Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-14
CINCINNATFS HALL.
CITY BUILDING DEDICATED WITH
APPROPRIATE CEREMONIES.
Eloquent Grafton by President Melville
L. Ipgaiis-IIistory ofthe House.
Programme of Exercises.
Especial telegram to tho DIspatch.I

CINCINNATI. w., May l5.-lne new tlt5 |
Hall was dedicated this afternoon with I'M
posing and appropriate ceremonies.
The building. considered architecturally, |
ia q success. designed in the Romanesqus |
style. IL is necessarily boldly broken IN |
outline and rugged in it's treatment The !
entire basement TO the sill lines OF the first
story windows is OF red Missouri granite, |
the superstfucture of Amherst buff sand |
stone. and the trimming stone in the |
brown Ashland stone, from Wisconsin.
The combination OF these cOlored stones, |
now that sharp contrasts have been. mel |
lowed by time. - very effective, and sur |
mounted with the red-tlle roof, makes !
very harmonious and pleasing impression.
The interior decorations are iron, marble OF
various tInts. and thing. The structure ls
absolutely re-proof, and the cost Of erect
Ing Il was about ~ 100000. II covers the
entire square bounded by Plum street, |
Central avenue. Eighth and Ninth streets. |
THE PROGRAMME.
The FIRST thing on tho programme was
civic parade, in which all the departments
of the city government were represented.
After the procession had passed the re-
viewing stand Bishop Walden. OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church. offered up
feryent prayer The trustees then de-
liye5ed the keys 10 the Mayor, who re-
ceiyed them in an appropriate manner.
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT IyGALLs.
The dedicatory Grafton was delivered by
Melville T.. ingalls,, president OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, who said:
Nothing more creditable TO our city has
been accomplished IN its history than the
erection of this building. 1t 10 suitable
for the purpose. ornamental IN ia appear
Gnoe. and artistic IN oil its furnishings.
Ground was broken on February y, 1888;
the first stone was laid on May 23d of the
same year: and the building now. IN five
years time. is completed aud ready for
use. The cost of building and fur
nishng has been Sl.360O01. IL 1t had
been bailt as such buildings usually are,
without the close and active supervision
of men Of integrity and capacity, 1t pro-
baby would have cost at least twice that
sum. The building Is 1872 feet long and
BOB wide. four stories N height, and the
tower Is 2j3 feet high from the curb line 20
the top: the dials on the clock are ~ feet
inches in diameter.
II NAV be instructive for ~ to-day 10
glance at our past and speculate upon orr
future. Our history equals anything that
the pen OF the novelist could describe. A
few more than 100 years SINCE, whero YOU
now sec houses, stores. and thousands OF
people. was an unbroken forest. A cen
fury ago. which does not seem 50
very many years, the first postmaster
pointed by George Washington. Pres-
dent of the nlted States. One hun
dred wears ago the good people OF
the place were considering the propriety
OF establishing o limo OF keel-boats 10 DC
nayigatcd with poles, 20 be run between
Cincinnati aha Pitt burg. II WAS thought
that two boats would pay and enable
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provided that they should b. covered with
decks that should be bulict-proot and
should be armed with cannon aud mus
kets. In the following year (ll9i tins inc
was actually established. Could there DO
any m6re vivid contrast, or Is there any
fact that would bring ont more clearly the
commercial advance that has ooen made
in century than this statement. con-
sidcred in the light Of tho immense traffic
handled by the railway trans and steam
boats of to-day: IN 1902 ninety years
ago the village Of Cincinnati was incor-
porated.
CITY.
In 1918 tho city was Incorporated. and
its first Council House IS put down a. STU
atcd On what was known as the Com.
mons" at the intersection OF Main ana
Front streets. In the directory OF the city
published IN 1919 the population Is stated
a. lI,s1F. dItl the AOiAON ILL., 4oAANN HRR
Gaming Il unknown IN the city; riots
and street-Geht- rare.n Let us hope that
the directory ISSUED after this new build,
inp is occupied may be able 10 say, as did
the directory OF 1919, seventy-siX years
AGO. that gaming ~ unknown ana that we
NAV do even better on the last clause aud
add that rlots and strect-hght5 are Things
of the past. The City Hall was soon after
moved from the Commons 10 Carr Dulld-
INC. on east Third street between Main
from Third street the City Hall was
moved to Fourth street between Main anu
Walnut, and there II remained with per
hays some slight lnterrcgnum) until III
1872. il was moved TO this present loca-
ton. where the City Hall that has Just
been torn down was erected.
IT'S STEADY GROWTH.
Tho city has always been prosperous:
especially IN manuiactulug. II s'hf,tu
from small beginnings. but has steadily
crown. in 1919 there We're l,239 persons
employed IN manufacturing, producing an
outuut valued ~ trIhe over SlOOJ,OOO,
In aramphlet that was published III 1881
notice that one OF the proofs OF the great
prosperity OF Cincinnati Is stated 10 be the
fact that elghty-elght stages ana slXty-iour
mails per week arrived 10 the city. Ihis is
only a httle over fifty years ago; yet, to-
day. on the lines OF railway III and out OF
mi, CITY over hundred thousand
mounds If mail is handled each and every
day: and where there were elghty-eigbt
STAGES a week there are hundred railway
trains a day.
In 1910 the manufacturing product had
increased 10 SG,OOOOOO: ana IN l5JO the
popuation had increased % s2gO,SOS, the
uefsons employed in manufacturing mum;
Tered 1854. and the output was valued
nt a little over $3.50. 0OO.JO Mhat an
enormoSs increase IN halt a Century
within The memory OF many man nero
to-day. We are accustomed TO compare
our city with Chicago and mourn that
u IS not increasing as last. but the
fact IS we are probably going ahead "a
raplLiv O. we ought 10 expect, although
we NAV not keep pace with the phe-
uomeIfal growth that Is shown there. AS
manufacturing city Cincinnati has pro-
baby never been more prosperous than IL
Is to-day. Some lines of merchandising
may not have succeeded, but the average
of the whole Is far ahead OF any eXpecta-
lions or dreams OF our fathers.
TUE RRAL CINCINNATI.
In education and refinement the city
has kept pace with It's neighOOrs. lou
Will find a. many happy ana comfortable
! homes here rs IN any city OF its Size IN thls
! or anv other country. | have stated our
( population vas 1885, 600 IN 1890. This Is the
/ census report. but II represents scarcely
! more than one-half the population OF the
! true Cincinnati. If the city and county
we're one. As they should be, onr popula;;
/ ton would have been $4,000. II We could
| include the cities aud villages Just oppo-
| site. in Kentucky, and which are Oil part
aud parcel OF our city, We should
/ have a population OF halt million OF
! people. 1he real Cincinnati represents a
/ business and population that entities II
/ TO be the fifth city IN the United States
/ instead % the ninth. In all public mat
/ tiers we are more than abreast OF our neigh
/ bors. In the education OF our people. IN
/ the cultivation of the arts, In our charl-
/ ties. and everything that makes COM
| nunity educated and refined, We nave
more than kept up with tine rank when
our maternal prosperity gives Us.
GOOD MIN IN OFFICE.
With the Inauguration OF this building
/ let Us cultivate more public spirit and
/ broader charity in crticlsIng our city gov
eminent and ITS officials. While there arc
many things that are undoubtedly wrong
and many acts deserving criticism. yet its
government is probably as good as that OF
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