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CINCINNATI

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WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS

AN ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED INDEX AND DESCRIPTIVE
GUIDE TO PLACES, INSTITUTIONS, SOCIETIES, AMUSE
MENTS. RESORTS, ETC., IN AND ABOUT
THE CITY OF CINCINNATI

COMPILED BY
F. W. BROWN

jr i?

1898
sptnsss 0f «. % ftoMitel & «ta.
CINCINNATI

COPYRIGHT, 1898, B¥
F. W. BROWN.

NOTE.
THE contents of this book were compiled from
various trustworthy sources for the benefit of
those, principally strangers, desiring such information
in a brief and convenient form. As the work is
alphabetically arranged, no index nor table of con
tents is needed.
After seeing the attractions herein described we
think you will agree that Cincinnati is no mean city
— in fact, that " We need but an open eye and ear
To find the Orient's marvels here,"
And will not, therefore, deem the time spent in
reviewing them as without pleasure and profit.
THE COMPILER.

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A VIEW OF CINCINNATI, if you truly see the
city, is a pleasure always to be remembered.
There is not a more interesting city on this
continent. Her individuality has made her famous
the world over. Her naturally beautiful and pictur
esque location, her schools of Art, Science and Music,
and hundreds of other things peculiar only to Cincin
nati, make her a city without a rival.
The city is principally built ou a plateau through
which the Ohio River passes. This plain is divided
nearly equally by the river, Cincinnati being on the
north half, and the Kentucky cities of Covington,
Newport, Dayton, etc., on the south side. Entirely
surrounding this plain is a chain of hills three hun
dred feet high, forming a most beautiful natural am
phitheater, and from these hilltops the panorama of
the cities below, the serpentine river, the bridges and
all the accompanying animation is most strikingly
picturesque. The city extends along the river for a distance of
twelve or more miles. She has swallowed up the
once separate villages of Fulton, Pendleton, Colum
bia, Tusculum, Einwood, Mt. Auburn, Walnut Hills,
Woodburn, Corryville, Avondale, Clifton, Camp Wash
ington, Fairmount, Westwood, Riverside, and a few

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others, and is continually spreading and will event
ually include the whole of Hamilton County, and
really should include all of Kenton and Campbell
Counties in Kentucky, for they are only South Cin
cinnati. The industries of Cincinnati are more varied and
substantial than perhaps those of any other American
city, embracing, as they do, almost every conceivable
'article from carpet-tacks to grand organs.
That Cincinnati is also a center of education and
polite culture will be amply proven to anyone who
will familiarize. himself with her schools and literary
institutions. Her University, Art, Medical, Law,
Musical and other scientific and technical schools are
unsurpassed anywhere.
Cincinnati holds a high rank among cities for archi
tectural achievements. The Chamber of Commerce
Building, the City Hall, the Armory, the Music Hall,
the Art Museum and Art Academy, the U. S. Gov
ernment Building, the hotels, theaters, apartment
houses, business blocks, club houses, hospitals,
churches and school buildings are quite as large and
elegant as are those of rival cities ; and there are scores
of stately mansions and private residences, more costly,
more beautiful, and more conveniently and richly fur
nished than many princes' palaces in Europe.
It has been claimed that Cincinnati is the freest city
in America, therefore the freest in the world, but this
is undoubtedly a hasty conclusion. However, a Sun
day spent here will convince one that she is a thor
oughly metropolitan city.
Sunday in Cincinnati gave her the name "Paris of
America." In Summer on Sunday crowds throng
her streets and enjoy the various resorts where con-

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certs, etc., are provided; the railroads and steamboats
bring crowds of pleasure-seekers and sight-seers. In
Winter the theater's are open, and the crowds go there,
or to other places where concerts and lectures are
given. But while there are so many and such varied amuse
ments on Sunday, Cincinnati is also a church-going
community. There are two hundred or more congre
gations holding regular services, to which' all are
welcome, and the Public Library, with its reading-
rooms, is also open for all who may desire to read.
The suburbs of Cincinnati are her crowning glory.
It is upon her majestic hills that the Queen City really
has her throne. Cincinnati works in the valley below,
but she lives above.
"New York has her Broadway and her Hudson
River, Chicago has her system of parks and boule
vards, but the pride of Cincinnati is her suburban
scenery and palaces."
Thirty years ago James Parton, writing for the
Atlantic Monthly, used the following words:
"Behold the Fifth Avenue of Cincinnati! It is not
merely the pleasant street of villas and gardens along
the brow of the hill, though that is part of if. Mount
to the highest point and look out over a sea of beauti
fully formed, umbrageous hills, steep enough to be
picturesque, but not too steep to be convenient, and
observe that upon each summit, as far as the eye can
reach, is an elegant cottage or mansion, or a cluster
of beautiful villas surrounded by groves, gardens and
lawns. This is Cincinnati's Fifth Avenue. Here
reside the families enriched by the industry of the
low, smoky town. Here upon these enchanting hills
and in these inviting valleys will finally gather the

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greater part of the population, leaving the city to the
smoke and heat when the labors of the day are done.
As far as we have seen or read, no inland city in the
world surpasses Cincinnati in the beauty of its envi
rons. ' '
And since the above was written all this beauty has
only been still more and more enhanced.
"Cincinnati has a history, and traditions and local
haunts fraught with dear associations. She has
hereditary estates and old families with honored
ancestors." Indeed, she has many things to make
you love her.
Academy of Medicine — organized March 5, 1857,
meets every Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, at 25 East
Eighth Street. The purpose of this society is to cul
tivate honorable fellowship, to promote advancement
in medical science, and to contribute to the mainte
nance of the highest standard of excellence in the med
ical profession. Consists of three hundred and fifty
local regular physicians.
Academy of Pharmacy — organized 1896, meets on
the second Tuesday of each month at Odd Fellows'
Temple. Object, the advancement of pharmacy as
a profession, and the promotion of the business and
social interests of pharmacists in this city and vicin
ity. Addyston — a suburban village thirteen miles west
on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and Big Four
Railways, is the location of the largest iron-pipe works
in America, employing- several hundred men ; has also
a vitrified brick works and four churches.
Ambulance — An ambulance service is connected
with the Cincinnati Hospital, Good Samaritan Hos
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for contagious diseases connected with the branch
hospital. There are also the police patrol wagons, used in
nearly all cases of street accidents, some cases of dis
ease, and many cases of inebriety. They may be
summonedj by telephone, or frorrj any police patrol
box or station.
American Chemical Society — Cincinnati section,
organized 1890, meets at the Chemical Lecture Rooms,
University Buildings, Burnet Woods, or in the Lloyd
Library. Object, the advancement of chemistry and
the promotion of chemical research. Papers are read
and discussed at each meeting on subjects of chemical
and general science and chemical industry.
The Scientific Alliance is a union of scientific so
cieties under the general direction of a council com
posed of three representatives of each, member. One
of the members of the alliance is the American Chem
ical Society.
American Folklore Society — Organized in 1888.
Cincinnati branch, established 1896, meets the second
Tuesday of each month at the residence of a member.
Object, the collection and publication of the folklore
and mythology of the. American continent. The so
ciety publishes the Journal of American Folklore,
which appears quarterly. The woxk of the society
includes publication and research in regard to the
religious ceremonies, ethical conditions, mythology
and oral literature of Indian tribes; collection of the
traditions of races existing in a relatively primitive
state, and the collation of these with correct accounts
of survivals among civilized tribes ; gathering of the
almost wholly unrecorded usages and beliefs of Cen
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aboriginal American material with European and
Asiatic conceptions, myths and customs, etc.
American Institute of Architects — The Cincinnati
Chapter, organized January 25, 1870, meets on the
fourth Monday of each month, at 5 p. m. Chapter
Rooms, Pike Building. Object of the chapter is the
advancement of the architectural profession and culti
vation of sociability among its members. A paper
on some appropriate technical subject is read by one
of the members at each meeting.
Amusements — Theaters and Pleasure Resorts.
Consult daily papers for the current attractions at the
various places.
Springer Hall — Elm Street; seats 3,617; owned by
Music Hall Association.
Horticultural Hall — adjoining Springer Hall.
Odeon — adjoining Springer Hall ; seats 1,200; Col
lege of Music.
Lyceum — adjoining Odeon and Springer Hall ; seats
300; College of Music.
Grand Opera House — Vine and Longworth Streets ;
seats 2,000; admission, from 25 cents to $1.50.
Walnut Street Theater — Walnut Street and Gano ;
seats 1,800; from 25 cents to 75 cents.
Pike Opera House — Fourth Street, between Vine
and Walnut; seats 1,600; from 25 cents to 50 cents.
Heuck's Opera House — Vine Street, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth; seats 1,800; from 15 cents
to 75 cents.
People's Theater — Vine and Thirteenth Streets;
seats 1 j-oo ; from 15 cents to 75 cents.
Robinson's Opera House — Ninth and Plum Streets;
seats 1,800; from 15 cents to 50 cents.
Star Theater — Central Avenue, between Fourth and

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Fifth Streets; seats 1,500; from 10 cents to 50 cents.
Odd Fellows' Auditorium — Seventh and Elm
Streets; seats 1,000; from 25 cents to 75 cents.
Fountain Square Theater — Lodge Street, between
Fifth and Sixth Streets; seats 1,500; from 15 cents
to 50 cents.
Avery's Museum — Vine Street, opposite Long-
worth ; seats 500 ; 10 cents.
Zoological Gardens — Located north end of Vine
Street, between Clifton and Avondale; open every
day; admission, 25 cents. Take cars at Fountain
Square. Chester Park — Winton Place.
Lagoon — Ludlow, Ky. ; electric cars from Fountain
Square. Coney Island — Ten miles up the river; boats, foot
of Vine Street ; 25 cents round trip.
Cincinnati National League Baseball Park — Corner
Western Avenue and Findlay Street.
Cincinnati Jockey Club — Oakley; Spring and Fall
Meetings ; electric cars from Fountain Square and via
B. & O. S-W. Railway.
Latonia Jockey Club — Latonia, Ky; Spring and
Fall Meetings; electric cars from Fountain Square
and via L. & N. Railroad.
Queen City Jockey Club — Newport, Ky. ;. Spring
and Fall Meetings; electric cars from Fountain
Square and via L. & N. Railroad.
Arcade — The Emery Arcade extends from Vine to
Race Streets, between Fourth and Fifth. It is a pas
sage four hundred feet long, protected from the
weather by a glass roof. Along the sides are shops
of all kinds, and the Hotel Emery is at the Vine
Street entrance.

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Architectural Features — Almost every variety of
building material seems to be employed in Cincinnati,
and the styles of architecture are as various as the
materials. Striking examples of these will be found
in the following list, several of which may be more
fully described under their separate heading :
City Hall, S. Hannaford & Sons, architects ; located
at Eighth, Ninth and Plum Streets aud Central Ave
nue; cost, $1,610,000.
Courthouse, J. W. McLaughlin, architect; located
on Main Street, opposite Court Street ; cost, $500, 000.
Government Building, A. B. Mullet, U. S. Super
vising Architect; located on Fifth Street, between
Main and Walnut; cost, $4,600,000.
Chamber of Commerce, H. H. Richardson, Boston,
architect; located at Fourth and Vine Streets; cost,
$675,000. Armory, S. Hannaford & Sons, architects; located
on Freeman Avenue; cost, $115,000.
City Workhouse, Anderson & Hannaford, archi
tects; located on Colerain Avenue; cost, $150,000.
University of Cincinnati, Hannaford & Sons, archi
tects; located at Burnet Woods ; cost, $150,000.
Walnut Hills High School, H. E. Siter, architect ;
located at Ashland and Burdette Avenues; cost, $125,-
000. Whittier School, H. E. Siter, architect ; located at
Mansion Place, Price Hill; cost, $100,000.
Art Museum, J. W. McLaughlin, architect; located
at Eden Park; cost, $330,000.
Art Academy, J.W. McLaughlin, architect; located
at Eden Park; cost, $85,000.
Public Library, J. W. McLaughlin, architect; lo
cated on Vine Street, between Sixth and Seventh;
cost, $400,000.

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Y. M. C. A. Building, J: W. McLaughlin, archi- ,
tect; located at Seventh and Walnut Streets; cost,
$110,000. Masonic Temple, J. W. McLaughlin, architect; lo
cated at Third and Walnut Streets; cost, $200,000..
I. O. O. F. Temple, Hannaford & Sons,' architects ;
located at Seventh and Elm Streets; cost, $340,000.
Phoenix Clubhouse, Hannaford & Sons, architects;
located at Ninth and Race Streets; cost, $125,000.
City Hospital, A. C. Nash, architect; located on
Twelfth Street, between Plum Street and Central Ave
nue; cost, $800,000.
Scottish Rite Cathedral, A. C. Nash, architect;
located on Broadway, between Fourth and Fifth
Streets; cost, $140,000.
Cincinnati Clubhouse, A. O. Elzner, architect; lo
cated on Melrose Avenue, between Oak Street and
Lincoln Avenue; cost, $100,000.
John Shillito Building, J. W. McLaughlin, archi
tect; located at- Seventh and Race Streets; cost,
$350,000. -Mabley & Carew Building, J. W. McLaughlin, ar
chitect; located on Fifth Street, between Vine and
Lodge; cost, $200,000.
McAlpin Building, J. W. McLaughlin, architect;
located on Fourth Street, between Vine and Race;
cost, $200, 000.
Area of Cincinnati — The city when incorporated
in 1 81 9 was bounded by Liberty Street and a line'.
through to the river on the north, on the east and
south by the river, and on the west by Millcreek,
three square miles.
The additions by ordinances have been as follows :
April 14, 1849, territory bounded by Liberty Street

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on the south, McMillan on the north, Hunt Street
and Lebanon Turnpike (Reading Road) on the east,
and Millcreek on the west, two and one quarter miles.
December 27, 1854, a strip along the Ohio River,
north and east from the line of Liberty Street to the
village of Pendleton, and known as the village of
Fulton. This was called the Seventeenth Ward, one
square mile.
September 10, 1869, territory bounded on the east
by Millcreek, south by the river, north by the line of
Liberty Street, and west by section line, and includ
ing the village of Sedamsville along the river and
Price Hill on the Highlands, and known as Storrs
Township, three and one eighth square miles.
November 12, 1869, that portion of Spencer Town
ship bounded on the north by Linwood Road and
Observatory Avenue, east by Section Line 26 and
village of Columbia and by Crawfish Creek to Ohio
River, south by Ohio River, including village of
Pendleton, to former western line of former village of
Fulton, and on the west by said line and the east line
of village of Woodburn, two and one half square miles.
March 5, 1870, villages of Walnut Hills (three
fourth square mile), Mt. Auburn and Clintonville
(one square mile). This took in a great portion of
West Walnut Hills, all of Mt. Auburn and Clinton
ville, and Corryville.
September 21, 1870, territory on the west, includ
ing Mt. Harrison, Barrsville, Fairmount, West Fair-
mount, St. Peter's, Lickrun, Clifton Heights, Camp
Washington, west from Clifton Avenue and from
Millcreek, north from McMillan Street and the Lib
erty Street line — all known as the election precincts
of Camp Washington and Lickrun in Millcreek Town
ship — five and one eighth square miles.

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December 13, 1872, village of Columbia, one and
one eighth square miles.
March 12, 1873, village of Cumminsville, now the
Twenty-fifth Ward, two aud three eighths square
miles. March 29, 1873, village of Woodburn, one square
mile. December 7, 1888, Zoological Gardens and contig
uous territory, one fourth square mile.
March 22, 1850, by act of Legislature annexed ter
ritory bounded on west by Reading Road, on east by
line of Fulton, on south by Liberty Street, on north
by McMillan Street, area three fourths square mile.
The Ohio Legislature, by an act passed April 13,
1893, authorized the annexation to the city of Cincin
nati of the villages of Avondale, Riverside, Clifton,
Linwood and Westwood, and their school districts.
This was approved at a special election by a majority
of the voters in the city and villages.
The annexation went into effect at midnight of De
cember 30, 1895.
The city assumed all the assets and liabilities of the
villages, and grants their residents the same rights
and protection as are accorded to the citizens of Cin
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GROWTH IN AREA OF CINCINNATI. Square Miles.
Original area when incorporated, 1819  3
Annexed April 14, 1849  ... 2%
Annexed March 22,.. 1850-. .... ... . , ...... . . ^
Annexed December 27, 1854. ...
Annexed September ro, 1869 ...
Annexed November 12, 1869 ...
Annexed March 5, 1870 
Annexed September 21, 1870 . ......
Annexed December 13, 1872  1}
Annexed March 12, 1873  2^5
Annexed March 29, 1873   1
Annexed December 7, 1888. ... :  %
Annexed December 31, 1895  11
Total area, January 1, 1898  351^
Armory'and First Regiment — The First Regiment
Ohio National Guards was 'started in .1875 by Colonel
W. L. Rob'inson, and the organization completed in
1876 by Colonel C. B. Hunt; armory on. west side
Freeman Avenue, opposite Everett Street; built 1886-
89, cost $115,000; 171^ feet by 308 feet; main hall
is 137 feet wide and 225 feet long. Colonel C. B.
Hunt, commander. There are 650 men in the First
Regiment and about 7,000 militiamen in Ohio. Take
Seventh Street, Clark Street or Cumminsville electric
cars at Fountain Square.
Art Club — The Cincinnati Art Club was organized
in 1887. Meets every Saturday evening at 126 East
Fourth Street. Membership, 115. Object of the
club is to advance and elevate art by bringing to
gether all the artists of the city.

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Art Galleries — The finest collection of modern art
works, as well as replicas of ancient art, to be found
in this city, are, of course, to be seen at the Art Mu
seum, which has received largely of the meritorious
private collections of earlier days in Cincinnati.
The Public Library contains a marble bust of James
E. Murdock by Moses Ezekiel, a gift to the Library
by Mr. A.W.Whelpley ; a marble bust of Henry Clay,
and two bronze busts, one of Daniel Vaughn, a scien
tist, the other of a celebrated physician, Dr. R. D.
Mussey, both of Cincinnati. (For other statues and
busts in the city see article "Statues.")
Special exhibitions of collections of pictures are
sometimes made by the various local painters, and
also by the Cincinnati Art Club.
A number of portraits of prominent merchants of
this city are to be seen in the Chamber of Commerce
Building. The principal art dealers are also accustomed to
add to the pleasure of the public by throwing open
their collection of pictures, which are frequently rear
ranged and reenforced. Among these are the galleries
of Emery H. Barton, 128 West Fourth Street; A. B.
Closson, Jr., 421-423 Elm Street, and Traxel & Maas,
206 West Fourth Street.
The Landy Gallery, northwest corner Fourth and
Plum Streets, contains a collection of famous photo
graphs. Mr. Landy was the winner of many medals
for the excellence of his work, some of his notable
pictures being, "Man, Know Thy Destiny," "Hia
watha," and "Shakespeare's Seven Ages."
Art Museum and Academy — Located in Eden Park.
The Women's Art Museum Association was incorpo
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ceive and hold gifts for an art museum building and
its contents. In furtherance of this object the asso
ciation secured a course of lectures delivered by Sid
ney D. Maxwell, George Ward Nichols and Charles
P. Taft, and also held a loan exhibition, from which
sources it derived about $3,000. It also received a
number of works of art. Five gentlemen condition
ally subscribed $50,000 for an art museum, and James
A. Frazer bequeathed $5,000 for the same purpose.
The Cincinnati Museum Association was organized
in 1880 in consequence of Charles W. West's offer to
give $150,000 toward establishing an art museum on
condition that other citizens should give as much
more. Within thirty days $166,500 was subscribed.
New building was dedicated May 17, 1886. Cost,
$330,000. It contains a large and valuable collection
of sculpture, paintings and other art. The city of
Cincinnati granted a reservation of 19.71 acres in
Eden Park to the association perpetually for the use
of the Museum. The Museum is, in the widest sense,,
an educational institution, adding to the wealth of
civilization and culture. The paintings represent the
world's greatest masters, and much of the statuary is
rare and beautiful, while the replicas embrace a full
quota of ancient statuary. There are special features
of the Museum which are not surpassed anywhere,
such as art pottery, fans, Indian relics, etc. Open
on weekdays from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. Sundays,
from 1 to 4:30 p. m. In summer open daily until
6 p. m. Admission, 10 cents on Saturdays and
Sundays; 25 cents on other days. President, M. E.
Ingalls ; Director, A. T. Goshorn ; Assistant Director,
J. H. Gest. Any person may become an annual
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payment of the annual fee of $10, and no further
liability is incurred.
The privileges of annual members are :
1. A ticket admitting for the ensuing year a mem
ber and his family, and any nonresident guests visit
ing them, to the Museum whenever it may be open
to the public.
2. Tickets to all lectures given under the auspices
of the trustees either in the Museum or Art Academy.
3. A copy of the annual report and of each hand
book, or catalogue, published by the Museum.
4. The use of the Museum library for consultation.
5. A copying ticket entitling the holder to copy,
sketch, or study objects belonging to the Museum, sub
ject to the rules of the Association.
6. Invitations to all receptions given by the trus
tees at the Museum.
Any person may become a Patron of the Museum
upon the payment of one thousand dollars. Patrons
shall during life be admitted without charge at all
times when the Museum may be open to the public.
They, and the members of their immediate families,
shall enjoy all the privileges of annual membership,
without further payment, during the life of the patron.
The Art Academy occupies a separate building ad
joining the Museum, of which it is a department.
In 1853 an association known as the Ladies' Academy
of Fine Arts received from Mr. McMicken $1,000 to
be spent for casts, which were to be given to a school
of design whenever one should be founded in this city.
Some years later the casts, as well as pictures owned
by the Academy, were handed over to the School of
Design which had just been founded. The school
prospered as much as its limited means allowed.

20 Cincinnati and vicinity.
Later, Joseph Longworth endowed the school with
$100,000; the old Observatory property, perpetually
leased to the Passionist Fathers, and yielding 7 percent
on $50,000, and the other $50,000 being given in
United States bonds. Then the facilities and number
of teachers were increased. In 1871 the school was
placed under control of the University of Cincinnati,
and after the organization of the Cincinnati Museum
Association the University in 1884 transferred the
school to this association. To this school is due
much of the credit for the elaborate designs and
carving on the organ in Music -Hall. Endowed with
nearly $400,000 by Joseph Longworth, and received
from David Sinton $75,000 for a building. Reuben
R. Springer also gave largely to the Acadamy as well
as to the Museum. Instructs large number of students
in drawing, painting, modeling, wood-carving, china
painting, etc. Tuition fee, $20 for an academic year.
Take Eden Park cars at Fountain Square.
Art Society— The Municipal Art Society of Cincin
nati was organized in May, 1 894, for the purpose of
providing appropriate sculptural, pictorial or other
decorations for the public buildings and parks in the
city of Cincinnati, and otherwise to encourage high
artistic standards.
The affairs of the Society are managed by a Board
of Trustees of fifteen members, who are elected an
nually. This Board shall include among its members
two architects, two painters, one sculptor, and the
Mayor of Cincinnati, ex officio.
The present membership is 115, who are among the
leading citizens and art patrons of the city. Annual
members pay five dollars yearly. Life membership
may be secured by the payment of $50. The annual

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meeting occurs on the last Monday in April ; other
meetings upon call. It is the aim of this Society to
give thoroughly competent advice in all matters per
taining to municipal art. In New York a law pro
vides that no important public building or work of
art in the nature of a public monument or memorial
shall be erected or placed upon any ground or within
any building belonging to the city of New York
without the approval of a Fine Arts commission, simi
lar in character to the Board of Trustees of the Mu
nicipal Art Society. Art patrons and others so desir
ing may, through this Society, become fully informed
as to the true merits of works of art with which they
propose to embellish the city. The Venetian Well
head, 300 years old, recently placed in Eden Park
and used as a drinking fountain, came through this
Society from Mr. Larz Anderson. The decoration of
the vestibule of the Plum Street entrance to the City
Hall has been in the care of the Society, and contracts
for the work have recently been closed. There are
other art projects also under their consideration. The
officers are : W. W. Taylor, President ; J. G. Schmid-
lapp, Treasurer; J. H. Gest, Secretary.
Avondale is one of the hilltop suburban portions of
Cincinnati on the north, and laying east of Clifton.
It is two and one half miles from Fountain Square.
It is one of the most beautiful of the suburbs, many
of Cincinnati's wealthiest businessmen having elegant
residences therein. Stately homes, spacious lawns,
beautiful situations, forest trees and a profusion of
evergreens and shrubbery make Avondale a perfect
park and an ideal summer resort. There are a num
ber of handsome churches, some of them picturesquely
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22 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
disappointed in his visit to this charming suburb.
The Jewish Hospital and The German Old Men's
Home are located on Burnet Avenue. The Thane
Miller Institute for Young Ladies is also in this sub
urb. Take' Avondale car at east end of Fountain
Square. Banks and Banking — The banking facilities of Cin
cinnati are ample. At present there are eighteen
national and private banks in Cincinnati, six in Cov
ington and three in Newport. The combined capital
of these banks amounts to nearly $13,000,000. Cin
cinnati has thirteen national banks, with a combined
capital of $7,800,000. The first banking institution
in Cincinnati was the "Miami Exporting Co.," char
tered at the first meeting of the General Assembly of
Ohio; capital, $150,000. It failed January 10, 1842.
The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, founded in 1812,
failed the following day (January n, 1842), and a
riot ensued, causing the destruction of considerable
property. In 1814 the Bank of Cincinnati opened.
The second bank established by the Federal Govern
ment was chartered in April, 1816. The next year a
branch was opened in Cincinnati. A stormy financial
period soon followed, caused by an effort to compel
the United States Bank to retire from the field. The
State imposed a heavy tax, which the bank refused to
pay. Litigation followed, and the bank finally retired.
In 1 85 1 there were six incorporated banks. When
national banks were authorized there were by Decem
ber 1, 1863, the First, Second, Third and Fourth Na
tionals fully organized and ready for business.

CINCINNATI AND VICINITY. 23
NATIONAL BANKS.
First National Bank, northwest corner Third and
Walnut Streets ; capital, $1,200,000.
Second National Bank, southeast corner Ninth and
Main Streets ; capital, $200,000.
Third National Bank, No. 25 East Third Street;
capital, $1,200,000.
Fourth National Bank, northeast corner Third and
Walnut Streets; capital, $500,000.
Merchants' National Bank, southeast corner Third
and Vine Streets; capital, $600,000.
National Lafayette Bank, No. 118 East Third
Street; capital, $600,000.
Citizens' National Bank, southeast corner Third
and Walnut Streets; capital, $1,000,000.
German National Bank, southeast corner Third and
Walnut Streets; capital, $500,000.
Ohio Valley National Bank, No. 17 East Third
Street; capital, $700,000.
Atlas National Bank, Walnut Street, between Fifth
and Sixth; capital, $400,000.
Market National Bank, corner Fourth and Plum
Streets; capital, $250,000.
Equitable National Bank, No. 20 East Third Street;
capital, $350,000.
Fifth National Bank, Chamber of Commerce Build
ing; capital, $300,000. STATE. BANKS.
Franklin Bank, No. 124 East Third Street; capital,
$240,000. Western German Bank, northeast corner Twelfth
and Vine Streets; capital, $200,000.

24 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
City Hall Bank, No. 324 West Ninth Street; capi
tal, $100,000.
Northside Bank, No. 130 Hamilton Avenue; capi
tal, $25,000. PRIVATE BANKS.
S. Kuhn & Sons, No. 24 East Third Street.
BANKS FOR SAVINGS.
Union Savings-Bank and Trust Company, Chamber
of Commerce Building; capital. $500,000.
Central Trust and Safety Deposit Company, Fourth
Street, between Main and Walnut; capital, $200,000.
Cincinnati Savings Society, Mutual, No. 43 East
Fifth Street. CLEARING HOUSE.
The Bank Clearing House is located on the second
floor of the Masonic Temple, northeast corner Third
and Walnut Streets. It was started in 1866. Seven
teen banks and the postoff :e are associated for the
purpose of exchanging the jhecks and bills they hold
against each other. The representatives of the mem
bers appear at the Clearing House about 2 o'clock p.
m. every business day except Saturday, when they
come at 11 o'clock a. m., and within two hours those
indebted pay their balances.
Bar of Cincinnati — The Bar of Cincinnati has con
tributed largely to' her fame.
General William H. Harrison was once clerk of
Hamilton County, a member of the Hamilton County
Bar, and afterwards President of the United States.
Salmon P. Chase once practiced law in Cincinnati,
became Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury

CINCINNATI AND VICINITY. 25
and Chief Justice of the United States. Another
member of the Hamilton County Bar to become Presi
dent was Rutherford B. Hayes. Ex-President Ben
jamin Harrison was a law student in Cincinnati. Uni
ted States Senators David Burnet, George E. Pugh,
George H. Pendleton and Joseph B. Foraker were
Cincinnati lawyers. Justice Stanley Matthews, Hon.
Alphonso Taft, Rufus King, Gov. Jacob D. Cox, Gov.
Geo. Hoadly, United States Judges Geo. R. Sage
and Wm. H. Taft were Cincinnati lawyers; and
Presidential Cabinets, Foreign Ministries and Special
Commissions have several times been graced by mem
bers of the Cincinnati Bar.
Some of the most brilliant men of the legal profes
sion have been and some are at the present time Cin
cinnati lawyers.
Bar Association — The Cincinnati Bar Association
started in March, 1872. Object, to maintain the
honor and dignity of the legal profession and promote
legal reform, but not discuss politics or religion. Two
hundred resident members, fifteen nonresident and
four honorary members. Meets in Literary Clubrooms
25 East Eighth Street every third Tuesday in Octo
ber, January, April and June; annual meeting in
October. Bellevue, Ky. — Bellevue was incorporated March
15, 1870, and lies opposite Cincinnati, across the Ohio
River, between Newport and Dayton, Ky. It is regu
larly built, has a population of 6,000, principally of
men who do business in Cincinnati. It is a pleasant
residence suburb of Cincinnati, about three miles
from Fountain Square, and is reached by the Bellevue
and Dayton Line of electric cars; fare five cents.
Take cars at Fountain Square.

26 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
Big Bell — The great bell of St. Francis de Sales
Church is the largest bell in all America. It was cast
at the old Buckeye Bell Foundry, on Second Street,
in this city, on October 30, 1895. The pouring of
the metal occupied forty-one minutes. Its weight is
approximately 30,000 pounds, and its dimensions are:
diameter of rim, 9 feet ; diameter of crown, 5 feet ;
height, 7 feet; weight of clapper, 640 pounds. It
was cast after the Westminster bell pattern, and is the
largest swinging bell in the world, the wheel that
gives the leverage to ring it being 15 feet in diameter.
The bell was built for St. Francis de Sales Church,
Walnut Hills, and cost. $15,000, which was mainly
contributed by Joseph Buddeke, deceased, a wealthy
merchant, born and raised in Cincinnati. The tone
of the bell is E, old concert pitch.
Board of Administration — The chief board of the
city, having control of the Departments of Engineer
ing, Waterworks, Parks, Health, Infirmary and Out
door Poor, Street Cleaning, Street Repairing, Elec
tricity and Purchasing. Members are appointed by
the Mayor for four years. Board meets daily at 10 A. M.
The Otis Law abolishes the present Cincinnati
Board of Administration and creates in its stead a
Board of City Affairs. It provides for six members
of the proposed new board, all to be appointed by the
Mayor. Two are to be appointed for one, two for two, and
two for three years, their successors thereafter to be
elected by the people. The appointments for the
various terms shall be bipartisan.
The new board members will draw a salary of
$4,000 a year each, and be under a bond of $100,000
each. The board will assume all the duties and
powers of the present Board of Administration.

CINCINNATI AND VICINITY. 27
Board of Trade and Bureau of Transportation —
Room A, Chamber of Commerce Building. The Cin
cinnati Board of Trade and Bureau of Transportation
represents the leading activities of the city. Organ
ized January 1, 1898, by consolidation of the member
ship and work of the Board of Trade with that of the
Cincinnati Bureau of Transportation.
The membership embraces two hundred leading
business firms in the city, is active in looking after
legislation affecting commercial interests, deals with
questions of taxation and transportation. Meets upon
call. President, J. J. Hooker ; Vice-President, Fred
erick Pentlarge; Treasurer, W. J. Breed; Secretary,
E. P. Wilson.
Boarding-houses and Lodgings — These are numer
ous in Cincinnati and are of as many grades as there
are ranks in society. People living in tenement houses
not infrequently "take boarders" in their limited
and dirty quarters, and from this basis they rise in
size, style and price to superb houses in fashionable
districts, where every convenience and luxury may
be obtained.
A large part of the city's population, including
clerks, students, bachelors and others, live on mod
erate means in this manner. Arrangements may be
made for one or more of the daily meals to be taken
with the lodgings ; and cafes and restaurants for meals
at any and all hours of the day or night abound.
Since the respectability and grade of these vary so
much, strangers or others engaging board would do
well to carefully avoid engaging rooms longer than
foi a week, unless recommended by parties knowing
the place to be what is desired, as the presence of
disagreeable people or other contingencies frequently
make it desirable to change.

28 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
An easy method of obtaining lodgings or a boarding-
place is to insert an advertisement in one of the morn
ing papers, stating rooms required, location, price and
other particulars. Such an advertisement is sure to
bring a host of replies from which to select ; and scores
of both may be found advertised daily in the morning
papers. Bookstores — The Robert Clarke Co. is the leading
book-selling and general book-publishing house in
Cincinnati. Their establishment occupies the large
five-story stone-front building, Nos. 31-39 East Fouith
Street. They are known throughout the United
States as one of the most trustworthy and most suc
cessful houses in the book trade. It is impossible to
fully estimate the value of this establishment in its
influence on the mental growth of the West. It is a
great general storehouse of articles that in other cities
are divided into special businesses. There is no other
house like it in the West. There is no book pub
lished, either of foreign or domestic imprint, that
they do not handle. In Law, Medicine, Science,
Theology and other leading departments their supplies
are complete, including standard publications of new
and old date. Their shelves are stocked with every
work of history, fiction, politics and special themes.
Their several catalogues represent some twenty de
partments. This house has published many volumes
of law and miscellaneous books, including the in
valuable Ohio Valley Historical Series, edited by Mr.
Clarke. The Americana collection has been pro
nounced by learned men of both continents to be an
almost priceless treasure.
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to works known as Americana, of which a fine cata
logue has been issued. Besides their publishing and
book-selling departments, they have an extensive
book-bindery, book and job printing office and sta
tionery department.
Others are:
American Book Company, 317 Walnut Street, the
largest school-book publishing house in the world.
Anderson, W. H., & Company, law books, 515
. Main Street.
Baptist Book Rooms, 215 West Fourth Street.
Benziger Bros. , Catholic books, 343 Main Street.
Cincinnati News Company, 127 Shillito Place.
Davie, W. O. , & Company, new and second-hand
books, largest stock west of New York, 224 East
Fourth Street.
Hawley, J. R. , news and light fiction, 408 Vine
Street. James, D. L., new and second-hand books, 127
West Seventh Street.
Warren, Alfred, Company, 537 Central Avenue.
Western Methodist Book Concern, 222 West Fourth
Street. Western Tract Society, 420 Elm Street.
Bottoms, The — That portion of the city, principally
devoted to business, laying on the plateau between
Third Street and the Ohio River is known as the
"Bottoms." What are known as Millcreek Bottoms
lay west of McLean Avenue and south of Cummins
ville. Bread — Cincinnati and suburbs consume annually
$5,000,000 in bread and crackers made for the trade.
at which 3,500 people are employed and $1,500,000
capital invested.

