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Ornamental Iron, Bronze Work and Structural Steel.
The L. Schreiber & Sons' Company had its inception in the business started by Leonhard Schreiber in 1854 on Walnut street. which he conducted for thirty years, when the business was in- corporated as the L. Schreiber & Sons' Company with a capital stock of $100,000. In 1887 the company moved to a new and larger plant on Eggleston avenue, where railroad facilities were available. The Eggleston avenne plant, in time, was found to be too small for the ever-increasing business, and in 1904 an additional plant was erected in Norwood, and this plant has since that time been operated in connection with the Eggleston avenne plant. Two years later, in 1906, the capital stock of the company was increased to $800.000.
The Eggleston avenne plant covers an area of live aeres and the Norwood plant fifteen acres. The various shops are first- class, substantial buildings, thoroughly equipped for their various purposes.
At the Eggleston avenue plant is the main structural shop. stockyards and offices, and at the Norwood plant is the pattern shop, foundry, cast-fitting shop. ornamental-fitting shop, stock sheds and yards. The territory covered by the company includes every part of the United States for ornamental iron and bronze work as well as the part of the United States south and west of Cinelunati, and any point within a radins of 100 miles north and east of Cincinnati for structural steel and cast-iron work.
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THE DOUGLAS GRANITE CO.
Builders of High-Class Memorials.
The Douglas Granite Co., corner Spring Grove avenue and Winton Road, adjoining Spring Grove Cemetery, was established in 1870 and incorporated in 1910.
The City of Cincinnati can proudly boast of the largest and most beautiful cemetery in the world, the Cemetery of Spring Grove. Its beauty is enhanced by the numerous magnifi- cent memorials placed at the graves of its oldest and most prominent citizens. The Douglas Granite Co. has the proud distinction of designing and erecting most of these beauti- ful memorials marking the last resting place of such old and exclusive families as, Alphonso Taft, Charles Schmidlapp, George McAlpin, Oliver Perin, William Ebersole, P. R. Mitchell, A. H. Mitchell. James A. Green, Marcus Warth, M. B. Farrin, Judge S. W. Smith, Perin Lang- don, Isaac Bates, Mary A. Duhme, James M. Glenn, George F. Dieterle, John A. Pitts, D. H. Baldwin, Gazzam Gano, Sarah M. Gibson, William G. Hosea, George M. Stone, W. H. Gazlay, R. W. Neff, etc., etc.
The company was established in 1870 by George A. Douglas, the dean of the monumental business in the Middle West, whose name has become a household word for all that is beautiful and general manager of the company, has been a lifelong student of monumental design. His thorough technical knowledge, ac- quired during a period of over twenty-five years at his chosen profession, assures those seeking his advice, of the very highest ideals in monumental art. The genial vice-president and secre- tary of the company, E. M. Schwein, is well-known in Cincin- nati's best business circles.
CINCINNATI MOTOR TRUCK COMPANY. Distributers of Universal Trucks.
Cincinnati Motor Truck Company was formed in 1911 by Marshall T. and William C. Kennett. It occupied temporary quarters at 111 East Seventh street, until 1913, when it moved into its permanent home at 1815-23 Reading road. The build- ing faces the Eden Park playground, and is 100 foot front by 75 feet in depth. It is of concrete and brick construction and absolutely fire-proof.
It was planned after a careful inspection of the latest Eastern garages, so as to retain the good points of all. The ceilings of the two floors are sixteen feet in the clear, enabling the handling of the largest of trucks.
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The elevator is the largest in the city, being 30 by 11 feet, and its actual lifting capacity is 15,000 pounds.
It is the largest truck garage in the country, outside of New York and Chicago.
It handles anything from the smallest delivery wagon to artistic in memorial building. B. J. Ostenkamp, president and . the massive ten-ton truck, and is the exclusive distributor of the well-known Universal Trucks in the states of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. These trucks are furnished in one and one-half, two, three and five-ton sizes, and are used by many of the leading business houses of Cincinnati.
The Universal line is manufactured by the Universal Motor Truck Company of Detroit, which owns and operates the largest exclusive truck manufacturing plant in the United States.
The officers of the Cincinnati Motor Truck Company are Marshall T. Kennett, president and treasurer, and William C. Kennett, vice-president and secretary.
FIELD, LONGSTRETH & RICHARDS.
High-Grade Investment Securities.
