titutions are the City infirmary (at Hartwell, a suburb),
which, besides supporting pauper inmates, affords relief to outdoor
poor; the Cincinnati hospital, which is supported by taxation and treats
without charge all who are unable to pay; twenty other hospitals, some
of which are charitable institutions; a United States marine hospital;
the Longview hospital for the insane, at Carthage, 10 m. from the city,
and belonging to Hamilton county, whose population consists largely of
the inhabitants of Cincinnati; an insane asylum for negroes; six orphan
asylums--the Cincinnati, two Protestant, two Roman Catholic, and one for
negroes; a home for incurables; a day nursery; a fresh-air home and farm
for poor children; the Franciscan Brothers' Protectory for boys; a
children's home; two widows' homes; two old men's homes; several homes
for indigent and friendless women; a foundling asylum; the rescue
mission and home for erring women; a social settlement conducted by the
University of Cincinnati; the house of refuge (1850) for "the
reformation and education of homeless and incorrigible children under 16
years of age"; and a workhouse for adults convicted of minor offences.

_Communications._--Cincinnati is a railway centre of great importance
and has an extensive commerce both by rail and by river. It is served by
the following railways: the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis
(Pennsylvania system), the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis
(New York Central system), the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville, the
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific (the lessee of the Cincinnati
Southern railway,[3] connecting Cincinnati and Chattanooga, Tenn., its
line forming part of the so-called Queen & Crescent Route to New
Orleans), the Erie, the Baltimore & Ohio South-Western (Baltimore & Ohio
system), the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western, the Louisville &
Nashville, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Cincinnati Northern
(New York Central system), the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley
(Pennsylvania system), and the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern
(Pennsylvania system). Most of these railways use the Union Station; the
Pennsylvania and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, have separate
stations. The city's river commerce, though of less relative importance
since the advent of railways, is large and brings to its wharves much
bulky freight, such as coal, iron and lumber; it also helps to
distribute the products of the city's fa