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The Club also endorsed the plan to make the Mill Creek sewer an intercepting one, thus to eliminate all impure and disease-producing matter from this historic stream and to restore it to all its former beauty and usefulness.
The paving of Spring Grove Avenue north of Knowlton's Corner with granite was pushed during this year, and the work subsequently completed in 1911.
The Parker-Pullan lands north of Donaldson Place were recom- mended to the Park Commissioners as being suitable for park and playground purposes, and were later acquired by the Park Com- mission.
At the fourth annual election, held in December of this year, the following officers were elected to serve for the year 1910: Presi- dent, W. B. Robertson ; First Vice-President, Herman F. Jergens; Second Vice-President, Theo. Schneider; Third Vice-President, Otto Hirschfeld; Treasurer, William P. Wunder; Secretary, E. L. Kennedy. Directors: William F. Ray, Charles O. Dhonau, William Wilson.
The old Hoffner property on Hamilton Avenue and Blue Rock Street was eagerly sought by the Club for playground purposes, and the Park Commissioners were urged to acquire it for this purpose. The Stifel and Miller properties on Colerain Avenue were also endorsed for park purposes, and the Park Commission was urged to acquire them.
A movement was also started by the Club to straighten out most of the curves in Ludlow Avenue-a project which is still engaging the attention of the committee having the matter in charge.
At the fifth annual election, held in December of this year, the following officers were elected to serve during the year 1911: Presi- dent, Dr. S. C. Swartsel; First Vice-President, John J. Vogelpohl ; Second Vice-President, Fred W. Stifel; Third Vice-President, T. D. Wetterstroem ; Treasurer, Wm. P. Wunder ; Secretary, E. L. Kennedy. Directors : James E. Bradford. J. P. Hardig, Wm. F. Rotert, Charles H. Kraus.
The Northside "Bulletin," our Club paper, was born this year, with T. D. Wetterstroem as editor-in-chief.
The Club had charge of the exercises in dedicating the new Kirby Road School at Bruce and Kirby Avenues. The Winton Place School was dedicated in September of this year.
A movement was also started to abandon the canal within the city limits, and while the action of the Club in reference thereto was severely criticised by neighboring organizations-presumably through mistaken inference-the records show that the Club simply authorized the appointment of a committee to work with like committees from other civic organizations whose avowed purpose was to investigate
and report, with recommendations, as to the most suitable disposition to make of this most perplexing problem.
Through the efforts of the Club an ordinance was passed in Council authorizing the building of the Ludlow Avenue viaduct, the location of which was decided upon by engineers representing the B. & O. Ry. Company and the city of Cincinnati. This being a grade-crossing elimination, the railroad company agreed to pay 65% of its cost, the balance, according to law, to be paid by the city and the Cincinnati Traction Company.
The Club participated as escort of honor in the Memorial Day exercises of Israel Ludlow Post No. 76, G. A. R.
During the year the Club went on record in favor of building a viaduct at Hopple Street over the B. & O. and C. H. & D. Railroads, and Mill Creek. The Club also decided to push the extension of the Sixth Street car line to South Cumminsville over the Beekman Street extension. The granite improvement of Spring Grove Avenue having been completed, the Club celebrated the event by a large automobile parade, about sixty automobiles participating, all of which were tastefully decorated for the occasion.
Many minor improvements were also secured during this year.
At the sixth annual election, held in December of this year, the following officers were elected to serve during the year 1912: Presi- dent, Dr. S. C. Swartsel; First Vice-President, John J. Vogelpohl; Second Vice-President, F. W. Stifel; Third Vice-President, T. D. Wet- terstroem ; Treasurer, Charles H. Dhonau; Secretary, E. L. Kennedy. Directors: Joseph F. Bohnert, Richard J. Cluxton, John White.
The improvement of Hamilton Avenue with granite was endorsed by the Club, as was also the re-routing of the street car system accord- ing to the "Harris" plan.
The Club participated for the third time as an escort of honor in the Memorial Day exercises of the Israel Ludlow Post, G. A. R.
The Sixth Street car line extension was again endorsed by the Club, and many improvements of lesser importance were secured during the year.
At the seventh annual election, held in December of this year, the following officers were elected to serve during the year 1913: Presi- dent, Charles O. Dhonau; First Vice-President, Dr. T. D. Meguire; Second Vice-President, Leo T. Folz; Third Vice-President, J. E. Dris- coll; Treasurer, Charles H. Dhonau; Secretary, E. L. Kennedy. Directors : Fred W. Stifel, Thomas W. Sullivan, Dr. S. C. Swartsel.
The Club endorsed the extension of the Badgely Run sewer.
Actual work was begun on the Hopple Street viaduct.
Actual work was begun on the Mill Creek intercepting sewer. The first ground was broken by Mayor Henry T. Hunt early in
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November, and the shovel used is now in possession of the Club, having been presented to the president at the close of the exercises.
