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Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis (St. Clare Convent), corner Third and Lytle.
Church of Blessed Sacrament, Walker Mill Road, 21st Ward. Church of the Presentation, West Walnut Hills.
Our Lady of Victories, Delhi.
Passionists Novitiate and Church of Holy Cross (for English Catholics), Observatory Hilt.
Sacred Heart, Camp Washington.
Holy Angels, on Torrence Road.
Immaculate Conception, Mount Adams.
Church of the Atonement, north side Third, between Central Avenne and John.
United Brethren in Christ .- First English Church, corner Clinton and Baymiller.
German United Brethren Church, south side Front near Tor- rence Road.
German United Brethren Church, corner Clinton and Bay- miller. Services morning and evening.
Universalist .- First Universalist Church, east side of Plum be- tween Fourth and Fifth. Services morning and evening.
Unitarian .- Church, northeast corner Eighth and Plum. Union Bethel Church, 31 Public Landing.
Storrs Township Union Church, Taylor's Mansion. Union Chapel, Walker Mill Road, 24th Ward.
CHOIRS .- Cincinnati has long been celebrated for the ex- cellence of her church choirs, aud of late years the improvement has been astonishing. The following are exceptionally good : that of the Catholic Cathedral, on Plum near Eighth street, and that of St. Francis Xavier, on Sycamore, between Sixth and Seventh. The choirs of the Jewish Synagogue K. K. Benai Jes- hurun, of the Church of the Holy Trinity, on Fifth street between Smith and Mound, and of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, on Fourth street, are very excellent. The choirs of
the Ninth street Baptist Church, and of St. Paul's Methodist Church, are large and strong, and in many of the German Churches on both sides of the Rhine the music is very good.
CHURCH OF NEW JERUSALEM LIBRARY (See Libraries).
CINCINNATI AMATEUR PRESS ASSOCIATION. - A society of youthful aspirants to the profession of journalism, and the culti- vation and advancement of general knowledge for printers and others intimately or remotely connected with the press. Meets at southwest corner of Main and Court streets, on the first Wednesday of the month, during Spring, Autumn and Winter. Annual fees $1.20 per annum. Number of members, twenty-five. Mark M. Kerr, President.
CINCINNATI BAPTIST UNION .- This is composed from the membership of the different City churches of the denomin- ation, and has been in existence about ten years. Its object is to build up weak churches by pecuniary aid. Its income is chiefly derived from collections and subscriptions. It meets monthly at the Ninth street Baptist church.
CINCINNATI BAR ASSOCIATION (See Bar Association).
CINCINNATI BOARD OF TRADE AND TRANSPORTATION .- The . Cincinnati Board of Trade was organized in the year 1869, and the Cincinnati Board of Transportation was organized in the year 1876. Both were consolidated April 7, 1879. The office is situated at No. 55 West Fourth street. The objects of the Cin- cinnati Board of Trade and Transportation are to collect, pre- serve and circulate valuable and useful information relating to the business of Cincinnati, and especially the facts relating to its manufacturing interests; to encourage wise and needful leg- islation, and to oppose the enactment of laws likely to be pre- judicial to the manufacturing and commercial interests; to study the workings of the system of Transportation upon which commercial prosperity so largely depends, and to endeavor to remedy by all proper means the defects and abuses existing thercin; to secure fair and equitable rates of freight to and from the city, the discontinuance of vexatious and unjust over- charges and prompt settlement of damages on goods shipped; to facilitate the adjustment of differences, controversies and misunderstandings between its members and others; and to strive in all ways to promote the manufacturing, commercial and other industrial interests of the city. For the past ten years the Board of Trade has been one of the active agencies in promoting the advancement of the general interest of the city. The statistics of the manufactures of the city are gathered by this Board, and submitted to the public through the medium of its annual reports, and by the press. As the exponent of the sentiments of the manufacturing community, who have no other representative organization, the Board has never failed to give earnest attention to the questions constantly arising and affect- ing these interests. It has been active in promoting the increase of railroad facilities, and has expended many thousands of dollars in removing the freight blockade at Louisville; in urging upon the Government meritorious plans; for instance the signal light system ; for the improvement of navigation upon the Western rivers; in originating and perfecting the great Industrial Expo- sition, and in securing for it a permanent home ; in making the city a port for direct importation, and in urging or opposing legislation, both State and National, according as it seemed eal- culated to benefit or injure the commercial or manufacturing interests. By the consolidation now effected, the Board in- creases its special benefits to its membership by adding the features for the carrying out of which the Board of Transporta- tion was organized. These purposes were set forth as follows: "The Cincinnati Board of Transportation is incorporated to obtain and preserve information and statistics relative to trans- portation. To adjust differences and controversies between its members and Transportation Companies. To encourage the construction of new lines, and the improvement of those already existing. To secure the revision of imperfeet legislation and the enactment of such as will better protect the interest of ship- pers and facilitate Trade and Commerce. To promote the dis-
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cussion of matters of general interest. To devise means for the correction of abuses and defects, and the provision of cheap transportation for the products of industry as essentially neces- sary for the advancement of the prosperity of Cincinnati. The officers of the Board for the year 1879 are: President, John Simp- kinson; Vice-Presidents, First, John B. Gibson, Second, Wm. L. Robinson ; Directors, E. V. Cherry, Dan'l DeCamp, Jacob Diehl, J. W. Gano, Jos. Hargrave, N. W. Harris, Julius Reis, Geo. Stribley, Sam'l B. Warren, L. C. Weir; Treasurer, Charles Stewart; Secretary, J. F. Blackburn.
