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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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perior and Water street, which he onceknew in their primatise loneliness, and should there seenot only small houses pulled by horses, but houses ridingevidently by broom-stick power and others without anyvisible means of support,the father of his City would in allprobabilities forget the beauties of parks and buildings,paving and people, and disappear with considerableceleritv whence he came. disregard of acres and distances, which characterized ourhardy forefathers, in 1792 the Nutmeg State ceded tothe Inited States 500,000 acres of the West end of theReserve, for the use of the federal government, in beni-titting her citizens who had suffered British spoliation. Three years later 3,000,000 acres, the remainder of theReserve, was sold to a syndicate of Connecticut citizens,who l)anded and incorporated themselves as the Connecti-cut Land Company. General Moses Cleveland, beforementioned, was made agent, and General Cleveland lefthis law practice at Canterbury, and like his Israelitish
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CORNER SUPERIOR AND WATER From ox-cart, to electricity and cable, in Cleveland,has not been a matter of so many years however, andsome, still young men, remember distinctly the driving ofthe tirst spike of the crucifixion of leg-weariness. The history of Cleveland and the countrv of which itis the Metropolis, reads like a romance, with the cashaccount of a Yankee shop-keeper running parallel to it. The land upon which the Forest City stands was origi-nally the property of the State of Connecticut and knownlater as the Western Reserve. With the beautifully simple TREETS — LOOKING EAST OX SUPERIOR. namesake led a little band into the wilderness. This wasin 1796, and the same year, the September sun aided themapping out of a town named in honor of the leader ofthe expedition. General Cleveland having planted theseed, returned to Connecticut, never to see the outcome ofhis labors, leaving three men to hold the spot where nownearly 300,000 gather. Of course the following year brought few

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