The wards and the election Minneapolis Journal, November 3, 1900 excerpt - . . . This ward is bounded by the river, Central avenue and Division street, and the east city limits, an area of 431 square miles, and including the university district, Prospect Park and Elwell's addition. There are no slums in the second ward. Out of a population, in '98, of 11,324, only 2,852 were foreign born, Scandinavia furnishing half the number and Canada a fifth. . . . |