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* TOLEDO. 332 TOLENTINO. an immense union passenger and freight depot and a lake transfer house. There are 110 miles of street railroads reaehing every portion of the city. The river is spanned by five railroad and two passenger bridges. Just outside the citj' limits are the flourishing suburbs of Eossford, with the celebrated Ford plate glass works, and West Toledo. A large portion of the city rests on made ground, as the greater part of its site was formerly a swamp, the first settlements having been made on two hills that rose from tliis suamp. The streets are paved with brick, asphalt, and stone, and tliroughout the residential portions are well planted with shade trees. The city has 848 acres of parks, including Walbridge Park, with fine zoological gardens and the city greenhouse; Ottawa Park, with a public golf course; River- side, Bay View, Navarre, City, and Collins parks; and planted triangles in all sections. The out- lying parks are connected by a fine boulevard about 25 miles in length, as yet completed only in part. Public playgrounds for children are situated in populous quarters of the city. There is a municipally owned cemetery which is self- suj^porting. Among the more prominent buildings are the county court-house in tlie centre of the city with a beautiful park containing a fine statue of President McKinlcy ; the Public Library ; the Soldiers' Memorial Building, erected by the city at a cost of $100,000 for the soldiers and sailors of Lucas County; the Toledo Club; the Spitzer office building; and Saint Patrick's and Saint Paul's churches. Tlicre are 42 public school buildings, including two high schools and a manual training sciiool and university. Toledo Jledical College has a higli standing and is af- forded special clinical facilities by the Toledo and Saint Vincent's hospitals, as well as by a number of private hospitals. There are numer- ous private educational institutions, including Saint .John's College. The Public Lil)rary ( 4(i.OOO volumes) maintains a reference library and read- ing rooms. It has five sub-stations. Toledo is the meeting point of the iron ore from the Lake Superior region and the coal of Ohio and Virginia. It is the central point of the northwestern Ohio oil fields, and is sur- rounded by a fine agricultural country especially adapted to fruit-gardening. The building of lake and ocean vessels is extensively carried on, and among the more important manufactiu-es are plate glass, cut glass, bicycles, automobiles, agri- cultural implements, malt liquors, clothing, mal- leable iron, foundry products, tobacco, etc. In the census year 1000 the various industries were capitalized" at $25, ."102.000 and had an output valued at $37,372,000. There is a very large grain trade, and the clover-seed market is second only to that of Chicago. Vessels to the number of 2313, having an aggregate tonnage of 1,854,- 262, touched at the port in 1002. In shipment of coal Toledo leads every lake port but Cleve- land. The government, under the new charter, is vested in a mayor, a council of 10 members, a board of public service, city solicitor, treasurer, and .auditor, all elected by the people; a board of piiblic safety appointed by the mayor if the coun- cil indorses his appointments, if not, by the Gov- ernor of the State; and a number of minor boards, health, library, sinking fund, etc., ap- pointed by the mayor. Toledo spends annually more than $2,800,000, e.xclusive of amounts for public schools; but a considerable portion of this goes for interest on the bonded debt. The water- works are municipally owned and operated, and have a capacity of 45,000,000 gallons, with an average dail}' consumption of 10,000,000 gallons. The supply is drawn from the JMaumee River. Plans are prepared for a $750,000 filtering plant. The sewerage system comprises 140,3 miles of mains. The site of Toledo was a favorite resort of the Sliami Indians in the eighteenth century. The place was first settled in 1S32 and was char- tered as a cit.y in 1837, its population then being less than 1000. With the surrounding territory it was claimed for several years by both Ohio and Michigan, the dispute culminating in 1835 in the so-called 'Toledo War' (q,v,) — a war of words only. The population in 1840 was 1222; in 18.50, 3829; in ISCO. 13,768: in 1870. 31.584; in ISSO, 50.137; in 1800, 81.434: and in 1000, 131,822. The total in 1000 included 27,822 per- sons of foreign birth and 1710 of negro descent. TOLEDO WAR. A boundary controversy which arose in 1835 between the State of Oliio and the Territory of Michigan. Congress in the Ordinance of 1787 had reserved the right to form new States out of that part of the territory northwest of the Ohio River "lying north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan," Ohio was admitted as a State in 1803, the above line being described in the act as its northern boundary, though the State Consti- tution claimed more territory. When in 1805 Michigan Territory was organized, and. later, Indiana and Illinois became States, the most con- fused ideas existed on the boundary question. A survc.y was made by oriler of Congress in 1817 which established the present line. The old line had included in ilichigan the city of Toledo, and this was the main point in dispute. In 1835 Ohio laid claim to all within the new line, known as tile Harris line, and proceeded to organize townships therein. Michigan declared the inten- tion of resisting such invasion, and the militia of both sides were called upon to maintain the al- leged rights of their respective governments. An opinion of the I'nited States Attorney-General, B. F. Butler, favored Jlicliigan : Presiclent Jack- son sent out a 'peace commission' with no re- sult, and serious conflict seemed imminent. In September, 1835, the Michigan troops occupied Toledo to prevent the formal organization of Wood County by Ohio officers. The latter, how- ever, accomplished their purpose secretly and withdrew. The trouble was finally settled by the admission of Michigan into the I^nion on condition that she accept the Harris line, while as a make-weight that State was given the upper Wisconsin Peninsula, which afterwards proved from its mineral wealth to be far more valuable than the disputed territory. TOLENTINO, to'len-te'no. A town in the Province of JIacerata, Italy, on the Chienti. 30 miles south-southwest of Ancona (Map: Italy, H 4). The cathedral has a good portal by Rosso. The churches of San Catervo and San Francesco possess noteworthy frescoes and reliefs. There are manufactures of machinery, silks, woolens.