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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES
COPYRIGHT, 1896 BY W. J. SHUEY, PUBLISHER All rights reserved
HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES
LOCATION AND AREA.
DAYTON, the county-seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, is located on both banks of the Great Miami River, at the confluence of Stillwater, Mad River, and Wolf Creek with the Miami, and on the line of the Miami and Erie Canal, sixty miles north-northeast of Cincinnati, and seventy-one miles west by south of Columbus. Its latitude is thirty-nine degrees forty-four minutes north, and its longitude is eighty-four degrees eleven minutes west from Greenwich, or seven degrees eleven minutes west from Washington. It is an important station on eleven railroads, which belong to four great systems, namely : The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Dayton & Western, of the Pennsylvania Lines; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Dayton & Union, of the "Big Four" System; the Cin- cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Dayton & Michigan, the Cincinnati, Dayton & Ironton, and the Cincinnati, Dayton & Chicago, of the C., H. & D. System; the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, of the Erie System; the Dayton, Lebanon & Cincinnati Railroad, and the Home Avenue Railroad. Thirty- six hard-graveled roads radiate in all directions from the city, with an aggregate length of over six hundred miles. The extreme dimensions of Dayton are: east and west, five and one-eighth miles; north and south, three and one-half miles. Its area is about ten and three-quarters square miles.
POPULATION.
1796 .. .About 36.
1840 .. .6,067. 1870 .... 30,473.
1802 ... Five families.
1845 .. .. 9,792.
1880 ..
.38,678.
1810 .. .383.
1850 .. 10,976. 1890 .... 61,220.
1820 .. 1,139.
1860. 20,081. 1896 .... About 80,000.
1830 .. .2,954.
CITY GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS. (Compiled from latest reports.)
MAYOR.
Elected for two years; ex officio president of Board of Police Directors and Board of Health, and organizes the City Council; appoints the Board of City Affairs, the Tax Commission, Board of Work-House Directors, and Board of Elections.
BOARD OF CITY AFFAIRS.
Four members; term of office four years, one being appointed each year by the Mayor; powers executive.
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CITY COUNCIL.
Sixteen members, elected from eight wards by the voters of the wards; term of office two years, half expiring each year; powers legislative.
Measures involving expenditure and public franchises must be approved by both City Council and Board of City Affairs.
BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
Four members, appointed by the Mayor, one secretary.
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.
Six members, elected by the City Council.
MISCELLANEOUS.
City clerk, elected by the Council; treasurer, elected by the people; comp- troller, solicitor, engineer, sealer of weights and measures, market-master, superintendent of levees, appointed by the Board of City Affairs; wood- measurer, elected by the people.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Board of Education .- Sixteen members, elected for two years from eight wards by the voters of the wards, half being elected each year.
Officers and Teachers .- Clerk, superintendent of instruction, superintend- ent of buildings, truant officer, city board of examiners with three members, twenty principals, twenty-five High School teachers, three Normal School teachers, two Manual-Training School teachers, four special teachers, 251 district-school teachers; total number of teachers, 305.
Enumeration of School Youth ( Between six and twenty-one years of age) .- Public schools, 10,960; private schools, 240; church schools, 2,102; not attend- ing, 7,276; grand total, 20,578.
Number of Pupils in Public Schools .- District schools, 5,143 boys, 5,037 girls, or a total of 10,180; High School, 297 boys, 474 girls, or a total of 771; Normal School, 31; grand total, 10,982. In Manual-Training School, 45 pupils from the High School and 76 pupils from the eighth grade of the district schools; total, 121.
Schools .- Nineteen district schools, one high school, one manual-training school, one normal school, two night grammar-schools, two night drawing- schools.
Buildings .- Twenty-nine district buildings, including annexes, one high- school building, one library building. Total value in 1895, $1,269,416.50; in- cluding personal property, $1,323,525.50. Value of High School: lot, $60,000; building, $255,000; personal property, $11,358; total, $326,358.
Finances .- Receipts, exclusive of temporary loans and bonds, for the year ending August 31, 1895, $314,878.14; expenses, exclusive of bonded debt and temporary loans, $355,700.81; bonded debt, August 31, 1895, $485,000.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Board of six members, elected by the Board of Education; librarian, cat- aloguer, five library assistants; occupies a fine stone library building, fire- proof, erected in Cooper Park in 1886-87, and valued at $100,000; contains 35,325 volumes and 1,292 pamphlets; card and printed catalogues; museum attached; expenses, 1894-95, $10,830.50, of which $2,601.70 was spent for the purchase of books and periodicals, and $1,094.03 for the museum.
