifying in the extreme.
Mr. Buell was born in New York in
1854, and studied for a civil engineer,
and graduated from the State University.
He followed this profession for a number
of years, coming to this city in 1882.
The business has grown rapidly under
his able and efficient management.
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A. W. RICH & CO.,
Dry Goods.
413, 415 and 417 Broadway.
ILWAUKEE is particularly fortu-
nate in the possession of staunch
business houses, and especially those
engaged in the sale of dry goods. One
of the foremost among these enterprises,
by reason of the magnitude of trade,
is, the firm of A. W. Rich & Co. This
long been identified with
the history of our city, and is one of the
early landmarks in the field of trade. In
1867, Mr. Rich first started in business at
No. 1 og Wisconsin street, with the enor-
name has
mous capital of four hundred and thirty
dollars.
man, and this he soon proved by the
unexampled success which met him at
every step. He handled only good
goods, put them down to a living price,
He was naturally a business
and—advertised. The wisdom of this
course was soon apparent. A few years
later his quarters were found to be
entirely too small, and he determined to
increase his stock, and so secured more
room, at Nos. Io 1, 105 and Io? Wiscon-
sin street, besides the original store, No.
I of Wisconsin street. He handled the
business alone for seven years, then,
in 1874, associated with him Mr. Silber,
and for ten years the business was con-
ducted under this firm. Last year Mr.
Silber retired, and the name was changed
to A. W. Rich & Co. Mr. Rich, how-
ever, is the sole proprietor of this large
business. In 1882, the business was
moved to its present eligible location,
Nos. 413, 415 and 417 Broadway. The
premises occupied consist of a spacious
four-story building, 6ox1 15 feet in area,
admirably arranged and equipped for the
prosecution of the business, employment
being furnished to about two hundred
persons. The store is fitted up with the
cash railway system, elevators and every-
thing of the latest invention to expedite
business. The first and second floors
are stocked for retail trade. The third
floor contains their wholesale stock, and
also the various offices. The fourth floor
is given up to the manufacturing of
ladies' and children's cloaks and suits,
hoop-skirts, etc., and this branch of the
business has increased to something enor-
mous. The estimated value of the stock
is $250,000, and is constantly being re-
plenished. Mr. Rich was born in Somos,
Hungary, July 27th, 1843, and came to
this country in 1854, and to Milwaukee
ten years later. By indomitable pluck
and perseverance, he has arisen from a
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Small position to the proprietor of one of
the handsomest stores in Wisconsin.
Personally, Mr. Rich is esteemed highly
in business circles for his integrity and
upright character. He is a benevolent
gentleman, and never fails to remember
the unfortunate, even amid the cares and
worry which are attendant on the man-
agement of his business.
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G. W. 06:DEN & CO.,
Carriages.
218 and 22O Grand Avenue.
THE G. W. Ogden & Co. carriage
manufactory has acquired a merited
popularity throughout the city and en-
virons for the superior quality of vehicles
turned out and their uniform reliability.
John Ogden, father of the present pro-
prietor, commenced business in 1849 on
West Water street, and four years
after moved to the present large and
commodious quarters, 218 and 220 Grand
Ave., so that the present extensive enter-
prise is the outgrowth of scores of years,
Sedulously devoted to his business. This
manufactory covers an area of 33x20o
feet, containing three floors of equal
dimensions. Everything is arranged with
perfect system for effective operations and
prompt attention to all orders. Only the
very best material is used and finest goods
manufactured. A force of twenty-five
hands is constantly employed to meet the
demands of the large trade which extends
all over the Northwest. The stock consists
of the finest assortment in the city and the
best quality of goods. From 300 to 500
carriages, buggies and sleighs are turned
out annually from this establishment. Mr.
Ogden is a native of Milwaukee and a vet-
eran in this business, and during the past
years has made many
which have not only established his repu-
tation, but added much to the general
character of Milwaukee for its famous
Mr.
specialty of fine work in his line of busi-
improvements
manufacturers. Ogden makes a
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JOS. SCHLITZ BREWING CO.,
Manufacturers of Beer.
Milwaukee, VVis.
rTº renown of Milwaukee lager beer
extends all over the civilized world.
The value of beer manufactured here is
upwards of $10,000,ooo annually, and the
greater portion of this vast sum is real-
ized from the jobbing sales made outside
of the city, thus bringing this immense
sum here, in cash, to be expended for
the general advantage of the city. One
of the great establishments of this kind
in Milwaukee is that of the Jos. Schlitz
Brewing Co., whose main plant and of-
fices are located on the three blocks from
Third street east to the railroad track,
and south from Walnut street to Chery.
The business of this company was begun
by August Krug, in 1849, who erected a
small brewery on Chestnut street, between
4th and 5th. The next year the first
beer vaults were built on the present site
of the company. The capacity was then
only about 250 barrels, and the annual
business, up to 1855, only amounted to
$1,500. Mr. Krug died in 1856, and
Jos. Schlitz, his book-keeper, took charge
of the business. In 1874 a stock com-
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE. 125
pany was organized, and called the Jos. on his way to visit his native country.
Schlitz Brewing Co., with the following. The officers of the company have been
officers: Jos. Schlitz, president; August since then: Henry Uihlein, president;
Uihlein, secretary, and Henry Uihlein, August Uihlein, secretary, and Alfred
superintendent. In 1875, Mr. Schlitz was Uihlein, superintendent, while Edward
lost on the steamship “Schiller,” whilel Uihlein has the management of the Chi-

