CiL^ \ I 411 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. %{tb^i?. Gtqnjrigfjt l^a Shelf. MUL UNITED STATES OF AJIEKICA. o ^ -.J \ ^H ^. A. •iVVtt'H .'.\ 't ^i.j '.is. A copy of this Guide will be given on request, or will be mailed to any address on receipt of one cent stamp to pay Its postage. Address D. H. BALDWIN &. CO., 158 W. Fourth St., cor. Elm, Cincinnati, O. WALKS ABOUT CINCINNATI. HE situation of Cincinnati, in a basin surrounded by hills which come so close to the river at either end of the city, that there is barely room for a double-track railroad between them and the water, led the pioneers who settled here to select it for the site of a town. These same peculiarities of hill, valley and river gave to the city certain obstacles to overcome as she grew, and the necessity which is the mother of iuveiition has developed characteristics which mark Cincinnati as unlike any other city on the continent. The Ohio river has been spanned by four bridges, not only to connect Cincinnati with the sister cities, Covington and Newport, but also to enable the cars of the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Kentucky Central, the Louisville & Nashville and the Cincinnati Southern railroads to enter their stations on this side of the river. Three of these are pier bridges for rail- roads, but the fourth is a wire suspension bridge for horse vehicles and foot- passengers. It was designed and constructed bj' the late John Roebling, who built the suspension bridge between New York and Brooklyn, which alone in the United States, exceeds in length the bridge here. Another and smaller suspension bridge spans the Licking river, which separates Covington from Newport, and empties into the Ohio opposite Broadwaj', Cincinnati. At the foot of the eastern range of hills is the principal pumping station of the City Water Works, whose immense engines are worth going to see. These draw the water through pipes in the bed of the river, and raise it to the reser- voir on the top o f the hill knoven as Mt. Adams, whence it is distributed all over the city by its natural tendency to rise to its own level. If it were not for friction the water would force itself to the tops of the highest structures in the city, when needed in case of fire. As it is, the upper as well as the lower floors of the tallest buildings are supplied with flowing water. On the top of the hill above the Water Works is the site of Eden Park, and in it is a natural basin, walled at the end towards the river, fonuing the reser- voir that holds the water, of which in summer Cincinnati consumes about thirty-five million gallons a day. Another peculiaritj- of this reser\'oir is that it is wholh- within the cit}' limits. In the same park are the famous Art Museum and Art School. The hill formation around the valley of Cincinnati admitted the building of the Art Museum away above the dust and smoke, on a point commanding a grand view of the surrounding countrj-, and itself a con- spicuous object in the landscape, yet so accessible as to be within fifteen minutes ride by horse-car from the Post Ofiice. Standing on the broad piazza of the Art Museum and looking south, one sees the Kentucky range of hills following the course of the Ohio river. Where the river bends at a point to the left of the spectator, and disappears behind a high bluff', is a plateau upon which the Government has lately decided to build Fort Hancock, as a resting place for regiments that have ser\'ed in the far west, and will be located in eastern stations. This new fort will supersede the time- honored Newport Barracks, which is at the junction of the Licking and Ohio rivers. The change is made because the present barracks have been several times submerged by the Ohio river, whose channel depth ranges from eleven inches to seventy-four feet. Down in the valley on a line between the Art Museum and the Newport Barracks, may be seen a low and long house, among the trees in a large yard on the east side of Pike street, between Third and Fourth. This is an historic house. It was built by one of the first citizens, of stone secured by iron braces. and one-storj^ high only, to prevent its overthrow by earthqviake! Later it was the residence of Nicholas Longworth, the wealthiest of Cincinnati's pioneers, and a patron of arts, who owned Eden Park. He sent Hiram Powers to study at Rome. His son, with the late Charles W. West, gave most largely to the Art Museum and Art School, and his grandson has recently added to the Art Museum an ideal statue bj- Hiram Powers, whose son, Preston Powers, made the statue of Reuben Springer that stands in the vestibule of Music Hall, his own greatest monument. Portraits of Longworth, West and Springer hang in the Art Museum, together with that of David Sinton, the present owner of the