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is located in the old High School Building on Euclid 

 avenue and has 26,000 volumes in circulation. The 

 Board of Trade is another of the city's time-honored 

 institutions, having been founded in 1848. It is now 

 in the Atwater Building on Superior street. 



Euclid avenue, which from its rustic popularity in 

 pioneer days, came to bear the proud distinction of 

 being one of the handsomest streets in the world, 

 stretches off eastward from the square, for four and a 

 half miles, until it reaches Wade Park, a beautiful 

 spot, still shaded by the groves and forests which have 

 been left from the wilderness. It was a gift from Mr. 

 Wade, one of Clevelaud'^ millionaires. 



From this point the avenue continues for a mile 

 and a half until it finds its terminus in I^ake View 

 Cemetery, a magnificent stretch of woodland over- 

 lookino- the lake from a heiy;lit of two hundred and 

 fifty feet. 



The avenue is in its entire leno-th a feast of beautv. 

 The homes that line it on either side are fine speci- 

 mens of architecture, and the gardens surrounding 

 them show a lavish devotion to the sweet goddess 

 Flora. Thousands of people who are unable to leave 

 town during the summer find a grateful change of 

 scene here, and it so impressed Bayard Taylor that he 

 bestowed upon it the splep.did praise of calling it the 

 most beautiful street in the world. Nur is its charm 

 purchased at the expense of squalid surroundings, for 

 the streets of Cleveland are well kept and almost all 

 of its homes have their little gardens around them, while 

 the tenement house is " conspicuous by its absence." 

 In fact the people have chosen rather to sacrifice a 

 trifle more to time and expense ,and less to space, 