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cago branch. The large plant of this
company consists of about seven acres.
The main brewery and general offices
occupy the entire block, bounded by
Second and Third and Walnut and Ga-
lena streets. The buildings are six stories
in height, and contain all the latest facili-
tles and machinery for the manufacture
Their mammoth steam engine
They also have
of beer.
is of 150 horse-power.
two other engines of 20 and 25 horse-
power respectively, used in other depart-
ments. On the block bounded by the
railroad and First and Walnut and
Galena streets, is situated the bottling
department, cooper shops, repair shops,
ice houses and railroad tracks of the
company, while fronting on Second street
is located the extensive malt house, 150 x
3oo feet, one of the largest in the city;
also mammoth grain sheds and wagon
yards.
An interesting feature is the large ice
machine, run by an engine of 150 horse-
power. It is of the Linde patent and
the first imported machine of its kind
received in America. It was purchased
last year in Switzerland. The refrigera-
tion produced by this machine is perfect.
One of the vast refrigerators, or beer stor-
age houses, covers an area of Ioox14o
feet, is fivestories in height and constructed
entirely of stone, iron and brick, and has
a capacity of nearly 50,000 barrels of
beer. They are now erecting a new ele-
vator, with a capacity of 400,ooo bushels.
A feature of interest is their great cellars
or vaults, which are twenty-five feet under
ground, and contain vats of astonishing
size, and so numerous that one would
think all the beer in the country could be
stored in them. This company own
twenty acres north of the city limits,
along the Milwaukee river, where are
situated their large ice houses, twelve in
They harvest each season over
Ioo,ooo tons, nearly one-half of which is
used in their shipment of beer by rail,
nearly 10,000 carloads of which are sent
number.
out from their brewery every year, and
over 6,ooo pounds of ice are put into every
car, which is capable of preserving the
necessary temperature during the longest
shipment.
The Schlitz beer is shipped all over the
United States, as well as to Mexico, Cen-
tral America, Winnipeg and Brazil, in
To get at the
general extent and increase of this busi-
barrels as well as bottles.
ness, we append the following interesting
figures of beer sold : In 1850, 250 bbls.;
1865, 4,400 bbls.; 1871, 12,381 bbls.;
1873, 49,623 bbls.; 1876, 71,017 bbls.;
1877, 79,538 bbls.; 1878, Io2,538 bbls.;
1879, 139,154 bbls.; 1880, 195, I 19 bbls.;
1881, 253,371 bbls.; 1882, 277,307 bbls.;
1883, 330,597 bbls.; 1884, 345,554 bbls.,
which is more than any one brewery in
the United States has sold within the
same period. The capacity at the pres-
ent time is over 50o,ooo barrels annually.
Of all the beer manufactured by this
firm only about one-sixteenth of it is
sold at home.
of beer is constantly kept on hand, also
4oo, ooo bushels of malt and barley.
A stock of 120,000 barrels
Nearly 8oo, ooo bushels of barley are used
every year; two-thirds of this amount is
received from Wisconsin and Minnesota,
while the balance is purchased from Cal-
ifornia and Canada. About 1,000,ooo
pounds of hops are received annually
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUK.E.E.
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from New York State and the Pacific
coast. The magnitude of this business
would necessarily call for the employ-
ment of a large number of men, which
at present is nearly 500, while over fifty
double-team wagons and trucks and 125
horses are in use. About $3,500,ooo is
invested in this business, which is increas-
ing so rapidly that greater improvements
are contemplated for the near future.
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BENJAMIN MOCK’S
Riverside Livery and Boarding
Stables.
Foot of Mason Street.
CCUPYING a standpoint gained by
an honorable policy and hard labor,
the livery stable of Benjamin Mock
enjoys the enviable reputation of being
the largest and best equipped stable in
the State, which reputation it certainly
deserves. The business was founded
thirty-seven years ago on a small scale,
and during that time has developed into
an institution of great magnitude, and
become a permanent factor in the com-
mercial prosperity of Milwaukee. The
premises occupied are very spacious
and commodious and compise a three
story building, excellently located at
the foot of Mason street, and well
equipped for carrying on his business.
Mr. Mock employs eighteen men and
eighty horses in connection with the
stable, and has a large number of car-
riages, buggies, tea carts, coupés, coupel-
ets, landeaus, omnibuses, etc. Mr. Mock
is a native of Baden, Germany, where he
was born in 1829, and came to this
country about 1852 direct to Milwaukee.
He has long been identified with the
business interests of the city, and is highly
esteemed by the community as an hon-
orable business man, and an upright
private citizen.
NEUMAN’S
English Chop House.
No. 12O Grand Avenue.
OR the benefit of our readers abroad,
and those of our citizens who take
meals down town, we refer them to the
newly established firm of Neuman &
Manasse, proprietors of the English Chop
This site
has been used for a restaurant about six
Mr. Thurson first had charge of
the business and kept it for two years,
then Mr. Chester had a successful run
House at 120 Grand Avenue.
years.
up to a short time ago, when he disposed
of it to the present proprietors. Messrs.
Neuman & Manasse have entered upon
this business with a determination of
making the establishment a place equal
to anything of the kind in the city. The
elegant dining hall has dimensions of
2 ox8o feet, and everything presents a
model of neatness and attraction. Here
are arranged a series of inviting tables
furnished in the most tasty manner, with
polite waiters in attendance to promptly
serve the guests. The meals are all served
on the “European Plan,” and persons
may rest assured that they will be served
with the best of everything which the
market can supply at very liberal prices,
and served in the most satisfactory manner.
Mr. Neuman is a first class cook of long
experience and gives his close personal
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attention to this branch of the business,
feeling confident of not only gaining the
favor of Milwaukeeans but also the tran-
sient trade. They have a capacity of serv-
ing from 200 to 3oo for dinner, and are
always open at the close of the opera,
park, theater and other amusements.
Two private dining parlors are being ar-
ranged on the second floor, and will be
luxuriously fitted up, and adorned with
paintings, mirrors and flowers, while the
choicest viands of the season will be
served. When all their plans are per-
fected, they will have a force of from 12
to 15 persons. The promptness and
efficiency with which the business is con-
ducted, insures the popularity and success
of the English Chop House.
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GEO. BURROUGHS,
Manufacturer of Trunks and Trav-
eling Bags.
242.24 and 426 East VVater Street.
R. Burroughs has the satisfaction of
having started an industry that has
been a credit to himself and the city of
Milwaukee. In 1867 he first commenced
operations, and speedily discovered that
the field of labor was a wide one, and
deserving of attention. He occupies the
whole of his large three story double
building, and has it fully stocked with
goods. He employs 20 to 25 workmen,
and is continually turning out every
variety of articles usually ſound in a
general tourists’ outfitting depot, such as
trunks, valises, traveling bags, etc. He
makes a specialty of sample trunks and
cases, also heavy trunks for the theatrical
profession, and has testimonials from
many of the bright lights in that profes-
sion. He also took the first premium for
excellent, tasty and thorough workman-
ship at the Wisconsin State Fair. His
reputation is world wide, as he has made
trunks, cases, etc., for use in all parts
of the globe. His work is all of the
best quality, and will bear the test of
wear and time, and his large trade is
ample evidence that his work is of an
extra class. The greatest share of his
trade is in the West, although he sends
many fine cases to the East. Mr. Bur-
roughs was formerly a resident of Aurora,
Ill., having come to that place from
England in 1857, of which country he is
a native and where he was born in 1842.
His business in the Cream City was started
in 1867, and now ranks among the lead-
ing industries of Milwaukee.
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JOHN LUICK,
Confectioner and Caterer.
433 Milvyaukee Street.
MONG the varied industries that con-
1. tribute to the wealth and prosperity
of this city, is the confectionery business,
one of the most noted and reliable firms
of this class being that of John Luick,
successor to James Curry, deceased. His
handsome store is located at No. 433
Milwaukee street, and is fitted up in the
best style, everything being attractively
and comfortably arranged. His specialty
is in taking charge of wedding and picnic
parties and socials in this line of business,
and being a skillful caterer and confec-
tioner, he is the right man to employ.
He has a great reputation for his cakes
and creams, and to know that they came
from Luick’s is sufficient guarantee of
their quality. His small cakes and con-
fections are in great demand by the pub-
lic, while his ice cream parlors in the
Summer season have a large patronage.
The business conducted by Mr. Luick
was established twenty-five or thirty years
ago by Mr. Curry, but sold to the present
proprietor twelve years ago. A force of
experienced hands are constantly em-
ployed to keep up with the demands of
the trade, while to facilitate the prompt
delivery of orders a horse and wagon is
kept on hand. The latest devices and
most modern improvements are used by
this house, consisting of all sizes of freez-
ers, a small gas engine of three horse-
power being used to run the machinery
for freezing the cream. The fancy
articles of this house are procured in
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Y OF MIL WAUK.E.E. 129
New York and Philadelphia. The pat-
romage is very large and extends through-
out the city and surrounding country,
aggregating over $15,000 per annum.
Mr. Luick was born at Niagara Falls, N.
Y., and came to Milwaukee in 1851, and
has long been connected with the bus-
iness interests of this city.
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THE WHITEHILL SEWING
MACHINE COMPANY.
ROMINENT among the manufact-
uring interests of Milwaukee is the
Whitehill Manufacturing Co., which has
developed the fact that American skill and
inventive genius are quite as successful in
this branch as in any other. The establish-
ment was founded in this city about four
years ago. The premises occupied are
very spacious and commodious, compris-
ing a splendid four-story building for the
works is Nos. 179 to 195 Becher street
in Kinnickinnic Valley, which gives them
all the advantages of lake transportation as
well as railroad facilities. The city offices
and salesrooms are situated at No. 234
West Water st. The centennial commis-
sion recognized the merits of this machine
in their awards for “the most rapidly
running sewing machine.” The inventor
and manufacturers of the new Whitehill
Sewing Machine have been guided in
their new enterprise by a practical knowl-
edge of the wants of the public and the
requirements of a perfect sewing machine.
With this aim in view they have selected
the best tools and machinery, and the
moulding, cleaning, inspecting and an-
nealing departments are models in their
arrangements. The Whitehill Machines
are now manufactured in the best
equipped factory in the country, where
every detail of each machine receives a
thorough inspection and a careful re-ad-
justment which insures perfection. The
WoRKS OF THE WHITEHILL SEWING MACHINE Co.
main department, while in the rear is
their large and well arranged foundry.
These machines are regular home-com-
forts, and meet the requirements of the
public so well that they are styled
* Everybody's Favorite.” One engine
of 150 horse-power and a battery of boil-
ers are required to move the machinery,
much of it complex, and all of it invented
or adapted especially for the performance
of special work. The location of these
main requirements of a good machine are
simplicity, durability, ease, quietness and
rapidity of motion, a perfect stitch and a
large arm. These are the points which
the public has a right to expect, and these
are the main features of the Whitehill.
To these are added beauty of design and
finish with harmony of outline, and a
perfect set of attachments for every va-
riety of work. The Whitehill is the first
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with a purely crank motion, forming a
loop, entirely superseding the noisy and
irregular cam motion, enabling it to run
at a much higher rate of speed than ever
before attained, and transmitting such an
evenness of motion to the take-up, that
every stitch is drawn in with perfect pre-
cision. The tensions applied both to the
upper and lower threads are so evenly
proportioned that the machine will stitch
perfectly under a range of thread from
No. 200 down to No. 60 without a change
of tensions having to be made, so that the
range of family sewing can be performed
without the necessity of regulating ten-
sions. This is a feature which families will
especially appreciate as overcoming the
greatest annoyance in a family sewing
machine—the regulating of tensions.
The shuttle is large and of the cylin-
der type; it is perfect in construc-
tion, and will sew evenly with coarse
as well as with fine thread. The feed
motion is positive in its action and of
the simplest construction, all of which is
derived from a single eccentric. The
machine has a loose band-wheel of a
very simple and novel construction, which
is connected and disconnected by simply
turning a locking-nut half way around.
The woodwork is handsome in propor-
tion and artistic in design, combining
strength with durability, and fine finish
with utility. It is built up in sections to
prevent warping and splitting.
The officers of the company are:
Henry Fink, president; John Bentley,
vice-president; G. C. Trumpff, secre-
tary; Robert Whitehill, superintendent.
The company have an extensive nickle-
plating department—the most complete
in the Northwest—where they do a gen-
eral nickle-plating business for the trade,
and invite the patronage of manufactur-
ers in this department.
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F. M. SEYMOUR,
Wholesale Millinery.
382 and 384 Broadvvay.
NE of the oldest wholesale millinery
and fancy goods houses in the city
is the establishment at Nos. 382 and 384
Broadway, of which Mr. F. M. Seymour
is the proprietor. Its inception dates
back to 1857, over a quarter of a century,
when it was first established by H. N.
Dunn, who continued the business alone
until 1865, when Mr. Seymour was
admitted as a partner in the firm, under
the title of H. N. Dunn & Co. In 1867
Mr. Dunn died, and his interest in the
concern passed into the hands of W. S.
Hand, the firm continuing as Hand &
Seymour until 1876, when the former
retired, since which time it has been con-
ducted by its present proprietor. It was
established as a retail house, but gradu-
ally expanded its facilities until it was
merged entirely into the wholesale trade,
and now has an extensive patronage
through the several adjacent Western
States, the annual business reaching
$1oo,ooo. The premises occupied are
two floors, 36x1 12 feet in area, well
lighted and finely fitted up for the effi-
cient prosecution of trade. The stock
carried is most complete in the several
branches. The millinery kept in stock
consists of all the newest and latest
styles, direct from the fashion centers of
the world, and selected especially for
the Western trade by those comprehend-
ing the desires of trade in this direction.
Ribbons, laces, etc., in endless variety
are also found here; hat decorations,
beautiful in quality and design, and in
fact, everything designed to delight the
heart of the most fastidious.
The proprietor, Mr. Seymour, was born
in Hartford, Conn., in 1841, and resided
there until the breaking out of the civil
war. He enlisted as private and served
One year, and was promoted to the rank
of Sergeant-major, taking part in several
well-known engagements. He came to
this city in 1863 and entered his brother's
store on Broadway, where he remained
two years, and until the time of embark-
ing in the present trade. His patronage
has undergone a steady and healthy in-
crease since the start, and he now does a
lively and growing business, this gratify-
ing result being the outcome of his own
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J. D. INBUSCH,
Wholesale Grocer and Jobber of
Teas.
333 and 335 East VVater Street. '
MONG the leading houses in this
line we mention particularly the
name of J. D. Inbusch, who has been
identified with the business history of
Milwaukee for the past thirty-four years.
The present enterprise was established in
1850 by Jacob Morawetz, who conducted
it until the present year, when he dis-
posed of it to the above named gentle-
man. Mr. Inbusch had, prior to this
time, been a member of the firm of In-
busch Bros., at 238 and 240 East Water
street, where they had conducted busi-
ness as wholesale grocers since 1849.
His present location at 333 and 335 East
Water street has a front of forty feet, with
a depth of one hundred and twenty feet,
five stories in height. He conducts a
general wholesale grocery business, and
the quality of his goods and his methods
of transacting business are steadily gain-
ing him trade through the vast field in
which his house is known. He has four
commercial travelers on the road contin-
ually, and employs a large number of
assistants in his large store.
Mr. Inbusch is a native of Germany,
and was born in 1820. In 1837 he came
to New York, and in 1849 settled in Mil-
waukee, since which time he has been
identified with the interests of our city.
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A. L. BOYNTON,
Livery, Boarding and Sale Stable.
449 to 453 Milvvaukee Street.
HAT large building with the attractive
front, on the west side of Milwaukee
street, between Oneida and Wisconsin, is
the largest livery stable in the city, and,
as a matter of course, the largest in the
State. It is known as the “Palace Stable,”
and was built by the energetic proprietor,
Mr. A. L. Boynton, three years ago.
The building is 60x120, three stories high
above basement, and has a neatly designed
sandstone front. There is room for nearly
one hundred horses, and more fine ve-
hicles of all kinds than one would care to
count. The stable, contents, etc., represent
an investment of over $100,000, and the
amount of business done yearly is $30,000
and upward. Sixteen men are constantly
employed. Mr. Boynton has been in the
livery business thirty-five years, and
understands the work thoroughly in all
its details. He was born in Monroe
County, New York, in 1828, and came to
Wisconsin in September, 1840. He be-
gan his career here with no means to
speak of, but by strict attention to busi-
ness and by downright hard work has
accumulated business and other property
worth considerably over a hundred thou-
sand dollars. The “Palace Stable" is a
great favorite with everybody, and its
capacity is taxed to the utmost daily, to
supply the demand for carriages, buggies,
phaetons, saddle horses, etc. The finest
carriages and barouches of the latest styles
and the richest finish are kept in stock,
and are always seen in important civil
processions and on other important occa-
sions. Boynton's stable is a credit to
Milwaukee, is in fact an establishment
which would show to good advantage in
San Francisco or in Chicago.
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C. E. ANDREws & Co.,
Manufacturers of Andrews' Pearl
Baking Powder, Ground
Coffees, Spices, etc.
287,289 and 291 East VVater Street.
HIS establishment dates its birth back
to 1873, when it was started in a
small structure 5ox60 feet in dimensions,
and on rather a limited scale. Each year
the business increased, compelling them
to add new facilities, until it has grown
into a business of large proportions.
They now occupy a three story building
at Nos. 287 to 291 East Water street,
sixty feet front with a depth of one
hundred and eighty feet. They manu-
facture coffee, spices, baking powder, etc.,
and employ forty persons in their mills,
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which are fitted up with all of the latest
improved machinery, and driven by a
forty horse-power engine. Their spe-
cialty is, as we have before mentioned,
Andrews' Pearl Baking Powder, which
has achieved great popularity on account
of its purity and freedom from all inju-
rious or unhealthy substances. It has
stood the test for years, and still stands a
favorite with the intelligent public. Their
goods are largely in demand throughout
the West, where the majority of their
business is transacted. Mr. C. E. An-
drews is a native of Massachusetts, but
has long been a resident of this city.
Mr. W. B. Johnson, the new member of
the firm, was born in Jewett City, Conn.,
and has been an active business man in
the West for ten years—his main business
being in Chicago with a branch in Mil-
waukee. Mr. Andrews is Secretary of
the Milwaukee Merchants’ Association,
and is prominent in business circles. The
business is established on a firm founda-
tion and its uniform success is due to the
efforts of its members, and they deserve
great credit for building up an institution
which has brought great credit on both
the city and themselves.
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DUTCHER, COLLINS & SMITH,
Importers and Jobbers of Teas.
95 Huron Street, Cor. Broadway.
MONG those who are engaged in
the wholesale tea trade in this city,
we make particular mention of the firm
of Dutcher, Collins & Smith, who for the
last fourteen years have been identified
with that branch of trade. Their house
was first established at the corner of East
Water and Huron streets, and moved to
their present commodious location in
1880. The structure now occupied is a
three story brick building besides the
basement, thirty feet in width by one
hundred and twenty-seven in depth.
They deal exclusively in tea, tobacco and
cigars, and have a large trade throughout
the West, amounting to at least two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars per
.shipment, so to speak.
year. Established in 1871, they have
enjoyed a career of unbroken success,
which is attributable to the honorable
method of conducting business they
adopted from the first, to which they have
strictly adhered in all their transactions.
Mr. Dutcher is a native of Connecticut,
and came to this city in 1849. He has
long been identified with the business
interests of Milwaukee, and is well known
in business circles. Mr. Collins was born
in 1843 in New York State, and came to
Milwaukee in 1857. He is a patriotic
citizen, and this he proved by enlisting in
the Union army during the war of the
rebellion, in which he served three years,
being mustered out with the rank of
major. Mr. Smith was born in Massa-
chusetts in 1845, but has long been a
resident of this city. He served in the
42d Wisconsin during the late war as a
private. All three members of the firm
are sound business men and have estab-
lished their house on a sound basis.
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THE SINGER MANUF’G CO.,
F. W. Noyes, Agent.
236 VVest VVater Street.
HE conspicuous advantages enjoyed
by Milwaukee, from a geographical
position with reference to a great system of
navigation, as well as superior railroad fa-
cilities, makes it a central point of trans-
As a result of
this position and these advantages, certain
industries and manufactories have sprung
into successful operation during the past
decade, that have lent an impetus to the
growth of this community at once health-
ful and vigorous. Among such indus-
tries that have assumed an importance
which demands detailed recognition is
that of the “Singer Manufacturing Co.”
This Company, years ago, took advantage
of all these inducements presented by
Milwaukee and established an agency in
1859 in the Newhall House block. This
was in a small way, and compared with
the handsome and extensive quarters of to-
day, was very insignificant. These ma-
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chines are too well known to the public to
require an extended description. The
commodious quarters of this Company
Occupy a conspicuous and central site at
No. 236 West Water street, southeast
corner of Wells. The building contains
three floors and basement, which are fitted
up and equipped in a style commensurate
with the character and transactions of the
large business. All the departments are
arranged in the most systematic manner
for the orderly prosecution of the trade,
and the exhibition and handling of the
immense stock carried. Over 50 persons
are required in this city alone to look
after the interests of the Company;
while 4oo are employed throughout the
entire territory, which embraces all of the
Northwest. There are 250 wagons and
horses all under the control of 40 branch
offices, each of which does its business
through the Milwaukee office. All ma-
chine parts and attachments come from
the factories at Elizabethport, N. J., and
South Bend, Ind., and are fitted and
put together in complete shape at this
office, and then distributed throughout
the territory. In 1875 Mr. F. W. Noyes
took the management of the business as
general agent, having been connected
with this agency since 1864, first as book-
keeper and clerk and as purchasing agent.
Since his connection with the Company
the Sales have increased from 5oo ma-
Chines a year to over 1,000 a month.
Mr. Noyes was born in Pulaski, N. Y.,
in 1834, and came to Milwaukee in 1861.
He was two years in the Quartermaster's
Department during the war. After leav-
ing the army he was Deputy Internal
Revenue Collector of this district for
nearly two years.
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E. D. BANGS,
Photographer.
86 VVisconsin Street.
MONG the prominent artists of Mil-
waukee is E. D. Bangs, who is one
of the pioneers in the business in this city.
He is known for his excellent work all
over the States, and has achieved a repu- snuff, cigarettes and pipes.
tation second to none in this section of
the country. He is full of business enter-
prise and enjoys a very lucrative trade.
His photographs are admitted to be un-
excelled in quality and style of work. He
was born in New York in 1840, and came
to Milwaukee Sept. 17th, 1849. In 1869
he opened his first gallery, and now occu-
pies the same stand. He showed his
patriotism in the late war by enlisting in
the First Minnesota for three months.
After the expiration of that time he re-en-
listed in the First Wisconsin cavalry for
three years. He was appointed master
blacksmith for his regiment, and held the
rank of Brevet Lieutenant. He was
wounded twice, once at Kingston, Mo.,
receiving a severe wound in the side, and
again at Chalk's Bluffs in Kentucky. He
occupies a prominent place in the busi-
ness circles of Milwaukee.
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WILLIAMS & BRENCKLE,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
Cigars.
A.O8 Grand Avenue.
NE of the large manufacturing inter-
ests of our city is that of tobacco,
and in this line Milwaukee is far in ad-
vance of any other city in the Northwest
except Chicago, which, in the value of
annual production, it closely approaches.
Ranking with the first establishments of
this kind is the above firm of Williams &
Brenckle, at No. 408 Grand avenue, in
the Library Block. They opened busi-
ness in 1872 at 1 17 Cedar street, where
they remained two years, but their busi-
ness demanding greater facilities, they
moved to the southeast corner of Grand
avenue and Sixth street in 1874, coming
to their present location in 1880. They
are manufacturers of and dealers in all
grades of cigars, tobaccos, etc. In the
cigar line their special brands are the
“Grand Avenue” and “Margarita,”
which have become so popular with
smokers. They also keep on hand a full
stock of Smoking and chewing tobacco,
They import
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in large quantities the best of Cuban
tobacco for their fine cigars. Their stock
is valued at $20,000. The trade of this
firm extends all over the Northwest, and
aggregates $1oo,ooo per annum. A force
of twenty-five skilled workmen is em-
ployed to supply the demands of the
trade. Mr. Williams is a native Milwau-
keean, while Mr. Brenckle was born in
Buffalo, but came to this city when only
I 5 years old.
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R. S. BAIRD & CO.,
Art Printers.
149 VVest VVater Street.
R. R. S. Baird, the head of this firm,
embarked in the printing business
about six years ago, establishing himself
then at 149 West Water street. His trade
is mostly confined to the city, and he
makes a specialty in art printing, and the
work executed in this line is of a high
order of merit. Being a practical printer,
and in every way familiar with his trade,
Mr. Baird bids fair to surpass many older
firms of the city. Having all the facilities
at his command, he is able to turn out
promptly and neatly all orders for letter
heads, folders, bill heads, cards, and all
kinds of office printing.
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J. H. NICHOLS & CO.,
Jobbers in Foreign and Domestic
Fruits, Cigars, etc.
175 VVest VVater Street.
HE commission trade is fast becom-
ing one of the most important in
this city. Among all the firms of this
class none have made more advance-
ment, or increased their business more
rapidly than J. H. Nichols & Co., at I75
West Water street. They deal in foreign
and domestic fruits, besides carrying a
large and well-assorted stock of grocers'
specialties and various first-class brands
of cigars. This business has risen in the
space of eight years from Small propor-
tions to its present magnitude. The bus-
iness was carried on at various locations,
until Mr. Nichols succeeded in obtaining
possession of his present commodious
quarters, which bid fair to become too
small for his growing trade within the
next few years. He employs ten men to
assist him in the business and to manage
the large patronage he receives. He has
two men constantly traveling in the North
and Northwest, who procure the best the
market affords, giving his customers ad-
vantage of fresh goods at moderate prices.
Mr. Nichols was born in Watertown, this
State, and came to this city over twelve
years ago, since which time he has stead-
ily advanced to the front rank in the
commission trade.
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SAVILLE, BUTLER & CO.,
Jobbers and Wholesale Dealers in
Wooden Ware, Grocers' Sun-
dries, Willow Ware, etc.
287 Broadway.
ONSPICUOUS among the public-
spirited and enterprising firms of
Milwaukee, whose efforts to secure and
retain trade from abroad, may be men-
tioned that of Saville, Butler & Co. They
are jobbers and wholesale dealers in
wooden ware, grocers' Sundries, house-
hold and dairy furnishings, willow ware,
cigars, tobacco, etc. This house was
established Jan. 1st, 1884, and already
has a large trade in the adjacent States of
Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa, besides
the large home patronage they enjoy.
They occupy for their office and sales-
room a four-story building besides the
basement, 40x120 feet in dimensions, and
filled from top to bottom with a miscel-
laneous stock of goods in their line, well
chosen and systematically arranged. The
basement contains the stock of house-
furnishing goods; on the first floor are
the offices and shipping room ; the second
contains a choice lot of imported and
domestic cigars of the most popular
brands; and the third and fourth are
devoted to wooden and willow ware of
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all kinds. They employ five commercial
travelers to represent their house, and a
Satisfactory increase is noted each month.
Mr. Jas. R. Saville is native of Port-
land, Maine, and was born in 1842. He
came to his city in 1866, and has since
resided here. He served in the late war,
and was a captain in the Third Michigan
Infantry. He is now recorder of the
Wisconsin Commandery of the military
order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States. Prior to establishing the present
business, he was a member of the grocery
firm of Ricker, Crombie & Co. DeWitt
C. Butler was born in Geneva, N. Y., in
1824, and came to this city in 1874, and
has since resided in the city. Both gentle-
men are well known in business circles,
and have already established the reputa-
tion of their house on a sound basis.
C. (HADBOURNE,
Photographer.
224 and 226 Grand Avenue.
NE of the oldest and leading photo-
graph galleries in the city is that of
C. Chadbourne, at Nos. 224 and 226
Grand avenue. The gallery was started
some fifteen years ago, Mr. Chadbourne
becoming proprietor in the fall of 1883.
This gallery is noted for the excellence
and finish of its pictures, which has won
for the proprietor a class of patrons of the
most desirable character. He occupies
the second and third floors of the build-
ing at the above numbers, which is most
eligibly located. His reception room is
situated on the second floor and is
attractively and beautifully fitted up with
specimens of his work. The operating
room is on the third floor, and is com-
plete in every respect. The skylight is
large and perfect, and all arrangements
are made for the production of first-class
work. He enjoys a large and lucrative
custom, including both city and State.
Mr. Chadbourne is a native of the State
of Maine, and came West about twelve
years ago. A small circular of informa-
tion and suggestions is published by the
artist, which is of great benefit to those
desiring to have their picture taken. It
can be had on application, free of charge.
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ELECTRO-THERMAL BATHS,
Calvanic, Faradic and Static Treat-
ment, Dan'l T. Coates, Prop.
4.59 Van Eurer, Street.
HAT quiet, home-like house at 459
Van Buren street is where Mr.
Coates gives his restoring and invigor-
ating electro-thermal baths, and where
patients are successfully treated for rheu-
matism, gout, dyspepsia, neuralgia, nerv-
ous debility and general exhaustion. The
business was opened by Mr. Coates in
1880, and is now doing, in an unostenta-
tious way, business amounting to more
than $5,000 a year. It is the only place
in the city where a genuine electric bath
can be had, or where it is given as it
ought to be given, to do the greatest
amount of good. Mr. Coates is backed,
as one may say, by many of the leading
physicians in the city, who make it a rule
to send most of their chronic cases direct
to his establishment. One thing that has
much to do with the success of Mr.
Coates in his important work is that he
is more than a mere manipulator, is, in
fact, an intelligent, well-read, well-in-
formed man, who looks beneath the sur-
face of things, aiming ever to get at the
cause, the root of this thing called disease.
The thing is to find the cause of a man's
ailment, and then begin at once the work
of eradication and removal.
Mr. Coates was born in Baltimore, in
1849, and came West in 1860. He has
had a great deal of practical experience
in the special kind of work in which he
is now engaged, and has read and studied
the subject so thoroughly that he has
come to be regarded as a leading author-
ity on electro-thermal baths. His sister,
a lady of much experience also, aids him
In his work, and has charge of the ladies’
department of the establishment.
Mr. Coates has lately added a Static
Battery, at an expense of $8oo, for treat-
ment of nervous diseases.
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GEORGE ZIEGLER,
Manufacturing Confectioner.
235, 237 and 239 East Water Str.
HE representative wholesale candy
manufacturer of this city is George
Ziegler. The magnitude of this branch
of industry in Milwaukee can hardly be
estimated, but the importance of this one
firm is well known. He is a manufactur-
ing confectioner of great renown, and all
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his goods are noted for their purity and
reliability, over six tons of which are
made daily. The business was begun in
1861 under the firm name of Boll Bros.,
and in 1865. Mr. Ziegler was admitted, the
firm being then Boll Bros. & Co." Mr. A.
Boll retired from the business in 1870 and
in 1873 the other member, John Boll, died,
since which time Mr. Ziegler has continued
the business alone. It was first located
at 315 Third street, where it remained for
three years. In 1865 it was moved to the
large building at Nos. 3 and 5 Grand ave.,
where it was burnt out in July of 1882.
Mr. Ziegler's energy under such circum-
stances was soon manifested and in a
very few days he established himself at
his present large and convenient quarters,
Nos. 235, 237 and 239 East Water street.
The building is five stories in height, with
a large basement, the dimensions of
each floor being 55x125 feet. This man-
ufactory affords employment to upwards
of 125 hands, both male and female.
Being one of the oldest establishments of
the kind in the city, its business is con-
sequently very large and extends through
New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, In-
diana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Wis-
consin, Iowa, Illinois, Dakota,
Kansas and all the Southern States,
and aggregates upwards of $300,-
ooo per annum. The latest ma-
chinery for this business is in use,
which is run by an engine of twen-
ty-five horse power. To provide
H for the safety of the employés,
one of the best fire escapes in
* the country is used. It is the
Holbrook patent, one of the
latest and most practical escapes
invented. It is the patent of Mr.
Holbrook of this city, with the
architectural firm of Mix & Co.
One of the leading specialties of
Mr. Ziegler's establishment is
candy ornaments and holiday
He does one of the
largest business in this line of
= goods in the Northwest. His lib-
=º eral business policy and general
enterprise have added much not
only to his own success, but also to
- the advancement of the industrial
interests of our city. Mr. Ziegler was
born in Bavaria, Sept. 27th, 1830, and
came to Milwaukee in 1845. He learned
the shoemaker's trade when 18 years of
age, and followed it until 1865, when he
engaged in his present business.
JAMES B. BRADFORD,
Chickering Piano Warerooms.
No. 422 Broadway.
HIS extensive business occupies two
floors, each 22x120 feet. Mr. Brad-
ford established the business in 1872,
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company, for which he had the agency.
Now he is agent for six of the best
pianos in the market, namely: Chicker-
ing, Sohmer, Gabler, Hallett & Cumston,
Kurtzmann and Fouchard, besides the
celebrated Loring & Blake Palace organs.
These instruments are made in Boston,
New York and other leading cities at the
East, whence they are shipped directly to
Mr. Bradford. What Mr. Bradford says
about a given instrument in his compre-
hensive assortment can be depended
upon, so that all who contemplate pur-
chasing a piano or an organ that is thor-
oughly first-class in every particular, will
find it to their interest every way to con-
sult him before closing a bargain at any
other establishment.
Mr. Bradford was born in New Hamp-
shire, in 1823, and came to Milwaukee in
1857. He is one of our well known citi-
zens. Personally, and as a business man,
he stands high in the estimation of all,
having a reputation which is but the nat-
ural outgrowth of many years of honest
dealing with his numerous customers.
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KRUSE & BARKER,
Plumbers, Steam and Gas Fitters,
Steam Heating Apparatus.
45O East Water Street. (Market
Square.)
HIS institution was founded in the
year 1879, and in 188o Chas. B.
Kruse became interested in the firm, its
name being then Sloteman & Kruse. It
was run thus until 1885, when Charles A.
Barker bought out Mr. Sloteman’s inter-
est, when the firm took the name it now
bears. They occupy two floors and em-
ploy twenty-five men, ten of whom are
skilled workmen. They do a general
business in the plumbing trade, and all
repairing is done in first-class style. They
make a specialty of steam heating and
ventilating, and are sole agents for the
Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Co.'s Cast
Iron Safety Sectional Steam Heating Ap-
partus, the most perfect of the kind now
in use. It has given universal satisfac-
tion, and is now extensively used through-
out the city. This house enjoys a good
patronage, and is recommended by some
of the principal houses in Milwaukee,
among them the Milwaukee National
Bank, the Republican House, Bradley &
Metcalf and T. L. Kelly & Co. They
are always prepared to do work promptly.
A ten horse-power engine furnishes the
force necessary in their fitting and manu-
facturing department.
Charles B. Kruse, the senior member of
the firm, was born in Germany in 1852,
and came to Milwaukee direct from that
country in 1866. Charles A. Barker was
born in Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, in
1865, and came to Milwaukee in 1881.
Both are energetic young men and are
bound to succeed in their business.
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C. F. RINGER,
Architect and Superintendent.
88 VVisconsin Street.
HE rapid growth of Milwaukee during
the last few years has created a de-
mand for experienced architects, and
among those who have achieved distinc-
tion in this line we mention Mr. C. F.
Ringer, a young man with years of
practical experience as architect and
superintendent. He is a native of Ger-
many, and was born in 1851. He came
to Milwaukee in 1870, and has since been
engaged in his profession. In 1881 he
established his present business, and has
met with a great degree of success. He
designs plans for business houses of all
kinds, residences, etc., and Superintends
their construction, and employs a number
of assistants, in order to facilitate opera-
tions. Mr. Ringer has erected some
very fine buildings in the city and has
the recommendations of his many pa-
trons. He has acquired great skill and
accuracy in drawing plans of houses, and
is sent for from far and near to superin-
tend the construction of various edifices.
His buildings are all of the latest styles,
conscientiously constructed, and this is
probably the reason of his extended
popularity.
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F. WERNER,
Dealer in Artists' Materials and
Manufacturer of Picture
Frannes, etc. |
436 Broadway.
OU will be surprised, upon entering
Mr. Werner's place of business, at
436 Broadway, to see the large and select
stock of artists' materials he carries and
to learn that he has, within the short space
of fifteen years, made for himself a trade
that reaches all over the Northwest and
even to California. Mr. Werner has two
departments for his business on the first
floor, a salesroom and a workshop, where
picture frames are made and where
artists’ materials are prepared and put up
for use. Mr. Werner was born at Frank-
lin, in this county, thirty-eight years ago.
He learned his trade in Milwaukee, and
it is but truth to say that he has mastered
it in all its details. Mr. Werner is also
agent for the “Wisconsin Synodal Buch-
handlung,” publishers of German books
of more or less religious character. He
has a full line of the books on his shelves,
and is selling them constantly both in and
out of the city.
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B. J. JOHNSON & CO.,
Manufacturers of Soap and Candles,
and Wholesale Dealers in
Cheese.
T8 and 80 VVest VVater Street,
MONG the oldest firms to help along
the advancement in this line is that
of B. J. Johnson & Co. About twenty-
one years ago they commenced business
on East Water street, and by earnest and
persistent effort have steadily advanced
along the road to success, till now they
are classed with the representative com-
mercial firms of the city. This firm has
become very popular with all the house-
holds of the State and city on account of
the quality and great variety of brands
they manufacture. Soon after beginning
the soap manufacture, Mr. Johnson
bought out the establishment of John
Plankinton & Co., at 78 and 8o West
Water street, which site he still holds. Of
the great variety of brands manufactured
by this firm, their specialty consists of the
Pure, Galvanic and Badger brands. These
varieties have won for them an extended
reputation. Their sales extend all over
the Northern and Western States. They
employ over thirty hands, and their trade
outside of the city is looked after by three
traveling men. The machinery of the
establishment is of the most complete and
latest design, and is run by the aid of a
large twelve-horse-power engine. The
building used as office, store-room and
factory is 50x150 feet in dimensions, and
four stories high, with a basement. Messrs.
Johnson & Co. also do a large wholesale
cheese trade. The total sales of this firm
in all departments are over a quarter
million dollars per year. Mr. B. J. John-
son is a native of the East and came to
this city in 1864, and has ever been con-
nected with its business interests and
advancement.
G. STRECKEWALD,
Dealer in Grass Seeds, Bags,
Twines, etc.
37 VVest VVater Street.
HE enterprise of which we write was
ſounded in 1865 at 222 West Water
street by the present proprietor, G.
Streckewald. He remained there ten
years, when he moved to his present
location, 37 West Water street. The
building is three stories in height, with a
basement, the dimensions of each floor
being 25 by Ioo feet. The amount of
stock kept on hand is generally between
$10,000 and $12,000, and consists of
all kinds of grass seeds, bags, twines,
etc. The seeds are the specialty of
the firm, and procured from all parts
of this State, Minnesota and Illinois,
while in some seasons about $1 oo,0oo
worth of clover and timothy seeds are
shipped to Europe. The aggregate Sales
will approach $200,ooo per annum. The
subject of this sketch was born in Han-
over, Germany, and came to Wisconsin
in 1848, and to Milwaukee in 1863.
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INDUSTRIAI, HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
CAMPBELL STEAM LAUNDRY.
H. N. Campbell, Prop’r.
514 Grand Avenue.
HIS extensive establishment, which is
one of the largest and most complete
of its kind in the city, was founded in Sep-
tember, 188o, by the present proprietor,
H. N. Campbell. He began business in
a small way back of Davidson's steam
marble yard, but by his energy and enter-
prise, with the motto fulfilled “to do all
work well,” soon advanced to one of
the leading positions in this line of busi-
ness. He now occupies the spacious and
commodious quarters at No. 514 Grand
avenue, consisting of original building in
front 25x Ioo, and premises in rear,
which he has lately bought, 5ox50 in
extent. The business has grown to large
proportions, and is systematically con-
ducted in the several departments, each
being in the hands of skillful workmen
assisted by labor-saving machinery of the
most approved styles and designs, includ-
ing a large steam engine for power. In
the various departments of the business
six men and thirty-five women are con-
stantly employed, while several wagons
are used to facilitate the prompt delivery
of orders. Particular attention is devoted
to first-class work, especially in shirts,
collars, cuffs, and ladies' fine underwear.
Orders by mail or messengers promptly
attended to, and goods are delivered to
all parts of the city. The following
branches are established in this city: 68
and 7o Wisconsin street, 145 Reed street,
corner Twelfth and Walnut streets, 683
Third street, 427 Chestnut street, 233
West Water street, 6oo Mitchell street,
51o National avenue. The State branches
are established at Oconomowoc, Manito-
woc, Sheboygan, Two Rivers, Waupaca,
Waukesha, Ashland, New London, Osh-
kosh, Darien, Whitewater, Ludington,
Fond du Lac, Pewaukee, Stoughton and
Palmyra. Everything in this model laun-
dry is under the direct personal attention
of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, and is con-
ducted in the most systematic order.
The most reasonable prices rule in all
departments. Mr. Campbell was born in
Jefferson county, N. Y., and came to
Milwaukee in 1879, soon after which he
engaged in his present business. Mrs.
Campbell is also a native of New York,
and was born in Lewis county, that State.
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W. H. CUDWORTH,
Dentist.
119 VVisconsin Street.
R. W. H. Cudworth is one of our
popular dentists, and has been
established in business at this place since
1882, and formerly occupied rooms on
Grove street, moving to his present
eligible location in October, 1883. He
has had seven years’ experience in the
profession, and studied in the Philadel-
phia Dental College. He pays particular
attention to fine gold work and teeth
without plates. His parlors are comfort-
ably and tastefully fitted up in all their
appointments, and his operating room is
equipped with all the latest instruments
and devices. Mr. Cudworth was born in
Shoreham, Vt., in 1860, and came to
Milwaukee in January, 1880. Although
a young man, he has made his mark in
his profession and stands side by side
with the older practitioners of our city.
He keeps thoroughly posted on all vari-
ous improvements in dentistry, and is
“ up with the times” in every respect.
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*A B. F. DEVOE,
Steam Printer and Publisher.
88 Mason Street.
HE “art preservative of all arts” is
well represented in the city of Mil-
waukee, and by no firm more ably than
B. F. Devoe, steam printer and publisher.
Mr. Devoe established his office in 1881,
with a small press and a mere handful of
type, but the merit and originality of his
work attracted attention and brought him
into prominence, until his is now one of
the most prosperous establishments of the
kind in the city. He makes a specialty
of railroad printing and engraved wedding
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
141
stationery. He also does commercial,
show and book printing, and in fact every-
thing that is done in a first-class office.
He has the latest styles of presses with all
the modern improvements, and every-
thing necessary to do first-class work.
Mr. Devoe was born in Fond du Lac
county in 1854, and came to Milwaukee
in 1881. He is a practical printer with
twelve years’ experience in the different
branches of the business. He is con-
stantly adding the latest faces of type
and machinery.
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ANSON BROTHERS,
Jobbers of Fancy Groceries, Sirups,
Teas, Spices, etc.
3O7 East VVater Street.
HIS is one of the oldest houses in
the trade, having been established
in 1868, on the South Side, but for the
past eleven years in its present location.
. The premises occupied consist of ſour|
floors, 20x150 feet in area, and well
stocked with a full line of fancy grocer-
ies, sirups, teas, coffees, spices, soaps, vin-
egar, tobacco, cigars, etc. The first floor
is devoted to sirups, fish, fruits and heavy
goods. On the second, canned fruits,
tobacco, etc. On the third, nuts, pickles
and spices, and on the fourth, a miscel-
laneous stock of light goods. They
make a specialty of green fruits, canned
goods, cigars and tobacco, and keep a
first-class assortment in these lines. Their
goods are drawn from importers and
manufacturers, and also from foreign
countries, and are sold mostly in the
States of Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa,
Minnesota, Dakota and Northern Illi-
nois.
C. H. Anson was born in New York,
in 1841, and at the breaking out of the
war enlisted as a private in the Eleventh
Vermont. He saw a great deal of active
service, being in the battles of Spottsyl-
vania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Appo-
mattox, and was with Sheridan in his
campaign through the Shenandoah val-
ley. He served three years and was pro-
moted by degrees, at the close of the
war holding a major's commission, and
was aide-de-camp of the Second Division,
Sixth Army Corps.
F. A. Anson was born in New York,
in 1844, and enlisted in the First Ver-
mont Heavy Artillery during the civil
war and served for the twenty last
months of the war, participating in the
battles of Spottsylvania, North Anna
River and Cold Harbor; also, at the cap-
ture of Petersburg and Lee's surrender at
Appomattox. He was promoted from
the ranks, and at the close of the war
held an adjutant's position. C. H. An-
son came to this city in 1866, and was
connected for two years with the firm of
B. J. Johnson & Co. F. A. Anson came
here two years later, when they together
embarked in the present business.
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BROWN,
Photographic Studio.
136 and 138 Grand Avenue, Corner
Second Street.
“THERE is no school like experience,
no stimulus like success,” is an old
but true aphorism, and is brought promi-
nently to our mind in the preparation of
a brief sketch of this enterprise. Brown's
Grand Avenue Photographic Studio is
situated at Nos. 136 and 138, and consists
of reception parlors, which are tastefully
arranged, and operating rooms with all
photographic apparatus necessary for first-
class work. The Brown Bros., Joseph
and James, have a complete knowledge
of the art, which has been obtained by
personal investigation and long practical
experience. Photography in all its
branches receives the close attention of
this firm, who spare no time or pains in
making the photograph what it should
be, a real work of art. Entire satisfac-
tion is guaranteed, and moderate prices
are the rules for all styles and forms of
work. Although but lately established in
business, they have a reputation and
patronage equal to many of the older
galleries of the city, and a force of experi-
enced and skillfull artists are employed
to keep up with the demands of the
business.
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THE NATIONAL PARK. | contemplates placing a large steam yacht
in the lake for the use of pleasure parties.
Corner National and Washington | A fine deer-park is also situated in the
Avenues. western part of the park. Inside the
race track a baseball and cricket field is
THILE there is a noticeable lack in laid out, while at the southern end of
W the public park system of our city, the park a shooting range is constructed.
it must be said that the private parks and All over the grounds are winding walks,
pleasure resorts in and around Milwaukee beautiful lawns, rustic seats, flower gar-
constitute one of the main attractions of dens, etc. A large summer dance-hall,
our city. The most prominent resort of 75x100 feet, and dining-hall, 40x80 feet,
this kind, in extent and attractiveness, is are located on the grounds. There are
the National Park, at the corner of Na- also stalls and stable accommodations for
tional and Washington avenues, on the labout fifty horses. There are ten acres of
THE NATIONAL PARK.
South Side. This delightful place con-
sists of nearly fifty acres, and was laid proprietor, Mr. F. C. G. Brand, gives his
out and improved in the spring of 1883. closest attention to the wants and wishes
The National Park Hotel is a beautiful of his many patrons not only in the ele-
structure at the main entrance of th. gant Park Hotel, but throughout the
grounds. It is three stories in height, grounds. One of the most novel and
finely fitted up with dining-room, dancing-pleasing attractions of this park is the
hall, double bowlingalley, billiard and pool roller coaster, which is located near the
parlor and sixteen rooms for the accom-lake, in the western part of the grounds.
modation of guests. The park contains It is the latest and most approved pat-
as fine a half-mile track as there is in the tern, being the patent of Prof. Zealand,
State, and is a favorite resort for the of Yale College, and is put up in the
sporting fraternity, and lovers of fast most substantial and solid manner pos-
horses. The beautiful artificial lake, of sible. It meets with great favor from the
about two acres, is one of the attractions |public, as is shown from the fact that
of this place. Five row-boats float upon nearly 15,000 tickets were sold the day
its surface and next season the proprietor of the Scotch picnic. Taking all the
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
143
attractions and the great advantages pre-
Sented at this park, the city has cause of
being proud of possessing so great a feat-
ure as the National Park.
T. H. BROWN & CO.,
Manufacturers of Fine Carriages,
Buggies, Phaetons, etc.
182 and 184 Third Street.
ROMINENT among the establish-
ments engaged in this branch of
industry, is that of T. H. Brown & Co.,
at 182 and 184 Third street. This busi-
ness was founded in 1860, on the East
Side, the present firm being organized in
1876, who have had charge of it
ever since. They are manufacturers of
all styles of carriages, buggies, phaetons,
road carts (Brown's patent), sleighs, cut-
ters, delivery wagons, etc. The exten-
sive factory and salesrooms of this firm
are situated just north of Grand Avenue,
on Third street, and cover an area of
5ox15o feet; are three stories in height,
with a large basement. The ground floor
is used as a blacksmith and wood-working
shop, while the first floor is used as a
salesroom, in which are arranged the
latest styles of vehicles. The other floors
are used for workshop, paint and finish-
ing rooms. Only first-class material is
used, and the most skillful workmen em-
ployed. Fifty hands are employed to
meet the demands of the business, this
number being greatly augmented during
the busy season. A complete and varied
stock is constantly kept on hand, and
valued at $30,000 to $35,000, while the
sales extend to upwards of $1oo,000 an-
nually. Mr. Brown's patent “road cart,”
which to-day is without a rival, and very
popular, is in all respects the best and
most desirable two-wheeled vehicle built.
It has now been in use for a number of
years by all classes of people, and with-
out exception, all speak of it in terms of
highest praise. It is nicely balanced, so
that when in use there is no weight on
the horse's back. Another specialty is
the manufacture of sewing machine wag-
ons, which are lighter than any others
built for the same purpose, and in which
their general standard of excellence is
fully maintained.
Mr. Thomas H. Brown was born in
this city in 1839, and with the exception
of six years, has always been connected
with the business interests of this city.
He was elected alderman from the
Fourth Ward, serving from 1877 to 1880,
when he was called to fill the office of
mayor, which he held for two years.
Mr. Louis Dick, the company of the
firm, was born in Germany, and was
among the first settlers of this city, and
is well and favorably known in the busi-
ness circles of Milwaukee.
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STOUT & UNDERWOOD,
Attorneys at Law, and Solicitors of
Patents.
66 VVisconsin Street.
FEW years since nearly all of the
patent business of this city, and in
fact, the whole State of Wisconsin, was
transacted through agents outside of the
State, chiefly in Washington, causing no
little expense, and much tedious and un-
necessary delay. In 1879 Messrs. Stout
& Underwood opened an office particu-
larly for this class of business, and de-
voted their time and attention solely to
this branch of the law. They are gentle-
men of experience in this line, and
since the opening of their office have
extended their sphere of labor until more
than half of the Wisconsin patents are
taken out through this agency, and their
cases are increasing at the rate of 40 per
cent. per year. During the past year
these gentlemen have filed two hundred
and fifty applications, and have succeeded
to a remarkable degree in securing pat-
ents thereon. Patents are mostly taken
out by manufacturers, and at least 75 per
cent. of them pay a large profit to the in-
ventors or their backers. The widest field
for patents now seems to be in milling ma-
chinery, electrical apparatus and farming
implements, more especially grain-bind-
ing and harvesting machinery. Both
members of this firm were for many years
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MII, WA UK.E.E.
examiners in the United States Patent
Office, and consequently are thoroughly
familiar with the intricacies and technical-
ities of Patent Office practice. Mr. Stan-
ley S. Stout was born in Kentucky in
1850, and came to Milwaukee in April,
1879, when he was soon afterwards joined
by Mr. Harold G. Underwood. . The
last named gentleman is a native of New
York, where he was born in 1852. Both
members of the firm have had large ex-
perience in the practice of patent law and
obtaining of patents, registering of trade
marks, and every department of this diffi-
cult branch of the legal profession in which
they have come to be considered experts.
They also pay special attention to foreign
patents, re-issues, caveats, designs, labels
and copyrights, and the prosecution of
contested cases and interferences.
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BODDEN & HEATH,
Manufacturers of Coffee, Spices,
Baking Powder and Wholesale
Dealers in Grocers' Sundries.
3O9 East VVater Street.
HE firm of Bodden & Heath take a
leading place in this branch of trade,
and their business, which was established
in 1879, has grown to large proportions.
They do only a wholesale business, and
manufacture coffee, spices of all kinds,
and baking powder, besides handling
grocers' sundries. They employ three
traveling salesmen and a large force in
their mills. The machinery is driven by
an eighteen horse-power engine, and their
manufactory is equipped with all the latest
devices for the proper pursuit of their
business. They occupy the whole of the
four-story building at No. 309 East Water
street, having moved to this place, in
1881, their increasing business at that
time ’ demanding more room. They
manufacture the celebrated brand of bak-
ing powder known as “Cream Foam,”
which is absolutely pure, containing no
alum or other injurious adulterations.
They also manufacture other well-known
brands, such as “Daisy,” “Boss,”
“Standard,” and “Pride of the West.”
The pepper, cinnamon, allspice, cloves,
nutmegs, ginger and other spices are put
up under their name, which is sufficient
guarantee for their purity. L. F. Bodden
is a native of this city and was born in
1857. H. A. Heath was born in New
York in 1845, coming to this city a few
years later. He enlisted in the 137th
Illinois, Co. C, for one hundred days’
service in 1864, at the age of nineteen.
Both gentlemen are well known in busi-
ness circles.
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OTTO LAWERRENZ & BR0.,
Bookbinders and Manufacturers of
Paper Boxes.
428 East VVater Street.
N 1849 a paper box manufactory and
bindery was established in Milwau-
kee by Mr. Otto Laverrenz, father of the
present proprietors. Like a large number
of other enterprises, it was started on a
small basis, and year by year has worked
up its trade until it takes rank among the
leading industries of the city. Most
of its extensive production is used
throughout our own city by wholesale ..
houses. So rapidly has trade in this par-
ticular line increased, that in the past
year the sales of the above firm amounted
to the sum of $1 o,ooo. Mr. Otto Laver-
renz, the head of the house, is a Prussian,
and was born in Berlin in the year 1844.
He came to this country the same year
with his parents, and finally to Milwau-
kee in 1849. He is a man of known
ability and has risen to a high place in
the estimation of the people of Milwau-
kee. He has represented the people of
the Second district in the Assemby,
and has justly earned their sincere
respect. The younger member of the
firm, Mr. Charles Laverrenz, is 34 years
of age, and is a native of the Cream
City. He is also a stirring business man,
and ably assists in the work of managing
their manufactory. They manufacture
paper boxes of every description, and
have the largest and most extensive estab-
lishment in the city, besides doing book-
binding to order.
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MILWAUKEE STOVE WORKS,
J. A. & P. E. Dutcher, manufacturers
of Cooking and Heating
Stoves and Ranges.
67O PCinnickinnic Avenue.
N this important branch of industry the
old and reliable stove works of J. A. & P.
E. Dutcher are the most prominent. The
business was originally founded under
the firm name of Geo. Williams & Co.,
out and shipped to all parts of the
West. The superiority of the products
of these works is recognized in the
East, the very home of the old-time
stove founders, but the greater por-
tion of their stoves is sold throughout the
Northwest. From twelve to fifteen hun-
dred tons of pig-iron are used yearly by
this firm. Their foundry, molding and
mounting shops are large and well ar-
ranged for the manufacture of large
The latest machinery is used,
orders.
Milwaukee Stove Works.
but in 1870 was changed to Dutcher,
Vose & Adams; ten years later it was
again changed to Dutcher, Vose & Co.
It continued under this name till Sep-
tember, 1884, when the present firm took
charge. From a small local business, it
has increased year by year till now it is
represented in nearly all the Western
States and Territories of the Union.
The large plant of these works—found-
ries, offices and salesrooms—are located
on Kinnickinnic avenue. A cut of their
works is shown above, which are a reg-
ular bee-hive of industry. All varie-
ties of stoves and ranges are turned
and run by an engine of thirty horse-
power. The firm are exclusive owners of
several important patents, each one pos-
sessing merits of great importance in the
manufacture of a perfect stove, whether
for heating or cooking purposes. Their
storerooms are well filled with a large
stock of as fine an assortment of stoves
and ranges as can be found in the country.
Mr. J. A. Dutcher was born in Salis-
bury, Conn., in 1829, and came to Mil-
waukee in 1849, and has always been
identified in a prominent manner with
the commerce of our city. P. E. Dutcher,
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
early been associated with his father in
the business he represents.
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J. P. WRCHSELBERG,
Manufacturer of Carriages and
Wagons.
218 and 220 VVells Street.
HIS business dates back to 1860,
when it was established in a small
way, on the corner of Milwaukee and
Michigan streets. In 1865 it was moved
to Second street, and in December, 1881,
to the new and commodious building at
Nos. 218 and 220 Wells street. The
building is four stories in height, and
50x50 feet in dimensions. A force of
twelve to fifteen men is employed in
this establishment. Only the best material
is used and the work turned out is conse-
quently of the most satisfactory kind. The
specialty of the house is in ordered work,
and in that line its sales extend all over
the city and Northwest. Mr. Wechsel-
berg was born in Germany and came to
this city in 1848. He is a veteran in the
business, and during the many years he
has been in the trade he has made many
noted improvements, which have gone far
to establish his reputation.
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FRANZ FALK BREWING CO.,
Manufacturers of Beer.
Milwaukee, Wis.
NE of the representative brewing
establishments of Milwaukee, which
by the magnitude of its operations has
done much to raise this industry to its
present standard, is that of the Franz
Falk Brewing Co. (limited). The fol-
lowing are the officers of the company:
Franz Falk, president; L. W. Falk, vice-
president; Frank R. Falk, secretary and
treasurer. The business was founded as
far back as 1855, by Messrs. Fred. Goes
and Franz Falk, Mr. Falk purchasing
entire control of the establishment in
1866, and conducting it on his own
account until his death, after which the
present company was formed. The
brewery is located just outside of the
city limits, in the town of Wauwatosa.
It consisted at first of only a few small
buildings, and only 1,000 barrels were
brewed and five men employed the first
year. From this small beginning the
business has reached its present large
proportions. The plant covered by the
buildings is over five acres, consisting of
a mammoth malt house, with a capacity
of over Ioo,ooo bushels, brewery build-
ings, bottling house, coopering shops,
etc. The following figures will be of in-
terest, and show with what rapidity the
business increased : First year, 1,000
bbls.; 1866, 3,500 bbls.; 1870, 8,000
bbls.; 1874, 20,000 bbls.; 1877, 22,000
bbls.; 1878, 34,000 bbls.; 1879, 45,000
bbls.; 1880, 60,000 bbls.; 1884, 75,000
bbls. The amount of material consumed
annually by this company is as follows:
Barley, 200,000 bus.; hops, 160,000 lbs.;
ice, 25,000 tons. They have great shops
for doing their own coopering, carpenter
and machine work, and they own all
the cars used in shipping their beer
throughout the country. A force of 125
hands is constantly employed at the
brewery, while about the same number of
agencies are founded throughout the
Union. The sales of this brewery extend
all over this country and to the East
Indies, Sandwich Islands, Mexico and
South America. In 1877 the bottling
‘department was established, and over
25,000 barrels of beer are put up every
year in this department alone. The beer
produced by this company has a great
reputation for purity and quality. The
city offices are located at the southwest
corner of East Water and Mason streets,
and have direct communication, by means
of the telephone, with the brewery, city
and suburban towns. This is truly a
home concern, as all the officers are
native Milwaukeeans, who, by their en-
terprise and liberal business policy, are
certain of not only retaining their posi-
tion already acquired, but of advancing
their business to an influence and power
equal to any other establishment in the
city. rv
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GRAND CENTRAL DRUGH
STORE,
A. v. Trott, Proprietor.
No. 471 East Water Street.
MONG the large number of firms en-
gaged in the drug business, there is
none that has a higher standing in com-
mercial circles than that of August v.
Trott, proprietor of the Grand Central
Drug Store. The business was begun
nearly twenty years ago, although Mr.
von Trott has only had charge of it since
1873. During that time the business has
increased to a large and valuable patron-
age. His store is admirably arranged and
equipped for the business. The shelves
contain a choice and carefully selected
stock of the purest drugs and chemicals,
besides a full line of patent medicines usu-
ally in demand by the public. Prescrip-
tions are filled with accuracy and prompt-
ness. He also carries a full line of toilet
and fancy articles and other goods found
in a first-class establishment of this kind.
Mr. von Trott is a skillful apothecary and
chemist, graduating as pharmacist from
the University of Marburg, in 1866. He
came to Milwaukee in 1867, and in 1869
began the drug trade with Mr. Lotz.
Mr. von Trott was elected alderman from
the Fourth Ward for the years 1880 to
1882, and is now supervisor of this county
from the Fourth Ward.
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GOODYEAR, RUBBER CO.,
W. W. Wallis, Manager.
372 and 374 East VVater Street.
MONG the many business establish-
ments of the Cream City whose
resources and facilities have been sketched
in this review, that of “The Goodyear
Rubber Company,” at Nos. 372 and 374
East Water street, claims more than
ordinary attention. Their main office is
in New York city, with F. M. Shepard,
president, and J. A. Minott, Secretary.
Branch houses are established in Boston,
Washington, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis,
Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis, San
Francisco, Montreal, Can., and in this
city. This company are the largest
manufacturers and distributors of rubber
goods in the world. They are owners
of valuable patents in rubber goods and
make the best line of boots and shoes
offered to the trade; nothing but pure
rubber is used in their manufacture,
no “shoddy” or old rubber ground
up being used. Their store was estab-
lished in this city ten years ago. Mr.
W. W. Wallis, who has been with the
company for ten years, took charge of
the Milwaukee branch last year, and from
his long experience is thoroughly posted
in every feature of the business. The
premises occupied at Nos. 372 and 374
East Water street consist of a splendid
five-storied building, admirably arranged
with every facility for the display of the
valuable and extensive assortment of rub-
ber goods. The stock consists largely of
druggists’, stationers’, railroad and sport-
ing supplies; boots and shoes, weather
strips, clothing, leather belting, packing
and hose, jewelry, toilet cases, toys, gos-
samer clothing for men, women and chil-
dren, etc. They are the only manufacturers
of “crack proof” ribbed and “coasting”
sole boots and shoes. This company are
also agents for the Union India Rubber
Co., Rubber Clothing Co., National
Rubber Co., Union Tubing Co. and
Rubber Footwear Co.
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JAS. E. PATTON & CO.,
Manufacturers of White Lead, Zinc,
Colors, etc.
268, 27O arid 272 East Water Str.
HE firm of Jas. E. Patton & Co. is
engaged extensively in the manu-
facture of white lead, zinc, colors and
varnishes, and as dealers in linseed and
lubricating oils, putty, window-glass,
brushes and artists' materials are among
the largest in the Northwest. The
house was first located at the corner of
Grand avenue and West Water street,
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INDUSTRIAI, HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
under the name of Patton & Williams,
but the latter retired in 1870, since which
time it has borne its present name. As
the business increased, the demand for
more room decided Mr. Patton to erect
a building especially for the business,
and accordingly the present structure was
reared and ready for occupancy in 1875.
It occupies three numbers—268, 270 and
272 East Water street, is four stories in
height, and 50x219 feet in area, and is
supplied with all the latest machinery
and a 5o horse-power engine with a
boiler of equal proportions. A large
force of workmen is employed in the
establishment, the most of them being
skilled in the business. Three traveling
salesmen represent their goods in Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota. Mr. Patton was born in Lewis-
ton, Penn., in 1832, and came to this city
in 1855. Being thoroughly familiar with
the business in which he is engaged, and
taking an active partin all its practical de-
tails, he has placed his house on a substan-
tial basis, and developed it into its present
proportions. He deals in plate and sheet
glass of every variety, and offers substan-
tial advantages to the trade in every line.
J. E. SINGER & G0.,
Woolens and Tailors' Trinnmings.
372 and 374 Broadway.
HE above firm is one of our represent-
ative houses in its particular line of
business. Mr. J. E. Singer, the head of the
firm, was born in Austria in 1841, and came
from thence to the Cream City in 1864.
He was, until 1872, with Adler, Mendel
& Co., as salesman in their clothing
establishment, and then started in business
as senior partner in the firm of Singer &
Benedict. He continued in this firm un-
til 1883, when the present business was
founded. The premises occupied are
large, elegant and commodious, five stories
high, being thirty-four feet in width and
one hundred and twenty in depth, and are
located at No. 372 and 374 Broadway, in
wholesale portion of the city. They do
an exclusively wholesale trade, and have
a large force of well trained and efficient
employes, who thoroughly understand
their business. They deal in both domestic
and imported goods, the latter being
selected and brought to this country by
the head of the firm. Six commercial
travelers are employed on the road, and
the trade of the house extends through
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and
Michigan. The present business is based
upon true business principles, and on a
cash basis, and their systematic methods
of transacting affairs have given them an
excellent repute with the trade through-
out the State, and builded them a repu-
tation second to none in the business.
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FRED, ANDRES & CO.,
Contractors of Cut and Sawed
Stone.
Office, 779 North Water Street.
OR a firm who began operations with
nothing at all, as one may say, Fred.
Andres & Co. have done remarkably well
during the five years of their business
existence at No. 779 North Water street.
They employ regularly thirty-five men and
do a yearly business amounting to $65,-
ooo. They run by steam, using a thirty-
five horse power engine. They are agents
for and handle the Berea, Ohio, sand-
stone, the Bedford, Indiana, sandstone,
and what is known as the Vert Island
stone, from Nipicon Bay, Ontario. As
contractors of cut and sawed stone and
wholesale and retail dealers in all kinds of
lime and sandstone, their business extends
throughout the State and even reaches
into neighboring States. Their office
is at No. 779 North Water street, their
yard and mill corner Broadway and
North Water streets. *
Among the more prominent buildings
in this city for which Fred. Andres & Co.
furnished the cut stone may be mentioned
the following: The Conro Block, the
Police Station, Best Brewing Co.'s malt-
house and brew-house, Fourth and Fifth
District School buildings, Val. Blatz's
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE. 149
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residence, W. W. Coleman's residence,
Armory (Light Horse Squadron),
and County Jail. Outside of the city
they have had among others the fol-
lowing contracts: Fond du Lac, Court
House, German Bank; Sheboygan, She-
boygan Insane Asylum ; Elkhorn, In-
sane Asylum ; Engine House and City
Hall at Beaver Dam; and Engine
House and City Hall at Chippewa
Falls. Fred. Andres was born at Bridge-
port, Conn., in 1856, and came to this
city at the tender age of two months.
He has always lived here, and of course
learned his trade here.
LEBEAU & SCHUHMAN,
Dentists.
325 Chestrut Street.
HE enterprising firm of young den-
tists, Lebeau & Schuhman, situated
at No. 325 Chestnut street, although but
just launching out upon the sea of busi-
ness, already take a leading position.
They are thoroughly conversant with all
branches of dental surgery, are skillful
operators, and are graduates from the
famous Rush Medical and Dental Col-
lege, of Chicago. Their location is all
that can be desired, in a populous and
business part of the city, with street cars
passing their door every few minutes for
all parts of Milwaukee. They occupy
three large dental parlors, which are fur-
nished and fitted with taste, and contain
all the latest scientific and modern appli-
ances used in their profession. Their
office hours are from 8:30 A.M. to 1 P. M.;
2 to 6 P. M.; 7 to 8 P. M.
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WM. BOOTH,
Merchant Tailor.
418 Broadway.
FTER doing a large and successful
business in Albany, N. Y., for
eighteen years, Mr. Booth came to Mil-
waukee in 1866 and began at once to do
a large and lucrative business here. He
now employs from eight to ten first-class
workmen, and besides his regular city
work, has orders from various places in the
State, as well as from Iowa, Minnesota and
Dakota. His yearly business now amounts
to some $6,000. Now, Mr. Booth says,
he is making a little money, while for-
merly, though doing ten times as much
business, he was losing money right
along. Wherefrom, he rightly concludes,
that what the country needs is more cash
and less business. Pay as you go, ought
to be the rule with everybody—with the
producer no less than with the consumer.
A business experience of fifty years has
taught Mr. Booth many valuable business
maxims, which he carries out in his busi-
ness system, prominent among them
being the cash basis for all transactions,
thus enabling him to give good material,
good work, perfect fit and entire satisfac-
tion to all.
W.M. S. GUY,
Dealer in Fancy and Staple
Croceries.
94 Martin Street.
HE growth of Mr. Guy's trade has
been so rapid since his store was
opened, at No. 94 Martin street, that he
contemplates putting up a larger building,
arranged within with special reference to
the retail grocery trade. Mr. Guy is a
man of large business experience. He
established his present store in 1880, and
the trade already amounts to nearly
$20,000 a year. Mr. Guy is a native of
England, where he was born in 1835.
He crossed the ocean with his parents in
his infancy, going to Canada where he
lived seven years, or until 1842, when he
came to Milwaukee. Mr. Guy is a quiet,
unassuming sort of man, who doesn’t go
much on mere show and noise in busi-
ness. He is content to keep a good, full
stock of the best and freshest groceries,
and to give all who come the full worth
of their money, and thus build for him-
self a reputation for fair dealing not only
for his own satisfaction but because it is
a natural characteristic of the man in
business matters, and gives a pleasure
merely to do right.
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MATH. SCHWALBACH,
Manufacturer of Tower Clocks.
1OO2 Galerna Street.
HIS clock is an improvement on
Church and Tower Clocks. The
invention greatly simplifies the construc-
tion of this kind of clocks, and corre-
spondingly cheapens the price, and at the
same time increases the reliability of the
clock and durability of the work. Any
one can keep this clock in good order.
The clock is seven feet
high, four feet wide,
and three and one-
half feet long. The
striking part pulls a
hammer from thirty
to forty pounds; the
quarter striking part
from twenty to thirty
pounds. Pendulum
ball scales one-hun-
dred and twenty-five
pounds.
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JULIUS FRIEDMANN.
Restaurateur and Caterer.
465 Market Square.
N object of interest to the hungry
visitors to Milwaukee is the Euro-
pean and American Restaurant of Mr.
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Julius Friedmann, at No. 465 Market
Square, just opposite the St. Charles
Hotel. It occupies a leading position in
the city, as a place par excellence at
which to invigorate the inner man. The
location is the most central and con-
venient in the city, and is furnished in
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Inviting tables, laden with the best the
market affords, and capable of seating
Over Ioo persons, are arranged about
the room. The promptness and polite-
ness with which the business is conducted,
and the faultless cuisine and splendid
sideboard presented by this restaurant
render it one of the most popular re-
sorts of the kind in the city. It was
established by the present proprietor
about two years ago, and he has already
won a patronage of large proportion.
A corps of twelve assistants is employed
in attending to the wants and comforts of
– his numerous guests. His display of arti-
ficial supplies, embracing all varieties of
vegetables, meats, fruits, etc., is worthy
of note, as it is the best of the kind in
the United States, and was imported di-
rectly from Nürnberg, Germany, at
his special order. Mr. Friedmann is
ready at all times to give prompt atten-
tion to orders for ball and wedding sup-
pers; lunch being served at all hours of
the day. Mr. Friedmann was born at
Vienna, Austria, in 1847, and came to
Milwaukee in 1865, and has always been
closely identified with the business interests
of this city.
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ROSE HILL PARK,
Wm. Miller, Proprietor.
NE of the well planned and beautiful
pleasure resorts of the Cream City
is that of “Rose Hill Park.” This site
was formerly occupied by the famous
Dunlap nursery and was purchased in
1881 by Mr. Wm. Miller who, in the
spring of 1882, opened the beautiful Rose
Hill to the public. The beautiful wind-
ing walks, terraces and flower gardens
show them to be under the skillful man-
agement of artistic hands. There is over
a mile and a quarter of finely graveled
walks, leading all over and around the
hill, and across the plateau on the east.
Rose Hill Park is situated near the south-
western limits of the city, and is conven-
iently reached by two prominent street
railway lines—the Milwaukee City rail-
way and the Cream City line.
of six acres, and has accommodations for
Over 15,000 people, its seating capacity
being greater than any two parks in the
city. The large and handsome dwelling
on the summit of the hill is occupied by
the proprietor, and it is so arranged that
the entire lower floor can be thrown into
a mammoth dining-room. Near the resi-
dence 1s situated the large pagoda, or
band stand. A pavilion, 6ox Ioo feet, is
also located near by, and can be used
for either dining or dancing purposes.
Surrounding these is a profusion of ever-
greens, shrubbery and flowers, presenting
as beautiful—a scene as can be found
around Milwaukee. Near the eastern
base of the hill is situated the large
covered dancing pavilion, 55x86 feet in
dimensions, with a reception room 22x4o
feet. The southern part of the park is
laid out into an extensive parade ground,
around which are arranged seats in am-
phitheater style, capable of seating over
3,000 people. One of the attractive feat-
ures of Rose Hill Park is the fine collec-
tion of wild animals which amuse the
young folks and interest the larger ones,
and not least worthy of mention are the
large sheds capable of sheltering over
Ioo horses. Concerts and various attrac-
tions are given at the park all through the
summer season. It is also leased to
societies, parties, etc., on special terms.
Meals are served in the best style, and
with a promptness to suit all. Mr. Miller
was born in Germany and came to this
city over twelve years ago.
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MRS. B. KUMP.
Mattress Manufactory.
137 Second Street.
O establishment in this line in Mil-
| waukee excels that of Mrs. B.
Kump, which is situated in the large two-
story brick building at 132 Second street.
This business was started in a very mod-
erate way, by the present owner, at 177
Second street in 1873. By her energy
Mrs. Kump has built up a trade of not
It consists only the best custom in this city, but also
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through various parts of the State. She
moved to 146 and 148 Second Street in
1880, where she remained for four years
and then took up her present location.
Mrs. Kump manufactures different kinds
of hair, husk and cotton mattresses,
which have gained a reputation for qual-
ity and durability surpassed by none.
Hair mattresses and featherbeds are
cleaned by steam process; old mattresses
made over as good as new, chairs re-
caned, and, in fact, everything belonging
to this special line of trade is satisfactorily
attended to at the most reasonable terms.
All the latest and most approved machin-
ery requisite for the successful operation
of this business is in use.
DR. LOUIS R. ESAU,
Dentist.
128 VVisconsin Street.
THE dental rooms of Dr. Esau, at 128
Wisconsin street, up stairs, are tastily
furnished and provided with all the best
modern appliances and instruments used
by the most successful practitioners of the
important art of dentistry. There is, in
the first place, a reception room, well
lighted, neatly carpeted and hung with
rare and carefully selected pictures; then
there is the operating room and several
Smaller apartments, where the various
kinds of mechanical work are executed.
Dr. Esau is a young man of intelligence
and enterprise, and deeply devoted to his
chosen profession. He is a graduate of
the dental college at Ann Arbor, Mich.,
and is fast building up a large and lucra-
tive practice among the best people of the
city.
A. NEUMANN,
Merchant Tailor.
439 East VVater Street.
MONG our city tailors who have
achieved notoriety by virtue of the
first-class work turned out, by long con-
tinuance in business and honorable deal-
ings, we call the attention of our readers
to the establishment of A. Neumann at
No. 439 East Water street. He has been
located in this city since 1864, and has
built up a large and profitable trade. His
yearly sales amount to the splendid sum
of $25,000, thus conclusively showing the
estimation in which his skill is held by an
appreciative public. Mr. Neumann was
born in Austria in 1843, and came to
Milwaukee in 1864. He is eminently
qualified to conduct such an establish-
ment, having long been engaged in the
trade. He also keeps a stock of men's,
boys’ and youths' clothing on hand, but
his specialty is the manufacture of suits
to order. His goods are first-class in
every way, and in fit, style and workman-
ship are unequaled.
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AUGUST SPANKUS,
Blank Book Manufacturer, Binder
and Ruler.
234 VVest VVater Street.
NE of the most experienced and
practical book binders and blank
book manufacturers of Milwaukee is Mr,
August Spankus, who has followed this
enterprise all his life and is thoroughly
acquainted with every department of the
business. He began for himself about
three years ago at 320 Chestnut street,
where he remained a short time, as the
business grew so rapidly as to demand
a more commodious situation. With this
in view he obtained his present favorable
location, on the second floor at 234 West
Water street. The establishment has
dimensions of 22x1oo feet, and contains
all the requisite machinery necessary for
the work, and of the latest improved
make, and is run by a gas engine of ten
horse-power. This firm, by superior
workmanship, and the manufacture of
superior articles in this line, have attained
a widespread reputation with a corre-
spondingly large trade. From fifteen to
twenty hands are employed to keep up
with the demands of this steadily increas-
ing trade. Special attention is given to
Art Binding, and persons having anything
of this kind will do well to consult this
firm before going elsewhere.
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MILWAUKEE GARDEN.
Pius Dreher, Proprietor.
State and Prairie Streets, between
14th and 15th.
Th; Milwaukee Garden is one of the
oldest and most popular summer
resorts in the city. It was established as
far back as 1850 by H. Kemper, but was
sold to the present proprietor, Mr. Pius
Dreher, in 1855. For years it was the
out-of-town park, visited by those taking
the large bowling alley and shooting
galleries, two fountains near the center of
the park, swings, refreshment stands, etc.
The south end of the park is fitted up for
the use of Turning societies, and accom-
modation is afforded for 15,000 persons,
the park being illuminated with over 3oo
gas lamps. Over thirty persons are em-
ployed to keep the park in repairs and
look after the comforts of its patrons, and
is altogether one of the most perfectly
equipped pleasure gardens in Milwaukee
or the Northwest. Its patronage is from
the best ranks of our German population.
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growth and extension of the city of late
years has placed it almost in the heart of
the city. Mr. Dreher has improved it
from time to time, until now it is as com-
modious and beautiful a park as can be
found in Milwaukee. It covers a large
block, 315 by 416 feet, or about three
acres, between Fourteeth and Fifteenth,
and State and Prairie streets. It is easy
of access by three of the principal street
railways of the city. A few of the prin-
cipal features of the park are the large
residence and mammoth hall and theater
at the corner of State and Fourteenth
streets, the summer theater and large
dancing pavilion in the center of the park,
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B. H. HELMING & CO.,
Manufacturers of Collars, Riding
Saddles, Halters, etc.
173 Second Street.
NE of the representative firms of this
city for the manufacture of har-
ness, collars, saddles, halters, bridles and
fly-nets is that of B. H. Helming & Co.,
at 173 Secondstreet. Mr. Helming com-
menced to learn his trade in the city of
St. Louis, Mo., and came to Milwaukee
in 1855 and established himself in busi-
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services of himself and one boy. His
ability as a collar maker soon became
known to the trade and his business in-
creased, so that inside of two years and a
half he had to move to the more extended
quarters at 189 Second street, in the same
block he now occupies. He remained
here for over twenty years, during which
time his trade increased to very large
proportions, which called for still greater
facilities. So, in 1882, he took charge of
his present convenient and commodious
quarters at 173 Second street. The
building is four stories with the basement,
25x80 feet in dimensions. A large work-
shop of three floors, 25x50 feet in dimen-
sions, is situated in the rear. The
choicest of leather, materials, fittings and
mountings only are used in the produc-
tion of their goods, thus establishing a
reliability of all goods leaving the house.
The stock carried is valued at from
$20,000 to $30,000. The establishment,
when in full operation, employs upwards
of seventy-five men, including two travel-
ing salesmen, who are constantly looking
after the interest of this firm throughout
the Northwest. The sales aggregate
$75,000 a year. Associated in business
with Mr. Helming is Mr. Casper M.
Sanger, who has had large experience
in this branch of manufacture and is
well and favorably known to the trade
throughout the West.
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H. STERN, JR., & BR0.,
Wholesale Jobbers of Dry Goods
Notions, etc.
335, 337 and 339 Broadway.
HE above establishment is a good
example of what energy, enterprise
and perseverance will do, if directed in
their proper channels. Its inception
dates back thirty-five years, when the
business was started under the name
of Goll & Stern. In 1852, this firm dis-
solved, it being then conducted by H.
Stern, Jr. In 1853, the name again
changed to H. Stern, Jr., & Bro., and
thus it has since remained. The first
building occupied by the former firm was
at No. 79 East Water street, up stairs.
From there they removed, in 1851, to
Market Square, and the firm of H. Stern,
Jr., in 1852, to the corner of East Water
and Mason streets; then to a store at
No. 349 East Water, street, which was
purchased by the firm. Business increas-
ing, they finally made arrangements for
the construction of a much larger build-
ing, and selected the site now occupied
by their imposing and commodious struct-
ure, which they occupied in 1868. It
consists of five stories, including the
basement, and presents a front of sixty
feet, with a depth of one hundred and
twenty. It contains one of the largest
stocks of dry goods and notions in the
city. They employ four traveling sales-
men to represent them among the retail
trade, and have built up an enormous
trade throughout the entire West, their
annual sales reaching not less than one
million dollars.
The pioneer member of the firm, Mr.
Henry Stern, was born in Bavaria, in
1825, and came to this country in 1848,
and two years later to Milwaukee. Her-
man Stern was born in Bavaria, in 1826,
and came to Milwaukee in 1853, entering
the firm the same year. Both gentlemen
are prominent members of society, and
occupy a high position in the business
community.
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CITY STEAM LAUNDRY,
J. P. McCarty, Proprietor.
332 and 334 Broadway.
HE above is one of the pioneer estab-
lishments of the kind in this city,
and is an old landmark, having been
established in 1870 by Mrs. McNelly,
and met with immediate success. The
establishment was conducted by Mrs.
McNelly until this present year, when
she disposed of it, with good will, to
Mr. J. P. McCarty, who is now carrying
on the business, with every late improved
facility required for turning out neat and
artistic work. That this establishment
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE.
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gives universal satisfaction is evidenced
by the fact that it numbers some of the
best people in society among its custom-
ers, and never fails to satisfy the most
critical. Mr. McCarty was born in this
county in 1857, and has resided the most
of his life in ' Milwaukee. Previous to
entering into business for himself, he was
for several years a traveling salesman.
He is thoroughly posted as to the wants
of his customers, and all work placed in
his hands will receive prompt attention.
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J. A. STAPLETON,
Wholesale Tobaccomist.
121 VVest VVater Street.
R. J. A. Stapleton, wholesale tobac-
conist, is situated at 121 West
Water street. He began business about
twelve years ago, dealing in cigars at his
residence, delivering them himself to his
few customers in the city. From this
small beginning he has advanced to his
present large business. He occupies an
office and salesroom 20x40 feet, which is
comfortably and pleasantly fitted up. Mr.
Stapleton is a clear-headed, discerning
business man, and justly popular among
his customers, and in mercantile circles,
and in social life. Most of his goods are
purchased in the large Eastern cities, but
Mr. Stapleton takes advantage of the
market in all parts of the country, buying
close, and selling cheap to all his custom-
ers. Mr. Stapleton is a native of Prince
Edward county, Ontario, and came to
Milwaukee in 1862, residing here since
that time, putting all his time and atten-
tion to his present live business.
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JOHN H. NARAMORE,
Dentist.
4O7 Grand Avenue.
OUR years ago Dr. John H. Nara-
more established himself in the
dental business in this city, and since
then has won a prominent position in his
ion. He occupies two fine dental
parlors, which are located at 407 Grand
avenue, up stairs, opposite the Library
block. He has in use all the latest appli-
ances necessary for the practice of den-
tistry. He is a skillful operator, and
enjoys a large and lucrative practice all
over the city and vicinity. Special atten-
tion is given to preserving the teeth, and
gold plate work is done as well and at as
moderate prices as anywhere in the city.
Dr. Naramore was born in the State of
New York and came to this city in 1880,
and has become well known to members
of the profession and the public in gen-
eral.
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THE FILER & STOWELL CO.,
(Limited.)
Cream City Iron Works.
Corner of Clinton and Florida Sts.
HIS is one of the large and represent-
ative manufacturing establishments
that has become a part of the industrial
history of Milwaukee arró is known
wherever the name and fame of the
Cream City extends. The business was
established in 1865 by J. M. Stowell and
after several changes in name finally or-
ganized as at present in 1882. The plant
of this business occupies about six lots at
the above location, where are erected
buildings and equipments of various
kinds, consisting of machine shops,
foundry, wood-working department, etc.
All the latest and most improved ma-
chinery and labor-saving devices are in
use here. A sixty horse-power engine
furnishes the necessary force to run the
machinery, and from 150 to 175 people
here find remunerative employment, a
large proportion of them being skilled
workmen in some special branch of the
business. A specialty is made of the
manufacture of saw mill machinery.
Their gang edgers to saw flooring from
cants, their gang bolters, gang lath mills
and the “boss dog’’ are well and favor-
ably known wherever lumber is made in
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the United States. Particular description
of their numerous machines, such as their
new Twin engine, steam feed new patent
head blocks, saw guide, shingle mills and
their splendid new circular saw mill, is
outside the province of this work, but
their business is large and rapidly increas-
ing in all these lines, besides jobbing,
repairing and steamboat work, including
flour-mill machinery of all kinds. Mr.
J. M. Stowell, the president of the
company and surviving member of the
old firm, is a native of New York State,
and has been a resident of Milwaukee for
thirty years. He has been Mayor of our
city for one term, serving in that honor.
able capacity from 1882 to 1884 and
was also a member of the State Legis-
lature for a number of years, besides hold-
ing other positions of honor and trust.
Mr. Stowell is president also of the Mil-
waukee Savings and Investment Associa-
tion, which is filling so happily a long-felt
want among the working classes of Mil-
waukee. T. B. McDonald, the secretary
of the company, is a native of the State of
Georgia and is well known to the busi-
ness public since his connection with the
house two years ago, and has done much
to forward the interests of the company
since that time. Mr. Walter Read, the
treasurer, is a nephew of Mr. Stowell and
has, as it were, grown up in the business,
learning every detail and being thoroughly
conversant with every department of the
vast manufacturing interests of the house.
He is a native of Cleveland, O., and
came here and entered the business when
a mere boy. Mr. T. J. Neacy, a large
stockholder, represents the house as com-
mercial agent and is very popular
wherever he goes, as every reader of these
lines will attest who has ever met him in
a business or social way. Not a little
of the rapid upbuilding and success of
this institution is due to his judicious and
untiring efforts. His connection with the
firm dates back some fifteen years. All
in all, this is one of our standard concerns
and richly deserves the large patronage
bestowed upon it. Any particulars can
be learned by addressing the house as
above.
H. R. JOHNSON,
Dentist.
136 and 138 Grand Avenue.
HE Grand Avenue Dental Parlors,
conducted by Dr. H. R. Johnson,
at Nos. 136 and 138 Grand Avenue,
were opened in 1881, and by able man-
agement and a thorough conception of
every feature of the profession, built up
a practice and attained a standard posi-
tion. His dental departments are recog-
nized as among the largest in the North-
west, and the doctor, by his scientific
attainments, and adoption of the various
modern helps, has done much to advance
the profession. His convenient and com-
modious parlors embrace six rooms. The
reception parlor is handsomely furnished
and presided over by polite and courte-
ous assistants. On the west side of the
parlor is the extracting room, which is
under the doctor's personal supervision.
This room is light and airy and possesses
all those desirable and complete appoint-
ments which bespeak more emphatically
than anything else, FIRST-CLASS WORK.
In this department is used Hurd's Vital-
ized Air, for which Dr. Johnson has the
exclusive right of city and State. The
operating rooms are three in number,
accessible by double entrances, and con-
tain double windows, which afford clear,
bright light for the use of the operators.
Operating-room No. 1 is under the im-
mediate control of Dr. Purinton. Here
the finest and most skillful dental opera-
tions are performed—gold and silver
filling, fitting of teeth, regulating of nat-
ural teeth, and in fact, fine general work
of every description. One special feat-
ure of work of this room is the use of
Dr. J. E. Low's no-plate method, which
is meeting with such great favor by the
public. This patent method does away
with the extraction of teeth, restores all
firm, decayed teeth and broken roots to
their original usefulness and beauty, and
gives the wearer teeth without plates.
This new method supplies all lost
teeth without covering the roof of the
mouth. Operating-room No. 2 is pre-
sided over by Miss Annie Thon, whose
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practical experience and years of careful
study have fitted her for the position she
ably occupies as principal assistant to
Dr. Purinton. Operating-room No. 3 is
chiefly used for taking impressions. Its
general adaptation for this purpose, in the
way of light and arrangement, is at once
noticed. Work in gold, silver, rubber
and celluloid is here given its initial in-
troduction. A portion of the laboratory
is fitted up for gold and silver work, and
a part is devoted to rubber and celluloid
work. Under charge of these rooms we
find Dr. Wm. Brown, a gentleman pos-
sessing great skill and inventive faculties
in every branch of his profession. The
practice of Dr. Johnson extends all over
the Northwest, and aggregates upwards
of $15,000 yearly.
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F. W. ERBACHER & CO.,
Wholesale Cheese, Fancy Grocer-
ies, Etc.
83 VVest VVater Street.
HIS business was begun January 1,
1885, under the firm name of C. A.
Kurth & Co., but was changed to F. W.
Erbacher & Co., January 1, 1886. They
occupy commodious and convenient
quarters at No. 83 West Water street.
The two floors and large basement are
well filled with a new and fine stock of
cheese, canned goods, fish, and fancy
groceries of every description. Their spe-
cialty is in the cheese trade, in which line
they are building up a large and success-
ful business in this State, Minnesota and
Michigan. This firm are also city agents
for the Mosler Safe and Lock Com-
pany fire and burglar proof safes. This
safe is the only one constructed of
one continuous plate, with rounded cor-
ners, and filled from the bottom, making
it not only stronger and much more
secure, but causing the fire-proof filling
to be hermetically sealed. The bolts and
locks are placed on the inside instead of
on the outside flange of the doors, mak-
ing them much more secure against
burglars, and preventing their being
affected by heat in case of fire. The
Mosler safes have taken the lead in every
exposition in which they have been
shown, so incontestable is their superi-
ority over all others. F. W. Erbacher &
Co. are to be congratulated in having so
worthy an article in connection with their
thriving business.
H.ELLINGHAUSEN & Co.,
Cieneral Commission Merchants.
Office, 156 West VVater Street.
HIS firm opened business at their
present site, No. 156 West Water
street, in 1876. The store is 2 ox1 Io,
besides which they occupy two floors and
a large basement. Their general supply
is received from all parts of Wisconsin
and some parts of Michigan, the greater
part of which is re-shipped to Eastern and
Southern points, as they do business in
Boston, New Orleans and various parts
of Texas. A great portion of their trade
is with the retail merchants of the city,
and such is the local trade that, with the
exception of speculative produce, their
large salesrooms are emptied every even-
ing, only to be refilled during the early
hours of the next day. Mr. H. Elling-
hausen was born in Bremen, in 1842, and
came to Milwaukee in 1870 and his name
Soon became associated with the enter-
prising business men of this city, from
whom he receives the greatest confidence
and support.
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JOHN CLARK,
Wholesale Manufacturer of Harness.
21O VVest VVater Street.
HE wholesale harness manufactory
T of Mr. John Clark is situated at 2 Fo
West Water street, and an enterprise which
adds much to the business prosperity of
Milwaukee. The commodious building
consists of two floors 24x60 feet, and is di-
vided into a workshop, salesrooms and
office. The business was begun in
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1880 by Mr. Clark. It was then
located at 230 Grand avenue, being
removed to the present site in 1884.
The specialty of this firm is hand-made
harness of all descriptions. Mr. Clark is
a practical and skillful workman himself,
and he sees to it that nothing but the best
work is presented to the public. He also
deals in horse clothing, trunks, valises,
etc., of which he carries a large and com-
plete stock. Besides enjoying a large
city trade he has patrons all through the
Northwest, his sales aggregating upwards
of $25,000 per annum. Mr. Clark was
born in New York State and came to
Milwaukee in 1863, and has ever since
been connected in various ways with the
harness business.
D. A. MARTIN,
Grain Dealer.
63 and 65 Second Street.
HIS business was established under
Pennock and Martin in 1879, but
has for some years past been under the
sole proprietorship of Mr. D. A. Martin.
The store-room and mill is three stories
in height, with a large basement, and has
a frontage on Second street of 40 feet,
and a depth of 65 feet. In the rear are
two store-rooms 25x85 feet in dimension.
An engine of twenty-five horse-power is
used to run the various machinery used
in the operation of this business. The
specialty of this house is in handling
damaged grain, which is received in large
quantities from all the wheat-growing
States of the Union. The grain when
received is cleaned, separated and put
through a process which renders it good
for the market again, and it is sold to the
malt and grain men all over the country.
With one exception, this is the only enter-
prise of the kind in the Northwest. All
grains damaged in wrecks, fire, water,
etc., are purchased by this firm. Mr.
Martin was born in Weston, Vt., and
came to Milwaukee in 1874, soon after
which he entered into his present busi-
ness. He served during the late war in
the Fourth Vermont Infantry, from 1863
to the close, in the Army of the Potomac.
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUK.E.E.
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MUELLER
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ESTABLISHMENT of MUELLER & ILHARDT,
449 and 451 East Water Street.
SHERMAN, BELL & CO.,
Auctioneers and Commission
Merchants.
212 and 214 Grand Avenue.
LEADING house of this line is that
of Sherman, Bell & Co., at Nos.
212 and 214 Grand avenue. This firm
sells on commission for parties from all
parts of the United States. They hold
regular trade sales of Boots and Shoes,
Clothing, Dry Goods, Carpets and Gen-
eral Merchandise every week during the
year, with sales of Crockery, Glassware
and Cutlery at frequent intervals, and
find customers to attend their sales
from all parts of Wisconsin, from Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota.
They also attend to sales of Real Estate,
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branches of legitimate auction business, ware, and due attention is paid to repair-
holding sales of household furniture ling of wares. Mr. Gross is ably assisted
and second-hand goods regularly every in the business by his son, Arthur E.
Saturday at their salesrooms. This Gross, and his son-in-law, Chas. E.
house makes liberal advances on all Mueller. The trade of this house ex-
classes of goods entrusted to them for
sale, when desired, prompt sales and
quick returns being a peculiar character-
istic of this house. Their large business
aggregates over a quarter million dollars
annually, and consignments are received
from all parts of the Union. The auc-
tioneering department of this business is
conducted and managed by Mr. Sher-
man, while the financial management of
the firm is under the charge of Mr. Bell.
Liberality and promptness have ever
characterized all the transactions of this
house, and the success which has attended
it since its inception is but the natural
result of a sound commercial policy.
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PHILLIP GROSS,
Hardware Merchant.
11o and 112 Grand Avenue and 195
West VVater Street.
REPRESENTATIVE and leading
house in this branch of trade is
that of Phillip Gross, at 11o and 112
Grand avenue and 195 West Water
street. The wholestore room is arranged
expressly for this business and is filled
with an immense and complete stock of
foreign and domestic hardware, including
every kind of mechanics' tools, builders'
hardware, shelf goods, heavy hardware,
house furnishing goods, fine cutlery
tends all over the State and is of a strictly
permanent and first-class character, and
the sales are large and annually increas:
|ing. This store is the headquarters and
distributing point of the Northwest for
all kinds of roller rink goods. A complete
illustrated catalogue and price list of
these goods has been published by this
firm free for the trade, and reflects great
credit upon them. Mr. Gross is a native
of Germany and came to Milwaukee over
|33 years ago, and this city's industrial
. *"..." "...",". advancement owes its progress in no
alning to this CIn OI Tracle. |small degree to this firm.
also dealer in ranges, filters, refrigera-
tors, etc., besides the exclusive agencies
for the Colby Clothes Wringers, Adams' CREAM CITY PRESERVING
Westlake Oil, Gas and Gasoline Stoves, WORKS
Bismarck Stoves and Ranges, Aladdin 3.
Heaters, Norton Door Checks and N. M. Klein, Prop.
Springs, Peck & Snyder's American Club :
sº. Refrigerators, Lily Wrought 131 and 133 Sycamore Street.
Iron Ranges. The site occupied by this - -
firm is one of the oldest and most conve- Mr. N. M. Klein, proprietor, were
nient in this city for this branch of trade. established in 1874. This firm manufact-
This house manufactures all forms of tin-lures fruit butter, pure fruit jellies, cran-
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berry sauce, preserves and mince meat.
Meeting success on every hand, Mr.
Klein was able to erect a factory of his
own at his present location, 131 and 133
Sycamore street. The building is three
stories high, with a large basement. The
newest and latest machinery is used in
this factory. The trade of this house
extends to all parts of the country, and
the annual sales of the firm amount to
nearly $75,000. Mr. Klein is a native of
Prussia and came to this country in 1853,
but resided at Laporte, Ind., until 1874,
when he came here for the sole purpose
of establishing the Preserving Works.
J. C. WELLES,
Dealer in Guns, Revolvers, Ammu-
nition, etc.
428 East VVater Street.
HIS is one of the oldest houses in Mil-
waukee, in this line, having been
organized by Mr. Welles in 1855. The
stock is complete. Revolvers of all the
best makes, single and double barrelled
shot guns, breech and muzzle loaders,
rifles of all the latest improved patterns,
game bags, cartridge belts, gun cases,
shooting jackets and, in short, everything
in this line can be found in his store, and
all at satisfactory prices. His house is
one of the solid institutions of East Water
street, and is so well known an extended
mention in these pages is not necessary.
F. A. LYDSTON'S
Art School and Studio.
94 VVisconsin Street.
S an artist, Mr. Lydston needs no
words of commendation in these
pages. His name and ſame are known
throughout the entire country, and what
little we could say would not add to his
known popularity. He was born in Mas-
sachusetts in 1819, and came to Milwau-
kee in 1861. Just before the outbreak of
the civil war he painted a very fine and
expressive picture on the situation, en-
titled, “Re-union, Contention and De-
struction,” that brought him into favor-
able notice and established his reputation
as an artist of no mean merit even at that
period. At the opening of the first art
gallery of the Cold Spring Course in Wis-
consin, in 1873, at the time of the agri-
cultural fair, Mr. Lydston was assistant
superintendent, and continued to act in
that capacity for two years, and after-
wards for one year he filled the office of
superintendent. He is largely in request
among people of refined taste and the
most wealthy members of society, and
his pictures are pronounced to be among
the best.
J. H. H. LANDWEHR,
Dealer in Groceries, Cigars, etc.
467 East VVater Street.
HE grocery house at No. 467 East
Water street is an old stand, having
first been opened in 1844 by Hilgen &
Schroeder. They continued until 1847
when the business was sold to August
Ehlebracht. In 1857 the firm became
Winner & Landwehr, and in 1876 Mr.
Winner retired, leaving Mr. Landwehr
sole proprietor. He was born in Ger-
many in 1836, coming to America in
1854, stopping one year in New York,
and from there coming direct to Milwau-
kee. He now has a nice business, and
keeps a fine line of groceries, provisions,
Cigars, etc.
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H. ZWENGEL,
Manufacturing Jeweler.
79 Wisconsin St. (Iron Block).
rTh; popular Wisconsin street jeweler
has had a long experience in the
business, which gives him a prominent
position in his field of effort. For ten
years he has devoted himself to the
jewelry manufacturing -business, and the
extra quality of his work has gained him
a reputation throughout the city and
country. He manufactures jewelry of all
kinds, but gives special attention to
diamond settings. He does a wholesale
and retail business, but is confined mostly
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
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to Wisconsin and neighboring States. He
makes all kinds of ornaments in the
jewelry line to order, and handles precious
stones of all kinds. His shop is fitted up
with all the mechanical contrivances and
facilities for the furtherance of his work,
and all work is supervised by him per-
sonally, and he uses the most painstaking
care to give satisfaction to all custom-
ers. The quality of his work is first-class,
and his services are largely in demand.
He was born in Milwaukee in 1860, and
has since resided here. He is a young
man, well liked for the enterprise he has
exhibited in establishing and carrying on
his trade, and has many friends among
the leading citizens of Milwaukee.
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J. G. FLINT,
“Star" Coffee and Spice Mills.
Cor. West Water and Clybourn St.
senior partner withdrew, when Mr. J. G.
Flint became sole owner. Since the
inception of this business on Spring street,
now Grand avenue, it has increased
so rapidly that repeated improvements
had to be made to meet the demands
of trade. After occupying the Reese
Block for a number of years the pres-
ent site was purchased in 1872, and
the large, handsome block, represented
in the cut below, was erected. It cov-
ers an area of 8oxzoo feet. The firm
carry an extensive stock, and the product
of these mills is shipped to all parts of
the country. Besides the coffee roasters,
and large grinders, they have other nec-
essary machinery of the latest and most
TAR” CofFEE, AND SPICE MILLs.
perfect pattern, all of which are run by
two engines aggregating 60 horse-power.
|The goods are of all varieties of coffee,
spices, teas, baking powder, etc., of the
HE largest coffee and spice manufac- best and purest quality in the market.
tory in the Northwest, is situated on No household in the Northwest but what
the corner of West Water and Clybourn is familiar with the “Star Crystal Baking
streets, and is known as the “Star” Mills.
| Powder,” which is so popular wherever
These mills were established by the Flint sold, and one of the specialties of this firm.
Bros., under the name of W. & J. G.
|Mr. Flint is also proprietor of the exten-
Flint, in the fall of 1858, but in 188o thesive and well-known establishment, the




