BENEVOLENT AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.

   Young Men’s Christian Association.- A Protestant institution, founded in 1870; occupies a fine stone-front building on the south side of Fourth Street, between Main and Jefferson; value of property, over $100,000; membership, over 2,500; conducts religious, educational, and physical departments, including manual training and industrial education; has reception-room, parlors, reading-room, junior room, educational rooms, shop, entertainment hall, gymnasium, bath-rooms, and athletic park; receipts in 1894-95, $19,386.95; expenses $19,269.65.

   Woman’s Christian Association.- A Protestant institution, founded in 1870; occupies excellent brick buildings on the south side of Third Street, between Ludlow and Wilkinson; value of property, $60,000; membership, about 350; includes a young woman’s department; conducts religious, charitable, educational, and physical departments, lunch-room, and exchange; has reception-room, parlors, reading-room educational rooms, entertainment hall, industrial class-room, gymnasium bath-rooms, etc.; receipts in 1894-95, $4,279.41; expenses, $4,242.92.

   Young Woman’s League.- Founded in 1895; occupies a brick building on the west side of Jefferson Street, between Fifth and Sixth streets; membership 450; conducts religious, educational, and physical departments, and lunch-room.

   Young Men’s Institute.-  A roman Catholic institution; occupies a brick building on the south side of Fourth Street, between Ludlow and Wilkinson.

   St. Joseph’s Institute.- Conducted by the Catholic Gesellen-Verein, for the benefit of young men; organized in 1868; furnishes reading-room, gymnasium, and free circulating library; building located on Montgomery Street.

   Protestant Deaconess Home and Hospital.-  Founded in 1890 by the Protestant Deaconess Society of Dayton; occupies an expensive pressed-brick building on south side of Apple Street, between Main and Brown, costing, with equipment, about $150,000; capacity, 175 patients.

   St. Elizabeth Hospital.-  A Roman Catholic institution, founded in 1878; conducted by the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis; occupies a large brick building on the west side of Hopeland Street, between Washington and Albany, costing over $65,000; capacity, 242 patients.

   Widow’s Home.- Founded in 1875, by the Woman’s Christian Association; occupies a brick building on the northeast corner of Findlay and May streets; capacity, twenty-eight inmates; endowment, $37,358.79; receipts, for year ending October 5, 1895, $3,124.99; expenses, $2,911.59

   Montgomery County Children’s Home- Founded in 1866; occupies a brick building on the east side of Summit Street, south of Home Avenue; number of inmates in February, 1895, fifty-one, of whom thirty-eight were boys and thirteen were girls; total received from the foundling, 1,864.

   Christian Deaconess Home.- Monument Avenue, West Side.

   Children’s Home.- 116 South Ringgold Street.

   Bethany Home.-  For Homeless girls and women; 159 East Park Street

   National Soldier’s Home (Central Branch).- Founded in 1867; located a short distance west of the city; grounds cover six hundred and twenty-five acres; number of inmates, about 6,000.

    Southern Ohio Asylum for the Insane.- Founded in 1852; located at the south end of Wayne Avenue; capacity, 800 patients.

   Humane Society.

   Women’s Christian Temperance Union,  No.1

   Women’s Christian Temperance Union, No.2

   St. Joseph’s German Catholic Asylum.

   Other Societies.- Numerous lodges of Masons, Knights of Pythias, Knights of St. John, Odd Fellows, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of Veterans, Woman’s Veteran Relief Union, Order of United American Mechanics, Knights of Labor, trades unions, and other orders.

LITERARY AND MUSICAL SOCIETIES.

            Present Day Club.                                              Shakespeare Club.

             Woman’s Literary Club.                                      Philharmonic Society.

            “H.H.” Club.                                                       Mozart Club.

            Emerson Club.                                                   Harmonia Socity.

            Friday Afternoon Club.                                        Maennerchor. 

 POLITICAL CLUBS.

            Garfield Club.                                                     Thurman Club.

            Jackson Club.                                                    Lincoln Club.

            Gravel Hall Club.                                   

