550 - ADVERTISEMENTS. J. F. CORDRAY, MANUFACTURER OF FINE GOLD JEWELRY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, SCRIPT AND MONOGRAM ENGRAVING, DIAMONDS & other PRECIOUS STONES MOUNTED to order. GENUINE AND IMITATION STONES CONSTANTLY ON HAND, OFFICE, 8 EAST BROAD ST. Factory, over Archer, strayer & . Co. COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS - 551 tending back on Long street one hundred and twenty-five feet; is four stories high, built of brick, with Corinthian iron columns and window-caps. It is a counterpart of Gill's building on the south, making a block 125 by 125 feet, and is generally considered one of the most substantial blocks in the city. It was built in 1868, at a cost of about $40,000. R. T. Brooks was the architect; Wm. Voswinkle, contractor for brick work; Wm. McDonald & Co., for the iron work, and C. Lawson, for the carpenter work. The lower stories are fifteen feet high and one hundred and twenty-five feet deep. The rooms are occupied by the Commercial Bank, of which F. C. Sessions, Esq., is president; Symmes E. Brown, dealer in hats, caps, and furs; Vandegriff & Webster, trunk factory; Thomas Lough, brush factory, and Steinbarger, Aldrich & Co., boot and shoe factory. COMMERCIAL BANK.—This house was established in April, 1869. The proprietors are Sessions, Johnson & Co. The officers are F. C. Sessions, president; Orange Johnson, vice-president; J. A. Jeffrey, cashier, and Wm. H. Alberry, teller. HINES, TAYLOR & Co.—This banking-house was established October 1, 1869. The proprietors are O. P. Hines, David Taylor, David W. Brooks, and James M. Walker. O. P. Hines is president. STATISTICS OF PRIVATE BANKING—The capital and deposits in the private banks of Columbus for 1872 amounted to $18,766,030.96. The sums discounted in the same banks during 1872 amounted to $13,199,758.57. THE CLEARING-HOUSE.—Just before the close of 1872, the banks of the city organized a clearing-house association, in order to avoid the complications attendant on the daily exchange of checks under the former cumbrous system. The officers of the association are T. P. Gordon, president; P. W. Huntington, vice-president; Joseph Falkenbach, George W. Sinks, and Joseph A. Jeffrey, managing committee; Henry H. Failing, manager. The clearing-house is located at the board of trade rooms in the City Hall. Such institutions have been found highly advantageous to business men in other cities; this will doubtless prove to be so in Columbus. It is one of the good results of the organization of a board of trade in our city. BUILDING LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. There are in this city nine building and loan associations. The object of the organizations is to raise money from members and stockholders, and receive deposits to be loaned among the members and depositors for use in buying lots or houses, or for other purposes. 552 - ADVERTISEMENTS. FREE OF CHARGE. Call at any Drug Store in the United States, and get a sample bottle of Dr. A. Boschee's German Syrup, Free of Charge. It has lately been introduced in this country from Germany, and for any person suffering with a severe cough, heavy cold settled on the breast, consumption, or any disease of the throat and lungs, it has no equal in the world. Our regular size bottles, 75 cents. In all cases money will be promptly returned if perfect satisfaction is not given. Two doses will relieve any case. Try it. G. G. GREEN, Proprietor of WESTERN LABORATORY, No. 8 Gwynne Block, Columbus, U. FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND! 500,000 Bottles of Green's August Flower Have been sold in this State in three months. We only ask you to go to any Drug Store in the United States and get a Bottle FREE OF CHARGE! OR A REGULAR SIZE AT 75 CENTS. Every Bottle warranted to cure Dyspepsia or Liver Complaint, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Heartburn, Waterbrash, Sour Stomach, Indigestion, Impure Blood, and all diseases caused by Impure Blood or deranged Stomach and Liver. Try it, or get a Descriptive Circular. G. G. GREEN, Proprietor of Western Laboratory, No. 8 GWYNNE BLOCK, COLUMBUS, O. COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS - 553 FRANKLIN BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Incorporated September 18, 1868, with a capital stock of $200,000, with privilege to increase to $500,000, in shares of $200 each. Incorporators: J. J. Janney, R. Burr, D. Jay Thompson, John Reeves, John H. Grove, John F. Bartlit, and Justin Morrison. HOME BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Incorporated in 1868. Capital stock $500,000, in shares of $200 each. Officers and directors for 1873: Win. B. Hayden, president; L. E. Wilson, secretary; J. Falkenbach, treasurer; John G. Mitchell, solicitor; Charles Breyfogle, W. H. H. Shinn, A. D. Rodgers, and T. Ewing Miller. CAPITAL BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Incorporated in 1868. Capital stock $500,000, in shares of $200 each. Officers and directors for 1873: M. C. Lilly, president; L. E. Wilson, secretary; J. Falkenbach, treasurer; John G. Mitchell, solicitor; W. H. H. Shinn, Charles Breyfogle, Jacob Peetrey, and T. J. Janney. CLINTON BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Incorporated May 1, 1869, with a capital stock of $200,000, in shares of $1,000 each. Incorporators: W. G. Deshler, C. J. Hardy, J. W. Sinks, R. Wentworth, and M. E. Brazee. COLUMBUS BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION,—Incorporated March 4, 1870, with a capital stock of $500,000, in shares of $200 each. Incorporators: Charles C. Walcutt, S. S. Rickly, Conrad Born, Sen., M. Helm, Thomas Robinson, and Henry O'Kane. The association was organized November 13, 1872. Officers and directors for 1873: Charles C. Walcutt, president; Thomas Robinson, vice-president; Ralph R. Rickly, secretary and treasurer; Conrad Born, Sen., and Henry O'Kane. COLUMBUS REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Incorporated February 16, 1871. Incorporators: Wm. Jamison, W. M. Mansfield, Thomas Miller, M. Haveland, B. C. Hoffman, W. A. Burt, J. F. Huffman, R. H. Gardner, and Win. J. Lacey. Organized for business May 1, 1871. The capital stock is $500,000, in shares of $200 each. Officers and directors for 1873: W. H. Akin, president; W. L. Jamison, secretary; Win. Jamison, treasurer; R. C. Hoffman, solicitor; W. E. Ide, Thomas Miller, A. C. Hanes, E. T. Mithoff, Win. J. Lacey, and Noah Bowen. GERMANIA BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Incorporated July 10, 1871, with a capital stock of $500,000, in shares of $200. Incorporators: Joseph Falkenbach, Henry Lindenberg, Ernst J. W. Schueller, W. Saile, Fred. Drumm, and J. H. Heitman. 554 - ADVERTISEMENTS. J. REINHARD. F. FEISER. "DER WESTBOTE," Published Weekly and Semi-Weekly, by REINHARD & FEISER, No. 180½ South High Street., COLUMBUS, O. TERMS OF WEEKLY, $2.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE The " Westbote," having a very extensive circulation throughout the Western States, is an excellent advertising medium for business men generally. ALL KINDS OF BOOK AND JOB PRINTING Will be executed with neatness and dispatch, in both German and English languages. D. B. BEAUMAN, D. D. S. 81 SOUTH HIGH STREET, COLUMBUS, OHIO COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS - 555 Officers and directors for 1873: H. Mithoff, president; C. Siebert, vice-president; J. B. N. Guessbacker, secretary; Ernst J. W. Schueller, treasurer; J. If. Heitman, solicitor; W. Salle, T. C. Pfaff, William Schabe, J. Bleile, G. P. Schroll, C. Synold, and J. Janton. SAVINGS BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Incorporated in 1873, with a capital stock of $500,000, in shares of $200 each. Incorporators: J. A. Jeffrey, Wm, Barton, G. G. Collins, L. Williams, J. R. Hughes, Joseph Guitner, Augustin Converse, Jehn J. Loop, and A. C. Hanes. CITIZENS' BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Incorporated January 28, 1873, with a capital stock of $500,000, in shares of $200 each. Incorporators: James Watson, C. Breyfogle, W. H. H. Shinn, T. Leonard, A. D. Rogers, John G. Mitchell, and G. G. Collins. TEUTONIA BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.—Incorporated February 11, 1873, with a capital. stock of $500,000, in shares of $200 each. Incorporators: Conrad Born, Thomas Koch, John A. Single, Ernst Grissel, George Beitz, Frank Thone, and John Frech. FIRE INSURANCE BUSINESS. The first insurance business of which we can find record was done about 1822, by David W. Deshler, as agent of "The Insurance Company of North America of Philadelphia." Mr. Deshler was a justice of the peace, and had his office on Broad street, just west of High. His agency was profitable to the company, as he was quite conservative in his ideas of taking fire risks. He was one of the projectors and founders of the " Columbus Insurance Company," which was incorporated in 1833. Directors: Wm. Neil, president; D. W. Deshler, secretary; Jesse Stone, N. Medbery, C. Neiswanger, Bela Latham, Demas Adams, Wm. S. Sullivant, Noah H. Swayne, John Patterson, William Miner, Jos. Ridgway, and M. Northrop. Capital stock, $300,000. After doing business a short timc, there arose a diversity of opinion in the board of directors, as to the policy of establishing agencies and the writing of hazardous risks. The conservatives sold out their stock and withdrew from the company, which then established agencies and largely extended its business. The company met with large losses through its agencies at New York, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Detroit. The company was closely connected in business with the City Bank of Columbus. The bank, for a long time, gave it such aid as was required by its necessities, consequent upon its many and large losses. The company struggled on for a time, but finally was compelled to yield and disastrously failed, carrying down with it the City Bank, in 1854. 