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Any one seeking a manufacturing site or a home is assured that in Peoria he will find lower taxes, a healthier, more beautiful and cleaner city to live in, an abundant water supply at reasonable rates, excellent transportation facilities, telephone service, electric lights. gas and city heating supplied cheaper than in any other city of its size or larger, and that as a city it lives up?to the constitu- tional prerogative in having "a government of the people, by the people and for the people."
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
With the growth of every city the police department comes into more prom- inence and demands a more perfect organization. In 1837 we find the first record of a town chief being selected and in 1870 the first superintendent of police was created in the person of John M. Guill. Keeping pace with the advancement of the city, our police force to-day is composed of eighty-six brave, fearless men, and under the guidance of Superintendent William W. Rhoades, arezmore than equal for any exigency that may arise. A most complete and modern police signal and alarm box system is installed, by means of which the chief or captain can communicate with a policeman on any beat at most any time. In 1912 a combination auto-
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mobile patrol wagon and ambulance was added to the equipment of the police, and in 1913 another one. In addition the department has two high-powered motor cycles.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
The fire department likewise has kept abreast with the times. From the old bucket brigade established when the village of Peoria began to assume the appear- ance of being under organized rule, at which time it was compulsory for every man who controlled a home or had a place of business to have at hand at least two leather fire buckets, the fire department of the city of Peoria developed into one of the most efficient fire fighting organizations in this part of the country. It is composed of eighty-nine men, including the chief, two assistants and a sec- retary, formed into fifteen fire companies occupying ten engine houses that are valued at $110,090 and has a most modern fire fighting apparatus, including one combination automobile truck, chemical and hose car, one combination auto- mobile pump and hose car, and one chief's automobile. The entire equipment is valued at $85,575. Thomas Worm, the present fire marshall, is a man whose courage and ability has been of invaluable service to Peoria.
THE CITY HALL
The present City Hall was completed in 1898, at a cost of $234,592. and is one of the finest structures in the city. It is four stories high and built of rough brown stone. A tower extends from the roof, in which is hung the old alarm bell, formerly used in the tower of the old City Hall, simply for preservation, as the tele- phone and electrical appliances of the present day have superseded the fire bell for all time. On Fulton Street, adjoining the City Hall, is the city prison, which was erected at the same time.
THE COURT HOUSE
It was at the June term, 1833, that the initial steps were taken for the building of a Court House, which was completed in 1836. By the year 1858, this Court House became insufficient for the needs of the County and it was determined to erect more spacious quarters. The old Court House was thereupon re- moved and a new one erected which was thoroughly fire proof and while it was lacking in beauty it served the purpose for a period of twenty years, when it was replaced by the present Court House seen in the accompanying picture. This building was completed November 1878, at a cost of $248,968.
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THE POST OFFICE
Many changes have taken place since the establishment of the first post office in Peoria in 1825, a few days after the or- ganization of the county. The first postmaster was James Adams and the receipts for the first year amounted to eight dollars. About 1883 Congress made an appropri- ation for the construction of a Federal building, and the site at Monroe and Main Streets was purchased for the sum of $52,000, upon which a building was con- structed that was completed in the spring of 1889 at a cost of $251,833. The growth of the city was so rapid that this building was soon found to be inadequate and an addition was built which was completed January 1st, 1910, making the total cost of the building and the site as it now stands, $530,833. From eight dollars for the first year (1825) the receipts of the post office grew to $452,686.60 for 1914. The present postmaster is Louis F. Meek.
THE WORK HOUSE
The Work House, wherein offenders are confined for a violation of a city ordinance, or committing a misdemeanor, was completed in 1879 at a cost of $18,000. It is a two-story brick building and has ground space of over six acres, upon which the inmates are compelled to work out their sentence.
THE COLISEUM
Another monument to the pro- gressive ideas of the citizens of Peoria, and emphasizing the fact that Peoria is a convention city, is the magnificent mammoth building 1 at the corner of Adams and Han- cock Streets, which was completed in May 1901, and named the Col- iseum. To provide a site for the building, the city in the year 1900 purchased the lots for $12,000. and the present building was erected at a cost of $59,761.65 having a seating capacity of 4,000.
MARKET HOUSE AND GARBAGE BARN
In the past year the city acquired two new additions in buildings. One is the Garbage Barn, located at 209 N. Washington Street, at a cost of $25,000 and the
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other is the Market House at the corner of Franklin and Madison Avenue, for which $17,000 was paid in 1915, although contracted for in 1914. This market- house is sufficiently large to meet the present needs of the people and affords the same opportunities that the largest municipal market houses do.
THE WATER SUPPLY
The water supply of the city is furnished by an incorporated company which erected a new pumping station near the upper free bridge, and a reservoir, situated on the bluff three miles from the Court House. The water is obtained from a series of wells sunk near the river; it is pure, sparkling and inexhaustible in supply; and stands the most exacting, analytical test of any in the world. At the pumping station are pumps whose capacity is 21,000,000 gallons per day. The reservoir's capacity is 19,000,000 gallons.