SOCIAL, CYCLING, GYMNASTIC AND OTHER CLUBS.

            Dayton Club.                                                     Dayton Gymnastics Club.

            Dayton Bicycle Club.                                          Dayton Turngemeinde.

            Y.M.C.A. Wheelmen.                                         Stillwater Canoe Club.

            Dayton Lawn Tennis Club.                                  Ruckawa Canoe Club.

            Dayton Angling Club.                                          Dayton Camera Club.    

MILITARY COMPANIES.

  Phoenix Light Infantry, Company G, Third Regiment Infantry, Ohio National Guard.

  Gem City Light Infantry, Company I, Third Regiment Infantry, Ohio National Guard.

STREET – RAILWAYS.

  City Railway.-Third Street Line, from the east end of Third Street to the Soldiers’ Home; electric; length of line, over six miles of double track and less than one-quarter mile of single track.

  Fifth Street Line, from the east end of Huffman Avenue to the Soldiers’ Home; electric; length of line, six and one-half  miles of double track and about one-half mile of single track.

  Green Line, from the east end of Richard Street to the corner of Fifth and Wilkinson; electric; length of line, over two miles of double track.

  Authorized capital, $2,100,000; total length of lines operated, over fourteen and one-half miles of double track and about three-quarters of a mile of single track.

  Oakwood Street-Railway.- From the north end of Salem Street in Dayton View to Oakwood, at the south end of Brown Street; electric; capital, $300,000; length of line, about four miles of double track.

  White Line Street-Railway.-From the corner of Main Street and Forest Avenue in Riverdale, via Main, Third, Ludlow, Washington, and Germantown streets to the Soldiers’ Home; electric; capital, $400,000; length of line, about six miles of double track.

  Wayne Avenue and Fifth Street Railway.-From the south end of Wayne Avenue via Wayne Avenue, Fifth, Jefferson, First, Keowee, and Valley streets to the east end of Valley Street in North Dayton; horse cars; capital, $100,000; length of line, about three miles of double track and about one mile of single track.

  Dayton Traction Company.-South Main Street, from the corner of Fifth and extending to Calvary Cemetery; electric; capital, $250,000; length of line, one and one half miles of double track and one and one half miles of single track.

  Total length of street railways operated, over twenty-nine miles of double track and about three and one quarter miles of single track.  About two and one-half miles of double track being used jointly, the net length of double track is about twenty-six and one-half miles.

STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

Total length of streets in the city, one hundred and fifty-eight miles, of which nearly twenty-five miles are paved, as follows: asphalt, fourteen miles; brick, nearly nine miles; granite, over one mile; Medina stone, over one-half mile. Total cost of paving, $1,800,000. Eighty-three miles of streets are graded and graveled, and fifty miles are unimproved.

  Thirty-nine miles of sanitary sewers and forty miles of storm sewers have been laid, at a cost of $495,000.

COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL.

  Board of Trade.-Officers: president, first vice-president, second vice president, secretary, treasurer, fifteen directors.

National Banks.-Seven, with combined capital of $2,500,000, and cash assets of over $3,000,000; a clearing-house.

  Building and Loan Associations.-Seventeen, with combined capital amounting to $43,350,000.

  Fire-Insurance Companies (Home).-Seven, with investment of $700,000, and net assets amounting to $1,213,204; one underwriters’ association.

  Incorporated Companies.-One hundred and seventy, with capital stock of over $25,000,000.

            Builders’ Exchange.-Officers: president, first vice-president, second vice-president, secretary, treasurer.

Gas Company.

Natural Gas Company.

Electric Light Company.

Telegraph and Cable Companies.-Two.

District Telegraph Company.

Telephone Exchange.

Railways-Eleven, with sixty-four passenger trains daily.

Manufacturing Establishments.-Number, about one thousand; capital invested in 1894,

$11,650,043; value of manufactured products, 1894, $10,163,913.60; wages paid, 1894, $2,176,156.15. In number of factories, in capital invested in manufacturing industries, and in wages paid, Dayton ranks as the third city in the State; in value of manufactured products, fourth.