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Spring Grove Avenue, about five miles from the Esplanade, and closely adjoining Spring Grove Cemetery on the north. The inclosure embraces about thirty acres, and lies directly between the lines of the C. H. & D., and M. & C. railroads, each of which has a station at the gates. Connected with the track, and outside the inelosure is an elegant club house, which is open to the public during the racing season. The grand stands. stables and other necessary buildings are second to none in the country. The Association holds three meetings each year, one running and two trotting, and the purses offered range from $25,000 to $35,000 per annum. The course is directly accessible by the unsurpassed Spring Grove Avenue, Mitchell Avenue, or the beautiful drive through Burnet Woods Park and Clifton. The officers of the Association are : George N. Stone, President; C. B. Hunt, Secretary ; and John Sullivan, Treasurer. This park is one of the attractive points in the suburbs that visitors should not fail to see.
CHEVIOT .- A pretty little village, in the midst of vine-cov- ered slopes, ashort distance from West Fairmount, and about 41/2 miles from the Post-office.
VIEW IN SPRING GROVE.
a new building to be erected on the site of the present Post- office is finished. The Chamber was organized in 1839. It is an association of merchants, formed for the convenience of business. The receipts of the Chamber for the year ending 1st September, 1868, were $35,548 16, and the expenditures $29,219 33, thus leaving a surplus of $6,328 83. The officers of the Chamber are : President, William N. Hobart; Vice-Presidents, Briggs S. Cunningham, James S. Wise, William Means, Thomas Morrison, Charles N. Fox, John W. Christy ; Treasurer, Florence Marmet; Secretary, Jolin H. Long; Superintendent of the Merchants' Exchange, Sidney D. Maxwell. (See Trade and Com- merce of Cincinnati. )
CHESTER DRIVING PARK .- Cincinnati's race track, the succes- sor of the old Queen City race course, which gave way to the march of improvement in the suburbs, is a feature in which the citizens take great pride. It is called Chester Driving Park, and is admitted to be the best half mile. course in the West, if not in the whole country. The grouuds are beautifully situated in
CHICKERING INSTITUTE .- A school for boys, situate at No. 170 George street. J. B. Chickering, Principal.
THE CHILDREN'S HOME, on Ninth street, between Plum and Central Avenue, commenced its work in the Spring of 1864, and was incorporated in the following December. Its objects are the improvement of the condition of poor and unfortunate children, by procuring them homes in families where they are trained to industry and educated. Such children, while re- maining in the Home, are clothed, fed and instructed gratnit- ously. A temporary home is also provided for poor children, whose parents may for the moment be unable to support them. The payment of $25 to the corporation makes any person a mem- ber for one year, and $500 for life. The Board of Trustees is elceted by the members, the Board of Lady Managers by the Trustees. The present building, the cost of which was $104,000 ean accommodate, at the same time, 300 children ; those in the care of the institution being classified as follows : 1. Surrendered children ; 2. Temporary children; 3. Day children ; 4. Incurable
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children ; 5. Apprentices. The surrendered children are those committed to the institution by parents or guardians, or the Mayor of Cincinnati, under the laws of Ohio. Since 1864, the total number of children received into the Home is about 3,000, of whom 1,056 have been placed in homes with families. These children so placed out are visited once a year, and the persons receiving them are required to make a report every three months. A fair, under the auspices of Messrs. Theodore Cook, A. T. Goshorn, Nicholas Anderson, Andrew Hickenlooper and Herman Goepper, was held in aid of the Home, from the 15th to the 19th of April, 1879, and the sum of $27,000 realized. A paper, the Children's Home Record, is regularly published in the interest of the Home, and for the benefit of its inmates, edited by Miss Jeannette Crapsey. The following Trustees and Lady Managers are now in office :
Board of Trustees .- Murray Shipley, President; John L. Stett- inius, Vice-president; Wm. H. Hoover, Treasurer ; E. R. Stearns, Secretary ; John Shillito, Wm. Woods, Samuel C. Tatum, Theo- dore Cook, Robt. W. Burnet, H. Thane Miller.
