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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 HARRY WEIH.NER. 
 
 jC production of Daytonia, spectacular 
 
 in scenery and histories] in portrayal, 
 
 given by the Ladies and Gentlemen of 
 
 Dayton, aims to serve two commendable 
 purposes. 
 
 First, as a continued commemoration of 
 Dayton's Centennial Anniversary, which was 
 begun with an ardor and appropriateness com- 
 mensurate with the importance of the gala event. 
 
 Daytonians hold in profound reverence the mem- 
 ories of their forefathers, who risked their lives and 
 their fortunes in subduing the unbroken forest and 
 its savage denizens, and in laying strong, wide, and 
 deep the foundations of a city which to-day con- 
 tains as many elements of advancement, and is 
 endowed with as many of the attributes of genuine 
 happiness, as any city in the United States. 
 
 There is a just cause for congratulation in the 
 growth and development of Dayton. Its magnifi- 
 cence is a crowning monument to the enlighten- 
 ment and progressiveness of its citizens — a devout, 
 law-abiding, and upright people, whose stalwart 
 and robust Americanism constitutes their chief 
 excellence. It is no such Americanism as turns 
 up its pantaloons every time it rains in Loudon, 
 or affects a pronunciation of our glorious tongue 
 unknown to lexicons, but presumed to lie an echo 
 of the British Isles. Far from it. Dayton proudly 
 boasts of an exalted citizenship, imbued with the 
 spirit of an undying loyalty to country, whose 
 pride and inspiration are not in Frederick the 
 Great, or Louis XIV., or William the Conqueror: 
 not in a hero of England, or of Germany, or of 
 France, or of Ireland, but in George Washington 
 and Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Dayton, too, is happily situated, nestling in the 
 lap of a teeming valley. It appears like a beau- 
 tiful solitaire in the golden luxuriance of its pic- 
 turesque environments, presenting a spectacle of 
 surpassing beauty, calm as the vale of Avoca, fair 
 as the famous „Esopus, and peaceful as the valley 
 of Tempe. The gentle Miami, in its sinuous flow, 
 laves the city's feet, as it wends its downward way. 
 Though it bears not on its placid bosom the com- 
 merce of a great people, yet, in its tranquillity, it 
 is dearer to us than the blue Danube, with all its 
 poetry, or the Rhine, with all its legends. Verily, 
 where is a spot approaching nearer the fabled 
 garden of the llesperides, with all its imagined 
 
 splendors, than the Gem City of the Miami Valley, 
 
 where Venus herself might enjoy the charms ami 
 loveliness of her daughters? 
 
 Aside from its commemorative feature, the pro- 
 duction of Daytonia is for the benefit of the St. 
 Elizabeth and Deaconess Hospitals. Both institu- 
 tions are an enduring I i to our magnificent, 
 
 thrifty, and far-famed (.cm City, to which she can 
 point with the same pride which Cornelia mani- 
 fested in her children. And who can speak in 
 
 amply panegyrical terms of that noble band of 
 nurses, the sweet sisters and good deaconesses, 
 
 the comforting and ministering angels of the sick- 
 room, where the opportunities for their usefulness 
 are as illimitable as the complex ills which flesh 
 is heir to? Their heroic services and indescrib- 
 able sacrifices are worthy of the highest enco- 
 miums. To the friendless sufferers, with no kindly 
 voice to whisper comfort in their sorrows ; no hand 
 to soften the asperities with which this world's 
 conflict will harden the downiest pillow; no 
 kindred heart in whose sympathetic throbbinga 
 they can read the alphabet of love, how blest 
 their voices, that, like genial showers poured on the 
 desert, gladden as they How, and cheer the sinking 
 heart; how matchless their fidelity, inviolable as 
 the covenant of the Most High, their purity un- 
 sullied as the light of heaven! 
 
 In conclusion, the Executive Committee, through 
 the Souvenir Committee, desires to express its 
 deepest gratitude : 
 
 First, to Director-General Harry E. Feicht, 
 whose unflagging zeal and unselfish devotion have 
 done so much to further this laudable enterprise. 
 His intense interest in its successful culmination 
 touched the extremest limit of exultant enthusi- 
 asm, constantly inspiring others to renewed en- 
 deavor. 
 
 Second, to the Press, so kindly, generous, and 
 patriotic in its spirit and so powerful in its com- 
 manding influence, which has made possible the 
 
 success of Daytonia. 
 
 Third, to the performers, including all partic- 
 ipants in this production, for their painstaking 
 efforts; the beneficent merchants and manufactur- 
 ers for their spontaneity and liberality both as 
 regards donations and advertisements, and the 
 purchasers of tickets for their manifest interest 
 and loyal support. Few cities in the world can 
 
 boast of a populace so charitably and public-spirit- 
 
 edly inclined. 
 
 Lastly, to all, rich and poor alike, who con- 
 tributed in i he minutest degree to the sue. ess 
 of this noble undertaking, either artistically or 
 financially. 
 
 SOUVENIR COMMITTEE. 
 
 Mr. A.lpred A. Thresher. 
 
 Mrs. J. B. Thresher. 
 
 Mb. Harry Weidxer. Mrs. C. E. Corps. 
 
 Mr, B. 1". Bubehabdt. Mrs. C. J. Fernsdino, 
 
 Mr. B. F. Hargrave. Mrs. 1'. .1. Rottbbmann. 
 
 Miss ReBEKAB StRICKBE. 
 
 Copyright, 1896. 
 
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The Dayton Instantaneous 
 Water Heater. 
 
 Suitable for Bathrooms and 
 Domestic Purposes. 
 
 Sold by all Plumbers. ■ 
 
 Manufacture ,,„ DAYTON SUPPLY CO., 
 
 roil <* <* 
 
 DAYTON. OHIO. 
 
 E.jSIMM & SONS, 
 
 313& 315 ]•:. First Street, Dayton, 0. 
 
 TELEPHONE 271. 
 
 Also Office 
 
 THE BIMM DAYTON ICE CO. 
 
 Jtmbrose Sitter, 
 
 MERCHANT TAILOR, 
 
 22 East Third Street, 
 
 Dayton, Ohio.. 
 
 Takes the form of Centennial Bargains in DRY 
 
 GOODS of Superior quality at popular prices. 
 
 We advertise tlu-iu regularly. Are yon watch- 
 ing our announcements? It pays others. It 
 will pay you. 
 
 Hunter & Hardie, 
 
 NEW YORK STORE. 
 
 CHAS. L. KOEHNEN, 
 
 <&mG 
 
 rocer, 
 
 Cor. Third ami St. Mary's Streets, 
 
 DEALER IN ... . 
 
 High Grade Groceries, Fruits, and Vegetables. 
 
 HIGH GRADE COFFEES A SPECIALTY. 
 
 Buy your= 
 
 Ask y° ur Grocer for 
 
 BAUHAN'S 
 
 Crackers — Bread. 
 
 They ivill suit you. 
 
 Furniture, Carpets, Etc., 
 
 of 
 
 Cbc fl. fi. Grim Co., 
 
 122 & 124 East Fifth Street. 
 
 CASH OR CREDIT. 
 
 Alex. Gkbhaet. 
 
 EUGEM WtMCHKT. 
 
 FjtAMK WuiCHET. 
 
 Alex. Gebhart fr Co., 
 jCumber ^Dealers, 
 
 WAYNE AVENUE AND RAILROAD, 
 
 _2)ayton, Ohio. 
 
 Ll'thik PiTitRi, F.A.I. A. 
 
 K. Buhn-s. F.A.I. A. 
 
 Alsebt Ptii/iNi-m 
 
 peters, Burr/s 8 pretzir^er, 
 
 ARCHITECTS, 
 
 26-31 Kuhns Building, Dayton, Ohio. 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 DIRECTOR-GENERAL HARRY E. FEICHT. 
 
 ARRY ELLSWORTH FEICHT, 
 whose likeness appears above, the 
 originator of Daytonia, a produc- 
 tion given under his personal direction, 
 (is a Day tonian by birth and education. 
 He is a shining specimen of assiduity 
 and perseverance — eager to do, tire- 
 less in energy, persistent in purpose. By 
 his philanthropic and patriotic services — 
 for he is continually promoting some praise- 
 worthy work of public benefaction — he has 
 won the immeasurable admiration and 
 abiding attachment of all true Daytonians. 
 Harry, as he is familiarly called, is a 
 superb leader, of vigorous intellect, of 
 fertility of resource, and of freshness and 
 originality of genius. He is the very in- 
 carnation of honor and probity. Beneath 
 his sunny, ardent, and magnanimous na- 
 ture there lie a potency of will that knows 
 
 no impediment and powers of intellectual 
 labor that defy fatigue. 
 
 It was he who originated the Charity 
 Circus, so unique in conception. The 
 project was prodigious, and its success pro- 
 portionate with its immensity. The goodly 
 proceeds replenished, in a measure, the 
 depleted coffers of the St. Elizabeth and 
 Deaconess Hospitals. No more need be 
 said in praise of its projector, though the 
 grandest and most glittering gems of eulogy 
 should be set, diadem-like, on the forefront 
 of Mattering language. 
 
 Mr. Feicht adds luster to everything he 
 touches, as the sprightly edition of the 
 Dayton Daily Globe, bearing date of April 1, 
 1946, glowingly attests. He also inaugu- 
 rated the Noise Committee that brought out 
 thirty thousand people at midnight on 
 March 31 to usher in our Centennial year. 
 
ELDER & JOHNSTON, 
 
 Dry Goods, 
 
 Nos. 24 and 26 East Third Street, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO, 
 
 BLACK GOODS SECTION. No woman's wardrobe is complete 
 
 : 7T=r. — - — = = without at least one black dress. 
 
 What a handsome, satisfactory lot of newest weaves we're showing, too! 
 Blistery, bulging Crepons ; Plain and Figured Brilliantines; rich, eccentric 
 Brocade effects on a Satin Ground, ami at prices to pleasantly surprise you. 
 
 JACKETS OR CAPES? It matters not which — they 're here ; racks 
 
 = full of them ; just what you 're looking for. 
 We're getting busier every day ; come in and get the reason for it ; you '11 
 
 find it taeked on t" every garment in the stork. 
 
 STORE NOTES. 
 
 Seen those new Dresden Ribbons? 
 
 Very busy in Kid Gloves just now. 
 
 It 's a pleasure to buy Muslin Underwear as we sell it. 
 
 Would like your opinion on those new Silk Waists. 
 
 Elder & Johnston, 
 
 •ayton Agents for the genuine 
 
 CENTEMER1 KID GLOVES. 
 
 Empress Josephine 
 
 Dental Cream. 
 
 V-b 
 
 ^\ 
 
 Aromatic, 
 
 Deodorant, 
 
 Antiseptic, 
 Refreshing, 
 
 Preserving, 
 
 Cleansing. 
 
 For Sale by all Druggists. ^8 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 ODE TO DAYTON. 
 
 MRS. J. B. THRESHER. 
 
 LL hail, thou gem in fairest setting 
 
 Of golden fields and emerald liills. 
 With fringe of woods thy borders fretting, 
 Ami gleam of silver on thy rills! 
 
 All loyalty to thee forever, 
 Loved city of our hearts and homes; 
 
 Thy children will forget thee never, 
 No matter where the wanderer roams. 
 
 All down the years a light is falling, 
 
 The dauntless spirit of the past, 
 And future days to us are calling 
 To keep their hope and promise fast. 
 
 For men have ventured, hoped, and striven, 
 
 To build the Dayton of to-day; 
 A legacy to us have given 
 
 Of effort on a toilsome way. 
 
 Oh, may we have by 1 leaven's blessing 
 Health, knowledge, cleanliness, and peace, 
 
 With love to all our hearts possessing, 
 While arts and industries increase. 
 
 shine on, then, with increasing glory. 
 Fair gem, shine on the ages through, 
 
 And to those ages tell the story 
 Of honest sons and daughters true. 
 
 From "Early Dayum," by permia«ioa of llio U. H. PubHihlog House. 
 
Stylish ^Dressers 
 
 Should wear the best. You can get it only in the 
 ** STEIN BLOCK MAKE AT.*j» 
 
 Finest FOOTWEAR in the City. 
 
 CLOTHES AND SHOES. 
 
 JOHN STENGEL & CO., 
 
 MANl'I ACTl'RERS OF 
 
 FURNITURE. 
 
 OFFICE AND FACTORY, 320 and 339 TAYLOR STREET, DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 Attention, Daytonians ! 
 
 Do not forget the acknowledged fact that 
 
 R. W. Koellsch 
 
 Sells the Very Best Grades 
 of HARD and SOFT 
 
 COAL. 
 
 635 EAST THIRD STREET. 
 
 TELEPHONE 972. 
 
 QIELE & PFLAUM, 
 
 U East Second Street, 
 
 Sprinters. 
 
 Prompt Service. 
 
 Telephone 1TO. 
 
 Cbe monarch Cutter 
 
 T$ revolutionizing the quick, accurate pitting of 
 all paper materials in large quantities. 
 
 THE SEYBOLD MACHINE CO., 
 
 Makers of Machinery for Bookbinders, Printers, Lithog- 
 raphers, Paper Mills, Etc. 
 
 CHARLES SEYBOLD, Preh. L. W. (iUNCKEL, Treas. 
 
 B. B. THRESHER, Sec'y. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO, 74 Louie St. 
 
 NEW YORK CITY, CHICAGO, ILL, ST. LOUIS, MO., 
 44 Centre St. 371-373 Dearborn St. 406 N. Third St. 
 
 L0N00N, E. C, ENGLAND, 
 No. 2 White Horse Alley, Cowcross St. 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 Main Street Hoie Hon-.' Miami River. 
 
 Prom "Early Dayton." bj permission of the V. B. Publishing House 
 
 N'ewcom'a Tavern. Landing Placi 
 
 HE LANDING-PLACE AND NEWOOM'S TAVERN IN 1896. 
 
 The breaking waves did not dash high 
 when the little band of pilgrims moored 
 their bark on the banks of the Miami, but 
 in the sunshiny days of early spring on 
 that 1st day of April, one hundred years 
 
 ago, the flowers and the foliage of the trees 
 were just beginning to unfold, and light 
 snows lay amid the grass, fresh with the 
 greenness of spring. The Miami in 1706 
 wound through an uninhabited wilderness. 
 
 We 
 recommend 
 
 C!OTT"m^'"RC! , H'-Cent Lemon and 15-Cent Vanilla Extracts because they are fine, rich flavors, 
 lOW U -LVJLi£\,0 at ha]f the price ,,f ,, t i„. r brands. 
 
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 Must be pure to be healthful. 
 
 M 
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 s 
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 ^ODA >VATER, made of pure water and Carbonic Acid 
 
 Gas is healthful ; Ginger Ale, doubly so. Nothing is more 
 
 refreshing on a sweltering hot day. 
 
 
 We manufacture all kinds of Mineral or Soda Waters on 
 
 
 b 
 
 scientific principles. 
 
 b 
 
 e 
 
 DISTILLED WATER is the first principle— and there 
 are others too numerous to mention here. 
 
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 Pamphlet mailed free on request. 
 
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 Sach5=Pruden Ginger Ale Co. 
 
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 TELEPHONE 1179- 
 
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 Must be pure to be healthful. 
 
SMOKE 
 
 ~^D 
 
 DAYTONIA 
 
 for a Nickel, 
 
 AND 
 
 Teutonia Bouquet 
 
 for a io-cent 
 Cigar. 
 
 ~D 
 
 AYTONIA'S filler is raised only in the Miami 
 Valley, and years of experience have taught us to 
 combine the different grades of tobaccos to make 
 such a quality, equal to the imported Havana 
 tobacco. The wrapper is imported from the 
 island of Sumatra. Give the Daytonia a trial, 
 and you will be surprised what tobacco the 
 Miami Valley produces. 
 
 .»'«• ^f«. ■*(«. «M«. 
 
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 EUTONIA BOUQUET is our high grade Seed 
 and Havana Cigar. This brand has been before 
 the Dayton public for the last two years, and 
 whoever has smoked them will agree with us 
 that it is the best io-cent cigar in the market. 
 
 fit 
 
 7"^vV7 
 
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 H. C. MAHRTCO. 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 ABORIGINAL DAYTONIANS. 
 
