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The O. Armleder Company.
Cincinnati enjoys the distinction of being the largest carriage and wagon market in the world. Among the largest enterprises in this industry, and one which has pushed itself to the front in the last decade is the O. Armleder Company, the largest manufacturers in the world of business delivery wagons. Under the most capable management this com- pany has made the most wonderful progress since its organization, less than fifteen years ago, and it now occupies the first place in the world among its competitors. The progress was so rapid that new buildings which were added to their original plant soon proved to be much too small, until lately the immense building on Plum, Twelfth and Charles Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, was purchased for their purposes. This covers an area 200 by 200 feet and the floor space is 168,478 feet. The Twelfth Street building is six stories and those in Plum and Charles Streets rise five stories. These buildings are so arranged that every foot of space is supplied with natural light. The most remarkable feature of this plant is the elimination of shafting and belting. Every machine has direct connection with an electric motor, so that any one machine can be stopped without interfering with the balance of the machinery. All this equipment exhibits the most modern type of development and necessarily reduces the cost of manufacture to a minimum. The buildings are heated by a new vacuum heating system and have been painted throughout with fire-proof paint and every other precaution taken to prevent a conflagration. A large cellar has been constructed
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outside the buildings for storing thousands of gallons of oils and paints. Nothing has been left undone from a sanitary standpoint in the way of up-to-date plumbing and toilet rooms and showers for employees.
This company is one which Cincinnatians are proud of, because it is the epitome of that aggressiveness and enterprise that characterize so many of our successful industries, and it has risen from a small wagon shop to the largest exclusive builders of fine delivery and
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THE O. ARMLEDER COMPANY CINCINNATI
undertakers' wagons in the world. Their work is shipped into every State in the Union and their foreign shipments amount to many thousands of dollars annually. The constantly increasing demands for their wagons compelled them to build this fine new plant, where they will have a capacity five times as great as in their former quarters.
Mr. Otto Armleder, the moving spirit in the concern, is the popular President of the Fall Festival Association, and one of Cincinnati's most respected citizens.
The Cincinnati Sanitarium,
Located at College Hill, the highest elevation in Hamilton County, is one of the most worthy institutions of the Queen City. It is a private hospital for the care and treatment of persons of unsound mind, and has provisions for the more serious grades of neurasthenia and hysteria, nervous prostration, etc. It also treats patients suffering from alcoholic
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excesses, as well as those addicted to the use of opium and other drugs. The institution is an incorporated organization, owned by stockholders, governed by a Board of Directors, and has at its head a medical director of National reputation, and one who is not interested as a proprietor. The institution was founded in 1873, and since that time has treated more than 4,000 patients, nearly 45 per cent of whom left the institution permanently cured. This is a very remarkable record, inasmuch as the percentage of cures in similar institutions in this country is but 33 1-3 per cent. The most conspicuous features of the sanitarium are perfect salubrity of location, combining the seclusion of the country with easy access to and from the city ; exceptional facilities afforded by numerous buildings for individual treat- ment of a variety of invalids ; the absence of all quackish or meretricious pretensions or prac- tices ; the reputation acquired by successful treatment of insane and otherwise impaired persons ; the absence of all influences engendered by monetary influences, and the exceptional reputation of the medical staff retained by the Board of Directors. The Cincinnati Sani-
THE CINCINNATI SANITARIUM CINCINNATI, OHIO
tarium is a beneficent, but not a benevolent institution in the accepted meaning of the word. It has done and can not avoid doing in the ordinary course of business much gratuitous, if not charitable work; but the purpose of its directors has been and is to furnish accommo- dations and the best possible treatment for a class of persons financially able to pay for treatment, whose conditions require seclusion from public view and excitations, or those who desire to be spared a notoriety or history of legal commitment to and residence in State institutions, thereby becoming dependent wards of the people. The aim of the insti- tution is not one by which it is expected to accrue large rewards for services, but rather to receive sufficient pay to cover the actual cost of administration and make such improve- ments and enlargements as become necessary from time to time. The grounds of the institution cover twenty acres of diversified park, well supplied with magnificent forest trees and an unfailing spring of excellent water. The commodious and convenient build- ings have been constructed expressly for hospital purposes. As accessories to the welfare
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of patients, the amusement pavilion, billiard room, conservatory, and the proximity of a select suburban community, with its society, churches, schools, etc., are all to be taken into consideration. Dramatic and social entertainments are given at frequent intervals under the thoughtful direction of the President and manager, with every evidence of benefit to those concerned. The Board of Directors is headed by Mr. John C. Sheets, President and Business Manager, a most able man, particularly adapted for the successful guidance of the great institution.
