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importance, in influence, and in public regard, until now, it has assumed sueh proportions, and achieved such results, as to leave its future of usefulness and celebrity no longer in doubt. Its receptions upon New Years have been continued annually, and have come to be regarded as among the most prominent of the social events of that day. The cabinet of collections is con- ceded to be one of the most select and judiciously arranged in the country, and bids fair to become one of the largest. The rooms are handsomely furnished. The library is filled with works of value, and enlivened by home and foreign publications, newspapers, etc. A large fund has already been accumulated for the purpose of erecting such a building as will be a pride to the club, and an ornament to the city. From 12 to 2, daily, the rooms are always open to ladies and children. On fixed days, by invitation, the pupils of the various schools visit for instruction and inspection. Strangers can always obtain cards of invitation by applying to either of the Executive Commit- tec, Messrs. Harris, Logan and Marsh. The officers of the club are: L. A. Harris, President; Thos. A. Logan, Corresponding Secretary ; Theo. Marsh, Treasurer; and J. F. Blackburn, Re- cording' Secretary.
COAL ELEVATORS .- There are fourteen elevators engaged in hoisting coal from the barges in the river to the first plateau of the City. They are dotted along the river bank from Pendleton, on the east, to Millcreek, on the west ; but the majority of them arc between the foot of Vine street and the Fifth street landing. They are owned, respectively, by S. W. Bard, Wm. II. Brown, A. Buchanan & Co., Campbell Creek Coal Co., Collier, Budd & Co., Consolidated Coal & Mining Co., R. H. Fleming, Keystone Coal Co., Marmet & Co., Phillips Coal Elevator Co., Ross & Lysle, Daniel Stone & Co., T. B. Stene & Co., and the West End Coal Elevator Co. There is also a large railroad Coal Elevator in the Millcreek Valley, north of Harrison Avenue, where all coal brought to the City by rail is handled, re-shipped to other places or supplied to railways and City consumers.
SCENE NEAR THE RESIDENCE OF I. N. LABOYTEAUX, ESQ.
COLLEGE HILL-Is one of the most beautiful suburbs of the City, and is a name with which nearly every one acquainted with Cincinnati is familiar. It stands on a conspicuous emi- nence on the northwest of the City, and was settled in 1855. It reveals, from various points, views highly picturesque, and iu
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some places almost rivaling mountain regions in beauty and ex- tent. It has many elegant residences with highly cultivated grounds, and is in every respect one of the most charming Sum- mer retreats, the air being salubrious and the locality most re- markably healthy. In 1866 the village was incorporated, and since that time the authorities have entered upon a general sys- tem of improvement. Streets have been laid out and macad- amized, sidewalks authorized and constructed, new school build- ings erected, and a general advance made in all that pertains to the growth and prosperity of a village. The principal churches of College Hill are the First Presbyterian church and Grace Episcopal church. The First Presbyterian was organized in 1853, by thirty-three members of the Presbyterian church of Mt. Pleasant. It is a capacious brick structure, well finished, with gallery, white pine pews, good furniture, neat lecture room on the same floor, and a thousand-dollar organ. Grace Episcopal church was organized in 1866. The congregation occupied the chapel of Farmers' College until carly in .1867, when they com- pleted, on the site of the old Cary's Academy, on the corner of Hamil- ton and Colerain Avenues, at an ex- pense, including lot, of $16,000, a MEDICINE&SURGER beautiful brick edifice, which is a CINCINNATI CO LEGE great credit to the ZOF society. Its ex- treme length, in- cluding porch, is seventy-eight fcet ; length of transept, sixty-five feet. The lecturns are neat pieces of workmanship, in black walnut, while the white marble font, which stands just outside the chancel is a FREE DISPENSARY work of simple ele- gance. There is, in addition, a church erected on Cedar avenue, for the use of the various denomin- ations of the color- ed people.
the only house of its kind in the United States. Each gable has its own special balcony, and the columns supporting them all rest upon a porch extending round the whole house, and meas- uring 232 feet. The room in the center of the hall is 28 feet square. The view from the windows is wonderfully extensive, and includes no less than fifteen different villages.
