USA > Ohio > Hamilton County > Cincinnati > Cincinnati, "the Queen city" : newspaper reference book > Part 3
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26
Living Conditions Good.
Very important to the industrial growth of a city are the living conditions. As a residence city Cincinnati is nearly ideal. It is free from the extremes of the Northern winter and the Southern summer. Its surrounding hilltop suburbs are rivals of many European cities in picturesquesness and scenic beauty. The recent completion of a great waterworks system has made the city practically free from typhoid fever and greatly lowered the death rate, so that Cincinnati is now one of the healthiest cities in the United States.
The cost of living is lower in Cincinnati than in any other large city in the country. Being a large manufacturing city, many of the necessities of life are manufactured here. Being the distributing point for Southern fruit and produce, and having a half dozen public markets, food prices range below the average in American cities.
In every other respect Cincinnati is a delightful city in which to live.
Many Institutions Deserve Special Mention.
Smnming up Cincinnati in a nutshell, it is an old city of wealth and power, builded upon the solid rock of commercial integrity and industrial efficiency. A great industrial and com-
mercial center, most centrally located distributing point. an ideal convention city. A leader in American educational progress, in music, art, and culture. A delightful residence city. Many indeed are the institutions of this great city deserving of special mention, and in the following pages we refer specifically to a few of them.
University of Cincinnati.
On his death, in 1858, Charles McMicken gave to the city of Cincinnati by will almost the whole of his estate, valued at about $1,000,000, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining "two colleges for the education of white boys and girls."
He had "long cherished the desire to found an institution where white boys and girls might be taught not only a knowledge of their duties to their Creator and their fellow men. but also receive the benefit of a sound, thorough and practical English Education, and such as might fit them for the active duties of life, as well as instruction in the higher branches of knowledge, except denominational theology, to the extent that the same are now or may hereafter be taught in any of the secular colleges or universities of the highest grade in the country."
Nearly half of the property devised by Mr. McMicken was situated in the State of Louisiana. This was entirely lost, in 1860, by a decision of the Supreme Court of that state, annulling that part of the devise. The court refused to recognize the validity of bequests of real estate to institutions controlled by non-resident trustees upon perpetual trusts. The remainder of the property, lying in Cincinnati and its vicinity, did not yield a sufficient income to warrant the establishment of the proposed colleges. For ten years, therefore, the revenue derived from the estate was applied to its improvement.
In 1869 the trustees provided for a School of Design, which they maintained, with aid from Joseph Longworth, until 1884, when they transferred it to the Cincinnati Museum Association. Meanwhile, an attempt was made to unite the various educa- tional trusts in Cincinnati. To this end. in 1870, the General Assembly of Ohio passed an act "to aid and promote education." under which, almost a year later, the University of Cincinnati was established. Bonds were soon issued by the city to provide funds for the erection of a suitable building, which was ready for use in the fall of 1875. But students were received in 1873. and instruction was given temporarily by the teachers of Wood- ward High School. In 1874, the Academic Department. now known as the MeMicken College of Liberal Arts, was organized by the appointment of three professors and two instructors, who met classes during that year in a school building on Franklin Street.
The effort to unite other trust funds with those given by Charles McMicken having failed, the income remained long inado- quate to the needs of such an institution as he had intended to found. At length the city undertook to support the University in part by public taxation, the tax for this purpose being limited at first to three-tenths of one mill. In 1906 the General Assembly
SINTON HOTEL.
24
CUVIER PRESS CLUB
DEDICATION DAY REDLAS
NATIONAL LEAGUE BASEBALL PARK.
of Ohio authorized the levying of an increased municipal tax for the University-five-tenths of a mill instead of three-tenths as heretofore.
In 1913 a law was passed providing that the levy for Univer- sity and Observatory purposes shall not be "subject to any limita- tions of rates of taxation or minimum rates provided by law" except the maximum of five-tenths of a mill of the University and three-tenths of a mill for the Observatory, and the "further exception that the combined maximum rate for all taxes levied in a year in any city or taxing district shall not exceed fifteen mills." This law further provides that the levy shall include the amount necessary to pay interest on and sinking fund for all bonds issued for the University subsequent to June 1, 1910. The situation produced by the Smith one per cent tax law, under the provisions of which the income of the University was limited to the amount received in the year 1910, made this law necessary.
