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INTRODUCTORY
Reference to Baedecker's U. S., to innumerable summer-tour publications, to the
guide books published by the Appletons and other well known establishments, dis-
closes the undeniable fact that the city of Detroit is, by comparison with other and
:
much less favored localities, practically unknown to the masses among those who
It has a general reputation as a beautiful city and prosperous business center,
but aside from a most desirable local ſame, it does not begin to receive the attention
which by reason of its remarkably varied resources, it deserves.
toward sowen POINT
That Detroit has the admiration, favor and loyalty of its own citizens and of those
residents of immediately adjacent cities – Cleveland, Toledo, Grand Rapids and the like,
is proof positive that her attractions are much more than common because it is only
such extraordinary con-
- ditions as exist in De-
troit, that are competent
to disprove the force of
the old axiom : “A
prophet is not without
honor, save in his own
country.”
By virtue of unqual-
ified faith in the uncom-
undeniable
m on and
beauties of Detroit as a
A BIT AT THE FLATS
not acquainted with
home, as a summer resort and as a commercial center and because of a firm conviction that
that city is the central point of as interesting and delightful a section – consisting of
Michigan and her great Lakes — as is in America, the publishers, assisted by friends
of the city and this
work have carried the
enterprise forward
with sincerity according
to the best means prac-
ticable. The purpose
has been to avoid, as
much as possible, the
conventionalities of the
business directory and
the guide book and to
indulge as little as con-
sistent, in the details of
history, the chief aim
being to present, pic-
torially and interestingly,
the many attractive feat-
ures of the neighborhood
in question ; to pro-
duce a volume which
will show to persons
this region, the incon-
trovertible fact that here
is a topic, a lesson, an
wº-
opportunity well worth FRENCH win DMILL, walk ERVILLE
their attention.
For that man or woman who desires to locate permanently, pleasantly and profit-
ably, for the fortunate individual, who, having acquired a competence seeks a pleas-
ant home, for the traveler from over the seas or from
distant portions of our own land, for the summer tourist,
for the fisherman, the huntsman or the yachtsman, there is,
as is demonstrated by the presentation made in this book,
no better place in America. It is to prove this fact that
this enterprise has been carried forward to completion and
it is because that we believe that we have made out
our case, conclusively, that we have faith that the people
of Detroit and
numerously to the support of “Picturesque Detroit and
adjacent cities will rally loyally and
Environs.”







6 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
DETROIT AND HER STATISTICS
The average reader has an unconquerable antipathy for statistics and in view of this nat-
ural aversion to figures, the present article will contain as few, and they are as carefully
disguised, as a decent respect for the subject will permit. Uninviting as naked figures may
*
SKETCH OF AN OLD FRENCH MARKET BOAT – BELLE ISLE IN THE DISTANCE
appear, they still form the only accurate scale by which to measure the progress or retrogression
of cities, states, and nations. To glance at the history of Detroit, and apply this gauge to
its past development and present status, may not be entirely devoid of interest.
Detroit is the oldest permanent settlement in the North-west Territory, assuming any
importance as a modern city, and its history is surrounded by the charm that always results
from intimate association with a
remote past, while Indian legends and
the mingled history and tradition of
pioneer life, cast an irresistible spell
over its early existence. Long ere the
white man invaded the Western Soli-
tudes, the native red man seems to
have possessed a lively appreciation of
the natural resources and beauty of
the Detroit River and the contiguous
territory. In 1603, many years before
either military daring or religious
enthusiasm had pierced the wilderness
which enveloped the Great Lakes, the
intrepid French leader, Champlain,
had received from his Indian allies, the
most favorable account of the land
where, a century later, his country-
men should plant the out-post of
civilization, under the benign protec-
tion of the Lily and the Cross. In
1670, Fathers Galineé and Dolliér
visited this region, and confirmed the
good reports already received, con-
cerning its riches and beauty. In
1679, “The Griffon,” the first sail-
boat on the Great Lakes, passed
through the river. In 1694, Antoine
Laumet Dé La Mothé Cadillac was
appointed governor of Mackinaw, and his attention was at once arrested by the great natural
advantages of Detroit, as a site for a military and trading post. After years of effort, he at
last obtained authority from the French Government to found such a post. On the 24th of
July, 1701, he arrived with fifty artisans and
fifty soldiers, to plant in the wilderness, an
embryo city. Two days later, the foundations
of St. Anne's Church were laid, and, hand in
hand, Church and State began, in the heart of a
savage continent, the struggle for life.
The site selected for Detroit is on the north
bank of a western bend in the river, whose gen-
eral course is from north to south. The river is
twenty-seven miles in length, having a fall of
only three feet in its entire course; yet its mean
velocity is 1.79 miles per hour. It is the outlet
of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world,
aggregating eighty-two thousand square miles
of lake surface; and these lakes, in turn, drain
one hundred twenty-five thousand square miles
of land. The land upon which the city is built,
is gently undulating, increasing in altitude with
THE CAMPAU HOMESTEAD
the distance from the
river. At the inter-
section of Jefferson
and Woodward Ave–
nues, near the river,
the elevation is twen-
ty-two feet; while,
at the intersection of
Woodward Avenue
and the Holden Road,
two and one-half
miles farther from the
river, the elevation is
fifty-two feet. The
altitude of the city
above the sea is six
hundred feet.
It is not the prov-
in ce of this article to
treat of the historical, and as the statistics of the first century of growth are meager, that
period will be rapidly passed over. St. Anne's Church, one of the first buildings to be
erected in the settlement, was burned in 1703, but re-built the following year. Its records
preserved from that date are the oldest in the West, save the similar records of the Roman Catholic
churches at St. Ignace and Kalkaska in Michigan. The French remained in possession of
Detroit until 1760, when it passed from French to English control on the 20th of November.
The early French traders and missionaries were generally successful in living on amicable
terms with the aboriginals; and when the tri-color of France fell before English prowess,
the Indians still remained attached to their former allies.
1763, in the “Conspiracy of Pontiac,”
THE LABADIE HOUSE, FRONT VIEw
This sentiment culminated in
which, stripped of all its romance, was a serious
affair for the English garrison, to
which the ambush of Bloody Run
came very near furnishing a tragic
climax. -
An important event in Detroit
history occurred in 1706, when the
stars and stripes were raised, for the
first time, over the city – thirteen
years after its acquisition by the treaty
of 1785, terminating the Revolution.
From August 15th, 1812, to Septem-
ber 29th, 1813, Detroit was again in
possession of the British forces. On
the latter day, the American flag was
once more unfurled over Detroit – let
us hope never again to be lowered.
In 1824, Detroit became a city by
virtue of a charter granted by the
Territorial Council, and when, thir–
teen years later, Michigan was admit-
ted to the Union, Detroit enjoyed the
double distinction of capital and
metropolis of the Wolverine State.
Her worth and popularity since have
proved that it might well have been
continued.
SKETCH OF THE OLD GLASS WORKS, FROM THE ROUGE
POPULATION
If a logical ar-
rangement of a
statistical article be
possible, perhaps, in
this case, the subject
of “Population "
would first engage
attention. Through
the courtesy of Mr.
C. M. Burton, who
possesses the most
valuable historical
library in the city,
and who has spared
neither time n or
money to complete his collection of local historical data, I have examined Mss. copies of the
first three enumerations, so far as known, ever made of Detroit's population. The first
is dated September 22nd, 1773, and gives many details, of which the following is a
Summary :
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PICTURESQUE
DETROIT AND ENVIRONS - 7
The first official census of the city was taken by the United States Government
in 1810, and each decade since has witnessed a careful enumeration as follows:
~~~village itself
Young men from Io to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 84
Young women from Io to 20 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .". . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 58
Boys under Io years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 284
Girls under Io years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24O
Servants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Male slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 46
Female slaves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Total . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . I,367
The above does not include the soldiers, sailors, and officers in the Government Service, but does
include, the writer quaintly adds, one man, one woman, and three servants residing on Hog (Belle) Island.
The second census record is dated April 26th, 1778, and shows an increase of over 50 per cent.
The totals are : —
in the five intervening years.
Young men and boys.....
Young women and girls . .
Male servants . . . . . . . . . .
Female servants
Slaves ..... -- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
The third of these unique records is dated July 20th, 1782, and the totals are as follows:
Heads of families ........
•Married women..........
-Widows and hired women
Young and hired men....
Boys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• Girls. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Male slaves ...
. Female slaves
This is stated not to include
about one hundred persons
employed in the King's Service.
It is also added that 13,770 acres
of land are under cultivation, an
area equal to about three-quarters
of the territory within the present
city limits. The fact of so slight
an increase during the four years
between the second and third
census, is owing, doubtless, to the
war then in progress, and the con-
sequent dangers of frontier resi-
dence. One item which comes
as an unpleasant reminder of an
evil long since past, is the enu-
meration of slaves : their number
increased from 85, in 1773, to
166, 1778, and 179 four years
later. It will be understood that
these figures do not apply to the
Indeed, its limits at
this time, were not clearly defined ;
but these enumerations embrace
the entire settlement, extending
for several miles each way along
the river bank. In addition to
these figures, a large amount of
information is given concerning
the crops raised, the number of
domestic animals owned, and
other agricultural items.
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CITY HALL, HAMMOND
The State Census
of 1884 gave
132,956, show-
ing an average
in crease of over
9 per cent, during
the last six years
of the decade. It
is generally admit-
ted that, in the
three years since
1890, the city has
grown more rap-
idly than ever
1810. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,650
1820. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I,442
1830. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 222, an increase of 54 per cent.
1849. . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9,102; an increase of 317 per cent.
1850. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, oro, an increase of 142 per cent.
1860. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,619, an increase of 117 per cent.
1870. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ------------ 79,599, an increase of 75 per cent.
1880. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,342, an increase of 46 per cent.
1890. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205,876, an increase of 77 per cent.
before. The Post-
Office Mail De-
partment shows
ANoTHER view of THE CAMPAU House – MR. CAMPAU IN DOORWAY
an increase in business of eleven and two-thirds per cent. Ior the fiscal year ending
March 31st, 1893, over the previous year.
If the same rate of increase be maintained
in population since the last census, a simple computation gives 283,000 as the city's
y 3, y
population in 1893. - -
As to the character of this population, much might be said. In 1892, the factories
and work-shops of Detroit gave employment to 45,000 persons, of whom 37,000 were
It is a conservative estimate to suppose these employes, with their families,
That this great industrial population is
males.
constitute fully one-half of our population.
prosperous, is evidenced by the fact that a very large percentage are home owners, and
by the farther fact that the savings deposits in our city banks amount to $100, per cap-
ita, of the entire population.
The city limits embrace twenty-nine square miles, or
18,560 acres, which would afford one acre of ground to each 15.25 persons on the
above estimate of numbers.
Of the sixteen wards, into which the city is divided, the
oth is the most populous, followed by the 5th, 10th, 7th, and 12th, in the order named,
the 15th having the smallest population.
In 1890, nearly 40 per cent. of the population were foreign born, as follows:
Born in German v. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Born in Canada and Newfoundland
Born in England
AND MC GRAW BUILDINGS
Born in Ireland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Born in Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MANUFACTURES
In view of the statement just
made, that fully one-half of the
population is dependent upon the
manufacturing industries of the
city, no apology need be offered
for introducing manufacturing sta-
tistics as second only to population
in importance. The explanation
of Detroit's success as an industrial
center may be epitomized in a
single word, “ location.” The
city presents seven and one-half
miles front to the greatest com-
mercial highway of the world,
affording direct communication
with the forests of Canada and
Michigan, the largest in Christen-
dom. By the same channel, the
mines of Michigan, producing
nearly one-half of the iron and
copper ore of the entire country,
are made tributary to the furnaces
and work-shops of the city. The
location of Detroit also makes it
the gate-way between two
empires, giving her manufactures
preference in the Canadian mar-
kets. Intelligent labor at reason-
able rates, cheap building material,
exceedingly low water rates, and




8 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
favorable factory sites, with either water or railroad frontage, are other advantages enjoyed by factories, 3,100 men are constantly
the industrial interests of Detroit. employed, receiving, in monthly
The majority of the great industries here have started from small beginnings, and grown wages, $130,000. The annual
with the city; thus affording, from the records of the past, the best evidence of their stability, out-put is valued at $3,375,000,
The Michigan Car Co. began its career in 1865, and the Peninsular Car Co. in 1879. These comprising 165,000 stoves and
- - - ranges, besides, a large number of
warm air furnaces, of which Detroit
contains the only factory in the
North-west.
The manufacture of lumber in
its various forms gives employment
to 2, 100 men, whose monthly pay
amounts to $81,500. The annual
out-put, which includes dressed
lumber, sash, doors, blinds, etc., is
valued at $4,270,000, representing
$3,100,000 of invested capital.
The manufacture of furniture,
including chairs, employs 1,200
operatives, and the annual out-put
amounts to $1,500,000.
The paint and varnish product
amounts to $5,270,000, and finds a
marketin every quarter of the globe.
- Brick-yards, within or near the
- º-- ~~~~ OLD HOUSE ON DETROIT RIVER city confines, produce IOO,OOO,OOO -
- brick annually. OUT OF THE OLD HOUSE INTO THE NEW - OLD CITY HALL
two concerns are now consolidated, having the most extensive plant, and
producing the largest number of freight and refrigerator cars, of any organi-
zation in the world. The Detroit Bridge & Iron Works were established
in 1863 – The Fulton Iron & Engine Works in 1859.
Safes were first manufactured in 1865, and stoves one
year earlier. The first Lake Superior iron was smelted
here in 1854, when the Eureka Iron & Steel Works were
built. Copper Smelting Works were established in 1850.
What is now the largest factory in the world for the man-
ufacture of drugs and medicines, was established here in
1867, while the largest varnish factory was started in
1858. One of the largest tobacco factories originated in
1848, and the largest one in the West, dates its existence
from 1856. The manufacture of organs was begun in
1850, and of matches in 1856. Hundreds of others
~ might be called to witness the permanence of Detroit's
great industries. The following is a summary of the
industrial situation of the city in the three years given :-
Detroit has the largest establishment for the pro-
duction and distribution of seeds in the world. The
seeds are grown on every continent,
wherever suitable soil and climate
can be found, and the product is
distributed from the immense ware-
houses in this city to every land.
In 1892, there was manufact-
ured, in this Internal Revenue
District, 18,755,350 lbs. of tobacco,
valued at $4,000,000. Fully 98 per
cent. of this amount was the out-put
of Detroit factories. In the same
period and territory, 106,782,035
cigars, of a value of $4,270,000,
were produced, about 75 per cent.
1880 1890 1892 of which were the product of Detroit
Factories, ... . . . . . . . . . . . . Q to I,744 2,200 factories. In 1892, the total amount
º - - - - - - - - sº sº sº of internal revenue collected in the
wages.........sº $18,9;i` $20,5°ºo, district, exceeded $2,000,000,
geS, ... ..
Value of Product, 30,181,416 77, ogg, 177 95,000,000 about $1,720,000 being levied upon
woodward Avenue, FROM windER STREET products of Detroit factories.
In no branch of manufacturing
* The figures for 1880 and 1800 are industry, is Detroit more widely or favorably known than in the production of drugs, chemicals,
taken from the United States Census perfumes, and medicines. It boasts the largest factory of this class in the world, with several
Reports; the figures for 1892 are from -- -
a thorough canvass made by the writer,
under the auspices of the Detroit Real
Estate Board, and believed to be quite
as reliable as the census figures, with
which they correspond very closely,
after making due allowance for the
natural increase of the two years. It is
probable that the amounts given for
1892, increased by about fifteen per
cent., would furnish a very accurate
statement of the situation for 1893.
AMONG INDIVIDUAL INDUSTRIES
The most important is that of
manufacturing cars. The various shops
devoted to this industry employ over
six thousand men, and the product,
comprising all kinds of freight and
refrigerator cars, and all classes of
coaches, amounts to over $15,000,000
annually. - -
In the production of stoves, Detroit
stands absolutely without a rival. Its
factories are more extensive, and their
product greater than those of any other
STUMP OF THE PONTIAC TREE city in the world. In the four great







PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
others that also stand at the head
of particular branches of the trade.
These houses give employment to
1,620 people, about equally
divided as to sex, who receive
$73,500 in monthly wages.
The annual out-put is $5,300,000,
and over $2,000,000 is invested
in the business.
There are many other inter-
esting details at hand, concerning
the various manufacturing indus-
tries of the city, but the limits of
this article for bid their further
consideration.
REAL ESTATE
In its relation to the growth
and expansion of the city, to the
happiness and prosperity of the
people, the real estate interest is
Second to none other in impor-
tance. It is one of the happiest
circumstances attending the
development of Detroit, that there
never has been a time in its history
when pleasant and comfortable
homes could not be secured by
the humblest laborer, at small cost,
and on the most lenient terms.
This fact has resulted in the build-
ing of a city of homes, in the
encouragement of economy and
sobriety, and in building up a
great industrial army of quiet,
law-abiding citizens, each one of
whom feels that he has a tangible
interest in the good name and
good government of the city, and
the preservation of law and order.
There is no present indication that
this condition of cheap homes will
be altered in the future.
For the past decade, the value
of real estate transfers, as shown
by the recorded deeds, is as
follows:
A comparison of these figures, with those given under other lines of business, will
reveal a remarkable uniformity of increase, and show that the real estate business of the
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ... Io,386,916
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I 1,649,208
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14,604,460
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12,627,020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . I5,557,795
------------ - - - - - - - - - 2O,730,773
-- - - - - - - - - - --------- 20,648,865
VIEW ON GRISWOLD STREET DURING NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT, G. A. R., 1891
NEW BUILDINGS
city has, for the most part, been
legitimate and bona ſide—not
speculative. So far as it is pos-
sible to make an intelligent
comparison between this and
other cities, such comparison will
show that, for the advantages
offered, the price of real estate is
lower in Detroit than in any other
city of the country. This fact is
owing, largely, to the city's hav-
ing free room for expansion on
three sides, the territory in each
direction being suitable for busi-
ness and residence.
In 1893, the assessed value
of Detroit real estate was
$158,051,900, of which sum the
bare land was supposed to repre-
sent $102,698, 150, or an average
of $5,533 per acre. At 70 per
cent of the actual values, this
would make the average value of
land within the city limits, about
$7,900 per acre. The highest
price at which a transfer has ever
been recorded is a trifle less than
$35 per square foot for Woodward
Avenue frontage. In 1892, there
were recorded 139 plats, represent-
ing 17,283 lots.
BUILDING
Closely allied to real estate is
the builders' trade. The figures
published regarding this industry
are very misleading, since they
only cover the territory within the
city limits, while the owners of
thousands of factories and dwell-
ings, just without the imaginary
line, are so closely identified with
the city as their neighbors within.
The following tells the tale of the
last seven years: -
REPAIRS COST
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ... . 457 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,445,976
. . . . $ 9,88o 383
. . . . 9,280,026
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The present year, thus far, shows a large increase over the corresponding months of 1892. The
new Union:Depot, and Hotel St. Clair, just completed, the Chamber of Commerce, the Union
Trust Co's Block, the Home Savings Bank Block, and the magnificent Government building,
all in process of erection, form
important additions to the city's
architectural beauty.
FINANCIAL
All peoples, in all ages of
the world, have found some
medium of exchange, and some
system of finance, however rude,
a necessity. A view of its
financial history forms a very
reliable index to the progress and
prosperity of any locality. The
first bank of Michigan was
established in 1806, and was
known as the Detroit Bank. Its
brief career of two years does not
point to unqualified success.
The Bank of Michigan was
organized in 1818, and weath-
ered the financial storms for
about fifteen years, when it
succumbed. Those were preca-
rious years for financiers. Other
banks opened and closed with
bewildering rapidity. Finally,
in 1849, the Detroit Savings
Fund . Institute was chartered.
This was re-organized in 1871,
being called the Detroit Savings
Bank, and is the oldest bank
now in existence in the city. In
1883, a clearing-house was
established, the business of
which, for successive years, is
shown below :
THE CITY's LARDER – CENTRAL MARKET
seventy-seven one-hundredths to fifteen and sixteen one-hundredths dollars per thousand.
Compared with last year, the present year shows a gratifying decrease in rate of taxation, the
rate being $1.47 less, and the total amount raised, $47,000 less than in 1892.
TRANSPORTATION AND
TRADE
Few cities have such splen-
did commercial facilities. The
Detroit River is the World's
greatest commercial high-way,
and carries an annual tonnage
equal to that clearing from the
three greatest salt water ports of
the world – London, New
York, and Liverpool.
The figures of the river ton-
nage for 1892 are not at hand,
but in 1891 there were 34,25.
vessels, of a registered tonnage
of 22, 160,000, passed through
the Detroit River. These fig-
ures include only vessels clearing
at United States Custom Houses.
For 1890, Brig. Gen. O. M. Poe,
of the United States engineers,
estimated the total tonnage at
28, ooo, ooo, and for 1892,
30,000,000 is doubtless a con-
servative estimate. The annual
tonnage of the Suez Canal, that
great international water-way,
is about 7,000,000, or scarcely
one-quarter the volume of com-
merce passing Detroit.
The railroads are also quite
as important factors in the city's
commercial life. In 1892,
357,775 loaded freight cars
crossed the Detroit River at this
1883 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $131,410,950
1884 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,570,835
1885 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 142,284,094
1886 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165,798,958
1887 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 198,085,925
1888 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227,526,339
1889 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242,414,8oo
1899 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,658,OIo
1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317,954,365
1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364, 18O,629
point. That was an average of 980 cars, and more than 10,000 tons of freight for each day
of the year. Detroit has practically twelve distinct lines of railroad, affording communication
with every point North, South, East, and West. The lines are, The Detroit, Lansing &
Northern Wabash; Canadian Pacific; Grand Trunk; Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee;
Detroit, Bay City, & Alpena; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern ; Flint & Pere Marquette ;
and the Michigan Central, with its four branches–Canadian, Jackson, Bay City, and Toledo.
Another road is sure to be built in the near future, giving the city connection with the Great
Pennsylvania System, and direct communication with the coal and oil fields of that section.
The report for 1892 covers the opera-
tions of twenty-one banks ; two
savings banks and the Union Trust
Co. not being included. The resources
of the twenty-four banking institu-
tions amounted, at the close of 1892,
to $69,296,558.82, the total depos-
its to $56, 85 o, 9 6.82, of which
$26,628,501.74 were savings depos-
its ; the capital to $8, 150,000, and
loans and discounts to $34,975,854.25.
A brief glance at municipal
finance will be of interest. In 1885,
the gross debt amounted to $850,500,
the sinking fund to $838,238, leaving
a net debt of $12,262. Since that
date, the gross debt has steadily
increased, while the sinking fund has
diminished, until, on May 1st, 1893,
the net debt of the municipality
amounted to $2,279,098.42, which
sum will be increased more than one-
half, the present year. Extensive
public improvements, of undoubted
worth, are supposed to furnish ample
apology for the debt thus assumed.
In the same period, the assessed value
of property has increased from
$ 6, 2 49, 945 in 1885, to
$199,679,210, in 1893, and the tax
levy from $ 1, 2 5 2, 353, to
$3,015,817.72, or from ten and
“All ABoARD for THE Island 1 ''
The value of imports at this point for
1892 was $4,619,815, of exports,
$5,855, 150, making a total of
$10,474,965 in foreign trade.
SCHOOL, CHURCH AND PRESS
The clergy man, the school-
teacher, and the printer form the
trinity which molds the destinies of
Christendom. Remove either, and a
serious blow is struck at civilization :
remove all, and the blow is a fatal
one. Detroit is favored in the high
character of church, school and press,
each of which has done well its
allotted work. The first newspaper
was “The Michigan Essay,” or “The
Impartial Observer” – established in
1809. At present, there are eighty
periodicals issued in the city, each
having a bona ſide circulation, and
filling its proper sphere. There are
four English daily, two morning, and
two evening papers, and one German
evening paper which are powerful
factors in the city's development.
Detroit has fifty-seven public
schools, which registered, at the com-
mencement of the year 1892-3, 21,833
pupils, an increase of 1,636 over the
previous year. It has sixty-five pri-
vate schools, colleges, etc., besides
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several art schools. The public schools
employ 62o teachers.
As already stated, St. Anne's Church
was among the first buildings in the new
settlement. For sixty years, Detroit
remained distinctly Catholic. With the
English, in 1760, came Protestantism,
although it was not until 1820 that the first
Protestant Church edifice was formally
dedicated. From its earliest days, until the
present, the Church has exerted a powerful
influence in molding the character of the
city, and the strength of this influence has
kept full pace with the city's growth. In
1892, there were 150 churches and missions,
of which 24 were Roman Catholic, 23
Episcopal, 22 Methodist Episcopal, 21
Lutheran, 15 Presbyterian, 14 Baptist, and
31 of various other denominations. These
figures have been somewhat increased
during the current year. The various
church edifices have sittings for over
loo,000 worshipers. Many of the build-
ing are models of architectural art.
MISCELLANEOUS
Detroit has fifteen parks,
containing 750 acres, of
which Belle Isle contains 700
acres. Another park of IOO
acres a waits acceptance,
when the city can secure the
right to receive it. The
Grand Boulevard, 12 miles
long, and from 200 to 300
feet wide, is practically one
great park, extending from
Belle Isle Bridge on the east,
to the river bank on the
west, and encircling the city
upon three sides, a distance
of about 12 miles.
Many of the finest resi-
dence avenues are bordered
on either hand by grassy
plats and great shade trees,
giving the street all the
charms of a park, while
thousands of residences, both
of the palatial and the cot-
view on THE RIVER, Foot of FIRST stREET (FROM A PAINTING BY HoPKIN)
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tage type, are embowered in shrubbery and lawns that surpass in beauty the best of public
parks.
The city has nine theatres, museums, and rinks, affording amusement of endless variety.
There are three public libraries, containing 120,000 volumes, the principal library being
one of the finest in the country.
No city has a purer or more certain water supply. The works are ample, and the water
is furnished in unlimited quantity, at exceedingly low rates; 430 miles of mains distribute the
water throughout the city.
THE MC GRAW BUILDING
The death rate in Detroit is
among the lowest of any city. For
years, the annual death rate has
fallen between 19 and 20 to the
thousand, in 1890 being 19.3. The
other large cities of the country grade
upward from this rate, until New
York caps the climax with a death
rate of 28.8 to the thousand.
The city has an equable cli-
mate, the temperature not showing
the variations recorded in neighbor-
ing cities. Thus, for the past four
years, Detroit's range in temperature
has been 8 degrees less than Chica-
go's, 12 degrees less than Milwau-
kee's, and 26.5 degrees less than
St. Paul's.
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From the mass of statistical matter at
hand, an attempt has been made to present
herewith a few of the most important facts
relating to Detroit. The reader, whose
patience has enabled him to peruse the
article to the end, will have discovered that
the past record and the present condition
of Detroit justify the presentation of four
distinct claims for the consideration of all
people. Detroit, as a prosperous manufac-
turing center, as a beautiful residence city, as
a city for summer rest and recreation, as a
safe and desirable investment field, chal-
lenges the attention of the world, and invites
the most thorough investigation. The
city's claim to pre-eminence in each of these
directions is not based upon prospective,
but upon the existing conditions. . The
residence feature belongs to a descriptive,
rather than to a statistical article, hence, no
attempt has been made to elucidate that
portion of the subject. But if the figures
herewith presented fail to convey a favora-
ble idea of the city's industrial life and
opportunities, the fault is that
of the statistician, and not of
the facts with which he has
attempted to deal.
J. C. FERRY.
OUR OFFERING
We of the present day,
by reason of a certain indefi-
nite license, accorded poets
and painters, seldom think
of La Sieur Cadillac and his
confreres, except as person-
ages somewhat stately and
very much emphasized in
appearance by gilt trimmed,
square-cut coats, knee
breeches of velvet with jet
embellishment, lace frills and
cuffs and picturesque cha-
peaux above long curling and
well kept hair.
The probable truth is,
that the little band of 106
pioneers who, on that Sultry,
clear 24th day of July, 1701,
guided their quaint fleet of
canoes from the waters of the St. Clair to a landing place on the Strait just above the mouth
of the River Savoyard, presented no such appearance. They had been several weeks on the
journey from Montreal and it is most likely that even when they left that city they were attired
in accordance with their environment; that the Sieur Cadillac, the captain, Mons. Tonty, the
sub-officers, the M. M. Chacornacle and Dugue, the soldiers and the woodsmen and even the
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- Detroit from Lake Erie or from the Superior region,
priests, Rev. Frs. del Halle and Valient, were all wearers of garments of leather and coarse
woolen stuffs, more or less tried by hard wear and but slightly decorated.
But what mattered it? Beneath those leathern jerkins throbbed strong hearts, warm with
unity of purpose, sustained by honest ambitions and irresistible wills. They found a natural
place of refuge because upon their arrival at Detroit they saw on either bank of the river, large
and populous Indian villages; especially brilliant judgment was not required in order to decide
sold IERs' AND SAILoRs' Monum ENT AND view UP MICHIGAN AVENUE
as to where they should plant their flag and their cross, because the location already had the
stamp of approval at the hands of and by the traditions of the aborigines. The extent and
resources of the Great Lake Country, north and west of the Strait, were well known to Cadillac
and his followers and they appreciated the fact that
thus situated, they must command all egress
therefrom to the water-ways and marts below.
Nearly 200 years of tremendous progress and
development has served to emphasize this prop-
osition so that to-day, whether one approaches
from the east or from the west, its position as a
commercial center is at once apparent. The great
island of beauty at the head of the river which
Cadillac and his men saw in its best garb of nat-
ural glory, is to-day unique as a wondrously
delightful municipal park; the little knoll but a
stone's throw back from the river bank and near
to where the pioneers erected their first little
chapel, is to-day a spacious level Campus Martius,
— a striking middle point to the business center of
a thrifty, progressive and altogether lovely metrop-
olis, where nearly 300,000 persons now find
permanent abiding places.
It is to such a city as this that the readers of -
º this volume are invited and that the description
thereof may, in its effectiveness, be as near to na-
ture as possible, counterfeit reproductions of the
city's treasures in landscape, marine views, wood-
land, park beauties, architectural triumphs and the
like, have been the chief reliance.
DISCUSSING THE LAST TOW — DETROIT DOCKS
WATER works AND PARK
more, Mylne, Conely, Packbauer, Owen, Butterfield, Clark and Dow ; the skilled results
from the hands of the photographers, all combine in an effort, (which we believe, has been
very successful,) to make a showing that is commensurate with the merits of the topic.
AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF DETROIT
The word “Detroit.” as used by early French inhabitants, comprehended the entire country
from Lake Erie to Lake Huron, and the first settlement that bore the name of Detroit was sit-
uated on St. Clair River, somewhere in the vicinity of Fort Gratiot. This settlement was
founded by Duluth in 1686 under the instructions of Marquis de Denonville, Governor of Canada,
in order to prevent the English from passing from Lake Erie to the fur country of the north, and
for some years succeeding this date there are frequent references in the letters and orders of the
French officers to “The Detroit of Lake Erie.”
In an official communication of Louis Hector de Callieres, Governor of Canada, to Louis
Phelipeaux, de Pontchartrain, Controller General and Minister of Justice, on the 16th of
October, 1700, he says that he will send Sieurs de la Mothe and de Tonte, in the Spring to
construct a fort at Detroit. They were to come down
the river from Lake Huron so as to avoid the Iroquois
Indians at Niagara. -
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While
DETROIT RESIDENCE OF U. S. GRANT
there has been no desire to deal in the
stereotyped tables of the business directory,
no effort to duplicate the measurements of
geography or the formalities of the guide
books, enough will be found pertaining to
the general outlines of history, it is hoped,
to serve as a sufficient setting for the salient
characteristics of a region second to none
in its interesting career of the past, its pres-
ent and most satisfactory condition and its
undeniably hopeful prospects. The able
text contributions by Rt. Rev. John Foley,
Bishop of Detroit, by Chas. M. Burton,
Richard R. Elliot and James C. Ferry ; the
excellent works by those history preservers
— the artists — Messrs. Hopkins, Duns-
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While it was in obedience to such instructions as are
here indicated that Cadillac constructed the fort, there
was, in all probability, quite a settlement along the
border of the river, on both sides, before Cadillac came.
It was the constant effort of the early French settlers
to live at peace with the Indians, and they lived with
them and became like them ; not infrequently mem-
bers of their tribes and sometimes even chiefs.
The one good result that came from this was that
their lives and the lives of their families, were generally
spared where the French soldiers were in peril. It
was in a country already sparsely settled with this class
of people, half civilized, half savage, that Cadillac was
sent to erect a new fort as a defense against the
encroachments of the English.
Cadillac was a gentleman from Gascony, who had
served in France ; had resided in Acadia ; and, as a
captain in Canada, had been Commandant of Michil-
limackinac, from 1694 to 1697, and came here, as we
have seen, in 1701.
ability, and in 1797, at the suggestion of de Chenvy
and de Lagny, would have been appointed to com-
mand an expedition to take Boston from the English,
if the affair had been undertaken as was contemplated.
He was a controversial writer of some ability, and,
although a Roman Catholic, he detested and feared
the Jesuits, and undertook to limit their powers in the
New World, but the Jesuits were too powerful to be
controlled by him, though he succeeded in keeping
them from the new post he was about to found on the
banks of the Detroit.
Antoine de la Mothe
He was a man of considerable
The fort so established by Cadillac, was founded
for business and military purposes only, and no
missionary purposes entered into the affair, and con-
sequently, instead of giving the new location the name
of some patron Saint, as was usually done, it was
given the name of its real founder, Pontchartrain, and
bore the official designation of Fort Pontchartrain du detroit.
the older maps and in official correspondence, and the single word “Detroit" is of more recent
application.
This is its usual designation on
The fort, or enclosure, included only sufficient ground to contain the houses of the few
people then living here.