CINCINNATI CANOE CLUB .- A close corporation, limited to five members. The club now owns seven canoes. Their head- quarters are at Ross lake, near Carthage. It is the pioneer club of its kind in the West, and is composed of Commodore Judge Nicholas Longworth, Captain Thomas Ambrose, William Green- wood, George B. Ellard and Lucien Wulsin. Its object is amuse- ment only. Meetings every Saturday afternoon, at the club house, Ross lake.
CINCINNATI HOSPITAL (See Hospitals).
CINCINNATI HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL DISPENSARY (See Dis- pensaries.
CINCINNATI LAW LIBRARY (See Libraries).
CINCINNATI NEWS COMPANY. - Although a branch of the American News Company, of New York, the Cincinnati News Company does an independent business. The office is at present at No. 181 Race street, between Fourth and Fifth. The com- pany handles all eastern newspapers, periodicals and books, and acts as general agents for manufacturers and publishers. It was established in 1871, with Alfred Warren as President, and Charles N. Paver, Manager, and transacts a steadily increas- ing business.
CINCINNATI ORPHAN ASYLUM is situated at Mount Auburn, and was established in 1833. It began its life in the great cholera plague of that year as a mere temporary alleviation of that time of suffering, and is the oldest charity of the kind West of the Allegheny Mountains. Children of all denomina- tions are received, destitution being the only qualification for admission. So much was its influence felt that it struck its roots deeper and deeper in the civic life, and began to have very considerable strength when the great financial crisis of 1837 completely prostrated the industries and wealth of the city and country. In that year of poverty this asylum made its first great stride and took possession of a new and com- fortable home. From that year we trace the even and continu- ous growth of the Asylum through a period of twenty years. Strange as it may seem, its next great epoch, its second trans- plantation, took place in that year of panic, 1857; in that year of distress and bankruptcy, only paralleled by the former year of 1837, it laid the basis of its endowment by the sale of its old lot to the city, and out of that great storm which stripped so many of all they had, this Asylum emerged with $100,000 in city bonds. The object of the institution is to take care and cducate poor children, and to provide them with homes, but no child is to be placed out until he or she has been in the Asylum one year, unless adopted, and no girl placed out until she can write a legible hand, and has received instruction in the first four rules of arithmetic; and no girl is to be bound out to service till she has attained the age of eleven years-boys ar- riving at that age can be bound out. One-half of the indenture money to be paid to the Managers when the child is going out- to be placed at interest for the benefit of the child. No child is to be placed with any person who keeps a hotel, tavern, or coffee house, nor with any one who does not regularly attend religious worship. The property is held by a Board of Trustees, appointed by the Court of Common Pleas, on the recommenda- tion of the Lady Managers. The Board of Managers consists of twelve ladies. They are elected according to the charter by the Trustees and subscribers, every three years, and upon being informed of their election they hold a meeting, and elect from their number a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Recording
Secretary and Corresponding Secretary, who hold their office till their successors are appointed. In case of vacancy occur- ring, their places shall be filled by the President. The Matron or Superintendent cannot receive money for board. Parents or friends desirous to contribute of their means can make donations to the Asylum, and it is expected they will as far as they are able. Friends or parents who wish to place their children in the Institution, but who do not wish to abandou them, can do so, if the Committee of Admission think them objects of this charity, but must not expect that they can remain over six months, unless by special order of the Board.
The average number of inmates is about 110. Of these, 70 to 90 are in regular attendance at the 16th District school, Mt. Auburn, where they maintain a respectable position in scholarship, and conduct, as compared with the other children of the District. In the case of any child whose natural abilities warrant it, the management feel special interest in carrying its education to a poiut that will secure a respectable and useful future. One of the children has this year passed with credit through the first year of the High School, and looks forward to a final course in the Normal School, and ultimate occupation of a teacher : others are in the higher grades of the District school, and in the Inter- mediate.
