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but many acres have been filled above high-water mark and built upon, and further improvement is in rapid progress.
INWOOD PARK .- A private park, containing about sixteen acres, formerly the residence and grounds of Mr. Schoenberger, but now used for picnics and pleasure parties. It is situated within the City limits, near the head of Vine strect, Corryville. Access to it is had by the Mt. Auburn Inclined Plane railroad. The grounds are fitted with conveniences, such as dancing floors, shelter houses, swings, etc., for monster picnics, as many as 20,000 people being often accommodated in one day. A large portion of the ground is covered with native forest trees. The property is in the hands of Mr. Henry Reibel, as lessee.
IRON MOLDERS' UNION .- The inolders of Cincinnati formed a Union in 1859, but it was only short lived. In 1859 Cincinnati, Troy, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and St. Louis again formed local associations, and organized the Iron Molders' Union of North America. In this City, Societies Nos. 1 and 2 meet on the 1st and 3d Saturday evenings of cach month, at 195 W. Fourth street, and No. 4 on the Third Saturday of the Month at 357 Central Avenue.
ITALIAN MUTUAL AID SOCIETY .- Meets twice each month at Mozart Hall, in the Catholic Institute building, corner of Vine and Longworth streets. It has a membership of forty, nearly exclusively native Italians. Five Dollars per week are paid in sick benefits, the annual dues being $6. The initiation fee is graded according to the age of the applicants. Dr. Sannders, of Newport, is President. The society is independent of any re- ligious sect, although most of the members are Roman Catholics. A number reside in Covington and Newport. It was established 11 years ago.
IRON TRADE .- Cincinnati is deservedly known as a great. manufacturing City, and is constantly increasing her facilities for working raw materials into finished goods. So far, she has developed no special tendencies for the production of one class of manufacturers to the exclusion of others. With her varied workshops, employing almost every description of labor, and producing seemingly, an endless variety of merchandise, there is no particular industry so prominent as to dwarf the others by comparison, and she is therefore more independent in her commerce, and more commanding in her trade, than those cities, whose products are not so diversified. The production and consumption of iron in Cincinnati cannot be considered great, as compared with her population, although her trade in iron may be said to assume large proportions. The position of the City ; as about the centre of the mineral resources of this coun- try, has made her the natural distributing point for a large territory, including the States of Ohio, Indiana, Kentneky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and the Virginias; while no in- considerable quantity of thic irons made in Missouri, Michigan and Pennsylvania, are consigned to this point for consumption and distribution. The famous Hanging Rock region, and the new iron district in the Hocking Valley, lic contiguous to this City; and the Coal fields of Western Pennsylvania, West Virgi- nia, Southern Ohio and Northeastern Kentucky, are easy of access to Cincinnati for cheap fuel by river transportation, when navigation permits. Also the rich fields of Jackson, Perry, Athens and Ilocking Counties in Ohio can always be relied on for cheap fucl-so essential to the success of manufactures- by rail, rendering a coal famine well nigh impossible hereafter. Thus with the command of good and cheap fuel, and the best iron at lowest prices, there is no good reason why Cincinnati may not sooner or later rank among the first iron manufacturing cities of the Union. The last official report of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce contains many interesting facts concern- ing the iron trade of the City, stating the number of hands employed in the manufacture of iron and other metals to be 10,252, and the value of thic product at $17,779,785.00. Col. Sidney D. Maxwell, Superintendent of the Chamber of Commerce, in a lecture on "The Mannfactures of Cincinnati," delivered at Pike's Opera House, March 11, 1878, gave a clear and conciso
INUNDATION .- Nearly 1,200 acres of city land, chiefly in Mill- creck Valley, are subject to inundation by extreme high water; review of her iron trade, showing that in many of her mauu-
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factures she has no superior, if she has a peer, and that those goods find a market not only in all parts of the United States, but are being shipped to all parts of the world.
JAEGER UNSTERSTEUTZUNGS-VEREIN .- There are two societies with this name, one mecting at Arbeiter Hall the second Tues- day in each month; the other at 472 Walnut street, at the same time. They are mutual aid societies. Each numbers about 125 members.
JEWISH HOSPITAL (See Hospitals).
JEWISH SYNAGOGUES (See Churches).
JONES STATION-Is a hamlet on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, 19 miles from the City. The place of resi- dence of a few Cincinnati families.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (See Courts of Law).
KNIGHTS OF AMERICA .- A Catholic organization of about 60 Knights, handsomely uniformed, and connected with the congre- gation of St. Peter's Cathedral.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR .- A secret temperance and benevolent order. There are eleven lodges in Cincinnati. The aggregate membership is about 1,000.
