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FACTS AND FIGURES FOR 1890.
Ten churches were built.
Church membership increased 1,730.
Wholessjers sold $14,184,000 worth of goods.
Hospitals erected and improvements were $30,000.
The total business failures were less than $80,000.
The acreage of the city was increased 2,610 acres.
School attendance increased from 4,748 to 5,359.
Nine and one-half miles of water mains were laid.
Hotel buildings and improvements aggregated $410,000.
Additions in factories and shops aggregated $370,000.
Three school buildings were erected at a cost of $60,000.
Educational expenses for the city schools were $107,654.
There were $1,700,000 spent in the erection of residences.
The water department expended $39,744.32 in improvements.
More than $200,000 was spent in street railway improvements.
A half mile of business blocks were erected at a cost of $684,000.
The manufacturing industries turned out $8,096,000 worth of goods.
There were $160,000 spent for college buildings and improvements.
There were $160,000 spent for college buildings and improvements.
Three miles and 300 feet of paving was done at a cost of $177,627.90.
The sewerage system was increased 23,005 feet at an expense of $24,434.
Real estate transfers were $8,788,558, and increase of $1,785,558 over 1889.
Three colleges, whose buildings when completed will cost $520,000, wer loocated here.
One hundred and eighteen business firms, representing a capital of $2,350,000 were added to the city's commercial circles.
The grain dealers handled 25,216,600 bushels of grain exclusive of the large amount handled by the grain commission firms.
The electric street car system was universally adopted; eleven miles in active operation and work commenced on fifty-five additional miles.
The twelve diverging lines of railroad, each with passenger and freight divisions in Lincoln, added 1,000 miles to their mileage in Nebraska and spent $275,000 in improvements in Lincoln.
The B. & M., railroad shows were located here and $200,000 has already been spent in their erection. When completed they will cost $1,000,000 and furnish employment for 2,000 men.

WHERE PEOPLE WORSHIP.
The Year Added Ten New Temples and a Large Increase in Members

Lincoln is often spoken of as "a city of schools and churches." This is a title well merited and certainly one to be proud of. What better recommendation or more honorable title could any city ask for? What could be more suggestive of a city of refinement, a clean, moral, healthy, decent place to live in? A city of schools in necessarily a city of churches, for the church and the school are inseparable companions; education and christianity go hand in hand, each upbuilds and strengthens the other and without one the other could not exist. Together they are the promoters and mainstays of civilization and all that is good, true and pure is founded upon their teachings and sustained by their combined influence.

There are but few cities, and perhaps none in the west, whose population has so large a ratio of church members as Lincoln, The last year has been an especially active one in church circles. Ten church buildings have been erected at a cost of $50,000, the most of them in the suburbs and outskirts of the city, to cover the large amount of populous territory that is rapidly extending beyond the reach of the up-town churches. Lincoln now has forty-six houses of worship and fifty-one congregations. The total valuation of the church property is $625,700. The cost of the buildings range from $900 to $60,000 each, and the average is about $14,000 for the total number. The total membership is 10,476, an increase of 1,730 during the year, which is about 17 per cent, certainly a good showing for the cause of religion. There will be many new churches built this year. The Third Presbyterians have made arrangements to build early in the spring on Eleventh between Wood and South; the Grace English Lutherans, also intend to build this spring, and the St. Marks English Lutherans have purchased ground and will commence building inside of a month. [Bne?] Jeshuran Congregation have purchased two lots at D and Eleventh streets and will erect a place of worship thereone in the early spring, and seveal other congreations who are without a home of their own have signified their intention of building in the near future.

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The Year's Expenditures Aggregate $300,000.

The Water Works, Paving, Sewerage, and other Public Works Show Great Development.

A Year of Progress.

In the water department there have been vast improvements made during the past year. Not only was there more work done than in any previous year since the completion of the original water works in 1885, but as will be seen by the figures quoted below, the original water works system was doubled in one year. Further than this the work done last year on water mains, hydrants, etc., is 50 per cent of all the previous work done in that department since the establishment of the water works. Although this was a great deal of work for one year and cost the city a snug sum, it had to be done in order to keep pace with the growth of the city.

In 1885 when the original water works system was completed there were eleven miles of water mains and seventy-five hydrants. January 1, 1890, there were eighteen and one-half miles miles of mains and 168 hydrants. January 1, 1891, there were twenty-eight miles of mains and 244 hydrants, making an increase for the year of nine and one-half miles of mains and 76 hydrants.

Another splendid improvement was the test or drive wells, seven in number, sunk in the vicinity of and connected with the Rice well. These wells add greatly to the supply of water as well as assist the continuation of the force in times of fire or other emergencies.