The river ran at the foot of the high
bank that then existed at about
the present line of Woodbridge Street; the easterly line of the fort was nearly the present line
of Griswold Street; the northerly line not far from the present line of Larned Street, and on
the west the enclosure reached to Wayne Street.
land was built a high fence of cedar pickets driven into the ground far
enough to make them solid, and extending above the
surface some eleven or twelve feet.
were not permitted to be built close to the pickets, on
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by the English, some of them came
to Detroit and established new homes
along the banks of our river, feeling
themselves contented among a people
who were of kind red blood and
belonged to the same church, but they
were hardly well established here when
the conqueror, who had despoiled
their old home, came to drive them
from their new one.
As a result of the wars between
France and England, Detroit
became British property, and was
taken possession of by the troops
under Major Rogers in 1760.
The English were not as skillful
in pacifying the Indians as the
the inside, but a passageway was left around the
entire village, called the “ Chemin du romale.” Within
this enclosure were some half-dozen narrow alleys,
termed streets, the widest of which was only twenty
feet in width, each bearing the name of some saint,
as St. Anne, St. Honore, St. Jacques, and St. Anthony,
thus sufficiently attesting the fact that if the priests
were not permitted to name the village, they would
leave their mark on the internal affairs of the post.
The first church was not built within this enclosure,
but on the easterly side, and the earliest record in St.
Anne's church bears the date 1705, two years after the
founding of the village. It is probable that the various
Catholic churches were built on the same site, and the
one which was pulled down in 1712, as likely to afford
a rendezvous for hostile Indians during the seige of
that year, and which was located outside of the picket
line, occupied the land at the north-west corner of
Griswold Street and Jefferson Avenue, and when the
church was about to be re-erected on the same site,
the picket line was enlarged to enclose it.
There is very little of interest to the casual reader in
the history of our city for the first half century of its
existence. Peace with the Indians generally prevailed,
and even when war existed the French civilians on the
arms outside the fort were generally safe. There were
many farm owners, however, who lived in the enclo-
sure and left their families there continually, though
they visited and worked on their farms every day.
When the Acadians were driven from their homes
WILLIAM HULL
French had been, and the place and inhabitants came very near being exterminated by
Pontiac and his followers, in 1763.
Parkman's story of the conspiracy of Pontiac, and
the painting of Gladwin and the Indian girl, by Stanley, are too familiar to even require
reference, but they
tell of one of the
most startling and
romantic events in
the history of our
village. They tell
the story of the am-
bitious Indian Pon-
tiac, who proposed
an attack by the
different tribes on
all of the forts held
by the English in the
Indian country, .
and the utter de-
struction of the
English ; the at-
tempt was nearly
successful in all
places except De-
troit, but here the
conspiracy was di-
vulged to Gladwin
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º W HEREAS, the Territory of y i was this -i-º- ºat;
tº the arms of His tºº. Ichigan was this day, by Capitulatiºn, ceded
the Prººf private property.
ºratiºn & juſtice of the Government, I do here
of the ſaid Territory
until His MAJESTY'S pleaſure be known,
ſaid Territory will admit thereof.
the ſaid Ishkartants that they
of their REligion, of which ail
govern themſelves accordingly.
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per receipts for the ſame.
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pºſſeſſion arms of any kind will deliver them up without delay.
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by the Indian girl who had fallen in
love with the commandant. The discon-
tent that existed in the Atlantic colonies and
which resulted in the Revolutionary War
and establishment of the United States
government, was not apparent among the
English speaking citizens here. In fact
there were only a few English here. The
civilians were nearly all French, and the
English were soldiers and traders, intimately
connected with England, through their
trade relations. The French were inclined
to side with the Americans, and did so
covertly on many occasions; openly they
were as neutral as circumstances would
permit.
much up to the year 1780.
Commons, as the public property was
called, extended from the river nearly to
the present line of Adams Avenue, and
from the village line on the west to about
Bates Street on the east. This land had
long been cleared of trees and underbrush
to prevent the collection of hostile Indians
under cover. Belle Isle, or Hog
Island, as the English called it, Ile
au Cochons, was also a part of the
King's Commons or public property.
There was a private grant of a farm
just west of the present line of Ran-
dolph Street, extending in depth
from the river about a mile and a
half, but this private grant had in
some way been sequestered and the
land added to the King's Commons.
There were no houses outside of the
narrow picket line in the immediate
neighborhood of the village. The
farms were all narrow strips of land,
each with a river frontage, and
extending from one and a half miles
to three miles in depth. On the
front of the farms and close to the
water's edge, a narrow road ran
along the shore line, and dwelling
The village had not grown very
The King's
other.
DETROIT MUSEUM OF ART
FROM A PENCIL SKETCH OF AN OLD FRENCH HOUSE ON THE ROUGE
LookING Down SEcon D Avenue FROM CASS PARK
-
houses of the arm owners were situated on this road and almost within hailing distance of each
The river itself furnished a highway for a considerable portion of the year; in sum-
mer by canoes, with which the French inhabitants were very skillful, and in winter by sleds
drawn by the fleet footed and wiry mustang.
Henry Hamilton was Lieutenant Governor in charge of Detroit, and
the threatened approach of the troops of the United States army caused
him to propose to build a new fort here in 1780, and under his direction
Captain Henry Bird set about the improvement in that year.
The site for the new fort was a hill back of the village where our new
Post Office is being built, and in order to include the fort and village in
“Dock wallopFR’’
AN ARTISTIC
one enclosure, a new picket line was erected, including all of the land
south of Michigan Avenue, and between Griswold Street and the Cass
Farm. This was the most considerable addition that our village had
had. The work on the new fort commenced at once, and although on
two occasions the work was nearly ruined by long continued rainy
seasons, it was pretty well perfected
in two years.
The Indian bands employed by
the British frequently brought in
prisoners, and these were set at work
on the fortifications, and so kept
employed until an opportunity could
be found to send them to Montreal.
Under Hamilton's directions two or
three persons had been hanged here
upon a trial and conviction before a
justice of the peace, and Hamilton
and the justice, Dejean, had been
indicted by a grand jury at Montreal.
Fearing an arrest, Hamilton hastened
to the Illinois country, ostensibly to
take Vincennes, and was taken pris-
oner by General Clark. He still
retained the office of governor,
though Major Richard S. Lernoult
was in actual charge of the village,




PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 15
and it was while Hamilton was still absent as a prisoner of war, that the fort was completed, and it was
given the name of Lernoult.
Lernoult remained in charge until Arent Schuyler de Peyster arrived in October, 1779. De Peyster did
not leave until after peace was declared and Jehu Hay came as civil governor. The governor's house was
situated near the site of the First National Bank, on the south-west corner of Jefferson Avenue and Griswold
Street, and it was here that Hay lived, and it was on these premises that he was buried when he died.
Although by the terms of the treaty of 1783 this part of the country belonged to the United States,
Toll GATE, JEFFERSON AVENUE
the town on its old site with its narrow and inconvenient streets, and the adjacent
commons belonged to the United States, and the governor and judges had no
authority to divide it into lots and dispose of it to the inhabitants. A plan of a
new village was decided on and the people were permitted to take each a lot, but
upon the understanding that no valid title could be given without further action
of Congress. When Congress assembled, an act was passed giving the governor
and judges authority to lay out a town, and dispose of the lots, and a new plan
was then made by Judge Woodward, and adopted by the governor and judges.
THE “Bon E-YARD '' – DETRoit River
England refused to surrender possession,
and it was not until the consummation
of Jay's treaty in 1796, that the United
States troops, a part of the army of
General “Mad Anthony’ Wayne,
accompanied by Winthrop Sargeant,
acting governor of the North-west Ter-
ritory, took a ctual possession and
established the new government. The
division of the North-western Territory
in 1800, preparatory to the admission
of Ohio as a state, threw us into the
Indiana Territory, of which William
Henry Harrison was governor, and we
remained a part of this territory until
1805, when Michigan was formed as a
separate territorial government, and
William Hull was appointed governor.
On the eleventh of June in that year,
and before Governor Hull had reached
the village, a fire had destroyed nearly every house in it, and the governor found, on his arrival, the
citizens encamped on the commons, and living in such rude quarters as they could hastily devise.
To form the new government and set the wheels properly in motion, was indeed a difficult task for
the new governor. The judges who were to operate with him were Augustus B. Woodward, Fred-
eric Bates and John Griffin.
The destruction of the village had presented a state of affairs not contemplated at the time of
their appointment, and for which their powers were not adequate. It was impracticable to re-build
THE •' chicago LIMITED '' off
Judge Woodward was eccentric, but a capable man, after whom
Woodward Avenue is called, and who gave the name to Ypsilanti,
OLD DE GARMO Jon ES RESIDENCE but he and Governor Hull could never agree, and they succeeded in
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drawing the other judges into their quarrels, so that the
entire remainder of the official life of Governor Hull was
embittered by contentions here.
In the war of 1812, when Governor Hull surrendered
Detroit to the British, the contention between Hull and
Woodward bore fruit, and one of the governor's most
bitter enemies, and one whose testimony before the mili-
tary court martial aided materially in convicting the
general, was Judge Woodward.
Lewis Cass was our next governor, and he retained the
office until made a member of Jackson's Cabinet in 1851.
Cass and Woodward did not disagree, merely because
Woodward was afraid to combat the governor, but the
quarrelsome nature of Woodward led to continual disa-
greements with the other judges, and business in both
legislative and judicial departments was continually
obstructed. Woodward attempted to get elected as
delegate to Congress on two or three occasions, but was
badly defeated at the polls. He was called upon to
resign his position as judge, but refused to comply, and
finding that they were unable to get rid of him in any
other manner, the people finally succeeded in getting the
entire form of government changed, and thus legislated
him out of office in 1824.
In the intervening years the city had made material
increase. A printing press had been brought here in
1809, and some printing had been done with it. A few
books were printed and an attempt was made to start a BIRD’s Eve VIEw west of Fort strº ET
paper, but it was not successful. In 1817, June 25th, the Detroit Gazette issued its first
number. This was the first paper of the territory and was published continuously until
the office was destroyed by fire in 1830.
The Walk-in-the-Water, the first steamboat on Lake Erie, started from Black Rock
on Sunday, August 23d, 1818, and reached Detroit on Thursday the 27th.
The corner stone of the first hall of the University of Michigan was laid by Judge
Augustus B. Woodward, September 21, 1817. -
In 1826 the general government donated the entire military reservation to the city
and thus the available -
territory was materi-
ally increased.
The population of
the city, by the cen-
sus of 1820, was 1422,
and in 1830 we had
222 2. In 1835,
Michigan claimed a
right to be admitted
as a state, and al-
though Congress
delayed for some time
before acknowledging ,
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AN ICE CRUSHER NEARLY READY FOR BAPTISM
this right, it was finally obtained, and for all legal purposes the date of admission is 1855.
The contest with Ohio over the location of our southern boundary, which was the occasion
of the “Toledo War,” resulted in giving the Toledo district to Ohio, and we received the
Upper Peninsula in satisfaction.
Steven T. Mason, the boy governor, under our territorial form of government, was our
first state governor.
SMITH's COAL DOCK, DETROIT RIVER
“Here comes another load — more work for me.”
Detroit was always the
metropolis of the state and
was the capitol until 1847,
when Lansing was chosen as
being more centrally located.
Although emigration com-
menced as early as the form-
ation of our territorial
government, in 1805, it did
not attain to any great impor-
tance until the opening of
government lands for sale to
settlers in 1818, but from that
date until 1856 it yearly
increased in volume until, in
the latter year, it is estimated
that one thousand strangers
landed every day at the wharves on our river front. There were no railroads, but a daily line
of large steamers and the numberless sail boats brought a vast population to the city. These
people did not all intend to remain here, but pushed on further west. Many remained, how-
ever, and the city and the county grew rapidly. The building of railroad lines to the west
Permitted more to pass by us unobserved as the years went along, but the tide increased rather
than diminished.
The history of the succeeding years is full of interest. The history of Detroit is the history
of Michigan ; of a great state abounding in wealth and increasing in population ; true to the
Federal Government and devoted in her allegiance to the nation, she was foremost in the war
of the Rebellion and one of the first to forgive when the war was ended ; but these matters are
of too recent transaction to be considered history, yet. Of the city itself, its splendid location ;
the rich country that lies behind it and is tributary to it; the magnificent river that flows by
it, all tends to give notice to the future that it will continue to be one of the most important
inland cities of America. C. M. BURTON.
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SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FATHER RICHARD - 1798–1832
An equally distinguished contemporary of General Lewis Cass, during the first decades of
the history of Detroit, and during the present century, was the Very Reverend Gabriel
- Richard, the vicarial representative
of Bishop Carroll of Baltimore, and
the spiritual ruler of Detroit and its
dependencies, comprising at that
time, the North-west Territory.
He was the apostle of literature and
culture in Detroit, and his name is
inseparably connected with the
history of education in this city.
Father Richard's participation in
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the current events of his times was so prominent that local historians of eminence
have assigned to this priest and his works an honorable place in the early history
of American rule, in the history of religion, and in the North-west Territory. As
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time leveloped western history, the historic form of Richard becomes more distinct in its
grand outlines. Judge Cooley, in his “American Commonwealths, Michigan,” says of him,
“Father Richard would have been a man of mark in almost any community at any time.”
Judge James V. Campbell, who in his younger days was a contemporary of Richard, says
in his “Outlines of the Political History of Michigan : " His tall and sepulchral figure was
familiar to every one during the long period during which he filled his sacred mission. He was
- not only a man of elegant learning, but of
excellent common sense and a very public
spirited citizen. He encouraged education
in every way, not only by organizing and
patronizing schools for the immediate train-
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reading. He was an early officer of the
University (the University of Michigan, now
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Protestants as well as Catholics. His
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him ; while his brief prayer for the legislature, that they
“might make laws for the people and not for themselves,”
was a very comprehensive summary of sound political
philosophy. -
When in 1789–92 the church in France, the monarchy, the
nobility, and the aristocracy of the robe and of the sword had
been engulfed in the whirlpool of blood and terror, while it
was still possible for a priest to leave France, a group of
young and distinguished Sulpicians, by a previous arrange-
ment with L’Abbe Eméry, chief of the Sulpician order in
Paris, and Bishop Carroll of Baltimore, left France and came
to the latter city. This was in 1792. Among this group of
young gentlemen was the Rev. Gabriel Richard, scion of a
good old Catholic stock, having been born in Saintes, France,
in 1764. He was soon after assigned to missionary work in
Kalkaskia, Illinois; where he remained until 1798, when he
was appointed assistant to the Very Rev. Michael Levadoux,
pastor of St. Anne's church in Detroit, and the first incumbent
under American hierarchical jurisdiction. Father Levadoux
was also a Sulpician, as was Father John Dilhet, who had
accompanied Father Richard.
Detroit at the time was an old French Catholic city, which
had recently fallen under the jurisdiction of the Federal government. The church of St. Anne,
at the time, was the fourth of its name in the line of succession ; the original chapel having
been dedicated to the mother of the Blessed Virgin by Father Constantine Delhalle, a Recollet
monk, in 1701. Its founder was killed by an Indian bullet six years later ; the chapel and its
successors were in their turn destroyed ; the present church, (the St. Anne of 1798) having been
built by Father Simplicius Bouquet, another Recollet monk, in 1754, and consecrated in 1755
by the Bishop of Quebec.
The vicarial jurisdiction of Detroit included the care of the French race living on the water-
line, beginning at Lake Erie and extending upwards to Lake St. Clair. Its dependencies
embraced the old missionary stations on the islands and shores of Lake Huron and Michigan.
In 1800 Father Richard commenced a tour of the lake dependencies, taking passage on a
government vessel on Jnne 20th, and after a stormy voyage reached Mackinac Island June 29th.
He remained on the island about two months, teaching and administering the sacraments; he
then visited the Ottawas on Lake Huron, visited St. Joseph's Island, ascended the St. Mary's
river to the Sault, and returned in October to Detroit. He wrote an account of his mission to
Bishop Carroll. The Indians had mostly lapsed into Paganism and had to a great extent
become brutalized from debauchery. He described the condition of the half-breeds and
explained the great necessity existing for missionary laborers in the lake regions of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Illinois. In the meantime Father Levadoux, whose health began to fail, had
applied for and obtained permission from Bishop Carroll to return to France. Father Richard
succeeded to the pastorate and vicarial power, having Father John Dilhet as his assistant. The
latter was a devoted priest, of fine literary culture and a gentleman.
Looking into the spiritual condition of the parish, Father Richard found some irregularities
growing out of the annual visits of the fur-trading employes and the convocations of the
ing of his own people, but by favoring all
FATHER RICHARD, FIRST TERRITORIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGREss, ETC
PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
Indian tribes; these he corrected as far as lay in his power. He enlarged the church, presby-
tery and school-houses; but having no suitable teachers available he instructed and prepared
four young ladies of wealthy families as teachers, and placed them in charge of a seminary for
the higher branches of education of their sex. Not unmindful of the intellectual wants of the
young men of his parish, he opened a seminary in which he and Father Dilhet taught the
higher branches and lectured upon religious history, literature and the sciences.
This was the condition of the parish, when on the 11th of June, 1805, Detroit was stricken
with a calamity as sudden as it was overwhelming. The city was entirely destroyed by fire
– and as Father Dilhet writes, “in three hours, between 9 o'clock and noon, nothing was to
be seen of the city except a mass of burning debris and chimney tops stretching like pyramids
into the air. We had barely time to remove the vestments and furniture of the church and the
movable property of the schools.” Father Richard had witnessed in this brief time the
destruction of the material evidence of his six year's hard work ; of church, presbytery and
schools, as well as the homes of his parishioners, there remained only smoking ruins. The old
colonial city was completely wiped out of existence. Much inconvenience and suffering among
the people ensued ; but the indomitable pastor was equal to the emergency. He at once pro-
cured shelter tents from the fort for the women and children who had no refuge, and using not
only his personal means but his credit as well, he purchased food and other temporary necessi-
ties for the homeless and destitute, without regard to creed or race. St. Anne's church,
presbytery and schools were soon after located in improvised buildings in Spring Wells, about
a mile below the ancient church ; these premises continued to be used until 1820, when the
basement of the new church was dedicated.
In 1807, there being no other minister in Detroit, Governor Hull invited Father Richard to
hold non-Catholic meetings, if such a term may be permitted, in the new Council House on
Sundays; these meetings were regularly held at noon, and were attended by the Governor and
family, by the officers of the garrison with their families, by most of the officials and by the
non-Catholic merchants. The lectures, delivered in the English language, were upon Christian-
ity and kindred topics without controversial allusions.
In 1808, Father Richard set up in the first printing press
erected in the North-west Territory, having brought from the
east the first practical printer known in the West, Mr. Alfred
Coxeshawe. The same year the educational establishments
were completed, and comprised : primary schools for boys
and girls, a seminary for young ladies under charge of the
four young ladies referred to as having been instructed and
prepared to teach, whose names were, Angelique Campau,
Monique Labadie, Elizabeth Lyon, and Elizabeth Williams.
Miss Labadie subsequently married Antoine Beaubien, a
wealthy proprietor, and in 1854 as a proof of her estimation
of the value of the higher education of her sex, she endowed
the convent of the Sacred Heart in Detroit with a property
valued at the time at $100,000. An academy for young
men, under the learned pastor's direction, was assisted by M.
Saliere, a young professor of literature chemistry and as-
tronomy, whom Father Richard had brought from France ;
and a school for the technical education of Indian girls.
The attention of the promoters of literary culture at the
present day is directed to the fact that eighty-six years ago in
Detroit, Father Richard's seminary for young ladies, taught
by the very créme de la créme of the old families of this old
city, and the academy for young men, having besides the
pastor, a French professor of ability, were both supplied
with astronomical, chemical and geographical apparatus;
while in the school for teaching useful arts to Indian girls, it
may be mentioned, that among other appliances used, were
- a score or more of spinning wheels. _ -
In the meantime this pioneer Catholic priest, this apostle and promoter of literary culture,
in the North-west, edited and published the following works:– “L’Ame Penitente,” “La
Journée du Chrétien,” “The Child's Spelling Book,” “Les Ornemens de la Mémoire,” “Epitres
et Evangiles, pour diman-ches et fétes;” “Francais et Anglais,” “Petite Catéchisme Histor-
ique,” “Journal des Enfants.”
At the peroid of the publication of these works, (the preparation of which for the press,
– their editing as well as their proof reading, involving a vast amount of labor,) suitable
books were exceedingly rare in Detroit; they could only be obtained from Montreal or New
York, and were not always of the kind desired ; besides, their high prices excluded their use
amongst most families.
These books supplied a great want existing in the old city even before, but still more, since
the destruction of the city in 1805. Their publication at the time, under the circumstances,
accomplished a double purpose,
while attesting the aim of their pas-
tor-editor to have been to teach,
to edify, and to perfect intellect-
ually, as well as morally and
religiously, the youth of his own
generation of pastoral care. Fa-
ther Richard is claimed the honor
of editing and publishing the first
devotional, educational, and lit-
erary books in the North-west
Territory ; and the honor of editing
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 19
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and printing in English the first Scriptural
work, the “Epistles and Gospels,” in 1812.
There is, I believe, no one who questions this
right. In his introduction to Les Ornemens de
la Mémoire, Father Richard says: “ Tous les
sens de gont conviennent que la connoisance de
la poésie doit avoir unc place distinguée dans le
plan d’unc bonne education. Les beaux arts
en général font la nouriture et le plaisir de
l'ame. La Lecture des beaux morceaux de
poésie en particuli eréléxe les esprits, étend
agréablement la sphère pes connoissances
utiles, elle produit dans l'ame les sentiments
delicienx. Mais cette le pour étre utile
demande un choivºrºſcien et de sages précau-
tion-errºtſ pour cegui regarde la pureté des
moeurs.” - -
A not her and a grievous calamity was
impending over Detroit. This was the war of
1812. The old city, far removed from the
support of the older States, was bound to suffer,
\ and the first serious blow felt was the surrender
f the post by the Governor.
-aº Priests are regarded by Christian nations at
war among themselves, as non-combatants.
• Father Richard was every inch a priest, but
labor to overcome before their normal condition could be restored.
Just previous to the breaking out of the hostilities there arrived in this city
the first organ ever seen in the North-west Territory; Father Richard
had imported it from France.
The condition of the French race and the humane conduct of
Father Richard after the war have already been mentioned. The
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condition of that portion of his flock residing on the shores of the upper
lakes, has also been described ; his call for missionaries was responded
to in time; these were prepared, taught to speak the Indian dialects and
sent to evangelize the indigenous people and others in the lake regions.
In 1808 Paul Malcher donated his farm on the river bank about two
each of these inches was as thoroughly and
patriotically American as priestly ; for this
ſ crime he was arrested by the British General
and sent in irons to the military prison across
the river, where he remained until peace was
declared. After the evacuation of the city by
the British and their Indian allies, the occupants
of the soil were threatened with famine, having been stripped of their movable possessions by
the drunken savages. Were it not for assistance rendered by Father Richard, some of these
would have starved, and others had no seed grain to plant until he procured it for them. In
-the meantime his apostolic work had experienced a great set-back, which required time and
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miles above the site of old St. Anne, on which was built, in 1809, a chapel and school for
the convenience of parishioners living in la cote du nord est. According to the custom of the
country this parish was organized with marguilliers or trustees. In 1817 a disagreement
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who sustained his vicar, and on the refusal of the marguilliers to submit, the Bishop placed
the cote du nord chapel under interdict, in which state it remained until the following year,
when the paternal and venerable Bishop came all the way from Bardstown, Ky., on horseback,
to Detroit, in the interest of peace; his mission was successful. To render the ceremony of
win DMILL NEAR MAY's CREEK
the removal of the interdict impressive, a grand procession escorted the Bishop from St. Anne's
to the sucursal chapel, the distance being about three miles. As a sign of the times it may be
stated, that the music of the U. S. regimental band added to the eclat of the ceremony, and
as the procession passed the fort, it was saluted by a salvo of artillery. The occasion was
one of general rejoicing, and
an affecting reconciliation took
place between the recalcitrants
and their venerable pastor. This
event occurred June 11th, 1818,
and on the same day Bishop
Flaget laid the corner-stone of
the fifth church of St. Anne,
which was not completed until
ten years later, 1828.
Missionary work in the lake
regions had in the meantime been
vigorously conducted by Fathers THE LATE J. M. STANLEY, ARTIST
Ballamy, Badin (Francis V) de
Jean, and Mazzuchelli and Dr.
Frederic Rese, under the direct
supervision of Father Richard.
In 1823 he was elected repre-
sentative of Michigan territory to
Congress, serving one term only.
The results of missionary work
in the dependencies of Detroit,
among the Indians and half-
breeds, may be seen in the ac-
count given by Bishop Fenwick
- of Cincinnati, in whose diocese
A MOONLIGHT Tow PASSING DETROIT Michigan had been placed, Whc
- - made his Episcopal visitations
1827. Among the Indian tribes visited, morality and ſervent piety prevailed, where ignorance,
Pagan superstition and debauchery had ruled. “The happiest days of my life,” writes the
OLD DREDGE ON THE ROUGE – FROM PAINTING BY Hopkin
Bishop, “were spent among the Ottawa and
Pottowattamie Indians.”
Probably the credit for the greatest missionary
work accomplished under the direction of any one
priest in this country during the first three decades
of this century, may be claimed for the Very Rev.
Gabriel Richard. Certainly in no part of the
United States was there a field so extensive or so
difficult of access as that confided to his care by
the Metropolitans Carroll, Neale, Marechal, and
Whitfield and under Bishops Flaget and Fenwick.
Nor were his merits unrecognized by the American
hierarchy who sent his name to Rome as their
choice for Detroit's first Bishop. But Father Rich-
ard was not destined to wear the mitre on the
scene of his life-work. His apostolic career was
to end in a manner becoming the devoted priest
he had been all his sacerdotal life.
When in 1852 the Asiatic cholera decimated the
Catholic population of Detroit, Father Richard and
his venerable assistant, Father Francis Vincent
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Badin, labored among the sick and dying
day and night, until the plague had ceased
its ravages. Worn out with hardship, he
fell, the last of the distinguished victims of
that fatal year. He was stricken with the
disease and succumbed Sept. 13th, 1832.
He had been pastor of St. Anne's for thirty-
four years, and had occupied a leading place
in the history of events during that period,
as a priest, as an educator, as a philanthopist,
as a legislator, as an apostle of literature, as
a citizen and as a patriot. Fifty years after
the death of Father Richard, Bela Hubbard
placed four statues on the east and west
facades of the City Hall of Detroit. These
sculptured images represent four great
French Catholics, whom the city is proud
to honor, – two zealous missionaries,
Fathers James Marquette and Gabriel Rich-
ard, and two representatives of the genius
and chivalry of Catholic France, Cavalier
de la Salle and Antoine de la Mothe
Cadillac. RICHARD R. ELLIOTT.
THE BAGLEY FOUNTAIN
RESIDENCE OF JAMEs E. SCRIPPs, ESQ.
CHARLOTTE Avenue, NEAR SECOND AVENUE
FORT WAYNE
A trifle more than
three miles below
Woodward Avenue,
where the Detroit
river turns to the south
—its only bend –
and where it is nar-
rowest, is situated the
chief military fortifi-
cation in Michigan,—
Fort Wayne. The
entire military reser-
vation on which the
fort is built consists
at present of 66 acres
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and the construction of the fort, begun n
1843, was not finished until about 1851.
The fort is a square bastioned structure
with walls of brick and concrete, 22 feet
high and 7 1-2 feet thick and the whole is
surrounded by a very extensive embankment
of sand. Inside the walls is the barracks
building, while outside—as will be seen by
reference to the illustrations—are the offi-
cers' quarters, the hospital, guard house,
amusement hall and so on, the parade
ground and street in front of the officers'
quarters, commanding most attractive pros-
pects up and down the river. Fort Wayne,
by reason of its sightly position and the
proverbial elegance and courtesy of the
officers of the U. S. Army, has long been
one of the chief social centers about Detroit,
while, as the establishment is under slight
military restrictions, open to the public, it
is generally a very popular and interesting
resort.
DETROIT AS AN EXCURSION CENTRE
The water-way between Lakes Huron and Erie consists of the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair
and the Detroit River, the aggregate distance being 30 miles. In the beauty of its shores and
slands, the purity and volume of its waters, the picturesqueness and importance of its cities and the
wondrous variety of its facilities for comfort and pleasuire during the summer months, the channel
mentioned is unrivalled and Detroit is its centre.
From Detroit, boats leave daily for Cleveland, San-
dusky and Put-in-Bay, Toledo, Grosse Isle, Amherstberg,
Chatham, Mt. Clemens, New Baltimore, Port Huron, the
OLD ROUND HOUSE, M. C. R. R.
OLD DUFFIELD FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Flats and all intermediate ports. Daily
boats sail also from Detroit for Mackinaw
and other ports along Lake Huron, while
at frequent intervals other boats leave for
the Soo and Lake Superior ports. Thus is indicated, meagerly, the city's resources as an excursion
centre. In keeping with such an abundance of facilities is the fact that the best of boat service is
available at prices suiting any ability. Ten cents will pay for an afternoon's ride up and down the
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THE PRESENT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
FOUNTAIN IN EAST GRAND CIRCUS PARK
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Bay or Port Huron. These rides may be varied too. The
start may be made in the morning or in the afternoon. An
entire day or only four or five hours may be utilized with
equal convenience.
Any ride mentioned is made chiefly along the Detroit
River, the St. Clair River or Lake St. Clair, and aside from
the pure bracing qualities of the air and the ever changing
interest of the scenes along the River, as these rides are taken,
is the vast coming and going, the meeting and greeting of
the fleets of the great Lakes. Huge freighters, modelled and
proportioned equal to ocean going craft, mammoth passenger
AT THE DISTANCE POLE – DETROIT DRIVING PARK
river on any of the magnificent boats of the Detroit,
Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Company. In case
one does not care to ride all of the afternoon, the
passenger may land at Belle Isle and return by boat
whenever the desire is manifest, and all for ten
cents. For twenty-five cents a ride may be had
to Mt. Clemens, New Baltimore, Chatham or
Amherstberg and return. Fifty cents pays for the
ride to and from the Flats. Seventy-five cents
will cover the cost of the ride to Toledo, Put-in-
*
“PARADE REST " At Fort wayNE /
of FICERs' QUARTERS, FORT wayNE
boats bound for Duluth, Milwaukee, Green Bay,
Chicago, Cleveland or Buffalo, great tow barges,
grain, lumber and ore carriers, steam yachts,
whalebacks, sailing yachts and in fact all kinds of
marine travellers, abound in profusion at all points,
so that there is no such
thing, at any point or
any time, as loneli-
ness. It is a constant
moving marine pano-
rama, most enjoyable
and not duplicated in
any part of the west-
ern world.
In case one becomes
surfeited with marine
pleasures or where one
is partial to rural
beauties and wood-
land pleasures, no
more delightful
country jaunt can be
desired than is to be
found at either Orion
Lake, Cass Lake,
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hours ride of the city.
M. C. R. R. DEPOT YARD AND FERRY SLIP
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IN ELMWOOD CEMETERY
ELM wooD CEMETERY CHAPEL
Orchard Lake or Pine Lake, all of which are within two
| THE LABADIE HOUSE
On Woodbridge street, just west of the corner of
Twenty-fourth street, stands the oldest house in Detroit.
Judged by its steep gables and the dormer window in
the roof, it belongs to the provincial French style of
architecture. There is a tradition that it was built some-
where up the Detroit River, brought down in a scow,
and set up in its present position intact.
Monsieur Labadie, a Frenchman, is the first person who
is definitely connected with the house of its owner.
ST. ANNE's church
A VIEW AT
Father and son owned it jointly, and about
1824 the son, who became sole owner,
sold it to General Porter. The latter, after
a short time, sold it to a man named Dorr.
About 1830 Dorr added the circular wings
at either end of the house, and made some
other improvements.
The house has changed hands a number
of times and is now owned by several
legatees, one of whom rents and controls
the house, but does not occupy it. The
center and main part of the house was
built of logs. The ground floor consisted
of two large rooms running
lengthwise of the house, each
opening at either end into a
square hall, which in turn
opened out on a veranda,
one at the front, facing the
river, and another at the
back. Filling in the space
between the two halls, was
an immense chimney built of
stone. This had its founda–
tion in the cellar, where it
filled up a goodly space, and
then sloped gradually up to
the peak of the house and
through it, just for a squint
at the outside world. There
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was a generous fire-place in both roofs, where great logs could be burned and
a goodly company sit around to enjoy the cheerful blaze and rest.
The circumstances of Monsieur Labadie improved and he finished the
inside of the house, covering over the rough oak logs that formed the joists.
The work he did on the upper wall still remains and shows a delicacy of

























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THE OLD FARM
GATE — TWELFTH STREET
handicraft and a precision of joiner work that modern machinery could not excel in execution.
The panels of the doors, which are also hand-work, are of a quaint pattern, and the old
brass handles and locks are still preserved, through the sentimental interest of the latest owner
of the house.
freedom and cheerful social life of France.
years it held out its offer of shelter to the traveler.
public hostelry, although there are sugges-
tions of the rural inn in the arrangement of
the rooms. It became a favorite stopping-
place by the necessity of its location. The
farmers from Ypsilanti and the adjoining
county made the house a night's resting
place, and here it was that they started out
early the next morning, laden with goods
which they had received in exchange for
their produce. -
In the early days, when the water-way
was the only way, the boats were fastened
here for the night and the owners found
rest and refreshment under the hospitable
roof. Later, when a road was cut through
to that hospitable section, the farmer
stopped with his wagon and his team and
waited for the first faint ray of morning to
resume his journey.
By aid of the imagination one may put
himself back in fancy to that early time for
a moment and take the character of one of
the French owners of the old house in those
SWEDEN BORGIAN CHURCH
THE
primitive days.
If this feeling is
strong enough one
might imagine
himself standing
On Monsieur Lab-
adie's lawn on a
morning in the
year 1816. Just
a little distance off
800 or 1,000 In-
dians are standing
silently together.