 . ,5] ^JlJRING the earlier part of the 
 T?OT eighteenth century southwestern 
 .V U Ohio was inhabited by the Miamis. 
 Their permanent villages were located 
 along two main trails, one considerably 
 west of the Great Miami, the other follow- 
 ing the Little Miami. The intermediate 
 region, the valley of the Great Miami, 
 was used only as a hunting-ground. The 
 Shawnees, who had emigrated from Flor- 
 ida and Georgia, had settlements on the 
 lower Scioto. Becoming restless, they 
 pushed northward, and in 1740 spread 
 over the area between Springfield and 
 Piqua, formerly occupied by the Miamis. 
 During the French and Indian wars the 
 Miamis sided with the French and the 
 Shawnees with the English. After the 
 defeat of the French, in 17G3, the Miamis 
 retreated to Fort Wayne, leaving their ter- 
 ritory to the Shawnees. 
 
 During the Revolutionary War the Shaw- 
 nees continued to side with the English, 
 and harassed the settlements in Kentucky 
 until defeated by expeditions from that 
 State in 17S6. It was not, however, until 
 Wayne's victory in 1794 that the Shawnees 
 were rendered harmless, and the country 
 was open to settlement. Although the 
 Indians never occupied permanent villages 
 near Dayton, the junction of the Mad and 
 
 AUGUST F. FOERSTE. 
 
 Miami rivers was a favorite camping-ground 
 for their war parties, and burial graves are 
 not uncommon east of Steele's dam. Here 
 the squaws left in charge of the camp may 
 have occasionally raised their favorite corn, 
 beans, pumpkins, and tobacco. 
 
 If the mound-builders were distinct from 
 the Indians, they had a euriously similar 
 history. One tribe inhabited the Miami 
 region, and built irregular forts. The 
 nearest of these, including half of Calvary 
 Cemetery, crowns the bluffs, and overlooks 
 the river one hundred and sixty feet below. 
 From this point could be seen the smoke 
 arising from the great Miamisburg mound, 
 seventy feet high, used as a signal station. 
 A second tribe of mound-builders inhabited 
 the Scioto Valley. They were more civil- 
 ized, and built geometrical earthworks of 
 large proportions in the valleys. They 
 seem at one time to have invaded the 
 valley of the Great Miami, and begun 
 one of their great earthworks five miles 
 south of Dayton, north of Alexandersville. 
 Several circles can still be traced, and a 
 large square was nearly completed, but a 
 portion, now in the woods, was not even 
 begun. The Scioto tribe were probably 
 driven out before they could complete 
 their great earthwork, but it is still a 
 monument to their engineering ability. 
 
W. P. CALLAHAN. THOS. De ARMON. W. K. CALLAHAN. 
 
 W. P. CALLAHAN & CO, 
 
 FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS. 
 
 MANIFACTI'REES OF 
 
 Ice and Refrigerating Machinery, 
 
 Hydraulic Oil Machinery, Steam Engines, and Cotton Compresses. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 ** Paper Dimming Yfim \ ++ 
 
 Planing machine Knives. * * * « 
 Uarious Kinds of Pattern Knives. * « 
 Engine Bars and Plates for Paper mills. 
 
 ft. ft. Simonds $ $on t Dayton, 0, 
 
 Do You Wish the Best Results? 
 
 THRESHER'S oS VARNISHES 
 
 AND GENUINE T • j >~v • 1 
 
 KETTLE-BOILED J-zlllSeeQ Vjll 
 
 Thresher&Co., Varnish Makers, Da yton,0. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 Prom " r uriv Da>lon," by permission >>i the U. It. PubUnhlog Ho 
 
 COLONEL ROBERT PATTERSON 
 
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 Was born in 1753 in Bedford County, Pa. 
 In 1786 Patrick Henry, Governor of Vir- 
 ginia, commissioned Robert Patterson a 
 colonel in the "State Line." In 1786 his regi- 
 ment of Colonel Logan's division marched to 
 destroy the Indian towns on Mad River. 
 But for these battles and victories over the 
 Indians in which Colonel Patterson was for 
 
 many years engaged, the Dayton settle- 
 ment would have been an impossibility. 
 His part in the history of our city is of the 
 greatest importance, for he helped win its 
 site from the Indians, and secured a peace- 
 ful and prosperous home for the pioneers. 
 All his later years he was a sufferer from 
 wounds ree°ived in his campaigns. 
 
 QOTTT4Th 1 "RQ' 10-Cent Lemon and 15-Cent Vanilla Extracts are guaranteed fully equal to many other 
 OUUl^JLHO brands at double the price. 
 
 CANBY, ACH & CANBY, 
 
 Importers, Roasters, and Sole Proprietors of 
 
 VIENNA JAVA COFFEE 
 
 Absolutely the Bksi Coffee to be had at 30 Cents Per Pound. 
 
 SOLD AT THIS PRICE BY ALL GROCERS. 
 
 221 S. Front St., PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 .510 and 512 E. Third St., DAYTON, 0. 
 
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 1402 Main St., KANSAS CITY, MO. 
 
DIERS & TANNER, 
 
 Fine Shoes, 
 
 104 South Main Street, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 Davies Building. 
 
 E. R. L/\TIIN, 
 
 Uhe Matter and furnisher, 
 
 142 South Main Street, 
 davton, Ohio. Corner Fifth Street. 
 
 Centennial Blend 
 
 is the best Coffee ever solil at 22 cents; 
 
 Pioneer Blend 
 
 is a good one at 25 cents. 
 
 Thomson's cash grocery. 
 
 DEWEESE & BIDLEMAN, 
 
 Carpets, j* Curtains, ** Mattings, 
 
 DRESS GOODS, ETC. 
 
 8 East Third Street. 
 
 After you see DAYT0N1A then 
 go and see 
 
 SMITH BROS. 6 GO., 
 
 IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 
 
 FINE CHMM ^2 QUHSSW/rlllE. 
 
 The only exclusive house in this line in the city. 
 
 28 North Main Street. Telephone 849 
 
 Gem City Cigar Co., 
 
 Joseph J. Buchee, Prop. 
 
 406 South Wayne Ave. 
 
 Spring Styles. 
 
 TAILORS. 
 
 Don't forget to visit 
 
 The Boston 99c. Store 
 
 for Novelties of all Kinds. 
 
 110 East Third Street, DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 LEE WOLF & BRO., 
 
 •Jd POORS, W* 
 
 Stationery. 
 
 Telephone 440. 
 
 BURKHARDT & ROTTERMANN, 
 
 Druggists and Apothecaries, 
 
 N. W. Cor. Third and St. Clair Sts., 
 
 California Cough Balsam. 
 
 B. & R. FlavorirjR Extracts. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 Oswald Cammann, 
 
 •XL General Insurance Agent. 
 
 Special attention given to placing tire insur- 
 ance at the lowest possible rates in the best 
 companies. 
 
 
 H. E. EMRICXS, 
 HARDWARE — 
 
 ****** 
 
 15 South Main Street. 
 
 DUBOIS & SOWARD'S 
 ^ City Music Store. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1 B50. 
 
 Pianos and all kinds of Musical 
 Instruments, Strings, Sheet Music 
 and Books. 
 21 South Main St. 0pp. Market House. 
 
 J. SCHWAB & SON, 
 
 7 South Main Street. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 A LEAF FROM AN OLD BOOK." 
 
 -v;,a.„ 
 
 JUT of the past there comes to us a 
 I quaint little book, yellow with 
 JtaarS* age, and of interest to us in our 
 '- Centennial year. It is "The Harp 
 of the West," a volume of poems by 
 Joseph S. Welsh, Cincinnati, printed 
 by Dawson and Fisher, 1839. The 
 author does not "arrogate to himself the 
 genius of Milton, of Homer, or of Pope." 
 "His highest ambition is to plant in the 
 bosoms of the rising generation the great, 
 the good and ennobling principles of mo- 
 rality, virtue, and patriotism." The rising 
 generation may thank Mr. Welsh for his 
 thoughtful care, and for his giving to us in 
 this far-away day a picture of our fair city 
 in its earliest days. 
 
 One of the most interesting poems is 
 " Recollections of Colonel Robert Patterson, 
 Late of Dayton, Ohio." After giving many 
 incidents in the life of Colonel Patterson, 
 the poem closes with the following pen 
 picture of early Dayton : 
 
 "Brave Patterson sought out :x beauteous home; 
 Ami, lo! around, the wilderness < 1 i« 1 bloom 
 
 And blossom as the rose. 
 
 .War by him rose, Erom out the lonely waste, 
 
 A little village. I remember well 
 
 When heavy forests frowned along the streets 
 
 of Dayton. Ami 1 've often there beheld 
 The wild deer feeding 'neatb the shady groves 
 Where now the buildings stand, and heard at 
 
 night 
 The yell of the rapacious prowling wolf. 
 Of families some live or six dwelt round. 
 In little cabins; peace and friendship reigned 
 Uninterrupted 'mid the social group 
 Of active citizens. The blockhouse frowned 
 In murky grandeur o'er the river's brink 
 Just where the mouth of the main street doth 
 
 meet 
 The water's edge. When night did shroud 
 This lonely hamlet, oft the dismal tale 
 Of savage cruelty would make the urchins 
 
 crouch 
 To a close circle, round the blazing fire, 
 And while the blast moaned round the chim- 
 ney-tops, 
 Think that they heard the foe advancing close 
 Upon their dwellings. Time can ne'er erase 
 Those first impressions and those early scenes 
 From off my memory — never can I plot out 
 The traces of the friendship warm ami sweet 
 That dwelt amid this little village band." 
 
 The Brown-Bierce Company, Designers. 
 
 IT IS A FACT THAT 
 
 10 cent LEMON % 
 15 cent VANILLA 
 
 Extracts 
 
 are fine rich flavors at low prices. 
 
 They are guaranteed fully equal to 
 many other brands at double the price. 
 
 ASK FOR 
 
 SOUDERS' 
 
 AND TAKE NO OTHER. 
 
 i:: 
 
RIVERSIDE BREWERY. 
 
 WARRANTED TO KEEPINANY CLIMATE 
 
 -BREXA/ER OF- 
 
 Draught ™ d Export Lager Beers, 
 
 UNEXCELLED AS A TONIC OK TABLE BEER. 
 
 ^ |- ^f\^ Barrels of Beer sold during the year ending 
 CJjCUO May i, 1896, 
 
 About 23,000 of which were sold in the city. 
 
 IN ORDER TO HAVE A GOOD, WHOLESOME BEER IT MUST HAVE A.GE. 
 
 I f- O ^ C Barrels of Beer on hand May 1, 1896, more 
 I OaO / w than any other two Brewers in the city. 
 
 xlr *Sr 0/ \'/, V^ ,j'a 
 ^jC ^j^ "Vjx Sf* '(* 'i\ 
 
 n 1 \Tf\/"fc\l/ " THE STR0NGEST MAN IN THE WORLD, on his recent visit to Dayton, 
 ^/\1 N LI\J W • drank Schauta's Beer ami pronounced it tlie finest ever found in all his travels, 
 
 covering almost the entire glohe. 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 From " Early imvinn," by permii.sioD of Hie U. B. Publishing House. 
 
 NORTHWEST CORNER OF MAIN AND FOURTH STREETS IN 1882. 
 
 PRESENT SITE OF THE KUIINS BUILDING, THE COENEE BUILDING, EEECTED IN 1813, BEING THE OLDEST HOUSE SOUTH OF 
 
 THIRD STBEET. 
 
 "General Harrison spent the 1st of 
 September, 1812, in Dayton, and a salute of 
 eighteen guns was fired in his honor. . . . 
 The following appeal was sent to the ladies 
 of Dayton from headquarters, St. Mary's, 
 September 20, 1812: 'General Harrison 
 presents his compliments to the ladies of 
 Dayton and its vicinity, and solicits their 
 assistance in making shirts for their brave 
 defenders who compose his army.' .... 
 'With a zeal and promptitude honor- 
 able to them and the State,' and, of 
 course, without compensation, the ladies 
 of Dayton immediately went to work, and 
 
 by October 14 one thousand eight hundred 
 shirts were ready to send to the army — a 
 good deal of sewing to accomplish without 
 the aid of a machine in less than four weeks 
 by the women of a village of less than one 
 hundred houses." 
 
 "On the 19th of May, 1813, the last num- 
 ber of the Ohio Centinel appeared, and for 
 a year and five months no newspaper was 
 published in Dayton. As a consequence, 
 there is little material during this period 
 for the history of the town." — From "Early 
 Dayton," published by the U. B. Publishing 
 House. 
 
 To give a tine, rich flavor 
 
 to cakes an<l pastry use 
 
 SOUDERS' 
 
 10-Cent LEMON and 
 15-Cent VANILLA 
 
 EXTRACTS, 
 
 the best in the world 
 
 for the money. 
 
 PURE ICE 
 
 MANUFACTURED FROM 
 
 DISTILLED WATER. 
 
 THE DAYTON ICE MANUFACTURING k COLD STORAGE CO. 
 
 TELEPHONE No. 800. 
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TRUE BLUE TAR SOAP McMahon s McMahon, 
 
 The Best Soap made for the 
 Hair, Scalp, and Skin. Ab- 
 solutely Pure. Give it atrial. 
 
 The Pioneer Tar Soap Co. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO, U. S. A. 
 
 S. H. Carr. 
 
 W. C. Kennedy. 
 Telephone 550. 
 
 D. W. Allaman 
 
 Carr, Allaman & Kennedy, 
 Attorneys and Counselors at Law 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 Odd Fellows Temple. 
 
 PFOUTZ & HARTRANFT, 
 Attorneys at Law. 
 
 Rooms 2 and 3, Davies Block, 
 Cor. Fourth and Main. 
 
 44 Interest" if t ™ De p° sits 
 
 I^iami Loan & 
 Building Association. 
 
 C. J. McKEE, Secretary and Attorney. 
 
 6 Davies Building. 
 
 Attorneys and 
 Counselors at Law 
 
 ROOMS 8, 9, & 10, FIREMEN'S INSURANCE BUILDING. 
 
 John A. McMahon. 
 J. Sprigg McMahon. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 O. M. Gottschall. O. B. Brown 
 
 Ira Crawford, Jr. 
 
 Gottschall, Brown & Crawford, 
 Attorneys at Law. 
 
 Telephone 497. 
 
 Odd Fellows Temple. DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 JOHN 31. SPRIG G, 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 Office over Winters National Bank, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 BENJ. F. HERSHEY, 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 14 North Main Street, Opposite Court Mouse, 
 Telephone 3 44- DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 "The Kin (j of All." 
 
 A-ONE PANETELLAS. 
 
 Try them. 
 
 Ash your dealer for them. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 DAYTON OF THE FAST. 
 
 HARRIET M. KING. 
 
 "T is by contrast very often that we 
 see the events of life in their most 
 vivid light. It is the fashion now- 
 adays to muse much over the fore- 
 fathers who laid the foundation of 
 our town, and we smile with quiet 
 satisfaction as we fancy their grave 
 eyes wandering over the modern city which 
 we and time have evolved from their bit 
 of a hamlet. 
 
 There is but little, after a hundred years, 
 of material, tangible shape to show for 
 those first, earliest days, — a log cabin by 
 the riverside, a few old guns, pictures, 
 bits of china, or furniture, — but the influ- 
 ence, the will, the character of the little 
 group that slept under the trees here in the 
 sweet spring weather a hundred years ago 
 are closely woven into the Dayton of to-day. 
 It is pleasant to stop in our whirling life 
 and recall their quiet, earnest personality, 
 their independence and kindliness. What 
 were their thoughts as they made paths 
 through the woods, plowed their lands, 
 built their simple homes, and laid out 
 some of the streets on which we walk, — 
 keeping always an eye open for redskins? 
 Did they talk of the history which some 
 of them had helped to make with the old 
 gun in the corner, now loaded for wild 
 beasts or treacherous Indians? What did 
 
 they think of "The Terror" in France? 
 What of Napoleon, who, while their 
 pirogues were winding down the river, 
 and their wagons pushing through the 
 forests of Ohio, was leading his army into 
 Italy, and so on towards the empire? Did 
 their hearts burn over Poland's wrongs, so 
 that they were more than half glad when a 
 passing traveler brought word that great 
 Catherine lay dead in Russia? Did they 
 ever give the tribute of a homesick sigh to 
 the comfort and security of the old English 
 homes of their fathers? Men and women 
 both had plenty of time to think, as they 
 did their work in the quiet wilderness. 
 Thoughts were turned over and over and 
 well polished in those days. They were 
 not a marketable commodity. There was 
 no mania to rush them into print, or 
 embalm them in ink. 
 