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“Star” Tobacco Factory,
which he established in 1870, in part-
nership with M. B. Kneeland. After
the death of Mr. Kneeland in 1875,
Mr. Flint purchased his interest and has
since conducted the business under the
firm name of J. G. Flint, Jr. The vari-
ous brands of this house have become
popular all over the Union, and estab-
lished the name and reputation not only of
the firm, but also of the city, as a tobacco
center. The favorite brands of smoking
tobacco consist of “Floating Cloud, ”
“Climax,” “King Bird,” “Staple,” “Bob-
tail,” “Uncle Tom,” “Royal,” and a
dozen others. In chewing tobacco we
specially mention “May Queen,” “Star”
and “Diadem,” all first-class productions.
The fine cut chewing tobaccos are manu-
factured entirely from the Kentucky leaf,
while the smoking tobaccos consist of
Virginia and North Carolina leaf. The
capacity of this factory is upwards of
1,ooo,000 pounds annually. Nearly 2 oo
hands are employed in the Spice Mills and
Tobacco Factory, and from 15 to 20
traveling men represent this house in all
parts of the country. Mr. Flint is a
native of New Hampshire and came to
Milwaukee in 1858. He is Vice-President
of the Commercial Bank of Milwaukee,
and also holds a similar office with the
Albion Marble Company of Vermont.
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EDWARD BARBER,
Real Estate Agent and Business
Broker.
79 Wisconsin Street.
.M. M. EN are constituted roaming creatures,
always on the lookout for new
locations, and it is right they should be,
for if it were not so, one part of our uni-
verse would be over-populated, whilst the
rest would be a howling wilderness.
This desire for change has made such
men as myself a necessity, for it requires
as much tact and wisdom to cater to the
wants of a community who buy and sell
the land upon which we live, as it does
to traffic in any other commodity, and in
this line I have had over thirty years'
experience in Wisconsin. It is the pleas-
ing part of our occupation to point out the
pleasant places to live in, the good loca-
tions to do business upon, the choice bits
of land to speculate with, and we can
advise our friends to look at the “Indus-
trial History of Milwaukee,” and assure
them that the half is not told. Come
and see Milwaukee, for seeing is believing.
I shall take great pleasure in showing the
readers of this book and all who may call,
the beautiful scenery depicted in its
pages, and also to advise them in making
investments. Very truly yours,
EDWARD BARBER.
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THIELE BROS.,
Pork and Beef Packers.
$385 and 387 Third Street.
N 1884. Thiele Bros.—Fred., Jr., and
| John C.—succeeded their father, Mr.
Frederick Thiele, in the extensive pork
and beef packing business which he
established in 1852. They are located
at Nos. 385 and 387 Third street, in
a commodious building, where they
are now doing their retail business.
Following the trade in this city for the
past thirty years, they have naturally a
large local trade, besides which they also
have a large railroad and marine trade.
|A large ice-house, that will hold over
3oo,ooo pounds of meat, is connected
with their retail market. Their packing
house, between Third and Fourth streets,
is arranged with the most modern steam
improvements. They are extensive man-
ufacturers of refined lard, all kinds of
sausages, and are curers of the celebrated
mild sugar-cured hams, bacon and should-
ers. Heavy regular consignments of
their noted cervelat sausage are shipped
to the East and South as far as Texas and
Matamoras, Mexico. All their meats are
shipped in their improved ice-boxes to
summer resorts and hotels, assuring ar-
rival in good condition. They have fa-
cilities for cutting 200 lbs. of Sausage
meat every five minutes, and there is a
large three-storied smoke-house in the
rear of their packing house, where they
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can smoke 25,000 pounds of sausage at
one time. They also have two other
large smoke houses to smoke hams, bacon
and shoulders. In conclusion, we heartily
commend this house to our many readers,
feeling assured that they will receive
entire satisfaction and the best the market
affords at the most reasonable prices.
OSCAR ZINN,
Druggist and Apothecary.
432 Chestrut Street, Cor. Fifth.
HE neat and 'attractive drug store, at
No. 432 Chestnut street, northeast
corner Fifth, is kept by Oscar Zinn, who
is well-known as an able druggist and
apothecary. He is a graduate of the Phila-
delphia College of Pharmacy, and after
pursuing the business for eight years in
Chicago, came back to his native city and
established himself at his present quarters
about one year ago. His store is filled
with a large and well-selected stock of
pure drugs, patent preparations, chemic-
als, surgical instruments, toilet and fancy
articles, perfumery and druggist's Sun-
dries, and all appliances found in a first-
class store of this kind. He bestows his
personal attention to his large and grow-
ing prescription trade, and possesses the
confidence and esteem of the medical
profession in an eminent degree.
WILLIAM R. KNELL,
Dealer in Paper Hangings and
Shade Coods.
A.O3 Grand Averhue.
NE of the representative firms in this
line of trade is that of Wm. R.
Knell, at No. 403 Grand avenue. His
handsome salesrooms are always filled
with a choice selection of wall papers of
every description, in the latest designs
and best qualities. Paper hanging, ceil-
ing decorations, window shades and fix-
tures are kept in stock, and frescoing
done, and in fact, everything pertaining
to the business can be secured at this
house. Ten skilled workmen are employ-
ed, and during the busy season double
this number are required to meet the
demands of trade. The decoration of
ceilings is a feature of the business to
which special attention is devoted, and in
which special line Mr. Knell has few equals
and none who are superior in point of
execution.
Mr. Knell has been established in busi-
ness for over four years, being located in
his present location for the past three
years. Mr. Knell is a professional
lithographic engraver and designer,
which adds much to his knowledge of
decorative work. All desiring work of—
this kind can be suited at this house with
work done in the highest style of the art.
ST. CHARLES HOTEL.
Chr. Fernekes & Bro., Proprietors.
Market Square.
ILWAUKEE hotels have a good
reputation which is fully deserved,
and which in a measure accounts for this
city fast becoming such a popular sum-
mer-resort. One of the representative
establishments of this kind is that of the
St. Charles Hotel on Market Square, at
458 to 466 East Water street. This
favorite hotel was built by Captain D.
Upman in 1857, who had charge of it
until 1862, when Christian Fernekes and
his brother Valentine purchased it. In
1870 Mr. Valentine Fernekes died, his
brother continuing the business Since that
time under the same firm name. It is a
large imposing brick structure, five stories
in height, with a frontage of over 155 feet
on Market Square and a depth of 150.
feet. Its halls are wide, and its rooms
cheerful and inviting. The parlors are
tastefully and elegantly furnished, and
everything is fitted up in modern style.
The dining-room is large, well ventilated
and its tables admirably arranged, The
cuisine of the St. Charles Hotel is perfect
in every respect, and surpasses most of
the large hotels in variety and quality.
Their improved passenger and baggage
elevators render all the floors easy of
access. Bathrooms and closets on each
floor, electric bells, steam laundry, barber
shop, elegant billiard parlors, and bar are
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE.
some of the attractions found here. The
Jhouse can accommodate 200 persons or
more, as it contains upwards of 125
rooms, which are supplied with every con-
venience for the comfort of the guests.
The popular proprietor and manager, Mr.
Christian Fernekes, adds the two needful
things—able management and courteous
attention, which transforms hotel-life into
home ease, without its care. One feature
worthy of mote is the perfect provision
and arrangement made for the safety of
guests in case of fire. Mr. Fernekes is a
native of Germany and came to this city
in 1853, and by his successful connection
with this hotel has become closely identi-
fied with the business interests of this city.
TURPIN & CO.,
Great 5, 1 O and 25 Cent Store.
136 Grand Avenue.
MONG the novel industries which
demand consideration in this work,
is the great five, ten and twenty-five cent
store of Turpin & Co., at 136 Grand
avenue. A most select, complete and
varied stock is carried, consisting of dry
goods, toys, stationery, picture books,
tinware, Crockery, glassware, notions,
lace, etc. It is safe to say that nowhere
else in the city can such great bargains
be had in this line as at Turpin & Co.'s.
It was established just one year ago last
May, and has met with great success.
Strangers to our city will fail to see what
advantages Milwaukee presents in a
cheap line of household articles if they
do not call on this firm. Residents of
Milwaukee will also do well to bearin mind
the greatinducements offered by Turpin &
Co., and call with their friends and give
them a trial. There are seven branch
houses of this business in as many differ-
ent cities, which are as follows: Wash-
ington, D. C.; Baltimore; Cleveland;
Bridgeport, Conn.; Columbus, O.; In-
dianapolis, and Milwaukee. The head-
quarters and distributing point for all
these branches is in New York City, under
the able management of Mr. S. T.
Turpin.
EDWARD E. BORGNIS,
Manufacturer of Models, Dies, Small
Machinery, etc.
318 State Street.
HIS shop manufactures scales, yet the
main work is that of the finer and
more particular work, such as small ma-
chinery, models for patents, also dies,
seals, presses, branding irons, baggage
checks, brass labels, etc., and all manner
of repairing. The business was originally
founded in 1852, and has been recently
known as the Phenix Scale Company.
Mr. Borgnis purchased the business in
1876 and in 1882 moved into the premises
at 318 State street. The machinery con-
sists of drill-presses, turning lathes,
punches, etc., and is impelled by an Otto
gas engine of four horse-power. His
specialty is the manufacture of the Phenix
Scale. The shop is neat and tidy in all
its details, and the location is convenient.
Mr. Borgnis was born in Germany in
1842. He spent seventeen years in New
York City where he learned the trade of
a machinist, Milwaukee becoming his
home in 1867.
E. LEIHAMMER,
Manufacturer of and Dealer in
Harness, Saddles, Col-
lars, etc.
265 Third Street.
"HIS business was started by the pres-
ent owner and his father. The son
entered the business with him in 1857, on
the corner of Cedar and West Water
streets, where the business was conducted
until 1881, when it was removed to the
present location. The Senio, partner
retired from the concern in 1878. From
the inception of the business it has pros-
pered until it now enjoys as fine and exten-
sive a patronage as any of its kind in the
city. The greater amount of business is
in the way of manufacturing to order.
Potsdam, Germany, is the place of Mr.
Leihammer's birth, and in 1852 he came
to New York City, where he followed his
trade of carriage trimming. In 1856 he
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
165
came to this city and continued in the
prosecution of harness-making and trim-
ming carriages up to the time of the
establishment of the business we have
just described.
THE REMINGTON STANDARD
TYPE-WEITER,
Chas. H. Welch, Manager.
395 East VVater Street.
HE writing machine called the type-
writer was invented at Milwaukee,
Wis., in 1867, by –C. -Latham-Sholes,
Samuel W. Soule and Carlos Glidden.
It embodies the fundamental principles
of writing machines, and embraces pat-
ented devices which are essential to the
construction of a successful and practical
type-writer. It is the nearest approach
to perfection that has yet been reached.
It meets the demand, and everywhere
throughout the world is being used with
the utmost satisfaction. The average
eighty words per minute. y
strong, compact machine, and is easily
It is a simple,
portable. The No. 2 Remington type-
writer contains seventy-six types, which,
with certain simple combinations, print
about eighty characters, including the
letters of the alphabet (both capitals and
small letters), punctuations, figures, marks
of reference, commercial signs, etc.; in
short, everything required for any of
the principal modern languages. These
eighty characters are printed by the man-
ipulation of only thirty-nine keys.
Messrs. E. Remington & Sons have the
sole right to manufacture the type-writer,
and the material, workmanship and finish
of the machines are such as to fully sus-
tain the enviable reputation of their
world-renowned establishment. In Aug-
ust, 1882, the firm of Wyckoff, Seamans
& Benedict, of New York city, were ap-
pointed sole agents for the sale of the
machines throughout the world. Since
May, 1882, Charles. H. Welch, at 395
East Water street, has represented the
machines in this State. Among the
prominent users of machines in Milwau-
kee are the C. M. & St. P. Rºy, W. C. Rºy,
M. L. S. & W. Rºy, E. P. Allis & Co.,
R. G. Dun & Co., Bradstreet Agency.
Nearly all the leading corporations, firms
and business and professional men are
using one or more of these valuable in-
struments. The sale of these machines
has increased to such an extent that the .
Remingtons have been compelled to add
to their buildings—already the largest of
the kind in the world—and increase the
force of skilled artisans. Important im-
provements have just been put upon the
machine, increasing its durability and
value. The type-writer is adapted to
write the different languages, and is
being sold in all parts of the world.
Joseph wecKERLE,
Practical Jeweler.
3O8 Grand Avernue.
R. Joseph Weckerle, the practical
Grand Avenue Jeweler, established
his business in this city in 1867, coming
to his present quarters, 308 Grand
avenue, two years later. He is manu-
facturer and dealer in watches, clocks,
jewelry, silver and plated ware, etc. Mr.
Weckerle is a native of Germany,
coming to Pittsburg in 1854 and to
Milwaukee in 1867 to follow his trade,
which he had learned in his native
country. He gives particular attention
to repairing watches and jewelry of every
description. Also diamond setting, en-
graving, and chasing done in the neatest
style and at the shortest notice. A full
and varied stock is constantly kept on
hand, great care being taken in his selec-
tions. This policy has led to the stand-
ard reputation of this house, which ex-
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KIPP BROS.,
Manufacturers of and Wholesale
Dealers in Mattresses, Spring
Beds, Cots, etc.
2O8 to 220 South Water Street.
N industry of no small magnitude is
that of the firm of Kipp Bros.,
manufacturers of and wholesale dealers
in mattresses, spring beds, cots, feathers,
comfortables, bedding supplies, curled
hair, excelsior, etc. Their large and
commodious factory
and salesrooms are situ-
ated at Nos. 208 to 22 o
South Water street. It
consists of a large, four-
story brick building,
covering a surface area
of roox2 oo feet. It is
fitted complete in every
respect, and furnished
with the most modern
machinery used in a fac-
tory of this kind. A
large Corliss engine of
125 horse-power is used
to run the extensive
machinery. Upwards of
seventy-five hands are
employed in the various
departments, and the factory is a regular
bee-hive of labor during working hours,
The business was established about five
years ago under the firm name of Mil-
waukee Mattress Co., but recently taken
charge of by Chas. M., Frank J., Wm. J.
and Geo. W. Kipp. Their trade now ex-
tends all over the Union, and aggregates
over $200,ooo annually. Their goods
have a reputation second to none in the
country, and are much sought after by
the trade.
CREAM CITY BREWING CO.
Office, 3OO Thirteenth Street.
frame structure, which was used both as
a brewery and a dwelling house. It was
located on Thirteenth street, between
Cherry and Galena streets, and the busi-
ness was only carried on during the winter
months, the beer being stored in a large
cellar. The property was sold in 1860 to
John Beck and Stephen Weber; two years
later Mr. Beck purchased Mr. Weber's
interest and continued the business alone.
Mr. Beck sold out the business in 1877
to Wm. Gerlach, and on May 1st, 1879,
the Cream City Brewing Co. was organ-
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FACTORY OF KIPP BROTHERs.
ized, with Wm. Gerlach, president; Chas.
Worst, secretary; Jac. Veidt, superintend-
ent. The officers of the company were
changed in September, 1882, to Wm. Ger-
lach, president; Louis P. Best, secretary;
Jacob Veidt, superintendent. In 1883
both Mr. Gerlach and Veidt died, when
in September, 1884, the company was
reorganized and the following officers
and directors were elected: John
Meiners, president; Adolf H. Meyer,
vice-president; Louis P. Best, secre-
tary and treasurer. The breweries are
situated at Nos. 5oo to 510 Thirteenth
street, and on the northwest cor-
|ner Eighth and State streets, with gen-
Th; Cream City Brewing Company eral offices at 501 Thirteenth street. They
dates its origin back to May 1st, also have a large branch-depot and offices
1879, but the business was begun in
1853, when Geo. Wehr, his brother Con-
rad, and C. Foster built a two-story
at Nos. 12, 13 and 15 West Ohio street,
Chicago, Ill. Their main plant on Thir-
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
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feet, where besides the large brewery and
malt house is situated the bottling depart-
ment, where nearly 5,ooo bbls. of beer
are bottled annually. The area of ground
covered on Eighth streetis IooxIoo feetin
dimensions, and contains malt houses and
large cellars. From a business of very
small proportions the company has grown
to its present magnitude amounting to
over 30,000 bbls. a year, and with yearly
sales of $250,000. They make about
50,000 bus. of malt every year, besides
purchasing nearly 30,000 from the
various malsters in this city. The beer
of this company is in such demand that
they are increasing their facilities for a
larger production. A force of nearly fifty
hands is employed, also twelve wagons
and twenty-five horses. All the best and
latest improved machinery is in use at
their brewery, which is run by a steam
engine of 120 horse-power. They have
printing. He is a native of Ireland and
came direct to Milwaukee with his
parents in 1852, and with the exception
of a period of ten years—1865 to 1875–
has always resided in this city.
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MR. & MRS. C. G. SEWERANGE'S
Dancing Academy.
NO. 24.21 Milvvaukee Street.
HE leading and most beautiful danc-
ing academy in the city is that of
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Severance, at No.
42 I Milwaukee street. The dancing hall
has a surface area of 50x60 feet, and is
one of the largest and most beautifully
decorated ones in the Northwest. The
season is from September to June of each
year. Upwards of 500 students are en-
rolled at this academy each season, and
the sociables given at the opening and
just put up a second large improved ice- closing, and during the holidays, have a
machine, built by Weissel & Vilter. In
quality their beer is equal to any in this
city. All orders are promptly filled and
satisfaction guaranteed.
M. McCANANY,
Printing House.
3O3 Grand Avenue.
HE enterprising printing house of M.
McCanany has had a successful run
of business for over three years. The
printing office is situated at 303 Grand
avenue, where, besides the stock of print-
ing material, he has four steam presses,
and a paper cutter. The steam power of
six horse, with other facilities, enables him
to turn out the most satisfactory book, jöb,
and miscellaneous printing at moderate
prices, and of the most improved style of
execution. His trade is chiefly located in
the city, and includes many of the large
mercantile firms, as well as jobs from the
C., M. and St. P. Railway, and M., L.
S. and W. Railway. A force of six hands,
besides the proprietor, is constantly em-
ployed. Mr. McCanany is a practical
printer and conversant with all the details
of this business, having had an experience
of many years in all departments of
wide reputation, and are looked forward
to with great pleasure. Prof. C. G. Sev-
erance was born in Vermont in 1829, and
came to this State in 1837, with his par-
ents, who settled near Whitewater. He
came to Milwaukee in 1860, and for five
years was connected with the musical
profession. Besides his Milwaukee pat-
ronage, Prof. Severance gives instructions
and has classes in the various large cities
Of the State.
D. FISHER & G0.,
Manufacturers of Flavoring Ex-
tracts, Perfumes, etc.
11O and 112 Huron Street.
HIS is a business requiring the most
consummate skill as well as great
care and natural aptitude for the business.
These qualities are all combined in the
person of Mr. D. Fisher, who has since
May, 1879, been engaged in the manu-
facture and sale of flavoring extracts, per-
fumes and grocers’ sundries. His ware-
house and laboratory is situated at Nos.
1 Io and I 12 Huron street, and is com-
pletely filled with a large and varied
assortment of goods' in his line. His
laboratory is most complete in its appoint-
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ments in labor-saving appliances. Mr.
Fisher is a graduate from several scien-
tific colleges, both in this country and
Germany. He first studied chemis-
try in scientific schools at Troy, New
York, and Cambridge, Mass. From
here he went to Germany in order
to complete his education, and studied at
Munich under Liebig, and under Bunsen
in Heidelberg, where he took the degree
of Ph.D., in 1854. He then returned to
America, and was for four years Professor
of Chemistry at the United States Naval
Academy. Mr. Fisher was born in Bos-
ton in 1832, and came to Milwaukee in
1865. In addition to his acquirements
as a manufacturer, Mr. Fisher has had a
long experience and very complete edu-
cation as analytical chemist, and practices
in this profession quite extensively in the
same building he occupies for the main
business.
SAMUEL F. PEA000K.
Undertaker.
431 Broadway.
T is now eight years since Mr. Peacock
| first started in the undertaking busi-
ness at his present location, and during
that time has won a leading place among
the representatives in this branch. He is
a graduate of the Cincinnati embalming
school, and was the first to practice that
science in this city. Mr. Peacock has one
of the largest establishments in the city,
and always keeps on hand a full line of
coffins and caskets of the most approved
style and make, as well as everything
else connected with the trade. Mr. Pea-
cock is a native of England, having been
born at Leeds in 1847. He came with
his parents to this country in 1850, and
later to Milwaukee in 1853, being one of
the old settlers. He is a gentleman of
the highest practical business experience
in his profession and well adapted to his
business. Carriages, flowers, hearses,
shrouds, etc., furnished on application.
His residence being over his place, of
business, renders night calls sure of prompt
attendance. He is president of the Wis-
consin Undertakers’ Association and was
also president of the city and county Un-
dertakers’ Association until a year ago last
September, when he resigned, and about
the same time he was elected one of the
vice-presidents of the United States Un-
dertakers’ Association which met in
Chicago.
Mr. Peacock has lately fitted up beau-
tiful parlors where strangers in the city
can hold services over their dead, and
also nice waiting rooms for visitors or
strangers in the city.
H. H. MARTIN & CO.,
Manufacturing Jewelers and Watch-
makers.
41O Chestrut Street.
N 1882 H. H. Martin & Co. opened,
| at No. 4 Io Chestnut street, an estab-
lishment which is certainly one of the
neatest and best arranged in this or any
other city. They are manufacturing
jewelers and watchmakers, and carry
everything usually found in a place of
this kind. There are watches, clocks,
rings, pins, bracelets, lockets, chains, and
things of that description in endless
variety. The Elgin and several other
equally popular kinds of watches are kept
in stock and sold as low as at any other
reliable house. Mr. H. H. Martin was
born in Milwaukee in 1858, and his part-
ner, Mr. A. Hassman, was born here also
and about the same time. Though
young in years, comparatively, they are
old in experience and in knowledge of
their business.
MRS. M. JACOBI.
Dealer in Embroideries and Fancy
Cloods, etc.
125 Grand Avenue.
HE Ladies' Bazaar at 125 Grand ave-
nue is so well and ſavorably known
to all devotees of fashion, that an extend-
ed description is unnecessary. Mrs. M.
Jacobi is proprietress, and has had charge
of the business for over four years. The
store is centrally located and is 25x4o in
dimensions. Mrs. Jacobi deals in em-
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broideries and fancy goods. The special-
ty of the firm is art embroidery, which is
taught in large classes throughout the city,
and proves the means of popularizing the
“Bazaar.” Mrs. Jacobi employs the as-
sistance of four skilled art-workers, besides
giving out employment to various parties
in the city.
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F. W. SCHNECK,
General House Furnisher.
255 and 257. Third Street.
HE career of the subject of this sketch
T is a fitting illustration of one of the
many cases of success wherein the son
has followed in the footsteps of the
father. The business conducted by Mr.
Schneck is one of the most extensive of
its kind in the city, complete in all its
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details, and managed in every way in a
strict business manner. The establish-
ment was originally founded by Jacob
Schneck, the father of the present pro-
prietor, in the year 1842. The father
was a native of Germany, but the son
was born in Milwaukee.
feet in dimensions, and erected two frame
structures, in one of which he carried on
the business. These were afterwards
moved back on the rear part of his
premises and the site was rebuilt, consist-
to about $50,000.
structed upon the West Side a resi-
Jacob Schneck
first purchased the lot, which is 50x150
ing of a four-story tenement house, the
ground floor being devoted to business
—one occupied by the owner. At that
time this building was considered one of
the largest on the north side of what was
then known as Spring street—now the
beautiful Grand avenue. In the year
1868, Mr. Schneck found his business of
too great a magnitude for himself, and
| he associated with him his two sons,
F. W. Schneck and John Schneck. In
1874, Jacob, the father, retired, leaving
the two boys to the continuance of what
proved to be a very successful course.
In 1881, the two brothers dissolved their
co-partnership, dividing the stock and
real estate. During the same year they
razed the monument of their father's
| labor, and each, upon his respective
property, erected an emblem of his own
honesty and ability. The gentleman with
whom we are now concerned is one of
the young business men of our city. He
has on hand an average stock of $15,000
and upwards, and the yearly sales amount
He has just con-
|dence worth $7,ooo. The building
erected and occupied by him is twenty-
five feet front and one hundred and fifty
feet in depth, consisting of three stories
and basement, the latter being used as
the stove department, the first floor for
| second-hand furniture and for crockery;
upon the second elevation is kept new
furniture and carpeting, and the third
floor is used for storage. Altogether, the
| establishment of F. W. Schneck is one of
the representative ones of the Cream
| City.
HOFFMANN & BAUR,
Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron
- Workers.
146 Clinton Street.
MONG those industries contingent
1. upon, or springing from the iron
trade, may be classed the enterprise of
|Messrs. Hoffman & Baur, tin, copper
and sheet iron workers. Their office and
factory is located at No. 146 Clinton
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years ago by Kleser & Hoffmann; and
two years ago the present firm was organ-
ized. Six skillful and experienced work-
men are constantly employed in the vari-
ous branches of this business. Special
attention is given to tin jobbing and fur-
nace work, while their mill buckets and
elevator work has a fine reputation. All
class of copper, tin and sheet-iron work
is done in a prompt and most satisfactory
manner, and at moderate prices. Speci-
mens of work performed by this firm are
found throughout the entire city and sur-
rounding country, and the business aggre-
gates over $12,000 a year. Both mem-
bers of the firm are natives of this city,
and recognized as business men of merit
and ability.
G. W. WALTERS.
Dealer in Family and Fancy Gro-
ceries.
657 Jackson Street.
HIS gentleman has a good stand for
the grocery business at No. 657
Jackson street, and it is pleasing to note
that his business is rapidly increasing.
He opened the place in November, 1884,
and the business, which was fair at once,
has shown a steady increase ever since.
He carries a full line of fancy and family
groceries, keeps all the choicest fresh
fruits and vegetables in their season, and,
in fact, has as complete and as attractive
a store of the kind as can be found in the
city. Mr.Walters is a native of the good
old State of Virginia, where he was born
in 1846, and has resided in Milwaukee
about ten years. Like every other man
and boy in the South at that time, Mr.
Walters was in the Confederate army,
and saw a great deal of hard service.
THE0DoRE GRossRoPF,
‘Importing Wine Merchant,
Cigars, etc.
1O7 Grand Avenue.
NE of the noted importing houses of
wines and cigars in the city is that
of Theodore Grosskopf, at No. 107
Grand avenue. Although he has been
deceased for over ten years, the business
has been ably conducted by his wife.
This house imports direct from Cuba the
best of Havana cigars, while their liquors
consist of the best brands. A large stock
of the best Kentucky and Pennsylvania
whiskies are also kept on hand. Some
of the oldest Port and Madeira are found
among the selections. This house takes
great pains in choosing its stock of goods
which has given it a standard name in the
trade.
H. J. BAUMGAERTNER,
Sign Painter.
66 VVisconsin Street.
R. Baumgaertner occupies a high posi-
tion among the representative
artists of this class, and is the only
painter in the city who does exclusive
sign painting. This he does in first-class
style, and includes all the various kinds,
such as gilt-glass signs, silk and cloth
banners, and everything in the way of
fancy painting. He employs several
skilled workmen who are adepts at the
brush, and is kept continually busy. Mr.
Baumgaertneris a native of Germany, but
has resided in this city since 1852, and is
highly respected among all classes, and
has been alderman from the Tenth Ward
for the past six years, and has just been
re-elected for another term of three years.
He has been president of the Council for
two years, and in that capacity won
golden opinions for the just and upright
manner in which he conducted the
details of business.
PETER goEBEL,
Manufacturer and Dealer in Tobac-
co, Snuff and Smokers' Articles.
55 Oneida Street.
O be a good cigarmaker one must
have had years of practical expe-
rience at the business. The “ P. G.”
and “High Life” brands of cigars
made by Mr. Goebel have been long
before the public as candidates for favor
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
171
and have met with unqualified success.
He deals mostly in imported goods, the
best quality of his material coming from
Havana. Mr. Goebel established this busi-
ness in 1865, at his present location. He
was born in Germany in 1834, and came
direct from thence to Milwaukee in 1845.
During his long residence he has gained
the confidence of the public by his
straightforward dealings and strict integri-
ty. His business is steadily increasing as
his goods continue to attract attention,
and have gained a leading place among
the first ranks of standard brands.
TschANK's,
Ladies’ and Gent’s Restaurant.
138 Grand Avenue.
Tsº. Ladies' and Gents' Oyster
Parlor and Restaurant at 138 Grand
avenue, northeast corner Second street, is
one of the most popular enterprises of this
kind in the city. It is open day and
night, and being centrally located is serv-
iceable to those whose occupation keeps
them late down town. This restaurant
was established in 1879 at his present
quarters. The restaurant is conducted
entirely on the European plan, so that a
meal can be procured at any price desired.
The genial proprietor and manager at-
tends personally to all the little details of
his business, and places before his cus-
tomers nothing but the very best in the
market. He employs from eight to ten
persons to assist him in the business,
which averages throughout the year 250
persons a day.
SULLIVAN, HAUF & CO.,
Champion Horseshoers.
11O and 112 Clybourn Street.
HE champion horseshoeing establish-
ment of this city is that of Sullivan,
Hauf & Co., at 112 Clybourn street,
where it has been located since 1865,
although the present firm has only been
organized a few years. Mr. W. H. Sulli-
van, the head of the firm, commenced
the business in the year stated, and so
proficient has he become in the business,
that he is the acknowledged champion of
horseshoers, which title he has success-
fully held for years, and in all contests
for supremacy has met with signal vic-
tories. The shop is 20x8o feet in dimen-
sions, with three forges in use, and four
men employed to meet the demands of
the trade. Mr. Sullivan has won his rep-
utation by close study of horses and per-
sistent application to every feature of his
trade. Mr. Sullivan treats all ailments,
such as flat feet, quarter cracks, split feet,
seedy toes, lamanites, stumbling, forging,
cutting corns, bruised heels, Sore tendons,
knee-sprung, etc. He has published a
very meat and attractive circular to horse
owners, setting forth some ideas of prac-
tical utility, which is valuable for all
horsemen to possess.
W. D. BROCK,
Manufacturer of Hydraulic, Steam
and Hand-Power Elevators.
Corrier Clybourn and Third Sts.
NE of the leading manufacturers in
Milwaukee of hydraulic, steam and
hand-power elevators is Mr. W. D. Brock,
whose establishment is situated at 219, 22 I,
223 Clybourn street. For a number of
years this gentleman has been engaged in
constructing and perfecting what is known
as Brock's Safety Worm-geared Elevators,
for use in stores, warehouses, factories,
etc., and it has the reputation of being
the best elevator in use for the purpose
for which it is intended. Mr. Brock also
manufactures spur-geared factory eleva-
tors, and deals extensively in wire rope.
He had patented in July, 1884, the fric-
tion-clutch pulley, for use on all elevators.
Twenty-five skilled workmen are con-
stantly employed in the several depart-
ments, and the aggregate Sales are up-
wards of $100,ooo a year. The erection
of elevators by this firm extends through-
out all parts of the Northwest, and from
a small beginning but a few years ago, has
grown to be one of the important indus-
tries of the Cream City. Mr. Brock's
native State is Illinois, and he came to
Milwaukee in 1872, associating himself
with the business interests of this city.
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F. P. ADLER,
Dealer in Fine Confectionery,
Fruits, etc.
25O VVest water Street.
NE of the most enterprising firms on
this thoroughfare is that of F. P.
Adler. He began business at his present
site in 1873, but with only about one-
fourth the room he now occupies. Mr.
Adler keeps as varied and complete a
stock as may be found in the city, and
his numerous customers always find him
ready for any emergency. The specialty
of this house is the manufacture of ice
cream, and last season the production of
this article was over 2,000 gallons. His ice
cream parlors are attractively fitted up in
the latest style and complete throughout.
The aggregate sales are over $12,000 per
year, and the business is widening and
extending itself rapidly. Mr. F. P. Adler
was born in Germany, but came to Mil-
waukee with his parents when he was
only four years old.
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CHAS. H. CLARKE,
Letter Cutter, Engraver
Sinker.
COr”. East VVater a rh Ci VVisconsin
Streets.
R. CLARKE is most successful
in this line of business, and has add-
ed to his facilities in order to supply the
increased demands, until it has grown to
large proportions, and extends through-
out the entire country. He was born in
Boston in 1835 and resided there until
the breaking out of the civil war. He
served three months in the Union army
as adjutant, and was a participant in the
disastrous battle of Bull Run. In 1862
he came to this city and opened up in
his present quarters, at the corner of East
Water and Wisconsin streets. He man-
ufactures marking plates, rubber stamps,
seals, burning brands, advertising plates,
flour brands, steel letters and figures,
badges, door plates, checks, type, stencil
dies, outfits, etc. He has invented a
changeable rubber stamp that works to
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perfection. It is so arranged that letters
can be taken out, and others substituted,
such as changing an address or name.
The patent is now pending. Mr. Clarke
is president of the Wisconsin State Musical
Association, and in that capacity has a
large acquaintance throughout the State.
J. JOSTEN,
House and Sign Painter.
2O9 Second Street.
NE of the first-class shops on the West
Side at which to get any kind of
work in this line done neatly and expedi-
tiously, is that at No. 209 Second street.
The business was established in 1882 and
has met with very great success, attributa-
ble to the personal attention and ability
of Mr. J. Josten, the proprietor. Prompt
attention is given to the filling of all or-
ders in the line of house and sign paint-
ing, graining, glazing, calcimining and
paper-hanging. Fourteen to eighteen
skilled journeymen are employed during
the season, with competent foremen, to
meet the wants of this trade. This house
is every way worthy the success which it
has achieved. Mr. Josten was born in
Milwaukee, learning and pursuing his
trade here. g
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GEO, HAYS,
Proprietor Second Street Planing
Mill and Box Factory.
Nos. 145 and 12.7 Second Street.
HIS business was established at its
present quarters, 145 and 147 Sec-
ond street, some twenty years ago. After
passing through various hands, it was
taken charge of by Mr. Hays, in 1870.
The premises occupied are central and
commodious, having a frontage of Ioo
feet on Second street, with a depth of 150
feet. This establishment is known as the
Second Street Planing Mill and Box Fac-
tory, doing all kinds of turning, planing,
re-sawing and scroll-sawing, besides man-
ufacturing all styles of boxes for tea cad-
dies and packing boxes of every descrip-
tion. Banisters and newel posts con-
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stantly on hand, and stair railing made to
order. Constant employment is given to
twelve men; the force is greatly increased
during the busy season. The machinery
consists of two planers, two cross-cut,
One Scroll and one band-saw, all of which
are run by a 35 horse-power engine.
Mr. Hays is a native of the North of Ire-
land, and came to Milwaukee in 1865.
He is a thoroughly practical business
man, fully acquainted with every detail
of his successful and growing trade.
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WM. BOYLE,
Practical Horseshoer.
49 Second Street.
R. Wm. Boyle commenced business
for himself in this line in 1875, at
123 Clybourn street, where he remained
for eight years. Increase of business en-
abled him to erect a fine, commodious
brick shop, 25x75 feet in dimensions, at
49 Second street, where he enjoys the
reputation he has acquired in his trade
in a large patronage. He employs five
or six hands to assist him with his work,
and three forges are kept running con-
stantly. Mr. Boyle is a native of Wis-
consin, and came to this city in 1865,
since which time he has been connected
in various ways with this branch of busi-
ness. He is known by all as a straight-
forward, experienced workman, an honor
to his trade, and worthy the liberal pat-
ronage he receives.
HENRY W. MOTT,
Druggist.
138 Grand Avenue, Corner Sec-
On C Street.
NE of the neatest and most attractive
stores in this line on the West Side
is that of Henry W. Mott, 138 Grand
avenue. He occupies a large and hand-
some store, 22x75 feet in dimensions,
which is tastefully fitted up and presents
an attractive appearance. He carries a
large and well-selected stock, averaging
$5,000 in value, consisting of pure drugs
and medicines, all popular and reliable
patent preparations, chemicals, surgical
instruments, toilet and fancy articles, per-
fumery, druggists' sundries, and all such
goods as are to be found in well-con-
ducted establishments of this kind. The
store is admirably located, and is doing
an annual business of upwards of $10,-
ooo, and it is rapidly increasing. Mr.
Mott is a thoroughly skilled and prac-
tical druggist and pharmacist, and be-
stows his personal attention on his large
and growing prescription trade.
Mr. Mott is a native of New York
State, and came west to Wisconsin in
1865. He entered the First New York
Light Artillery, Battery D, serving two
years and ten months in the Army of the
Potomac.
CLEMENTS BROTHERS,
Practical Steam-Heating and Ven-
tilating Engineers.
445 Jefferson Street.
N this climate the people must have
their houses comfortable and well-
warmed in the winter, and the skilled
services of men like the Clements Bros.
are, therefore, in constant requisition.
That they understand their business
thoroughly is shown by the fact that the
heating apparatus in the splendid new
Chapman building came from their estab-
lishment, as did the apparatus in the
Northwestern Insurance building, and in
many other similar structures here and
elsewhere. The brothers were born in
Scotland, where they received the best
mechanical education the best schools of
the land afforded. They came to Mil-
waukee in 1878, and were for a time
interested in the management of the
steam heating company then in operation
here. They have all the work they can
attend to, not only in the city, but also
throughout the cities and the larger towns
of Wisconsin and of Michigan. They
are agents for Bates' patent self-feeding
boiler for low pressupe. Negotiations for
work to be done can be arranged by mail
or by calling in person at their place of
business.
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DR. FRED. S. HADLEY,
Dentist.
COrºner Milvvaukee and Mason
Streets.
Fall the neat and well arranged dental
parlors of this city, for light, venti-
lation and location, those of Fred. S.
Hadley, in the new and elegant Colby
& Abbot Block—room 54—are among
the most attractive. Although a young
man, he has by skillful operations and
prompt attention established a reputation
and practice of no small proportions.
He makes no specialty of any particular
branch of his profession. Dr. Hadley
is a graduate from the dental department
of the State University of Michigan,
situated at Ann Arbor. He is fast
advancing towards the front rank of his
chosen profession, and it is easy to
predict for him great success.
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J. LANGENBERGER,
Contractor and Builder.
146 Third Street.
MONG the most extensive contract-
ors and builders in this city is J.
Langenberger, whose large and commo-
dious shop is situated in the rear of 146
Third street and 2.17 Grand avenue.
This business was started over thirty years
ago, and in 1874 the present proprietor
took charge of the business. Mr. Lan-
genberger constantly employs upwards of
twenty-five hands, and sometimes has as
high as seventy-five men on his pay-roll.
He is constantly engaged in large
building contracts throughout the city
and country. A 20-horse-power engine
is used at the shop to run the neces-
sary machinery for the business.
All work turned out is first-class in
every particular, and entire satisfaction is
guaranteed. Mr. Langenberger received
the contract for the carpenter work on
the Exposition Building, Conro Block,
Evening Wisconsin, and is just finishing
the Light Horse Squadron's New Armory.
He is a native of Bavaria, and came to
this city in 1846. He is a practical me-
chanic and possesses good business qual-
ifications, which have added so materially
to his success.
C. W. S.T. JOHN,
R. R. Employment Agency.
Corner East VVater and Mason
Streets.
N employment agency is a necessity
in a city the size of Milwaukee.
There are times when a large force of
men are needed for some particular work,
and the most ready way to procure them
is through an agency, whose business it
is to keep posted in that respect. For
the past six years Mr. St. John has been
in this business at his present location,
and has found employment for thousands
of people. His chief line is the employ-
ment of railroad laborers for the South
and West, and yearly furnishes these
companies, on an average, twenty-five
hundred men. He is a native of Mil-
waukee, having been born in this city in
1849, and is well-known for his enter-
prising and persevering character. He
can be found at his place of business,
always ready to transact any business in
his line. e
H. WEDEN,
House and Sign Painter, Dealer in
Wall Paper and Window Shades.
6O1 Jackson Street.
HE neat, attractive business appear-
ance of the place makes you feel at
once that Mr. H. Weden, at No. 601
Jackson street, is capable of doing first-
class work in his line, which is painting,
glazing, paper-hanging and fresco-paint-
ing, and that his large force of skilled as-
sistants must be kept pretty busy through-
out the house-building and house-reno-
vating season. The salesroom, office and
paper department is large and airy and
well lighted, being 22x4o feet in ex-
tent. The basement is used as a paint-
shop, and it is there that the fine sign and
other ornamental painting is done. Mr.
Weden carries one of the finest Stocks of
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paper in the city, and gets his supplies
largely from the East—from Philadelphia
and New York. His paints he buys
mostly in Chicago and in this city.
Among the many residences and other
buildings in this city on which Mr. We-
den did the painting and glazing may be
mentioned the First Ward School build-
ing, St. Mary's Day School, the Effing-
ham residence on Grand avenue, the
Campbell residence on Twenty-fourth
street, Judge Mallory's house, the houses
of A. E. Inbusch, of Mr. Benjamin, of Ed-
win Reynolds, of C. H. O'Neill and of P.
B. Mann. Mr. Weden was born in Ger-
many in 1848, and came to Milwaukee in
1854. He has resided here ever since.
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PETER, EHR,
Custom Tailor.
No. 393 Broadway.
TNHE above is an old established busi-
ness, and dates its inception from
1861, Mr. Ehr becoming proprietor in
1881. He does all kinds of custom tail-
oring, but makes a specialty of the re-
pairing of clothing, and has built up a
large business in this branch of the trade,
and employs three practical assistants in
the work. He was born in Prussia, Ger-
many, in 1862, and was brought by his
parents to this country the same year,
settling in Columbia county. He came
to Milwaukee in 1870, and has since re-
sided here. He turns out work of the
first quality, and guarantees satisfaction.
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J. T. WALLIS,
Manufacturer and Dealer in Har-
ness, Saddles, Bridles, etc.
29O and 292 Broadway.
HE above is one of the oldest estab-
lishments of the kind in the city,
having been founded by its present pro-
prietor in 1845. It was started on rather a
small scale, but has increased steadily with
the growth of the city. Mr. Wallis manu-
factures harnesses and trunks, and carries
a stock of about $3,000, and his an-
nual sales reach nearly $15,000. Hav-
ing had forty years’ experience in the
trade, he is thoroughly adapted to his
business, and this is probably the reason
of his uniform success. At his salesrooms
can be found a most complete stock of
trunks, valises, ſharnesses, whips, robes,
saddles, bridles, collars, etc., all exhibit-
ing superior workmanship. Mr. Wallis
was born in England in 1827, and came
to this city in 1844, since which time he
has been actively and prominently iden-
tified with the business Interests of our
city.
GRAND AVENUE HOTEL,
H. M. Merryman, Proprietor.
909 Grand Avenue.
HE best family hotel in Milwaukee is
the Grand Avenue House, between
Ninth and Tenth streets. Mr. H. M. Mer-
ryman is proprietor,and adds the two need-
ful things—able management and court-
eous attention—which renders this house
so popular to pleasure-seekers, and those
desiring large and pleasant quarters away
from the noise and bustle of business.
The location is all that could be desired—
at the center of the widest part of the
avenue, through which the monument-
park runs. The hotel site covers an area
of 180 by 200 feet, and is just opposite
the palatial residence and grounds of
Hon. Alex. Mitchell. The house is com-
modious and attractive, and contains all
the modern improvements for the com-
fort and safety of the many guests. The
parlors are tastefully ſurnished, and the
guest-chambers elegant and comfortable.
The dining-room is large, well ventilated,
and its tables admirably arranged, and the
bill of fare could not be improved.
Throughout the house everything is done
to transform hotel life into home ease
without its care. Summer guests enjoy
spacious apartments, wide halls, the free-
dom of parlors, broad verandas, and ele-
gant lawns. Street cars pass the door
every few minutes, thus enabling guests to
conveniently reach the center of the city,
depots, and the various places of amuse-
ment. Mr. Merryman is a native of
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Maine and has resided here since 1879,
and has thoroughly identified himself with
this city and her interests, and spares
neither time, money nor pains to make all
who seek the Grand Avenue Hotel as
comfortable as possible.
FRED. ZANDER,
Undertaker and Dealer in Coffins,
Caskets, etc.
5O9 Broadway and 482 Eleventh
Street.
RED. Zander, the undertaker, at No.
509 Broadway, has carried on the
business in this city since 1840; first on
Martin street and then on East Water,
and then in the fine new quarters occu-
pied to-day. He has also a branch
establishment at No. 482 Eleventh street,
with a large, well-stocked livery stable in
the rear. Mr. Zander’s father was the
first undertaker in Milwaukee. He deals
in coffins, caskets, shrouds and habits,
and has some of the finest hearses and
carriages in the city. Carriages for par-
ties and weddings are also furnished, and
all orders receive prompt attention.
Math. Franzen is the embalmer of the
establishment, and has been with Mr.
Zander seventeen years. He is thor-
oughly skilled in his work, and gives sat-
isfaction in every case entrusted to his
care. Mr. Zander is a gentleman so well
fitted for his work naturally, that “the
right man in the right place ’’ may be
truthfully said of him.
J. BINNEY,
Agent for Platt & Company's Bal-
timore Oysters.
31O East VVater Street.
rTHE house of Platt & Co., of Baltimore,
Mö., ranks among the foremost es-
tablishments of this kind in the United
States. Their business covers the whole
range of oyster, fruit and vegetable pack-
ing, and their goods are sold in every
quarter of the civilized world. The trans-
actions of this firm are enormous, and
constitute an important element in the
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packing trade of the United States. Mr.
J. Binney is their agent at this place, and
does a wholesale trade through Wisconsin,
Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota. He es-
tablished the business in 1874, and since
that time his business has more than
quadrupled, his sales last year amounting
to $40,000. A specialty is made of the
famous “Tiger” brand of oysters, which
have been favorites of long standing with
epicures all over the country. They are
Selected with the greatest care, and are
unsurpassed for size and flavor. Mr.
Binney occupies premises at No. 310 East
Water street. He is a native of Boston,
and was born in 1835, and came to this
city in 1857.
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GEO. E. POTTER,
Livery, Boarding and Sale Stable.
1OO Detroit Street.
THE building occupied by Mr. Potter
is two stories in height, and is well
fitted with all the modern conveniences.
He has some most elegant turn-outs,
which are furnished with or without
drivers, at reasonable rates. Every step
to insure the comfort of patrons is taken.
The stable, although recently established,
has built up a good business on a solid
foundation and its success is assured.
The proprietor, Mr. Geo. E. Potter, is a
native of this city, and was born in 1864.
He takes horses to board by the day,
week or month, and has a number of
fine horses in connection with the estab-
lishment, and is always prepared to suit
customers in every instance.
GURNEY BRICK MACHINE
WORKS,
T. C. Gurney, Proprietor.
97 VVisconsin Street.
TH E Gurney Brick Machine was in-
vented by Gaylord Martin, and
patented in 1883 by T. C. Gurney, since
which time some important improvements
have been added, on which a patent has
been granted during the present year. It
is now considered the most perfect brick
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machine in use, having been gotten up
under the supervision of Mr. Martin, who
is a practical brick-maker, and knows the
wants of manufacturers.
Mr. Gurney, the proprietor, has been
connected with the manufacture of brick
machines for a number of years, having
given a good deal of attention to the
matter, and has examined the machinery
in use both in the East and West, and
has visited the large yards where the
brick are manufactured in all the large
cities of the Union. The Gurney ma-
chine has been a development from stage
to stage of improvement, till it has grown
into a machine which will work any clay
and meet the wants of any locality.
Lumps of clay and stones this ma-
chine disposes of in short order by
means of crushers, which are inside of
the machine.
Mr. Gurney is a native of Western
New York, but has been a resident of this
city over thirty years, during which time
he has been connected with her manu-
facturing interests.
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SPENCERIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE,
CORNER WISCONSIN ST. AND BROADWAY,
Established 1863.
OHR almost a quarter of a century the
“Spencerian Business College’”
has been in successful operation under
the direct management of Robert C.
Spencer, son of Platt R. Spencer, founder
of the Spencerian system of penman-
ship. The efficient corps of able instruct-
ors in the various departments of this
school give the pupils thorough drill in
all the studies pursued. .
The design of this Institution is to
qualify youth and middle-aged men and
women to transact business intelligently,
honorably and successfully for themselves
or others.
The Spencerian Business College makes
a specialty of business education, to which
it confines itself, and for which it affords
to both sexes superior advantages.
The experience of its thousands of stu-
(13)
dents in the various departments of pri-
vate and public life, has proven beyond
question the efficiency and value of its in-
struction and training. -
This College aims to develop business
talents, awaken and direct business ener-
gies, inculcate sound business principles,
cultivate the best business qualities and
character, and lay the foundation of prac-
tical usefulness in the business acquire-
ments, habits, and thoughts of young peo-
ple.
The benefits arising from the teaching,
training and influence of the Spencerian
Business College, are equally important to
all classes. They tend greatly to improve
the condition and prospects of those who
are dependent upon their own exertions,
by furnishing them the means of earning
a living and gaining a competence. They
also afford the best safeguards against
losses and reverses of fortune, so liable to
overtake those whose business education
is defective. They enhance the prosper-
ity of individuals and communities, and
avert evils and misfortunes arising from
ignorance and inefficiency in business
affairs.