30 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
Breweries — Brewing is one of the largest industries
in Cincinnati, there being twenty-seven breweries.
The annual product in 1811 was 5,000 barrels. The
annual product in 1897 was 1,325,000 barrels. The
tax on beer alone amounts annually to $1,250,000,
and the annual product is valued at over $8,600,000.
A Cincinnati brewer at the World's Fair, in Chi
cago, in 1893, exhibited as an advertisement a display
costing over $10,000.
The magnitude of these breweries will surprise
anyone not familiar with them, for they are truly
wonders. Bridges — Five bridges cross the Ohio River at Cin
cinnati. Suspension Bridge— The construction of this bridge
begun in 1856 and was completed in 1866. The
bridge is of the type known as a "stiffened wire cable
suspension bridge, ' ' originally built on the plan and
under the superintendence of John A. Roebling, the
builder of the famous railway suspension bridge at
Niagara Falls and many other suspension bridges.
At the time it was finished this bridge was not only
the largest suspension bridge, but also the longest
span bridge in the world, which position it has main
tained for eighteen years. At the present day it still
holds, in point of magnitude, the second place among
suspension bridges, and the third place among all
bridges of the world, the New York and Brooklyn
Bridge being the largest suspension bridge, and the
cantilever bridge over the Frith of Forth, in Scotland,
being at present the longest span bridge in the world.
Cost of whole bridge $1,500,000.
After the bridge had been in constant use for nearly
thirty years without necessitating other repairs than

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CINCINNATI AND VICINITY. 31
a periodical renewal of floor planks, it was decided
by the directors of the company to remodel the whole
bridge and make it adequate to the increased traffic
and to the demands of the modern modes of travel.
The reconstruction was begun in August, 1895, and
finished in April, 1898, and the following are the
principal dimensions of the new bridge:
Length of Cincinnati approach, 808 feet; length of
Covington approach, 312 feet; length of suspended
structure, 1,643 Ieet; length of main span, 1,057 ieet;
length of each land span, 293 feet; total width of
bridge, 54 feet; clear width of roadway, 30 feet; clear
width of each sidewalk, 9 feet; clear height of bridge
above low water, 100 feet ; number of No. 6 steel
wires in each new cable, 2,226; strength of new
cables, 12,000 tons; combined strength of old and
new cables, 20,400 tons; weight of main span, ex
clusive of cables, 2,600 tons; weight of main span,
including all cables, 3,150 tons; weight of steel work
in new Cincinnati approach and in the new super
structure, 6,000,000 pounds; cost of reconstruction,
including land acquisition, $500,000.
All steel work was furnished and erected by the
Edgemoor Bridge Works, of Wilmington, Delaware,
and all wire and wire ropes were furnished by John
A. Roebling's Sons Company, of Trenton, New Jer
sey. The reconstruction was accomplished without
interrupting travel on the bridge, under the superin
tendence of Engineer Wilhelm Hildebrand, assisted by
Allan Cox, C. E., and E. F. Farrington.
Tolls : Foot passengers, two cents (tickets, twenty
crossings, 25 cents), bicycles, two cents, ten tickets,
20 cents, one-horse vehicle, ten cents (ten crossings,
90 cents), two-horse vehicle, 15 cents (ten crossings,
$i-35)-

32 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
Chesapeake & Ohio Bridge — (Railroad and high
way. ) Located Third and Smith Streets. There are
two spans of 490 feet and one of 550 feet, carrying
the railroad in the center and a highway on each side.
Covington railroad approach 1,533 feet long> and the
highway approaches, 500 feet. Cincinnati railroad
approach, 1, 749 feet long, with a branch to Fourth
Street 902 feet long, aud the highway approach, 1,480
feet long. The total length of the railroad structure
is 5, 714 feet, including the branch to Fourth Street
Station, and of the highway structure, 3,510 feet.
Clear width of channel span at low water, 524.3 feet,
height above low water, 105.3, height above high
water, 43.30. Tolls: Foot passengers, two cents
(twenty crossings, 25 cents), bicycles, two cents, one-
horse vehicle, ten cents (ten crossings, 90 cents), two-
horse vehicle, 15 cents (ten crossings, $1.35).
Cincinnati Southern Bridge — (Railroad with foot
way.) West Sixth Street, near Front. Built under
the direction of the trustees of the Cincinnati Southern
Railway, completed in 1877. Footway built 1885.
It has eleven spans, including the draw span, vary
ing in length from 110 to 515 feet, and of total length
of 2,522 feet. The five shore spans on the Cin
cinnati side were designed and built by the Detroit
Bridge and Iron Works, of Detroit, Michigan. The
remaining six spans over the river proper were de
signed and built by the Keystone Bridge Company,
of Pittsburg, Pa. The channel span, 515 feet long,
was, when it was built, the longest truss span in the
world, but has since been exceeded in length by other
bridges of later construction. The approach to the
bridge from the Cincinnati side is by a wooden trestle
1,300 feet long. Length over river, 1,489 feet. The

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total length of bridge and approach is 3,822 feet, and
total cost of same was $802,172. Height above low
water, 102.4 feet, height above high water, 40 feet.
Tolls: One crossing, one cent, thirty crossings, 25
cents. Newport and Cincinnati Bridge — (Railroad and
highway.) From foot of Butler Street, Cincinnati,
to Saratoga Street, Newport. Constructed 1872, re
constructed 1895-1897. Total length, including all
approaches, 3,984 feet; Cincinnati railway approach,
683 feet, Newport railway approach, 527 feet; total
length railroad tracks, 3,984 feet, highway, 2,774
feet ; Cincinnati highway approach, 563 feet, New
port highway approach, 562 feet; length of bridge
proper, 1,649 feet; clear width of channel span at
low water, 492 feet. Height of structure above low
water, 102 feet, height above high water, 33 feet.
Widths of the various subdivisions: Sidewalk, 10
feet 9 inches; steam railway, 15 feet; electric street
railway, 14 feet 5 inches; highway, 18 feet 8 inches;
electric street railway, 13 feet 8 inches; total width
of channel span, 72 feet 6 inches. Designing engi
neer, M. J. Becker; contractors for masonry, Jutte
& Foley, Pittsburg, Pa. ; superstructure, the Edge-
moor Bridge Works, Wilmington, Delaware. The
tolls are : Foot passengers and bicycles, two cents ;
tickets, four crossings for five cents, ten crossings, ten
cents. Cincinnati and Newport Bridge — (Highway. ) Cor
ner Second and Broadway. Opened September 1,
1891. Total length, 2,640.5 feet. Length over
river, 1,532 feet; clear width of channel span at low
water, 501.8 feet; height above low water, 105.7
feet; height above high water, 43.7 feet. Tolls:

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Foot passengers and bicycles, two cents, four crossings,
five cents, ten crossings, ten cents; one-horse vehicle,
ten cents, eleven crossings, $1 ; two-horse vehicles,
15 cents, seven crossings, $1.
Builders' Exchange — Occupies rooms in Grand
Opera House Building, Vine and Longworth Streets.
It was organized in 1878 for "the collection and dis
semination of statistics and information of value to
any or all of the several trades engaged in the building
business; the mutual improvement and advancement
of all artisans and tradesmen in their several avoca
tions connected with said business ; the peaceable settle
ment of matters in dispute between contractors, sub
contractors and employers ; the advantages of a general
place of meeting for the transaction of business ; the
establishment and enforcement of such lawful rules
and methods of procedure as may be deemed for the
best interests of the association and its various mem
bers, and to do any and all other things falling within
the general scope of the business and procedure of
such associations."
Hours of change, every week day from 1 1 a. m. to
1 p. m. Regular meeting, first Wednesday of each
month. Annual election of officers, first Monday of
March. Directors' meeting, first Monday of each
month. Initiation fee, $20; dues, $15 per year.
Burnet House — On the northwest corner of Third
and Vine Streets, has about three hundred rooms, and
accommodations for six hundred guests. The hotel
is on the American plan, $3 to $5 per day, and Euro
pean plan, $1.50 up. When built, in 1849, it was
one of the most spacious and grandest hotels in the
world. It was remodeled, handsomely refurnished and
renovated in 1895. Electric light and steam heat,

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and a large banquet hall. The building fronts 212
feet on Third Street, 210 feet on Vine Street, and is
six stories high. The perfect management, the desir
able location and the superior accommodations make
it one of the most attractive hotels in the city. The
Burnet has always enjoyed the patronage of the most
noted personages, and among its guests have been
James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, U. S. Grant,
Rutherford B. Hayes, Prince of Wales, Lord Lyons,
Duke of Newcastle, Louis Kossuth, Lewis Cass, John
C. Breckenridge, Stephen A. Douglas, Salmon P.
Chase, Horace Greeley> John Mitchell, Jefferson
Davis, Generals Sherman, Burnside, Sheridan and
Thomas, Edwin Forest, Edwin Booth, John E. Owens,
Jenny Lind, Ristori, Charlotte Cushman, Carlotta and
Adelina Patti, Formes, Grisi, Wachtel, Nilsson, Cary,
Roze, Gerster, Mary Anderson and many others.
There is a commodious and excellent restaurant
where business men are accustomed to take their din
ners. J. W. Dunklee is the President, and George D.
Potts, Treasurer and Manager.
Burnet Woods Park — Is almost directly north of,
and about two miles from, Fountain Square. It con
tains 163^ acres and was purchased in 1872. It is
covered with grand old forest trees and contains a lake
of about three acres, used in summer for boating and
in winter for skating.
Nature has done much for this Park, as she has
indeed with the whole of Hamilton County, and very
little has been done artificially to improve it except
to construct driveways, the fitting of a children's play
ground, and a band-stand from which concerts are
given during the summer, the concerts being paid for
from the Groesbeck fund for this purpose.

36 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
The University of Cincinnati is located in a portion
of this Park.
Immediately north of the Park is beautiful Clifton,
itself a magnificent park.
Take College Hill cars at Fountain Square.
Cabs and Hacks — 'Persons desiring to escape either
imposition by or a wrangle with the drivers of cabs
and hacks at the end of a journey will do well to have
a distinct understanding with him before entering the
hack as to the amount to be paid.
If you neglect this precaution, and the charge
should be in excess of the rates given below, and you
are unable to adjust the matter between yourself and
"cabby," you have the privilege of going to the
Mayor's office to have the matter settled.
Strangers giving checks for baggage to driver should
note number of his badge. Before entering vehicle
carefully note number of the conveyance, or the figure
on badge worn by driver. In case of trouble of any
kind with hackman, make prompt complaint to police
station, City Hall.
Cabs to all depots and steamboat landings, 25 cents per passenger, without
stop, within the boundary of Liberty, Freeman Avenue, Eggleston Avenue
and the River. After midnight and before 6 a. m., 50 cents. Hour rate $1.
The following rates are for one or two passengers, add 50 cents for return,
with privilege of waiting ten minutes, passengers to pay all tolls :
Avondale. Oak and Reading road, Si ; Mitchell Avenue, |i. 50.
Clifton, I1.50 aud $2.
Carriage to all cemeteries, $4.
Cumminsville, f2.
Covington, Ky., $1 as far as Eleventh Street; 50 cents for each five squares
beyond. Eastern Avenue, $1 as far as New No. 2100; $1.50 to car stables.
Grandin Road, $3.
Mt. Auburn, Si.
Linwood, S3. 50.
Elmwood, $4.
St. Bernard, 53-50.
Carthage, $4.50.
Longview Asylum, $4.
Newport, $1 as far as Tenth Street ; 50 cents for each five squares beyond.
Ft. Thomas, Sl.50 ; round trip, $4.
Price Hill, foot of incline, $1 ; top of incline, $2.
Walnut Hills. Peebles' Corner, $1 ; end of cable line, S1.50.
Carriage Rates— First hour, $2 ; each additional hour, Ji.

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Camp Washington — Was the old name for that por
tion of the city between the site of the old Brighton
House and Cumminsville, on both sides of the Cole-
rain Pike. It received its name from having been
the rendezvous of the First and Second Ohio Regi
ments at the beginning of the Mexican War, in 1846,
when it was a grove. It is now thickly settled. The
Workhouse and House of Refuge are here located.
Canals — The Miami & Erie Canal, begun about
1820, and popularly termed the "Rhine," traverses
the city in a southeasterly direction from Cummins
ville to the Little Miami Railroad Depot, where it
empties through an underground tunnel into the Ohio
River. From Canal and Sycamore Streets to the
river it has been converted into an immense sewer,
known as Eggleston Avenue sewer. Through the
city proper it runs south from McMicken Avenue on
Plum Street to Canal Street, which should proper
ly be called Eleventh Street. A right angle is here
made and an easterly direction is taken to Syca
more Street, where the canal is lost in the sewer.
The portion of the city northeast of this angle is
settled by Germans, and is the district popularly
known as "Over the Rhine." The Whitewater Canal
was abandoned many years ago, and the rails of the
Big Four Railroad now occupy its bed and the Central
Avenue freight depot is on its basin.
Carthage — One of the oldest and largest of the
suburban villages, about eight miles from Fountain
Square, contains many elegant private residences, and
has a population of about 2,500 persons, most of
whom do business in the city. It is approached by
way of Spring Grove Avenue and the Carthage Pike,
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Dayton Railway. Longview Insane Hospital and the
city and county infirmaries are on the outskirts of the
village. Carthage has several churches, a number of
extensive manufacturing establishments, an efficient
school system, and a well-conducted municipal gov
ernment. The corporation owns and controls its own
waterworks and electric light plant. The waterworks
cost $25,000 and the electric light plant $10,000. The
village has a town hall, comprising council chamber,
police and prison departments.
Carthage Pike — Leaving Fountain Square, the
traveler passes northward on Vine Street to Molitor
Street, in Corryville, which is the beginning of the
old Carthage Pike proper. Continuing northward,
he passes Burnet Woods Park, Clifton, the Zoological
Gardens, through St. Bernard, on to the junction with
Spring Grove Avenue, a distance of five miles. Con
tinuing, he passes Longview Hospital before Carthage
is reached, a distance of eight miles. North of Car
thage he passes the Hamilton County Fair Grounds,
the County Infirmary, through the beautiful suburbs
of Hartwell, Wyoming and Glendale, and on to Hamil
ton, in Butler County. It is a beautiful drive.
Catholic Religious Orders — Brothers of the Holy
Cross have charge of St. Joseph's College for boys,
on Eighth Street, near Central Avenue. Franciscan
Friars, 833 Betts Street. The Brothers of this order
have charge of the Boys' Protectory, at Delhi. The
Fathers have charge of St. Francis, St. John, St.
George and St. Bonaventure Churches, and also of a
preparatory school. Jesuit Fathers have charge of St.
Xavier's Church and College. Passionist Fathers,
an order of monks founded by St. Paul of the Cross,
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the Cincinnati Observatory. Sisters of Charity con
duct the young ladies' academy, situated at Cedar
Grove, on the Warsaw Pike. They also serve as
teachers in the parochial schools, and as nurses in the
Good Samaritan and other hospitals, besides having
charge of St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, at Cummins
ville. Their principal novitiate is at St. Joseph.
Sisters of Mercy have a convent on Fourth Street,
between Central Avenue and John Street. It was
established in 1858. These sisters visit the sick and
destitute, the jails and hospitals, and provide a home
and instruction for poor girls. Sisters of the Notre
Dame have their chief novitiate, or "mother-house,"
on Sixth Street, between Sycamore Street and Broad
way. Besides conducting academies at the "mother-
house, ' ' and at the corner Court and Mound Streets,
they teach pupils of the parochial schools, and also
manage the Mt. Notre Dame Academy, at Read
ing. Sisters of the Good Shepherd help unfor
tunate girls and children exposed to temptation.
They have a refuge on Bank Street, between Bay
miller and Freeman Avenue, and a Girls' Protectory
on Baum Street, between Fifth and Sixth. Sisters
of the Poor of St. Francis, corner Third and Lytle
Streets, take care of the sick in St. Mary's and St.
Francis' Hospitals. Ladies of the Sacred Heart give
instruction to children of the wealthy class in the
handsome academy in Clifton. The Little Sisters of
the Poor have their novitiate on Florence Avenue.
Their special work is the care of destitute old people.
Charities — The charities of the city are too numer
ous to be described here. The most important may
be found under their proper headings, briefly sketched,
and are among the following :

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Bodmann German Protestant Widows' Home, High
land Avenue, Mt. Auburn.
Children's Home of Cincinnati, north side Ninth
Street, between Plum and Central Avenue.
Christ Hospital, Mt. Auburn.
Cincinnati Hospital, Twelfth Street and Central
Avenue. Cincinnati Newsboys' and Workingboys' Home,
526 Sycamore Street.
Cincinnati Relief Union, City Hall, Post Office
address, 120 West Fifth.
Cincinnati Orphan Asylum, corner Wellington
Place and Auburn Avenue, Mt. Auburn.
Cincinnati Union Bethel, 306 East Front.
City Infirmary, Hartwell, Ohio, office, City Hall.
Colored Orphan Asylum, Beach Street, Avondale.
Convent of St. Clara, Sisters of the Poor of St.
Francis, northwest corner Lytle and Third Streets.
Convent of the Good Shepherd, north side of Bank
Street, between Baymiller and Freeman Avenue.
Convent of the Good Shepherd, 371 Baum Street.
Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, south side of
Fourth Street, between Central Avenue and John
Street. Convent of Sisters of Mercy, 1413 Freeman Avenue.
Convent of Notre Dame, 321 East Sixth Street.
Convent of Notre Dame, southwest corner of Court
and Mound Streets.
Day Nursery, 1514 Race Street.
Deaconess Home, Elizabeth Gamble, Wesley Ave
nue. Deutsches Altenheim (German Old Men's Home),
northwest corner of Burnet Avenue and Elland Ave
nue.

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Franciscan Brothers' Protectory for Boys, office,
833 Betts; Protectory, Delhi Township.
Fresh Air Home, Wine Press Road, near Tusculum
Avenue. German General Protestant Orphan Asylum, High
land Avenue, Mt. Auburn.
German Methodist Deaconess Home, southeast cor
ner Bigelow and Saunders Streets.
Glenn Industrial Home, 641 West Fourth Street.
Good Samaritan Hospital, Sixth and Lock Streets.
Home for Destitute and Forsaken Female Children
and Worthy Adults, rear of Church of Atonement,
north side of Third Street, between Central Avenue
and John Street.
Home for the Friendless and Foundlings, 431 West
Court Street.
Home for the Aged Poor, conducted by the Little
Sisters of the Poor, Florence Avenue, near DesMoines
Street. Home for the Aged Poor, Riddle Road, Clifton
Heights. Home for Incurables, 2380 Kemper Lane.
Home for the Jewish Aged and Infirm, northeast
corner of Burnet Avenue and Union Street, Avondale.
Little Sisters of the Poor, Florence Avenue, near
DesMoines Street.
Magdalen Asylum, north side of Bank Street, be
tween Baymiller and Freeman Avenue.
Old Men's Home, northeast corner of McMillan
Street and Ashland Avenue, Walnut Hills.
Sacred Heart Home for Homeless Young Working
Girls, 414 Broadway.
St. Aloysius Orphan Asylum, junction of Reading
Road and Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway,
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St. Joseph's Children's Home, 222 West Liberty
Street. St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Cherry Street, Twen
ty-fifth Ward.
St. Mary's (Betts Street) Hospital, corner Betts and
Linn Streets.
St. Patrick's Convent, 718 West Third Street.
Widows' Home, northeast corner of McMillan Street
and Ashland Avenue, Walnut Hills.
Young Women's Christian Association, 26 East
Eighth Street.
Young Men's Christian Association, northwest cor
ner Seventh and Walnut Streets.
Chamber of Commerce — The Cincinnati Chamber
of Commerce and Merchants' Exchange is among the
oldest of commercial organizations in the country
which have attained special distinction, and it con
tinues to hold a high position among such institutions
in the scope and influence of its work.
It was organized to facilitate the settlement of dis
agreements between business men. In 1839 its vby-
laws were adopted and the organization perfected.
From that time the association has held "a prominent
place in the regard of business men, and a place for
the discussion of all leading questions of mercantile
usages, of matters of finance, of laws affecting com
merce, and, more than all, contributing to the forma
tion of an elevated tone in business intercourse. It
became, indeed, a kind of high court in the adjust
ment of questions growing out of or affecting com
mercial transactions, which otherwise would have led
to expensive and aggravating" litigations. " In 1846,
by the appointment of a superintendent of the Ex
change, it greatly enhanced its usefulness. The duty

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of the superintendent is not only to have charge of
the rooms, but also to collect information relating to
commerce, finances and industries that may be of
general interest and value, and to keep a record of
mercantile transactions and prepare tables of imports
and exports. In 1850 a charter was obtained for the
association, and in 1866 Sections 6, 7, 8 and 9 of a
law enacted in that year by the Legislature of Ohio
were adopted and made part of the charter. There
are honorary and active members; the former being
elected for life and exempt from assessments or dues,
and. only one being elected each year.
The Chamber of Commerce Building is located at
the southwest corner of Fourth and Vine Streets, on
the site of the old postoffice building. The location
is conspicuous, and the attention of strangers is at
once attracted on account of its magnificent propor
tions, architectural beauty aud great strength and
solidity. It reminds one of an European castle, built
to stand for thousands of years. It was opened in
January, 1889.
H. H. Richardson, of Boston, was the architect of
the building. The walls are of undressed granite and
rounded to a tower at each corner, the general design
being Romanesque. From the Fourth Street side
walk to the cornice is 113 feet, and the extreme height
of the roof is 75 feet more of elevation. Burnet Street,
on the south of the building, is 13^ feet lower than
Fourth Street. The ground area is 100 by 150 feet;
the Exchange Hall is 66 by 136 feet, exclusive of the
lobby, and 50 feet high. There are numerous rooms
on the lower and upper floors available for rental.
The entire structure above the Exchange Hall, vast
as it is, is supported from the marvelous iron work of
the roof.

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The cost of the Chamber of Commerce, lot and
building, with its general equipment, was about
$800,000. The ground, while secured from the Gov
ernment for $100,000, would at this time be market
able for a much larger sum. The receipts from
rentals are now about $29,000 per year. The asso
ciation is not a terminable one, its property interest
is not divisible, it declares no dividends, it conducts
no business for profit. Its membership represents a
participating privilege in its facilities, terminable if
not renewed yearly.
Chester Park — Located at Winton Place, on Spring
Grove Avenue, five miles from Fountain Square, is one
of the city's summer resorts. Owned by Cincinnati
Street Railway Company. Amusements of all kinds,
clubhouse, with restaurant, etc. Take electric cars
of Chester Park or Avondale Lines at Fountain Square.
Children's Home — West Ninth Street, between
Plum and Central Avenue, provides temporary and
permanent homes for neglected and homeless children,
and secures suitable and permanent homes for them
with Christian people in the country. It is authorized
to receive the legal care and control of children prop
erly surrendered to it by parents, guardians, or the
mayor; is supported by voluntary subscriptions and
contributions, and publishes "The Children's Home
Record" monthly. .The building and grounds, which
are models of neatness and taste, cost $140,000.
Churches — Every denomination is represented in
Cincinnati, and the stranger need be at no loss where
to go on Sunday. For location of the various churches
see City Directory, and for announcements as to
services see Saturday's Daily Papers.

CINCINNATI AND VICINITY. 45
NOTABLE CHURCH EDIFICES.
St. Peter's Cathedral, southwest corner Eighth and
Plum Streets; 190 by 87 feet; Corinthian style of
architecture; cornerstone laid in 1839; consecrated
1844 by Cardinal McCloskey; cost $250,000, seats
1,300 in main auditorium and 1,300 in basement
chapel. The roof is supported by 18 freestone pillars,
31^ feet in diameter and 33 feet in height. The
main walls are built of Dayton marble, while the
basement is of blue sandstone. The steeple is 224
feet high, and in the gracefulness of its proportions is
unsurpassed by any spire in this country. An altar of
Carrara marble, with two angels on each side — the
work of Hiram Powers — occupies the west end of
the cathedral. Opposite is an organ having 44 stops
and 2,700 pipes. Some fine paintings, interesting
alike for their historic and artistic merits, may be
seen in the cathedral. "St. Peter liberated by an
angel," by Murillo, was taken during the Peninsular
War from the Spaniards and presented by Cardinal
Fesch, uncle of Napoleon I, to Bishop Fenwick.
Rev. Father Stephan Baden, the first priest ordained
in America (1795), is buried beneath the altar.
First Presbyterian Church, first congregation in the
city, started in 1791; present church, Fourth Street,
between Main and Walnut, built 1835; cost $60,000;
steeple (highest in the city), including spire, 285 feet,
10 feet higher than the spire of Trinity Church, New
York; seats about 1,000.
Plum Street Temple (K. K. B'ne Jeshurun), south
east corner Eighth and Plum Streets. Very beautiful
work of Moorish architecture, designed after the Al-
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interior magnificently frescoed ; seats 1,500; congre
gation organized 1844; one of the richest in the city.
Mound Street Temple. (K. K. B'ne Israel), dedi
cated August 27, 1869; cost $180,000; Moorish archi
tecture; seats 1,500; congregation organized 1830;
very wealthy.
St. Paul M. E. Church, southwest corner Seventh
and Smith Streets, organized 1819; church built 1870;
cost $175,000, and ground cost $75,000; seats 2,000.
Second Presbyterian Church, southwest corner
Eighth and Elm Streets, built 1872; cost $100,000;
congregation started 1816; very wealthy; 2, 500 mem
bers. The building is of Bluehill limestone, in the
Gothic style of architecture ; its spire is 205 feet high,
and its seats are arranged in amphitheater form.
The organ cost $10,000, without the case. From
1832 to 1843 Rev. Lyman Beecher was the pastor of
this church.
St. Francis de Sales, corner of Woodburn Avenue
and Madison Avenue, Walnut Hills, a handsome
edifice, built in 1888; cost nearly $200,000. It has
the largest bell in America^ cast in this city October
30, 1895. Its weight is 30,000 pounds. Dimensions:
Diameter of rim, 9 feet; diameter of crown, 5 feet;
height, 7 feet ; weight of clapper, 640 pounds. It is
the largest swinging bell in the world, the wheel that
gives the leverage in ringing it being 15 feet in diam
eter. The bell cost $15,000.
Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church, on Auburn Ave
nue, built in 1 891; cost $100,000; congregation
organized 1867.
Wesley M. E. Church, Fifth Street, near Broad
way, oldest M. E. Church in the city. Wesley Chapel
is the mother church of Methodism in Cincinnati.

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Was organized in 1804 and consisted of only eight
persons ; but so rapid was the growth of the church
that in less than two years they purchased two lots
on the northwest corner of Fifth Street and Broadway,
at that time in the midst of open fields. A small
stone house was put up, and, when this became too
small, a brick addition was built in the rear, and in
1829 the present building was erected. John Quincy
Adams filled its pulpit.
Walnut Hills M. E. Church, corner of McMillan
Street and Ashland Avenue, cost $75,000; church
organized 1854; 550 members.
Clifton M. E. Church, built 1892; cost $40,000.
Ninth Street Baptist Church, Ninth Street, near
Race, erected 1838; size 70 by 125 feet; organized
1830; 1,600 members; purchased in 1895 Ninth
Street school property adjoining church which is to
be enlarged. This church has six stations in various
parts of the city, the services at each being conducted
by members of the parent church.
St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, southeast
corner Seventh and Plum Streets, built 1851; cost
$100,000; congregation organized 1828; erected its
first church where St. Paul Building now is on Fourth
Street near Walnut.
Central Christian Church, Ninth Street, between
Central Avenue and Plum; built in 1869; cost $142,-
000 ; style, French Gothic. The central window of
the nave is one of the largest in America, 24^ feet by
51 feet high. The rose window at its head is 16 feet
in diameter.
First English Lutheran Church, Race Street, be
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth; built 1894 at a cost
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Mt. Auburn M. E. Church, Maplewood Avenue,
Mt. Auburn; built 1893; cost $30,000.
Mt. Auburn Baptist Church, Auburn Avenue ; built
1885; cost $30,000.
St. Lawrence Church, Warsaw Avenue ; built 1894;
cost $100,000.
Unitarian Church, Reading Road, near Oak Street;
built 1888, at a cost of $20,000; has had many dis
tinguished persons to administer to its congregation,
among them being Wm. H. Channing, Horace Mann,
James Freeman Clarke, Theodore Parker, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Moncure D. Conway, Robert Coll-
yer. This church is the home of the Unity Club,
under whose auspices are given, annually, the pop
ular Sunday afternoon lecture course.
Christ Church, the oldest Episcopal society in Cin
cinnati, on north side of Fourth Street, between
Sycamore and Broadway. William H. Harrison,
afterwards President, was a vestryman in this church.
Has one of the best choirs in the city.
Cincinnati — The site of Cincinnati was originally
purchased from the United States by John Cleves
Symmes, of New Jersey. In January, 1788, he sold to
Mathias Denman 740 acres opposite the mouth of the
Licking River for 66^ cents per acre. This purchase
extended from the river to what is now Li berty Street,
and from Broadway to Central Avenue. Denman,
Robert Patterson and John Filson, a surveyor, gave
notice in the Kentucky Gazette, published in Lexing
ton, in September, 1788, of their intention to "lay off
a town on that excellent situation," and lots were
offered at a nominal price to actual settlers.
The first permanent settlement was made in De
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constructed the name " Losantiville " for the town,
the name signifying ' ' the town opposite the mouth of
the Licking."
When General Arthur St. Clair arrived as Governor
of the Northwest Territory, in the Spring of 1790, he
rechristened the village as" Cincinnati," out of com
pliment to the Order of Cincinnatus.
Hamilton County was organized in 1790, and Cin
cinnati was the seat of Government of the Northwest
Territory from 1790 until 1801.
The population increased very slowly until the de
feat of the Indians by Mad Anthony Wayne in 1793,
after which the town advanced rapidly. In 1819 she
was incorporated as a city, and from that time has
been one of the foremost cities of the United States,
holding a high rank in every department of trade,
culture, influence, and wealth.
Cincinnati Club (Jewish) — Organized December 12,
1889. Clubhouse, Melrose Avenue, between Oak and
Lincoln; opened April 19, 1894; cost $150,000.
Regular membership limited to 200; annual dues,
$80. Junior member initiation fee, $10; annual
dues, $24. Certificate of membership, $150, The
Club is organized for literary and social purposes.
Dramatic and musical entertainments given by mem
bers twice a month between November and April.
Cincinnati College — Began as the Lancaster Semi
nary, founded in 1815 and continued until January,
1819, when it obtained a charter conferring university
privileges and changing the name to Cincinnati Col
lege. About $40,000 had been subscribed, but by
reason of bank troubles much of that subscription
was never paid. Part of the building was completed
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suspended for want of funds.' It was reopened in
1836, with the addition to the Academic Department
of a Medical and a Law Department. The Faculty
at this time was as follows : Academic Department —
William H. McGuffey, President, and Professor of
Moral Philosophy; Ormsby Mitchell, Mathematics
and Astronomy; Asa Drury, Ancient Languages;
Charles L. Telford, Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres ; Ed
ward D. Mansfield, History and Constitutional Law;
Lyman Harding, Principal of the Preparatory Depart
ment ; Joseph Herron, Principal of the Primary De
partment. Among the eminent professors of the
Medical Department were: Dr. Daniel Drake, Dr.
Samuel D. Gross, Dr. J. W. McDowell, and Dr. Ho
ratio G. Jameson. The Law Department Faculty
consisted of John C. Wright," Joseph S. Benham and
Timothy Walker.
The College continued for about three years, when
it again closed and remained so until 1841. The
building was destroyed by fire in 1845, and shortly
afterwards was rebuilt, largely by the aid of the
Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, which,
in consideration of its aid, holds a perpetual grant of
its rooms on the second floor of the building. After
another fire in 1869 the building was again remod
eled into its present shape.
The College holds a very liberal charter, being re
stricted only against the teaching of denominational
theology. The Law School, which was within the past year
united with the Law Department of the University of
Cincinnati, is the only surviving department, and is
still conducted in the present building, located on
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CINCINNATI AND VICINITY. 5 1
The capital of the College is $125,000, in shares of
$25.00 each.
The value of the property is about $200,000. The
income is used chiefly to support the Law School and
its library.
The building is known as the College Building.
Cincinnati Hospital — Occupies the square bounded
by Twelfth Street, Central Avenue, Ann and Plum
Streets. The first hospital upon this site was estab
lished in 1821 under the name of the "Commercial
Hospital and Lunatic Asylum for the State of Ohio. ' '
The name was changed March, 1861, to the "Com
mercial Hospital of Cincinnati," and again in April,
1868, to the "Cincinnati Hospital." The old hos
pital buildings were vacated and demolished in 1867,
after being in use forty-six years, and the present
buildings were opened and occupied January 7, 1869.
The structure contains eight distinct buildings, placed
en echelon, and connected by corridors, surrounding
an extensive center yard, or court. The main entrance
is on Twelfth Street. There are six pavilions, three
stories high. Each pavilion contains three wards.
They are divided into medical, neurological, surgical,
dermatological, obstetrical, ophthalmological, laryng-
ological and aural, gynecological, children's, dental
and pathological, which, contain 550 beds. Two more
departments were established in 1897, namely, the
orthopedic and hematological. Patients in the pay
ward are not restricted to the medical staff of the
hospital. Central building on Ann Street contains
the pathological museum, mortuary, amphitheater,
with a capacity of 500 students, and the accident
ward. The medical staff consists of thirty visiting
physicians, twelve internes, and one resident physi
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The Branch Hospital for contagious diseases, in
Lick Run, is located one mile west of the city limits,
and most desirably situated on a high plateau, per
fectly drained. It is surrounded by fifty-three acres
of land, which completely isolate the building from
all surrounding premises. The main buildings of the
Branch Hospital were opened July 8, 1897, for the
treatment of consumptives. Other buildings, located
at a safe distance, are reserved for other contagious
diseases. Each group of buildings is reached by a
separate driveway, far "enough apart to prevent the
possibility of transmission of any contagion. The
Branch Hospital for the treatment of consumptives is
the first institution west of the Allegheny Mountains
opened for that purpose.
Cincinnati League — Organized in 1897. Office,
Room A, Chamber of Commerce. The object of the
organization is to bring conventions, excursions and
visitors to Cincinnati, and to promote the business of
Cincinnati generally. Maintained by a guarantee
fund of subscriptions varying from $50 to $5,000.
Cincinnati Southern Railway — Cincinnati stands
preeminently as the only city in the nation which
owns a railroad. The Cincinnati Southern was
planned, built and paid for by the municipal govern
ment of the city. The road, costing in round num
bers $18,000,000, was built to fortify the commercial
position of Cincinnati.
It extends from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, Tenn. ,
a distance of 336 miles, a great part of the way being
through a very fertile and most picturesque country.
The road is one of the best-constructed of all Amer
ican railroads, and in some particulars shows a remark
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over the Southern Railroad Bridge, and between the
terminal points it crosses forty-seven wrought iron
bridges and viaducts, thirteen wooden bridges, and
passes through twenty-seven tunnels, one of which is
4, 700 feet long, and through deep cuts in rock, and
over ground filled up in many places. It is thought
to be one of the best pieces of railroad engineering
and construction in this country.
The first passenger train was sent on a trial trip to
Chattanooga on March 8, 1880. The railway was
formally inaugurated by a monster reception to South
ern tradesmen in Cincinnati on March 18, 1880.
Eleven hundred merchants were gathered at Chat
tanooga from all points of the South and brought to
Cincinnati over the new railroad in special trains.
They were royally entertained for four days.
It is managed for the city by a board of five trustees.
Cincinnati Union Bethel — 306 East Front Street.
The Bethel owns the Bethel Church Building, which
was erected in 1869, at a cost of $35,000. In front
stands the main building, erected in 1872, at a cost
of $45,000. The whole property cost $134,000.
The Bethel is supported by subscriptions and contri
butions. David Sinton gave it $113,000, and two
fairs netted $72,000. Membership, $10 a year, $50 for
life. Only members vote for directors. The Bethel
comprises a Church, undenominational, services Sun
days, n a. m., 7:30 p. m., and Thursday evenings,
7:30; a Sabbath -School, probably the largest in the
world, meets Sunday afternoons, 2:30; the "Young
Men's Home," open every day from 6 a. m. to 12 p.
m. ; "Newsboys' Home" ; and the Merchants' Dining-
Rooms furnish meals and lodging at the lowest pos
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54 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
department, which provides meals and beds to the
worthy, needy poor.
Cincinnati University — See University of Cincin
nati. City Board of Legislation — The law-making power
of the city consists of one member from each ward,
who are elected by the people for a term of three years.
Meets once a week, Mondays at 8 p. m. Members
receive $10 for each board meeting they attend.
City Directory — Contains general information re
lative to location of business houses, churches, fac
tories, residences, etc., and can be found at all hotels
and drugstores for inspection.
City Hall — Is one of the finest of the many splendid
buildings that characterize Cincinnati. It occupies
the entire block bounded by Eighth, Ninth, Plum
Streets and Central Avenue, and is generally conceded
to be the most magnificent structure of the kind in
this country. It is constructed of brown Iron Moun
tain granite and buff Amherst (Ohio) stone. The
trimmings, windows, doors, cornices, ledges, etc., are
of red sandstone from the quarries of Ashland, Wis
consin, and the vestibules are lined with Vermont
marble; both floors and roofs are tiled, the latter from
the kilns of Akron, Ohio. The dimensions of the
building are 332 by 203 feet, of a total area of 67,396
feet; its height to roof is 158 feet. The main tower
is 32 feet square and 250 feet high, containing a clock
with four dials, each 10 feet in diameter, and which
is illuminated at night by electricity. The total cost
of constructing the building was $1,638,440.53, to
which should be added the value of the old City Hall
Park (the site of the building), which was estimated
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CINCINNATI AND VICINITY. 55
$1,863,440.53. There is a grand marble stairway,
with historical art -glass windows at the landings, and
a-statue of Cincinnatus in the hall of the Plum Street
entrance. The building is six squares northwest of
Fountain Square. Take Elberon Avenue, Eighth
Street, or Belt Line cars on Fourth Street going east
ward. City Officers — The names of the city officers now
holding office, who were elected by the people at the
general city elections, are: Mayor, Gustav Tafel,
$6,000; Corporation Counsel, Ellis G. Kinkead, $5,-
000; City Auditor, H. P. Boyden, $5,000; City
Treasurer, E. O. Eshelby, $3, 500 ; City Clerk, Edwin
Henderson, $3,500; Police Court Judge, Edward
Schwab, $4,000; Police Court Clerk, T. J. Noctor,
$2,500. All the other city officers are appointees,
either. by the Governor o'f Ohio, the courts, or the
Mayor. The several boards appoint their own sub
ordinate officers.
City Physicians — Of these there are twenty, each
physician supplying a district. Their duty is to visit
the sick who are unable to employ a physician or pay
for medicine. The city physicians are also detailed
for quarantine service when necessary, for which they
receive extra pay.
Clifton — Lays north of the Burnet Woods Park, a
most beautiful suburb. It derived its name from the
old Clifton Farm, comprising about 1,200 acres of
land beautifully diversified with hill and dale. It has
over 25 miles of avenues, lined with fine shade-trees.
There are many beautiful drives and splendid palaces
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56 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
seats, rich foliage and luxuriant shrubbery, looking
out upon a valley of great extent and rare beauty.
Should you wish to see this, walk or drive to the
magnificent castle of "Scarlet Oaks," the Schoen-
berger residence, and for many miles to the north
from this point are to be seen suburban places, green
fields and beautiful groves, including Spring Grove,
and beyond all the grand hills again. You should not
miss this inspiring sight hardly equaled anywhere else.
Several fine churches are located here. The Ladies
of the Sacred Heart have a school for girls in a large
stone mansion, with spacious and beautiful grounds,
purchased at a cost of $160,000. To reach Clifton,
take College Hill Electric or Vine Street Cable cars
at Fountain Square.
Clovernook — See Mt. Healthy.
Clubs — Clubs and social organizations form a lead
ing feature in city life, and Cincinnati has such com
binations too numerous to detail. Only the leading
clubs can be given here, particulars in regard to many
of which will be found under their separate heads.
(See also articles on Commercial Organizations, Polit
ical, Musical, etc. ) SOCIAL CLUBS.
Buckeye Club, 8 East Twelfth Street.
Cincinnati Art Club, 126 East Fourth Street.
Cincinnati Bar Association, 25 East Eighth Street.
Cincinnati Baptist Ministers' Conference, 215 West
Fourth Street.
Cincinnati Chapter American Institute of Archi
tects, Pike Building.
Cincinnati Clericus (Episcopal), Seventh and Plum
Streets.