Pike street house, to whose munificence the Art School building is due. Eden Park and all that therein is, may be reached from the cit}' proper most easilj' by the Eden Park cars. These are drawn bj' horses and are carried up the hillside on a huge platform, which is elevated by wire cables, and whose wheels run on an incline railway. Of these peculiar roads Cincinnati has four. One is the Mt. Adams Incline, which has been men- tioned; another goes up the hill next north and west, and is called the Mt. Auburn Incline; on the next hill west, is the ' Elm Street Incline, while away across the Millcreek valley', almost as far as one standing on Mt. Adams can see, the Price Hill Incline gives access to the extreme western hills. The obstacles which the high hills interpose to easy intercourse between cit}' and countrj' are still further overcome by the use of cable railroads. Long and endless ropes of wire are kept moving over wheels sunk in the streets between the tracks, by great stationary engines located at some convenient point on each route. The cars are made to move by an attachment to the cable, that can be fastened or loosened at the will of the driver, who stops the car with an ordi- nary brake. The power houses of the incline planes and cable roads are well worth a visit. One of these lines extends out Gilbert Avenue, along side the hill on which the Art iMuseum stands, to Walnut Hills, the most populous suburb of the city, being the residence of forty THE EI,M STREET INCLINE •^s "^ abound and some ■^ of the res' ' -nee:. thousand {jeople. Along the eastern slope of the next western range of hills is the Mount Auburn cable road, which goes out to Mount Auburn, Avondale, and the Zoological Garden. Between T>,| ^^ are castles. L'rotn the next two hills is built the Vine street cable road, which ^..^-.^ .•>: J ./„^JAL ■'??»' the norther-mos;. connects the city with Clifton. ''"l^^ '''^jvi ^ \* ', / ^°^^ *^'>^ '.r;;' 1 The suburbs of Cincinnati are famous. The CTrandin Road in East Walnut Hills is noted for its magnificent r roaa lue ';r;;' ^ valley of Mill .- '.: be viewed. 4 ™ay views of the Ohio River. Avondale are full of hand some houses. was celebrated for its lovel) lawns and stately man sions. There fences between the differ ent properties are winding, f o r e s t trees v'.i'-i monuments alciic indi- -\ cate that it is a city of ■ the dead. It is reached from the city by carriage, bj' horse car or by steam railroad. Further along the vallej- may be seen the immense smoke-stack at Ivorydale, the largest manu- facturing establishment of its kind in the world. Returning to the city from i^ Clifton, one finds at the south- em boundary' of the latter the Burnet Woods Park. This was a beech wood and its natural beauty has not been marred by artificial means. A single broad road stretches along the natural grade from north-east to south-west. A lake has been formed in a natural depression and upon a hillside a music stand is built, where once a week in summer a band plays to a large audience in carriages, on horseback, or seated either on the rustic benches or grass. An endowment fund created by Wm. S. Groesbeck jirovides the money. Still nearer the city is the Zoological Garden. It contains over fifty acres of ground and is unequaled for size in the United States, besides being unusually well stocked with wild animals. All the horse car and cable car lines, with two exceptions, the Third and Fourth street and the Mt. Auburn cable, pass the corner of Fifth and Walnut streets. East of Walnut on Fifth street is the Government Building in which are the Post Office, Courts, Internal Revenue, and other United States offices. West of Walnut on Fifth street is the Esplanade on which is the celebrated Tyler Davidson fountain, presented to the citj' by Henry Probasco, whose magnificent residence is one of the objects of interest in Clifton. Half a block south of the eastern end of Fountain Square on the opposite sides of Walnut street, are the Cincinnati College Building, in which is the Mercantile Library, and the Gibson House, one of the leading hotels. One block south of the western end of Fountain Square, at the corner of h'ourth and Vine streets, is the new Chamber of Commerce, the last large building designed by the late H. H. Richardson, of Boston, Mass. Adjoining the Chamber of Commerce on the south is the historic Burnet House. The broad stone piazzas on the south side of the hotel were intended to command a view of the river, but the tall stone buildings of the merchants that cover the lower level of the city, were not dreamed of when the Burnet House was built more than a third of a centur>' ago. To reach Music Hall either from the Burnet House, Gibson House, Grand Hotel or St. GARFIELD STATUE. Nicholas, the most direct route is to go