556 - ADVERTISEMENTS. JOS. L. HALL, O. Y. CONE, President and Treas. Vice-Pres't and Sec'y. HALL'S SAFE AND LOCK CO. Manufacturers of Hall's Patent S A F E S. BANK LOCKS, AND VAULT WORK. 182 SUPERIOR STREET- CLEVELAND. - 182 SUPERIOR . Cincinnati, Boston, St. Louis, Louisville, and New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco. COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS - 557 This was a blow so severe that the business of fire insurance, for many years thereafter, was done in Columbus by the agencies of eastern companies. In 1864, the Home, Capital City, Franklin, and Central Insurance Companies were organized. Three of the companies, the Capital City, Franklin, and Central, did a joint business for some years, having separate boards of directers, with the same agents. The stock of the three companies was gradually concentrated into the same hands. The stockholders thinking it more economical to carry on the business as one company, voted to consolidate the three companies; and, in accordance therewith, in April, 1872, the Capital City and Central were merged into the Franklin, and its capital stock increased to $300,000, full paid in cash. The cash assets of the Home Insurance Company, January, 1873, were $800,733.76. The policy of our home insurance companies is, and always has been, to decline hazardous business. The business of the companies has been profitable. Their list of stockholders embraces our most successful and reliable business men and capitalists. FRANKLIN INSURANCE COMPANY.—Officers and directors: John Greenleaf, president; W. B. Hawkes, vice-president; Allen G. Thurman, B. E. Smith, Wm. G. Deshler, F. C. Sessions, Isaac Eberly, J. P. Bruck, P. W. Huntington, E. Barcus, W. C. Brown, Henry O'Kane, secretary and treasurer; Zelotes Wood, manager; and S. M. Shedd, solicitor. HOME INSURANCE COMPANY.—Officers and directors: M. A. Daugherty, president; E. T. Mithoff, C. P. L. Butler, Henry Miller, Samuel Galloway, B. E. Smith, Jno. G. Mitchell, B. S. Brown, Francis Collins, Jared Sperry, Joseph Black, Henry Jones, J. Warren Keifer, Charles Follett, S. W. Pickering, Jacob Peetrey, secretary; and J. W. Chapin, agent. THE RAILROAD CONDUCTORS' LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE CANADAS.—Organized in October, 1868, at Cincinnati, by the railroad conductors—passenger and freight —of the United States and the Canadas. The whole number of certificates of membership issued to January 1, 1873, is 5,420; present number of members in good standing, 3,500. It is a mutual association. At the death or total or permanent disability, each member in good standing is assessed one dollar, to be paid to the heirs of the deceased, or to the party disabled. The Sum of $480,000 had been assessed, collected, and paid, up to January 1, 1873. This is a large sum of money for an organization in existence only four years. Thc office of the association is in this city. Officers for 1873: James Marshall, president; J. G. Cormick, 558 - ADVERTISEMENTS. THE ONLY EXCLUSIVE   MEN’S FURNISHING GOODS STORE IN COLUMBUS Particular attention given to the manufacture of FINE SHIRTS TO ORDER T. P. WHITE, . . 91 SOUTH HIGH STREET. ☞All the Novelties of the Season received as soon as out. STROBRIDGE & CO. COR. FOURTH AND RACE STS., CINCINNATI, LITHOGRAPHERS, ENGRAVERS, AND PUBLISHERS OF CHROMOS, ETC. Show Cards, Bonds, Diplomas, Maps, Portraits, Certificates of Stock, Drafts, Bill and Letter Heads, Cards, etc., executed in the best manner. WM. R. KENT, AUCTION AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, Northeast Cor. Town and Fourth Sts., Columbus, Ohio. DR. A. O. BLAIR. HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Office and Residence, op. the Town Street Methodist Church, M. LANG, Dealer in all kinds of Building Stone. Stone Yard on Fifth St., South of Livingston Avenue, Columbus, O. R. C. HELLRIGLE. A. R. TALCOTT. HELLRIGLE & TALCOTT, PUBLISHERS of DIRECTORIES, GAZETTEERS & RAILROAD GUIDES, ☞Directories of all the Principal Cities kept on Pilo for reference. COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS - 501 first vice-president; M. Spain Jay, second vice-president; and Jos. F. Culbertson, secretary and treasurer. Executive Committee: John W. Moore, J. N. Horner, and E. Morrell. PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.—Incorporated in January,1873, with a capital stock of $200,000, in shares of $100. Incorperators: John G. Doren, C. P. L. Butler, R. N. Brown, W. A. Hershiser, Isaac C. Aston, P. B. Ewing, Frank S. Osborn, John Seltzer, Peter Ambos, Joseph Falkenbach, W. H. Belville, W. H. Platt, O. C. Maxwell, A. S. Bates, John C. McKenny, and S. R. Stimson. THE COLUMBUS STREET RAILROADS. THE COLUMBUS STREET RAILROAD was the first street railroad constructed in the city, and it is generally known by the name of the High Street railroad. The company to build the road was incorporated in 1863; the road was constructed and went into operation the same year, with a double-track, and continued to use the double-track until 1866. The directors finding the enterprise unprofitable, took up the double-track and laid a single one, with turn-outs, six in number. Its entire length of track, including turn-outs, switches, etc., is about three miles. Its rolling-stock, horses, and other personal property is valued at about $$80,000. Its value has been very much impaired by the occupation of High street as a switch-yard by the railroad companies. The present officers of the company are Edward T. Mithoff, president, and Win. Person, secretary and treasurer. FRIEND STREET RAILWAY.—Incorporated April 10, 1868, with a capital stock of $32,000. Corporators: Thos. Miller, M; C. Lilley, H. H. Kimball, Isaac Eberly, N. Merion, and Horace Wilson. The length of the road is three miles, running east from High, on Friend, to the county fair grounds. The road was constructed in the summer of 1870, and in the fall of the same year cars commenced running. Officers and directers: M. Haviland, president; Thomas Miller, acting superintendent; J. McArty, F. Michael, John Joyce, D. C. Wax, and N. Miller. FAIRWOOD STREET RAILROAD COMPANY.—Incorporated March 3, 1870, with a capital stock of $5,000. Corporators : B. F. Martin, B. F. Stage, Frederick Michael, M. Haviland, and Samuel Galloway. This road commences at Rose avenue, connecting with the Friend Street railroad where the latter diverges from the N ational 560 - COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Road to the county fair grounds, and runs east along the north side of the National Road, about three-fourths of a mile, to a point very near to Alum creek. The company organized by electing as directors B. F. Martin, B. F. Stage, Thos, Miller, Michael Haviland, R. C. Hoffman, Frederick Michael, and E. W. Livingston. The board of directors elected the following officcrs: B. F. Martin, prcsident; Thos. Miller, vice-president; B. F. Stage, treasurer; E. W. Livingston, secretary—who still continue in office. The road was constructed in the winter and spring of 1871. EAST PARK PLACE STREET RAILROAD COMPANY.—Incorporated in 1870. Capital stock, $25,000. Corporators : William S. Sullivant, W. B. Hawkes, A. D. Rodgers, S. S. Rickly, F. C. Sessions, and John G. Mitchell. The length of the road is one and one-fourth miles, running east from High, on Long, to Albert street. It is contemplated to be extended to the county fair grounds. The road was constructed in the year 1871, at a cost of $13,000, and cars commenced running in January, 1872. Officers and directors: A. D. Rodgers, president; James Watson, secretary; S. S. Rickly, treasurer; Will. F. Isle, John G. Mitchell, W. S. Sullivant, Orange Johnson, William Trevitt, John M. Pugh, and William B. Hayden. THE NORTH COLUMBUS STREET RAILWAY COMPANY.