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22 THE CLEVELANDER AUGUST, 1939 Anchors Away! [Concluded from Page 6] trade." In addition, three sales managers are listed. Boat owning executives of large corporations number twelve. These are presidents, vice presidents, advertising managers, purchasing agents, and the like. Eleven occupy similar positions with smaller companies. Along the same lines we find four supervisors--that is, superintendents and department mangers, and ten foremen. The professions are represented by six lawyers, five mechanical engineers, four physicians, one dentist, seven chemical engineers and chemists, two radio engineers; also a construction, an electrical, an aeronautical sales, a sound engineer in motion pictures, a diesel engineer, a survey engineer, a metallurgist, and two teachers. White collar workers whose collars do not stay white during fitting out season, are represented by two accountants, two statisticians, twelve clerks, four draftsmen, and four bookkeepers. Business men and merchants go for boating in just as big a way as executives and professional men. Twelve owners of garages and automobile repair establishments, nine restaurant and cafe owners, six boat and marine supply dealers, six insurance men, five filling station owners, five hardware dealers, [[Box]] "BACH IT" WITH US CLUB RESIDENCE ROOMS $37.50 SINGLE MONTHLY $47.50 DOUBLE MONTHLY 600 OUTSIDE ROOMS RESTAURANT - COCKTAIL LOUNGE FREE SWIMMING POOL - GYM RESIDENT AND TRANSIENT OUT OF THE NOISE ZONE ACTIVE FRIENDLY RATES FROM $1.50 The Vortex of Cleveland's Functional Activities THE ALLERTON EAST 13TH STREET AT CHESTER AVENUE - CLEVELAND [[End Box]] and three each from the real estate, automobile agency and plumbing business are found there. Others in this general line are in the tire, floor covering, music, grocery and meat, undertaking, upholstering, bakery, sign, tool manufacturing, trucking, contracting and brokerage business. Public service is represented by two mail clerks, five police officers and prosecutors, a city fireman, and a patrolman. Along the same lines are the head of a private watchman's service, three watchmen, and a railroad policeman. Perhaps it is only natural that men who transport people and goods as part of their daily work should turn to boating for recreation since there they can go when and where they please. At any rate, among the owners are two conductors (one railway, one street railway), a railroad man, and fourteen drivers of trucks, delivery vehicles and the like. Except for the love of boating, which is in so many people in all walks of live, it is harder to explain the interest of the greenhouse operator, the farmer, the taxidermist, dental technician, theatre technician, musician, union official, trade association executive, carpet layer, photographer, sign painter and messenger, but there they are. Men who do precision mechanical work should be well equipped to keep a marine motor running smoothly and the hull, rigging, and equipment in ship shape--and like to do it. So it is not surprising to find in this list twelve machinists, seven electricians, six mechanics, two welders, three tool makers, six auto mechanics as well as pattern makers, sheet metal workers, factory workers, inspectors, assemblers, engravers, and bookbinders. Four hoisting and stationary engineers, three painters, a carpenter, an "installer," two maintenance men, and three steel mill workers belong in this group. There are still others. Four laborers, three butchers, a pensioned veteran, two newspaper circulators, two "helpers," and a filling station attendant just about complete the list of those Cleveland's who love boats and boating for recreation and self-expression and whose craft fill every inch of available dockage and mooring space from Edgewater to White City. "Just about" is used advisedly in this case for at the conclusion of this investigation the writer facetiously remarked to someone--"Strange there isn't a clergyman or two in this line up." Quick as a flash the reply came back--"As a matter of fact. there are three." Further inquiry verified the statement. Two gentlemen of the cloth were newcomers to the lakefront, and the other was missed in the original check-up due to a change in address. A spot map of the residences of the three hundred boat owners whose occupations could be ascertained, plus forty-five whose addresses were clear but no occupations given, and twenty-four who keep their craft at Gordon Park under city permit shows some interesting things. Two hundred and seventy-three out of three hundred and sixty-nine boat owners live in Cleveland Proper, two hundred and three from east of the river, and seventy are West Siders. About half of the Cleveland owners live in the north-east section--east of East 55th Street and north of Euclid--while twenty-nine live south of the Harvard-Denison-Lorain Avenue line. The nearby suburbs naturally have the heaviest representation outside of Cleveland. Cleveland Heights leads with twenty-five owners; Lakewood and Shaker Heights have fifteen each; and Euclid has nine. South Euclid, Lyndhurst, Gates Mills, Maple Heights, Garfield Heights, Fairview and Rocky River each have one or two owners who keep their boats along Cleveland's shore. Many more boats are owned by suburban residents, and for that matter by residents of Cleveland Proper, but they are kept at the yacht harbors farther out, which were not included in this analysis which was designed to cover the Cleveland water front only. Along Cleveland's Lake Front are boats owned by residents of Columbus, Akron, Alliance and Warren. If there were more moorings and dockage available the list of professions would be longer and the Greater Cleveland map even more spotted. Questionnaires sent by the Chamber of Commerce River and Harbors Committee earlier in the summer to yacht clubs and boat yards in the Cleveland area, including Lorain and Mentor Harbor, disclosed the fact that there were only three mooring or dock spaces available and which were doubtless occupied long since and that each club or yard had turned down from thirty to one hundred applicants for space. Town Reporter [Concluded from Page 10] Venezuela. The article comments upon the significance of these courtesies and expresses appreciation at this evidence of friendship between the United States and the people of Panama. CLEVELAND INDIANCE--HOME GAMES Aug. 22--Washington (Eve.) Stadium. Aug. 24, 25, 26--Philadelphia League Park. Aug.*27--Boston, Stadium. Aug. 28, 29--Boston, League Park. Aug. 30--New York (Eve.) Stadium. Sept. 1--New York, Stadium. Sept. 2, 3--St. Louis, Stadium. Sept. 4--Chicago, Stadium. Sept. 4--Chicago (Eve.) Stadium. Sept. 6, 7--Detroit--League Park. *Doubleheader.