In the course of time additional funds for the maintenance of the institution were provided by individual citizens, the most important being the bequest of property valued at $130,000, by Matthew Thoms in 1890, the gift of $100,000 by David Sinton in 1899, and the recent bequest of Mary P. and Eliza O. Ropes, of Salem, Mass., amounting to $100,000 for the endowment of a chair of Comparative Literature, as a memorial to their father, Nathaniel Ropes, for many years a citizen of Cincinnati. Then, in 1910, the friends of Dr. Joseph Eichberg, for many years an eminent professor of Physiology in the Miami Medical College, who lost his life through a lamentable accident in the summer of 1908, presented the University with the sum of $45,000 to establish in the University the Joseph Eichberg Chair of Physi- ology. In 1911, Dr. Francis Brunning bequeathed his entire estate, with the exception of a few minor bequests, to the Endow- ment Fund Association of the University of Cincinnati, for the College of Medicine. This estate has yielded about $80,000. In 1912, Mrs. Floris A. Sackett and Mrs. Frances W. Gibson made bequests to the University, the exact value of which has not yet been determined.
In 1912, Mr. Harry Levy presented to the Board of Directors of the University of Cincinnati for the endowment fund of the College of Medicine the sum of $50,000, to be known as "The Julie Fries Levy Endowment." Mr. Levy made this gift in honor of his mother and wishes the income used in furthering and disseminating medical knowledge.
In 1913 Mrs. Mary M. Emery presented to the Endowment Fund Association of the University of Cincinnati the sum of $125,000, to be used to endow the Chair of Pathology in the College of Medicine.
In 1913, Mrs. Henrietta Moos bequeathed $25,000 to the endowment fund of the University of Cincinnati for the College of Medicine, as a memorial to her husband, Herman M. Moos.
New departments were also added. In 1872, the Cineinnati Astronomical Society (founded in 1842) transferred its property on Mt. Adams to the city, which agreed, as a condition of the gift, to sustain, in connection with the University, on a new site provided by John Kilgour, an Observatory, to be built with funds given by him. In 1896, the Medical College of Ohio (founded in
1819) became the College of Medicine of the University, though still retaining its original title conjointly with its new one. In 1908, an invitation was extended to the Miami Medical College to become a department of the University. In accordance with this invitation the Miami Medical College and the Medical Col- lege of Ohio (the College of Medicine of the University) have recently been united into a single medical department, known as "The Ohio-Miami Medical College of the University of Cin- cinnati."
Out of a professorship of Civil Engineering in the College of Liberal Arts has developed the College of Engineering. It was organized under that name in 1900, and became a distinct depart- ment in 1904.
Since its organization, in 1887, the Clinical and Pathological School of the Cincinnati Hospital has been affiliated with the Un .- versity, being designated as the Medical Department, until 1896, and afterward as the Department of Clinical Medicine.
The College of Teachers was organized in 1905, in co-opera- tion with the Board of Education of the city of Cincinnati.
In 1906 the Graduate School was separated from the Mc- Micken College of Liberal Arts and a distinct organization with a dean at its head effected.
In 1912 the College of Commerce was organized for the pur- pose of providing opportunity for higher commercial education.
Evening classes in the College of Liberal Arts were opened in 1912 in order that those persons whose occupations prevented them attending the day classes might have an opportunity to take college courses at night.
In 1912 a Bureau of City Tests was established in the Engi- neering College in connection with the Engineer's office of the Department of Public Service of the city. It will make all the tests of materials and supplies required by this and other city departments. A technical chemist has been employed to take direction of this work, and, as far as possible, it will be utilized to train students in the methods of such tests. It is hoped in this way to develop a course in municipal engineering.
The College is located on the McMicken homestead lot, be- tween McMicken and Clifton Avenues, at the head of Elm Street. The lot has a frontage of three hundred feet between these ave- nues, the college building being nearer Clifton Avenue, and the dispensary building on McMicken Avenue. The college building contains lecture, recitation and laboratory rooms. It is a four- story structure, of brick and cut stone, with iron stairways and internal finish of substantial character.