—Office, No. 5 Odeon Building. This company was incorporated September 12, 1871, by Samuel Doyle, Wm. Dennison, Rudolph Williams, M. M. Green, Henry M. Neil, Wm. Preston Brown, and Joseph Guitner; but was not organized until November 2, 1872, when the following gentlemen were elected directors for 1872-73: Samuel Doyle, president; James Finley Brown, secretary and treasurer; Wm. Neil Dennison, E. L. be Witt, I3. M. Neil, Joseph Guitner, George M. Peters, and George Williams. Capital stock, $75,000. The line of the road is as follows: Beginning on High street, at the west end of Swan street (on the line of the High Strcet railroad, one block north of the Union Depot), and running cast on Swan street to Third strect, north on Third street to First avenue, east on First avenue to Summit street, north on Summit street to the Mock road (the north line of the city limits), thence west on the Mock road and Second street to Monroe street, in the Northwood Heights addition, thence north on Monroe street to the Columbus Sewer Pipe Works, at North Columbus, two blocks east of High street, extending three and three-fourth miles, through elevated and beautiful suburbs of our city. The grading on the line of the road has been completed, at a COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS - 561 cost of about $20,000. The track will be laid with T rails; thirty pounds to the yard. The cquipments for the passenger traffic will consist of two of' Baxter's steam streetcars, which are noiseless and smoke-consuming. The gauge of the road will be 4 feet 8½ inches, so as to allow the transportation of freight and coal cars without breaking bulk. M. S. Doyle, the president of the company, who has the contract for the construction of the road, expects to complete and equip the same by the middle of April next. Estimated cost of constructien, $45,000; of equipments, $15,000 ; total, $60,000. GLENWOOD AND GREEN LAWN STREET RAILWAY.—Incorporated April 23, 1872, with a capital stock of $50,000. OAK STREET RAILWAY COMPANY.—Incorporated January 23, 1872, with a capital stock of $20,000. THE STATE AND OAK STREET RAILROAD.—Incorporated March 13, 1873, with a capital stock of $30,000. Corporators: Luther Donaldson, John M. Pugh, R. C. Hoffman, Wm. C. Stcwart, and D. W. C. Jones. The line of the road is to be as follows: Commencing at the east end of the State Street bridge, thence running east on State to Seventh, north on Seventh to Oak, east on Oak to an avenue on the east side of Stewart and Jones addition, thence north to the Fair Ground avenue, and thence east on Fair Ground avenue to the fair grounds. COLUMBUS GASLIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. The act creating Joel Buttles, Samuel Medary, Chas. Scott, J. S. Abbott, Dwight Stone, Jno. Miller, James D. Osborne, James Westwater, S. D. Preston, and Wm. Armstrong a body, corporate and politic, With perpetual succession, by the name and style of the Columbus Gaslight and Coke Company, was passed by the legislaturc February 21, 1846, and signed by Elias F. Drake, speaker ef the House of Representatives, and Sea-bury Ford, speaker of the Senate. A meeting of the incorporators named in this act of incorporation was held at the office of Gilbcrt & Baldwin, on the 21st of May, 1840. Wm. Armstrong was appointed chairman, and J. D. Osborne, secretary. At this meeting, Gilbert & Baldwin were authorized to open books at their office for subscriptions to the capital stock, from and after that date. The records do not show that any stock was subscribed until November, 1848. From that time to January 4, 1849, about one thousand shares, of $10 each, only Were taken, notwithstanding that the enterprise was warmly recommended to the people by 562 - COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS. such reliable business men as J. Ridgway, Jr., Jno. Miller, D. W. Deshler, Jno. L. and W. A. Gill. The first meeting of stockholders was held December 6, 1848, and John Miller, D. W. Deshler, J. Ridgway, Jr., Jno. Lockwood, and W. A. Gill were declared duly elected directors of the company. Jno. Miller was appointed president; J. Ridgway, Jr., secretary; and D. W. Deshler, treasurer. The president and secretary were made a committee to prepare by-laws. At a meeting held at the American Hotel, January 5, 1849, the secretary was directed to procure from the engineer of the Cincinnati gasworks, plans and specifications for gasworks, suitable for the wants of thecity. At a subsequent meeting held on the 15th of February, 1849, a contract was entered into between the directors and Jno. Lockwood, by which said Lockwood was to furnish plans and specifications, with an estimate for constructing the works which, if satisfactory to the directors, should be executed, and if not, then said Lockwood and his associates might construct gasworks on their own responsibility. At the annual election of directors, held on the 1st day of April, 1850, W. A. Gill, Jno. Miller, Peter Hayden, Thomas Moodie, W. A. Platt, J. Ridgway, Jr., and D. W. Deshler were elected; and on the following day, W. A. Gill was elected president of the board; W. A. Platt, secretary; and T. Moodie, treasurer. A committee was also appointed at this meeting, consisting of D. W. Deshler and W. A. Platt, to purchase grounds for the erection of gas-works. On the 4th of April, 1850, a committee was appointed to contract with Jno. Lockwood for the erection of gas-works, and the committee on the purchase of grounds were authorized to purchase from Lewis Mills and C. Niswander, lots Nos, 249 and 250. On the 10th of April, a committee was appointed to procure from the city council a satisfactory ordinance, conveying to the company the right to use the streets and alleys for laying down pipes. The ordinance was passed on the 14th of May, 1850, and accepted on the day following by the gas company. The contract for the erection of the works was concluded with Jno. Lockwood, on the 18th of May, 1850. The first requisition on the stock subscribed was made June 10, 1850. Joseph C. Vance was appointed secretary of the company December 18, 1850. The gas-works were accepted from the contractor as complete December 24, 1850, and by order of the board of directors, a supper was tendered to Lockwood and Barringer at the American Hotel. On the 5th of March, 1851, a committee, appointed for that purpose, reported a contract entered into with Grafton Douty as superintendent. The original capital stock of $40,000 was increased to $50,000 MANUFACTURING INTERESTS - 563 on the 30th of April, 1851. The first balloon inflated by the company was for John M. Kinney, July 4, 1851. The experiment of using Roman cement for joints in gas-mains was authorized by the board of directors, in May, 1851, since which time the cempany has used no other material. On the 6th of April, W. A. Platt was elected president, and J. C. Vance resigned the office of secretary at the same date, and was succeeded by 1I. Z. Mills. Large extensions of main pipes in the principal streets were made during this season, and more grounds purchased for the necessary extension of the works, which the business already showed would soon be necessary. The capital stock was increased (May 18, 1854,) $50,000, and on the 20th of January, 1858, the price of gas was reduced from $3.25 to 83,00 per one thousand cubic feet, without discount. The capital stock was increased, April 23, 1860, to $125,000; April 17, 1863, to $150,000; June 25, 1867, to $200,000; May 26, 1869, to $250,000, and April 24, 1871, to $400,000. There are now twenty-four miles of main pipe laid in the streets, and the consumers of gas number over two thousand; besides, six hundred and sixty-one street lamps are supplied with gas. The company are erecting a large three-story building for a fitting-shop; and will, during the present season, build a large gasometer and enlarge the retort-house, so that the capacity of the works will be nearly or quite doubled. Officers and board of directors for 1873: W. A. Platt, president; John F. Bartlit, John Miller, John L. Gill, George McDonald, W. G. Deshler, P. W. Huntington; A. B. Robinson, secretary; Grafton Douty, superintendent, and C. A. Platt, foreman. CHAPTER XX. MANUFACTURING INTERESTS. COLUMBUS AS A MANUFACTURING CENTER. Columbus has grown from small beginnings to be one of the most important business and manufacturing centers in the West; and its facilities and prospects for future growth are unequaled. While yet a small village, it owed much to thc enterprise and energy of its citizens. These form the true sccret of its prosperous condition, inasmuch as these sterling qualities 564 - MANUFACTURING INTERESTS. have always distinguished, as they do now, in a pre-eminent degree, our manufacturers, merchants, and business men. The locating of the State capital and State institutions here, no doubt, to some extent, assisted Columbus in her struggles upward. They gave some impetus to her infant business, but at the same time retarded her progress in an almost equal degree. They cxcited a jealousy and a prejudice against her, as though she were a parasite, living and growing at the expense of the rest of the State. But it is needless to more than allude to this unreasonable prejudice, as it is now generally admitted that the advantages Columbus enjoys from being the State capital are very few, and of very little consequence when compared with the wealth, trade, and resources that have been and are being developed by the talent and efforts of her citizens, unaided by the State. The growth of Columbus, though not so rapid as some other western towns, has been as steady and stable as that of any of them, and bids lair to increase in the future with an ever accelerated speed. In 1870, when the last federal census was taken, its population was set down at nearly thirty-two thousand. Since that time our city limits have been greatly enlarged; our population has been rapidly increased, and our total number of inhabitants must now reach from forty to forty-five thousand. During the last decade, we have