During the past year, a Kindergarten has been established in the Asylum, in which a class of thirty (30) children, ranging from four (4) to eight (8) years of age, is instructed. Tlie number of children admitted last year was ninety-nine. The present number in the Asylum is one hundred and nine. The following is the present Board of Trustees: Robert Buchanan, Clifton ; Henry Probasco, Clifton; Richard Smith, Clifton ; Geo. W. MeAlpin, Clifton. Gco. W. Jones, Cincinnati ; Sam'l J. Broadwell, Cincinnati ; John R. Wright, Walnut Hills. Officers : President, Mrs. Catherine Bates, Walnut Hills; Vice- President, Mrs. Aaron F. Perry, Mt. Auburn ; Treasurer, Mrs. C. T. H. Stille, 77 Hopkins street; Recording Secretary, Mrs. J. R. Wright, Walnut Hills; Assistant Secretary, Miss Janet C. Brown, 133 West Seventh street. The Board of Managers is subdivided into committees of admission, indentures, purchas- ing, auditing, sewing, house-keeping, infirmary and nursery, visiting, and school. The following is the present Board of Lady Managers : Mrs. Catherine Bates, Walnut Hills; Mrs. Eliza J. Funk, 84 West Eighth street ; Mrs. Aaron F. Perry, Mt. Auburn ; Mrs. S. M. Hinsdale, 394 West Seventh street; Mrs. Dr. John Davis, 323 Elm street; Mrs. S. J. Broadwell, 66 Lawrence street ; Mrs. A. D. Bullock, Mt. Auburn ; Mrs. Frank Thompson, Mt. Auburn ; Mrs. G. H. Barbour, 94 East Fourth street; Mrs. John R. Wright, Walnut Hills; Mrs. A. S. Winslow, Broadway and Fourth; Mrs. Mary Judkins, Race and Centre ; Mrs. M. F. Force, 89 West Eighth; Mrs. L. E. Yorke, Clifton ; Mrs. C. T. H. Stille, 77 Hopkins street ; Miss Janet C. Brown, 133 West Seventh street; Mrs. John Trevor, Mt. Auburn; Mrs. Nicholas Anderson, Wal- nut Hills.
CINCINNATI POLICE RELIEF ASSOCIATION .- This association was organized under State Law, passed by the General Assem- bly, March 17, 1877. The object is to create a fund and provide means for the relief of the siek or disabled members, and each member contributes fifty cents per month dues. The associa- tion is controlled by a board of directors, seven in number, elected for one year, who elects a president, vice-president and secretary. The City Treasurer holds all. moneys belonging to the association, subject to orders being drawn on him by the secretary, approved by the president. The meetings are held every alternate Monday. In case of sickness or disability of a member, such member receives $1.25 per day, after the first seven days; and in case of death of any member, his family receives in addition to such relief above mentioned, the sum of $300 as funeral benefits. All rewards, fees, proceeds of gifts, and sale of unclaimed articles aud money are turned to the credit of the police fund. The membership is about 350, includ- ing sub-patrolman, sanitary police, and others connected with the department. B. P. Churchill, is President; and Jos. L. Gaul, Secretary.
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CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS AND NEW ORLEANS PILOT ASSOCIA - TION .- An association of some 60 or 70 pilots on Western waters. They maintain an office, under a superintendent and secretary, Mr. R. G. Shinkle, at the northwest corner of Sycamore street and the public landing. Here the members of the association can be addressed by owners of steamers needing their services, and most of their contracts are made at these rooms. Changes in the channel of the rivers are reported to the secretary when- ever they occur, and thus the pilots are made aware, from day to day, of dangers ahead. Connected with the association is another excellent safeguard to the traveling public. At con- venient landings along the rivers are placed what is known as a pilot's box, in which any pilot discovering a change in the chan- nel, a snag, or newly formed sandbar, places a written account of the obstruction or change, for the use of the pilot who must traverse the same locality, who is thus forewarned. The associ- ation has been established many years, and is of great use to its members, as well as a protection to life and property.
CINCINNATI TURNGEMEINDE (See Turngemeinde).