The cost to the city for these additions and improvements druing the year was $39,744.32, divided as follows: Water mains and hydrants, $33,240.36; test wells, $2,744.67, and $3,759.29 for the tunnels, tubular wells and connections with the Rice well.

THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
There has also been much done in the sewerage systems, of which there are two, the storm water and the sanitary. During the year there were 2,472 lineal feet of storm water sewer put in at a cost of $7,857, and 20,533 feet of sanitary sewerage at a cost of $16,577, making a total of $24,434 expended for sewerage. There are now 36 miles of sanitary sewerage laid, thus giving the city a thorough sewerage system from Sixth to Eighteenth and from C to U streets.

PROGRESS IN PAVING.
The progress in the paving department has kept abreast of the other city improvements and during the year more than three miles of paving was done at a cost of $177,627.90. Eighty-five per cent of the paving was done with the vitrified paving brick, which is manufactured in this city and is especially adapted for paving purposes. There were 82,465 square yards of paving done of which 66,875 was done with brick and 15,590 with cedar blocks. The total number of lineal feet paved were 16,140; 13,220 of brick and 2,940 of cedar blocks or just two and one-half miles of brick paving and a half mile and 300 feet of cedar block paving, a total of three miles and 300 feet. The following are the blocks paved with brick; K, from Eleventh to Sixteenth; L, from Tenth to Sixteenth; N, from Fourteenth to Sixteenth; Tenth, from G to M; Twelfth, from J to M; Thirteenth, from J to M; Fourteenth, from H to O; Fifteenth, from K to O and Sixteenth, from Q to K, making thirty-seven blocks in all. The streets paved with cedar blocks are H, from Fourteenth to Sixteenth; T, from Ninth to Eleventh; Ninth, from T to U, and Sixteenth, from H to K, eight in all, making a sum total of forty-five blocks.

Lincoln now has fourteen miles of paved street and two miles contracted for for the ensuing year. The council has further agreed to pave Seventeenth street from L to South and the city engineer has been instructed to advertise for bids for the same. Besides this two more paving districts have recently been added and these will probably be paved during the year. These figures may not seem unusually large in comparison with those of some of the older cities, but when one takes into consideration the age of this city and the fact that four years ago there was not a square yard of paving inside the city's boundaries the work that has been done in that respect can be thoroughly appreciated.

It should also be remembered that Lincoln's streets are very broad and a mile of paving figures up a good many square yards. The broad streets and wide sidewalks are on of Lincoln's chief attractions and excites favorable comment from every visitor within her portals. Lincoln now has drives that compare favorably with those of any of the larger cities and these are being added too at the rate of several miles per year.

ADDITIONS TO THE CITY.
During the year there was also a large increase in the acreage of the city. On January 1, 1890, the city and suburbs covered 11,800 acres and in twelve months it had reached 14,410 acres, an increase of nearly 23 percent of the total acreage of the city and about 50 per cent better than the previous year. In 1889 fifty-one plats of additions and sub-divisions were filed. Last year there were seventy plats filled, an increase of nearly 40 per cent.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The fire department under the wise supervision of Chief Newberry, has rendered the city excellent and efficient service duing the past year and has made prompt responses to 102 calls, and the fire losses were considerably less than those of the previous years although there was much more territory to be covered by the department. The apparatus and equipments are equal to those of any city of Lincoln's age and size.

The Gaylor fire alarm telegraph system is also being put in at an expense of $11,000. With these much needed improvements the city will have as finely an equipped fire department and as watchful and efficient fire [la...es?] as can be boasted of by any city of its size in the country.

During the year a chemical engine was added to the central station at a cost of $1,500 and this, together with other engines, trucks, hose carts, hose, horses, etc. are valued at $30,000. The real estate is valued at $40,000, which makes a total valuation of $70,000. The annual expense to the city for the maintenance of the department is $24,000.

OVER $3,000,000.
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dwelling of pressed brick with pink limestone trimmings at Twenty-fifth and N at a cost of $23,000.

A. Hurlburt spent $18,000 in the constructionof his new residence at Sixteenth and G. and two-thirds of the above amount was the cost of J. W. Wfnger's new residence at Thirteenth and J.

Stone and pressed brick with cut stone trimmings was used to erect a new and cosy family residence for W. H. Tyler at Eighth and D streets and cost the owner $12,000.

There were many others built also worthy of special mention but these will suffice to demonstrate the characacter of the residences that are being rapidly added to the large number of Lincoln's beautiful homes.

