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marts the products of the rich farms of Illinois, Indi- 

 ana, Michigan and Ohio. 



From her ports enormous quantities of grain are 

 yearly shipped to England either direct, or via Mon- 

 treal, and her people say, without expecting to be 

 contradicted, that no city in the United States can 

 point to such a wonderful development of commercial 

 resources. This scarcely suggests the time when To- 

 ledo was little more than the dead carcass of specula- 

 tion, the prey of the tax-gatherer, waiting the resur- 

 rection that followed the War of the Rebellion, when 

 men remained her citizens simply because they had no 

 money with which to get away. 



Commerce takes the lead here, but there is one en- 

 terprise of which Toledoans seem to be even prouder, 

 and to see which they take the visitor " whom they 

 wish to impress with their greatness." This is the 

 thriving and truly imposing Milbourn Wagon Works, 

 put into operation in 1875 and already become famous. 

 The brick buildings are unusually fine and, archi- 

 tecturally, would leave the uninformed stranger under 

 the impression that they might belong to some insti- 

 tution of learning. 



I was enabled to see more of the city than I had 

 expected, owing to an unforeseen circumstance. A 

 little friend who lived in Detroit, and .who was dying 

 with consumption, had expressed a wish to come to 

 Toledo to see me and my horse before it was too late. 

 I therefore remained longer than I intended, that her 

 friends might bring her down by boat, although they 

 hardly hoped that she would survive the journey. 

 She was given the pleasure of a quiet trip to Put-in- 

 Bay, the well-known resort, and with this and the 