On the basement floor are the laboratories of anatomy, and a locker room. On the first floor are the Dean's office, museum, and the library and reading room. The second floor provides accommodations for the laboratories of bacteriology, pathology and experimental surgery. On the third floor are two large lec- ture rooms, furnished with opera chairs with tablet arms. The fourth floor is occupied by the pharmacological laboratory.
The dispensary building is a one-story brick structure, 123 by- 50 feet, and contains fourteen rooms, a dispensing drugroom, and a room for the necessary chemical microscopical investigation of cases presenting themselves for treatment.
25
NEWSPAPER REFERENCE BOOK
Hebrew Union College.
The Hebrew Union College is the first Jewish theological insti- tution founded on American soil. Attempts in that direction had been made before, but without success. It was the providential task of Isaac M. Wise, after years of untiring efforts, to carry out this long-cherished plan. Watching with keen eyes the progress of Jewish life, both as English pulpit orator, who was in constant demand on all solemn occasions, and as editor of the American Israelite, he realized that an institution which was to provide the Jew- ish congregations of America with American-born and Amer- ican-bred rabbis must be reared upon a democratic basis. He accordingly directed his first ef- forts toward securing the co- operation of the congregations in favor of a union of American Hebrew congregations. At the second biennial convention in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1875, the union had increased to sixty-two con- gregations, and there the plan of starting a rabbinical college was adopted.
On October 3, 1875, the He- brew Union College was opened with seventeen students. On April 24, 1881, the building at 724 West Sixth Street, bought and furnished at the cost of $30,000, was dedicated with ap- propriate ceremonies to serve as its permanent home. The first great triumph achieved by the College was the first graduation on July 11, 1883, of the four members of the Senior Class, Israel Aaron, Henry Berkowitz, Joseph Krauskopf and David Philipson. At first less out- spoken in its progressive ten- dencies, the Hebrew Union Col- lege became through the adop- tion by the Rabbinical Confer- ence of 1885 of the famous Pitts- burgh platform framed by Dr. Kohler, the representatives of the progressive wing of Amer- ican Judaism.
The Hebrew Union College has thus far graduated 136 rab- bis. It has an average of thirty- six regular attendants and ad- mits non-Jewish as well as wom- en students. Tuition is free.
Owing to the munificent gift of $50,000 by the New York philanthropist, Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, a Teachers' Institute was established last year under the
THRI
TEDY . TRIUMPH .
THE TRIUMPH ICE MACHINE CO. Refrigerating Machinery.
AMERICAN LAUNDRY MACHINERY CO.
..
..
PEC
THE LUNKENHEIMER COMPANY Manufacturers of Engineering Specialties.
1
26
CUVIER PRESS CLUB
SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI.
NEWSPAPER REFERENCE BOOK
27
supervision of the authorities of the Hebrew Union College, at which young men and women are trained for the vocation of re- ligious school teachers.
The necessity of a new home for the col- lege in a more desirable locality and of larger facilities commensurate with the honor and dignity of a great national insti- tution of learning has been felt for some time. It is due, however, to the generous initiative of Mr. Isaac Bernheim, of Louis- ville, Ky., who offered to build the library from his own means upon grounds selected on Clifton avenue, in the vicinity of the Cin- cinnati University, that steps were taken in November, 1905, toward securing the proper site for the new edifice. The next great in- centive after the long financial depression came from the Chicago philanthropist, Julius Rosenwald, who donated the sum of $50,000 for the erection of the main building. He was followed by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, who subscribed $25,000, and other generous- hearted donors of New York, from whom Dr. Kohler secured handsome sums. The Cincinnati Committee has collected funds amounting to well-nigh $30,000, and it is ex- pected that within a short time the subscrip- tions to be taken up in the various com- mittees by the alumni of the Hebrew Union College will go far to cover the expenses entailed by the erection of the new build- ings.
The Union Central Life Insur- ance Co. of Cincinnati.
