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WEST END CLUB .- Has pleasant and elegantly furnished quarters on Freeman strect, above Dayton, and a rapidly increasing membership.
WESTERN TRACT SOCIETY (Sce American Tract Society).
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH, THE-Company's main office is upon the northwest corner of Fourth and Vine streets, opposite the Post-office. The building is five stories high, the basement is used for batteries, and the store rooms, and the ground floor for the receiving and general office, the second and third stories are rented for law offiecs, etc., the fourth floor is used for the book-keepers, for the eom- micrcial news department, aud for the Edison Telephone Exchange. The fifth is exclusively the operating room. The office is busy all night, but commercial business is greatly reduced after the Press reports are all in ut about 3 o'clock in the Twenty-four years ago there were only 2 operators employed with a limited business. There are now 203 employes constantly engaged. This office has branch offices established at the various Hotels, Railroad Depots, and other localities convenient to its patrons. These and the main office are under the management of Mr. F. A. Armstrong, who has filled this position for 15 years. The messages are trans- mitted in the Morse character, and read by sound. The instru- ments used are the Quadruplex, transmitting two messages simultaneously each way, the Duplex, one ench way, und the
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single Morse one way. There are six Quadruplex, 3 Duplex, and 44 Morse instruments. 65 wires run into the operating rooms, with 12 miles of insulated wire distributed in the room. The business done is heavier in the Winter than in the Summer, the congressional reports for the press alone adding about 15,000 words per day. Taking May as an average month, the total messages handled last May were 237,722, and adding 2,085,360 words of Press report, reduced to messages averaging 30 words, forms a total of 307, 234 messages. Press report and messages can be received at the rate of 30 to 40 words per minute. Mr. B. II. Johnson has been Chief Operator of this department for 9 years. The Operators belong to the Telegraphers" Mutual Benefit Association, with headquarters in New York. It has over 2,000 members, and has payed $135,000 to beneficiaries since 1867. Ma- nager Armstrong is Vice-President and Agent at Cincinnati. The headquarters of the District Superintendent, Mr. Geo. T. Wil- liams is in this building. His district embraces 350 offices. He is the Company's agent for telegraphie transfer of money which is quite an extensive feature of the Company's business. This Company has 700 miles of wire within the city limits, and six local repairmen to keep them in order. The Edison Telephone Exchange has 150 distriet wires, requiring 8 spokesmen and
in the country. There are similar societies in Cleveland, Toledo, and Chicago, but the Seientific American quotes Cineinnati as leading in energy and completeness. B. H. Johnson is its Pre- sident. No societies have as yet been instituted in New York, Philadelphia, and other large eastern eities.
WESTWOOD .- Adjoins Cheviot, and embraces about four see- tions of land in the southeastern part of Green Township. It was incorporated in 1868. A macadamized road called Central Avenue connects this village with Cumminsville.
WHOLESALE GROCERS' ASSOCIATION .- Meets at the call of the President, at the Board of Trade rooms. Although none but wholesale grocers take part in the discussions, retail dealers are not excluded. The association is ealled together whenever the interests of groeers may be advanced by free interchange of opinion. . James H. Laws is President.
WIDOWS' HOME, THE-Was chartered in 1851. The object of the institution is to provide a home for aged and indigent fe- males, who can give satisfactory testimonials of good conduct and respectable eharaeter. In general, persons under sixty years of age are not admitted, though this is not an invariable rule. The fiscal affairs of the home are under the control of a
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THE CINCINNATI WESLEYAN COLLEGE.