Moch, Berman & Co.,
Of Cincinnati, manufacturers of the celebrated "Wellworth" Dressing Clothing, have done much to spread the fame of Cincinnati all over the United States. The clothing man- ufactured by this firm is appreciated by the best dressed people of the country, and the
MOCH, BERMAN & COMPANY CINCINNATI, O.
trade name "Wellworth" is a guarantee of perfect taste, splendid workmanship and first-class material, while the name of Moch, Berman & Co. stands for everything that is clean in labor. The goods emanating from this immense establishment are the product of the most skilled
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artisans in the clothing business, every one of whom is a member of the United Garment Workers of America, the National body of union labor for the manufacture of clothing. The present members of the firm, M. E. Moch, Samuel Berman, Albert Moch and Charles S. Moch, were the original organizers of the firm, which was established in the year of 1880. They were all young men at that time, and careful training and experience in the art of manufacturing clothing, as well as being capable salesmen, previously having been employed in an old and well established firm, since retired. From its beginning the firm has met with wonderful success, and year by year has grown and flourished. The immense patronage obtained by Moch, Berman & Co. compelled them in 1901 to erect the magnificent building in which they are at present located. This structure is one of the sights of the factory dis- trict of Cincinnati, and is the largest plant in the United States devoted to the manufacture of union-made clothing. It contains 140,000 square feet of utilized space, and has a frontage of 84 feet with a depth of 200 feet. It is seven stories high, excluding the basement. Every facility for the economical and proper operation of the manufacturing department is included and no where in this or any other country can be found better arrangements in this direction. On the first floor can be seen the counting room, sample room, purchasing room, as well as private offices for all the members of the firm. As an evidence of the careful consid- eration given to the employees of the concern, it should be stated that a library has been installed on the first floor, as well as toilet rooms for ladies and gentlemen, the same being finished in Italian marble and furnished with shower and tub bath rooms. A marble drinking fountain dispenses filtered ice water, and the buffet is always well stocked with fragrant Havanas and liquid refreshments for visitors and friends. A cordial invitation is extended to all visitors to Cincinnati, to call and inspect the new business home, which is situated on the corner of Elm and McFarland Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company,
In this great era of progress there can be no doubt that the great commercial develop- ment owes its unparalleled strides directly to the electrical industry. The Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company takes great pride in feeling that it has contributed something toward this progress. The electrical machinery manufactured by the Bullock Company has received widespread attention both in this country and abroad. Bullock apparatus has been installed in every State in the Union.
The George F. Card Company, which began business in 1886, was the nucleus of the Bullock Company. The product at that time consisted of a patented time current meter and a small line of motors ranging up to fifteen horse-power capacity. The factory was located on the lower floor of the building situated at Second and Plum Streets, and had about twenty-five men on the pay-roll. In addition to the manufacture of motors above mentioned, a general repair business was carried on, and one of the company's best cus- tomers was the South Covington Railway, the President of which at that time was Mr. George Bullock. About this time the Card Company required financial assistance, and Mr. Bullock became interested in it. In 1891 the style of the firm was changed to the Card Electric Motor and Dynamo Company. The quarters at Second and Plum Streets having been outgrown, a large four-story building was erected at Hunt and Broadway, the entire building being used for the manufacture of electrical apparatus. In 1896 Mr. Bullock, prac- tically owning the company, and also being President of it, decided to change the name to the Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company. The company was an Ohio corporation, with an authorized capital stock of $1,000,000. The number of employees had now increased to sixty, and machines were built up to 200 k. w. in size. The business was increasing
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in giant strides, and early in 1897 the new building was found to be entirely inadequate. The local trade was extended and offices opened in the large cities. The volume of busi- ness which flowed in through these new channels exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the company. It became necessary to increase the capital stock to $2,000,000, and the company was re-incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey. At the same time a tract of land thirteen acres in extent was acquired in East Norwood, a suburb of Cincin- nati, located at the junction of the B. & O. S. W. Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Plans were prepared and work begun at once on a factory comprising the most modern design. The plant included an office building 100 feet square and two stories high, a machine shop 300 feet long and 101 feet wide, and a power house 177 feet by 60 feet. The buildings are of buff-colored pressed brick, with structural steel frames, and were occu- pied in December, 1898, with one hundred and fifty employees on the pay-roll. The build- ings were designed for a ten-year growth, but by the end of December, 1900, the number of employees had been increased to four hundred and the size of the machines ranged up to the 800 k. w. unit. The capacity of the shop now being taxed to its limit, an addition of 200 feet was made early in 1901, and was filled as soon as completed. An additional building was also erected for the pattern shop and brass foundry, 100 feet by 60 feet. The
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BULLOCK ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY NORWOOD, OHIO
volume of business was steadily increasing, and the fall of 1901 found further extensions necessary. These were prepared, and consisted of a service building 55 feet by 260 feet long, two stories high, and a machine shop, No. 3, 177 feet by 1,200 feet long, 300 feet of which, together with the service building, was erected at once.