The house of Field, Longstreth & Richards, of Cincinnati, is well-known to the financial world generally. This firm, estab- lished in 1908 by the present members, deals extensively and exclusively in municipal and corporation bonds, and high-grade investment securities generally. It's business extends to every state in the country with Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago and New York as its central points. Its principal office is in the Union Central Building, Cincinnati; and its Cleveland' office is in the Citizens' Building.
THE CABLE COMPANY.
Pianos.
The Cable Company is one of Cincinnati's representative retail institutions. By fair dealing and through the merit of its instruments it has won the confidence of the entire community. The Cable Company adheres steadfastly to an established policy of value-giving, for, as the manager, Mr. D. F. Summey, says, "We realize that the very best advertising we can have is in the satisfaction of those who have bought from us."
The pianos sold are produced in the great factories of the company at Chicago and St. Charles, Ill. They have been before the public for many years, and there is not a community in the United States where these instruments cannot be found in daily use in homes and studios.
The collection which is shown to visitors is remarkably com- prehensive. The range of prices is also such that people of moderate means can buy to advantage, as well as those who demand the very high-priced instruments. In any case the pur- chaser receives the full measure of value in return for his in- vestment.
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THE FIFTH-THIRD NATIONAL BANK, OF CINCINNATI.
The Fifth-Third National Bank, of Cincinnati, comprising the Fifth National Bank, organized October 16, 1882, and the Third National Bank, organized July 7, 1863, merged on June 1, 1908, is one of the largest banking houses in America. It holds charter No. 20. The deposits at the time of the merger were $12,000,000 and now are $17,800,000. This banking house is located at 14-16-18 West Fourth street, and its officers are Chas. A. Hinsch, president; William A. Lemmon, vice-president; Ed- ward A. Seiter, vice-president; Monte J. Goble, cashier; Charles T. Perin, assistant cashier; Charles H. Shields, assistant cashier; Lewis E. Van Ausdol, assistant cashier; Frederick J. Mayer, assistant cashier.
THE HOMAN MANUFACTURING CO.
Manufacturers of Silver-Plated Wares.
The Homan Manufacturing Company was established in Cin- cinnati in 1847. Its factory was originally located on East Seventh street. In 1906, these premises becoming inadequate on account of the growth of business, a new factory was erected on Findlay street and Western and Halbert avenues. The new plant is the largest west of New England, and one of the most modern and efficient in equipment in the United States.
The company is engaged in the manufacture of silver-plated wares. Its products include practically all articles made in silver-plated ware, exclusive of knives, forks and spoons.
Until recently the company had limited its manufactures to articles plated on a britannia metal base, but it has in the past year added a complete assortment of patterns plated on nickel silver or German silver, and popularly known as Sheffield goods.
The product is manufactured complete, including the prep- aration of the metal and the forming operations, as well as the plating and finishing. The output is shipped to all parts of the United States, and many foreign countries.
THE GLOBE TAILORING COMPANY.
Men's Custom-Made Clothing Sold by Mail.
Cincinnati is the home of one of the largest houses in America manufactur- ing exclusively mail-order custom- Copyright 191 The Globe Tailoring Co. Cincinnati made clothing for men, viz: The Globe Tailoring Co., which occupies 65,000 TRADE MARK. square feet of floor space in the Tex- tile Building, Fourth and Elm streets. This business was establish twenty years ago by Samuel Rosen- thal, and five years ago was incorporated with Samuel Rosenthal. president; William H. Rosenthal, vice-president, and Julius Rosenthal, secretary and treasurer. It is represented by resi- dent agents and does business in every state in the country, as well as in South and Central America and the Phillipines, its annual sales now exceeding $1,750,000. Seven hundred people are employed by this house and all work is turned out under the personal supervision of the officers.
The Globe Tailoring Co. is Cincinnati's pioneer mail-order custom tailor clothing house, and in its extensive advertising of "Needle Moulded Clothes" makes it a point always to feature Cincinnati as prominently as its own product, a custom worthy of following by other houses. In conjunction with its other ad- vertising, it issues a house organ called the "Sales Agent," which covers all parts of the United States.
BARRETT MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Roofing Felt, Cement, Paving Pitch, Roofing Asphalt, Etc.