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Cincinnati Club, Melrose Avenue, between Oak and
Lincoln Streets.
Cincinnati Methodist Preachers' Association, north
west corner Fourth and Home Streets.
Commercial Club, Room A, Chamber of Commerce.
Cuvier Club, Longworth Street, near Race.
Elm Street Club, Elm Street, between Findlay and
Henry. Engineers' Club of Cincinnati, 25 East Eighth
Street. German Evangelical Ministers' Association.
German Evangelical Protestant Ministers' Associa
tion, Third Protestant Church, Walnut Hills.
Literary Club, 25 East Eighth Street.
Manufacturers' Club, Room A, Chamber of Com
merce. Phoenix Club, southeast corner Ninth and Race
Streets. Presbyterian Ministers' Association, First Presby
terian Church.
Queen City Club, southwest corner Seventh and
Elm Streets.
Riding Club, Helen Street, Mt. Auburn.
Teachers' Club of Cincinnati, northwest corner
Seventh and Elm Streets.
Colleges — Following is a list of the Colleges and
other important educational institutions in this city,
many of which are elsewhere noticed under separate
headings :
Academy of the Sacred Heart, Lafayette Avenue,
Clifton. Art Academy, Eden Park.
Auditorium School of Music, northwest corner Sev
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58 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
Cincinnati College of Dental Surgery, 233 West
Court Street.
Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, 1625
Vine Street.
Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, 614 West Court
Street. Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, southeast corner
Fourth and Lawrence Streets.
College of Music of Cincinnati, Music Hall.
Eclectic Medical Institute, Court and Plum Streets.
Hebrew Union College, 724 West Sixth Street.
Lane Theological Seminary, Gilbert Avenue, north
of McMillan Street.
Laura Memorial Medical College, 624 West Sixth
Street. Law School of the University of Cincinnati, 416
Walnut Street.
Medical College of Ohio (Medical Department Uni
versity of Cincinnati), head of Elm Street
Miami Dental College, southeast corner Elm Street
and Shillito Place.
Miami Medical College, Twelfth Street, between
Elm and Plum.
Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Price Hill.
Mt. St. Vincent Academy, Glenway and Beach Ave
nues. Notre Dame Academy, Grandin Road, East Walnut
Hills. Notre Dame Academy, Mound and Court Streets.
Notre Dame Academy, Sixth Street, between Syca
more and Broadway.
Ohio College of Dental Surgery, northeast corner
Court Street and Central Avenue.
Ohio Mechanics Institute, southwest corner Sixth
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Pulte Medical College, southwest corner Seventh
and Mound Streets.
St. Francis College, 1615 Bremen Street.
St. Gregory Seminary, Cedar Point.
St. Joseph College, 429 West Eighth Street.
St. Xavier College, Seventh and Sycamore Streets.
Technical School, Music Hall.
University of Cincinnati, Clifton Avenue.
Ursuline Academy, May and Oak Streets, Walnut
Hills. College Hill — Is one of the romantic and beautiful,
as well as one of the most elevated suburbs of Cincin
nati. It lays north from Fountain Square about eight
miles. Much of the land at one time was owned by Wm.
Cary, and his son Freeman G. Cary was the founder
of Cary's Academy and Farmers' College, in 1832,
which was afterwards changed to Belmont College,
and is at present the Ohio Military Institute.
In 1852 the Ohio Female College was established
here, but the building is now occupied by the Col
lege Hill Sanitarium.
The famous Cary Sisters — Alice and Phcebe, Ohio's
best-known poets — lived in College Hill ; and the
homestead is still in the possession of relatives.
Alice wrote "Lovers' Diary," "Lyra and Other
Poems, " and other poems. In prose, " The Bishop's
Son," " Married, not Mated," are well known.
Phcebe wrote "Poems and Parodies," "Poems of
Love, Hope and Faith," and the hymn "Nearer
Home. ' ' (See Mt. Healthy. )
The scenery of College Hill is not excelled, and
from many points of the Hill panoramas are spread
out which almost rival mountain regions in beauty
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60 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
Take the College Hill Electric Cars at Fountain
Square. College of Music of Cincinnati — Situated on Elm
Street, adjoining the Music Hall.
Out of the Ssengerfest grew the May Festival, and
out of the Festival grew the great College of Music.
The credit for the foundation of this great Musical
College probably belongs to Col. George Ward Nich
ols, aided by the philanthropy of Mr. R. R. Springer.
At the time of its inception Col. Nichols was the Pres
ident of the May Musical Festival Association, and
naturally was led to give thought to a plan for per
petuating the public enthusiasm accompanying the
festivals. The College should be a center for the
constant existence of a musical ensemble that should
fear uo rivalry, because without a peer.
The College was endowed by Mr. Springer and in
corporated by the General Assembly of Ohio in 1878.
It is not a school conducted for profit, as all incomes
or profits realized from the business of the college
must be used exclusively in extending its usefulness
and in perfecting its teachings. The stockholders
receive no dividends or profits on their stock. "Every
advantage which attaches to any musical school in
the world is enjoyed here, and there is no other built
upon such broad foundation stones. ' '
"Vocalists need not go to Italy, pianists and theo
rists to Germany, nor organists to England or France
in order to obtain the education they desire. ' '
"The curriculum of the College is complete, em
bracing not only all the branches of musical educa
tion, but also Elocution, German, French, Italian and
Spanish, together with English and Italian Litera
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Its diplomas and certificates are passports to all mu
sical circles. The College owns, as a part of its spa
cious buildings, two halls, the Odeon (seating 1,200)
and the Lyceum (seating 300), in which its concerts
and recitals are given.
Columbia — Is in the ' ' East End ' ' of the city, and
is at the mouth of the Little Miami River. The pio
neer settlers of Cincinnati made their first settlement
there in 1788. Distance from the Esplanade, five
miles. Commercial Club — Organized July 29, 1880; meets
on the third Saturday of each month at Queen City
Club; object, to promote the commercial prosperity
of Cincinnati by social intercourse and exchange of
views. Membership limited to fifty. An assessment
on the members is made to cover the expenses of the
Club. Commercial Organizations — The following list
comprises the business organizations of the city. A
description of the principal ones will be found under
their appropriate heads.
Board of Trade and Bureau of Transportation, Room
A, Chamber of Commerce.
Builders' Exchange, Vine and Longworth Streets.
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, southwest cor
ner Fourth and Vine Streets.
Cincinnati Clothiers' Association, United Bank
Building, southeast corner Third and Walnut Streets.
' Cincinnati Freight Bureau, Room A, Chamber of
Commerce Building.
Cincinnati Furniture Exchange, 511 West Second
Street. Cincinnati League, Room A, Chamber of Commerce
Building.

62 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
Cincinnati Produce Exhange, Chamber of Com
merce Building.
Cincinnati Real Estate and Stock Exchange, Cham
ber of Commerce Building.
Cincinnati Stock Exchange, 29 East Third Street.
Grain, Flour and Feed Dealers' Association, Cham
ber of Commerce Building.
Grain, Hay and Feed Receivers' Association of
Cincinnati, Chamber of Commerce Building.
Manufacturers' Association of Cincinnati and Ham
ilton County, Room A, Chamber of Commerce Bldg.
Manufacturers' Club, Room A, Chamber of Com
merce. Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association of Cin
cinnati, Room A, Chamber of Commerce Building.
National Association of Manufacturers of the United
States, Room A, Chamber of Commerce Building.
Ohio Valley Improvement Association, Chamber of
Commerce Building.
Ohio Wine and Spirit Association, 213 Sycamore
Street. Pork Packers' and Provision Dealers' Association,
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Young Men's Business Club, Hotel Emery.
Coney Island — Ten miles up the river from Cincin
nati, situated upon the Ohio side, is that popular
summer amusement resort, Coney Island. Owned
and operated by men of such means and enterprise as
Messrs. Lee H. Brooks, Tom Paxton and L. T. Ander
son, truly a trio that could not but be triumphant in
anything they might attempt, the famous resort has
been improved from year to year, until now, with its
spacious clubhouse, surrounded on all sides by broad,
breeze-swept verandas, its mammoth dancing pavilion,
its limpid, sparkling lake, its countless diversions,

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including pony tracks, toboggans, chutes, merry-go-
rounds, boats, etc., it presents a potency of charm
for pleasure seekers. Since it was started a few years
ago more than $200,000 have been spent on the
grounds alone. But in addition to all the induce
ments offered by the resort itself, there is the delight
ful river ride of twenty miles (ten miles each way)
and in the line of summer recreation, nothing can
equal it. For the purpose of carrying patrons the
Coney Island Company employs a fleet of steamers,
all of which are fitted out and furnished on a scale
of great magnificence. At the head of this fleet is
the beautiful Island Queen. This is a mammoth
five-decker, its decks so breezy, its cabins attractive,
its dancing floors boundless and convenient, and its
many other features so inviting that the Government
capacity limit of 3,000 persons is fully tested every
trip. During the Coney Island season steamers leave
the wharf at the foot of Vine Street every ninety
minutes, all day and evening, making it convenient
for patrons to go up any time they choose and stay
as long as they wish.
Consuls of Foreign Countries — Foreigners visiting
Cincinnati are entitled to the advice and protection of
the consuls of their government in the city, and those
who have no consul located here will usually be well
treated by the consul of some government friendly to
and adjoining their own. By consulting with their
consul on all matters of moment foreigners may fre
quently avoid being swindled.
A. Fredin, Consul of France, 946 Morris Street,
Walnut Hills.
Frank L. Matt, Consul for Netherlands, Acting
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64 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
in German National Bank, southeast corner Third and
Walnut Streets.
Fred J. Diem, Consul of Switzerland, office in
Western German Bank, northeast corner Twelfth and
Vine Streets.
Charles Pollier, Consul of Germany, southwest cor
ner Josephine and Carmalt Streets, Mt. Auburn.
Dr. A. Ravogli, Vice-Consul of Italy, 5 Garfield
Place. Paul F. Walker, Consul for Costa Rica and Venez
uela, 13 Carew Building.
Control, Board of — The duties of this board are to
supervise the work of the county commissioners. It
is composed of five members, elected by the people;
compensation, $5 for each meeting and expenses for
meetings and when inspecting improvements. Board
meets Tuesdays at 1 -.30 p. m. and upon call.
County Courthouse and Jail — The County Court
house, on Main Street, opposite Court, is 189 feet
square, and, with its yard and jail in the rear (150
feet square), occupies the entire block bounded by
North and South Court, Main and Sycamore Streets.
It is four stories high, of iron, brick and Indiana
limestone, Romanesque style of architecture; built
1887 at a cost of $500,000. The jail is of limestone
and cost $226,550. It fronts on Sycamore Street, be
tween North and South Court, east of the Courthouse,
is in charge of the sheriff of Hamilton County. It is
a massive structure. All of the inside work, the cells,
etc., are made of boiler iron.
Covington, Ky. — Is a Cincinnati suburb, directly
across the Ohio River, connected by two bridges ; has
a population of about 50,000, and is the second largest
city in Kentucky. It is a residence city almost en-

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tirely for Cincinnati business men. The principal
building is the U. S. Postoffice and Courthouse, com
pleted in 1879, at a cost of nearly $300,000. It is in
the Gothic style and handsomely built of Indiana
limestone, with Buena Vista sandstone trimmings.
| The city also has a public library, high school and
district schools, and the usual departments of city
government. The assessed valuation is about $22,-
060,000, and the tax rate for 1897 was $2. The high
lands south of Covington are of rare beauty, many of
them occupied by costly residences. As to churches,
all denominations are represented ; also has four
National' Banks, three daily and one weekly paper.
Take cars at Fountain Square.
Crematory — Located on Dixmyth Avenue, near
Burnet Woods ; owned by Cincinnati Cremation Com
pany, organized October 4, 1884, incorporated Octo
ber 26, 1884. Crematory is built of limestone in form
of a small Greek temple, contains a chapel and resi
dence rooms for the Superintendent, and a basement,
in which are preparing fooms, furnace rooms and two
retorts, built in 1893, °f fire-clay, and cost about
$3,000; building cost about $30,000. After services
in the chapel, the coffin (with body) is lowered on ele
vator to the basement. The body is examined to be
sure life is extinct, then it is covered with a muslin
cloth saturated with alum water. After this the cof
fin, with the body in it, is shoved into a retort, which
is completely closed during the incineration. Coke
is used for fuel, and a heat of 2,000 degrees Fahren
heit is attained. The fire does not touch the body or
coffin, but circulates round the retort, the body being
reduced to ashes by the action of the heat in about
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66 CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
a half pounds. Cremation began July, 1887, and
about 450 bodies have been cremated since then.
The price is $25. The pretty chapel of the crematory
can be used free of charge by relatives and friends of
deceased persons to be cremated, for religious services
in accordance with any creed whatever.
Cumminsville — Or Northside, is five miles from
Fountain Square ; was at one time a suburb, and named
after one of the pioneer settlers. The Northside Bank
is located here. This is a very pleasant residence
portion of the city. Reached by College Hill, Cole-
rain Avenue and Chester Park cars.
Cuvier Club — Organized 1871; clubhouse, Long-
worth Street, near Race, built 1881; cost $50,000, lot
included; membership, 300; no initiation fee; dues,
$10 per year. This club is the outgrowth of a party
of about ten hunters and anglers. In order to prevent
the ruthless slaughter of game in and out of season,
the largely increased organization met on June 14,
187 1, for the purpose of inaugurating laws for the
protection of game and fish. This organization as
sumed the title "The Ohio State Society for the Protec
tion of Game and Fish." In 1874 the society took
the name of the Cuvier Club, in honor of the wcrld-
renowned naturalist, Baron Cuvier. The clubhouse
contains a fine collection of rare birds, fish and game
of all countries ; also a large library. The club enter
tains its members and prominent citizens annually
with a grand banquet, consisting chiefly of the
choicest game and fish, about November 20.
Daily Papers — Contain amusement ads and an
nouncements of current attractions at various resorts,
railway timetables, church service announcements,
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information "up-to-date." You can get them of the
newsboys on the streets and at news-stands in hotels.
Dayton, Ky. — Opposite that part of Cincinnati
known as Pendleton. March 12, 1867, the two towns
of Brooklyn and Jamestown were consolidated under
the name of Dayton. Population, 7,283. Is largely
inhabited by persons doing business in Cincinnati,
and is a neat suburban residence town, about three
miles from Fountain Square. Reached via Bellevue
and Dayton cars from the Square.
Deaconesses' Home — The Elizabeth Gamble Deac
onesses' Home is a home for deaconesses of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, which has been very mate
rially aided by Mr. James N. Gamble, who has just
recently refitted and furnished the commodious Wes-
lyan Female College Building, on Wesley Avenue,
for their purpose, and given them a lease free of rent.
Conducts a training school for deaconesses, and in
connection with Christ's Hospital, a training school
for nurses.
Dennison Hotel — Southeast corner Fifth and Main
Streets, across the street from the Postoffice, is a
splendid six-story building, originally built by Gov
ernor Dennison's father in 1824. Remodeled, en
larged and beautified in 1886, with marble floors, new
bathrooms aud all modern equipments, including
steam heat and electric light. American plan, $2 and
$2.50 per day; 156 rooms. John Frey, proprietor;
A. F. Mueller, manager.
Detective Bureau — And general Police Headquar
ters are to be found on the first floor of the City Hall,
Eighth Street and Central Avenue.

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DISTANCES FROM CINCINNATI.

BY RAILROAD.

MILES.

MILES.

Albany, N. Y 

744

Nashville .

256

Atlanta, Ga. .

476

New Orleans .

830

Boston . .

945

Omaha . .

711

Baltimore

593

Portland, Ore. .

• 3.'7'

Buffalo 

¦ 446

Portland, Maine

. 1,060

Chattanooga, Tenn

• • 338

Providence, R. I.

946

Columbus, Ohio

. . 116

Peoria, 111.

323

Chicago . . .

. 300

Philadelphia

667

Detroit . .

. . . 262

Pittsburg . .

313

Denver, Colo. . .

1,226

Rochester, N. Y.

5'5

Galveston, Texas . .

¦ !>235

Richmond, Va.

581

Indianapolis . .

. . . m

Savannah, Ga. . . .

713

Jacksonville, Fla. .

826

Springfield, 111.

3"3

Kansas City, Mo. . .

604

St. Louis . . .

342

Louisville 

. . no

St. Paul, Minn. .

702

Memphis, Tenn

. 487

Salt Lake City

• ¦ 1,635

. 780

San Francisco .

• - 2t53°

Milwaukee

• • 385

Syracuse, N. Y.

¦ 595

New York ....

• 757

Toledo 

202

New Haven, Conn .

831

Washington, D. C.

553

BY RIVER.
UP THE RIVER.
MILES.
DOWN THE RIVER.
MILES.
New Richmond
20ji
Lawrenceburg ,
¦ 23
Ripley, Ohio
52 li
Madison
. 100
Augusta. Ky.
42>_
Louisville ...
150
Maysville, Ky.
6l
Owensboro . . .
310
Vanceburg, Ky.
V%
Evansville
¦ 35°
Portsmouth, Ohio
¦ "3
Henderson
, 362
Greenup, Ky.
¦ 133
Mt. Vernon ....
3»5
Ironton, Ohio .
- 1 ."J-
Shawneetown .
¦ 4'5
Ashland, Ky. . .
. 1465-4'
ISlizabethtown
¦ 45°
Catlettsburg, Ky.
152
Paducah .
. 500
Huntington, W. Va .
. _6o#
Cairo . . .
¦ 55°
Big Guyandotte R.
• ¦ I63&
... 592
Gallipolis, Ohio
¦ I99K
Tennessee, and Kentucky
State
Big Kanawha R.
. 203
I.ine . ...
630
Pomeroy and Middlepott .
¦ 2i7.£
Fulton
• 743
Ravenswood, W. Va.
• 254
¦ • 795
Parkersburg, W. Va.
. 288
Memphis . . 
.... 800
Marietta, Ohio
. 300
Sistersville
335
Baresville ....
345
Moundsville
• 371
Wheeling ¦ . .
. 3«4
Steubenville 
¦ 4°7
Wellsville ....
.428. 480
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Distilling — The Distilling interest is very large in
and near Cincinnati; this city, Covington and New
port paying one sixth of the entire internal revenue
of the United States, and Cincinnati represents 75
percent and the Kentucky cities 25 percent of the
amount. Drives — The beautiful suburbs aud excellent mac
adamized roads which abound both within and with
out the city limits, east, west and north in Ohio, and
southwardly in Kentucky, make it eminently delight
ful for recreation by carriage or horseback. A trip
via Hunt Street, through Avondale, past the Zoolog
ical Garden, through the Burnet Woods Park and
Clifton, to Spring-grove Cemetery, returning by
Spring-grove Avenue, through Cumminsville, to
Fountain Square, will occupy about three hours, and
is replete with magnificent scenery and elegant private
residences throughout its whole course. To those so
inclined, a drive through Spring-grove Cemetery is
very attractive. This drive may be continued on to
College Hill and a return made by way of Clifton,
Avondale, Walnut Hills and Mt. Auburn, returning
to the city by Sycamore Street. Another beautiful
drive is by the Harrison Avenue, through Fairmount
to Cheviot and Westwood. The Price Hill drive is
also delightful ; the top of the hill is reached by way
of Eighth or Gest Streets, thence west to Warsaw Ave
nue, through a remarkably picturesque region, return
ing by the Lick Run Pike, through Lick Run and
Fairmount. There is a beautiful drive through Eden
Park, via Gilbert Avenue. Continued, this drive will
lead through East Walnut Hills, and a return can
be made through Mt. Auburn. The Carthage Pike
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to Carthage, and a return can be made by Chester
Park, Spring-grove Cemetery and Cumminsville.
The finest drive in Kentucky is by the Lexington
Pike to Latonia, five miles south of Covington. These
are only a few of the many drives, and either will well
repay its cost to citizen or stranger.
Eden Park — Is the largest of the city parks, and
contains two hundred and six acres. It was originally
known as Nicholas Longworth's Garden of Eden, and
upon its sunny slopes were grown the grapes from
which was made the Catawba wine sent by the owner
to the poet Longfellow, and proved the inspiration
of his poem : CATAWBA WINE-
This song of mine
Is a song of the vine,
To be sung* by the glowing embers
Of wayside inns,
When the rain begins
To darken the drear Novembers.
It is not a song
Of the Scuppernong
From warm Carolinian valleys,
Nor the Isabel
And the Muscatel
That bask in our garden alleys.
Nor the red Mustang,
Whose clusters hang
O'er the waves of the Colorado,
And the fiery flood
Of whose purple blood
Has the dash of Spanish bravado.
For richest and best
Is the wine of the West
That grows by the Beautiful River,
Whose sweet perfume
Fills all the room
With a benison on the giver.
Aud as hollow trees
Are the haunts of bees,
Forever going and coming,
So this crystal hive
Is all alive
With a swarming and buzzing and humming.

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Very good in its way
Is the Verzeriay
Or the Sillery soft and creamy;
But Catawba wine
Has a taste more divine,
More dulcet, delicious and dreamy.
There grows uo vine
By the haunted Rhine,
By Danube or Guadalquiver,
Nor on island or cape,
That bears such a grape
As grows by the Beautiful River.
Drugged is their juice
For foreign use
When shipped o'er the reeling Atlantic
To rack our brains
With, the fever pains
That have driven the Old World frantic.
To the sewers and sinks
With all such drinks,
And after them tumble the mixer;
For a poison malign
Is such Borgia wine,
Or at best but a Devil's Elixir.
While pure as a spring
Is the wine I sing,
And to praise it one needs but name it,
For Catawba wine
Has need of no sign,
No tavern-bush to proclaim it.
And this Song of the Vine.
This greeting of mine,
The winds and the birds shall deliver
To the Queen of the West,
In her garlands dressed,
On the Banks of the Beautiful River.
The Park was purchased at a cost of about $800,000.
From it the view of the city, of the river and of the
Kentucky hills and cities is one of the most beautiful
sights to be found anywhere, and it will hold the eyes
of the beholder and cause frequent exclamations of
admiration. In this Park are located the Art Museum, the Art
Academy, the reservoirs of the waterworks and the
water tower. The reservoirs contain 100,000,000 gal
lons of water each, and cost, with works, four and one
quarter million dollars. The water tower was com
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On the highest point in the Park is a stone struc
ture called the Shelter House. Its elevation is 430
feet above the level of the river, and a grand view of
the Park, the river, the city, Walnut Hills, Mt. Au
burn and Avondale can be had from its balconies. It
is a place of rest in the Park.
To the right of the driveway entrance to the Park,
a short distance from Gilbert Avenue, is a carved
fountain of Venetian design, presented to the city by
Mr. Larz Anderson, through the Municipal Art So
ciety. It is an old Venetian well-head, of the "Early
Renaissance," secured in Venice and decided by the
Academy of Venice to be at least two hundred and
ninety years old, and never retouched. It is carved
in seemingly handsome marble, having a rampant St.
Mark lion on one side, and on the reverse an eagle.
On the corners are carved acanthus leaves. It is
utilized as a drinking fountain.
The drives through this Park are magnificent.
Concerts are given from the band stand on Sunday
afternoons during the Summer months, the expense
being paid from theSchmidlapp fund for this purpose.
A conservatory is also a feature of the Park.
The Park is situated east of Gilbert Avenue, be
tween Court and Morris Streets, and is one mile from
Fountain Square. Take Eden Park cars at Fountain
Square. Educational Advantages — Of Cincinnati are unsur
passed by any city in America. The faculties of her
Medical, Law, Theological, Scientific, Art, Musical
and other schools are of international reputation, and
her University, public and private schools, embracing
quite every branch of knowledge, are equal to the
best. Detailed information regarding the principal

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schools will be found under their proper heading.
There are in Cincinnati, attending the various schools
of all kinds, about 5,000 nonresident students. (See
Colleges. )
Emery Hotel — Is on west side of Vine Street, be
tween Fourth and Fifth, but has its entrance in the
Arcade. It was opened in November, 1877, and has
175 guest rooms, all well furnished. It is one of the
largest and best-kept hotels in the city, and is con
ducted on the European plan. Electric light and
steam heat. The prices of rooms range from $1 to
$2. 50 per day, and meals are served in ' he hotel res
taurant at moderate prices. The owners are Thomas
Emery's Sons. Luke Hunt, manager.
Esplanade, The — Is situated in the center of Foun
tain Square. The Tyler-Davidson Fountain springs
from the center of it. The Esplanade is a raised
structure, 28 inches above the crown of the street.
It is oval in form, extending the entire length of the
square, 400 feet, and is 60 feet in width. The outer
rim, and the steps approching it, are made of hewn
Quincy granite. The.floor is made of Buena Vista
sandstone, smooth dressed, and laid in diamond and
circular designs. The cost of the Esplanade was
$75,000. Unless otherwise stated, the distances given
in this book are calculated from this point. All the
cars pass by or close to it.
Fire Department — Is under the management of the
Board of Fire Trustees, appointed by the Mayor. The
board meets at the headquarters of the Fire Depart
ment, on Sixth Street, west of Vine, on the third busi
ness day of each month and two weeks thereafter.
Fire Marshal and Superintendent Fire Alarm Tele
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McAvoy and J. C. Donovan; Henry Bunker, M. L.
Campbell, L. C. Streiff and John O'F. Miller.
This organization is probably one of the most effici
ent and best-disciplined bodies of the kind in the
world. It is splendidly equipped with all the modern
accessories that money can procure. The sight of this
magnificent organization while engaged in fighting
the destructive flames is at all times thrilling, and
the sound of the signal bells invariably attracts thou
sands of strangers as well as citizens to the scene of
each conflagration.
The first steam fire engine was built in Cincinnati,
in 1852-53, by Mr. Latta. It weighed twelve tons
and required four horses to draw it to a fire. It was
named the "Uncle John Ross." In 1858 there were
seven steam fire engines in use, and two years later
the number had increased to eleven. The first paid
fire department was established in 1853.
The Department consists of 4 Fire Trustees, 1 Fire
Marshal, 2 Assistant Fire Marshals, 4 District Fire
Marshals, 1 Assistant Superintendent Fire Alarm
Telegraph, 1 Secretary, 1 Ass^fant Secretary, 1 Sur
geon, 1 Veterinary Surgeon, 31 Captains, 37 Lieu
tenants, 27 Engineers, 206 Stokers, Drivers, Pipemen
and Ladder Men, 10 Members Fire Alarm Telegraph
Corps, 4 Members Cistern and Plug Department, 32
Watchmen at Engine Houses.
In use in the Department : 30 Steam Fire Engines,
30 Hose Wagons, 16 Hook and Ladder Wagons, 3
Fuel Wagons, 2 Cistern and Plug Department Wag
ons, 3 Fire Alarm Telegraph Wagons, 165 Horses.
Fort Thomas — Is a United States military post,
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about $800,000; established as a Government bar
racks in 1888, by General Phil. Sheridan, and the
recommendation to the United States Government of
the purchase of its site was perhaps his last official
act. General Sheridan had inspected several proposed
sites for the establishment of an army post to super
sede the one then located at Newport, Kentucky, and
when he arrived at the bluff which now constitutes
the river-front parade ground of the post, he ex
claimed : "This can be made a second West Point!"
and his decision to recommend the purchase of the
site was formed at once.
Fort Thomas is located upon an eminence of 400
feet or more, overlooking the Ohio River, and com
manding views of surpassing beauty both up and
down the valley of the Ohio. The visitor will not
marvel at the inspiration of General Sheridan when
he first beheld the scene of wondrous beauty from the
bluff. Total area of grounds, n 1 acres, which contain
59 buildings. During Summer months concerts are
given by the regimental band from 8 to 9 p. m. on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and on other days
of the week after guard mounting, 9 to 10 a. m.
There are regimental or batallion parades (weather
permitting) every morning except Saturdays and Sun
days. A water tower 102 feet high, with a flagstaff 49 feet
in length at its top, is one of the many attractions of
the post. Visitors are free to enter the post at any
hour of the day until 10 p. m. Those wishing to
enter the barracks or mess hall are generally accom
panied * by an officer or noncommissioned officer.
Every possible courtesy is extended to visitors.