Down there on the
river, toward the
Canadian shore, is
a fleet of vessels.
Gen. Harrison and
his troops are on
board and a light
breeze is helping
the m slowly
along. They
come up nearly
opposite the
house, when the
voice of Monsieur
Labadie is heard
to say to his friends
and neighbors,
There are forty-six doors and windows in the house, suggesting the sunny
It has been a hospitable old house, and for many
It is not probable that it was built for a
OLD PORRITT PLACE
“Resort to the back of the house.
Lieflat on the ground. Harrison will fire on the Indians.”
They all obey, the sound of firing guns is heard, and the Indians disperse.
door is open, and two shots are found to have lodged in the wall.
are safe, and this is verified fact, not imagination, so history tells us.
The front
The family and neighbors
THE OLD JAMES SMITH LOG HOUSE – Twelfth STREET
BELLE ISLE PARK
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The matchless municipal park owned by the city of Detroit and called Belle Isle Park,
consists of a natural island of 690 acres, a trifle over two miles long and half a mile wide at its
points of greatest measurement. It lies
midway between the Michigan and Cana-
dian shores, the international boundary line
passing along the middle of the Canadian
channel. It is two and one-half miles, at
its lower and nearest point, from the city
hall, and occupies a position at the point
where Lake St. Clair ends and the Detroit
river begins. From its lower end a superb
perspective view is had down the river a
distance of about seven miles, while at its
upper end the view across Lake St. Clair to
the horizon is unbroken.
This island, absolutely level over its entire
area and only about five feet above water
level, is covered with a glorious growth of
old forest trees–hickory, oak, elm, maple
and beech, except at its lower end and on
its Canadian side. Here are beautiful
lawns, parade grounds, tennis courts and
ball fields, which are separated from the
river and from themselves by a picturesque
system of lakes and canals which extends
entirely around the park.
It is the presence of such artificial attractions, coupled with the various buildings of choice
design and excellent construction — the Casino, the skaters' pavilion, the long wharf, the boat
houses, bridges, police station and the like — that have combined with the natural glories so
plentiful, in the evolution of a people's playground second to none on earth.
The father of Belle Isle Park is Levi L. Barbour, an honorable, loyal, energetic and prosperous
citizen who, still on the safe side of middle age, will probably live to be more fully and more fairly
recognized as the originator of the plan to secure Belle Isle to the city for use as a municipal park.
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VIEW, IN CLARK PARK
THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Connected to the city by
a superb iron bridge over a
half a mile in length and
visited (during the summer
months) every ten minutes
by ferry boats from Detroit,
Windsor and Walkerville,
the park is most easy of
access and thousands of citi-
zens visit it daily. It is a
surprise and a delight to
strangers and a blessing and
source of unqualified pride to
the citizens.
GROSSE POINTE
Grosse Pointe is the name
given to the west shore of
Lake St. Clair, a charming
coast line territory of about
ten miles in length, which,
with its superb roads and
many beautiful summer
homes, constitutes one of the
chief suburban resorts of
Detroit. It is a high banked
plateau which is perfectly
level, but from which a full
view is had of a continuous
naval review — the passage
of the most extensive inland
marine exhibit in the world.
This location is reached by
an electric railway system,
by a well built macadamized
road and by boat, so that for
either residence or pleasure
resort purposes, it is most
accessible.
It is he re that United
States Senator James McMil-
lan, Hon. G. V. N. Lothrop,
ex-United States Minister to
Russia, Hugh McMillan,
Wm. B. Moran, Geo. S.
Davis, and many other lead-
ing citizens have extensive
and very beautiful estates;
it is along this shore that one
finds the most agreeable drive
out of Detroit and it is here,
also, that is located the Con-
vent of the Sacred Heart —
one of the oldest educational
institutions in Michigan. All
of these structures, with a
glorious environment of for-
est, lawn and lake, enhanced
by the picturesque qualities
of the light-houses and the
shipping, combine to make
of the section one of the most
strikingly attractive views
along the entire chain of the
great lakes. The settlement
of Grosse Pointe began with
the settlement of Detroit, so
that the traditions and the
histories of the two places are
most closely interwoven.
THE FLATS
The waters of Lakes
Michigan, Superior and
Huron are discharged through
the river St. Clair into Lake
St. Clair — a lake nearly cir-
cular in form, and about 23
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JUDGE CAMPBELL
very extensive structure built to expedite and render more safe
the passage of lake commerce. Just above this canal and along
the main channel of the delta, for a distance of five or six
miles, are located club houses, public hotels and private res-
idences – all built on “made" land, until the most notable
Venice in America is shown. It is a veritable canal city,
comprising over Ioo buildings and, during the summer season,
having a population of upward of 2,000 people.
It is the most popular resort, by reason of its bathing,
WHITNEY OPERA HOUSE — SITE OF NEW POST OFFICE
ENTRANCE TO MT. ELLIOTT – CATHOLIC CEMETERY
OF GENERAL CASS, SENATOR CHANDLER, DR. D. O. FARRAND AND E. A. BRUSH AT ELM wooD
miles in diameter The
St. Clair River has a delta
mouth with three main
outlets and it is adjacent to
these outlets that is located
a great area of submerged
land which is known gen-
erally as “The Flats”
(of St. Clair) and which is
the home of all kinds
of water fowl and inex-
haustible quantities of bass,
pickerel, pike, white fish
and lake trout. “The
Flats” are about 30 miles
above Detroit and an equal
distance from Port Huron
and they are reached only
by boat. It is at this point,
that is located the United
States Government canal, a
DETROIT CREMATORY
fishing and shooting facilities,
out of Detroit, while for those
who seek only quiet and rest, it
is matchless.
by telegraph, rail or telephone ;
the pedestrian cannot walk to it
and no horse drawn vehicle can
be taken there.
swim, fly or go by boat, so that
the place lacks every suggestion.
of hurry and all evidences of busi-
ness excitement.
Hollow * on piles, before which
is constantly but silently passing
a perpetual parade of the great
commerce of the lakes.
houses of the Lake St.
Fishing and Shooting Club, the
Rushmere Club, the Meroue
Club, Joe Bedore's and the Star
It is not reached
One must either
It is a “Sleepy
The
Clair
U. S. MARINE
GYPSY CAMP — FORT STREET WEST
Island House are the principal objects of interest at the Flats,
although the many delightful homes, the steam yachts and
the sailing yachts, the bathing parties and the groups of fish-
ermen, all combine in an interesting, exhilarating picture,
unanswerable evidences as to the pleasure resources, the
invariable coolness of temperature, the purity and vigor of the
air, in brief, the general hot weather excellence of the locality.
THE HAMTRAMCK HOUSE
On the bank of the Detroit river, just above the residence
of the late William B. Wesson, stands one of the most noted
landmarks of Detroit – the Hamtramck house. The old
house stands about thirty feet from the Detroit river and is
shaded by beautiful trees and the foliage of a small vineyard.
It is built of logs, covered with weather-board, fronts thirty-
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two feet on the river, with
a depth of twenty-six feet,
and is one and a half stories
high.
At present it is in a dilap-
idated condition, which is
caused more by the vandal-
istic propensities of young
hoodlums than the hand of
time." The window panes
are all broken, the shutters
have been wrenched off,
the doors are shaky and
portions of the weather- AN ANNOYING BREAK-DOWN
white pine boards, and some of those remaining are thirty inches in
width and probably sawed and planed by hand. A cellar underlies the
whole length and breadth of the house. The front of the house is
almost obscured by a rank growth of small bushes and creeping vines
which adds to its unique and interesting appearance.
Here lived Col. John Francis Hamtramck, a revolutionary soldier
of fame, the first American commandant of Detroit, and a voluntary
alien defender of our liberty and independence, who is entitled to rank
with Kosciusko, Lafayette, Pulaski, De Kalb and Steuben ; for Ham-
tramck was one -
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH U. S. STEAMSHIP MICHIGAN of the Canadian
- or Nova Scotian
THE OLD MORAN HOMESTEAD
board have been taken away. Two largestone chimneys stand at either extrem–
ity of the house, each with a wide fire-place large enough to accommodate full
lengths of cordwood. The kitchen chimney, however, has been taken down
at the ceiling of the first floor, on account of the settling of the foundation.
The lower floor is divided into three living rooms and a kitchen. The upper
- floor is now only one room, but shows that it was formerly partitioned into
U. S. SENATOR JAMES MC MILLAN several sleeping apartments. At some time the upper story was sealed with “o, come of F 1'.'







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refugees who came to New York
and espoused the cause of the
feeble colonies in 1776. Noth-
ing is known of the exact place
of his birth, but his tombstone
in Mt. Elliott cemetery discloses
the fact that he was born on
Aug. 13th, 1757. He was in
northern New York when he
joined the army — a boy of less
than twenty years. He fought
till the close of hostilities, and
was under St. Clair and Wayne
In the Indian wars which con-
tinued after the revolutionary
struggle had closed, and which
were largely fomented by the
defeated British authorities in
Canada. His soldierly qualities
won him rapid promotion. He
was made a major in the United
States army in 1789 ; promoted
to lieutenant-colonel in 1793 ;
commanded the left wing of Gen.
“Mad” Anthony Wayne's army
at the battle of Maumee in 1794;
was subsequently promoted to
colonel of the First regiment
of United States infantry and
entered Detroit after the British
evacuation on July 11th, 1796,
with 300 soldiers.
In “Legends of Le Detroit,” by
the late Mrs. Hamlin, one of the
romantic tales is entitled “Ham-
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generosity, to finally gain his suit, and win Louisa from Hamtramck, his supposed rival.
The latter he called “Le Crapeaua Cheval,” the frog on horseback.” This jealous epithet
had a little foundation in truth, as Hamtramck was small in stature and rather round-
shouldered. In 1796, when Colonel Hamtramck came to Detroit, he was a widower. He
renewed his devotion to Marianne, but she refused him, as her heart was a tomb, wherein
lay the ashes of buried hopes and bright illusions.
“Mademoiselle,” said Hamtramck, “since we cannot be united in life, in death I shall
be near you.” -
“Oh, that is romantic, colonel,” she laughingly replied ; “but you are a soldier and
cannot say where your last sleep shall overtake you.”
“No matter; mark me, I shall slumber within the shadow of your tomb.”
The legend tells how Hamtramck's
remains were buried in St. Anne's
churchyard, and afterward removed to
Mt. Elliott cemetery, and how, after his
loved Marianne had died, fifty years
after, her remains were removed a few
years before to the Godfrey lot, in the
same cemetery, which is opposite the
spot where Hamtramck lies buried, and
he now “slumbers within the shadow
of her tomb.”
Unfortunately, however, the facts do
not sustain the story. Hamtramck
was married and had a family when he
came to Detroit – in 1796–and he,
therefore, could not have renewed his
suit nor uttered the above prophesy.
RESIDENCE OF DAVID whitNEy, J.R.— WOODWARD AVENUE
tramck's Love.” It tells how the colonel (then
major) while at Marietta, Ohio, met and loved
Marianne Nevarre, who was then on a visit to
her friend, Louisa St. Clair, daughter of Arthur
St. Clair, governor of the North-west territory.
Governor St. Clair, however, wished his daugh-
ter to marry Hamtramck, and when Marianne
learned this she cut short
her visit and returned to
Detroit. Louisa was
loved by Joseph Brant,
the great chief of the Six
Nations, then at war with
the United States, but the
old governor haughtily
refused to consider his
suit. When Brant’s
Indians defeated St.
Clair's forces in 1701 the
latter was only saved
from annihilation by Col.
Hamtramck and his reg-
ulars. Brant’s object
was to capture St. Clair
alive, and he hoped by
sparing his life and mak-
ing him sensible of his
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The arm was purchased by Hamtramck from Jacques Campau, and here the house was built in
But the hardships and exposure of the war had made fatal inroads on Hamtramck's consti-
tution, which was not very strong, and he died on April 11th, 1803, aged forty-five years, seven
The records of the Wayne county probate court show that he died
18O2.
months and twenty-eight days.
intestate, and, for a man in his exalted position, in straightened circumstances.
Hamtramck, had only $300.50 in cash, and the total valuation of the estate, which included his
swords, library and even domestic utensils, footed up only $2,138.47.
stored in the citadel and were consumed in the great fire of 1805, which laid Detroit in ashes.
The remains were interred in the cemetery of St. Anne's church, which was located on the
present line of Jefferson Avenue, nearly opposite the store of Heavenrich Brothers.
were removed and placed in the new cemetery a few yards east of the church. In 1866, Richard
His widow, Rebecca
The household effects were
The remains
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R. Elliott, with historic reverence, obtained permission from
Bishop Lefevre to transfer the remains to his family lot in Mt.
Elliott cemetery, where they now rest, under the massive
stone erected by his fellow officers at the time of his death.
TWO IMPORTANT INSTITUTIONS
The public library and the museum of art are the two most
interesting public institutions in Detroit and they will compare
favorably with any similar establishments in the county and
each one with all of its privileges is free to any one desiring to
avail themselves thereof. They are located within easy
walking distance of the business center of the city and one
occupies a handsome building especially erected for the pur-
THE LATE F. E. COHEN, ARTIST – PAINTED BY HIMSELF
ST. CASSIMIR (ROMAN CATHolic) church
pose. The public library is a combination of the
Young Men's Society Library and the Mechanics'
Association Library, very much elaborated during the
past fifteen years, under the management of a Public
Library Commission. The Museum of Art is the
result of an art loan exhibition held in 1884, which
was conceived and conducted to a superb fulfillment
by William H. Brearly. It is now managed by a
board of trustees appointed jointly by the governor
of Michigan and the mayor of Detroit. It is a most
interesting institution. Connected with the museum
is an admirable art school which is well sustained.
The public library has upward of 100,000 volumes
and the museum of art contains the Stearns collection
of oriental curios—one of the finest in America, the
THE FORT STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Scripps collection of old masters, the collections of the Detroit Scientific
Association and a number of choice modern paintings.
AN INDIAN’S PHILOSOPHY
John Sabine, who came to Detroit in 1833 and who is still living, was,
as a boy, quite religious in his tendencies and when the Indian chief, Black
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Hawk, visited Detroit, the boy attempted to convert him. The chief was
on the way to the fort when young Sabine asked :
“Don’t you fear death?’” -
Black Hawk, a powerful, finely proportioned savage, looked down
upon the undersized lad. --
“Boy, it is only the whites who teach the fear of death,” he said.
“The Indian fears nothing. He takes what comes. If he has food, he
eats it if he has none, he goes without.” And then he proceeded with
a dissertation on the glories of death that took away the boy's desire to
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SITE of Gover NMENT BUILDING
DETROIT FEMALE SEM.INARY
THE CITY OF CLEVELAND
THE CAMPUS MARTIUS IN 1861
AT THE HIGH SCHOOL FIRE
THE ICE GOING
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be a missionary. There was something profoundly
touching in the Indian's philosophy. After that, Mr.
Sabine did not try to convert any more Indians.
THE GREAT TUNNEL
The Iollowing few facts give a comprehensive idea
of the hole under the St. Clair river, through which
each day, passes the traffic of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way of Canada.
The length of the tunnel from portal to portal is
6,025 feet.
Length from portal on the American side to river
bank 1,729 feet.
Length from portal on Canadian side to river bank
2,006 feet.
Length under river bed 2,290 feet.
The tunnel is a perfect circle with an interior diam-
eter of 19 feet 1o inches.
The segment filled in at the bottom for the railway
road bed has a flat surface from side to side of 1 I feet
6 inches.
The length of the cutting on the American side to
GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER
the portal is 2,487 feet. The depth at the portal to
the road bed, below the natural surface, is 50 feet.
The length of the cutting on the Canadian side to
to the portal is 3, 116 feet, and the depth at the portal
is 57 feet.
The grade on the American side is 1 in 50, or 105.60
feet per mile.
The grade on the Canadian side is 1 in 50, or 105.60
feet per mile. -
CONCEPTION OF THE WORK
The idea of the tunnel was conceived,
and the work was projected by Sir
Henry Tyler, president of the Grand
Trunk Railway Company, and through
his efforts the money to construct it has
been secured. Mr. Hobson is a member
of the Institute of Civil Engineers and
of the American and the Canadian So-
cieties of Civil Engineers; and has been
connected with the engineering depart-
ment of the Grand Trunk Railway since
1870. His assistants in charge of the
instrumental work were Messrs. T. E.
Hillman and M. S. Blaiklock. Mr. J.
T. Eames was the mechanical superin-
tendent of the work, and Mr. Tho-
mas Murphy was superintendent of
excavation.
COST OF THE WORK
The total actual cost of the whole work will
approximate very closely to $2,700,000. The subsidy
given in aid of the enterprise by the Dominion Gov-
CENTRAL M. E.
CHURCH
MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NORTH-EAST CORNER CLINTON AND CAMPAU AVENUES
SECOND AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
ernment amounts to $375,000. The following is a
statement of the chief items which make up the cost of the
work :
Expended on preliminary work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $250,000
Machinery and plant used in construction . . . . . . . . . . 250,000
Labor, all classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . goo,000
Cast iron for lining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800,000
Other materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 100,000
Real estate, land damages, legal expenses, etc...... IIo, ooo
Permanent equipment (tracks, locomotives, etc.)... 56,ood
Approaches . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2Oo, Ooo
Engineering, superintendence, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000
$2,700,ooo
ZACHARIAH CHANDLER
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
As the chief purpose of this work has been the presen-
tation pictorially of the many beautiful features in Detroit
and about the several localities adjacent to Michigan's
metropolis, I feel that it is due those who have so kindly
aided me with their works, that I should make acknowl-
edgement of my appreciation. This I do most heartily,
to the following gentlemen: Messrs. C. M. Burton, J. C.
Ferry, and Richard R. Elliott, of Detroit and C. Luce
of Monroe, for valuable manuscript contributions; to
Rt. Rev. John Foley, Bishop of the Diocese of Detroit;
to the following artists, Robert Hopkin, Wm. Mylne,
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the place a delightful home for those seeking a
cool, quiet and comfortable home. As attrac-
tions immediately adjacent, Algonac has Wal-
pole Island with its Canadian Indians —
the island being an Indian reservation, — while
upon Harsen's Island is the fine hotel and
grounds of the Grande Pointe Club, an organ-
ization consisting chiefly of Detroit people.
Further down the river — between Grande
Pointe and the Flats are the houses and
grounds of the Sans Souci and other prosper-
ous delightful clubs.
Up the river still further, the traveler will
r —
THos. w. PALMER, PRESIDENT world's FAIR commission
pass Marine City, a delightful little city with a symmet-
rical plan and enterprising and progressive. Marine City
is first a place of business and afterward a summer resort,
but it is the equal in the latter capacity of any place
on the St. Clair.
E. A. BRUSH The City of St. Clair is the next important point up the
river and it is here that the famous Oakland Hotel and
the St. Clair Mineral Springs are located. Like all of its sister cities it commands a
view of the shipping as it passes and it is, perhaps, chief, in a social way, of any resort
between the Flats and Mackinaw. -
Y. M. C. A. BUILDING, DETROIT
J. E. Packbauer, Mr. Dow N. C. Bullock, W. D.
Butterfield, E. C. Sheriff, and to Louis Stanley
(son of the late J. M. Stanley) for sketches
and finished paintings; and finally to the fol-
lowing photographers: E. H. Husher & Co.,
C. W. Earle, C. C. Randall, Hayes Photo Co., Jex
Bardwell, Messrs. Whitmore, Alvord, Gardiner,
Holcomb, Dr. Ives, Clarence Weed, Herman
Strassburg, J. C. Mulford, Walter E. Campbell,
Bert Noble, Wm. Jupp, Forrest Campbell, S. K.
Tillotson and Mr. Mead of Detroit; to J. M. Hall
of Flnt, H. Randall of Ann Arbor, Messrs. Hill and
Richardson of Monroe, White of Port Huron,
Novess of Mt. Clemons, Westrich of St. Clair and
to all others who have in any way assisted me.
CHAs. L. CLARK.
DON. M. DICKINSON
UP THE ST. CLAIR
The river St. Clair, along its entire length, is dotted
with thrifty, growing towns and delightful riverside
resorts, and with its attractive shores and its busy,
invigorating array of shipping, is at once free from
monotony and most interesting. Algonac, a cosy
little town just above the Flats and once the scene
of a considerable ship building interest, is now a
peaceful, homelike resort full of rural interest and
provided with ample boating and fishing facilities.
It is within easy access of all points on the flats; a
short drive back through the country, will carry
one to the railroad, while the several daily boats up
the river give frequent transportation to the Oakland
and Port Huron. Here many of the citizens of
Detroit and Port Huron have their summer homes
and here also is the popular resort of innumerable
excursion parties. Wholly informal, there is a suffi-
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 35
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE covenANT—coRNER RUSSELL
AND NAPOLEON STREETS
CHURCH OF DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
BOIS BLANC ISLAND
As an island home, or even as a place to visit, the
island of Bois Blanc is inexpressibly sweet, gracious
and unique. About one and a quarter miles in length
and about one-third of a mile wide at its greatest
breadth, its banks all around are bordered by a bold
bluff from ten to twelve feet in height. Its surface
resembles a prairie in flatness, but is agreeably varied
by groves, where the hickory predominates, but the - v. s. Revenue currºr “ressenpes”
maple, poplar, oak, ash, elm and basswood also give
a fair share of de-
licious shade. On
the banks, near the
water, are a contin-
uous fringe of haw–
thorns, sumacs and
willows.
Bois Blanc liter-
ally means “white
wood,' but the
French term was
applied to bass-
wood, with which
the island was
heavily wooded
prior to the Cana-
dian rebellion,
sometimes called
A RAILwAY FERRY STEAMSHIP
the patriot war, of 1837-8. At that time the forest was cut down to allow
the guns of Fort Maiden, at Amherstberg, an unobstructed range over Bois
Blanc to the islands on the American side, as the latter were at one time a
base of operations in the rebel plan of invading Canada.
The island comprises exactly 207 acres of good clay land, of which two
acres belong to the Canadian government and used as a light-house site.
There are also two range lights at the head of the island, occupying four-
teen and twenty-four square feet respectively, which are also owned by the
OLD WARMING-PAN, FROM
“DETROIT’’ LEwis CAss' MANSION U. S. REven UE cutters, “Johnson'
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THE DEVIL'S GRIST A LEGEND OF WINDMILL POINT
Fort Pontchartrain, from its advantageous position as key to
the Upper Lakes, was coveted by the English, who finding all
their efforts futile whilst so jealously guarded by France, deter-
mined to wait until the rigid watchfulness of the garrison should
relax by apparent security. In the early spring of 1712 the
LEWIS CASS
FIRE DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS
government. Over 100 acres are cleared and fenced without a
single stump. The greater portion of this is devoted to pasture, but
Col. John Atkinson, its owner, also raises the oats and millet for his
horses, some forty in number, which were mostly bred on the island ;
and also the vegetables and fruit for his household. He has also the
finest head of Jersey cattle in this region, and the milk and butter
of Bois Blanc are a revelation to the guests of his house. There is
also a good half-mile track, where he speeds his equines.
A number of wild turkeys have made the island their habitation
for more than ten years. McKee Rankin, while he was owner,
received a present of some wild turkey eggs from “Long John ”
Wentworth, once mayor of Chicago. The eggs were hatched on
the island and the birds have multiplied. At present there are three
flocks aggregating 125. No care is taken of them, and they pick
up their own food, and are never disturbed save when one of their
number is doomed to furnish a succulent dish. - - - - -
The elder Rankin purchased the island from the Canadian gov-
ernment in 1874, when he was a member of parliament, for £10, - -
or $50. He sold it to his son, McKee Rankin, for $10,000, in 1877.
Mr. Rankin made many improvements on the island and kept open
MAIN ENTRANCE, Y. M. C. A. BUILDING
BRONSON HOWARD
house there for his many friends
for several years. Afterward he
conveyed it to Mrs. Rankin, and
by her it was sold in January,
1877, to Col. John Atkinson and
James A. Randall for $40,000.
The latter sold out to the former,
retaining about 1,000 feet
of shore frontage upon which
his elegant summer residence,
“Lookout Cottage,” is situated,
and the colonel is now the pro-
prietor of Bois Blanc. James T.
Keen a and O. W. Wardell
purchased park lots and also
erected summer residences.
Other summer homes owned by
the colonel have been rented for
the season to A. E. Visger and
others. -
Bois Blanc Island is sixteen
miles south of Detroit on the
Detroit river, and opposite and
about 1,200 feet distant from
the ancient town of Amherst–
burg. Like that town it is in
Maiden township, Essex county,
Ontario.
WESTMINSTER CHURCH
They love their land because it is
their own,
And scorn to give ought other
reason why.
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37
opportunity seemed to present itself. De
la Forest, the successor of La Mothe Cad-
illac, was detained in Quebec; the Hurons,
Ottawas and other Indian allies of the
French had not returned from their winter
hunting in the gloomy recesses of the
forest, whilst the fort was manned by a
small number of men with Du Buisson as
its temporary commander.
A band of Macoutins and Outagamies or
Foxes, were sent by the English, who lit
their camp-fire beneath the shadow of the
fort, and pitched their tents in seeming
confidence almost within the range of its
guns. But Du Buisson was too well versed
in the craftiness of the Indians, and too
experienced in their peculiar mode of war-
fare to be deceived by this semblance
of friendship. Nor did he neglect those
measures of prudence and forethought
necessary to secure him against a siege.
Under pretext of fearing an attack from the
Miamis, he ordered all the grain to be
brought into the fort from the storehouses,
which were built outside of the fortifica–
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lawless acts met with no punishment, they became more
and more insolent. The little fort held bravely on,
and though a powerful and merciless foe lay crouching
at its gates, watching its every movement, and ready
to pounce on its prey, the garrison seemed not to notice
it, and went along its daily routine.
But beneath that calm and indifferent exterior many
were the sad and weary hearts; for all were under the
influence of a feeling which was calculated to paralyze
the energies of the boldest, since, unless succor should
soon arrive, their loved lily of France, crimsoned by their
hearts' blood, would be replaced by the cross of St.
George, and their reeking scalps, hung at the savage's
belt, would record the fearful history of Fort Pontchartrain.
The brave Du Buisson would try to rouse them by his
example, relating the deeds of French soldiers at other far
and desolate forts, whilst the gentle chaplain, Deniau,
would tell them to place their trust in God, to remember
their distant homes and their loved ones. A new light
would come to their eyes, heavy from long, weary vigils,
and new courage steal into their hearts and nerve their
arms to deeds of daring.
At last Saguina, Chief of the Ottawas, and Makisabe,
Chief of the Pottawatomies, with their dusky warriors in
all the full regalia of war and the haughty waving crests
tions, and caused the buildings to be destroyed as a precautionary measure against fire.
He sent word to the Hurons and Pottawatomies that he was in danger, and to hasten
to his assistance. Daily the number of Foxes seemed to increase, and seeing that their
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AND
of the eagle and their bright
sashes of vermillion, lit up
the landscape, while their
savage war whoops awoke
the echoes of the forests,
and found a response in the
anxious hearts of the besieged
garrison. Branches of the
Sacs, Illinois, and, even
Osages and Missouris, had
hastened to the relief of the
fort, borne along by a spirit
of hereditary warfare against
the restless Foxes and
Macoutins, or “dwellers in
the prairies,” who were the
roaming brigands of the
wilds of America. Saguina
presented himself at the fort
and said to Du Buisson :
“Father, behold thy children
compass thee round. We
will, if need be, gladly die
for our father, only take care
of our wives and our children,
and spread a little grass over
our bodies to protect them
against the flies.”
The Foxes were driven
back and forced to throw up
entrenchments a n d were
reduced to the last extremity. Availing themselves of a stormy night they crept away under
the friendly shelter of the darkness, and fortified themselves at Presque Isle, near Windmill
Point, eight miles distant from Detroit, and at the entrance of Lake St. Clair. When the
Hurons and other French allies discovered their flight they were soon in pursuit. For some
days the Foxes held their fort, but at last fell beneath the tomahawk of the besieger. In vain
Du Buisson endeavored to stop the fearful massacre, but his voice fell on ears open only to
catch the agonizing wails of the victims, the sweetest music to the Indian warrior. The
ground was saturated with blood, and the dead as numerous as the leaves of the forest; the
blood-curdling yells of the conquerors, mingled with the groans of the dying, made so fearful
a picture that the French soldiers, accustomed to war
and carnage, turned away with sickened hearts. The
allies carried away their dead and wounded, but left
the remains of the conquered to the mercy of the
elements and to become the prey of the birds. Shortly
afterwards the last remnants of the Fox nation came
to Presque Isle to “hold the feast of the dead" and
to cover the bones of their warriors that they would
no longer be excluded from the happy hunting ground
of their ancestors. To-day their bleached bones are
exposed by the ruthless plow, and any one interested
in Indian antiquities can have that interest gratified
by a visit to Presque Isle.
Years after the dreadful massacre which converted
the beautiful spot called Presque Isle into the grave
of the Fox nation, a stone mill was built there by a
French settler, who came to reside with his sister
Josette, undaunted by the current traditions which
peopled it with the spirits of the departed warriors.
Jean was a quiet, morose man, different from the
laughing, careless, pleasure-loving Canadians, – for
rare were his visits to the fort, and it was noticed that
he never lingered over his cidre, nor spoke to the
smiling, piquante daughters of the habitants. Men
shrugged their shoulders, and the fair damsels pouting
their pretty lips would cluster around the coureur des
bois, who, going everywhere, was the recognized
gossip of the day, and ask him why Jean was so
different from others, while with a wise look on his
face, the coureur would reply that Jean had met with
a disappointment in his early youth, and had since
kept shy of the fair sex, by a vow which was then
customary, for when a man's addresses were once
refused he seldom tried a second time.
Josette was much older than her brother, and by
dint of thrift and economy had saved enough to
become a half owner in the mill. . The favored few
who had tasted her “croquecignoles” and “galette
au beurre,” spoke of it as an era in their existence.
THE TRIAL OF RED JACKET – FROM PAINTING BY STANLEY
BURNING OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, JAN.
Naught disturbed the monot-
ony of their lives; each day
was but a repetition. The
river flowed calmly on, the
birds sang their songs—for
nature has no moods, they
belong to man alone. At
last Josette fell sick. Jean
attended her as carefully as
he could, and like a prudent
man, would frequently ask
her to whom she would leave
her interest in the mill. Irri-
table from suffering, she
became annoyed at his im–
portunities, accused him of
taking care of her for the sake
of obtaining her money, and
told him “she would leave
it to the devil.” Jean tried
in his clumsy fashion, to
Soothe her. He sent for
Some of his kindred to reason
with her, but they only in-
furiated her the more, and
she solemnly declared that
not one of them should have
her share in the mill, but
“she would sooner leave it
to the devil.”
Josette recovered, how-
ever, and with that perversity born of stubbornness, would not relent. A few months after-
wards she was found dead in her bed, having died suddenly. That same night, whilst the
candles threw their dim shadowy light in the room of the dead, a furious storm arose, lashing
the waves against the shore, the winds howling fiercely around the point, the black clouds
chasing each other across the lowering skies, as lurid gleams of lightning and deafening rever-
berations of thunder, made all the habitants shudder while they crossed themselves and told
their beads. All at once there came so tremendous a shock that it seemed to swallow the
island. The old stone mill was rent in twain. A pungent smell of sulphur filled the air, and
a fiendish laugh was heard loud above the raging storm, from the shattered ruins. The arch
fiend had come to claim his share.
For years afterward, when a northeast storm blew
from the lake, making night hideous by its echoing
peals of thunder, it was said that a hairy figure, with
a horned head and forked tail tipped with fire, his
mouth and eyes darting forth ruddy flame, could be
seen in the mill, trying to put together the ruined
machinery to grind the devil's grist. And the lonely
wayfarer to Grosse Pointe would see the marshes
around Presque Isle all illuminated by flames, called
by the habitants feu-follet, which would try to
inveigle the unhappy traveler and bring him to help
grind the devil's grist.
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PONTIAC WAR
Edward Gilbert of Carleton recently gave to a
reporter of the Detroit Evening News the following
interesting account of his father's experience in fight-
ing Indians in the Pontiac war, back in 1763 — and
on. It is worth further preservation. Mr. Carleton
said of his father :
“He had been a soldier in that war, and it seems
like yesterday that I saw his familiar figure sitting on
the doorstep of his home, smoking his old wooden
pipe that gave evidence, like himself, of approaching
dissolution. “Uncle Will’ had been a soldier in Chief
Pontiac's war and was full of yarns about the Indians.
One of his favorite stories he used to tell about as
follows:
“‘Wal, I had gone in the war to lick the Indians,
not that I wanted to very much, but if I didn't go
an' help kill them they'd very surely kill me at home,
without help. So I went an’ wuz took to Detroit,
which wasn't a very big town then. We camped
down by the river — it’s all tuk up with houses now
— an' there I first learned how to fight Injuns an’
how to read Injun signs.
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 39
as wild cats, nuthin' beat in numbers, onless it wuz wolves, fur the hull wood wuz full of them
pesky critters. We camped on a Frenchman's clearing, who had settled there, an' the way we
demolished things made the little feller go through more motions than a trained circus donkey, but
the capting stopped him pretty quick by telling him if he didn't shut up he'd put him out on picket
an' let a redskin pick off his scalp an' goatee. Nearly every night some of the boys wuz shot at on
some picket by some prowling redskin, an’ then all would be still fur a time ontil it would break
out again some place else, till at last it settled down by taking a man off the line every night at the
same place. If our capting put more than one man on picket at that place, all would be quiet, but
when only one man wuz put on we'd allus find him next mornin' with an arrer through him.
“‘Wal, at last my time came to take the post, and I wuz scared about as bad as I ever wuz,
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for I wuz purty sure I'd
be dead, or at least have
anuther place to breathe
through in the mornin'.
The place wuz down by
a little stack of straw,
which the little French-
man had stacked there,
ON THE ROUGE, BACK OF WOODMERE
an' as soon as the guard had left, sayin', “Keep your eye out, old man,”
I began to look around fur some kind of kiver fur me to crawl into.