 A few adventurous spirits, accepting 
 cheerfully and bravely for themselves the 
 hard conditions of the life they had chosen, 
 they built their brightest hopes upon the 
 sons and daughters to whom they could 
 leave the heritage of freedom in a pleasant 
 land. And now they are sleeping — the 
 " men whose lives glided on like rivers 
 that water the woodlands, darkened by 
 shadows of earth, but reflecting an image 
 of heaven." 
 
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DAYTON WHEEL Y^ORKSj^^^ 
 
 Mauufacturt-r- i il 
 
 «* FINE 
 
 VEHICLE WHEELS, 
 
 N. Thomas, 
 
 BOTTLING 
 WORKS. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 §8^— 
 
 George Schantz, Pres. 
 Louis A, Wehner, Sec'y- 
 
 Cftc • • • 
 
 Schantz $ Sclwind 
 Brewing Co., 
 
 Dayton, Ohio, 
 
 Brewers and 
 Bottlers, 
 
 telephone 176. 
 
 t£& t£r* &r* b^* C*^* <*^" t^* 
 
 foot of Perry Street. 
 
 Cor. FM ond Bectel Sis. * 
 
 Established 1859. 
 
 R. P. BURKHARDT, PHES. 
 
 G. STOMPS, VlCE-PRES. AND TflEAS. 
 
 J. M. KRAMER, SECY. 
 
 R. P. BURKHARDT, JR., Supt 
 
 THE STOMPS- 
 
 BURKHARDT 
 
 CO., 
 
 Manufacturers of all 
 Styles of 
 
 Chairs. 
 
 Office and Factory: 
 
 229 to '-Ml East First Street. 
 
 Wabebooms: 
 
 126, 128, & 130 Canal Street. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 Callahan Bank Buildiug. 
 ' Karlj Davtuu," b) ptrujiasiuo of the 0. B. Publishing House. 
 
 THIRD STREET, LOOKING EAST FROM MAIN. 
 
 " Perhaps," in the language of Mary 
 Davies Steele, " there is no impropriety in 
 saying ... of Dayton that no one living 
 here who has undertaken literary, philan- 
 thropic, or other public work can help feel- 
 ing that Dayton is a good place to live in, 
 so ready is the response and generous the 
 support and appreciation received. Thus, 
 it seems to the student of our history, it 
 has been from the beginning." 
 
 "Within the last few years a complete 
 sewer system has been projected and largely 
 finished, and the principal streets of the 
 city have been handsomely paved with 
 asphalt, brick, sandstone, and granite ; and 
 many of the residence streets have been 
 parked by narrowing the roadway and 
 making lawns along the borders of the side- 
 walks. These improvements . . . make 
 the streets very attractive." 
 
 We 
 recommend 
 
 Q/'^TT"^\"^7 , "DQ , 10-Cent Lemon and 15-Cent Vanilla Extracts because they are line, rich flavors, 
 OW U UIUIXiD at i ia i,- t i, e price of-other brands. 
 
 Pierce & Coleman Co., j^T 
 
 ^s& LUMBER AND HILL WORK. 
 
 122=132 Wayne Avenue, 
 
 19 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
tfJTEJT, ENQEL if conr^NT, 
 
 Ns. D. Bates. C. W. Engel. 
 
 Harry J. Rock. G. A. Heinz. 
 
 DRESS GOODS, SILKS, 
 
 «£ 
 
 LADIES* «"d yy\EIN»S FURNISHERS, 
 
 " Largest Line of I'opular-l'rice Press Stud's in this City." 
 Ladies' Ready Suits. Shirt Waists, and Dress Skirts cm Third Floor. 
 
 106 E. Third and 10 & 12 S. Jefferson, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 PHILIP J. ROTTERMAN, 
 
 fflerfljant Jailor, 
 
 No. 109 South Jefferson Street, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 TURKISH and 
 j»jtj«RTJSSIAN 
 
 BATH HOUSE, 
 
 <sHsHs*© 
 
 / 7 Saat Second Street, 
 
 Between Main and Second Streets. 
 
 Finest Equipped Bath House in the Western 
 Country. Modern in Every Detail .jtjtjtjltjlt 
 
 OPEN DA Y AND NIGHT. 
 
 Helen Kemper & Sister, 
 
 Dealers in 
 
 F/WCY QOOfeX 
 
 And all kinds of Working Materials, Laces, 
 and Children's Caps. ■.'.•.*. 
 
 H3 Nortn Main St., del. First and second sis. 
 
 flnderton $ Cberbardt, 
 
 The "McCune" oi ANS 
 
 D. F. Thompson, Mgr. 
 
 LADIES HOURS : 
 
 Mondays from 7 A.M. to 6 p.m. 
 Fridays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. 
 
 District 
 
 messenger 
 
 Service. 
 
 Our messengers can be had 
 at any hour, DA Yor NWI1T, 
 for all classes of errand 
 duty. 
 
 THE MYTH DISTRICT TELEGRAPH it, 
 
 18 S. JEFFERSON ST. 
 
 PHONE 181 
 
 GRACEFUL FRAME, 
 GREATEST STRENGTH, 
 
 LOWEST PRICE. 
 
 the flnderton $ eberbardt Co., 
 
 General Agents, 
 
 (8 NORTH MAIN STREET. 
 
 AND 
 
 COAL 
 
 COKE. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 DAYTON OF THE PRESENT. 
 
 s. \V. DAVIES. 
 
 AYTON people have good cause to 
 be proud of Dayton. The large 
 outlay of the past few years has 
 metamorphosed the city. We have 
 broad, clean, well -lighted streets; 
 excellent fire protection; abundance 
 of the purest and coldest water ; school 
 buildings handsome in construction, admi- 
 rably ventilated, heated, and lighted, with 
 unused space for the coming scholars; a 
 sewage system that has proved a success; 
 more owners of homes than nine out of ten 
 cities, and a steady-going, level-headed, 
 progressive population. We have enough 
 banking capital to help out our neighbors, 
 and a large and growing building-associa- 
 tion capital that has done more to build up 
 the city with comfortable homes than any 
 other factor. 
 
 In the gloom of the business depression 
 we did not suffer above measure ; we are 
 not boomers and had built few air-castles. 
 Solidity and steadiness are the character- 
 istics of the leaders in manufacturing and 
 merchandising. Primarily a manufacturing 
 city, our name has gone out throughout the 
 
 earth, and our products to the ends of the 
 world. 
 
 We feed on the fat of the land. Fruits 
 and vegetables, fresh from the adjacent 
 country, fill our markets. You cannot buy 
 better beef or mutton, pork or poultry, than 
 are spread before the epicure triweekly. 
 
 Are you a reader? The riches of all 
 ages are within the handsome library walls, 
 free for the asking. Are you a social ani- 
 mal? Clubs, artistic, literary, religious, 
 and non-religious, open wide their doors to 
 men and women alike. Do you want to 
 wear a uniform that would make a red 
 Indian envious? Uniformed societies are 
 endless. 
 
 The Dayton of to-day is beautiful, rich, 
 powerful, and prosperous. We invite the 
 stranger and sojourner to cast in his lot 
 with us. We will help him if he is good, 
 furnish a free bed in a splendid hospital if 
 he is sick, put him in the new station- 
 house if bad, and if he dies we will bury 
 him in the most beautiful cemetery in the 
 country. What reasonable man, alive or 
 dead, could ask more ? 
 
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TAKE A REST 
 
 ™ Solid Comfort Lawn Swing, 
 
 The most comfortable lounging place 
 for the hot days and nights. £•<£•£•<£• 
 
 Rakes, Tedders, Loaders, Mowers, Corn Planters, 
 Disc Harrows, Grain Drills, and Seeders, a*^^^^ 
 
 jt^>^> Ever}' one the best of its class. 
 Our guaranty means something <£•<£• 
 
 Bi^\/^l^o9 Yes, for 1897. 
 lOywItyO 1 Don't buy till you see oiirs. 
 
 STODDARD MFG. CO., DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 One of Dayton's 
 Latest Enterprises. 
 
 •22 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 From " Karl; Dayton," by permission ol the D. B. Publishing House. 
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, AND COOPER PARK. 
 
 Robert W. Steele was one of the found- 
 ers of the Dayton Library Association, and 
 served for many years as director and pres- 
 ident. After it was united with the Public 
 Library in 1860, he was, excepting one or 
 two years, till his death in 1891, a member 
 
 of the Library Board. This Library united 
 the strongest attachments of Mr. Steele — 
 he loved his native town, and he loved his 
 books. The Library contains 35,325 vol- 
 umes and 1,292 pamphlets. Connected 
 with the Library is a museum. 
 
 Tine Bakery Goods, 
 
 It is a fact Q f\ TT T") "p 1 "R Q ' 10-Cent Lemon and 15-Cent Vanilla Extracts are tine, rich flavors at low 
 
 Geo , F. Krug, 
 
 Fancy Groceries. 
 
 28 and 30 S. Main St. Dayton, Ohio. 
 
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A TRAP'S THE THING!" 
 
 WE MAKE EliiRT VARIETIES OF 
 
 T R A F» S, 
 
 SURREYS, PHAETONS, AND CABRIOLETS, 
 
 WE DO SELL AT RETAIL. 
 
 MORRIS WOODHULL, 
 
 FIFTH STREET, NEAR RIVER. 
 
 The Brownell & Co., 
 
 Dayton, Ohio, 
 
 MANUFACTURERS "K 
 
 c 
 
 
 Saw Mills, Boilers of Every Description. 
 
 STAND PIPES, TANKS, 
 
 and General Sheet-Iron Work. 
 
 Send for Catalogue. 
 
 the Joyce-Cridland Co,, 
 
 manufacturers of 
 
 Patent Cever, eompound=Eever, Screw, and 
 Hydraulic lacks and Bench Ui$e$< 
 
 factory and Office, Cor. Wyandotte $t. and R. R. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 DAYTON OF THE FUTURE. 
 
 FRANK CONOVER. 
 
 rayE have heard and read much in this 
 mM Centennial year of the glories of 
 '^sfe5 Dayton's past; and we have con- 
 gratulated our city and ourselves 
 upon the greatness of her present. But of 
 her future, who shall prophesy ? It needs 
 large faith and a facile pen to forecast the 
 coming years. 
 
 The physical, material advancement of 
 Dayton is very sure; her twenty years last 
 past have not only been full of accomplish- 
 ment, but have given a distinct impetus to 
 our municipal growth which must be felt 
 far into the future. Our industries will 
 multiply ; we will build great factories that 
 sball dwarf those we think great to-day; 
 our commercial relations with the outer 
 world will expand, and our material wealth 
 and prosperity will increase an hundred- 
 fold. To the east, even to the hills, the 
 valley will be filled with vast shops, em- 
 ploying capital and labor in harmonious 
 cooperation, and their so-called conflict of 
 to-day will have become ancient history. 
 To the west, Dayton will crowd the gates 
 of a great National Park, devoted only to 
 the health and pleasure of the people, for 
 wars will no longer furnish crippled vet- 
 erans or soldiers' graves. From north to 
 south this beautiful basin, the three-riv- 
 ered valley, will scarce suffice to keep the 
 Dayton of the future within her bounds. 
 
 This is not a foolish dream ; it is but the 
 faint shadowing of that which our children 
 and their children will see. 
 
 But even better things than these shall 
 be found in Dayton after a while. 
 
 A new sense of the high honor and grave 
 responsibility of public service will pre- 
 vail. The best citizens will give their best 
 thought and labor to the public good. A 
 rational, effective civil service system will 
 govern Dayton, and honesty, integrity, ca- 
 pacity, not political creed, will test the 
 right of every man to hold a place of pub- 
 lic trust. 
 
 Great institutional churches will be a 
 part of future Dayton's better life. These 
 will be open every day, and they will edu- 
 cate the mind and strengthen the body, as 
 well as minister to the spirit. 
 
 Every public school in Dayton will have 
 its kindergarten, its natural history mu- 
 seum, its manual training department, its 
 reference and circulating libraries. 
 
 If the Dayton of the future may not 
 harbor a great university, she will at least 
 have the benefits of university teaching 
 lirought to her doors, through the estab- 
 lishment, not of one Extension Center, 
 but of twenty. The best in art, science, 
 sociology, will be brought to her upon the 
 tongues of the greatest thinkers and talk- 
 ers of the world, for University Extension 
 will become international, and Dayton will 
 rank among the great centers of this mag- 
 nificent plan for popular education. 
 
 These are but a meager hint of the things 
 that shall be enjoyed in Dayton of the 
 future. 
 
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TISCHER & REISINGER, 
 
 LEONARD REFRIGERATORS 
 
 GEH FREEZERS, 
 LAWN HOWERS. 
 
 34 North Main Street. 
 
 F1TZPATRICK. 
 
 Hatter 
 
 New Callahan Block. No. 7 East Third St., DAYTON, O. 
 
 ^. OAPPEL, 
 
 Manufacturer <if 
 
 Umbrellas and Parasols. 
 FACTORY and SALESROOMS, 139 E. Fifth St. 
 
 F. OAPPEL ^ 
 
 Manufacturer of and Dealer in 
 
 Furniture, Carpets, and Stoves. 
 
 133 and 125 E. Fifth St. DAYTON, O. 
 
 GONDERT & LIENESCH, 
 
 Miami Valley Box Factory, 
 
 Office and Factory, Shawnee St. 
 
 Between Wayne and Fifth Sts. 
 ^_ DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 I 
 
 itv ) 
 
 Superb Soda Water, 
 ICE CREAM, 
 and Fruit Ices. 
 
 14 North Main St. 
 
 0. F. OEhJLSCHLAGER, 
 
 Sole Agent and Bottler of the 
 
 N|orrow, Cream, and Xenia Ales, 
 
 Cor. Wayne Ave. and Onk. St. 
 Telephone 504. DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 WM. FOCKE & SONS, 
 
 Dealers in a Full Line of 
 All Kinds of 
 
 Meats, Lard, and Provisions. 
 
 Free Delivery to all parts of the city. 
 
 Telephone 305. 1004 and 1006 E. Fifth St. 
 
 Miss Worman <$ Company, 
 
 -HOBEJ- 
 
 NOS 10 & 12 E. FOURTH ST. 
 OAVIES BLOCK. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1835. 
 
 Wholesalers 
 ', of.... 
 
 W. S. PHELPS' SONS, 
 
 GROCERIES, 
 
 Tinners' Stock, 
 Wire Cable, 
 
 Nurserymen's Supplies, 
 Cordage, and 
 Tackle Blocks. 
 
 23 and 25 East Second St., DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 Telephone 888. 
 
 * McDERMONT & CLEMENS, x 
 
 EINE PLUMBING, 
 
 Gas Fixtures, Brackets, Globes, &c. 
 . . RUBBER HOSE. . . 
 
 13 East Second Street. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA. 
 
 
 From a water-color palutinc by John W. Van Cleve, tn possession of Miss Martha Holt. 
 From " Early Dayton," by permission of the U. B. Publishing House. 
 
 Copyright, 1895, by Miss Martha Holt. 
 
 A VIEW OF THE EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, IN 1855. 
 
 Dayton owes much to the careful study and Main. These buildings contained the 
 
 and painstaking observation of Mr. John banks, newspaper, and stores. Dayton 
 
 W. Van Cleve. This little picture brings merchants kept genuine country stores, 
 
 before us the business of Dayton after it and sold a very miscellaneous variety of 
 
 had come to a focus at the corner of Third articles. 
 
 Telephone 166. 
 
 If 
 
 1 511 HI HL 
 
 Brewers and Bottlers. 
 
 Fine old Beers a Specialty. 
 
 27 
 
EAF^T 
 
 DAYTON 
 
 EELl 
 
 Read the 
 Special 
 DAYTONIA 
 Offer. 
 
 SPECIAL OFFER FOR DAYTONIA WEEK. 
 
 EARLY DAYTON, 
 
 a complete history of the first half-century, 
 with important facts ami incidents from 
 
 the founding of the city of Dayton, Ohio, to the hundredth anniversary. 1796-1896. 
 