The course of study in the Spencerian
Business College meets the requirements
of business life by the combination, adap-
tation and practical application of the fol-
lowing, viz.: 1. Book-keeping and Busi-
ness. 2. Business Writing. 3. Business
Arithmetic. 4. Commercial Zaw. 5. Civil
Government. 6. Business Practice. 7.
Banks and Banking. 8. Office Work.
The foregoing furnishes a fair outline of
the design, claims, scope and methods of
the Spencerian Business College, as at
present conducted. They are accepted
and approved by the better judgment and
progressive sentiment of the business com-
munity to which they appeal.
The students and graduates of the
Spencerian Business College during the
past twenty years and more, numbering
many thousands, have been absorbed into
the business life of all portions of our own
and foreign countries, and constitute a
body of useful, honorable and sterling
men and women, inferior to none. In
fact, they comprise a most enterpris-
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ing, able and influential body of people
whose average prosperity is greater than
that of any other equal number of per-
sons, due largely to the benefits derived
in the Spencerian Business College, Mil-
waukee, Wis., where students are received
any time.
JAMES MORGAN,
Importer and Dealer in Dry Goods,
Millinery, etc.
386 and 388 East Water Street.
NE of the largest wholesale and re-
tail dry goods and millinery estab-
lishments in this city is that of Jas. Mor-
gan, located at Nos. 386 and 388 East
Water street. The business was estab-
lished in 1874 in a comparatively small
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way, having a force of less than a dozen
people, but now upwards of 205 persons
are constantly employed, and the trade
extends all over the Northwest. The
location is in the most central portion of
the city, and easily reached by the three
lines of street railways from the depots,
steamboat wharves, and all parts of the
city. The building is four stories in
height, with a large basement, all the
floors having dimensions of 40x150 feet.
Here is made as fine a display of dress
goods, cloaks, shawls, flannels, curtain
laces, blankets, shoes and millinery as can
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE.
be found in the Northwest. A special
feature is the perfect lighting and ventila-
tion, beside the perfect mode of transit
from one floor to another by means of
from the education and training received
the large passenger elevator. Mr. Mor-
gan's maxim in business has always been
to sell the best materials at popular prices
and not to keep any old stock on hand.
His special, season and remnant sales
draw large crowds and meet with great
favor from the shopping public. He
gives his close personal attention to every
feature of his large business, and is ably
assisted by his brother Thomas, who
entered the establishment in 1874. Mr.
James Morgan is a native of Perthshire,
Scotland, and came to this country in
1863, but followed the dry goods business
in Illinois for ten years before coming to
Milwaukee, and is closely related with
every enterprise that adds to our city's
advancement. Mr. Thomas Morgan is
also a native of Scotland, and came direct
to Milwaukee in 1874, since which time
he has had charge of the financial depart-
ment of this large establishment.
RUNDLE, SPENCE & CO.
Nos. 63 and 65 Second Street.
HIS business was established in a
general way by the senior member
of the firm, J. P. Rundle, on Milwau-
kee street, in 1867, and is one of the
most prominent houses in this line in the
Northwest. In 1870 Mr. T. Spence was
admitted as partner, and in 1881 the
present company was organized by the
| addition of Mr. E. C. Smith. The firm
occupy a five-story brick building, which
they own, on Second street, between Cly-
bourn and Fowler streets. The structure
has ground dimensions of 5ox 150 feet,
and cost about $20 ooo. The basement
and first and second stories are used as a
store, in which the large wholesale busi-
ness of the firm is conducted. The third
floor is fitted up as a brass and iron finish-
ing shop; the fourth floor as a brass
foundry and the fifth floor as an iron
foundry. The firm manufacture all kinds
of brass and iron goods for plumbers,
steam and gas-fitters. Their trade ex-