Right in front of the stack wuz a little clump of bushes an’ first I thought
I'd go into them, but then thinks I if a redskin sneaks up here he'll
probably crawl into the same bush an’ it don't look big enough fur
two. Purty soon an idear struck me an' I dug a hole clean back into
the stack an' laid down, with my rifle kivering the kentry ; outside it
wuz bright moonlight an' I knowed I could hit anything as big as an * * *
CLOCK TOWER
VIEW ON THE HUE BARD BOULEVARD
THE SENIOR FOURS AT DETROIT
Injun that showed up. Wal, Ilaid there, hour after hour, an’ nuthin' came, an’ my eyes
wuz 'ginnin' to get tired watchin' when I seed somethin' movin' along jist beyond the
little clump of bushes. I watched it awhile, an’ first it would stop an’ then go ahead,
crouchin’ all the while close to the ground.
“The old man would always grow excited over this and illustrate it in pantomime.
‘‘‘ I remember afterwards,” he continued, ‘that it looked a blame sight more like a
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wolf than an Injun, but I wuz too excited to think of anything excep’ how I wuz to kill
him when he got clus enough fur me to be sure, ſur I wuz purty sartin if I didn't kill him
first shot, I'd be likely to be the one myself to get kilt. Wal, he kep'gittin' nearer and
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OVER THE ROOFS TOWARD WALKERVILLE
them an' stopped jist in front of whar I
wuz. I could see him purty plain an' I | *
waited awhile fur him to stan' up, but he ---
didn't, an' so I drawed a bead on him an'
pulled the trigger. He jumped an' give a
yell an' then laid still arter kickin' a little.
Wal, out come a squad from the camp, an'
I crawled out of my hole an' told them I'd
settled the redskin which had had so much
fun on that post an’showed them whar he
laid. We could just see his body an' one
of the boys dove into the bushes, an’ what
do you think he found? Nuthin' but a
tarnal gray wolf, an an uncommon small
one at that. Wal, you bet I wuz beat, I
wuz called ‘Wolfie a good deal by the
boys an I felt purty sheepish.
“That wuz the the first Injun I ever kilt,
but that wuzn't the last of the trouble, fur
the very next night a man wuz shot in the
side at that same picket, an’ it only stopped
when our picket line wuz doubled.’
days, but as a part of the history of the
time it should be preserved. It reads:
GREAT CON FAGRATION.
300 BUILDINGS BURNED.
AT A LOW ESTIMATE.
The City of Detroit was yesterday visited
with a most disastrous conflagration. It is
estimated that the loss cannot fall short
-- to the cry
the primitive methods then in use or fire fighting—a hint of which
is given in our illustration, on another page, of the burning of the
old Duffield Presbyterian church. Then the old hand fire engines
were used and the emphatic command to “Pump her down "
frequently issued from the lips of the one who had authority over
the men at the handles. --
The following account of the great fire in Detroit is taken from
the Free Press of May 10th, 1848, and lacks the details which
would distinguish a newspaper account of such a matter now-a-
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Ay of BUSINEss UNIVERsity BUILDING, wilcox Avenue
“Grandfather used to visit Detroit,” said Mr. Gilbert, “and he never
failed to go to the place, which was somewhere down on Fort street, and
when he came back he always told it over again with fresh emphasis.”
DETROIT'S GREAT FIRE IN 1848
Some of the older residents of Detroit can undoubtedly remember the - -
excitement which the great fire of 1848 caused, and can probably also recall christ church–JEFFERson Avenue














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MONROE AVENUE, Hotel. St. CLAIR IN THE DISTANCE
above Brush street. On Jefferson avenue every building
on the south side is destroyed, from the new Campau
Block, which was partially destroyed, to the second
building below the Congregational church. All between
that and the river is in ashes.
It is impossible to give the names of the sufferers, as all
is excitement at the time of preparing this account.
The building in which was the Advertiser, was greatly
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of $250,000, and at least 300 families are houseless.
The fire originated in the large storehouse between
Bates and Randolph streets, unoccupied, by sparks from
the propeller St. Joseph, which was firing up at the time,
at about half-past ten in the forenoon, and continued to
rage until four o'clock in the afternoon. The Berthelet
Market, the Steamboat Hotel, Wales' Hotel, &c. are all
in ashes. Not a building is left standing below Jefferson
avenue, between Brush street and an alley between Bates
and Randolph Streets, except the warehouse of Brewster
& Dugeon, and Thompson's Hotel, and many are burned
RT, REv. W. x. NINDE, Bishop, METHODIST DIOCESE of DETROIT
side of Jefferson avenue, above Bates street, but the wind shifted, which
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damaged, but the materials were principally saved, but
of course there will be a loss by damage and delay in pub-
old DESK iN L. P. cAMPAU's office
building — probably $20,000 above insurance. This
building was the first brick edifice built in Michigan, and
was occupied by General Hull during the last war with
England.
Mr. Eaton's loss, who was in the same building, is
large. But we cannot give the names of all the sufferers,
as they are many.
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lication. The citizens and firemen deserve great credit for their activity in
endeavoring to arrest the flames. At one time it was thought impossible
to arrest the progress of the fire, until it had burned everything on the south
enabled the firemen to get ahead of its progress. Several buildings were
blown up or torn down, in the hopes of stopping its progress, but without
accomplishing the object.
Jefferson avenue is almost entirely blocked up with furniture or store
goods. - -
Mr. Wales, of Wales' Hotel, saved a great part of his costly furniture,
but his loss is quite heavy, as is the loss of Major Biddle, who owned the
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We are unable to say how much of the property
destroyed was insured, but we presume very little,
rom the fact that insurance companies declined
taking insurance in that neighborhood. The
Steamboat Hotel, we understand, was uninsured,
and the large block of Wales' Hotel was insured
for only $5,000. The small wooden buildings
occupied as grocery and butcher shops below
Jefferson avenue were probably all uninsured.
The cabinet, wagon, blacksmith and bake shops,
etc., were nearly all uninsured, and their loss is
large. One cabinet shop contained about $2,000
worth of finished work, which was all destroyed.
It would be just, and an act of charity, for those
of our citizens who escaped the destruction incident
to the fire yesterday, to lend a helping hand to the
poor who have met with such severe loss. We
hope measures will be taken to furnish shelter for
those who are homeless. Many of them are sick,
and were removed on litters.
The draymen are deserving of great praise for
their free tender of their time and drays yesterday
in removing furniture and the sick. We saw a
great number of draymen carting furniture Iree
of charge. VIEW AT CORNER OF GRATIOT AVENUE AND RANDOLPH STREET
MRS, MARY JACKLIN The whole city was in danger during the prog-
ress of the fire yesterday, from the sparks, which - -
were, in every direction, to be seen in the -
air. Even wooden buildings as far as Con-
gress street, were several times on fire, but
put out. It was necessary to keep a
sentinel on the house tops in all parts
of the city east of Woodward avenue.
THE MISER PENREUX
Market Gardener Penreux, who lived on
Seventh street nearly thirty years, sold
garden vegetables and accumulated quite
CORNER
CORNER GRISWOLD STREET AND GRAND RIVER
AVENUE
OLD FRENICH MARKET
a little fortune. He was called a miser,
and while, like some of his class, he was
known to have secreted more or less money
about his house, unlike them he had the
good sense to place the great bulk of his
fortune in the bank. He lived in an
old house pictured on the next page" as
“The Miser's Cottage,” and finally, being
- well along in years, and tired of his lone-
TAKE so METHING witH ME * * some life, he decided to return to his native
Sunny France, and this last spring he shut up his old
home, and prepared to depart. He had received a
considerable sum for the land on which the house
stood, which is now to be the site of a foundlings'
hospital, and he drew in all, it is said, about $12,000
from the bank, to take to France. He gave $1,500
to one of his friends, and when he left the house
probably little dreamed of the commotion and ran-
sacking the old cottage would endure within a few
minutes after he left it. This was last March (1893)
and a local paper thus describes the scene which
followed :
Yesterday was a great day on Seventh street. The
interest in old Penreux's departure for France was
intensified by the knowledge that he was in the habit
of Secreting sums of money in his house, and after the
carriage containing the old market gardener and his
- - _-_ - friends, Louis Richardot and John B. Gravier, drove
woodward Avenue, North From congress street away to the depot the house was surrounded by a MARY JUDGE






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gradually increasing crowd, mostly boys
and girls. Mrs. Richardot and her hus-
band's brother and his wife appeared to
claim the old furniture, but were prevented
from seeking for hidden treasure.
Mrs. Richardot said this morning that
Mr. Keating told her that when she
removed the furniture he would take pos-
session of the house. -
“Then he nailed up the door,” said Mrs.
Richardot, “ and wouldn't let us look any
more. Now Old Mr. Penreux told me to
take the things and look for the money,
and send it to him in France. I will have
to see the law about it.” -
A dead-set was made on the old wood- - *
shed, which stood at the right of the house, -º
and soon about fifty boys and girls, with
a sprinkling of grown-up ſpersons, were
turning over the heaps of rubbish, sawdust
and chips. Their labor was soon rewarded
by finds of money. Peter Smith found
four dollars wrapped in paper, consisting
of two silver dollars and eight quarters.
GRASSY ISLAND LIGHT, DETROIT RIVER
Little Annie Jewell found an old oyster can inside the edge of the roof, which was
apparently filled with ice. Removing some of the ice she saw some coins, and ran across
the lot in an excited way. A number of small boys followed her, tripped her up, emptied
the can, and scrambled for the coins. Willie Coffin secured three dollars and seventy-
five cents in quarters, dimes and nickels. Other boys grabbed smaller amounts, and
Annie only secured two dollars and seventy-five cents of her find.
The side door leading from the shed was broken open, and soon the excited crowd
of treasure-seekers got into the front room of the house in which old Penreux had lived.
Emily Baker, a girl of fourteen, living at 270 Fifth street, went poking in the dirt in the
THE NORSEMEN’s BOAT, THE
SANTA MARIA -
THE SPANISH CARAVELS AT DETROIT
“ VIKI AT DETROIT
corner behind the stove, and ound a little paper
package. She unrolled it and found twenty dol-
lars in gold and silver. Jasper Davis emptied an
THE HOME GUARD
old shoe and found eight dollars and two
cents. Willie Hurley found a tarnished
quarter and a lot of three-cent pieces.
George Downie and Willie Wilson each
found one dollar in silver, and Willie Power
discovered one dollar and fifty-five cents.
One boy found a dollar gold piece sticking
in a crack of the wall, and another a cup
of copper cents in the rubbish. There
were rumors that a girl found eighty dollars
and another forty dollars, but no names
could be given. Another boy found a
five dollar gold piece in the back shed.
The search lasted till darkness set in.
At daylight this morning there were about
fifty young persons delving and turning
over the rubbish and dirt in the house, but
only a few coins were found.
THE HOME OF THE OLD FRENICH MISER
(SITE of THE NEw FREE Hospital For children)
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VIEW WEST ON LAFAYETTE AVENUE FROM GRISWOLD
BOOKSTORE IS THE ORIGINAL M. C. R. R. DEPOT)
AUSTIN BLAIR, THE WAR Gover NOR OF MICHIGAN
Grocer Meath, at the corner below, did a
thriving business in candy yesterday. When-
ever a youngster made a find he darted to the
grocery, followed by his friends, and there
invested some of his treasure in Sweetmeats.
“I think that I had twenty customers
yesterday who found money in the old hut,”
said Mr. Meath this morning.
Up to noon to-day the house was filled
with searchers, and the dust caused in turning
over the rubbish was really stifling. This
THE LATE HENRY P. BALDWIN, Ex-Gover Nor of
MICHIGAN
STREET (THE BUILDING occupied As A
OFF FOR cLEveLAND – DETROIT RIVER
THE
MICHIGAN STATE CAPITOL BUILDING AT LANSING
morning a young man named John Ernst exhumed an old pair of pants and retired to see what
was in the pockets. He was seen to take out a silver medal and some coins, but hid the rest
of his find.
It was evident that Penreux in his old age developed the same propensities as the magpie and
the crow for hiding things. Afraid to carry money on his person, and distrusting banks, he con-
cealed his money as he received it and then forgot about it. It is also supposed that his wife, who
died in 1879, had the same propensity.
One of the persons in charge of the property said to a neighbor : “I was going to sell what
was in the house to a second hand man for one dollar. I’m glad I didn't, for I found ten dollars.”
GENERAL BRADY AND HIS FAMOUS DUEL
Gen. Hugh Brady was one of Detroit's famous characters for many years, a lion of the war
of 1812, and his descendants are to-day among the most prominent families of Detroit society. He
is described as a great raw-boned man of splendid proportions, over six feet in height, a giant in
stature and courage, and a brave, impetuous fellow, ever ready to back up his convictions with his
- ALL ABOARD FOR THE FLATS
WILLIAM E. QUINBY, U. S. MINISTER TO THE
NETHERLANDS
sword. He came of a family of fighters on the
frontier, the name and deeds of one of them
at least being preserved to all time in the
northern tier by a monumental remembrance
in a quiet cemetery in Lycoming county,
Pennsylvania. During the Canadian rebellion
of 1837, General Brady had command of the
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MUSKRAT INN, ON THE ROUGE
United States forces, and took a prominent part, at that time, in capturing the strag-
glers, and bringing the war to an end. He died in Detroit in 1851, at a ripe old age,
and one of Detroit's crack military organizations was named the Brady Guards, in his
honor.
Recently, in a reminiscential article relating to the old town of Sunbury, Pa., the
Philadelphia Press told the following interesting story concerning a famous duel in
which Brady was a principal when he lived in Pennsylvania. The scene is laid in the
old town of Sunbury, where, on a certain muster day, he rode into town probably
without any thought or dream of what was to befall him before night. He was THE TALLY-HO
connected with the commissary department of the army of 1812, and as the
y
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NORTH-WEST CORNER wooDWARD AND ADAMS AVENUES, JUST TORN Down
(MARCH, 1893) AND NEw BUILDING BEING ERECTED
STAIRWAY AND spINNING wheel. IN HON. T. wi. PALMER's
LOG CABIN
enlistment of recruits was still in progress, the obtaining
of supplies for the growing army was of paramount
importance.
The review was in progress ; the militia from Point and
Rush and Shamokin and the other townships were still
going through their evolutions when General Hugh rode up
to the door of Mike Kutzner's tavern, opposite the old court
house, and dismounted. He was widely known and many
a familiar salutation was exchanged as he strode into the
public room of the hotel.
There was no prohibition party in that year of our Lord,
1812, in Pennsylvania. It was not considered a breach
of good manners to pour out a slug of whiskey in a public
tavern and drink to the health of your friend or friends, and
so Gen. Hugh Brady did not scruple to stand before the low,
massive, and unadorned white oak bar and call for a glass
of the best in the house. If he had contented himself with
this one glass, this portion of the old stories of Sunbury
would never have been written. But Brady wasn't that
sort of a man ; he knew a good thing when he saw it, or
tasted it, and so he called for another, and possibly half a
- dozen more during the ensuing four hours, and the exchequer
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w is cºnsº gº
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increased as the contents of his cask diminished
at the bidding of the fighting Brady.
There was another man equally renowned
for his courage as General Brady of the United
States army. He was a lawyer by profession,
a soldier by choice.
It was Capt. Daniel Levy, a man of mark
and a citizen of distinction. He was of medi-
um height, smooth face, compact build and
of ready wit. It was a part of Gen. Hugh
Brady's business in Sunbury to see Capt.
Daniel Levy. There were some details of
equipment for the army to be discussed and
while Gen. Hugh Brady waited at Kutzner's,
Capt. Daniel Levy watched the evolutions
of the township soldiery on the southern bank
of the Susquehanna in front of ex-Senator
Maclay's stone mansion.
THE LATE ALANSON SHELEY
__- When Captain Levy at last entered the bar-
room at Kutzner's, he was dusty and very dry
and this condition of his no doubt tended to
hasten the episode in which he was one of the
principal actors.
The public tap, or bar-room of Michael
Kutzner's tavern, was of the characteristic kind
of eighty years ago. It was about 20x25 feet,
with an unusually high ceiling for a hotel.
The main entrance was from the public square,
and on the same side of the room two small
windows with a dozen small lights of glass set
in heavy sashes looked out upon the court
house green. On the other, or northern side,
two more windows gave an unobstructed view
of the Susquehanna, 500 yards distant.
The bar-room was very plainly furnished.
The light oak bar, with a dozen bottles on a
shelf behind it, stood close to the east wall
of the room, with a door on the left as one
entered which opened into the dining-room.
Around the room were arranged a half dozen
wooden and rush bottomed chairs, while on
either side of the rude hearth stood two broad
seated wooden settees or settles.
After the two soldiers had pledged each
other in mutual glances at the white oak bar
they adjourned to the table between the win-
dows. Under ordinary circumstances they
would have been the cynosure of all eyes, but
on this day the drinkers at the bar, the militia
men and the townspeople who happened to
drop in regarded them with interest at a dis-
wooDw ARD Avenue, North FROM THE CAMPUS
GEORGE V. N. LOTHROP, U. S. MINISTER To RUSSIA,
1887–88
tance. For this reason the origin of the famous
duel was never known.
The pair had been sitting at the oaken table
between the windows for quite a while with
various papers spread out between them when
the few men in the room heard a few expletives,
and the next instant the two men had leaped
to their feet. The lie was passed. Of this
there is scarcely a doubt. As they sprang
from the chairs two swords flashed in the light
of the setting sun as it streamed through the
windows. Before the men who remained in
the room Samuel Awl, the father of Dr. R. H.
Awl, and Michael Kutzner and a couple of
soldiers could stir, there was the sharp ring
of steel on steel and the swords of the two
soldiers clashed together across the table.
It was no fairy French play, that duel in
Mike Kutzner's bar-room that afternoon. The
Rt. REv. John Foley, Bishop of THE CATHolic
DIOCESE OF DETROIT
deadliest insults had passed over a question
which has never been made known, and each
man fought for his life. All the advantage
was in Brady's favor ; he was the taller of the
two, and his arm was the longest and strong-
est. But Levy never wavered or yielded in
the outset. It was fatal for him to fight across
the table, so inclining away he got clear of it,
and once in the middle of the floor he made a
desperate lunge at his opponent's breast. The
blow fell short, and then with his giant's
strength Brady aimed a blow at his antago–
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“Trot, trot, to Boston,
To buy a loaf of bread ' "
kill him. The vicious assault was parried, and panting and cursing,
the two men fought like madmen around the room. A single
misstep, a stumble over a chair, would have been fatal to either,
for with boiling blood and blending passion neither would have
hesitated to commit what would have practically been murder.
To the coolness and bravery of Awl and Kutzner was due the
fact that life was not sacrificed. Entreaties were in vain, and, so,
as the duel waged, the spectators began the most novel efforts at
peacemaking that perhaps wele ever heard
of on this continent. Seizing one of the
wooden chairs, and watching his oppor-
tunity, Samuel Awl flung it between the
two combatants. Kutzner did the same,
but regardless of these obstacles the men
fought across them. And at this point
came the climax. -
Brady had been steadily fighting down
his antagonist, but the admirable defense
and cleverness of Levy had enabled him to
escape injury. Suddenly Brady raised
himself on his tip-toes and, regardless
of his unguarded position, raised his sword
to bring it down with awful force upon
Levy's head. The latter saw the blow
coming, turned his head slightly, and
raised his sword on guard to
catch it. So powerful was
the impetus of this assault
that the sword of Brady,
cleaving downward, cut off
the end of Levy’s queue —
which he always wore, be-
ing a lawyer — and breaking
down the guard of his antag-
onist, inflicted a severe
wound on his left shoulder.
Levy staggered back, and
again Brady delivered a
fierce downward stroke,
which missed its object, but
the point of the sword scored
a deep cut in the heavy sill
of one of the windows. For
nearly fifty years this mark
of Brady's Sword remained on the window sill
of Kutzner's old place, and was only removed
when the property was remodeled.
This ended the duel, for Awl and his compan-
ions had worked so industriously throwing up a
barricade between the belligerents that they were
forced to stop fighting. All the furniture in the
room except the old settees was piled up between
the men. When Brady sheathed his dented blade
with an oath and panting called for a drink from
the frightened tavernkeeper, Levy stood leaning
against the wall exhausted but still defiant, with
his sword point on the floor and his hand pressed
to his side. -
It was a duel to be proud of; one of the Three
Guardsmen kind as when Athos and D'Artagnan
stood up and fought their way out of the cavern
between Paris and the coast.
But of all the hundreds of the curious who hung
ROBERT HOPKIN, ARTIST
west MINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
“Foreign Missions”
outside Mike Kutzner's place in Sunbury that aſternoon and pressed
their faces breathlessly against the little square paries of glass to catch
a glimpse of the fierce combat within, not one thought to leave
behind the story in writing of that unique event.
After the lapse of two generations and forty years, after the brave
and impetuous Brady had passed to his grave in Detroit, the story
is told anew. Not, perhaps, as the respected Dr. Awl would and
has told it in a paragraph of crisp facts, but embellished as the cir-
cumstances warrant from a liberal and romantic view. Captain
Levy recovered. His wound was severe but not dangerous.
Amicable relations were established between the duellists, but
they were never the firm friends they were before that unhappy
but dramatic episode.
THE “ GRIFFIN’’ AND LAKE ST. CLAIR
On Aug. 12th, 1879, many prominent people of Detroit,
Grosse Pointe and vicinity celebrated the second centennial anni-
versary of the naming of Lake St. Clair, which took place, i







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. Robert Cavalier de la Salle was the commander of the “Griffin "
and the discoverer of Lake St. Clair, and a brief account of his work
will be naturally looked for in this connection. In 1669 La Salle is
first heard of making his way with a Seneca guide to the Ohio
river, which he descended, as far as the rapids at Louisville. Here
he was abandoned by his men and retraced his steps alone. The following year he
embarked in a canoe on Lake Erie, reached the straits of Detroit, coasted Lakes Huron
and Michigan and descended the Mississippi to the 35th degree of latitude. Assured
that the great river discharged not into the gulf of California (as had until then been
supposed) but into that of Mexico, he returned to provide means for more extended
explorations. Unfortunately his plans and maps are lost; they are known to have existed
in 1756, and if accounts are correct they would have given to the world the first knowl-
edge of the Ohio, if not the Mississippi. La Salle was eventually aided by the governor
of Canada, and the two planned a post on Lake Ontario, far beyond the settlements
THE LATE JACOB S. FARRAND
seems, in an approved formal way, on board the
ancient schooner “ Griffin,” off Grosse Pointe, in
1679. This vessel was to the beautiful St. Clair lake
country what the ancient Spanish caravels were to
the eastern (Atlantic) seashores of the new conti-
ment, and we reproduce elsewhere from an ancient
print a picture of her as she appeared in 1679.
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CLEVELAND
GATEWAY AND LO AT ELMWOOD CEMETERY
of the St. Lawrence, which might overawe the Iroquois and turn to France
the stream of wealth that was innuring to the Dutch and English from the
free trade. Twice La Salle visited France, where his influence at court
obtained for him permission to pursue his plans at his own expense for five
years. He received from the king a patent of nobility and a grant in
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seigniory of Fort Frontenac, as the new post was called.
The place where was built the first vessel – the “Griffin" that
sailed the upper lakes—is the mouth of a small stream the Cayuga,
about six miles above the cataract, on the west side of the Niagara
river. She was of about sixty tons burden and the drawing given
on page 57 of this work (made by the late Chief Justice Campbell)
gives a clear idea of its character.
but of a character peculiar to that day, having double decks and a
high poop projected over the stern, where was the main cabin, and
over this rose another and smaller cabin,
doubtless for the use of the commander.
The stern was thus carried up broad
and straight to considerable height.
Bulwarks protected the quarter deck.
She bore on her prow a huge figure, in
imitation of an heraldic monster — the
arms of Count Frontenac—“ and
above it an eagle.” This, in the repre-
sentation, adorns the top of the stern.
The ship “carried five small cannon,
three of which were brass, and three
arquebuses, and the rest of the ship had
the same ornaments that men-of-war
used to have.” “It might have been
called,” adds the historiographer, Hen-
nepin who accompanied the expedition,
It was a two-masted schooner,
“a moving fortress. In fine, it “was well
equipped with sails, masts, and all things neces-
sary for navigation,” besides arms, provisions and
merchandise. -
On the seventh day of August La Salle and his
fellow-voyagers, to the number of thirty-three,
embarked and having sung a Te Deum, spread
their sails to a favoring breeze. The ship proved
a good sailer, and on the 11th they entered “a
strait thirty leagues long and one broad,” called
in the language of the French, the Detroit, and
the next day they reached the beautiful expanse
now known as Lake St. Clair.
It seems it was a custom of French voyagers in
new regions to bestow upon any prominent feature
of the landscape the name of the saint to whom
the day of the discovery was dedicated in the
church calendar. There was a saint who bore
the present modernized name, and who was one
of the headless saints, a martyr to his virtue, but
his calendar day is November. The saint whose
name was really bestowed, and whose day is
August 12, is the female “Sainte Claire,” the
foundress of the order of Franciscan nuns of the
thirteenth century, known as “Poor Claires.”
Clara d'Assisi was the beautiful daughter of a
THE PRESENT U. S. GOVERNMENT BUILDING AND POST-OFFICE
nobleman of great wealth, who
early dedicated herself to a religious
life and went to St. Francis to ask
for advice. On Palm Sunday she
went to church with her family,
dressed in rich attire, where St.
Francis cut off her long hair with
his own hands, and threw over her
the coarse penitential robes of the
order. She entered the convent
of San Dumiano in spite of the
opposition of her family and friends,
and was afterwards the most cele-
At a time when all
were extorting
Roman church.
the communities
brated founder of orders in the
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from the popes authorization to pos-
sess property she solicited from Innocent
IV, in favor of her order of Francis-
cas, the privilege of perpetual pov-
erty F. Way, in his work on Rome,
says that Ste. Claire has her tomb at
the Minerva and that the house she
lived in still exists between the Pantheon
and the Thermae of Agrippa – that
here she was visited by the pope and
on the 12th of August, 1253, while
listening to the reading of the Passion,
in the midst of her weeping nuns, she
died, as the first abbess of the Clarisses
and the founder of over 4,000 religious
houses.
We are not told with what imposing
ceremonies the christening was per-
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formed, but surely some inspiration was
derived from the beautiful scenes of nature
through which the voyagers had just
passed, which then surrounded them, and
which to our eyes are now no less lovely
and inviting. The natural beauty of the
region lying between Lakes Huron and Erie
had been recorded by all the early travelers,
with words of admiration. Many of the
islands were low, and some of the river
margins scarcely above the water. But all
was green and peaceful. Dark forests
extended to the water's edge, and many a
tall monarch of the wood waved its gigan-
tic arms over the brink, and was reflected
in a glassy surface which no tide or flood
ever disturbed. The marshes were luxuri-
ant with wild rice, that furnished a
Sumptuous repast to a great variety of birds
and water fowl, and even a welcome supply
to the Indians. Occasional villages and
bark wigwams enlivened the shore, sur-
rounded with gardens and corn fields, and
the most elevated points were crowned
with burial mounds.
The chroniclers all allude to the abun-
dance of wild game and fruits. There
were apples “as large as the Pommes
d'Api,” or Lady Apples, and “nuts like
moderate sized oranges.” La Houtan says
DISTANT VIEW OF ToweR OF FIRST STATE HospitaL BUILDING IN
MICHIGAN, VIEW FROM GRAND RIVER AVE. AND BAGLEY
Ave. FROM PAINTING (1869). By Roe ERT HoPKIN
“ the pears are good but rare.” The apples were probably crab, though one writer
speaks of the trees as set methodically ; but who can tell us what were the pears? Can
it be that the famous French pear trees, whose origin no man living knows, existed here
as natives at that day The beauties of the passage filled the voyagers with rapturous
delight. Hennepin records the loveliness of the shores, the prairies and the forests. The
“Griffin" was covered with game and fruits which had been gathered in great abundance
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and with little effort, and the
voyagers feasted and congratu-
lated themselves on having found
a land almost literally flowing -
with milk and honey. , —
Of the fortunes of La Salle and A PICNIC FOR ONE
the Griffin, following the discov-
ery and naming of St. Clair, it must here suffice to say that master and
ship had here nearly reached the height of their usefulness. A deep-seated
jealousy of La Salle pervaded the fur traders and the Jesuits and made them
hostile to his enterprise, since it more or less threatened their private gains.
The pilot of the Griffin while on a special expedition, was either bribed and
purposely sent his ship to the bottom of Lake Huron, or the vessel found-
ered in a storm, for it was never heard of again. La Salle continued on,
but this time to the south, discovered the mouth of the Missis-
sippi and took possession of the Louisiana country in the name
d of the French king. A French colony was organized in France,
to settle the new country, but it became reduced by suffering
and disappointment to one-fourth the original number, and La
Salle himself, while on the way to Canada for relief, was shot by
two men who accompanied him and had sworn
vengeance on their leader.
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DETROIT AS A SUMMER RESORT
BY AN OUTSIDER
Probably the proposition that Detroit, with
a population of nearly 300,000 souls, is a most
suitable place for a summer resort, would be
met with a smile of incredulity by the people
of other cities, especially the east, but we
guarantee that if they will pay a visit to this
place, in the most sultry month of summer,
they will find not only within a few miles
of the city, but in the city itself, all the gen-
eral enjoyment, and salubrious air which they
would find in a professional summer resort.
Regarding this city, first as a resort for
invalids, we find peculiar attractions. The
atmosphere is pure and free from malaria, as
the land has long been subject to tillage, the
THE STEAMER
THE OLD BOAT HOUSE
sewerage is excellent, and the streets
are broad. The fuel principally used is
Wood, so that the air is free from the
clouds and dust that result from the use
of bituminous coal in most western
cities. The adjacent mineral springs
and baths, among them the sulphur
springs at Sandwich and Springwells,
have been found effective in many
diseases, and the Mount Clemens
Springs, famous for curing rheumatic
and neuralgic disorders, are within half
an hour's ride.
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A TEN-OARED BARGE RACE – THE FINISH – AT DETROIT
Pleasure seekers find fishing all the year round in Lake St. Clair, and game birds, especially water-fowl,
abound in the season. Pretty steamers carry the tourist to this lake, and southward to the Erie. Near the
latter, in the Detroit River, which flows by clear and limpid, is the well known Grosse Isle, and further on is
Put-in-Bay Island. These delightful places are as conveniently reached from Detroit as Coney Island and the
Long Island beaches are from New York, and have fine hotels, thus affording a variety of pleasant trips in
addition to the beauty and healthfulness of the city itself.
surprised at the unusual richness and variety of the attractions and advantages of Detroit, and I set to work to
find out all I could about its natural sur-
roundings and the way in which the people
have improved them, and I am indebted to
the kindness of friends as well as my own
observations.
The water supply is obtained from the
river at such a distance above the city that
it is absolutely pure drinking water, and
the force of the river performs the labor
of Hercules in cleansing the city and its
drains. Street railroads run to all parts
of the town, and the manner in which the
streets are laid out and paved and kept in
order, as well as all other matters under the
control of the municipal government, might
set a worthy example to New York. -
The society of this city is choice. Most
of the residents are the fourth or fifth gene-
ration of the old French settlers, and are
imbued with that delicate refinement and
sociable character which mark the good
families of the provincial towns of France.
It is as if the older Dutch and English
families of New York were a majority
of the population.
THE YouNG womeN's HoME
tecture and some of the most beautifully frescoed interiors to be found in
I confess that I, an Eastern man, was greatly
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The social superiority is en-
banced and maintained by the
usual adjuncts of a well ordered
community. The churches are
abundant, representing the prin-
cipal sects, the Roman Catholic
(descended from the grand old
Jesuit mission) numbering fifteen
out of the seventy-four, and the
Episcopalians fourteen. St.
Anne's (R. C.) is the oldest ec-
clesiastical edifice between the
Alleghenies and the Rocky
Mountains, and contains relics
dating back to 1805, and tradi-
tions whose origin is lost in the
dim light of the pristine forests.
The other church buildings
present some of the finest archi-
the United States.
The school system of Detroit is comprehensive and complete, and as supplements to it there are the Detroit
Female Seminary, founded in 1859, and containing many students from neighboring states as well as the daugh-
ters of Michigan's best families; and the State University at Ann Arbor, an hour's ride from the city, which is as
free as the public schools to residents in this state.
I do not tell you about the school system as an
inducement to summer pleasure-seekers, but Detroit is such a wonderful city, and so rapidly growing into
importance, that everything concerning it will be of interest to all readers.
As a home Detroit can scarcely be surpassed, for the people have not grown
rich through the feverish excitement of speculation or treasure hunting, but
have gradually built up the city by the ordinary quiet routine of business.
Consequently, there is a substantial, homelike air about them and about the
town, which pervades the thoroughfares and reaches its perfection in the
cheery, happy homes. Do not think I am picturing a Utopia, or trying to
make you look upon this city as a Platonian Republic or one of the Isles of the
Yurt House, Etc.
Blessed, stranded during the geological
changes of the continent. There are cross-
tempered people here, there are faults
of city government, there are political
schemers, there are discontented taxpayers
— there are, on all hands, in this apparent
Eden of the New World, the dwarfed trees
of ill nature, the knotty joints and gnarled
branches which are universal in human
nature. But compared with the internal
dissensions of a city like New York, this is
marvelously peaceful. -
There are no “slums ” in Detroit. The
land is cheap and the building facilities are
exceptional. Most well-to-do mechanics
and even laborers live in neat white cot–
tages, the tradespeople in brick structures,
and a greater percentage of the people, I
think, than in any other city, occupy their
own houses on their own land. There are
no tenements, and nearly every residence
has a lawn and shade trees. There are,
besides, a number of parks dotting the
city, affording free passage for the fresh air,
which is laden with the scent of the flowers which everybody cultivates.