The Beekman Street extension was completed in November, and on December 13 the Club inaugurated a monster parade and cele- brated the occasion in a most fitting manner.
An Industrial Parade was held in May of this year and fifty floats participated, showing the industrial solidity of the territory under the jurisdiction of the Club. The Club also participated for the fourth time as escort of honor in the Memorial Day exercises of- the Israel Ludlow Post, G. A. R.
In January of this year Cincinnati was visited by the most dis- astrous flood since 1884, and the Club, through a special committee, was given charge of the relief work for our section of the city. In April of this year another and more serious flood came upon us, and the Club was again given charge of the relief work, in which the committee dispensed many thousands of baskets of provisions.
The Park Commissioners were urged to improve some of the Parker-Pullan tract to provide an athletic field and playgrounds.
The property adjacent to the Garfield School was acquired by
the Park Commissioners for playground purposes, and many minor improvements were secured during the year.
At the eighth annual election, held in December of this year. and in which the major part of the 500 members of the Club partici- pated, the following officers were elected, who, together with the hold-over direetors, constitute the Board of Directors for the year 1914: President, Dr. T. D. Meguire; First Vice-President, E. M. Swango; Second Vice-President, E. F. Skidmore; Third Vice-President, W. Del Atkins; Treasurer, Chas. H. Nicholas: Secretary. E. L. Kennedy. Directors: Edgar Biggs. Joseph F. Bohnert. Richard J. Cluxton, Leo T. Folz, John A. Schon. Fred W. Stifel. Thomas W. Sulli- van, Dr. S. C. Swartsel, John White.
While no attempt has been made to emphasize the efficient work done by any of the committees or individuals, the results obtained have been so uniformly satisfactory that only through the most earnest co-operation of the entire membership could they have been possible, and for which the officers of the various successive adminis- trations feel deeply grateful.
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11-Stanley Dornseifer 12-Aug. Diener 13-H. C. Lippert 14-Frank Nether 15-J. A. Beck
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Paul Mueller
The eyes of all pedestrians who pass 3939 Spring Grove Avenue are drawn involuntarily to the unusually attractive display in the windows of Mueller the photographer's establish- ment. Nor do any such persons ever have cause to regret any time or money spent in simply admiring the works of art there displayed or in closer business relations with those who have the store in charge.
Paul Mueller was born on January 7, 1871, in Magdeburg, Germany. His father, Hermann Mueller, was at the head of an artist's and photographer's establishment in the fatherland, and this accounts in a large measure for the tastes and talents of the son.
The family removed to America in 1881, and settled in Baltimore, Md., opening there, on the thirteenth of May of the same year, a business similar to the one carried on in the old country. The Queen City of the West, however, soon attracted the attention of the new arrivals, and once more the family found themselves journeying westward, arriving in Cincinnati two years after the date of their arrival in this country. Work was immediately resumed by the father on upper Vine Street, and the following year the subject of our sketch, then only fourteen years of age, entered the business with his father to receive a thorough training in his chosen field; and to this training is due, in a very large measure, the success which he soon attained and has enjoyed ever since he entered into business for himself on Spring Grove Avenue, Cumminsville, April 11, 1893.
In addition to his native ability and splendid early training, Mr. Mueller possesses a remarkable business ability and sterling char- acter. He is of a frank, genial, and generous nature, which renders it a pleasure for customers to have dealings with him. The fact which strikes a customer, probably above all others, in having photo- graphic work done by Mr. Mueller, is that he combines with a high standard of work an artistic technique and rare finish. All these facts prove that Mr. Mueller's establishment deserves the place ii fills, and we foresee for it an even greater era of usefulness.
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Charles W. Snyder
President Garfield said in part: "Nine times out of ten, the best thing that ean happen to a young man is to be tossed over- board and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I have never known a man to be drowned who was worth the saving."
This is truly exemplified in the life of Charles W. Snyder, the secretary-treasurer of the Viaduct Souvenir Committee. Mr. Snyder was born in the old Third Ward of this city. He received his early education at the Fifteenth District and Third Intermediate Schools; but after only a few years at the latter, owing to the death of his father which left him an or- phan, he was compelled to discontinue his studies and earn his own livelihood.
After trying his skill in several fields of endeavor, he entered the printing business, for which he thought he was particularly adapted, at the age of fourteen. He applied himself diligently to his trade, never over-
looking a chance to learn something. He soon became recognized as an expert press- man; and during the next few years was em- ployed in that capacity by some of the leading printing firms of the city.
In 1888 he became a member of the firm of Raisbeck & Company, printers, of 312-14 East Sixth Street, one of the better known printing firms of Cincinnati, and who are the printers of this souvenir.