more than doubled our population, and at the rate of progress we are now making, our city will contain within its bounds, in 1880, from seventy-five to one hundred thousand people. From our location, in the center of Ohio, and our means of easy transit to all points of the compass, our merchants and business men are net only fast building up a profitable trade with the rich and populous counties around us, but are extending their enterprises into adjoining States. Therc is no more desirable place in the West, in which to fix a residence or engage in business. Our public schools are among the best regulated and the most thorough in the country. Our Holly water-works afford us almost perfect security against fire. As a railroad center. Celumbus will soon rival Indianapolis. Six important lines already converge to this point; three others are about ready to be constructed, and several more will not be long delayed. But it is as a manufacturing city that Columbus is becoming. day by day and hour by hour, more prominent. For many years she has been steadily gaining ground in this regard. Simultaneously almost with the laying bare to public gaze of the almost inexhaustible riches of the coal and iron mines to the southeast of us, was the opening of the Hocking Valley railroad, giving us ready and speedy access to a portion of those mines, and MANUFACTURING INTERESTS - 565 bringing thcir rich products to our very doors. Then it was that our capitalists and business men saw more clearly than ever before, that the only safe and sure way to advance their own interests and those of the city, was to utilize the raw material so abundant and so easily obtained, and that this could only be done by enlarging the business of existing manufacturing establishments, and inaugurating new ones that should be liberal in the employment of capital, skilled labor, and the most improved mechanism. Grasping this idea firmly, our men of means and enterprise went to work with a will," and in 1871, our manufactured goods amounted to more than six and a half million dollars, and our aggregate of goods sold at wholesale, to over eight millions. It is mainly as an iron manufacturing city, that a bright and glorious future opens up before Columbus. This is due to her close contiguity to the coal and iron fields of Southeastern Ohio, and the comparative ease with which she can avail herself of these all but exhaustless resources for manufactures and trade, and the consequent continued increase of her population and wealth. What has been already achieved in the infancy, as it were, of the coal and iron mining, is a mere prophecy of the still greater results to be wrought out in the future. It may be thought extravagant to say, as some intelligent men do, who are far better versed in these matters than we are, that the clay is near at hand when Columbus will divide with Pittsburg the honor of being the best iron market. This anticipation will not, however, appear very romantic, when the resources at our command are duly considered. We can already procure valuable iron ores, and cheaper and better coal, over the Rocking Valley road than can be had elsewhere; and when the Ferrara road, now under way, penetrates the mining region in another direction, we shall have cheaper, and as good, and probably to some extent better,, coal and iron ores. Having in abundance the cheap and superior coal and ore that will be supplied, not merely by one or even two roads penetrating the mining region, but by several well-cquipped thoroughfares, there will be nothing to hinder our iron and other manufactures increasing to an unlimited extent. Men of capital and enterprise may avail themselves of one advantage now offered at this point, but which, in the natural order ef our progress, is daily becoming less and less. We refer to the cheap or moderate rate at which lands within the corporation, or just outside of it, as, for instance, on the line of the new Ferrara railroad, may be procured for residences or manufacturing sites. These lands, now in market, are being taken up so fast that in a very short time the most eligible sites will 566 - MANUFACTURING INTERESTS. be all gone. Investments made in the city or vicinity, in real estate, not wanted by the purchasers for thcir own immediate occupancy, will be quite certain to double or treble in a few years. As our manufactures and trade increase, the greater will be the demand for, and the value of the present outlying lands around the more compact portions of our city, for new manufacturing establishments, for suburban residences for the more prosperous, and for cheap homes for mechanics and laboring men. Some facts may here be briefly stated, showing the amount of coal brought to Columbus by a single road. During 1871, the amount brought by the Hocking Valley road was 302,76.6 tons. During the seven months ending August 1, 1872, the amount was 377,108 tons. The main increase was from the Straitsville mines, where 107,055 tons were produced in the seven months against 89,000 for the entire year of 1871. The greater portion of the coal distributed at this point passes on, in about equal quantities, to Clcveland and Chicago, while supplying numerous small towns and cities. That this coal is adapted for the manufacture of iron has been satisfactorily proven. It is now used in the Columbus, Cleveland, and Zanesville blast-furnaces, with complete success—the Columbus furnace making a ton of iron with sixty-two bushels of coal, at a cost of nine cents per bushel. The iron ores used are one-third Lake Superior, and two-thirds native—the latter being procured from the great mining region to the southeast of Columbus. Limestone, suitable for fluxes, in the manufacture of iron, can be procurcd here at fifty cents per ton. Our coal for gas purposes yields four feet of gas per pound. Its illuminating power is said to be superior to that of the Youghiogheny coal, though the latter is much sought after for steam and domestic purposes. It is not so hard as the Straitsville coal, and not adapted for use in blast-furnaces. The `4 great vein," extending over a large area of country, principally in Perry county, averages about eleven feet in thickness. This immense deposit, in point of extent and quality, is nowhere equaled in this country. The Hocking Valley road, though operated to its fullest capacity, will be inadequate, even with its proposed double track, to the removal of the coal that will be daily mined in the great field contiguous to Columbus. Nor, were it able to meet the increasing demand, should our manufactures and the public be dependent upon a single company, however competent its officers, and extensive its means of transportation. Hence the importance, and the absolute necessity of at least another mineral railroad, such as the Columbus and Ferrara, now ready for con- MANUFACTURING INTERESTS - 567 struction, and which will undoubtedly bc in operation in a year or eighteen months. We shall then have, from one of the best coal-fields in the world, an abundant supply of the very finest coal, and at a cheap rate, for manufacturing purposes at home, and for distribution to other points. The fact should be noted in this connection, that in the Hocking and Perry county mineral region, iron ore abounds in immense quantities, and of nearly the same grade as that of Hanging Rock. With these vast sources of mineral wealth, so near Columbus, its advantages for manufactures, and especially for the manufacture and distribution of iron and all kinds of utensils and machinery, can not but be apparent to every man. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,—The manufacture of agricultural implements has been carried on for many years in Columbus, but not to an extent that its location, facilities, and resources for such business would seem to justify. At present, however, these manufactures are energetically prosecuted by two establishments in the city, and two other dealers, not manufacturers, in this line, keep on hated pretty extensive stocks. These four establishments employ 110 hands, and a cash capital of $218,000. Their products in 1872 reached $332,000. BOOK-BINDING AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURING.—This branch of the manufacturing industry is carried on in the city by two firms. Their product for 1872 amounted to $120,000; the capital employed is $40,000, and gives employment to 37 hands. THE BOOT AND SHOE TRADE.-Our manufacturers and wholesale dealers in boots and shoes are now doing, as they have done for many years, an extensive business in Ohio, Indiana, and the far West. The following statistics will givc some idea of the extent of the business done by our boot and shoe manufacturers and dealers at wholesale and retail: There are in the city, in the retail trade, 14 stores and 57 shops, with a capital of $119,000, and employing 143 different persons. Their business in 1872 amounted to $357,000. The number of wholesalc houses is three, with a capital of $230,000, and employing 220 hands. Their business amounted, in 1872, to $780,000, and the combined products $690,000. BREWERS.