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CITY GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Organization .- Mayor and four police directors, secretary, police judge, clerk of the police court, superintendent, captain, five sergeants, detective sergeant, surgeon, seventy-five patrolmen (eight mounted), two turnkeys, court bailiff, two telephone operators, one police matron.
Headquarters .- In City Building.
Equipment .- One central station, two substations, one patrol house, two patrol wagons, one ambulance, sixteen horses.
Finances .- 1894 : Receipts, $76,622.31; disbursements, $69,959.99; balance, Jan- uary 1, 1895, $6,662.32.
A police benevolent association.
WORK - HOUSE.
Four directors, appointed by the Mayor, superintendent, matron; one work-house.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Organization .- Four fire commissioners, chief and secretary, first assistant chief, second assistant chief, seventy-six firemen.
Equipment .- Twelve engine, hose, and hook-and-ladder houses; a fire- alarm telegraph system, with over one hundred boxes; four steam fire- engines; two chemical engines; thirteen hose wagons; three hook-and-ladder wagons; two telegraph wagons; three buggies; thirty-six horses.
Finances .- 1895: Cost of maintenance, $67,217.29; value of real estate, $90,500.
Service .- Number of alarms in 1895, 344; total loss, $21,978.05; total value of property where fires occurred, $2,012,675; total insurance, $1,011,557. The loss amounted to only about twenty-five cents per capita of the population.
A firemen's benevolent association.
WATER - WORKS. Established, 1870.
Organization .- Three trustees, secretary, assistant secretary, chief engineer, first assistant engineer, second assistant engineer, superintendent of street department, two inspectors and collectors.
Equipment .- One pumping-house; three engines, with combined daily capacity of 29,000,000 gallons; eighty-five eight-inch tube-wells, driven to a depth of forty-five to fifty feet; over ninety-six miles of street mains, 937 fire-hydrants, 8,607 service connections, 1,300 meters.
Finances .- Total expenditures, 1870 to December 31, 1895, $1,792,560.39; total income to December 31, 1895, $938,872.77; net cost to December 31, 1895, $853,- 687.62; water-works bonded debt, November, 1895, $765,000, which is gradually being paid; cost of pipe, hydrants, etc., and laying of same, 1870-95, $700,000; received from sale of water, 1870-95, $860,926.83; net earnings, 1870-95, $342,000.
Quality of the Water .- The quality of the water, by recent analysis, has been found to be first-class. It is clear, cold, and remarkably free from injurious matter. In a recent analysis an average of only forty-eight germs to the cubic centimeter were found in the samples examined. The average temperature in the pipes is about 50°.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Mayor and six members of the board, health officer, secretary, meat inspector, four sanitary policemen.
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CITY INFIRMARY.
Three directors, superintendent, clerk, city physician.
MARKETS.
Two market-houses, with street markets adjoining; one market-master.
TAX COMMISSION
Six members, appointed by the Mayor.
TAXES.
City Expenses, 1894-95.
Board of Health and Sanitary
.10 mills
$4,104 82
Bridges.
.25 mills
10,262 05
Elections
.15 mills
6,157 23
Fire Department.
1.75 mills
71,834 37
General Expense.
.60 mills
24,628 93
Hospitals ( Deaconess and St. Elizabeth ).
.05 mills
2,052 41
Infirmary
.05 mills
2,052 41
Lighting.
.70 mills
28,733 75
Police Department ..
1.10 mills
45,153 03
Parks and Levees.
.05 mills
2,052 41
Street Cleaning.
.75 mills
30,786 16
Street Improvement
.35 mills
14,366 87
Sewers
.05 mills
2,052 41
Work - House.
.05 mills
2,052 41
School Paving.
.10 mills
4,104 82
6.10 mills
$250,394 08
City Interest and Sinking Fund
5.45 mills
223,712 73
$474,106 81
Regular Levy.
7.00 mills
$288,974 49
Manual-Training School.
.20 mills
8,256 41
Public Library
.25 mills
10,320 52
Taxes for All Purposes, 1895-96.
City, County, and State
26.00 mills $1,073,333 82
Tax Valuation, 1895-96.
Taxable Property
. ...
$41,282,070
BONDED DEBT.
General Bonds.
(Principal and interest payable from a direct tax upon the General Duplicate.)
Outstanding March 1, 1895-
Bridge.
