HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES (Part 1)

LOCATION AND AREA.

            Dayton, the county-seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, is located on both banks of the Great Miami River, at the confluence of Stillwater, Mad River, and Wolf Creek with the Miami, and on the line of the Miami and Erie Canal, sixty miles north-northeast of Cincinnati, and seventy-one miles west by south of Columbus.  Its latitude is thirty-nine degrees forty-four minutes north, and it’s longitude is eighty-four degrees eleven minutes west from Greenwich, or seven degrees eleven minutes west from Washington. It is an important station on eleven railroads, which belong to four great systems, namely: the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Dayton & Western, of the Pennsylvania Lines; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Dayton & Union, of the “Big Four” System; the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Dayton & Michigan, the Cincinnati, Dayton & Ironton, and the Cincinnati, Dayton & Chicago, of the C.,H. & D. System; the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, of the Erie System; the Dayton, Lebanon & Cincinnati Railroad, and the Home Avenue Railroad. Thirty-six hard-graveled roads radiate in all directions from the city, with an aggregate length of over six hundred miles. The extreme dimensions of Dayton are: east and west, five and one-eighth miles; north and south, three and one-half miles. Its area is about ten and three-quarters square miles.

POPULATION.

1796….About 36.                       1840….6,067                 1870….30,473

1802….Five families                   1845….9,792                 1880….38,678

1810….383.                               1850….10,976               1890….61,220

1820….1,139                             1860….20,081               1896….About 80,000

1830….2,954

CITY GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS.

MAYOR.

            Elected for two years; ex officio president of Board of Police Directors and Board of Health, and organizes the City Council; appoints the Board of City Affairs, the Tax Commission, Board of Work-House Directors, and Board of Elections.

BOARD OF CITY AFFAIRS

            Four Members; term of office four years, one being appointed each year by the Mayor; powers executive.

CITY COUNCIL.

            Sixteen members, elected from eight wards by the voters of the wards; term of office two years, half expiring each year; powers legislative.

            Measures involving expenditure and public franchises must be approved by both City Council and Board of City Affairs.

BOARD OF ELECTIONS.

            Four members, appointed by the Mayor, one secretary.

BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.

            Six members, elected by the City Council.

MISCELLANEOUS.

            City clerk, elected by the Council; treasurer, elected by the people; comptroller, solicitor, engineer, sealer of weights and measures, market-master, superintendent of levees, appointed by the Board of City Affairs; wood-measurer, elected by the people.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

            Board of Education.- Sixteen members, elected for two years from eight wards by the voters of the wards, half being elected each year.

            Officers and Teachers.­- Clerk, superintendent of instruction, superintendent of buildings, truant officer, city board of examiners with three members, twenty principals, twenty-five High School teachers, three Normal School teachers, two Manual-Training School teachers, four special teachers, 251 district-school teachers; total number of teachers, 305.

            Enumeration of School Youth (Between six and twenty-one years of age).- Public schools, 10,960; private schools, 240; church schools, 2,102; not attending, 7,276; grand total, 20,578.

            Number of Pupils in Public Schools.- District schools, 5,143 boys, 5,037 girls, or a total of 10,180; High School, 297 boys, 474 girls, or a total of 771; Normal School, 31; grand total, 10,982.  In Manual-Training School, 45 pupils from the High School and 76 pupils from the eighth grade of the district schools; total, 121.

            Schools.- Nineteen district schools, one high school, one manual-training school, one normal school, two night grammar-schools, two night drawing-schools.

            Buildings.- Twenty-nine district buildings, including annexes, one high school building, one library building.  Total value in 1895, $1,269,416.50; including personal property, $1,323,525.50.  Value of High School: lot, $60,000; building, $255,000; personal property, $11,358; total $326,358.

            Finances.- Receipts, exclusive of temporary loans and bonds, for the year ending August 31, 1895, $314,878.14; expenses, exclusive of bonded debt and temporary loans, $355,700.81; bonded debt, August 31, 1895, $485,000.

PUBLIC LIBRARY.