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tends to almost every State in the Union,
but is principally confined to the North-
ern and Western States, and is steadily
increasing. They employ from Ioo to 150
experienced workmen for the various
departments of their establishment, and
traveling men are kept constantly on
the road. This establishment has ma-
chinery of the latest device for their
use, and is run by a fifty-horse power
engine. Mr. J. P. Rundle is a native of
the State of Conneticut, born at Hartford
in 1842. He came to Milwaukee in 1858,
and has ever been connected with the
commercial interests of this city. Both
Mr. Spence and Mr. Smith are natives of
Milwaukee and are widely known as
pushing business men.
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WM. ROHLFING & Co.,
Milwaukee's Largest Music House.
Cor. Broadvvay and Mason St.
NE of the largest and most popular
musical emporiums, not only in this
city, but in the Northwest, is that of Wm.
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way and Mason street, extending from
Nos. Io2 to IIo Mason street. This
house was established in Milwaukee in
1878, and has a trade which extends over
all parts of the Northwest. The leading
pianos manufactured are sold by this firm,
the Steinway and Knabe being their
specialties. Organs, too, are handled in
large variety and sold at prices and on
terms not easily duplicated. Their large
stock of sheet music and musical mer-
chandise is complete in every respect.
Importing of foreign music is their spe-
cialty in this line, and they are agents for
the United States for several European
music publishing houses. They are also
publishers of the prize cantata—“Colum-
bus,” for which Mr. John Plankinton
donated $1,000, and which was awarded
by the judges, Prof. E. Catenhusen, Dr.
F. L. Ritter and Dr. L. Maas, to Mr. C.
Joseph Brambach, musical director at
Bonn on the Rhine. It was chosen from
forty competing composers from all parts
of the world, and will be sung at the 24th
National Sängerfest to be held in this
city next July, from the 21st to the 25th.
Wm. Rohlfing, the enterprising head of
this establishment, was born in Quacken-
bruck, Province of Hanover, Germany,
December 17th, 1830. He came to
America in 1852, after having acquired a
thorough knowledge of the business in
the extensive piano manufactory of his
father. He immediately entered the house
of Wm. Knabe & Co., of Baltimore, where
he remained for twenty years, and where
he achieved such remarkable success in his
chosen line. He came to Milwaukee in
May, 1878, and began business in a small
way, but through his energy and experi-
ence it soon developed into the large
establishment we see to-day. He is ably
assisted by his three sons, who are a
tower of strength to this enterprise. The
great secret of this firm's prosperity is
due largely to the fact that they are
practical piano makers and can thus
judge of the quality of the instruments
which they handle, giving their custom-
ers the benefit of this experience. The
firm consists of Mr. Wm. Rohlfing and
his three sons, Wm. Rohlfing, Jr., Charles
and Albert. They are all practical musi-
clans, having been brought up in the busi-
ness under the tutelage of their father,
who is acknowledged to be the best judge
of musical merchandise in the country.
This firm has long been highly esteemed
by the musical circles of the country, the
latest compliment being their representa-
tion in the leading committees of the
Sångerfest which is to be held in this city
next July.