KNIGHTS OF LOYOLA .- A branch of the Total Abstinence So- ciety connected with St. Xavier's College. There are between 40 and 50 members. Monthly meetings are held at St. Xavier's School House.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS .- A secret charitable and benevolent order, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, which latter is under the Supreme Lodge of the United States. There are 16 lodges within the City limits, having an aggregate member- ship of 2,000. The sick benefits amount to $5 per week; yearly dues, $6. Insurance is also provided for, but it is not obligatory upon the members. The City lodges are handsomely uniformed.
KNIGHTS OF ST. CRISPIN .- A secret, benevolent order, com- posed exclusively of shocmakers. The membership is about 250. Monthly meetings are held at the corner of Fourth and Syca- more streets.
KNIGHTS OF ST. JAMES .- A total abstinence association con- nected with St. Peter's Cathedral Congregation, and a branch of St. James Total Abstinence Society. There are between 30 and 40 members.
KNIGHTS OF St. MARTIN .- A uniformed catholic church and social organization, connected with Holy Trinity Congregation. It has 50 members. Monthly meetings are held.
LADIES' UNION BETHEL AID SOCIETY (See Union Bethel).
LADY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, THE-Is composed of lady teachers in the public schools of Cincinnati, Covington, New- port, and other suburban towns. Members meet on the first Saturday in each month, at the office of the Superintendent of Schools, in the Public Library building. Essays are read, and discussions held on subjects of interest to professional teachers. Gentlemen are admitted to the meetings, but do not participate in the deliberations. President, Mrs. E. B. Read; Secretary, Miss Mary Stevenson. The Association has about 50 active members. No fees are required for admission.
LANDLORDS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION .- The office of the Association is at 80 W. Third street; the object of the Society being the protection of landlords from the losses and the often heavy law costs saddled upon them by non-paying tenants. Some time ago this class of people had so multiplied that the evils inflicted upon the owners of house property, and particularly of tenements, became so serious that it was felt that something was absolutely necessary to put a stop to them. This Association was therefore formed, and a book of reference containing as full a list as possible of these undesirable tenants is kept at the office, and is accessible to all subscribers of $3 a year. It is intended gradually to compile another book containing the names of good-paying tenants. Mr. Wm. G. Pickering is the General Manager and Secretary, and Dr. T. C. Thorpe the President.
LANE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY .- This Seminary, standing in the midst of beautiful grounds. on Walnut Hills, nearly 10 acres in extent, well wooded with shade trees and evergreens, and park like in appearance, originated in a donation of $4000 made in 1828 by Ebenezer Lane, a New Orleans merchant. The Rev. Mr. Kemper and his sons added 60 acres of land, and large sub- scriptions having been received from other States, principally from New York, the present College was built at a cost of about $50,000. About $10,000 more were expended for the Library-a very valuable collection of theological works. The revenue, from leases is about $10,000 a year, and from other investments about $3,000. The course of study occupies 3 years, and embraces Biblical literature, systematic theology, Church history, and pastoral work. Candidates must present testimonials showing them to be members of some Church, and possessed of competent talents and general education.
LATONIA SPRINGS .- Is located upon the Licking River, about 5 miles from Cincinnati. It is a summer resort, and posesses a neat and commodious hotel, situated in grounds sixty or seventy acres in extent. There are four natural springs on the grounds, two are composed largely of magnesia, one of iron, and the other of sulphur. There are mineral baths, bowling alleys, a ball room and other accessories of a summer resort, and accommo- dations for summer boarders. It is now a favorite resort of social clubs in Covington and Newport.
LAUNDRIES .- Public laundries are now an important business feature in Cincinnati. The introduction of labor-saving machi- nery for both washing and ironing has tended to produce better work, more of it, and at less cost than can be produced by hand. Some of the machinery is very expensive and intricate, and in some of the larger establishments the entire process of washing, wringing, starching and ironing is accomplished without any hand work whatever. There is one machine, worked by steam, that is a marvel in its line, being capable of ironing in excellent style twelve thousand collars or cuffs per day, and machines are common that will finish as many as two hundred dozen. In the Chinese laundries, of which there are perhaps 20 in the City, the work is all performed by hand, even the wringing. The amount of capital invested in public laundries is nearly half a million dollars, employment is furnished to a large number of men and women, principally the latter. Many families, on ac- count of its cheapness and good quality, have adopted the plan of sending their entire washing to the laundries.
LAW LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (See Libraries).
