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and J. C. Hall, General Manager and Secretary. The company employs sixty uniformed messengers, besides a corps of police- men, elerks and operators. Numerous instruments throughout the city, which are rented by the month to patrons, and tele- graphically connected with the office, permit the instant sum- moning of messengers or policemen. The messengers are used for almost every purpose, acting as escorts to places of amuse- ments, delivering packages, notes, invitations, distributing cir- culars, acting as pages at assemblies, ushers at receptions, par- ties, etc. A night watch signal has lately been introduced, which compels night watchmen in buildings in various parts of the city, to send in signals at stated times, a record of which is sent to the owner of the factory, or other building, next morn- ing.
AMERICAN ECLECTIC MEDICAL COLLEGE .- This is an insti- tntion which sends out annual announcements to the country districts, offering facilities for granting degrees at short notice. The College frequently changes its abode. The annual an- nouneements of the American Eclectic Medical College for 1879- 80, shifts the location from the corner of Baymiller and Oliver streets, to the corner of Fifth and Elm streets. In one of these announcements there is given a long list of the graduates of the College, but the places of residence are not given-only the name of the State appears, as New York, Ohio, Texas, Maine, Indiana, Vermont, Nebraska, Michigan, California, Massachu- setts, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, etc., covering, in fact, nearly all the States in the Union. The commencement exer- cises of the college have never yet been reported in a manner to attract general attention in any of the city papers; this, too, in a city where the press invariably devotes a great deal of space and attention to nearly every description of active educational enterprise, no matter how small. Its managers, however, seem confident of obtaining a large measure of success in the future history of medicine in America.
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY (See Express Companies).
AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY (Sec Cincinnati News Company).
one dollar: Any person having charge of the Mechanical Dc- partment of a Railway known as " Superintendents," or " Master Mechanics," or " General Foremen;" the names of the latter being presented by their superior officers for membership. Also, two Mechanical Engineers or the representative of cach Locomotive establishment in America. Civil and Mechanical Engineers and others whose qualifications and experience might be valned to the Association may become Associate Members by being recommended by three active members. Their names shall then be referred to a committee, which shall report to the Association on their fitness for such membership. Applicants to be elected by ballot at any regular meeting of the Association, and five dissenting votes shall reject. The number of Associate Members shall not exceed twenty. Associate Members shall be entitled to all the privileges of active members excepting that of voting. Regular meetings of the Association are held annu- ally on the second Tuesday in May, at such places as are deter- mined upon by a majority of the members present at the previous meeting. The Association now consists of one hundred and seventy-six members. The following are the officers: President, N. E. Chapman, of Cleveland, Ohio; First Vice-Presi- dent, Reuben Wells, of Jeffersonville, Ind .; Second Vice-Presi- dent, J. N. Lauder, of Concord, N. II .; Treasurer, S. J. IIayes, of Chicago, III. ; Secretary, J. II. Setchei, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION .- This society was organ- ized at Philadelphia, in 1824, and has two principal objects (1), to establish and maintain sunday-schools for the benefit of ne- glected children and communities, and to aid in improving existing schools; (2), to publish and circulate moral and re- ligious literature. The American Sunday-School Union is not a union of churches, but a union of individual Christians con- nected with different denominations. No ecclesiastical organi- zation, whatever, has any connection with the society. The principle of ecclesiastical representation or control is nowhere recognized. The Presbyterian church has no more connection with it than the Methodist church. The Episcopal church has nothing more to do with it than Baptist, Congregational, or other churches. Individuals connected with ten evangelical denominations are members of the Board and serve on import- ant committees, cheerfully co-operating in promoting the great object of the organization. "Every person, beiug a citizen of the United States, who shall contribute annually three dollars to the funds of the Society, shall be a meniber so long as sueh contribution is continued ; and every person, being a eitizen as aforesaid, who shall contribute thirty dollars, shall be a member for life, provided that the names of all such contributors shall be reported to the Board of Officers and Managers and be ap- proved by them. The Cincinnati Branch of the Union is at Mr. Crosby's book store, No. 41 West Fourth street.