Ohio's largest financial institution is The Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati, of which Mr. Jesse R. Clark is president. This also is one of the largest life insurance companies in the world, and has grown to its present mammoth propor- tions principally because it insures at a lower cost to policy holders than any other American life insurance company. This com- pany's remarkable progress from 1867, when it commenced business, to the present time, when its assets are over $75,000,000, has been due in large measure to its generous treatment of policy holders. It has excelled in paying large dividends, resulting in low cost on life policies and large investment returns on endowment policies. This has been possible because of the fact that the company has earned the highest rate of in- terest on its investments of all companies and has experienced a very low death rate and low expense rate-an advantage in which the policy holders have participated to the utmost.
Western and Southern Life Insurance Co.
Among the solid financial institutions of Ohio few take higher rank than the Western and Southern Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati.
It is the pioneer industrial life insurance company of the West and South. It was
UNION DISTILLING CO.
Distillers, Rectifiers, Redistillers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers.
ND
HE
R. K. LEBLOND MACHINE TOOL CO. Manufacturers of Machine Tools, Gear Cutting and Special Machinery.
THE JULIAN & KOKENGE COMPANY?
JULIAN & KOKENGE CO. - SHOE MANUFACTURERS.
28
CUVIER PRESS CLUB
-
ISLAND QUEEN, 111111
STEAMER ISLAND QUEEN OPERATING BETWEEN CINCINNATI AND CONEY ISLAND.
29
NEWSPAPER REFERENCE BOOK
organized 22 years ago, and it has year by year shown a steady increase in all the es- sentials which denote sub- stantial progress. In 1889 its assets amounted to $107,864; 10 years later they had in- creased to $407,217. Ten years later, at the close of 1909, the assets had climbed to $4,869,882. During 1909 the company's income was over $2,000,000, and at the present time its books show over $50,000,000 of insurance in force.
While the greater portion of this business is known as "industrial insurance," i. e., where policies are issued on which weekly payment of pre- miums may be made, yet it carries a substantial amount of "ordinary" business on its books, on which premiums can be paid quarterly, semi- annually and annually.
Prompt In Settling.
-
No company operating life insurance shows more promptitude in the settlement of death claims than does The Western and Southern, as its practice is to pay all claims immediately on receipt at its home office of satisfac- tory proof of death of the in- sured.
U.S. CAN CO.
UNITED STATES CAN CO.
THE ELMWOOD CASTINGS CO. =
ELMWOOD CASTING CO. - IRON FOUNDRY.
C
F
-
LODGE & SHIPLEY CO. - ENGINE LATHES.
30
CUVIER PRESS CLUB
THE UNION SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY.
One of Cincinnati's banking solid institutions is The Union Savings Bank and Trust Company, whose cash capital and surplus is $3,000,000. The business of this banking institution is divided into the following departments:
Savings Department.
Interest paid upon deposits in this department at the rate of three per cent. per annum, credited semi-annually, on the first day of January and July of each year.
Banking Department.
Receives the accounts of individuals, firms and corporations subject to check, paying interest upon daily balances in excess of five hundred dollars at the rate of two per cent. per annum, interest credited monthly.
Trust Department.
This Company is authorized by law to act as Executor, Trustee, etc., and is a legal depository for Court and Trust funds. Takes full charge of Estates, collecting rent, attending to repairs, paying taxes, etc., relieving the owner of all care and annoyance; itemized statements rendered monthly.
Transfer Agent.
Acts as Transfer Agent and Registrar of Stocks for Corpora- tions and as Trustee under Mortgages to secure Bond issues.
Attorneys.
The policy of the Company is to continue the professional rela- tions of attorneys in connection with business which they are instrumental in bringing to it.
Safe Deposit Department.
The Safe Deposit Vault-the only one of its kind in the city- is built of solid plates of Harveyized Steel Armor Plate, the same as used in the construction of modern battleships. It is
absolutely Fire, Burglar and Mob Proof, and is a marvel of in- ventive genius and mechanical skill. The door alone weighs 34,000 pounds. Private Safes in this Vault for renting at $3.00 per year and upwards. Fire and Burglar Proof Storage for Sil- verware, Jewelry, Household valuables, etc., at moderate rates.
In the vault at the Vine Street Branch are Safe Deposit Boxes for rent at $1.50 per year and upwards.
Bond Department.