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The Sixth United States Infantry, which is sta
tioned there, was organized April T2, 1808, its first
Colonel being Zachary Taylor, afterward President of
the United States; its first Adjutant being Winfield
S. Hancock, afterward a Presidential candidate. Col
onel M. A. Cochran assumed command of the regi
ment August 22, 1890.
Ft. Washington was the first military post estab
lished in this city in 1789. In 1804 it was evacuated
and its garrison transferred to Newport. The bar
racks at Newport were abandoned in 1894. Ft.
Thomas was occupied by the Sixth Regiment January
1, 1895. Take Ft. Thomas cars at Fountain Square,
fare 5c.
Fort Washington — Was built as a protection against
the Indians, under direction of Major Doughty, of
the United States Army. It was a. log structure made
of large trees cut from the space on which it was
located, a tract of fifteen acres, sloping up from the
river bank in that part of the city now lying between
Lawrence and Ludlow Streets, and bounded on the
north by a line half way between Third and Fourth
Streets. When completed, December 29, 1789, the
fort was occupied by General Josiah Harmar, com
mander of the forces of the Northwest, and it became
the most important military post in the West.
Ft. Washington was abandoned as a military post
in 1804, when the National Government removed its
garrison to the barracks in Newport, Ky. , where it
remained until the. recent transfer to Ft. Thomas.
Fountain — The fountain is located on the Fifth
Street Esplanade, between Vine and Walnut Streets.
It was presented to the city by Henry Probasco as a
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and unveiled October 6, 1871. It is the grandest
fountain in the United States, and the noblest work
of art in the city. The massive base and the circular
basin are made of porphyry, quarried and polished in
Europe. The fountain itself is cast in bronze, of con
demned cannon procured from the Danish government.
The castings weigh 24 tons. The diameter of the
basin is 43 feet, and the weight of the porphyry, 85
tons. The height of the fountain above the Espla
nade is 38 feet. The bronze pedestal on the base of
porphyry is square, the four sides bearing representa
tions in relief of the four principal uses of water —
water-power, navigation, the fisheries and steam.
The pedestal is surmounted by four semicircular
bronze basins, each , pierced in the center by a single
jet an inch in diameter. From the center of the four
semicircular basins rises a second bronze pedestal,
surmounted by a square column, on which stands the
Genius of Water, a draped female figure, with out
stretched arms, from the palms and fingers of whose
hands the water falls in spray into the four semicir
cular basins. On either side of the square column is
a group of figures of heroic size. The eastern group
represents a mother leading a nude child to the bath ;
the western group, a daughter giving her aged father
a draught of water ; the northern group, a man stand
ing on the burning roof of his homestead, with up
lifted hand and praying for rain ; the southern group,
a husbandman with an idle plow, and at his side a
dog panting from heat, supplicates Heaven for rain.
There are life-size figures in niches at each corner of
the bronze pedestal beneath the semicircular basins.
One repreesnts a nude boy with a lobster, which he
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triumph with one hand; another, a laughing girl,
playing with a necklace of pearls; the third, a semi-
nude girl, listening to the sound of the waves in a sea
shell, which she holds to her ear; the fourth, a boy,
well muffled, strapping on his skates. There are four
drinking fountains, equidistant on the rim of the
porphyry basin. Each is a bronze pedestal, sur
mounted by a life-size bronze figure. One represents
a youth astride a dolphin ; the second, a youth kneel
ing, holding one duck under his left arm and grasping
by the neck another; the third is that of a youth,
around whose right leg a snake has coiled, which the
youth has grasped with his left hand and is about to
strike with a stone that he holds in his right. The
fourth figure is that of a youth kneeling on the back
of a huge turtle and grasping it by the neck. Water
issues from the mouths of the dolphin, duck, snake
and turtle. The fountain was designed by August
von Kreling, of Nuremberg, and cast by Ferdinand
von Mulier, director of the Royal Bronze Foundry of
Bavaria. The cost of the fountain itself was $105,000
in gold. Together with the Esplanade, the total cost
was over $200,000. All cars pass by or quite close
to the fountain.
Fountain Square — The square between Walnut and
Vine Streets, ou Fifth, the site of the old Fifth -Street
Market-House, and the present site of the Esplanade
and Tyler-Davidson Fountain. The street in this
square, and the one adjoining it on the east, which
is occupied by the Government Building, is 60 feet
wider than the remainder of Fifth Street, having been
designed for, and for fifty years or more occupied by,
a market-house, which was in the middle of the street.
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ness houses. Every line of cars passes by or within
one block of this square. Its location in the heart of
the business portion of the city, and its general ac
cessibility have led to the custom of stating distances
from this point to places in and about the city.
Garfield Place — Is a portion of Eighth Street, two
blocks long, extending from Vine Street to Elm
Street, having in the center a small park once known
as Eighth Street Park. At Race Street is a heroic
statue of James A. Garfield in bronze, mounted on a
granite base, which gives the name to the place, and
at the Vine Street end stands an equestrian statue of
William Henry Harrison. The Lincoln Club build
ing fronts on Garfield Place.
Germans, The — Are a distinctive feature of Cincin
nati. There are more than 100,000, and no other
class of citizens is more loyal. At one time the "Over
the Rhine" district contained nearly all the German
population, but now they are found in every quarter
of the city, and they own much property. The city
has several German newspapers — the Volksblatt and
Volksfreund being respectively the leading German
Republican and Democratic organs — German book
stores, a German theater and many German societies.
Many of the leading spirits in art, musical, business
and social movements are among them. One of our
English daily papers (Times-Star, January 19, 1898)
contained the following:
"ES WAR ALLES IN DEUTSCH.
"A divorce suit was tried in Judge Spiegel's court
recently, in which absolutely no use was found for
the English language. It was the first time in the
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tried in the German tongue exclusively. The case
was that of Anna Weiss against Christian Weiss. He
is a carpenter, living at John and Poplar Streets, and
she is a nurse. She had sued him for divorce and
alimony on the grounds of cruelty and neglect. As
$2,000 in a building association was involved, the
case attracted more than ordinary attention. Mrs.
Weiss's attorneys were Tafel & Schott, and Weiss had
retained Schwab & Schultz. The first witness called
was a German lady. The court interpreter was asked
for and it developed that he was at home sick. Some
one suggested that no interpreter was needed, but the
witnesses were all found to be German.
" 'So much the better,' said one of the lawyers, who
added, 'Your Honor, suppose we conduct the case in
German. '
" 'I am perfectly willing,' said Judge Spiegel
" 'That suits us,' said Colon Schott, attorney for
Mrs. Weiss.
"'It's all right with us,' remarked Schwab &
Schultz, attorneys for Mr. Weiss.
"Turning to the clerk of the court, Judge Spiegel
said: 'How about you, Mr. Clerk?'
" 'Go ahead,' was the reply.
Bailiff Henry Kleemeyer, Messenger F vward Leg-
ner and even Janitor Heintz were found < be Ger
mans. The plaintiff and defendant were _rmans,
as was every witness in the case.
"The hearing then proceeded, the questic , an
swers, all the testimony and even the arguments of
the attorneys being in the language of the Fatherland.
During the proceedings the attorneys had several
lively spats, which were also in German. It is the
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take complete notes of the testimony. These he wrote
in German and has them preserved as a memento. The
case was taken under advisement, and next Saturday
morning Judge Spiegel will announce his decision in
German." Gibson House — On the west side of Walnut Street,
between Fourtft and Fifth, for many years has been,
and is today, one of the most popular of the hotels
in Cincinnati. In size it is one of the largest in the
city, 196 feet square, six stories high, and cost $450,-
000; and for cleanliness in every department it can
not be surpassed by any in this country. The hotel
has 400 well-furnished rooms, and has accommodated
880 persons at one time. In 1885 the whole exterior
and interior were remodeled, and now* the Gibson
House is one of the most imposing blocks in Cincin
nati. It has been refrescoed and refitted, and is in
excellent condition throughout ; has steam heat, elec
tric light and an elegant, large office rotunda. It is
probably the most conveniently situated of the large
hotels, and all lines of cars pass either by or close to
the house. The terms are $3 to $5 a day, the hotel
being kept on the American plan. The management
of the hotel is all that could be desired ; owned by the
Gibson House Company, Horace B. Dunbar, President
and Manager.
Glendale — One of the most beautiful suburbs, is
fifteen miles from the city via Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton Railway, and eleven miles via driveway.
It contains the homes of many of the leading business
men of Cincinnati, surrounded with ample grounds
and profuse shrubbery, approached by winding ave
nues, and distinguished for the air of comfort and
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lage is a park. It has a handsome Lyceum Building
and a library association, with about 3,500 books.
The Glendale water supply is derived from artesian
wells. Glendale Female College, on Sharon Avenue, is the
chief feature of the village, and was originally built
for a hotel. It was founded in 1854, ffnd since 1865
it has been under the management of Rev. L. D.
Potter. The building is of brick, surrounded by
ample grounds and overlooking the village. There
are several beautiful churches and good ' schools.
Glendale is well governed, because governed by the
good citizens themselves.
Good Samaritan Hospital — Sixth and Lock Streets.
In November, 1852, the Sisters of Charity opened a
twenty-bed hospital in a building at the corner of
Broadway and Franklin Street. In 1855 they moved
to the building at the corner of Plum and Third
Streets, where St. John's Hospital was maintained for
eleven years. Here they had accommodations for
seventy-five patients. When the war came to the
threshold of Cincinnati the little hospital was taxed
to the utmost. It was filled with sick and wounded
soldiers. Its fame became national. Shortly after
the war, in 1866, Lewis Worthington and Joseph C.
Butler bought from the United States Government
the Marine Hospital Building, at the corner of Sixth
and Lock Streets, built at a cost to the Government
of about $500,000. It cost them about $75,000.
This fine property they donated to the Sisters of
Charity. It was to be held in perpetuity as a hos
pital, under the name of the Hospital of the Good
Samaritan. The deed says that "no applicant for
admission should be preferred or excluded on account

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of his or her religion or country." The faculty of
the Medical College of Ohio makes up the medical
staff of the hospital, with the addition of three in
ternes. The hospital from the start has been a school
of clinical instruction for the students in this medical
institution. In 1875 an amphitheater, with a seating
capacity of four hundred was erected, and in it clinics
have been held twice a week during the time the col
lege is in session ; also in connection with the hospital
is a training school for nurses.
Government Square — Is the next square east of
Fountain Square, and divides honors with that popu
lar thoroughfare in the way of street-car traffic and
the busy crowds that seem to be ever present.
On the broad space in front of the Government
Building was held the celebrated Fair of the Sanitary
Commission, in 1863-64, during the Civil War, while
on the site of the Fountain stood the old Fifth-Street
Market-House. Thousands of troops on their way to
the front were temporarily quartered on these two
squares during the period of the war, their meals
being served in the old market-house.
Grand Hotel — Fourth Street and Central Avenue,
is one of the finest hotels in this country, and one of
the grandest buildings in the city. It was built by
a joint stock company. The building, six stories
above the sidewalk, is of Ohio freestone, and accom
modates 800 guests. It fronts 175 feet on Fourth
Street and 200 feet on Central Avenue, a part extend
ing through to Third Street, a distance of 400 feet.
The rotundas and corridors are among the grandest in
this country ; the main rotunda, 100 feet square, is
probably the largest in any hotel in the world.
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ments are of the choicest and most expensive kind.
Every requisite of a first-class modern hotel is found
at the Grand. The whole property is valued at
$1,000,000. The hotel was opened in 1874 and has
been kept fully up-to-date, with new equipment, elec
tric light and steam heat. The Grand is conveniently
situated, and is on the American plan, the terms being
$3 to $5 a day; also on the European plan, $1.50 up.
Has grand banquet and convention halls. The A. G.
Corre Hotel Company, proprietors; A. G. Corre,
President ; D. C. Shears, Vice-President and General
Manager. Hamilton County — Of which Cincinnati is the
county seat, has fifteen townships, viz. : Anderson,
Cincinnati, Colerain, Columbia, Crosby, Delhi,
Green, Harrison, Miami, Millcreek, Spencer, Spring
field, Sycamore, Symmes, Whitewater. The villages
in the county are all suburbs of Cincinnati and really
belong to the city.
Hartwell — Is an incorporated village, about ten
miles north of Fountain Square, and also includes
Maplewood. It is named after John W. Hartwell,
who was Vice-President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton Railway at the time the station was located.
In beauty of appearance and in the character of its
citizens Hartwell ranks with the most desirable sub
urbs of Cincinnati. It is essentially a place of resi
dence; has about 2,000 population, Methodist, Presby
terian and Episcopal Churches and a graded school.
St. Clara's Convent, Provincial House and Noviti
ate of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis, is located
near here. In the community are 375 sisters, 45
novices and 30 postulants.
The Big Four and Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
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Health of Cincinnati, The — Judged by the death
rate in proportion to the population, as compared with
other large cities where accurate records are kept, is
a theme for congratulation. Estimating the popula
tion of the city at 350,000, the mortality of 1896 was
in the proportion of 16.90 per 1,000, or one in every
59.15 inhabitants. This places Cincinnati in the
foremost rank of the healthful populous centers of the
United States.
Health Department — On second floor, fronting on
Eighth Street, of City Hall, is one of the departments
under the Board of Administration. The executive
officer of this department is the Health Officer, who
appoints twenty city, or district, physicians, also milk
inspectors, sanitary police, inspectors of meat and live
stock, superintendent of markets and assistant market
masters, besides clerks for the keeping of vital statis
tics. The salary of the Health Officer is $3,000 per
annum. Hebrew Union College — Sixth Street, west of Cutter ;
started 1875; supported by the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations; course, eight years; educates
young men for the Jewish ministry free and allows
them a monthly stipend of $25 for board; confers
degrees of Rabbi and Doctor of Divinity ; has finest
and largest Hebrew library in the United States.
Hilltops, The — Have an average elevation above
the Ohio River of 400 feet, reaching higher at many
points, but seldom lower than that figure. They are
broken only by Deer Creek and Mill Creek on the
north, and Lick Run on the west. They are covered
with elegant private residences, public institutions
and places of public resort. The summit is reached
in all directions by the inclined-plane railways, and
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Hilltop resorts, famous in their day and time, were
established at the immediate top of each incline.
First was the "Lookout House," which jumped at
once into popular favor; next came the "Bellevue
House," at the head of the Elm Street Incline, the
"Price Hill House," on Price Hill, and the "High
land House," on the summit of Mt. Adams. All
were phenomenally successful, and for quite a period
of years daily and nightly attracted, thousands of
delighted visitors.
The establishment of the inclined planes, however,
marked a new era in the city's history. Dwellers in
the city proper availed themselves of the improved
facilities and changed their place of residence to the
hills. This increase in the number of the suburban
population in turn necessitated the extension of the
city's street railway system, and as a consequence new
resorts and attractions, at more distant points in the
suburbs, sprang up and won the popular favor. The
novelty of the hilltops gradually wore away with a
public accustomed to daily traveling up and down
the inclines, and in less than twenty years from the
date of the opening of the first of the once-popular
resorts the last of the hilltop houses closed its doors
as an active factor in public amusements, and the
"Price Hill House" alone remains, a solitary reminis
cence of a past and happy era. The visitor of today,
familiar with the glory of these once-popular resorts,
when the novelty of their situations and the delightful
views which they afforded seemed to possess an irre
sistible fascination for so many thousands, will marvel
at and regret the mutations of Time. The city was
revolutionized by the establishment of the inclined-
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to the then pent-up city. The inclined planes' are
the golden gateways which connect the Cincinnati of
the past with the Cincinnati of today, with her mag
nificent hilltop suburbs.
Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio — No.
107 West Eighth Street. Chartered in Columbus,
1831; moved to Cincinnati, 1849, when the younger
organization, known as "The Cincinnati Historical
Society," was merged in it, the local society going
out of existence. Object is the collection and preser
vation of everything relating to the history and antiq
uities of America, especially of Ohio, and diffusion
of knowledge concerning them. Has a valuable li
brary of 14,083 volumes and 57, 390 pamphlets, besides
a fine collection of American antiquities. Present
quarters purchased in 1885, at a cost of $30, 000.
Home of the Friendless — An institution having for
its object the reclamation of abandoned women; it
also cares for abandoned infants. It is managed by
ladies connected with the various Protestant denomi
nations of the city. The building is on the south
side of Court Street, between Central Avenue and
John Street.
Hospitals — The charities of the city are numerous,
but none more deserving than the hospitals. Some
of these will be found more fully described in their
alphabetical position.
Cincinnati Hospital, Twelfth and Plum Streets.
Longview Hospital, for insane, Carthage.
Cincinnati Sanitarium, private hospital for the in
sane, College Hill.
Good Samaritan Hospital, southeast corner Sixth
and Lock Streets.
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U! S. Marine Hospital, southeast corner Third and
Kilgour Streets.
Jewish Hospital, corner Burnet Avenue and Union
Street, Avondale.
Christ Hospital, No. 2139 Auburn Avenue.
St. Francis Hospital, Queen City Avenue, Fair-
mount. St. Mary's Hospital, corner Betts and Linn Streets.
St. Joseph's Maternity Hospital and Foundling
Asylum, situated near the city and under the control
of Sisters of Charity. Private telephone from 827
West Eighth Street.
Protestant Episcopal Free Hospital, for children,
west side of Main Street, north of Mason, Mt. Auburn.
Diakonissen Krankenhaus, No. 529 to 533 East
Liberty Street.
Ohio Maternity Hospital, branch of the Diakonissen
Krankenhaus, 117 East Eighth Street.
Home for Incurables, No. 2380 Kemper Lane.
Presbyterian Hospital, No. 626 West Sixth Street.
Red Cross Order of Trained Nurses, general office,
Flat 1, Losanti Building, 208 West Twelfth Street.
Hotels — Cincinnati is well provided with excellent
hotels. They may be divided into three classes : ( 1 )
Those kept on the American plan; (2) Those kept on
the European plan, and (3) Those in which these two
methods are combined. The American plan is to set
regular meals in the dining-room daily, the charge
per day including meals and room, whether meals are
taken or not. The European plan, so-called, is where
rooms are rented with light, service, etc., and guests
are at liberty to order meals a la carte, either in the
restaurant attached to the hotel, or at any other
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its advantages. If one is in the city for a short time,
and spends much time away from his hotel in visit
ing, sight-seeing, or other business, it may be to his
advantage to engage a room at a hotel on the Euro
pean plan and take his meals wherever he may happen
to be. The prices of rooms have a wide range, de
pending upon size of room, accommodations, bath,
suites, etc. When a stay of weeks, or longer, is con
templated, a considerable reduction from the regular
rates can always be obtained, and an understanding
to that effect should be had immediately upon your
arrival. The following are the principal hotels with their
locations, rates and plans :
Burnet House, northwest corner Third and Vine
Streets ; room for 650 guests ; American plan, $3 to
$5; European plan, $1.50 up.
Dennison Hotel, southeast corner Fifth and Main
Streets, across the street from the Postoffice; 156
rooms; American plan, $2 and $2.50.
Gerde's Hotel, Fifth and Home Streets, American
plan, $1.50 to $2.50, and European plan, 50c. to
$1.50. Gibson House, Walnut Street, between Fourth and
Fifth ; 400 rooms ; accommodates 800 guests ; Ameri
can plan, $3 to $5.
Grand Hotel, southwest corner Fourth Street and
Central Avenue, with entrances on Third and Fourth
Streets and Central Avenue ; accommodates about 800
guests; American plan, $3 to $5; European plan,
$1. 50 up ; has the largest and most imposing office
rotunda in the country.
Hotel Alms, northwest corner McMillan and Elm
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Hotel Emery, west side of Vine Street, between
Fourth and Fifth, with entrance in the Emery Arcade ;
165 rooms ; European plan, $1 up.
Hotel Stratford, in Walnut Street Theater Building.
Munro Hotel, Seventh Street, between Race and
Vine, European plan, $1 and $1.50, men only.
Palace Hotel, northwest corner Sixth and Vine
Streets ; American plan, $2 and up ; European plan,
$1 up; has 250 rooms.
St. Clair Hotel, at Sixth and Mound Streets and
Kenyon Avenue ; accommodates 250. American plan,
$3 UP-
St. Nicholas Hotel, southeast corner Fourth and
Race Streets; European plan, $1.50 up; room for 150
guests. Stag Hotel, Vine Street, opposite Arcade, between
Fourth and Fifth; 95 finely furnished rooms; 50c,
75c. and $1; European plan; for men only; under
same management as Palace Hotel ; steam heat free.
Bristol Hotel, southwest corner Sixth and Walnut
Streets, lodging only.
Carter Hotel, northeast corner Sixth and Race
Streets, lodging only.
Gault House, southwest corner Sixth and Main
Streets. Oxford Hotel, southeast corner Sixth and Race
Streets, lodging only.
Sherwood Hotel, 608 Walnut Street, lodging only.
There are about 65 smaller hotels in Cincinnati.
See city directory.
House of Refuge — Situated east side of Colerain
Avenue, next to City Workhouse, three and a half
miles from Fountain Square. Opened October 7,
1850. A house of correction for incorrigible and

