Identifier: streetrailway03amer (find matches)
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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s. CHURCHES. Naturally a city of homes is found to be a city ofchurches and Milwaukee is no exception. There are 120churches, including all the better known denominations,and some of the edifices and cathedrals are very tinestructures and expensively decorated and furnished. TheY. M. C. A., with nearly 1,000 members, occupies itsown handsome building. ART AND MUSIC. Milwaukee has a national reputation for both art and 36 by 49, William Powell Frith; The Kings Trum-peter, 56 by 67, Sir John Gilbert; The Broken Bank,51 by 38, Ludwig Bakelmann; Beatrice and Benedict,45 by 63, Hughes Merle; The Hospital Garden, 115by 72, C. Frithjof Smith; The Benefactress, 60 by 36,Ernst Henseler; Want, The Pawnbrokers Shop, 54by 39, Frank Holl; The Frolic After the Wedding,48 by 78, John B. Burgess; A Lonely Road, 18 by 15,Jean Charles Cazin; The LatestAcquisition, 56 by 44, Prof. AugustHolmberg; The Rivals, MihalyMunkacsy; The Surrender of theMoors at Granada, A, D., 1402,Francisco Pradilla; and In the
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WASHINGTON PARK—GRAND AVENUE. music. The Layton Art Gallery contains one of thenoted collections on the continent, and is the gift to the cityof one of its millionaire packers, Frederick Layton. Thebuilding and grounds cost $125,000; and while contain-ing but 150 pieces of statuary and canvas both are particu-larly choice. The life size marble group entitled, TheRebellion, is the gift of P. D. Armour, and cost $25,000.Among the paintings worthy of special mention areTwo Goats, by Rosa Bonheur; The Water Gate,86 by 70, Emile VanMarkle; Homer and his Guide,56 by S2, Wm. Adolphe Bouguereau; The Pilot Boat,56 by .\o, Edward William Cooke; Swift and Vanessa, Studio, 80 by 63, by Michael Munkacsy. Of these alarge number are the gift of Mr. Layton, who makesadditions each year when in Europe. The collection isthe finest offered the association since its visit to theCorcoran Gallery in Washington. THE soldiers HOME. Perhaps the most interesting place in Milwaukee isthe Soldiers Home. In a b

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