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CITIES, AMERICAN. (COLTTMBUS, COVINGTON, DAYTON.) 



business men. The Cleveland Medical College 

 is a large and handsome brown-stone building, 

 built in 1885 at a cost of $150,000, the gift of 

 J. L. Woods, on the site of the old building. 

 The number of volumes in the Public Library 

 has increased in about ten years from 24,000 

 to 48,000. The Case Library has 20,000 vol- 

 umes. The number of churches has increased 

 from about 125 to 150. Two new theatres 

 were built in 1886, 10 or more railroad lines 

 enter the city, and 13 regular lines of steamers 

 connect Cleveland with other ports on the 

 Great Lakes. Five of the lines of railroad lead 

 directly to the bituminous coal-fields of the 

 State. In 1876 there were six national banks, 

 with an aggregate capital of $4,550,000; there 

 are now nine, with capital of $6,581,700. 

 There are 19 banks in all, and the total bank- 

 ing capital is about $20,000,000. There were 

 about 20 newspapers published, 5 with daily 

 editions. There are now 8 daily, 3 tri-weekly, 

 47 weekly, and 28 monthly and quarterly 

 publications. The receipts of bituminous coal 

 amount to about 2,000,000 tons annually, more 

 than one fourth of which is shipped to lake- 

 ports, and about 120,000 tons of anthracite are 

 brought from Pennsylvania. About 1,000,000 

 tons of iron-ore, mostly from Lake Superior 

 mines, is received annually, and about 80,000 

 tons of pig-iron. There are 150 establish- 

 ments manufacturing iron and steel in some 

 form, employing about 18,000 persons, the 

 capital invested being $22,000,000, and the 

 annual product about $35,000,000. In 1876 

 the value of all manufactured products was 

 placed at $25,000,000 or $30,000,000. The 

 annual receipts of lumber average 350,000,000 

 feet. There are 20 oil-works, including those 

 of the Standard Oil Company, whose head- 

 quarters are in Cleveland. There are five 

 ship-yards for the manufacture of wood and 

 steel vessels, and the city has a larger amount 

 cf tonnage registered than any other port on 

 the lakes. 



Columbus, a ^city, capital of Ohio and of 

 Franklin County, on the Scioto river just 

 below the mouth of the Olentangy, in the cen- 

 ter of the State, 120 miles by rail northeast of 

 Cincinnati, at the intersection of the 40th par- 

 allel and the 83d meridian. The population 

 in 1870 was 31,244; in 1880 it was 51,647 

 and in 1886, estimated by the school census, 

 it was 76,000. Fifteen railroads enter the 

 city. A Government Building for court-rooms, 

 post-office, and other Government offices, is in 

 process of erection, the appropriations for it 

 already exceed $300,000. The State Agri- 

 cultural Society has recently purchased nearly 

 100 acres within the city limits which it is 

 laying out for fair-grounds and upon which 

 permanent exhibition buildings are in process 

 of erection. There are now two medical col- 

 leges and an art-school. The manufactures of 

 the city are increasing. Prominent among 

 them are the iron and steel manufactures, and 

 those of agricultural implements and buggies. 



Covington, a city, one of the seats of justice 

 of Kenton County, Ky., and the second city in 

 the State, is situated on the Ohio river, oppo- 

 site Cincinnati, and immediately below the 

 mouth of the Licking, which separates it from 

 Newport. The population in 1875 was 24,505 ; 

 in 1880 it was 29,720; and Jan. 1, 1886, it was 

 estimated at 34,872. The Chesapeake and 

 Ohio Railroad Company has begun building a 

 bridge over the Ohio river at Covington, 

 which will give it a continuous route from 

 Newport News to Cincinnati. The Elizabeth- 

 town, Maysville, and Big Sandy Railroad 

 Company has begun a track from Ashland, 

 connecting with the Chesapeake and Ohio, 

 with the intention of bridging the Licking at 

 Newport, and passing through Covington to 

 Cincinnati. The present Holly system of 

 water-works by which water is pumped from 

 the river in front of the city, is to be aban- 

 doned ; the citizens have voted to issue 

 $600.000 of bonds for the purpose of build- 

 ing works and a reservoir about nine miles up 

 the river in order to secure purer water. 

 Fine fair-grounds have been laid out near the 

 city, which has also a new post-office and a 

 new jail. Street-railways connect the city 

 with Cincinnati over the long wire suspension- 

 bridge, and with Newport over the truss- 

 bridge. There are in the city five banks with 

 an aggregate capital of $2,200,000, three news- 

 papers, 32 churches, and 8 public, 12 Cath- 

 olic parochial, and many private schools. The 

 taxable property is assessed at $15,646,525. 

 Among the manufactories are 2 rolling-mills, 

 14 tobacco-factories, 48 cigar- factories, 15 car- 

 riage and wagon factories, 3 breweries, 6 distil- 

 leries, and glass-works. 



Dayton, a city, and the capital of Montgom- 

 ery County, Ohio, on Great Miami river at 

 the mouth , of Mad river, 60 miles by rail 

 north-northeast of Cincinnati ; latitude 39 

 44' north, longitude 84 11' west. The popu- 

 lation in 1875 was 30,473 ; it is now 45,000. 

 The capital invested in manufacturing business 

 amounts to $8,000,000, and 10,000 hands are 

 employed, with a product of $15,000,000 per 

 annum, chiefly in railway-cars, bridges, mill- 

 machinery, farm-implements, and the products 

 of many paper-, oil-, and grain-mills, foundries, 

 machine-shops, wood-working establishments, 

 and 300 other shops. In addition to the 

 water-power formerly sufficient for manufact- 

 uring purposes, steam is now largely employed. 

 There are five national banks and one savings- 

 bank, with an aggregate capital of $1,600,000 ; 

 the banking resources are $5,600,000; eight 

 insurance companies have paid-up capital 

 amounting to $1,200,000. Seven railways 

 with their branches have stations in the city, 

 besides the three steam-roads to the Soldiers' 

 Home, and there are four street- railroads. 

 The two rivers, Wolf creek, and the Miami 

 Canal are spanned by iron and stone bridges. 

 There are fifteen public schools, with an aver- 

 age daily attendance of 7,600, and parochial 