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criminal youth of both sexes between the ages of 8
and 16 years. They are given the rudiments of a
general education, including music, and are taught
useful trades. Incorrigible children are committed
from the police court. The term of confinement lasts
during the minority of the child. The grounds be
longing to the institution contain nine and seven-
eighths acres, enclosed on three sides by a stone wall,
the main building forming the front, and within the
enclosure are the smaller buildings, stables, green
houses, gymnasium, school, new boiler-house, lava
tories, play and drill grounds. The main building
is a castellated edifice of rough blue limestone, 277
feet front; center building, 52 by 85 feet, five stories
above basement, and two wings, 35 b)' 96 feet, each
four stories above basement. North wing contains
112 sleeping rooms for boys. South wing, exclusively
occupied by girls, contains 72 single sleeping rooms.
New building for the kindergarten department built
in 1890; annex to accommodate overflow of this de
partment opened in 1897. The institution accom
modates 450 inmates. Strangers and citizens are
admitted to visit the house on any day of the week
except Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday they are
invited to attend chapel service at 3 o'clock p. m.
Take Colerain Avenue electric car at Fountain Square.
Hughes High School — Is located on West Fifth
Street, opposite Mound, and was built in 1853 and
added to in 1887, the whole cost being $43,753. It
was through Thomas Hughes, a shoemaker, that this
school was given to Cincinnati. He died in 1824 and
left land valued then at about $60,000 to be devoted
to educational purposes. In 1851, by agreement be
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and Hughes trustees, the Woodward and Hughes
schools became the high schools.
Inclined Planes — Five inclined-plane railways are
an unfailing source of pleasure to visitors. Select a
clear day for your visit to the summit of either of
these inclined planes and the splendor of the pano
ramic view of the city below and its sister cities on
the Kentucky bank of the river, with the magnificent
hills looming up against the horizon as a background
to the picture, will surely excite your enthusiastic
admiration. Mt. Adams Inclined Plane, Lock Street, near Fifth ;
length, 945 feet; elevation, 268 feet; cost, $300,000.
Take Eden Park electric cars at Government Square,
which will convey you up the inclined plane and
through beautiful Eden Park, affording views of
Rookwood Pottery, the Art Museum, Eden Park
Water Tower and Eden Park Reservoirs, to Walnut
Hills. Bellevue Inclined Plane, head of Elm Street ; length,
980 feet; elevation, 300 feet; cost, $375,000. Take
College Hill electric cars at Fountain Square, which
will convey you up the inclined plane and to Burnet
Woods Park, affording a view also of the Crematory
and the buildings and grounds of the University of
Cincinnati. Or take McMicken Avenue electric cars
at Fountain Square, and ask conductor for transfer
check to College Hill electric cars, and change to
latter cars at the inclined plane.
Fairview Inclined Plane, east side McMicken Ave
nue, opposite Brighton Bridge; length, 633.8 feet;
elevation, 210 feet; cost, $200,000. Take McMicken
Avenue electric cars at Fountain Square, or John
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nue at Fountain Square. When taking either of the
three lines named be sure and ask conductor for trans
fer check to Fairview Heights Route, as cars of the
latter line only are carried up the inclined plane.
Mt. Auburn Inclined Plane, head of Main Street ;
length, 900 feet; elevation, 312 feet; cost, $200,000.
Take McMicken Avenue and Main Street electric cars
at Fountain Square, which will carry you to the in
clined plane.
Price Hill Inclined Plane, foot of West Eighth
Street; length, 800 feet; elevation, 350 feet; cost,
$300,000. Take electric cars of Sedamsville line, or
of Elberon Avenue, or of Warsaw Avenue at Fourth
and Main Streets, either of which lines will convey
you to the foot of the inclined plane. Street cars are
not carried up this plane. Passengers wishing to
take the ride up the incline must alight and enter the
cars of the Inclined Plane Railway and pay an extra
fare of five cents for the privilege.
Infirmaries — The City Infirmary, located at Hart
well, is an institution in which the city's aged and
infirm paupers are cared for. The buildings, which
are extensive and commodious, are on the Infirmary
Farm: a quarter-section of land belonging to the city,
west of the Carthage Pike, about eight miles from
Fountain Square. The Infirmary is under control of
the Board of Police Commissioners, and is separate
and distinct from the County Infirmary, which is in
the same neighborhood. The farm is operated by the
inmates, and produces a portion of the provisions
used by them. The inmates also make most of their
own clothing. Buildings in the form of an E, 380
feet front, and the three wings being each 250 feet
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in 1853; buildings cost $350,000; an additional
building will be erected, then the institution will
accommodate 1,000; now has 954 inmates; cost per
capita, about 23.31 cents a day; visitors permitted
daily except Sunday ; office, City Hall.
The County Infirmary is located east of Carthage;
106 acres; built 1871; cost, about $250,000; 250 by
125 feet; no rooms; accommodates 350 inmates;
per capita cost, about 23. 7 cents per day for year end
ing September 1, 1897; daily average attendance, 261.
The paupers of Hamilton County outside the city are
there cared for. To reach either infirmary take Avon-
dale car at Fountain Square and transfer at Carthage
Road. Ivorydale — Seven miles north, on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railway, Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern Railway and the Big Four Route, is
the home of Ivory Soap. The Procter & Gamble
Company soap factory was established in 1837.
In 1885 the business had grown so enormously that
more enlarged quarters were required. The pres
ent location was selected and named after the famous
brand of soap. The grounds were properly laid out,
and the immense factory and beautiful village estab
lished. The surroundings are picturesque, with
lawns, flowers and shrubbery in abundance. The
manufactory is a mammoth concern. There are miles
of tunnels and under-ground steam, water and other
pipes; an immense elevated stand pipe; reservoirs,
some of the capacity of four million gallons ; dozens
of great and small pumping engines, and artesian
wells nearly 2,000 feet deep; immense freight-yard
capacity ; electric light plant ; fire engines, and drilled
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the smoke-stack is 230 feet high, ten feet internal
diameter at the top, with a concrete base 24 feet
square and deeply planted in the ground. The entire
plant represents a cost of over three million dollars,
and hundreds of skilled workmen are employed. It
is the largest soap manufacturing plant in the world,
and every employee is a capitalist, drawing dividends
to the extent of his wage-earning capacity.
Kindergartens — These have now become numerous.
There are many private schools where tuition is
charged, and there are also a number of free ones,
including Elizabeth Gamble Home, 1003 West Sixth
Street; German Free Kindergarten Association, 141 3
Walnut Street; Glenn Home Mission, rear 510 Lock
Street; Glenn Industrial Home, 641 West Fourth
Street; Ninth Street Baptist Church Free Kinder
garten, Ninth Street, between Vine and Race; St.
John's Episcopal Mission, Warner Street, near Fair-
view Avenue; also a Kindergarten Normal School,
641 West Fourth Street.
Lagoon, The, Ludlow, Ky. — A very beautiful sum
mer pleasure resort, about two and a half miles down
the river on the Kentucky side. Contains a large
lake of running water, clubhouse, rowboats, electric
launches and a multitude of attractions. The grounds
are charming in their natural beauty, and afford the
most delightful rambles. Take Ludlow electric cars
at Fountain Square.
Lane Theological Seminary — Founded in 1829, is
situated on Gilbert Avenue, Walnut Hills, and is de
voted to the preparation of students for the Presby
terian ministry. Its original endowment consisted of
$4,000, donated by Ebenezer Lane and brother, and
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bers of the Kemper family. Rev. Lyman Beecher,
D. D. , was the first president. No tuition is charged.
The seminary hall, erected in 1879, contains a chapel,
three classrooms, a gymnasium, and rooms for about
fifty students. Other buildings of the seminary are
the Smith Library Hall, the boarding hall, and five
dwellings, designed for professors. The library con
tains 18,000 volumes. The grounds now comprise
about five acres. Take Eden Park or Gilbert Avenue
electric cars at Fountain Square.
Law Department — The legal department of the
city is in charge of the Corporation Counsel, who is
elected by the people for a term of three years, at a
salary of $5, 000 pei year. He appoints several assist
ants and has charge of all the law business in which
the city is interested. His office is in the City Hall.
The Police Court Prosecuting Attorney is an appoint
ment under the Mayor's charge.
Law Library — The Cincinnati Law Library is on
the third floor of the Courthouse, on Main Street,
opposite Court Street. In September, 1846, a subscrip
tion paper was drawn up by William R. Morris for the
purpose of raising a fund for the purchase of law
books foi the use of the bar of the city. One hun
dred and five persons signed this paper. The total
aggregated $2,650, a not insignificant sum in those
days. The association was incorporated June 5, 1847,
and then began its career of usefulness,* when $1,400
worth of books were bought from the leading dealers
of that day, and also a bookcase that cost $94.50.
This bookcase and its treasures were set up in the
Court of Common Pleas, and Mr, Benjamin Bradley
appointed librarian February 8, 1847.
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books were saved from the burning Courthouse. But
little damaged, the library followed the courts, and
went to a building on the north side of Court Street,
just west of St. Clair Alley. In the Spring of 1854
it was moved into the most available room to be had
in the new Courthouse. In 1857 it was moved to the
third floor in commodious quarters, where it remained
until the disastrous fire of March 29, 1884, when all
the accumulated treasures of half a century went up
in smoke. They were treasures indeed, for some of
the books can never be replaced. The library con
tained at that time 17,360 volumes, which had cost
about $44,000. It was reopened April 3, 1884, in
the offices of Judge James W. Fitzgerald, in the De-
bolt Building, with the following three books, found
among the ruins: "Reports of the Supreme Court of
Rhode Island, Vol. IV," "The Laws of Pennsylvania
from 1 805-1808," "Oregon Laws." Later it was
moved with the courts to the Albany Building, and
finally to the new Courthouse. The library contains
now 26,000 volumes. Librarians: Benjamin Bradley,
1847, 1848; Amzi A. Pruden, 1848, 1849; Joseph
McDougal, 1849-1852; John Bradley, 1852-1861;
Maurice W. Myers, the present librarian, has been in
charge since 1861.
Law School — The Law Department of the Univer
sity of Cincinnati was established in 1896 by the
University trustees. The school is located in College
Building, the Cincinnati Law School and the Law
Department of the University of Cincinnati having
combined in May, 1897. Course of study, three years,
and is the same course as that of Harvard Law School.
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from October 1 to June 1 ; hours of instruction, 9 to
n a. m., 4 to 6 p. m. ; Fall term opens first Monday
in October; annual examinations, first Monday in
June. The degree of Bachelor of Laws will be given
to students who, having completed a full three years'
course, pass a satisfactory final examination. Non
resident students in the Law Department may, with
out additional tuition, attend lectures in the Academic
Department of the University. (See Cincinnati Col
lege. )
Libraries — The following is a list of the principal
libraries of the city, and a number of them will be
found considered more at length under their separate
titles :
Public Library of Cincinnati, Vine Street, between
Sixth and Seventh. It has about 200,000 volumes
and 25,000 pamphlets, also contains a large and valu
able Medical Library. Librarian, A. W. Whelpley.
Law Library, County Courthouse; contains now
26,000 volumes. Maurice W. Myers, librarian.
Law School Library, College Building, 416 Walnut
Street, Room 23.
Young Men's Mercantile Library, College Build
ing, 416 Walnut Street.
Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, No.
107 West Eighth Street. Mrs. C.W. Lord, librarian.
Society of Natural History, No. 312 Broadway.
C. G. Lloyd, librarian.
Ohio Mechanics' Institute Library and Reading
Rooms, southwest corner Sixth and Vine Streets. C.
W. Pugh, librarian.
Young Men's Christian Association Reading Rooms,
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Library of Mt. St. Mary's Seminary (Theological),
Price Hill.
Lloyd Library of Botany and Pharmacy, No. 224
West Court Street. Dr. Sigmund Waldbott, librarian.
Cuvier Club Library, Longworth Street, near
Race. Charles Dury, librarian.
Library of the Cincinnati Hospital, Twelfth and
Plum Streets. (10,964 volumes.) P. S. Conner, M.
D., librarian.
Library of the United States Circuit Court of Ap-
1 peals, third floor Custom House and Postoffice Build-
' ing. Library of the Hebrew Union College, No. 720
West Sixth Street.
Police Library, City Hall.
Williams' Directory Library, No. 208 Longworth
Street. There are numerous valuable private libraries, many
of which are rich in specialties. Some of the note
worthy are those of A. T. Goshorn ; Robert Clarke,
containing bibliography and literary history, science
and rare and numerous works in Scottish history and
poetry and also Americana; E. T. Carson, having
probably the most complete Masonic collection in the
world, besides a fine Shakspearean collection.
Lincoln Park — This Park is situated west of Free
man Avenue and covers ten acres. It was formerly the
Potters' Field. It contains a lake and an island, the
lake being used in summer for boating and in winter
for skating; there are also pleasant walks beneath
splendid shade trees. Take Seventh Street and Free
man Avenue cars at Fountain Square.
Literary Club — Organized October 29, 1849; club
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the United States ; membership limited to 100 ; list
of members includes many distinguished men. To
this club belonged a President of the United States
(R. B. Hayes), several members of Cabinets, a Justice
of the Supreme Court, and over forty commissioned
officers in the army of the United States in the late
war. Meets every Saturday night from September to
June. A paper is read by a member each meeting,
after which a supper is served. The library consists
of works written solely by members.
Literary Names — Not without fame, have come
from Cincinnati. One of the early newspaper men
of this city was E. D. Mansfield, editor of the Chron
icle, and subsequently of the old Gazette. Whitelaw
Reid was also connected with the Gazette. W. D.
Howells and John J. Piatt issued a book of poems
entitled "Poems of Two Friends," and John J. Piatt
has since published "Poems of House and Home,"
' ' Western Windows and Other Poems, ' ' etc. In 1846
a book appeared entitled "Poems of Alice and Phcebe
Cary, ' ' and this was followed by ' ' Clovernook Papers, ' '
"Pictures of Country Life" and others. T. Buchanan
Read was a writer and painter in Cincinnati, and here
he wrote "Sheridan's Ride, " which was first recited
by our own famous actor, James E. Murdoch. An
other, not unknown, was W. D. Gallagher. Gen.
Wm. H. Lytle here wrote "I am dying, Egypt, dy
ing. ' ' Another poet and writer was W. W. Fosdick.
W. H. Venable's "June on the Miami," and other
writings, have brought him literary fame. From the
pen of Alice Williams Broth erton are "What the
Wind told the Treetops" and "Sailing of King Olaf."
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Lloyd Library — Located at No. 224 West Court
Street. Of this collection the Pharmaceutical Era,
of New York, said:
' ' In Cincinnati is one of the most famous botanical
and pharmacal libraries in the world, and by scien
tists it is regarded as an invaluable store of knowl
edge upon those branches of medical science. So
famous is it that one of the most noted pharmacolo
gists and chemists of Germany, on a recent trip to
this country, availed himself of its rich collection as
a necessary means of completing his study in the line
of special drug history. When it is known that he
has devoted a life of nearly eighty years to the study
of pharmacology, and is an emeritus professor in the
famous University of Strassburg, the importance of
his action will be understood and appreciated. We
refer to Prof. Frederick Flueckiger, who, in connec
tion with Daniel Hanbury, wrote " Pharmacographia"
and other standard works.
' 'Attached to the library is an herbarium, in which
are to be found over thirty thousand specimens of the
flora of almost every civilized country on the globe.
In another apartment is a collection of books and
pamphlets upon materia medica, pharmacy, chemistry,
and medical and pharmaceutical biography, second
probably to only one in this country, that in possession
of the Surgeon-General of the United States. .
' ' In the botanical department are the best works
obtainable in every country, and there the study of
botany may be carried to any height. In point of
age, some of them go back almost to the time when
the art of printing was discovered. Two copies of
Aristotle are notable. A Greek version, bound in
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columns of Greek and Latin, by Pacius, was published
in 1607., A bibliographical rarity (two editions) is
the Historia Plantarum, by Pinseus, which was issued,
one in 1561, the other in 1567. . . . Ranged
in their sequence are fifty volumes of the famous
author Linnaeus. . . . Spanish and Italian
authors are also on the shelves, the Lloyd collection
of Spanish flora being among the best extant. Twenty-
two volumes of silk paper, bound in bright yellow,
and stitched in silk, contain the flora of Japan. .
" The very complete herbarium, which isa separate
section, was begun by C. G. Lloyd when a school
boy. ' ' It has been augmented and perfected by an inter
change with foreign collectors. The specimens are
arranged in bound books and indexed carefully."
The scientific library of the American Society for
the Advancement of Science, together with the library
of the American Pharmaceutical Association, donated
to the Lloyd Library in 1895, make Cincinnati the
possessor of perhaps the greatest botanical and chem
ical library in the world.
This library is the property of C. G. and J. U.
Lloyd. Longview Hospital for the Insane — Is located at
Carthage. It was originally a part of the ' ' Commer
cial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum for the State of
Ohio," established in Cincinnati in 1821.
By act of the Legislature in 1857, Hamilton County
was made a separate asylum district, and Longview
was built, and in March, i860, was occupied.
Something approaching a fair idea of what Long-
view is can be formed when we state that it is a vil
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complete waterworks, electric light plant, fire depart
ment, etc. There is also an ice plant, with a capacity
of four tons a day, and cold storage rooms for meats,
provisions and vegetables. From a dairy of forty
cows all the milk used is obtained. The engine room
that furnishes this village with light and heat is sur
prising in size and completeness.
The total expenditures for the whole year of 1897
amounted to $162,583.04. This includes not only
the support of the patients and the salaries of the
officers and employees, but all repairs and additions to
the plant.
It has a total area of 106 acres. The frontage of
the building is i,oio>£ feet, while the north and the
south wings have a depth of 283 feet and 374. 7 feet
respectively. Accommodates over 1,000 patients. To
tal cost, with recent improvements, $1,197, 128, all
of which was paid by the County of Hamilton. On
October 31, 1897, there were 490 male and 562 female
patients in the hospital, making a total of 1,052.
Average cost per inmate in 1897, $153. Theatrical
performances for the entertainment of the insane every
two weeks. Ball every Friday night from 8 to 10
o'clock. Light occupations, amusements and sur
roundings have entirely changed the manifestations
of insanity, and also the general character of these
institutions, which are not, as commonly supposed,
places of confinement, but hospitals for the treatment of
the insane, as well as homes for the incurables. Recog
nizing this fact, the Ohio Legislature has changed the
name of the insane asylums to hospitals for the insane.
The hospital has 25 wards, in which are employed
two assistant physicians, 74 male and 60 female at
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9 A. M. to 5 p. m. The county maintains the property,
which it owns ; the patients are maintained by the
State. The Board of Directors of Longview consists of
five members, two of whom are appointed by the
Governor, and one each by the Common Pleas Court,
the Probate Judge, and the County Commissioners.
They hold office for five years, and are not removable
except for cause, which gives the board a fixed tenure,
and makes it free from sudden political changes.
Losantiville — This was the name originally given
to Cincinnati in 1788, by John Filson, one of the
party to lay off the town, and who had been a school
teacher at Lexington, Ky. He constructed the name
by taking the initial letter L from Licking, os, Latin
for mouth, anti meaning opposite, and ville, French
for town, the whole signifying the town opposite the
mouth of the Licking River. General St. Clair changed
the name to "Cincinnati " in 1790.
Ludlow, Ky. — Ludlow was laid out from the farm
of Israel Ludlow in 1846; population, about 5,000.
Lays opposite the mouth of Mill Creek, and about
two miles from Fountain Square. One of the popular
summer resorts of Cincinnati, the Lagoon, is located
near here. It is also the location of the shops and
yards of the Cincinnati Southern Railway. Take
Ludlow cars at Fountain Square, or the Third and
Fifth Street Line to Southern Railway Bridge, and
then cross the bridge.
Madisonville — A suburban town of about 3,000
population and about ten miles northeast of Fountain
Square. It is the home of Cincinnati business men,
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system cost $30,000. There is a commodious town
hall for municipal offices, free reading-room, and a
public hall. The B. & O. S. W. Railway operates
frequent suburban trains, and the town may also be
reached by the Madison Avenue cars, with a transfer
at Hyde Park ; through fare, 5 cents from Fountain
Square. Manufactures — Cincinnati occupies a leading posi
tion among the manufacturing cities of the world.
She is particularly well situated for procuring raw
material, and by reason of her central location, her
railroads diverging in all directions, and with her
waterways, she is the most complete, cheapest and
best distributing center on the continent. "Her
manufacturers are distinguished for their economical
administration, pecuniary ability, scientific attain
ments, mechanical skill and artistic taste." The
scope of her products and the large number of her
individual manufacturers is also a distingushing fea
ture. About one third of the city's population is en
gaged in manufacturing, and the value of the manu
factured product is $250,000,000 yearly. Nearly
150,000 hands are employed in and about 10,000 es
tablishments, representing $120,000,000 of capital,
and $75,000,000 of real estate value. Many of her
products, too, are as wide in their distribution as the
whole is varied in nature. They go not only through
out this country, but to all the nations of Europe, to
China, Japan, Australia, South America, British Co
lumbia, Sandwich Islands, etc., etc.
Cincinnati is the leading iron market on the con
tinent. She produces more iron safes and has the
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of soft coal, transported by both water and rail; is
the only great market on the continent for cabinet
and other hard woods and poplar, for which other
cities are largely dependent upon her; is the only
great market for chestnut oak bark on the conti
nent ; has the largest tannery, under one roof, in the
world ; is the greatest market on the continent for
oak-tanned leather; saddlery and harness product is
double that of any other city on the continent ; has
the largest tobacco commission warehouse in the
world ; is the great whisky market of the continent,
and the largest in the world.
In Cincinnati are located the largest breweries and
storage vaults, and in greater number (43) than in
any other city on the continent.
Cincinnati, Covington and Newport pay one-sixth
of the entire internal revenue of the Government.
Cincinnati is the largest hop consumer and market
fc_r hops in the country; is the leading and lowest
paper market in the West; is a prime market for
hemp, flax, wool and cotton ; has the largest cooper
age works in the United States.
Cincinnati's combined cabinet produet of household
furniture, bank and bar fixtures, picture frames and
moldings, wood mantels, etc. , exceeds in quantity and
excels in grade that of any other city on the continent.
Cincinnati was the pioneer manufacturer of trade fur
niture in the West, and also in later years of bank and
bar fixtures, of which she is the largest and only con
siderable producer on the continent; is the second
largest clothing manufacturing market in the United
States. There are manufactured and sold in greater
value for the money more vehicles in Cincinnati than
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the largest manufacturer of cigar boxes and cigar-box
material, and has the largest veneer mill in America.
In Cincinnati woodworking machinery first originated.
Of such machinery she is the largest producer of any
city in the world, and ships more of them to Europe
than all the rest of the United States. In the manu
facture and invention of machine tools also, she is a
leading city, and among her establishments is one of
the largest of its kind on the continent.
Cincinnati • is the pioneer manufacturer of laundry
machinery, in which she dominates the country and
supplies Europe. Her soap factories are the largest
in the United States ; she is the pioneer manufacturer
of cigar-making machines, in which she dominates the
country and supplies the Government factories of
Europe. In Cincinnati was invented and is manu
factured the only perfect type-making machine in the
world. In Cincinnati is the largest playing-card
manufactory in the world, turning out 40,000,000
packs annually. In Cincinnati is the largest school-
book publishing house in the United States.
Not included in the total of the city's manufactures,
there are in Hamilton County, outside the city limits,
more than 1,200 other manufacturing plants, making
almost $10,000,000 worth of goods annually and em
ploying about 5,000 hands.
These items merely touch the leading industries and
do not by any means include all of the really im
portant ones.
Markets — Cincinnati has the cheapest provision
markets on the continent. The first and the last prod
ucts of the season, as well as the best, are to be had.
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Pearl Street Market — Pearl Street, from Main
to Sycamore, on +>oth sides. Pearl Street, from Syca
more to Broadway, on north side only, 400 feet north
and south of Pearl on Broadway.
Sixth Street Market — Sixth Street, from east
side of Race to Mound, and Mound Street, from Sixth
to Fifth, and Fifth Street, from Mound to Stone.
Court Street Market — Court Street, from Main
Street to Freeman Avenue, and Walnut Street, from
Ninth to Canal.
Findlay Market — Elder Street, from Vine to
Elm, and Elm Street, from Findlay to Green, and
Race Street, from Green to Findlay.
Wade Street Market — Wade Street, from John
to Cutter; also on Cutter Street south to Clinton,
and north to Liberty.
Bluerock Street Market — South side of Blue-
rock Street, from Apple to Colerain Avenue, and Cole-
rain Avenue to Hoffner Street, and Apple Street, from
Bluerock Street to Palm Avenue.
Markets are held from daylight until 11 A. M. on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the Sixth,
Findlay and Bluerock Street Markets, and Saturdays
from 12:30 p. m. to 10 p. m. in the Sixth Street Mar
ket, and from 12:30 p. m. to 11 p. M. in the Bluerock
Street and Findlay Markets. On Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays in the Court, Pearl and Wade
Street Markets.
Jabez Elliott Flower Market — Adjoining the
Sixth Street Market House. Erected by the will of
Mrs. Mary Holroyd as a memorial for her deceased
first husband, Jabez Elliott. Cost, $14,976.95. Open
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The Fifth Street Market, which was regarded the
finest in the city, gave way to the Esplanade and
Fountain, although the Esplanade is occasionally used
as a flower market, an ornamental stand being placed
thereon for the purpose, to fill the letter of the law,
inasmuch as the site was deeded for market purposes
only. Masonic Temple — Third and Walnut, owned by N.
C. Harmony Lodge, No. 2, F. and A. M. Organized
September 8, 1791, three years after the first settle
ment of the present site of Cincinnati. The lodge
organized under a dispensation from the Grand Lodge
of New Jersey, and was called Nova Caesarea No. 10.
They acquired possession of the lot, 100 by 200 feet,
upon which the present Temple now stands, in 1804
by the "will" of William McMillan, a member of
the lodge. The present building was completed in
i860 at a cost of about $212,000 and is soon to be
remodeled. The basement, first and second floors are
used for business purposes. Nine Blue Lodges and
four Chapters occupy commodious and comfortable
quarters on the third and fourth floors. The business
is managed by a Property Committee of eight mem
bers of the lodge.
May Festivals, Cincinnati — The first German Fes
tival, or Sangerfest, was held in Cincinnati in 1849,
at which only one concert was given. It was held in
Armory Hall, on Court Street. The chorus numbered
one hundred and eighteen in all, representing five
singing societies. In 1870 the Sangerfest returned to
Cincinnati, for which a hall was specially built, and
in which two thousand singers participated.
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tional Festival of Singers and instrumentalists of the
United States be held, which at once was enthusiast
ically received by him, and the result was the First
May Festival held in 1873.
'the Cincinnati Musical Festival Association was
incorporated under the laws of Ohio for the purpose,
and manages these festivals.
A second festival was held in 1875, and its success
resulted in the building of Music Hall and the great
organ, which were opened and dedicated at the third
festival, held in 1878.
Another Sangerfest was held in Cincinnati in 1879,
in Music Hall, and at the last Sangerfest, held in
Pittsburg in 1896, it was unanimously decided to have
a Jubilee Festival in Cincinnati in 1899, the city
where the North American Sangerbund was created.
While the May festivals were suggested by the San
gerfest, the two Associations are quite separate and
distinct. In 1880 the Festival Chorus was established
as a permanent organization, and it is the most impor
tant factor of the festivals. To the assistance of the
chorus is brought a large orchestra and eminent solo
ists for the production of works worthy of such occa
sions. The works performed at these festivals include the
great musical compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Mo
zart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, Liszt,
Rubinstein, Wagner, and others.
Mr. Theodore Thomas has been the musical director
from the beginning.
Mayor, The — Is the chief executive officer of the
city, and is elected at a general election. He holds
his office for a term of three years, at a salary of
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in some of the city departments. His office is in the
City Hall.
Medical Colleges — Cincinnati has long been recog
nized as a leader in medical education, her colleges
ranking high ; the list is as follows :
Medical College of Ohio (Medical Department of
University of Cincinnati), organized 1819; in Uni
versity Building, head of Elm Street.
Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery,
founded in 1850; 1625 Vine Street.
Miami Medical College, founded 1858; Twelfth
Street, between Elm and Plum.
Eclectic Medical Institute, organized 1845; north
west corner Court and Plum Streets.
Pulte Medical College, organized 1872; southwest
corner Seventh and Mound Streets.
Clinical and Pathological School of the Cincinnati
Hospital, organized 1821.
Cincinnati College of Dental Surgery, 233 West
Court Street.
Ohio College of Dental Surgery, established 1845;
northeast corner Court Street and Central Avenue.
Miami Dental College, southeast corner Elm Street
and Shillito Place.
Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, established 1871;
614 West Court Street.
Laura Memorial College, 6t8 West Sixth Street.
Medical Libraries — There have been three collec
tions of medical books and journals of any consider
able size in Cincinnati, that of the Medical College
of Ohio, that of the Doctors Mussey, and that of the
Cincinnati Hospital. The first and second-mentioned
collections, numbering about ten thousand volumes
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medical collection of tbe Public Library. The third,
which has year by year been supported by the fees
paid in by students at the Cincinnati Hospital, is in
a commodious room at the Hospital Building, and
numbers about ten thousand volumes and two thou
sand pamphlets, any of which may be consulted by
any physician during eight hours of each week day.
Medical Research — Cincinnati Society for Medical
Research, organized January 28, 1897, meets on the
first Thursday of every month in the Physiological
Laboratory of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and
Surgery. The object of the society is to stimulate
scientific research along medical lines, and to offer to
its members an opportunity to present the results of
their work and to compare laboratory experiences.
The work is limited to the purely technical and sci
entific aspects of medicine, so as not to conflict with
the Academy of Medicine. Its membership is not
limited to physicians, but is open to all workers in
allied sciences. The proceedings of the society are
published regularly in the Lancet-Clinic, of Cincin
nati, which is the official organ of the society.
Mercantile Library — See Young Men's Mercantile
Library Association.
Morgue — The Morgue is located on Eighth Street,
between Sycamore and Broadway. This is a grue
some but necessary institution, two stories high and
of moderate size, built of brick. In the morgue, be
hind a glass partition, is a row of marble slabs, upon
which the bodies await identification. When ident
ified it is turned over to the proper claimant, but can
not be removed without the consent of the coroner.
Munro Hotel — Seventh Street, between Vine and
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men only. The hotel building is a new and elegant
six-story, pressed-brick building 75 by 150 feet, and
contains 100 rooms. All rooms are furnished with
telephones, stationary washstands, steam heat, gas and
electric light, brass beds, and all the other furnish
ings to correspond — first-class in every particular.
The day rates include the use of shower and plunge
baths. There are also Turkish, vapor and electric
bath departments. "The Munro," with its central
location, unsurpassed service, and the convenience of
the baths in the same building, is one of the most
desirable stopping-places in the city, and is very pop
ular with commercial men.
Museums — See Art Museum. Old and rare collec
tions are not numerous, but the following may be of
interest :
Autographs and Manuscripts — Robert Clarke has a
large collection of literary MSS., including some fine
letters and poems of Robert Burns. The Historical
and Philosophical Society and the libraries also have
collections. Birds and Fishes — See Cuvier Club,
Natural History Society, and Zoological Society.
Books — See Libraries. Fossils — A valuable collection
was presented to the University of Cincinnati by
Robert Clarke. Insects — The insect collections of
Charles Dury, of Avondale, rank among the most
complete in the country. The series of North Amer
ican Beetles (Coleoptera) are the largest and finest in
the United States. The specimens are correctly named
and handsomely mounted. Many of the species that
were abundant in former years have disappeared and
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other changes of environment. These collections are
the result of Mr. Dury's incessant labors for more
than twenty-five years. Medical Museums can be
seen at the various medical colleges and at the Cin
cinnati Hospital. Natural History Specimens — See
Natural History Society, Cuvier Club, and Zoological
Society. Paintings — See Art. Statuary — See Art
and Statues.
Music Hall and Exposition Buildings — Southwest
corner Elm and Fourteenth Streets; built 1875-78
from donations of $185,000 by Mr. Reuben R.
Springer and $125,000 by Mr. John Shillito and other
citizens ; ground donated by the city, and is perpetu
ally free from taxation ; property is owned by Music
Hall Association ; incorporated November, 1875; 50
stockholders; buildings three stories and towers;
built of bright cherry-colored pressed brick ; Italian-
Gothic style of architecture. Music Hall has frontage
of 178^ feet; north and south wings each 95 feet
9^ inches frontage; buildings extend back to Plum
Street, 316 feet 5^ inches; cost of Music Hall $350,-
000; cost of Exposition Buildings, $150,331,51; in
terior of Music Hall completely remodeled in 1896 at
a cost of over $100,000; size of the hall, 112 feet
broad and 192 feet long; seating capacity, 3,663;
stage, 112 feet in width and 70 feet deep, one of the
largest in the country; has a fine proscenium and
two new galleries, extending all around the hall to
the stage ; new ventilating, lighting and heating sys
tems. Has two places for the orchestra — a sunken or
chestra for operatic representations, between footlights
and curtain, and also in front of stage. The audience
room is lighted by 1,236 electric lights; the stage
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handling of audiences, with wide corridors, unbroken
by any steps, and independent exits, this hall is un-
equaled and as nearly fire-proof as such buildings can
be made.
Music Hall has one of the greatest and finest organs
in the country, built at Boston in 1878, by Hook &
Hastings; cost $32,695, of which R. R. Springer gave
$5,000; 65 feet high, 50 feet wide and 30 feet deep;
has 94 stops, 6,277 pipes and 5 bellows, worked by 5
hydraulic motors in the cellar. Music Hall has 9
doorways in front, opening into a grand vestibule, 46
by 112 feet deep and 41 feet high, from which run
corridors 18 feet wide along each side of the main
hall; north wing has Power Hall and Technical
School; south wing has Horticultural Hall and Art
Galleries; sidewalks in front of buildings on Elm
Street are 24 feet wide; broad stone steps lead to
Music Hall.
Music Hall Association — The Cincinnati Music
Hall Association was organized in December, 1875,
to build and control the Music Hall. Reuben R.
Springer had offered $125,000 towards the building
of a music hall, provided the citizens would contrib
ute an equal sum, and the city would permit the hall
to be erected on public ground. These conditions
were fulfilled, and the association organized as fol
lows : The whole subscribers to the fund selected fifty
of their number to form a joint stock company, and
to hold one share of stock of the par value of $20.00,
A shareholder can not sell his share to anybody, not
first approved by the trustees ; and at his death the
share reverts to the association, to be at once put into
the hands of a suitable person. The shareholders
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trustees — one being elected every year to serve seven
years. The Music Hall, and the Exposition Buildings
which have since been added, must be rented as low
as will keep them in repair. No profit can be made,
and no trustee is permitted to receive any compen
sation. Musical Societies — Musical clubs and societies are
numerous, but the following are the principal ones :
Apollo Club — Organized 1881; object, the culti
vation of a taste by the public for high-class music;
applicants for membership required to be competent
musicians ; club derives its support from subscribers
to its concerts; three concerts each year at Music
Hall ; meets every Tuesday evening at the Odeon. B.
W. Foley, Musical Director.
Cincinnati Liederkranz — Organized January 1, 1886
(incorporated), male chorus. Applicants must be 21
years of age and pass the examination for vocalists ;
60 active and 200 passive members; initiation fee,
$2 ; dues, $5 per year ; meets every Wednesday at cor
ner of St. Clair and Jefferson Avenues.
Ladies' Musical Club — Organized in 1890; object,
the study and practice of classical music ; three hun
dred associate and fifty active members ; dues, active
members' $2 ; and associate members, $5 ; meets once
in two weeks at College Hall; Board of Directors
meets the last Wednesday in each month; annual
election in May.
Orpheus Club — Organized January 20, 1893; one
of the most prominent singing societies; has about
75 active members. Charles A. Graninger, Conductor.
Symphony Orchestra — Organized in 1893; object,
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Board of Directors meets the first Tuesday in every
month; annual election in May; Frank Van der
Stucken, Conductor.
United Singing Society — Organized December, 1896 ;
male chorus, composed of the various German singing
societies here; 600 active members; initiation fee,
$10; dues, $1. Meets first Sunday in every month
at Central Turner Hall.
Mt. Auburn — One of the most beautiful hilltop
suburban portions of the city; lays almost directly
north of Fountain Square, about two miles, with
Avondale to its north, Walnut Hills on the east, and
Clifton on the west. It has numerous elegant private
residences, beautiful churches and public institutions.
This was the first hilltop suburb to come within the
city limits. Here are located the Cincinnati Orphan
Asylum, German Protestant Orphan Asylum, Christ's
Hospital, Bodmann Widows' Home, and German
Methodist Deakoness Home.
Mt. Harrison — The western highlands immediately
north of Price Hill. It was named Mt. Harrison
because this elevation was the home of ex- President
Wm. H. Harrison, who, in the early history of the city,
built a dwelling on the slope facing Cincinnati. The
dwelling was an old landmark until removed in 1876.
On one part of this elevation Chief Justice Chase, dur
ing the early period of his residence in this city, erected
a dwelling which still stands. The locality, with its
delightful elevations, its graceful slopes and groves,
is one of surpassing natural beauty.
Mt. Healthy — Popularly known as " Mt. Pleasant, "
is a suburban village, situated on the Hamilton Pike,
about ten miles from Fountain Square. It has a com
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On the Mt. Pleasant Pike, a mile south of the
village, towards College Hill, is situated "Clover-
nook," the home of the Carys. Here Alice was
born in April, 1820, and Phcebe in September, 1824;
and here they attended the village school. A byrth-
day celebration in their honor was held at Mt. Pleas
ant in 1880, by the teachers of Hamilton County.
(See also College Hill. )
Mt. Lookout — Is about four miles northeast from
Fountain Square. It is one of the most attractive
suburban districts in the city. The Observatory of
the University of Cincinnati is situated here. It also
contains a large park, which is used for picnics, etc.
The distance by railroad is six miles. Take Madison
Avenue or Delta Avenue cars.
Mt. Pleasant— (See Mt. Healthy. )
Mt. St. Mary's of the West Seminary — Located
on Price Hill. Founded in 1848. Students in this
seminary pursue philosophical and theological studies.
This Institution has a very fine Theological Li
brary. There are upwards of 15,000 volumes, and
over 4,000 pamphlets and journals not yet catalogued.
The library is especially rich in its collection of Illu
minated MSS. An estimate of their value may be
formed from the fact that copies of works prior to the
invention of printing exist only as rare and valuable
curiosities. To this class belong Lotharius de Missa-
rum Mysteries, written on vellum, in colored inks,
belonging to the fourteenth century. This important
MS. was written by the ecclesiastic who afterwards
became Pope Innocent III.
There is also a fine collection of rare old Bibles.
Luther's German edition of the Bible printed by John
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the Genealogy of Our Lord, which contains some of
the first attempts at the production of colored plates.
The Annales Ecclesiastica of Csesar Baronius, pub
lished at Rome in 1588, in twelve folio volumes.
This stupendous work occupied Baronius for thirty
years, and contains a history of the church from the
earliest time to 1198. An extremely interesting and
curious work is the Biblius Apparatus of B. Walton,
1673. Also, Cosmography, a description of All Lands,
1578. Luther's Sermons, Letters and Controversies,
published at Frankfort on the Main.
Among the interesting relics is an aspergellum that
was used by the Jesuits at the Chapel of St. Ignace,
probably the first used by these celebrated missionaries
in America. Also a quaint little volume, "Medita
tions and Soliloquies of St. Augustine," which was
rifled by the soldiery during the Mexican War from
the hands of a dead abbess. Perhaps the most inter
esting curio is the facsimile in wax of the figure of
the Emperor Maximilian, which was pronounced by
Major Abdre Burithe, a member of the staff of Gen
eral Bazaine, a most perfect likeness.
The library has a notable collection of incunabula
— Shakespeariana — rare editions of Terence, Livy,
Sallust; first editions of Bancroft's works and Samuel
Johnson. The cabinet for antique coins, 'medals,
mosaics, is in the large reading-room. It also has
copies of the first newspapers published in America,
such as The Federal Herald, of 1776, and The New
England Palladium. Take Warsaw Avenue electric
car at east side of Postoffice.
Mt. Washington — Is one of the northeastern suburbs
of Cincinnati. It is noted for its beautiful rolling
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good health ; also for its fine avenues of trees. It has
a town hall, a fine graded public school, and several
churches ; 500 feet above the Ohio River level ; the
views are magnificent, reaching on some high points
five miles each way riverward. The Little Miami
River flows at its base. Residences comfortable, and
some very fine. Reached by Cincinnati, Georgetown
& Portsmouth Railway.
Natural History — The Cincinnati Society of Nat
ural History — Incorporated June 20, 1870. Museum
and library, 312 Broadway. Open every week
day from 8 a. M. to 5 p. m. Meets first Tuesday of
each month. Endowed with $50,000 by will of
Charles Bodmaun, July 16, 1877. Cost of building,
$11,500. The society has a large scientific library
and a valuable museum. In the paleontological de
partment are particularly noticeable : 1. A large col
lection of fossil crinoids. 2. The finest specimen in
existence of horncores of the fossil ox, bos latifrons.
3. A collection of bones of mastodon found within
the city limits of Cincinnati, on the estate of Miss
Louise Shaw, in Hyde Park. The archaeological de
partment contains, among other things, rich collec
tions of skulls and implements of the aborigines of
Hamilton County, exhumed at the so-called "prehis
toric cemetery, " at Madisonville. The society gives
a free course of popular scientific lectures during the
winter, and publishes a journal on natural history.
Newport, Ky. — Newport is a suburb of Cincinnati
and connected with it by two bridges across the Ohio,
and is connected with Covington by three bridges
across the Licking River. The population, is about
33,000. It is built on an elevated plain, commanding
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works system and excellent water. It is sought
mainly by business men of Cincinnati as a dwelling
place by reason of its pure air and pleasant surround
ings. There are numerous beautiful residences, and
the highlands back of the city are of the most pictur
esque. On beyond Newport, upon these grand hills,
is located the U. S. Barracks, Ft. Thomas, command
ing one of the finest views on the continent, over
looking the Ohio River and Little Miami Valley.
This point is said to rival Wrest Point, on the Hudson,
for beauty, and the trip via electric cars should not
be omitted. Take cars at east end of Fountain
Square. Newsboys' Home — A branch of the Union Bethel,
where homeless bootblacks and newsboys are fur
nished free lodgings, baths and cheap meals, ten cents
being the full price.
Night Schools — A branch of the public school sys
tem, are held during the winter months, and on an
average are taken advantage of from year to year by
about 2,000 young men and women. They are open
on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from
7:15 to 9 p. m. A few years ago a graded system
was organized which culminated in a night high
school. Normal School — The Cincinnati Normal School
was established in 1868 in the Eighth District School-
house. At present the school occupies the six-room
building on Ninth Street, near John, and is under
the direction of a principal and four teachers. The
school comprises two departments, a department of
instruction and a department of practice. Two years
are required to complete the full course. By a rule
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School shall have the preference, other things being
equal, for positions in the public schools of the city."
North Bend — Is a suburban village fourteen miles
west of Fountain Square, on the Big Four and Balti
more & Ohio Southwestern Railways, and also the
Ohio River. It is the location of the homes of some
of Cincinnati's business men, and is also noted for
being the location of the grave of John Cleves
Symmes, the original purchaser of the site of Cincin
nati, and the tomb of Gen. William H. Harrison,
Ohio's first President.
Norwood — Was originally called Sharpsburg, and
is an incorporated village of about 5,000 population.
It is a beautiful residence suburb, with many hand
some homes, good streets, numerous churches and
splendid schools. It has a townhall, electric light
plant, and waterworks. It lies northeast of Fountain
Square about 6 miles, and may be reached by the
Norwood line of cars from Fountain Square, by the
Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern from Court Street
Depot, or by the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Railway from Central Station.
Nurses — The demand for trained nurses is large
in a city like Cincinnati, and a number of training
schools have been established for the purpose of edu
cating men and women for that duty. Almost any
physician can recommend a competent nurse to his
patients, and a bureau of nurses is connected with
the Academy of Medicine, which will supply trained
nurses upon application. Training for service as
nurses is given at the City Hospital, the Jewish Hos
pital and at the Ohio Hospital for Women and Chil
dren ; Christ Hospital trains for deaconess work. At
the City Hospital they receive $7 per month during

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the first year and $9 during the second. At the Jew
ish Hospital juniors receive $6 per month and seniors,
$10. At the Ohio Hospital for Women and Children
they pay $2 per week for the first year and $3 per
week for the second. At all of these hospitals board,
lodging and laundry is provided for the nurses. Ap
plication for admission should be made to the super
intendents of these institutions. The wages of a
trained nurse vary from $10 to $25 per week.
Observatory — The Observatory of the University
of Cincinnati is located at Mount Lookout, six miles
northeast of the center of the city. The grounds
comprise four acres on the summit of the hill, donated
by John Kilgour, who also gave $10,000 towards
erecting the building, which is of brick. In the
center rises the massive masonry pier, which supports
the great equatorial of eleven inches aperture and
sixteen feet focal length. It is protected by a new
iron dome, which can be revolved with great rapidity
and ease. The shutter is operated by an endless rope,
the opening being four feet in width, and extending
from the horizon to the zenith.
In the western wing is placed the new meridian
circle, by Fauth & Co. This instrument has an aper
ture of five inches and a focal length of seventy
inches, and is supplied with all modern improvements.
The circle is divided to five minutes of arc, and read
by four microscopes to single seconds. The sidereal
clock, by Molyneux, is also in this wing. The east
ern wing is used as a library and computing room.
The Observatory possesses also a four-inch equatorial,
by Clark, a sidereal chronometer and chronograph,
by Bond, and a mean-time clock, by Ritchie. The
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of the star catalogues and many valuable works of
reference. The scientific activity of the Observatory has been
uninterrupted since its removal, in 1873, to the pres
ent site. During this period twelve numbers of the
regular publication have been issued, containing over
one thousand pages of astronomical observation and
research. In addition, numerous memoirs are pub
lished every year in the astronomical journals.
The Observatory had its origin in the Cincinnati
Astronomical Society, which was organized in May,
1842. Prof. O. M. Mitchell was the first observer.
The cornerstone of the old Observatory was laid by
John Quincy Adams, November 9, 1843, on a four-
acre lot, situated on the summit of Mt. Adams, and
donated by Nicholas Longworth. In 1872, the old
site on Mt. Adams having become unsuitable by rea
son of the noise and smoke of the city, the Longworth
heirs joined with the Astronomical Society in an
agreement to give the grounds to the city to be sold
and the proceeds to be donated to the School of Draw
ing and Design ; the city agreeing, on its part, to sus
tain an observatory in connection with the University
of Cincinnati. The building, with the grounds, was
sold in 1872 to the Passionists Fathers, and is now
used as a monastery. The Astronomical Society
donated all their instruments and reports and became
extinct. The Director, J. G. Porter, is also Professor of As
tronomy at the University. Tickets of admission can
be obtained free from the clerk of the University,
office in City Hall. Take Madison Avenue cars at
Fountain Square.

QUEEN CITY CLUB.

ODD FELLOWS' TEMPLE, SECOND PRESBYTERIAN
CORNER SEVENTH AND ELM STREETS. CHURCH.
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Odd Fellows' Temple — Corner Seventh and Elm
Streets; built in 1891-1894; dedicated May 5, 1894;
one of the handsomest buildings in the city ; owned
by the Odd Fellows' Temple Company ; total cost of
building, $337,800.22, including $150,000 for the
ground. Has an auditorium with a seating capacity
of 1,000, nine large lodge rooms, dance hall and ban
quet room.
Office Buildings — The modern large office buildings
are becoming quite numerous. Some of the principal
of these and their locations are as follows :
Allen, Fifth and Main Streets.
Atlas, 518 Walnut Street.
Berkshire, Elm Street and Shillito Place.
Blymyer, 514 Main Street.
Bodmann, 621 Main Street.
Carew, southwest corner Fifth and Vine Streets.
Carlisle, S. W. Cor. Fourth and Walnut Streets.
Chamber of Commerce Building, 4th and Vine Sts.
First National Bank Building, 3d and Walnut Sts.
• Fosdick, 41 East Fourth Street.
Glenn Building, Fifth and Race Streets.
Goodall, 330 West Ninth Street.
Hulbert, southeast corner Sixth and Vine Streets.
Johnston, S. W. Cor. Fifth and Walnut Streets.
Lancaster, 22-24 West Seventh Street.
Lincoln Inn Court, 519 Main Street.
Lion, 434 Elm Street.
Masonic Temple, N. E. Cor. Third and Walnut Sts.
Miami, northwest corner Fifth and Elm Streets.
Mitchell, 9 West Fourth Street.
Neave, northwest corner Fourth and Race Streets.
Odd Fellows' Temple, northwest corner Seventh
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Perin, northwest corner Fifth and Race Streets.
Pickering, southeast corner Fifth and Main Streets.
Pike, Fourth Street, between Vine and Walnut Sts.
Rawsou, northeast corner Fourth and Elm Streets.
St. Paul, in East Fourth Street.
United Bank Building, southeast corner Third and
Walnut Streets.
Western Methodist Book Concern Building, 222
West Fourth Street.
Wiggins Block, southeast corner Fifth and Vine
Streets. Ohio — One of the five states into which the North
west Territory was divided, and of which Cincinnati
is the metropolis, contains 39,964 square miles, and
in 1890 had a population of 3,672,316 persons. The
first permanent settlement was made near the mouth
of the Muskingum River by a party of 47 persons,
mostly New Englanders, under the leadership of Gen.
Rufus Putnam, son of Israel Putnam, of Revolution
ary fame. They started on their long journey in the
autumn of 1787 and reached their destination in the
spring of the following year. The little town was
named Marietta, in honor of Marie Antoinette, the
unfortunate wife of Louis XVI. From this time the
immigration, chiefly from the New England States,
was so constant that in 1802 Ohio was admitted to
the Union. Ohio is 210 miles from north to south,
200 miles from east to west, has a navigable frontier
on the south, through the windings of the Ohio River,
of 430 miles, has a lake shore on the north of 200
miles, and in 1890 ranked as the fourth state in popu
lation, wealth and power. The word Ohio, which is
of Indian origin, is said to mean "beautiful." The
State is universally known as the Buckeye State.

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Ohio has three cities of the first class, Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Toledo, but only Cincinnati is of the
first grade. Of the second class Columbus is of the
first grade, Dayton second, Sandusky, Portsmouth,
Akron, Zanesville, Springfield and Hamilton third,
Ashtabula fourth.
Ohio Humane Society — for the prevention of cruelty
to animals and for the protection of children, was
established nearly twenty-five years ago. The object
of this meritorious society is fully explained by its
title. The society is supported by donations from
the public, and a large financial benefit has been real
ized by the recently-enacted law empowering the
society to license all dogs found within the corporate
limits of the city. A home and hospital has recently
been built for animals taken in charge by the society,
and a large revenue is expected from this source.
The headquarters are at 24 East Ninth Street.
Ohio Mechanics' Institute — Sixth and Vine Streets ;
was founded in 1828, and incorporated in 1829. In
1830 the Institute purchased the Enon Baptist Church,
on Walnut Street, between Third and Fourth, for a
lecture hall, library, etc. In 1848 the corner-stone of
the present building at Sixth and Vine Streets was
laid. In 1856-7 the School of Design of the Ohio
Mechanics' Institute was founded, which is claimed
to have been the forerunner of the Cincinnati School
of Design, now the Art Academy. This institution
was also the originator of the Cincinnati Industrial
Expositions, the first exhibition being held in 1838,
in Madame Trollope's Bazaar. These fairs, as they
were then called, were continued until the first Ex
position in 1870. The instruction given in the Insti
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architectural, artistic, practical mechanics, carriage
drafting and mathematics. The Institute possesses a
reference library and a reading-room well stocked
with periodicals. A popular lecture course is given
each winter for the students and their friends. The
tuition fee is $3.
Ohio River — Upon the banks of which Cincinnati
is situated, is one of the most important rivers in the
United States, and is formed by the confluence of the
Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at Pittsburg,
Penn., whence it flows in a southwesterly direction,
dividing Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, on the right, from
Virginia and Kentucky on the left. Its entire length
is 950 miles, and it enters the Mississippi River 1,216
miles from the mouth of the latter river. Its most
important tributaries are the Wabash, Cumberland,
Muskingum, Kanawha, Kentucky and Tennessee
Rivers. Its medium breadth is 1,800 feet, and oppo
site Cincinnati its elevation above the level of the sea
is 414 feet. The navigable waters of the Ohio and
its tributaries are estimated at 5,000 miles, and the
extent of area drained, at 200,000 square miles.
Old Boundaries, Landmarks and Streets — The first
colonists of Cincinnati, consisting of 27 men, landed in
1788 at a small inlet of the Ohio River, near what is
now the foot of Sycamore Street, this little harbor for
many years being known as "Yeatman's Cove," and
near it was erected the first noted public resort in Cin
cinnati, called "Yeatman's Tavern." About ten months
after the landing of these first settlers Fort Washing
ton was begun on the site now partly covered by the
Lorraine Building, near the corner cf Broadway and
Third Streets. And it is claimed that an elm tree,

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standing at the corner of Chase and Dane Streets,
Cumminsville, marks the location of "Mad Anthony"
Wayne's camp in 1793, while fighting the Indians and
making possible the continuance of life in Cincinnati.
At the corner of Pearl Street and Broadway is the
old market-house, on one end of which is inscribed
the words "Erected in 1816. "
Still more ancient than these is the site claimed to
be the location of the Mound Builders' Watchtower,
at about the corner of Fifth and Mound Streets.
About 1830, Front Street from Walnut west to Elm,
was lined by beautiful homes. The wharf, between
Main Street and Broadway, was the meeting place,
especially on Sunday morning, to exchange the news,
and from thence to go to church. The chief business
streets were Main and Lower Market, now Pearl
Street. At what is now the intersection of Main and
Pearl Streets stood a large tavern with a yard or lot
into which teamsters drove. This tavern was bought
from the owner by merchants, who built a row of
four-story brick stores, thought at the time to be the
finest in America, some of which are still standing on
the north side of the street, east of Main. Pearl Street,
west of Walnut, was opened in 1844. Fifth Street,
east of Main, was occupied by cheap residences, and
a wooden market-house occupied the space now filled
by the Esplanade and Fountain. About 1833 Broad
way and East Fourth Streets began to be aristocratic
residence streets. Fourth Street, as far west as Plum,
was a beautiful street, and what is now the old portion
of the St. Nicholas was one of the handsome mansions
of the street. A fence at what is now Wood Street
ended Fourth Street. In 1832 Columbia Street, now
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bridges at all intersections west of Walnut Street. No
business of importance was done west of Main Street,
and all transportation was by river, by canal or by
wagons. In 1842 the Little Miami Railroad was opened up.
Streets north of the canal were simply roadways.
Central Avenue was then Western Row, and north of
Court Street were pastures, and mud roads; led up to
Walnut Hills and Clifton. The pork-houses were on
Sycamore and Canal Streets ; the wholesale dry^goods
houses on Pearl and Main Streets, and the large . gro
cery houses on Main, Front and Pearl Streets.
In 1829 Mrs. Frances Trollope thought to revolu
tionize trade and society in Cincinnati, and built a
house where business and pleasure should be com
bined, which she called "The Bazaar," but her efforts
were highly unappreciated. A few years ago the
bazaar building gave way to the present Lorraine
Building, on Third Street, east of Broadway.
One of the oldest of the one-time fine houses in the
semiclassical style, built about 1825-30, is the Key's
House, where Charles McMicken lived, in front of the
Old University Building, and now occupied by the
janitor of the Medical College of Ohio (the College
now occupying the University Building). Another
is the residence of David Sinton, on the east side of
Pike Street, almost opposite the east end of Fourth
Street. On the northeast corner of Orchard and Main
Streets is a plain brick house, having long porches in
the rear, which was the home of William Woodward,
the founder of Woodward College.
When Third Street was the fashionable street there
were many fine houses on both sides of it, built mostly

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THE RAWS0N BUILDINO, FOURTH AND ELM STREETS.
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with Greek temple facades. Of this class of houses
only one remains, that of J. Williamson, on the north
side of the street, between Plum and Elm Streets, and
now quite dilapidated. On Mt. Harrison, the hill
just north of Price Hill, Chief Justice Chase, during
the early period of his residence in this city, erected
a dwelling which still stands.
The Burnet House, Third and Vine Streets, built in
1849, was then considered one of the grandest hotels
in the world, and is a magnificent landmark, though
remodeled and modernized. Among its guests have
been Presidents, Princes, Dukes, Lords, Chief Justices,
famous actors and actresses, and it is still a favorite.
The Lytle House, on Lawrence Street, just south
of Fourth, was built in 181 4, and although one of the
oldest buildings, is still in excellent condition and
occupied as a residence. It was built for Gen. Wm.
Lytle. The old National Theater Building, on the east
side of Sycamore Street, between Third and Fourth,
was at one time the only theater Cincinnati possessed
and on its boards have trod the greatest actors that
ever visited this city. The building is now used for
manufacturing purposes.
In the house at 49 East Eighth Street, old number,
T. Buchanan Read, once an artist and writer here,
wrote his famous poem, "Sheridan's Ride," in 1864.
"Clovernook, " the home of the Cary Sisters, on
the Mt. Pleasant Road, between College Hill and Mt.
Healthy, may still be seen.
At North Bend, fourteen miles west, is the tomb of
Wm. H. Harrison, once President, and also of John
Cleves Symmes, the first landowner.
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note, but they have been destroyed by the rapid march
of modern civilization.
Opera Houses — See Amusements.
"Over-the-Rhine" — Is a name designating the dis
trict laying in the angle formed by the "elbow" of the
canal, east of Plum Street, north of Canal, or Elev
enth Street, and south of the northern circle of hills.
It is the most densely populated portion of the city,
and is inhabited by about 40,000 persons, almost ex
clusively Germans and Americans of German descent.
Variety shows, beer-gardens and other places of amuse
ment and recreation are in its precincts, but these are
not so numerous nor as gay as "in the old days" be
fore the city spread to the hilltops.
Painters and Sculptors — The atmosphere of Cin
cinnati seems to be conducive to the development of
genius in every direction. Her artisans are distin
guished for their cunning; her scholars for their pro
foundness; her public benefactors for their munifi
cence, and the works of art of her galaxy of painters
and sculptors command the admiration of the world.
Here have painted such artists as A. W. Corwine, A.
Hervieu, James H. and Frank Beard (father and
son), Miner H. Kellogg, William H. Powell, Thomas
Buchanan Read, painter and poet, W. L. Sonntag, W.
W. Whittredge, Joseph O. Eaton, John R. Johnson,
John R. Tait, Charles R. Soule, A. H. Wyant, J. E.
F. Hillen, Fabronius, G. Rossi, Henry W. Kemper,
Dwight Benton, George Sharpies, John Aubrey, Theo.
Jones, C. T. Webber, Thomas C. Lindsay, William
P. Noble, E. D. Grafton, Franz Duveneck, Henry
Mosler, John Twachtmann, Henry F. Farney, Ken
yon Cox, Thomas S. Noble, Eastman Johnson, E. F.
Andrews and others.