$68,000 00
City Hall
71,000 00
City Prison.
10,000 00
Extending Indebtedness.
150,000 00
Fire Department
24,000 00
Funded Debt.
249,000 00
Board of Education, 1895-96.
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PERIODICALS- CHURCHES
Outstanding March 1, 1895 --
General Street and Improvement
$50,000 00
Levee .
30,000 00
Park Street Sewer
126,000 00
Police Deficiency
36,000 00
Sewer
150,000 00
Street Paving
528,000 00
Southwestern Sewer
17,000 00
Street Improvement
150,000 00 a
Wolf Creek Improvement.
50,000 00
Water-Works
505,000 00
Water-Works Enlargement.
3,000 00
Water-Works Improvement.
280,000 00
Total
$2,497,000 00
Improvement Bonds.
(Principal and interest payable from assessments upon abutting or benefited property.)
Outstanding March 1, 1895-
Street Paving
$1,178,000 00
Sewer
180,000 00
Special Assessment ..
36,165 00
Total.
$1,394,165 00
PERIODICALS. SECULAR.
Daily .- Six, one of which is German.
Weekly .- Nine, one of which is German.
Monthly .- Two.
Total .- Seventeen.
RELIGIOUS.
Weekly .- Eleven, one of which is German.
Semimonthly .- Nine, one of which is German. Monthly .- Three.
Quarterly .- Nine, one of which is German. Total .- Thirty-two.
Grand Total .- Forty-nine.
CHURCHES.
Baptist, 11.
Methodist Episcopal, African, 2.
Baptist Brethren, 1.
Methodist Protestant, 1.
Christian, 2.
Methodist, Wesleyan, 1.
Congregational, 1.
Presbyterian, 7.
Disciples of Christ, 2.
Protestant Episcopal, 3.
Dunkards, 2.
Reformed, 5.
Evangelical Association, 2.
Roman Catholic, 7.
Hebrew, 3.
Salvation Army, 1.
Lutheran, 7.
United Brethren in Christ, 12.
Methodist Episcopal, 10.
United Presbyterian, 1.
Total, 81.
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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES
CHURCH AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
PROTESTANT.
Union Biblical Seminary, the theological school of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ; four professors, one general manager, and forty- three students.
St. Paul's German Lutheran School, common branches.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Eight parochial schools and academies.
St. Mary's Institute; twenty-one officers and professors, 275 students in institute, and 120 students in normal department.
PRIVATE.
Miami Commercial College.
Young Ladies and Misses' School.
Dayton Commercial College.
Home School for Boys.
English Training School.
Conservatory of Music.
Deaver Collegiate Institute.
Dayton College of Music.
BENEVOLENT AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
Young Men's Christian Association .- A Protestant institution, founded in 1870; occupies a fine stone-front building on the south side of Fourth Street, between Main and Jefferson; value of property, over $100,000; membership, over 2,500; conducts religious, educational, and physical departments, includ ing manual training and industrial education; has reception-room, par lors, reading-room, junior room, educational rooms, shop, entertainment hall, gymnasium, bath-rooms, and athletic park; receipts in 1894-95, $19,386.95; expenses, $19,269.65.
Woman's Christian Association .- A Protestant institution, founded in 1870; occupies excellent brick buildings on the south side of Third Street, between Ludlow and Wilkinson; value of property, $60,000; membership, about 350; includes a young woman's department; conducts religious, charitable, educational, and physical departments, lunch-room, and exchange; has reception-room, parlors, reading-room, educational rooms, entertainment hall, industrial class-room, gymnasium, bath-rooms, etc .; receipts in 1894-95, $4,279.41; expenses, $4,242.92.
Young Women's League .- Founded in 1895; occupies a brick building on the west side of Jefferson Street, between Fifth and Sixth streets; member- ship, 450; conducts religious, educational, and physical departments, and lunch-room.
Young Men's Institute .- A Roman Catholic institution; occupies a brick building on the south side of Fourth Street, between Ludlow and Wilkinson.
St. Joseph's Institute .- Conducted by the Catholic Gesellen -Verein, for the . benefit of young men; organized in 1868; furnishes reading-room, gymna- sium, and free circulating library; building located on Montgomery Street.
Protestant Deaconess Home and Hospital .- Founded in 1890 by the Protestant Deaconess Society of Dayton; occupies an expensive pressed-brick building on south side of Apple Street, between Main and Brown, costing, with equipment, about $150,000; capacity, 175 patients.