Lady Managers-Mrs. S. S. Fisher, President ; Mrs. Brooks John- son, 1st Vice-President ; Mrs. B. Bruce, 2d Vice-President; Miss Mary Rawson, Secretary ; Mrs. Samuel C. Tatum, Treasurer; Mrs. Geo. D. Smith, Mrs. O. N. Bush, Mrs. Larz Anderson ,Jr., Mrs. John A. Murphy, Mrs. R. M. W. Taylor, Mrs. Murray Ship- ley, Mrs. Geo. Fox, Mrs. Jos. Andrews, Mrs. John W. Lawson, Mrs. John W. Dale, Mrs. N. Longworth, Mrs. C. C. Pomeroy, Alex. Patterson, Superintendent ; G. T. Green, Visitor.
CHURCHES .- In Cincinnati, Churches have been provided in great numbers for all the principal forms of religious belief, and services are performed in the several languages of the wor- shipers. The ministers are very generally noted for a singular degree of zeal, learning and eloquence. In all the churches strangers are cordially invited to be present, and efforts are made to accommodate all the visitors with seats. The Protestant ministers very frequently announee the subject of their morn- ing and evening sermons in the leading daily papers, and their discourses are often reported cither verbatim, or at greater or less length. The music, both vocal and instrumental, at many of the churches is remarkably fine, and much money and pains is devoted to the musical branches of the services. The following is a list of the City Churches :
Baptist .- First Baptist Church, north side Court between Mound and Cutter. Services morning and evening.
Mount Auburn Baptist Church, Auburn Av., Mt. Auburn.
Ninth Street Baptist Church, south side Ninth, between Vine und Racc. Services morning and evening.
This spacious church with its lofty and commanding tower was erected in 1838. The build- ing is 70 feet front and 120 feet deep. There are seats provided for 900 worshipers, and a far greater number have often been in attendance. The organ has two banks of keys, and the choir is very large, and said to be the best of any in the City Baptist Churches.
NINTH-STREET BAPTIST CHURCH.
Third Baptist Church, Pine street between Gest and Clark. Baptist Church, Walnut Ilills.
First German Baptist Church, Walut, near Liberty. Services morning and evening.
Columbia Church, Columbia. Services morning and evening.
Berean Church, of Brethren in Christ, 200 Vine.
Union Baptist Church (colored), west side Mound between Ninth and Richmond. Services morning and evening.
Zion Baptist Church (colored), north side Ninth, between John and Central Avenue. Services morning and evening.
Shiloh Baptist Church (colored), 265 Plum.
Avondale Baptist Church ( colored ), Avondale. Services morning and evening. Cumminsville Baptist Church (col- ored), 25th Ward. Services morning and evening.
Walnut Hills Baptist Church ( colored ), WalnutHills. Services morning and evening.
Christian .- First Christian Church, Longworth, between Central Avenue and John. Services morn- ing and evening.
Congregational .- First Orthodox Con- gregational Church, north side of Seventh, between Central Avenue and John. Services at 11 o'clock A. M., and 4:00 o'clock P. M.
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THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
The nucleus of the organization of the First Congregational Church was formed as long ago as 1830, but the present building was only erected in 1869-70. The church proper seats 700, and the lecture room 350. The church is surmounted by a dome, and lighted entirely from the roof. The effect is very striking, but although somewhat novel in Cincinnati, when first built, is in complete harmony with the style of architecture.
Vine street Congregational Church, east side Vine. between Eighth and Ninth. Services morning and evening.
Welsh Congregational Church, west side Lawrence, between Third and Fourth. Services morning and evening.
Disciples of Christ .- Central Christian Church, north side Ninth between Plum and Central Avenue.
Christian Church, Fergus street, Cumminsville. Services morning and evening.
Richmond street Christian Church, southwest corner Cutter and Richmond.
Christian Church, between telegraph posts 13 and 14 Fulton. Servic. " morning, afternoon and evening.