Among the handsomest of residence properties erected last year is the Lyman Terrace built by C. W. Lyman on H between Eleventh and Twelfth. This building is three stories in height, handsome stone fronts with trimmings of Missouri sandstone.

Among the many fine blocks erected during the year are the following: The Y. M. C. A. building at Thirteenth and N is now nearly finished and will cost $60,000. It is four stories, basement and attic, and occupies a ground space of 75 x 104 feet. It is composed of St. Louis pressed brick and Lake Superior sandstone with handsome stone trimmings.

D. L. Brace's block at Fifteenth and O is a new style of architecture for Lincoln and is one of the most imposing of the many handsome business blocks in the city. It has a frontage of 25 feet on O street and

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THE LYMAN TERRACE- C. W. Lyman, Owner. Erected 1890.

140 feel on Fifteenth street and including the basement, which is but eighteen inches below the sidewalk, is six stories in height. The basement or first story is of Minnesota stone and the balance is pressed brick and rough hewn stone. The architecture is unusually fine and serves to give the building a massive and solid appearance. The cost of the building is $50,000.

The Newman block, a fifty-foot front of three stories, was erected at 1023 to 1026 O street and cost $25,000.

A. E. Kennard's block is situated on Twelfth street between L and M and cost $18,000.

Mayer Bros. spent $26,000 in the building of their handsome block at 112-118 North Tenth street. It is two full stories, with a basement.

James A. Bailey erected a beautiful three-story and basement block of pressed brick with iron columns and galvanized iron ornaments, on O between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, at a cost of $40,000 and just across the street another block of smaller dimensions and of the same style was built by him at a cost of $18,000.

The Oppenheimer block at 423-429 North Tenth is a handsome structure of three stories and basement and cost $30,000.

J. G. & C. H. Hutching also erected a fine block at 441-445 North Tenth of pressed brick and stone that cost them $25,000. Another $25,000 block was the one erected by D. B. Alexander at O and Fourteenth.

An extra story and a new interior in the McMurty block at Eleventh and M cost the proprietors $16,000.

R. S. Young's block on East O is four stories and basement and cost $23,000.

E. & O. A. Fisher built a three-story block at 2010 O street, that cost $32,000, and M. M. Catlin built one across the street that cost $15,000, and in the same block a little ways east of the Fisher block W. R. Carter has erected a fine three-story block with a brick and stone front at an expenditure of $15,000.

J. R. Webster erected a $15,000 block on Eleventh between N and M, while across the street and another block south Henry Pfieff and Ambrose Eddy have built a $15,000 block.

The additions to the Nebraska Conservatory of Music and the First National bank each cost $15,000, and a like amount was spent by Louie Meyer & Co. and Fred Smith for additions to their respective places of business.

Near the corner of O and Twenty-fourth E. Hughes has erected three blocks that cost $44,000.

The Bell block at Fifteenth and O cost $20,000 and a like amount will be spent by C. N. Crandall on his new block at O and Twenty-fourth.

Besides these there are a large number of smaller blocks that make a total of $684,500.

The Lincoln hotel which is written up elsewhere cost $200,000 and the addition to the Lindell was of $60,000 expense to the proprietors. The Bond hotel management spent $50,000, in finshing there hotel. The cost of the Western hotel at Fourteenth and P will be $56,000 when finished. About $10,- has been spent on the Bigelow hotel on the opposite corner and $7,000 on the addition to the Winsor, which makes a sum total of $383,000.

The outlook for building this year is far ahead of any previous years and 800 feet of frontage are already arranged for on O street east of Fourteenth.

The 100 feet of space between Fifteenth and Sixteenth on the south side of O will be entirely occupied by a fine block to be built by Mr. Munson of this city, Mark M. Coad of Fremont and a Mr. Goode of Ohio.

THE COUNTY.
The New Court House--Real Estate
Transfers--Business of the Clerk's Office.

The business in the vicinity of the new, massive and elegantly appointed county court house has been quite active during the past twelve months and shows a large percentage of increase of the business over the preceeding year.

The cost to the county of this imposing stone edifice of which all Lancaster county is proud, was $200,000. The drives and walks were placed at an additional cost of $7,400, and the grounds, which are sightly and centrally located, are valued at $50,000, which makes a total of $257,400, and this amount provides the county of Lancaster with as handsome and commodious a structure for the transaction of its business as it could wish for. The jail is valued at $15,000 and some improvements will be made in those quarters in the near future.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The register of deeds reports the following reale state transfers for the year:
January.............$672,927
February.............656,855
March.................647,050
April...................795,383
May....................804,958
June....................931,619
July.....................668,856
August................511,527
September...........689,500
October...............776,363
November............795,401
December............838,119

Total transfers for year...$8,788,558
The transfers for '89 were a few dollars less than $7,000,000 which makes an increase of more than $1,788,558 or about 25 per cent in one year. These figures plainly show the real estate activity in and about Lincoln and there is prospect of a still greater increase for this year.