-The manufacturing of malt liquors is carried on by six firms, and is one of our most extensive business interests. The products of our breweries are in excellent repute with dealers and consumers throughout Central Ohio. The aggregate capital employed is $112,000; number of men, 53. BRASS FOUNDRIES.—There are two establishments of this class of manufacture in our city, which are doing a pretty fair business. The value of their manufactured products for 1872 was 568 - MANUFACTURING INTERESTS. $20,000, and they carried an average stock of $9,000, employing ten persons, occupying real estate worth $6,500, and having an invested cash capital of $11,500. BRUSH MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS.—It is a growing business for which the city affords great and increasing facilities. There are in the city two establishments in this line, having a cash capital of $103,000, and employing 227 hands. The value of their average stock is $64,000, and the amount of business done in 1872 was $23C,000. BAKERIES.—There are in Columbus fourteen of those establishments, covering the whole range of preducts in their line. They employ sixty-nine hands. Their aggregate products for the year 1872 were valued at $234,900. They carry an average salable stock worth $22,500; have a cash capital invested of $25,700, and occupy real estate of the value of $65,500. BROOM-MAKERS.—There are in the city seven broom-making establishments, employing sixty-three hands, and a cash capital of $33,000, and having on hand an average stock of $21,000. The value of their business done in 1872 is estimated at $160,000. BLACKSMITHING.—Aside from the blacksmithing carried on in various manufacturing establishments, we have shops conducted by active and enterprising men. The number of shops is thirty-three, employing 117 men, and having a cash capital of $17,000. BOILER-MAKERS.—There are in this city three establishments engaged in the manufacturing of boilers, with an aggregate capital of $7,800, and employing thirty-nine hands. BRICK—The manufacture of brick for building and other purposes, is carried on in this city by thirteen firms. Their product for 1872 amounted to about 20,000,000 of brick, giving employment to 200 persons, and about $100,000 capital. COLUMBUS MANTEL AND GRATE COMPANY.—Though this Company has been in operation only about two years, it has extended its trade to mest of the large cities and towns in the Northwest. For several years, the only manufactory of these articles in the West was at Cincinnati, where excellent work was turned out, far superior to that produced at Eastern manufactories. Yet in style, finish, and truthfulness to nature, the Columbus manufactory competes with any in the country. CHILDREN'S CARRIAGE MANUFACTURE.—Our city can boast of the largest and most extensive manufactory of children's carriages in the United States. This branch of' business employs L cash capital of $75,000, and has fifty different persons engaged in its various operations. It occupies real estate valued at $20,000, and its aggrcgate products in 1872 amounted to $80,000. MANUFACTURING INTERESTS - 569 CAR BUILDING. The Columbus Car and Wheel Works is the most extensive manufacturing establishment in Columbus. John L. Gill is the sole proprietor—a man who has done more to advance the manufacturing interests of' the city- than any other person living. For nearly half a century he has been cngaged in Columbus in the foundry and iron manufacturing business, with an ability and perseverance that dcserve, and have been crowned with eminent success. Mr. Gill's car works are a monument to his skill, enterprisc, and public spirit. In this establishment nearly 400 men are employed in thc manufacture of freight cars and car-wheels. The dimensions of the various connecting brick and stone buildings are, as follows: Foundry, 190x96 ; machine-shop, 150x50 forge-shop, 100x85 (20 furnaces) ; wood machine-shop, 200x40 erecting-shop, 115x80; paint-shop, 136x50; dry-house, capacity, 20,000 feet of' lumber; also, other outside buildings, as pattern-shop, pattern storage, and storehouse. The engine that furnishes power for these immense works is the Babcock & Wilcox pattern, 20 by 36 inch cylinder, built by John Cooper & Co., Mount Vernon, Ohio. When operated to their full capacity, the works turn out ten gondola coal cars per day, and a proportionate number of box cars. A vast number of chilled car-wheels, in excess of' those made to equip the cars here constructed, are cast for the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad Company. Mr. Gill has provided his works with all the modern improvements in machinery that his long familiarity with the business could suggest. During the year 1872, about 9,000 tons of pig metal and 1,800 tens of wrought-iron were consumed. E. P. Bullard, a man of remarkable mechanical ability and energy, is the general superintendent. The business last year reached to nearly $1,500,000, employing a capital of $400,000, and giving work te 300 men; the monthly payroll amounts to $16,000; the real estate occupied is valued at $250,000, 570 - ADVERTISEMENTS. English, Miller & Co. MANUFACTURERS, AND WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS 95 and 97 North High Street, COLUMBUS, O. MANUFACTURING INTERESTS. - 571 CLOTHING.—We have thriving establishments for the manufacture and sale of clothing at wholesale, at retail, and at both wholesale and retail. Many of these are equal to any of the kind in any other Western city, and few will be found anywhere as complete in all their departments. Buying clothing here, the purchaser pays but one profit; whereas, in buying East he pays what is equivalent to two or three profits. Clothing made in Columbus is manufactured expressly for home consumption and the Western trade. One house, that of English, Miller & Co., employ over 150 hands in this branch of manufacture. CLOTHING AND MERCHANT TAILORING.—There are twenty-seven merchant tailoring and retail clothing establishments, manufacturing clothing for customers and for the trade. These do a very large business, giving employment to 753 different persons, and having invested in the business a cash capital of $363,000. The average stock carried in these establishments is $413,000, and the aggregate sales in 1872 amounted to $696,000. CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS.—The manufacture and trade in carriages and other like vehicles forms a large item in the business of our city. The manufacture is extensive, and for it Columbus affords such facilities that its cost is much less than in many other cities. The dealers in this line are able to offer vehicles, from a simple spring-wagon to the most costly carriage, at cheaper rates than can be afforded at most other points in the `Vest. One great advantage to the buyer here is, that the stocks are so large and varied he can scarcely fail to find the precise thing he wants, and at the lowest price in the market. We have nine manufacturers and dealers in this line, employing a capital of' $62,700, and 127 bands. They occupy $73,000 -worth of real estate, and have on band an average stock of $57,000. Their preducts in 1872 amounted to $147,400. MANUFACTURERS OF CARRIAGE AND WAGON MATERIALS.—There are in the city three establishments engaged in the manufacture of the various parts and machinery belonging to carriages, wagons, and other wheeled vehicles. For this kind of manufacture Columbus has extraordinary advantages, which our men of capital and enterprise are disposed to improve, as they can afford these manufactures at lower rates, quality considered, than can be afforded at almost any other accessible point. Our three establishments in this line employ a cash capital of $210,000, and 230 hands, occupying real estate valued at $54,000, 572 - MANUFACTURING INTERESTS. and carrying an average stock worth $94,000. Their products in 1872 amounted to $330,000. COAL OIL REFINING.—This is not a very extcnsive business in Columbus. We have, however, one establishment engaged in it, with a cash capital invested of $20,000, employing three hands, and transacting a business, in 1872, reaching to $40,000. CANE-SEAT CHAIRS.—There are in the cntty two establishments engaged in chair manufacturing exclusively. They employ 165 persons, and havc invested a cash capital of $80,000. They carry an average stock of $22,000, and occupy real estate worth $23,000. The aggregate products of these two manufactures amounted, in 1872, to $110,000. CONFECTIONERY.—There are in the city twenty-three of these manufacturing and wholesale and retail establishments, who give employment to seventy-one persons, and have invested in the business a cash capital of $62,000. Their business transactions in 1872 amounted to $137,000. CIGARS AND TOBACCO.—There are thirteen manufacturers of cigars in this city, who employ a capital of $14,000, and give employment to fifty-two hands. DENTAL WORK.—In the manufacture and preparation of dental work, there are in the city ten different establishments, employing seventeen persons, and a cash capital of $7,000. The value of their products, in 1872, was $29,200. EDGE TOOL MANUFACTURING.—There are three firms engaged in this branch of our manufacturing industry, who have an aggregate capital of' about $200,000, and give employment to 170 hands. Products for 1872 amounted to about $350,000. FURNITURE.