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 . ater street. The num-ber of skilled workmen on his pay-rollis hardly ever less than fifty. The yearlybusiness amounts to $100,000 e
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 . ater street. The num-ber of skilled workmen on his pay-rollis hardly ever less than fifty. The yearlybusiness amounts to $100,000 easily. Mr. Buestrins specialties are the rais-ing and moving of brick buildings, safesand heavy machinery. He raised theReese block, a structure of 150x300feet, a height of 16 feet. Perhaps themost remarkable feat in the moving lineever accomplished here was the job soneatly and successfully performed by some time ago, namely, the mov-ing of a brick smoke-stack at Sandersonsmill, 120 feet high, bodily, a distance ofnearly 100 feet. The movmg of the oldRindskopf homestead, a large three-storybrick building from facing on Grandavenue to Eighth street, and the turningaround of the large double brick residencefor Hon. Edwin Hyde on Fifth street,are some of the few noted jobs of He also put in position theWashington monument. As a builder, Mr. Buestrins name isassociated with the Exposition building, INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE. 215. Establishment of Rundle, Spence & Co., Manufacturers of Plumbers, Steam and Gas-Fitters Supplies, ,63 and 65 Second street. (See pages 178 and 179.) the erection of which he also built Immanuel church on Astorstreet, the Northwestern Insurancebuilding and the block occupied by theMatthews Furniture Company. also builds bridges, and is theinventor of a patent extension-ladder forthe use of firemen. Mr. Buestrin was born in Prussia andcame to Milwaukee in 1839, when a boyonly four or five years old
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