. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. fertile as is the wholeMiami Valley, no other part of it equals the regionimmediately surrounding Dayton. The city building, containing the city hall andcouncil chamber and the market house beneath,runs from Main street through to Jefferson, betweenThird and Fourth. The mayor is elected biennially,and the council is only a legislative body. The an-nual income of the city is about $1,625,000. Theexpenditure for the schools is about $290,000 ayear, for the police department $70,
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. fertile as is the wholeMiami Valley, no other part of it equals the regionimmediately surrounding Dayton. The city building, containing the city hall andcouncil chamber and the market house beneath,runs from Main street through to Jefferson, betweenThird and Fourth. The mayor is elected biennially,and the council is only a legislative body. The an-nual income of the city is about $1,625,000. Theexpenditure for the schools is about $290,000 ayear, for the police department $70,000, fire depart-ment $75,000, street lighting $50,000, and for theoperation of the water-works about $40,000. Dayton has an almost inexhaustible supply of thepurest water from tube wells erected on both sidesof Mad River, and carried throughout the city bymeans of 133 miles of street mains and deliveredby 1,300 fire hydrants and 15,503 service taps. Thesewerage, both underground and surface, is com-plete; the sanitary system extends throughout thearea of the city, and there are about, 70 miles ofStorm 11 Old Log Cabin, First House in Dayton (still standing) Dayton has 95 churches; many of her religiousedifices are models of architectural beauty and ele-gance of design. Several of the denominations, andof the moral and social institutions, have importanteducational adjuncts; and the public schools of thecity have long been noted for their superior ap-pointments. The normal school, the manual train-ing school, and the numerous kindergartens havea united attendance of about three thousand. Daytons library was established in 1805, and wasthe earliest incorporated library in Ohio. The beau-tiful new building on Third street, between St. Clairstreet and the Canal, contains, besides the library,a valuable museum of archaeological, ethnographicaland natural history collections. The number ofvolumes in the main building and the branches, notcounting many thousands of valuabl
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