—Columbus, having an unusual combination of advantages for the manufacture of furniture, as abundant cheap and good material, cheap production, and ready facilities for transportation to any part of the country, has become quite a center for the manufacture and trade in furniture. There are in the city three. furniture manufacturing establishments, employing a cash capital of $193,000 and 355 men, occupying real estate valued at $120,000, and carrying an average stock worth $255,000. They report products for 1872 to the aggregate amount of $420,000. W e have five furniture dealers, whose combined salcs in 1872 reached $460,000, making our Transactions in furniture for that year aggregate nearly $900,000. FLOURING MILLS.—The number of' flouring mills in thc city and immediate vicinity is six. They have an invested cash capital of $27,000, and employ twenty-seven persons. The products of the mills are estimated at $120,000. MANUFACTURING INTERESTS - 573 GALVANIZED IRON AND TIN WORK.—We have in Columbus nine establishments that may be placed under this head. Three of' these manufacture galvanized iron cernices and window caps. The nine establishments have an invested capital of' $62,500, occupy real estate valued at $82.000, employ forty-seven men, and carry an average stock of $79,600. Their business transactions in 1872 aggregated $185,000. GUNS AND PISTOLS.—There are in the city two manufactories of these weapons, employing a cash capital ef $4,000 and three hands, occupying real estate valued at $15,200, and doing a business in 1872 that amounted in the aggregate to $9,500. HUMAN HAIR WORK.—The number of manufacturers and dealers in this description of goods, in Columbus, is three, who cmpley a cash capital of $3,500, and 11 persons, doing, in 1872, a business amounting to $17,000 in the aggregate. JOB AND NEWSPAPER PRINTING.—The printing press, the former preduct, but now pioneer of civilization, was found in Columbus at almost its first settlement. Our city has eight job printing establishments, and four newspaper offices having no job office attached. The capital employed in the printing business, in the city, is estimated at about $180,000, from which was realized a business, in 1872, of abeut $220,000. LUMBER, SASH, DOOR, AND BLIND MANUFACTURING.—These several departments of manufacture, taken together, make an extended business, carried on in this city by nine different establishments, whose aggregate investments of cash capital amount to $214,000. They afford employment to 119 men, and occupy real estate valued at $124,000. Their business transactions in 1872, aggregated $480,000. LARD OIL AND CANDLES.—There are three establishments of this kind here, employing $20,000 capital, and sixteen hands. Products for 1872, $60,000. MARBLE AND MONUMENT WORKS.—This branch of manufacture, or rather of art, is represented by three firms. The cash capital invested in the marble and monument business, in the city, amounts to $13,500. It gives employment to 26 men. The transactions in this line, in 1872, amounted to $33,400. MINERAL WATER.—Columbus has three establishments engaged in the manufacture of this article. The capital invested in the business is $20,000, and the number of men employed is 21. The business done in this line amounted, in 1872, to $23,500. PAPER MILL.—There is but one manufactory of paper, and that is printing paper, in this city. There is employed in this branch of manufacture a capital of $25,000. It gives employ- 574 - MANUFACTURING INTERESTS. ment to 27 hands; occupies real estate valued at $40,000, and the sales for 1872 amounted to $120,000. PAINTERS AND PAPER-HANGERS.—There are in the city twenty-seven different establishments that make a specialty of painting and paper-hanging. They afford employment to 79 men, and transacted in 1872, a business amounting in the aggregate to $49,000. PUMP-MAKING.-There are four establishments in the city devoted to this branch of productien, which have quite a large run of business, employing an invested capital of $5,200 and 17 men. The business in 1872 aggregated $24,000. PLUMBERS.-There are in the city five plumbing establishments, with a cash capital of $10,500, occupying $35,000 worth of real estate, employing 23 men, and carrying an average stock valued at $11,750. Their gross business in 1872 amounted to $47,000. PHOTOGRAPHY AND PORTRAIT PAINTING.—There have been, within a few years past, as almost every one is aware, great improvements in these arts, of which our Columbus artists have taken good care to avail themselves. Some of them have won a wide and deserved reputation for the excellence, truthfulness, and vividness of their pictures and portraits, and for the neatness and elegance of their Workmanship. We have ten photographic and portrait painting establishments, employing a cash capital of $27,000, and 28 different persons, and transacting a business, in 1872, amounting to $47,500. REGALIAS.—M. C. Lilley & Co.—M. C. Lilley, John Siebert, H. Lindenberg, C. H. Lindenberg, C. H. Lindenberg—organized in the fall of 1868 for the manufacture of regalias. This company employs at present eighty persons. Shipments of goods are made to all parts of the United States, British North America, and Australia. Regalias and supplies, varying in price from fifty to eighty dollars, are manufactured for all classes of associations and societies. The company received the first premium medal at the Cincinnati Expositions in 1871 and 1872, for fine embroidered regalias, notwithstanding the competition of several other extensive manufacturing establishments. The monthly pay-roll of Messrs. M. C. Lilley & Co. is $1,600. This house employs more bands and sells more goods than any other house in the United States, in the same business. It has a cash capital invested of $35,000, and its business transactiens for 1872 equaled $120,000. ROLLING MILLS, FURNACES, FOUNDERIES, MACHINE-SHOPS, METAL MANUFACTURERS. GENERALLY.-Combined, these constitute the pride of the manufacturing interests of the city, repre- MANUFACTURING INTERESTS - 575 renting an aggregate capital of about one million dollars, employing near one thousand hands. The products for 1872 are valued at about $2,000,000. RAILROAD COMPANIES' CAR BUILDING AND REPAIRING.—This class of the manufacturing industry of the city is of very great importance. The companies employ seven hundred and sixty-eight men, occupying forty-five buildings, and paid, during the year 1872, the large slim of $440,396.01 to their employes. SADDLERY HARDWARE—PETER HAYDEN.-Columbus counts among her citizens, Peter Hayden, the first manufacturer of saddlery hardware in the United States. In his business in this city, Mr. Hayden is associated With his son, Wm. B. Hayden, under the firm name of P. Hayden & Son. One of the largest and handsomest displays of saddlery hardware, on this continent, can be seen at the exhibition and salesrooms in Mr. Hayden's block, on East Broad, near High street. In this connection, it seems in place to speak briefly of Peter Hayden as the most successful and one of the oldest pioneers in manufacturing in Columbus. To his skill, enterprise, energy, and perseverance, we are indebted for an example of what well-directed efforts may achieve, and a striking illustration of the facilities and resources Columbus presents as a manufacturing center. Mr. Hayden has been a manufacturer and dealer here, principally in ironware, since 1834. His earliest establishment on the Scioto river, near the penitentiary, now known as the Columbus Iron Works, Rolling Mill and Wire Mill, has done, as it is still doing, an extensive business in almost every variety of iron and steel manufacture from railroad iron to fine wire cloth. SEWER PIPE.—This branch of manufacture is carried on by the Columbus Sewer Pipe Company. They give employment to forty hands. Their monthly pay-roll is $2,000. STARCH.—This branch of manufacture is carried on, on a large scale, by Julius J. Woods & Co.; established in 1843. The capacity of their factory is to work up five hundred bushels of corn per day, employing a capital of $100,000 and forty bands. SAW MANUFACTURING.—This branch of manufacture is carried on here by Mr. James Ohlen, on a very extensive scale, employing fifty hands. The products for 1872 amounted to $125,000. TRUNKS, VALISES, ETC.—This branch of manufacturing is carried on extensively by two firms. Their large experience has given them a familiarity with the wants of the trade. The sales 576 - TRADE. of the two firms for 1872 amounted to $105,000, employing a capital of $26,000, and fifty-six persons. VINEGAR MANUFACTORIES. There are two vinegar manufactories in Columbus, one of which is on a pretty large scale, and has an extensive trade. The capital employed by the two establishments is $8,000, and the value of the real estate occupied by them is $12,000. They employ four hands, and the average value of the stock on hand is $6,500. The amount of their sales in 1872 was $49,000. CHAPTER XXI. TRADE. THE COLUMBUS WHOLESALE TRADE.