Xii CONTENTS, 



CHAPTER XII. 



BUFFALO TO CLEVELAND. 



Forty-fourth Day— On the Shore of Lake Erie — Forty-fifth Day— 

 Again on the Shore of Erie — Bracing Air — Enchanting Scenery- 

 Angola — Big Sister Creek — Forty-sixth Day — Angola to Dunkirk 

 — Forty-eighth Day — Dunkirk to Westfield — Fruit and Vegetable 

 Farms — Fredonia — Forty-ninth Z^a?/— Westfield to North East — 

 Cordial Reception — Fiftieth Day — North East to Erie — Oliver 

 Hazzard Perry — Fifty-first Day — Erie to Swanville — Fifty-second 

 Day — Talk with Early Settlers — John Joseph Swan — Fifty-third 

 Day — Swanville to Girard — Greeted by Girard Band — Lecture at 

 Town Hall — Fifty-fourth Day — Girard to Ashtabula — Lecture 

 'Postponed— Fifty fifth Day — Ashtabula to Painesville— The Cen- 

 tennial Fourth— Halt at Farm House — Fifty-sixth Z>ay— Eeach 

 Willoughby — Guest of the Lloyds 201 



CHAPTER XIII. 



FIVE DAYS AT CLEVELAND. 



An Early Start— School Girls— "Do you Like Apples, Mister?"— 

 Mentor — Home of Garfield — Dismount at EucMd — Eumors of the 

 Custer Massacre — Reach the " Forest City " — Met by Comrades of 

 the G. A. R. — Lecture at Garrett Hall — Lake Erie — Cuyahoga 

 River — Earlj; History — Moses Cleveland — Connecticut Land Com- 

 pany — Job Stiles — The Ohio Canal — God of Lake Erie — " Ohio 

 City"— West Side Boat Building— "The Pilot"— Levi Johnson- 

 Visit of Lorenzo Dow — Monument Square — Commodore Perry — 

 Public Buildings— Euclid Avenue—" The Flats "—Standard Oil 

 Company 228 



CHAPTER XIV. 



CLEVELAND TO TOLEDO. 



Sixty-first Day — Again in the Saddle — Call on Major Hessler — Do- 

 nate Proceeds of Lecture to Soldiers' Monument Fund — Letters 

 from General James Barnett and Rev. William Earnshaw — Stop 

 for Night at Black River — Sixty-second Day — Mounted at Nine 

 A.M. — Halted at Vermillion for Dinner — Lake Shore Road — More 

 Mosquitoes — Reach Huron Late at Night — Sixty-third Day-^ 

 Huron to Sandusky — Traces of the Red Man — Ottawas and 

 Wyandots — Johnson's Island — Lecture in Union Hall — Captain 

 Culver — Sixty-fourth Day — Ride to Castalia — A Remarkable Spring 

 — Sixty-fifth Z>ay— Reach Fremont — Home of President Hayes-^ 

 Sixty-sixth i>a^— Beach Elmore, Ohio— Comparison of Hotels. 243 



