ded chiefly on its accessibility to oil, coal and
iron. It is the largest ore market in the world. Forty million tons of
iron ore valued at $125,000,000 are received annually in the Cleveland
district, and the ore docks where much of this ore is handled, are of
great interest. Cleveland also has extensive docking facilities,* said
to be the finest in the country, for handling its immense trade in coal
and grain. Cleveland's oil refineries, among the largest in the world,
receive enormous quantities of crude oil by pipe line, rail and water.

The city has 2,500 manufacturing plants with 125,000 workers, producing
annually goods worth about $375,000,000, of which $100,000,000
represents the products of its foundries and machine shops. Cleveland is
the first city in America in the making of wire products and automobile
parts, second in the manufacture of clothing and sewing machines and one
of the leading cities in the production of complete automobiles.
Shipbuilding (there are five large shipyards* here) is likewise an
important industry, and Cleveland controls the larger share of the
tonnage on the Great Lakes.

[Illustration: "Slab Hall," Oberlin College (1832)

Oberlin College was founded in 1832 "to give equal advantages to
whites and blacks, and to give education to women as well as to
men." Other objects were "to establish universal liberty by the
abolition of every form of sin" and "to avoid the debasing
association of the heathen classics and make the Bible a text
book in all departments of education." The traditions of Oberlin
are strongly religious, and from Charles Grandison Finney,
revivalist and president of the college from 1851 to 1866, sprang
what is called the "Oberlin Theology," a compound of free-will
and Calvinism. Before the Civil War the village was a station on
the "underground railway," and the influence of the college made
it a centre of extreme abolitionist sentiment.]

673 M. ELYRIA, Pop. 20,474. (Train 3 passes 12:52a; No. 41, 5:27a; No.
25, 4:07a; No. 19, 9:12a. Eastbound: No. 6 passes 6:22p; No. 26, 7:57p;
No. 16, 10:34p; No. 22, 2:04a.)

Elyria was founded about 1819 by Herman Ely in whose honour it was
named. Ely came from West Springfield, Mass., built a cabin on the site
of the present town, and later erected the first frame house in the
township. The city lies at the junction of the two forks of the Black
River, each of which fal