 By Robert W. Steele ami Mahy Davies Steele. Illustrated. Acknowledged to be 
 
 the best history nf Dayton published — the authoritative history. 
 
 The best evidence of the excellence of this history is that since its publication in 
 
 March it has been constantly quoted in public ami private, and commended by every 
 
 one who has had occasion to study the city's history. The orators and essayists at all 
 
 the public occasions during the Centennial Celebration spoke of its importance and 
 
 urged its use in every home in Dayton. 
 
 Used in planning DAYTONIA. 
 
 One of the best judges in the city says: " Miss Steele has narrated in a charming 
 style the leading events in the history of Dayton. She has interwoven with her nar- 
 rative biographical sketches of prominent participants in those events, thereby adding 
 piquancy to the interest the subject would naturally excite in the minds of Daytonians. 
 Every citizen should feel it to be not only a duty, but a pleasure, to become thoroughly 
 acquainted with the facts set forth in 'Early Dayton.' The attractiveness of the 
 volume is enhanced by admirable illustrations, faultless printing, excellent paper, and 
 neat binding." 
 
 Three Editions are- 
 
 CUT THIS OUT! 
 
 IT WILL BE GOOD 
 FOR 
 
 I OC. on the 60c. Edition, 
 20c. on the $1.25 Edition, 
 40c. on the $4.00 Edition, 
 
 EARLY DAYTON, 
 
 if presrnted at thn 
 
 U. B. BOOK STORE, 
 
 Cor. Main and Fourth Sis.. 
 
 at any time between Monday, 
 
 May IS, 1896, and Saturday 
 
 Evening, May 23, 1896. 
 
 1. — Paper binding, thirty-eight illustrations, including scenes of early history, ^O.e50. 
 
 1.25, 
 
 Cloth binding, special design, with eighteen additional illustrations (a 
 total of fifty-six), 
 
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 II 
 
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 ii 
 
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 ii 
 
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 3.— Edition de Luxe, large paper, wide margins, gilt top, with nineteen special 
 illustrations (a total of seventy-five), half leather binding, limited 
 number, ...__ _____ *-f>_,00. 
 
 The last is the handsomest book of local history Dayton has had. It will prove valuable, 
 as the number of copies is small and will not be increased. 
 
 The entire work is a home enterprise,— authorship, manufacture, sale, and all. It will 
 remain the best monument in book form of Dayton's Centennial. Its publisher has desired 
 to issue a book that could go into every home in the city. Hence the prices of the various 
 editions are lower than for hooks of similar size and style. 
 
 If you cannot visit the Book Store and examine the books, a representative will call 
 upon you. 
 
 United Brethren Publishing House, 
 
 Corner Main and Fourth Streets. 
 
 ^rf^r^ 1 T^E special offer named In the Coupon on this page will be good for the one 
 week only. You want the book In your family. Buy It this week. It 
 is a book to be kept and given to the children to be read as they grow older. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 AUNTIE" BOYD. 
 
 ELIZA HOLT. 
 
 BfMONG the names long associated 
 If, with early Dayton, few are de- 
 serving of more kindly remem- 
 brance than that of Miss Maria 
 Boyd, or "Auntie" Boyd, as she was 
 sometimes familiarly called. The 
 page assigned me is amply sufficient for 
 any needed record of her life and char- 
 acter, much of which might be summed 
 up in the single sentence, "She went about 
 doing good." Her means, though limited, 
 affording a competent support, she pur- 
 chased a small home at the extreme end 
 of First Street, where she resided till her 
 death. Her family consisting only of a 
 niece and a nephew, whom she had brought 
 up from his infancy, enabled her to devote 
 her time to the service which she loved. 
 The almoner of others' bounty, as well as 
 her own, she almost seemed to embody in 
 her own person the associated charities of 
 early Dayton. Long before those noble insti- 
 tutions, the St. Elizabeth and Deaconess 
 Hospitals, were founded, the quaint little 
 figure of Miss Boyd, peculiar in manner, 
 dress, and appearance, might be daily seen, 
 undeterred by winter's cold or summer's 
 heat, carrying food to the hungry, clothing 
 
 to the destitute, or comfort to the afflicted ; 
 or she might be met returning alone in 
 the darkness of night from her errands of 
 love and mercy. And not only could Miss 
 Boyd encourage — she could reprove or 
 rebuke when necessary. 
 
 A single incident may serve to show the 
 secret of her happy life. On one occasion, 
 calling at the house, — it must have been 
 on some of her benevolent enterprises, — 
 with a beaming face she exclaimed : " I 
 was so happy for a few days, I was so 
 happy. I did not know why I should 
 feel so, but I thought it might be I was 
 going to die." To die! think of it, any 
 " who through fear of death " are " all their 
 lifetime subject to bondage." For Miss 
 Boyd to die was gain. Dying in 1879, for 
 seventeen years Miss Boyd has been in the 
 presence of the Master whom she served, 
 and who, when on earth himself, said: "I 
 was an hungered, and ye gave me meat : 
 I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : 
 .... naked, and ye clothed me : I was 
 
 sick, and ye , visited me Inasmuch 
 
 as ye have done it unto one of the least 
 of these my brethren, ye have done it unto 
 me." 
 
 
 29 
 
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 EW DR 
 
 on 
 
 JOSEPH R. GEBHART & SON. 
 
 McKEMY & NUTT, 
 ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 
 
 ROOMS 9, 10, and II, MIINS BLDU., 
 Corner Main and Fourth Streets. 
 
 Telephone No. 690. 
 
 JOHN HANITCH, 
 
 ATTORNEY AT LAW, 
 NOTARY PUBLIC. 
 
 18 E. Third St., 
 
 DAYTON, O. 
 
 THIRD NATIONAL BANK, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. 
 
 Capital, 
 
 Surplus and Net Profits, 
 
 $400,000.00 
 140,911.66 
 
 John K. McIntike, Pres. Chas. Rench, Cash. 
 
 Rufus J. King, V.-Pres. Chas. J.Moore, Asst. Cash. 
 
 A Qeneral Banking Business Transacted. 
 
 FOR GOOD CLOTHING AT LOWEST PRICES 
 
 GO TO 
 
 SOL STRAUSS, 
 
 THE LEADING- 
 
 1 
 
 28 and 30 E. Third St.. 
 23 and 25 N. Market St., 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 THE DAYTON PAPER NOVELTY CO., 
 
 INCORPORATED. 
 
 PATENT 
 
 MANUFACTURERS PAPER 
 
 OF 
 
 232 to 266 E. First Street, 
 
 125 tn 141 N. Mill Street, 
 
 PACKAGES. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO, U. S. A. 
 
 BENJ. F. McCANN, 
 
 ATTORNEY AT LAW. 
 
 24 North Main Street, - DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 Telephone 958. 
 
 ec£ 
 
 \9 
 
 «c£ 
 
 Identified for nearly half a century with 
 Dayton's every advancement and reform. 
 
 THE RIKE DRY GOODS CO., 
 
 MAIN AND FOURTH STREETS. 
 
 We solicit a continuance of your favors. 
 
 A. UEBHART, President. E. A. DANIELS, Vice-President. A. S. ESTABROOK, Cashier. THOS. GABLE, Assistant Cashier. 
 
 The Merchants National Bank, ODD fell TImple. 
 
 Receives Deposits. Discounts Acceptable Paper. Issues Their Own Drafts on Foreign Placos. Capital, &i00,00u. Surplus, $t>0,UOU. 
 
 niDCrTHDC . A. UEBHART. J. H. VAILE. J. LINXWEILER, Jr., J. C. PEIRCE, A. J. (JONOVER, 
 U1KCL. 1 UKO . a. (iERLADQH, E. A. DANIELS, <j. C. KENNEDY, SOL. RAUH. 
 
 30 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 STATUE SURMOUNTING THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. 
 
 "The memorial of Montgomery County to lier soldiers" was dedicated July 31, 1V44. Total height of the monu- 
 ment is 85 feet. The model for the statue, which is 11 feet Ij inches in height, was (ieorge Fair of the regular army. 
 
 Established 1»7. 
 
 THE FASTEST GROWlNci fl fl fi fl H niinnrTT'fl \ 144 
 
 Paint and Wall Paper House - IV fl MB | < \ 
 
 In the State of Ohio is U IIU. I !• . Ull V 1L U. 
 
 E ibt Tn i nn Street, 
 Near St. Clair Street, 
 
 Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 :;i 
 
The Wheel in 1796. 
 
 She sat beside her spinniug-wheel 
 
 Demure and sweet and wise, 
 The golden sunshine on her hair, 
 
 Love's language in her eyes. 
 Young Robert paused to note her skill — 
 
 The capture was complete, 
 For she who turns the spinning-wheel 
 
 Brings lovers to her feet. 
 
 The Wheel in 1896. 
 
 She sits upon her STEARNS wheel, 
 
 Coquettish, witty, fail ; 
 The bloom of health is on her cheek, 
 
 The sunlight on her hair. 
 Young Edward's wheel keeps pace with hers 
 
 Past field and forest wide, 
 For she who rides a STEARNS wheel 
 
 Brings lovers to her side. 
 
 WE SELL THEM. 
 
 Uhe 2)ayton Cycle Co., 
 
 20 WEST SECOND STREET. 
 
 cclusive Agency. 
 
 Troy Laundry 
 
 405, 407, 409 
 East Third Street. 
 
 Our work 
 is simply 
 out of sight. 
 
 Call us up by Telephone 
 587 and 160. 
 
 Reed, Kelly & Co. 
 
 .1 
 
 f. 
 
 106, 108, 110 East Second Street. 
 
 Telephone 581. 
 
 BEST WORK IN THE CITY. 
 
 Full line of Sundries. 
 First-class Repairing. 
 Telephone 815. 
 
 Gem City Cycle Co. 
 
 CLIFFORD R. BOUCK, Mgr. 
 
 No. 5 East Second Street. 
 
 Thistle, Warwick, 
 
 Vanguard, Allen, 
 
 Gem Special, 
 
 And a full line of 
 medium grade wheels. 
 
 The Elyria Juvenile, 
 
 strongest, easiest running, 
 and handsomest child's 
 wheel made. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 DAYTON IN THE WAR. 
 
 GENERAL SAMUEL BA< ON SMITH. 
 
 HEN the proclamation of the 
 
 President calling for the imme- 
 diate enlistment of seventy-five 
 thousand soldiers for a service of 
 three months was received, Dayton 
 responded with cheerfulness and 
 alacrity, and within a very few days 
 five companies of infantry were sworn into 
 the service of the United States, and at 
 least that many more were refused. These 
 companies were attached to the First and 
 Eleventh regiments. The First Regiment 
 was mustered in at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 
 April 29. 1861, with Dayton men as officers, 
 as follows: Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin A. 
 Parrott, Major John G. Hughes, Adjutant 
 Joseph S. Parrott, Regimental Quartermas- 
 ter James Steele, and Captains Peter Dister, 
 Louis Kuhlman, Walter B. Pease, and John 
 Crowe. The Eleventh Regiment was mus- 
 tered in at Columbus, Ohio, April 26, 1861, 
 the Dayton officers being Colonel J. Find- 
 lay Harrison and Captains Calvin J. Childs 
 and Michael P. Nolan. 
 
 At the end of its term the First Ohio 
 was returned to Dayton to be recruited for 
 a term of three years. The organization 
 was completed, and it went to the field in 
 the fall of 1861 with the following Dayton 
 men as officers: Lieutenant-Colonel Ed- 
 win A. Parrott, Adjutant John Parrott, 
 Captains Louis Kuhlman, Gates P. Thrus- 
 ton, and Patrick O'Connell. 
 
 Dayton claimed proprietorship in three 
 infantry regiments, namely, the First, 
 Eleventh, and Ninety-third. The Eleventh 
 was recruited for three years at Camp 
 Dennison and sent to West Virginia. It 
 
 was, however, afterwards a part of the 
 Army of the Cumberland and participated 
 in some of its important battles, including 
 Chickamauga. 
 
 The Ninety-third Regiment was organ- 
 ized at Dayton in the summer of LS62. its 
 Dayton officers being as follows : Colonel 
 Charles Anderson, Lieutenant - Colonel 
 Hiram Strong, Assistant-Surgeon J. M. 
 Weaver, Adjutant Dickenson P. Thruston, 
 and Chaplain Osman A. Lyman, with 
 Captains W. H. Martin, William Birch, 
 Thomas C. Mitchell, and Samuel B. Smith. 
 
 Besides the organizations above men- 
 tioned Dayton was represented in numer- 
 ous regiments of infantry, artillery, cav- 
 alry, heavy artillery, sharpshooters, etc., by 
 companies, squads, and recruits, some of 
 her citizens participating in nearly every 
 battle of the War. From the 1st of Sep- 
 tember, 1862, until September 24, 1864, 
 when the term of the First Regiment ex- 
 pired, the First and Ninety-third regi- 
 ments were attached to the same brigade 
 and side by side confronted the enemy at 
 Stone River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, 
 Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, 
 Kenesaw Mountain, and Atlanta. 
 
 In the suppression of the great Rebellion 
 it is sufficient to say that the city of Day- 
 ton was in no way behind her sister cities 
 in this and other Northern States in her 
 manifestations of patriotism, and that she 
 freely and cheerfully contributed her sons 
 to the army, her daughters to the care of 
 the wounded and suffering, and her means, 
 in generous quantity, to the support of the 
 Government. 
 
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Best 
 Clothes 
 
 Best 
 Fixings, 
 
 and [l\ — "_;-=— ™|a Vi^ all 
 
 Hats. ^^W* Kinds. 
 MOSE COHEN & CO., THIRD S TREET. 
 
 D. G. PORTER, 
 Y DENTIST, Y 
 
 26 North Jefferson Street, - DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 Simms Building, Opposite Beckel House. 
 
 H. L. HUBER. 
 
 W. D. HUBER. 
 
 HUBER BROTHERS, 
 
 AUCTIONEERS AND STORAGE WAREHOUSEMEN, 
 
 14, 16, and 18 S. Jeff. St., 
 Telephone 786. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 W. W. Ferguson. 
 
 J. A. Phitz. 
 
 F. B. Roup. 
 
 THE ACME STAR STEAM LAUNDRY. 
 
 WORKS AND MAIN OFFICE, 38 South St. Clair Street 
 Telephone 1129. 
 
 Established 1861. LEE R. HOOPER, Pees. 
 
 DAYTON AWNING AND TENT CO 
 
 33 NORTH JEFFERSON ST. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Awnings, Tents, Paulins, and All Kinds of 
 Canvas Work. Sidewalk Canopies, Floor 
 Covers, and Tents Rented. 
 
 HARRY H. PRUGH, 
 
 Attorney and Counselor at Law. 
 
 Rooms 12 and 13 Kuhns Building, 
 Fourth and Main Streets, 
 
 DAYTON, O. 
 
 Fred. Reibold, Edw. Pape, Sr„ Jos. Schumacher, 
 
 President. Yice-Presideut. Cashier. 
 
 THE TEUTONIA NATIONAL BANK. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO, 
 Capital, $200,000. Surplus, $26,000. 
 
 CRESCENT BICYCLES! 
 
 SKY HIGH. 
 
 PRICES: $40, $50, and $75. 
 W. E. HAAS & CO., 20 WEST FIFTH STREET. 
 
 THE EQUITABLE LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, 
 
 INo. 3 NORTH JEFFERSON STREET. 
 
 DIRECTORS : 
 
 L. C. EVANS, M. COSTELLO, N. THOMAS, S. E. KUHLER, 
 
 W. H. HOFFMAN, C. E. SPINDLER, THOS. De ARMON. 
 
 Dyeing and Cleaning. 
 
 Ladies' Dresses, Men's Clothing, Silks, Satins, 
 Plushes, Portieres, Gcloves, Parasols, Etc. 
 
 Dayton Cleaning and Repair Co.. E. R. Lines, Mgr, 
 
 Plione 1070. 
 
 37 WEST" FOURTH STREET. 
 
 G. W. SHROYER & CO. 
 
 GOOD BICYCLES. 
 
 23 W. FIFTH STREET. 
 
 DRINK. O-R COFFEE ! 
 
 Roasted by an Improved Process. 
 
 A Special Blend of High Grade Coffees. Packed in One Pound Cartons 
 Only. Sold by All Grocers at 30 Cents Per Pound. 
 