CLERK'S REPORT.
Fifty-three articles of incorporation were filed with the county clerk and the business in the clerk of the district court's department has kept pace with the other offices. The number of attorneys of record in the county for 1890 are 185 and 34 law firms, as against 146 attorneys and 24 law firms for 1889, an increase of 30 and 40 per cent. The number of civil cases docketed for 1889 was 730 and for 1890, 878, an increase of over 20 per cent. The docket for the next term will be by far the largest ever made up in this county and will number over 750 cases. The probate clerk reports 38 wills admitted and 38 guardians appointed; 69 reports of exexutors, administrators and guardians disposed of, 44 guardians, administrators or executors discharged and 16 adoptions of minor children recorded. The county judge issued 535 marriage licenses and performed the ceremony for 107.

HAVELOCK
The Suburb Created by the Burlington's Great Shops.
History of Its Conception and Beginning- Two Thousand Men Will Be Employed.
A Great Factory.

Many years ago Mr. A. E. Touzalin, now dead, when land commissioner of the Burlington & Missouri railroad, purchased the eighty-acre tract lying immediately east of the grounds of Hon. John Fitzgerald here. For some years he paid no attention to it except to pay the taxes. But in the spring of 1886 he decided to plat a portion of the eighty, about forty-five acres of it, and in July, 1886, the lots were put on the market. Mr. Touzalin having selected C. J. Ernst, then cashier of the B. & M. land department, to take charge of th eproperty for him. Sales were quickly made, prices advanced at frequent intervals, and within four months nearly the entire subdivision, which had been christened "Hillsdale," had been sold. This pleased Mr. Touzalin very much, and while he had always had a warm place in his heart for Lincoln it added much to his good opinion, and when on his way here November 2, 1886, he sent the following telegram: "C. J. Ernst, Lincoln- Shall be in Lincoln tomorrow. Please see Andrus or some good real estate agent if there are any quarter sections or 80-acre tracts near Lincoln for sale at fair price. A. E. Touzalin." (Original telegram still in existence and retained as a valued relic.) While viewing next day sections eight and nine owned by Elder Miller, one of the party remarked that it might prove a desirable investment if the B. & M. railroad company, even then known to be crowded for more room at their Plattsmouth shops, could be induced to locate its principal shops here, so close to Lincoln, the heart of its system west of the Missouri river. After considerable talk and discussion as to the future possibilities and probabilities of such a tract of ground in that location Mr. Touzalin announced his intention of making the purchase, and that same evening he made all preliminary arrangements for the same with Elder Miller, the owner; 960 acres additional was soon purchased, comprising what was then known as the Sherman farm, and smaller tracts owned by Gen. J. C. McBride and Mr. Bruce Shevaler respectively. The Abbot farm, Hooker farm, Harris farm, and other tracts, were not purchased although some negotiations had been had about them. This made three sections, in a square track 1 1/2 x 2 miles purchased by Mr. Touzalin in November and December, 1886.

We will pass over the next two and one half years, during which time the Havelock depot was built, some 2 1/2 and 10 acre tracts sold, and negotiations for the B. & M. shops quietly carried on now and then. In the spring of 1889 another decided effort was begun by Mr. Touzalin to secure the location of these shops, but, when Mr. Touzalin so suddenly died, at Bennington ,Vt. on the 12th day of September 1889, his associates in ownership of this land (which had been put into a company, named Lancaster Land Co., and shares sold to a number of Mr. Touzalin's friends here and elsewhere, about one half of the stock being retained by Mr. Touzalin himself) feared that their hopes about securing the R. R. shops might never be realized. Mr. John R. Clark, now likewise dead, and Mr. J. D. Macfarland, however continued to work together for this much sought prize, and success crowned their labors sooner than anticipated, so that in less than nine months after the death of Mr. Touzalin the contract with the B. & M. railroad had all been closed up, conveyances made to the railroad company of 300 acres of land as a donation, 100 acres to be used for shops and 200 acres for immense freight yards with gravity tracks, etc., and the actual construction of shop buildings begun.