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Manufacturers of Esch's Patent
Platform Truck.
58 and 6C) Second Street.
IE call attention to the patent plat-
W form truck of John Esch & Son,
which to-day stands without a rival, and
is the best, strongest, easiest handled and
most convenient of any in the market.
This truck fills a want long felt, doing
away with the reach, enabling the driver
to safely make a short turn. Can be
built with either thimble-skein or iron
axle. The above cut fully represents the
truck. Parties wishing to manufacture
trucks with patent improvements, on roy-
alty, will, for terms, etc., please address
the above firm. The following parties
are using these trucks in Milwaukee, to
whom reference can be made as to utility
and general practical value: John Plank-
inton & Co., packers; Layton & Co.,
packers; Ph. Best Brewing Co.; Board
of Public Works city of Milwaukee, for
sprinkling wagons, now using twenty;
Milwaukee Harvester Co., Hoffmann &
Billings Mfg. Co., Shadbolt, Boyd & Co.,
Suelflohn & Seefeld, and many others.
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FLINT & PERE MARQUETTE
R. R.
L. C. Whitney, General Western
Agent,
Milwaukee, VVis.
HE Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad
and Steamboat Line is becoming the
most popular passenger and freight route
between this city, Ludington, Manistee,
and all Eastern points. The large and
magnificent steamers of this line, Nos. I
and 2, were built expressly for this Com-
pany, the cut on the inside front cover
being an exact representation of these
Steamers as taken from the official draft.
They are new and well arranged for the
accommodation of passengers. One of
these steamers leaves Milwaukee every
evening, except Saturday, at 8:15 o'clock,
from their dock on West Water Street,
west end of Buffalo Street Bridge, arrives
at Ludington at 5 A. M., and at Manistee
at 8 A. M., Connecting with the steamer
Geo. D. Sanford, Jr., for Frankfort, and
at Ludington with the fast day express
for the East. This is the only direct line
to Saginaw, Bay City and Toledo, and its
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steamers are the strongest, safest and new-
est on the lakes, of about 1,000 tons bur-
den each. This line was established in
this city about three years ago, Mr. A.
Patriarche being General Western agent
then, but about two years ago he resigned
and Mr. L. C. Whitney, the present Gen-
eral Western Agent, took charge of the
business and by his liberal policy and per-
severance, has built up a first-class busi-
ness for this line. The boats run winter
and summer, and have been very success-
ful thus far.
Mr. Whitney is a native of N. Y. State,
but has been in the service of the F. & P.
M. R. R. Co. for seventeen years.
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ORMSBY LIME COMPANY,
Manufacturers and Jobbers of Lime.
395 East VVater Street.
N important branch of commercial ac-
tivity, and one of the leading business
interests of Milwaukee, is that of the
“Ormsby Lime Company,” with works
at Grafton, Hayton and Brillion, this
State, and headquarters at No. 395 East
Water street. The business was estab-
lished, with only four small kilns, in 1876, by
the present company, which has at its head
the following officers: J. W. Ormsby,
president; O.W. Robertson, secretary and
treasurer, and George Nicholson, Jr., su-
perintendent of the works. The en-
tire plant of the company, including their
timber lands, consists of over 6oo acres.
The Grafton plant is twenty-five miles,
and the two at Hayton are seventy-seven
miles from Milwaukee, on the M. & N.
R. R., while those at Brillion are on the
M., L. S. & W., just 1oo miles north of
here. Their plant consists now of eighteen
large kilns, which give them a capacity
of turning out 2,200 barrels per day.
They employ all the way from Ioo to 250
men, according to the season of the year.
In 1885 they manufactured 218,000 bar-
rels of lime, shipping nearly 2,000 car-
loads to different parts of the country.
Two large steam Ingersoll rock drills are
used at these works to facilitate opera-
tions, and upwards of 500 cars of sup-
plies and material were received at their
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works during the year. This company
are proprietors of “The Ormsby Patent
Lime Bin,” which preserves lime from
air slaking. They also have a patent proc-
ess for preserving bulk lime from air-
slaking while in transit, a necessary feat-
ure in transportation to long distances.
We call special attention of the trade
and of consumers of lime in general to
the statement of the chemical analysis of
their Brillion and Hayton limestones,
which is submitted as the only correct and
scientific test of quality. This analysis
shows that their Hayton lime is nearly
ninety-nine per cent. pure, while their
Brillion lime is over ninety-nine per cent.
pure. This fact places the Ormsby lime
at the head of all other limes produced in
the Northwest, and consumers can feel
perfectly confident in its working quali-
ties for stone and brick work, and es-
pecially for fine white finishing. It is
only just to say, in conclusion, that under
its present able management this com-
pany is certain to retain the ascendency in
the future which it has acquired in the
past, and that it will continue to exert a
healthy influence among the important
industries of this city's commerce.
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MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF
MUSIC,
John C. Fillmore, Director.
Corner Milvvaukee and Mason Sts.
HIS school is most centrally located
in the imposing and handsome
Colby & Abbot building, on the corner
of Mason and Milwaukee streets. This
institution was founded in the beginning
of 1884 by the present director, Prof.
John C. Fillmore, and immediately met
with favor from the music-loving people
of Milwaukee and the State. This school
gives first-class instruction in all depart-
ments at the lowest prices. The special
results aimed at are to secure in its pupils:
a solid, well-grounded technic; musical
intelligence, and artistic interpretation.
The general plan of the school is that of
the famous conservatories of Europe and
America, and looks toward producing
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intelligent musicians of broad culture, as
well as skillful executants. Special atten-
tion is paid to the elementary instruction
of children in playing the pianoforte.
They will be taught in classes of four,
and will receive three lessons, forty
minutes in length, every week. One
feature of this school is the concerts—six
in number—given during the year by the
pupils and teachers. They are well
attended and highly appreciated by the
musical circles of the city. The in-
structors are: John C. Fillmore, piano-
forte, organ, theory (harmony, part writ-
ing, counterpoint, form and composition),
and history of music; Max L. Laue,
vocal culture, Italian, German and Eng-
lish singing; C. G. Muskat, violin play-
ing; Cornelia T. Stayner and Anna R.
Robinson, pianoforte (primary depart-
ment); Ernst Beyer, violoncello; N. D.
W. Ainsworth, flute (Boehm and com-
mon); J. B. Hoffmann, guitar, cornet and
all brass orchestral instruments; P.
Chapek, clarinet; H. W. Mueller, zither.
Prof. Fillmore is a graduate of Ober-
lin College, Ohio, and has also spent two
years at Leipzig, Germany, making a
specialty of theory, under Prof. Rich-
ter. Prof. Fillmore is well known to
the music world as the author of
“The History of Pianoforte Music,”
with biographical sketches and critical
estimates of its greatest masters. It is a
I2nno. volume of 245 pages, bound in
cloth and costs $1.50. All informa-
tion regarding this work, or terms of
tuition and calendar of school will be
freely and gladly given by calling on or
addressing Prof. John C. Fillmore.
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MILWAUKEE TYPE AND ELEC-
TROTYPE FOUNDRY,
Francis Keehn, Proprietor.
128 Second Street.
R. Keehn founded this establish-
ment in 1869 and has since been
sole proprietor. He commenced business
in a moderate way at 416 East Water
street, where he remained for about four
years, when he moved to his present
location, 128 Second street. The dimen-
sions of the foundry are 35x50 feet, in
the fore part of which he has fitted up a
salesroom. Two machines are run and
six to eight hands employed. His spe-
cialty is in manufacturing newspaper type
of the very best quality, though he is
besides a dealer in all kinds of printers’
material, and can furnish, on short
notice, complete outfits for newspaper
and job offices. His trade, which is
large among the various newspapers of
this city, is also extended through this
and other States. Mr. Keehn is a native
of France, born 30 miles from Metz, in
the department of Moselle, March 7th,
1826, coming to this country when but
five years old.
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THE THOMAS & WENTWORTH
MANUFACTURING CO.,
Manufacturers of Brass and Iron
Goods.
17O and 172 VVest VVater Street.
HE representative and leading house
in the manufacture of brass and iron
goods in this city is the “Thomas and
Wentworth Manufacturing Co.,” at Nos.
17o and 172 West Water street. The
business was originally founded by Mr.
R. J. Thomas, with a capital of less than
$500, in 1872, and was located on Ferry
street, South Side. Mr. D. O. Bebb was
associated with Mr. Thomas for a num-
ber of years, and the business carried on
by them was very successful. The trade
increased so rapidly that greater facilities
were required, so the present company
was incorporated, with Mr. R. J. Thomas,
president; W. S. Wentworth, treas-
urer, and A. B. Pursell, secretary. Their
large and beautiful building, which
is four stories high, 40x100 feet in dimen-
sions, is well stocked with plumbers’,
brewers’, railway and engineers’ supplies;
Babbitt metal, steam, gas and water
fittings; wrought and cast iron pipe;
belting, packing and hose ; in fact, a
complete assortment of everything in the
line of brass and iron goods. They
employ a large force of skilled workmen,
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who turn out a most superior class of
goods. This firm are inventors of various
specialties in the brass trade, such as oil-
cups, bearings, gauges, etc., which they
ship to all parts of the world. Their
establishment contains the most improved
machinery, for the running of which a
forty-horse power engine is used. The
home dealings of this company are very
large, and their trade also extends to
almost every State in the Union, and they
even ship to some of the European
countries, so that the house adds much
to the commercial reputation of this city.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BLOCK.
Grand Avenue, between sixth and
Seventh Streets.
HE large number of fine buildings
erected during the past few years
has done much to beautify the city, and
none has added more in this respect than
that of the “New Hampshire Block.” It
is designed as a business and dwelling
block, and meets these requirements per-
fectly. The building has a frontage on
Grand avenue of 150 feet, and a depth of
sixty-five feet, being four stories in height,
with six tiers of bay-windows extending
from the second to the fourth floor.
There are six large stores on the gound
floor, each having afrontage of twenty-four
feet, and a large office on the Sixth street
side. Four commodious stairways extend
from the street to the fourth floor. The
second and third floors are arranged into
twelve flats of six rooms each. The ceilings
are high, and each flat is furnished
with a large range, steam chests and gas.
The fourth floor contains about fifty
rooms divided into twenty-four apart-
ments. These are also rented to individ-
uals or families. The entire building is
heated throughout by steam, and the
most perfect arrangement is made for
light and ventilation. For comfort and
convenience these flats and rooms are un-
surpassed by anything of the kind in the
city. The building is entirely fire-proof
and erected in the most substantial man-
ner, and is an ornament to the city.
Strong balconies and stairways are con-
structed in the rear, so that every flat and
suite of rooms has an outlet in that direc-
tion, and can receive all groceries and
supplies in the same manner. The New
Hampshire Block was begun July 16th,
1882, and completed for occupancy Feb.
Ioth, 1883. Mr. E. D. Holton, the owner
of this block, is one of Milwaukee's repre-
sentative men, and by his wealth and
position has done much toforward the gen-
eral interests of this city.
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CARPENTER & UNDERWOOD,
Manufacturers of Crackers and
Fancy Biscuits.
518 and 52O Grand Avenue.
HIS firm are extensive manufacturers
of crackers and biscuits of all vari-
eties, and also fine bread for the city trade,
and is the largest exclusive cracker
bakery in the State. Their salesrooms,
offices and workshops occupy their new
and handsome block, 518 and 520 Grand
They have the
avenue, erected in 1883.
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this business, and they manufacture up-
wards of 200 barrels of crackers daily,
using from forty to fifty barrels of flour.
Forty hands are employed, and five
wagons are kept busy delivering to the
retail trade throughout the city. A large
trade has been established all over the
Northwest as far as Washington Territory,
and it is rapidly increasing and extending
itself. Mr. Michael Carpenter, the senior
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keean, and has always been connected
with the cracker business. Mr. H. W. Un-
derwood was born in Massachusetts, and
came to this city in 1868, and soon after-
wards entered this business.
LOUIS LAGHMAN,
Merchant Tailor and Men’s
Outfitter.
4.29 East VVater Street.
R. Lachman is a German by birth, is
thirty-one years of age, and settled
in Milwaukee many years ago, and first
assumed the proprietorship of the clothing
parlors at 429 East Water street in 1867.
He has been very successful in trade, and
has succeeded in attracting a large and
valuable patronage. His customers have
always been pleased with the prompt
manner in which he fills their orders,
turning out neat suits, cut in the latest
style and always a perfect fit. He em-
ploys ten men to assist him in filling the
large number of orders daily received.
I. SILBER,
Manufacturer of Suspenders, Truss-
es, Shoulder-Braces, etc.
393 East VVater Street.
HE Northwestern Suspender Factory,
at No. 593 East Water street, is a
busy place and turns out goods to the
value of $40,000 to $50,000 a year.
Premises 20x75 are occupied, the sales-
rooms being in front and the factory
in the rear. S. Silber is the business
manager, while his brother, I. Silber,
superintends the factory. From fifteen
to twenty skilled workers are employed,
and the goods manufactured embrace
suspenders of all kinds, shoulder-braces
for both ladies and gentlemen, trusses
which find a large sale throughout the
Northwest, in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska, Minnesota and Dakota, and
school-bags. The factory was opened
in 1875 by Mr. I. Silber, father of the
present proprietors, and the business is
still carried on in his name, although he
is now deceased. The Silber Brothers
were both born in Prussia, but came to
this country at an early age. They are
enterprising, intelligent business men, who
have an exceedingly good thing in the
way of trade and know just how to
handle it. Their line is manufacturing
and jobbing, and they are doing both on
a large and profitable scale.
HENRY HERMAN,
Real Estate and Loans.
No. 97 VVisconsin Street.
R. Herman, though one of the
youngest men in the real estate
trade in the city, has been connected with
the business for years, there being few
men now in the trade who have been in
it longer than he. He is thoroughly
acquainted with the property of the city
and is considered one of the best inform-
ed men in Milwaukee on real estate
questions as to value, etc. While he deals
in real estate and owns a large amount,
he makes a specialty of attending to the
business of others, and taking charge of
estates of parties both in and out of the
city, in which business he has been for
Some years, and has gained the confidence
of those with whom he deals, both for
judgment and reliability.
Mr. Herman was born in Maine and
came to Milwaukee when quite young,
and has long been actively identified with
the business interests of the Cream City.
MRS. E. J. PETERS,
Dealer in Watches, Diamonds,
Jewelry, etc.
318 Chestnut Street.
RS. Peters has been in the jewelry
line in Milwaukee since 1861, leas-
ing a fine establishment at No. 318 Chest-
nut street. The business has shown a
gratifying increase from the beginning,
and the stand is now as well known and
as well patronized as any similar concern
on the West Side. Mrs. Peters employs
competent workmen to repair and clean
watches and jewelry. She makes a spe-
cialty of the Springfield, Ill., watches, the
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
185
best watch made, and deals in diamonds
and jewelry of all descriptions, solid and
plated silver-ware, and keeps a full line of
clocks, spectacles, etc. Mrs. Peters is an
accomplished lady and a native of West-
phalia, Prussia. She first came to this
country in 1844 and lived in New York a
number of years before coming to Mil-
waukee.
John B. REITER,
Manufacturer of Soda and All
Mineral Waters.
193 Jackson Street.
NE of the representative and leading
firms in this branch of business is
that of Mr. John B. Reiter, at No. 193
Jackson street. He is manufacturer of
all kinds of soda water, seltzer, root and
ginger beer, and bottler of the Waukesha
mineral waters. He began business in a
very small way in 1876, at No. 1 ro
Huron street, but moved to his present
quarters about three years ago. His
factory has a capacity of 6oo doz. bottles
per month, consisting of one large gen-
erator, containing over fifty gallons, two
large fountains, fillers, and all the latest
appliances in use. The specialty of Mr.
Reiter is ginger ale, which has won for
him a large reputation and lucrative
custom. A brand of soda water, worthy
of mention, is his “Little Daisy,” which
for flavor and pleasantness constitutes as
fine a cool drink as can be obtained.
Mr. Reiter was born in Germany, and
settled in Milwaukee in 1869, soon after
which he began the business already
described.
RICHARD BEER,
Livery, Sale and Boarding Stable.
141 and 143 Second Street.
HE livery, sale and boarding stables||
of Mr. Richard Beer, 141 and 143
Second street, have the reputation of
being the oldest in the city. Six to eight
men are constantly employed, while on
some occasions from twenty-five to fifty
are hired. Forty-five horses, twenty-five
buggies and carriages and fifteen sleighs
constitute the stock of this firm. Mr.
Beer gives special attention to the buying
and selling of fine horses, and being cen-
trally located and having every facility
for this branch, he has a large business in
this line. Mr. Beer is a native of Ger-
many and came to this city in 1863, soon
afterward entering into the livery stable
business, which he has since successfully
pursued.
THE JOSEPH SCHILITZ BOT-
TLING WORKS,
(LIMITED).
Milwaukee, Wis.
HE Jos. Schlitz Bottling Works (lim-
ited) is composed of the following
officers:
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Christopher Voechting, presi-
dent; Aug. Uihlein,
vice-president: C. E.
Meyer, secretary and
treasurer; C. Uihlein,
superintendent. The
company was estab-
lished in 1877, under
the firm name of
Voechting, Shape &
Co. Their establish-
ment was located at
the cor. of Third and
Galena streets, where
the first year they
put up over 1, ooo,
ooo bottles of beer,
which has increased
until now they bottle
over Io, ooo, ooo per
annum. This rapid
% increase necessitated
%; great improvements
and more room, which
| requisites are all met
within their new quar-
ters, consisting of
eleven acres on South
Bay street, between
the tracks of the C.,
M. & St. P. Ry. and
the C. & N. W. Ry.
Their main building is 76x34o feet in
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62x320 feet. Numerous large sheds are
also erected for storage purposes. The
manufacturing and shipping facilities are
better than any similar concern in the
Union. The capacity of these new works
is 500 barrels per day of ten hours. The
latest and best machinery is in use
throughout this establishment, the time
required to bottle a barrel of beer being
just four and a half minutes. Over 220
persons are employed, their weekly pay-
roll averaging $2,000. Shipments are
made throughout the United States as
well as to Central and South America,
Cuba, the Pacific islands, Australia,
China and Japan, and inquiries for prices
and samples are received almost daily
from all parts of England, Germany and
other European countries. During the
past year, 1885, they bottled over 36,000
barrels, or about ten million bottles, and
worth about eight hundred thousand dol-
lars. . This company are sole bottlers of
Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co.'s Export Pils-
ner Milwaukee beer.
MRS. JEAN KAWANAUGH,
Artist and Teacher.
Roonn 29, Iron Block.
N this laudable industry mention is made
of the establishment of Mrs. Jean
Kavanaugh, who has taught this branch
in this city for the past twelve years, and
has attained great proficiency and popu-
lar favor. She teaches all branches of the
work, oil and water colors, crayon, flower,
landscape and portrait painting. Her
long experience and the wide range of sub-
jects she has gained during her travels at
home and abroad, render her particularly
competent to give lessons to those desir-
ous of learning the profession. She has
taught in the Milwaukee College for several
years, and has been very successful with
her school, which is attended by pupils from
all parts of the country. Her studio is
elaborately furnished and contains all the
essentials for doing the work required in
the highest order of the art, as well as
assisting pupils to a better idea of the
requirements necessary to the develop-
ment of an artistic taste. Her work is
beyond question among the most merito-
rious in the city, and has established a
fine reputation in this line. Mrs. Kavan-
augh also has a branch school at Wau-
watosa, and so well known is she as an
artist, that students from at least sixteen
cities of the Union are represented in her
classes and more are constantly applying.
B. CASSEL,
Dealer in Stoves, Ranges, etc. Pa-
per and Paper Stock.
6OO East VVater Street.
HE specialty of this house is repair-
ing all kinds of stoves and furnaces,
and putting in broken or worn-out parts
of stoves wherever they may be needed.
Mr. Cassel is the only man in town doing
such work and is, therefore, specially
prepared to do it, promptly, neatly and
at low figures. Mr. Cassel established
the business in 1879, in a small way, and
by industry and close attention to busi-
ness he has worked up a fine trade, which
consists of a general trade in stoves,
ranges, paper and paper stock, in which
he has a large and growing patronage.
Mr. Cassel was born in the town of Polk,
Washington county, Wisconsin, in the
year 1850. He came to Milwaukee in
1865, and has resided here pretty con-
stantly ever since. While attending
strictly to his own business, he yet takes
a deep interest in the general business
prosperity of the city.
HALLASKA & CO.,
House Painters, Graining, etc.
154. Fourth Street.
THE above named firm began business
in 1880 at their present quarters, 154
Fourth street, two doors south of Grand
avenue. They employ from eight to ten
men in their industry, although during
the busy season the force is greatly in-
creased. In house and sign painting this
firm has had very large experience, and
is always careful to employ and keep
steadily engaged only such workmen as
thoroughly understand their business.
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187
The business of this firm consists of
house painting, graining, glazing, paper
hanging, etc., and is confined to this city,
and aggregates over $10,000 annually.
Mr. A. P. Hallaska, the senior member of
the firm, was born in Austria and came to
this city in 1859, while his partner, Mr.
J. Elias, is a native of Holland and settled
in Milwaukee in 1862. They have
both been closely connected with the
painting business in this city for over
twenty years, and are deserving the large
support and patronage they are receiving.
Specimens of this firm's work can be found
in the following blocks: Marquette Col-
lege, Belvidere Block, Harvey Will-
iams, T. L. Kennan's residence on Pros-
pect avenue, and many others.
DR. A. E. NEUMEISTER,
Turkish, Electrical and Medical In-
stitute.
457 and 459 Milwaukee Street.
R. Neumeister's Turkish and Elec-
trical bath establishment and med-
ical institute is located at 457 and 459 |
Milwaukee street, between Mason and
Oneida. Two floors, each 20x60, are oc-
cupied, and two separate departments for
the two sexes are elegantly maintained.
Dr. Neumeisteropened his institute in 1876,
on Mason street, and in 188o he estab-
lished himself in his present location. Dr.
Neumeister is a regular physician, with a
large and general practice among the best
classes of Milwaukee society, and people
from all parts of the State come to his in-
stitute for treatment. All kinds of chronic
diseases are treated, such as rheumatism,
neuralgia, paralysis, spinalirritation, spinal
tenderness, Bright's disease, dropsy, gen-
eral debility, catarrh of the head, lungs,
stomach or bladder, consumption, asthma,
dyspepsia, etc. Dr. Neumeister was born
in Saxony, Germany, in 1842, and came
to America in 1848, direct to this city.
He is a graduate of one of the best
homoepathic medical colleges in Chicago,
and may be said to hold a secure place in
the front rank of the best practitioners in
the city.
J. J. H0F,
L and Office.
117 and 119 West VVater Street.
R. J. J. Hof, the subject of this
sketch, came to America in 1865,
from his native land, Norway. After
visiting various portions of the United
States in search of lands, he finally pur-
chased large tracts in Wisconsin, in the
Fox River Valley, near Green Bay and
Appleton, which lands are renowned for
their rich soil, and freedom from floods,
and lie in a good climate. After holding
these lands many years he decided to
colonize them, which he did slowly, only
locating a few families on them each year
veying,
ing roads
and carefully watched their progress.
During the years
of '83, 84 and '85
he locat- ed large
numbers of fami-
lies, ex- tº pended
1 a r g e sums in
improv- ing the
lands by sub-sur-
and build
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etc., and has been very fortunate in pro-
curing a thrifty class of settlers, mostly
Poles. They are good farmers and are
happy and contented in their new homes.
They are well cared for by Mr. Hof, who
makes weekly trips to look after their in-
terest and welfare. They have a small
church and school of their own, and they
have in process of erection a larger house
of worship. A large sawmill has been
erected by Mr. Hof in the centre of the
colony, which is rented and run by them.
For further information, maps and circu-
lars address Mr. J. J. Hof, who will
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E. R. PANTKE & CO.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in Hats
and Caps.
39C) East VVater Street.
MONG those who have established
A an excellent reputation for doing
good work, and keeping a fine stock of
goods in this line is the firm of E. R. Pantke
& Co., at No. 390 East Water street. Mr.
Pantke established the business alone in
1857, in a store at his present quarters.
At first the business was small, but in-
creased with the demand, until at present
it is one of the largest stocks in the city.
In 1865 Mr. Lebeau came in as partner,
but in 1873 disposed of his share to Adam
Fink of St. Paul, who now represents the
“Co. ” Besides hats, this firm manufact-
ures a fine quality of seal-skin sacques,
caps, robes, gloves, coats, mitts, etc.
They make furs, silk and cassimere hats
their specialties, and do a large trade in
this line. They employ twenty persons
in manufacturing their goods, and are kept
constantly busy in filling orders. Mr.
Pantke was born in Prussia in 1836, and
was brought to this country by his parents
in 1848, coming direct to Milwaukee. He
is a practical hatter with years of prac-
tical experience, , and never fails to give
the utmost satisfaction.
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PETER SCHMIDT,
Stone and Marble Works.
679 & 681 Market Street.
NE of the most prominent men in
Milwaukee in the stone and marble
contracting business is Peter Schmidt,
whose stone and marble works are located
at No. 679 and 681 Market street. All
kinds of building work is furnished and
set in any stone desired. He makes a
specialty of cemetery work, such as monu-
ments, head-stones, fonts, etc., and in
this line he has done some very fine work,
which can be seen in all the prominent
cemeteries in and around Milwaukee.
An ample force of skilled workmen is
employed the year round in the various
departments of his business. A great
variety of monuments and head-stones
is kept in stock, and can be seen at the
yards, and it will pay any who contem-
plate purchasing anything in this line to
call at Mr Schmidt's works and make an
examination into styles and prices. As a
stone contractor Mr. Schmidt is well
known, and has furnished all the material
for many of the most prominent struc-
tures in Milwaukee and throughout the
Northwest, and has special facilities for
furnishing all kinds of stone and marble
for building and other purposes at rock
bottom prices, and asks all builders and
contractors throughout the country to
give him a chance to bid for furnishing
any and everything in this line.
HASSENTEUFEL & WAECHTER,
Dealers in Lamps, Glassware, Chi-
naware, etc.
6O2 East VVater Street.
FULL stock of fine goods is carried
in this establishment, including
lamps of all kinds, glassware in the latest
styles and varieties, and some of the finest
China tea and dinner sets to be seen in
the city. The rule is, good wares and
low prices, and all who go there to trade
are sure to get the worth of their money.
Mr. Hassenteufel was born in Prussia in
1831, and has been in America, some
thirty years and in Milwaukee six years.
He is thoroughly familiar with the busi-
ness, having been in the same line of
trade elsewhere in the city. Mr. Waech-
ter is also a native of Prussia, where he
was born in 1840. He came to America
when he was quite young, and saw a great
deal of this wide land before coming to
Milwaukee thirteen years ago.
MILWAUKEE STONE YARD.
Cook & Hyde, Proprietors.
Office, 97 VVisconsin Street.
THE firm of Cook & Hyde is the
largest and the oldest firm in the
stone business in Milwaukee, and has fur-
nished the cut stone for many of the finest
buildings in the city. They are identified
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with at least the later history of the
growth of the place, having been in busi-
ness as a firm since 1858, and having fur-
nished material for such buildings as the
Plankinton House, the Plankinton Block,
the Chamber of Commerce Building, the
Club House and St. Paul’s Church. Mr.
Cook was born in England and came to
this country when quite a young man,
and has been an active business man and
large real estate owner in Milwaukee for
many years. Mr. Hyde was also born
in England and came to this country at
a later date, and while being an active
business man, has held a number of im-
portant public offices, having been in the
city council, the Legislature of the State
and the State Senate.
MRS. LYDIA ELY,
Artist and Art Teacher.
Rooms 25 and 27, Iron
Block.
HE fine arts are liberally
patronized in Milwaukee,
and the city boasts of some
artists who rank first in their
profession. The lady mentioned
above has been engaged in the
above work for many years, and
by hard labor and close applica-
tion to study has gained a wide
reputation as an artist, and es-
pecially as an able teacher. She
first opened a studio in the city
in 1872, but had been engaged
in the work previous to that
time. She teaches the art in all
its branches, oil and water colors, crayon
work, landscape painting, etc., andma ke
drawing aspecialty. She is thoroughly in
love with her art, and has traveled through-
out this country in pursuit of her studies,
as well as having spent a great deal of
time abroad for alike purpose. Her genius
has been recognized by our citizens, and
she has been appointed superintendent of
the art department of the Exposition. She
is most thorough in the course of studies
given to pupils, and has a large class,which
occupies most of her time and attention.
GERMANIA PUBLISHING CO.,
Geo. Brumder, Proprietor.
286 and 288 West Water Street,
84 and 86 La Salle Street,
Chicago.
HIS is the leading German publishing
house in the Northwest. They have
the best and cheapest list of German adver-
tising mediums, comprising secular, polit-
ical and agricultural publications, their
weekly circulation running as follows: The
“Germania,” Milwaukee, 65,000; “Haus-
und Bauernfreund,” Milwaukee, 75,000;
“Deutsche Warte,” Chicago, 25,000;
“Erholungsstunden,” Chicago, 20,000;
“Deutsches Volksblatt” Buffalo, N. Y.,
ro,ooo, making a total weekly issue of
195,000. This house also issues the “Ger-
mania Kalender,” an illustrated annual of
250 pages issued in October, with a circu-
lation of 30,000 copies. They also issue
the “Home Library,” including 20 vol-
|umes, and the Germania Youths' Library
of 25 volumes, and publish a large num-
ber of school and miscellaneous German
books. The house also do all kinds
of blank book and edition binding, book
and job printing in all modern languages,
besides ruling, numbering, perforating,
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
They also do a large trade as stationers
and booksellers and make a specialty of
stamping in gold, silver and inking in all
colors, and in case-making. Mr. George
Brumder, the proprietor of this house, is
a pushing business man and is well and
favorably known throughout the country
in his line of business and has done much
toward bringing Milwaukee into promi-
nence as a publishing center.
GERBER & GRAM,
Pianos, Organs and Musical Mer-
chandise.
437 and 439 National Avenue.
MONG the enterprising and reliable
firms of our city, none are more
worthy of mention than that of Gerber &
Gram, wholesale and retail dealers in
pianos, organs and musical merchandise at
Nos. 437 and 439 National avenue. Their
tastefully arranged music parlors are
stocked with as fine a class of instruments
as can be found in the city. They hold
the sole agency for the leading pianos of
of the world, including the celebrated
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piano, an instrument too well known
to require words of recommendation.
It has been awarded numerous first-
class prize medals and received the
endorsement of all the leading music com-
posers and singers of the age, such as
Theodore Thomas, Julia Rive King, Ade-
line Patti, Emma Abbott, and many
others. They are also sole agents for
the Lindeman & Sons' pianos, whose fac-
tory was established in Dresden, Saxony,
in 1821, and in New York in 1836. It is
a first-class instrument in every respect.
They also hold exclusive right in the
Northwest for the popular Bauer &
Co.'s pianos, Harrington and Bent &
Co.'s pianos, and also have manufact-
ured in their name the “Opera” piano,
which is much sought after by the trade.
The Bauer & Co. piano is one of great
celebrity among noted musicians through-
out the country, and the sales of this in-
strument through the agency of Gerber &
Gram have reached favorable results.
The Clough & Warren Orchestral organs,
for church and parlor use, are also hand-
led by this firm. They carry a large
assortment of band instruments and
musical merchandise of all kinds. Their
grand display at the Exposition last fall
was worthy of note, and was one of the
principal attractions in the musical line.
Although these gentlemen have been in
the business but a few years, they have
made many friends, built up a large trade
and won a reputation equal to the oldest
houses of this kind in the city. They
can be strictly relied upon in the repre-
sentation of their goods, and will be
found most pleasant gentlemen with
whom to deal.
John GRAF,
Manufacturer of White Beer. Soda
Water, etc.
Milwaukee, VVis.
NE of the popular establishments
manufacturing mineral waters, soda
water and weiss beer, is that of John Graf,
at No. 530 National avenue. From eight
to fifteen hands are employed during dif-
ferent seasons of the year, while all the
latest machinery is in use. He carbon-
ates the mineral water for the White
Rock Springs at Waukesha, which has an
average of from fifty to sixty thousand
bottles per month. Mr. Graf has two of
the largest generators in the Northwest,
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
191
washers. He moved to his present site
in 1877, and year by year has added
various improvements to his large estab-
lishment. The amount manufactured
during the summer months is 200 cases
per day, while less than half that much
is put up in the winter months.
Mr. Graf was born in this city in 1852,
and has always been engaged in this class
of business, with which he has been very
successful.
E. C. BOWER,
Cash Grocery Store.
338 Clinton and 83 Fifth Streets.
THE retail grocery trade of our city is
ably represented by the house of E.
C. Bower, at 338 Clinton and 83 Fifth
streets. He keeps constantly on hand a
choice stock of staple and fancy grocer-
ies, teas, coffees, and general family Sup-
plies, which he delivers free of charge to
all parts of the city. Mr. Bower com-
menced this business in a small way in
1881, but his honorable business methods,
and the superior class of goods carried,
soon won for him a large and desirable
trade, which has been constantly increas-
ing and extending itself, until it has
reached its present large proportions, his
patrons being found in all parts of the
city and State. He does business strictly
on the cash basis, which enables him to
present his customers not only with a
superior class of goods but at the lowest
possible cash prices. Mr. Bower is a
native of Indiana, and is a self-made
business man in every respect, and has
always been active in any movement
tending to promote the best interests of
the Cream City.
G. POD0LL & CO.,
Photograph Studio.
333 Third Street.
HE name of Mr. Podoll on all kinds of
photographs is pretty well known in
this city and in the surrounding country,
and it is therefore interesting to learn some-
thing about his work and his place of bus-
iness. The gallery is at No. 33.3 Third
street, and is most admirably equipped
and arranged for doing all kinds of photo-
graphic work. This studio makes fine work
in photographs without a doubt, and does
everything in this line in the highest style
of the art. Their $3 cabinets are marvels
of cheapness as well as excellence, and
cannot be duplicated for the money
elsewhere in the city. They employ
a number of skilled assistants, and all
work is quickly and artistically disposed of.
The rooms are elegantly furnished and fit-
ted up and visitors are always welcome,
whether they come on business or not.
Mr. Gustave Podoll, the head of the
firm, has had large experience in fine
photography, and was for twelve years
in Chicago, where he did a large busi-
ness, and has followed the business act-
ively for over a quarter of a century, and
has always closely studied his art from
the standpoint of an artist, which ac-
counts for his fine work in this line.
HEUEL & ULLMER,
Artists.
113 VVisconsin Street, Room 12.
UR city is possessed of a number of
first-class artists who have built up
a large local patronage, which speaks
well for the character of our citizens by
their appreciation and support of our
local painters. Among those who have
achieved a reputation for doing excellent
work, we mention Messrs. Heuel & Ull-
mer, at 115 Wisconsin street. They have
been located in this city since 1883, and
were formerly at 221 Grand avenue.
They do all kinds of artist work, such as
crayons, India ink, pastels, water colors
and oil. A specialty is made of pastels,
and the best of satisfaction in every in-
stance is guaranteed. Great attention is
also paid to portrait painting, and enlarg—
ing and finishing old pictures. Mr.
Heuel was born in Germany, in 1858,
and came to this country in 1880, and in
1883 to Milwaukee. He has had several
years experience in the business, in Hart-
land, Iowa, and at Chicago. Mr. Ullmer
is a native of this State, and was born in
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE.
1860. He is a first-class artist, and has
been long a resident of this city. Postal
orders to this firm will be promptly
attended to.
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“STANDARD PAPER, CO.”
N the front rank of the paper houses of
the Northwest will be found the
Standard Paper Company of Milwaukee.
This young and enterprising corporation
is well known in nearly every city and
town in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Da-
kota, in fact throughout the entire North-
west. The officers of the Standard are
all young men of ability, energy, push
and enterprise, who have not only suc-
ceeded in building up a large business,
but are constantly increasing it, so that
the spacious store which they now occupy
is crowded to overflowing with the vari-
ous kinds of paper stock which the neces-
sities of their trade demand. A glance
through their large and well-kept stock
will convince any one in want of goods
in their line, that what is not found at
the Standard Paper Co. will be difficult
to find anywhere else, as they aim to
supply the trade with everything in the
way of paper that can be obtained at any
house in the East or West. Here we find
paper in rolls, in large quantities, for build-
ing purposes; straw wrapping paper,
manillas, heavy and light, in all sizes.
These papers can be purchased from a
roll or bundle to a car load, as their ware-
house is kept constantly supplied. Here
also will be found tier upon tier of
print, book and cover papers in all the
various weights and sizes. While the
amount of papers in these lines shown in
their stock is large, it is small compared
to the amount which is shipped direct
from the mills to consumers; in fact, the
paper upon which most of the leading
dailies and weeklies in the Northwest are
printed, is supplied by the Standard
Paper Co. We find also large quanti-
ties of flat papers for printers' use, in
all grades, weights, and sizes, from the
thin French folios to the finest linen
and heaviest record and ledger papers.
Their shelves are always well stocked
with ruled goods, such as note and letter
heads, bill heads, statements, etc., and
any form of ruling can be done at this
establishment. e
Envelopes by the millions and thou-
Sands of sheets of card boards, such
as wedding bristols, tinted bristols, rail-
road ticket tough check, circus board,
chinas, blanks, etc., are here seen. In
their miscellaneous stock we find glazed
papers, bond papers, tag board, straw
and cloth boards, tags, twine, paper
bags, etc., too numerous to enumer-
ate, while their stock of wedding
goods, invitations, ball programmes, steel
engraved folders and novelties, visit.
ing cards and ladies' fine stationery,
is not excelled by any house in the West.
If close attention to the details of busi-
ness, prompt consideration of the wants
of patrons, first-class goods, low prices,
and straightforward, honorable dealing,
are standards whereby success is achieved,
this company is on the high road to pros-
perity. *
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JUNG & BORCHERT,
Manufacturers of Lager Beer.
Broadvvay, Ogden, Milwaukee and
P&napp streets.
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HIS brewery was erected in 1848, by
Henry Stoltz, and was conducted b
him under various changes until his death,
which occurred in 1865. After this the
brewery passed into various hands and
gradually lost prestige, until the fall of
1874, when the property and business
was purchased by Ernst, Charles and Fred
Borchert, who put it on a good basis and
continued under the firm name of F.
Borchert & Son. For five years they
conducted a successful business, when, in
1879, Phillip Jung purchased a one-half
interest and the firm was known as Jung
& Borchert, under which name it has
since continued. Under this firm the
production has increased from 5oo bar-
rels in 1874 to about 75,000 barrels in
1885. They employ a force of about
1oo men in all departments, many of
them skilled in this branch of business.
Chas. S. WAN Duys, President.
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
They also have nine beer trucks, seven
box-wagons, four bulk wagons, five spring
wagons and six buggies, used in the
transaction of their business. Over
thirty horses are in use for delivering, and
their large city trade is recommendation
for the purity and quality of beer pro-
duced. The various brands are Pilsner,
Culmbacher, Export and Lager beer,
which meet with great favor from the
public. A short time ago a bottling
department was established, which is
under the direct management of N. A.
Root. The main plant of Jung &
Borchert’s brewery is located on Ogden
street, where it extends 3oo feet, with 180
feet on Broadway and Milwaukee streets.
They also occupy 150 feet on Knapp
street. On this site is located their large
brewery, mammoth malt house and
extensive cellars, besides their large malt
house at the corner of Eighth and State
streets. They have extensive plants at
Fond du Lac and Chilton, this State, each
of which covers an area of about 5 acres.
Their Chicago branch is situated at the
corner of Union and Olive streets.
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LITT'S MILWAUKEE MUSEUM,
Jacob Litt, Proprietor and Manager.
ON: of the most popular family resorts
in the city is that of the “Dime
Museum,” under the proprietorship and
management of Mr. Jacob Litt. The
building is four stories with a large base-
ment, all departments of which cover a
surface area of 50x125 feet. The large
and beautiful auditorium is situated on the
ground floor, and consists of a well-ar-
ranged stage, furnished with the latest and
best improved scenery and fixtures. The
best artists are engaged in this department,
and performances are given every hour,
and oftener, as business may require. Over
twenty-five persons are employed in the
various departments of this establishment.
The Milwaukee Dime Museum is one of
the finest of the kind in America. It is
well ventilated and brilliantly illuminated,
and contains hot and cold water, and toilet
rooms on every floor. The stairways are
broad, and every egress is carefully
arranged for use in case of fire or panic.
The auditorium has wide aisles, and all
the modern inprovements. Mr. Davis,
the assistant manager, looks after the
interests of all. The attendance last
season consisted of an average of 3,000
persons daily, and is still increasing,
which attests to the ſavor in which it
is held by the public.
“THE NEW ACADEMY.”
HE great majority of the people who
reside in cities demand and expect
more or less in the line of amusements,
and the thousands of people around the
State and the country who visit a city,
or nearly all of them, do so with the
expectation of being able to devote more
or less time to being amused. Milwau-
kee is now fast advancing to the front
rank in amusements, and to no one per-
son is she more indebted for this fact than
to Mr. Jacob I.itt, manager and lessee of
the New Academy of Music, proprietor
and manager of the popular Dime Mu-
seum, and manager of the Summer Thea-
ter at Schlitz Park. Through his untiring
efforts and ability he has raised the stand-
ard of Milwaukee's reputation as an
amusement center, and given to the citi-
zens as fine a theater as can be found in
the country. He took charge of the old
Academy last season, which had barely
closed ere he began the transformation
which produced the new and beautiful
amusement parlors opened to the public
last August, with John T. Raymond as the
initial attraction. From the stage to the
gallery everything has been made as cozy
and attractive as money and art could
make it. Four elegantly constructed
proscenium boxes have been introduced,
which are decided novelties in the way of
private boxes. They are designed to
represent Moorish pagodas, and stand in
full relief on either side of the prosce-
nium opening, in the corners of the audi-
torium. They are built out from the wall
and the effect is very beautiful. All these
changes have been made not only with an
eye to the comfort, but also the safety of
the many patrons, and no theater is bet-
ter provided with means of egress for use
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
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in case of fire or panic. Not only has
Mr. Litt produced a fine theater, but has
also provided it with the best attractions
traveling, which accounts in a measure
for the large attendance during the pres-
ent season. Another point, which adds
much to Mr. Litt's popularity with Mil-
waukeeans, is his generosity in tender-
ing the New Academy for public, charit-
able and religious purposes. For the
benefit of strangers we would say that
the New Academy is located on Milwau-
kee street, between Wisconsin and Michi-
gan.
FRED. MILLER,
Brewer and Malster.
Th; drink known as Lager Beer was
probably known in some form as far
back as the time of the Egyptians, and
Tacitus speaks of it as being in common
Mr.
Fred. Miller, the subject of this sketch,
has been in the brewing and malting busi-
ness for over thirty years, being classed
among the oldest representatives of this
industry in the city, and by his experience
and liberal business policy has built up a
use among the Germans of his time.
large and profitable trade. The bottled
beer of this brewery has a wide notoriety,
as Mr. Miller never bottles any beer that
is not sufficiently old to give it the best
taste and flavor. It must be well fer-
mented, and as he uses only the very best
materials, and has special brewings for
his own purposes, he succeeds in pro-
ducing a beer which for pureness
and quality has a reputation unsur-
consists of eleven acres.
has one of the best locations of any in
passed by any other firm of the kind
in the city. His brewery is in the
town of Wauwatosa, just west of the
city limits, and has been known since
1878 as the “Menomonee Valley Brew-
ery.” It was originally founded by Chas.
Best and others, in 1848, and called the
“Plank Road Brewery,” but after a few
years the business failed and the prop-
erty lay idle for over a year, when, in 1855,
it was sold to Mr. Miller for $8,000.
The brewery then only had a capacity of
1,200 barrels per annum. The plant oc-
cupied by the numerous buildings now
The brewery
the country for cellars, which are made
in the large bluff, at the side of which the
brewery is located. They have a storage
capacity for over 15, ooo barrels. The
large brewery now standing was built by
Mr. Miller in 1870. He has a large ice
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house in Chicago, one in Waukesha and
two in Milwaukee, besides eleven sur-
rounding the brewery. He uses annu-
ally over 15,000 tons of ice. The follow-
ing figures show the rapid increase in the
production of this brewery: 1855, 1,200
bbls.; 1880, 30,000 bbls.; 1884, 60,000
bbls. Mr. Miller uses annually 150,000
bushels of barley and over 125,000
pounds of hops. In 1883 a bottling de-
partment was founded and over 5,000
barrels are bottled yearly. Over twenty
agencies are located throughout the
United States, to which his beer is shipped
direct. To better facilitate these ship-
ments, arrangements are being made to
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railroad, that cars may be loaded right at
the brewery, thus saving a great amount
of time and trouble. Nearly one hun-
dred hands are employed in all the depart-
ments, while forty wagons and upwards
of fifty horses are used to facilitate the
prompt delivery of all orders. There is a
summer garden near the brewery, well
patronized by the various societies,
Schools and private clubs of Milwaukee,
for picnics and socials. The whole side
of the bluff is laid out with winding paths,
rustic benches, level lawns and high
swings, making it a beautiful resort.
From these gardens a fine view of Lake
Michigan and the Menomonee valley is
had. Beautiful shade trees cover the
whole place, making it a delightfully cool
and pleasant resort during the hot and
Sultry summer days.
HERMAN WOSS,
Blank Book Manufacturer and Gen-
eral Book Binder.
Nos. 372 to 376 Milvvaukee Street.
(). of the oldest and largest establish-
ments of this kind is that of Herman
Voss, in the Evening Wisconsin Building.
His large and well-arranged quarters are
perfectly equipped, and he receives work
from all parts of the Union, which aggre-
gates upwards of $25,000 annually. Ma-
chinery of the latest patent for use in this
line is found here, notable among which is
the wire-stitcher and book-trimmer, the
only one in use in the State. Upwards of
5o hands are constantly employed to meet
the demands of the large business. The
special line is in edition work, the facili-
ties for which are so great that nearly 25,-
ooo pamphlets have been folded, stitched
and trimmed in one day. This large es-
tablishment was begun in 1874, by the
present proprietor, with only two boys and
one girl in a small room in Prentiss’ Block
on East Water street. Businessincreased
until he was compelled to seek more com-
modious quarters, which he found in his
present location in 1880. Mr. Voss has
been ably assisted by Mr. Geo. Seelman,
bookkeeper and manager, who attends to
all outside business. Mr. Voss is a native
of Germany, where he learned his trade,
and worked in all the larger cities before
coming to this country.
H. O. PARKS,
Licensed Bill Poster and Distributer.
Office, 116 Grand Avenue.
N 1868 the first Bill Posting Company
was formed in Milwaukee, under the
firm name of Treyser & Higgins. The
firm of Parks & McLaughlin succeeded
them in 1871, but the latter withdraw-
ing soon after, a Mr. Walters took his
place, and remained in partnership until
his death in 1878, when Mr. Parks
took entire control and has retained it up
to the present. Mr. Parks has added
much to the advancement and general
standing of this business and was the
only licensed bill-poster in the city for a
number of years. He has secured the
principal and finest stands in the city,
and has over Ioo,000 feet of lumber in
sixty-five large bill boards and nearly 500
three-sheet boards. Mr. Parks was born
in Vermont, and came to this city in
1857. He is a practical printer by trade,
and was formerly foreman of the Sentine/
job room. He is also a successful real
estate dealer, and has in various ways
added to the progress of the Cream City’s
commercial interests.
THE CONTINENTAL RESTAU-
RANT AND OYSTER HOUSE,
S. J. Eldridge, Proprietor.
NO. 392 East VVater Street.
NE of the standard institutions of our
city is the Continental Restaurant
and Oyster House at 392 East Water
street, just four doors south of Wisconsin
street. This model eating house was
opened last May, and has had a success-
ful career, being patronized largely by the
business men and clerks in the neighbor-
hood. The obliging proprietor, Mr. S.
J. Eldridge, looks personally to the
general arrangement of the establish-
ment, so that all his patrons may rest
assured of not only receiving a first-class
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE. 197
meal, but in having it served in as satis-
factory a manner as at their own homes.
The restaurant is elegantly fitted up with
all that adds to the comfort and pleasure
of their patrons, while the meals con-
sist of the best the market affords, and
served in a style to satisfy the most
fastidious. As an oyster house it is
becoming eminently popular and well
deserves the large patronage it receives.
ST, MARY'S INSTITUTE,
Cor. Knapp and Milwaukee Sts.
HIS Institute, which is under the
direction of the School Sisters of
guages, needlework, music, drawing or
painting. These branches may be ex-
clusively pursued. Differences of reli-
gion form no obstacle to the admission of
such as are willing to conform outwardly
to the established routine, satisfactory
references being invariably required.
The scholastic year commences on the
first Monday in September, and ends on
the third Thursday in July. The terms
for board and tuition in English, French,
German, plain needlework, embroidery
and vocal music, per annum, are $180,
and after the third year, $100. Con-
nected with the institute is a day school,
Notre Dame, was founded in 1850,
for pupils residing at home, with entrance
on Jefferson street. For terms, inquire
ST. MARy’s
making it one of the oldest institutions
of the kind in the Northwest. The build-
ings, a cut of which is given above, are
situated on one of the most elevated
and healthy localities of Milwaukee,
and command an extensive view of
the city and its environs, while the
pleasure grounds adjoining the build-
ings afford ample advantages for health-
ful exercise. The system of education
INSTITUTE.
at the school.
be addressed to
SISTER DIRECTRESS,
St. Mary's Institute, Milwaukee, Wis.
Letters of inquiry must
MILWAUKEE ELECTRO-
PATHIC INSTITUTE
For the Treatment of All Diseases.
No. 163 Mason Street.
embraces every useful and ornamental
branch of art and science suitable for
young ladies. Special time and atten-
tion will be paid to pupils whose friends
desire their proficiency in the lan-
HE Milwaukee Electropathic Institute
was established by Dr. J. McGuffin
in 1879, for the treatment and cure of
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modifications of electricity, galvanism
and magnetism. The doctor has labored
with untiring energy for many years in
this department of therapeutics, for the
purpose of establishing this system of
practice on a reliable, scientific basis. His
highest hopes have been realized, judging
from his success in controlling diseased
conditions. The imponderable agent in
his hands is mild and pleasant even to
the most delicate and sensitive persons,
producing no painful or disagreeable feel-
ings.
Dr. McGuffin was engaged in the
regular practice of medicine for a num-
ber of years when he began to investigate
the subject of electricity in its various
modified forms as a curative agent. He
finally became convinced that electricity,
electro-magnetism and galvanism, when
scientifically used, were superior to any
other mode of treatment for all the
various diseases of the human system.
He at once gave up a large medical prac-
tice and commenced a full course of
study in electro-therapeutics and gradu-
ated in that school. He is the discoverer
of the new and improved method of treat-
ing diseases of the eye without the use of
drugs and entirely painless. The doctor
has cured diseases of this delicate organ
which have baffled the skill of some of
the leading oculists in the United States.
He has hundreds of letters and testimo-
nials in his office from patients he has
cured, who had given up all hope until
they took electrical treatment. The
doctor treats with success all the various
diseased conditions of the human body,
as electricity can always be relied upon,
when scientifically applied, in the treat-
ment of any disease. In a few years
this new system of treatment has become
so popular that applications for treatment
are being made from nearly every State
in the Union.
There are many who formerly looked
On electrical treatment with suspicion, who
now acknowledge its superiority in the
treatment of all chronic diseases. Elec-
tricity can only be depended upon in the
cure of disease just so far as the elec-
trician is skillful and scientific. This hint
may be deemed necessary, as many
persons use electricity in a kind of
random way who have never made elec-
trical science a special study, and are
therefore not qualified to be successful
electricians. Persons who have not
investigated this system of treatment, if
they will take the trouble to do so, will
find that it is founded on scientific prin-
ciples and sound philosophy, the correct-
ness of which is demonstrated in the
many wonderful cures the doctor has
made during the past ten years.
JAMES SHERIFFS,
Manufacturer of the Best Propeller
Wheels in the United States;
Steam Engines, Boilers, Mill
Machinery, Iron and Brass
Castings, etc.
124 to 13O Barclay Street.
OR over thirty years the large estab-
lishment of James Sheriffs has exerted
a large influence in the manufacturing
circles of this city. This is not only the
oldest, but also one of the largest and
most important foundries in Milwaukee.
Commenced in a small way in 1854, it
has grown to its present large proportions,
a good illustration of the works being
given on the opposite page. From the
first job, one ton of grate bars for the tug
Tifft, the business has extended to almost
every State in the Union, and products of
this establishment have been sent to points
so distant as Australia and Cuba. The
plant now covers an area of 180x220
feet and contains all the latest machinery
necessary for the construction of the
largest steam engines and propeller
wheels in use, the latter being probably
the best made in this country and in which
he has a great reputation. Mr. Sheriffs
also makes boilers, mill machinery and
iron and brass castings, etc. From sixty
to seventy men are employed in the vari-
ous departments, while the business aggre-
gates upwards of $100,ooo annually.
Mr. Sheriffs is a native of Scotland and
came to Milwaukee the year he began
business, 1854, and has been closely iden-
tified with all interests tending towards
the improvement and commercial ad-
vancement of our beautiful city.
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MARKHAM ACADEMY,
Milwaukee, Wis.
MARKHAM Academy.
NE of the popular institutions of Mil-
waukee is the Markham Academy,
which was established here almost a quar-
ter of a century ago.
This school is designed to furnish the
choicest educational advantages for a lim-
ited number of boys and young men. Its
work consists in preparing students for
the universities, or in giving them such a
course of study and discipline as shall
qualify them for the more immediate oc-
cupations of business. For the accom-
plishment of these aims, the institution
carries on two wisely-planned and com-
prehensive courses of instruction, in either
of which facilities are offered which are
unsurpassed.
The school possesses a valuable collec-
tion of philosophical apparatus, and a
variety of other well-selected appliances,
designed to aid in illustrative teaching.
Encyclopaedias and other works of refer-
ence are at all times accessible to the stu-
dents.
This Academy is recognized as one of
the leading and most efficient college pre-
paratory schools in the State, and has al-
ways received a liberal local patronage
from our city, besides the State at large
and throughout the Northwest. Gradu-
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA U.K.E.E.
|ates from this school have, from year to
year, been admitted with high honors into
the very best colleges of our land, and
many of the leading business and pro-
fessional men of Milwaukee are graduates
of this school.
| The Academy is centrally and most
|eligibly located, on the corner of Van
Buren and Oneida streets, within one
block of the Court House Park, and easi-
|ly accessible by street cars from all parts
of the city.
| The Academy building, in all the stud-
|ied details of its interior arrangements, is
admirably adapted to its purpose. Its
system of warming and ventilation is
thoroughly scientific, and hardly suscepti-
ble of improvement. The study rooms
are spacious, and rendered exceptionally
cheerful by an abundance of light.
The building throughout is supplied
with the most approved patterns of school
furniture, and in all its appointments it
bears evidence that the health, comfort
and convenience of the pupils have been
carefully considered.
Prof. Albert Markham, principal and
proprietor of this Academy, is a thorough
educator and disciplinarian, and looks
personally to the welfare of all the stu-
dents, and he has associated with him as
competent a corps of instructors as can
be found in any of the colleges.
Copies of the Annual Catalogue, giving
in detail the courses of study, etc., may
be obtained from the principal on appli-
cation.
DAVIS OMNIBUS LINE.
Davis & Baird, Proprietors.
Office, 305 Milwaukee Street.
HE Davis Omnibus Line has a history
almost identical with the city. It
was first started in 1850 by Brown &
Davis, as a stage line to outside towns.
Later on, as business increased and the
town grew to be a city, they turned into
a regular bus line. There have been
various changes in the firm name through
the years up until 1883, when the estab-
lishment was purchased by Mrs. K. C.
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owned by them under the firm name of
Davis Omnibus Lines. They own ten
buses and five express wagons, and have
thirty-five horses in their stables, employ-
ing twenty men in connection. They
have a large two-story brick stable, with a
comfortable and well-equipped office, at
305 and 307 Milwaukee street. Their con-
veyances are all of the latest style, and
admirably adapted for the work for which
they are designed. The fare charged is
very low, and the firm should receive the
commendation and support of the public.
Mr. J. C. Baird and J. A. Cochran are
the managers of the business, Mr. Baird
being a native of Wisconsin, having been
born in Walworth county in 1851. He
has been a resident of this city for the
past 15 years. Mr. Cochran was born
in Troy, New York, and came to Mil-
waukee in 1848, and had long been con-
nected with the C., M. & St. P. Rºy be-
fore taking charge of this line with Mr.
Baird.
GEO. GEBHARDT,
Manufacturer and Dealer in Con-
fectionery Articles.
4.91 East VVater Street.
NE of the important and leading
concerns in this business is that of
Geo. Gebhardt, at No. 491 East Water
street. He is a manufacturer, wholesale
and retail dealer in all kinds of confec-
tionery, gum paste, ornaments and toys,
consisting of brides and grooms, cupids,
hands, lacepapers, Easter eggs, flowers of
all sizes and colors, ornamenting paper,
tubes, rubber bags, foam confects, gold
and silver leaves, and all ornaments for
weddings, parties and Christmas trees; in
fact, a full supply of everything in this
line. Mr. Gebhardt commenced the
business over seventeen years ago on the
South Side, in a small way, but it has grad-
ually increased until it has reached its
present large proportion. He moved to
his present commodious quarters one year
ago and now employs from nine to
twelve persons to assist in the business.
His sales extend throughout the city and
State and reach about $10,000 per
annum. Mr. Gebhardt is a native of
Mayence, Germany, and came to Milwau-
kee in 1867. He is a practical confec-
tioner, having learned the business in his
native country. Sound business principles
have characterized all his transactions
and no better quality of goods can be
procured anywhere in the city or State.
SPALDING BROS. & CO.,
Publishers and Booksellers.
Nos. 157–163 LaSalle St., Chicago,
and No. 119 VVisconsin St.,
Milwaukee.
NE of our most extensive houses in
this line is that of Spalding Bros. &
Co., who began business here in 1884, by
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superior grade of works they represent.
They deal both on the installment and cash
plans, and do an extensive business
throughout all parts of the Northwest.
They handle all the popular works,
embracing science, history, religion and
fiction; and also deal largely in albums
and pictures. They are making a spe-
cialty of “The Modern Family Physician
and Hygienic Guide,” which is having
remarkable success, and is invaluable to
all classes of people. They also handle
Gaskell's Compendium for 1886, which
is a most valuable and instructive work.
Chambers' Encyclopedia, The World,
Historical and Actual, Webster's Un-
abridged Dictionary, and a fine edition of
the Pictorial Bible are among their most
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has just been admitted as a partner, and
arrangements have been perfected for
enlarging their rapidly growing business
by establishing headquarters at Chicago.
This firm have had years of experience in
this line, and are prompt and reliable
business men.
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JEWETT & SHERMAN CO.,
Merchants Coffee and Spice Mills.
N important branch of commercial
activity, and one that adds in no small
way to the renown of Milwaukee as a
manufacturing center, is the Merchants
Coffee and Spice Mills, owned and man-
aged by the Jewett & Sherman Co. This
business was begun in a small way in
1867, at No. 222 East Water street. In-
creased patronage demanding increased
facilities, they found more commodious
quarters at Nos. 9o, 92 and 94 Huron
street, but still being hampered for room,
they decided to build the fine block which
they now own and occupy on the corner
of Broadway and Detroit street. It con-
sists of an elegant brick building, which,
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first floor is occupied by the offices, ship-
ping room, coffee-roasters and mills. The
second floor is used exclusively for the
manufacture and packing of baking pow-
der, cream tartar and spices. The third
floor is set apart for dry and prepared
mustards, and the fourth floor to the man-
ufacture of Hummel's coffee essence,
which now has a national reputation and
use. Besides the articles mentioned
above, this company are the sole manu-
facturers of the celebrated self-rising buck-
wheat flour, known as the “Magic,” and in
great demand throughout the entire West
and Northwest. They also manufacture all
varieties of flavoring extracts and bluing.
The general trade of this com-
pany now embraces every
State west of the Alleghanies.
Besides the large number of
resident agents, they have four-
teen traveling salesmen to look
after their interests. The latest
and best machinery is in use
and run by an engine of 40-
horse power, forty to fifty
experienced hands being em--
ployed in the various depart-
ments. The officers are repre-
sentative business men in the
best sense of the term, and have
done much to forward the busi-
ness interests of the Cream
City. Liberality and prompt-
ness have always characterized
all their transactions, and the
success which has attended them dur-
ing the past is but a natural result of a
broad and systematized commercial pol-
1cy.
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WILLIAM A. FRICKE,
Dentist.
EARLY ten years ago this gentleman
established himself here, and has
for its architectural beauty and design, is won a leading and prominent, rank in
the most conspicuous in that part of the dental surgery, being a practical and
city. It is 60x125 feet in dimensions and skillful operator in his profession. Dr.
four stories in height, with a large base- Fricke first opened an office at the cor-
ment. Every story is well arranged and |ner of Chestnut and Third streets, on
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
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a more central location, he established
Mr. Everly was born in Washington
himself at his present quarters. He has county, this State, in 1853, and located
established a large and lucrative city and
country practice, which is rapidly in-
creasing as he is better known. He is a
native of New York, and came to this
city in 1857.
Milwaukee.
State, and has been the Supreme Repre-
sentative of this order for a long period
of years.
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J. M. EVERLY,
Book and Job Printer.
298 Broadway.
HE art preservative * has
many followers in this city,
and J. M. Everly, at No. 298 Broad-
way, is one who deserves especial
mention in this particular branch,
having one of the most complete
offices in the city, with all new ma-
terial of the very latest pattern,
cylinder and job presses, and a gen-
eral assortment of material such as
is used in a first-class printing estab-
lishment. He is a very enterpris-
ing young man, whose business is
but one year old, and consequently
in its infancy, but in this short
time has built up a trade that ex-
tends throughout the whole city.
This is largely due to the fact that
he is a practical printer and widely
known as such, having had seventeen
years' experience in the trade, and mas-
tered every detail in the profession. He
has been engaged in all of the prin-
cipal offices in the city. A specialty is
made of book and railroad work, and his
facilities for this are of the very first order.
A gas engine drives the machinery, which
is especially adapted to the above line of
work. He employs eight men, skilled in
the art and standing at the head of their
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He is a member of the
State Dental Society, and was the first
secretary of the Odontological Society of 41
He is a leading member of
the various benevolent and co-operative
insurance orders of this city; was Grand
Commander of the A. L. of H. of this
profession, so that the best quality of
work is guaranteed in every instance.
in this city in 1869.
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JAMES CONROY,
Caterer and Confectioner.
9 and 421 Milwaukee Street.
Branch Store, Plankinton
House.
NE of the largest and most beautiful
establishments of this kind in the
Northwest is that of Jas. Conroy, caterer
and confectioner, at Nos. 419 and 421
Milwaukee street, with a branch store in
the Plankinton House on Grand avenue.
He commenced business in a small way
on Grand avenue, then Spring street, in
1868. His business increasing rapidly,
he moved in 1873 to Milwaukee street,
near his present quarters, and a few years
ago (1882) the beautiful structure, which
he now occupies and owns, was erected.
The space occupied covers an area of
3ox12o feet, with ceilings fully-20 feet in
height. A large basement of the same
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salesroom and ice cream parlor, the
largest in the city. It is fitted in the most
attractive and pleasing manner. Con-
roy's candies, Conroy's creams and Con-
roy's suppers have a reputation extend-
ing throughout the city and all over the
State. He has everything necessary for the
furnishing of grand suppers and dinners,
which are arranged in the most artistic
style. His table decorations are com-
plete in every respect and show a supe-
rior skill in this line, which is recognized
and appreciated by his many patrons.
His store in the Plankinton House on
Grand avenue, though smaller, is in keep-
ing with the main establishment, both of
which are ornaments and a pride to our
city.
SCHRAND & WACHS,
Practical and Fashionable Harness
Makers.
385 East Water Street.
NE of the most practical and fashion-
able harness establishments of our
city, is that of Schrand & Wachs, at No.
385 East Water street. The business was
begun by the senior partner over ten
years ago, while the present firm has been
in existence since 1880. The reputation
of this house for fine work and square,
honest dealing, has won for them a large
and prosperous trade, extending not only
throughout the city, but all over the
Northwest. They employ a force of six
hands, all skilled workmen, and nothing
but the best of materials is used. They
manufacture harness of every description,
from the heavy truck to the handsome
and elaborate carriage harness; also
ladies' and gentlemen's saddles of every
INDUSTRIAL HIStory of MIL WAUKEE.
variety; riding bridles, whips, turf goods,
and articles of every description in this
line of trade. They constantly keep on
hand a complete stock of well-assorted
goods in their line, and repairing is attend-
ed to with neatness and dispatch.
WILLIAM STRUEDER,
Manufacturer of Show Cases, Store
and Office Furniture.
249 and 251 Lake Street.
HIS flourishing business was estab-
lished in a small way in 1864, by
Mr. Wm. Strueder, the present proprietor.
The manufactory and warerooms are
situated on the South Side, at Nos. 249
and 251 Lake street, and have a frontage
of 50 feet, with a depth of 150 feet. Here
are manufactured all kinds of show cases,
store and office furniture. The material
used is all first-class in every particular.
The different styles of show cases are
made in the best possible manner; the
strongest and best shaped moldings are
used, and that which is the most con-
venient to clean. Special attention is
given to make the bottoms of every case
strong, which keeps them in shape, so
that there is no danger of the glass being
broken in shipping. Polished French
plate-glass show cases are made a spe-
cialty, and consist of the following styles:
oval-front, pentagonal, square-front, and
mansard. They are made of all walnut,
or imitation ebony, highly polished, with
metal corners and plates fitting in all
the joints, which adds to the strength as
well as beauty of the case. His full
metal combination show cases, for cutlery
and perfumery, have met with great suc-
cess. Mr. Strueder has received diplomas
from the various State fairs and exposi-
tions of the Northwest, for the fine quality
and beauty of goods manufactured. His
trade is very large and rapidly increasing,
aggregating upwards of $20,000 per
annum. He has just published a price
list and catalogue of all styles of cases
manufactured, as well as all information
necessary to his business. It can be ob-
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
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ing at his office. Mr. Strueder is a
native of Germany. He was born at
Nassau, and came to Milwaukee in
1861, soon after which he established
the business which has become so
prominent among the industries of this
city.
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MASSEY & CO.,
Dealers in Crockery, Classware,
- Etc.
424. Milwaukee Street.
This carving knife, fork and steel
here represented and for sale by
the above firm, is made by the cele-
brated Wm. Beckett, of Sheffield, Eng-
land. These three articles are sold for
one dollar. They are of the finest
tempered steel and well worth five
times the amount in any family, the
horn handles alone being worth more
than the price asked. This is a real
bargain and hard to duplicate in any
city, and for those who need this set it
is a rare oportunity.
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JONES & SON,
Dealers in Corks.
62O Poplar Street.
N industry of no small importance
to our city is that conducted by
Jones & Son, cork manufacturers, at
No. 62o Poplar street. This is the
only factory of the kind in the city, and
they turn out over Ioo gross per day
of all sizes, from the smallest to the
largest. The machines are of the latest
pattern, and are run by experienced
workmen. Upwards of a dozen hands
are employed during the busy season.
Besides corks, they keep constantly on
hand bungs, plugs and vents of all sizes
and descriptions. This firm will pur-
chase from all brewers and bottlers the
old corks they may have, at a liberal
price. Although this factory was only
started six months ago, it has already
become prominent, and the business is
rapidly increasing and extending itself.

