uate return to the investors.

Cleveland was the home of Mark Hanna who became famous in national
Republican politics.

Marcus A. Hanna was born in Lisbon, Ohio, in 1837, removed with
his father in 1852 to Cleveland, where he graduated from Western
Reserve University, and in 1867 entered into partnership with his
father-in-law (Daniel P. Rhodes) in the coal and iron business.
Under Hanna's guidance the business prospered enormously, but it
was not till somewhat late in life that he became prominent in
Republican affairs in Cleveland. As chairman of the National
Republican Committee in 1896 he managed with great skill the
campaign against Bryan and free silver, and came to be
acknowledged as a leader of great adroitness, tact, and resource.
He entered the U.S. Senate from Ohio in 1898, and was one of the
principal advisers of the McKinley administration. He took a
vital interest in problems affecting labor and capital and was
one of the organizers in 1901 and first president of the National
Civic Federation. He died in 1904 at Washington.

The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce has done much in the betterment of
local politics. It was also instrumental in 1902 in securing the
adoption of the "Group Plan" by which some of the principal public
buildings are arranged in a quadrangle on the bluff overlooking Lake
Erie. Cleveland appropriated $25,000,000 to promote the plan. On one
side of the quadrangle (nearest the lake) are the courthouse and city
hall; on the opposite side and 2,000 ft. south are the post office and
library ($2,500,000). There is to be a Mall 600 ft. wide, with public
buildings on either side, connecting the court-house and city hall with
the post office and library. The granite buildings forming this
quadrangle were designed under the supervision of Arnold Brunner, John
M. Carrere and D.H. Burnham.

In education the city has made an innovation known as the "Cleveland
plan" which seeks to minimize school routine, red tape and frequent
examinations. Great stress is put on domestic and manual training
courses, and promotion in the grammar schools is made dependent on the
general knowledge and development of the pupil as estimated by a teacher
who is supposed to make a careful study of the individual. There are in
Cleveland 120 public schools and 44 public libraries. The principal
institutions of higher education are the Western Reserve University wi