CITY AND SUBURBAN TELEGRAPH ASSOCIATION AND BELL TELEPHONE EXCHANGE .- Offices (general) 43 West Fourth St .; (branch) Surveyor's room, Court House, Merchants' Exchange, Post-office, Mount Lookout, Covington and Dayton, Ky., was organized 1873, capital stock $100,000. A company controls the Bell telephone in the district of Cincinnati, and has about 1,000 subscribers connected either by telegraph or telephone with the central office systemn. The microphone battery trans- mitter is chiefly used in eonection with the telephone. The company furnishes special messengers at all times to the public and their subscribers. Subscribers to the Telegraph Associa- tion or the Telephonic Exchange can at any time be put in im- mediate connection with each other, and as one or the other company includes nearly all of the public offices, institutions and leading firms of the city, an immense business is transacted daily in a minimum of time. The company has about 600 miles of wire. The officers are Andrew Erkenbrecher, President; T. W. Yardley, Vice-President; and W. H. Eckert, Electrician and General Manager.
CITY BUILDINGS-The official center of the city, comprising the Council Chamber, Police Court, and all of the City Offices- are of brick, and stand in the City Park, which includes about
CITY BUILDINGS.
114 acre of ground, and in the centre an ornamental fountain. The buildings were erected, in 1853, and are 205 feet in length by 52 feet in width. The ground, including the Park, cost $60,000; the buildings abont $27,000.
CITY COMMISSIONERS (Scc Board of City Commissioners).
CITY FINANCES .- The latest complete published statement ex- bibiting in detail the receipts and expenditures of the City, for the financial year commencing January 1, 1877, and cuding De- cember 31, 1877, is as follows:
The balance remaining in the Treasury, January 1st, 1877, was, .
$1,023,453 47
The receipts from all sources during the year were, ยท 4,452,269 98
Total, $5,475,723 45
The disbursements during the year have been, . 4,972,058 40
Balance remaining in City Treasury, January 1, 1878, $503,665 05 The following table exhibits the levy made for each fund: General Fund,
1.00 mills
Watch Fund,
1.55
Superior Court Fund,
0.10
Fire Department Fund,
0.90
Light Fund,
1.30
Work-House Fund,
0 25
Sanitary Fund,
0.05
Park Fund,
0.05
Sewerage Fund,
0.10
0.20
Sinking Fund, .
1.00
Cincinnati Hospital Fund,
0.40
City Infirmary Fund,
0.45
House of Refuge Fund,
0.20
Street Repairing Fund, . 1.00
Southern Railroad Sinking-Fund, 1.30
Interest Fund, 10.85
Total, . . 20.70
The amount of taxable property upon which the above tax was levied, was $179,430,142.00.
The bonded debt of the city at this date is $23,584,683.61.
The following is an official recapitulation of the totals of the receipts and disbursements of the general fund :
Receipts.
Disbursements.
General Fund, .
587,783 79
$581,554 99
Wharfage Fund,
6,744 42
12,187 24
Watch Fund,
269,513 92
271,627 97
Interest Fund,
1.433,007 74
1,753,954 28
Superior Court Fund.
18,342 65
18,908 44
Fire Department Fund,
206,726 24
196,418 55
Light Fund,
135,958 64
138,423 41
University Fund,
79,237 29
89,165 53
Work-Houso Fund,
59,208 19
63,359 03
Sanitary Fund,
17,842 65
14,981 22
Bounty Fund,
14,194 27
18,538 52
Sewerage Fund,
22,502 (0
21,029 13
Street Cleaning Fund,
77,609 64
77,999 63
Sinking Fund,
449.342 39
581,325 27
Water Works Fund,
484,257 84
470,456 92
Cincinnati Hospital Fund,
61,740 67
86,083 27
City Infirmary Fund,
66,449 27
67,120 18
House of Refuge Fund,
51,944 77
50,345 02
Street Repairing Fund,
193,250 78
193,417 78
Bridge Fund,
17,842 65
13,757 12
Park Sinking Fund,
7,165 44
Street Improvement Sinking Fund.
16,045 82
20,766 25
Public Building Sinking Fund, .
44,938 88
Burnet Work-House Lot Fund,
59 75
Southern R. R. Sinking Fund.
178,426 51
178,426 51
Market Fund, .