Christian Church (colored), north side of Harrison, east of Broadway. Services morning, afternoon and evening.
Friends .- First Friends (Orthodox, ) northwest corner Eighth and Mound. Services mornings of First and Fifth days.
First Friends (Hicksite). Fifth, between Central Avenne and John. Services mornings of First and Fifth days.
German Evangelical Protestant .- St. Peters Church, Main and MeMicken Avenue.
St. Matthaeus Church, corner Elm and Liberty.
St. Lucas Church, north side Third opposite Parsons.
Texas Church, Clark and Freeman Avenue.
Third Evangelical Protestant Church, Walnut and Ninth.
Camp Washington Evangelical Church, Camp Washington. St. Martini Church, River Road, Twenty-first Ward.
German Protestant Evangelical Church, at Undercliff.
St John's Protestant Church, northwest corner Twelfth nud Elin. Services at 10 o'clock A. M.
St. John's, Mt. Auburn. Services at 10 o'clock A. M.
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Church (Zion), corner of Bremen and Fifteenth. Services at 10 o'clock A. M.
German United Evangelical Church (St. Peter), northwest corner Main and MeMicken Avenue. Service at 10 o'clock A. M.
German United Evangelical Church (St. Paul), corner Race and Fifteenth. Services at 10 o'clock A. M.
German Evangelical Church, Clark near Freeman Avenue.
German Reformed .- First German Reformed Church, north- west corner of Elm and Fifteenth. Services morning and eve- ning.
Church of the Cross, south side of Findlay, west of Baymiller. Services morning and evening.
Third German Reformed Church, Franklin and Sycamore. Services morning and evening.
Jewish Synagogues .- Holy Congregation, Children of Israel, southeast corner Eighth and Mound. The K. K. Benai Israel, the Hebrew Temple, at the corner of Eighth and Mound streets, was dedicated on the 27th of August, 1869. Its cost was $180,000. The prevailing style of architecture is Moresque, but the pillars are of a late Tonic. The fresco work is very beautiful. There are 182 family pews, with an average capa- city of 6 to each. The organ has two banks of keys and thirty stops. The choir is formed of a double quartet. In the base- ment are four school- rooms and the apart- ments of the sexton. The present salary of the rabbi is $4,000, with a paid-up policy of $3,000, and a parson- age connected with the temple. The temple is beautifully lighted with thirteen handsome chandeliers and lights on the pulpit and altar.
Holy Congregation, Children of Jeshurun, southeast corner Plum and Eighth. This magnificent syna- THE HEBREW TEMPLE gogue, the K. K. Benai Jeshurun, is opposite the Catholic Cathedral on Plum street. It was built chiefly during the war, at a cost of $275,000, and dedi- cated in 1866. The style of architecture is Moresque, designed after the Alhambra at Granada. The fresco work, which is very brilliant and beautiful, was done in 1874, at a cost of $9,000. The temple is lighted by one central grand chandelier, two larger and eight smaller ones, besides the lights on the altar and pul- pit. There are 218 family pews, with a capacity of five each, and eighty seats in the gallery. The organ has three banks of keys and forty-two stops. There are twenty voices in the choir. In the basement are the school-rooms, the study and the sexton's rooms, all handsome and well-appointed. Much of the work of the College, founded by the Union of American Hebrew Congre- gations, has been done in these school-rooms. The present salary of the rabbi, including house reut, is $7,200 a year, with a paid-up policy of life insurance.
Holy Congregation of Brethren in Love, northeast corner John and Melancthon.
Polish Congregation of the K. K. Adat. Israel, corner of Wal- nut and Seventh.
Shearith Israel, Lodge, between Sixth and Seventh.
Lutheran -- English Evangelical Lutheran Church, east side of Elm, between Ninth and Court. Services morning and evening.
German Evangelical Lutherau Church, east side of Race, be- tween Fifteenth and Liberty. Services morning and evening. Methodist Episcopal -- Wesley Chapel, north side Fifth, between Broadway and Sycamore. Services morning and evening.