The company has recently acquired the Bollman & Wilson foundry, situated directly opposite the factory. It consists of seven acres of land, and is the most modern foundry in Cincinnati. This plant supplies all the company's iron castings, and has a capacity of seventy-five tons per day. Further extensions are now in progress, which include the rebuilding and extending of shop No. 2, which will be 101 by 300 feet long and two stories high. A four-story building, 55 by 20 feet, is also being erected near the foundry for the making and storing of patterns. A night force has been employed since October, 1900, in order to catch up with orders. The force at present consists of nearly 1,250 men, while
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the size of the machines is practically unlimited. Machines are at present being built in units of 8,000 horse-power capacity, and the company is equipped to build units of 10,000 k. w. This company has built the largest sixty-cycle alternator and the largest direct- current generator in the world. Both these machines have recently been installed in the new power house of the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company. The alternator furnishes current for all the arc lamps in the city.
On the Ist of March, 1904, this company entered into an alliance with the Allis- Chalmers Company. By this combination the interests of both companies are under one management. The joint companies are the largest manufacturers of power machinery in the world, furnishing complete equipments for steam, gas, water and electric plants.
The Champion Coated Paper Company.
As the paper in this publication is printed on coated book paper made by The Champion Coated Paper Company, Hamilton, Ohio, it is proper that something be said about this company in this volume.
THE CHAMPION COATED PAPER COMPANY HAMILTON, OHIO
There are twenty-one paper coating mills in the United States, of which The Champion Company is the largest, having a capacity of all the other mills combined. Its daily product is upwards of 250,000 pounds of coated paper. It handles in and out about twenty-five carloads of material and finished product daily. The entire plant is operated twenty-four hours daily, except on Sundays. The coating or surfacing material is made from a peculiar white clay that is only found in England, and that has been freed from all foreign matter by repeated washing. This clay resembles in its dry state a fine, white chalk, except that it has a softer and more saponaceous appearance. To make it adhere to and practically become a part of the paper, a fine grade of glue is mixed with the clay. After the paper is coated, it is then compressed and polished between rollers on enormous calenders, which gives it the proper finish. About 70,000 pounds of China Clay are consumed daily
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in this mill and about 15,000 pounds of glue. The product of this company is shipped to all parts of the world and nearly all of the large magazines in the country are printed on their paper.
Mr. Peter G. Thomson, the President and guiding spirit of this company, is assisted in the management by his two sons, Peter G., Jr., and Alexander, both capable young men, who began at the bottom and arrived at the top, with every qualification for carrying on the enterprise their father had created and developed. The Secretary and Treasurer of the company is S. M. Goodman, also well known in Cincinnati.
Mr. Peter G. Thomson was born in Cincinnati on the 16th of December, 1851. He was educated in the public schools, and started into business for himself early in life. For many years he was with Robert Clark & Co., the Cincinnati book dealers. At the age of twenty-three, he opened a book and stationery store for himself at the corner of Vine and the Arcade, in the Emery Hotel Building. Later on he sold out this business and embarked in the publication of children's toy books and games, which was afterwards sold to the firm of Mclaughlin Bros., in New York.
In 1892 Mr. Thomson bought the 187-acre tract in . Hamilton known as the Prospect Hill and Grand View Addition. It was to develop the property that he conceived the idea of building the Black Street Bridge, and to further develop the property that he started the business of The Champion Coated Paper Company, which has developed to its present enormous business. The large paper mill connected with the coating plant is the largest book paper mill in the world, having a capacity of fine book paper amounting to one hundred tons daily. A visit to these two plants is one of the sights seldom seen and never forgotten.
