TOLEDO 



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TOLEDO 



i on the west bank of the Sumida, but for a 

 long time there have been no restrictions as to 

 the section in which foreigners may reside. 

 The streets leading from the foreign quarter 

 contain many shops where wonderful ivory 

 carvings and other specimens of Japanese hand- 

 work are displayed. 



Tokyo has well-organized fire and police sys- 

 tems, and is governed by a mayor, a municipal 

 council and a municipal assembly. The city 

 is not an important commercial or industrial 

 center, though numerous factories have been 

 established in the suburbs. The river is too 

 shallow to permit navigation by large ships, and 

 Yokohama, eighteen miles south, is the port of 

 Tokyo. The capital is connected with all parts 

 of the island by railways. Tokyo is the out- 

 growth of a small village called Yedo, and the 

 city which developed from this hamlet was 

 known as Yedo until 1868, when the present 

 name was adopted. It has suffered greatly 

 from earthquakes, fires, storms and pestilence, 

 but has maintained its prosperity. See JAPAN. 



University of Tokyo, a government institu- 

 tion under the control of the department of 

 education of Tokyo, comprising schools of law, 

 medicine, engineering, literature, science and 

 agriculture. The school of agriculture is situ- 

 ated in a suburb six miles away from the main 

 campus, and the botanical institute is in the 

 botanical gardens, about a mile and a half 

 distant. The university was established in 1868: 

 It regularly enrolls over 5,300 students, and 

 there are about 375 instructors, of whom 120 

 rank as professors. But few foreign instructors 

 are now required, and the faculty is made up 

 chiefly of Japanese who were educated in Eu- 

 rope or America. The institution is equipped 

 with a library of over 491,000 volumes and an 

 observatory. The students wear a square cap 

 with a golden badge, and are held in great re- 

 spect. Athletic games are a feature of the 

 university life. Tokyo University is the best 

 educational institution in the Far East. R.D.M. 



TOLEDO, tohle'doh, OHIO, the county seat 

 of Lucas County and the fourth city in size in 

 the state. Only Cleveland, Cincinnati and Co- 

 lumbus are larger. It is situated at the mouth 

 of the Maumee River, which empties into Mau- 

 mee Bay. The latter is an inlet of Lake Erie, 

 from which Toledo is nine miles distant. 

 Cleveland is ninety-six miles east and Colum- 

 bus is 124 miles south. Transportation facilities 

 are provided by the Ann Arbor, the Cincinnati, 

 Hamilton & Dayton, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, 

 Chicago & Saint Louis, the Hocking Valley, the 



Michigan Central, the New York Central, the 

 Pennsylvania Company, the Pere Marquette, 

 the Toledo & Ohio Central, the Toledo, Saint 

 Louis & Western, the Wabash and the Wheel- 

 ing & Lake Erie railroads. Steamers ply be- 

 tween Toledo and the other lake ports, and a 

 fine system of interurban lines supplements the 

 railroad service. In 1910 the population was 

 168,497; this had increased to 191,554 by 1916 

 (Federal estimate). Germans, Irish and Scandi- 

 navians predominate in the very considerable 

 foreign element. 



Parks and Boulevards. Toledo has an at- 

 tractive location on both sides of the river. 

 More than 800 acres are. embraced by the park 

 system, the largest and most attractive of these 

 reservations being Ottawa Park (280 acres), 

 which has one of the finest golf courses in 

 America. Bay View Park, on the river bank, 

 Walbridge Park, with its "zoo," and Central 

 Grove, Riverside, Collins and Navarre parks 

 are among the other recreation grounds. All of 

 these "breathing spots" will eventually be 

 linked by a boulevard system which is partially 

 completed. 



Buildings and Institutions. Toledo has many 

 fine buildings. These include the county court- 

 house, with a park containing a statue of Presi- 

 dent McKinley; the post office, erected at a 

 cost of $500,000; the Soldiers' Memorial, the 

 Newsboys' building, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. 

 C. A. buildings, a Masonic Temple, the Valen- 

 tine Theater, with an unusually attractive in- 

 terior, and the armory. Among the educational 

 institutions are Toledo University, Saint John's 

 College, for men and boys, Notre Dame and 

 Ursuline academies, Toledo Medical College, 

 Smead School, for girls, the Museum of Art and 

 the public library, which is housed in a hand- 

 some building. The benevolent institutions in- 

 clude the state hospital for the insane, which is 

 conducted on the cottage plan and harbors 

 more than 1,500 people; Saint Vincent's Hos- 

 pital, Saint Vincent's Orphanage, the county 

 children's home and the Lutheran Orphan Asy- 

 lum. 



Industry and Manufacture. The Federal gov- 

 ernment has expended more than $2,000,000 in 

 improving the port facilities at Toledo, where 

 there are many miles of docks and warehouses. 

 The city is an important shipping point for the 

 grain and lumber of the north-central section 

 of the United States, and for iron and soft coal. 

 It has exceptional advantages in this respect 

 because of its location at the western end of 

 Lake Erie. 