The several buildings erected during 1890 are but a small beginning of the eventual plant, yet they have consumed nearly two million brick. There is a machine erecting shop, blacksmith shop and boiler and dynamo building, with a smokestack 125 feet high and fourteen feet in diameter at the base. Electric lights will illuminate the shop buildings and will be brought from there to every street crossing, the passenger and freight depots and all over the yards and buildings of the company at Havelock and in the city of Lincoln itself. Immense cranes, in the erecting shop, will handle locomotives as if they were toys, and while it will take perhaps several years to complete the plant some opinion of its magnitude may easily be formed when it is considered that the C., B. & Q., operating two thousand miles east of the Missouri river, employs about two thousand men in their principal shops at Aurora, while west of the Missouri river they operate about three thousand miles of road, and consequently, at their principal western shops at Havelock, will soon employ at least as large a force as at this time at Aurora, Ill., and in all probability a larger one.

A large number of lots in Havelock have already been sold, prices being very reasonable indeed- from $150 upwards- and all of the ground most beautiful and handsome, thw whole townsite being almost perfection in topography, neither level nor hilly, but very gently sloping. The sale of these lots is in the hands of Mr. J. D. Macfarland, president of the Lancaster Land company, the owners, who is also president of the First National Bank of this city, where his office may be found.

A number of business houses have already been erected, among them one handsome block 50x80, two stories and basement, at a cost of $10,000 Lumber and coal yards are doing a good business, likewise the "Havelock Hotel." Residences have not yet been built in any great number because the shops will not be ready for operation until about June, 1891, but as soon as spring fully opens at least several hundred cottages will be built by employes who will work at the shops and by those who expect to sell or rent them to such and to those who will have business there.

THE RETAIL TRADE
An Active Year and Few Failures-
118 New Business Places Established During the Year.

From an interview with fifty of the leading retail dealers in the city the most conservative evidence will bear us out in the statement that the retail business has enjoyed a growth of at least 20 per cent since January 1 1890. Large as this ratio of increase may appear at first thought it is not so surprising when we consider the great growth of Lincoln and her suburbs and surrounding teritory during the past year all of which for a distance is reached by the retail merchants of this city, owing to the excellent railroad service which has been extensively referred to in another column and which can be further verified by a glance at the map in this column. A reference to this map shows how completely every portion of the country in the vicinity of Lincoln is covered by railroads leading directly to this city. As all these roads have passenger and freight divisions here the time cards are arranged with especial reference to Lincoln and the wants of thos who reside within trading distance and as result anyone living within fifty miles of Lincoln in any direction can come here and do their trading and return home the same day while from many directions along the main lines they can be accommodated at much greater distances. There is no other place in this state that can be reached and returned from in the same day by anywhere near as many people as can Lincoln.

As has already been said the retail trade extends fifty miles in all directions and much farther in some. Take a circuit of fity miles as indicated in the map accompanying this article and according to the official census ther is a population of 530,000 that can be reached by the retailers daily, and from the ratio of increase duing the past few years this number will soon be doubled. To meet the rapid increase

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in population and consequent additional demand for goods there has been during the year one hundred and eighteen new business places opened in this city with an aggregate capital of $2,350,000, which is not only an excellent showing in point of numbers but their representative capital shows the character and substantiability of the newly established firms.

OUR NEW HOTELS.

The Finest Between Chicago and San Francisco.
The New Lincoln- The Lindell Additions- The Bond- The Year's Growth $410,000.
There Are None Better.

As the capital of the state, the center of convergence of a dozen railroads and the scene of seve-eighths of the conventions and other state gatherings held in Nebraska, Lincoln needs more ample hotel accommodations than any city of the same size in the west. Until this year the city has had only the usal hotel facilities, but within the last few months improvements in this line have been completed which enable the city to amply supply all the extraordinary demands for hotel accommodations that are so often made upon her.

The largest and finest hotel building in Nebraska is
THE HOTEL LINCOLN,
A magnificent stone edifice, which stands at the corner of Ninth and P streets. Probably no hotel of the same magnitude was ever built in as short a time and it may well be doubted if any building of the same size ever reached completion seven stories high and 134 by 125 feet on the ground, well constructed and finished in every respect; and yet, although work was not begun until in May, the hotel was ready for the reception of guests when the legislature opened on January 5.

The Hotel Lincoln has a frontage of 134 feet on P street and 125 feet on Ninth street. It has six full stories besides a seventh at each of the four corners. The facings on the fronts are Berea stone. An attractive feature of the house is the very spacious verandas which are capable of accommodating several hundred people one each of the five stories next above the first, giving the hotel an inviting and hospitable air. There are broad entrances from both fronts. The rotunda is 51x58 feet and splendidly lighted. The three large parlors are on the second floor, as are also the dining room and kitchen.

Ample fire escapes are provided throughout the hotel and the means of reaching the ground from every room