. The street railway review . cemetery. Thisline, however, was not built until some time later. The River & Lake Shore road was succeeded by theMilwaukee City road which was organized, promotedand incorporated by John Plankinton, Frederick Layton,Samuel Marshall, Chas. F. Ilsley and Walter S. capital stock was fixed at $100,000, and the com-pany reserved the right to issue bonds from time to timeas necessity might require. W. S. Johnson became gen-eral manager and the routes were variously modified tosuit the increasing population of Milwaukee, which was,in i860, 45,000. In 1869 Is
. The street railway review . cemetery. Thisline, however, was not built until some time later. The River & Lake Shore road was succeeded by theMilwaukee City road which was organized, promotedand incorporated by John Plankinton, Frederick Layton,Samuel Marshall, Chas. F. Ilsley and Walter S. capital stock was fixed at $100,000, and the com-pany reserved the right to issue bonds from time to timeas necessity might require. W. S. Johnson became gen-eral manager and the routes were variously modified tosuit the increasing population of Milwaukee, which was,in i860, 45,000. In 1869 Isaac Ellsworth became owner of the Milwau-kee City. Between 1875 ^n^ 1881 the Reed street andNational avenue lines were double tracked and the trackremoved from Ferrj, South Water, Florida and Green-bush streets, besides various extensions and improve-were made in this time. In-the fall of 1881 Peter McGeogh took hold of theMilwaukee City as owner and manager. Mr. McGeoghproceeded at once to make the road mainly what it is. GRAND AVENUE LOOKING WEST. now. He extended the National avenue line to NationalPark, the Walnut street line to the city limits, and theThird and Eighth street lines to the north limits. Besidesthese, several lines were built outright. Mr. McGeoghremained in possession until December i, 18S8, whenhe sold out to New York capitalists for $1,500,000. andthen again in August, 1S90. it changed into the hands ofits present owners. THE CREAM CITY LINE was incorporated in June, 1874, by F. B. Van Valken-burg. James B. Tuick, James B. Hoes, Ed. C. Wall andII. S. Mark. 352 This company took up the streets on tlie. east andsouth sides abandoned by the Milwaukee City RailwayCompany. The Farewell Avenue, Ogden, Jackson andMason Street lines, from North avenue to East Waterstreet was in operation in 1S75. Soon after the companybuilt the line on East Water street, from Juneau avenueacross the East Water street bridge to Clinton street,down to Kinnickinnic. The Forest Home l
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