Some of the houses of the wealthier inhabitants are magnificent, and may
well vie with your boasted Fifth and Madison avenues, and some of the
streets rival the broad avenues of Washington. The exquisite taste of the
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Buckskin HUNTING CoAT – A CUSTER
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people of Detroit is evinced not
less in their homes for the dead
than in their city houses. There
are several beautiful cemeteries
nearby, in which are some of the
sparkling streams and groves
of fine old forest trees which
skirt the town on all sides,
making lovely villages of its
suburbs and delicious sylvan
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large, except in the business center of the city. Buildings are going up on every
hand, and several hundred are projected for the coming year. All this is the result
of a growth so sure and firmly planted that any investment here is certain to yield a
handsome return, the prospects of future development being jeopardized by no
sudden upstarting of business, which is apt to bring as great a downfall. ANON.
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THREE NOTABLE MARKETWOMEN .
Twilight — Ice House NEAR connor's CREER
Detroit has been noted, in years past, for the excellence of its public markets, and
the closing of the Central Market the present year (1893) makes an epoch in the city's
history and awakens a flood of reminiscences in the minds of older residents of the
city. Volumes might be written on life in the old Central Market, but none of them
would be complete without more or less reference to the lives and doings there of three
retreats of the uncleared ground. The
gentle slope of the land adds much to the
varied beauty, while it is practically bene-
ficial as a means of both irrigation and
draining.
During the last thirty years the value
of real estate has steadily increased, but
the price asked for it is not, even now, very
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ALL ABOARD FOR HIGH LAND PARK – FIRST TRAIN
of Detroit's most notable
marketwomen, Nancy Mar-
tin, Mary Jacklin and Mary
Judge.
It was here that Nancy
Martin, a thrifty Quakeress,
whose sharp tongue and kind
heart are not forgotten to this
day, could be seen hustling
about the stalls. Not for-
gotten either is that piece
of heroic generosity by
which this kind-hearted old
creature, who toiled in the
stalls of the market place
until she was over sixty years
of age, gave all her hard-
DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY earned fortune, including the PRESENTATION OF COLORs to IST MICHIGAN vol. INFANTRY,
COL. O. B. WILCox, CoMMANDING – MAY 1 1, 1861.
a
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
From a poem written by E. N. Wil/cor, and read at the
dedication Yan. 22, 1877
MICHIGAN FLAG SONG – AN ECHO FROM
SUMTER
A da/ted £o f/ke “Anzyż Chorus” from “ZZ 77°ozafore,”
by D. Beth zºne Diºſ; eld
Where frowned the prison, now the palace smiles
Where crime and justice wrangle, now there shines
Volume on volume, glittering piles on piles;
And here the good of all we know enshrines
Itself in alcoves, where the student pines
In longing reverie ; but erst the cell
Of him who traced in glimmering, fading lines,
Trumpet and ensign and drum-beat are calling
From hillside and valley, from mountain and river.
“Forward the flag '" E'en though heroes are falling,
Our God will his own chosen standard deliver.
Each long day's history of his earth born hell, CHORUS.
Come ye and read his epitaph and read it well - Star-spangled Banner our hopes to thee are clinging ;
When Learning, tripping on the dewy lawn, Lead us to victory, or wºn death ;
With smiles invites us to her pleasant way, Staunch are we,
And lisping lovingly, asks us here to stay, While yet a breath
Remains to sing thee,
Qr arm to fling thee,
O'er this fair land, wide and free.
Here with the laurel let us crown the boy,
Here, too, the maid, with rosemary and bay;
'Tween Poetry and Prose there's no alloy,
An unmixed good in each—critics alone destroy.
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INSELRUHE DAIRY LUNCH House AT BELLE ISLE UNDER THE IRON BRIDGE – BELLE ISLE PARK
CANAL AT THE PARK
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land upon which the hospital building now stands,
to assist her friend, Walter Harper, in the founding
of Harper Hospital. Everybody knew Nancy
Martin, with her thrifty manners and tidy figure.
She used to sell fowls in one of the inside stalls
of the vegetable market.
One day the public heard that a man named
Walter Harper had given the city 1,000 acres
of land to found a hospital and then a few months
afterwards they learned that Nancy Martin, who
was his housekeeper, had given three acres of land
near Woodward avenue for a site for the hospital
and fifteen acres beside, in the 10,000 acre tract.
The whole amount of these gifts was $45,000.
Nancy Martin's contribution amounted to $15,000
and she made that small fortune selling chickens
on the market. -
Mary Judge came to the market when she was
a young woman, in this way : A. H.
Redfield was controller of Detroit in
1863, and she arrived in the city, on
her way from Indiana, and her guardian
there — a brother of Mr. Redfield
of Detroit – to Montreal, where her
parents lived. She had stopped off to
see her guardian's brother, and while
with him learned that her father had
died. It was a long journey in those
days, to Montreal, and Mary decided
that she would not go on. So Mr.
Redfield gave her a post on the market
square, let her build a little shanty there
and set her up in business. She sold
candy and fruit and all sorts of things
for a time, but presently there came a
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VIEW ACROSS LAKE ST. CLAIR – HEAD OF BELLE ISLE PARK
man who set up an oyster stand beside
her, and then another and another.
Finally there was a whole row of huts
facing Bates street and a market-woman
who kept a stand across the way made
such a fuss that they were all compelled
to go because they were squatters and
had no rights there. Then Mary went
into the market and kept a stall, selling
flowers.
Finally, a few years ago she had
grown so old and had paid so much
money into the city treasury for her
booth, as she says, that the council
allowed her to keep her stall without
further rent. She has been to see the
council several times. Once they ad-
mitted her and she made a speech. She
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
ARBOR IN BELLE ISLE PARK
A PARK RAIN-MAKER
has a sort of rude art and upon this subject,
which has lain next her poor old heart so many
years, she is positively eloquent. She was so
eloquent that the aldermen promised that she
should not lose her stall when the market was
torn down, but that she should have another
stall of her own, where she shall be looked
after and saved from the general ruin which
she saw overhanging the market stallkeepers
when the inevitable came.
Mary Jacklin, another of the famous market-
women, also gained fame and fortune in a snug,
cosy way, within the precincts of the old
Central market. She is probably better known
about the streets of Detroit today than either
of the other market celebrities ; and almost
any day can be seen in the hotels and other
public places, dickering for the delivery
of poultry or selling buttonhole bouquets.
Withal, “Mother Jacklin,” as she is common-
ly called, is a remarkably bright, shrewd
business woman, and while she has never en-
joyed educational privileges herself, she has
VIEW IN THE PARK
seen to it that her children acquired and gained
what she lacked in “learning.” As a result
her sons are men of great talent and leading
lights in the ministry of the Methodist church.
The Central market has figured often in legal
controversies, and a few years ago Judge
Campbell, in his decision upon the market
bond case, made a novel use of “legal cap *
in appending to his opinion a graceful and
elegant narrative of the Detroit market, with
a neat allusion to the sturdy figure of Nancy
Martin and the ancient and what he believed
to be wholesome policy of establishing public
LoNG whar F AND BOAT HOUSE, BELLE ISLE PARK
YoUNG NAVIGATORS IN THE PARK
marts where the small traders could come in
direct contact with their customers, not with-
out a touch of pathos that this good old
fashioned way of trading should have fallen
into decay, driven out by the combinations
and larger and more comprehensive method
of traffic that modern invention has made.
The old Central market was bound up with
more of the city's life than any other one place
in Detroit. Fifty years ago on a bright Satur-
cENTRAL Avenue – BELLE ISLE PARK (old BRIDGE)
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r
ICE WATER HERE — IN THE PARK
day morning that spot was gay
with a throng of pretty country
girls — black-eyed, olive-
skinned, with the vivacity that
only French girls know — who
came from the Canadian shore
with their little ponies hitched
to funny brown-bodied carts,
bringing fruits and vegetables
and flowers to the city for sale.
In those days you could buy
in the Central market, as Silas
Farmer says, “almost anything
but lodging – confectionery,
fruits, shoes, poultry, stockings,
vegetables, laces, meat, fish–
they were all displayed there for
the customers who passed.”
About this one point not only
all the traffic but all the gossip
— political and social—seemed
to center. Ladies met there in
the mornings to do their shop-
ping and chatted of social mat-
ters as they fluttered about
among the booths. Men made
it a place for talking over busi-
ness matters and gathering the
financial and political gossip
of the day. It was the place
for the newspaper man to meet
the prominent people of the city
and get the daily intelligence
of the town.
DETROIT AND WICINITY
IN 1830
We are indebted to the Detroit
Journal for an interesting account
of the experiences of an early
settler in Michigan. -- tº
Today there are but few
BRIDGE – HEAD OF BELLE ISLE PARK
of Michigan's young people that
know what their forefathers have
gone through, and of their hard-
ships as early settlers of the
“wilds of Michigan.” The
following reminiscences are re-
lated by one of Michigan's pio-
neer women, Mrs. George C.
Lathrop, now living near Stock-
bridge, and will doubtless inter-
est young and old :
“September 23, 1828, we
were married in East Bethany,
Genesee county, N. Y. Mr.
Lathrop, like many others at
that time, had a great longing
for the ‘wilds’ of Michigan.
He had some three years previ-
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ous visited Michigan and located
a farm of eighty acres, two and
one-half miles east of Ann Arbor,
on what was called the stage
road between there and Dixboro
road. A week after our mar-
riage we started for Michigan.
There was no railroad from
Batavia to Buffalo, and it re-
quired two days to go with
wagons. At Buffalo we
boarded a schooner for Detroit.
We were finally landed in De-
troit, then a muddy little town,
inhabited mostly by French.
The buildings were poor, though
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DETROIT BOAT CLUB House, AT THE PARK
AT THE REGATTA
La Bełże Aºziere / Upon thy breast of blue
What moving scene is borne this glorious day,
With current affluent from the Manitou
Of waters ? What magnificent array
Of mammoth steamers, schooners, birch canoe,
Low, rakish yachts, skiffs, barges fill the bay !
Along the shores and on the housetops, gay
Grand stands—where room the tiniest feet have won.
What eager thousands crowd to see the fun,
When you grim warship fires his signal gun
A puff of smoke, then booms the sullen sound ;
Loud hails the Commodore, “All ready ? Go '''
And ten long barges, with a sudden bound,
Spring from the river's bosom, with a flow
Of simultaneous breath, as steeds the ground.
Strained every steel-strung muscle as they row ;
Is life the prize, and not a pageant show 2
Red caps and blue, afar they climb the stream,
"Mid man's loud vivas, woman's tim’rous scream,
Till their oars flash the sun's last ling’ring beam.
What grasp, what strength, what skill each arm endures,
Tho' each receive the plaudits of the town,
And emulation's smile each cheek suffuse,
And each brave brow deserves a victor's crown :
But one can triumph of those noble crews.
Yet sweeter far, above yon orange gown,
A love-lit smile lights up the peachy down
Of one dear face among the myriads there;
The oarsman's sweetheart flutters in the air
The scarf he gave her—next her heart to wear.
Ma Belle Rizziere, with loving thought I turn
To look again, into thy loving face.
Born on thy margin, how my heart doth yearn,
Away from thee, to haste to thine embrace,
And kneel, where Nature's love I first did learn.
Such memories rush, thy flow cannot efface;
'T were my delight thine history to trace.
I've seen the red man light his wigwam fires,
The voyageurs heap graves of noble sires
Upon thy rose-clad banks, now flushed with spires.
I've seen the gorgeous circumstance of war
Panoply itself in all its pomp and pride
High on the parapets, and felt the scar
Of the rude cannon ball, etched into thy side.
I've grown to hate the commerce which could mar
With quays th’ expanse where fleets should proudly ride;
And sewered filth pollute thy restless tide.
Hence—peaceful thunders only o'er the roll,
Till earth and heaven shall wither as a scroll !
O, save me with thy spray when my last hour shall toll
E. N. WILLCox.
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DRIVEWAY IN THE PARK
NAMING OF LAKE ST. CLAIR
A LEGEND OF L'ANSE CREUSE
Hearken, stranger, while I tell
Wondrous things that once befel
The people of this drowsy land.
Here on this pulpit where I stand
Preaching my sermon to only one,
Long ago I sat in the sun,
And saw a sight that shook with fear
The hunter fierce, and the trembling deer.
The bright warm rays of an August noon
Hushed each sound but the locust's tune
But a gentle wind blew from the west,
Dimpling with ripples the water's breast,
And catching the swans' wings where they float,
Drove each one on like a well-trimmed boat,
A stately boat, with canvas white
As a sheet of snow in a starry night.
Now here, now there, the great fish rise
To snap at the gaudy dragon flies:
The loon like a porpoise rolls and dives,
Screaming as if for a hundred lives,
And solemn bitterns stand and think,
Each on a leg, by the rushy brink.
Just as the sun in his path on high
LOG CABIN
Stayed his course in the middle sky,
Speeding along with a foaming wake
A great ship sailed upon the lake; [flew,
And the loon dove down, and the white swans
Scared at the sight of the wonder new ;
For never had vessel along this shore
Cleft these quiet waves before.
No better craft was ever seen
Than brave La Salle's stout brigantine:
Out from the prow a griffin springs,
With scales of bronze and fiery wings,
And the ship that earned so wide a fame
Bore on its scroll the Griffin's name.
For when the cunning robes of black
Troubled the zealous Frontenac
And strove his venturous hands to keep,
From reaching out to the western deep,
The wrath of the sturdy Norman rose
At the jealous arts of his patron's foes,
And the ship he built for his dangerous quest,
He named from the valiant noble's crest,
And vowed he would make the Griffin fly
Over the crows in the western sky.
A gilded eagle carved in wood
On the crown of the quarter-deck castle stood,
And from the staff astern unrolled,
THE
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Floating aloft with its lillies of gold,
The great white flag of France is spread
And the pennon decking the main mast head,
Bears the chieftain's arms on a field of red.
Three black-nebbed falcons gaping wide
Scowl through the ports on either side.
And the old sergeant says they speak
Each for a common day in the week, -
While the great bow gun with its heavy knell
Rings as loud as a Sunday bell.
But another standard is seen to-day
As the gallant cruiser wins the bay,
For the cross is waved, and the censer swings
And the seamen kneel as the mass bell rings,
For to-day is the feast of the Abbess Claire;
And the corded priests, with chants and prayer,
Sprinkling the lake with holy water
Name it after the church's daughter.
Then in a trice the gunners catch
Each in his place the blazing match, [shore
And the flame leaps out, and the trembling
Quakes at the terrible cannon's roar.
And stout La Fleur with chuckling grin
Said as he patted his culverin–
In my church there's never a friar
Sings like the abbot who leads the choir
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Out in the lake the Griffin lay
Wind-bound at anchor many a day,
While the ship's company explore
The novel wonders of the shore;
And as they reach upon the way
The bend at Pointe a Guignolet,
Before them spreads a lovely bay;
Its limpid waters softly glide
Like the slow creeping of the tide,
Upward and backward on the beach,
But ne'er beyond one margin reach.
And in its lonely beauty there,
So still, so smiling, and so fair,
To their charmed eyes it seemed to be
A sunny strip to Normandy,
Where mermaids in the moonlight play,
And happy children all the day.
Beside the shore a cross they plant,
The reverend priests an anthem chant,
And the stern soldier, as he went,
To seek the shelter of his tent,
Cast backward many a yearning look,
Made homesick by that fairy nook.
The ship sailed on, but the friendly shore
Saw it returning nevermore.
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CENTRAL CANAL, LOOKING TOWARD BRIDGE – BELLE ISLE PARK
it was the capital then, and the legislature
was in session. My husband met an old
acquaintance here — Judge Rumsey. It
seemed good, even then, to see one we
knew.
“Mr. Lathrop engaged a man to take our
goods to their destination, for which he
paid forty dollars. We started for our
‘woods’ home. The roads being poor
— what little there was — we made slow
progress, stopping for the night near the
river Rouge, at a tavern kept by a man
by the name of Ruff. Things were in
accordance with the name—rough. The
landlady tried to be very accommodating,
for she said to me, ‘When the baby wakes
up, your husband can have the pillow.’
“Where Ypsilanti now stands there was
but four dwellings. An old trading house
had been converted into a tavern. There
was quite a show of flowers in the woods,
although late in the fall. We reached Ann - -
Arbor the evening of the second day. That city derived its
name on account of the noble forest on the original site
of the village. For the prefix ‘Ann’ it was indebted,
according to undeniable tradition, to the first white woman
that cooked the first meal there, ‘Ann Sprague, then Mrs.
Rumsey, of our town, East Bethany. She took me down
to a little brook or run, as they called it, where some stones
were piled together. Here she did her cooking. Though it
has been some sixty-four years, it seems as though I could
locate it now, were I there. It was a delightful place and
here we stayed the second night. There being no bridge
across the river we had to ford. I was highly delighted with
my forest home, which though wild in its nature, looked
nice to me. Mr. Lathrop was ambitious, and built us a nice
house, so that we moved in in April. School privileges
being poor, and I having plenty of time, concluded
to have a select school at our house. Accordingly, in May
our school begun, which served to while away many lone-
some hours. Occasionally we had local preaching there.
&
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IMPROMPTU REGATTA. ON THE CANAL
I recall two young ministers that came from Ohio, Pilchard and Coleisser, who
became very eminent preachers.
“A Virginian by the name of John Allen, an experimental gardener, furnished us all
seed. His garden was upon the ground where the university now stands. I forgot to
say that previous to the whites coming here it was the Indians' dancing ground.
“The Indians were not very troublesome at this time, yet occasionally when they
found women alone and they had been drinking, they would trouble them. I remember
one instance. They had been to Detroit for their presents and were on their way home.
Near Plymouth the chief's son went into a settler's home and demanded bread. The
woman told him she had none. He still insisted and killed her. The news spread.
They raised a company at Detroit, having Dr. Nichols as captain. They overtook the
Indians on the plains below Plymouth. They gave the chief to understand if he would
deliver up his son they would not molest him, but if not they would shoot him. He
made motion for them to do so, and they did. The spot was called Togas Plains after
the chief, and there was no more trouble at that time. Dr. Nichols afterwards located at
Dexter and was their leading physician for many years.
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“My husband afterwards took up 340 acres of land where the village of Sharon now stands,
and lived there many years.
“The howling of wolves was one kind of music we had in those days. Once when my
THE CASINO AT THE PARK
was the natural sequence. Soon the great white ſlapping sails or wings of these primitive
aids to man could be seen slowly revolving, and they formed such a picturesque addition
to the lovely but quiet landscape that they were attractive even to the passing mariner or
savage canoeist, and they were most generally located on the river or lake shore.
Upon some of the little creeks were mills dating back beyond 1734. One was near
the present crossing of the Michigan Central Railroad and Twenty-fourth street—
upon La Riviere du Mouline a Campau, or Cabacier's Creek – Connors' or Tremble's Creek — mill
River ; one on or near Jefferson avenue and Bloody Run, and another on Gratiot Road.
We have already reproduced the legend of “The Devil's Grist” concerning one of these windmills,
EAST FRONT OF BELLE ISLE CASINO
husband was away one came and poked his nose under the door and commenced his
tune, which was taken up by others in all directions. At another time one took a
pig from the pen, and going a short distance gave a call and soon had plenty of help.
Again, when Mr. Lathrop was obliged to go for a doctor they followed him all the
way. Men were frequently chased by wolves and had narrow escapes.”
VIEW OF BRIDGE TO THE MAINLAND
and now add another, from the charming collection of “Legends of Le Detroit,” by Maria Caroline
-- Watson, Hamlin, as follows: -
THE OLD RED MILL In the former district of Springwells (at the foot of Twenty-fourth street), of the present city
- of Detroit, stood an old red mill. It was circular in form, and had a stone foundation supporting an
Soon after the settlement of this lake country there came a time when, owing to upright wooden body, with a conical roof.
the increasing husbandry and cultivation of the smaller grains, the necessity for mills It was a weird sight on a moonlight night with its long arms stretched out as if beseeching aid,
arose. Water power was not easy to obtain in this level region, and the windmill and its tattered sails drooping mournfully, telling its melancholy story like a flag at half mast. The
beholder involuntarily felt that creeping shudder of awe which contact with the myste-
rious calls forth. There are buildings like human beings upon which nature places her
signet, — a history.
The Indian, as he returned from his day's hunting, laden with the trophies of his skill
pushed his canoe out into the stream far from its shadow. The gay, joyous voices in
the pleasure boats of the
officers of Fort Lenoult
º
º
were hushed as they si-
lently glided by, and the
coureur des bois who had
faced untold dangers,
devoutly crossed himself
as the old red mill rose
in view on his return
from his distant and per-
ilous expeditions. On
winter evenings, under
the genial warmth of a
hickory log and the
soothing influence of his
ISLAND APPROACH TO THE MAINLAND BRIDGE cidre au charbon, the ºf NEAR THE NEW BRIDGE







PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 61
old habitant would tell to his children, who
listened with bated breath, the legend of the
old red mill.
Many years before, when the English under
Colonel Rogers, had taken possession of De-
troit, there lived at the mill a Canadian family
who had adopted a daughter of the tribe
of Pontiac. She was beloved by a British
officer, but belonging to the Ottawas, whose
haughty chief was disposed to resist the new
comers, and residing among the French, who
looked suspiciously at the invaders, waiting to
see if the promises made in the treaty would
be ratified (a suspicion which subsequent events
proved not without cause), it is not to be
supposed that the course of true love could
run smoothly. Yet love, which laughs in the
face of all danger and is prolific in resources,
officer sought in the busy strife of the period
to forget his grief, but the Indian's revenge
only slumbered, and shortly afterwards the
officer was basely murdered by him while he
was detained as a hostage at Pontiac's camp
at Bloody Run.
The mill was afterwards deserted, but the
lonely wayfarer who passed there at night
whispered strange stories of its being haunted
by an Indian maiden who stood at a window
with a lighted candle.
THE CASS MANSION
All the better class of dwellings of the French
habitants were of a very substantial character.
They were built of logs squared, and covered
soon found a means by which the lovers could VIEW ON BELLE ISLE – SKETCHED IN 1870— By Robert Hopkix with clapboards, the roofs being shingled with
meet. It was agreed upon by them that a
signal should be given when there was no danger of a surprise, – a lighted candle to be
placed in her window ; quickly then would the officer obey the summons of his lady
love.
Wasson, a warrior of the Saginaws, allies of Pontiac, had long loved the fair maiden
and had laid at her feet the trophies of the chase, but the Indian girl saw them not, nor
heard his pleadings, for her ears yearned for the sound of another voice whose soft accents
had nestled in her heart like hushed music. Wounded by his rejection, the brave sought
the cause, found it, and courted revenge as his companion. Watching his opportunity
when the girl was alone, he upbraided her for having forgotten her duties as an Indian
maiden and for deserting the traditions of her race, and raising his tomahawk told her
that she should pay the penalty of her treason with her life. As the savage's arm
descended the girl sank deluged in her blood. The Indian had not completed the sacrifice;
one more victim his revenge demanded. He lighted the candle, the secret of which he
had learned, and patiently waited. Splashing oars and a low, cautious call soon told
him that the lover had obeyed the beacon of love. The savage glutted over his success
and waited breathlessly with weapon poised to hurl at his intended victim as he opened
the door, when suddenly other footsteps were heard proclaiming the return of the family.
In the general confusion which ensued
on the discovery of the murder the
Indian slipped away unnoticed, balked
for the time of half of his revenge.
The lifeless remains of the lovely vic-
tim were tenderly laid to rest. The
THE NORTH SHORE DRIVE AT THE PARK
OLD ICE HOUSE AT THE PARK
cedar. One of the oldest and most noted
RUSTIC SEAT —BELLE ISLE
*
THE BRIDGE swung OPEN AT Twilight, FROM PARK HOUSE DOCK
structures of this class was the Cass house, illustrated on page 68, which has been
used by several of the territorial governors of Michigan, and exhibited many marks
of the tomahawk and bullets received during the Indian wars. It stood on what was






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DETROIT FROM S.AND WICH POINT IN 1837, FROM A PENCIL SKETCH BY WILLIAM A. RAYMOND
known as the
Cass farm. It
was situated on
the immediate bank
of the river, where it was
abrupt and high and
shaded by trees. It was
torn down in 1883, be-
ing 150 years old. It
latterly stood on Larned
street, not far from its
original site. Another
old domicile was the
Lafferty house, which
stood half a mile below.
It was erected in 1747
and demolished in 1861.
oLD CITY HALL, DEcoRATED BY ROBERT HOPKIN, M. C. R. R. FREIGHT DEPOT, OLD ARMORY BUILDING AND
ATHAENEUM THEATRE – 1861
THIS AND THAT
One day last summer a roughly dressed man — a Pole or Bohemian
– was driving a dray belonging to a wholesale grocery house, loaded
with groceries. As he turned from Congress into Griswold street part
of his load fell off, and the man, who was seated on the pile of boxes,
fell with it, striking heavily on the cobblestones. One of the wheels
of the heavily loaded dray passed
over his leg, and fractured the bone.
A crowd, numbering several hun-
dred, soon gathered around him.
The street was muddy, as the
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THE OLD FARNSWORTH STORE, CORNER WOODWARD AND
MICHIGAN AVENUES
SIBLEY's LIME KILN
ENTRANCE To YouNG woman's HOME.
ADAMS AVENUE
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ST. Jose PH'S (R. c.) CHURCH - VIEW ON THE Rouge – STEAMER MILTON D. war D – EXPOSITION BUILDING IN DISTANCE
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63
sprinkler had been liberal in
its work, and the injured
man's clothes were in a
sadly daubed condition.
Altogether he was far from
attractive in appearance.
He lay there all in a heap,
surrounded by a gaping
crowd, not one of whom
offered to help him, until a
well-known business man
made his way through the
throng, raised his head and
supported him in his arms
until the ambulance came,
at the same time using his
hat to fan the poor fellow.
The business man ranks
among the “tony' men
of the city, and is always
well dressed. But that
simple act of kindness shows
that there is a real man inside
of those good clothes, who
was not afraid to soil them
by contact with the muddy
apparel of a suffering fellow
man.-Detroit paper.
UNION RAILwAY STATION – CORNER FORT AND THIRD STREETS
DETROIT NEWSBOYS -
Detroit newsboys are an independent army
of youngsters at the present time, there
being about 2,000 of them, regularly licensed,
and in 1877 an amusing indication of their
independence was shown when they attempted
to prevent the sale of the Detroit Evening
News, because the price charged them, in
-
OLD HYDE HOUSE —SITE OF WHITNEY'S OPERA. House — FROM OLD SKETCH By R. HoPKIN
The Campau house, pictured on the sixth and seventh pages of this work, was torn down
in March, 1880. It stood on the south side of Jefferson avenue, midway between Griswold
and Shelby streets, and is said to have occupied the site of the original quarters of Cadillac.
It was erected in 1813 on an old stone foundation, for Joseph Campau, at a cost of about
$6,000. It was one of the most ancient, and at the time of its destruction the best preserved
of any of the French houses of the olden time.
THE DETROIT (JESUIT) college AND CHURCH of ss. PETER AND PAUL, JEFFERSON AVENUE
THE CAMPAU HOUSE
-
BRIG. GEN’L R. H. G. MINTY – FROM AN old
WAR TIME PORTRAIT
º
A BIT OF MOONLIGHT
their opinion, was too high. They would not
sell the paper and tried to prevent others from
doing so. Their generally unruly character at
this time compelled the passing of a licensing
ordinance, but that Detroit newsboys are gen-
erally a good class of toilers and appreciate
what is done for them is shown by the way
they treat their friends. Prominent amon
these is General Alger, whose portrait appears
elsewhere. This gentleman gives the news-
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64 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
WINTER FERRYING AT DETROIT
THE OLD WINDMILL, LAKE ST. CLAIR, FROM
PAINTING BY HOPKIN
JOHN R. WILLIAMS, FIRST MAYor of DETROIT
— AN ExPREssive TAIL (TALE)” on E of DETRoit's LUMBER PLANTs — Rouge DISTRICT
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 65
A PRETTy Bit of THE Rouge
-
STEAMER DARIUS COLE – “ of F For Port HURON "
boys a suit of clothes every winter,
and he is called the father of all the
newsboys. When he returned
home, a few years since, from a long
trip, he was met at the depot by an
army of his young friends, who
shouted, “What's the matter with
Alger? — He's all right !” And
this phrase-shout of the Detroit
newsboys was the origin of the cry,
with variations, which went all over
the Union during the presidential
campaign of 1888.
DETROIT IN ROMANCE
THE WEST END CLUB HOUSE
To read the early history of De-
troit is like going back in story to
the chivalrous days of sunny France,
and Detroit and much of the adja-
cent country was but a France in
romantic miniature — a new France.
C. M. Burton, one of Detroit's most
interesting historical writers, dwells
upon this theme in a most interest-
ing way. He says :
“The first colony that settled
here came from the France of Louis
XIV., and mediaeval scenes and the
savage life of the new world existed
side by side.
“Cadillac was the grande mon-
arque, being accorded the homage
his rank demanded. A maypole -
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wayNE county JAIL AND SHERIFF's RESIDENCE DETROIT
attended with all the pomp
and ceremony of an ancient
custom. A cask of eau de vie
was tapped in celebration
of the occasion, cups and flasks
were handed round, and Cad-
illac, raising high his silver
goblet, would pledge the king
and the health of all present.
“Vive de Roi, vive le Seigneur
Cadillac du Detroit,” was lust-
ily sung by the habitants, and
then la dance ronde followed,
in which buxom dames and
gallant youths joined, as they
made the silent forestring with
their merry voices. Cadillac
granted strips of land under
conditions which seem absurd
to us of the present day , but
feudalism was as firmly estab-
lished as though this were an
actual monarchy. During
French rule, kings, regents and
queens, cardinals, archbishops
and generals of religious orders,
ladies of high degree, govern-
ors and generals exercised
authority over the City of the Straits. We can scarcely contemplate these things now
in connection with Detroit, but they were part and parcel of its historic evolution.”
Jose PH CAMPAU – FROM AN old PAINTING
MR. CAMPAU AND THE YANKEES
Joseph Campau, the famous French American, who made Detroit his home, and
whose old residence, as one of the landmarks, is pictured on the earlier pages of this
º -
º
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PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, JEFFERSON AVENUE
work, appreciated Yankee
thrift and enterprise. On one
occasion, in the spring of 1851,
as the ice had gone out of the
Detroit river and the upper end
of Lake Erie was reported clear,
the owner of a steamboat gave
notice that he would sail next
day. The lower part of the
lake was known to be covered
with floating ice and the boat
started after much anxiety had
been expressed concerning her
safety. The next day,
towards evening, Mr. Campau
met the telegraph manager
near his (Campau's) residence
and said, “Does ye hear any-
thing from te boat — te boat
“Oh, yes,” said the telegraph
man, “she has just reached
Erie. She got into the ice and floundered
about, tearing her paddle-wheels to pieces,
but she is in Erie harbor, all safe.”
“Well,” said Mr. Campau, “I tºot so.
tat went out yestertay mor'n?”
-"
Now when de Inglishmon he want to go anywhere, he sit down and tink how he get dar, and te
Frenchmon he want to go, and he stop and tink how he get dar; but de American, te Yankee, he
want to go, and be-gar, he go. He go Heaven, he go Hell, he go anyhow !” So much for Mr.
Campau's respect for Yankees, but they admired him as well, for he was as indomitable and persever-
ing as any of them,- there was no hesitation or indecision with him. He knew what he wanted,
and acted immediately upon the formation of his plans.
MICHIGAN ATHLETIC CLUB House — ELM wooD Avenue
YEARS AG0
commenced in the year 1830.
into the Whig party.
POLITICS IN DETROIT FIFTY
The rush of immigration into the territory
was also reached when old party lines were
broken throughout the country ; the friends
and opponents of Andrew Jackson were
forming into lines, that ultimately became
the Democratic and Whig parties of the
period. One of the earliest political parties
bore the name of Democratic-Republicans.
This party had an existence in Wayne
county almost as soon as the country was
organized. The Democratic party after-
Wards succeeded to the first half of the old
name, and about 1832 new life was infused
The first copy of The Detroit Free Press
appeared on Thursday, May 5, 1851.
was the first daily paper in the state, but a
weekly when it started. Some time
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67
AND ENVIRONS
;
;
t
-
+
LOG CABIN OF SENATOR PALMER (PALMER PARK)
and Randolph
street, a bottle of
Harrison's brand
of hard cider being
placed beneath
each corner of the
building. The
cabin could ac-
commodate about
1, Ooo people :
and among the
attractions were
several stuffed
animals, owls,
wildcats and rac-
coons, besides a
live bear and a
Bible. The walls
were decorated
with a copy of the
Declaration of
before 1831 Gen. John R. Williams, who had been for several terms mayor Independence,
of Detroit, had been nominated at a meeting of adherents of Andrew Jack-
son for delegate to Congress, and The Free Press strongly advocated his
candidacy.
In 1831 the population was about
3,000, but the capitol still stood far out
in the common, away from the business
and dwellings of the city. In muddy
weather during the Legislature the mem-
bers were carted to and from the capitol.
Most of them made their headquarters
at “Uncle Ben º' Woodworth's hotel.
The last regular session of the Legisla-
ture in Detroit closed March 17, 1847.
Politics created intense excitement in
the early days, and overshadowed
everything else while the excitement
lasted. In the effort to win a victory
at the polls, between 1830 and 1844,
any method was deemed legitimate ;
but no pains were taken to hide it.
On election days both parties were out
in full force, and they made the welkin
ring with noisy music, processions,
whiskey and broken heads.
The presidential campaign of 1840
will be remembered by many as the
time when, as the stump speakers said :
“The prairies were ablaze, the settle-
ments in flames, and the woods on fire
with enthusiastic zeal.” “Tippecanoe
and Tyler too '' was the slogan of
the Whig party ; and almost every
Washington's farewell address, and a map of the United
corn, venison and bacon were suspended from the beams and rafters. Prior to the day of dedication, the
VIEw AT THE Log CABIN FARM (PALMER PARK)
States. Strings of dried apples, pumpkins, seed
ladies were called upon to supply for
the occasion “corn bread, and such
other log cabin fare as their kind hearts
and ingenuity may dictate.”
