. Journal of roentgenology . Terminal, Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Seeandbee, the largest and most palatial passenger steamer onfresh water, docks here. Hie manufacturing within the borders of the nation lieswithin the same district. Its lake frontage, its easy accessto the coal fields of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,its proximity to Ohios limestone and standstone quarries,and the low cost of water transportation from the LakeSuperior ore fields have made its growth inevitable. Thereare few spots on the continent to which raw materials maybe brought with facility along many line
. Journal of roentgenology . Terminal, Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Seeandbee, the largest and most palatial passenger steamer onfresh water, docks here. Hie manufacturing within the borders of the nation lieswithin the same district. Its lake frontage, its easy accessto the coal fields of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,its proximity to Ohios limestone and standstone quarries,and the low cost of water transportation from the LakeSuperior ore fields have made its growth inevitable. Thereare few spots on the continent to which raw materials maybe brought with facility along many lines, and few so ad-vantageously situated in the matter of wonderful marketswith steady buying power. Cleveland has been an industrial center for only sixty-one years. In 1858, indeed, it was only the fortieth ofAmerican cities, a lake port of no importance and the cen-ter of a casual sort of land commerce from territory imme-diately tributary. In 1914 Cleveland had distanced in the CLEVELAND CONVENTION 129. Edgewater Municipal Bath House and Pavilion, Located inEdgewater Park race almost every one of its superiors of 1858. And Cleve-land is still growing. There have been spiritual as well as material and phys-ical reasons for Clevelands growth. In. business and incivic affairs there has always been a compelling spirit ofcooperation which has gone far toward making the city,despite its heterogenous population, a community in thebest sense of that word. Because of this characteristic in the average citizenCleveland is usually ahead of sister municipalities. Evenas it was the first city to use the arc light, it was first inthe adoption of the Sane Fourth. It was first to de-velop, in America, the daylight saving scheme, and first todevise the pay-enter street cars and to enforce the Skip-stop system for city street cars. It was first, too, ofAmerican municipalities to apply to a public service cor-poration that principle of a limited return upon its invest-ment which has been favora
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