Located at 527 to 539 Carr street are the Cincinnati office and plant of the Barrett Manufacturing Company, the largest dis- tillers of coal tar and manufacturers of roofing, paving and waterproofing materials in the world. Started in 1848, the com- pany has grown until now its plants are to be found in all the leading cities of the United States and Canada. The Barrett "hot wagons" have long been a familiar sight on Cincinnati streets wherever there is any paving work going on, and now Tarvia, the binder for macadam roads, is extending the Barrett field to include country roads.
Barrett's tarred felt and Barrett's roofing pitch are products known to every purchaser of material for flat roofs. For steep roofs and localities where skilled roofers are not available the company makes all the better kinds of ready roofing. Mr. Fred Jones is Cincinnati manager for the Barrett Manufacturing Company.
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RESIDENCE OF MRS, CLARA B. ROBSON, BELLEVUE, KY.
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THE UNITED STATES PLAYING CARD CO.
THE UNITED STATES PLAYING CARD COMPANY.
The accompanying half-tone shows the model plant of the United States Playing Card Company-restaurant at left, with seating capacity of 1,368. This is the home of Bicycle, Congress and numerous other brands of playing cards, the little packets of which annually carrying the name "Cincinnati" to more than a hundred million people throughout the world. The officers of this, the largest playing card concern in existence, are John Omwake, president; Samuel J. Murray, vice-president and treas- urer; Arthur R. Morgan, secretary. Office and factory in Nor- wood.
THE UNITED STATES LITHOGRAPH CO.
This is the largest lithographing establishment in the country. devoted exclusively to poster printing, employing more artists and running more presses than any other poster house. Special- ization in this way has given them a unique and individual posi-
tion with their trade in the theatrical and circus professions, and especially in the field of commercial posters. The United States Lithographing Company's products can be seen all over the United States and Canada, in England, on the continent and in Australia. The accompanying half-tone shows the plant.
THE UNITED STATES PRINTING CO.
The immense works of the United States Printing Company is one of the newest acquisitions to Cincinnati's famous in- dustries and its magnificent building, but recently erected (see page 33 for illustration), marks a new era in the history of this progressive institution. The building itself is a four-story, fire- proof structure, built of reinforced concrete, with buff brick facing, and contains 250,000 square feet of floor space. Built upon clean and generous lines, all of the outer walls being one continuous succession of windows, it is a veritable "sunlight printing plant." The interior was designed with studious care to meet every need of the particular line of work in which this
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firm excels -- high-grade color printing-making it not only 'the largest, but the most modern and complete printing plant in the country. The United States Printing & Lithographing Co. is sole agent for the United States Printing Company and the United States Lithograph Company, color printers, labels, post- ers, cut-outs, folding boxes, advertising cards, window and coun- ter displays and booklets. The officers of the United States Printing & Lithograph Co. are John Omwake, president; Arthur R. Morgan, William Ottmann and J. B. Foraker, Jr., vice-presi- dents; Paul Campbell, secretary and treasurer. Offices at Robertson avenue and Beech street, South Norwood. Cincin- nati city office in First National Bank Building.
THE FREIBERG & WORKUM COMPANY.
Distillers for a Half Century.
The members of the Freiberg & Workum Company take not only a business but a personal and family pride in the history of the firm. It was established in 1855 by Julius Freiberg, who, after coming to Cincinnati in 1847, was in the general merchan- dise business for several years in Williamstown, Ky. While there, in the famous Blue Grass country, he became acquainted with the leading Kentucky distillers and their product, which, at that time, was scarcely known outside of the state. In fact, Mr. Freiberg brought to Cincinnati the first bourbon in com- mercial quantities sent out of Kentucky. That was in 1852, and three years later, associating with him his brother-in-law, Levi J. Workum, he established the firm which has continued growing without interruption.
From the first small store, No. 20 Sycamore street, the firm moved to No. 13 and 15 Sycamore street. In 1866 the company purchased the buildings surrounded by Baum, Produce and Kirby alleys and used it as a Class B bonded warehouse. Three years later the firm moved its office and store to 28 and 30 Main street, where it remained for twenty-seven years. In 1895 the present buildings on East Front street, fully equipped interiorly for the business, and with ample trackage and shipping facilities, were purchased. The firm in 1857 purchased the Bowen Dis- tillery in Lynchburg, Ohio, then having a capacity of 100 bushels a day, and has since increased it to a capacity of 3,000 bushels daily. Ten years later the Boone County Distillery at Peters- burg, Ky., was purchased and enlarged to 4,000 bushels a day capacity. In connection with other firms the Freiberg & Work- um Company is interested in the Commercial Distillery at Terre Haute, Ind., declared to be the most modern and best equipped spirits distillery in the country. The firm when organized adopted the policy of selling only to the jobbing and wholesale trade, and has continued it up to the present time.