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EXPLANATORY NOTES
INSCRIPTION ROCK, KELLEY'S ISLAND, LAKE ERIE
The Inscription Rock lies on the south shore of Kelley's Island in Lake Erie, about sixty rods east of the steamboat landing. The rock is 32 feet greatest length, 21 feet greatest breadth, and 11 feet high above the water in which it sets. It is a part of the same stratifica- tion as the island, from which it has been separated by lake action. The top presents a smooth and polished surface like all the limestone of this section of the country when the soil is removed, suggesting the idea of glacial action; upon this the inscriptions are cut; the figures and devices are deeply sunk in the rock. Schoolcraft's "Indian Antiquities" says of it: "It is by far the most extensive and well-sculptured and best-preserved inscription of the antiquarian period ever found in America." It is in the pictographic character of the natives; its leading symbols are readily interpreted. The human figure, the pipe, smoking groups, and other figures denote tribes, negotiations, crimes and turmoils, which tell a story of thrilling interest, connected with the occupation of this section by the Eries; of the coming of the Wyandots ; of the final triumph of the Iroquois; and the flight of the people who have left their name on the Lake. (See page II.)
CINCINNATI IN 1802
At the beginning of the last century the present "Queen City of the West" was a little hamlet. The principal structure was "Fort Washington", erected as a protection against the attacks of hostile Indians. The other prominent buildings were the following: 1. Residence of Major Wm. Ruffin; 2. Artificers Yard; 3. Residence of Charles Vattier; 4. Residence of James Smith; 5. Residence of David Ziegler (first Mayor of Cincinnati); 6. Residence of Griffin Yeatman; 7. Residence of Martin Baum; 8. Residence of Col. Gibson; 9. Residence of Joel Williams; 10. Residence of Israel Ludlow; 11. Green Tree Hotel; 12. Residence of Samuel Best; 13. Presbyterian Church ; 15. Residence of Dr. Allison. 14 is Fort Washington. (See page 39.)
TURKEY FOOT ROCK
The battle of "Fallen Timbers" was fought on the 20th of August, 1794. Two thousand Indians and Canadian Volunteers attacked the advance of the army of General Anthony Wayne from behind trees prostrated by a tornado. The American troops pressed forward with great energy and drove the enemy toward the guns of Fort Miami and the water of the Maumee Bay. The victory was complete. There is a tradition that Turkey Foot, an Ottawa chief, fell at the foot of Presque Isle Hill while endeavoring to rally the retreating warriors. He was pierced by a musket ball while standing on a large rock and encouraging his men. His tribe entertained so much affection for him that long years afterward when any of the tribe passed along the Maumee trail they would stop at the rock and linger for a time with great manifesta- tions of sorrow. The stone is still there within a few steps of the gentle-flowing Maumee, with many rude figures of a turkey foot carved on it as a memorial of the English name of the lamented Me-sa-sa, or Turkey Foot. (See page 53.)
TOWBOAT "SPRAGUE"
The Ohio River enjoys the distinction of possessing the largest and most powerful craft on inland waters in the world. This craft is the towboat "Sprague", estimated to handle in safety not less than 1,750,000 bushels of coal. The boat is 275 feet long and has a beam of 65 feet. Its machines have 16,000 horsepower. (See page 85.)
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INDEX
Ackley, Eugene Baker. 713
Adams, C. Barton.
456
Bennett, Smith W 33S
Admission of Ohio into the Union 56
Benton Guy Potter 787
Aiken, Walter. 800
Bernard, Lewis G. 619
Allen, William. 205
Bernthaler, Karl. 718
816
Allread, James I.
502
Biddison, Elmer G. 344
Alms, Frederick H.
794
Binckley, Tom D. 414
Anderson, John Robert.
647
Birth of New Empire 31
Birthplace of Benjamin Harrison 191
Bishop, John Remsen 650
Bishop, Richard M. 206
Blankner, Frederick. 355
Blake, William Vincent. 388
Blakeslee, Charles Ovid. 719
Blind, Institution for the. 163
Bliss, J. J. 650
Bode, August H. 823
Bonham, Scott. 522
Bcone, Richard G. 651
Born, Conrad 492
Bosch, Charles S. 474
Bott, John Angell. 610
Bowlus, Charles J 586
653
Brandt, Jesse M.
523
Baer, Henry 520
Baird, Charles. 521
Britton, Charles J.
654
Brooks, Harry Clyde.
783
Baldwin, B. W 412
Brough, John 204
Brown, Ethan Allen 200
Brown, Ralph M. 654
Browning, George K. 524
Bruce, John Eldridge
524
Barnes, Lewis F
707
Bartel. Otto E
716
Bartley, Daniel
807
Bartley, Mordecai.
