Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . m their matted position,giving to a bed an aston-ishing increase in renovators range inprice from $75 to $500. We would
Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . m their matted position,giving to a bed an aston-ishing increase in renovators range inprice from $75 to $500. We would call special attention tothe Bierbach improved pillow, chemicallytreated. This pillow is composed ex-clusively of sponge and other yieldingmaterial, combined with a certain chem-ical process, which effects a permanentcure of those afflicted with nose, throatand lung diseases, such as catarrh,bronchitis, asthma and incipient con-sumption. The worth of this pillowis attested by the testimonials ofthousands who use it. He alsokeeps in stock and manufactures toorder quilts, comforts, bedticks, pil-low-slips, mattresses, bed-springs andpillow-sham holders. Mr. Bierbach is also theinventor of the fire escaperepresented in the cut belowand on the inside back coverof this work, the latest patentof which was received , 1885. It consists of a permanent,movable or traveling stand-pipe, ladders and balconies,extending from the tpp ofthe building to the Bierbachs Fire Escape. INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE. 217 This escape travels in a slotted tube,which is supported by slotted bracketseight feet apart and capable ofcarrying from 3,000 to 5,000 tube may run along the entire blockfrom one corner to the other, wherethe buildings are all of the same the entire length of the bottom ofthis tube is a one-inch slot or opening,through which is passed a connectingbar, which holds and supports the ap-paratus below. This connecting bar isfastened to a travelin
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