LAWRENCEBURG-In the State of Indiana, is on the Cinein- nati and St. Louis Railroad, 25 miles from the city. A pleasant- ly situated town of nearly 5,000 inhabitants, the home of many Cincinnati merchants.
LAW SCHOOL .- This school was founded in May, 1833, and was the first institution for the thorough study of law established west of the Alleghany mountains. In 1835, it was incorporated with the Cincinnati College. The lectures are delivered in the College Building, on Walnut street between Fourth aud Fifth. The term commences on the second Thursday of October each year, and continues until the second Wednesday of May. During the remainder of the year, a course of study is prescribed for the junior class, and for such of the senior class who pursue the post graduate course ; of the former the average number is about 70, and of the latter 120. Students inay attend the lectures of any one or more of the professors. For admission to the junior class, no examination is requisite. Fees : for graduation, $5; for the first term, $60; and for the second, $30. Under the laws of Ohio, graduates are admitted to practice at once, without any probationary study in a law office. Faculty : Rufus King, LL. D., Dean ; George Hoadley, LL. D., Henry A. Morrill and Manning F. Force.
LEVEE, THE-Or Public Landing, as it is frequently called, upon the bank of the river, presents, during the busy season, a lively and animated scene. . The water is often thronged with steamboats loading or unloading, to or from all ports up and
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down the Ohio, or upon the rivers accessible from it. Centrally situated as Cincinnati is, it attracts the best and the worst, the most energetic and the most indolent, and hundreds of laborers of all sorts, with nothing but their brawny arms and physical strength to rely upon, are to be seen either hard at work, or lying about in absolute idleness about the wharves or on board the boats. The peculiarities of provincialism, and those brought on by occupation, can be most distinctly perceived. To the student of human nature there are but few places upon the globe
where these divergent characteristics can be observed to better advantages than by the river. There are white labor- JENCLING. ers of every degree, negrocs of every STEAMERS AT THE LEVEE. hue, and of, too often to be said, every note in the gamut of ignorance. But they are gathered from every State: broken-down adventurers from Maine, ruined tramps from New York, disappointed adventurers from Canada, and, as for the colorcd men, they swarm from every city and village where the Ohio, the Mississippi, the Missouri, and even the Red River of the South flow. In New York the hurry and the bustle and the throng distract the attention of the specta- tor ; here there is just enough to arouse all his faculties, not too much to obscure them.
LIBRARIES .- The most important library in the City, and in most respects the handsomest and best-appointed in the United States, is the Public Library, a stone-front and fire-proof build-
it was soon evident that the volumes would then outgrow their allotted space. In September, 1868, the purchase of the present lot, with the commencement of a building then intended for an opera house, was consummated. The lot is 80 feet in front by 190 in depth, running back from Vine street to College street. The price paid for the lot was $86,910, aud when the library was formally opened, on the 26th of February, 1874, the total cost of the building was $296,684 53. Since that time various improve- ments have been made, so that the grand total for site and li- brary is a little over $400,000.
The Library still preserves one feature of its origin, as it is governed by a committee of seven members appointed from the Board of Public Education. On one side of the entrance hall is the Librarian's room, on the other the office of the Clerk of the Board of Education. Then, passing through a large and hand- some delivery-room, the consulting and reading-room is reached. All round it, from the floor to the roof, run, tier above tier, large alcovesshelved for the books. Of these alcoves, there are 13 in the lower range, and 20 in the four upper, thus making 93 in all. Up stairs is the newspaper-room, in which 178 journals, including 6 French and 30 German, are taken ; the periodical-room, where 343 native and foreign periodicals are regularly taken ; and still higher up the art-room, the office of the Superintendent of the Public-schools, and, yet higher, rooms for binding and other purposes.
On the 1st of July 1878, the Library contained 111,850 books and pamphlets, distributed as follows : the Public Library, 98,402; the Theological Library, 5,590; the Mussey Library, 7,768. Dur- ing the year ending at the same date, $20,762 was expended for books, periodicals and binding, and 761,669 books and periodi- cals were borrowed or consulted in the library-the total daily average issue being 1,107 volumes. The shelving in the main hall has a capacity for more than 300,000 volumes, and there are also special rooms for art, periodicals, newspapers, catalogning, binding, etc., etc., etc .. The Library is free to all residents of Cincinnati, and is open every day of the year from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. The service is performed by a librarian, 3 assistant li- brarians, a large corps of assistants of both sexes, and 5 engin- eers and janitors. The expenses are defrayed by a tax of one- tenth of a mill on the dollar.