St. Elizabeth Hospital .- A Roman Catholic institution, founded in 1878; conducted by the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis; occupies a large brick
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SOCIETIES AND CLUBS
building on the west side of Hopeland Street, between Washington and Albany, costing over $65,000; capacity, 242 patients.
Widows' Home .- Founded in 1875, by the Woman's Christian Association; occupies a brick building on the northeast corner of Findlay and May streets; capacity, twenty-eight inmates; endowment, $37,358.79; receipts, for year ending October 5, 1895, $3,124.99; expenses, $2,911.59.
Montgomery County Children's Home .- Founded in 1866; occupies a brick building on the east side of Summit Street, south of Home Avenue; number > of inmates in February, 1895, fifty-one, of whom thirty-eight were boys and thirteen were girls; total received from the founding, 1,864.
Christian Deaconess Home .- Monument Avenue, West Side.
Children's Home .- 116 South Ringgold Street.
Bethany Home .- For homeless girls and women; 159 East Park Street.
National Soldiers' Home (Central Branch) .- Founded in 1867; located a short distance west of the city; grounds cover six hundred and twenty-five acres; number of inmates, about 6,000.
Southern Ohio Asylum for the Insane .- Founded in 1852; located at the south end of Wayne Avenue; capacity, 800 patients.
Humane Society.
Women's Christian Temperance Union, No. 1.
Women's Christian Temperance Union, No. 2.
St. Joseph's German Catholic Asylum.
Other Socicties .- Numerous lodges of Masons, Knights of Pythias, Knights of St. John, Odd Fellows, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of Veterans, Woman's Veteran Relief Union, Order of United American Mechanics, Knights of Labor, trades unions, and other orders.
LITERARY AND MUSICAL SOCIETIES.
Present Day Club. Woman's Literary Club.
"H. H." Club. Emerson Club. Friday Afternoon Club.
Shakespeare Club.
Philharmonic Society.
Mozart Club.
Harmonia Society.
Maennerchor.
POLITICAL CLUBS.
Garfield Club. Jackson Club.
Thurman Club. Lincoln Club.
Gravel Hall Club.
SOCIAL, CYCLING, GYMNASTIC, AND OTHER CLUBS.
Dayton Club. Dayton Bicycle Club.
Dayton Gymnastic Club.
Dayton Turngemeinde.
Y. M. C. A. Wheelmen.
Stillwater Canoe Club.
Dayton Lawn Tennis Club.
Ruckawa Canoe Club.
Dayton Angling Club.
Dayton Camera Club.
MILITARY COMPANIES.
Phoenix Light Infantry, Company G, Third Regiment Infantry, Ohio National Guard.
Gem City Light Infantry, Company I, Third Regiment Infantry, Ohio National Guard.
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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES
STREET - RAILWAYS.
City Railway .- Third Street Line, from the east end of Third Street to the Soldiers' Home; electric; length of line, over six miles of double track and less than one-quarter mile of single track.
Fifth Street Line, from the east end of Huffman Avenue to the Soldiers' Home; electric; length of line, six and one-half miles of double track and about one-half mile of single track.
Green Line, from the east end of Richard Street to the corner of Fifth and Wilkinson; electric; length of line, over two miles of double track.
Authorized capital, $2,100,000; total length of lines operated, over fourteen and one-half miles of double track and about three-quarters of a mile of single track.
Oakwood Street -Railway .- From the north end of Salem Street in Dayton View to Oakwood, at the south end of Brown Street; electric; capital, $300,- 000; length of line, about four miles of double track.
White Line Street-Railway .- From the corner of Main Street and Forest Avenue in Riverdale, via Main, Third, Ludlow, Washington, and German- town streets to the Soldiers' Home; electric; capital, $400,000; length of line, about six miles of double track.
Wayne Avenue and Fifth Street Railway .- From the south end of Wayne Avenue, via Wayne Avenue, Fifth, Jefferson, First, Keowee, and Valley streets to the east end of Valley Street in North Dayton; horse-cars; capital, $100,000; length of line, about three miles of double track and about one mile of single track.
Dayton Traction Company .- South Main Street, from the corner of Fifth and extending to Calvary Cemetery; electric; capital, $250,000; length of line, one and one-half miles of double track and one and one-half miles of single track.