Levi J. Workum died in 1883 and the firm was reorganized by the surviving partner, taking with him his two sons, J. Walter Freiberg and Maurice J. Freiberg, and his late partner's two sons, Jeptha L. Workum and Ezekiel L. Workum. In 1896 both Jeptha and Ezekiel Workum died and the firm has since been composed of the surviving partners.
JOHN HOFFMANN'S SONS COMPANY.
Pork Packers.
The John Hoffmann's Sons Company has been before the public for the last twenty years, and its standing today is ample evidence of the quality of the Daisy brand of meats and lard produced by it. The business has been steadily growing. It now requires a capital of $250,000 to handle it.
The company has a capacity for curing and packing 4,000,000 pounds a year and the demand is always up to the supply. The company has a number of branch houses, particularly in the Southern territory, and expects to continne increasing its busi- ness. It is located on Colerain avenne.
John Hoffmann is president: Oscar Hoffmann, vice-president; Julius Wiederstein, secretary; Jacob Hoffmann, treasurer.
THE LUNKENHEIMER COMPANY.
Largest Manufacturers of High-Grade Engineering Specialties.
This company was established in 1862 and incorporated in 1889. The first of their buildings in their present location was started in 1899, since which time the growth of the institution has made necessary the erection of several new buildings, until today they occupy about 396,000 feet of floor space and cover many acres of ground. The employes number about 1,500.
Among the principal products manufactured by them are bronze and iron body bronze mounted globe, angle, cross, gate, lever, non-return boiler stop, cheek, throttle, pop safety, relief, blow-off valves, etc .; water columns, gauges and other boiler mountings; whistles and ground key work in great variety; in- jectors and ejectors; lubricators and lubricating devices; oil pumps, oil and grease cups; gasoline engine specialties, etc.
The officers of the firm are E. H. Lunken, president; E. F. Lunken, first vice-president; H. Frederick Schaefer, second vice- president; David C. Jones, secretary; William H. Muench, treas- urer, and Henry Ritter, superintendent.
The Lunkenheimer Company are universally acknowledged the largest manufacturers of high-grade engineering specialties in the world, and maintain branches in New York, Chicago, Boston and London.
THE MONARCH CARRIAGE GOODS CO.
The Monarch Carriage Goods Company, located from 2838 to 2844 Spring Grove avenue. are wholesale manufacturers of top trimming hardware for carriages and buggies, and are the largest manufacturers of buggy boots and storm aprons in the world. Their goods are sold throughout the United States, and an extensive foreign trade is also carried on.
The Monarch Carriage Goods Company has been in business twenty-six years.
The officers, Messrs. M. C. Weiglein, President and Treas- urer; E. S. Hill, Vice President, J. M. Weiglein, Secretary, and C. J. Rennekamp, Manager, are all well-known business men whose identification with the company is recognized as a dis- tinctive gain.
THE IRA D. WASHBURN CO.
Manufacturers and Jobbers of Paints and Glass.
The Ira D. Washburn Company-extensive manufacturers and jobbers of paints and window glass-was founded in 1896 by Ira D. Washburn, well-known public man and former City Treas- urer for Cincinnati. This large concern is located at 1006-1012 Central avenue and its trade covers the Central States. It is a corporation, the directors of which follow: Ira D. Washburn. President; John V. Nicholas, Treasurer; Henry Morschheuser. J. B. Finker and C. Washburn.
THE J. CHAS. MCCULLOUGH SEED CO.
Seeds, Agricultural Supplies, Onion Sets, Popcorn, Etc.
The J. Charles McCul- lough Seed Company is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Mr. McCullongh has had over fortv-five years actual ex- perience in the seed Imsi- ness and is acknowledged one of the country's seed experts. The business of this firm ocenpies an on- tire block at Fifth, Lock and Eggleston avenne; downtown house at 230-232 Kast Fourth street. Of- ficers are J. Charles Mo- ('ullongh. President: H. D. Brown, Vice President; E. MeMullongh, Secretary, and Robert O. Strong. Treasmer.
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THE JOHN SHILLITO COMPANY. Dry Goods, Cloaks, Notions, Carpets, Upholstery, House Furnishing Goods.
