The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-13

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in the South.
Toledo is beautiful and lively city
of about 100000, on the broad and
beautiful Maumee river, which gives
deep water to Lake Erie, a few miles
away. This is a great shipping point
and industrial center Here are To-
Gated many great industries-we not
ed one, particularly, the Overland au-
tomobile works, which employees some
$4,000 people. 1t is very cosmopoli-
tan city, and this fact was thoroughly
impressed upon us when we witnessed
the Fourth of July parade here. The
parade was made up entirely OF
foreigners Their. we're great sections
of the procession made UP respectively
Poles, Swedes, Balkans, Greeks. Slavs,
Bohemians, Roumanians, Italians and
people of many other nationalities, ev-
en- the Chinese forming a marching
contingent. All of them embraced
this occasion to give emphatic express
sion of their loyalty to the govern
ment of the United States and their
Enthusiastic interest in the war for
democracy. 1t was a hopeful and in
spring sight to observe all these peo-
1ples so earnestly uniting in the one
common sentiment of love for their
adopted country and antagonism to
the dominion of autocracy with which
the world is threatened.
From Toledo we went up in one Of
the big lake steamers to Detroit. These
| boats can carry the population of
pretty fair town without crowdinP,
but we went up with the return end
of a Fourth of July excursion, and
the steamer was crowded to the limit.
There must have been at least $500
persons on board. We could not help
but think of the horror that would
ensue if anything should happen to
a boat thus overladen. Detroit boasts
that her passenger steamers carried
twelve million people the past year
without the loss of a life; but the
pitcher proverbialy goes to the well
once too often.
Detroit is a wonderful city. 1t
claims, and we presume truthfully, to
be the fourth city of the United States
in population, having jumped to that
standing from sixteenth place in 1910
Early in it's history--very early,
doubtless, its Chamber of Commerce,
a somebody, secured nice, broad
deep river to run by the city, and this
undoubtedly has had considerable to
do with it's prosperity. We have al
l ways noticed that where town car
get a river of this kind to run by 1t
II helps it nightly. Well, this river
g called the Detroit, enables the city
|, to send all kinds of shipping to Lake
n Erie on the SOUTH and, through LAX
: list. Clair and the st. Clair river, tt
d Lake Huron on the north, command
t ing the commerce of all the great in
: land seas. They claim almost mil
= lion population for Detroit. We di'
S not verify the figures by actual count
: but we can testify that this is SOM
: live burg.
OF course every one knows that De
troit is perhaps the greatest automc
e bile manufacturing center in tn
t world, but it has many other indus
e trial interests as we'll There are grea
$ shipbuilding works and other larg
Il war activities, and varied manufactur
: ing lines. The Ford plant holds con
r siderable interest of course, to every
d body, for everybody has heard of it
y We had thought of calling on Henry
!; and giving him some interesting ey
d periences connected with our owner
n ship of Old Dobbin, our trusted an
e faithful flivver; but we were told h
e was not at home. The plant is tire
il mondous one, covering many acres
'e and we observed some superb machin
IS cry kept in immaculate condition. W
t gather in a general way that tin
Is fed from a roll into one end of thes
II machines and comes out fnishe
1t flivvers at the other; but they chance
le not to be in operation when we sa'
them.
IS We went out to Put-in-Bay, an /;
t. land in Lake Erie, and long popula
I'd summer resort. Whom should W
ie run in to out here but our old frient
in Commodore Perry, whom we hadn
hi thought of since we studied Unite
e. States history. We knew in genera