to Fourth aud Elm streets, and then proceed north on the latter street. At the north-east corner of these two .streets is the establishment of D. H. Baldwin & Co. This firm has been in business of selling pianos and organs since 1S62, and their name is familiar throughout the south and west, which territory they practically control for their business purposes. Their main stores are in Cincinnati, Louisville, and Indianapolis, while their stores or representatives are in almost every important city or town in the six or seven neighboring States. No business can grow larger each year and gradually assume enorm- ous proportions unless it is conducted with honesty, intelligence, and enterprise. These three attributes of success belong to D. H. Baldwin & Co., whose firm members, D. H. Baldwin, Lucien Wulsin, A. A. Van Buren, Geo. W. Armstrong, jr., and Clarence Wulsin, individually and collectively, are always to be found engaged in public enterprises, even those not connected with their business. The great ]VIa\- Festivals, which give to Cincinnati an international reputation, have no more faithful friends and enthusiastic supporters than mem- bers of the firm of D. H. Baldwin & Co. OUNG men and old will be interested in the building at Seventh and Elm streets, as it is the house of the Queen City Club, a social organization of business men. At Eighth and Elm and extending about one thousand feet east to Vine street, are two small parks known as Garfield I'lace. This place is intersected midway by Race street, running north and south. At the junction is the statue of Garfield, b)' Niehaus. The Ijncoln Club, a political organization, has its house at the south- west corner of Race and Garfield I'lace. Proceeding north on Race to Twelfth street one discovers Washington Park, which this year (1888) is covered with the buildings of the Centen- ,nial Exposition. Across from the Park on the west side of Elm street, is the great Music Hall for the con.struction of which the late Rueben R. Springer gave several hundred thousand dollars. A statue of him stands in the vestibule. .South of and adjoining I\Iusic Hall, is the College of Music for whose creation and endowment, credit is due Mr. Springer also. Connected with the College of Music is the Odeon in which the Philharmonic concerts, the public examina- tions of College of Music pupils, and entertainments other than theatrical are held. At the head of Elni .street is an incline plane, and halfway up the hill is the building of the Universitj' of Cincinnati. This contains the highest departments of the public school system of Cincinnati. A child may enter the district schools, then the intermediate, alter- wards the high schools, finallj- the university, whence as a young man or woman, he or she should emerge well educated. Closely connected with the university are the Miami Medical College and Ohio Medical College, the Dental College, the Cincinnati College and the Law School. There are also the Technical School and the School of Design, in Mechanic's Insti- tute, not to repeat mention of the College of Music and Art School connected with the Museum. There are several Theological Schools also, notably Lane Seminar}-, on Walnut Hills. The Cincinnati boy and girl do not have to go away from home for instruction. Adjoining the Mechanics' Institute, at Sixth and Vine streets, on the west, is the Central Fire Station, which one should visit before twelve o'clock noon, of any day, as promptly at that hour a spark of electricitj' sets going the gong and loosens the fa.stening of the stalls, whence the trained horses rush to their places at either engine, hose-reel or ladder-truck, to be instantly hitched by the men, who also jump into their places. In five minutes the men get down and luihitch the horses, who quietly trot back to their stalls. This is done daily for practice. Next south of the Mechanic's Institute is the Grand Opera House, and across the street, at the north-west corner of Sixth and Vine streets, is the Palace Hotel. Proceeding south on Vine to Fourth, one finds on the west side of the former street and two hundred feet north of the latter, the Emery Arcade, in which is the Hotel Emery. 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 IB I7"t5 I CINCINNATI A^ To each of the objects of Interest catalogued herewith Is prefixed a figure and a letter. To find the place Indicate For Instance I A line drawn from figure 16 at the top and one from tetter G ^^_Cyl 5 N Art Museum. 18 L College of Music. z 13 H Custom House. 12 J Court House. 13 H Post Office. Y H F Chamber of Commerce. 11 F Masonic Temple and Telephone Exchange. XX HI I City Hall. 14 I Public Liljrary. 19 J St. Peter's Cathedral. X 14 H Fire Department 18 L Exposition Buildings. 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