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MILWAUKEE, the metropolis of Wisconsin, is situated on the Western Shore of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Milwaukee River. Two other rivers, tributaries of the Milwaukee, the Menomenee and Kinnickinnick, also traverse the City and provide excellent shipping facilities for the merchants and manufacturers of the city. A good deal of money has been expended in improving Milwaukee’s harbor and it has now one of the best harbors on the Great Lakes.
A breakwater stretching across Milwaukee Bay encloses a basin capable of sheltering an immense fleet. The site of Milwaukee was first visited by Solomon Juneau, on Sept. 14, 1818. He returned later and erected his log hut on the ( banks of the Mahn’a’wau’kie, as the river was called in the Indian tongue. There was a small settlement at Milwau-^ kee in 1835, and in 1846 the town was incorporated. The population in 1850 was 20,000, in 1870 it had grown to 71,000, 1880, 115,
| 000, 1890, 204,000, 1900,285,000, and at the present time the population is about 350,000.
I	Milwaukee	is	an	important	manufacturing centre, its chief industries being malt liquors, flour and grist mills, foundry and
I machine shops, iron and steel, leather products and packing. In 1900 it had 3342 manufacturing establishments employing 48,320 | hands, paying $20,000,000 in wages and with a total capital of $110,000,000. Milwaukee is famous for its brewing establishments.
1 The Pabst Brewery is the largest brewing plant in the world and covers many acres of ground. The Schlitz Brewery is also a plant of j tremendous proportions and several other immense breweries contribute to employ an army of labor in thisindustry. These great breweries are objects of interest to visitors to Milwaukee and a corps of guides are always busy showing sightseers the process of making beer. Milwaukee is a clean and handsome city. On account of the light colored brick largely used in its construction it has been called the Cream City. Its streets are lined with beautiful shade trees and its avenues and boulevards are ornamented with stately mansions. It has some handsome public buildings, including the Court House, City Hall, Post-office, Public Library, Wells Building and others. Milwaukee is a great Convention City and hundreds of thousands of convention delegates visit it every year. The City enjoys a very cool and pleasant summer climate and there are very few really hot days during the summer months.
There are several delightful parks in Milwaukee, the leading one of which is Lake Park, which surmounts the high bluffs to the north of the City and extending in the distance for about a mile. Other parks are Riverside, Juneau, Washington, Sherman, Mitchell, Kosciusko and Humboldt. White Fish Bay to the north of the City is a great out-of-town resort and is conducted by the Pabst people. Milwaukee is well served in the matter of transportation. It is the headquarters of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul Railroad and is an important feeder of the Chicago & Northwestern. The Wisconsin Central Railroad is a distinctly Milwaukee and and Wisconsin system. Milwaukee is the Western terminus of the Pere Marquette Line. Several lines of steamers unite it with all the lake'ports, including the Goodrich Transportation Co., Northern Steamship Co., the Barry Line, Crosby Line and others.
Published for S. H. KNOX Sc CO., Milwaukee, Wis.
BY W. G. MacFarlane,
New York, Buffalo and Toronto.POSTOFFICE
The Postoffice at Milwaukee was constructed within the last ten years and is a handsome building:. It cost a million and a half dollars and is of a type of architecture seen in every city on the Great Lakes, having: a single massive tower.WISCONSIN STREET
Wisconsin Street Is the chief thoroughfare of Milwaukee This illustration shows some of the massive buildings which adorn this handsome avenue of commerce. Milwaukee is noted for the cleanliness of its streets.STEAMER CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The Steamer Christopher Columbus of the Goodrich Transportation Co. operates between Chicago and Milwaukee. The steamer is of that type peculiar to the Great Lakes, known as the Whaleback. and is the greatest passenger carrier in the world, carrying thousands of people. She affords a beautiful inland sail between these two great cities, and is patronized by hundreds of thousands of people every year. Milwaukee is especially favored in the matter of enjoyable excursions, and a large fleet of steamers offer superior accomodations for this purpose.PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Public Library is situated on Grand Avenue Boulevard. It is built of Indiana limestone, and in its architecture shows the Italian influence. It is surmounted in the centre by a low dome and beneath is a magnificient rotunda finished in old convert Sienna marble. The ornamentation of the building is Corinthian. It is coir bined Public Library and Museum building and was erected at a cost of nearly a million dollars. The Library contains one hundred and thirty thousand volumes and the Museum two hundred and twenty thousand specimens.JUNEAU PARK. LOOKING SOUTH Milwaukee has seven public parks, covering four hundred and fifty-six acres. These are located on the Lake shore, Milwaukee River and other points of vantage. In Juneau Park is the monument of Solomon Juneau, the fathjr of Milwaukee. He ' built his log hut beside the Mahnawauka, the Indian name of the Milwaukee River, about the year 1818.PLANKINTON HOUSE
The Plankinton House is one of the largest hostelries of the middle West, and is one of a score of mammoth hotels which take care of the visitors to this City.THE SCHL1TZ BREWERY, JOS. SCHLITZ BREWING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS The Schiltz Brewery, as this illustration shows, covers an immense area of ground and employs an army of hands. Its output goes all over the world. Visitors to Milwaukee always make it a point to visit one of the great breweries, where attentive guides show them about the plant and explain the various operations necessary to produce the cooling liquidTHE SOLDIERS’ HOME
The National Home for dependent soldiers and sailors is one of the best conducted institutions of its kind in the United States. It is on the outskirts of the City, and is reached by a twenty-minute ride.CHAMBER OF COMMERCEPAVILION, LAKE PARK WATER TOWER
Lake Park is the leading park of Milwaukee. It is situated to the north of the City, occupying a mile stretch of the high bluffs overlooking the lake, and approached t)y a boulevard from the centre of the business district.MILWAUKEE DOWNER COLLEGE MILWAUKEE CLUB	•	LAYTON	GALLERY
The Milwaukee Club is a modest building of red brick and is the pioteer organization of the nature in this city.