This department is especially organized for the purchase and sale of High-Grade Bonds and Investment Securities. The bank offers for sale only such securities as this Company purchases for its own investment. No Security is allowed to pass through this department into the hands of investors until it has had the most careful investigation and examination of our officers as to its stability and value. List of Bonds and Investment Securities, which we have on hand for sale, can be had on application either by mail or in person.
Mortgage Loan Department.
This Company loans money on first mortgage security on im- proved property to the extent of fifty per cent. on a valuation acceptable to its Finance Committee.
Mr. J. G. Schmidlapp is chairman of the board of directors of this banking institution and Clifford B. Wright is president.
PROVIDENT SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY.
The Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company was incor. porated in December, 1900, and commenced business the fol- lowing February in the basement of the Chamber of Commerce Building. It outgrew the quarters, and built the magnificent eleven-story office building on the southeast corner of Seventh and Vine, where the bank, with its various departments, occu- pies the entire lower floor.
THE LAIDLAW-DUNN-GORDON CO .- PUMPS.
NEWSPAPER REFERENCE BOOK
31
Shortly before it built this magnificent building, the Provi- dent increased the capital stock from $500,000 to $1,000,000, which made it that time the first savings bank and trust com- pany in Cincinnati with such a large capital; and, by paying only a nominal dividend, it has increased its surplus fund to the sum of $600,000.
The Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company, financially speaking, is considered one of the strongest institutions in Ohio, and at the same time bears a reputation of being the most conservative in making loans and buying investments, which it distributes to its customers through its bond and investment department. The bank at the present time has over 30,000 cus- tomers in the saving department, representing mostly the wage earners of Cincinnati and adjoining communities.
THE AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
The American Book Company devotes its entire attention to publishing school and college text books. It is the largest concern of its kind in the country. Its great resources are entirely and continuously devoted to this special chosen field. Its list of publications, the largest and most varied now avail- able to teachers, will supply modern, appropriate and effective books for every phase of work in public and private schools.
One of the three main offices, and the more modern of its two great printing establishments, is located at 300 Pike Street, Cincinnati. A visit to this plant is well worth while to any one, and every teacher, at least, should accept the opportunity to see each process, method and step in the making of the wonderful school books from the uncut paper to the finished product. Visitors are always welcome, and will be shown through the various departments on any working day, except Saturday afternoon. This plant is, by the way, quite a model in its treat- ment and care of its employes.
After a trip through this plant- with its hundreds of pro- cesses, its marvelously ingenious and expensive machinery, its skilled workmen, its thousands of plates and various materials- you will understand that only long experience, perfect organi- zation and strict economy of operation in every department
will permit school books to be sold at prices as low as those now prevailing.
In fact, while the "cost of living" has gone up in almost every line, the prices of "even the best" school books, thanks to The American Book Company, have gone steadily down; so that the beautiful text books of today actually cost less, or at least no more than the cruder tools of the last generation.
MOWBRAY & ROBINSON.
Cincinnati Firm Extensively Interested in Lumber and Sawmills.
Put a magnet and a needle near each other and at the first opportunity they are going to get together. The needle and the magnet may have come from two widely separated parts of the world, but let them get into each other's company and the attrac- tion will unite them at the first opportunity. It is often the same with men; and many a commercial partnership may, very prop- erly, be likened to the magnet and the needle. Each may have started individually in life and labored along alone. The time comes, however, when the future partners are thrown into each other's business or social company and it is a meeting of minds resulting in a union of efforts and subsequent success in joint enterprises.
It does not necessarily follow that such partners are similar, for they may be dissimilar; but each seems to supply to the partnership something that the other man especially appreciates. In fact, the attraction is very often some dissimilarity. One partner may feel that he could do this very well if he had some- body to do that; the other may feel that he could do that if he had someone to do this. When they are thrown into contact with each other it is almost destiny that unites them in business, and the chances are good for teamwork in the future and for resultant rewards.
An example not only of a successful wholesale lumber con- cern but of a successful union of abilities is found in the Mow- bray & Robinson Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. This concern specializes in oak and poplar, of course, other woods in less quan- tities. In this partnership Mr. Robinson is the outdoor man, the
MACHINE SHOP
HE HESS SPRING & AXLE CON
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.