GAS AND ELECTRICITY
September 15th, 1853, witnessed the introduction of gas in the city of Peoria, when the Peoria Gas Light & Coke Co. entered into a contract with the city for the lighting of the streets. About the year 1884 electricity was introduced by another company and in 1904 the gas and electric companies were consolidated. A number of important changes for the betterment of the service have since been made. In 1908 all the wires in the down town district were placed under- ground and in 1911, through an arrangement between the company, the business men and the city, the boulevard system of lighting the business section was in- augurated. At the present time there are more than six hundred, five and one globe, ornamental boulevard standards illuminating and beautifying that section. Another improvement of no mean importance and convenience to the residents is the public steam heating system installed by the same company, furnishing heat to many private homes, public and office buildings. Gas is furnished for all pur- poses at a gross rate of sixty cents to one dollar per thousand cubic feet, electricity four to ten cents per kilowatt hour gross, and steam at meter or flat rates that is cheaper than could be furnished by the individuals themselves.
THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM
In 1900, the city of Peoria adopted a general system of sewerage. The city is divided into sewerage districts, which bear the name of the street in which the mains are constructed. Most of the sewers are constructed of vitrified pipes, ranging in diameter from six to twenty inches. Many miles of sewers are made of brick, circular in form, which range from twenty-four to eighty-eight inches in diameter. The number of miles of sewers in Peoria estimated at the close of the year 1914 is about ninety miles. With the completion of the North End sewer and the building of the South End sewer now fully planned, the total will reach one hundred and ten miles.
BRIDGES
There are two free wagon bridges across the Illinois River over which during the year 1914 came 719,279 vehicles into the City of Peoria; a magnificent new railroad bridge recently erected by the Peoria & Pekin Union Railway; one by the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Co., and one by the Illinois Traction System: making in all five bridges spanning the Illinois River.
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SHERMAN W. ECKLEY
Has done more to beautify and clean Peoria than any of his predecessors. The excellent condition of the streets, the bridges, the beautifying work on Hamilton Boulevard, and hundreds of other streets and squares, and particularly the park on the Levee called Eckwood Park, as an acknowledgement of a work that seemed impossible to almost every- body, shows the resourcefulness, intelligence, and capacity for work of this man. In poli- tics Mr. Eckley has always been a factor and identified with the Republican party. He has always served as a committee man from his district; during the first term and second term of Mayor Woodruff's administration as sewer inspector and during the past term as commissioner of public works, which it is hoped that he will continue during the new term of Mayor Woodruff's administration. He brings to his public work the energy and en- terprise of a keen, successful business man, combined with the patriotic devotion to duty that has always been one of his characteristics. He enjoys the public confidence and has been regarded as a lead- ing business man of this city for many years.
E. J. NAYLOR
E. J. Naylor, the general agent for the Chicago and Alton Railroad, is one of the most prominent of the railroad men. Born at Chicago, Illinois, December 6th, 1876, he received his primary edu- cation in the schools of his native town, and upon graduating from the high school chose the railroad business as his occupation. Commencing at the bottom of the ladder and laboring earnestly and indefatigably in the interests of the various railroad companies that he was employed by, he gradually worked his way upward and in 1909 was made general agent for the Chicago and Alton Railroad at Los Angeles, Claifornia, where he remained for two years until he took charge of the office at San Francisco, and in 1914 came to Peoria, serving the same company in the same capacity. In 1906 Mr. Naylor married Miss Iva Hill of St. Louis, Mo., and has one son. Fraternally he is an Elk and is a member of the Creve Coeur Club, the Transportation Club, Peoria Association of Com- merce, and the Peoria Board of Trade. He is keenly alive to the varying requirements of the traveling public and the shippers, and has been of great assistance in making Peoria a commercial center.
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STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
As for mileage, quality and condition of its streets and other improvements, Peoria, for its size, stands in a class by itself. At the time of the building of Fort Clark, the only roads, if such they may be called, were Indian trails. The first road authorized by Peoria County that concerned Peoria was at the June session in 1825, and the first street, what is now Water Street, was laid out in the same year. As traffic inereased, the necessity for a harder and firmer thoroughfare than the country road became apparent, and at the elose of the year 1914, of the 200 miles of Peoria's streets, over eighty miles were paved.
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES Steam-Traction-River .
The backbone of every city is its transportation facilities. The greater this efficiency- the more factories, increased population, more business and greater prosperity. No city in the United States the size of Peoria, has the transportation facilities that it has both by rail and water.
Peoria has fourteen railroad terminals, which have a trackage of 79,000 miles, or 29 per cent of the entire mileage of the United States, and three passenger stations, viz: The Rock Island and Terminal of the Illinois Traction System, which accommodate these respective lines, and the Union Station, furnish- ing facilities for the other lines. There arrive and depart every day 126 steam trains and 156 electric and interurban trains. The four freight terminals, accommodating the various roads, handle annually more than 500,000 tons of merchandise, distrib- uting it all over the country in a most expedient manner.
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seaboard points without a stop, then in truth will Peoria link the Great Waters, and will be the greatest shipping point of the west.