4,297 84
48 07
Balanco in City Treasury, January 1, 1878,
503,665 05
Totals, $5,475,723 45 $5,475,723 45
The total bonded indebtedness of the City of Cincinnati, on the first of January, 1878, was $23,534,683.61. The Bouds were is- ued under the following heads: Bonds for Funding City Debt; For Funding Floating Debt; Loaned to Rail-Road Companies; Issued for Park Purposes; For Payment of Bounties; Water Works Bonds; School Bonds; Work-House Bonds; Hospital Bonds ; Sewerage Bonds; Improvement Bonds; Street Improve- ment Bonds; Miscellaneous. The following is n recapitulation : Total Amount of Bonds issued, $24,147,696 20
Amount redecincd to date, 563,012 59
Net Debt, 31st December, 1877, $23,584,683.61 For the year 1877, the following levies were made for the Sinking Fund: for Interest Cincinnati City Debt, 10.34 mills; for Redemption of Cincinnati Southern Railroad Bonds, 1.30
Street Cleaning Fund,
Balance in City Treasury, Jan. 1st, 1877, $1,023,453 47
Park Fund,
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mills; for Redemption of City Debt, 1.00 mills .- Total, 13.14 mills.
CITY GOVERNMENT .- Cincinnati is governed by a Mayor, a Common Council, and various boards, including the Board of Education, the Board of Police Commissioners, the Board of City Commissioners, the Board of Fire Commissioners, etc. By a recent law the Mayor was shorn of some of the prerogatives formerly pertaining to the office, and the power of the Common Council abridged by the creation of a Board of Public Works, recently changed to a Board of City Commissioners. The duties of the Mayor arc still, however, of a highly important character. He has a veto on all the ordinances passed by the Comuon Council. By his messages to the same Body, he is enabled to quake the most valuable suggestions, and he is the quedium for all official communication between Cincinnati and other cities.
One of the most important Boards is that of the City Com- missioners, which holds the purse strings of the treasury, and with which all measures for the appropriation of money must originate. This Board has control of vast interests, aud with it lies the appointment of the great muass of subor- dinate officers of the government. It elects the City Andi- tor, the City Civil Engineer, and the Superintendents of the Water-works, Street Cleaning and Street Repairing Departments, together with the vast number of employes in each department named.
The Board of Police Commissioners wields also a very great in- fluence, having control of all Police matters, including the ap- pointment of the Chief of Police and Subalterns, the City Iu- firmary, near Carthage, the Health Office, which looks after Sauitary interests, and the Markets.
The Board of Fire Commissioners, appointed by the Governor of the State, has exclusive control of the Fire Department, in- cluding the appointment of members, and the expenditure of moneys appropriated for fire purposes. This Board is indepen- dent of Common Council, except in the matter of the tax levy; which is fixed by the finance committee of that body.
The City Solicitor is elected every two years by the people.
The Judge of the Police Conrt, and the Prosecuting Attorney of the same, are elected for two-year termus, and the Clerk of the Police Court for three years. These Officers are essential to the City Administration.
The City Treasurer, the Wharf-master and Wharf-register, serve a two-year term. They are elected by the people.
The funded debt of the City is managed by a Board of five Trustees of the Sinking Fund, who serve withont conpen- sation, and are appointed for three years.
The Work-house is managed by a Board of five Directors, nominated by the Mayor, and confirmed by Council. The House of Refuge has nine Directors. Two are appointed by the Common Council, two by the Court of Common Pleas, two by the Superior Court, and the others by the contributors to the Refuge. They serve a term of three years.
The Out-door Poor (those not admitted to the City Infirmary) are under the supervision of the Sanitary Police.
Cincinnati Hospital is under the management of a Board of seven Directors, of which the Mayor is ex-oficio Chairman. Three are appointed by the Superior and three by the Common Pleas Courts, and serve for five years.
The Board of Aldermen is composed of thirty members, the city being divided into five Aldermuanic districts, and six Alder- nien elected from each district. The Board of Councilmen, which together with the Aldermen constitute the Common Council, is composed of two members from each of the twenty-five wards of the city.
The Board of Education is elected in like manner, two meu- bers from each Ward. This Board has charge of the public library, and is largely represented in alf public Educational in- terests with the exception of MeMicken University, which is under control of nineteen directors, eighteen of whom are ap- pointed by Council, the Mayor being a member ex-officio.
CITY INFIRMARY, THE-Is a municipal institution, affording relief to both indoor and outdoor paupers. The buildings, which are spacious and extensive, are upon the Carthage road, eight miles north of the City. They are situated on a farm belonging to the institution, containing 160 acres of beautifully rolling land. The position commands a fine view of the surrounding country. During the year ending 1873, large additions werc made to the buildings. For the year ending December, 1878, and comprised in the last report, the total number of applications granted was 9,739, of which 245 were for indoor, and 9,494 for outdoor relief, showing a decrease in comparison with the pre- vious year. On the 1st January, 1878, there were 576 inmates. The total amount of receipts for the year ending January 1, 1878, derived from the tax duplicate and other sources, was $78,974, and the disbursements $70,849. Of the receipts, the garden attached to the Infirmary produced $2,243, and the farm $7,618.
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