 DAYTON SPICE MILLS CO., ROASTERS. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 Prom "Early Daftou," by permission of the IT B. Publishing House. 
 
 COLUMBIAN CENTENNIAL, OCTOBER 22, 1892 -A VIEW OF THE PROCESSION ON MAIN STREET. 
 
 On the 22d of October, 1892, the Colum- 
 bian Centennial was fittingly celebrated in 
 Dayton by an immense procession of mili- 
 tary and civic societies, school-children, 
 and industrial exhibits, followed by appro- 
 priate addresses and music in Cooper 
 Park. 
 
 No language can describe the mammoth 
 parade, which contained within itself the 
 best evidence, not only of the wonderful 
 progress of the hundred years preceding, 
 but also of the magnificent manufactories 
 and business enterprises of our city. 
 
 The addresses were worthy of the occa- 
 
 sion, and the singing of "My country, 
 't is of thee," by the school-children was 
 most inspiring, and wrought up the im- 
 mense multitude to a high pitch of en- 
 thusiasm. 
 
 "The voice of gratitude and praise for 
 all the blessings which have been showered 
 upon mankind by Columbus's adventure is 
 limited to no language, but is uttered in 
 every tongue. Neither marble nor brass 
 can fitly form his statue. Continents are 
 his monument, aud unnumbered millions, 
 present and to come, will preserve his name 
 and fame." 
 
 The Brown-Bierce Company, Fine Illustrators. 
 
 The Dayton Brewing Company, 
 
 BREWERS AND BOTTLERS OF FINE BEERS. 
 
 TELEPHONE 410. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 35 
 
The M. Ohmer's Sons Co. 
 
 WE 
 
 ARE now read)' to see you at our New Store, 
 Corner Main and Fifth Streets. 
 
 THE FINEST SALESROOMS, 
 
 THE FINEST STOCK OF FURNITURE 
 
 IN THE STATE. 
 
 v???i?v?i?1?i?i?i?vPv?'t?v?vi'i?'i?ii'i? 
 
 Our Upholstering and Repairing Departments are on the sixth floor 
 and we are prepared to do over your old furniture on short notice. 
 
 Prices Remain the Lowest. 
 
 The H. OHMER'S SONS CO., 
 
 Corner Main and Fifth Streets. 
 
 w "I/NSURA/NeE" 
 
 GASOLINE 
 STOVE. 
 
 SIMPLEST ! 
 
 SAFEST ! 
 
 BEST ! 
 
 YOU CANNOT. 
 
 EXPLODE IT ! 
 
 No Treacherous Drip Cups. 
 Lights with a Torch &£>& 
 Automatic Cut-Off Burner. 
 
 CCC VV BEFORE PURCHA SING ! 
 
 jg ggi.gv. THE DAYTON MANUFACTURING CO. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 THE INDUSTRIES OF DAYTON. 
 
 E. M. THKESHKK. 
 
 »N the industries of a city we find 
 the sum of its enterprise, intel- 
 ligence, and thrift added to the 
 opportunities of its environment. The 
 same natural causes which made the beau- 
 tiful Miami Valley accessible to its first 
 settlers gave them also ready means of 
 communication with other markets, where 
 the surplus products of their labor and 
 skill might be exchanged for the comforts 
 and luxuries there obtainable. 
 
 When our pioneers landed their pirogue 
 at the mouth of Mad River they found 
 here a healthful and beautiful location, a 
 productive soil, an available supply of 
 power to turn the wheels of their manu- 
 factories, and ready means of communi- 
 cation with outside markets. The same 
 natural causes which led them to this 
 favored spot also brought to their doors the 
 canal and railroad when the time came 
 that the packet must supplant the flat- 
 boat and the pirogue, itself in turn to be 
 replaced by the lightning express. From 
 the time that the completion of the Miami 
 and Erie canal gave to Dayton its splen- 
 did water-power there has been a steady 
 growth of its industries, until we see 
 to-day the prosperous Gem City, with its 
 80,000 inhabitants, and its productions 
 known in all the States and in other 
 continents. 
 
 Besides the usual jobbing trades and 
 local industries of a thriving city, Dayton 
 
 possesses large wholesale establishments in 
 the lines of groceries, dry gondii, spices, 
 confections, millinery, books, station- 
 ery, and other commodities. It has for 
 years been favorably and widely known 
 for its manufacture of railroad cars, agri- 
 cultural implements, wood, iron, cotton, 
 clay-working and paper-making machin- 
 ery, linseed oil, paints, varnishes, oil 
 presses, water-wheels, pumps, gas and 
 steam engines, boilers, iron and brass cast- 
 ings, electrical machinery, cash register-, 
 computing scales, carriages, flour, paper 
 and cardboard, ale and beer, lasts and pegs, 
 boots and shoes, wood and paper boxes, 
 bookbinders' machinery, wheels, hubs and 
 spokes, sewing-machines, bicycles, stoves 
 and castings, builders' supplies, furniture, 
 lard oil, candles and soap, flavoring ex- 
 tracts, tobacco, toilet articles, business 
 stationery, newspapers, books and period- 
 icals, and many other young and growing 
 industries. Its biscuits and crackers are 
 famous, as are its pills and tonics, and it 
 furnishes in many kinds remedies for all 
 ills that man is heir to. 
 
 In the wide diversity of its manufac- 
 tures lies one of the chief sources of our 
 city's present strength and future promise. 
 It is generally conceded that the proposed 
 Centennial Exhibit of the manufactures of 
 Dayton will be a revelation to the public, 
 who have little idea of the extent, per- 
 fection, and variety of its products. 
 
The Mutual Home & Savings Association, 
 
 OIF 1 JD_&."Z"T02ST, OHIO. 
 
 Cash Assets, January I, 1896, - $2,229,598.78. 
 
 jjv, ron Dividends paid to all members. ^y, rj> 
 
 Money loaned on Real Estate at 7 per cent, interest. 
 
 JOSIAH E. BOYER, President. 
 
 JOHN E. VIOT, Vice-President. 
 
 S. RUF US JONES, General Manager. 
 
 WILLIAM H. KIMMEL, Secretary. 
 
 John K. Mclntire. J. F. Schneider, 
 
 John S. Mclntire. Chas. P. Althoff. 
 
 Edward M. Mclntire. 
 
 J. K. MCINTIRE & CO., 
 
 — WHOLESALE GROCERS — 
 
 ITo. US ISToeth 3v£a.ikt St., 
 * * * * * DAYTON. OHIO. 
 
 ZWICK, lEIflLD I CO., 
 
 f LIMITED. ) 
 
 -MANUFACTURERS OF- 
 
 HTJBS, 
 SPOKES and 
 FELLOES. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 BROOKS & SON, 
 
 PLUMBERS, 
 Steam and Hot-Water Fitters. 
 
 42 North Jefferson Street. 
 
 TfJE JJ. THAqEI^ CO., 
 
 §| Wholesale Grocers. 
 
 112 and 114 North Main St., 
 
 DAYTON, O. 
 
 Daytonia Loan Exhibition, 
 
 In M. OHMER'S SONS' Store Rooms, N. Main St. 
 
 Old portraits of people who helped to make Dayton, relics of past 
 customs, old china, silver, miniatures, and other curios associated with 
 the early history of Dayton. Such a collection was never gathered 
 in this city before. 
 
 Go and See It— Admission, 10 Cents. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 DAYTON— THE CITY OF CHURCHES. 
 
 'HE count made on April 1, in this 
 Centennial year, shows that Dayton 
 has 81 churches, or public places ot 
 worship. Of these 71 are Protestant, 7 
 Catholic, and 3 Jewish. The whole popu- 
 lation of Dayton is about 80,000. Now, if 
 we bear in mind that infants, the sick and 
 infirm, those temporarily absent, and those 
 engaged in more or less necessary Sunday 
 labor must be deducted from the number 
 of church attendants ; if we add to the 
 places of worship reported the services 
 held at the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion, the Woman's Christian Association, 
 the Widows' Home, the Asylum for the 
 Insane, the Catholic and Protestant hospi- 
 tals, and other places; especially, if we 
 remember that each of the churches holds 
 several services on Sunday and during the 
 week, it is evident that the proportion of 
 public religious privileges to the population 
 is very large, and that no one in the city 
 need go far to find a place of worship 
 congenial to his convictions and tastes. 
 Many of the churches are commodious 
 and elegant structures, ornaments to our 
 city, as well as constant invitations to 
 higher things. Among the congregations 
 referred to are 12 Methodist, 11 Baptist, 
 11 United Brethren, 9 Presbyterian, 7 
 
 H. !■'. COLBY, 1>. I). 
 
 Lutheran, li Reformed, 3 Episcopal, and 
 12 other denominations of one or two 
 congregations each. In matters of com- 
 mon Christian interest all these have for a 
 long time worked together with the greatest 
 harmony and good feeling. Indeed, while 
 every thoughtful Christian must have his 
 own denominational preferences, our com- 
 munity has been singularly free from those 
 jealousies and antagonisms which develop 
 sectarian bitterness. 
 
 Of our 80,000 people, 30,604 are reported 
 as belonging, to some religious organization. 
 On the morning of Easter Sunday the con- 
 gregations aggregated 26,392, besides many 
 children in the Sunday schools who did 
 not attend the other services. In the 
 Sunday schools there were 14,459. The 
 various church property is valued at 
 $1,858,315. The amount raised for church 
 expenses in 1895 was $182,409, and the 
 amount given by the churches to benevo- 
 lence and charity was $107,538. Aside 
 from the bearing of these things upon 
 spiritual consolations and the hopes of the 
 future, who can estimate their influence 
 upon the morality, integrity, and mutual 
 confidence of our citizens? Such a city of 
 churches can be " no mean city," if those 
 churches are faithful to their work. 
 
 39 
 
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 National Cosh Register 
 The Progress <>f One Hundred Years 
 
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 STEELE HIGH SCHOOL. 
 
 "In the spring of 1850, the Central High School 
 of Dayton was opened. In the fall it was located 
 in the old academy building, where it remained 
 until 1857, when a new building was put up for it 
 on the same ground — on the southwest corner of 
 Fourth and Wilkinson streets. . . . Since then the 
 
 roll of teachers and pupils has lengthened, and the 
 curriculum broadened, but the same spirit of zeal, 
 energy, and enthusiasm rules in the new High 
 School building, occupied since 1892, and named 
 in honor of one of the best friends of the schools 
 —Robert W. Steele."— From "Early Dayton." 
 
 Dayton this month celebrates her centennial. 
 
 The National Cash Register Company celebrates: 
 
 1. The perfection of the finest factory system in the world, 
 
 2. The shipment of its one hundred thousandth cash register, 
 
 3. The dedication of its new factory building. 
 
 4. The return of good times. 
 
 5. The largest business in its history. 
 
SEIDL & MERKLE, 
 
 Dealers in Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers. 
 25 East Third Street. 
 
 Sign of the Wire Boot. 
 
 D. LEONHARD & SON, 
 
 Dayton's 
 Oldest and Best Saddlery House. 
 
 You are all invited to call on them. 
 25 South Main Street. Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 BOSLER'S BAKERY, 
 
 40 South Main Street. 
 
 J. T. DRYDEN, 
 
 Staple and Fancv Grocer. 
 Main and Second. 
 
 Telephone 521. 
 
 OWENS & HIXSON 
 
 Make Shirts 
 That Fit. 
 
 C. L. G. BREENE, 
 
 Merchant 
 Tailor. 
 7 North Jefferson St. Dayton, O. 
 
 S. B. WILLIAMS, 
 
 The Leading HATTER and Furrier. 
 
 Telephone 495. 
 
 10 North Main Street. 
 
 H. N. WILES & CO.. 
 
 20 East Third St., 
 Dry Goods, Wraps, Etc. 
 
 PRUDEN'S FAIR, 
 
 House Furnishing Goods, Baby Car- 
 riages, and Refrigerators. 
 
 Novelties for Presents. 
 4 & 6 East Fifth Street. Pruden's Building. 
 
 You can get anything you may need to 
 furnish your home at 
 
 BYRNE & PALMER'S, 
 
 in East Third Street. 
 
 Cash or Credit. 
 
 CARNELL'S, 
 
 S. E. Corner Third and Main Streets. 
 An Up-to-Date 
 
 Drug Store. 
 
 Central Wine Depot. 
 WILLIAM SANDER, 
 
 Foreign and Domestic Wines and Liquors 
 
 Telephone 585. 
 Corner Third and St. Clair Streets. 
 
 CROSLEY & ADAMSON, 
 
 Wholesale Grocers, 
 117 East Third Street, Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 Huffman Block. 
 
 JOS. FERNEDING & CO., 
 
 Dealers in Fine Boots and Shoes. 
 
 34 East Third Street, 
 Dayton, Ohio. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF DAYTON. 
 
 E. L. SHUEY. 
 
 f'N this Centennial year there are 
 |s about 11,000 children and youth 
 in the public schools of Dayton. 
 Of this number nineteen-twen- 
 tieths will receive all their educa- 
 tion in these schools. The very small 
 proportion remaining will have more 
 or less of the training of the college or tech- 
 nical school. Not one thousand of the 
 eleven thousand are in the High School. 
 About ninety-eight hundred are under 
 fifteen years of age. For the instruction 
 of these youth the city employs a super- 
 intendent, twenty-six high-school, four 
 special, and nearly three hundred district- 
 school teachers. 
 
 These facts only serve to emphasize the 
 importance of a well-rounded course of 
 study, broadly planned and carefully ex- 
 tended, in order that there may be the 
 widest possible training for the great ma- 
 jority whose education is to be so limited, 
 as well as the greatest encouragement and 
 most thorough instruction for those who 
 are to have the more advanced opportuni- 
 ties of the High School. That instruction 
 only will be adequate which best fits the 
 child for his environment and gives to him 
 
 the incentive for the most complete devel- 
 opment of himself. That this can no longer 
 be limited to the " three It's'' is fully dem- 
 onstrated, and the question ought to be 
 more fully appreciated by parents and in- 
 structors alike. 
 
 In nothing is the contrast of the hundred 
 years more striking than in the require- 
 ments of education. Where success in 
 almost any calling was assured to him who 
 with the most elementary education united 
 good judgment, now even the least calling 
 requires a good knowledge of many sub- 
 jects, and the higher positions in mechanic 
 and mercantile pursuits alike demand train- 
 ing of head and hand. 
 
 Above all this, there must be in all schools 
 that instruction in the history and genius 
 of our country and its government, that 
 sense of honor and responsibility for its 
 control, that love of home and its duties, 
 which will make the hoys and girls of 
 to-day a strong generation, truth-loving, 
 independent in thought, and always loyal 
 to home and country. Only as these ele- 
 ments are firmly fixed in the youth, do the 
 schools of Dayton fulfill the proper demands 
 of its citizens. 
 
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 thoroughly first-class machine of small to medium capacity, 
 at moderate cost, especially adapted for Hotels, Hospitals, 
 Butchers, Dealers in Fruits, Vegetables, Fish, Etc.^*^*^^^ 
 
 ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
 
 ON APPLICATION 
 
 \l/ E also manufacture on a large scale Turbines, Steam 
 Pumps, Oil-Mill Machinery, Feed-Water Heaters, Filter 
 Presses, Power-Transmitting Machinery, Etc. <£•<£•<£•£•£•<£ 
 
 *£?* t£T* jjT** fi»* t** e* t&^ Zt* ttw^ &^* t*^* tt^* 
 
 The 5tilwell=Bierce & 5mith=Vaile Co., 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 44 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTON I A 
 
 From " Karly Daylnn," hy permlBflton <>f Ifae^U. B. Publishing House.* 
 
 ST. ELIZABETH HOSPITAL. 
 
 "The St.JElizabeth Hospital is a Roman was needed. Six acres of land in Brown- 
 Catholic institution, which was started on town were purchased, and the corner-stone 
 Franklin Street, in 1878, in a very modest laid in 1881 for a large building. There, 
 way by two Sisters of the Poor of St. supported by voluntary contributions, they 
 Francis. They soon found that there was are doing a noble work. Capacity, 242 
 a broad field for their work. More room patients." 
 
 THE BROWN-BIERCE COMPANY, ENGRAVERS BY EVERY METHOD. 
 
 01 
 
 hen "Daytonia" is past, 
 
 You will need 
 
 The Best Place 
 in Dayton for 
 
 Reading for the Summer. 
 Books of All Kinds is t^ 
 
 Cor. Main and Fourth Sts. 
 