Thus it can be seen that the wonderful growth of Peoria as a commercial and manufacturing center demonstrates that it offers unsurpassed transportation facilities and lowest freight rates to everybody contemplating the location of a jobbing or manufacturing institution. The number of railroads, its river transportation, the prompt handling of freight and the low cost of trackage combine to make it an ideal location.
ILLINOIS TRACTION SYSTEM
Peoria is fortunate in being the terminus of the largest and most efficient interurban railway system in the United States. The Illinois Traction System, with general offices in Peoria, has an interurban railway mileage in Illinois of more than 500 miles. It offers electric trains from Peoria almost any hour of the day to St. Louis, Springfield, Bloomington, Decatur, Lincoln, Clinton, Champaign, Urbana, Danville and intermediate points south and east.
Sleeper and parlor car service to St. Louis from Peoria and Springfield is one of the features of the service afforded by this modern system. The sleeping cars operated by this company are rare samples of the car builders' art. Containing extra long berths, windows in uppers, safety deposit vaults for valuables, electric lights and improved ventilation, they afford every known comfort. These sleepers leave Peoria nightly at 11:30, arriving in St. Louis at 6:50 the following morning. Returning they leave St. Louis at 11:45 p. m., arriving in Peoria at 7:05 a. m.
Parlor cars for St. Louis, Springfield and intermediate points leave Peoria at 8:00 a. m. and 2:00 p. m. These cars contain comfortable parlor seats, spacious observation platform, library table, buffet service and all the known comforts of daylight travel.
All Illinois Traction System trains enter St. Louis over the company's own steel bridge, and have their terminal at 12th Street and Lucas Avenue, in the heart of the business district. There are two passenger terminals in Peoria, the up-town station at Hamilton and Adams Streets, and the Bridge station at Wash- ington and Walnut Streets.
PEORIA STREET RAILWAY SERVICE
Peoria's street railway service, as supplied by the Peoria Railway Company is equalled in few cities of its size in the middle west.
It is possible, by the use of the universal transfer, to take a ride of nine miles by street car in Peoria for the payment of one ticket fare, or 4.1666 cents. The city's transportation needs are well served by a network of lines radiating from the Court House as a center and all of the comforts and conveniences of modern city travel are provided.
The street railway company is one of the important factors in the growth and development of Peoria as a business and residence city.
For the convenience of patrons the company has displayed on the front of each car a large destination sign which indicates by initial the name of the division over which the car is operating. An explanation of these car markings follows, supplemented by a street railway directory.
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STREET RAILWAY DIRECTORY
A Adams Street, running north and south from Court House. North Adams cars to Averyville, Al Fresco Park, Illinois Valley Yacht and Canoe Club, Waterworks Park, Three Eye League (Lake View) Baseball Park, up-river beaches and amusement places, lower entrance Grand View Drive. South Adams cars to industrial districts, stock yards, world's greatest distilleries.
H Heights, or Prospect Heights cars to upper entrance Glen Oak Park, upper entrance Springdale Cemetery, upper entrance Grand View Drive and Country Club; Peoria Heights, overlooking Illinois River valley, St. Francis Hospital, Deaconess Hospital.
B Bradley Avenue cars downbound to Union Depot. Outbound to Bradley Institute and residence section of the West Bluff, south of Main Street.
M Main Street, or West Bluff cars. Downbound to Union Depot. Outbound to Bradley Institute, U. S. Weather Bureau, Bradley Park, Uplands and residence section of West Bluff north of Main Street.
E Elizabeth Street cars, outbound to end of Elizabeth Street and residence section of West Bluff, north of Main Street.
K Knoxville Avenue, or East Bluff cars. Outbound to Implement Show Grounds, Mile Race Track and residence section traversed by Knoxville Avenue. Downbound to Proctor Recreation Center and west on Hulburt Street.
2nd Second Avenue cars. Downbound to Proctor Hospital and residence section to Seventh and Western Avenues. Upbound to lower entrance of Glen Oak Park and Springdale Cemetery.
L Lincoln Avenue cars. Downbound to Madison Park, Proctor Recreation Center. Upbound to lower entrance Glen Oak Park and Springdale Cemetery.
G Garden Street cars, west from South Adams Street on Garden Street.
S Sixth Street cars. Downbound to Union Depot. Outbound to residence section traversed by Fifth and Sixth Avenues, west from Main Street.
E.P. East Peoria cars, to East Peoria from Adams and Walnut Streets.
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The Leisy Brewing Company is the oldest brewing company in Peoria, having been established in 1849 by Huber, Rausch & Kolb, and outside of Chicago, does the largest business in the state. It has an annual capacity of 300,000 barrels and 40,000,000 bottles, extending its trade all over the west to the Pacific coast. It is one of the most modern and sanitary breweries in the country. The entire process is automatic and at no stage of manufacture is the beer touched by hand. In the bottling department are two machines that fill, cork and label 180 bottles per minute. The plant as seen from the ac- companying illustration is most extensive, covering a very large area of ground space, occupying a number of modern brick buildings and has the largest switching interest on the Rock Island track, distributing twenty-eight car loads daily. Three hundred and sixty people are employed, earning annually $200,000. The annual business transacted approximates $2,000,000 and is under the general management of its president, Mr. Edw. C. Leisy.
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