Mr. Snyder has been a resident of our sub- urb for almost twenty years, and has taken an active part in its promotion, having had sev- eral improvements made through his efforts. He is a charter member of the Northside Busi- ness Club, and was elected one of the diree- tors to serve for a term of two years at its first election, in 1907. He also takes an active part in the various fraternal organizations of which he is a member, and of which he has at one time or another held all the important offices.
Leo. T. Folz
Mr. Leo T. Folz, whose picture is shown herewith, is a member of one of the oldest and best known families in this section of the city, whose head was David Folz, in his time one of the best known contractors in Cincinnati. He continued in his father's line of work until 1897, at which time he became connected with the Cin- cinnati Process Engraving Company, one of the largest and best known concerns in its particular line in the Middle-West, and which numbers among its patrons business houses in all parts of the United States. Mr. Folz is at present the secretary and treasurer.
Mr. Folz became a resident of Cumminsville in 1896, and has shown much energy and de- votion to its interests. He is at present a di- rector of the Northside Business Club.
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The Herbert Family
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Mr. Peter Herbert spent his first nineteen years in his native country (Germany), where he was born on the 12th day of December, 1847. His father, J. A. Herbert, was a silk weaver, of such rare ability that he was excused from serving in the army. The government placed such a high value upon his gifts in the art that he was retained to operate the looms that wove . the royal garments. He died at the age of 80 years. His mother was a direct descendant from King Wenzel of Bohemia, and lived to the venerable age of 83.
Peter Herbert served apprenticeship to the cabinet makers' trade in Germany, mastering the art in every phase. On September 4, 1866, he came to the United States and located at Johns-
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town, Pa., where he followed his trade until the following May, when he removed to Cincinnati, in which city he has lived continually, with the exception of a brief period of eight years from 1867, when he located at Ironton, O. There he was employed in the cabinet rooms by a man en- gaged in the retail furniture business, and was subsequently offered an interest in the store, but refused. Later he started the same business for himself, and remained at Ironton until 1875, when he returned to Cincinnati and began the manufacture of furniture. In 1870 Mr. Herbert was united in marriage to Miss Frances Ruppert, of Sciotoville, Scioto County, Ohio, and to them were born five sons and two daughters.
In 1895 he, with his sons John A. and Frank A., established the present business at Knowl- ton's Corner. Success soon crowned their efforts, and today they are recognized among the leaders
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of the country in their line of business. Mr. P. Herbert, being a cabinet maker of unusual skill, is an excellent judge of good work- mauship, and well fitted for the business in which he is engaged. One of his most valued possessions is a eabinet he built at a eost of about fifteen hundred dollars. It is made of beautiful polished wood of exquisite construction grain, and is inlaid with mother of pearl, brass and copper, as well as several varieties of woods, the design and materials used in its construction being highly artistie and pleasing, owing to the effective combination. It is a rare speei- men of craftsman's art, and he has been awarded a number of first prizes at different fairs and exhibitions throughout the country. The one in which Mr. Herbert takes most pride was bestowed upon him by the judges at the Centennial held in this city in 1888.
In 1902 the present company was incorporated, with Mr. P. Herbert, president and treasurer; F. A. Herbert, viee-president; J. A. Herbert, secretary. They have sinee admitted Geo. F., Ed. F. and Alonzo E. to the corporation and directorate. Each of the sons, serving apprenticeship under the guidanee of their father, have thoroughly mastered the arts and crafts of the furniture industry, and adapted them- selves to the various departments so as to make a working combination of high effieieney.
Their new building is a model structure to which Cumminsville citizens may point with pride. No money was spared to equip this plant with the most modern applianees and fixtures. Among these inay be mentioned the automatic elevator, electric lighting plant, interehangeable loading system, and many new ideas to facilitate the making and hand- ling of furniture in the most up-to-date manner. Many of these ideas originated in the minds of the Herberts. Leading merchants from other eities have examined and patterned their establishments from systems inaugurated by them.
Mr. P. Herbert has traveled extensively throughout this country, from Maine to California, and from the Lakes to the Gulf. He also traveled through Mexico, visiting all the large cities, in-
eluding Tampieo and Mexico City. He erossed the Atlantie seven times, and visited every important city in Europe. All his sons have traveled extensively through this country. The Herberts are prominent business men of Cincinnati, and have a national reputation as masters of their craft. Their sueeess has been attained wholly through their own initiative. industry and energy. They have always worked for betterment of the interests of this community. Herbert Square is only the beginning of an awaken- ing of a new eenter in this locality.
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The North Side Bank
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CUMMINSVILLE'S OLDEST AND LARGEST BANK.
Can you remember when the horse-cars used to come way out to Cumminsville ?- Not the thriving suburb it is now, but a little town on the pike to Cincinnati. It was about this time-in February, 1888, to be exact-that two men who foresaw the needs of "Greater
Cumminsville" conceived the idea of establishing an institution to aid the merchants of the place transact their business.