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R. Armstrong's varied experience has
given him a well-merited reputation
that extends beyond the confines of city or
State. The attention of the intelligent
public, from Maine to California, was
attracted by a series of beautiful land-
scapes, from nature, bearing appropriate
titles and published as “The real, from
an ideal standpoint.” These gems have
received the praise of all having an eye
for the beautiful, and advanced his inter-
ests by placing his genius before an ad-
miring public. Mr. Armstrong's special
feature of photography is portraiture, and
in the picturing of little children he has
few equals. From the Milwaukee Senti-
nel we clip the following:
“Armstrong, the artist, whose creative
fancies have so happily woven the real
|none west of New York.
promises in the future.
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UK.E.E.
one morning and find the savings of years
gone down in the Fidelity Bank crash.
| Visiting this city, he thought he saw
With him, to
think was to act, and out of the humble
beginning has grown a gallery second to
The story of
|Armstrong's early struggle, for struggle it
was, is stranger than fiction, and his ad-
vancement to prosperity can well serve as
a model for emulation.”
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L. G. L00MIS,
Money Loaner,
No. 452 East Water Street.
R. Loomis is one of the first settlers
in Milwaukee, having driven a
team through from Detroit, Michigan,
arriving here on July 25th, 1828. In
1830 he left for Toledo, Ohio, and from
there for New York. Leaving there in
1836 for the East Indies, still carrying on
trade in furs, he, in the course of his travels,
visited the Sandwich Islands, Ceylon,
Australia, Hindoostan, China, traveled
in nearly all the countries of the old
world, and finished by circum-navigating
the globe. Returning to Milwaukee in
1843, he opened a pawnbroker's shop on
East Water street, a few doors below his
present stand. In 1855 he moved to
452 East Water street, and has remained
there since. He can talk the English,
French and Spanish languages, and
several of the Indian dialects. He has
translated the Lord's prayer into the
latter tongue, also other portions of the
Scriptures. He is now engaged in the
business of pawnbroking and money
lending, and does a thriving trade. He
with the ideal, and decked facts with the keeps on hand a fine stock of watches,
rosy allurements of romance, has given clocks, jewelry, opera glasses, etc., and
the possibilities of his profession a new also sells second-hand goods of all de-
Mr. Loomis was born in
impetus, and elevating it to a new plane,
by giving rein to his genius. Three years
ago this leading photographer of the
Northwest came to Milwaukee with pluck
and ability his only capital. He had
been located in Chicago, only to awake
scriptions.
Vermont in 1816, and is still hale and
hearty, is a member of the Old Settlers'
Club, and takes delight in telling his
experience in the Cream City, when it
was in its infant state.

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Do Not Fail to See It when You Conne to Town.
opposite Exposition Building. Open Daily.
HIS is one of the grand sights of Mil- of the scene in a marvelous way. The
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seen one of these panoramas it is simply selves in the very midst of this great battle.
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THE leading retail cloth-
ing house in Milwau-
kee, was established in
1866. We may be allowed
to state that this firm is
enjoying the confidence of the public,
and is favorably known throughout the
Western States.
They have just completed their elegant
new store, located at the old site, No. 384
East Water street. The interior of the
building is furnished in substantial and
modern style,
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and adapted in every
They carry a superior line of READy-
MADE Clothing for MEN AND Young
MEN, Boys AND CHILDREN. They make
a specialty of Boys' AND CHILDREN's
CLoTHING, and the manufacture of Over-
coATs for fall and winter wear. They
also make clothing to order in the Custom
Department on the second floor.
They cordially invite all their friends
and customers to pay them a visit at the
new store. Strangers cannot afford to
leave the city before seeing this model
clothing establishment.
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HALE & WILSON,
Insurance,
Channber of Connnnerce.
WELL-KNOWN and prominent in-
surance firm is that of Hale &
Wilson, at No. 97 Michigan street,
They repre-
sent the following leading and substan-
tial companies: Insurance Company of
North America, American Fire Insurance
Company, Citizens' Insurance Company,
Detroit F. & M. Insurance Company,
Boatmans F. & M. Insurance Company,
North American Insurance Company,
and the Standard Accident Insurance
Company, of Detroit, Mich. The In-
surance Company of North America is
not only the largest, but the oldest stock
fire and marine insurance company in
this country, being established in 1794.
The Citizens' Insurance Company of
New York is also eminently popular and
belongs to the New York Underwriters'
Agency. The Detroit Fire and Marine
Insurance Company was the first com-
pany to make settlement of their losses
in the Chicago fire. The Standard Acci-
dent Insurance Company of Detroit,
Mich., with D. M. Ferry, president, is a
strong, though recently organized com-
pany—having a list of stockholders repre-
senting as much wealth as any corpora-
tion in the West. The policies of the
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
209
feature offered by other companies, but
excel them in the following: Fifty-two
weeks' indemnity. No deductions for
indemnities paid for prior injuries on
event of death. A world-wide, non-
forfeitable policy, free from technicalities.
All circulars and information regarding
any of the companies mentioned above,
sent free on application. Mr. P.C. Hale,
the senior member of this firm, came to
this city in 1842, and established the first
book-store in this State. He has always
been prominently connected with the
commercial interests of Milwaukee, and
since 1872 has been following the insur-
ance business. Mr. Wilson is a native of
New York State and came to Milwaukee
about five years ago and entered into the
business he still represents.
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MILWAUKEE CHAIR CO.,
Manufactºrs of Chairs and Cradles.
Office, 242 and 244 Broadway.
NE of the large manufacturing estab-
lishments that has done much to
advance the commercial standing of Mil-
waukee, is the “Milwaukee Chair Com-
pany.” The offices and warerooms of
this company are situated at 242 and 244
Broadway, while the factory is on Mil-
waukee street, from Nos. 233 to 243.
The premises occupied consist of a spa-
cious and commodious brick building
50x120 feet in dimensions, five stories
high, which is used for a factory. Every
floor is admirably arranged with all the
most improved machinery and appliances
known to the trade. Employment is given
to upwards of 150 hands, and the full
capacity of the factory is taxed to meet
the demands of the trade. The specialty
of this firm is office and other styles of
fine chairs, which have won for this house
a national reputation. The motive power
for the factory is supplied by a steam
engine of 100 horse-power. The presi-
dent of the company is Mr. John C.
Spencer, who has been interested in this
company since 1877, and it is entirely
through his labors and judicious man-
agement that this house has been able to
exert so great an influence upon this trade.
Mr. Spencer is a member of the Execu-
tive Board of the Western Chair Associa-
tion, also local treasurer of the Milwau-
kee & Northern Railroad. He has been
closely connected with the commercial
advancement of our city's history ever
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COLUMBIA,
German Catholic Newspaper.
415 East VVater Street.
HE German Catholics are ably repre-
sented through their official organ,
the “Columbia,” published in this city.
This paper has a very large circulation
throughout the Northwest, especially in
Wisconsin and in our own city. The
editor is J. M. A. Schultheis, formerly a
professor in the St. Francis Seminary near

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210 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
Milwaukee. He is known as an able and of years. Mr. Adams has long been
trenchant writer, and is one of the leaders known to the businessmen of this city as
in the Catholic journalistic field. Under solicitor and agent for the goods which
his able direction the Columbia has gained
an influential position, and under the
management of Alfred Steckel it has
attained a wide circulation, and such is
its scope and character, that it has re-
ceived recommendations and commenda-
tion from a number of bishops. The
“Columbia.” is published by the German
Catholic Printing Society, with Monsignor
J. St. Muenich as president. On account
of its peculiar field of work, it reaches a
class of people that cannot be reached
through any other journal, and for this
reason is an excellent advertising medium.
It is a large seven column quarto, and the
subscription price is $2.50 per year.
DIETRICH & ADAMS,
Manufacturers of Rubber
Stamps, etc.
No. 4 Grand Avenue.
ROMINENT among the
establishments engaged in º
this branch of industry is that
of Dietrich & Adams, manu-º
facturers of all kinds of rubber
stamps, and dealers in amateur
printing presses, types, cards,
etc. They are located at No.
4 Grand avenue, and although
they have but recently formed
partnership, they have estab-
lished a large and lucrative
trade not only throughout our
city, but in various parts of the
State. Their entire stock is
new and of the latest designs.
Their specialty is in the new
process of manufacturing rub-
ber stamps, which renders them superior
to others not only in design, but in the
smooth printing die. They handle all
the latest novelties in the rubber-stamp
line, as well as rubber type, self-inking
pads, seals, steel stamps, stencils, check-
protectors, etc. Mr. Dietrich is an ex-
perienced and practical printer, having
followed that profession, in connection
with the stationery business, for a number
he now manufactures and handles. It
is this experience which has won for
them a wide-spread reputation for pro-
ducing the most complete and finished
work in their line. This firm pay per-
sonal attention to all orders received, and
are prompt in the fulfillment of them.
CARPELES, HARTMANN & CO.,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
Trunks and Traveling Bags.
Office and Salesroom, 334 & 336
East VWater Street.
HIS representative firm are among
the largest trunk and traveling bag
manufacturers in the Northwest.
have large and conveniently-arranged
offices and salesrooms at Nos. 334 and
336 East Water Street, and a large fac-
tory at Nos. 217, 219, 221, 223 and 225
They
Sixth street. The business was begun
in 1870 under the firm name of Carpeles,
Heiser & Co., which in 1883 was changed
to Carpeles, Schram & Co. The last
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
211
year when the present firm took charge
of the business. The stock carried is
the most varied and complete in the
city, consisting of the best and latest
styles of goods in this line. Their factory
on Sixth street is a large five-story
building, fitted up with machinery of
the latest designs for the manufacture of
trunks. The goods turned out by this
firm are first-class in every respect and,
having many valuable patents on trunk
bottoms, cross strips, bolt and corner
hinges, their goods are much sought atter
by the trade. A branch office has been
established at No. 240 East Madison
street, Chicago.
NORTHWESTERN MALLE-
ABLE IRON CO.,
Manufacturers of Malleable
Castings,
Park Street, between 13th and
14th Avenues.
MONG the active and flourishing
enterprises of our city there are
none whose prospects are more flattering
than those of the Northwestern Malle-
able Iron Company. They begun busi-
ness in 1882, and so rapidly has it in-
creased that to-day their trade extends
throughout the States of Michigan, Wis-
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indi-
ana, Ohio, Missouri and Oregon. They
are manufacturers of all forms of malle-
Iron
able iron castings for plows, harvesting
machinery, wagons and railroad work.
All their castings are made exclusively by
the air-furnace process, which is greatly
superior to the old method. The plant
of this company is located in the Me-
nomonee valley—on Park street, be-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth avenues.
Their large factory is represented in the
cut below, and covers an area of 15ox35o
feet. All the latest machinery is in use
and is run by a large Corliss engine of 50
horse-power. They employ upwards of
150 men. Their facilities for supplying
A.
Milwaukee &
the trade are surpassed by none.
the Chicago,
spur of
St. Paul Railway is run right to the
foundry and is used for receiving their
material and shipping their goods. The
company consists of F. W. Sivyer,
H. M. Wells and W. A. Draves, men of
energy and progress.
HYDRAULIC POWER CO.
General Office, Cor. East Water
and Wisconsin Streets.
MONG the leading commercial in-
dustries of this country there are
none more worthy of notice than that
represented by the “Menominee Min-
ing Co.,” with headquarters in the Mack
Block, this city, and mines in the north-
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE.
Some idea of the extensive operations of
this company may be had, when it is
stated that since their organization, in
1876, they have mined and shipped
1,151,633 tons of iron ore from their
Chapin mine alone. These labors called
for great power, and as steam was the
only force in use, the cost for fuel was
something enormous, which increased
year by year as they extended their opera-
tions. With an idea of lessening this
great expense, efforts were made to obtain
sufficient power from water, gas and
electricity, but without avail. This led to
the organization of the Hydraulic Power
Company, in the fall of 1882, which has
developed and put into successful opera-
tion the power obtained from Quinnesec
Falls. This result has been the theme of
the mechanical and scientific press for
the past three years, and has brought
before the men of new ideas the practi-
cability of putting in use the great power
of Niagara. The enterprise, referred to
above, consists of a plant of air compress-
ors, six in number, at Quinnesec Falls, on
the Menominee River, which compress
air into a line of pipe leading from the
Falls to Iron Mountain, three and three-
fourths miles distant, where it is employed
to drive the machinery of the Chapin
and Ludington mines—pumping, hoisting
and motive-power engines above ground,
and direct-acting pumps and rock drills
below ground, to the exclusion of steam.
These iron pipes are twenty-four inches
in diameter, laid on rollers on the surface
of the ground. To overcome the ex-
pansion and contraction, which is four-
teen inches every 600 feet, expansion or
slip-joints are used all along the entire
line of pipe. The Falls ful nish a natural
head of water of forty-seven-feet, but by
means of a dam it is raised to fifty four
feet. The compressors are arranged in
pairs, a crank being attached to each end
of each compressor-shaft, and a frame
attached to each pillow block. The
cranks of each shaft are at right angles to
one another, and this, together with the
heavy gearing employed, give, so far as the
eye can detect, a perfectly uniform rotary
motion. Each pair of compressors stands
on its own separate foundation and is sup-
plied with its own independent turbine.
The compressors are of the Rand
“Class A" type. The frames are of the
Corliss pattern, with the addition of a
foot under the end of the cross-head
slide main bearings. Cross-head gibs and
connecting rod brasses are of phosphor
bronze. The main bearings are four part
boxes, very large, and fitted with large
steel wedges for taking up side wear.
Valves are of the standard Rand poppet
construction—the inlets of steel and in
two pieces, and fitted with a new form of
guard to avoid all possibility of falling
into the cylinder. The method of ab-
Sorbing the heat of compression consists
of a brass-lined water-jacketed air cylin-
der, water-jacketed air cylinder heads, and
a hollow piston supplied with water
through telescoped tubes, which pass
through a stuffing box in the back cylin-
der head, thus surrounding the air on all
sides by cold metallic surfaces.
These compressors are six in number,
three pairs, and arrangements are being
made to put in the fourth pair at a cost of
$60,000. They will be 36x60 instead of
32x60, the size of the old ones; the
flume is 6oo feet long, fifty feet wide and
sixteen feet deep. The development of
this whole matter is almost entirely due to
Mr. Albert Conro, the second vice-presi-
dent of the Menominee Mining Co.
He has been the life and success of the
enterprise, and these results are but the
development and perfecting of his own
ideas. Difficulties and perplexities would
arise, but they were speedily overcome
by his engineering skill and determina-
tion to succeed. He was ably assisted
by Mr. Edward Reynolds, of E. P. Allis
& Co. The American Engineer of De-
cember 19, 1884, Vol. 8th, No. 25, con-
tains a full exposition and illustrations of
this plant, which is now interesting scien-
tific men all over the world.
H. M. BENJAMIN,
Coal and Pig Iron Dealer.
COr. Jurleau Ave, and Fiver St.
R. Benjamin, the extensive coal
dealer mentioned at the head of
this sketch, begun business in 1869 by
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buying out the firm of C. D. Guernsey &
Co. His main yard is located at the
corner of Juneau avenue and River
street, but he has four others in various
parts of the city, which have a total
dockage of 2,000 feet. He has also an
office at 146 La Salle street, and exten-
sive rail-yards at Seventeenth street and
Wentworth avenue, where the all-rail car
business is distributed for the Chicago
trade and the Northwest. The extensive
business of this firm consists not only of
the largest local trade, but extends all
over the West and Northwest. Besides
coal and wood, the firm deals extensively
in coke, pig iron and foundry supplies.
Mr. Benjamin is also engaged extensively
in mining, being the president of the
Norton Creek Coal and Mining Com-
pany, owning and operating mines in Ver-
million county, Indiana, with a capacity
of 5oo tons a day, and is also largely
interested in the Gogebic Iron Range,
being vice-president of the Superior
Iron Company, and interested in several
other iron mines. He issued the first
call for a meeting of the leading mer-
chants, manufacturers and capitalists of
our city to consider the project of estab-
lishing a permanent industrial exposition.
This resulted in the organization of the
Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Associa-
tion and the erection of the beautiful
structure which is represented on the
front cover of this work.
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W many readers to the above establish-
ment, being what it claims to be, a Model
Laundry, not only in name, but in the
character of work turned out. Perfect
system prevails throughout this establish-
ment, thus avoiding vexatious delays inci-
dent to this branch of industry. Shirts,
collars, cuffs, etc., are done up in a man-
ner to give satisfaction to the most
fastidious, particular attention being given
to laundrying of flannels and underwear,
the latter articles being done up with
special care in a sanitary point of view,
being subjected to great heat to drive out
all moisture in all flannel or woolen gar-
ments, so they are in condition for imme-
diate use as soon as received. So the
Model Laundry is one of the sanitary
institutions of the city. The motto of
this establishment is “good work,” which
is always kept up to the same excellent
standard as regards thorough washing
and fine finish. Mr. and Mrs. Gause
give their close personal attention to
every department of the work, and with
such gratifying results as to characterize
the Model Laundry as one of the most
perfect in the city.
HENRY BUESTRIN,
Contractor and Builder,
565 East VVater Street.
ENRY BUESTRIN, the well-known
contractor and builder, has his
place of business and his workshop at
No. 565 East Water street. The num-
ber of skilled workmen on his pay-roll
is hardly ever less than fifty. The yearly
business amounts to $1 oo,000 easily.
Mr. Buestrin’s specialties are the rais-
ing and moving of brick buildings, safes
and heavy machinery. He raised the
Reese block, a structure of 150x3oo
feet, a height of 16 feet. Perhaps the
most remarkable feat in the moving line
ever accomplished here was the job so
neatly and successfully performed by Mr.
Buestrin some time ago, namely, the mov-
ing of a brick smoke-stack at Sanderson's
mill, 120 feet high, bodily, a distance of
nearly 1oo feet. The moving of the old
Rindskopf homestead, a large three-story
brick building from facing on Grand
avenue to Eighth street, and the turning
around of the large double brick residence
for Hon. Edwin Hyde on Fifth street,
are some of the few noted jobs of Mr.
Buestrin. He also put in position the
Washington monument.
As a builder, Mr. Buestrin's name is
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the erection of which he superintended.
He also built Immanuel church on Astor
street, the Northwestern Insurance
building and the block occupied by the
Matthews Furniture Company. Mr.
Buestrin also builds bridges, and is the
inventor of a patent extension-ladder for
the use of firemen.
Mr. Buestrin was born in Prussia and
came to Milwaukee in 1839, when a boy
only four or five years old. Mr. Buestrin
takes a deep interest in Milwaukee and
is closely identified with its growth and
prosperity.
CREAM CITY BRUSH WORKS,
F. J. Uhlmeyer & Bro., Prop'rs,
528 East Water Street.
HE Cream City Brush Works at 528
East Water street, are among the
most important of the many manufact-
uring establishments of Milwaukee,
Mr. Uhlmeyer uses the best materials
and knows how to do good work, and the
natural resultis that his brushes are second
to none in the market. His workshop
and salesroom is 30x50 in dimensions,
all of the basement being used as a
workshop, where the latest machinery is
used. The business was established in
1881, and though begun in a small way
soon grew to its present proportions.
Better class goods only of all kinds are
made, so if you want a cheap, shoddy
article, you will have to go to some other
shop. Mr. Uhlmeyer makes a great
many brushes to order for factories,
breweries and tanneries, and is doing, all
told, a yearly business amounting to over
$5,000.
Mr. Uhlmeyer was born in Watertown,
this State, twenty-eight years ago, and
has lived in Milwaukee about ten years.
He learned his trade in this city and
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216 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WAUKEE.
BIERBACH'S FEATHER DEPOT. We would call special attention to
the Bierbach improved pillow, chemically
94 Oneida Street. treated. This pillow is composed ex-
clusively of sponge and other wieldin
Tº: largest and most perfect feather . ...nº. with a .# .#
renovating depot in the city is thatical process, which effects a permanent
of Albert G. Bierbach, at No. 94 Oneida Cure" ºf those afflicted with nose, throat
- and lung diseases, such as catarrh,
bronchitis, asthma and incipient con-
sumption. The worth of this pillow
is attested by the testimonials of
thousands who use it. He also
keeps in stock and manufactures to
order quilts, comforts, bedticks, pil-
low-slips, mattresses, bed-springs and
pillow-sham holders.
Mr. Bierbach is also the
inventor of the fire escape
represented in the cut below
and on the inside back cover
of this work, the latest patent
of which was received Oct.
27th, 1885.
It consists of a permanent,
movable or traveling stand-
pipe, ladders and balconies,
extending from the top of
the building to the ground.
street. He is
prepared to
cleanse and pu-
rify feather-
beds, pillows,
bolsters, etc., in
the most satis-
Feather Renovator.
factory manner, by means of
his patent chemical feather
renovator and separator,
which for perfect work is un-
surpassed by anything of the ſº
kind in the world. With this
machine all dirt, dust, impu-
rity and bad smell are removed
without the slightest injury tº
to the material. In renovat-
ing the feathers, no fire comes || ||
near them, consequently ſº
there is no possibility of ºf
burning, scorching or other- ºl º
wise injuring them. By this ºf | |
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price from $75 to $500.
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This escape travels in a slotted tube,
which is supported by slotted brackets
eight feet apart and capable of
carrying from 3,000 to 5,000 pounds.
The tube may run along the entire block
from one corner to the other, where
the buildings are all of the same height.
Along the entire length of the bottom of
this tube is a one-inch slot or opening,
through which is passed a connecting
bar, which holds and supports the ap-
paratus below. This connecting bar is
fastened to a traveling car or truck, with
brass friction wheels, upon steel axles 334
inches in diameter, which rolls within the
tube (see Figure 1, back cover). The
escape can be worked by persons on the
ladder, or from the ground, or from
each corner. The most flattering testi-
monials have been received from city
officials, chiefs of fire departments,
architects and builders all over the
country. It is placed upon the Colby
& Abbot block and the Kieckhefer
building of this city, and on the large
“Puck” building in New York city, and
other orders are rapidly coming in. He
has just secured a patent for an elevated
street-car railway, which is based upon
the same principle as his fire escape,
and which can be run by cable, elec-
tricity, or other motive power. City and
State rights for sale for either his feather
renovators or fire escape. All Informa-
tion freely given by writing or applying to
Albert G. Bierbach, No 94 Oneida street.
JOHN ELSER,
Wholesale and Retail Provision and
Meat Market.
483 East VVater Street.
HIS house was first founded in 184o.
In 1868 Mr. Elser became proprietor
and has since conducted the enterprise,
having steadily met with success. He
occupies four floors, and has them well
stocked with provisions, fresh and cured
meats, sausage, etc. His business amounts
to $60,000 per year, and his trade extends
over the entire city. Mr. Elser is a native
of Germany, and was born in 1835. He
came from thence direct to Milwaukee in
1850, and has been engaged in business
here ever since. His shop is always
clean and neat, and his stock of meats
the choicest and most extensive in the
city. He supplies some of our largest
hotels, and his shop is frequented by all
classes of our citizens. Mr. Elser also does
a wholesale business, and in this branch has
an extensive trade throughout the State.
NEw York HAIR STORE,
Mrs. C. B. Kessler, Proprietress.
A.32 East VVater Street.
OR the past three
years Mrs. C. B.
Kessler has been en-
gaged in business on
the above street, and
has her parlors stocked
throughout with a full
line of hair goods. It
is a popular establish-
ment among our ladies
of fashion, who ſavor
it with their patronage;
she also has a large
number of customers from outside the
city. Mrs. Kessler employs two skillful
artists, who are perfectly acquainted
with the work, and dress ladies’ hair in
any style desired. Her stock of hair
goods is a most select one. Having had
fifteen years' experience in the old
country, New York, Chicago and this
city, she is thoroughly competent to per-
form all work placed in her hands in the
highest style of the art. ' Her parlors are
the resort of the elite of our city, among
whom she is generally recognized as
authority on the latest styles of hair-
dressing. Ladies will find her prepared
at all times to attend to their wants, and
any orders left with her will receive the
most careful attention.
D. w goETZ & Co.,
Manufacturers of Hand-Knit Worst-
ed and Silk Coods.
42O and 422 East VVater Street.
HE abové firm is one of the oldest
and most prominent houses in Mil-
waukee engaged in this business, having
first been established in 1857 by D. W.

