Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-17

DOANs TANK LIEE-INTBKSsTIEe TO Oh
RETTNERs.-It will be 9 matter Of interest
to oil re6ners in this ALPHABETICALLY
those who are running the smaller works
to learn that a company has been formed,
and already commenced operations, to carry
crude oil from the wells here in tanks on
railroad cara, to be sold in quantities to suit
purchasers. Mr.. Doan, an old C~levelander,
who has recently returned from California
and interested himself in the oil business,
has thirty carr, on each of which he has
two tanks, holding from co to o5 barrels Of
oil. These.he fills with crude oil ct the wells
and transports hither. He is now building
a 1000 barrel reception tank, wooden, on q
switch Of the A. a g. W. Railway, near the
Oil Works Of Alexander, Schofeld 4 Co.,
and in the spring purposes to bnild iron
tanksge of the capacity of 10, 900 barrels.
The advantages of this method Of procuring
oil here are, that it dispenses entirely with
barrels rehners can thus keep supplied
with oil without having q large sum of
money invested in empty barrels. Also,
they can get their oil at the time they pay
for it, instead Of as now, having to advance
the money several weeks before receiving
their crude oil. The oil trade has grown to
such proportions in Cleveland, that we deem
any and every enterprise which facilitates
its transportation or manufacture of sufB-
cient importance to call attention to It. Mr..
Dosn is stopping at the Weddell House for
the present, but viii open an ofise soon.
--
Ma. MELLEx HEARD FRon.-0ur citizens
are aware that Mr.. L. F. Mellen, Cores
pOnding Secretary Of the Cleveland Freed
mems Aid Commission, left this city On the
LIST inst, to make q tour Of observation to
main points in the South, and su-
perintend the distribution of supplies to
such Of the Freedmen as were destitute.
He has sent pack several letters descriptive
of his sightseeing.
He spent a day in Nashville on his way,
and says:
al found the Teachers at the Freedmen,s
Camps hard at work, and the pupils pro-
finely. Learned that there were
about $1,000 cOlOred people here, about
900 children and 5000 Of them in schools.
visited the schools sustained by the Penn.
Association, with Teachers from
Massachusetts,. / was surprised very much
70 see what progress they had made during
The six months. Our scholars in the Cleve-
and schools would be inspired to more ac-
in study, I All sure, could they see
.hese children work" !:
He wrote from Atlanta on the sth inst,
great destitution there. Indeed, :
is no place In the South that can com
pare with it in this regard. The weather :
vas very cold, and from his hotel window
le could see families Of freedmen, half
lad, shivering over and around fires kin
He'd in the open air, and children barefoot
about in the vain effort to keep
warm. At the Critchfeld House in that :
place he found Mr.. Star, formerly Of Elyria, .
thief clerk. He also found Miss Kinney,
# 0bsrlin, in one Of the schools there,
which he visited, and of which he tells q
favorable story. Children who had been in
attendance only four weeks, were spelling {
words of two syllableA. He is of the opin- q
on, that if scholars IN Cleveland schools :
,ould see those boys and girls, they would
Dc wonderfully and bsnehoieutly stirred up. /
Mr.. Mellen wrote q letter from Macon :
on the 10th insty in which he takes
to speak Of the prosperous condi- I
ion of the schools. The school of Miss
Day. of Sheffield, LOrain county, is !
.,articulsrly spoken Of The general cOndi {
ion Of the freedmen at that point was pitia.
lie enough, but better than at Atlanta. BE
vas expecting to arrive in Montgomery, {
Nsbama, last Sunday, the 18th inst.
We will state, in this connection, that ]
bout thirty boxes Of goods are ready for {
hipment to Mr.. Msllen, at the rooms of ;
he Commission in the Bethel Church. '
they viii b essnt in q few days.