Total length of street railways operated, over twenty-nine miles of double track and about three and one-quarter miles of single track. About two and one-half miles of double track being used jointly, the net length of double track is about twenty-six and one-half miles.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
Total length of streets in the city, one hundred and fifty-eight miles, of which nearly twenty-five miles are paved, as follows: asphalt, fourteen miles; brick, nearly nine miles; granite, over one mile; Medina stone, over one-half mile. Total cost of paving, $1,800,000. Eighty-three miles of streets are graded and graveled, and fifty miles are unimproved.
Thirty-nine miles of sanitary sewers and forty miles of storm sewers have been laid, at a cost of $495,000.
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL.
Board of Trade .- Officers : president, first vice-president, second vice-pres- ident, secretary, treasurer, fifteen directors.
National Banks .- Seven, with combined capital of $2,500,000, and cash assets of over $3,000,000; a clearing-house.
Building and Loan Associations .- Seventeen, with combined capital amount- ing to $43,350,000.
Fire-Insurance Companies (Home) .- Seven, with investment of $700,000, and net assets amounting to $1,213,204; one underwriters' association.
Incorporated Companies .- One hundred and seventy, with capital stock of over $25,000,000.
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COMMERCIAL, AND INDUSTRIAL
Builders' Exchange .- Officers: president, first vice-president, second vice- president, secretary, treasurer.
Gas Company.
Natural Gas Company.
Electric Light Company.
Telegraph and Cable Companies .- Two.
District Telegraph Company.
Telephone Exchange.
Railways .- Eleven, with sixty-four passenger trains daily.
Manufacturing Establishments .- Number, about one thousand; capital in- vested in 1894, $11,650,043; value of manufactured products, 1894, $10,163,913.60; wages paid, 1894, $2,176,156.15. In number of factories, in capital invested in manufacturing industries, and in wages paid, Dayton ranks as the third city in the State; in value of manufactured products, fourth.
POSTOFFICE STATISTICS, 1895.
Postage Receipts.
$178,451.08
Expenses of Office
$74,648.98
Number of Money Orders Issued 19,852
Value of Money Orders Issued. $154,367.35
Number of Money Orders Paid 60,058
Value of Money Orders Paid ..
$333,093.77
Pieces of First-Class Mail Received
4,480,000
Pieces of All Other Classes Received
3,948,800
Special Letters Received 9,831
Pieces of First-Class Mail Dispatched ..
7,620,907
Pieces of All Other Classes Dispatched.
7,054,850
Special Letters Dispatched .
6,257
Registered Letters and Parcels Received.
40,920
Registered Letters and Parcels Dispatched ..
19,742
Total Number Pieces Received and Dispatched
23,120,645
Weight in Pounds of Second-Class Matter Mailed by Publishers ...
47,441
Number of Carriers ..
40
Mail Trains Arriving Daily.
39
Mail Trains Departing Daily
42
PARTIAL ENUMERATION OF MERCANTILE, MANUFACTURING, AND OTHER BUSINESS CONCERNS.
Abstracters of Titles. 4
Auctioneers
6
Agricultural Implements, Deal- ers. 10
Awnings, Manufs. 4
Agricultural Implements, Mfs .. Architects 10
6
Bakeries 50
Bakers' Supplies. 1
Architectural Iron, Manuf.
1
Baking-Powder, Munufs 6
Art Glass ..
1
Banks, National. 7
Artificial Flowers.
1
Barber Shops. 120
Artificial Stone Pavements. 2
Barbers' Supplies 1
Artists 22
Baskets, Manufs 9
Asbestos Packing and Mill
Bicycles, Dealers 13
Boards 1
Bicycles, Manuf. 1
Asphalt Pavements.
Black boards, Slate Stone, Mf .. 1
Asphalt Roofing. 2 Blacking, Manuf. 1
Attorneys-at-Law. 123
Blacksmith Shops 36
Autographic Registers, Manufs. 2
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Blank Books, Manufs. 5
Clothing Renovators 19
Boarding-Houses 72
Coal Dealers 40
Boat-Houses. 3
Coal Miners. 4
Boats, Manuf. 1
Cold Storage. 1
Boilers, Steam, Manufs. 4
Commercial Colleges 2
Commission Merchants. 11
Confectioners, Retail. 55
Bookbinders' Machinery, Mf ... 1
Book-Cover Dies and Tools. 1
Book Publishers
4
Coppersmith
1
Booksellers and Stationers 10
Corsets, Manufs
3
Boots and Shoes, Retail 46
Daily Markets 112
Boots and Shoes, Wholesale
1
Dairies 25
Boxes, Manuf.
