Year: 1868

at the Forest City House in the Forest
city of the West. A delightful city it is
most assuredly. 1t possesses some attrac-
tions to be found in no other city have
ever visited. No eastern city can be
compared with it which have ever Wis
tied for the single reason that here there
is room enough to turn around and not
+" bark your shins against the corners
in so doing. Cleveland, Ohio takes the
name of Forest city, am told, from the
fact that it is so beautifully shaded with
trees.


/ think | cannot better employ my
readers time for thirty seconds than by
a brief description of this city and es-
peeially one street of it called Euclid
avenue. Cleveland is situated on the
southern shore of Lake Erie; at the
mouth of the Cuyahoga (ki-a-ho-ga) riv-
er, and is a city of about eighty-five thou
sand inhabitants. Asone approaches the
city from the lake it presents very
fine appearance as it stands upon high
bluff rising rapidly from the shore. The
shipping and kindred works being down
upon the beach of the main city on
very much higher plain renders it all the
more attractive as place of residence.
1t is beautifully laid out with broad and
commodious streets. The main streets
are paved with a modern wood pave
ment, the very best we ever saw, and
kept wet down, making the city very
comfortable aud pleasant. Superior St,
the main business street of the city, is
more than twice as broad as Broadway,
n. Y, with good walks, and convenient
for people to pass and repass without en-
dangering their lives.


The people are very pleasant people
indeed. One thing is noticeable among
them especially to New England man.
They seem to go about their business as
though it were a pleasure rather than a
life and death struggle. The contrast in
this regard between Cleveland and New
York is truly noticeable. In New York
every man seems bent on carrying his
point even if he loses everything else in
the struggle. In Cleveland they proceed
to their work in a free and easy way, not
with indifference, but apparently with a
feeling that they have but one life to live,
and what they do not get done to-day
can be attended to tomorrow or at iu-
ture time. They move quietly on the
streets evidently enjoying life to the very
highest degree in their beautiful Forest
city. At some seasons of the year they
have very strong lake winds which are
not the most pleasant, and in some parts
of the city, not paved, the sand is very
troublesome especially in dry anc
windy time. They have no very mag
nifcent public buildings, but have very
many very fine private residences. Th'
residences are not so costly as many OIL
Fifth Avenue, but are far more desirable
for the reason that they combine th'
beauties of q country and city residenc
in one. Euclid Avenue where the Ma
bobs live. as | besore stated, is the fines
spot for a residence that / know of il
this country or any other. The street IL
the first place is laid out as many as si'
rods wide, and on each side very wid
walk. Then between the walk and tn


carriage path beautiful grass plat al
along the street, and at proper interval
very large and thrifty shade trees. Th
residences then ale erected back from tn


walk, most of them, full twenty rods, an


they stand apart from each other halt


far or more. The ground rises gentl


from the walk to the houses, and in iroi


of them and all around is ornamente


with shrubs and trees to suit the peculi;


taste of each dweller there, but all in Il


finest style. Each seems to vie with tt


other to make his own home the mo
beautiful and charming of all. The


lots include about four acres and the re


licences are fine brick mansions in mo
ern style of art, and really combine


the attractions of first class COUNT


and city residence. This avenue exten'
several miles from the main part of Il
city directly east to East Cleveland.
Your correspondent arrived in tn
= city Just in time to get the news from Il
New York Convention, and just IN tin
to note the manner in which the me-


was received by the Ohio democrats al


the people generally. One could n


help thinking of the man who had
= earbuncle on his under lip so painful th


he wanted to swear, and yet so bad


swollen that he could not articulate
Y word. The Ohio democrats, and in ia
+ the democrats generally, are in just tt


predicamont. You say Blair to the
: and they will froth and rage like m


hull. and vet both hands being tied tn