            Board of six members, elected by the Board of Education; librarian, cataloguer, five library assistants; occupies a fine stone library building, fireproof, erected in Cooper Park in 1886-87, and valued at $100,000; contains 35,325 volumes and 1,292 pamphlets; card and printed catalogues; museum attached; expenses, 1894-95, $10,830.50, of which $2,601.70 was spent for the purchase of books and periodicals, and $1,094.03 for the museum.

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

            Organization.- Mayor and four police directors, secretary, police judge, clerk of the police court, superintendent, captain, five sergeants, detective sergeant, surgeon, seventy-five patrolmen (eight mounted), two turnkeys, court bailiff, two telephone operators, one police matron.

            Headquarters.- In City Building.

            Equipment.- One central station, two substations, one patrol house, two patrol wagons, one ambulance, sixteen horses.

            Finances.- 1894: Receipts, $76,622.31; disbursements, $69,959.99; balance, January 1, 1895, $6,662.32.

            A police benevolent association.

WORK-HOUSE.

            Four directors, appointed by the Mayor, superintendent, matron; one work-house.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

            Organization.- Four fire commissioners, chief and secretary, first assistant chief, second assistant chief, seventy-six firemen.

            Equipment.- Twelve engine, hose, and hook-and-ladder houses; a fire-alarm telegraph system, with over one hundred boxes; four steam fire engines; two chemical engines; thirteen hose wagons; three hook-and-ladder wagons; two telegraph wagons; three buggies; thirty-six horses.

            Finances.- 1895: Cost of maintenance, $67,217.29; value of real estate, $90,500.

            Service.- Number of alarms in 1895, 344; total loss, $21,978.05; total value of property where fires occurred, $2,012,675; total insurance, $1,011,557.  The loss amounted to only about twenty-five cents per capita of the population.

            A firemen’s benevolent association.

WATER-WORKS

Established, 1870.

            Organization.- Three trustees, secretary, assistant secretary, chief engineer, first assistant engineer, second assistant engineer, superintendent of street department, two inspectors and collectors.

            Equipment.- One pumping-house; three engines, with combined daily capacity of 29,000,000 gallons; eighty-five eight-inch tube-wells, driven to a depth of forty-five to fifty feet; over ninety-six miles of street mains, 937 fire-hydrants, 8,607 service connections, 1,300 meters.

            Finances.- Total expenditures, 1870 to December 31, 1895, $1,792,560.39; total income to December 31, 1895, $938,872.77; net cost to December 31, 1895, $853,687.62; water-works bonded debt, November, 1895, $765,000, which is gradually being paid; cost of pipe, hydrants, etc., and laying of same, 1870-95, $700,000; received from sale of water, 1870-95, $860,926.83; net earnings, 1870-95, $342,000.

            Quality of the Water.- The quality of the water, by recent analysis, has been found to be first-class.  It is clear, cold, and remarkably free from injurious matter.  In a recent analysis an average of only forty-eight germs to the cubic centimeter were found in the samples examined.  The average temperature in the pipes is about 50°.

BOARD OF HEALTH.

            Mayor and six members of the board, health officer, secretary, meat inspector, four sanitary policemen.

CITY INFIRMARY.

            Three directors, superintendent, clerk, city physician.

MARKETS.

            Two market-houses, with street markets adjoining; one market-master.

TAX COMMISSION.

            Six members, appointed by the Mayor.

TAXES.

City Expenses, 1894-95.

Board of Health and Sanitary……………………     .10 mills                         $4,014  82

Bridges…………………………………………….     .25 mills                         10,262  05

Elections…………………………………………..     .15 mills                          6,157  23

Fire Department………………………………….     1.75 mills                        71,834  37

General Expense…………………………………     .60 mills                         24,628  93

Hospitals (Deaconess and St. Elizabeth)……..     .05 mills                          2,052  41

Infirmary…………………………………………..      .05 mills                          2,052  41

Lighting……………………………………………      .70 mills                        28,733  75

Police Department……………………………….   1.10 mills                         45,153  03

Parks and Levees………………………………..     .05 mills                           2,052  41

Street Cleaning…………………………………..      .75 mills                        30,786  16

Street Improvement……………………………..      .35 mills                         14,366  87

Sewers……………………………………………      .05 mills                           2,052  41

Work-House……………………………………..       .05 mills                          2,052  41

School Paving…………………………………..       .10 mills                           4,104  82

                                                                       6.10 mills                     $250,394  08

City Interest and Sinking Fund………………..      5.45 mills                      223,712  73

                                                                                                          $474,106  81

Board of Education, 1895-96.