AMERICAN RAILWAY MASTER MECHANICS' ASSOCIATION was organized in the year 1868, for the purpose of an interchange of views of those having the immediate management of the mechanical department of the different Railways in the United States and Canada, as to the materials, form proportions, and manner of construction to be used and observed in the design, building, maintaining, and operating the machinery under their charge. They have muet in annual convention from year to year, to the present time, printing and giving to the public the results of the protracted and patient labor of the various committees appointed from time to time to investigate the more important matters pertaining to the safe and economical use and manage- mient of Railway Machinery, and in their annual reports they have compiled the results of tests and experiments made by AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY .- This society was organized in the year 1852, to promote the interest of practical religion by the circulation of a sound evangelical literature. Tracts and books to the amount of over four thousand dollars were distributed frec during the year 1879 to missionaries. The Young Men's Christian Association, etc., and to such other persons as would properly use them. The Western Tract Society are the agents of the American Tract Society. The depository is situated at No. 176 Elm street ; J. Webb, Jr., R. Sultin and William Scott, depositories ; and Rev. A. Ritchie, corresponding secretary. different persons in the use of various devices which were deemed of importance, as a means of information to those in charge of Railway Machinery, who, under other circumstances, might spend time and money in experiments which had been made and facts fully established previously by others. The labor necessary in collecting these facts, making tests and ex- periments, compiling the reports and preparing them for publi- cation, has been given by the members of the Association at such times as they could spare from their ordinary every-day duties, without any pecuniary remuneration whatever, and the ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS .- This is a benevolent or- ganization, composed exclusively of natives of the Emerald Isle. The Order in Cincinnati comprises seven divisions, united in one county division. The divisions have each a President, and the other usual officers, and the officers of all the divisions com- bined compose the county board of government, which at pres- ent is presided over by Timothy Buckley, who bears the title of County Delegate. The Central Hall is at the southeast corner of Ninth and Plum streets, where most of the divisions hold monthly meetings. The Order is a benevolent one exclusively, and numbers some five or six hundred active members. The expense incurred in printing and distributing the circulars and Annual Reports, has been borne by the members individually, and the reports have been distributed to all railway officials de- siring them, free of cost. The object of the work of the Associa- tion is solely to devise and establish greater perfection and cconomy in the mechanical department of Railways, and what- ever has, or may yet result from these efforts, the Railway in- terests of the country receive the benefit therefrom. The follow- ing persons may become members of the Association by signing the Constitution, or authorizing the President or Secretary of the Association to sign for them, and pay the initiation fee of | monthly dues are 35 cents, and initiation fee three dollars. Five
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dollars per week are paid as sick benefits. There is also in con- nection with the Ancient Order, an Insurance Association, which pays $2,000 to the widow or heirs of deceased members, although this is apart from and independent of the general order. The Society was instituted twelve years ago, and Hamil- ton county division was the first in Ohio to organize. There are now forty-two county divisions in the State.
ANCIENT ORDER OF GOOD FELLOWS .- This is a benevolent and beneficial society, and has been established in Cincinnati about twenty years. There are now fourteen subordinate lodges within the city limits, with an average membership of seventy-five. They are under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, which is migratory in its meetings, this year meeting in Cleveland. The initiation fee is $10 for all the de- grees, and the yearly dues $6. This entitles a muember to $5 per week sick benefits, and burial at the expense of his lodge. Like most other secret organizations, it has an insurance branch for the benefit of members, but this is not obligatory on them. The widow or heirs of a deceased insured member receives $2,000. The order is composed largely of Geriuans, the majority of the lodges having German names, and lodge rooms in the German districts.
ANDERSON'S FERRY (See Riverside).
A. P. A. MÆENNERCHOR .- The American Protestant Associa- tion Mannerchor is a muusical society composed of Germans be- longing to said association. It numbers about seventy members, and holds weekly meetings in Arbeiter Hall.
ARBEITER BUND (See Arbeiter Hall).
ARBEITER HALL .- Arbeiter, or Workingmen's Hall. is located at 474 Walnut street. It occupies a frontage of about a hun- dred fect, and a depth of one hundred and fifty feet. It was built by the Arbeiter Bund, and is devoted, as its name implies, to the interests of workingmen. The first building, which was a small one, was erected in 1850. That building proved too small for the purposes intended, and ten years later gave place to the present spacious structure, which contains a large and a small hall, and ten large meeting rooms. On the ground floor are a large saloon, billiard room and kitchen. The present officers of the Arbeiter Bund are : President, Daniel Kamm; Secretary, Philip Layritz; Treasurer, Hermann Rentner. The profits of the saloon, billiard room and hall rent afford ample support to the Hall. Twenty-seven different societies hold their meetings in the building, viz. :
Slovanska Lipa (a Bohemian Society).