—The growth of the wholesale trade of Columbus has been rapid, like that of her manufactures, and has become the thcme of general comment both East and West. Though other large cities entered, with fierce desperation, the lists with Columbus, for possession of the trade of Central Ohio, the capital city has finally achieved a complete triumph, and is to-day mistress of tile situation, without a rival. This is due in great measure to the enterprise of her merchants, seldom equaled in the mercantile history of any part of the country. This enterprise has been fortunately aided by the great increase of' railroad facilities, by the investment of home capital previously lying dormant, and of capital from abroad, giving employment to artisans, mechanics, and laborers, thus rapidly increasing our business and population, and laying the foundation for a still greater and unlimited increase. Within the last two or three years our city has entered upon a new career. The season of youth and indecision with her has passed away, and, knowing her strength and resources, she is disposed to avail herself of their benefits. We have now business houses with enormous stocks of goods, employing a multitude of salesmen, clerks, and travelers, and working with a talent and energy that only not assure, but bring success. We send, not only through the central portions of our own state, but into the very center of Indiana, dry goods, groceries, etc.—selling, in fact, our goods under the very noses of some of our more populous and more pretentious neighboring cities. The day when retail merchants in Ohio and Indiana deemed it out of the question to buy goods advantagcously outside of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, or Cincinnati, is beginning to pass away. Experience is proving to that class of dealers that TRADE - 577 they can do better nearer home than by going East, or even to Cincinnati, for their stocks of goeds. They are becoming aware of the fact that Columbus jobbers offer their goods at lower figures than can be had in New York or in Cincinnati. In regard to the latter, it is known that 'while the capital of her several firms is not larger than that of our Columbus firms, the expenses of her firms are much heavier than those of ours in the items of rent, cost of living, etc. Such items must, of course, be included in the calculation of the prices at which goods can be afforded to the retailer. Thus, it happens that on every package of goods the retail merchant buys in Cincinnati, lie pays more or less percentage toward an expense which the Columbus jobber does not charge, because it is not incurred by him. This is a self-evident proposition. If the firm pays a higher rent for a store-room, residences, etc., so must the salesman and clerk pay higher rents for dwelling houses, etc., and have higher salaries, and these and other increased costs of living must be charged upon the goods and paid by the purchaser. So far as regards retail merchants in Central Ohio, the matter of freights should be taken into the account. These are notoriously heavy on goods transported from the East, and can easily be avoided by dealing in Columbus. But suppose the retailer goes to Cincinnati. Then, in proportion to the distance that city is west of him, will be the distance he will have to travel, going and returning, and for the like distance east will he be obliged to pay freight on the transportation of his goods. The greater part of this expense of travel and freight can be saved by purchasing in Columbus, while goods can be afforded here at x much less margin of profit than at Cincinnati, even while our wholesale dealers are making more meney. Our wholesale houses keep on hand as complete stocks, and as great a variety of goods from which to make selections, as can be found in Cincinnati, or in any eastern city. Goods can be found here in such assortments and in such quantities, that any retail store can be supplied with a full stock, no matter how large the business intended to be done. THE AUCTION AND COMMISSION BUSINESS.—We have three auction and commission houses, having a cash capital of $23,000, and giving employment to eleven men. Their sales of merchandise and real estate in 1872 amounted to $298,000. BOOKS AND STATIONERY.-There are seven dealers in this line of trade in this city, who have employed an aggregate capital of $110,000 and twenty-five hands. Their sales for 1872 amounted to $280,000 BILLIARD ROOMS.-There are in the city five of these estab- 578 - ADVERTISEMENTS. MILLER, GREEN & JOYCE, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods AND NOTIONS. 97 and 99 North High Street, COLUMBUS, O. N. Y. OFFICE, 87 & 89 LEONARD ST. PROGRESSION. To the Merchants of Ohio and Indiana: We have just completed extensive additions and improvements to our business building, and now have one of the largest and most commodious Jobbing Houses in the West. We occupy four floors, 40 by 190 feet, and have ample room for every department. We are now displaying the most attractive stock of Dry Goods Ever offered in a Western House, and at prices that defy competition. In addition to a full line of Staple Domestic Goode always on hand, we have largely increased our stock in the following departments : DRESS GOODS, LACES, LINENS, CLOTHS, RIBBONS, CASSIMERES, HOSIERY, WHITE GOODS, GLOVES & NOTIONS. We have facilities for obtaining and selling goods cheap equal to the best houses in New York, and boldly declare that to-day, in the Capital City, within a few hours' rice of every retail store in the State, we are displaying a stock equaled by few, and excelled by no other house in the United States. We cordially invite every merchant to a close inspection of the advantages we offer, feeling confident that it will be to their interest to give us an early call. MILLER, GREEN & JOYCE TRADE - 579 lishments, having a capital of $25,000, and employing thirteen men. Their business in 1872 amounted to $38,000. BARBERS.—There are in the city thirty-seven different barber shops, employing a cash capital of $14,800, and ninety-two barbers. Their business for 1872 ameunted to about $52,000. CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.—There are four crockery and glassware houses in the city, having an invested capital of $63,000, and employing sixteen persons. The value of their average stock on hand is $74,000, and their sales in 1872 amounted to $1.97,000. COMMISSION MERCHANTS.-There are in the city four commission houses, occupying real estate valued at $70,000, and having invested in the business a cash capital of $130,000. They afford employment to twenty-nine different persons. Their stocks, of course, fluctuate according to demand and supply. Their business transactions in 1872 reached in the aggregate about $670,000. DRY GOODS.—We have two wholesale dry goods houses, with an invested cash capital of $500,000, occupying real estate worth $120000, having an average steck on hand of $450,000, and employing forty-two persons. Their aggregate sales in 1872 ameunted to $1,455,000. Our retail dry goods stores number fourteen, having an invested cash capital of $341,000, occupying real estate valued at $213,000, carrying an average stock of $556,000, and giving employment to 139 persons. Aggregate amount of sales in the retail trade in 1872, $1,554,000. Thus, the aggregate of our transactions in dry goods for 1872 was over $3,000,000. DRUGS.—The jobbing trade in this branch of business in Columbus is confined to two houses, who sell at both wholesale and retail. There are, besides these, sixteen retail drug stores. The cash capital invested in the eighteen establishments, is $94,500, and the number of persons employed by them is forty-one. Their sales in 1872 reached $257,320. DYERS—There are three establishments in this line of trade in the city, who use a capital of $4,000, and give employment to eight hands. Their business for 1872 amounted to $10,000. FLOUR AND FEED STORES.-There are sixteen of these, so located in different parts of the city as to be a great public accommodation. These stores have invested in the business a cash capital of $10,400; they employ thirty-four persons, and made sales in 1872 amounting to $98,000. GROCERIES.-There are five exclusively wholesale grocery 580 - TRADE. houses, who employ a cash capital of $295,000, and thirty men; they occupy real estate valued at $92,000, and keep on hand an average stock worth $202,000. Their sales in 1872 amounted to $1,491,000. In the wholesale and retail grocery trade, we have fifteen houses, employing seventy-six men, and a cash capital of $151,000, occupying real estate valued at $215,000, and carrying an average stock of $207,000: Sales in 1872, $985,000. Our retail groccry establishments number 249, employing 391 hands, and a cash capital of $177,400, occupying real estate worth $305,000, and carrying an average stock worth $248,000. Sales in 1872, $852,070. Summing up results, we find a grocery business done in this city in 1872, equal to the amount of $3,328,070. THE HARDWARE TRADE.—We have in Columbus six establishments doing, in the aggregate, an extensive business wholesale and retail. Our six hardware dealers have invested a cash capital of $211,000, employing forty-seven men, occupying real estate valued at $125,000, and carrying an average amount of stock worth $258,000. Their sales for 1872 aggregated $757,500. THE HAT, CAP, AND FUR TRADE.—The number of dealers in this line is seven, who employ twenty-two hands and a cash capital of $53,000. They occupy real estate valued at $67,000, and the average value of their stock on hand is estimated at $69,000. Their sales in 1872 amounted to $172,000. HOTELS.