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The S. S. CANADIANA was a passenger steam ship which had a brief, but interesting connection to Cleveland.  It was designed by Frank E. Kirby and built by the Buffalo Dry Dock Company of Buffalo, New York in 1910.   It was the last commercial passenger ship to be built in Buffalo. The Canadiana measured 215 feet long and weighed in at 974 tons.

The SACRED MUSIC SOCIETY was an early musical organization devoted to the performance of religious works. Established in 1835 at Trinity Church on Seneca (W. 3rd) St., the group consisted of choir members of the church augmented by nonmember professional outsiders. It sang the works of Bach, Haydn, and Handel. The society dissolved in the late 1840s.

SAENGERFESTS, national gatherings of GERMAN singing societies, were a major vehicle for the development of music in Cleveland. The first Saengerfest (Singing Festival) in Cleveland took place 28-30 May 1855; it was the 7th such event in America.

SAFE AND SANE FOURTH OF JULY was a movement started in Cleveland in 1908 to prevent the annual holiday injuries and deaths from fireworks. Earlier, in 1903, an explosion at the Thor Mfg. Co., a maker of fireworks located on Orange Ave., had demolished 12 buildings and killed 3 people.

The SAINT ANN FOUNDATION, sponsored by the SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE, was established in 1973 with the income gained from the sale of St. Ann's Hospital to KAISER PERMANENTE.

SAINT LAWRENCE PARISH was founded in 1901 in the NEWBURGH area of Cleveland by Father Francis Kerze.

SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL ASSN. (SLHA) is a multi-institutional system of hospitals (see HOSPITALS AND HEALTH PLANNING) which ST. LUKE'S MEDICAL CENTER has acquired or with which it has affiliated. The SLHA was founded in 1904 as "Saint Luke's Hospital Assn.

SAINT LUKE'S MEDICAL CENTER (formerly Saint Luke's Hospital), was founded on 30 January 1894 as Cleveland General Hospital. The articles of incorporation of the College Building & Hospital Assn. (later ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL ASSN.) were signed that day, and that fall Cleveland General Hospital opened with 75 beds, on Woodland Ave. near E. 20th St.

SAINT VINCENT CHARITY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER, a 492-bed not-for-profit general acute-care hospital (located at 2351 E. 22nd St.), opened on 10 Oct. 1865 as Cleveland's first permanent general hospital. Bp.

SALT. See ROCK SALT.

SALT MINES. See AKZO NOBEL SALT, INC.

SALVADOR DALÍ MUSEUM, see MORSE, A. REYNOLDS AND E. REESE MORSE.

The SALVATION ARMY in Cleveland, first known as the Christian Mission, represented the organization's first U.S. outpost, operating from 1872-76 and reorganized 29 Oct. 1883. Formed in England in 1865 by Rev. Wm. Booth, the Salvation Army is an evangelical Christian denomination organized along military lines.

The SAMUEL MATHER MANSION, located at 2605 EUCLID AVE., is a 45-room, three-story Tudor Gothic Revival style residence built for

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Cleveland's first Roman Catholic parish for the HISPANIC COMMUNITY, was established on 15 Oct. 1975, but originated in the Hispanic Apostolate of the Cleveland Diocese. A Catholic ministry to the Hispanic-speaking was begun in 1952, with Msgr. THOMAS SEBIAN as its first director.

SANDLOT BASEBALL. The origins of the American game of baseball are disputed; it was invented either in 1839 or 1846. It did not take long, however, for it to find its way to Cleveland.

SANFORD, JUNIUS R. (1835-16 May 1904), son of Maria Hayward and ALFRED S. SANFORD, was active in the Ohio Militia before the CIVIL WAR as a 3d sergeant in the CLEVELAND GRAYS in 1856, and a lieutenant colonel in the Cleveland Battalion.

SANITATION. Progress in Cleveland sanitation followed the classical patterns of those cities in the U.S. that experienced rapid industrial and urban growth, where sanitary reforms were often initiated one step ahead of potential disasters. The city's earliest sanitary measures were based on New England's experiences, which centered around noxious miasmas, filth, and sin as causative agents of disease.

The SAVEL CHOIR was one of the most prominent Finnish organizations in Cleveland for almost 30 years. Organized in 1937 and named after the Finnish word for "melody," the choir's purpose was to preserve the Finnish culture through music. Dr. Waino A. Mackey was the first director.

SAVINGS AND LOANS. See BANKING.

SAYLE, WALTER DANIEL (10 September, 1860-5 September 1941) was a prominent industrialist affiliated with several successful businesses, including the Cleveland Punch and Shear Works. A native Clevelander, Sayle was one of six children born to Thomas Henry Sayle and Jane Clark. Sayle graduated from CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL in 1880.

SCANDINAVIANS. Scandinavian migration, relatively insignificant prior to 1850, increased rapidly after the CIVIL WAR because of successive crop failures and unemployment in the homeland and reported opportunities in the New World. Attracted by opportunities for work as longshoremen on the docks, Scandinavian immigrants began arriving in northeast Ohio ca.

SCENE is a weekly newspaper that has covered Cleveland's entertainment beat for a quarter-century. Founded by Richard J. Kabat, a former trucking company executive and journalism student at JOHN CARROLL UNIV., it made its first appearance as The Cleveland Scene on 1 July 1970.

SCHAEFER BODY, INC., initially specializing in custom-made wagons and carriages, grew with the AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, building auto and truck bodies and supplying related services.

The SCHAUFFLER COLLEGE OF RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL WORK (23 Jan. 1886-1957), located at 5115 Fowler Dr. SE near Broadway, was an interracial, international, and interdenominational undergraduate college, founded as the Slavic Bible Readers' Home (School) to train young Slavic women as Christian missionaries to the Czech community of Cleveland.

SCHEELE, WILLIAM E. (4 April 1920-10 Oct. 1998) was the director of the CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY from 1949-1972. He was born in Cleveland to Pauline M. (Karl) and William C. Scheele, a bricklayer.

SCHIFFLEIN CHRISTI, formed in 1834, was the first Evangelical Protestant congregation in Cleveland and spawned the first GERMAN LUTHERAN church in the city. According to tradition, Zum Schifflein Christi (the Little Boat of Christ) was begun by German sailors who had promised to found a church if saved from a storm.

The SCHMELING-STRIBLING FIGHT was the first heavyweight championship match waged in Cleveland, and the first sporting event to take place in the newly completed CLEVELAND MUNICIPAL STADIUM on 3 July 1931. It featured Max Schmeling, German-born heavyweight champion, against William L. "Young" Stribling, a seasoned veteran of 300 bouts.