1
Dental Electrical Specialties
1
Brass-Founders 3
Brass Goods
2
Detective Agency 1
Brass Stamps. 2
Dressmakers 300
Breweries ..
17
Druggist, Wholesale. 1
Druggists and Apothecaries 55
Dry Goods, Retail. 44
Brickinaking Machinery ..
1
Brokers.
18
Dye Houses. 2
Brooms, Manufs.
11
Brushes, Manufs.
2
Building and Loan Associations
17
Electric Light Company. 1
Electric Supplies, Dealer 1
Electrical Engineers. 2
Canning Factory. 1
Electrical Goods, Manuf. 1
Carbon, Manuf. 1
Electrotypers.
2
Car-Furnishings, Manuf 1
Employment Agency
1
Carpenters and Builders 118
Engravers
6
Carpet Cleaners 7
Express Companies. 7
Fancy Goods 8
Fans, Ventilating. 1
Feed Stores. 32
4
Cars, Railroad, Manuf. 1
File-Cases, Manuf
1
Files, Manufs. 2
Fire-Alarm Operators 1
Fire-Brick and Clay. 4
Flavoring Extracts. 2
Flax-Mill 1
Florists 18
9
Freight Lines. 9
Fresco Artists 2
Fruit-Growers 11
Fruits, Retail 10
Fruits, Wholesale 6
Furnaces, Warm Air 7
Furniture, Dealers. 16
Clothing Dealers 27
13
Chain, Manufs.
2
Chairs, Manuf 1
China and Queensware Dealers. 10
Church Furniture ..
1
Cigar-Boxes, Manufs
3
Cigar Dealers 53
Cigars, Manufs 58
Cistern Builders. 5
Civil Engineers 6
Clearing-House. 1
Clergymen.
135
Furniture, Manufs.
5
Electric Construction and Sup- plies 5
Candy, Manufs.
4
Candy-Molds, Manuf. 1
Carpet Dealers. 14
Carpet Weavers 11
Carriages and Buggies, Dealers .. 4
Carriages and Buggies, Manufs. 9
Fences, Manufs
Cash Registers, Manuf. 1
Caterers
2
Cement Pavements.
Dry Goods, Wholesale. 4
Brick, Manufs. 11
Bricklayers. 17
Dentists. 31
Boot- and Shoe-Makers. 113
Cotton Batting 1
Confectioners, Wholesale. 10
Cooper Shops. 7
Bolt and Screw Cases. 1
Bookbinders. 6
Flour-Mills.
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
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Furniture-Cars. 12 Loan Offices 5
Galvanized Iron Cornices. 6
Locksmiths 2
Gas-Burners and Appliances 1
Lumber Dealers. 15
Gas Company.
1
Machine Knives, Manuf. 1
Gas Company, Natural. 1
Machine Tools. 2
Gas-Engine, Manufs. 3
Machinists.
15
Gas-Fitters and Fixtures. 15
Machinists' Tools.
1
Gas-Machine, Manuf.
1
Malleable Iron Works. 1
Gas Range and Heater, Manuf.
1
Mantels and Grates.
4 .
Gasoline Stove, Manuf.
1
Marble Dust.
1
Grain Dealers 5
Marble Quarry 1
Grain Elevator.
1
Marble Works. 8
4
Grocers, Wholesale
9
Meats, Wholesale
2
Guns, Pistols, etc
2
Mechanics' Tools. 3
Gunsmiths 3
Medicines, Patent.
19
Hardware and Cutlery 12
4
Mercantile Agencies.
3
Harness and Saddles. 17
Milk Depots.
8
Hats and Caps. 20
Mill Supplies.
4
Hedges
1
Milliners, Retail.
41
House-Furnishing Goods. 8
Mineral Water, Manufs. 2
Mittens, Manuf 1
Hubs, Spokes, etc. 2
Hydraulic Machinery 2
Motor, Water, Manuf.
1
Ice, Dealers.
3
Music Colleges. 2
Ice, Manufs
2
Music Publisher
1
Ice Cream 13
Music Teachers
80
Ice and Refrigerator Machin- ery, Manuf
1
Musical Instruments, Dealers .. News Depots .
8
Ink, Manuf .. 1
Notaries Public 114
Insurance Agents. 38
Notions, Retail 20
Insurance Companies, Fire. 9
Notions, Wholesale. 5
Insurance Companies, Life. 2
Novelties, Manufs. 2
Iron-Founders .. 10
Nozzles, Manufs. 2
Iron Posts, Manuf.
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