German Bakers' Society. The Polish Association.
German Social Association.
English Social Association.
Humanitats Frauen (Ladies' Humane Society). Bakers' Union.
Women's Allemania Society. Shoemakers' Aid Association. German Tailors' (Schneider) Association. Germania Aid Society.
Tanners' Society. Jaeger Society.
Cigarmakers' Union.
Cord wainers' Union. The Arbeiter Bund. German Men's Society.
Herwegh Singing Society. Carpenters' Union.
German National Society. German Ladies' Aid Society. The Socialists. German Veteran Society. Cabinetmakers' Union. Stonemason's Union. The A. P. A. Mannerchor. Telegraph Building Association.
Nearly all of these Societies have weekly or semi-monthly meetings, and the halls are occupied almost every day and night.
ARCADE. - The Equery Arcade is a covered passage-way, lead- ing from Vine to Race streets, at a point about midway between Fourth and Fifth streets. There are numerous small stores at each side, filled with notions, trinkets, laces and nick-nacks of various kinds. The roof is of glass, supported upon light, iron girders, and is about forty feet from the pavement, thus afford- ing two stories. The upper rooms, called the Arcade Chambers, are devoted to offices. The passage-way is about fifteen feet in width, and at night is illuminated by gas lamps suspended from the centre of the roof. The restaurant, and entrance to the Ar- cade Hotel fronts on the Vine street end of the Arcade, and is generally ornamented with evergreens in tubs, presenting a very pleasing effect.
ARCHERY .- This sport is one that may be regarded as becom- ing national. Instituted in England, where the principal clubs are under the patronage of the Prince of Wales, it made its way gradually to America, and took possession of the East five years ago. Its progress west was rapid, and now Cincinnati and its suburbs boast of at least thirty clubs, composed as nearly as possible of equal numbers of ladies and gentlemen. They hold weekly meetings, generally on Saturday afternoons, for practice, and monthly matches are usual between the clubs of different localities. Ladies especially take great interest in these meet- ings, and the best shots and scores are placed to their credit. Bows ranging from fifteen to forty pounds (which means the power required to bend the bow to its full capacity) are used. A bow of forty pounds will force a metal-pointed arrow through a wooden target an inch in thickness, at a distance of twenty- five yards. It would be a formidable weapon, therefore, in the hands of an experienced marksman. The bows used by the ladies of our local clubs range in power from twenty to forty pounds, the average being about thirty. The principal local clubs are the Waverly and College Hill clubs, of College Hill; the Westwood Club, of Cheviot; the Arrowmania Club, of Mt. Auburn ; the Arciteneus Socictas, of East Walnut Hills; and the Sagittarian Club, of West Walnut Hills.
ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (See Women's Art Museum As'n.)
ARTISTS .- Much attention is devoted to the art of painting in Cincinnati, and many eminent painters have here been gradu- ated ; but for want of home patronage have removed to other cities, where their efforts are better appreciated. Among the members who have thus sought recognition abroad may be muen- tioned, Duvenick, now in Munich ; Henry Mosler, now in Paris; Beard, Whittridge and Sontag, now in New York. It is a hu- miliating fact that Cincinnati painters can get no prices for their pictures from the art-loving people of the Queen City. Land- scapes executed here are sent to New York, Boston and Phila- delphia for sale, and are in many cases bought by Cincinnatians in the Eastern galleries, at figures remunerative to the artists, when the same pictures might have been obtained cheaper and fresher at home. As a consequence, the pictures offered for sale here by home artists are very few. Most of the labor per- formed is on portraits, or landscapes, painted to order, and principally of local scenery. This state of affairs has rendered an art gallery unnecessary; and although for several years William Wiswell maintained, at large expense, a gallery for the accommodation of artists and purchasers, the project was found to be impracticable, and was abandoned about a year ngo. Prominent among the portrait painters now resident, are C. T. Webber, whose studio is at No. 14 East Fourth street; Mary Spencer, No. 30 West Fourth ; Israel Quick, Carlisle Building, southwest corner of Fourth and Walnut; Straus, Foot, Farny and Henson, Pike's Opera House Building, and Aubery, nt Reid's Hotel. Thos. Lindsay, No. 30 West Fourth street, is a prominent landscape artist. Thos. S. Noble, of the School of Design, in the College Building, on Walnut street, opposite the Gibson House, is eminent as a portrait and figure artist. E. G. Grafton and Alex. Rosalkie, No. 70 West Fourth street, devote their attention to water colors and erayon drawing, and Mettins,
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No. 30 West Fourth street, to crayon alone. This list comprises but a small proportion of those engaged in art enterprises in the city, many of whom are worthy of special mention, which the limits of this work will not allow. The great preponderance of works of art offered for sale in the city are placed on exhibi- tion in the spacions rooms of William Wiswell, No. 70 West Fourth street, where they, together with a large collection of works by artists of other cities, east and west, fine engravings aud photograph copies of the works of eminent painters of the present and former periods, are shown to the public.