COLLEGE HILL NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY. - A new Rail- way, narrow-gauge, running from the west line of Spring Grove Cemetery and Winton Place, through College Hill to Mt. Healthy. The road is well equipped, and supplies a long-felt want to the citizens of those beautiful suburbs, whose only pre- vious means of transit to and from the city was by omnibus or private conveyance, ten miles over a dusty turnpike. Six trains are run daily each way, making connections at Spring Grove with the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, Marietta & Cincinnati, and the Dayton Short Line Railroad, by which pas- sengers are landed either at the C., H. & D. Depot, corner of Sixth and Hoadly streets, or at the I. & C. Depot on Plum and Pearl.
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EDICINE & SURGERY
CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGERY (See Ohio College of Dental Surgery).
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY .- Found- ed in 1851. The College building is situated at 164 George Street, be- tween John and Smithı streets, and for comfort and convenience, and general adaptation for all the purposes of a medical eol- lege, is unexcelled by any in the country. Centrally situated, and con- venient to board- ing houses, the Cincinnati HIos- pital, and street railroads, it is nevertheless built upon a quiet, pleasant street, re- moved from the noise and din of the busy city.
The drives in the vicinity of College Hill are remarkable for great beauty. That leading from the village by the Laurel Avenue and Groesbeck road to Spring Grove Avenue is particularly romantic. About a mile from College Hill the horseshoe is passed. The scene at this point is superb, the deep valley on the left, and the high hills beyond, reflecting every variety of light and shade. A short distance from the horseshoe is the beautiful residence and charming grounds of T. C. Campbell, Esq.
The drive from College Hill direct to Cumminsville is also full of beauty, the road being lined with glorious landscape views. Near the toll-gate, between the two places, are beautiful woods, in Summer time alive with birds; this place is called Tangle- wood. A valley of superb beauty, with a small creek meandering through it, is on one side of the road. Ou a hillside, near the spot indicated in the engraving, is the residence of I. N. Laboy- teaux, Esq., surrounded by primitive woods, the grounds 63 aeres in extent, with superb views on all sides. The house is oc- tagonal, with a proportionate number of gables, and probably
Faculty .- D. D. Bramble. M.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery-Dcan; Abijah J. Miles, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Women and Children and Clinical Gynecology-Secretary; Jacob Trush, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Pro- fessor of Dermatology ; Chauncey R. Stuntz, A M., M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology; William Adam Rothacker, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Pro- fessor of Vencreal Discases; Joseph Aub, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear and Clinical Opthalmology and Otology; Asa B. Isham, M.D., Professor of Physiology; Joshua W. Underhill, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics ; George E. Walton, M.D., Professor of Princi- ples and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medieinc; W. A. Rothacker, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy; Theodore M. Wittkamp. M.D., Assistant to Chair of Diseases of Women and Children ; Jolin M. Shaller, M.D., Assistant to Chair of Princi- ples and Practice of Medicine; George T. Greer, M.D., Assistant to Chair of Physiology, and Demonstrator of Histology.
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Fees .- General ticket for the regular session, $75.00; Matri- eulation fee, annually, $5.00 ; Demonstrator's tieket, $5.00; IIos- pital ticket, $5.00; Graduation fee, $25.00. D. D. Bramble, M. D., 169 Broadway, Dean; Abijah J. Miles, M. D., 296 Vine, Sec- retary.
COLLEGE OF MUSIC, THE-Has rooms for study and practice in the great Music Hall Building. The rooms are large, well lighted, well ventilated, and well warmed in winter. The small hall of the building, capable of seating 500 persons, is used for lectures, ehorus classes and ensemble playing. The aim of the College is to impart instruction; theoretically and practically, in all branches of musical education. The plan of instruction adopted is intended to give to the student who wishes to become a professional musician, a methodical, scientific, and complete education, and is of great advantage to the amateur who wishes to learn one or more special branches of the art and science of music. While this most advanced and thorough instruction will be given in the College, young girls and boys, or persons who have never been taught even the rudiments of the art are received. Professors have been engaged for the theory of music and its practice both vocal and instrumental, and special in- struetion is given in German and Italian and English Elocution, as far as it is an essential part of vocalization. Students may seleet one or more orchestral instruments and have the great ad- vantage of ensemble playing, and that instruction which comes from attending the rehearsals and concerts of the grand orches- tra, as well as the usual solo method. . Students who have at- tended the College for at least a year have free admission to the chorus classes, the general lectures and orchestral rehearsals. These ehorus classes have a wider scope than mere chorus sing- ing. Pupils are instructed in all such points relating to time, aecent, rhythm, musical expression, ete., as will enable them to sing and play intelligently. They are taught to read at sight ; to sound a given note without the help of an instrument ; to give the proper light and shade, and some knowledge of elementary harmony. All students in the College are required to attend these classes unless excused by the Director. Church choir classes have also been formed, in which instruction will be giv- en in the whole range of church music, from its elementary principles to the most elaborate orations and masses. The teaching in this department, as in all others is theoretical and practical. The special orchestral classes are under the musical director. There are the best possible opportunities for a thorough study of the organ. A diploma from the College is received all over the Union, as a guarantee of the most thorough efficiency. There are four terms in the year, but students may enter at any time.