switchmen. Superintendent Williams is the Superintendent, and | board of trustees of three gentlemen, and the immediate manage. manager Armstrong the agent. The " Gold and Stock" have 24 j inent of all matters pertaining to the household is rcposed in a board of managers, consisting of twenty ladies. The house is ou the west side of Highland avenue, immediately opposite the German Protestant Orphan Asylum. It consists of a large main three-story brick edifice, facing the south, with wings of two stories on both the east and west, and a basement throughout the entire building. The institution has an endowment fund, but this only partially defrays the current expenses. The be- nevolence of the community has to supply the remainder. wires, furnishing the banks, provision, and cotton merchants with market quotations cvery few minutes. Superintendent Williams has charge of this department also. The total number of wires running in to the building is about 240, to operate which 4,225 cells of battery are required. As an example of the harmoni- ous working of this office a few of the oldest employes may be mentioned. Superintendent G. T. Williams, 12 years in Cin. cinnati, and 26 years in the serviee. F. A. Armstrong, 25 years (15 of which as manager); B. H. Johnson, 16 years (9 years as WINTON PLACE, formerly called SPRING GROVE .- A handsome village, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, on the borders of the celebrated Spring Grove cemetery, with about 150 inhabitants. Some of the residences are handsome buildings, the engraving represents the residence of Mr. Sylvester Hand, which is on high ground, about a third of a mile from the en- trance to the cemetery. Chief Operator); J. C. Mattoon, 23 years; Patrick Wheeler, re- pairmen, 22 years. The Electrical Society of the Ohio Valley, established by the Cincinnati operators, has over 100 members, among whom are a number of prominent scientific men, viz., Professor Longworth (now deceased); Prof. Clark of the Ohio University, Prof. Warder, Prof. Wayne, Prof. Stone, Prof. Lee, Nat. W. Lord and others. Its object is to discuss theories and promote advancement in eleetrial matters. It has a library of
WOMAN'S ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CINCINNATI-Was rare and valuable electrical works, probably the most complete | formed in January, 1877, for the special purpose of promoting
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work among women and educating the taste for art. The sales- rooms were opened in the Winter of 1878, with the view of serv- ing as the missing link between the women who want the work to do, and the public who want the work done. They are on the second floor of No. 184 West Fourth street, and are very at- tractive, being tastefully furnished and decorated. All articles offered are submitted to the Committee on Admission; and, if sold, a commission of ten per cent. is retained by the Associa- tion. There are received water-color paintings, etchings, wood engravings, pen-and-ink drawings, artistically decorated articles for household and personal use, such as china and pottery. panels for furniture, embroideries of curtains and other hang- ings, of table and house linen, and original designs for such em- broideries; also, painted screens and fans, decorated menus, din- ner eards, note paper and lace work. The Kensington Depart- ment exhibits the most practical results of any class" formed, There has been a class of from fifty to sixty paying pupils, and free instruction was offered to a class of fifteen, of which seven or eight were found competent to proceed in the work. The greatest possible attention is devoted to drawing.
RESIDENCE OF SYLVESTER HAND, ESQ.
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-Of Cineinnati, was founded in 1868, with the object of aiding the temporal, moral and religious welfare of women, especially those dependent on their own exertions for support. Regular business meetings are held on the second Wednesdays of April, June, October and January, and the annual ineetings on the second Wednesday in November. One of the Society's first efforts were to establish a boarding house for women, but this was not accomplished until $5,000 had been secured as a foundation fund, and the society incorporated. In August, 1878, the Home at 100 Broadway, which had already been occupied for seven years by the kind- ness of Mr. Shoenberger, free, for the same purpose, was pur- chased by the Society at a valuation considerably reduced by the same gentleman's generosity. The Employment Bureau is still managed in a hired house. Large sums have been given away in benevolence by the ladies engaged in Missionary work, and they have also organized Mothers' Meetings, held in the Bethel Buildings, and the young ladies' branch, now known as the Protestant Industrial School, has labored faithfully for eight years. The total receipts of the Society for the year ending 2d of October, 1878, from all sourees, including the General Fund, the Friends' Relief Fund, Bible Relief Fund and the Build- ing Fund were$8,701, but this involved the negotiation of bonds to the amount of $2,166 and a mortgage note of $6,000, for all of which the Association is still responsible. The total disburse- ments were $8,559.98. Any woman may become an active member of this Association by paying $1 annually, and any person a life member by paying $20, or a patron by paying $100 at any one time. President, Mrs. John Davis; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. S. S. Fisher, Mrs. W. W. Scarborough, Mrs. Murray Shipley, Mrs. Wm. Henry Davis, Mrs. F. G. Huntington, Mrs. Robert Brown, Jr. ; Recording Secretary, Mrs. II. W. Sage ; Corresponding Secretary, Niss Warder ; Treasurer, Mrs. John T. Perry.