This was the beginning of The North Side Bank, the oldest and largest in Cumminsville. Messrs. George L. Thomson and Walter S. Titus, president and cashier respectively, were the founders, opening for business in the Masonic Temple at Hamilton Avenue and Palm Street.
Business was good from the beginning; and in November, 1891, the North Side Bank was incorporated under the laws of Ohio with a capital of $25,000, and Messrs. George L. Thomson, president, Joshua L. Pierson, vice-president and D. S. Shreve, cashier. Mr. Titus, former cashier and joint founder, having died in 1890, was succeeded by Mr. Shreve, who was bookkeeper when the bank was opened. The Directors at the time of incorporation were George L. Thomson, Joshua, L. Pierson, Henry Weber, J. C. Tarrant, and H. A. Stoffregen.
Meanwhile Cumminsville grew, business grew, and The North Side Bank grew. The service it gave became a necessity to the progressive merchants and tradesmen. Deposits and assets increased from year to year; and in 1902 business warranted doubling the capital stock. 1903 also marked big progress in the erection of a three-story building on the west side of Hamilton Avenue, opposite the first place of business. This building is still the home of Cum- minsville's first bank. The equipment is modern and complete, pro- viding the most efficient service to business men. White marble and steel fixtures beautify the banking room, while writing desks and tellers' windows are conveniently placed for customers. Fire and burglar proof vault contains safety deposit boxes and safe.
Successful years of business followed the occupation at the new home, and the capital was again increased in 1909 to $75,000.00 (three times that at the time of incorporation). Today the Capital is the same, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $52,000.00, and total Assets, $700,000.00. The Savings Department established two years ago has deposits amounting to $162,000.00.
Offieers are Mr. Joshua L. Pierson, president, who succeeded Mr. Thomson in 1897; C. J. Keller, vice-president, succeeding Henry Weber in 1914; D. S. Shreve, cashier, and G. B. Weber, assistant cashier.
Directors, Joshua L. Pierson, B. Topmoeller, H. A. Stoffregen, C. J. Keller, Wm. A. Schmid, Wm. F. Ray, Louis Usinger, Edgar Cummings, and J. J. Vogelpohl.
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Henry Tozzer
Among the pioneers of Cumminsville may be mentioned the parents of Mr. Henry Tozzer, who came from Massachusetts and settled in this locality in the year 1835. They took up their resi- dence on Colerain Pike, where, on August 19, 1848, Henry was born. At the age of six he entered the public school, which at that time was located at the corner of Langland and Knowlton Streets. Here he continued until he was graduated at the age of fourteen, when he entered Farmer's College, College Hill, Ohio.
At this time the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, which had such a depressing effect upon the college that it was unable to maintain its former standard. After being a student at the college for only three years, he discontinued, and entered in upon a course of study at Nelson's Business College, Cincinnati.
On completing this course, he took up the profession of civil engineer and surveyor, in the practice of which he is still actively engaged. On December 16, 1873, Mr. Tozzer was married to Hannah Badgley, an heir of the Robert Badgley who came from Lexington, Ky., and settled on the western hills of Cumminsville in 1796.
Mr. Tozzer is a member of the Northside Business Club, in the affairs of which he takes an active interest. Born and raised in Cumminsville, he is one of the few today who have had the pleasure of seeing Cumminsville grow from practically nothing more than a forest, with few homes scattered here and there, to its present beauty and prominence. Mr. Tozzer resides on Turrill Street.
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Henry Dillmann
Mr. Henry Dillmann was born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, January, 1863. Several years later his parents moved to a farm be- tween Oxford and Woods, Ohio, where at one time was a station called Ogleton. Here he and his parents lived in a log cabin for nineteen years.
After a three years' schooling, which was all that fortune be- stowed upon him to aid his intel- lectual development, he labored in the field and made fence rails in CLIFFORD H. DILLMANN the tall timbers to supply fencing for the acre lot near Hamilton.
After nineteen years of hard work, thinking he could probably improve his condition, he came to Cincinnati. In 1882 he 'entered the liquor business, and was very successful. His café was lo- cated on Colerain Avenue between the B. & O. R. R. and the old covered Mill Creek bridges, Cum- minsville.
The interior of Mr. Dillmann's café was very plain, the elaborate furnishings and decorations of the present-day cafes being unknown. Ordinary oil lamps were on the tables, and the white walls would reflect for the lighting of the room. At this time horse cars were being operated to Cumminsville, and al- most every car stopped at Mr. Dillmann's door, because there was always some good friend stopping to see Henry.
After spending several years here, Mr. Dillman moved to Cincinnati proper. Longing for "Dear Old Cumminsville," he started out one
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day to find some vacant spot. He secured a small place at the corner of Chase and Apple Streets, where he opened a first-class café, and which he successfully conducted for seventeen years.
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