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY .- The Cincinnati College of Phar- maey is situated at the southwest corner of Fifth and John streets. The course of lectures commences in October of each year, and ends the following March. 'It is one of the ten Colleges of Phar- inacy in the United States, and stands among the first on the list for the thoroughness and high standard of its teaching. Its re- quirements of candidates for graduation are more. strict than those of any similar College in the land. The sciences of Phar- inacy, Chemistry, Toxicology, Botany and Materia Medica, are thoroughly taught, by most competent Professors. The faculty consists of E. S. Wayne, Professor of Botany and Materia Medica; J F. Judge, Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology ; A. Fennel, Professor of Pharmacy. The College was established nine years ago, under a charter from the State of Ohio. Its first classes were small, but its alumni now number over a hundred. The fees are : Matriculation, $5; Professors' tickets, $30; Graduation, $10.
COLORED ORPHAN ASYLUM .- The colored people of Cincin- nati are making efforts to take at least partial charge of their own poor and destitute. For this purpose they sustain an Orphan Asylum at Avondale. It is capable of accommodating about fifty inmates.
COLORED SCHOOLS (See Schools).
the line of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Rail Road. It is a station within the City, in the first ward, on the banks of the Ohio. The hills of Kentucky, with the villages of Dayton and Bellevue, on the opposite bank of the river, can be seen to the left.
CONSULS (See Foreign Consuls).
CONVENT OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, THE-Upon Bank street, near Freeman, is devoted to the order of Sisters, founded in France in 1652, by Fatlier Eucles. The Convent was opened in 1857, and is the home of 56 cloistered and 10 non-cloistered nuns, and of 45 sister Magdalens, that is women believed to be re- deemed, and who have taken the vows in perpetnity. A large number of orphan and other girls are brought into the Convent from the streets, and until the age of eighteen, taught sewing, washing, embroidery, and all other household work, in addition to reading, writing and ciphering. The order is very strict, the cloistered nuns never leaving their convent after their vows are onee taken, and only speaking to visitors through a lattice. The cost of the maintenance of the sisters is almost entirely derived from their own labors and the fruits of the handiwork the in- mates under their charge may prepare.
CONVENT OF NOTRE DAME .- A Young Ladies' Literary Insti- tute, situated on East Sixth street. This establishment, erected in 1840, has been incorporated by the State Legislature, and is under the superintendence of the Sisters of Notre Dame. Be- longing to the establishment, is a well furnished and judicious- ly selected Library, adapted to the age and capacity of the pupils ; a Museum, containing an assortment of specimens iu Zoology, Conchology and Mineralogy, a Herbarium of Foreign and Native Plants ; and a Philosophical and Chemical Apparatus, for the use of the higher classes. The language of communica- tion in the various studies is English, but the French and Ger- man being also spoken by many of the teachers, the pupils have every facility to perfect themselves in these languages. The Academic year consists of one session, commencing on the first Monday in September, and ending about the beginning of July. No pupil is received for less than a quarter of a session, and no deduction is made, except in sickness or other unavoidable eases. At the close of the Academic year, after a thorough examination, premiums are distributed. The average attend- ance is about 200 pupils in the Academy ; but besides these paid scholars nearly 800 pupils are taught free, part of them in Notre Dame Building, and part of them in the St. Xavier Academy next door.