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION, -- Meets at their
hall, No. 200 Vine street, formerly the headquarters of the Y. M. C. A. The Union has about a hundred active members. Meet- ings of a social character arc held weekly, and public meetings are held every Sunday afternoon and evening, at which short addresses are made, and excellent music furnished by the mem- bers.
WOODBURN .- One of the principal suburbs of Cincinnati, sit- uated cast of Walnut Hills, and between it and East Walnut Hills. The village is two miles northeast of the Court House, and is almost duc east from Camp Washington. It was incor- porated in 1866. The territory comprised in Woodburn is not large. It embraces nearly all of section two in Millcreek Town- ship, and part of section cight. Among the principal avenues is Woodburn Avenue, which runs into the Madisonville turnpike. Upon this avenue, and the adjacent ones, are many fine resi- dences, surrounded by trecs, lawns, and shrubbery, and com- manding splendid views of the Ohio River. Woodburn is amply provided with churches and schools. The Madisonville turn- pike, which is the main avenue, is owned by gentlemen inter- ested in property along the road, and who expend the profits therefrom in keeping the thoroughfare in admirable repair. Sidewalks are constructed through the entire village, and the residents have all of the advantages of the city in the country.
WOODWARD ALUMNAL ASSOCIATION .- Composed of gradu- ates of Woodward High School. It is distinguished by its name from the Old Woodward Club, which is made up of graduates of Woodward College, the predecessor of the High School. It has been established about twenty years, and has three hundred members. The two associations contributed $5,000 eaeh to the erection of the monument to William Woodward, which stands in the High School yard.
WOODWARD CLUB (Sce Old Woodward Club).
WOODWARD HIGH SCHOOL (See Schools).
WORKHOUSE (See City Workhouse).
WORKINGMEN'S HALL (Sec Arbeiter Hall).
WORKINGMEN'S BENEVOLENT UNION ASSOCIATION .- Meets the first Monday in each month, at the northeast corner of Eighth and Central Avenue. It was organized in 1857, and is composed of workingmen of all trades. Membership about two hundred. it has weekly sick benefits.
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RESIDENCE OF MR. E. P. STOUT, WYOMING.
WYOMING .- A charming village on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, twelve miles from Cincinnati, with n popu- lation of over 1,000. It adjoins the village of Lockland. Wy- oming is quite a new suburb, the handsome church und most of the fine residences nround it having been dense woods only a few years ago. Now the Glendale turnpike, which runs through
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the village, is here dotted with beautiful villas, among which is | rises with an easy ascent until it reaches the central plateau in the handsome residence of Mr. E. P. Stout, shown in the en- graving. The high hills bordering Wyoming commands an ex- tensive and wide-spread view of the Millcreek Valley, and the far off Clifton Heights; while on the left, Glendale, and the beau- tiful country lies smiling in the sunshine, or in Winter looks equally lovely in its mantle of snow.
YOUNG MEN'S BIBLE SOCIETY (Sec Bible Society).
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION .- Is an independent organization, and was founded on the 3d of October, 1848. After frequently changing its quarters, it removed, after a nine years' stay on Vine street, to its present site, at the corner of Elm and Sixth streets, in June, 1874, where the association had purchased the leaseliold of the property formerly known as the Heyl House, at a cost of $6,667. In November, 1874, Mr. David Sinton presented the association with $33,000 in railroad bonds, from the proceeds of which, with the accumulated interest, rental can be paid, and real estate in fee simple be purchased at the expir- ation of the lease. The total annual attendance at all the meet- ings of the association is about 100,000, and in the reading rooms and library, in which 187 papers and magazines are taken, about 50,000. Free concerts, of both vocal and instrumental music, are frequently given. The association, among other work, con- ducts Bible classes and prayer meetings, and appoints commit- tees to visit the work-house, the hospital and the jail. Presi- dent, H. P. Lloyd ; Vice-President, H. Thane Miller; Superin- tendent, Erastus Burnham; Assistant Superintendent, James B. Welles.