RESIDENCE OF DAVID SINTON, PIKE STREET.
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Among her sculptors have been Frederick Eckstein ;
Hiram Powers, creator of the "Greek Slave," "Eve
Disconsolate," "America," busts of "Psyche,"
"Evangeline," " Eve Repentant, " etc. ; S. Clevenger,
who made the bust of Harrison now in the Young
Men's Mercantile Library; Thomas D. Jones; Ed
Brackett; N. F. Baker, his statue of "Cincinnatus"
is now in the City Hall and "Egeria" in the lake at
Spring Grove; Louis T. Rebisso; Moses J. Ezekiel,
the well-known sculptor of the statue of "Religious
Liberty," also made the bust of James E. Murdoch
in the Public Library; L. Fettweis; Frank Dengler;
August Mundhenk ; H. K. Brown ; Preston Powers ;
Chas. H. Niehaus, etc.
Palace Hotel — Northwest corner Sixth and Vine
Streets, is a magnificent modern building, built for a
high-priced hotel, but in 1885 rates were reduced to
$2 and up per day, American plan ; $1 up, European
plan. The Palace has 250 rooms, 140 fronting on
the street ; new carpets and furnishings, electric lights,
steam heat, return call -bells and telephones in cor
ridors and departments ; caters to the best family and
commercial trade. Under the management of Mr.
Walter H. Maxwell the success this hotel has achieved
and maintained is phenomenal, and its always-crowded
office rotunda is a constant evidence of its popularity.
Paris of America — Is a name given to this city,
and has been credited to "The Cincinnati Commer
cial," as follows : "One Monday morning in the early
part of 1878, in 'The Commercial's' local colums,
edited by Edwin Henderson, appeared a long report
of the varied and numerous amusements taking place
on the Sunday preceding; and at the head of the
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eminently suggestive of Sunday revelry, and which at
once became popular. Newspapers, railroads, shows,
and advertisers used it so much as an attractive catch-
line, that it became a generally recognized name for
Cincinnati." The term has been occasionally applied
to Cincinnati for more than 30 years, and is also said
to have originated from an address by Judge George
Hoadly, when he prophesied that Cincinnati would be
" a city fair to the sight, with a healthy public spirit,
and high intelligence, sound to the core ; a city with
pure water to drink, pure air to breathe, spacious pub
lic grounds, wide avenues ; a city not merely of much
traffic, but of delightful homes; a city of manufac
tures, wherein is made every product of art — the
needle-gun, the steam-engine, the man of learning,
the woman of accomplishments ; a city of resort for
the money-profit of its dealings, and the mental and
spiritual profit of its culture — the Edinboro' of a new
Scotland, the Boston of a new New England, the
Paris of a new France. ' '
Parks — The following are the public parks in the
city, several of which will be found described else
where under their own names : ACRES.
Eden Park. ..  209.25
Burnet* Woods. ..  . .163.50
Lincoln Park. ...  .10.00
Washingt®n Park  5.00
Hopkins Park  1.00
Garfield Place  ., . 1.00
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Patriotic Societies — Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States — Consists of twenty com-
manderies. Headquarters of the Commandery of the
State of Ohio, Grand Hotel, Cincinnati. Meets on
the first Wednesday of each month, excepting January,
July, August and September.
The Ohio Society of the Sons of the Revolution —
Composed of the lineal descendants of those who in
the military, naval or civil service actually assisted in
the establishment of American independence. An
nual meeting, February 22.
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Ohio —
Composed of lineal descendants of those who fought
in battle under colonial authority prior to the year
1700, or served as military, naval or marine officers
in the service of the colonies, or under the banner of
Great Britain in North America, from the settlement
of Jamestown, Va. , 1607, to the battle of Lexington,
1775- The Colonial Dames of America in the State of
Ohio — Composed of lineal descendants of colonial
ancestors. Purposes are educational, historical and
patriotic. Regular meetings every two months, from
October to April.
Daughters of the American Revolution — Cincinnati
Chapter organized April 27, 1893. Composed of
lineal descendants of those who rendered material aid
to the cause of independence, of recognized patriots,
soldiers or sailors, or civil officers in one of the several
colonies or States. Annual meeting on the first Mon
day in June.
Children of the American Revolution (under the
guidance and government of the Daughters of the
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birth to the age of 18 for girls and 21 for boys, who
are descended from a man or woman who has rendered
material aid to the cause of independence.
Philanthropists — A number of Cincinnati's citizens
have builded monuments to themselves more lasting
and more beautiful than mere marble, by founding
educational and charitable institutions ; building or
phan asylums and hospitals, and erecting temples of
art and music. The love and loyalty of such persons
for their fellowmen and to their city can not be
doubted. For the University we are indebted to Charles Mc
Micken, Henry Hanna, Joseph Longworth, John Kil-
gour, Julius Dexter, Rev. Samuel J. Browne, and
Matthew Thorns ; for the Art Museum and Academy,
to Charles W. West, Joseph Longworth, David Sinton,
James A. Frazer, and others ; for the College of Music
and Music Hall, to R. R. Springer, John Shillito, David
Sinton, and others; for the Fountain, to Henry Pro-
basco; for the Good Samaritan Hospital, to Lewis
Worthington and Joseph C. Butler; for the Young
Men's Christian Association and the Union Bethel, to
David Sinton; for the Bodmann Widows' Home,
Mrs. L. B. Gibson; for the Widows' and Old Men's
Home, to A. M.Taylor, and others; for the Deaconesses'
Home, to Jas. N. Gamble ; for the Children's Hospital,
Mt. Auburn, the Colored Orphan Asylum, and the
Fresh Air Fund for Children, to the Emery's; for
Laura Memorial Medical College, to Alexander Mc
Donald; the Children's Home has received the aid of
Murray Shipley and Robert Burnet; the Ohio Me
chanics Institute, that of Timothy C. Day ; to Thomas
Hughes and William Woodward for our High Schools.
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and Mrs. ,>rah Lewis. F. D. Lincoln did not forget
the Young M.n's Mercantile Library; for free music
in our parks we are indebted to the Groesbecks and
Schmidlapps; to L. C. Hopkins for Hopkins Park;
and Mr. John L. o.ettinius has been a universal giver
to all charities. There are, perhaps, others who should
appear in this list.
The amounts contributed for the various ob;ects
have not been given above, but a reference to the
articles descriptive of each, in this book, will give
some information on that point.
Phoenix Club — This is the leading Jewish Club of
the city; was organized May 1, 1856. Clubhouse S.
E. corner Ninth and Race Streets. Opened October
10,1894. Cost: Ground, $125,000; building, $175,-
000. Membership, 300. Initiation fee #50, and
share of stock $250. Dues $100 per year.
Photographic Views — Of Cincinnati and various
attractions, public buildings, etc., are in constant de
mand by visitors and collectors. A most excellent
collection of these may be found at Barton's Art Store,
128 West Fourth Street, or at The Robert Clarke Co. 's,
31-39 East Fourth Street, and should you not find on
hand at these stores just the views you desire, no
doubt arrangements may be made to secure them,
and have them forwarded to your address later.
Pianos — One of the most prominent features of
Cincinnati is the great Music House of The John
Church Company, southeast corner Fourth and Elm
Streets. This Company, of which Mr. Frank A. Lee is
President and General Manager, was established in
1859, is now incorporated with one and a quarter
million of dollars capital stock, and in its line of trade
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A tour of the establishment will surprise beyond
measure any one unacquainted with its magnitude.
They occupy the entire seven-story building and
basement at the above corner, and there isn't any
musical instrument made, from the most elaborate
grand pianos to the simplest French harp, but what
can be had of this Company.
They are General Factors for one of the finest
pianos made — "The Everett," made by The Everett
Piano Company, Boston, Mass.- — which, owing to its
excellence of construction and intrinsic merit, has
met with most phenomenal increase of yearly sales.
These pianos are guaranteed for an unlimited period by
the Company, and, knowing the materials which
enter into their construction, with the well known
reputation of the makers for honorable dealing, such
a guarantee is one that may be relied upon. The
John Church Company also make many musical in
struments, such as guitars, mandolins, etc.
As publishers of high-type classical, standard and
sacred music they are preeminent, the sales of many
of their books in this line being numbered by the
millions, and in addition to their own publications
they carry a complete retail stock of those of other
publishers. There is, in fact, no branch of the business per
taining to music that is not successfully conducted
by this Company, from the editing, lithographing,
publishing, importing and manufacturing, to the dis
tribution of music and all musical instruments.
On the first floor of the building are the general
offices of the Company and a display of smaller mu
sical instruments, such as violins, guitars, flutes,
banjos, mandolins, etc., while along the walls, and

THE JOHN CHURCH COMPANY BUILDING, FOURTH AND ELM STREETS.
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running from floor to ceiling is shelving holding large
folio boxes, which contain upwards of 500,000 differ
ent pieces of American and foreign sheet music, all
arranged in such a systematic manner that it is but
a moment's work to find any piece of music that may
be wanted.
The retail business of the Piano and Organ Depart
ment occupies the entire second floor, and this room
constitutes one of the best appointed piano exhibition
rooms in the United States. Many superb specimens
of artistic skill in pianos, both as to musical excel
lence and exquisite ornamentation and finish, are here
to be seen.
The third and fourth floors contain the stock of
books and sheet music publications issued by this
Company, of which there are tens of thousands of
copies to meet the ever-increasing daily demand,
and on the fifth, sixth and seventh floors is the large
stock of small instruments and general musical mer
chandise, manufactured and in process of manufac
ture. The house has had a steady, healthy growth from
the beginning, and is the leading Music House, and
the most extensive establishment of the kind, in the
country. The Company has important branches in New
York, Chicago, and Atlanta. From its beginning
this Corporation, through its members, has been
closely identified with the progress of Cincinnati, and
has contributed largely, both of time and money,
toward every enterprise, musical or otherwise, that
has tended to advance the interests of the city and
spread its fame throughout this country and abroad.
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Frank A. Lee, A. Howard Hinkle, W. N. Hobart, Ed
ward Rawson, and E. V. Church.
Points of Interest — In and about the city and how
to reach them via Street Car Lines.
Cars of the various lines may be taken at east end
of Fountain Square, or one square east or south of
this point.
Avondale, Southwest.— Mt. Auburn Cable— Hunt Street— Eden Park
and Zoo Line.
Avondale, Central. — Avondale Line.
Anderson's Ferry. — Sedamsville.
Armory.— Clark Street— Fairmount— Seventh Street.
Art Museum. — Eden Park and Zoo.
Betts Street Hospital.— Westwood.
Brighton Crossing.— Westwood— John Street— Cross Town.
Burnet Woods Park. College Hill— Vine Street Cable.
Bodmann Widows' Home. — Mt. Auburn Cable.
Brighton.— Colerain— Chester Park— John Street- McMicken Avenue and
Elm Street— Cross Town.
Baseball Park. - Westwood— Clark Street— Sixth Street— Fairmount.
Columbia. — East End.
Camp Washington.— Colerain Avenue— Chester Park.
Cheviot.— Westwood.
City Hospital.— Clark Street.
City Potter's Field. — Warsaw Avenue.
City Buildings.— Belt Line West— Elberon Avenue— Warsaw Avenue-
Belt Line East.
Cedar Grove Academy.— Warsaw Avenue.
Chester Park.— Avondale— Chester Park.
C. L. & N., C. P. & v., Cincinnati Northern Depots- Gilbert Avenue.
Calvary Cemetery.— Gilbert Avenue — Vine and Norwood — Norwood.
Court House. — Mt. Auburn Cable— Mt. Auburn and Zoo— Belt Line West
— Belt Line East — McMicken Avenue and Main Street.
Clifton— College Hill -Vine Street Cable.
Cumminsville.— College Hill— Colerain Avenue— Chester Park.
College HiLL.-College Hill Eine.
Corryville.— Vine Street Cable.
Crematory— College Hill line.
C. H. & D. Depot.— Westwood— Sixth Street— East End (west bound)—
Third and Fifth Streets.
Dry Docks.— East End.
Eden Park.— Norwood— Gilbert Avenue— Eden Park and Zoo.
Elm Strebt Incline Plane.— College Hill Line— McMicken Avenue and
Elm Street.
East Walnut Hills.— Gilbert Avenue— Cross Town.
Eighth Street Viaduct. — Elberon Avenue— Warsaw Avenue — Sedams
ville. Evanston. — Vine and Norwood — Norwood.
Elsmere. -Vine and Norwood — Norwood.
East Mt. Auburn — Mt. Auburn Cable.
Fulton.— East End.
Fairmount. — Fairmount.
Fairview Incline Plane.— McMicken Avenue and Elm Street— Cross
Town —McMicken Avenue and Main Street.
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German Protestant Orphan Asylum.— Mt. Auburn Cable.
Good Samaritan Hospital.— Lock Street— Eden Park and Zoo.
Hoose of Refuge.— Colerain Avenue- Chester Park.
Hyde Park.— Delta Avenue— Madison Avenue.
Jewish Cemetery.— Gilbert Avenue— Vine aud Norwood— Norwood.
Lin wood.— East End.
Lincoln Park.— Harrison Avenue— Clark Street — Fairmount — Seventh
Sireet. Lane Seminary. —Vine and Norwood— Cross Town— Norwood.
Marine Hospital.— East End.
Mt. Lookout. — Delta Avenue— Madison Avenue,
Madisonville. — Delta Avenue— Madison Avenue — East End.
Music Hall.— College Hill— Colerain Avenue— Chester Park— McMicken
Avenue and Elni Street.
Mohawk Place. — McMicken Avenue and Elm Street— McMicken Avenue
and Main Street.
Mt. Adams. — Norwood— Eden Park and Zoo.
Mt. Adams Incline Plane. — Lock Street — Eden Park and Zoo.
Mt. Auburn, East. — Eden Park and Zoo— Cross Town— Mt. Auburn Cable.
Norwood. — Vine and Norwood — Norwood.
Observatory. — Delta Avenue— Madison Avenue.
O'Bryonville.— Madison Avenue.
Oakley Race Track. — Edwards Road— Madison Avenue.
Peebles' Corner. — Vine and Norwood — Gilbert Avenue — Madison Avenue
— Cross Town — Norwood— Eden Park and Zoo.
Pendleton.— East End.
Pennsylvania Depot. — Lock Street— Third and Fifth Streets — East E»d.
Price Hill Incline Plane.— Elberon Avenue— Cross Town— Warsaw
Avenue— Sedamsville.
Price Hill — Elberon Avenue — Warsaw Avenue.
Rookwood Pottery. — Eden Park and Zoo.
Riverside. -Sedamsville.
St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery. — Elberou Avenue.
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery. — Avondale.
Spring Grove Cemetery. — Avondale— Chester Park.
St. Bernard. -Avondale.
Sedamsville.— Sedamsville.
Stock Yards. — Colerain Avenue — Chester Park.
Tusculum.— East End.
Union Depot.— Belt Line West— John Street— Belt Line East— Third and
Fifth Streets— East End -Norwood -Eden Park aud Zoo.
University of Cincinnati. — College Hill— McMicken Avenue and Eltn
Street. Waterworks Pumping Station.— East End.
Workhouse. — t'olerain Avenue— Chester Park.
Westwood.— Westwood.
Walnut Hills, West.— vine and Norwood— Norwood— Eden Park and
Zoo. Walnut Hills, East.— Gilbert Avenue— Madison Avenue — Cross Town.
Winton Place.— Chester Park— Avondale.
Wesleyan Cemetery.— Colerain Avenue.
Zoological Gardens.— Hunt Street— Eden Park and Zoo.
Washington Park.— Belt Line West— Belt Line East— Clark Street.
COVINGTON AND NEWPORT IJNES.
Austinburg.— Austinburg- Madison Avenue.
Bromley.— Covington and Ludlow.
Bellevue.- Bellevue and Dayton.
Central Bridge.— Patterson.
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Covington, Central. — Madison Avenue.
C & O. Bridge, Covington.— Main Street.
Dayton.— Bellevue and Dayton.
Evergreen Cemetery.— Monmouth and Evergreen.
Ft. Thomas.— Ft. Thomas.
Licking River Bridge.— Newport aud Covington Belt.
L. & N. Bridge. — Ft. Thomas — Bellevue and Dayton — Covington and New
port Belt — Monmouth and Evergreen.
Ludlow. — Covington and Ludlow.
Lagoon. — West Covington and Ludlow.
Latonia Race Track. — Madison Avenue— Milldale— Rosedale.
Milldale. — Madison Avenue— Milldale — Rosedale.
Newport, East. — Ft. Thomas — Bellevue and Dayton — Patterson.
Newport, Central. — Monmouth and Evergreen — Newport and Coving
ton Belt.
Newport and Covington Reservoir.— Ft. Thomas.
Pennsylvania and L. & N. Depot, Cincinnati. — Ft. Thomas— Bellevue
and Dayton — Covington and Newport Belt — Monmouth and Evergreen.
Q. & C. Depot, Ludlow. — West Covington aud Ludlow.
Rosedale. — Madison Avenue — Rosedale.
Suspension Bridge.— Main Street — Madison Avenue— Covington and Lud
low — Newport and Covington Belt.
Taylor Mill Bottoms.— Bellevue and Dayton.
Wolking's Lake.— Madison Avenue.
Wallace Woods. — Austinburg — Madison Avenue— Rosedale.
C. & O. and L."& N. Depots.— Newport and Covington Belt.
Police Department — The Police Department is
under the management of the Board of Police Com
missioners ; headquarters in City Hall, corner Eighth
Street and Central Avenue. The police force includes
400 patrolmen, 18 mounted police, 32 Sergeants, 20
Lieutenants, 1 1 detectives, 25 station-house keepers, 3
police matrons, in addition to the Commissioners,
Superintendent, Chief Detective, Inspector, Superin
tendent of Patrol, surgeons, examiners, court officers,
clerks, etc.
Superintendent of Police — Colonel Philip Deitsch;
Inspector of Police, George D. Hadley ; Chief of De
tectives, L,. M. Hazen.
The Bureau of Identification — Has the keep
ing of the criminal records, and the measurement and
photographing of all criminals. The history of crim
inals of every description is here on file, aiid the
department is constantly called upon to give informa
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The total number of pictures, measurements and cases
in gallery is at present 7, 500. Chief Deitsch, of this
city, is President of tlie National Bureau of Identifi
cation. Police Stations — At each station a certain num
ber of policemen report morning and evening for roll-
call. The station-houses are located as follows:
First District (Central), City Hall.
Second District, west side Hammond, between
Third and Fourth.
Third District, west side Bremen, between Fifteenth
and Liberty.
Fourth District, north side Fifth, between Mill and
Stone. Fifth District, York, west of Freeman.
Sixth District, 533 Eastern Avenue, Fulton.
Seventh District, northeast corner Concord and
Morgan, Walnut Hills.
Eighth District, east side Vine, between Charlton
and Corry, Corryville.
Ninth District, State Avenue, near Eighth, Twenty-
first Ward.
Tenth District, at City Workhouse.
House of Detention, City Building.
There are also ten Patrol Houses.
The recently annexed villages have been added to
the police districts, as follows: Avondale, to the
Seventh ; Clifton, to the Eighth ; L,inwood, to the
Sixth; Riverside, to the Ninth; Westwood, to the
Fifth. A bicycle squad of ten has also been added to the
police force.
There are about 200 private policemen in this city
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the Mayor, confirmed by the Police Board. They are
required to answer satisfactorily certain questions
pertaining to their character, knowledge of the laws,
and fitness for the positions they seek, and to give a
bond in the sum of $1,000 as a guarantee for the
faithful performance of their duties. It is estimated
that there are about 2, 500 private policemen in the
city who hold no commissions from the department.
-Policeman — Apply to him for information. He is
attentive to the stranger and "knows it all." You
will find him everywhere.
Political Clubs — The Lincoln Club (Republican) —
Organized 1879; clubhouse, southwest corner Eighth
and Race Streets; object, the advancement of the
science of political economy, the propagation of the
principles of the Republican Party and the promotion
of friendly and social relations among its members;
annual election, February 12, Lincoln's Birthday;
dues, $6 and share of stock, $5; life membership
(limited to 150), $100.
Young Men's Blaine Club (Republican) — Club
house, Eighth Street, east of Vine ; organized June 6,
1884 (the day James G. Blaine was nominated for
President in Chicago) ; initiation fee, $5 ; dues, $6
per year.
Stamina Republican League — Organized November
5, 1888 ; meets in Odd Fellows' Temple on the second
and fourth Sundays of each month ; annual election,
second Saturday in December.
West End Republican Club — Organized February
22, 1888 ; meets first and third Saturday of each month
at southwest corner Liberty Street and Freeman Ave
nue ; annual election, third Saturday in December.
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West Ninth; organized 1880; initiation fee, $5;
dues, $6 per year.
Population of Cincinnati — The population of the
city from the beginning of the nineteenth century to
the present time was: 1800, 750; 1810,2,320; 1820,
9,643; 1830, 24,831; 1840, 46,338; 1850, 118,761;
i860, 161,044; 1870, 216,239; 1880, 255,100; 1890,
296, 908.
The recent annexation gave Cincinnati a population
of 354, 783, which, according to the last Presidential
election, has been increased to over 400,000.
The Board of Trade's report says:
"Commercially speaking, Cincinnati had a popula
tion of about 450,000 in 1890, notwithstanding the
census of that year gave her but 296,908. The Ken
tucky cities, Covington and Newport, and the towns
of Bellevue, Dayton, Ludlow and several others, are
but roosting places for Cincinnatians. They can not
be excluded in any estimate of Cincinnati's industrial
and commercial standing or population. By the cen
sus of 1890, from which numerous localities are known
to have been omitted, her population within her own
prospective limits consisted of: Cincinnati, present
boundaries, 296,908; 63 suburban towns connected
by electric and other rail lines at commuter rates with
the city, aggregating from directory estimates 55,630,
and numbers of other villages and thickly-settled
neighborhoods, estimated at 20,000, making an aggre
gate north of the Ohio River of 372, 538. On the south
side of the Ohio River are Covington, 37,371; New
port, 24,918, and Bellevue, Dayton, West Covington,
Ludlow, and other villages with street car and rail
road commuter-rate connection, aggregating a closely-
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tion south of the river of 82, 289, and a total legiti
mate population for the city of 449,827 in 1890."
Porkopolis — Was one of the names early given to
Cincinnati because of her leading in the packing in
dustry. Packing operations were carried on here as
far back as 1820. In 1845 a Cincinnati journalist, in
referring to industries in this city, said : ' ' Our pork
business is the largest in the world, not even except
ing Cork or Belfast, in Ireland, which put up and
export immense amounts in that line. ' '
In November, 1841, the Cincinnati Price Current
said : "The number of regular packing houses at Cin
cinnati is found to be 26, the most of them prepared
to do a pretty extensive business, as far as the neces
sary conveniences are concerned."
In 1840-41 the packing began mounting upward.
That year it was 220,000 hogs. Seven years later it
became 475,000, and it rose and fell from that point
down to 350,000, going up to 608,000 the first year
of the war. The city enjoyed a tremendous business
up until 1880, when the decline in favor of the west
ern houses began to show itself. Great fortunes in
provisions and packing were made and unmade in the
busy days of those times. It was no uncommon oc
currence for deals of $10,000, $20,000 and $40,000 in
raw or smoked goods to be effected, and the shining
lights on the floor in the pork corner of the Chamber
of Commerce in those days included the Davises,
Beresfords, Bogens, Swifts, Cunninghams, Evanses,
Kahns and For buses.
The largest number of hogs packed in Cincinnati
in any one year was in 1878, when it aggregated
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Postoffice — The Postoffice is on ground floor of
Government Building, adjoining Fountain Square.
The Cincinnati Postoffice ranks sixth in the list of
large postoffices with regard to amount of business
done, those exceeding it being New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Boston and St. Louis. It employs 207
regular carriers, 249 clerks, 36 substitute carriers and
24 special delivery messengers.
Postoffice Stations — Station A, Cumminsville;
Station B, Brighton; Station C, Columbia and Lin-
wood; Station D, Walnut Hills; Station E, Corry-
ville and Clifton; Station F, Millcreek; Station G,
Riverside ; Station H, Norwood ; Station I, Avondale ;
Station K, College Hill ; Station L, Cheviot and West-
wood. Postoffice Substations — No. i, St. Gregory and
Pavilion; No. 2, O'Bryonville; No. 3, Idlewild; No.
4, Colerain Avenue and Hopple Street; No. 5, Balti
more Street and Western Avenue; No. 6, No. 3646
Warsaw Avenue ; No. 7, Sixth Street and Delhi Ave
nue; No. 8, Linwood.
Letter rate of postage, two cents for each ounce or
fraction thereof, throughout United States and Canada.
Newspapers, periodicals, books, photographs, etc., one
cent for two ounces or fraction thereof. Merchandise
and other printed matter, one cent for each ounce or
fraction thereof. Letters registered to all parts of the
United States, ten cents in addition to postage. Let
ters delivered free to all parts of city. Postal notes
for sums not exceeding $4.99 issued payable to bearer,
fee, three cents. Money orders for sums not exceed
ing $100 issued, fees, five to forty-five cents. Inter
national money orders issued for sums not exceeding
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attached to posts on street corners and can be found
in prominent hotels and office buildings.
Price Hill — Is on the west, overlooking the Ohio
River. Its height above the river is about 400 feet.
The high ground continues westward beyond Warsaw,
a distance of several miles. It is covered with elegant
private residences, convents, schools and colleges. Its
summit is reached by Price Hill Inclined-Plane Rail
way. The Warsaw Avenue and the Elberon Ave
nue Lines, winding around the hill by easy grades,
are also means of reaching the top. There are
grounds, pavilion and terrace connected with the
Price Hill House at the summit. The views of the
river and surrounding country are not surpassed by
any in the city.
Public Library — Located on Vine Street, between
Sixth and Seventh, had its origin in an act of the
Ohio Legislature in May, 1853, levying a tax to
enable the State Commissioner of Common Schools
to establish libraries in the various school districts
throughout the State. In 1854 the libraries of the
schools in Cincinnati were placed under control of the
local Board of Education. In 1856 a contract was
entered into between this board and the Ohio Me
chanics' Institute, by which the books, etc., of the
latter institution were merged into the public school
libraries, and the "Ohio School Library" was opened
in July of that year, on the second floor of the Insti
tute Building, corner Sixth and Vine Streets, with
11,630 volumes, about one half of which belonged to
the Institute. The State tax for libraries was repealed
in i860, and for seven years thereafter the increase of
books in the library was from private donations and
by subscription. In 1867 a subscription of $4,760 for

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the purchase of books was made, and Mrs. Sarah
Lewis bequeathed $5,000 to the library, the income
to be expended for books.
In the same year the State Legislature passed a new
law permitting a levy of a tax for the benefit of the
libraries in cities of the first and second class, and
later passed other enabling legislation, perfecting the
necessary machinery for the continuance and manage
ment of the library. The new Board of Managers
thus provided for took charge of the Cincinnati Li
brary in July, 1867, and from that period to the
present day the usefulness of the library has been
continually widened and enlarged. When the board
first took charge the library contained 1 2, 483 volumes.
In 1871 the volumes had increased to over 30,000.
The report of the librarian for 1897 gives a total of
nearly 200,000 volumes and over 25,000 pamphlets.
The present building, originally intended for a thea
ter, was purchased and occupied in 1871.
The different departments of the library are: (1)
The circulation and reference department, on lower
floor of main hall; (2) Periodicals, newspapers, front
room on second floor; (3) General reading-room, on
second floor, in rear of periodical room; (4) The art
rooms, on fourth floor. The art rooms are for consul
tation only, no books being allowed to circulate. They
contain one of the finest and most valuable collections
of works on ornamental and industrial art in the
country, and other rare books of great value. The
library also has complete sets of the "American Pat
ents" and the "British Specifications and Patents"
for consultation, which also are kept in the art room.
The medical collection numbers about 20,000 vol
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The library reading-rooms are open, for use from 8
a. m. to 9:30 p. m. each day in the year, except New
Year's Day, Decoration Day, Fourth of July and Christ
mas Day. The circulation department is open every
day except Sundays, Thanksgiving Day and the days
above specified. The average number of books loaned
daily for home use is over 900 ; for use in reading-
rooms, 600; daily average use of periodicals, 1,700;
a daily average in all departments of about 3,500.
The library costs about $54,000 per year, about $10,-
000 of which is spent for new books and periodicals.
The library issues but one book on each card at one
time. The only security required is the signature of
a known reputable city resident. As the library is a
city institution, and the funds for its support are from
tax on city property, nonresidents can only draw
books on payment of a fee and a proper city security
also. To city residents it is an entirely free library.
The borrowing members now number over 26,000.
The library also contains marble busts of Henry
Clay and of James E. Murdoch, the former by Joel
Hart, and the latter by Sir Moses Ezekiel, was pre
sented by Librarian A. W. Whelpley ; a bronze Dust of
Daniel Vaughn, a scientist of Cincinnati, and one of
Dr. Reuben Mussey. The library is governed by a
Board of Trustees (without compensation). Libra
rian, A. W. Whelpley, appointed 1886. Number of
employees, 50, viz. : two assistant librarians, thirty-
two day attendants, sixteen night and Sunday attend
ants. _ Public Schools — The public school system of Cin
cinnati is one of the city's most important institutions.
Since the early '40s a thorough common and high
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classes. Added to these, in later years, has been the
University, which is, properly speaking, a branch of
the public sch6ol system. Combining all, Cincinnati
offers free educational advantages not excelled in any
other city.
The divisions of the public school system are three,
the district schools, the intermediate and the high
schools, the latter being preparatory to the University.
There are forty-five district, four intermediate, three
high, one normal and one deaf mute school. Draw
ing, music, writing and physical culture are taught
by special teachers. Special attention has been given
to physical culture during the past few years as one
of the most important features of the public schools.
Hughes and Woodward High School properties are in
the hands of trustees, who administer the respective
bequests, but all matters pertaining to the educational
affairs of these schools are conducted by the Union
Board of High Schools. This board is composed of
the trustees of the two funds and seven members of
the Board of Education. The arrangement was en
tered into in 1895. These two High Schools are sup
ported partly from the original funds and partly from
the regular school tax.
The school property of Cincinnati, including the
district, intermediate and Walnut Hills High Schools,
buildings and lots, is valued at about $3,300,000.
Woodward and Hughes High Schools are not included
because these properties do not belong to the city.
(See Hughes and Woodward High Schools. )
Publishing — The printing, engraving, lithograph
ing and publishing plants in Cincinnati require 5,000
operatives, and produce results valued at $10,000,000
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in the ' ' art preservative, ' ' this souvenir of Cincinnati
would be incomplete without some mention of the
establishment in which it was produced. From a
small basement room a quarter of a century ago it has
grown to a concern occupying two five-story build
ings, equipped with all the modern machinery and
material, complete in every detail. It contains every
department necessary for turning out a job of printing,
be it a book of ponderous size or a tiny card. There
is a composing room, with typesetting machinery,
fully stocked with every face of type made ; engraving
by every process, and electrotyping ; printing presses
from the largest cylinder to the smallest jobber ; bind
ery with the most improved machinery for printed
aud blankbooks. The establishment referred to is
the printing house of C. J. Krehbiel & Co., 602-604
Walnut Street.
Queen City — Is universally known and accepted
as one of the appropriate names of Cincinnati. The
fine situation, the beautiful surroundings, the excel
lent climate, the fertile soil of the neighborhood and
the bright prospects for the future greatness of the
city, and also the early development of enterprise,
culture, refinement and prosperity among the citizens
were the causes which brought her the title. The
name has been generally used with reference to this
city for fully sixty years, but just when and by whom
it was originated we have been unable to learn. In
1838 a book entitled "Tales from the Queen City"
was published in Cincinnati.
Queen City Club — Organized 1874; clubhouse,
southwest corner Seventh and Elm Streets; opened
July, 1876; cost $200,000, with ground; 350 resident
members, initiation fee, $100; 52 nonresident mem-

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bers, initiation fee, $50; dues, $30. The clubhouse
contains rooms for conversation, billiards, cards, chess
and other games, besides reading and dining-rooms.
Its restaurant is conducted a la carte. A reception
and dining-room is reserved for the wives and families
of the members. Each resident member holds at least
one share of stock of the value of $250, and pays an
nual dues of $60. Five members are elected yearly to
serve for three years as a board of management, and
this board alone has the right of accepting or rejecting
applications for membership. Visitors must be intro
duced by members.
Race Courses — See Amusements.
Railroads — No city has finer railroad service or
better transportation facilities than has Cincinnati.
The various lines centering here represent an enormous
total of miles, some of the systems being the largest
and most important in the country.
For information regarding arrival and departure of
all railroad trains, consult the daily papers, or apply
to the city ticket office of the respective roads.
Railroad Depots and Railroads entering therein —
Central Union Station (Third Street and Central Ave
nue; opened 1883; cost $1,200,000). Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern, Big Four, Chesapeake & Ohio
(also at Fourth Street Station), Illinois Central, Queen
& Crescent, Louisville & Nashville (also at Pennsyl
vania Depot, and C. & O. Fourth Street Station).
C. L. & N. Railroad Depot (Court Street, east of
Broadway, owned by Pennsylvania Railroad); Cin
cinnati, Lebanon & Northern, Cincinnati, Portsmouth
& Virginia, Cincinnati Northern Railroad (formerly
Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw Ry.).
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Streets; opened 1880; cost $280,000); Pennsylvania
Railroad, Louisville & Nashville (also at Central
Union and C. & O. Fourth Street Station), Cincin
nati, Georgetown & Portsmouth, Grand Rapids &
Indiana. C. H. & D. Railroad Depot (Fifth and Baymiller
Streets; opened 1865; cost $150,000); Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louis
ville (Monon Route), Erie Railroad.
Fourth Street Depot (Fourth Street, between John
and Smith), C. & O. Trains — Accommodation only.
L. & N. Trains — One Lexington, balance accommo
dation. Rookwood Pottery — Rookwood Pottery owes its
being to the genius of a woman. Decorative Pottery
was not thought of in Cincinnati to any extent until
I875, when a few Cincinnati ladies formed a class in
china painting, under the direction of Mr. Benn Pit
man, a teacher in the School of Design.
Among these women who tried their hands at mak
ing pottery was Mrs. Maria Longworth Storer, who
had the enthusiasm of the artistic temperament
coupled with fixity of purpose and financial resources.
Mrs. Storer finally induced her father, Mr. Joseph
Longworth, to construct a pottery for her use on
Eastern Avenue. She named it "Rookwood," after
the name of her father's country place on Walnut
Hills. Skilled workmen and artists were secured, and the
first kiln was fired in 1880. Until 1892 the pottery
remained in this location on Eastern Avenue, year by
year spreading out here and there, until the possibil
ities of the site were quite outgrown. Then the piece
of ground on the bluff of Mt. Adams, overlooking all