ARMY (See Militia).
ASSOCIATED PRESS. - There are two organizations under this head having offices and agents in Cincinnati-the Western and the National. The Western Associated Press has its office in the Western Union Telegraph building, northwest corner of Fourth and Vine streets, and is under control of Mr. E. B. Gorton, who is also western agent of the New York Associated Press. As its name implies, it is an association of western newspaper proprietors for the purpose of gathering and transmitting the news of the entire West to the members of the Association. There are 75 stations, each one maintaining a news-gatherer for his station. The territory covered by these stations reach- es from the Alleghauies to the Missouri river and Colo- rado, and from the lakes to the northern boundary of the Gulf States. The General Agent has his headquarters in Chicago, but all the news gathered is sent to Cincinnati, edited lere, sent to members of the Association and to New York, whence it is distributed over the eastern States and Europe. The New York Associated Press re- ciprocates this favor by sending west the news from the castern States and Europe. The dispatches are all sent over the West- ern Union Telegraph lines, aud the number of words trans- mitted ranges between ten thousand and sixty thousand daily. The officers of the Association are: President-Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial ; Executive Committee-Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Gazette; W. N. Haldeman, of the Louisville Courier Journal; and Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune. There are ten Directors. The business of the Asso- ciation never stops day or night, or on Sunday. The National Associated Press is a similar organization, transmitting its dis- patches by the Atlantic & Pacifie Telegraph lines. Its ramifiea- tions are not nearly so extensive as the former. Its news is furnished, in this eity, to the Star, the Freie Press and the Abend Post. The local agent is Mr. L. A. Leonard, with head- quarters at the office of the Evening Star.
ATHLETICS (See Gymnasium, also Turnverein).
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TELEGRAPH .- The Cineinnati office of this company is on the northeast corner of Fourth and Wal- nut streets. Like the Western Union, the principal offices of the company, are in New York city. The officers are : President, Thos. T. Eckert; Vice-President, W. H. MeK. Twombly; Secre- tary and Treasurer, A. B. Chandler; Auditor, E. C. Cockey. In the Cincinnati office the receiving and operating departments are on the ground floor. The battery room, supply department and messengers' quarters are in the basement. The office is open day and night. Fifteen operators, twelve messengers and three clerks are constantly employed. This line furnishes the dis- patches to the National Associated Press, as does the Western Union those of the Western Associated Press. The local officers in charge of the Cincinnati branch are: A. Wagner, Cashier and Business Manager; N. C. Griswold, Manager Operating Depart- ment ; C. E. Page, Night Manager. L. A. Leonard is Agent of the National Associated Press.
AURAL INSTITUTE .- This Institute was established in 1873, in the IIom@pathic Medical College, at the southwest corner of Seventh and Mound streets, and is under the supervision of the faculty of that college. It has daily clinics for charity patients, as well as for those able to pay for treatment. It is largely patronized, and its usefulness is daily increasing.
AURORA .- A handsome town in the State of Indiana, sitnated on the Ohio river, and Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, twenty- six miles from the city. The residence of many persons who do business in Cincinnati. Population, about 4,000.
