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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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y times as manymen as a wholesale house doing an equal amount of busi-ness. Of the groceries wholesaled here fully one-fourthare home-made. In other lines, requiring iron, wood andcoal, raw materials are near at hand in the iron mines ofher own state and Northern Michigan, from whence alsocomes lumber, while coal is imported from the east bycheap water freights, or from Illinois. Her immensebreweries draw their barley supply largely from the state. great cities of Europe. It constitutes the largest industryin the city, while one establishment, the Pabst BrewingCompany, is the largest in the world, alone producinglast year 1,061,788 barrels, while the total output of allthe breweries was 2,348,739 barrels. MILWAUKEE URICK. When in 1835 an attempt was made to burn somebrick recjuired to build a chimne\ on Solomon Juneaushouse, great disgust and disappointment was occasionedon discovering the little kiln was filled with white orcream colored blocks, instead of the regulation red article.
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EA^T WATER STREET LOOKING EAST FROM WATER STREET MRIUtlE. as do the tanneries their tan bark. Gigantic as are the The incipient brick makers concluded Solomon wouldbreweries they do not in the aggregate constitute but one- have to use the hole in the roof another year, and pro-tenth of the manufacturing business of the city, a state- ceeded to throw away the worthless product which hadment of which for 1892 is surtimarized as follows: cost them so great pains. Imagine their surprise to dis- Niimber of establishments 3,560 cover that the white bricks were of excellent hardness Number of employes 53,873 ^^^ durability. The extensive use of the light colored Capital mvested $94 WJ.SOo u • 1 ■ Amount of wages paid. 1(128,067400 bnck occasioned the familiar title of the Cream City of Value of the years production ;i45,j9.(.5oo the Lakes, a name for which the breweries were in no .Mil WAUKKF BEER ^^^ responsible, as many erronously suppose. The pro-duct last year sold for more than $1,0

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