202
Bartley, Thomas W
202
Barrington, Alfred Rogerson.
716
Baxter, John Kirk.
648
Bebb, William.
202
Beal, James Hartley.
412
Becker, William August.
712
Becbe, Brooks Ford.
706
Beechy, A. D.
649
Cain, L. F.
416
Beginning of Ohio's Public Schools 241
Caldwell, John A. 378
Calvert, Robert Allen. 525
Belden, Edgar Alonzo 503
Busch, August 624
Bushnell, Asa B 214
81
Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company
831
Bunker, A. P
705
Burket, Jacob F
346
Burnett, W. H
415
Burns, J. J.
704
Ashland University
309
Athens State Hospital. 159
Atterholt, Frank M 519
585
Appy, Ernest Frederick
713
Archaeological and Historical Society, The Ohio State.
219
Archer, F. B.
387
Archibald, J. A
793
Armleder Company, The O.
827
Armleder, Otto. 608
Arthur, Alfred. 714
519
Ankency, Horace.
351
Antioch College
293
Appel, Daniel.
Ayers, Howard. 636
Boyer, C. L.
Brannock, Charles A
415
Baird, Frank L. 491
Baldwin University and Wallace College 299
Ballard, Edward M. 521
Barckhoff, Carl. 462
Barnes, H. W. B. 715
Bruck, August. 625
Buchtel College 308
Building of Railroads.
Allen, Charles L.
411
Bickley,
Andrews, La Forrest R
Bell, S. Leonard. 717
836
Cameron, Isaac B. 343
Campbell, James E. 211
Canals, Building of .. 85
Crafts, Willianı H. 418
Creed, Jerome D. 529
Capital University
304
Crew, William B. 328
Crilly, Andrew J. 589
Criminal Classes, Ohio's Treatment of the. 165
Carrothers, M. M. 417
Carson, James Gillespy .389
Case School of Applied Science. 295
Cassedy, W. F 805
Cassidy, H. A. 776
Caswell, D. O. 472
Scioto Company 39
Cedarville College. 311
Centennial Celebration of Ohio's Statehood
137
Chalker, Newton.
526
Chamberlain, George H.
390
Champion Coated Paper Company, The.
833
Chaney, N. H.
655
Daugherty, Harry M 531
Davis, Charles K. 485
Davis, William Z. 326
Dawson, J. M. 818
Chase, Salmon P 106, 202
Chillicothe, First Capital of Ohio.
62
Christian Missionaries in Ohio.
23
Cincinnati, Birth of.
40
Cincinnati Law School.
286
Cincinnati Riot ..
132, 316
Cincinnati Sanitarium
828
Circuit Courts. 234
Citizen Soldiers 315
Civil War, Ohio's Participation in the .. 115
Civil War, Outbreak of the. 109
Ditzel, Henry A 780
Dowd, Frank. 590
Dowd, Herbert H. 591
Dowler, William
725
Dueringer, Carl. 726
Dumont, Charles T 532
Dunlap, Renick W. 391
Eastman, Orville David. 726
Ebeling, Herman. 727
Ebert, Leo. 470
Ebright, Leonidas S 471
Ecker, John Emil. 728
Eckert, John O.
707
Commery, Stephen .
724
Common Schools 84
Corwin, Thomas
202
Ellis, Wade H. 336
Eltzroth, William F 533
Emerson, George Gale. 730
Emerson, Lawson E 334
Emerson, Willis F 730
Emme, Carlos.
815
Engwerson, Otto.
731
Cowen, Benjamin Rush.
528
Erskine, Edwin DeWitt.
534
Dana, William Henry 725
Chapman, Horace L.
587
Chapman, William C.
588
Chapman, William W
790
Dayton State Hospital 158
Deaf Mutes, Institution for.
163
Defiance College 310
Denison University 297
Dennison, William
203
Deuscher, Henry P. 484
Dickinson, Townsend F. 623
Difficulties between Ohio and the National Government. 80
Dittgen, J. J. 806
Civil War, Preparations for the. 110
Clark, B. F. 808
Clark, Milton.
504
Clark, R. P.
657
Clemens, Charles E. 720
Cleveland, Founding of.
54
Cleveland, James Harlan
527
Cleveland State Hospital. 158
Clutts, J. C. 708
Cole, Frank Theodore
657
Cole, Ralph D.
361
Colleges and Universities.
267
Columbus, Second Capital of Ohio
79
Columbus State Hospital.
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