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of lower Cincinnati, was bought, and in 1892 the
present picturesque building was completed as a
permanent home, with every condition favorable to
larger and better production. In 1889 the works had
become self-supporting, so that Mrs. Storer could
withdraw her aid. The business was then transferred
to a company under the control of Mr. W. W. Taylor,
who had cooperated with Mrs. Storer since 1883.
With the exception of a Japanese, who has been at
Rookwood for eleven years, the artists are all Ameri
can, and have all been trained in the Art Academy of
Cincinnati. The peculiar and distinctive feature of Rookwood
pottery is its glazing, and the rich glow which is the
mark of Rookwood, is given solely by this special
glazing. Four different glazes are used. The regular
ware is a blending of warm tones, mainly from yellow
through green to black.
This is the best known type of Rookwood, and in
it many of the largest and finest pieces are made.
The second glaze is the "mahogany," producing
the deepest and richest reds and browns.
Then the "sea green," which is being more and
more used. And lastly, the justly celebrated "Iris,"
which exemplifies the cooler and paler tones.
Perhaps the most striking feature next to the glaz-*
ing of Rookwood pottery is the decorative quality of
the designs and its endless variety.
There is no repetition ; no two pieces are alike.
"Rookwood" is the most original and beautiful
art industry in the United States, if not in the world.
As a point of interest to the visitor, nothing in the
city sooner or longer claims attention than this pic
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are presented than can be found in many of the
world's finest art galleries.
It is open to visitors daily, except on the afternoon
of Saturday, which is always a half holiday. Take
Eden Park and Zoo Cars at Fountain Square.
Sangerfests — The first Sangerfest of the North
American Sangerbund was held in Cincinnati in 1849.
Five singing societies participated on this occasion,
with 118 singers.
In 1870, when the Sangerfest returned to Cincin
nati, it had assumed such proportions that it was
found necessary to build a special hall, and the pres
ent site of Music Hall was selected for the erection
of the temporary wooden structure.
It was the success attending this Sangerfest that
suggested the idea of our May Festivals, which have
since become such important factors in the musical
history of our city.
In 1879 another Sangerfest was held in Cincinnati,
and took place in the Music Hall, which was opened
the year before.
At the last Sangerfest, held in Pittsburg in 1896,
it was unanimously decided to have the Jubilee Fes
tival in June, 1899, in Cincinnati, the city where the
North American Sangerbund was created.
Sinking Fund Trustees — On May 3, 1877, the Leg
islature of Ohio passed an act providing for the ap
pointment by the courts of trustees of the sinking
fund in certain cities. Generally speaking, this act
charges the trustees with the management of the
city's debt and finances. It requires them to take
charge of the debt, and to certify annually the rate
of taxes necessary to provide a sinking fund for the
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ments against the city, and also the rate necessary to
pay interest, and such further levy as may be neces
sary to provide a sinking fund for the final redemp
tion of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad bonds; and
requires the council to levy the rates so certified with
out change. The act instructs them as to how they
shall invest their moneys. They are also given very
broad power to investigate city departments and
officers, and to take such action thereon as they may
deem proper to protect the interests of the city. They
are the trustees of such special funds as the Fire
men's Pension Fund, the Groesbeck and Schmidlapp
Funds for park music, Board of Education Fund, etc.
They are to maintain the city's credit, and provide
for the prompt payment of its debts ; to protect the
obligation " The faith of the city of Cincinnati is
hereby pledged. ' ' They receive no salary, and give
bond for $100,000 each.
St. Joseph's — No doubt many visitors entering or
leaving the city via the " Big Four " and B. & O. S.
W. railways have noticed, and wondered what could
be the large and elegant brick building standing on
the brow of the great hills west of the city, overlook
ing the Ohio River and the Kentucky hills from its
lofty situation. The railway station at this point is
St. Joseph's, and the building isMt. St. Joseph's Con
vent, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity. In the
community are 525 Sisters and a number of novices.
The • Mother Superior is Mother Mary Blanche. At
St. Joseph's motherhouse and novitiate is a normal
school, in which novices are thoroughly instructed for
teaching in parochial schools. Near this is St. Aloy-
sius' Academy for boys, an institution under the care
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St. Nicholas, The — Southeast corner Fourth and
Race Streets, is the bon ton restaurant and cafi, and
one of the most comfortable hotels in the city. This
restaurant holds the same position in Cincinnati as
does the Ca/S Anglais in Paris, the CafS Royal in
London, or Delmonico's in New York. The ca/S on
the lower floor, with entrance on Race Street, is a
popular resort for gentlemen desiring a first-class meal
in little time and at prices somewhat lower than those
charged in the restaurant. The hotel is conducted
on the European plan, the charges for rooms ranging
from $1.50 up. The building is thoroughly modern,
built with full thought about comfort, and the rooms
and halls, besides being elegantly furnished, are spa
cious, airy and luxurious. The location is very con
venient. In the gentlemen's sitting-room is an elab
orate painting, 7 by 1 2 feet. Besides being a speci
men of fine art, it is a queer subject, and is said to
have an interesting history. The inscription reads :
"Pauline Bonaparte, by Devouge, 1811." It repre
sents Madame Bonaparte, life size, almost nude, and
seated upon a sofa. The painting is said to have
belonged to Joseph Bonaparte, and sold, upon his
return to France, to Nicholas Longworth, by whom
it was sold at auction, and finally bought by Mr. Roth.
The St. Nicholas has a handsome dining-room, ban
quet and ball-room ; also private-dining-rooms; elec
tric lighted throughout, and is renowned for its cui
sine and service. Mr. E. N. Roth is President and
Manager. St. Xavier College — Southwest corner Sycamore
and Seventh Streets, was established in 1831, under
the name of the Athenaeum, by the Rt. Rev. E. D.
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1840 Archbishop Purcell placed it in charge of the
Fathers of the Society of Jesus, who have managed it
ever since. It was incorporated in 1842; chartered as
a University in 1869 by act of Legislature; tuition,
$60 a year; has a valuable library of 15,000 volumes.
Schools, Private— In 1802 a private school for girls
was conducted by a Mrs. Williams. In 1823 Dr. John
Locke, a man of science, organized a private school
under the name of Locke's Female Academy. This
school flourished and gained the patronage of the
most influential families. About 1826 a similar school
was started by Albert Picket, called Picket's Female
Institute, which also became a popular school. In
1827 Alexander Kinmont, a Scotch scholar and think
er, established his Academy of Classics and Mathe
matics, a school for boys. About the year 1833 a
girls' school, which grew into distinction, was known
as the Western Female Institute, and was founded by
Miss Catherine Beecher and her sister, Harriet Beecher
(Mrs. Stowe). When the Misses Beecher retired from
the school it was carried on by Miss Mary Dutton, of
Hartford, Conn. Miss Dutton afterward returned to
New England, and the patronage of her school was
largely transferred to a similar institution conducted
by Mrs. Ryland, an English lady. One of the fash
ionable schools of the day, organized in the early
"thirties," was conducted by Mrs. Caroline Lee
Hentz, a lady then highly honored for her literary
achievements, and whose novels are still in demand.
These girls' schools were the forerunners of more
ambitious and extensive female seminaries of a semi-
public character, such as The Wesleyan Female Col
lege, founded in 1843 under the auspices of the Meth
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dale, Ohio, founded about 1852; the Ohio Female
College, College Hill; the Cincinnati Female Semi
nary (the building now occupied by Pulte Medical Col
lege). About 1848 Harding's Female Seminary was
established, in which for a number of years Miss
Elizabeth Haven Appleton was a teacher, her per
sonality being so strongly impressed upon it that it
was always spoken of as Miss Appleton 's School.
Probably in 1836 was established O. M. Mitchell's
school for boys, called the Institute of Science and
Languages. Others were the Cincinnati Adelphi
Seminary, the Cincinnati Academy, and Herron's
Seminary for Boys. St. John's College was conducted
for some years by a Dr. Colton, and an English and
Classical School by Dr. Andrew J. Rickhoff. A
most excellent Preparatory School for Boys was con
ducted by Eugene F. Bliss, of Harvard. A Select
School for Boys was opened in 1855 by J. B. Chicker-
ing. The school was reorganized in i860 and known
as Chickering's Academy until 1866, when the name
was changed to Chickering's Classical and Scientific
Institute. Many leading citizens of today attended
this school. After Prof. Chickering's death the insti
tute was for a time conducted by Prof. W. H. Ven-
able, who had long been connected with the school.
For private schools of today see City Directory.
Scottish Rite Cathedral — B roadway; between
Fourth and Fifth Streets, formerly Seventh Presby
terian Church ; purchased by the Scottish Rite Masons
of Cincinnati, June, 1885, and remodeled; total cost,
$140,000; dedicated in June, 1886, when 208 candi
dates were initiated. Auditorium seats about 1,000;
has a large banquet hall, elegant parlors, lodge rooms,
Templar rooms and the gorgeous Kaaba of the Mystic

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Shriners. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite was estab
lished in Cincinnati in 1853, includes four bodies:
Gibulum Grand Lodge of P., 140, has 1,056 mem
bers; Dalcho Grand Council, P. of J., 160, has 1,045
members ; Cincinnati Grand Chapter of Rose Croix,
18°, has 998 members; Ohio Grand Consistory, S. P.
R. S. , 320, has 1, 950 members (the largest subordinate
Masonic body in the world).
Sight-Seeing — The perplexed stranger, inquiring
what there is to see and where to go, will not find
amiss a brief and rapid summary of the places that
may be visited with pleasure. There are, first, the
Art Museum and Art Academy ; with these may be
mentioned Rookwood Pottery, quite an art museum,
and also Eden Park, all to be found near each other.
From the vantage points afforded by this park magni
ficent and far-reaching, picturesque views may be
had of the Ohio Valley, the bridges and the cities.
From this park the trip might be continued on
through Walnut Hills, Avondale, Mt. Auburn and Clif
ton, not forgetting the Zoological Gardens. During
this trip many beautiful churches, elegant homes and
grand views may be seen. From "Scarlet Oaks," in
Clifton, a view should be taken to the northward over
Spring Grove Cemetery and the far-reaching, pano
ramic scene afforded by Millcreek Valley. Returning
from Clifton via Clifton Avenue, the University of
Cincinnati may be visited, and also the Crematory,
if so desired. Or the trip may be continued on to
Spring Grove Cemetery, which is in reality a park,
and probably the most picturesque large cemetery in
the world.
Returning again to the city the various notable
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our attention. Among these may be mentioned Music
Hall, with its great organ, the City Hall, Odd Fel
lows' Temple, the Postoffice Building, the Chamber
of Commerce, the Armory, St. Peter's Cathedral, the
Moorish Jewish Synagogue, and others.
The Fountain, too, is not to be omitted ; and it is
worth while taking the Elberon Avenue electric car
up the winding and bird's-eye-view road to Price Hill,
returning via the Price Hill House, where another
grand view may be taken of the city from an elevated
position. Another electric-car trip worth taking is
the ride to Ft. Thomas, on the Kentucky Highlands,
which we are sure will not be regretted, and returning
from there a view may be taken of the various bridges
crossing the Ohio River.
On a bright, starry night a trip to the Astronomical
Observatory might be interesting, having first ob
tained permits from the Clerk of the University, at
his office in the City Hall. The various amusement
and summer resorts, such as the theaters, the Lagoon,
Chester Park, Coney Island, etc., may be found at
tractive by many.
The various public benevolent institutions are also
noteworthy. The hospitals are well conducted and
a credit to the city. A visit to one of the markets,
say Sixth Street Market and the Flower Market, in
the early morning discovers one of the most bustling
scenes. For the benefit of those desiring to see the city via
the street cars we have outlined a few very attractive
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VIA EDEN PARK AND ZOO ELECTRIC CARS :
Take the car at Fountain Square, going east on
Fifth Street. One square east you will pass the Den-
nison Hotel and the famous "Cincinnati Horse Mar
ket." A few minutes ride further and the car will
pass The United States Printing Company's seven-
story .factory, and at the south of this building is the
Mount Adams Inclined-Plane Railway. Take posi
tion at the rear end of the car and view the city and
its surroundings. When the summit is reached you
will be well repaid for a stay of a half hour or more
by the splendid views that are to be had from this
elevation, which is 400 feet above the level of the
Ohio River. The Rookwood Pottery is located here
and is well worth your attention. The best view of
the Ohio River, and of the Licking River, opposite,
and of most of the bridges which cross the former, as
well as of the cities and towns on the Kentucky shore,
is to be had here. Entering another outward-bound
car you will soon pass the Monastery and Church of
the Holy Cross, situated on a conspicuous eminence
to the right. The ground on which the monastery is
located was the original site of the Cincinnati Observ
atory. A few minutes more and the car will enter
Eden Park and arrive at the entrance to the Art Mu
seum. Stop here and visit the museum, as it contains
many valuable works of art of every description. After
leaving the Art Museum you may inspect the Art
Academy, and view the immense and splendid reser
voirs of the city waterworks. Also visit the water
works pumping station and the conservatory which
adjoins it, both near by, and then pay a visit to the
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the elevator, which will place you nearly 600 feet
above the Ohio River. The magnificence of the views
will linger in your memory for years. Having seen
Eden Park to your satisfaction, resume your trip by
taking the first outward-bound car.
After leaving the park the cars will enter Walnut
Hills, which is one of the prettiest of the city's sub
urbs, containing many elegant residences with beauti
ful surroundings.
At Peebles' Corner take either Norwood or Vine
and Norwood cars, which run north on Gilbert Ave
nue, one of the pretty residence streets of Walnut
Hills. Leaving Walnut Hills, the ride continues through
a most picturesque country to Norwood, six miles dis
tant from the city, passing the suburban villages of
Idlewild, Evanston, Elsmere and Ivanhoe en route.
Get off at Hopkins Avenue, Norwood, and view the
village at your leisure, as it is one of the beautiful
and thriving residence places in the vicinity of the
city. Floral Avenue, its prettiest thoroughfare, is one
mile long, 120 feet wide, and is paved with asphalt.
Norwood has its own electric light and waterworks
plants. The return trip to the city can be made via the
Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Railway, or, if pre
ferred, by taking an inward-bound Norwood electric
car to Peebles' Corner, transferring at that point to
the "Cross-Town Line" and byway of the latter line
to Vine and McMillan Streets, boarding a south-bound
Vine Street cable car at this point to Fountain Square.
The Vine Street cable cars pass through the real
"Over-the-Rhine" section of the city, in which at
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halls, etc. , whose gayety was famous throughout the
entire land. This part of the ride will be through
one of the city's most populous thoroughfares, as Vine
Street is crowded at all hours of the day and until late
at night. VIA AVONDALE ELECTRIC CARS:
Take car at Fountain Square, going east on Fifth
Street. When Reading Road, Avondale, is reached
the most sanguine expectations of the visitor will be
realized. For nearly two miles the car passes over
this beautiful thoroughfare, lined on both sides with
beautiful homesteads and their extensive grounds, on
which the skill and artistic taste of the landscape
gardener have been exerted to a remarkable degree.
Broad and spacious lawns of rich, velvety grass;
flower-beds whose fragrance permeates the atmos
phere; palatial residences, the fronts and sides of
some half hidden by creeping or blooming vines, with
here and there a wood of natural forest trees, are
among the pleasing sights.
On further is Chester Park, a favorite resort, pre
senting various attractions during the summer season.
Winton Place lies east of Chester Park. Spring Grove
Cemetery, one of the most beautiful in the country,
is soon reached. A day would not suffice in seeing
one half its beauties. After leaving the cemetery
board a Clark Street car and ride to the corner of
Hamilton and Dodsworth Avenues, in Cumminsville,
at which point transfer to the College Hill car, city-
bound, which will carry you down the Bellevue In
clined-Plane Railway and thence south on Elm Street,
passing Music Hall, Washington Park, Garfield
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Fellows' Temple, the Queen City Club, and to Foun
tain Square. VIA CLIFTON AVENUE CARS :
Take car at Fountain Square, which will pass the
picturesque building of the Chamber of Commerce,
the St. Nicholas Hotel, the elegant building of the
Queen City Club and the Odd Fellows' Temple, also
Garfield Place ; opposite Garfield Place is the Second
Presbyterian Church.
After crossing the canal bridge Washington Park
is the first attraction. Opposite Washington Park are
the stately buildings of the Odeon, the College of
Music and Music Hall. At McMicken Avenue the
car will ascend upon the Bellevue Inclined-Plane
Railway. Select a position at the rear end of the car
or truck while making the ascent, for this is one of
the prettiest sights the inclined-plane railways afford.
Stop at the summit for a few minutes and enjoy the
splendid views.
Resuming your trip, the car will- enter Ohio Ave
nue, noted for its many fine dwellings. On Clifton
Avenue, reached a little later, are the grounds and
buildings of the Cincinnati University and Burnet
Woods Park. This will be an excellent stopping
place. Take a stroll in the Park and admire the
splendid forest trees and the pretty lake. After leav
ing the Park visit the magnificent suburb of Clifton,
which lies immediately north of Burnet Woods Park.
Select any one of the pretty avenues you will meet
and proceed to the north. Do not fail to enjoy the
grand view from "Scarlet Oaks," the private grounds
of the Schoenberger estate, to which visitors are ad
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return to Ludlow Avenue and board an outward-bound
car of the same line. The route leads to Cummins
ville and to Northside, both very handsome suburbs.
A ride of two miles further, through a splendid open
country, abounding in attractive and diversified scen
ery, and you reach College Hill, one of the most
romantic and beautiful, as well as one of the most
elevated localities in Hamilton County. College Hill
is eight miles from the Fountain. The Ohio Mili
tary Institute and the Cincinnati Sanitarium are lo
cated here. It was the birthplace of the Cary sisters,
Alice and Phcebe, both of whom achieved great liter
ary distinction.
Again board the car and return from College Hill
to the corner of Clifton and Ludlow Avenues. At
this point transfer to the Fairview Heights route, the
cars of which line pass through a somewhat rugged
though exceedingly picturesque country to the Fair-
view Heights Inclined-Plane Railway. In making
the descent on the truck of this inclined plane an
exceptionally beautiful and panoramic view of the
western and southwestern parts of the city and of the
Millcreek Valley is obtainable. At Colerain and
Central Avenues transfer to a John Street electric car,
which will return you to Fountain Square through
the western and central parts of the city, passing the
great Cincinnati Hospital and the magnificent City
Hall. TO FORT THOMAS:
Take the Ft. Thomas car at Fountain Square. The
car soon reaches the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge
across the Ohio River. The ride in crossing the
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views of the river, both up and down stream. The
bridge is 102 feet above the low-water line ; the length
of the highway is 3, 984 feet, and width of channel
span at low water, 492 feet.
After leaving the bridge the car enters Newport,
and after a pleasant ride of ten minutes will arrive at
"Bonnie Leslie," a unique little village whose houses
are all painted white, situated at the southwestern ex
tremity of Bellevue, two miles from Cincinnati. After
leaving Bonnie Leslie, for two miles or more the ride
is through the most beautiful and picturesque country
that can well be imagined. The reservoirs of the
Newport City Waterworks, and of the Covington City
Waterworks, occupying natural basins formed by the
adjacent hills, are situated near Ft. Thomas.
Arrived at Ft. Thomas, proceed to the bluff over
looking the river, and as far as the ej'e can reach to
the north, to the east, and to the west, the beauties
of nature here revealed are perhaps unexcelled. Coney
Island, one of the public resorts; the village of Cali
fornia, Ohio ; and the eastern portion of Cincinnati,
are spread before the vision as if painted on a canvas,
while far away to the north the valley of the Little
Miami presents a scene of beauty which is more than
pleasing. Those wishing to enter the barracks should be ac
companied by an officer. Every possible courtesy is
extended to visitors.
Return by the same route to Newport, and transfer
to electric cars which will cross the Licking River
Bridge into Covington and the Covington and Cincin
nati Suspension Bridge. The views from this bridge
are also exceedingly fine. The Suspension Bridge was
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was opened to the public on January 1, 1867. It is
103 feet above low-water mark.
After leaving the bridge, the ride will be through
part of Cincinnati's famous "bottoms," to Fountain
Square. VIA ELBERON AVENUE ELECTRIC CARS :
Take car at Fifth and Main streets, going north
on Main to Sixth Street — one square east of Fountain.
The Jabez Elliott Flower market, devoted exclusively
to the display of plants and flowers, will be first on
this route. Then comes the Queen City Club House.
Immediately opposite is the magnificent Odd Fellows
Temple. Another square, and the car is at the Elm
street entrance to Garfield Place, and alongside of the
splendid modern structure of the Second Presbyterian
Church. A ride of one square, and the City Hall
with St. Peter's Cathedral and the Jewish Syna-
agogue on opposite corners are reached. In a short
time the Eighth Street Viaduct will command your
attention. The viaduct spans Mill Creek Valley, and
is a very long structure, paved with brick. Reach
ing the foot of the Price Hill Inclined Plane, you may
alight from the electric car and ascend to the summit
of Price Hill on the inclined-plane railway. Devote
some time to the splendid scenery that may be viewed
from this eminence. West of the inclined plane stands
the Seminary of Mt. St. Mary. From the turret on its
roof a splendid view of the country west of Price Hill
may be obtained. The Price Hill House adjoins the
power house on the south. When satisfied, board one
of the cars of the Price Hill Spur Line, ride to its
terminus, and return over the same route to the in
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on a west- bound Elberon Avenue electric car on its
circuitous journey up Price Hill, at its southern side,
amid a rugged, picturesque and diversified scenery that
can not fail to please. At the end of the line it will
well repay you to devote a half hour to sight-seeing.
Returning, take the same car line to the foot of the
inclined plane, at which point transfer to a north
bound Warsaw Avenue electric car, which will con
vey you by another novel and interesting route up the
northern side of the hill to its summit. The views
this ride affords will also be appreciated. Mt. St.
Vincent Academy, an educational institution of con
siderable repute, is located here. Return to the city
by the same route, which will convey you through
part of Central Avenue, one of the main West End
thoroughfares, and Fourth Street, one of the city's
great business streets.
TO SEDAMSVILLE AND ANDERSON FERRY:
Take Sedamsville electric car at Fourth or Fifth
and Main Streets, one square south or east of Foun
tain Square. At the foot of the Price Hill Inclined
Plane the car turns to the south and again to the west,
proceeding along the river bank past the villages of
Sedamsville, Riverside and Sunny Side, to Anderson
Ferry, about eight miles. Several public resorts are
located here, and the river scenery is quite romantic.
A ferry boat makes regular trips from shore to shore,
and the ride on the river is an enjoyable one. Return
by same route.

Helleberg Photograving Co., Cin'ti.

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TO HYDE PARK, MT. LOOKOUT AND THE
OBSERVATORY :
Take Madison Avenue electric car at Fountain
Square. In ten to fifteen minutes you will arrive at
Peebles' Corner, Walnut Hills, and a few minutes later,
after passing through a delightful portion of Walnut
Hills, at the elegant St. Francis de Sales Church.
Continuing, you pass through Hyde Park to Mt.
Lookout, where the Observatory is located. To enter
the Observatory, tickets must first be obtained of the
University Clerk in the City Hall. This is a long
ride and a very pretty one. Mt. Lookout Park is
located directly at the end of the ride. Return by
same route, or transfer to electric car of Eden Park
Line, southbound, at Peebles' Corner, which will con
vey you through Eden Park and down the Mt. Adams
Inclined Plane to Fountain Square.
Those fond of driving will find no end of pleasure
in a tour of the various suburban places above men
tioned by this method. A description of the principal
features mentioned herein will be found under their
respective names.
Spring Grove — The Cemetery of Spring Grove is
situated north of the city, on Spring Grove Avenue.
Owned by the lot-holders as a corporate body ; incor
porated January 21, 1845; consecrated August 28,
1845. Was originally the Garrard Farm, of 160 acres,
to which was added the Hill Farm, of 130 acres, at
$1,000 an acre; since then other properties were
purchased, making a total of 600 acres, the largest
cemetery in the United States and probably the most
picturesque in the world; contains 62,000 burials.
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together with a soil suitable for cemetery purposes.
The first name suggested was Maketewah, which is
the Indian name for Millcreek Valley, but Spring
Grove was finally decided upon on account of its
many springs.
It was originally laid out on the general plan of
old cemeteries, but later what is known as the "lawn
plan" of cemeteries was adopted and continued to the
present time. It possesses landscape beauties which
are unsurpassed in this or any other country, and has
as great a collection of trees and shrubbery as any
park in the United States. The old-time obstructions
and incumbrances of fences and hedges around burial
lots are no longer permitted. The cemetery has a
fine water supply of its own, furnishing an abundance
of pure water for the eighteen lakes situated in the
different parts of the grounds.
The Mortuary Chapel is a fine specimen of Norman
architecture. It is adorned with a valuable stained -
glass window, representing the Ascension, which was
made in Munich, Bavaria. Two very artistic bronze
doors leading to two crypts represent six of the mira
cles of Christ in bas-relief.
Many eminent, even famous, individuals are buried
here, among them Generals Robert L. and Ed. S.
McCook, Major Daniel McCook, Col. Daniel McCook,
Gen. Wm. H. Lytle, Gen. Jos. Hooker, Thos. Hughes,
Jessie R. and Hannah Grant (the father and mother
of Gen. U. S. Grant), Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase,
Mr. Justice Stanley Matthews, Bishop Mcllvaine,
Judge Alphonso Taft, Nicholas Longworth, Dr.
Daniel Drake, Charles McMicken, the founder of the
University, James E. Murdoch and others. To visit
the Cemetery permits must be secured at the office,