On April 21, the day fixed for the
dedication, the cabin was thrown open
at 4 P. M. for the entrance of the Whig
ladies with the good things they had
prepared. In the evening the ceremony
took place, the attendants bringing
candles to illuminate the room. After
the addresses a dinner-horn was
sounded, and then from tables that
fairly groaned under the weight of the
good things that were upon them
pumpkin pie, pork and beans, hominy,
mush and milk, Johnnie cake, venison
and parched corn were served to all
alike. Toasts drank with hard cider
finished the day. Many a politician
going home from these bouts, described
every proposition in Euclid in the mud.
Sham battles, fireworks and hard cider
were features in election campaigns.
On September 28, 1840, a Demo-
cratic barbecue was held on the Cass
farm. Col. Richard M. Johnson, Vice-
President of the United States, was
present. Crowds came to hear him ;
our corners in the west had its Tippecanoe club with log cabin and hard cider.
On April 15, 1840, a log cabin was raised on the north-east corner of Jefferson avenue
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Log CABIN FARM, (PALMER PARK) LAKE IN PALMER PARK
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but the enthusiasm on the
other side was against him,
and many of the rank and
file “only kept their spirits
up by pouring spirits
down.” Although de-
feated, a resolution was
adopted a few years later
at a Democratic meeting in
the sixth ward. It ran :
FIRST DECORATION DAY IN DETROIT
“Resolved, That we oppose the many named
monster now designated Whiggery, and fear-
lessly engage that, though he had as many heads
as names, we would chop them off, and trample
his nondescript carcass in the Black Swamp.
“GEORGE ROBB, Secretary.”
“Detroit, March 22, 1843.”
BITS ON THE ROUGE
-
Bring amaranthine flowers
From Fame's far shining crest;
For martyrs here lie crowded,
In the nation's flag enshrouded,
With its glory on each breast.
Bring music, plaintive music,
And pour it on the air ;
But check, oh, check the bugle's cry,
And hush the snare-drum's wild reply,
Through these quiet aisles of prayer.
D. BETHUNE DUFFIELD.
sold IERs' AND SAILORS’ MONUMENT, RANDoLPH ROGERs, SCULPTOR
Bring garlands, rosy garlands,
And strew these grassy graves;
For heroes here are sleeping,
Where Liberty stands weeping
For the bravest of her braves.
Bring flowers, fragrant flowers
From off Spring's dewy breast,
For those who through the battle
Passed down, amid war's wild rattle,
To the soldier's glorious rest.
JEFFERSON AVENUE,
ºfºº
rºyrºº
i
{} /
N.
WEST FROM
A BIT ON BELLE ISLE
AN OLD MAN’S EXPERIENCES
Selah Winfield of Wayne was probably
the oldest living American in Michigan, at
the time this work began to be put in
type, and his experiences, as narrated to a
reporter of one of the local papers, are so
interesting and worthy of preservation that
we give them place here.
New Jersey Iol years ago and this is his
He was born in
story :
“Yes, I wuz born in 1792, while
George Washington was President.
I wuz born in Essex county, New
Jersey, and lived there most of my
life and now I am over 100 years old,
and have seen this country under
every president it has ever had.
“My first vote was cast for James
Madison and I have voted at every































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skeered, but the old gun hung up in
SCOTCH (CENTRAL) PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
election since excep' the last one
and then I wuz most too old to go
to the polls. When I wuz about
twenty-two years old I enlisted in
the war against England to save
my brother who wuz drafted an’
didn't want to go. I wuzn’t in
only a short time, for the war ended
Soon by the Britishers getting licked.
“I remember onct when I wuz a
boy that an injun cum to our house
when all the folks were gone and
wanted something to eat. He wuz
all painted up, and I wuz a little bit
another room, jist where I could get
it and I climbed up on a chair and
got it down and set it in the corner.
I told the injun I couldn't give him
anything to eat an’ ſur him to git
out an' go about his business; he
said, ‘Wanter hear injun yell ?' I
said, ‘No, I don't.” Then he gave
a war whoop. I run into the other
CHARLEs B. LEwis – “M. QUAD ''
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE OF SUPERINTENDENT
2%. Acacº-
HOUSE OF CORRECTION
º:
º
AN ARTISTIC TRIBUTE of A DEvoted HUSBAND To His wife's
- MEMORY, IN ELMwooD
convent of THE SACRED HEART (CATHolic) Day school
room an' got the gun, and cocked it and put the end
on a stool, pointed it toward him and told him to git,
Well, he got pretty quick, for I had hold of the trigger
and would have pulled it off in a minute. He went
down the road and met some of our people and asked
them if they knew what wuz the best thing an injun
ever et an' he said 'twas little boys' liver. Then he
jumped into the woods an’ ran. They knew I wuz
alone an' they cum on a run to our house an' I wuz
pretty glad to see them.”
The old man rested a while and then said : “I
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7() PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
A BIT OF RENNAISSANCE ON TRUMBULL AVENUE
PRESENT BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING remember onct when I wuz a young man, after I cum out of the War I wuz going down
º the road when I saw a brown bear sitting on his haunches in the middle of the road and
| first thought it was only a tame one, an' I thought I would git it an’ take it home. Well, I cum
up to it and the bear reached out and took hold of me. He drew me up an' give me such a hug
that I thought my back wuz broke. I wuz considerable of a wrastler then an' I caught hold of
him an' give him a trip, an' he give me a wuss hug than before, and dropped me then. He scam-
pered off an' I got up and started for home and fell down in the door fainting. The bar had clawed
the flesh off my back an' arms an’ it wuz a long time before I got over it an' when I did, I didn't
OLD CAMPAU CLOCK
AN OLD TIME LUMBER BARGE -
AN OLD RUSTIC BRIDGE NEAR SAND WICH
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 71
THE IDLEWILD ON THE ST. CLAIR RIVER
tackle another one without knowing whether he was loaded or
not.” -
Again the old man rested and gained composure, and the
little Bible was brought out to show the date of his birth, “Jan-
w - - -
--------- THE OLD SMITH CLOCK, CORNER
OF WOODWARD AND JEF-
- || | FERSON AVENUES
º”
º º uary 30, 1792. In the
- year of our Lord.’”
“It had been a long
time since that wuz written
there,” said the old man
again, “an' I wuz the youngest of the amily.
I don't know why I have been permitted to
live so long, but my grandfather lived until he
wuz 106 years old, an’ when he wuz 100 years
old he took a bag of wheat on his shoulder
and carried it to the mill himself an’ my great-
grandfather lived until he wuz 108 years old,
an' to this probably I owe my long life.”
“No, I don't get any pension,” he said in
answer to my inquiry, “I enlisted under my
brother's name an’ if any one got the pension
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72 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
it must have been him or his wife. I have tried
once or twice, but my claims have been throwed
out. If I could get it, it perhaps would make my
life more pleasant for the little time I have to
remain, but I have got along so far an' I can live
the rest of my lifetime without it, for I have only
a few years at the best.”
Mr. Winfield lives with his daughter, Mrs. James Mitchell,
about one mile north of the village of Wayne. He moved to
Michigan in 1851, and has been a sort of a wanderer, having
lived in most parts of the state. About three years ago he left
the home of his daughter Sarah, with whom he had lived until
- º
PERRY: , \, : Tºy
| L: ; ET: | --
sº |() (8
A RELic of PERRY's victory, AT city HALL
that time. He has been a familiar figure to the people of Wayne
for twenty years and even last summer he was able to walk
about the village or sit hour after hour with his fishing rod on
the bank of the river enjoying
his favorite pastime of fishing.
JAMES F. JOY
CREAM PITCHER FROM old
RAILROAD HOTEL
SUGAR BOWL FROM OLD
LD UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — SITE OF GOVERNMENT BUILDING
RAILROAD HOTEL
He is now confined to the house, not by disease
but old age.
His mind is unusually bright concerning events
of his childhood and early manhood, but rather
treacherous about recent happenings. He was
ready to tell of his life, and eagerly devoured any
news that was said in his presence. He has been
(Cozzzzzzzzed on Zage 76.)
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CANFIELD AVENUE, WEST FROM SECOND AVENUE
BOULEVARD, LOOKING WEST FROM WOODWARD AVENUE
LOG HOUSE NEAR DETROIT
LOOKING UP MONROE AVENUE–FROM CAMPUS
A BIT ALONG THE RIVER
OLD FISHERIES UP THE RIVER
THE CHURCH OF OUR FATHER
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A VIEW AT ELMWOOD
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74 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
CHUMS
-- DOORSTEP FRIENDS
CHILD LIFE IN THE CITY º
I.
The city's din can never drown
The tramp of their restless feet;
What to them are the skies that frown
Or tempests that rave and beat
On pavement and curb they rally
With laughter and mad exploit,
The light of the street and alley,
Our boys of La Belle Detroit !
-
IN FRONT OF THE SHOP WINDOW.
II.
They bloom on step and window sill,
In bangs and braids and curls,
But if in gutter or by the rill,
Like undiscovered pearls,
GETTING ACQUAINT ED They bud and blossom sweetly, still,
Those flowers, the little girls.
The children crowd the landing
And strangers bless their fates,
No matter what their standing
For all a welcome waits:
Her way there's no withstanding —
The City of the Straits.
LAURA SANDERSON
“what's THE MATTER witH ALGER P – HE's ALL RIGHT!” - BUYING THE NEws














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75
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
MAJ.-GEN. GEO. A. CUSTER, FROM AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH
- GIVEN BY HIM TO LIEUT. F. F. KISLINGBURY,
OF GREELEY ARCTIC FAME
CUSTER
ON THE ERECTION OF A MONUMENT TO HIS
MEMORY AT MONROE, MICHIGAN
Ay! raise the shaft on Raisin's bank,
Let it be wrought of steel !
And unseen hands shall draw the bands,
Lift the lever, turn the wheel —
Hands that held the unerring rifle
'Gainst breasts which fear could never stifle,
Kentucky's proudest chivalry
Hands that whirled the war club, clutched the knife
Strung with hairy garlands of the strife,
The Red man's fiendish revelry.
And who be ye, ye phantom host,
Gath'ring on yon shadowy plain,
In visored gloom, in casque and plume,
Crowding and crushing war's red
lane,
To welcome him, this last Bayard,
Without dishonor's wound or scar,
Our youngest Arezza chevalier *
Plantaganet and Lion-hearted
King Henry of Navarre, departed –
He's with you now, our cavalier
Come, too, ye crescent-bannered host!
Allah's prophet's oriflame,
Horse tails streaming, dark eyes gleam-
ing,
In this sanguinary game ;
Grasp ye his hand whose guidon red
Flashed in the front of those he led
So oft to death or victory.
Hail him, Murat and Phil Kearney !
Marion, Hampton, Stuart, Henry –
Sa/alte / Valedictory.
And shall not you in heart’s core cher-
ish —
You who survive his name,
Phil Sheridan, and every man,
Who rode the guantlet-ride to
fame —
The memory of this knightly chief,
Slain mid-career, so brilliant, brief ?
Where's Lucan's Light Brigade 2
Where Gibbon, Crook and Pleasanton 2
Kilpatrick, Stanley, Grierson
In glory's panoply arrayed 2
Then lift ye high his monument
Of glittering, gleaming steel,
With sabres crossed and lance embossed –
Ay, lift it to his bugle's peal |
And let his trusty stallion rear
His spray-weaved mane and neigh his cheer,
Caparisoned for war !
And let his faithful hound come here
And wail a requiem o'er his bier,
The weird prairie echoing far.
But ere you raise the monolith,
Dig deep and fill the base
With those dread bones — foundation stones-
Of those who followed that wild chase,
Impetuous in his squadrons thundered,
Those thrice, thrice glorious three hundred-
The men who followed Custer'
They wore the chevron, he the sash;
But spur they not as mad a dash
With him in Fame's long muster 2
E. N. WILLCox
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THE HIGH SCHOOL AT MONROE
Shore and Michigan Southern Railway : the Toledo branch of the Michigan Central
º and the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway, while an important addition in the shape
convent Down BY THE BRIDGE, Mon ROE
a Democrat all his life,
and his face lit up when
the interviewer said that
he had cast a ballot for
him in favor of Cleve-
land at the last election.
He is probably the
only living man who
can tell of the time
when Washington was
alive, and undoubtedly
the only survivor of the
war of 1812, who does
not draw a pension
from the country he
helped to defend.
THE OLD CUSTER HOUSE — MONROE
ABOUT MONROE
To the pretty little
city of Monroe belongs
the distinction of being
the second oldest city in
Michigan, as it was first
settled about 1784, by
the French from Can-
ada, and they were fol-
lowed within the next
ten years by Americans.
Monroe is located at the head or western end of Lake Erie, about midway between
the mouths of the Detroit and the Maumee rivers. The inlet called Brest Bay, into which
the river Raisin empties, and on the banks of which river Monroe is located, constitutes
the largest and best harbor on the upper end of the lake, and one of the safest harbors
along the line of the great lakes.
The railway communication from Monroe to the outer world, consists of the Lake
“IN THE SHALLows''
of a new division of the Pennsylvania Cen-
tral system is assured at an early date.
It has large manufacturing interests, very
extensive nurseries and in the immediately
adjacent country, great attention is paid to
the raising of beef cattle and high grade.
draught horses.
In its municipal equipment, school build-
ings, court house, city library, Holly water
works, electric system, electric railway line,
business buildings and private houses, it
will compare favorably with any western
city. Three flour mills, two large tile ſac-
tories, four paper mills, several sash and
blind factories, a grain elevator, a foundry,
a carding mill, machine shops, the plant
of the Sterling Manufacturing
Company are among the insti-
tutions which help to make
of the city a desirable home,
and in addition, Monroe dis-
tributes annually more tele-
A graph poles than any other
point in the world.
-- There are ten churches, one
convent (St. Mary's Academy)
and a Catholic academy for
boys, so that it is apparent
that Monroe is in every respect
a model, thrifty city, with all
the accessories of cities much
larger, and with prospects for
the future most flattering.
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ENVIRONS - - 77
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THE GOVERNMENT CANAL AT THE CLUB HOUSE
A win G AN' WING Tow AT THE CANAL
The following contribution from one of the oldest living settlers of Monroe
will be found of interest.
“In October, 1831, I landed from the steamer Ohio, in the then attractive
but crude city of Detroit, which contained about 2,500 inhabitants, my inten-
tion being to make it my home, but meeting an old neighbor from Berkshire
County, Mass., who was then located in Monroe, on the river Raisin, I was
persuaded to locate at Monroe. At that time Monroe contained about 300
inhabitants and was the second place in size and importance in the territory,
and it was located on the river Raisin, about three miles Irom its mouth. The
river was navigable for lake boats up to within a mile of the centre of the
village. The river Raisin is a rapid stream, and at that time it had three grist
mills and two saw mills within the village corporation, and they were the only
DOWN BY THE CANAL HOUSE
water mills between Detroit
and the Maumee river, a
distance of seventy miles.
Thus the people of the
country between those
points, and all west for fifty
miles, depended upon the
mills at Monroe for their
grinding, and so in the pres–
ence of rich and productive
lands, and because of many
other advantages, Monroe
became a very important
place.
The lands on each bank
of the river for ten or twelve
miles from Lake Erie, west,
were settled by French people
who were granted home-
steads by the French gov-
ernment when they claimed
to own and were in possession of Canada and Michigan. When the war between France and England ter-
minated and England acquired possession, these grants were confirmed, and after the war of 1812 between the
United States and England the United States ratified their claims. At that time the people claiming, and in
possession of these lands were Messrs. Robert, Berrec, Duval, Suzor, Menard, Navarre (James, Isadore, and
Francis), Joseph Loranger, Egnew, Lasselle, Godfrey, Leonard, Patterson, Leclaire, Rowland, Glass, Hunt,
Bissonette, Knaggs, Campau, Labadie, Cicott, Nadeau, Peltier, Reaum, Bordeaux, Lacroix, La Plante, Hirons,
Duroches, Paxton, Soleau, Beaubien, Caldwell, Bezean and others. I had a personal acquaintance with most
of these men, and knew them as a brave, honest, noble class whose words needed no bond ; men whose acts
were always marked by integrity and whose memories it is well to perpetuate. -
The names mentioned are still common in Wayne County, and the families, originally from the same stock,
visited each other often. In the war of 1812 between England and the United States, the river Raisin and
Detroit river were the historical points of the West and when I located in Monroe in 1851 many of the old
original settlers were living and occu-
pying their old homes. From them I
learned of their suffering and hardships;
the country at the time of their settling
on the river Raisin, was full of hostile
Indians who gave them so much trouble
that they were compelled to erect a
stockade for their own protection. The
stockade was on the high bank of the
river just below where the Michigan
Central Railroad bridge crosses the river
at Monroe, (which was then the head
of navigation for coasting boats) and at
the foot of the rapids, in 1831 a part
of the old stockade was still standing.
The massacre on the river Raisin took
place January 22, 1813. Monroe was
then occupied by General Winchester
with a part of General Harrison's forces,
mostly Kentucky soldiers. On January
20, 1813, Colonel Proctor in command
of the British troops then at Malden,
near the mouth of the Detroit river and
about twenty-five miles north-east
THE ISLE OF PATMOS, Mon Roe
“A PAIR OF PETs”
PLUM CREEK BRIDGE NEAR MONROE






8 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
of Monroe, marched his com-
mand accompanied by the Indian
orces under their chiefs Round
Head and Split Log to attack
General Winchester's forces at
Monroe. They arrived and
commenced the attack about
five o'clock in the morning and
continued the fight until near
noon, when the Winchester foice
became demoralized and re-
treated, followed up by the
English and Indians until they
had killed and captured nearly
all of the American force. I
never learned how many troops
were engaged on either side, but
believe it was about 2,500.
Our Monroe people are a moral,
Christian people with good pros-
pects for the future, and they pros-
pered equally with other cities until
steam power superceded water
power. Then Detroit took a start
and has continued to grow and
prosper until it has become the
pride of all Michigan. Meanwhile
Monroe has been compelled to
stand nearly still. In 1838 Monroe had
a population of about 5,000 and we
were doing the greatest commercial
business of any place in Michigan.
The people of Monroe enjoy life as
fully as people do in any large city and
they are determined to press forward in
improvements as fast and as far as pru-
dence and good sense will warrant,
without overburdening themselves with
debts and a burdensome taxation. -
Monroe now contains OVer 6,000 MONRoE HARBOR LIGHT House LookING out o LAKE ERIE
people and the city is improving year
by year. It has one of the finest water
supplies in the West, drawn from the
clear water of Brest Bay, some five miles
away. It has also natural gas in abun-
dance, costing less than coal or wood.
It is lighted by a well equipped electric
plant and its streets and business places
are lighted by it. Briefly, Monroe has
all the luxuries that any city has, includ-
ing five schools, with churches and a
goodly showing of high grade business
men. As a rule its laboring classes have
their own homes and are able to live as
well as do like conditioned people in
larger places. ANON
MonROE, July 15, 1893.
ELM Avenue, MONROE
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WINDSOR AND WALKERWILLE THE CATHEDRAL (R. c.) Monroe
Windsor and Walkerville are our
nearest and most populous suburbs or
environs, and are but a five minutes'
ride over the river, by the constantly
crossing ferry-boats. Both, together,
— although separate corporate towns–
comprise, from ten to twenty thousand
souls within their limits. Windsor is a
busy, bustling little city—decidedly a
city of homes— with shady, and as a
rule, well paved streets, and is the ter-
minal point of several trunk railroad
lines; besides being a large manufact-
uring and mercantile center for the
Dominion trade and lake commerce.
Walkerville is practically a part and
parcel of Windsor — adjoining it on the
east—and is a great manufacturing
A BIT FROM THE RIVER, MONROE center — almost entirely so — contain- IN THE CANAL, MONROE







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80
ENVIRONS
PICTURESQUE DETRIOT AND
ing one of the largest distilleries in the
country, that of Hiram Walker & Sons.
The town, however, has its own sepa-
rate and distinct local government,
railroads, electric street car lines – very
excellent ones by the way — connecting
with Windsor and Sandwich lines, and
its own ferries, connecting with and
running to Detroit every eight or ten
minutes.
It is here, at Walkerville, that we
come to take the train to one of our
most beautiful and attractive summer
resorts, the “Mettawas,” on the shore
of bolsterous old Lake Erie, and but a
few minutes' ride from the hot and
dusty city, where we can stay a day or
longer, as inclination dictates, and enjoy
the cool breezes and glorious scenery
of this most charming place.
SANDWICH
Just above and beyond our beautiful
river, high up on its green, sloping
banks, nearly hidden by the foliage,
lies the old and quaint Canadian village
NEAR BIRMINGHAM
-
oN THE ROAD TO BIRMINGHAM
o, Sandwich. With its tall cathedral spire towering
high above the noble elms and maples the place
always forms a favorite study for our artists and a
beacon for the passing mariner.
With the picturesque “ruins” adjoining the
cathedral, called the “Bishop's Palace”—once the
scene of pomp and splendor, but now of fallen glory
— the view is very suggestive. Then there are the
college and its lowly surroundings, the narrow streets,
with their perpetual Sunday air, and odd old dormer-
window houses, fast going to decay ; the old and
venerated convent and its unwritten history of good
and glory; the pretty little Episcopal church, sur-
rounded by its sanctified dead, lying so quietly, and
yet not forgotten, at least by the kindly
heart and hand of good old Sexton
Pentland, who keeps the little “God’s
Acre” so sweet and attractive. He
can tell you the history of each and
every grave and the buried hopes and
ambitions locked and sealed forever
within their sacred portals. Here lies
buried a Canadian physician of prom-
inence, who “ Going to minister to the
wounded and dying of her majesty's
troops,” on that fateful morning when
the dogs of war first broke loose, in the
Patriotic Rebellion of 1837, “was most
foully murdered by piratical Yankee
villains.” Here also are buried the
two wives— sisters – (first and second)
of Lieut. F. F. Kislingbury, 11th U. S.
Infantry. They died far from home
and friends, out on the western plains,
and as one after the other succumbed to
the hardships of a soldier's wife's fron-
tier life, they were brought by the
faithful, loving husband and father,
hundreds of miles, by rough army
RAILWAY STATION AT BIRMINGHAM
-
wagon train, through snow and
flood, and going through many
hardships—taking many weeks
— to gratify their dying wishes
that they might sleep the long
sleep beside their loved ones, in
the old churchyard at home. It
was a most noble and notable
example of self-sacrifice, yet only
characteristic of the man who
still more nobly exemplified it
when, slowly but surely starving
to death at Cape Sabine, as
second officer in command of the
Greeley Arctic expedition, he
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 81
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MILK River BAY-GRossE POINTE
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PRIVATE LAWN, GROSSE POINTE, LOOKING OUT ON THE LAKE
would sacrifice and give up his meagre allowance to some poor fellow who he thought needed it more
than he did, only to Soon give up and succumb, at last, himself. With them also lies buried another
sister, the wife of Col. George W. Schofield, U. S. A., a brother of General Schofield, present com-
mander-in-chief of the U. S. army.
Just across the way from this pretty little church and cemetery stands the substantial, if not
attractive court house and the massive jail building and wall surrounding the same, wherein so many
murderers have met a speedy trial and prompt, stern Canadian justice at the rope's end.
About a mile from here, due east, at the end of a very pretty driveway, or lane, and almost
hidden by the heavy foliage, the curiosity-seeker will find one of the most unique, odd and ancient,
yet picturesque houses in America—the old Prince mansion. With its low hanging ivy clad porches
VIEW ON THE DAVIS STOCK FARM, GRossE PoinTE
and dormer-windows, its sharp, abrupt roofs, the once lovely, but now decayed air of past
glories, the well kept grounds and noble foliage make it a picture which once seen will
never be forgotten. The same also holds true in relation to the Baubie mansion, directly
on the banks of the -
river and looking -
to wards Detroit.
Historically speaking
this is one of the most
interesting houses in
Sandwich. It was a
famous and favorite
rendezvous and trad-
ing mart of the Indi-
ans for a great many
years, but notwith-
standing its great age
it is a remarkably well
preserved relic of historic
times. The drive, too, A GROSSE POINTE HOUSE
from the outskirts and
high banks of Windsor,
along the glorious old
Detroit river, as far down
stream as Petite Cote,
Chappells, Sulphur
Springs, – yes, Amherst-
burg, sleepy yet attractive
old Amherstburg – is a
rarely enjoyable one.
Here you must glance at
the kaleidoscopic river
scene of passing fleets—
the greatest amoufit of
tonnage in any one port
- in the world constantly
— passing you. The beau-
THE SHORE ROAD AT GROSSE POINTE -
A GROSSE PoinTE RESIDENCE






82
AND ENVIRONS
PICTURESQUE DETROIT
*
ALONG THE BANK – GROSSE POINTE
THE COL. BAUBIE MANSION, SAND WICH, ONT.
A STREET SCENE IN WINDSOR
HAILING THE POINTE YACHT
tiful city just across
the river and stretch-
ing along the banks
so many miles, is all
there, and many more
attractions we might
mention, make old
Sandwich and its sur-
roundings the most
attractive and pictur-
esque “environs” or
suburbs that Detroit
or any other city in
this country pos-
sesses or can boast
of.
NEAR SAND WICH, ONT.




PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND
83
ENVIRONS
_* MAIN ENTRANCE TO CLAIREVUE — GROSSE POINTE
SABBATH EVE AT
Soft as the shadows of a heavenly day
Fades the mild radiance of a Sabbath eve;
The voiceful waves in sobbing murmurs grieve,
Like drowsy children, borne from sport
away.
High and afar the silver cloud sweeps by,
Bearing, perchance, this soft and hallowed even,
Some band of loving angels home to heaven,
In tender charge of one no more to die.
Below, and slowly o'er the darkening wave
Flits man's frail bark with white though shat-
tered sail, -
GROSSE POINTE
That tells the story of that stormy gale
Betwixt his cradle and the watery grave.
But higher than the cloud, or floating
shroud,
Or golden stars that now drop down their rays,
For, through the upper depths in notes of
praise
Earth's pilgrims send, with chantings full
and loud,
Their thankful chorus for God's Sabbath days.
D. BETHUNE DUFFIELD
THE GROSSE POINTE CLUB HOUSE
A GROSSE POINTE HOME
CLAIREVUE LAWNS – GROSSE POINTE
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Bishop's PALACE, SAND WICH
A VALUABLE JESUIT MAN-
USCRIPT
The work of the Jesuit missionaries
has already been alluded to in this work
and Richard R. Elliott has now per-
formed a very valuable service to history
in translating the very interesting man-
uscript left by Father Peter Potier, the
last of the Huron missionaries in 1743–
1781, and who died at Sandwich in
1781. The extensive grounds on which
stands at the present day the church
and college of the Assumption, at Sand-
wich, form a small portion of the
domain belonging to the “Huron mis-
sion of Detroit,” under Fathers Armand
de La Richardie and Peter Potier.
Father Richardie acquired possession
of Bois Blanc island and had a part
of the land cleared and cultivated, and
Father Potier had charge here for about
five years, when, on account of Indian
disturbances, the mission was closed, Essex county Court House, JAIL AND TREASURER'S OFFICE
scENE FROM RIVER TO THE CATHEDRAL In 1747. - -
To show the quality of men these
missionaries were we quote from Ban-
croft's History of the United States :
“Away from the amenities of life, away
from the opportunities of vain glory, -
the missionaries became dead to the ºl
world and possessed their souls in sº
(Continated on Page 85.) **ś
L’ARGENT IN GROSSE
POINTE.
For twainty leven year, hor dot,
Soach taime H1 nevaire see
Has dem dat face de publik 'I HE OLDEST HOUSE IN SAND WICH
Een eighteen nainety-tree.
De bank she shut hup planty tight,
Beesenaess, too, was slack,
Han de mos' dat soame poor fael-
CATHEDRAL (R. c.) CHURCH of THE AssumiPTION low got,
He's carry hon her back.
De store she's say he's goan to fail
Some day hor pooty soon,
Han eef beesnaiss don’ got good,
Mak’ change to beer saloon :
For man she'll go wadout de eat,
Wadout de coat for spree,
Han pay for wheesky hall de day,
Den want hall silvaire free.
De Grosse Pointe crop ees vairy
poor,
Mos' everyting ees taight,
Haincloodaing, Joe Bezor heemself,
Who's dat way evairy naight
What de end ees gaun to bean,
Noboady seem to know ;
But evairybody hat de Pointe
She’s got haard row to hoe.
De farmer man mos’ all complain,
Dere debt dey's got to meet,
But dat sho’d be dead-heazy
Wid protection hon de wheat,
Protection hon de wool han aig
May help doz sheep han hen,
But, eet takes leetle l'argent
To settle hup wid men. -
THE EPIsco PAL CHURCH AND BURYING GROUND, SAND WICH JEAN JAE REAR VIEW OF CATHEDRAL AND BISHOP S PALACE, SAND WICH













PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
un alterable peace.
The few who lived to
grow old, though.
bowed down by the
toils of a long mission,
still kindled with the
fervor of apostolic zeal.
The history of their
labor is connected with
the origin of every town
in French America :
not a cape was turned,
nor a river entered, but
a Jesuit led the way.
Gen. Lewis Cass
wrote : “The Whole
- history of human char-
acter furnishes no more
THE CASINO AT THE METTAWAS
MoUTH of DETROIT RIVER – BOIS BLANC ISLAND AND LIGHT
illustrious examples of self devotion than are to be found in the records of the establishments of
the Roman Catholic missionaries, whose faith and fervor enabled them to combat the diffi-
culties around them in life, or triumph over them in death. Some were burned at the stake and
tortured with savage ingenuity, but nothing could shake their fortitude.”
Limited space permits us to copy from the Elliott translations only the following:
“Account book of the Huron Mission of Detroit, commenced on the feast of St. John, 1740,
A. de la Richardie, S. J. Superior – ~
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THE PARK AT THE METTAWAS
HOTEL —AT THE METTAWAS
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86 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
“I have paid in full all accounts due at the post of Detroit.
“Courtois, Charles, has received wheat and grain to the value
of 294 livres, 15 sols, which he is to pay to me during the month
of May, 1741.
“Pirsque has agreed to continue in my service another year,
A BIT of sugar (ISLAND)
that is to say, until the arrival
of the next convoy in 1741,
for 160 livres in furs, a shirt
and a pair of mitts. His
services for the current year
have been paid in full.”
RIVER ROAD, GROSSE ISLE
The “convoy "fixing the term of “Prisque's" engagement in the above entry was the
great event of the year in colonial life at Detroit. It was the annual shipment from Montreal
of the year's supplies, of the government's stores and money, and of the consignments of the
factors and merchants at Montreal, Trois Rivieres and Quebec to their correspondents at
Detroit. The convoy usually took the route of the Ottawa river, the Georgian bay, Lakes
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GROSSE ISLE – “THE BARs''





PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 87
ANc Island
Huron and St. Clair ; it was
a fleet of trading vessels,
canoes and batteaux with
armed protection, and ar-
rived during the month of
September.
B E AUTIFUL G R 0SSE
ISLE
‘‘ One of Detroit's river
jewels,” is an expression
sometimes used in speaking
of Grosse Isle, probably the
most notable of the city's
river resorts, excepting of
course Belle Isle Park. The
“Big Island,” for such it is
also sometimes called, is
about nine miles long and one
to two wide, and lies only
about twenty-five miles south
of Detroit. It has an inter-
esting history, which these crowded pages cannot
dwell upon. Suffice it to say, therefore, that
BOIS BLANC ISLAND LIGHT AND OLD
A GROSSE ISLE COTTAGE BLOCK HOUSE
THE HAUG PoulTRY FARM, NEAR DEARBORN






88 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
GROSSE ISLE YACHTSMEN EAST SIDE LANDING, GROSSE ISLE
A GLIMPSE OF THE west sIDE – GRossE ISLE - THE BIG TREE – GROSSE ISLE
A GRossE ISLE CRoss Road
William Macomb, one of the
three sons of John Macomb,
an early emigrant from Erin's
green soil, bought the island
rom one George McDougall,
who obtained it from the
Indians in exchange for some
article he fancied. John A.
Rucker, Jr., a lineal descen–
dant of Macomb, is the old-
est settler on Grosse Isle, still
living, and is owner of the
Original government grants
of three sections of the island.
This Macomb family finally
became so numerous that it
is said the largest tree on the
island might be selected and
y
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT
89
AND ENVIRONS
A RoAD TO THE RIVER – GROSSE ISLE
A GRºssE ISLE BOAT House
its many branches counted
which would yet hardly out-
number the branches of the
family of old William Ma-
comb who have lived and
are now living on the big
island. Of the descendant
Rucker family it is notable
that so many of the boys
entered the United States
army, and so many of the
girls married army officers.
There are still several old
French families on the island,
who hang on to their small
arms, although their value
has been boomed out of sight
since wealthy people began
to move in upon the island.
Judge Samuel T. Douglas,
one of the oldest residents on
the island, tells many interest-
ing stories concerning the pic-
turesque French characters on
the isle. He says, that one
time, many years ago, when
money became scarce, and
the Frenchmen were having a
hard time of it to get along
without any capital, he sug-
gested to one of them that he
could sell his little farm on the
island for sufficient money to
buy a good deal larger farm on
the mainland. The French-
man said he was aware of
that, but that he had been
GROSSE ISLE WATER WORKS
born on the Detroit river and
lived there all his life, and
he could not bear to live in
any place where he “could
not shoot de dauck, trap de
maushrat an’ kaitch whaite-
fish.”