YOUNG MEN'S LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (See Libraries).
which the lake opposite the new restaurant has been formed. Thence to the west, north and east its surface is varied, ascend- ing and descending gentle declivities, and swelling over knolls covered with rich, green grass. Here and there were five years ago fine native forest trees, standing singly, or in clusters, and trees and shrubs brought from abroad have since been added. Many of them are evergreens, and thus the garden preserves even in Winter much of the charm of the bright Summer months. From several points there are extensive views of a wide range of country beyond the limits of the possessions of the society. The varied character of the landscape was therefore admirably adapted to a garden, and art, since its purchase, has been called upon to enhance its beauty. The turf upon the plateau border- ing the lake has been rolled and cultivated until it is smoother than many lawns trimmed and watched for a quarter of a cen- tury. Water lillies and other aquatic plants have been set in the lake, and flowers bloom upon its banks. The bright, rich colors of the geranium, the verbena, and many another Spring, Summer, and Autumn flowers are clustered in the carefully- tended beds placed here and there in the midst of the grass, and the prospect over the water has been opened out by the judi- cious removal of some unnecessary timber, until the eye of the spectator, from the steps or the veranda of the restaurant, can range over lawn and water alike, till it rests upon a thick, deep grove of trees hedging in the landscape in the distance. The walks and drives wind in and out and through the gardens, like those in the grounds of an English country seat, and for the conve- nience of visitors, comfortable benches are set in numbers under the shade. To still further heighten the attractiveness of the scene
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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS .- These spacious grounds only opened in the evening, and make the Zoological available for the fetes to the public so short a time ago as the 18th of September, 1875, champetres which have lately become so popular, rows of handsome lamps have been erected on the borders of most of the walks and near the lake, and when lit up and ornamented, as they often are, with rich and rare Oriental devices, there are fascinations about the spot not to be found elsewhere in the neighborhood of the city. In short, no pains have been spared, no cost grudged, to improve to the very utmost all the natural beauties of one of the finest sites in the whole suburbs. From what has been done in the few short years since the enterprise was first undertaken, and the energy of the Directors, who arc resolved to carry out their plans until they are perfected, it can easily be imagined that in a few more years to come the Gardens need fear no ri- valry even with many of the famous grounds of the Old World. Indeed, in some points relating to the management of the ani- mals, a degree of progress has been reached in Cincinnati which has been found scarcely attainable in Europe, and certainly never before seen in America. rapidly became one of the favorite suburban resorts of Cincin- nati, and are now one of the chief attractions of the City. The zeal and attention of the directors, their liberal outlay of money, and the happy choice made of experienced keepers for the numerous animals under their charge, combined with the beauty and extent of the gardens, have already given them a National celebrity, and the collection is now the finest in the country, that of Philadelphia alone even pretending to rival it, and then only in special departments. The society by which this noble addition was made to the resources of Cincinnati was incorpor- ated on the 11th of July, 1873, with a capital of $300,000, divided into 6,000 shares of $50 each. The grounds were then secured on a lease of ninety-nine years, renewable forever, and the work of converting them to their present use immediately begun, and so quickly and systematically carried on that in but little more than two years afterwards visitors were admitted. There was much to be done, although Nature herself had been prodigal in The collection already embraces 306 Mammals, 479 Birds and 55 Reptiles, appropriately housed. The stone tenement for the carnivora, built at a cost of $19,500, is 146 by 74 feet in dimen- her gifts to the site selected. From the Avenue south of the main entrance, the ground, covering an arca of sixty-six acres,
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sions, and fitted up with twenty cages and walks for visitors. Some of the finest lions and tigers in the country are lodged within its walls, and some of the very young ones have been bred there.
With the exception of the canine bark of the hyenas the voices of the beasts are seldom heard, and there is not a visitor who is not surprised to see the wonderful cleanliness pervading the walks and the cages alike. The sleek condition of the animals is in itself a high tribute to the management.
THE RESTAURANT, ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
The bear pits built of dressed limestone, sandstone and iron at a cost of $6,500, are in one of the valley-like declivities farther on in the grounds, and are well supplied with pools of water for the bears. The huge grizzlies, weighing between eight and nine . hundred pounds, are still so savage that their keepers can not for a moment venture to take liberties and play with them as they do with the lions and the tigers. They are both splendid specimens, and the white Polar bears with their young are equally fine representatives of their species. Another large ten- ement is the Monkey Ilouse, costing $12,700 in its construction, and having a central rotunda for spectators 30 feet in diameter. It is full of the curious burlesques of humanity from India, the Malay Archipelago and Africa, the chief home of most of the varieties. Although in captivity they still retain nearly all the habits and characteristics of their wild state. They exhibit the
THE BEAR PITS, ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
same craft and ingenuity, and the same fondness for playing tricks upon strangers or one another. In Europe a birth of a caged monkey inother is of the rarest occurence, but more than one baby has been born in the Monkey House at Cincinnati. The mothers evince the greatest affection for their young, caress- ing it and sometimes punishing it almost like a human creature.