CONVENT OF ST. CLARE, THE-Situated on East Third street, corner of Lytle, is the Provincial-house and Noviciate of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis, who were incorporated by the State Legislature in 1859. The Mother-house of this Congregation is in Aachen, Rhinc-Prussia, from whence the first sisters were sent to America in 1858, at the request of the Most Rev. Arch- bishop of Cincinnati. The Sisters have charge of the St. Mary's Hospital in this City, also direct similar establishments in various cities of the Union. The Conventis the headquarters of the Con- gregation in America; it is here that the Sisters are trained or schooled for the duties of their calling-the St. Mary's Hospital furnishing ample opportunities for acquiring practical knowl- edge in the care of the sick; from here they are sent to the dif- ferent establishments in this country.
The Convent of St. Clare owes its foundation and existence to the piety and generosity of a noble American lady, Mrs. Saralı Peter-since 1854, a convert to the Roman Catholic Church- who, in July, 1861, deeded to the Sisters her residence, corner of Third and Lytle streets, reserving a few apartments only for her- self during her life-time. In the fall of that same year, a consid- erable enlargement of the house was projected, two stories were added to the original building, and a chapel erected on the rear grounds, with entrance on Lytle street. In 1864 a piece of ground, 61 front by 95, adjoining the west side of the Convent, was purchased, and in the following year a building erected thereon, which completed the Convent to its present condition,
COLUMBIA .- Four and one half miles from the Post-office on ! the chapel on Lytle street being extended about 30 feet on the rear
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ground. The whole edifice is a plain but substantial building. The interior of the chapel is beautifully ornamented with stuceo-work. A superb Reliquary from Rome, and a magnificent Pieta from the Munich school, that was much admired at the Paris Exhibition in 1870,-both presented by Mrs. Sarah Peter- and an elegantly wrought Gothic altar, the gift of Hon. Reuben Springer, add greatly to the beauty of the chapel.
The Sisters at the St. Clare Convent are specially devoted to the eare of the out-door siek, whom they assist and nurse to the best of their power. A number of poor families also are daily supplied with food and provisions, which the Sisters solicit from the charity of the inhabitants of Cincinnati. To this Con- vent the Sisters are permitted to retire, when a decline of health and strength disables them for the more arduous hospital duties. Siuce the much lamented death of Mrs. Sarah Peter, February 6, 1877, two apartments of those she formerly occu- pied have been arranged, according to her request, for the use of ladies who wish to retire for a few days for the purpose of making a spiritual retreat. Mother Vincentia is the Superioress of the Convent of St. Clare, and henee Provincial Superioress of the Congregation.
CONVENT OF THE POOR OF ST. FRANCIS .- This Convent, on the northwest corner of Lytle and Third streets, keeps up hos- pitals for the poor in Bank street, Covington, and organizes them in every distriet where their funds will permit.
CONVENT OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY-On Fourth street, immediately west of the Grand Hotel, was planted here in 1858, and is a branch of the order founded nearly fifty years ago, by Miss Catherine McAuley, of Dublin. Its objects are the instruction and aid of poor distressed girls, the visitation of the sick and af- flieted, visits to prisons, hospitals, etc. Sinee 1874 the works of the institute have been much extended. Five parochial schools, averaging 1,500 pupils, are taught by the Sisters of these schools; three are in the city, namely, those of the Church of Atonement and St. Patrick, on Third street, and that of St. Edwards, on Clark street. The other two schools are attached to the Catholic churches in Chillicothe and Urbana, Ohio. Three braneh houses of the order have, within the past six years, been uuder- taken by the Convent on Fourth street. These branches are in St. Patricks, this City, Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio, and in Ur- bana, Champaign Co., Ohio. The Sisters, of whom there are at present thirty-nine, conduct these houses, and besides teaching the parochial schools help thirty poor families every week, and by their own exertions elothe, feed and educate, in the House of Merey, attached to this Convent, more than sixty poor children.
CORONER'S OFFICE .- The Coroner, Dr. D. S. Carrick, receives a yearly salary of $3,000. Ile is supplied with one assistant, Mr. Alex. Henderson. The Coroner's office is situate on the North Court street side of the Court House, and consists of two large rooms, with the necessary convenience for holding Courts of In- quest. For the twelve months ending with June 1879, the Coroner held two hundred and twenty-nine inquests on persons who died by their own hands, accidents, violence, and un- explained eauses. Under a recent law the Coroner does not have the assistance of a jury in determining the cause of a death, but must form his own opinion and render a decision. The av- crage cost of an inquest under the present system is about four- teen dollars. Under the old jury system the average cost was about thirty dollars. The Coroner is elected every two years by the voters of Hamilton County. Dr. Carrick's term expires in January, 1881.