—The fellowing statistics show the condition of our present hotels, taken in the aggregate: The number of hotels is twenty-two. The amount of capital employed in them is $177,000. They have 854 rooms, and employ 265 hands. Their rates are from $1 to $3 per day. The value of real estate occupied is $453,000, and the amount of business done in 1872 was $295,560.20. THE ICE TRADE.—We have three dealers in ice, who give constant work to thirty hands, and employ a capital of $25,000. The value of the ice business done in 1872, was estimated at $45,000. LOAN OFFICES.—There are three of these in the city. Their invested cash capital is $5,000, and their annual business transactions cover the amount of $23,000. LEATHER AND FINDINGS.—This trade has six establishments in the city, which do, in the aggregate, an extensive business. They employ a cash capital of $47,000, and seventeen persons, and carry an average stock of $61,000. Their combined sales in 1872 amounted to $262,000. TRADE - 581 LIVERY STABLES.—The number of livery stables in the city is eighteen, whose employed cash capital is $56,000, and the aggregate of whose business, in 1872, was about $66,000. MILLINERY.—There are seventeen millinery establishments in this city, who have employed an aggregate capital amounting to $65,000, and give employment to sixty-eight persons; their sales for 1872 amounted to $170,000. NOTIONS.—We have two large notion houses, having a cash capital invested of $67,000, and an average stock of $100,000 on hand, while giving employment to twenty-three persons. Their sales for 1872 amounted to $200,000. PIANOS AND ORGANS.—There are in the city at present in this line three dealers and one manufacturer of organs. These four establishments have a cash capital invested of $57,000; they give employment to twenty-seven persons, and their business transactions amounted, in 1872, to $310,000. SEWING MACHINES.—The extent of the business clone here may be inferred from the fact that it requires for its prosecution an invested capital of $153,500; gives employment to one hundred and four persons; and in 1872 its transactions in the way of trade reached an aggregate of $730,000. SALOONS AND RESTAURANTS.—In these establishments Columbus is not a whit behind any of her sister cities. She has an ample number of them, no less than one hundred and twenty-seven. These establishments in our city have a cash capital employed of $47,000, and keep actively engaged two hundred and nineteen persons. The business done by them in 1872 amounted to $228,000. SADDLES, HARNESS, AND HORSE-COLLARS.—In the manufacture and dealing in these articles, there are in the city eleven different establishments, which have an aggregate cash capital invested of $15,800; they afford employment to thirty-two men, and made sales in 1872, amounting in the aggregate to $35,000. UNDERTAKING.—There are establishments in this branch of business in Columbus that will compare favorably with any others in the country. The number of these establishments in the city is seven, employing a capital of $29,000. The amount of the business done by them in 1872 is estimated at $65,000. JEWELRY, WATCHES, CLOCKS, ETC.—The number of dealers in this line is thirteen, who employ a cash capital of $57,000, and occupy real estate to the value of $53,000. They employ twenty-one hands, and have on hand an average stock of $72,000. The business done in 1872 amounted to $129,000. 582 - TRADE. WINES AND LIQUORS.—We have three houses, doing an extensive wholesale business exclusively in this line, and eight houses in the same business in connection with the grocery trade. The capital employed in the wholesale wine and liquor trade is $29,000, and the number of hands engaged is sixteen. The value of the real estate occupied is $48,000, and the amount of stock invested in the business is $39,500. The value of the business done in 1872 is estimated at $110,000. ADVERTISEMENTS - 583 ST. MARY'SOF THE SPRINGS Three Miles from Columbus, Ohio. This establishment, recently erected and incorporated by the State Legislature, is under the superintendence of the Dominican Sisters. This new and spacious building is situated about three miles east of the city. A more beautiful site for a Literary Institution could not have been selected. The grounds being elevated and extensive, afford ample room for recreation and healthful exercise. The buildings are large and commodious, and are well arranged for an extensive boarding school, having all the modern improvements for heat and ventilation. The Academy will be open for the reception of pupils at any time during the year; but it is much to their advantage to enter at the commencement of the session. The location is easy of access from all parts of the country, by good roads; and the Central Ohio Railroad will have a station within a quarter of a mile of the Institution. The Academy is well provided with competent and experienced Teachers, who will spare no pains to render the Institution worthy of extensive patronage, and whose constant efforts will be to form the hearts of youth to virtue; to imbue their minds with useful knowledge, so as to fit them for the various duties of after-life; and train them to early habits of order and economy. The discipline of the school is firm, but uniform and parental. Constant attention will be given to the neatness, health, and comfort of the pupils. The managers of the Institution are Catholic; but no undue influence will be used to change the creed or religious principles of the pupils. Regularity and good order, however, require that all the pupils assist at the public exercises on Sunday. The course of instruction embraces all the requirements of a thorough education, fitting the pupil for the highest social circle, or for the office of Teacher; but it may be modified to suit the wishes of parents, or the circumstances of the scholar. For this purpose, the course of studies is divided into four departments—each department having a distinct class of studies assigned to it. The Academic year consists of two sessions of five months each. The first commences on the first Monday of September, and the second on the first Monday of February. On the last Thursday of June, after a thorough examination of the classes, crowns and premiums will be awarded to those who excel, and to such as are most exemplary in conduct and diligence. Diplomas will be awarded to Graduates. In order to guard against improper correspondence, all communications by letter will be subject to inspection. There will be an annual vacation from the last Thursday in June to the first Monday in September. The Academy is now under the auspices of the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Columbus, Very Rev. Provincial of the Order of St. Dominic, Very Rev. S. A Clarkson, O. P., and the Rev. Clergymen of the Diocese of Columbus. 584 - ADVERTISEMENTS. COURSE OF STUDY. PRIMARY DEPARTMENT. Christian Doctrine, Arithmetic, Orthography, Reading, Music. SECOND JUNIOR DEPARTMENT. Christian Doctrine, Orthography, Reading, Grammar, Arithmetic, German, French, Music and Sketching, Penmanship. FIRST JUNIOR DEPARTMENT. Christian Doctrine, Orthography, Reading, Modern Geography, Grammar, Aids to Composition, U. S. History, Arithmetic, German, French, Penmanship, Music, Drawing. SECOND SENIOR DEPARTMENT. Christian Doctrine, Grammar, Rhetoric, Sacred and Profane History, Astronomy and Globe, Mythology, Arithmetic, Algebra, French, German, Penmanship, Music, Drawing. FIRST SENIOR DEPARTMENT. Christian Doctrine, Grammar, Rhetoric, Course of History, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy and Globe, Algebra, Geometry, French, German, Music, Drawing and Painting, Use of Philosophical, Chemical, and Astronomical Apparatus. GRADUATES, Christian Doctrine, Rhetoric and Criticism, Logic, Mental and Moral Philosophy, Book-keeping, French, German, Latin, Music, Drawing, and Painting, Use of Philosophical, Chemical, and Astronomical Apparatus, Use of a choice Library. For Board and Tuition, per session, $70, $75, $80, $90, according to the department of the pupil. EXTRA CHARGES. Latin, $5; Music on Piano, $15; Guitar, $5; Harp, $30; Vocal Music, $5; Use of Piano, $2; Sketching, $5; Painting in Water Colors, $8; Oil Painting, $20; Washing, $5; Bed and Bedding, $5; Books and Stationery, $s ; board per month during vacation, ifspent at the Academy (including washing), $12; embroidery and all kinds of needle-work taught free of charge; materials furnished by the pupil. WM. PRESTON BROWN - JAS. FINLEY BROWN. BROWN BROTHERS, CIVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS, ABSTRACTERS OF TITLES, Notaries Public, COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS FOR ALL THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. PROPRIETORS OF THE ONLY ABSTRACTS OF TITLES TO REAL ESTATE IN THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, AND FRANKLIN COUNTY. LOANS NEGOTIATED On First-Class Mortgage Securities. Accurate Plats, Diagrams, and Maps of all City and Town Lots and Farm Lands. Office: 5 Odeon Building, 47 ½ SOUTH HIGH STREET, OPPOSITE STATE CAPITOL. COLUMBUS, OHIO