 U. B. Book Store, 
 
 4--» 
 
NORTH STAR FINE CUT. 
 
 YE OLD-TIME CHEW! 
 
 ALWAYS THE BEST. 
 
 GOTTERILL, FENNER & CO, 
 
 E 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Turbine Water Wheels, 
 
 Paper and Pulp Mill Machinery, 
 
 GEARING, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, ETC. 
 
 ME SIMON 6EBHART SONS FLOUR 00., 
 
 COR. THIRD AND FRONT STS , DAYTON, 0. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF FLOUR AND DEALERS IN 
 
 CORN, OATS, HAY,OILMEAL, 
 
 AND ALL KINDS OF MILL FEED. 
 
 Your orders solicited for all kind of Feed, also, Flour 
 by the Barrel. Delivered promptly to all parts of the 
 city. Telephone 274. 
 
 THE SIMON GEBHART SONS FLOUR C(h_ 
 
 lie Norlhwestern Mutual UK insurance Co., 
 
 OF MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
 
 Assets, 
 Surplus, 
 
 $82,000,000 
 16,000,000 
 
 J. M. MARKHAM. Gen'l Agt., DAYTON, O. 
 
 I. & C. VAN AUSDAL, 
 
 IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 
 
 CARPETS, 
 
 LINOLEUM, FLOOR AND TABLE OILCLOTHS, 
 
 Paper Hangings, Curtain Materials, Window Shades. 
 23 South Main Street, DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 Henry Hilgerkort, Wm. J. Lukasu it/., (has. H. Lckaswttz, 
 President. Secretary. Vice-President. 
 
 THE BAKER COMPANY, 
 
 WHOLESALE 
 
 Liquors, Wines, Ales, Beers, Etc. 
 
 27 NORTH MAIN ST., 
 
 DAYTON, O. 
 
 JACOB STICKLE, 
 
 CITY BREWERY, 
 
 653 and 655 Warren Street, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 1856. 1896. 
 
 C A. STARR, 
 
 wholesale and retail dealer in 
 
 CORL, COKE, UNO BUILDING MATERIAL, 
 
 Lime, Cement, Sewer Pipe, Plaster, Fertilizers, Fire Brick 
 and Clay, Flue Lining, Chimney Tops. 
 
 125 to 131 WAYNE AVENUE, DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 TELEPHONE 217. 
 
 FORSTER, HEGMAN & CO., 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 CARPETS AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, WALL PAPER, MOLDING, ETC. 
 
 122 East Third Street, Between Jefferson and St. Clair Streets, 
 
 46 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 ST. ELIZABETH HOSPITAL. 
 
 FATHER CHARLES A. KEMPER. 
 
 ELIZABETH 
 
 HOSPITAL, 
 an imposing 
 
 1 
 
 t 
 
 which now forms 
 W aggregation of buildings on the 
 western bank of the Miami, in 
 Browntown, had its very humble 
 beginning in a two-story brick house 
 on Franklin Street, near Ludlow. 
 Next to God, its founding is chiefly due to 
 the zeal, wisdom, and personal sacrifices of 
 the late Rev. J. F. Hahne. As pastor of 
 Emanuel's congregation, this saintly man 
 clearly recognized the crying need of a 
 hospital in our large city, and repeatedly 
 made futile efforts to realize his hopes and 
 prayers for its establishment. When at 
 last, on July 2, 1878, two Franciscan sisters 
 arrived from Cincinnati to undertake the 
 work, they came at his solicitation, and 
 assumed full control of the unpretentious 
 yet neat house he had leased and prepared 
 for their occupancy. 
 
 The first patient received in the original 
 St. Elizabeth Hospital was an accident 
 case — a poor brakeman, whose arm had 
 been frightfully crushed in the yards about 
 the depot. The work once begun, the 
 number of applications for admission in- 
 creased so rapidly that it soon became 
 painfully evident how utterly inadequate 
 to the demands made upon it were the ac- 
 commodations of the Franklin Street house. 
 Accordingly, after much prayer and con- 
 sultation, and with scarce any funds save 
 an unlimited fund of trust in the Father 
 of the poor and in the generosity of the 
 people of Dayton, the sisters purchased the 
 
 site whereon was built the present roomy 
 and splendidly equipped edifice, which was 
 formally dedicated on Nov. 19, 1882. To 
 the main structure other smaller buildings 
 were in time added, either by purchase or 
 erection, specially noticeable among the 
 latter kind being what is called "St. Ann's 
 House," whose purpose it is to receive, 
 whenever necessary, such cases as require 
 isolation or special treatment. 
 
 St. Elizabeth Hospital has already had 
 an existence of nearly eighteen years. 
 During that period fully fifteen thousand 
 patients, afflicted with almost every form 
 of suffering to which the human family is 
 liable, have been nursed within its walls, 
 no question as to creed, color, nationality, 
 or pay being ever asked to determine the 
 admission. 
 
 God alone can estimate what a record of 
 unselfish devotion on the one hand, and of 
 alleviated suffering on the other, is con- 
 tained in these cold figures of its age and 
 beneficiaries; and from him, surely, came 
 the inspiration that moved the projectors 
 of Daytonia to resolve that the proceeds of 
 this part of Dayton's Centennial celebra- 
 tion should be equally divided between two 
 institutions which, for their structural 
 excellences, their monumental testimony 
 to the generosity of our citizens, and their 
 silent but eloquent evidence of Christ-like 
 service done by sisters and unsalaried 
 medical staff, are not the least of many 
 reasons why Dayton proudly celebrates her 
 first centenary. 
 
PROGRAM. 
 
 SCENE I, 1796. 
 
 Our Grandmother in Newcom's Log Cabin Laboriously Making One Shirt in One 
 Day. 
 
 SCENE II, 1886 TO 1896. 
 
 Ten Years of the Century Just Closing Devoted to the Developing and Per- 
 fecting of 
 
 GARMENT MANUFACTURE 
 
 IN THE GEM CITY 
 
 Under Our Namesake's Trade Mark 
 
 SCENE III, yVVMY, 1896. 
 
 DAYTON SUPPLYING THE WORLD . 
 
 WITH OVER 
 
 FIFTY THOUSAND DOZEN ANNUALLY 
 
 SHIRTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, PANTALOONS, 
 OVERALLS, WORKING JACKETS, LINED DUCK 
 COATS, Through 
 
 THE GEM SHIRT CO. 
 
 GR/\ND FINALE- 
 
 "DAYTONIA" Praising the Industry Which Introduces Her to the World. 
 
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SOUVENIR OP DAYTON I A 
 
 HlSTc r. 
 
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 •1 
 
 I ! 
 
 THE DEACONESS HOSPITAL. 
 
 This is no now form (if Christian work, 
 though the method and arrangement of 
 this organization may be new to many. 
 The term " deaconess " seems to have been 
 applied in the apostolic churches to a 
 woman devoted to special religious work. 
 In modern times the movement which 
 appropriated this name began in Germany 
 in L836, under Pastm- Fliedner at Kaisers- 
 werth, on the Rhine, where a hospital and 
 training institution were opened, which 
 have grown to large proportions. This 
 movement grew out of a deeply-felt need 
 for better trained nurses for hospitals, and 
 also out of the conviction that Protestants 
 had a duty to perform in relieving lie- 
 
 wants of the suffering similar to that which 
 had been done so effectively by Roman 
 Catholic sisterhoods. The work was first 
 introduced into this country in 1849. 
 
 The society in Dayton was organized in 
 August, 1890. On the 18th of October, 
 1891, a temporary hospital, on Fourth 
 Street near St. Clair, was opened under the 
 direction of the society, ami its usefulness 
 proved that it met a felt need in the com- 
 munity. 
 
 The large, new building, which has been 
 occupied since the 14th of October, lSi>4, is 
 also a deaconess home ami a school of train- 
 ing for them, founded and conducted upon 
 an interdenominational basis. 
 
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The 
 
 Crowning 
 
 Triumph 
 
 of 
 
 the 
 
 Century 
 
 is 
 
 THE 
 
 DAYTON 
 BICYCLE 
 
 50 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 VIEWS ABOUT DAYTON. 
 
 COLONEL E. A. PARKOTT. 
 
 HE broad, well-paved, and well- 
 kept streets, the handsome grounds 
 surrounding many beautiful 
 homes, and the long rows of trees 
 shading the sidewalks justify one in 
 calling Dayton "the Gem City." But 
 to appreciate fully her beauty one must 
 look down and across the city from some 
 of the surrounding heights. The framing 
 sometimes lends an additional charm to 
 the picture. 
 
 Our city is girdled by hills, through 
 which, on the northeast and southwest, the 
 liver breaks a channel for itself and winds 
 with loving embrace about the city on two 
 sides. From the heights on the cast, just 
 where they begin to fall off towards Har- 
 ries', there is a wide and beautiful view 
 up the valley of the Mad River, and look- 
 ing westward one gets a better idea of the 
 extent of the city than from any other 
 point with which I am familiar, since from 
 this more of it lies open to the view. 
 
 Then from Belmont there is another 
 pretty view, with water in the prospect, in- 
 cluding the Miami below the bridge and 
 Mad River above its mouth 
 
 But the one I think the finest, perhaps 
 because I have looked out upon it for so 
 many years and become familiar with ever)' 
 feature of it, may be had from the Oakwood 
 hills. From where I am sitting I see on 
 the right the dome of the Asylum, lifting 
 itself above the surrounding grove; in the 
 foreground, on the shoulder of the hill, is 
 Woodland, all the somber features of 
 which just now are hidden away beneath 
 the thick foliage of the trees. Farther out 
 towards the northeast, across the factory 
 
 chimneys, with their flags of smoke, the 
 hills meet the eye again, seeming to rise 
 in tiers to the sky line. 
 
 A grove of maples cuts off the view of the 
 city directly in front of me, but a little to 
 the left there is a break, through which one 
 gets glimpses of bits of the river, and of 
 bush-grown islets, and the river bridges, 
 and Dayton View, climbing the terrace-like 
 hills, and beyond, the woods meeting the 
 horizon. 
 
 There is a misty look about these distant 
 hills that reminds one of the cloudy atmos- 
 phere of the mountains — not the snow- 
 capped peaks of Switzerland, but those 
 that rise above the banks of "the blue 
 Juniata," along which one rides on the 
 Pennsylvania Central. 
 
 Directly to my left I look across a broad 
 valley and see the sluggish canal and the 
 Miami winding like a silver thread around 
 the base of the hills, and on the rising 
 grounds across the river broad farms, on 
 the open spaces of which the floating clouds 
 make pictures of light and shade; and 
 then the Soldiers' Home, and the flag, 
 for which so many of these old fellows 
 gave health and limbs, floating to the 
 breeze. 
 
 Space does not allow me to speak of the 
 glories of our woods in autumn, when the 
 elm and the maple and the sumac are all 
 waving their gorgeous banners of yellow 
 and crimson and red, nor of the charms 
 which even winter lays upon the hillsides 
 and the rivers, no longer hidden under the 
 foliage of the skirting woods. 
 
 Beautiful, indeed, for situation is the city 
 in which we dwell. 
 
 Pf?l 
 
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Cooper 
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 W. P. CALLAHAN, President. 
 C. D. MEAD, Vice-Pre iden . 
 CHAS. W. SCHENK, Secretary. 
 
 Excelsior Bottling Works. 
 
 factories: 
 
 Kxee & Coleman, [ndianapolis, Ind. 
 
 The Ki.ki: & Coleman Co., Louisville. Ky. 
 
 JOHN KLEE & SON, 
 
 Mineral Water, 
 Soda Water, 
 Ginger Ale. 
 
 Selzer Water, Champagne Cider, Orange 
 Cider, all kinds of Carbonated Beverages. 
 Portable fountains charged on short notice. 
 
 Office and Factory, Cor. First St. and Canal. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
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 the country. Special attention given to artistic 
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 133 South Main Street. 
 
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 DIRECTORS: 
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 James G. S teely & co - 
 
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 WHOLESALE 
 
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 3JLILLIPCER.Y 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTOXIA 
 
 From " Eailj Dayton by pcrminsloD ol the V ''• PuMlshing Hou*e. 
 
 1DYLWILI), ON THE MIAMI RIVER, NORTH OF DAYTON. 
 
 From "F.;irh Dayton," by p'Tnilasioo oft 
 
 A VIEW ON STILLWATER, NEAR ITS CONFLUENCE WITH THE MIAMI. 
 
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Chas.E. Pease, p.est. 
 
 EG-PeASE.VPfss 
 
 W.B.Anderson, Sec/. 
 
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 For En$ir\e Builder6,6tean\«Wafer Fitted, 
 Lm6eed&eottor\6eed Oil Machinery- 
 
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 The Tourist Line to all 
 
 H^ ^ The Popular Line to 
 
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 SUHHER RESORTS. % % 
 
 CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, 
 INDIANAPOLIS, and ALL 
 POINTS WEST. 
 
 CINCINNATI and Points South and East. 
 
 MODERN EQUIPMENT AND 
 
 BEST OF TRAIN SERVICE. 
 
 C. G. WALDO, G.n.ral Mnnwj.r. 
 
 D. G. EDWARDS, Pass.-Traffic Manager, 
 
 Km- Tickets to all Points and Full Information Apply at City Ticket Office, 
 
 No. 9 SOUTH HAIN STREET. 
 
 •VI 
 
SOUVENIR TO DAYTONIA 
 
 THE FLORA OF DAYTON. 
 
 rmu.ii's. 
 
 N old book of paintings, by John spring the bright fares of the marsh mari- 
 
 W. Van Cleve, of the flowers na- golds; but the blue-eyed Mary, the "paint- 
 
 tive in this region is a valued ed cup," and the Indian pipe, with many 
 
 possession in the household of one others which Mr. Van Cleve pictures by 
 
 of those children of nearly fifty years ago, 
 who learned the secrets of nature from hi< 
 lips and the love of nature from his life. 
 ''The Beauties of Flora," as he called his 
 little book, contains the most delicate of 
 water-color sketches, not done in the im- 
 pressionist style of to-day, but with a mi- 
 nuteness of detail which shows even the 
 tiniest of veins, telling better than words 
 the artist's careful study and love of flow- 
 ers, and giving us, who have followed him, 
 a delightful glimpse of what has been lost 
 in the growth of our much-loved city. 
 
 Though many of the bright little blos- 
 soms which adorn the pages of this book 
 are strange to us, yet there are many old 
 friends. The spring beauty still peeps out 
 of the grass in almost every bit of woods 
 about us; we still find the frail little anem- 
 
 the side of our own favorite-, are unknown 
 to all of us not learned in the lore of 
 flowers. 
 
 We are all familiar with the hepatica, 
 and in marshy places the wild flag still 
 grows, while shady spots by the riverside 
 often shelter little clusters of Dutchmen's 
 breeches; but how often do we meet the 
 fringed gentian or a bit of spiderwort, the 
 moccasin plant or the pride of Ohio? and 
 even the trillium, that most pure and 
 beautiful of our native flowers, is no longer 
 easy to find. Every one knows how faith- 
 ful the dear little violet is, but when I see 
 how many varieties old John Van Cleve 
 knew I come to the conclusion that our 
 violet is the only kind that is " true blue." 
 
 Delicate and dainty as are our spring 
 and early summer blooms, no pen can do 
 
 one and the sturdy bloodroot, both of justice to the wild roses, the goldenrod, 
 
 which come and go so suddenly, and are so 
 different in every other respect; now and 
 then we meet the St. Jacob's ladder, with 
 its delicate little blue bells ; the wild sweet- 
 william still scents the air, and along a little 
 stream south of town one can see everv 
 
 and the asters that deck our fields late in 
 the summer and fall, crowning the depart- 
 ing season with a glory which almost, if 
 not quite, equals that which is bestowed \>y 
 the frost upon the late months, when he 
 turns the trees to crimson and gold. 
 
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 S. M'. DATIES, Vice-President 
 
 JAS. A. MARTIN, Cashier. 
 
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 5G 
 
SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 GRAND 
 
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 HOUSE 
 
 One Solid Week, Commencing Monday, May 18 
 
 Six Nights 
 
 AYTONIA 
 
 By Mf. MARRY E. FEICMT 
 
 Crand Historical Spectacular, given by the Ladies and 
 Centlemen of Dayton to commemorate Dayton's Cen- 
 tennial Year. Proceeds to be equally divided between 
 the St. Elizabeth and Deaconess Hospitals. 
 