The Young Men's Mercantile Library Association-Has its rooms in the second story of the College Building, on Walnut
VESTIBULE OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
ing, on Vinc street, between Sixth and Seventh streets. It is | street, opposite the Gibson House, between Fonrth and Fifth one of the finest structures in the City, and complete in all streets. It was founded at a meeting of 45 young men, held on the 18th of April, 1835, and the salary of the first librarian, elected in December of that year, was $200 per annum. In 1840 the Library removed into the old College Building, on the same lot on which the present strneture stands, the Association pay- ing for the rooms $300, of which $100 was assessed to the Cham- ber of Commerce. The Library is now supported by a subscrip- tion of $5 a year, and the interest of an endowment fund. The membership for the year 1878 was as follows: Annnal Members, arrangements. Almost unrivaled, however, as it now is, it sprang from very small beginnings. In 1844, small public-school libraries were scattered through the City. In 1855, these were collceted, and placed in the rooms of the Board of E Incation. In 1856, a partial nuion was effected with the library of the Mo- chanics' Institute, and the books transferred to its shelves. It was in that year that the determination was reached to levy the legal tax of one tenth of a mill for public library purposes, and
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2,070; Life Members, 206; Perpetual Members, 49-a total of 2,325. The circulation of the Library during the year is stated in the following table :
INTERIOR PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Number of novels taken from the Library,
39,876
Number of novels read in the Library, .
507
Total number of novels, . 40,38 3
Number of other books taken from the Library, 11,508
Number of other books consulted in the Library,
4,655
Total number of miscellaneous books, 16,163
Aggregate circulation for the year 1878, 56,546
In the Reading Room 95 magazines are taken, and 165 news- papers, being the leading periodicals and journals of Europe and America. The total receipts for 1878 were $10,677, and the expenditures $9,598. The Library has a chess room in a recess reached from one of the galleries, constantly occupied by players. The reading rooms are ornamented with four portraits in oil, twelve pieces of statuary, medallions and photographs. The subscription is $5 per annum, and the Library is open every- day of the week, Sundays included. Librarian, John M. News ton ; First Assistant, Miss Alice McLean ; Second Assistant, Mis, Carrie R. Gaither. The officers for 1879 are: Henry J. Page. President; Charles H. Stephens, Vice-President; Robert F- Leaman, Corresponding Secretary ; Edward H. Huntington, Re cording Secretary. The Directors for 1878-9 are: E. R. Donohue, H. B. Lupton, H. T. Proctor, Wm. B. McAlpin, John C. Benton
The Law Library Association .- The special charter for the in- corporation of the Cincinnati Law Library was obtained in 1834, but little, however, was done until 1846, when a bar meeting was held, and in 1847 books of the value of $1,400 were pur- chased. In the year ending June 5, 1852, the total ex- penditure was only $321 67. The total receipts from June, 1852, to June, 1866, were only $17,200, and the dis- bursements, $17,269. In 1875 the amount expended for books was $1,696 45, and the number of volumes since added has increased very rapidly. The Library now contains over 12,000 volumes, embracing all the most authoritative Treatises, the Digests, and the leading Reports in civil and criminal law from the courts of Europe and America. The books are kept in rooms in the Court House, specially devoted to the Library. There are now 236 stockholders. Board of Trustees: Rufus King, President; George Hoadly, Vice-President; Thorn- ton M. Hinkle, Treasurer; Isaac M. Jordan, John C. Healy. Clerk, Louis Kramer.
The Mechanics' Institute -- At the Reading Rooms, on the corner of Sixth and Vine streets, takes in the principal Eastern and Western papers, the leading Weeklies and Monthlies, the London Times, and the chief English Weeklies. Mr. John B. Heich is in charge of the rooms, which have recently been very materially improved. The Reference Library is very valuable. A card, signed by any one of the Directors, secures free ad- mission.
The German Library Association .- Rooms are at the southwest corner of Main and Twelfth streets. The leading German and Swiss papers are taken.
The Library of the New Jerusalem Church .- At the southwest, corner of Fourth and John streets, consists, almost exclusively, of denominational works. It is open from 11 A. M. to 3 P. M.
The Young Men's Christian Association, -Southeast corner of Sixth and Elm streets, has a library of about 800 volumes, and comfortable reading rooms, in which Eastern and Western leading secular papers are taken, and also the organs of most Evangelical denominations.
YOUNG MEN'S MERCANTILE LIBRARY.
The Historical and Philosophical Library of Ohio-Rooms are at 3112 College Building.
