Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-07
ENGLISH IMPRESSIONS OF CLEVE-
LAND.
The Forest City Described by an Eng.
- a Ifsh correspondent.

10 DC III NicN ~ lle llluo OF inell
visit here. He speaks Of Cleveland as
f5u6ws.
1hls- citYls one OF Inc most lourshlng
IN America. IL mas not tne population OF
ST IONS OF Snclnnatl but Its trade bear
an even larger proportion to Its lnbabl
tants than does. theirs. Situated upon the
SHORES OF Lake Erie, Cleveland, llke
chicago, mas every advantage Of water
hlmuhleatl whist numerous railways
connect with the OHIO and P~ennsylvania
c~oal-nelds, with the grain-producing
west and the Mississippi Valley.
IRON ore Is brought hIther from Lake Supe-
rlOr TO meet the Pennsylvania coal. Fur
naces are established which annually pro
duce 1876, 900 tons of pig iron, and Ceve-
land has the prospect of almost unlimited
increase in this branch of industry.
should run the risk of wearying YOU with
statistics did l here set down one-hali
the figures kindly furnished to me with
regard to business matters in the "Forest
City" To explain what forest City .
means would be, perhaps, more interesting,
Well, then, you must know that Americans
indulge in pet names for their principal
places. New York is called, as most
people have heard, empire CITY, Chicago,
the "Grain City, and so on throughout
the whole gazetteer. Cleveland has been
favored with a very pretty title, but,
though Empire does really belong
to wealthy and swarming New York
and grain to their younger sister Chica-
go, the Forest CITY" is now without .
trace of forest for miles around. Some
however, suppose that its name refers m
the shady and neat pleasure
grounds which prominently distinguish
Cleveland. Few towns or cities have so
agreeable a~neighborhood within ten min
utes walk Of business quarters as may here
ho "nd-alAnsI ualid -~avAnno AVID P-ar
pect street. On the other hand, few have
nOlslerl sln0kler districts than that by the
river sue, between East and west Cleve-
iahu' heaps OF timber, cloud OF dust,
Whlstllng, and the whirr of
machinery, are characteristic accessories
to this bustling scene. Not only coal and
iron, but millions of sawn boards and
countless barrels of packed beef. are dealt
with among the Forest CITY wharves and
warehouses. You have been spared sta
tistlcs on principle, yet 1 must mention
That there are at present sixty thousand
inhabitants where fifteen hundred lived a
generation back. Such is Western pro-
greSs. Steam has helped it forward. immi-
grafton has given 1t a lift, the tide has
Moved so rapidly towards high-water
mark that Cleveland is thought of by
americans as quite an cid civilized insti-
tuition
Men now alive can well remember the
nrst settlement %hereabouts, when dense
FOREST covered the lake shore, and a single
Jog nut stood near the mouth of the Cuya-
hroga river. General Cleveland laid out
the city IN 1896, giving it very nearly his
o"h name, and by the following year there
must AVE been two inhabitants, because
a marriage tleh TOOK place 1--WE Will
n n%In CIenlent ana Cloe Inches. Time
to pijiI Cd' uitT i ! 1n a post ONE 0lnGe w, was as es-
militia men were called ont for driH ~
1864 the first vessels were bujIt at G1o,-a-
land, and in 1914 the first brick bonsp Ry
1920 a newspaper had sprung to life y
had entered the mort Hbe Wall
in-the-W Water, 1881 and an Eniscona1
Church had been erected. Sixtccp voprs
more suficed TO make the forest v;IIaTo
IA forest citv.p having sfeamb99t
building, iron works and canal LEADING TO
Ohio. 1 need not trace this Kosher
ous career any further. Cleveland becama
it is, the latest Improvement heinz
a new means of communication with tho
Atlantic States. This brings me TO an
other subject more Immediately connected
with my presence here than coal and iron
or beef. ''IYhat can possibly Inc
more Immediately connected with INV roI
'pectable Englishman than beefY7 vnn
nay perchance inquire. L answer Rail
ways, and thus it stands.
During the height of warlike excite
nent in America, when greenbacks were
worth about a third oftheir nomin, v,1re
md things looked bad for American IN
restment, some en]ternrising F,ronoan
capitalists were pushing forward a I'M Of
W. m~E FGN and tho
Ane4 saw mat, with the vast
- u Aililo!s, Ohlo M Michigan,
tboro Ie rahs-AllsalssiPp
es;abiiIbaJ "IGuiu Do more franc on
han tboso liz. o mi Vi communication
ordinaiv data.~N ieIel'e' II was ac-
NlI 10 open a fresh
bo oil NisnelH LeInsylVanla by
aG "Hu coa' heids 10 Clncln-
~ Il Poihts OF Importance.
- NJ was displayed, and
,orIs ~ VOL Mgnnaru ; ape direction the
A. "nceu at Ghe rate OF a mile
nj Nth ~ caPItaI ana Sill COM
ranr- atiYe energy Oh MI: NC
- 70 hurry the ATTAIN
. a4Lao "esUerh me TO completion,
80 10 opening Tor tra1hc. Com
- q gI5' IoI Intensive ADDITIONS
70 n-"ue- Dut INC hue was opened
PiTsPecI OF success Just as
SooGIeu Her yearly priced Union
:" w TnelInLhS usPlay OIL physical
~ NC ~EhgilShlneh VINO had calculated
"a yhoso an non i ! must eventually WIn,
maricon natanar n"u Oeen staked on
al oftba n;t;n, my were !nVltel by sew
If far ronnroJ Ipon tleIr Ilne II others
- q theretrom, to come and see
v which tboy ID toeS OF the coun-
was no noE4;aai HSsts'Gu 10 develop
itb tbis inri+ptinn 1eeling mixed up
- &c e:n1IIO l sCoou as plaln
81 nraationS anu business combined
as fr;onJa n+ e "Gulu pay 10 their bus
80 mnob ~ NE" lne EVEN TOOK
tende5 h., tbo PuUlic hospitality was
aDaGers -! IN AnieIicah eiIieS 10 the
t6at tbosa non+inm anu Oreat Yves
- ~, Sen oecame some
em 70 b9va nUidrUnd na persons Ihey j
80 JrJJyeu somewhat the recep- i
60 oea-ou hot Iohg since TO be t
oncbos+or sa5aoi az PTIllG'ah OF the
"1SHS91Sl eSAOOl. ClefelaOC could not