 Galvanized Iron and Copper Cornices and 
 Building Trimmings. 
 
 CHAS. WUICHET & CO., 
 
 No. 16 South Canal Street. 
 
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Che Queen City Printing Ink Co., 
 
 CINCINNATI, OHIO, 
 
 Furnished the Ink for This Program. 
 
 THE CORNS PENCE & FOUNDRY CO,, 
 
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 20 East Shawnee Street, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 I DAYTON M M ML 
 
 DAYTON. OHIO, 
 
 "THE ONLY BOILER MAKERS." 
 
 THE AULL BROS. 
 
 PAPER & BOX CO., 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 THE DURST MILLING CO., 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 DURSTS BEST 1 IE BUI FLOUR. 
 
 ASK YOUR GROCERS FOR IT. 
 
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 FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FIRST ACT OF DAYTOMA. 
 
 ACT I. 
 
 Will you see the players w<'ll bestowed? . . . 
 
 They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time.— 
 
 Shakespeare : Hamlet, Act It.. Scene 2. 
 SYNOPSIS. 
 Scene L — Dayton, 1799, showing Newcom's Tavern, Miami and Mad rivers.— Settlers, etc. — Arrival 
 of settlers' conestoga wagon drawn by four horses.— Attack by Indians; arrival of soldiers; 
 
 skirmish.— Sunset ; n nlight; darkness; Boliloquy.— Vision with moving Bgures,showing the 
 
 Steele High School, with trolley cars, bicycles, etc., passing. ( New mechanical effect.) 
 
 DRAM ATIS PERSONAE. 
 
 COLONEL NEWCOM, Keeper of Tavern Mr. Harry R. Daniels 
 
 ABRAHAM, a Pioneer Mr. Edward G. Pease 
 
 JOHN DAVIS, a- Mover Mr. Harrie Pease Clegg 
 
 EAGLE EYE, Indian Chief Mr. Carl Lov 
 
 COLONEL WAITE, of Continental Array Mr. Robert C. Mem. 
 
 GEORGE EMMERSON, a Pioneer Miller Mr Joseph W Mead 
 
 BLACK HAWK, a Friendly Indian Mr. Fred. T. Darsi 
 
 UK'K, Son of Pioneer Mr. Carlton P. Rousii 
 
 JOANNA, Daughter of Pioneer Miss Louise Howard 
 
 MRS. CAROLINE THOMPSON, Wife of Pioneer Miss Mary P. Davies 
 
 MOVER'S WIFE Mrs. Fred. T. Darst 
 
 ETHEL (three and one-half years old) I.itti.i: FrEDA LuELI \ McWlLLlAMS 
 
 MRS. MARY ROLL (ninety-six years old, (irst white girl born in Dayton) By Herself 
 
 JESSE BOOHER : : ' 1!y Himself 
 
 SETTLERS, MOVERS, SOLDIERS, INDIANS, !■;■,, . 
 
 THE 
 
 ONLYTRUE 
 
 IRON TONIC 
 
 PURIFIESTHE BLOOD. 
 
 GIVES STRENGTH AND APPETITE. 
 
 THE REV. J. P. WATSON, Editor Gospel 
 Herald, benefited by Dr. Harter's Iron 
 Tonic. 
 
 Dayton, ' Ihio, July 11, 1895. 
 Gentlemen: I have kept Dr. Harter's 
 Iron Tonic by me as a remedy for ten years, 
 
 and my system "always tones up under its 
 
 t h. I can but feel that it has proven life 
 
 itself to me in many instances, and have 
 never regretted furnishing yon my testi- 
 monial ami its general use by you. I con- 
 sider it the best tonic I ever used. 
 
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TELEPHONE 9*4. 
 
 WICKLIFFE BELVILLE, 
 Attorney at Caw, 
 
 No. 14 East Third Street. 
 
 Dayton. Ohio. 
 
 ttfp (Uafconae $<xn&, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 W. P. Callahan, Pres. 
 W. B. Gebhaet, Cashier. 
 
 A General Banking Business Transacted. 
 
 aS* o5» Foreign Exchange for Sale. 
 
 Assets. JS5.000.000. 
 Surplus. $17,000,000. 
 
 Insure In 
 
 IHE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INS. GO. 
 
 \l/t,, , O Because it pays the largest dividends, as proved by 
 »' ••J • the fact that Dayton's bestbusiuess men are carrying 
 policies to the extent ot $3,000,UUO. 
 
 The Company has also contributed largely to the 
 development of Dayton, by reason of its loans on 
 local improvements aggregating $500,000. 
 
 rjrf nnnr J. J- M. Markfiam. Sen, Agt. 
 IW HOUI. «*" H. (i. Puwning, S//I Agt. 
 
 J. H. BAGGOTT. 
 
 THOS. U. HERKMAN. 
 
 BAGGOTT Z< HERRMAN, 
 
 ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 
 
 ^D 
 
 Office, 9 & 10 Eaker Block. 
 
 Fourth H> -National * Sank, 
 
 Northeast Corner Third and Jefferson Sts. 
 
 Capital and Surplus, $720,000. 
 
 TRANSACT f\ GEINERflL BAIN K I IN G BUSINESS. 
 
 DIRECTORS : 
 E.J.BARNEY, C, J. FERNEDING, W. J. SHTJEY, EDWARD CANBY, TORRENCE HUFFMAN, 
 
 JOHN W. STODDARD, W. E. CRUME, 
 
 TORRENCE HUFFMAN, President. 
 
 HOUSTON LOWE, 
 
 OFFICERS : 
 
 J. B. THRESHER, Vice-President. 
 
 J. B. THRESHER. 
 
 C. L. HARDMAN, Cashier. 
 
 S> Union <^afe ©eposif arte ZxuBt Company at 
 
 N. E. CORNER THIRD AND JEFFERSON STS. 
 
 For safe-keeping of all valuables in fire- and burglar-proof 
 vaults at moderate p rices. Private boxes rented at Five Dol- 
 lars per year and upwards. 
 
 TRUSTEES. 
 
 E. J. BARNEY, TORRENCE HUFFMAN, 
 
 W. J. SHUEY, EDWARD CANBY, 
 
 J. D. PLATT, JOHN W. STODDARD, 
 
 C. J. FERNEDING, GEO. J. ROBERTS, 
 
 J. B. THRESHER. 
 
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 -OFFICERS 
 
 7i\ 
 
 TORRENCE HUFFMAN, President. 
 W. J. SHUEY, Vice-President. 
 
 ZIBA CRAWFORD, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 D. W. STEWART, Custodian. 
 
 ^intm (Haftonaf (§an&, 
 
 3. R. Winters, President. 
 
 3. D. Piatt, UicePresident. 
 3. C. Reber, Cashier 
 
 Capital, $soo,ooo. 
 Surplus, $132,000. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 ACT II. 
 
 Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire 
 Mirth and youth, aud warm desire! 
 
 — Milton: Song on May morning. 
 
 SYNOPSIS. 
 
 Scene I. — Dayton in 1841. Third and Main streets, looking north. 
 
 ERASTUS JEFFERSON, Davies' Servant Mb. DbWitt H. Bblden 
 
 Scene II. — May-day at Steele's Woods. 
 
 One hundred and fifty ladies and gentlemen, introducing the crowning of the May 
 Queen; the May-pole dance; songs by double quartette; colonial minuet under the man- 
 agement of Mrs. B. Raven; Dan Tucker; Virginia reel, and the usual picnic finale — tin- 
 May rain-storm. Everybody runs for shelter. 
 
 DOUBLE QUARTETTE. 
 
 Soprano. 
 
 Mrs. H. II. I'.IM.M. 
 
 Mrs. I'keh 0. Weaver. 
 
 Tenor. 
 
 Mb. II. II. P.imm. 
 
 Mr. Frank A. Palmer. 
 
 Alto. 
 Mrs. Herbert I'.. Brown. 
 Miss Maud Rebeh. 
 
 Bass. 
 Mr. Harry L. Munqeb. 
 Mr. Harry E. Tobpin. 
 
 
 I 
 
 Highest of all in Leavening Power, v 
 
 -Latest U. S. Gov't Food Report. 
 
 Springfield, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1895. % 
 
 Experience shows that the Royal Baking Pow- ij 
 
 iA der merits its groat DODularitv. Mv use of it has been 
 
 fc entirely satisfactory. 
 
 
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 Absolutely Pure |j Mentor> 0-> Nov . 4t i8q5 
 
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ESTABLISHED 1S*«»<5. 
 
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 MALLEABLE 
 
 
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 HIGH CLASS 
 
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 CASTINGS 
 
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 CAR BUILDERS, 
 
 AGRICULTURAL 
 
 IMPLEMENTS, 
 
 AND 
 
 SPECIAL 
 
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 Catalogue. 
 
 CARRIAGE 
 
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 AND 
 
 ALL SIZES 
 
 SARVEN 
 
 FLANGES 
 
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 WARNER 
 
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 IN 
 
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 Iron 
 
 Roofing. 
 
 Paving 
 
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 1<5 SOUTH C/\IN/\L STREET. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 ACT III. 
 
 Cease to consult* the time for action calls. 
 War. horrid war, approaches to your walls. 
 
 —Poi«: Iliad, 
 
 SYNOPSIS. 
 
 Scene I. — Interior of a Dayton home in 1861 ; " Breaking Home Ties."— The opening of the Civil War. 
 —Brave brothers ( two Dayton boys I display unsullied patriotism. 
 
 Scene II.— Street in Dayton in 1861. Third and Main streets, looking north. 
 
 Mr. Charles \V. Terry, Mr. Will II. Weifi enbach, Mr. Louis Kasmihsky and tiEN. 
 Sherman Potterf, as the Awkward Squad. 
 
 Si exe III.— Off to the War, showing the Dayton troops passing the old court-house. The most 
 thrilling and realistic stage effect ever presented. Apparently 5,000 troops, including 
 infantry, cavalry, artillery, numerous bands and drum corps, will pass in full review 
 of the audience. — " Soldiers' Farewell." 
 
 DRAMATIS PERSONAE. 
 
 GEO. WILSON, \ f Twin Brothers who have \ f Mr. Clement A. Herchelrode 
 
 DAVE WILSON, J l enlisted in the 93d O.V.I. I " " ^Me. Harvey Conover 
 
 CAPTAIN KISSINGER Mr. Perry W. Weidnee 
 
 MISS MARGUERITE WILSON Miss Gbace Middleton 
 
 LITTLE ETHEL WILSON" ( three and one-half years old ) Little Freda Lcei.i.a McWilliams 
 
 MRS. WILSON Mrs. Bernard Froehlich 
 
 LITTLE 
 
 LIVER PILLS 
 
 DO NOT GRIPE OR SICKEN. 
 
 BLACK LABEL. 
 
 JAMES E. ADAMS, Owner and Manager of 
 the Celebrated Adams' Cafe, Spring- 
 field, Ohio, recommends 
 
 DR. HARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. 
 
 Springfield, Ohio, March l'ii, 1895. 
 Gentlemen: I have taken your Little 
 Liver Pills and think them the liest I have 
 ever used. Have been taking them just 
 before retiring at night and wake up the 
 next mi uning feeling greatly refreshed. 
 They are easy to take ami hear g 1 re- 
 sults. Yours. 
 
 03 
 
Geo. R. Young. 
 
 Wm. H. Young. 
 
 YOUNG & YOUNG, 
 
 ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 
 
 Rooms 25 to 29 Inclusive, 
 
 Callahan Bank Building, DAYTON, 0. 
 
 JOHN L. H. FRANK, 
 
 E. & R. COLLINS, 
 
 Millinery. 
 
 Attorney at Law, 
 
 No. 118 E. Third St., 
 
 DAYTON, 0. 
 
 A. T. WHITESIDE, 
 
 DENTIST, 
 
 Cor. Third and Jeff. Sts., 
 
 DAYTON, 0. 
 
 Lewis B. Gonckel, Edw. L. Rowe, Webster W. Shdey. 
 
 GUNCKEL, ROWE & SHUEY, 
 
 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 
 
 Nos. 6 and S North Main St., 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 118 S. Main Street, 
 
 DAYTON, O. 
 
 Mrs. 3£. S. SSoone, 
 THE LEADING HAIR STORE. 
 
 All Kinds of Fine Hiiir Goods and Hair 
 Ornaments on Hand. LADIES' AND 
 GENTS* WIGS A SPECIALTY. 
 
 NO. 18 EAST FOURTH STREET. 
 
 Calvin D. Weight. 
 
 Geo. W. Ozias. 
 
 WRIGHT & OZIAS, 
 
 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 
 
 HUSTON BUILDING, 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
 EVERY YOUNG MAN 
 
 Expecting to invest his money in business, 
 EVERY YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN 
 
 Expecting to take a business position, 
 Will find the training of the 
 
 MIAMI COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, L D. WILT, 
 
 A great security against losses those not so trained cannot expect 
 to escape from, and a great advantage in securing position, pay, 
 and promotion in competing with others who have not had the ad- 
 vantages THE MIAMI offers in course and wide influence. 
 Rates are moderate. 
 
 Terms of payment are easy. 
 
 Open all summer. 
 
 THE LEIDIGH CARRIAGE CO., 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 FINE BUGGIES, PHAETONS, SURRIES, TRAPS, CARRIAGES, ROCKAWAYS, ETC. 
 
 1224 AND 1226 EAST THIRDZSTREET. 
 
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FLASH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CHARACTERS IN "BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA," ACT IV., DAYTOMA. 
 
 ACT IV. 
 
 As wo pledge the health of our general, who fares as rough as we: 
 What cau daunt us, what can turn us, led to death by surli as In- .' 
 
 — Charles Kin'jsl'ij : A March. 
 
 SYNOPSIS. 
 
 Scene I. — " Chickamauga at Sunset" (September, 1863), where hundreds of Dayton's heroes foughl 
 in defense of their country's flag. The portrayal of this sanguinary battle-field will surpass 
 any similar setting ever given on the American stage. 450 soldiers will appear, introducing 
 infantry and artillery battle maneuvers new to the stage.— The camp scene: songs and 
 stories; moonlight; taps; on guard.— The Dayton hoys' ride from Chattanooga to Chicka- 
 maugua; unusual display of exalted bravery; the hero's death; vision of mother; the un- 
 finished task taken up by his brother. The attack; the battle between the North and the South. 
 — Lincoln. — Emancipation.— Peace. 
 
 DRAMATIS PERSONAE. 
 
 MAJOR-GENERAL J. B. THOMAS Mr. Arthur L. Kikger 
 
 PRIVATE GEORGE WILSON, Ninety-third, 0. V. I Mb. Clement A. Herchelrode 
 
 SERGEANT DAVE WILSON, Fourth Ohio Cavalry Mr. Harvey Conover 
 
 ADJUTANT MORTON Mr. Thomas B. Herrman 
 
 SURGEON WEAVER Dr. Fred C. Weaver 
 
 CAPTAIN KISSINGER Mr. Perry W. Weidneb 
 
 SERGEANT HEMPHILL Mr. J. Howard Davies 
 
 PRIVATE MARSHALL Mb. Frank L. Cleaver 
 
 PRIVATE HANLEY, with songs Mr. E. W. HaNley 
 
 PRIVATE BREENE, with songs Mr. C. L. G. Breene 
 
 JONES, THE COOK, with songs Mr. DeCosto 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Mb. A. H. Callahan 
 
 PICKANINNIES, UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.. .Members op the.; Militia Committee 
 
 THE BROWN-BIERCE COMPANY, FINE ELECTROTYPERS. 
 
 flwait tbe Openings ^^ 
 
 Of the Roof-Garden, Tea-Ro om, Etc., at the 
 "NEWCOMER" in their New Building, Cor . 
 Third and Ludlow Sts., about the Second 
 Week in June. 
 
 
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JOHN A. MURPHY 
 
 SELLS 
 
 Best Grades 
 
 -OF- 
 
 COAL. 
 
 Telephone 127. 
 
 MAIN OFFICE: ~* BRANCH: 
 
 First and Webster Sts.™ First and Keowee Sts. 
 
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 Draperies, Wall Papers, 
 and Household Furnishings. 
 
 Our Stock is unusually large this 
 season in all departments. 
 
