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FIFTY YEARS AGO IN CINCINNATIJUNE 3, 1864.Sunday afternoon open-air family gatherings and concerts form a pleasurable divertisemant at the various hillside gardens, ^Loewen Garden, on Vine street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, becomes particularly noticeable for its respectable gatherings and excellent concerts. It is visited by thousands who, over their wine and beer, surrounded by their families, and friends, enjoy supper in the open air, .with music of high quality to entertain.Spring Grove avenue and Harrison pike,* the most frequented thoroughfares in the city on Sundays, withits smooth course of roadway, inducesthousands of pleasure vehicles to* }traverse it.Lew Boman's Brighton House, Benckenstein’s Garden, Frenchman’s Corner, Tom Stephens’ renowned Mill-creek House and Dohrmann’s Garden beconie nationally known as popular resorts.City Council of Boston visit Cincinnati to study the public institutions and their methods; wine growers from all over the United States guests of Horticultural Society and the famous Longworth * Bogen vineyards and wine cellars.Malcolm McDowell, D. W. Corwin,A. A. Marsh, Caleb Bates, N. D. Jlenther, .1. M. Wilson, Walter Lock-tvrod, T. Buchanan Read, T. P. Saurt-3era, John J. Jones, John L. Stettinl-ts, William Wilkinson, R. W. Strong uul others address a letter to Law-•once Barrett in which they say:‘jpomihg here a stranger, the brief season you have been among us has yet been long enough to render your rare dramatic qualities both recognized and admired,” and bender him a complimentary benefit at Pike’s Opera House.At the call of President Wr. H. Clement a meeting is held of stockholders cf the Little Miami Railroad Company at which is considered a contract between that road and the Cincinnati A- Indiana Railroad Company Hi relation to a connecting track Detween their two depots; a contract with J. M. Roosa, receiver of the Cincinnati, Lebanon Xenia Railroad Company, relative to the purchase of that road, and a contract and arrangement between the Little Miami, Columbia Xenia, Columbus At Indianapolis, Indiana Central, Richmond Covington, Dayton Western an 1 Dayton, Xenia Belpre Railroad Companies in relation to their business and eartiings.Standeford Allen offer for salo the Lexington Woolen Mills.D. B. Pierson, President of the Horticultural Society, appoints Robert Buchanan, .Tbhn I,. Stettinlus, R.B. Warder, George Graham, B. F Ranford, Robert Brown, Jr., and Messrs. Mottier, Bates and WTrlght a committee tn arrange an exhibition of strawberries, roses and flowers.Commercial publishes a complete list of the names of forts about Cincinnati constructed under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Simpson, Corps of Engineers V. S. A., and n list of casualties in the Ohio regiments of the First Brigade, Third Division, Department of We=t Virgin a, at the battle of Cloyd’s Mountain and m various skirmishes.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Jun 03, 1914
Page 6
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