CORRYVILLE-Is one of those places that, in popular usage, has indefinite boundaries. Never having been incorporated for general purposes, the name has ordinarily applied only to that part of section fourteen which was subdivided by the Corry heirs in the year 1843, and named Corryville. For road purposes it embraced, until its recent annexation to the City as the Twenty-Third Ward, all of section fourteen, and such parts of section fifteen as were east of the Carthage road, the remainder of the latter section being within the corporate limits of Clifton. The former section extends as far east as Burnet Avenne, and, on
the south, to MeMillan street. It will be observed that many im- provements recognized as being within Mount Auburn, includ- ing the German Orphan Asylum and Widow's Home, are within what was formerly known as the Corryville road district. See- tion fourteen was originally owned by Jacob Burnet aud William MeMillan. The latter had three hundred and twenty aeres in the middle of the seetion, extending quite through it from north to south, while Mr. Burnet owned a quarter seetion on each side. After the death of Mr. MeMillan, William Corry, a well known Cincinnatian, purchased from the devisees all of the McMillan traet save four acres in the southern part, and eighty across the northern border, which still remained in the posses- sion of members of the MeMillan family. The former descended to the children of Mr. Corry ; and, in 1843, William M., Thomas F., Mary A., Eleanor, Agnes, James A., and Alice Corry, sub- divided these lands and laid out the village of Corryville. The principal street is Washington Avenue, formed by the junetion of Vine street extended and Auburn street. This is ninety feet wide, and is macadamized and paved to Hammond street, which is the connecting link between it and the Carthage road. The village is generally settled by persons of moderate means, who have purchased small lots and ereeted sueh dwellings as their ability would allow. The German element is a very strong one, and the faces of this class of our citizens are still strongly set in that direction. Accessible by both street railway and omuibus at all hours of the day, with moderate prices and delightful lo- cations, it is fast becoming a suburb of consequence.
COSTUMERS .- But little is known by the general public of the vastness this interest has assumed in Cincinnati within the past five years. We speak now of the branch devoted to the hiring of costumes for a single night for masquerade and fancy dress balls. Large numbers of women are engaged in and make a comfortable living from this enterprise. Although there are but two establishments in the city that maintain business houses devoted to the trade, yet, among the Germans especially, almost every woman who earns her living by dressmaking or millinery, has from half a dozen to twenty costumes for hire, and during the winter season they reap a large reward from them. The price for a costume for a single night, ranges from one dollar to twenty dollars. A domino that originally cost about a dollar and a half will, if tastily made, do good service twenty-five nights, during the ball season, at a dollar a night, and this for several years. The higher-prieed costumes, those that rent for five dollars and upwards per night, which is the general average of those furuished by the two houses spoken of above, cost originally from twenty to two hundred dollars. Wigs and beards rent from fifty ceuts to a dollar per night.
COTTON EXCHANGE, THE CINCINNATI-Was organized May 28, 1871, at a meeting called for that purpose at the office of one of our prominent cotton commission houses. The object was the need felt in this branch of trade for uniform and systematie rules and regulations to govern it in this growing market. Ac- cordingly, at the above meeting a regular set of officers were cleeted, a constitution and by-laws adopted, and committees on information and statistics, classification, quotations, arbitration and transportation, were appointed by the Board of Officers. The electiou of officers and appointment of committees is held and made annually, on the second Tuesday of cach September, at the annual meeting held for that purpose. The titles of the various committees sufficiently indicate the objects of the organ- ization. The first few meetings were held at the business houses of those engaged in the trade. But the attention of the Cincin- nati Chamber of Commerce having been called to it, they at once appreciated the importance of the organization, and soon offered a separate room in the building, but adjoining the Cham- ber, where the exchange were duly installed January 30, 1872, and where they have not only held all regular meetings since that time, but where they daily meet, to complete transactions, see the reports of the daily quotations, receipts and sales, and all other leading markets of the world, and to generally compare views and diseuss matters of interest. The following are the
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