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THE HEBREW SYNAGOGUE.
Trinity Church, north side Ninth, between Race and Elm. Services morning and evening.
Asbury Chapel, south side Webster, between Main and Syca- more. Services morning and evening.
ST. JOHN'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Mount Auburn Church, corner Auburn and McMillan. Ser- vices morning and evening.
Mears Chapel, Plum street, between Second and Front.
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St. John's Church, southeast corner Park and Longworth. Services morning and evening. This beautiful and commodious church was organized in October, 1848. The old church was dedicated on the 30th of December, 1849; and on the 21st of July, 1871, the corner-stone of the present building was laid. The architecture is called modern Gothic; the window at the north is, however, late Early English, and the windows at the side modernized Norman. The church, exclusive of the lot- valued at $5,000-was $25,000. The Sunday-school room is a handsome, well-lighted apartment in the basement, and there are now 200 scholars. The church proper contains 76 pews, with an average capacity of 6 to each. There are also 80 seats in the gallery. There are 150 members. The building itself is 48 feet by 80, with a height, from the floor to the apex of the ceiling, of 70 feet. The ceiling itself is of wood, richly paneled, ribbed, and molded. The windows are of stained glass, and the acoustic properties very good. The instrumental music is rendered by a cabinet organ. The salary of the minister is $1,500 a year.
York Street Chapel, southwest corner Baymiller and York. Services morning and evening.
Fairmount Church, Fairmount.
Finley Chapel, south side Clinton, between Cutter and Linn. Services morning and evening.
Cumminsville Church, 25th Ward.
Columbia Church, 1739 Eastern Avenue.
Pendleton Chapel, Hamer street near Eastern Avenue.
Christie Chapel, northwest corner Court and Wesley Avenue. Services morning and evening.
Grace, Maple Avenue, Avondale. Services morning and eve- ning.
McKendre, Eastern Avenue near Reed. Services morning and evening.
McLean Chapel, north side 9th near Freeman Avenue. Ser- vices morning and evening.
Pearl Street, East Pearl near Lawrence. Services morning and evening.
St. Paul, southwest corner Seventh and Smith. morning and evening.
Services
Walnut Hills, McMillan street, Walnut Hills. Services morn- ing and evening.
Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the M. E. Church .- McLean Chapel, Ninth street near Carr; Mears Chapel on Plum near Front.
Wright Chapel, Cumminsville.
Methodist Episcopal. - German-Race street German M. E. Chapel, east side Racc, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth. Services morning and evening.
Everett street German M. E. Chapel, south side Everett, near Linn. Services morning and evening.
Buckeye street German M. E. Chapel, Buckeye head of Main. Services morning and evening.
Blanchard Chapel, Spring Grove Avenue near Harrison Avenue. Services morning and evening.
Methodist Protestant. - Grace Church, George street, between Cutter and Linn. Services morning and evening.
Methodist Calvinistic .- Welsh Methodist Chapel, College, between Sixth and Seventh. Services morning and evening.
Methodist .- Colored-Allen Chapel. Sixth east of Broadway.
Union Chapel (colored) north side Seventh, between Plum and Central Avenue. Services morning and evening.
New Jerusalem. - Swedenborgian -Southwest corner Fourth and John.
Presbyterian .- First Presbyterian Church, Fourth, between Main and Walnut. Services morning and evening.
Fifth Presbyterian Church, southwest corner John and Clark. Services morning and evening.
Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church, south side Hopkins, west of Freeman Avenue.
Seventh Presbyterian Church, west side Broadway, between Fourth and Fifth. Services morning and evening. 1
Central Presbyterian Church, northwest corner Mound and Barr. Services morning and evening.
First Presbyterian Church, McMillan, west of Gilbert Avenue. Walnut Hills. Services morning and evening.
Orchard Street Presbyterian Church, Orchard, between Sycamore and Main.
Second Presbyterian Church, southwest corner Eighth and Elm.