Other Libraries .- The St. Xavier's College Library las a collec- tion of about 14,000 volumes ; that of Mount St. Mary's Seminary,
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on Price's Hill, more than 15,000, and the Natural History So- name. He compounded a barbarous Anglo-Greek derivative, the ciety and the Cuvier Club each have large special collections of principal point of which was that Cincinnati's celebrity, such as books.
LICENSES .- This branch of the City government is under the direct jurisdiction of the Mayor. The following is an exhibit of the receipts from this department during the year 1878: Dogs, $3,244.00 ; Drays, $151.50; Expresses, $289.00; Exhibitions and Balls, $1,405.00; Ferries, $90.00; Furniture Cars, $38.50; Gun- powder, $210.85; Hacks and Undertakers, $205.00; Hucksters, $8,907.25; Night Carts, $24.75; Omnibuses, $64.00 ; Pawn brokers, $1,215: Peddlers, $5,402.00; Street Railroads, $7,020.00. Total, $28,266.85. During 1878 the Mayor granted 348 peddling licenses to persons who furnished satisfactory evidence that they were worthy, and in too indigent circumstances to purchase a license. Free exhibition permits were also given to the religious bene- volent and other societies giving balls or other entertainments where the object was of a benevolent character.
LICKING RIVER .- This beautiful river forms the boundary line between Covington and Newport, Kentucky, opposite Cin.
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cinnati, and then flows into the Ohio. The view at its mouth has always been admired. The Licking is navigable during high water for fifty or sixty miles. A suspension bridge con- nects the two sister cities upon its banks. For many years
Newport on the right bank was a military statiou, and the band attracted large parties of visitors from Cincinnati, and many excursion trips were made up the Licking. The view represented in the VIEW ON THE LICKING. next engraving is full of interest to the pioneers of Cincinnati. When the city was first founded in its village cradle, a pedautic schoolmaster was requested to give it a
it then was, was owing to the fact that she was opposite the Licking. But the times are changed, and we with them are changed, is a proverb of universal application, and it is doubt- ful whether any more striking illustration of its truth can be discovered than in the relative growth of Cincinnati and the hamlets npon the Licking. The view, however, is very beauti- ful. The tributary of the Ohio, flowing between steep, in some places precipitous, banks, passes through a lovely landscape. The primeval forest crowns not a few of its crests, and here and there, as the tourist passes through its fifty miles of navigable water, beautiful specks of lawn, and charming country villas, are presented to his eye.
"In a low green valley of the old Kentucky shore"
was sung with enthusiasm years ago, and none can fail to realize the sweetness of the thought, and the harmony of the words, and the music with nature herself, who has penetrated the valleys of the upper Licking, and the exquisite paths through which the lesser streams pour their tribute to its waters. In high water, and after heavy rains, the Licking is one of the swiftest rivers in the West.
LIFE INSURANCE .- The life insurance business of Cincinnati is transacted by resident agents who represent nearly all of the leading companies of the United States. There is but one local company. The Union Central Life Insurance Company. It was incorporated in 1867, and now ranks with the best companies in the country. The capital stock paid up is $100,000. Accord- ing to the twelfth annual report, dated December 31st, 1878, the total income during the year was $546,872.18, of which $85,679.90 was received for interest, discounts and rents. The last named sum exceeded the total amount paid during the year for death claims and matured endowments. Such a result is rarely accom- plished by any Life Insurance Company, and indicates the char- aeter of the risk and investments of the company. The amount of death claims and matured endowments paid was $82,342.83, being about $40,000 less than the expected loss according to the mortality tables. The total amount of disbursements on policy holders' account, for the year was $330,404.30. The total dis- bursements during the year amount to $443,750.13. The amount of income over all disbursements was $103,122.05, being an in- crease of $46,323.97 over the prior year. The assets of the com- pany, on December 31st, were, $1,504,355.47, with liabilities, in- cluding reserve on outstanding policies upon 4 per cent. Ohio Standard, $1,242,705.25, leaving a surplus as regards policy hold- ers, of $261,650,22. According to the New York standard of re- serve, 412 per cent., the liabilities are only $1,144,568.76, leaving a surplus as regards policy-holders, of $359,786.71. Of the un- divided surplus, $88,609.13 has been produced by the Life Rate Endowment Policies. The assets of the Company have been thoroughly examined within the past two years, twice by the State Insurance Superintendent, and also by two different And- iting Committees consisting of prominent policy-holders, all of which testify as to the correctness of the annual reports and the superior character of the Company's investment. The total number of policies issued and revived during the year was 910. Insuring the sum of $1,680,898.
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