The Aviary cost about $13,000, and is admirably contrived for the almost infinite variety of the requirements for its hun- dreds of inmates. There are birds to be seen there from every continent and all the countries in the world, of all forms and all colors, from the gorgeons hues of the paroquets of Asia and Australia to the modest brown of the English linnets and night- ingales. There are the golden oreoles of both the old and the new worlds, and among the game birds the golden, the silver and the so-called English pheasant, although it is really an emigrant from Asia Minor to English parks and preserves, partridges of several varieties, and quails. There are large vultures with their hooked beaks and bare throats, repulsive looking but use-
ful in semi-barbarous and tropical places where carrion is left unburied to rot in the sun, and the unclean birds fill the office of scavengers. But it is far pleasanter to watch the brighter plumage of the birds of brighter omen and listen to the songs of the singing birds. Their singing and piping and twittering are heard uninterruptedly from sunrise to sunset, and they cer- tainly elieit responses from the birds flying freely among the trecs without, for wild singing birds are more frequently heard in and near the Zoological Gardens than in any other single spot within a hundred miles of Cincinnati. Beyond the bear pits and close to the kangaroo cage, there is a magnificent ostrich, the creature which has wings but flies not, and forms, according to many, the link between the Mamm il and the bird.
Those mentioned arc, of course, but a very few of the whole number of birds in the aviary, or like the ostrich and the Australian emu in other grassy yards or cages about the Gardens. It is impossible even to allude to more, but thousands of visitors find the feathered department the most interesting of all. There are few, however, who will leave the grounds without a long look at the great amphibious seals, the delicately limbed deer, and the noble American elks grazing in the meadow-like en- closures appropriated to their use in the grounds. There are. other departments also, the reptiles, for instance, untouched here,
THE MONKEY HOUSE.
and in all there is ample food for study as well as amusement. Fortunately, also, both can be pursued from early morning till late in the evening without leaving for refreshments, as every- thing can be obtained at reasonable prices at the handsome res- taurant built at the cost of $28,000, and leased to an experienced and liberal caterer.
In speaking of the Zoological Gardens one thing should not be forgotten. Those of New York and Philadelphia were largely built, and have been materially aided in their maintenance, by grants of public money raised by special taxation. The creation of the Cincinnati Gardens is entirely owing to the generous pub- lie spirit of a few large-hearted citizens, who richly deserve to be called the benefactors of the whole community. These gen- tlemen subseribed $300,000 voluntarily from their own private purses, not expecting for very many years to come, probably never in their life-time, to receive a single penny in dividends. To carry out their plan they have appropriated every dol- lar taken in for entrance money and the sale of surplus animals bred in the Garden, to the general improvement and the aequi- sition of other wild beasts and rare and beautiful birds. Fore- most among them is a gentleman justly called the father of the Gardens. In fact, the whole idea of their formation, and a large share of the labor necessary for a successful excention of the conception, is as justly Mr. Andrew Erkenbrecher's as the conecption of the great Music Hall is Mr. Springer's.
The Gardens are open every day, Sundays included. Admis- sion : Adults, 25 cents ; children, 10 cents. The following gen- tlemen form the Board of Directors: Florence Marmet, Presi- dent; C. M. Erkenbrecher, Treasurer; Otto Laist, Geo. Fisher, Albert Fisher, Carl A. G. Adac, Geo. Hafer, B. Roth, James M. Doherty.
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SUMMER RESORTS.
There are a number of summer resorts beyond the limits of the City specially patronized by Cincinnatians, and among the foremost are Put-in-Bay, Yellow Springs and Chautauqua Lake. | ious to make many trips to Europe, Saratoga or the eastern sea side watering places.
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