 Prices Within Reach of All. 
 
 We Invite Inspection. 
 
 P. A\. HARMAN & CO. 
 
 30 and 32 N. Main St. 
 
 MIT0MH WOT 
 
 EARLY DAYTON— Mary D. Steele. Paper Binding. 
 EARLY DAYTON— Mary D. Steele. Cloth Binding. 
 EARLY DAYTON— Mar? D. Steele. Special Edition. 
 HISTORY OF DAYTitN (1889). - Cloth Binding. 
 PIONEER DAYTON"— John F. Edga r (In Press). 
 DAYTON BLUE BOOK. 
 
 VIEWS ABOUT DAYTON. 
 POINTS ABOUT DAYTON. 
 DAYTON DIRECTORY. 
 MAPS OF DAYTON. 
 1 »AYTON ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 XDL 3B. 3Boo\\ Store, • c ° r - Mai ° a ° d F ° urth s « s - 
 
 DAYTON LOAN EXHIBITION, 
 
 In M. OHMER'S SONS' Store Rooms, North Main St. 
 
 Old portraits of people who helped to make Dayton, relies of past 
 customs, old china, silver, miniatures, and other curios associated with 
 
 the early history of Dayton. Such a collection was never gathered in 
 this city before. 
 
 Go and See It. — Admission, 10 Cents. 
 
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FLASH-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE LANDING. APRIL I, 1796. 
 First Transformation in Act V., Daytonia. 
 
 ACT V. 
 
 SYNOPSIS. 
 
 Fori; Allegorical Transformations:— jFtrsi, The landing, April 1, 1796. — Second, I layton in 1829, showing 
 the arrival of the first canal-boat from Cincinnati, January, 1829. — Third, Dayton in 1865; bird's- 
 eye view of Dayton, painted from a sketch taken at Van Ausdal's residence, Dayton View, Sep- 
 tember 12. 1865. — Foiirtli, Dayton of to-day. Third ami Main streets, looking north. The Gem 
 City of America, ushered in by the Daytonia Guards, composed of the following Day toniahs: 
 
 IVE 
 
 John 1'. Kline. 
 G. W. Shroyer. 
 I'i; INK I. Jo's CB. 
 ['. < rRANT Sain. 
 William Melke. 
 
 Wll.MKR W. McKlNNEY. 
 
 A. W. Odell. 
 Robert H. Wildasik. 
 
 .1 LMES ( 'i u:k. 
 
 Jacob Bernhard. 
 
 VVlLBER HkaTIIM I N. 
 
 John W. Marshall. 
 William S. Brown. 
 John C. Pattkrson. 
 William H. < !olton. 
 Henry J. Crutchpield. 
 David C. Hale. 
 Edward II. Mentel. 
 Edward Merkle. 
 Charles Thomas. 
 1.. ( '. A dams. 
 Jacob J. Si haffer. 
 
 P.. F. Wendler. 
 Clarence G. Wiggim. 
 George*B. Butterworth. 
 J. W. Granms. 
 
 John ].. BUVINGER. 
 
 Win. H. Drake. 
 
 1 1 \ i;i:\ II. Ill-: ITIIMAN. 
 I I IRRY McENHEIM I:i: 
 EDW kRD ( '. Bechtold. 
 A LBERT FkEDDENBEHGER. 
 
 Charles /Seller. 
 
 < rUSTAV A. MORHLM INN. 
 
 The entire production under the persona] direction of 
 MR. HARRY E. FEICHT, 
 
 Assisted by Mr, John \V. Weidner, Mr. Paul Keenan, and Mr. T. N. Wilson. 
 Musical Director, Mi:. J. 1!. Meiler. 
 Special Scenery, painted by Mr. FRED. E K NIGHT. 
 Mechanical Effects, by Mi: Cbas. A. CoMBS. 
 
 Properties, by Mr. Harry Smith. 
 Character Make-Ups, by Mi:. Paul Keenan. 
 
 Mr. Feicht is indebted to Mrs. Eva Best for assistance in th<- first act. 
 
 The organ used in the production of Daytonia was kindly loaned by D. II. Baldwin A Co. 
 
 i'.7 
 
riagnificent Trains 
 of the 
 
 "Big Four" 
 
 to 
 
 New York all eastern cities 
 Boston 
 
 M. E. INGALLS, 
 
 President. 
 
 e. o. Mccormick, 
 
 Passenger Traffic Manager. 
 
 D. B. MARTIN, 
 
 General Passenger and Ticket Agt. 
 
 Wagner 
 SleepingCars, 
 Parlor Cars, 
 Dining Cars. 
 
 JOHN L. HILLER, 
 
 Traveling Passenger Agent, 
 NO. 6 WEST THIRD STREET, DAYTON, OHIO. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 COMMITTEES ON DAYTONIA. 
 
 Our praises are our wanes.— Shakespeare : Winter's Tale, Act I.. Scene '-'. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COnniTTEE. 
 
 Director-General, 
 Secretary, 
 Treasurer, - 
 
 Mr. Harry E. Fbicht. 
 Mr. J. \V. Weidnbr. 
 
 Mr. Chas. I>. Mead. 
 
 Mr. .1. W. Stoddard, Chairman. 
 
 Mr. Harry E. Feicht. 
 .Mr. Joseph H. Crane. 
 Col. Charles G. Bickham. 
 Mr. Emil Reichert. 
 Mr. S. W. Davies. 
 Chief T. J. Farrell. 
 Mr. Harvey C. Phelps. 
 Mr. Edward F. Cooper. 
 Ex-Mayor C. G. McMillen. 
 Mr. Charles H. Simms. 
 Mr. Thos. A. Selz. 
 Mr. Isaac Pollack. 
 Dr. J. E. Lowes. 
 Judge Charles W. Dale. 
 
 Mr. L. V. Armstrong. 
 Mr. Paul Keenan. 
 Mr. Charles I). Mea.l. 
 Mr. A. H. Callahan. 
 Mr. M. J. Schwab. 
 Mr. Kufus L. Worrell. 
 Mr. Ilenrv C. Lowe. 
 Mr. J. W.' Stoddard. 
 Mr. Chas. J. Geyer. 
 Mr. J. W. Weidner. 
 Mr. K. P. Burkhardt. 
 Mr. Harry Weidner. 
 Chief Daniel C. Larkin. 
 Mr. P. A. McGowen. 
 
 Mrs. J. B. Thresher, Chairman. 
 
 Mas. 
 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mis. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 
 E. M. Wood, Sec'y. Mrs. 
 
 Joseph H. Crane. Mis. 
 
 Max Wertheimer. Mrs. 
 
 F. J. Ach. Mrs. 
 Wm. Craighead. Mrs. 
 Eva I '.est. ' Mrs. 
 Philip J. Rotterniann. Mrs. 
 C. J. Ferneding. Mrs. 
 Charles 11. Ware. Mrs. 
 John H. < (Inner. Mrs. 
 
 Chas. H. Brown, Treas. 
 C. E. Corpe. 
 
 John Stengel. 
 
 A. M. Williamson. 
 
 J. D. Piatt. 
 
 Francis J. McCornrck. 
 
 Thos. A. Legler. 
 
 Kol'i'i't C. Schenek. 
 
 Sol. Strauss. 
 
 H. E. Talbott. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON LOAN EXHIBITION 
 
 Held iu M. Ohmer'a Sons' Building During tlio Wee! o( 
 Dai iosia. 
 
 Mrs. T. J. 
 
 Mrs. ( 'has. W. (tehii 
 
 Mrs. Chas. 0. Raymond. 
 Mrs. Win. A. Phelps. 
 
 Mrs. J. W. Stoddard. 
 
 Mrs. J. P. Davies. 
 Mis. Max Wertheimer. 
 Mrs. Chas. L. Koehnen. 
 Mis. H. C. Graves. 
 Mrs. Jos. Klopfer. 
 Mrs. Robt. I. Cummin. 
 Mis. John A. Mc.Mahon. 
 Mrs. John E. Giruperling, 
 Mrs. J 
 
 Wood, Chairman. 
 
 art, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 Mis. Susan II. ( 'animaim. 
 -Mrs. Job. < i. ( 'ran.v 
 
 Mrs. Mariha 0. Hawes. 
 
 Mrs. .John ||. ( rorman 
 Mrs. II. H. Weakley. 
 Miss Martha Perrine. 
 Miss Mary A. Gebhart. 
 .Miss Fannie Dixon. 
 Miss Lizzie W. Hughes. 
 Miss Jacobs. 
 Miss Sophie Phillips. 
 . M. Phelps. 
 
 CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE. 
 Mr. JOSEPH C. Peters. Chairman. 
 
 Mi. Jacob Oneth. 
 Mr. Holla Gallaher. 
 Mr. Philip E. Gilbert. 
 Messrs. Kimtz an.l Johnson. 
 The John Rouzer Company. 
 The F. A. Requarth Companv. 
 The Mathias Planing -Mill Company. 
 The Peine and Coleman Company, 
 
 We , SOTTDERS' 10 -° ent Lemon and 15-Cent Vanilla Extracts because they are tine, rich flavors 
 
 '■ ii™ipt,,|Wwuj/jjxuw at half the price of other brands. ' 
 
 recommend 
 
 AFTER ENJOYING THE PLAY 
 
 Coine in and Enjoy Your Lunch lA/ith Us. 
 
 We are now serving everything in a general restaurant line, in addition to all delicacies of the season, such as Frogs 
 Soft-Shell Crabs, Lobsters, Game, Shell Oysters and Clams, Fish, Etc., which are cooked and served in first-class 
 style. Ladies' and Gents' Dining-Room, Second Floor. 
 
 THE KIEFABER DELICACY CO., 
 
 24 North Main Street, Opposite Court House. 
 
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SOUVENIR OF DAYTONIA 
 
 COMMITTEES. -Continued. 
 
 PRESS COnniTTEE 
 Mr. Charles Harries Simms, Chairman. 
 Mr. Charles (i. Reade, Evening News. 
 Mr. Abe S. Bickham, Journal. 
 Mr. Charles J. < reyer, Herald. 
 Mr. I [arry 1 1. McGrew, Time*. 
 Mr. Edgar A. Morgan, Press. 
 Mr. Edward Neder, Vblks-Zaitung. 
 Mr. John I!. Tomlinson, Journal. 
 Mr. T. J. Wilson, Evening News. 
 Mr. Edward B. Grimes, Herald. 
 Mr. Daniel E. Kumler, Timet. 
 Col. Charles • i. Bickham, Journal. 
 Mr. Junia D. Tart, fl"<?raZd. 
 Mr. Emil Reichert, Volks-Zeitung. 
 Mr. Harvey ('. Phelps, Sunday World. 
 Mr. J, B. Siilers, Evening Nevus. 
 Mr. E. I'>. Brandenburg, Journal. 
 Mr. A. F. Thiele, Eirnimj News. 
 Mr. L. V. Armstrong, Press. 
 Mr. .1. C. Ochiltree, Pr«B. 
 
 TICKET COnniTTEE. 
 
 Judge Charles 
 
 Mr. John A. Mctiee. 
 Mr. Charles F. Knecht. 
 Mr. Joseph Schwab. 
 Mr. John H. Swill. 
 Mr. James A. Smith. 
 Mr. Albert L. Makley. 
 Mr. Will H. Tomlinson. 
 Mr. Gabriel I. Pollack. 
 Mr. Wm. R. Sullivan. 
 
 W. Dale, Cliairmnn. 
 Mr. Louis A. Pauley. 
 Mr. W. H. Shoemaker. 
 Mr. Wood Patton. 
 Mr. Chas. W. Bieser. 
 Mr. W. E. Donson. 
 Mr. George T. Wilson. 
 Mr. (ieo. W. Martin. 
 Mr. Edwin ('. Baird. 
 Mr. Albert J. I>\\ ver. 
 
 Mr. Edward G. Pease. 
 
 MILITARY COMMITTEE. 
 
 ( 'aptain .1. A. Miller and ( lompany < r, O. X. < i. 
 
 ( 'aptain 15. F. Boyer and Company I, O. N.G. 
 
 ('aptain Mont. H. Bennett and Company of Earnshaw 
 
 Rifles. 
 Captain John P. O'Counell and Hibernian Kifles. 
 Captain J. Philip Marqnardt anil fifty members of Old 
 
 Guard Post. 
 Captain John C. Klin^es and_ Commamlerv No. ll."> 
 
 Knights of St. John. 
 
 Dai/toii!a Guards. 
 Captain John W. Marshall ami < lompany Q of the Blues. 
 Captain B. F. Wendler and Company E of the Yellows. 
 Captain John P. Kline ami Company M of the Reds. 
 
 FINANCE COnniTTEE. 
 
 Mi:. Wm II. Simms, Chairman 
 
 CAVALRY COnniTTEE. 
 
 Mu. Joseph W. Mi: mi, Chairm 
 
 Mr. Win. II. McWillia.ns. 
 Mr. John I). Geisler, 
 
 Mr. Win. II. Crnine. 
 
 Mr. Harry E, Randall. 
 
 Chief T. J. Farrell. 
 Major ('.<.. McMillen. 
 
 Mr. Merrick I'. Md rOWen. 
 Mr. J. Mcl.ain Smith, Jr. 
 
 Dr. Fred C. Weaver. 
 
 PICNIC COnniTTEE. 
 
 Mrs. William Craighead. Mis. Joseph II. Crane. 
 Mrs. W. F. Gebhart. Mrs. John I.. Brenner. 
 
 Miss Maml Reber. 
 Mr. Charles M. Wood. Mr. B. J'.. Thresher. 
 
 Mr. II. C. Graves, Jr. 
 
 FLOWER AND REFRESHHENT COHHITTEE. 
 
 Mis. S. II. Carr. Mrs. Herman II. Kilter. 
 
 Mrs. A. M. Williamson. Mrs. John Stengel. 
 
 Mrs. (i. I'.. Brown. Mrs. Philip J. Rottermann. 
 
 HAY-POLE COnniTTEE. 
 
 Mrs. J. D. Piatt. Mrs. Robert C. Schenck. 
 
 VIRGINIA REEL COnniTTEE. 
 
 Mrs. F. J. Ach. Miss Henrietta Ach, 
 
 ADVERTISING COHHITTEE. 
 
 Mr. Moses Wolf, Chairman. 
 Mr. O. C. Schenck. Mr. Adam Breene. 
 
 HORSE COnniTTEE. 
 
 Mr. P. A. McGowen, Chairman. 
 Chief Daniel C. Larkin. Chief T. J. Farrel 
 
 Mr. Maurice Costello. 
 
 Mr. Thos. Collins. 
 
 Remember, 
 
 when you make cakes or pastry, try SOUDERS' 10-cent Lemon and 15-cent Vanilla. 
 They are high grade goods at low prices. 
 
 £W /&>#£? 
 
 High Standard Liquid Paint, 
 
 (Juaranteed to wear Longer and covet more surface than White Lead ami Oil, 
 
 or any Paint made. 
 
 CITY SALESROOM, NO. 134 EAST THIRD STREET. 
 
 DAYTON, OHIO. 
 

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 EARLY DAYTON 
 
 TS not a collection of reminiscences, but a well arranged and carefully written 
 history of the city, from the social and personal standpoint. Its state- 
 ments have heen carefully verified, and the facte given have the best of 
 authority. While it enlarges upon 
 the pioneer period, previous to 1840, 
 it gives a well arranged history of the 
 city to the present time. 
 
 The illustrations surpass anything 
 e\er before shown in our local history. 
 
 They include plans of the early city, 
 the landing of the first settlers, the 
 early log cabins, the streets at various 
 times, prominent men and women of 
 the city's early history, and fine views 
 of modern Dayton. These alone would 
 commend the book as one of per- 
 manent interest, as many of them 
 have never before heen published 
 and cannot be found in any other 
 form. 
 
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 GENKKAI. JONATHAN DAYTON. 
 
 PUBLISHED^BY*U. B. PUBLISHING HOUSE. 
 
 SEE PAGE 28. 
 
 THE CRAWFORD McGREGOR * CANBY CO., 
 
 MANDTACTCKER9 OF 
 
 LASTS. 
 
 tT^ e.^^ e»* e.^^ c*^ e»* i^* c<^* s** c&^ c^^ t^* 
 
 ESTAKLISHRD 1829. 
 
 Incorporated 1896. 
 
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