The business of The John Shillito Company was found- ed by John Shillito, who came to Cincinnati in 1817 from Greensburg, Penn., where he was born November 24, 1808.
In 1832 Mr. Shillito asso- ciated himself with Robert W. Burnet and Mr. James Pullen, under the firm name of Shillito, Burnet & Pullen. In 1833 they moved their bus- iness to the west side of Main street, between Fourth and Fifth, at which time the fact of their employing four clerks was commented upon by the townspeople as being indicative of a very large trade. They met with con- tinued success, when, in 1837, Mr. Shillito purchased the interest of his partners, and established the firm of John Shillito & Co., the com- pany consisting of M. H. Coats, Isaac Stevens, Wil- liam Woods and Edward Hol- royd-and removed the business to the north side of Fourth street. between Main and Sycamore, where he had erected what at that time was considered the most commodious dry goods store west of the Alleghanies, and had a floor area of 14,400 square feet.
Here Mr. Shillito remained for twenty years. In the mean- time, in 1842, he became sole proprietor, having bought out his various partners. The business continued prosperous, and, realizing that it would soon become necessary to have more room to accommodate his rapidly increasing trade, he secured the site on the south side of Fourth street, between Vine and Race, west of the present Union Central Life Building, where he built the large and well-known store into which he removed in 1857, with a floor area of 53,250 square feet, about three and one-half times larger than the former building.
At this location the business was conducted for twenty-one years, during which time Mr. Shillito at intervals admitted into partnership his sons, Wallace, John, Gordon and Stewart. In 1878 the business was moved into its present building at Race, Seventh and Shillito Place.
Mr. Shillito died September 10, 1879, in his seventy-first year, after having lived to see his last and greatest mercantile achieve- ment crowned with eminent success. The firm of John Shillito
& Co., was succeeded by The John Shillito Company, a corpora- tion organized under the laws of Ohio, on June 28, 1882, and now conducting the business.
Officers are Stewart Shillito, President; W. A. Hopple, Vice President and Treasurer; John Deremo, Secretary; John Shillito, Assistant Secretary.
ROMBACH & GROENE.
Commercial Photographers.
In the year 1883 Mr. Lewis Rombach and Mr. Theo. Groene bought the commercial photography business of Charles Muhr- man, their former employer. The firm has made a specialty of this line of work and has established a reputation not only in Cincinnati but throughout the United States. In Septem- ber, 1910, Mr. Lewis Rombach died, Mr. Groene buying out his interest. The following April, in the year 1911, Mr. Theo. Groene died, the business then going to his widow, Mrs. Magdalena Groene. Mr. Charles H. Groene, her oldest son, having been with the firm a few years before the death of his father, took the management of same, and is still acting in that capacity. The business is located at 812-814 West Fourth street.
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THE E. KAHN'S SONS COMPANY.
THE E. KAHN'S SONS CO.
Wholesale and Retail Meats.
The E. Kahn's Sons Company are to be num- bered among the largest wholesalers and re- tailers of high-grade meats in Cincinnati. The main office and plant is located at 517 Liv- ingston street, while its retail stores are lo- cated at 1423 Central avenue, 310 Fifteenth street, 763 Richmond street, southwest corner Forest avenue and Reading Road, and 2600 Woodburn avenue. Louis W. Kahn is Presi- dent, and Albert H. Kahn, Secretary and Treas- urer. All first-class restaurants, cafes and clubs serve Kahn's meats.
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ST. XAVIER COLLEGE.
HISTORICAL STATEMENT.
The institution, known at present as St. Xavier College, was established October 17, 1831, by the Right Rev- erend Edward D. Fenwick, D. D., the first Bishop of Cincinnati, under the name of the "Athenaeum." In the year 1840 it was transferred by the Most Reverend Archbishop John B. Purcell, D. D., to the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, who have conducted it ever since under the title first men- tioned. It was incorporated by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio in 1842, and on May 7, 1869, an act was passed which secures to the in- stitution a perpetual charter and all the privileges usually granted to uni- versities.
EQUIPMENT.
To meet the growing exigencies and to keep pace with the development of the times, three additions, which con- stitute the present college buildings, were made to the original structures; the first at a cost of $200,000.00, in 1867; the second in 1884, at a cost of $30,000, and the third in 1890, at a cost of $100,000.00.
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