The old Biddle house is
one of the institutions of the
island. It has very little
about it and its attractive
grounds that is suggestive
of the hotel. Miss Jane
Brodie is the landlady and
her cheery manner comports
well with the cool, breezy
quarters she presides over.
There are many model sum-
mer homes on the island,-
too many to mention,- and
during the summer about two thousand
people reside here. About half this
number stay on the island through the
winter. -
Grosse Isle furnishes an ideal camping
ground. The foot of the island juts
out into the clear water, and on its
grassy banks a dozen or more tents
may always be found pitched by camp-
ers who have come from the city for a
breath of fresh air and a few day's
fishing. The roadway skirting the east
side of the island is a beautiful drive-
way. Monarchs of the primeval forest,
which the old Macomb family found
on Grosse Isle, grow on the narrow
strip between the roadway and the
river at the right and along the side-
(Continued on Aage 91.)
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90
PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
JUDGE Douglas' HOME, GROSSE ISLE
-
A SUMMER CALLER, GROSSE ISLE
SPRING RAMBLE IN THE VALE
OF ROSES
Chide not th’ intruder, still, sequestered
groves |
Your soft, spring verdure shuts me closely in
Dense are these leafy shades' Mid dreamy
haze
Of loosened blossoms and bewildering scents,
Entranced I wander
The airs of spring are sighing through the grove.
On plaintive wings:
I hear 'neath rustling leaves, like muffled
chimes,
The gush of springs:
The river's rippling voice is low afar,
How sweet, O spring ! thy tender voices are
And zephyrs faint are sighing round my heart,
On plaintive wings:
While tenderly are welling up, within,
A thousand springs 2
A fairy voice is breathing softly near,
How sweet, O heart! in Spring thy voices are.
I stray and seek, I know not where, nor what :
But tell the shade,-
O were the Spring within thy dreamy haunts
A beauteous maid,
I'd clasp the dainty beauty at my side,
Though in the fragrance of her breath I died
From “Pez, and Lieze,” Ay K. Storrs Wizzi's
TAWA ISLAND
(Written by Kathleen A. Myles of London,
England, while visiting friends on Tawa Island,
1893, at the mouth of the Detroit river, and
respectfully inscribed to Mrs. George Lowrie,
whose residence is situated on this island.)
Tawa, that sweet repose from toil and care,
With Detroit River circling around,
This surely is the spot in all the earth
Where unalloyed and pure delight is found.
Surely thro' all the vastness of his might
This place has felt the sweetness of God's
smile :
Far from the city's noisy din and strife,
A cool retreat is found upon this isle. -
Arcadian forests pale before its glow,
And all the bliss of a Utopian age,
Naught with this island ever could compare,
Save Eden's garden in its pristine stage.
'Tis Eden's garden ere the serpent came
And left his evil track o'er all within,
For surely in this sylvan paradise
Innocence bars the entrance of sin.
Who could feel anything but rapture there,
And loving thankfulness to God for rest:
An evil thought could find no harbor here,
Tawa's sweet influence would make it blest.
And blest are we when thro' these lovely glades
We feel our hearts uplifting o'er the strife
And trouble of the city's ceaseless roar,
And taste in lengthy draughts this purer life.
In this oasis of our desert bare
Surely more holy thoughts to us are given,
To raise us higher and to make us feel
On Tawa's Isle a little nearer heaven. Low RIE’s cott AGE – TAwa Island






PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 91
AMONG THE BRAMBLES
walk and rustic fences at the left, fairly making
a canopy of green branches above the road in
places. The wheels of the vehicle raise but
little dust from the hard sunburned clay road-
bed. The view is inspiring. Golden sun-
beams dance fantastically on the great plaza
of rippling waters; here and there a boat
plows a white bubbling ſurrow through its
surface and along the shore a long line of gaily
painted windmills spinning in the breeze above
the unending bank of thick foliage would
cause Don Quixote to make his war steed
prance. -
Columns might be written of the attractions
of the island, and many chapters of interesting
fact and legendary lore might be given, but
they must appear in some other form. As
ROUNDING BAR POINT – LAKE ERIE – AT NIGHT
for the island itself,
it must be seen to be
appreciated.
PORT HURON
This city is located
at the extreme lower
end of Lake Huron,
sixty miles above
Detroit and is most
widely known as the
location of the great-
est submarine railway
tunnel in North
America. The first
permanent settlement
at this point was
made in 1790, al-
though a French mil-
&
THE STEAM YACHT ‘‘ GRACE ''
A DESERTED CAMP
lation of about 20,000, while directly across the river is the Canadian
city of Sarnia, with about 12,000 population. As a deep water har-
bor, the river at Port Huron is not excelled by any on the great
lakes. Port Huron has an admirable farming country contiguous
MAMA JUDY.
LIGHT, DETROIT RIVER
itary post was established there
as early as 1686 and was
maintained there for nearly
two years. Fort Gratiot was
established at Port Huron in
1814, was abandoned in 1822,
reoccupied in 1828 and was
continued as a U. S. military
post until 1876, when it was
abandoned and destroyed.
Our pictures of Fort Gratiot
were taken some twenty-five
years ago, when the post was
occupied by the government.
At present the city has a popu-
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92 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
of FICE AND BUILDINGS — wVANDOTTE ROLLING MILLS
and it is very important as a manufactuirng and general commercial center. Like all cities and
towns between Lakes Huron and Erie, it is very popular as a place for summer residence. The
Grand Trunk railway of Canada, the Flint and Pere Marquette railway, the St. Clair River R. R.,
the Chicago and West Michigan R. R. center at Port Huron.
The important claim is made for the city that here is a deep water harbor, fitted by nature for
the discharge and tranship-
ment of western products
to the Atlantic seaboard
by railway. The deep
draught vessels which it is
claimed will be used in the
future, cannot navigate the
St. Clair lake and Detroit
river, and the history of
Buffalo will be repeated at
Port Huron. The railroads
having passed the obstruc-
tions to navigation in the
Niagara river, are pressing
onward with irresistible
force, and will soon pass
the obstructions to naviga-
tion in the river and Lake
St. Clair, and will meet
the commerce of the upper
lakes above these barriers
in the head waters of the
St. Clair river.
HURONIA BEACH
This is a delightful resort
situated at the foot of Lake
Huron, three miles north of
Port Huron. It is a pleasant
place to spend the summer
months and is largely patron-
A SAIL BY MOON LIGHT
NEAR CHAPPELL’s PETITE COTE BLock HousB AT BOIS BLANC ISLAND




PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 93
twenty miles from Detroit, on
the Grand Trunk R. R. and
on the Clinton river, one
of the most romantic and
charming streams in Michi-
gan, as can readily be seen by
our illustrations. One of the
favorite excursions of Detroiters
is the trip from Detroit to Mt.
Clemens, by steamer—a three
hours' ride.
Leaving the dock about 9
A. M., we steam up the Detroit
river, past the city and the
beautiful park, out into Lake
St. Clair. Hugging the north-
ern shore, soon after passing
THE ROO KERY AT ST. CLAIR
ized by Southern people, who bring their families
here and rent cottages for the season. The cot–
tages, about one hundred in number, all face the
lake, and are situated on an avenue running parallel
with the beach line. Meals are served in a fine
dining hall, at moderate rates. Electric cars run
between the beach and Port Huron. The ride is
a delightful one, and every pleasant afternoon
country over, for its good hotels, sanitariums and
mineral springs. After dinner, one has ample
time to stroll about the shady and pretty streets
of the city, or enjoy a carriage drive through as
well kept and picturesque a country as can be
found in Michigan or any other state. Then per-
haps we take a row on the dear old Clinton before
WELCOME
AN EVEN DOZEN
hundreds take advantage of it. Marcus Young,
of Port Huron, established Huronia Beach as a
summer resort, and to his efforts and energy its
popularity and Success are largely due.
tea, and start on the ride home about 8.30 P. M.
Or, if one is romantically inclined, he can stay a
bit longer, and take the ride by moonlight, which is
unsurpassed in loveliness anywhere in this country.
The city itself is well and substantially built,
MT. CLEMENS well paved, well governed and prosperous to a
The charming, busy city of Mt. Clemens has
- - - ALONG THE RIVER NEAR CHAPPELL’s
a population of about 5,000, and is situated some -
Grosse Pointe lighthouse, we steam into the
Clinton and up to Mt. Clemens, in good sea-
son for an excellent dinner at one of the
numerous and excellent hotels with which the
city abounds— in fact the place is famous the
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94 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
º
high degree, and
abounds in lovely
and ch arm in g
homes, churches
and a high grade
of schools.
SAU L T STE.
MARIE
The city of Sault
Ste. Marie is a busy
little place of about
7, O OO population
and is quite an ex-
tensive manufac-
turing place and at
the same time a
favorite and popular
Summer resort. It
is situated on St.
Mary's river, near
MOONLIGHT ON LAKE ST. CLAIR
1877. The famous Ship Canal was completed in 1855. It has the largest lock in the world,
is 800 feet long and 100 feet wide. The Government proposes to deepen the entire canal to
2 I feet. Any one who visits here should not fail to see the canal and shoot the rapids in a
canoe with the expert Indian ‘‘ voyageur.”
ST. IGNACE
The old and historic town of St. Ignace, which was settled in 1671 by the French, lies
on the north side of the straits of Mackinaw.
THE EVENING
BOAT
the outlet of Lake
Superior and opposite
the famous rapids of
the same name. It
was a famous Indian
trading and meeting
place and was un-
doubtedly visited by
White traders before
the Mayflower was
thought of even. A
palisade was built
here by the French
in 1750. An inter-
national railroad
bridge 3067 feet long
ALGONAc – ST. CLAIR RIVER was built here in





































PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
95
SPORT AT THE FLATs
It is a quaint, old and picturesque place, and abounds
in relics of its historic past. Pere Marquette is a part of
the history of St. Ignace and a prominent part of it too.
Here the noble priest lies buried, and over his grave
stands a fitting monument to his ever great and good
memory. Here, too, we find his church yet standing
where he ministered so well and kindly so many years–
although to Michigan and the whole North-west a
Hill.
- Hiſtºl
- IIIHF
ON THE ST. CLAIR
A FAMILY STROLL AT THE FLATS
-
monument is not necessary to perpetuate and keep fresh
the memory and life work of this pioneer priest.
ROCKY MARQUETTE
The rock-bound shore of Marquette has lured many
an angler and sportsman hither. Marquette is called
“The Queen City of Lake Superior,” and is one of the
most beautiful places on the south shore of that great
inland sea.
This city, built upon and between the hills, is a model
of taste and elegance, and affords one of the finest views
HAPPY INDIANS FROM WALPOLE ISLAND
of lake and inland scenery to be
found in the Upper Peninsular.
The atmosphere is cool and invig-
orating, and the place as a summer
resort is surpassed by but few places
on the continent. The private res-
idences are of an unusually fine
character, many of them costing
from $20,000 to $50,000 each.
The settlement dates only from
STAR
ISLAND – ST.
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CLAIR FLATS
THE FLATS NAVY YARD
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96 - PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
HARD A GROUND – AT THE FLATS
1845, in which year the iron deposits
first began to be worked. The first
iron dock was built in 1854, and the
railroad completed to the mines in
1857. Several hundred thousand
dollars have been spent in the im–
-
-
ſ
*Tºm
-
~~
... -- º provement of the docks within the
2 ==-º-º- last few years, and they are now
= - the finest on the coast. Over
$10,000 have already been spent
- ABOVE WALKERVILLE in building drives to and about
Presque Isle, a great headland north
THE MAUD S. AT THE FLATS
of the city, comprising about 400 acres and given to the city by the United States govern-
ment for park purposes. All travelers will find a visit to this park well worth the time
spent therefor.
Marquette and vicinity is the angler's paradise. The fame of the streams, in every
direction from the city, as the home of the brook trout, is already widespread, and the
number of those who come here
every year to enjoy the rare sport
thus furnished, is rapidly growing.
Nearly every species of the gamiest
of fresh water fish can be taken
from the waters within a few miles
of Marquette, though that most
beautiful and gamiest of all fishes
LAKE ST. CLAIR FISHING AND SHOOTING CLUB HOUSE AT THE FLATS
cAMP of THE LAST CHANCE FISHING CLUB OF PITTSBURG ON THE ST. CLAIR RIVER MERVUE CLUB HOUSE AT THE FLATS





























PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 97
– the brook trout-leads in the matter of numbers and popularity. If creek-fishing is distasteful,
there remains the long stretch of rock-bound shore of the great lake. Off these rocks is splendid
fishing for Speckled trout-the carrying of the catch frequently making not the least of the labors
of the angler. -
THE RAILROAD CAR CONDUCTORS CONVENTION AT THE “OAKLAND,” JUNE 23, 1893
BAY WIEW THE OLD “ZACK CHANDLER '' – FROM PAINTING BY HoPKIN
Bay View is a famous Summer resort and gathering place of Chautauquans and university
extension workers. It is situated on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, is easily reached by rail
and steamer and in the summer has a population of about 20,000.
The history of Bay View is comparatively recent, but in these few years its fame has gone far
and wide. Eighteen years ago, when the site was bought, thirty Indians and their chief united in
the transfer. All the region was a dense wilderness, but now a well-built summer city of over four
hundred cottages rises among the terraced groves, with all the conveniences and elegance of a
permanent city. Five lines of steamers on the great lakes and two railway lines to-day make the
place pleasantly accessible, and low-priced summer tourist tickets, sold everywhere, practically
bring the place near to the populous centers.
In the assembly hall at Bay View there is seldom less than 1,000 persons present to listen to
the evening discourses, and the selection of this spot in the immediate vicinity of the other places
teachers from all parts
of the country is of it-
self a great inducement
to visit the resorts of
Little Traverse Bay.
This is the Mecca
of hay fever sufferers
and their malady is
speedily dispelled here,
while every intending
visitor will be glad to
know that flies and
mosquitoes are un-
known at this place.
Harbor Point, near
by, is also much fre-
RUSHMERE CLUB WATER WORKS º is
see's as
mentioned, for summer university studies, is a suffi-
ciently emphatic assurance of the delightful social
character of the several communities. The advantage
of becoming acquainted with celebrated thinkers and
OLD BRIDGE NEAR ALGONAC
quented or the same reasons as Bay View, and has
many beautiful points of attraction.
“MARUBA A QUIET SAIL – LAKE ST. CLAIR A suyim ER Home AT THE FLA*
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98 PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
ON THE SANDY BEACH
site of Gladstone, covered with lofty pines, sturdy
oaks and the delicious trailing arbutus, was an
ideal resort for the devotees of the gun, the rod
and the yacht. To-day, in spite of the presence
PROMISE,” on LAKE ST. CLAIR, MARCH 26, 1893–1CE 12 to 16 INCHES THICK at Gladstone of the noisy din of railways, the
--
st EAMER
whistling chorus of scores of steam vessels and the ON THE ST. CLAIR
-
PETOSKEY * \\
A - ~
Petoskey, the famous
summer resort, was but
twenty years ago the
abiding-place of a band
of Indians, from whose
chief the town derives
its name. To-day it is
a community of over
4,000 Souls and is favor-
ably known throughout
the land.
Petoskey is built on
table lands which rise in
splendid terraces from the
Sandy beach of Little
Traverse Bay. This is a beautiful sheet of water, fifteen miles long by nine miles wide,
narrowing gradually so that its inmost end forms a natural amphitheatre. It is the busiest
and most important resort in the north part of the state, and the Mecca of hay fever sufferers,
who find here absolute relief. The location is on the south side of the bay, and the pre-
vailing wind being from the lake, it is always cool and laden with health-giving freshness.
The accommodations for guests are excellent and extensive, and in the way of amuse-
ment and recreation simply complete.
%
THE BLACK RIVER LOOKING WEST FROM SEVENTH STREET BRIDGE, PORT HURON
rattling and clanging on the ore and grain docks, the little city in question is in the center of one
of the most delightful of summer resorts.
Those who are fond of fishing may find here all sorts of game, bass, pike, pickerel and
white-fish, while in the Whitefish, Escanaba and Day's rivers near at hand, will be found most
excellent brook trout fishing.
Game of all kinds, from the black bear down to the squirrel, from the snipe and plover up
to ducks and wild turkey are plentiful. For boating and bathing the little Bay de Noc ſurnishes
ample facilities. Gladstone may be easily reached by rail or boat and the hotel accommodations
are exceptionally satisfactory.
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT AT ST. CLAIR
GLADSTONE
The picturesque little
seven year old city of
Gladstone, of between
two thousand and three
thousand inhabitants,
is located on a high
prom on to ry which
overlooks the little Bay
de Noc, the sailors' par-
adise,_ a large inlet
from the north or lower
end of Lake Michigan
indenting the Upper
Peninsular of the Wol-
verine State.
ALONG THE EMBANKMENT AT THE FLATs - Seven years ago the THE CLEVELAND GATLING GUN BATTERY ON DRESS PARADE AT THE OAKLAND













PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 99
A NEW NOSE NEEDED -STOPPED AT PORT HURON FOR REPAIRS
MICHIGAN'S MILITARY ACADEMY
“Outside of West Point, the Michigan Military Academy still maintains its place as the leading
military institution of the country.” This is not quoted from any advertisement or circular, but is
the expressed opinion of Colonel Heyl, Inspector General of the United States army.
THE BRIDGE OVER BLACK RIVER, MILITARY STREET, PORT HURON
ST, CLAIR RAPIDS LOOKING NORTH FROM WATER WORKS - PORT HURON
IUMPHAL ARCH AT Port HURON ON compleTION of RAILwAy TUNNEL UNDER
THE RIVER ST. CLAIR
INTERNATION.
The Academy is situated twenty-six miles from Detroit and four and one-half miles
from Pontiac, with which it is connected by railroad. The grounds, comprising one hun-
dred and twenty acres, are on the shore of Orchard Lake, in one of the most beautiful
and healthful localities in Michigan. The buildings are all new, of brick, and built
expressly for the purpose for which they are used. There are already six modern build-
ings, well lighted and ventilated, and complete in every respect, as represented in the
engravings on pages 115- 15–116 of this work.
The Academy is pre-eminently self-made, having started without endowment and
never having received pecuniary aid from the state. Yet in a sense the Michigan Military
Academy is fostered by the state, and is subject to state inspection. It is intimately
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100
AND ENVIRONS
PICTURESQUE DETROIT
connected with the military affairs of the
state, and its graduates are eligible as brevet
second lieutenants in the state troops. The
course in military instruction resembles that
at West Point, and West Point uniforms
are worn by the cadets. Arms and equip-
ments are furnished by the general govern-
ment, and the text-book department is
under the supervision of a military professor,
a graduate of West Point, detailed by the
United States government from the regular
army. The fact that the cadets of this
institution took first prize of $1,000 and a
gold medal in the national drill at Wash-
ington, in 1877, and won distinction at
the Washington centennial celebration at
New York in 1889, also at the World's Fair
in Chicago this year, is a strong evidence of
the efficiency of instruction and discipline.
The graduates of the academy who
numbered nearly two hundred and fifty,
have already proved that this academy
affords the ideal school training, imparting
physical health and force, which is the best
spring of mental activity, manhood, and
good citizenship. The institution is an
A HURONIA
BEACH COTTAGE
ST. CLAIR RIVER IN FRONT
BAER BLOCK, PORT HURON
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-
of SARNIA, ONTARIO
LEAVING PORT HURON — LOOKING
FOR
intellectual and moral force in the com-
munity, and justly merits the high estima-
tion in which it is held.
LAKE GOGEBIC
Lake Gogebic is one of the most cele-
brated fishing resorts in the north-west,
and our illustrations, on page 140 and
elsewhere, though they may make the
sportsman's mouth water, are in no way
exaggerative of the sport to be had on the
lake.
It is on the very summit of the great
water—shed between Lake Superior and the
Mississippi. It is fifteen miles long and
one and one-half to three miles wide. It
is 1,400 feet above the ocean and 800 feet
above Lake Superior, which is only seven-
teen miles distant. This lake is surrounded
with a dense and luxurious growth of woods
indigenous to this high northern latitude.
The fishing in Gogebic Lake and its tribu-
taries is superb. Black bass of great size
may be taken here in greater numbers than
in any other water in the world, while
A TOW ON LAKE HURON
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
101
brook trout abound in all the various streams empty-
ing into the lake, as well as in the lake itself and in
the outlet. Not alone to anglers is this region of
interest, but to hunters as well. Deer are plentiful
in this great forest, bears are frequently met with, and
grouse are abundant, so that lovers of the gun and
rifle may here enjoy great sport.
OAKLAND COUNTY – PONTIAC, THE
LAKES, BTC.
“Land of the lakes, upon whose bosom gleams
The varied glory of each jeweled sheen.
O, land of lakes and streams |
O, fairy land of roses and woodland flowers;
Abode of graceful forms of swan and dove ;
Land of wild vines, in many a mystic bower ;
Dream of an angel wafted from above.”
THE BIG Four
Oakland County is a
“land of lakes,” there being
Several hundred of them here
and it was the earliest settled
of any interior county in the
territory. For many years it
ranked in importance only
second to Wayne, and it has
always been first among all
the counties of Michigan in
its varied agricultural prod–
ucts and live stock.
It is thirty miles square,
and contains 576,000 acres,
20,000 of which is water.
The general surface of
Oakland County is from 300
to 400 feet above the level
of the Great Lakes.
In twenty of the twenty-
five townships of the county,
there are lakes and lakelets
on whose shady banks you will often find nooks fit
for the gods to dwell in ; but those we mention are
the best known, owing to railroad facilities, nearness
to Pontiac, and other local considerations. Pine Lake
is one and a half miles from the city of Pontiac, and
may be reached by the famous Orchard Lake gravel
road. It is one and a half miles in length, and it is
supplied entirely by springs, there being no visible
inlet. “The Interlaken,” a Detroit club, is located
on this lake. Orchard Lake, on which is located the
noted Michigan Military Academy, lies immediately
west of Pine, separated from it only by a narrow strip
of land on which stands the depot of the Grand Trunk
A WINTER SYMPHONY AT PORT HURON
R. R. This lake is near-
ly round, a little more
than a mile and a half in
diameter, with a beauti-
ful island in the center,
containing about forty
a cres. The island is
owned and has long been
occupied by Mrs. Colin
Campbell of Detroit and
her family as a summer
home. Here is an apple
orchard supposed to have
been planted by the
Indians and, rom which
it derived its Indian name,
‘‘ Me-nah-sa-gor-ning,”
meaning apple ground.
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102
PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
Orchard Lake resembles Pine in its
shores, and like Pine is spring fed,
having no visible inlet except from Pine.
It empties its waters into Cass, the
largest lake in the county, being about
three miles in length. It lies north of
Orchard Lake and possesses many
of the characteristics of Orchard and
Pine lakes. At Cass park, on the
eastern shore, is located the Cass Lake
Club, which is the social club of Pon-
tiac. On the south shore, near Orchard
Lake, is the palatial home of Dr. David
Ward. Sylvan is the name recently
given by the Sylvan Lake Improvement
Association, to the three lakes situated
in the south-east corner of the township
of Waterford, north of Cass Lake, and
adjoining the city of Pontiac.
These lakes are so united that they
may with propriety be considered one
lake. On a beautiful promontory is
situated the elegant Sylvan Lake Inn,
which has just been completed.
The Grand Trunk Railway passes
through the property of the Sylvan
Lake Association, with a depot near
A TOW PASSING THE OAKLAND
the Inn. The lakes we have named, like
most of the lakes in the county, abound in
fish, and on these and many other lakes in
the vicinity of Pontiac are numerous sum-
mer cottages owned by residents of Detroit,
Pontiac, and other cities. The Indians,
especially those who inhabited this portion
of North America before the advent of the
white man, were admirers of the beautiful
in nature, and the lake district which we
have just briefly described was their favorite
resort. -
Pontiac, “the most princely Indian that
ever trod the soil of the mighty west,” here
had his lodge, and here he is said to have
retired after his repulse at the siege of De-
troit. The prosperous city which bears his
name, numerous thriving villages, and
cultivated farms now occupy the hunting
ground of the Indian, but art has not
entirely usurped the bower of nature.
These lakes and much of their immediate
surroundings, still remain unmarred by
man. Art has added to, but has not taken
away the wild and picturesque beauty
of those scenes where “under the same
moon that shines for us, the Indian lover
wooed his dusky mate.” They paddled
their light canoes over the crystal waters
we'RE ALL IN IT —
of these same lakes,
and from these
pleasant groves
they sallied forth to
battle with distant
tribes and “when
the tiger strife was
over,” on the shores
of these lakelets
curled the Smoke
of peace.
Pontiac is one
of Michigan's oldest
cities, having been
settled in 1818, has
now a population
of 8,000. Situated
on the Clinton near
its source almost in
the center of the
most noted lake
district of Oakland
County, only
— AND so ARE we — HURONIA BEACH
twenty-four miles from Detroit's city
hall, with the finest drives, and most
delightful rural surroundings, it is par
excellence the residence suburb of De-
troit. Its schools and churches are not
surpassed by any of Detroit. It contains
many handsome residences and the
occupants of the humblest cottages vie
with their wealthy neighbors in the care
of their premises and beautiful green
lawns, closely trimmed as a rule on all
the streets. Pontiac is beginning to be
appreciated as a residence city, and one
hundred and fifty new homes have
been built within the last year, (1892).
The city has two electric lighting
plants, an excellent system of water
works, and one of the best fire depart-
ments in the state ; an electric street
railway has been incorporated, and it is
the intention to celebrate the fifty-fifth
anniversary of the advent of steam cars
into the county of Oakland, by the
introduction of electric cars which will
connect Pontiac with Sylvan, Cass,
Orchard, and Pine lakes.
The Eastern Michigan Asylum, one
of the many famous institutions for the
ST. CLAIR RIVER TUNNEL company’s FERRY BoAT
care of the insane of which America can
boast, is situated here. Pontiac is also one
of the most prosperous business towns in
the state ; all its numerous institutions are
flourishing, and it is safe to say, that for
fifty years there have been fewer failures
than in any other city in Michigan.
The Clinton river affords abundant water
power. Its railroad facilities are excellent
and it possesses many advantages as a
manufacturing city. The drive from De-
troit to Pontiac and the lakes is a most
delightful one, the roads being as good as
can be found in Michigan not only but
through as beautiful a section of country
as one desires to behold.
On the way we pass through several
charming ‘‘ burgs” or town suburbs
of Detroit, including Royal Oak and Bir–
mingham, several good views of which are
to be seen in our work. Both of these
places are also located on the Detroit, Grand
Haven & Milwaukee Railroad and are but
a few minutes' ride from Detroit’s business
center, making them very accessible and
pleasant homes for many of Detroit's busi-
ness men. In our pictures of this entire
section, as well as all others, we have aimed
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103
ful, and in no sense the
commercial, and think we
have obtained this result
in a very high degree, and
yet not more so than this
grand section of our state
warrants; in fact the half
of its story, pictorially, as
well as editorially, has not
been shown or told in our
limited space.
J. E. SAwYER
Point EDWARD, ABOVE SARNIA
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CASwell's suspenSION BRIDGE, NEAR PORT HURON
TURTLE LAKE
Turtle lake, so called be-
cause of its singular resem-
blance to the “turtle,” lies
about thirty-seven miles
south-west of Alpena, which
town is its nearest railroad
a pproach or connection.
The lake itself lies in the
midst of and is surrounded
by one of the grand and
impressive old, almost prim-
eval, lower peninsular pine
forests. The main body of
the lake is about two miles
in length and nearly as wide,
while the head of the lake,
(or turtle) is a small lake
connected with the main
“THE wreck's Monum ENT,”
body or lake by a little
stream called the “neck,”
which is really the “outlet”
of the lake. This “head,”
or small lake is very deep and
no bottom has, as yet, been
found to it.
About these lakes and the
upper south branch of the
Alpena river, the “Turtle
Lake Shooting and Fishing
Club” own some 4,000 acres
of land—a sportsman's par-
adise, abounding in game
and the lakes furnishing
abundant varieties of fish
for the piscatorially inclined
members of the club, such
as the redfin pike, trout,
black bass, perch and many
other members of the finny
tribe.
This “little game farm "
also contains within its
boundaries several fine brook
trout streams where this king
of fish abounds.
The Club have good, sub-
stantial log cabin buildings,
which, along with their
lands, roads and other prop-
erty, are posted and looked
after by their own men, or
“care takers” and always,
in the season, are in the best
of shape for the “royal
sport” afforded members.
Among prominent Detroit
members, we might mention
J. D. Hawks, E. H. Gillman,
W. C. Colburn, G. H.
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'- ON BLACK RIVER - -
H ! I've Gor A BITE
the dying embers of
the big fire logs on
the hearth and spin
yarns of the chase,
smoke the social
pipe, or sit in silent
“sportsmen's rev-
erie,” (a la Hopkin) as
they meditate over the
exciting events of the
day.
We are indebted to
Mr. F. Irland and
the Hayes Photo
Company for their
excellent Camp and
LOON LAKE, NEAR DRAYTON PLAINS
of them seem to prefer Orion as a summer residence I am unable
to state, unless it is because sickness is so entirely foreign to the
place, they go there for a contrast to their busy lives and Ior
a total cessation to the cutting and slashing or the dealing out
of physicand pills. The lake has many picturesque little islands
dotted about its dark blue surface and one, quite a large island,
has been converted into an attractive park. As a matter of
course, every house has its boat-house and every boat-house its
complement of yachts, both steam and sailing, row-boats, etc.,
etc., to say nothing of complete fishing outfits with which to
while away “Summer's hot and fleeting breath,” besides the
entrapping and catching of the poor unwary fishes, big and
little, with which the lake abounds.
BOUND UP, LIGHT
Barnes, J. C. Black and Mr. L'Hommedieu – all great lovers and
devotees of the divine sport. Orion is also a very popular picnic resort for Detroiters, par-
In the cosy and comfortable club house is a large old-fashioned ticularly the Sabbath schools– the shady groves, lovely lawn,
clean and safe beaches being well adapted for that purpose.
fireplace and ample hearth, over and about which can be seen THE INTERLAKEN ATHLETic club -
numerous trophies of the chase, club prizes and the huntsman's - - ***
guns and paraphernalia.
Here, after the hard day's work is done the sport is ended, the
members of the Club, the old sportsmen, love to gather and watch
Lake pictures, which no doubt will be of much
interest to our patrons and the public generally,
as a typical Michigan hunting range and Camp.
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ORION LAKE
Orion Lake, is as pretty a body of water and
inland lake as can be found in Michigan. It is
about forty miles from Detroit, on the Detroit,
Bay City and Mackinaw branch of the Michigan
Central R. R. The topography of the surround-
ing country is rather high and rolling and is some
six hundred feet higher than Detroit. The town
of Orion, lying quite close to the lake, is a neat
and brisk little place of about one thousand inhab-
itants and there is a fine hotel where visitors can
obtain pleasant accommodations and good cheer,
and plenty of it, at very reasonable rates.
There are many fine summer homes around the
lake owned by Detroiters and among them many
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UNCONscious MoDELs – Down BY THE BRIDGE, NEAR PONTIAC - A FAMOUS SWIMMING HOLE NEAR PONTIAC
ON THE CLINTON RIVER NEAR PONTIAC
GODBRICH AND RIVER MAITLAND
The town of Goderich, Ont., is situated on the east shore of Lake Huron, about an eight hours' ride by the
Grand Trunk Railroad from Detroit, and it is also a pleasant trip by steamer. It has always been a favorite
summer resort of Detroiters. Its bluffs and beaches, magnificent drives, its cool, bracing atmosphere, together
with its most unique and grandly beautiful Maitland river scenery, make it a delightful spot for the tourist, artist
or sportsman to visit, as can be readily seen by our illustrations on another page. C.
A PONTIAC RESIDENCE
MACKINAC
Mackinac island is at the head of Lake Huron, and is much Irequented by
travelers and invalids because of its historical interest and peculiarly pure
bracing air.
Mackinac in the summer season is the social eyrie of the north. Wealth,
- - - - elegance, culture and grace rendezvous there and it only needs to be
THE BUSINESS CENTRE OF PONTIAC better known to become a Mecca where the magnificent and generous accom-
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 107
WATCHING THE ARTISTs, CLINTON River,
PONTIAC
gazes from the rocky battle-
ments of the fort upon the
surrounding waters, there
steals upon him a sense of
Security which seems a com-
plete bulwark against the host
of Summer annoyances.
ANN ARBOR AND MICHI-
GAN UNIVERSITY
The city of Ann Arbor, a
synonomous term with Michi-
gan's great and noble Univer-
sity — a name familiar the
world over, is less than a two
hours' ride,-forty-five miles
—from Detroit on Michigan's
finest railroad, the Michigan
Central. It is also situated on
modations which now exist
will be insufficient for the
multitude that will visit it.
At present it is the summer
home of some of the best and
most widely known celebrities
of the country. Many of
these from Chicago and more
distant cities occupy cottages,
which in their appurtenances
and appointments are little less
than palaces, and thither are
transported for purposes of the
summer outing gorgeous equi
pages, blooded stock, liveried
servants and other conven-
iences afforded wealth. On
the hillside, elevated high
above the water with a glori-
ous view of the straits and
distant islands and mainland
are the cottage sites. -
Nothing can exceed the beauty of this island. It is a mass of calcareous rock rising from the
bed of Lake Huron, and reaching a height of more than three hundred feet above the water. Some
of its cliffs shoot up perpendicularly, and tower in pinnacles like half ruined gothic steeples. The
island shows unmistakable evidence of the water having once been two hundred and fifty feet above
its present line. It is a mooted question whether the lake has fallen from its original level, or the
island has been lifted up. It is cavernous in places, and in these the ancient Indians were wont to
place their dead.
