. The street railway review . - as the location of stirring scenes in thedays of earlv settlement or during the Civil War. Beforethe railroads had reached beyond the Mississippi, Daven-port and Rock Island were great distributing points forsupplies which were brought on river steamers which I)A\ENPORT, ROCK ISLAND AND MOLINE. and the first hotel, built the following jear, still the war large numbers of troops were massedhere for organization and distribution, and large hospitalswere maintained for the care of wounded soldiers whowere brought up the river on boats. The river at th
. The street railway review . - as the location of stirring scenes in thedays of earlv settlement or during the Civil War. Beforethe railroads had reached beyond the Mississippi, Daven-port and Rock Island were great distributing points forsupplies which were brought on river steamers which I)A\ENPORT, ROCK ISLAND AND MOLINE. and the first hotel, built the following jear, still the war large numbers of troops were massedhere for organization and distribution, and large hospitalswere maintained for the care of wounded soldiers whowere brought up the river on boats. The river at this point takes a course almost due west,and Rock Island lies on the opposite bank directly south,while Moline is situated at a point directh- east of RockIsland, where the river makes a bend from the north. In the middle of the river and connected bv threebridges, one leading to each city, is the famous RockIsland, than which no more beautiful spot is to be found intra\eling from the Alleghanies to the Rocky DAVENPORT AND BRIDGE OVER MISSISMTFI RIVER AS SEEN FROM GOVERNMENT ISLAND. crowded the levees by the score. This has practicalhceased, though a large wholesale business is still main-tained. Manufactures have come in to take the place ofthe ri\er activity of former days, and the famous waterpower at Moline is too well known to warrant detailedmention here. There is an earnest rivalrv among the cities,and the population of any one loses several thousandwhen mentioned by a resident across the stream, but aman on the in the middle of the river imparted theintelligence that Davenport numbers 25,000 souls, RockIsland 20,000, while Moline marched up some 15,000strong. The three are now so closely united b\- theelectric lines of the Chicago syndicate operating underthe name of the Davenport & Rock Island Railwa\-Company, that they are now practically one tine citNof60,000 inhabitants. Davenport was founded in 1835, or three \ears afterthe Black Hawk war, h\ the
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