The Irish standard., 1904-07-16

City of the Northwest" an admirable
little brochure prepared by Secretary
Wallace Nye of the Commercial club, a
body of the city's most public-spirited
citizens, says Of Minneapolis:
"The ambition of citizens is to
maintain the city, not only as a good
place for business but as a desirable
place in which to live.
THE streets are broad and regular.
The resident districts are not crowded.
The wide, shaded avenues are bor-
dered with pleasant homes and we'll
kept lawns.
The area of the parks owned by
the city is 1880 acres and there are %
miles of connecting parkways.
"Minnehaha, Loring and Farview
parks and the charming intra-urban
lakes, Harriet, Calhoun and Lake of
the Isles, are some of the more at
tractive features of the system.
The census of 1900 showed that
Minneapolis was the healthiest city of
the United States having populatlon
exceeding 100000. The death rate in
1900 was 1O.OS. In 1903 the rate was
9.79 per thousand.
Minneapolis has tifty-eight graded
and four high schools. The teaching
force numbers 900 and the total enroll
ment of pupils is 10000.
The University of Minnesota is To-
Gated on the east bank of the river
near the Falls Of st. Anthony" Then
there is the Holy Angels Academy, one
Of the leading young women's semina-
ries of the United States; st. Antho-
ny's school for boys and girls, which
has turned. out some of the most bril-
liant graduates in the history of the
state; Holy Rosary Convent, we'll
known for it's high class educational
courses; the Ascension school for boys
and girls, and the immaculate Concep-
ton school for boys and girls, than
which there is no school of it's class
to eclipse it anywhere.
minneapolis has public library of
10000 volumes. The library building
also contains an Art Gallery and Mu-
scum. The library circulation in 1908
was 525,O0O volumes or about two and
one-half volumes to each resident.
''There are over two hundred church
es i'll the city, many of them of great
architectural haarty
Nineteen lines of railway opera ted
under ten great systems, radiate from
Minneapolis in every direction, reach
ing both oceans. Minneapolis is the
Northwestern terminus of six of the
seven railroad lines connecting Chica-
60 and the Twin Cities, and the home
of the seventh. The city is the division
point of the 500 line between it's Attain
tic and Pacific divisions.
Minneapolis leads all Northwestern
cities in manufacturing. In 1900, ac-
cording to census figures, the manu-
featuring plants of the city had invest
ed capital Of $6o,OO0,0O0, employed
2S,0OO wage earners, paid them
$13.OOO.O0O, and turned out product
valued at $112,O0O0OO. During the
decade 1890 to 1900, according to U. S.
Census returns, there was an increase
of 40 per cent in the amount of capital
employed in manufacturing in Mime
apolis, and 30 per cent in the value of
product, percentages of growth ap-
proXimately double those of any other
of the larger cities of the Northwest.
''Twenty-two mills about the Falls
of st. Anthony ground 100000 bar
rels of flour in 1908. The largest mill
in the world stands upon the east bank
of the river. The daily capacity is
$1,000 barrels.
minneapolis leads the world as
primary wheat market. Wheat IT,
ceipts for 1908 aggregated 10000 600
bushels. Terminal elevators within
the city have storage capacity for
100000 bushels of grain 1t is the
leading Northwestern market for all
farm produce and for the distribution
of fruits.
Minneapolis has six national, seven
state banks and three trust companies.
The banks have in capital and surplus
$1O,00O,O0O and deposits of $4O,0OO.OOO.
The total bank clearings for 1903 were
$741. .049,34S. There are three savings
banks with 10000 depositors and ag-
gregate deposits of $13,000.0O0.
1.-The retail business done in Mime
apolis approXimates $3O.OOO,OOO per
year. The center of the retail district
is Nicollet avenue-one of the most
attractive retail streets in the world.
Minneapolis is surrounded by points
Df great interest and scenic b.auty.
The Falls of NIinnehaha are within
the city and within AIinnehalGl plrls,
a tract of 125 acres. The State Sol
diers' Home occupies a site of 80 ac"ns
appointing the park.
''The Fort Smelling Military Poser
yation occupies a picturesque site in
Hennepfn county, adjoining the south
ern city limits. The fort was estab-
lished in 1919 and is now bcing ell
larged by the government and equip
ped as a first-class military post.