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CINCINNATI AND VICINITY. 1 73
215 East Fourth Street. Take Chester Park cars at
Fountain Square.
Statues and Busts — The statues and busts in the
public places of Cincinnati are as follows:
Heroic bronze statue of Garfield, the martyred Pres
ident of the United States, in the center of Garfield
Place, at its intersection with Race Street.
Marble busts of Generals McCook and Hecker, in
Washington Park. Marble statue of Cincinnatus, in
the new City Hall, near the Plum Street entrance. In
the main consultation hall of Public Library, marble
bust of Henry Clay, bronze bust of Daniel Vaughn, a
scientist of Cincinnati; bronze bust of Dr. Rueben
Mussey, a celebrated physician of Cincinnati; the
bust of James E. Murdoch, a present from Librarian
Whelpley to the city of Cincinnati, is a monument to
two of Cincinnati's most celebrated sons, James E.
Murdoch, who was without peer on the stage, and Sir
Moses Ezekiel, whose works of art have attracted a
world-wide reputation. On the front of the Public
Library are masks of Shakespeare, Milton and Ben
jamin Franklin.
A grand equestrian statue of Gen. Wm. Henry Har
rison, Ohio's first President of the United States, at
the Vine Street entrance of Garfield Place.
In the Young Men's Mercantile Library is a marble
bust of Washington and a white marble statue of
"Silence." In the vestibule of Music Hall are marble statues
of Reuben R. Springer, its founder, and Dr. Aiken,
who was superintendent of music in the Cincinnati
public schools.
The Law School, 416 Walnut Street, has a fine
statue of Rufus King, an eminent jurist of this city,
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The Art Museum has a large collection of fine stat
ues and busts.
Stockyards — Located between Brighton and Cum
minsville. The Union stockyards include sixty-seven
acres of ground, upon which are erected buildings
with a capacity for handling daily 6,000 head of
cattle, 16,000 head of hogs and 20,000 head of sheep,
the largest single stockyard in the United States.
There are fifteen miles of sidetracks, a double track,
a two-span steel bridge across Millcreek, nearly forty
miles of water mains, and eleven miles of sewers, with
several acres of sheds illuminated with gas and elec
tricity, so that the plant may be operated by night as
well as by day.
A large hotel is located on the place, with first-class
accommodations. Every foot of the ground floor of
the yards is paved with stone, making it extremely
cleanly. The value of live stock handled exceeds one
and one third millions of dollars per month. From
1850 to 1861 Cincinnati was the largest pork-packing
city in the world. This gave her the name of Pork-
opolis. Streets and Avenues — The streets of Cincinnati are
as well paved as are those of any city in the -United
States, with the exception, perhaps, of the city of
Washington, D. C. The material used is chiefly
granite, asphalt and brick. The total number of
miles of the city's streets is 613.
In the recently-annexed villages there were 98 miles
of streets, as follows: Avondale, 25.21; Clifton,
14.93; Linwood, 18.20; Riverside, 12.53; West-
wood, 27.04.
By the decimal system of numbering houses adopted
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CINCINNATI AND VICINITY. 1 75
square. The streets and avenues running east and
west are numbered east and west from Vine Street,
and those running north and south begin at the Ohio
River. All other streets not commencing at either of
the above points are numbered in accordance with
this system. For location of the various streets and
avenues, see City Directory.
Street Cars — Fountain Square is the street car cen
ter of Cincinnati; the cars of all lines down town
pass this square, or within one block of it, in their
route. The fare on all lines is 5 cents. Transfer
tickets are given, without extra charge, for continuous
passage on another line in the same direction as the
line upon which you start. There are 225 miles of
street railways, the equipment consisting of 1,500
cars, which reach all the suburban points. The cap
ital stock of the Street Railway Company is $18,000,-
000, the market value of which is $1. 14.
Street Car Routes — Following are the various
routes of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company:
Auburn Avenue Route No. 1 (Mt. Auburn and Zoo) — From Fifth and
Walnut, on Fifth, Main, Franklin, Broadway, Liberty, Highland, Ring
gold, Josephine, Saunders, Auburn Avenue, and Vine Street, to the entrance to
Zoo; returning on Vine Street, Auburn Avenue, Saunders, Josephine, Ring
gold, Highland, Milton, Sycamore, Orchard, Main, Court, ana Walnut, to
Fifth Street. Time — Forty-eight minutes for the round trip. Points of inter
est — Courthouse, Mt. Auburn, Corryville, and Zoo.
Avondale Route (Chester Park, Winton Place) — From Fourth and Walnut,
, on Walnut, Fifth, Broadway, Hunt, Main Avenue (or Reading Road), Mitchell,
and Spring Grove Avenues (passing Chester Park), to Spring Grove Cemetery;
returning on Spring Grove, Mitchell, "and Main (Reading Road) Avenues,
Hunt, Broadway, and Fourth, to Walnut Street. Time — One hour and twenty
minutes tor the round trip. This line runs all-night cars to Avondale. Points
of interest— Avondale, St. Bernard, St. Mary's German Catholic Cemetery,
Chester Park, Spring Grove Cemetery, Winton Place.
Belt Line Route (Eastbound) — From Third and Central Avenue, on Cen
tral Avenue, Fourth, Main, Twelfth,' Elm, Eighth, and Central Avenue,
Fourth, John, Third, to Central Avenue. (Westbound) — From Third and Cen
tral Avenue, on Central Avenue, Fourth, John, Ninth, Elm, Twelfth, Main,
Fourth, John, Third, to Central Avenue. Time — Tw«nty -five minutes for round
trip. Points of interest — Union Depot, City Building, Washington Park, Court
house. Chester Park (Elm Street Route)— From Fourth and Walnut, on Fourth,
Elm, Liberty, Freeman, Central, Colerain and Spring Grove Avenues (passing
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Central, and Freeman Avenues, Ninth, Walnut, to Fifth. Time— One hour and
twenty minutes. Points of interest — Music Hall, Brighton Place, Camp Wash
ington, House of Refuge, Workhouse, Stock Yards, Cumminsville, Spring Grove
Cemetery, Winton Place. (John Street Route)— From Fourth and Walnut, on
Fourth, John, Liberty, Freeman, Central, Colerain, and Spring Grove, Avenues
(passing Spring Grove Cemetery) to Chester Park; returning on Spriijg Grove,
Colerain, Central, and Freeman Avenues, York, Linn, Liberty, Central Ave
nue, Fifth and Walnut, to Fourth Street. Time— One hour and twenty minutes
for round trip. Points of interest — Union Depot, Brighton Place, Camp Wash
ington, House of Refuge, Workhouse, Cumminsville, Spring Grove Cemetery,
Winton Place.
Clark Street Route— From Fifth and Walnut, on Fifth, Vine, Twelfth,
Central Avenue, Clark, Freeman, Liberty, Western, McLean, Spring Grove
and Harrison Avenues, and Bogen Street, to the barn; returning on Spring
Grove, McLean, and Western Avenues, Liberty, Freeman, Clark, Central Ave
nue, Twelfth, and Walnut, to Fifth Street. Time — Forty-five minutes for round
trip. This line runs all-night cars. Points of interest — Washington Park,
City Hospital, Lincoln Park,Baseball Park, Armory.
Clifton Avenue (Elm Street Route)— From Walnut and Fourth, on Fourth,
Elm, McMicken Avenue, Bellevue Inclined Plane, Ohio, McMillan, Clifton,
LudloWj Dodsworth, Hamilton Avenues, to Spring Lawn Avenue; returning
on Hamilton. Dodsworth, Ludlow, Clifton Avenues, McMillan Street, and Ohio
Avenue, Bellevue Inclined Plane, McMicken Avenue, Elm, Fifth, and Walnut
Streets. Time— Ninety minutes for round trip. Points of interest — Music Hall,
Elm Street Inclined Plane, Burnet Woods Park, University of Cincinnati, Cin
cinnati Crematory, Clifton, Cumminsville, College Hill.
Colerain Avenue Route — From Walnut and Fifth, on Fifth, Elm, Liberty,
Freeman, Central, Colerain, Spring Grove, Hamilton, Chase, and Virginia, to
Colerain Avenue; returning on Colerain, Central, Freeman, York, Linn, Lib
erty, Central Avenue, Twelfth, Main, Court, Walnut, to Fifth Street. Time-
One hour and twenty minutes for round trip. This Une runs all-night cars.
Points of interest — Music Hall, Brighton Place, House of Refuge, Workhouse,
Camp Washington, Wesleyan Cemetery, Stock Yards, Cumminsville.
College Hill and Main Street Route— From Fifth and Main, on Main,
Twelfth, Walnut, McMicken Avenue, Vine, Clifton Avenue, McMillan, Clif
ton, Ludlow, Dodsworth, and Hamilton Avenues, Hamilton Road, North
Bend Road, Oak Street, Belmont Avenue; returning on Belmont Avenue, Ham
ilton Road, Hamilton, Dodsworth, Ludlow, Clifton Avenues, McMillan Street,
Clifton Avenue, Vine, McMicken Avenue, Walnut, Twelfth, Main, Court,
Walnut, and Fifth Streets. Time — One hour and fifty minutes for round
trip. This line runs all-night cars to Clifton. Points of interest — Courthouse,
Medical College of Ohio, Burnet Woods University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
Crematory, Clifton, Cumminsville, College Hill.
Cross-Town Route — From Woodburn and Madison Avenues, on Wood-
burn Avenue, Chapel, Elmwood, Harvey, Gilbert, McMillan, Fairview In
clined Plane, McMicken Avenue, Brighton Place, Harrison, State Avenue, to .
Eighth Street; returningon State, Harrison, Brighton Place, McMicken, Fair-
view Inclined Plane, Fairview, McMillan, and Woodburn Avenues, to Madi
son Avenue. Time — One hour fifteen minutes for round trip. Points of inter
est — Lane Seminary, Mt. Auburn, Fairview Inclined Plane, Brighton Place,
Brighton Station, Big Four, Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, and Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Crossing, Price HiU Inclined Plane.
Delta Avenue— Madison ville Route — From Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton Depot to Eastern and Delta A venues, on Delta, Monticello, Columbian, Co
lumbia, Bramble, Central, and Main Avenues; returning on Main, Central,
Bramble, Columbia, Columbian, Monticello, Delta, and Eastern Avenues to
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Depot. Time — Two hours and ten minutes for
round trip. Points of interest — Mt. Lookout, Cincinnati Observatory, Hyde
Park, Madisonville.
East End Route— From Linwood, on Wooster Pike, Eastern Avenue, Mar
tin, Pearl, Broadway, Fourth, and Baymiller, to Fifth; returning on Fifth,
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One hour forty-five minutes for round trip. This line runs all-night cars.
Points of interest— Pearl Street Market, Pennsylvania Depot, Waterworks
Pumping Station, Marine Hospital, Cincinnati Dry Docks, Fulton, Madison-
ville Transfer, Columbia, Pendleton, Georgetown Depot, Tusculum, Linwood,
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Depot going west, Union Depot going west.
Edwards Road Branch— This is a double-track spur, running north from
Erie Avenue to the Oakley Race Course, and passengers are transferred ta
and from it by the Madison Avenue route.
Elberon Avenue Route— From Fourth and Main Streets, on Main, Sixth,
Elm, Eighth, State Avenue, Elberon Avenue, and West Eighth Street to New
St Joseph's Cemetery; returning on West Eighth, Elberon Avenue, State Av
enue, Eighth, Central Avenue, and Fourth, to Main Street. Time— One hour
twenty minutes for round trip. This line runs all-night cars to Eighth and El
beron Avenue Points of interest — City Building, Eighth Street Viaduct, Price
Hill Inclined Plane, Price Hill, St. Joseph's Cemetery.
Fairmount Route— From Walnut and Fifth, on Fifth, Vine, 6eventh, Free
man Avenue, Liberty, Western, McLean, Spring Grove, and Queen City Ave
nues, Beekman, Western, and Baltimore Avenues, to Casper Street; returning
on Baltimore and Western Avenues, Beekman, Queen City, Spring Grove,
McLean, and Western Avenues, Liberty, Linn, Ninth, and Walnut, to Fifth
Street. Time — One hour five minutes for round trip. Points of interest — Ar
mory, Lincoln Park, Baseball Park, Fairmount.
Fairview Heights Route — From Fairview Inclined Plane, on Fairview Av
enue, Straight Street, to Clifton Avenue; returning on Straight Street, Fair-
view Avenue, to Fairview Inclined Plane. Notice — This route is only a con
necting- spur line with Clifton Avenue lines.
Gilbert Avenue Route— From Walnut and Fifth, on Fifth, Broadway,
Court, Gilbert Avenue, McMillan, Woodburn, and Gilbert Avenues to loop at
Blair Avenue; returning on Gilbert Avenue, Woodburn Avenue, McMillan,
Gilbert Avenue, Court, Broadway, Sixth, and Walnut to Fifth Street. Time-
Sixty minutes for round trip. Points of interest — Cincinnati, Lebanon& North
ern, Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia, and Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw
Depots, Peebles' Corner, East Walnut Hills, Jewish Cemetery, Calvary Cath
olic Cemetery.
John Street Route — From Main and Fourth, on Fourth to John, Findlay,
Baymiller, Bank, Coleman, Harrison, and Westwood Avenues, to Plymouth
Avenue, about eight hundred feet south of Westwwod Avenue; returning on
Plymouth, Westwood, Harrison, and Central Avenues, Fifth, and Main, to
Fourth Street. Time — One hour ten minutes for round trip. Points of interest
—Union Depot, Brighton Place, Big Four, Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern,
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Crossing.
Lock Street Route— From Walnut and Fifth, on Fifth and Lock to Third;
returning on Third, Lawrence, Fourth, and Walnut, to Fifth Street. Time —
Twenty minutes for round trip. Points of interest — Good Samaritan Hospital,
Mt. Adams Inclined Plane, Pennsylvania and Louisville & .Nashville Depot.
McMicken Avenue (Elm Street Route)— From Walnut and Fourth, on
Fourth, Elm, and McMicken Avenue to Hopple (or Center); returning on Mc
Micken Avtnue, Elm, Fifth, and Walnut, to Fourth Street. Time— Forty-eight
minutes for round trip. This line runs all-night cars. Points of interest —
Music Hall, Brighton Place, Mohawk Place; passes Fairview Inclined Plane.
McMicken Avenue (Main Street Route)— From Fifth and Walnut, on Fifth,
Main, and McMicken Avenue to Hopple (or Center); returning on McMicken
Avenue, Main, Court, and Walnut, to Fifth Street. Time— Forty-eight min
utes for round trip. Points of interest— Courthouse, Mohawk Place; passes
Fairview Inclined Plane.
Madison Avenue Route— From Fifth and Walnut, on Fifth, Broadway,
Hunt, Florence Avenue, Gilbert Avenue, McMillan Street, Park Avenue,
Chapel, Woodburn, Madison, and Erie Avenues to Hyde Park; returning on
Erie, Madison, and Woodburn Avenues, Chapel, Elmwood, Harvey, Gilbert,
and Florence Avenues, Hunt Street, Broadway, Sixth, and Walnut, to Fifth
Street. Time— One hour fifteen minutes for round trip. This line runs all-
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Hills, O'Bryonville, Hyde Park, Mt. Lookout, Cincinnati Observatory; trans
fers for Madisonville and Oakley Race Track. Note— This line runs through
cars to Oakley during the races.
Mt. Auburn Cable Route— From Fifth and "Walnut, on Fifth, Sycamore,
Saunders, Highland Avenue, Shillito, Burnet, and Rockdale Avenues, to Main
Avenue, Avondale; returning on Rockdale and Burnet Avenues, Shillito, High
land Avenue, Saunders, Sycamore, Sixth, and Walnut to Fifth Street. Time —
One hour five mirutes[for round trip. Points of interest — Courthouse, German
Protestant Orphan Asylum, East Mt. Auburn, Bodmann Widows' Home, South
west Avondale.
Norwood Route — From Fourth and John, on John, Fifth,. Broadway,
Gilbert and Main Avenues to the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway
Crossing in Norwood; returning on Main, Gilbert Avenues, Broadway and
Fourth to John Street. Time — One hour thirty minutes for round trip. This
tine runs all-night cars to Blair Avenue, Walnut Hills. Points of interest —
West Walnut Hills, Lane Seminary, German Protestant Cemetery, Jewish
Cemetery, Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Elsmere, Norwood, Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern Railroad, Union Depot, going West.
Price HIU Route — From top of Price Hill Incline, on Matson Place, Price
Avenue, Hawthorne- Avenue to Warsaw Avenue; returning on Hawthorne
Avenue, Price Avenue and Matson Place to Price Hill Incline.
Sedamsville Route — From Fourth and Walnut, on Walnut, Fifth, John,
Eighth, State Avenue, West Sixth, Lower River Road, Hillside Avenue, Liston
Avenue to Anderson Ferry; returning on Liston Avenue, Hillside Avenue,
Lower River Road, Sixth, Neave, Staebler, State Avenue, Eighth, Central
Avenue, Fifth, Main and Fourth Streets. Time — One hour thirty minutes for
round trip. Points of Interest— Eighth Street Viaduct, Price Hill Incline Plane,
Riverside, Sedamsville, Anderson Ferry.
Seventh Street Route. — From Fifth and Vine, on Vine, Seventh, Freeman
and Liberty to Dalton Avenue; returning on Liberty, Freeman, Clark, Bay
miller, Seventh, Walnut and Fifth to Vine Street. Time — Forty minutes for
round trip. Points of Interest — Lincoln Park Armory.
Sixth Street Route— From Main and Fourth, on Fourth, Elm, Fifth, John,
Sixth, Baymiller, Liberty, Western, McLean and Harrison Avenues, and Bogen
Street to car house; returning on Spring Grove, McLean and Western Avenues,
Liberty, Baymiller, Sixth, Walnut, Fifth and Main to Fourth Street. Time—
Fifty-five minutes for round trip. Points of Interest — Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Depot, Baseball Park.
Third and Fifth Street Route— From Fourth and Walnut, on Walnut,
Fifth, Freeman and Sixth to Front Street; returning on Sixth, Freeman, Fifth,
Baymiller, Third, Eggleston Avenue and Pearl to Pennsylvania Station;
returningon Pearl, Eggleston Avenue, Third, Lawrence and Fourth to Walnut
Street. Time — Forty-five minutes for round trip. Points of Interest — Cincin
nati, Hamilton & Dayton Depot, going west; Union and Pennsylvania Depots,
going east. •
Vine Street— Clifton Route— From Walnut and Fifth, on Fifth, Vine, Jef
ferson, Ludlow, Cook, Bryant and Middleton Avenues to Ludlow Avenue;
returning on Ludlow and Jefferson Avenues, Vine and Fifth to Walnut Street.
Time— One hour for round trip. Points of Interest — Vine Street Hill, Corry ville,
Burnet Woods and Clifton.
Vine Street — Norwood Route — From Fourth and Vine, on Vine, McMillan,
Gilbert Avenue and Montgomery Road to Baltimore and Southwestern Cross
ing in Norwood; returning on Montgomery Road, Gilbert Avenue, McMillan,
Vine, Fifth, Walnut and Fourth to Vine Street. Time — One hour forty minutes
for round trip. Points of Interest — West Walnut Hills, Lane Seminary, German
Protestant Cemetery, Jewish Cemetery, Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston,
Elsmere and Norwood.
Warsaw Avenue Route— From Fourth and Main, on Main, Sixth, Elm,
Eighth, Glenway, Wilder and Warsaw Avenues to west corporation line;
returning on Warsaw, Wilder and Glenway Avenues, Eighth, Central Avenue,
Fourth to Main Street. Time— One hour five minutes for round trip. This line
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Price Hill Incline Plane, Price Hill, Cedar Grove Academy, City Potter'.,
Field. Westwood Route — From Main and Fourth, on Fourth, Elm, Sixth, Bay
miller and Liberty Streets, Western and Harrison Avenues and Harrison Pike,
at Glenmore Avenue in Cheviot; returning on Glenmore, Fairview, Harrison
and Western Avenues, Liberty, Baymiller, Sixth, Walnut, Fifth and Main
to Fourth Street. Time — One hour and fifty minutes for round trip. This line
runs all-night cars to Franklin Avenue. Points of Interest — Cincinnati, Hamil
ton & Dayton Depot, Baseball Park, Brighton, Crossing Big F"our, Baltimore
& Ohio, and Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railways, Westwood, Cheviot,
Betts Street Hospital.
Zoo— Eden Park Route — From Fourth and John, on John, Fifth, Eggleston
Avenue, Incline, Ida Street, Eden Park, Grand, Gilbert Avenue, McMillan,
May, Oak, Reading Road, Shillito Street, Burnet Avenue, Erkenbrecher Ave
nue, to Zoo gate; returning on Erkenbrecher Avenue, Burnet Avenue, Shillito,
Heading Road, Oak, May, McMillan, Gilbert Avenue, Grand, Eden Park,
Ida Street, Incline, Eggleston Avenue, Fifth, Broadway, Fourth to John Street.
Time — One hour twelve minutes for round trip. Points of Interest — Mt. Adams,
Rookwood Pottery, Art Museum, Eden Park, West Walnut Hills, South and
West Avondale, Zoo, Union Depot, going west.
Zoo — Hunt Street Route— From Fourth and John, on John, Fifth, Broad
way, Hunt, Reading Road, Shillito, Burnet Avenue, Erkenbrecher Avenue to
Zoo gate; returning on Erkenbrecher Avenue, Burnet Avenue, Shillito, Read
ing Road, Hunt Street, Broadway and Fourth Street. Time — Fifty minutes
for round trip. Points of Interest — Southwest Avondale, Zoo Garden.
COVINGTON LINES.
Madison Avenue and Greenup Street— (Belt Line)— Operates on Madison
Avenue, Greenup, State, Second and Third Streets, Covington, tu Fountain
Square via Suspension Bridge. Time — Forty-eight minutes for round trip.
— Points of Interest— Suspension Bridge, Central Covington. Connects for
Austinburg, Wallace Woods, Holman Street, Wolking's Fishing Lakej Rose
dale, Milldale, Latonia Race Track.
nilldale Route— From State and Madison Avenue to Latonia Race Track.
Time — Twenty-six minutes for round trip. Points of Interest— Milldale, La
tonia Race Track.
Rosedale 'Route — From State and Madison Avenue to town of Rosedale
and Lake Wolking, passing through Milldale. Time — Twenty-six minutes for
round trip. Points of Interest— Wolking's Lake, Milldale, Rosedale.
Austinburg Route— From State and Madison Avenues to Powell and
Greenup via Austinburg. Time— Twenty minutes for round trip. Points of
Interest — Wallace Woods, Austinburg.
Note. — This isa transfer connection route; transfers from Madison Ave
nue route.
Holman Street Route— From Eleventh and Madison Avenue to Sixteenth
and Holman and return.
Main Street Route— From Pike and Main Streets to Fountain Square and
return. Time— Forty minutes for round trip. Points of Interest— Covington
end of Chesapeake & Ohio Bridge,West Covington ; crosses Suspension Bridge.
LudlOW Route — From Bromley via Ludlow, West Covington and Covington
to Fountain Square and return. Time— Sixty minutes lor round trip. Points ot
Interest — Suspension Bridge, "West Covington, Ludlow, Bromley, Lagoon,
Queen & Crescent Depot.

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NEWPORT LINES.
Newport and Covington Belt Line — Between Newport, Covington and
Cincinnati. Time — Forty-four minutes for round trip. Points of Interest —
Pennsylvania and Louisville & Nashville Depots, Cincinnati; Chesapeake &
Ohio, and Louisville & Nashville Depots, Newport and Co\ington; Licking
River Bridge; crosses Louisville & Nashville Bridge, returning over Suspension
Bridge. Evergreen, or ilonmouth Street Route— F-om the Evergreen Cemetery
to Fountain Square via Southgate and Newport. Time — Fifty-two minutes for
round trip. Points of Interest.— Central Newport, Evergreen Cemetery; crosses
Louisville & Nashville Bridge; passes Pennsylvania and Louis ville & Nashville
Depot; Cincinnati.
Patterson Street Route— From Eleventh and Patterson to Third and York
Streets. This line transfers from all cars crossing Louisville & Nashville Bridge.
Ft. Thomas Route — From the junction of Highland Avenue and Alexandria
Turnpike via Ft. Thomas, Inverness, South Bellevue, Newport to Fountain
Square. Time — One hour 30 minutes for round trip. Points of Interest — East
Newport, Louisville & Nashville Bridge, Newport and Covington Reservoirs,
Ft. Thomas, United States Troops; Pennsylvania and Louisville & Nashville
Depots, Cincinnati. BELLEVUE AND DAYTON LINES-
Bellevue and Dayton Route — From Third and Benham Streets, Dayton,
via Bellevue and Newport to Fountain Square. Time — Sixty minutes for round
trip. Points of Interest — Pennsylvania Depot, Cincinnati, Louisville & Nash
ville Bridge, Newport, Taylor Mill Bbttoms, Bellevue, Dayton.
Suburbs — Cincinnati is famous for its suburbs.
The following words were used by Col. Sidney D.
Maxwell, in writing upon this subject: "The suburbs
of Cincinnati are its crowning glory. The city proper
has much to attract the attention of the stranger. Its
beautiful river is spanned by a suspension bridge
which, in some respects, is without an equal. It pos
sesses business houses of imposing appearance and
unusual architectural beauty; manufactories which
are costly and extensive; tasteful homes that line its
thoroughfares ; churches, cathedrals and temples upon
which devotion has poured out its treasures; superb
edifices that have been provided for the helpless, the
afflicted and the erring, arid scores of school build
ings dedicated to the education of the youth. These
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chief attraction of the place. The environs of Cin
cinnati are its distinguishing beauty. They present
as striking a combination of the picturesque and the
accessible as can be found in the world, and the topo
graphical beauties are such as to peculiarly favor, in
the development of the landscape, the most artistic
plans. The eligible locations are almost innumerable,
and their capacity for improvement unlimited. . . .
Mt. Auburn, Clifton, Walnut Hills, Glendale, Avon-
dale and other villages came into existence and have
increased from a few families to thousands of inhabit
ants, and yet the great tide that is to set into these
suburban places has only just begun. People have
but awakened to the fact that the high hills and deep
ravines that surround Cincinnati are to become its
most attractive features. . . . Cincinnati will
have, if it has not already, the most beautiful suburbs
of any city in America. ' '
The whole face of the country, beginning at the
brow of the hills and running back over all of Hamil
ton County, is one large suburb, a continuous land
scape garden, and a drive, particularly through the
one-time villages named above, including Eden Park,
Burnet Woods Park and Spring Grove (really a park),
will convince you of this truth.
It would be impossible to adequately describe the
various suburban beauties, but the principal localities
have been briefly mentioned under their proper head
ing (such as Avondale, Clifton, etc.), and you are
earnestly advised to make a trip for the purpose of
satisfying yourself, knowing that you will be wonder
fully surprised and repaid, beyond even your most
sanguine expectations.

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Technical School — The technical School of Cincin
nati owes its existence to the late Colonel W. Iy. Rob
inson. It is well equipped in all its departments, and
has a full corps of experienced and progressive teach
ers. Course, four years. The first term continues
from September to February, and the second from
February to June. Tuition, $75 to $125 per year.
The school is located in the north wing of Music
Hall Building. It was incorporated July 27, 1886,
and has high school and intermediate departments,
shopwork in carpentry, turning, smithing and ma
chinery in fully-equipped shops. Freehand and me
chanical drawing and coloring, mathematics, science,
history, English, German and Spanish, and natural
sciences are taught.
Telegraph, Telephone and Messenger Service —
Branch offices of the different telegraph companies
can be found in all the principal hotels, exchanges,
railway stations and many prominent points through
out the city.
Public telephones can be found in all parts of the
city, principally in hotels and drugstores. The usual
charge is ten cents for local service. In the principal
hotels and public telephone offices can be found long
distance telephones through which communication
may be had with surrounding towns within a radius
of 200 miles.
Automatic calls can be found in nearly all depots,
hotels, drugstores, saloons, restaurants and principal
business houses. Messenger boys in uniform may be
summoned from any of these places for the purpose
of delivering letters or parcels to any part of the city,
or executing errands of any kind. The charge is from
fifteen cents up, according to time required and dis
tance covered.

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American District Telegraph Company, 21, 33
Fountain Square.
Bell Telephone Exchange, Vine and Baker Streets.
Cincinnati District Telegraph Company, 21, 23
Fountain Square.
City and Suburban Telegraph Association, Vine
and Baker Streets.
Ohio Messenger & Telegraph Company, 409 Vine
Street. Postal Telegraph Cable Company, 21, 23 Fountain
Square. Western Union Telegraph Company, principal of
fice, northwest corner Fourth and Vine Streets.
Theatres — See Amusements.
United Jewish Charities — The headquarters of the
United Jewish Charities is at 731 West Sixth Street.
The organization includes the General Hebrew Relief
Association, Hebrew Ladies' Society for the Relief of
the Sick Poor, Ladies' Sewing Society, Jewish Foster
Home, Jewish Kindergarten, Kitchen Garden and In
dustrial Schools for Boys and Girls. Through this
consolidation professional begging and fraud are pre
vented and proper relief is extended to all worthy
poor Jews in Cincinnati.
U. S. Government Building — The ground for the
Government Building was purchased in 1873, at a
cost of $696,712. It is 398 feet front, including the
whole square on Fifth Street, between Main and
Walnut. It extends back to Government Place, a
distance of 192.6 feet. The erection of the building
was started in 1874 and finished in 1885. It cost
$4' 553' 288> without the ground, the total cost being
$5, 250,000. It is built of Maine and Missouri granite,
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stories, a basement and a subbasement. In the latter
are heating, electric light and power apparatus. The
basement is occupied principally by supply rooms for
the Postoffice and storerooms for the Custom House.
The ground floor is given up entirely to the Post-
office ; second floor, to the Subtreasury, Custom House,
Appraiser's office, Internal Revenue Collector, Post-
office Inspector, Secret Service and several other of
fices; third floor, entirely to the Judiciary Depart
ment; fourth floor, to the Railway Mail Service,
United States Engineers, Lighthouse Inspector and
Weather Bureau ; fifth floor, a dormitory for 300 rail
way mail clerks and storerooms. There are two pas
senger and six freight elevators. The wide corridors
are beautifully wainscoted with marble and floored
with marble tiling. The building is absolutely fire
proof, being made entirely of stone, brick, iron and
plaster, with no interior woodwork except doors and
furniture. All the offices face the street. The cus
todian of the building is the Surveyor of Customs.
U. S. Marine Hospital — Of Cincinnati^ is at the
corner of Third, Kilgour and Pearl Streets, and was
the old Kilgour residence. The Government paid
$50,000 for the residence and grounds as they were,
and afterward erected the wards and additional build
ings as they now are. These consist of four wards,
two white and two colored, .a good laboratory and
apparatus for chemical examinations. The entire
property, houses and grounds, comprises four acres,
and is in a convenient location to that class from
whom it draws its patients.
A patient, to be admitted to this hospital,, must
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But it occasionally happens that some who have been
employed on lake, sea, or other river vessels, are visit
ing in the city and taken sick, when of course they
are taken care of. No other Government employee,
no matter of what rank or position, is allowed free
treatment by the Marine Service.
In addition to the care of the sick and disabled of
the mercantile marine, the medical officers of the
Marine Hospital Service are, under the laws of the
United States, further charged with the medical care
of seamen of the revenue cutter service, and with the
physical examination of officers of the revenue cutters
of the United States, and of the keepers and crews of
life-saving stations ; and they are required to aid in
the enforcement of quarantine, under the direction of
the Secretary of the Treasury. Original appointments
into the medical corps are made to the grade of assist
ant surgeon only, and after thorough examination intO\
professional qualifications by an examining board of
surgeons of the service; and the medical officers are
assigned to duty wherever their services may be re
quired from time to time.
Take East End cars at Fountain Square.
Unity Club — The first Unitarian Church in Cincin
nati was incorporated in 1830, and the Unity Club of
this church has always been noted for its most delight
ful literary entertainments. In the year 1879, during
Dr. C. W. Wendte's administration, the success of a
proposed popular lecture course being questiohed by
some of the members, the Unity Club Lecture Com
mittee, composed of Dr.Wendte, Mr. A. W. Whelpley,
and Mr. S. H. Wilder, personally assurhed the financial
responsibility of the course. The result was a pro
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nineteen consecutive years the committee have con
tinued these Sunday afternoon lectures, securing al
ways the most eminent speakers and entertainers to
be had. The lectures are given at the Grand Opera
House, and owe their popularity for the past fifteen
years to the care of Mr. Whelpley, Mr. Harold Ryland,
and Rev. Geo. A. Thayer, the late A. B. Champion,
and the late E. Court Williams. In the nineteen
years of its existence nearly $12,000 has been un
ostentatiously given to city and private charities.
University of Cincinnati, The — Owes its existence
to the generosity of Charles McMicken, a native of
Pennsylvania, who came to Cincinnati in 1803, accu
mulated a large fortune and died here in 1858. By
the terms of his will he bequeathed to the city of
Cincinnati property worth over $1,000,000, to found
an institution of learning in which students should
"receive the benefit of a sound, thorough and prac
tical English education, and such as might fit them
for the active duties of life, as well as instruction in
the higher branches of knowledge, except denomina
tional theology, to the extent that the same are now
or may hereafter be taught in any of the secular col
leges or universities of the highest grade in the coun
try." In April, 1870, the General Assembly of Ohio
passed an act, "to enable cities of the first class to
aid and promote education," under which the city of
Cincinnati accepted the bequest of Charles McMicken
and proceeded to establish the University of Cincin
nati. Instruction began in 1873 in Woodward High
School Building; in the Third Intermediate School,
on Franklin Street, 1874-5; in the University Build-

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ing, on grounds of McMicken homestead, from 1875
to 1895. In 1890 the city set apart as a location for
the University a tract of forty-three acres at the south
ern end of Burnet Woods Park. On an elevated site
in this tract has been erected by the city a commo
dious central building, named McMicken Hall, in
honor of the founder. Adjacent to McMicken Hall
on the north is situated Hanna Hall, named in honor
of its donor. The building was dedicated and occu
pied in September, 1895. The plans also include
the erection at the earliest possible date of an edifice
similar to Hanna Hall, south of McMicken Hall, for
the departments of physics and biology.
The main building cost $100,000; Henry Hauna
donated $50,000 for additional wing, and later gave
$20,000 more; endowment, $700,000 from Charles
McMicken, $18,192 from Browne estate, $100,000
from Matthew Thorns, $27,680 from tax levy of .2 of
a mill, $78,411 from city bonds, $20,000 from John
Kilgour, $1,000 from Julius Dexter, Observatory
($8,000) from Cincinnati Astronomical Society,
$19,658 additional from city; total, $966,941.
In the Academic Department tuition is free to resi
dents of Cincinnati, $60 a year to nonresidents ; course
of study, four years; all regular university degrees
conferred; entrance examinations in June and Sep
tember. In 1896 the Medical College of Ohio, which was
organized in 1819, became the Medical Department
of the University. The old academic building, in
connection with new structures erected on the unoccu
pied ground adjoining, forms the present home of this
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a class was established in the building at No. 26 East
Fourth Street. In 1897 the consolidation of the old
Cincinnati Law School and the new Law Department
of the University was completed. This department
is at present located in College Building, 416 Walnut
Street. Another feature of the University is the Cincinnati
Observatory, which occupies a building erected in
1873 ou the summit of Mt. Lookout, six miles east of
the city. This observatory is the outgrowth of the
first astronomical establishment worthy the name in
the United States. It was founded in 1842 by the
Cincinnati Astronomical Society, the first building
being at the summit of Mt. Adams. Jermain G.
Porter, Ph.D., is the present director of the Observa
tory and Professor of Astronomy in the University.
Besides being well equipped with instruments, the
Observatory has a valuable scientific library of 2, 500
volumes. Affiliated with the University is also the Ohio Col
lege of Dental Surgery and the Cincinnati College of
Pharmacy. To reach the University take the College Hill elec
tric cars at Fountain Square.
Walnut Hills — Is the name of that portion of the
city laying north of Eden Park and east of Mt. Au
burn and Avondale. This is a city of itself, having
about 75,000 population, one of the finest hotels in
the city, The Alms, and one of the handsomest club
houses, the Cincinnati. Clustered about Peebles'
Corner (the intersection of Gilbert Avenue and Mc
Millan Street) is quite a business center, and again,
out further, at the San Marco corner. On Walnut
Hills in all directions the land lays beautifully, the

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line situations are innumerable, and splendid homes
are to be found by the hundreds. From many van
tage points the views are unsurpassed, and a magnif
icent view of the Ohio River, the valley up the river
and the Kentucky cities and hills may be had by
going to Ingleside Place, southeast of the Hotel Alms,
where you will be guatified beyond expectation. The
Widows' and Old Men's Home is located on East
McMillan Street, and the Lane Theological Seminary,
on Gilbert Avenue, north of McMillan Street. Many
elegant churches are also to be found of all denom
inations. Take Gilbert Avenue, Vine and Norwood
or Eden Park car at Fountain Square.
Wards — The city is divided into thirty-one wards,
and for convenience in voting each of them is sub
divided into several election precincts. Each' ward
has one member in the city Board of Legislation and
one member in the Board of Education. The bound
aries of the wards are given in the City Directory.
Washington Park — Is opposite the Music Hall and
occupies the square bounded by Elm, Twelfth and
Race Streets, extending northwardly nearly to Four
teenth Street. It was formerly a cemetery, but was
converted into a park in 1861. It contains a spray
fountain, a drinking fountain, walks, flowers and
statues, and is a popular resort for children of the
neighborhood. Waterworks — The pumping house of the water
works is located on the river bank, on East Front
Street, just east of the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot.
It contains eight large pumping engines and is well
worth visiting. Water is taken from the Ohio River
and pumped to the Third Street reservoir, called the
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middle serivce. All services but these two and Lin-
wood repump water.
The Eden Park Pumping Station, taking water
from the reservoir, pumps into the Eden Park water
tower, and, with the Hunt Street Station, which takes
water from the effluent mains from Eden Park reser
voir and pumps it into the Mt. Auburn tanks, forms
what is designated as the Mt. Auburn and Eden Park
high service:
The Mt. Hope Pumping Station pumps water from
the mains supplied from Third Street reservoir into
Price Hill tanks, and is known as the Western Hills
high service.
Cumminsville High Service Station takes water
from Eden Park mains and pumps to the elevated
portion of northwest Cumminsville by direct pressure.
The Lin wood Station uses water from artesian wells,
supplying the low service of the village of Linwood
through the medium of a reservoir and standpipe,
located at an elevated point, which supplies the high
service of- this village.
Total number of miles of water pipe in the city is
365. 28. The waterworks are owned and operated
by the city.
Weather Bureau, The — Is located in the fourth
floor of the Government Building. Visitors are in
vited between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m., and
the officials in charge will take pleasure in showing
and explaining the various instruments. Much infor
mation as to the practical workings of the bureau may
be gained by visitors interested in weather matters.
To the Cincinnati Observatory belongs the honor
of being the pioneer in the important field of weather
prediction. Prof. Abbe, when director of the Observ-

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atory, secured the cooperation of observers stationed
at various points throughout the country, and began
to issue bulletins on September i, 1869. This led to
the establishment by the general Government of the
Weather Bureau in 1870, Prof. Abbe being placed
in charge of the department at Washington.
Wharves — Along the twelve or more miles of river
front there are many landings. Most of these are
private property, and are used for coal boats and
barges and lumber. The extensive coal dealers who
have elevators generally own their landings. So also
with the Marine Railway and Drydock Company,
and the large sawmill owners of Pendleton, Fulton
and Columbia. The Public Landing — that owned by
the city — extends from a point a short distance east
of the waterworks west to Millcreek. The greater
portion of this is leased to private parties, steamboat
lines and others. The public landing proper extends
from Broadway to Race Street, and within this limit
all general steamboat traffic is confined. The city
maintains a Wharf Master and City Weigher, to col
lect wharfage fees and to look after its wharf inter
ests in general.
Woodward High School — Was built in 1854, on
Franklin Street, between Sycamore and Broadway.
With additions made in 1867 and 1880, the building
has cost $75,000. This school was established in
1830 by William Woodward, who left property in
trust for the support of the school. In 1836 the
school became Woodward College. In 1851 the Col
lege became, with Hughes School, a high school, the
two schools being placed under the Union Board of
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Workhouse — The Cincinnati Workhouse is located
on Colerain Avenue, adjoining the House of Refuge,
and is an immense structure. Opened November 17,
1869; controlled by the Police Commissioners; total
area, 26 acres; consists of seven buildings; main
building (containing prison halls), workshops, hos
pital, dining-room and kitchen, bath houses and
stables. The day force consists of three sergeants and
thirteen guards; night force, of four guards. In the
female prison are matron and five assistants. Has
606 cells for males and 240 for females.
The grounds back of the prison are surrounded by
a wall of masonry 15 feet high. Commitments are
made by the Police Court and Court of Common Pleas
for all crimes and misdemeanors, the punishment for
which is of less grade than imprisonment in the peni
tentiary. Tickets of admission issued by the Police
Commissioners, Mayor or Police Judge. Visitors not
admitted Sundays, except to chapel services at 3 p. m.
Wyoming — Is a residence suburb exclusively,
twelve miles north on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Railway, and a delightful place to live in.
The streets are broad, well shaded, macadamized and
lined with sidewalks of artificial stone. The private
residences are characterized by taste and beauty.
There are commodious town hall, two fine school
buildings, Baptist, Presbyterian and Catholic
Churches. Also has water and electric light plant.
Young Men's Business Club — Organized 1892 ; in
corporated 1896; object, the promotion of the best
interests of Cincinnati. Meets once a month.
Young Men's Christian Association — The building
is at northwest corner Seventh and Walnut Streets ;
built 1891; cost altogether, $201,063.71; Association

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started October 3, 1848; received $33,000 in railroad
bonds from Mr. David Sinton in November, 1874;
open from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. ; Sundays, 2 to 6 p. m. ;
branch for railroad men, corner Third and Wood
Streets; also a branch at Third and John Streets; has
1,500 members; membership fee, $10, including gym
nasium; $5 without gymnasium ; educational depart
ment has 500 members. The building is a handsome
one and is well fitted up, containing a large audito
rium, library, reading rooms, amusement rooms and
educational rooms.
Young Men's Mercantile Library — .416 Walnut
Street, in College Building; was organized in 1835,
and a room secured for the library in the second story
of a building on Main Street, below Pearl. Not long
afterwards it was moved to a room on Fourth Street,
east of Main. At the close of 1835 there were about
750 volumes. In 1838 a catalogue was issued, which
was sold for a small sum, and served to swell the in
come. In 1840 the officers secured quarters for the
library in the College Building, on Walnut Street.
In 1 841 a new catalogue was issued that showed
3, 000 volumes and six hundred members. The re
ceipts were about $2,000 that year and the expendi
tures about the same. The concern became an impor
tant public institution at this time, for in 1843 the
first real contest for officers and directors took place,
a feature that has been continued for fifty-five years,
and one that has been of incalculable benefit to the
association, inasmuch as new members have been
brought in by the score from year to year to swell the
receipts and strengthen its position.
It is claimed that the Chamber of Commerce is an
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Charles Cist became librarian, in 1846, he commenced
to keep statistics of the city's imports and exports and
other figures pertaining to the manufacturing and
packing industries. In this work he was aided by
ninety merchants, who contributed five dollars each
per annum to pay him for the work. These tables
were kept in the room of the library for reference.
From this humble beginning the work progressed and
grew to the big volume now furnished yearly by the
superintendent of the Chamber of Commerce.
In another way Mr. Cist contributed largely to the
historical records of the city. During his connection
with the library he published at different times small
volumes of recollections and reminiscences that are
today almost invaluable to the reader who wishes to
find out about Cincinnati in the earlier days of this
century. On January 19, 1845, the building was burned to
the ground, but, by the heroic efforts of thousands of
volunteers, the books were saved, practically without
much damage. October 20, 1869, another fire broke
out in the present building, and many of the books
were seriously damaged by water and smoke. The
building had to be rebuilt in a measure, and the books
were stored in an empty building on Race Street until
the repairs were made.
From the first fire came good, inasmuch as the
citizens raised $10,000 by subscription and purchased
from the Cincinnati College the fee simple of the sec
ond floor. This they own, and a fair idea of its value
can be gained from a knowledge of the fact that in
1882 an offer of $40,000 was made for their share of
the building.
In addition to this property, the library has an

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endowment that is between $40,000 and $50,000.
Add these items to a fair value placed on all the
books, and it will be seen that the association is worth,
at a moderate estimate, something like a quarter of
a million dollars. The shelves now carry more than
60,000 volumes.
Young Women's Christian Association — The Young
Women's Christian Association of Cincinnati was
incorporated October 6, 1868. Its rooms are at 26
East Eighth Street. Any young woman of good
character is eligible to membership upon payment of
ten cents a month, or $1 per year. The association
has an educational and industrial department; gives
-receptions and entertainments; serves daily lunch
eons; maintains a vacation cottage, and various other
features. Zoological Gardens — The Cincinnati Zoological
Gardens are the finest in the United States. Few
visitors to this city depart without having paid one
or more visits to this charming spot. The Gardens
comprise a beautiful park of forty-five acres, consist
ing of woodland, plateau and ravine. They are situ
ated in the northern part of the city, between the
beautiful suburbs of Clifton and Avondale. The col
lection of wild animals and rare birds is probably the
most complete in the country. The principal build
ings are of stone and iron, the whole representing an
expenditure of nearly $1,000,000. Excellent arrange
ments are made in the way of winter quarters for the
animals and birds, whereby a visit in the cold months
of the winter will prove almost as interesting and
agreeable as in the more pleasant weather of summer.
Frequently there are special attractions and musical
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class restaurant inside the Garden furnishes good food
at moderate prices. The Gardens were opened in
1875, and are owned by The Cincinnati Zoological
Society. Zoological gardens are maintained by societies in
many of the large cities in Europe. In London the
garden has an area of 36 acres. In Paris there are
two gardens maintained by societies. In Berlin the
garden has an area of 63 acres, in Amsterdam, 25
acres, in The Hague, 20 acres, and in Vienna, 30
acres. The Government at Washington maintains a
garden with an area of 166 acres. New York City is
preparing a Zoo, to be opened about 1900.
Take Vine Street cable cars or Zoo electric line at
Fountain Square.

When in CINCINNATI, don't
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CARTHAGE, WYOMING,
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