AVENUE, THE, also called SPRING GROVE AVENUE, is a fashi- ionable drive favorable for the test of fast horses. It commences at the head of Freeman street, and passes through the village of Cummiusville to Carthage, a distance of twelve miles. Beyond Carthage it is known as the Carthage turnpike, and is the high-
EINENGLING road to Glen- dale, Hamilton and Dayton. Many of the most imposing eity and county publie institu- tions are situa- ted near the Avenue. Where the Avenue THE AVENUE. passes the cemetery of Spring Grove, it is very beautiful. It is one hundred feet in width its entire length, and is bordered on each side by noble trees, presenting a long and beautiful vista. The centre is admirably adapted both for carriages and the saddle, and the street passenger cars run to and from Spring Grove cemetery on either side. It is the most celebrated drive in the neighborhood of the city, and abounds with lager beer and wine gardens. It leads to most of the principal fashionable suburbs of Cincinnati, and to the Chester Driving Park.
AVONDALE, one of the suburbs of Cincinnati, situated due north from Eden Park. Its southern boundary is said to be two miles from the corner of Main and Court streets, but it is probably a little farther by the Lebanon turnpike, which is de- flected from a right line by the hills between which it passes in reaching the village. It has an area of about eight hundred acres, embracing all of section nine and the northwest part of section eight, which lies immediately south. From a prominent position at Avondale, one looks out over an almost continuous settlement of beautiful homes. Some stand out, to be sure, more prominently than others, but it is rather because they occupy the crests of the waves of land that sweep away in beauty as far as the eye can distinguish, than because they be- long to different villages. It can not justly be said that any one particular locality is superior to the others in its general features. Their accessibility is about the same, their altitude alike, their topography similar. In each, one finds something to admire-too much, indeed, to indulge in invidious compari- sons. It is true there is less inequality of surface in Avondale than in some other places, but the face of the country partakes of the features that are common to all the districts about Cin-
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cinnati. Owing to its remoteness, neither the river nor the city ean be seen ; but to compensate for this, there is variety with- out brokenness, and the serenity and sweetness of the country, without a single reminder of the closeness and turmoil of the city. Avondale became an incorporated village for general pur- poses in 1864. The principal thoroughfare is Main avenue, really the Lebanon turnpike, which runs diagonally through the territory embraced within the corporate limits. The principal residences are singularly attractive in their appearance, but without ostentation, and intended more for comfort than show. They are generally surrounded with shrubbery, and kept in ex- cellent order. The principal churches are the Presbyterian
RESIDENCE OF ROBERT MITCHELL, ESQ., AVONDALE.
Church, the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Grace Protestant Episcopal Church. The publie school of Avondale is a large one, and will bear comparison with any in the coun- try. The population of Avondale, in the absence of a eensus, can only be conjectured; it probably ranges from two thousand to twenty-five hundred. It is composed largely of the families of business men who are actively employed in Cincinnati; there . Warrington, J. F. Follet, H. D. Peck, Clinton W. Gerard, Law- are comparatively few of any other class. The society of the renee Maxwell ; Committee on Membership, H. Randell, J. II. Woodward, Louis Kramer, W. C. Cochran, A. W. Waters. place is good, and there is every facility for enjoyment.
BAKERS' ASSOCIATION .- A social club composed of Bakers of Cincinnati. They have monthly meetings at Workingmen's Hall, the last Sunday in each month. There is also a benevolent feature of the association, sick members receiving weekly benefits.
BAKERS' UNION No 1 .- A protective society of bakers, nmmn- bering three hundred members, meets the first Sunday in each month, at Arbeiter Hall on Walnut street.
BANDS, THE, of Cincinnati, are very numerons and well- trained. Several of the military companies possess one of their own, the Turnverein has one, and others are frequently formed by different societies in different parts of the city. Three of the principal local bands are Brand's Reed Band, which originated with some of the members of the Cincinnati Orchestra, and the brass bands of Messrs. Currier and Seidensticker. During the Summer these bands play at regular intervals in the open air in Eden Park and Burnet Woods Park, and occasionally in Lincoln and Washington Parks, and at the Zoological Garden. The Hill Top resorts generally have bands of their own engaged from various parts of the country, and sometimes from abroad. These bands are retained during the Winter, when they play in the covered halls attached to these resorts.
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