218
Goetz. They occupy the second floor
at No. 420 and 4.22 East Water street,
which is forty by one hundred and fifty
feet in area. They manufacture hand-
knit worsted goods of all kinds, and em-
ploy one hundred and fifty persons in
the business. They enjoy a large and
increasing trade, the sales last year
amounting to $40,000. They also deal
in hand-knit silk goods, and strive to
excel in quality of the work done. The
business is now conducted by Julius
Meiswinkel, who owns the entire concern.
He was born in Germany in 1842, and
came to Milwaukee in 1856, and has
since resided here. He has held the office
of clerk of the Municipal Court since
1878, and served through the civil war,
being a lieutenant in the Twenty-sixth
Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. The
above firm never fails to give satisfaction.
* * - º
Manufacturers of Trunks, Travel-
ing Bags, etc.
Tenth, Fowler and Hibernia Sts.
l city there is no more enterprising
ABEL, BACH & FITZGERALD,
MONG theimportant industries of our
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
trunks, traveling bags, tourists' outfits,
etc. Their large factory is located on
Tenth street, occupying the entire block
between Fowler and Hibernia streets,
3oo feet, and extends bach fifty feet. It
is of brick and four stories in height.
All the latest and best machinery is in
use at this establishment, and is run by
an engine of fifty horse-power. Upwards
of 200 hands are given employment in
the various departments. They have
just opened large and convenient sales-
rooms at No. 114 Grand avenue, just
opposite the Plankinton House, which is
stocked with as full a supply of goods as
can be found in the city. They begun
this business five years ago, and now do a
trade of nearly a quarter of a million dol-
lars annually. Not only are the products
of this establishment found thoughout the
West and Northwestern States, but also
in Mexico and along the Pacific Slope.
The aim of this firm is always to reach
the highest standard of excellence, and
present the latest and best designs of
goods to their many patrons. The mem-
bers of this firm are representative busi-
ness men, and display great energy and
enterprise in the successful manner in
or progressive house than that of Abel, which they conduct their large establish-
Bach & Fitzgerald, manufacturers of ment, which is growing larger yearby year.







INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MIL WA UKEE.
219
GROSS BROS.,
Soap Boilers and Manufacturers of
Washing Compound.
Works: 933, 933, 937, 939, 961
and 963 North VVater St.
MONG the old and representative
houses of this city is that of Gross
Bros., manufacturers of toilet and laundry
soaps, and washing compound. The busi-
ness was begun in 1866, in an old barn on
Reed street, with a capacity of about
2,000 pounds per week. So rapidly
did the business increase, that in one
year's time they entered the wholesale
trade, and in 1868 moved to their
present site, where their large factory
is located. It is 8ox Ioo feet in dimen-
sions and four stories high. They turn
out over 150,000 pounds of soap
per week, which requires the employ-
ment of fifty hands, five of them being
traveling men. They have the largest
and best purifying apparatus in use in
the Union, all the fat used in making
their soaps being thoroughly purified,
which renders their soaps so wholesome
and popular. The principal brands
manufactured are the “Golden Laundry,”
“Electricity’ and “A, B, C "Soap, which
are found in almost every household
in the West and Northwest. They man-
ufacture forty other brands, besides their
washing compound. They have offices
established at Cleveland, Nashville, St.
Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, St. Paul and
Minneapolis. This firm sends out annu-
ally several millions of beautiful litho-
graphs and oleographs of all sizes and
designs, which not only serve to advertise
them, but to beautify the homes of their
many patrons.
J. B. KUEHLE,
Dealer in Gent's Furnishing Goods.
24O3 East Water Street.
HE above business was begun in 1861
by Mr. J. Bernard Kuehle, on the
corner of Martin and East Water streets.
He moved to the present site in 1883,
where he soon established a large local
and State trade. Here can be found at
all times a fine line of gent's furnishing
goods of every description. Here is
kept constantly on hand a large stock of
medium and fine goods at as reasonable
prices as can be found anywhere else in
the city. One of the main features of
this firm's business is their custom shirts
and underwear, and special attention is
given to all orders received in this line.
Mr. Kuehle's demise occurred one year
ago, since which time the business has
been ably managed by his son Henry W.
Kuehle, who has had years of experience
in every department of this trade.

INDEX.
JPage
Abel, Bach & Fitzgerald, Mnfrs. of Trunks,
Traveling Bags, etc.. ...........------------... ..... ......... 218
Academy (The Newſ, Jacob Litt, Manager........... 194
Adler, F. P., Fine Confectionery, etc................... 172
Andres, Fred. & Co., Stone Contractors......... ....... 148
Andrews, C. E. & Co., Baking Powder, Spices, etc. 182
Anson Bros., Jobbers of tiroceries, etc................. 141
Armstrong's Broadway Gallery, Photography...... 206
Baird, R. S. & Co., Art Printers............................ 135
Bangs. E. D., Photographer ................................ 184
Barber, Edward, Real Estate and Loalls.......... ..... 162
Baumgaertner, H. J., Sign Painter............... ........ 170
Beer, Richard, Livery Stable.............................. 185
Belveders' Block ....... ........................................... 213
Benjamin, H. M., Dealer in Coal and Pig Iron......
Berthelet, H. & Co., Manufacturers of Hydraulic
Cement, et?............ ........................... 102
Best Brewing Co. (Philip). Minſrs. of Beer............ 114
Binney, J., Platt & Co.'s Oysters............ tº e s as a s a tº e º is e º ºs 176
Blatz, Valentin, Brewer and Maltster ................... 103
Bodden & He th, Coffee, Spices, etc............. tº e s tº gº tº º 144
Booth, Wm., Merchant Tailor........................ ..... 149
Borznis, Edw'd E., Mnfr. of Models, Dies, etc...... 164
Bower, E. C., Cash Grocer..................................... 191
Boyle, Wm . Practical Horse Shoer, ..................... 173
Boynton, A L, Livery and Sale Stables............... 132
Bradford. Jam's B., Piano Warerooms................ 187
Bradley & Metcalf, Mnfrs. of Boots and Shoes.... .97
Brock, W. D., Elevator Manufacturer ................. 171
Brown Photograph c Studio, Brown Bros., Prop's 141
Brown T. H. & Co., Mntrs. of Carriages and
Buggies...... tº gº tº e º e º ſº $ tº e º ºs º º ºs e º sº e º e º e s e s at s º e º e º e º e º e º ºs e e º ºs e s e s tº e º 'º sº 1
Buell, F. R. & Co., Shippers of Coal.....................
IBuestrin, Henry, Contractor and Builder.............
Bunde & Upmeyer, Manufacturing Jewelers.......
Burroughs, Geo., Manufacturer of Trunks, etc... 128
Campbell Steam Laundry, H. N. Campbell, Propr. 140
Carpeles, Hartmann & Co., Manufacturers of and
Dealers in Trunks and Traveling Bags.............. 210
Carpenter & Underwood, Manufacturers of
Crackers and Biscuits.................... tº e º e º 'º e º e º sº e s tº e g º e 188
Cassel, B., Stoves, Ranges, etc.. . ........ tº ſº ſe & e g º ºs º º ºs º e º ºs tº 186
Central Warehouse, E. J. Tapping, Agent.......... 116
City Carriage Works, R. Sherin & Co., Proprietors 122
City Steam Laundry, J. P. McCarty, Proprietor... 154
Chadbourne, C., Photographer.............. * e º e º e º gº e e º ºs e e 136
Chapman, T. A., Dry Goods................................. 81
Clarke, Chas. H., Letter Cutter, Engraver, etc...... 172
Clark. J. hn, Manu acturer of Harness, etc....... ... 157
Clements Bros.. Steam Heating and Ventilating... 173
Columbia. German Catholic Newspaper....... tº º tº º & sº tº e 209
Conroy, James, Cate' er and Confectioner...... ë e º 'º $ tº 203
Continental Restaurant, etc., S. J. Eldridge, Propr.
Conway, Cl, ment & Williams, Manu acturers
and Dealers in Furniture.................................. 92
Cream City Brewing Co., Beer Hrewers............... 166
Cream City Brush Works, F. J. Uhlmeyer & Bro.,
Proprietors......................................................... 215
Cream City Preserving Works, N. M. Klein, Propr. 159
Cudworth, W. H., Tentist................................... j40
Davis, Ira M. & Co., Gen'l Commission Merchants 106
Davis Omnibus Line Davis & Baird, Proprietors 200
De Voe. B. F., Printer and Publi-her.................. 140
Dietrich & A. lams, Mnſrs. of Rubber Stamps, etc. 210
Dutcher, Collins & Smith, Jobbers of Teas.......... 133
Ehr, Peter, Custom Tailor.................................... I75
Page.
Electro-Thermal Baths, Daniel T. Coates, Propr. #;
Ellinghausen, H. & Co., General Com. Mérchants 157
Elser, John, Wholesale and Retail Provision and
Meat Market.................. *º e º e º 'º e s & tº e º $ tº tº $ tº e e g º is * * * * * e e º e º e º 'º e 217
Elmore, R. P. & Co., Coal and Pig Iron............... 86
Ely, Mrs. Lydia, Artist and Art Teacher............. 189
Empire Fur Factory, Mnfrs. of Fur Garments..... 131
English Chop House, Neuman & Manasse, Proprs. 127
Erbacher, F. W. & Cº., Cheese, Groceries, etc...... 157
Esau, Dr. Louis R., D ntist................................... 152
Esch, John & Son, Esch s Patent Trucks....... tº gº tº e º g º s 180
Everly, J. M., Book and Job Printer..................
Excelsior Business and Shorthand College, H.
M. Wilmot & Co., Proprietors ...... tº e º ºs ººº e º ºs e e º sº e e s e e <
Falk Brewing Co. (Franz). Manufacturers of Beer 146
Feather Depot, Albert G. Bierbach, Proprietor..... 216
Filer & Stowell Co. (Limited), The Cream City
Iron Works........................................................ 155
Fire Escape, Albert G. Bierbach, Proprietor......... 216
Fisher. D. & Co., M nfrs. of Flavoring Extracts.... 167
Flirit, J. G., Star Coffee and Spice Mills............... 161
Flint & Pere Marquette R. R., L. C. Whitney,
General Agent.......................................... ......... 180
Fox, J. M., Staple and Fancy Groceries............... 120
Frankfurth Hardware Co. (Limited, Wm., Whole-
sale Hardware....................... ........................... 108
Fricke, Wm. A., Dentist....................................... 202
Friedmann, Julius, Restaurant and Caterer......... 150
Gebhardt, ( , eo., Confectionery Articles...... gº º e º e º e º s 201
Gerber & Gram, Musical Merchandise.................. 190
Germania Publishing Co., Geo. Brumder, Propr. 189
Goebel, Peter, Cigars, Tobacco, Snuff, etc..... ...... 170
Goetz, D. W., & Co., Manufacturers of Hand-Knit
Worsted and Silk Goods..................................... 217
Goll & Frank Co., Wholesale Dry Goods, Notions,
etc.------------------------------------................................ 91
Goodrich & Wagner, Wholesale Grocers............... 83
Goodyear Rubber Co., \\ . W Wallis, Manager ... 147
Graf, John, Mnfr. White Beer, Soda Water, etc..... 190
Grand Avenue Hotel, H. M. Merryman,Proprietor 175
Grand Central Drug St re, A. v. Trott, Proprietor 147
Grosskopf. Theo., Wine and Cigar Merchant....... 170
Gross Bros., Soap Boilers and Manufacturers of
Washing Compound......... & © tº e C tº º º is tº gº tº sº e ∈ E is tº e º e º e º e º e º e 219
Gross, Phillip, Hardware Merchant...... e tº e º e s is tº e º 'º e º & s 159
Gurney, Brick Machine Works, T. C. Gurney,
Proprietor......................................................... 176
Guy, Wm. S., Groceries, Provisions, etc...... * g g e is ſº e s tº 149
Hadfield & Co., Dealers in Coal, Wood, Lime, etc. 108
Had'ey, Dr. Fred S., l entist............................... 174
Hale & Wilson, Insurance.................................... 208
Hallaska & Co., Painters, Grainers, etc................. 186
Hartmann. F. W. & Co., Distillers and Jobbers
in Whiskies...................................................... 118
Hasseuteufel & Waechter, Lamps, Glassware, etc., 188
Hays, Geo , Plaining Mill and Box Factory.......... 172
Helming, B. H. & Co., Mnfrs. Collars, Saddles,etc. 153
Herman, Henry. Real Estate and Loans............ 184
Heuel & Ullmer, Artists...................................... 191
Hof, J. J., Land Office ........................................ 187
Works ........... ....................... .................. .......
Hoffman & Billings Manufacturing Co.(Limited),
Gas, Steam and Plumbers’ Supplies, etc........... 89
Hydraulic Power Co............................................. 211
Inbusch, J. D., Wholesale Grocers, etc................. 132
222
INDEX.
Page
Jacobi, Mrs. M., Embroideries, Fancy Goods, etc. 168
Jewett & Sherman Co., Merchants’ Coffee and
Spice Mills.......** *** -- - - - - - - - “........................ º e º gº tº ſº tº sº
Johnson, B. J. & Co., Soap Manufacturers, etc......
Johnson, H. R., Dentist
Jones & Son. Manufacturers and Dealers in Corks 205
Joseph Schlitz. Bottling Works (Limited) The, I
* & © e º e º 'º e º e º ſº º e º e ºs s e º ºs e º e is º ºs e º sº g º e º a tº tº
Voechting, Shape & Co., Proprietors................. 85
Josten, S., House and Sign Painter...................... 172
Jung & Borcheri, Beer Brewers........................... 192
Kavanaugh, Mrs. Jean, Artist and Art Teacher... 186
Keogh, Edwd., Commercial Printer...................... 107
Kieckhefer Bros. & Co., Manufacturers of
Stamped and Pieced Tinware.............. tº e g º ei e s tº º º
Kipp Bros., Mnfrs of Mattresses, Spring Beds,etc. 166
Enell, Wm. R. Dealer in Paper Hangings, etc..... 163
Koch, H. C. & Co., Architects and Superintend- 121
ents....................................................................
Eruse & Barker, Plumbers, Steam Fitters, etc..... 138
Kuehle, J. B., Dealer in Gent's Furnishing Goods 219
Kump, Mrs. B., Mattress Manufacturer.............. 151
Lachman, Louis, Merchant Tailor....................... 184
Landwehr. J. H. H., Dealer in Groceries, etc...... 16ſ)
Langenberger, J., Contractor and Builder........... 174
Laverrenz, Otto & Bro., Book Binders and Paper
Box Manufacturers................. * 144
Lebeau & Schuhman, Dentists......................... ... 149
Leihammer, E., Mnfr. and Dealer in Harness...... 164
Little, W. H., & Co., Beel and Pork Packers........ 91
Litt's Milwaukee Dime Museum, Jacob Litt, propr 194
Loomis, L. G., \! Oney Loaller............. tº e e º ºs e º e º ºs e g g g ∈ ... 206
Luick, John, Confectioner and Caterer................. 128
Lydston, F. A., Artist.................................... ...... 160
Lyon, Geo. S., Plumber, Gasfitter, etc................ ... 105
Markham Academy, Prof. A. Markham, Propr..... 200
Martin, D. A., Grain Dealer............................. .... 158
Martin, H. H. & Co., Mauufacturing Jewelers ..... 168
Massey & Co., Dealers in Crockery, Glass-
Ware, etc...................... tº º e s e º e º e º e º & & e º e º ºs e º 'º e º e º 'º tº e º e º gº e º is tº a 205
McCanalty, M., Printing House........................... 167
Meinecke & Co., Toys, Fancy Goods, etc............. 88
Meinecke, Adolph & Son, Manufacturers of
Baskets, Willow Ware, etc............................... 111
Mendel, Smith & Co., Wholesale Grocers............. . 88
Miller, Fred., Brewer and Maltster..................----- 195
Milwaukee Cement Co., Manufacturers of Cement 84
Milwaukee Chair Co., Mnfrs, of Chairs and
Cradles............. .... 209
Mil Waukee Electropathic Institute, Dr. J. Mc-
Guffin, Proprietor............................................. 197
Milwaukee Garden, Pius Dreher, Proprietor....... 153
Milwaukee School of . Music, J. C. Fillmore,
l'irector....................... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * g º e s tº $ tº $ tº e e º 'º & g º º tº 181
Milwaukee Stone Yard, Cook & Hyde, Props....... 188
Milwaukee Stove Works, J. A. and P. E. Dutcher,
Proprietors............ ............................. ..............
Milwaukee Type and Electrotype Foundry,
Francis Keehn, Pr, prietor...... * tº e e º e s tº e º tº $ ſº tº e º 'º & sº tº dº & & © 182
Mock, Benjamin, Livery and Boarding Stable.... 127
Model Laundry, C. E. Gause, Proprietor.............. 214
Morgan, James, I)ry Goods, Millinery, etc............ 178
Mott, H. W., Druggist..................... tº te e s is e º 'º e dº e ºs © tº ſº ſº tº º e º º 173
Mueller & Ilhardt, Wall Paper, etc...................... 15S
Naramore. John H., Dentist................................. 155
Na, tional Park (The), F. C. G. Brand, Proprietor. 142
Neumann, A., Merchant Tailor............................ 152
Neumeister, Dr A. E., Medical Institute.............. 187
New Hampshire Block, E. D. Holton, Proprietor. 183
New York Hair Store, Mrs. C. B. Kessler, Prop'r. 217
Nichols, J. H. & Co., Jobbers in Fruits, Cigars, etc. 135
Northwestern Malleable Iron Co., Manufacturers
of Malleable Iron Castings..............
tº e º e º ee se tº e º e º e g º ºs 21
Ogden. G. W. & Co., Mnfrºs. of Carriages, etc........ 124
Ormsby Lime Co., Minfrs. and Jobbers of Lime... 181
Packard, O. L., Machinery Depot.............. tº ſº tº tº gº tº dº º º 101
Panorama (Battle of Vicksburg).............. e e tº e º e º 'º e º te & 207
Palitke, E. R. & Co., Hats, Caps and Furs............ 188
Parks. H. O., Bill Poster........ e e º ſee s tº e e º e º 'º gº e º e ſº tº & © tº º ºs e º 'º $ tº 196
Patterson. R. W., Undertaker and Embalmer...... 106
Patton, Jas. E. & Co., Manufacturers of White
Lead. Colors, etc................................................ 147
Peacock, Sam’l F., Undertaker.............. & º sº a s n e º e s e º s tº e 168
Page.
Peters, Mrs.E.J., Dealer in Watches, Diamonds, etc. 184
Podoll, G. & Co., Photographer. gº e º e º ſº º te e º º tº tº e & © tº tº gº tº & Cº. ºº e º l 1
Potter, Geo. E., Livery Stables.............................. 176
Reiter, John B., Manufacturer of Soda and
Mineral Waters ... ............................................
Remington Standard Typewriter, Chas. H. Welch, 165
Rich, A. W. & Co., Dry Goods............... . 123
Ringer, C. F., Architect and Superintendent........ 138
Rohlfing, Wm. & Co., Music and Musical Instru-
melts..... ee se e s is ee e s e s e e s sº e is a e s a e e s ∈ e e º e s e e º e s see & se e º is tº e s s e s e e s e 179
Rose Hill Park, Wm. Miller, Proprietor............... 151
Rundle, Spence & Co., Manufacturers of Brass
and Iron Goods........................................... 178, 215
Saville, Butler & Co., Wooden Ware, Grocers'
Hundries, etc........................ •-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 135
Schlitz Brewing Co. (Jos.), Manufacturers of Beer #:
Schlitz's Park.................................. tº º e º gº e e º ſº e g º a ſº e s is e s e 1.
Schneck, F. W., House Furnisher........................ 169
Schmidt, Peter, Stone and Marble Works............ 188
Schrand & Wachs, Practical Harness Makers...... 204
Schwalbach, Mathew, Mnfr. of Tower Clocks..... 150
Severance's Dancing Academy, Mr and MIS.
C. G. Severance. Proprietors.............. tº ſº tº e º is tº e & * * * * * * * 167
Seymour, F. M., Wholesale Millinery............ . ..., 180
Sherman, Bell & Co., Auctioneers and Commis-
Sion Merchants.................................................. 15
Silber, I., Manufacturer of suspenders, etc........
Singer, J. E. & Co., Woolens, Tailors' Trimmings, 148
e e g º e see e. e º e º sº e º e < e < * e º e s e º see is e º e s a e s e e º sº e º ſº e º 'º º e s e s m e º e s is a s a & e º sº a
e e is e e s m e º se e s e º ºs e s e º e º t e ºs e º e e º & a s = e º is e º a e º # * * * * * * * *
Agent.......... e *
Smith, Jabez M., Confectionery, Fruits, etc.........
Spalding Bros. & Co., Publishers and Book-
Sellers........... tº e s e º gº tº e º e º º ºs e º 'º e º ºs e º & tº e º e º see e. e s e º e s e e s sº e o e º e º 'º * & e º º
Spankus, Aug., Blank Book Mn (r., Binder, etc.... 152
Spence, Geo. A & Co., Fine Gas Fixtures and
Plumbing........... e = * * * * * * * * * * e º e s = < e s e s a se e e e s e s a s a se e s e º e s e e s is 110
Spencerian Business College, Robt. C. Spencer,
Proprietor......................................--------............ 177
Standard Paper Co., Wholesale Paper Dealers...... 192
Stapleton, J. A., Wholesale Tobacconist............... 155
St. Charles Hotel, Chas. Fernekes & Bro., Proprs. 163
Stern, H., Jr. & Bro., Jobbers of Dry Goods, etc... 154
St. John, C. W., R. R. Employment Agency........ 174
St. Mary’s Institute............... * see esses e s e s = e s = e s = • * * * † tº e º ſº tº e . 197
Stout & Underwood, Patent Solicitors.................. 143
Streckewald, G., Grass-Seeds, Bags, Twines, etc... 139
Strouach Lumber Co., Manufacturers of Lum-
ber and Salt ......... 112
Strueder, Wm., Manufacturer of Show Cases, etc. 204
Sullivan, Hauf & Co., Champion Horse Shoers... 171
Sutter, Harry S., Photographer........................... 98
Thiele Bros., Pork and Beef Packers.................. 162
Thompson, J. P. & Co., Dealers in Dye Woods,
Chemicals, etc.................. e & © tº tº tº e º º te e º s tº dº º e º º ſº tº ſº e º e º & e s & e º &
Thomas & Wentworth Manufacturing Co. (The),
Manufacturers of Brass and Iron Goods............ 182
Trostel, Albert, Tanner and Leather Dealur........ 96
Tschank's Restaurant........................................... 171
Turpin & Co., 5c, 10c and 25c Store......... -------...... 164
Voss, Herman, Blank Book Manufacturer and
Book Binder............... e tº ſº e º sº tº & e º e º e s e e º ºs s º e º 'º e º sº g g s is s is ee e º º is 196
Vulcan Iron Works, James Sheriffs, Proprietor... 198
Wallis, J. T., Manufacturer and Dealer in Harness 175
Walters, G. W. Dealer in Groceries...........
.......... 170
Wechselberg, J. P., Carriage and Wagon Mnfr..... 146
Weckerle, Joseph, Practical Jeweler.................... 165
Weden, H., Dealer in Wall Paper, etc.................. 174
Welles, J. C., Dealer in Guns, Ammunition, etc... 160
Werner, F., Artists' Materials, Picture Flames,etc. 139
Whitehill Sewing Machine Co., The, Manufact-
urers of Sewing Machines................................ 129
Williams & Brenckle. Cigar Manufacturers......... 184
Wisconsin Marine & Fire Ins. Co. Bank............... 113
Zander, Fred, Undertaker.................................... 176
Ziegler, George, Manufacturing Confectioner...... 187
Zimmermanlı Bros., Clothiers.............................. 208
Zinn, Oscar, Druggist......... tº e º 'º e º º is ſº e º 'º º s is tº º is e º ſº se tº gº & © tº tº $ tº * * 163
ZWengel, H., Manufacturing Jeweler.................. 160
MILWAUIKEE COMIMERCIAL LIST.

JUL. GOLL. AUG. FRANK.
GOLL & FRANK CO.,
\\\\?OWV tº WS AWW) W. A\ \.WS \\\
\ \º GOOVDs
Notions and Gent's Furnishing Goods,
COR. EAST WATER & BUFFALO STS.
HADFIELD & Co.
COAL,
LIME, CEMENT, STUCCO, LAND
PLASTER, Etc.
Office, 119 WEST WATER St., Milwaukee.
Works, WAUKESHA, Wis.
See Page 9 r. MILWAUKEE. See Page roë.
W.º.º. *;" || MilwfiljkBE DEITIETIE CD.
BRDLEY W METALF.
MANUFACTURERS AND JoBBERS IN
Fºoofs, and Shoes,
389, 39 & 393 East Water St.
See Page 97. MILWAUKEE
OFFICE, 154 WEST w ATER st
D|R ECTORS.
HENRY BERTHELET,
GEO. H. PAUL, John John STON,
D. J. WHITTEMore, THos. A. GREENE,
SAMUEL MARSHALL.
ALEx. Mitchell,
See Page 84.
— TELE —
WiśCOIlSim Marine and Firº InSIranO6 (0.
TE_A_TNTIEC_
A stablished ré'39.
ALEXANDER Mitchell, President.
DAviD FERGUson, Cashier.
John John STON, Assistant Cashier.
The stockholders are individually liable without limit
for all the debts of the Bank.
See Page r rºº.
O. L. PACKARD,
MACH IN ERY,
ENGINES, EOILERS,
Tools and Supplies,
85 and 87 WEST WATER ST.,
See Page ror. MILWAUKEE.
Wm. Frankfurth HaliwāIB ['ſ]
J O B E E R S o F
HARDWARE,
CUTLERY, REvolvers, METALs,
M Ecº An ics Arro E D G E Too Ls o F ANY D Esc Ri Prion,
FARM 1 NC Too Ls, SAws, Axes, Erc.
See Page roë. 116 and 118 Clybourn St, MILWAUKEE.
- - - -
GEO. S. LYON, ---
(LATE OF SPENCE & LYON),
Practical P uſpber,
FI N E G As F1xTURES AND PLU M B | N G
MATER J A L,
410 Grand Avenue, Kibrary Block,
MILWAUKEE.
See Page ro 5.
J. A. & P. E. DUTCHER
MILWUKEE SIVE WORKS,
670 Kimmickinniſ AWGmü6,
See Page rz 5. MILWAUKEE.
§as, E. Patton X(30),
M A N U FACTU. R. E. RS OF
White Lºad, Zinc,00lors and Warmish(S,
AND DEALERS IN
Linseed and Lubricating Oils, Putty, Window
Glass, Brushes, Artists' Materials,
Nos. 268, 27 O & 272 EAst WATER ST.
See Aage 147. MILW AUKEE.
MILWAUKEE COMMERCIAL LIST.
2 e
3utter's 3tudio,
128 WISCONSIN ST.
Finest Cabinet Photographs reduced to $4 per dozen.
Artistic Water Colors, Crayons or India Ink of the finest
finish, from life, or copied from any picture,
at the lowest prices.
BRAN cri, G RAN D CENTRAL STUDIO,
See Page 98. Corner Oneida Street Bridge,
|bºº 6. & sº
[º A SPECIALTY. *@g
—-Milwauket,Wis.
See Page rºº.
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H. SCHOENFELD.
F. W. HARMANN & (),
WSW \\ \.W.WS ANV) \O ºv.WS \\\ t
& Fine Whiskies &
\\\\POWV W.WS OW
WIN ES AND LIG, UO RS,
206 and 208 WEST WATER ST.
F. W. HARTMANN.
See Page r rô.
Mendel, Smith & 00,
IM Ponte Rs AND
WHINA|| ||||||}|{S.
East Water and Huron Sts.,
M|| WAUKEE,
See Page 88.
HENRY M. MENDEL.
IRA. B. SMITH.
WAL. BLATZ,
& Y.Y&
ºve tº NN ... --~~~~
was º 'º ars tº
NAAV2
M. I. L. W. A U K E E.
Geo. 2iggler,
WAAW \}\; ACT \\\\\\\G.
ONFEGTIONER,
235, 237 & 239 £, Yater St.
SPECIALT IIBS:
Fine Creams, Chocolate Creams and Jelly Goods.
See Page 137.
Q-º-me
I.
Annual Capacity, 500,000 IBarrels.
Jos. Schlitz.
BREWING: 3. COMPANY.,
Mamladus filamati Bialist LagºrBET
HENRY Ui HLEIN, Prest.
ALFRED UIHLEIN, Sup’t. M
AUG. UIHLEIN, Sec'y. ILWAUKEE,
& See Page raž.
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Est' A B L1s H E o 1861,
IRA. M. DAVIS & CO.
General Commission Merchants,
For the sale of BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, APPLES,
ORANGES, LEMONS, SEEDS, Etc.,
165 & 167 West Water St., Milwaukee.
Liberal Cash Advances on Consignments.
See Page rod.
THE
H|{{{SIMHlſ] [MH)
Gor. Glipton apó Floriša Sta.
MILWAUKEE, WIS,
specialties :
Steam Engines, Steam Pumps,
Circular Saw Mills,
Steam Feed Works,
Rope Feed Works,
Gang Edgers,
lº Gang Bolters,
*A Gang Lath and Picket Mills,
A ſº Shingle
IMills,
IPatent,
BIead Blocks,
**Boss”IJogs,
Timber
Gauges,
= Bracket
Supports,
Patent Saw
Guides.
See Page 15.5.








MILWAUKEE COMIMERCIAL LIST.

KRUSE & BARKER
Steam Pfeating an? Yeptilating
ENGINEERs.
Sole Agents for WALKER & PRATT SAFETY
SECTIONAL BOILER.
|
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Correspondence
Solicited.
450 East Water St.
See Page 138.
F.w.sch.NECK,
G|||}|al HDISBF||||}|,
-DEA LER IN- :
FURNITURE, STOVES, CARPETS, OIL
CLOTHS, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE,
New and Second Hand, |
Nos. 255 & 257 THIRD ST.,
See Page 169. Milwaukee.
—l
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H. C. KOCH. H. P. SCHNETZKY.
H. Q. Koch & Gö.,
ARCHITECTS &SUPERINTENDENTS
PFISTER'S BLOCK,
COR WISCO N S 1 N ST. A N D BRoadway.
<!CARRIAGESBURGESPHETOS-
G. H. Brown & Go.,
MANUFACTURERS OF FINE
ROAD CARTS-Brown’s Patent,
Sleighs, Cutters, Deliverg Wagons, Etc.,
182 & 184 THIRD STREET,
372 and 374 Broadway,
See Page 148.
MILWAUKEE,
See Page 12 y. MILWAUKEE. See Page 143. MILWAUKEE.
J.E.SINGER & Co., || ELEMENTE BRIH,
PRACTICA L
Y O O ſ f N S Steam-Heating and Ventilating
-A->rie "T-A-Lit-cises' Trier-McN/EIISTcº-s. E NG I N E E R S J
4-4-5 Jefferson Street.
See Page 173. Telephone 873.
G. STRECKEWALD,
DEALER IN
§ass §sses,
BAGS, TW IN Es, ET.c.
For Ladies and Gents. 3% On the European Plan.
NEUMAN’s
finglish Ghop House,
120 GRAND AVENUE,
{ *gº to } 37 We sE Wa Eer 3 E, smººr, Opposite Plankinton House.
See Page 139. - See Page 127.
y 5
$am'i & peacoch, Wººlººwº
UNDERTAKER. :: Steam, Hand and Hydraulie :
CASKETS, COFFINS, ROBES, Etc., and everything
in the Undertaker's line, kept constantly on hand.
A full line of METALLIC, CLOTH and WOOD,
ELEWATORS,
Shafting, Pullegs, Hangers, Etc.,
Orders Promptly Attended by Night or Day.
See Page rô3. 4.31 EFOADWAY.
219, 221 & 223 CLYBOUBN ST.,
See Page 17 y. MILWAUKEE.
MILWAUKEE COMMERCIAL LIST.

--—- --------
...-------- F. W. erner,
O .............--------------------------- DEALER IN O
Manufacturer of Picture Frames,
No. 436 BROADWAY,
MIL WAUK.E.E.
&ARTISTS' MATERIALSP
See Page 739.
THEODORE GROSSKOPF,
—é IMPORTING 3—
Wine and $pirit fherchani,
Importer of Havana Cigars.
No. 107 GRAND AVENUE,
See Page 17 o. . MIL WAUK.E.E.
Poptraits, Views, Landscapes, EEG,
Rollwisn WigW 60.
Headquarters—333 THIRD ST., MILWAUKEE,
All orders should be directed to
GUSTAVE PODOLL, General Manager.
See Page 19 y.
SULLIVAN, HAUF & CO,
—-º-CHAMPION --
HORSE SHOERS,
112. Clybourn St., Milwaukee.
Corns, Quitters and Sand Cracks properly treated.
Horses stopped from interfering and forging.
See Page 17 y.
DHN EHCH A BIN
Manufacturers of every Description of
Shop, 58 & ©O Secopč St.,
See Page 18 o.
MIL WAUK.E.E.
*---------. -- .
AUGUST SPANKUS,
BankBook fronufacturer -
BINDER AWD RULER,
234. West Water Street, MILYWAUK.E.E.
Art Binding a Specialty.
See Page 152.
E. R. PANTKE & CO,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
HAT’Se(APS,
J. P.WECHSELBERG,
MANUFACTURER OF
CARRIAGES AND WAGONS,
218 and 220 wells Street,
MILWAUKEE.
See Page 146. Repairing Done.
OTTO LAVERRENZ. CHAS. LAVERRENZ.
OTTO LAWERRENZ & BR0.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
FAIFER EDIXIES
LADIES AND GENT'S FURS,
Silk and Cassimere Hats made to Order.
See Page 188.
390 East Water St., below Wisconsin, MILWAUK.E.E.
|-
–33.JAMES LEIGH;&-
LEIGH HOUSE
Svº Sºssº,
414 to 418 Broadway,
Milwaukee, Wis.
–3 EOCIETIEINIXITNTG-83–
Of Every Description.
4.28 East Water St., Milwaukee.
See Page rºż. Telephone No. 633.
MILWAUKEE COMMERCIAL LIST.
J. B. KUEHLE,
- DEALER IN - -
§ºrs Yuanishing $oops.
And Manufacturer of
CUSTOM SHIRTS AND UNDERWEAR.
4.O3 East YWater St., Milwaukee.
See Page 2 zo.
sº-º-º- ---
WILLIAM BoyLE,
PRACTICAL
HORSESHOER,
49 Second St., Milwaukee.
Shoes made to Order and Horses Shod
aS Desired.
See Page 173.
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Canned Goods, Fish, Etc.
83 West Water St.,
. See Page 157. Telephone No. 802.
F. Z/. Fºrbacžier & Co.,
Milwaukee.
A. Meinecke, Sr. A. Meineeke, Jr. C. Penshorn. F. Goetz.
M E IN E c K E & Co.,
Importers and Jobbers of
Boh EMIAN GLASS AND CHINA WARE,
Druggists' Sundries, Bird Cages, Fishing Tackle, Masks,
CHILDREN'S CARRIACEs,
*NW7 ocealern arºld vR7illov v^7 are,
348 and 350 East, Water St., Milwaukee.
See Page 88.
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