The Layton Art Gallery, given to the City with a permanent endowment by Frederick Layton, contains one of the choicest art collections in the country, including nearly two hundred rare paintings, besides many beautiful pieces in marble. It is of Thomsoniao Greek architecture.*
PABST BREWERY
The Pabst Brewery is the largest brewery in the world. This is one of several b-eweries which have made Milwaukee famous. Milwaukee brews more beer than any city in the United States. Its annual production of beer is of the value of about fifteen million dollars.WELLS BUILDING
The Wells Building is one of the finest office buildings in the United States. This was only recently completed and is constructed in the most modern manner. The two top floors of the entire building are occupied by the Milwaukee Athletic Club, which has a full quoto of one thousand members. One floor and part of the basement is devoted to athletics and baths, while another floor is devoted to social and other purposes.CITY HALL
The Milwaukee City Hall is a striking: looking: building:. It is always adorned with the word "Welcome,” and Milwaukee certainly accords a most hospitable reception to the visitors within its g:ates. The Cr?am City is one of the greatest convention cities on earth and hundreds of conventions meet„here annually. The City Hall IsIGothic in the character of its architecture, with an immense square tower, and cost in the neighborhood of three-quarters of a million dollars. From the tower a wonderful panorama view of Milwaukee and the vicinity may be obtained.VIEW NORTH FROM MICHIGAN STREET BRIDGE The City of Milwaukee is traversed by three rivers; Milwaukee, Menomenee and the Kinnickinnick. The Milwaukee is the main river and the other two are branches. These rivers afford the City a large amount of dockage and excellent facilities as a shipping and manufacturing centre. To them are due, to a large extent, Milwaukee’s rapid growth in commerce and industry in recent years.COURT HOUSE
The County Court House of Milwaukee is built of Lake Superior sandstone and cost $400,000.MILWAUKEE FROM THE COURT HOUSE. LOOKING SOUTHWEST.
An excellent view of Milwaukee is to be had from the Court House. This view overlooks the retail center and some of the skyscrapers which ornament the sky line are seen.MILWAUKEE FROM THE PABST BUILDING. LOOKING NORTH.GRAND AVENUE PARK
Grand Avenue Boulevard is one of the most beautiful avenues of Milwaukee, and the Cream City is noted for its handsome residential quarters and magnificent homes. Its streets are lined with luxuriant shade trees.CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILROAD DEPOT
Milwaukee is the headquarters of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, whose branches traverse Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. It is one of the most popular lines of transportation in the middle West.YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONHERMAN BUILDINGMARSHALL STREET. NORTH FROM BIDDLEMONUMENT TO SOLOMON JUNEAU-JUNEAU PARK MITCHELL. PARK CONSERVATORYRESIDENCE OF MRS. H. M. BENJAMIN HOME OF MRS. FREDERICK PABSTGRAND AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH GRACE CHURCH LUTHERAN, CORNER BROADWAY AND JUNEAU AVENUEIMMANUEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. CORNER MARSHALL AND OGDEN AVENUEEXPOSITION BUILDING This is the home of the Annual Industrial Exposition. It cost 1300.000.MASONIC TEMPLEDEUTSCHER CLUB.
The Deutscher Club is the German club of Milwaukee. Fully half of the population of Milwaukee, if not more, are Germans, or of German descent, and a visit to Milwaukee is almost like a visit to one of the cities on the Rhine.STEAMER VIRGINIA LEAVING THE HARBOR The Steamer Virginia is another of the fleet of the Goodrich Transporation Co., which operates between Chicago, Milwaukee and points on the Lake Michigan shore as far north as Mackinac. The summer business of this line is very large and its boats are very popular.PFISTER HOTELCHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN DEPOTMILWAUKEE YACHT CLUBWHITE FISH BAY
WASHINGTON MONUMENT	BLATZPARK
The Pabst White Fish Bay resort is four miles north of th-» City on the Lake front. It is approached by a beautiful driveway, and is annually visited by hundreds of thousands of Milwaukee people and their guests. Here is served that delicious product of the lakes, white fish. Much beer is consumed and all kinds of sports are indulged in.
Washington Monument adorns Washington Place. In this vicinity are the costliest homes of Milwaukee.SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT LEIF ERICKSEN MONUMENT IN JUNEAU PARKGESU CATHOLIC CHURCH The Church of Gesu is 250x210 feet in dimensions and, as its name implies, is a Jesuit Church. It is the largest and most costly church in Wisconsin.
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is of Normrn architecture and is the leading place of worship of that denomination in the city.DAVIDSON THEATREA POPULAR RESORT
The store of Messrs. S. H. Knox & Co., Successors to Siebert Good & Co. This is one of the seventy-five stores of Messrs. S. H. Knox * Co. These stores are always popular resorts wherever they are located. The Knox Syndicate have a reputation for treating their customers well and of leaving no stone unturned to give them the best value for their money.