Identifier: journalofroentge2191west (find matches)
Title: Journal of roentgenology
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Western Roentgen Society
Subjects: Radiology
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa : Western Roentgen Society, 1918-1919
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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nation. (*L K\r K LA XI) CON\ENTION 127 J ■ r w*I ■ I 1 ■ >spita) (Municipal) Located on Scranton Road, S. W., Cleveland There are no sweat shops in Cleveland. The citystands first in the percentage expended in wages. Cleveland is a woolen town, too. Its eight woolen millsmanufacture annually enough cloth for 2,000,000 suits.With allied industries they represent a capital of approxi-mately $8,000,000. Cleveland is, moreover, the greatest hardware center inthe United States, and one of the greatest paint and var-nish centers. It boasts the largest paint factory in theworld. Financially, Cleveland is the fourth city in the UnitedStates. The Federal Reserve Bank for the Fourth Federaldistrict is here, and in bank deposits and banking strengthit far surpasses its rivals in population. It is, after all,very largely a matter of location. More than half the people in the United States and Can-ada live within 500 miles of Cleveland, and more than half 128 THE JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY
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Terminal, Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co.The Seeandbee, the largest and most palatial passenger steamer onfresh water, docks here. Hie manufacturing within the borders of the nation lieswithin the same district. Its lake frontage, its easy accessto the coal fields of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,its proximity to Ohios limestone and standstone quarries,and the low cost of water transportation from the LakeSuperior ore fields have made its growth inevitable. Thereare few spots on the continent to which raw materials maybe brought with facility along many lines, and few so ad-vantageously situated in the matter of wonderful marketswith steady buying power. Cleveland has been an industrial center for only sixty-one years. In 1858, indeed, it was only the fortieth ofAmerican cities, a lake port of no importance and the cen-ter of a casual sort of land commerce from territory imme-diately tributary. In 1914 Cleveland had distanced in the CLEVELAND CONVENTION 129

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