Third Presbyterian Church, Seventh, between Linn and Bay - miller. Services morning and evening.
Sixth Presbyterian, Eastern Avenue near Vance. Services morning and evening.
Poplar Street Presbyterian Church, Poplar near Freeman. Services morning and evening
West End Mission Church, Poplar near Freeman Avenue. Services morning and evening.
First German Church, Linn, between York and Dayton, Ser- vices morning and evening.
Second German Church, Liberty west of Freeman.
Lane Seminary Church, Walnut Hills.
Avondale Presbyterian Church, Avondale.
Cumminsville, corner of Langland and Lingo, 25th Ward.
Mt. Auburn, Auburn Avenue, east of Auburn street, Mt. Auburn.
Olivet Mission, Carr below Sixth.
Pilgrim Mission, Fifth east of Lock.
Presbyterian .-- United Presbyterian Church, Sixth, between Race and Elm. Services morning and afternoon.
Presbyterian Reformed .- First ReformedChurch, Plum between Eighth and Ninth. John C. Chapman, Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath at 11 o'clock A. M. and 3 P. M. Sabbath School at 9.30 A. M. Seats free. Regular weekly prayer meeting every Wed- nesday evening at 7.30.
Second Reformed Presbyterian Church, north side Clinton, between Central Avenue and John.
Protestant Episcopal .- Christ Church, north side Fourth, be- tween Sycamore and Broadway. Services morning and evening. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, south side Fourth, between Main
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and Walnut. Services morning and evening. This church was chartered by special act of the Legislature in 1832. The old church was built a year or two afterward, and the present re- built on the old site in 1861. The lot covered by the church is 75 by 100 fect. The architecture is Gothic; the windows and
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the doors late Norman. The total seating capacity is 735, and their are 400 communicants. The choir is very excellent, and the organ has two banks of keys and forty-four stops. The Sun- day-School is large, and one of the oldest in the city. The offi- cers pay particular attention to the mission children in the dif- ferent sections of the town. For many years the late Chief-Jus- tice Chase was superintendent. The salary of the rector is $4,000 per annum; that of his assistant curate $1,500. This church is considered the most fashionable in the city.
St. John's Church, southeast corner Plum and Seventh.
Christ Church, Glendale.
Grace Church, College Hill. Grace Church, Avondale.
Trinity Mission Chapel, south side Liberty, near Broadway. Calvary Church, Clifton.
Church of the Advent, Walnut Hills.
Church of the Atonement, Riverside.
Emmanuel Church, Eastern Avenue near Woodburn.
St. Philip's Church, Cumminsville.
Church of our Saviour, Evans street, Mt. Auburn. St. Luke's Chapel, southwest corner Findlay and Baymiller. Church of the Resurrection, Fern Bink.
Church of the Redeemer, Elm near Findlay.
Mt. Lookont Mission Church, Mt. Lookout.
