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16 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
amounted to $316,501, which was the
gift of the late Chas. W. West and other
public-spirited citizens. Mr. We'st's gift
alone amounted to the munificent sum ol
$322,500. The endowirients amounted to
$969,121. Open week days from 9 a. m.
to 4:30 p. m. during winter months, and
from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. during summer
months.— Sundays, opens 1 p. m., the
closing hour being same as on week
days. Admission 25 cents; except Saturdays
and Sundays. On Saturdays, admission
is free; Sundays, an admission
fee of 10 cents is charged. Package
tickets are 10 for one dollar, good for
admission on all days during the current
Vear they are issued. Take Eden Park
and Zoo railway cars to the door.
CINCINNATI! SOCIETY OF NATURAL
HISTORY.
Organized' 1870. Chas. Dury, President;
Herman Wuestner, First Vice President;
Dr. Arch I. Carson, Second Vice President;
L. D. Collier, Secretary; T. B. Collier,
Treasurer and Director of Museum;
F. M. Coppock and T. H. Kelley, Trustees.
Office and Museum, 312 Broadway.
Open from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. dally, except
Saturdays from 8 a. m. to 1 p. m.
and Sundays and Holidays, from 7 to 8
p. m. on meeting and lecture evenings.
The Museum and Library, as well as the
lectures, are free to the public. The Society
meets first Tuesday evening or
each month at 8 p. m., from October to
May, inclusive. These meetings, where
scientific matters are discussed in a popular
way, are open to the public. The
Executive Board meets on the first
Tuesday of each mon*th at 7 p. m.
THE CHILDRENS HOME.
Nos. 300 to 316 W. 9th. Meigs V. Crouse,
Superintendent. Its objects are (1) To
ameliorate and elevate the condition of
the children of poor and unfortunate
parents, by procuring for the homeless
and destitute who may be committed to
it, in accordance with its charter, permanent
country homes in Chistian families,
where they will- be trained in habits of
Industry and receive a suitable English
education. (2) To clothe, feed and
Instruct such children gratuitously, so
long as they remain in the Children's
Home. (3) To afford a temporary home
to poor children, whose parents, thus
aided, may be enabled in a short time to
support them in. homes of their own;
and such other religious and charitable
work as the trustees may at any time
adopt.
THE CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL.
South-east cor. 3d and Lawrence. Lodging
an^ Bath House, 308 jEast Front street.
Settlement House, south-east coi-ner 3d
and Lawrence. The Anna Louise Inn
(Home for Working Girls) north-east
corner 3d and Lytle. R. S. Fulton,
President of Board of Trustees; LouiS G.
Hopkins, Vice President; James P. Orr,
Treasurer; Benj. Sebastian, Secretary;
Jas. O., White, Superintendent. Chief
object' of the Union Bethel Is to do constructive
and preventive philanthropic
work among the poor. It has a Sunday-school
.every Sunday at 2:30 of
children, averaging in attendance about
300; a sewing-scJiool of about 250 girls;
a cooking school of 50 girls; mothers'
meetings; a finely-equipped bath; a
gymnasium; a music school; a medical
and dentistry department; a district
nurse; a" social settlement of fifteen
resident workers; boys' and girls' clubs;
millinery and shirt waist clubs; home
libraries; a splendidly arranged suite of
men's club rooms, which any self-respecting
man may join. In addition to
this preventive work there is given
about $2,000 a year in relief to the poor.
It runs a lodging house for homeless
men.
THE OHIO HUMANE SOCIETY.
(For the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
and Animals.)
Office and Headquarters, 24 E. 9th; Telephone
Canal ,5223. Rev. Wm. A. Robinson,
President; Mrs. Theo. Workum,
Vice President; O. A. Trounstine, Secretary
and Treasurer. All complaints of
cruelty and neglect to children and animals
should be sent to the office of the
Society, 24 E. 9th. The name of the informer
will be held in confidence and
only used in case prosecution becomes
necessary. The Society is one of the
active out-door agencies for the protection
and rescue of children. In the care
of these unfortunate children, the society
co-operates with the numerous houses of
refuge, children's homes, orphan and
other asylums, hospitals, nurseries, charities,
etc. Its agents seek out and investigate
cases of abuse and neglect of
children, hunt up truant and icriminal
parents, and compel them to care for
their children, and gather up homeless
and dependent children. Offenders are
prosecuted when necessary, and the little
waifs are turned over to the permanent
care of other organizations and in-
Sititutlons. In 1883 the Society secured
the passage of a law providing a fine
of $200 and Imprisonment for six months
for parents failing to provide for their
children. The enforcement of this law is
having a most salutary effect. Hardly a
day passes in which one or more cases
are not reported of dissipated and licentious
fathers who have deserted their
families, leaving the wife to eke out a
scanty existence as best she can at
the wash-tub or with the aeedle, or to
live upon public charity. The courts
have co-operated earnestly In the enforcement
of this law. Whenever an
offender of this kind is brought before
them, a heavy sentence is put over his
head, and he is -allo-vfed to go on his
good behavior. It is seldom necessary
to bring him in a second time. It Is