Regular Levy…………………………………….       7.00 mills                    $288,974  49                      

Manual-Training School………………………..      .20 mills                            8,256  41

Public Library……………………………………       .25 mills                         10,320  52

Taxes for All Purposes, 1895-96

City, County, and State…………………………   26.00 mills                  $1,073,333  82

Tax Valuation, 1895-96

Taxable Property………………………………..                                      $41,282,070

BONDED DEBT.

General Bonds

(Principal and interest payable from a direct tax upon the General Duplicate.)

Outstanding March 1, 1895-

            Bridge……………………………………      $68,000  00

            City Hall…………………………………        71,000  00

            City Prison………………………………       10,000  00

            Extending Indebtedness……………...      150,000  00

            Fire Department………………………..       24,000  00

            Funded Debt……………………………      249,000  00

Outstanding March 1, 1895-

             General Street and Improvement…….     $50,000  00

             Levee……………………………………       30,000  00

             Park Street Sewer……………………..     126,000  00

             Police Deficiency………………………       36,000  00

             Sewer……………………………………     150,000  00

             Street Paving………………………….       528,000  00

             Southwestern Sewer………………….        17,000  00

             Street Improvement…………………..       150,000  00

             Wolf Creek Improvement…………….         50,000  00

             Water- Works………………………….      505,000  00

             Water- Works Enlargement…………..         3,000  00

             Water- Works Improvement………….       280,000  00

                                  Total……………………..$2,497,000  00

Improvement Bonds.

(Principal and interest payable from assessments upon abutting or benefited property.)

Outstanding March 1, 1895-

             Street Paving…………………………… $1,178,000  00

             Sewer……………………………………      180,000  00

             Special Assessment……………………      36,165  00

                                  Total………………………1,394,165  00

PERIDOCALS.

SECULAR.

Daily.- Six, one of which is German.

Weekly.- Nine, one of which is German.

Monthly.- Two.

     Total.-  Seventeen.

RELIGIOUS.

Weekly.- Eleven, one of which is German.

Semimonthly.- Nine, one of which is German.

Monthly.- Three.

Quarterly.- Nine, one of which is German.

     Total.- Thirty-two.

    Grand Total.- Forty-nine.

CHURCHES

Baptist, 11.

Baptist Brethren, 1.

Christian, 2.

Congregational, 1.

Disciples of Christ, 2.

Dunkards, 2.

Evangelical Association, 2.

Hebrew, 3.

Lutheran, 7.

Methodist Episcopal, 10.

Methodist Episcopal, African, 2.

Methodist Protestant, 1.

Methodist, Wesleyan, 1.

Presbyterian, 7.

Protestant Episcopal, 3.

Reformed, 5.

Roman Catholic, 7.

Salvation Army, 1.

United Brethren in Chirst, 12.

United Presbyterian, 1.

               Total, 81.

CHURCH AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS

PROTESTANT.

   Union Biblical Seminary, the theological school of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ; four professors, one general manager, and forty-three students.

   St. Paul’s German Lutheran School, common branches.

ROMAN CATHOLIC.

   Eight parochial schools and academies

   St. Mary’s Institute; twenty-one officers and professors, 275 students in institute, and 120 students in normal department.

PRIVATE.

            Miami Commercial College.                                 Young Ladies and Misses’ School.

            Dayton Commercial College.                                 Home School for B

            English Training School.                                      Conservatory of Music.

            Deaver Collegiate Institute.                                   Dayton College of Music