Roman Catholic .- St. Peter's Cathedral, southwest corner Plum and Eighth. Services morning and afternoon. Its di- mensions are 190 by 87 feet. The style of architecture is pure Greek, and its several proportions the most harmonious in the city. Corner-stone was laid in 1839; consecrated in 1844-Car- dinal M'Closkey, then Bishop of Albany, preaching the dedica- tion sermon. Cost of building when roofed, not including the portico or spire, was $90,000 ; but it is now valued at $250,000 ex- clusive of the ground. There are seats for 1,300, but the aisles are also generally filled. The choir consists of fifteen paid and unpaid members, and the organ has two banks of keys and twenty-four stops. The services are performed by five priests. The Cathedral is very rich in pictures, some of them possessing great historic, as well as artistic, value. One of the greatest is the altar-piece, representing St. Peter delivered from prison. Its history extends back to the days of the Peninsular War. When Marshal Soult was in Spain, in command of the French troops, and found himself hard pressed by the English under Wellington, he robbed many of the churches and convents of their noblest pictures. Among others he took four Murillos from the Cathedral at Seville, and on his return to Paris, pre- sented them to Cardinal Fesch, Napoleon's uncle. In 1824, Bishop Fenwick, the first bishop of this diocese, was in Paris, and the Cardinal presented him with one of these four Murillos. The Bishop brought it to Cincinnati, and the "St. Peter Delivered " is now one of the chief glories of art in America. Another beautiful painting in the southern aisle is also due, indirectly, to the French. After the battle of Jena, when |
Napoleon was about to occupy Berlin, the best pictures of the churches and monasteries were secreted. In 1840 a large number of them were sold, and a gentleman from Chillicothe, Ohio, became the purchaser of two or three. He shortly after wrote to Father Purcell, at the Cathedral, offering to part with one of them. After a careful examination, it was purchased. The painting represents the death of St. Mary Magdalene, in her mountain cave near Marseilles. Her brother Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead, was ordained bishop after the crucifixion, and sent to Gaul. It was painted in Italy, in the sixteenth century, a replica of the original now in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris. The altar is of the purest Carrara marble, and the two angels on either side were sculptured by Powers, during his residence in Florence. In the great picture opposite the pulpit, representing Christ's entry into Jerusalem, "sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of an ass," Landseer himself painted the colt, and almost all the . figures are the work of as many different artists. Ex- tending. west from the Cathedral is the beautiful resi- dence of the Archbishop. Under the altar rest the remains of Father Stephen Badin. IIe was ordained in 1795, being the first priest ever ordained in America. Previous to that time the missionaries were supplied from abroad. 2
All Saints, corner of High and Court.
St. Francis Xavier, west side Sycamore, between Sixth and Seventh. Services morning and afternoon.
St. Thomas, west side Sycamore between Fifth and Sixth. Services morning and afternoon.
St. Patrick's, northeast corner Third and Mill. Services morning and afternoon.
Holy Trinity (German), south side Fifth between Smith and Mound. Services morning and afternoon.
St. Mary's (German) southeast corner Clay and Thir- teenth. Services morning and afternoon.
St. Ludwig (German), southwest corner Eighth and Walnut.
ST. PETER'S CATHEDRAL.
. St. Rosa (German), south side East Front, near Torrence Road. St. John's (German), corner Bremen and Green. Services morning and afternoon.
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St. Joseph's (German), southeast corner of Linn and Laurel. Services morning and afternoon.
St. Paul's (German), southeast corner of Spring and Abigail. Services morning and afternoon.
St. Philomena (German), north side Pearl between Pike and Butler. Services morning and afternoon.
St Agnes (Good Shepherd Convent), Bank street.
St. Aloysius, Bridgetown.
St. Bernard, Taylor's Creek.
St. Boniface, 25th Ward.
St. Charles Borromeo, Carthage.
St. Clement, St. Bernard.
St. Edward, Clark, between Mound and Wesley Avenue.
St. Gabriel, Glendale.
St. Henry, Flint street.
St. John Baptist, Mt. St. Mary's Seminary.
St. Jolın, Dry Ridge.
St. Lawrence, Warsaw Pike, 21st Ward.
St. Peter and St. Paul, Sedamsville.
St. Stanislaus, corner Cutter and Liberty.
St. Vincent de Paul, Sedamsville.
St. Augustin's (German), Bank between Baymiller and Free- man streets.
St. Michael's (German), west side Millcreek.
St. Francis Seraphicus (German), corner Liberty and Vine.
St. Anthony's (German), south side Budd between Carr and Donnersberger.
St. Ann's Church (colored), New, east of Broadway.
St. Francis de Sales, East Walnut Hills.
St. Bonaventura's Church, Fairmount.
St. Mary's Church, Mt. Healthy.
St. James' Church, Mt. Airy.
St. Patrick's Church, 25th Ward.
St. George's Church, Corryville.
Chapel of Sisters of Notre Dame, Sixth, between Sycamore and Broadway.
Chapel of the Sisters of Mercy, Third, between Central Avenue and John.
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