on an
elevated site on the east border of the city is the most noteworthy;
here are buried President Garfield (the Garfield memorial is a sandstone
tower 165 ft. high with a chapel and crypt at its base), Mark Hanna and
John Hay.

John Hay (1838-1905) was a native of Salem, Ind., and a graduate
of Brown University. He studied law in the office of Abraham
Lincoln, and, after being admitted to the bar at Springfield,
Ill., became one of Lincoln's private secretaries, serving until
the president's death. He then acted as secretary to various U.S.
Legations abroad--Paris, Vienna, Madrid--and on returning to
America became assistant secretary of State under W. M. Evarts.
President McKinley appointed him ambassador to Great Britain in
1897, and the following year Secretary of State. Hay was
prominent in many important international negotiations, such as
the treaty with Spain (1898), the "open door" in China, and the
Russo-Japanese peace settlement. He negotiated the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty concerning the Panama Canal; also settled difficulties
with Germany over the Samoan question and with Great Britain over
the Alaskan boundary. As an author, Hay is best known for his
_Pike County Ballads_, in which _Little Breeches_ first appeared,
and for the monumental life of Lincoln written by Nicolay and himself.

Other notable monuments in Cleveland are a statue of Senator Hanna by
Saint Gaudens (in University Circle), a marble statue of Commodore Perry
in commemoration of the battle of Lake Erie (in Wade Park), a soldiers'
and sailors' monument--a granite shaft rising from a memorial room to a
height of 125 ft. (in the Public Square), and a bronze statue of Moses
Cleaveland, the founder of the city (likewise in the Public Square).
This latter monument is said to stand on the very spot selected by
Cleaveland for the centre of his new settlement.

The Public Square, or Monumental Park, is in the business centre of the
city, about 1/2 M. from the lake and the same distance east of the
Cuyahoga River. From this park the principal thoroughfares radiate.
Euclid Ave., once famous for its private residences, but now the chief
retail street of the city, begins at the southeast corner of the square.
Cleveland's newest residence district is on the heights in the eastern
part of the city.

Cleveland sometimes has been called the "Sheffield of America." Its
prosperity is foun