The harbor at the south end is a little gem, and around it the little old-fashioned French town
nestles in primitive style, while above frowns the fort, its white walls gleaming in the Sun. This
village is a perfect curiosity in itself. Situated at the foot of the bluff, its two streets extend for a
distance of a mile along the beach. The buildings are a ridiculous mixture of the modern and
antique. Some were brought from Old Mackinaw when the town and fort were removed from that
point after the massacre of June 4th, 1763. Many of the fences are of the original palisade style.
The whole area of the island is one labyrinth of curious glens and valleys. There are walks and
winding paths of the most romantic character among its hills and precipices. From the eminences
overlooking the lake can be seen magnificent views of almost illimitable extent, and as the observer
THE CANAL NEAR PONTIAC
THE IMPROVISED FERRY AT PONTIAC
yy
“THE open GATE of PARADISE,
CLINTON RIVER, PONTIAC
the banks of the beautiful Huron river and in a very hilly, finely
cultivated farming section of the state. It has a population of nearly
20,000, more or less, sometimes more, engaged for the most part in
the acquisition of knowledge, mercantile and manufacturing pursuits,
or vice versa, mercantile and manufacturing pursuits and the acqui-
sition of knowledge ; take it whichever way that pleases the most,
as the writer does not wish to reflect upon the great business push,
enterprise and thrift of a city that every true and loyal Michigander
is justly proud of.
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A Jolly INLET – PontiAc
SYLVAN. LAKE, PONTIAC
with the largest cities, while its mercantile houses are
as large, well and tastily stocked as can be found in
Detroit. The public buildings and churches are in
keeping with the city's private enterprise and the
University's fine complement of buildings, and it also
abounds in very many private chapter or college
club houses of the most elegant character architectur-
ally and exceedingly well furnished interiors, inso-
much that members suffer no lack of comfort, to say
nothing about the luxuries of life.
Ann Arbor has a fine system of electric street
railways, branching out all over the city's main thor-
oughfares and at same time connecting with the city
of Ypsilanti, a distance of ten or twelve miles away,
where is located the State Normal School and many
large and prosperous manufacturing institutions.
The city abounds in numerous beautiful and pic-
turesque drives and the writer, who has traveled
ON THE STREAM
It is an extremely well and beautifully
built city and in proportion to its size has
more fine, substantial and imposing struct-
ures, not only, but exquisite and charming
homes, of any place in this or any other
state. Its streets are broad and well paved
and the resident portion generally arched
with lofty elms, beech or maple and lined
with beautiful and tasteful homes, be they
large and stately or small and humble,
the same neat and thrifty air pervades all
alike. All have large lots, beautifully kept
lawns and a superfluity of flowers adorns
nearly every garden front. Its business
streets and buildings are also of the finest
classin style architecturally and of solidity in
construction, and compare very favorably
SYLVAN LAKE, PONTIAC
considerably, does not recall in this country, at least,
a finer system of country roads outlying the city for
many miles ; roads over which it is a pleasure to ride
in carriage or “bike ’’ any season of the year.
As befitting the city of Michigan's great seat
of learning, Ann Arbor is a city eminently cultured
and cultivated to a high degree and its society conse-
quently is of the highest and best order, embracing
within its midst men and women of the highest order
of heart and intellectuality.
As to the University, one of the best and grandest
institutions of its kind in this country, or any other
for that matter, I can say but little, if anything, to
add to its fame or grandeur. We all know it, love
and honor it and the noble man at its head, President
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS
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he a Michigan man or not, knows him but to
love and honor him, and every Michigander
knows him but to praise and honor him and his
great and enduring work.
As this little work is merely descriptive, and
more so pictorially than editorially, we do not
pretend to go into history or detail, but we cannot
pass without bare mention of the magnificent fine
arts collection belonging to the University.
The collection was begun in 1855. It contains
a gallery of casts, in full size and in reduction,
of some of the most valuable ancient statues and
busts, such as the Apollo Belvedere, the Laocoon,
the Sophocles, a gallery of more than two hundred
reductions and models in terra cotta and other
materials ; the statue of Nydia by Randolph
Rogers; casts of modern statues, busts, etc., and
reliefs; a number of engravings and photographic
views, illustrating especially the architectural and
THE CLINTON MILLs, Pont IAC
sculptural remains of ancient Italy and Greece; a small collection of engraved
copies of the great masterpieces of modern painting ; two series of historical
medallions—the Horace White Collec-
tion, and the Governor Bagley Collec-
tion ; and a large collection of coins,
chiefly Greek and Roman, presented to
the University by the late Dr. A. E.
Richards.
The Rogers Gallery comprises the
entire collection of the original casts
of the works of the late Randolph
Rogers, more than a hundred in num-
ber. It was given by that distinguished
sculptor to the state of Michigan for the
University museum.
Also the fine botanical, zoological
collection or cabinets and the Chinese,
archaeological and ethnological collec-
tions, embracing as it does the interest-
ing and valuable Beal-Steere collection
of valuable North and South America
specimens of clothing, etc., etc.
A shADY BEND IN THE RIVER, NEAR PONTIAC
HOME OF CHAs. HARRY EATON, ARTIST, AT HOLLY, MICH.
We are indebted
to H. Randall of Ann
Arbor for some of the
best photographs
used by us. O. L. C.
PUT-IN-BAY
Put-in-Bay has a
prominent place in
the history of our
country. He re
Commodore Perry
gathered his war ves-
sels and laid in wait
Ior the British fleet.
Near this island was
fought the great naval
battle of Lake Erie,
and to this perfect
harbor he “put in " and sent to the
authorities at Washington his famous
despatch, “We have met the enemy,
and they are ours.” Here, buried
beneath a willow tree near the landing,
are the remains of six of his gallant
officers, and on this spot the United
States Government will soon erect a
magnificent monument in commemo-
ration of Perry's victory.
In later years Put-in-Bay has become
somewhat noted as a summer resort.
Its natural advantages have long been
recognized, and are unsurpassed by any
place in America. Its magnificent
scenery (a combination of land and
water pictures,) absolutely pure air and
water, bracing atmosphere and cool
breezes, with its superb boating, bath-
ing and fishing, and perfect accessibility Irom
every direction, combine to make it the natural
summer resort of the Central, Western and South-
western States. This fact is universally recognized
by the thousands of people who visit the place
annually and are familiar with its many attractive
features. The largest summer hotel in the country,
“The Victory,” is located at Put-in-Bay.
** IS GOD DEAD p *
A REMINISCENCE OF sojourneR TRUTH
There are hundreds now living in the city
of Detroit and thousands in Michigan, New York
and other northern states, who will very distinctly
remember a very original and remarkable character
whose tall, striking appearance, epigramatic and
pungent words, and forceful sentences made an
impression they can never forget. This singular
A LONG THE BOULEVARD AT PONTIAC
and most interesting character has addressed and held the
closest attention of vast audiences in the above named and
other northern states.
The plain, simple, direct, conscientious and earnest
manner of this remarkable character made a deep and lasting
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SIGNATURE OF LOUIS XIV. KING OF FRANCE,-FROM AN OLD
DocumENT GRANTING PENSION TO LOUIS PHELYPEAUx,
count DE PONTCHANTRAIN, IN 1702 º
wiNTER AT THE “willows '' FARM
impression upon all hearers, for God, for Justice and for Humanity. And this remarkable
haracter was a negress | Born and reared under one of the “peculiar institutions”
of this country, as a “chattel slave,” and that in the great Empire State of New York,
remaining in that “cruel bondage "up to the Fourth of July, 1827, sixty-six years ago,
when that state abolished slavery she became a free woman. From that event up to the
time of her death a few years ago, at Battle Creek in this state, did that wonderful woman
THE INTERLAKEN NAVY OFF DUTY – PINE LAKE
CAM PBELL ISLAND
sign ATURE OF LOUIS PHELY PEAUx, count DE PONTCHARTRAIN, AFTER WHOM DETROIT WAS
First NAMED, FROM AN old DocumENT, (1702) SIGNED BY HIM
AND LOUIS XIV., KING OF FRANCE
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 111
A PRETTY TURN AT PINE LAKE
make the most noble use of her extraordinary powers. By this time I think many who
may have read these few lines will have recognized the famous old “Sojourner Truth.”
I have seen vast audiences enthused and thrilled by her wonderful and inspiring
words. On one occasion in ante-bellum days, when we (abolitionists) were holding a
large anti-slavery convention at Rochester, N. Y., and everything looked dark and
discouraging, the slave power having obtained such control and domination over the
political parties, the churches, and the jurisprudence of the country, and the Supreme
Court of the United States had mouthed out through old Judge Taney in the Dred Scott
case the inhuman decision, that “Black men had no rights that white men were bound
to respect ' " Frederick Douglass, who was at this Rochester convention, was adding
to the depression and gloom by a half despairing speech, when the tall, turbaned figure
of Sojourner Truth rose up in the audience, and amid the silence of death, exclaimed,
‘‘ Frederick | Is God dead P” It would be difficult to describe in words the electric and
thrilling effect of this timely, this Heaven inspired ejaculation from that devoted and
venerable old saint. The tide was turned, and in a moment spontaneous and exultant
shouts went up from that vast assemblage.
It is a pleasure to record, that, though through blood and tears and the terrible
slaughter of war, this faithful old soul, with millions of other aching hearts, lived to see
the glorious day of emancipation to the 4,000,000 American slaves; to be confirmed in
FRAZERVILLE — CASS LAKE
INTERLAKEN CLUB HOUSE, PINE LAKE
SUMMER AT THE “ WILLows '' FARM
A.
GLIMPSE OF PINE LAK1.
her assurance that “ God was not dead,” and to realize the prophetic prediction of Thomas Jefferson
in reference to the wrongs of slavery, “God’s justice cannot slumber forever ! I tremble for my
country when I remember that God is just.”
GEORGE W. CLARK.
Detroit, Mich., Sept., 1893.
HENNEPIN’S OPINION OF THE COUNTRY
The following extracts of interest are taken from the narrative of Fr. Louis Hennepin A
Recolect, who accompanied M. Seine d'La Salle on his visit from a point at the foot of Lake Erie,
what is now Fort Erie, to the head of Lake Erie, the Detroit river, Lake St. Clair, Lake Huron,
“The Soo,” and Lake Michigan then named Lake Illinois. They left August 7th, 1679, this point
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112 PICTURESQUE DETRIOT AND ENVIRONS
CASS LAKE NAVY AND CLUB HOUSE
above Niagara Falls accompanied by thirty-four men in a small vessel of sixty tons burthen, which
they constructed at that point and arrived at the foot of the Detroit river on the Ioth. La Salle
took his leave of the party, to return temporarily to Montreal in the following season, when they
were all at the head of the Illinois river, leaving Tonti in command. There they built a fort and it
was from this point that Hennepin with two other men in his birch bark canoe sailed down that
river to the Mississippi and unknown to La Salle or Tonti, made his discovery of the lower Missis-
sippi. This is what Hennepin says, as they approached the mouth at the foot of the Detroit river :
“The next day we doubled two capes and met with all manner of rocks or sand. We discovered
a pretty large island toward the south-west, about seven or eight leagues from the northern coast.
THE SIGNAL TO THE FERRYMAN – SALT RIVER, NEAR NEW BALTIMORE
THROUGH THE OPENINGs TO TI
“ALL ABOARD.”
AN orch.ARD LARE CATCH
GOING
UP SALT RIVER,
MBER LAKE
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A corn ER ON CAS
MICHIGAN MILITARY ACADEMY
GHT AND SHADE – ORCHARD LAKE
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A GLIMPSE OF SILVER LAKE
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That island faces the strait that comes from Lake Huron. On the Loth, very
early in the morning, we passed between those islands and seven or eight
lesser ones and having sailed near another, which is nothing but sand, to the
west of the lake, we came to anchor at the mouth of the strait which runs
from Lake Huron into that of Lake Erie. On the 11th we went farther into
SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW — ORCHARD LAKE
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the strait and passed between two
of these islands, which makes one
of the ſinest prospects in the world.
This strait is finer than that of
Niagara, being thirty leagues long
and everywhere one league broad,
except in the middle, which is
wider, forming the lake we have
called St. Clair. The navigation
is easy on both sides, being low
and even. The strait runs directly
from north to south.
“The country between those
two lakes is very well situated and
the soil very fertile. The banks
of the strait are vast meadows and
the prospect is terminated with
some hills covered with vineyards,
trees bearing good fruit, groves
and forests so well disposed that
you would think nature alone
could not have made, without
the help of art, so charming a
prospect. The country is stocked
with stags, wild goats and bears,
which are very good food, and not
fierce as in other countries—some
think they are better than our
pork. Turkey cocks and Swans
are also very common and our
men brought several other beasts
and birds whose names are un-
ARTILLERY CADETS – ORCHARD
A LONELY DOG — ORCHARD LAKE
LAKE
MILITARY ACADEMY
“old MASTER’’ – orch.ARD LAKE
BY THE ONLY
known to us, but they are extra-
ordinarily relishing.
“The forests are chiefly made
up of walnut trees, chestnut trees,
plum trees and pear trees loaded
with their own fruit and vines.
There is also abundance of timber
fit for building so that those who
shall be so happy as to inhabit
that country cannot but remember
with gratitude those who have
discovered the way by venturing
to sail upon an unknown lake
over one hundred leagues.”
JAS. A. RANDALL
THE LOGGING CAMP
We had just broken camp, after
a delightful and successful four
weeks' hunt. Our party had
returned to the nearest town, some
twenty miles away from our per-
manent camp — our base of oper-
ations — and were making their
final preparations for departure
home, when Mr. R., the lumber-
man called on us at the hotel and
gave us a pressing invitation to
make him a visit at his lumber-
camp up E river. “Bring
your guns and rods, we've got
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lots of game and fish, deer, an occasional bear and plenty of the finest trout in
the world,” said he, by way of tempting us. All of the party but myself had
pressing business engagements to meet and were all packed to return, so
declined with thanks, while I, never knowing when and where to stop when-
ever sport is concerned, besides never having seen or visited a lumber camp
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Laying aside my “biled shirt” garb of civilization—and once more donning
the hunting suit and taking with me my “old trusty,” all the shells I could
carry and my rod, we took a way freight and after a two hours' ride left the
train and took to the woods for camp, about ten miles away, where we arrived
in time for dinner. The “camp” consisted of a cluster of rude log cabins,
standing out from the pine forest in a little clearing upon a bluff overlooking
the river. The cabins were built of round, rough pine logs, topped off and
roofed with rough slabs or boards. There were three of them, one, the “Hall,”
where the men camped, so to speak, was a long, low building about 50 x 120.
At the further end, directly opposite the entrance, was the kitchen. In the
center of the room, divided from the kitchen, partly by the matched board
partition was the “ dining hall,” really dining room and kitchen combined.
Here, long plain pine tables ran across the room ; single board benches in lieu
of chairs, accommodated the hungry crew three times a day. Extending from
this aforementioned partition to the front of building, on both sides or walls,
were ranged a double tier of wooden bunks, in which the men slept, or
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At ORCHARD LAKE
PINE LA KE SHORE
lounged and smoked, as inclinations dictated.
Some had hay, others pine boughs, while
others merely rolled themselves nonchalantly in
their blankets and slept the sleep of the honest
toiler, but no one except “ide boss” when in
camp, luxuriated in mattress, sheet or pillow. In
the center of this, the living
room, stood a large stove,
surrounded by a few rickety
old chairs and stools.
Here, evenings and Sun-
days, around a good rousing
fire, the men would congre-
gate — some in these old
squeaky, rickety chairs,
stools and boxes or on the
tables and benches or still
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more comfortably situated, in their adjoining bunks, and spin yarns, sing songs— scrape
the fiddles or play cards, while an occasional one could be seen reading some old stray
newspaper, letter, or book, or slowly laboring with pen or pencil, writing to the loved
ones at home – while above, beyond and around all was a black dense cloud of stifling
cheap tobacco smoke. The other buildings, of similar appearance and construction,
although not quite so “elaborately" finished, consisted of barns, sheds, tool house,
carpenter and blacksmith shops, quite a little village in all by themselves.
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than the English language
and while it, (the cooking,
not the language) was not
elaborate or varied, it was
substantial and wholesome.
Breakfast consisted gener-
ally of black but excellent
coffee, with sugar but no
milk, bread (occasionally
with butter) corn beef hash
or pork and potatoes. For
dinner we had corn beef,
hot and cold boiled ham,
potatoes, bread and tea and
pie always, but not always
good pie. Supper gave us
jerked beek, fried ham and
potatoes, and hot biscuit,
now and then canned sauce
or dried apples or peaches
every time.
This diet regime was bro-
ken and varied by the fresh
game or fish that I might
happen to bag and the boys
were always pleased to see
me coming into camp with
the bag well filled – it was
always a treat to them to get something
fresh – and when I came in with a fine
string of choice brook trout — a fitting feast
for the gods – nothing in camp was too
good for me.
The ‘‘ call ” to dinner was made with a
six foot birch bark dinner horn, the farther
end of which the cook was obliged to rest
upon the house top, stump or tree, and a
THE CAMPBELL COTTAGE – ORCHARD LAKE
A MONG THE REEDS — CASS LAKE
BIRCH POINT – ORCHARD LAKE
blast from which we could hear for miles. It took an enormous amount of lung power to
give the blast, but Nelson, the cook, was one of the few who could do it to perfection and it
was always answered with a laugh and a shout of welcome as men and teams dropped
everything in quick response to the odd but gladsome call — which seemed to say to all,
“Come to din-ſler-din-mer-din-din-din-mer. Come to DIN NER ”
The teamsters were the first men to camp to turn out in the morning and were always
up and bestirring themselves by four o'clock, taking care of their teams and getting ready
for their usual early start. Next the cook began rattling and banging at his stove, preparing
for the customary six o'clock breakfast, which was a signal for all hands to get up and
- turn out, which they usually did with shouts and rough jokes at the laggards, accompanied
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THE LEGEND OF ME-NAH-SA-GOR-NING .
By DR. SAMUEL W. LEGGETT
In the State of Michigan, in one county alone, that of Oakland, is a chain of beautiful clear
lakes, some two hundred in number, many of them miles in length and width. Around these wind
the roadways, over beaches of white pebbles, and shaded by the “forests primeval.” Two rivers,
the Huron and Clinton, run through these lakes,
and in their tortuous forms, wind and turn and
twist, till after a course of hundreds of miles they at last rest in lakes Erie and St. Clair.
These rivers are in summer dotted with the water lily. As they flow on through the “Openings,”
on their banks are huge old oaks, under which, in the “days that are gone,” stood many a wigwam.
The legend which I have attempted to versify, is founded upon an incident occurring at Orchard
Lake long before the coming of the white man and while the grand farms now lying around it were
merely a vast “Oak Opening,” its sole occupants the Indian and the wild beast.
Very near the centre of this Orchard Lake, is a large island, wooded to its very shore. On it are
a few apple trees, “old and gnarled,” remnants of an orchard planted so long ago, that the Indians
even have no data concerning it. Its name, “Menahsagorning,” meaning “Apple place,” still lives
in tradition. On this island the Algonquin chief Pontiac had his lodge after his repulse at the seige of
Detroit. On the high bank of this lake, opposite the island, is still to be seen the ancient burial
ground of the Sacs, Hurons and Wyandots.
Tradition says: That back beyond the memory of the tribe, a young chief sickened and
suddenly died. The maiden to whom he was betrothed became insane, and whenever she could escape
from her guardians, she would take the body of the chief from its resting place in the old ground
across the lake, and carry it back where his lodge formerly stood.
At last, weary of guarding her, with the advice of their medicine man, the tribe killed her, upon
her refusal to marry. This crime so offended the Great Spirit, that he avowed his intention to
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totally destroy the tribe and to give the maiden
as long as water flowed " complete control over it.
She alone has power to assume her form at any time. She can compel the attendance of the
tribe at any time, by the beating of the Indian drum. At this sound they must gather and wait,
where an old canoe has been gradually covered by the drifting sands. Upon the signal of her
coming with her dead, the warriors must meet her on the shore, bear the chief on his bier and lay him
down by the ashes of his council fire, and waiting beside him until she could caress it, bear him back
to his resting place. All however must be done between Sunset and sunrise, a foggy night being
always chosen to elude observation.
On the cedar-crown'd beach of Me-nah-sa-gor-ning,
Where the waves o'er the pebbles roll slowly ashore,
Where the ruby-eyed gull with her head 'neath her wing,
Sleeps calm on her nest, when her day's flight is o'er,
Lies an ancient canoe, buried deep in the sand
That the storms in their fury have over it spread,
And at eve when the fog rolls away o'er the land
This canoe rises up and is launched by the dead.
As the night-hawk whirls by with a swoop over head,
And the loon's trilling call rises shrill from the bay,
In the west, the calm lake is with diamond dust spread,
And in garnet-hued clouds the red sun fades away.
O'er the marsh hangs a fog, and all widely it trends,
Rolling backward and forward thro’ valley and hill,
And it wavers like smoke where the still river bends,
And it toys with the alders, yet never is still.
Then it fondles the flags, and its pearly drops press
The soft cheek of the iris while filling its urn ;
And it spreads o'er the mosses a spray-cover'd dress,
And it trickles a-down the green fronds of the fern.
Then the roll of the drum. The gaunt wolf sneaks away,
And the dead rise from graves 'mong the roots of the
trees -
And listining a moment, they hasten away
'Till their foot-fall is heard on the fog-laden breeze.
They are seeking faint trails, and they halt, as each sign
Comes again as of old on their 'wildering sight,
And they wind thro’ the trees 'till their torches of pine
Gleam like nebulous stars thro’ the curtain of night.
They are gathered all armed where the stranded canoe,
On the mist-hidden lake floats as light as of yore,
And they wait on the beach, 'till a distant halloo
Rolls away on the night from the opposite shore.
O'er the lakes where the pines laugh the wild winds to
Scorn,
And still sigh for the dead who are dust on Earth's
breast,
Echo shouts to old Echo, 'till far distant borne
Like a play wearied child it sinks down to rest.
With a sound on the air like the loon's patt’ring feet
When it drags o'er the lake as it rises for flight,
A canoe's glist’ning prow cuts the waves as they meet,
And mingles their spray with the dew-drop of night.
There's a swaying of reeds where the ripples pass
thro’ ;
With a murmur of waves seething over the sand ;
Where thro’ rifts of the fog looms a tiny canoe,
That an Indian girl slowly guides to the land.
In the frail birchen shell she is paddling alone
As it surges along o'er the white-crested wave,
And she heedeth no sound save a low undertone
Like the dirge that the mourners chant over a grave.
Bending low o'er a form that seems nodding in sleep,
With her paddle she checks the canoe's rapid way,
'Till it noiselessly rests where the sentinels keep
Steadfast watch all the night for the coming of day.
Ere her light floating bark crush the beautiful weeds
That are draping each stone with their emerald green,
She has guided its prow where the brown tufted reeds
Throw their buds in her lap as she passes between.
As she leaves her small craft by the stranded canoe,
And glides in thro' the mist where the warriors meet,
In the hush of the night time the shoal water thro’,
Comes a dull plashing sound as of moccason’d feet.
Looking back like the doe, when the wolf's distant cry
Swelling loud on the wind breaks at night on her ear,
Stands the maid in deep shadow, while silently by
Aged warriors pass with the chief on his biei,
ME-NAH-SA-GOR-NING.
With a sound like slow rain, each foot moves a leaf
That has mouldered long years in the old forest trail :
While the drone of the wave, and low chant for the chief
Floats quiveringly up over hill-top and dale.
'Neath an old fallen pine, whose bared roots are all torn
And are knotted and twined like huge serpents in fight,
On dress'd skins of the deer, lies the chief they have
borne
Over moss-covered paths thro’ the darkness of night.
From the rain-dimpled ashes, time-furrowed and gray,
Through the cedars the council-fire glimmers once
more :
And its flame thro’ the mist throws a pale lurid ray
On the maiden's slight form as she comes from the
shore.
She kneels down in the midst of the warriors there,
With her little hands clasped o'er her blanketed head,
And far out o'er the lake on the fog-thickened air
Float, the dirge that the mourner chants over her
ead.
“I have borne Thee again from the distant shore,
I am kneeling, Beloved, by thy side once more,
And the night goes by.—
Dost thou think of me still in the Spirit-Land 2
Oh I Lov’d, oh Lost—coulds’t thou clasp my hand
I would gladly die.”
“They will bear Thee away from my sight again,
And the Autumn's dried leaves, and the Summer's rain
Will fall on thy breast.
Wilt thou think, Love, of me, when the evening showers
Shed their tears with mine on the beautiful flowers
Where thy head shall rest?”
Once again the mute throng with a slow muffled tread,
Wend their way o'er the beach to the stranded canoe,
Once again thro' the foam gently bearing the dead,
Go the warriors plashing the shoal water through.
Kindly hands take her own ; with a look of despair
While yet warm on her lip breathes her simple refrain,
She moves on in the trail of the sad mourners there
As the fawn follows on when the doe has been slain.
In the silence of grief, peering out thro’ the dark,
On the shore with her dead stands the listening maid,
When rocking light on the wave the once stranded bark
Slowly glides where the bier of the chieftain is laid.
Not a sound on the beach from that shadowy crew
As they lift the dead form of the warrior there;
Not a sound on the lake as that ancient canoe
Floats as silently out as the mist on the air.
Leaning forward she stands with her hand to her ear,
And she listens where all seems as still as the grave.
And she peers through the gloom, not a sound can she
hear,
Save the moan and the plash of the incoming wave.
Then the maid stooping down, holds her little brown
and,
Where the waves flecked with foam die away on the
* shore,
Till she knows that the swell surging up o'er the sand,
Is a messenger back, from the bark passing o'er.
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She has passed thro’ the mist as the sentinel's cry,
Telling day-light is near, rises piercing and shrill;
And again o'er the lake the old echoes reply,
And then murmuring turn in their sleep and are still.
In their old forest graves sleep the shadowy band—
And the fog melts away with the first ray of morn—
While the ancient canoe sinks again in the sand,
And the gulls scream aloud in their greeting of dawn.
A GLIMPSE OF ORCHARD LAKE
PATHWAY TO THE STILE, ORCHARD LAKE
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AN ISLAND HOME – ORION LAKE
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One morning soon after the
teamsters had gone out, one of
them came hurrying back and
coming to my bunk quietly called
me out, telling me that he had
seen a fine buck hanging around
near the camp — only five minutes
ago had he seen him near the
barns. This was enough for me :
I was dressed, hunting boots and
all in three minutes. Picking up
the handiest gun, a. double-bar-
reled breech-loading Remington,
I slipped in shells loaded with
buck slugs and hurried out after
his majesty, my heart thumping
for a shot and my mouth watering
for a taste of venison. Making
the circuit of the camp I soon
found the deer's trail and follow-
ing fast I soon came to a little
lake about a mile from the camp.
Here I lost the trail in the Surround-
ing marsh. Hoping he would yet
turn up, I sought a sheltered spot
ORION LAKE BOAT HOUSE
to windward, where I could command a good view of his watering place without exposing
myself to his sharp eyes or keen scent, biding my time for a shot, which came sooner than I
hoped for or expected. The Sun was just coming up and, wet and cold as it was, my blood
was up and I was warm and blown. - -
Seating myself on a fallen “monarch of the orest” to recover my wind and to rest a
moment, I suddenly heard a crashing in the bush at my left; quickly turning I beheld – not
my expected and hoped for buck, but my first bear and a big one at that.
I never knew what the buck fever was, but my bear fever, for a moment, was intense.
I could feel the blood move in great surges or waves back and forth, from head to foot
and foot to head and my first impulse was to climb a tree or “leg it" for camp as quick and
fast as the aforesaid legs could carry me. But the trees were big smooth pines and the bear
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was between myself and the camp,
so fight I must.
Up to this time the bear had
not seen me; raising my gun I
waited until he again came out
of the intervening bush, when he
gave me his fine profile or side.
I gave him a good one in his
flank.
Heavens ! what a roaring howl
did he give. I knew that I had
hit him, and unlimbering, to slip,
in another cartridge in the empty
chamber, I stood at bay and ready
to fight it out as hard as possible.
I couldn't run away if I wanted to,
as there was a thick underbrush
and marsh. His lordship, up to
the moment of reloading the dis-
charged barrel, had not seen me,
but the click of the gun breech
attracted his attention. Looking
up with almost human intelligence
he gave an unearthly howl and
came for me with mouth open
and eyes glaring with savage ury. Waiting until I was reasonably sure of making both
shots count and until he was almost upon me I pulled the trigger for a second shot, but
to my dismay the cartridge snapped but did not explode.
The bear was now almost at the end of my gun and was evidently bent on revenge
and my destruction and there was but one and only one chance for my life, only one
shot between myself and the wounded and infuriated beast.
Knowing that my life depended on that one shot, I waited a moment longer until he
was almost upon me and was in the act of rising on his haunches to strike out for me,
when I aimed for his head and pulled the trigger. Thank God this was a good, sound
dry shell, and to that fact and a good aim I owed my life.
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The shot struck him squarely
in the face and while not killing
him outright, it rolled him over
in almost mortal agony and
gave me time to slip in another
cartridge and give him a final
quietus— after which he gave
an almost human groan and
expired.
Making my way back to
camp, I told the boys of my
good luck. They could scarcely
believe it, but I finally obtained
a party to go back with me
and get the carcass. Tying his
four legs together and placing a
pole underneath, the four men
managed, after much puffing
and blowing, to get him into
camp, where he was duly
skinned, quartered and devoured
by an appreciative crowd of
loggers, who feasted on fresh
meat and in plenty for a week.
His lovely skin yet adorns my
library in the shape of a rug.
The “boys’ so called are, as a rule a “tough '' but not necessarily vicious lot
of men. They are free and easy, working like lions in their season, kind-hearted and
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with their immense loads will
not tip or slew over.
There is no limit to these
loads, excepting the capacity
and strength of the sleighs, as
some of our illustrations will
show — sometimes going as
high as 30,000 to 35,000 feet
and 18 or 20 feet long, 12 to
15 wide and 30 to 40 feet high,
weighing from 75 to 125 tons
—single teams.
These big sleighs are piled up
with enormous loads of cut logs
of even lengths, and are hauled
to the river side and dumped or
rolled to the water's edge –
banking it is called, where
they await the coming of spring
floods and breaking up to carry
them safely to mill or market.
A fairly good “ crop' of logs
runs up into very big money —
$50,000 to $250,000. If snow
and early floods are plentiful,
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generous to a fault. They are saving
while at camp, simply because they
have no ways of spending their money
in the woods. But when their time is
up and they get their pay, after reach-
ing town, the improvident fellows just
make things hum and their money is
Soon gone to the bad.
Late in the summer and fall the trees
are first blazed, then cut by one gang,
while others are making tracks and
roads solid and level, so that the sleighs
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LIBRARY INTERIOR AT THE UNIVERSITY
well and good, but woe betide those who
harvest a big “ crop' and have their logs
tied up with a dry open winter and are
obliged to carry them over another season
— to many lumbermen it would mean utter
ruin. When a good lot of logs are success-
fully handled and safely brought to the
mill, this by no means is the easiest or
safest part of their arduous labors, but on
the other hand, when it is done and well
done it maketh the heart of “ de Boss”
very glad if not al-
ways duly apprecia-
tive or grateful.
We are indebted to
E. H. Husher & Co.,
the photographers of
Detroit, for many OI
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these fine and artistic
photos illustrative of our
Loggers' Camp.
CADILLAC’S OFFICIAL
CORRESPONDENCE
The Michigan Histor-
ical society, through the
enterprise of Clarence M.
Burton, local historical
expert, has recently come
into the possession of the
official correspondence
and reports of Antoine
de la Mothe Cadillac, in
reference to his com-
mands at Michillimack-
inac, Detroit and New
Orleans.
Among the papers is a
description of the location
of Detroit before a tree
was felled or a building
erected ; of Cadillac's
arrival here on July 24th,
1701 ; and his descrip-
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wild grapes and apples m other indigenous fruits, and the
abundant and finely flavored fish.
Cadillac's written controversy with the Jesuits is also given
entire. The order wished to establish a mission and church at
his post, but Cadillac would not allow them, doubtless sharing
the prejudice against the order which was very pronounced at
JAMES B. ANGELL, PRES. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
tion of the “sweetwaters,”
the dense forests, the wild
animals, the eagles that
soared over the great fresh
water stream, the delicious
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UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
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that time and which resulted
in its banishment from a ma–
jority of European countries.
Their property in Canada
was afterward confiscated,
and the order was only
reimbursed for this spoliation
by an act of parliament
passed a few years ago.
PALMER PARK
On page 67 will be found
a very pretty set of views
made in Palmer Park, a ter–
ritory now owned by Senator
Thomas W. Palmer. But
recently (the summer of
1893) Mr. Palmer Invited
the city officials out to this
place and informed them
that he had given 120 acres
of it to the city on condition
that it was provided with
police protection, and that
upon the death of himself
and his wife the entire
property would go to the
city. The park and lake has
cost Senator Palmer about
$27,000, is now worth about
$250,000, and was first
owned by his grandfather,
after it had been handed
down by the Indians to the
French and the French to
the English.
Our pictures give some
idea of the beautiful land
and water-scapes on this
place, where the stately
oaks and maples tower over
the most charming Spots.
The little cabin in the park
contains many relics and
curios and a Gelt V. Walkei
piano, nearly a hundred
years old.
Senator Palmer has the
name of treating his guests
royally, and on the day of
their visit, as above related,
all enjoyed themselves
hugely, if we may judge
by the newspaper reports,
which also report the fol-
lowing impromptu verses,
as composed, and sung on
the spot by the company to
the tune of “Maryland, my
Maryland : ”
Tom Palmer's park Tom
Palmer's park |
We take it from him thankfully.
We'll care for it, we'll care for it,
And treasure it so cheerfully,
'Twill be the gem of our fair
to Win —
A park to add to its renown,
And keep forever bright our
CrOWI) —
Tom Palmer's park Tom
Palmer's park
Home of my heart! I sing of
thee —
Log Cabin farm, Log Cabin
farm |
Thy woods and glens I long to
See,
Log Cabin farm, Log Cabin
farm 2
From Witherell woods to Merrill
vale,
From lake to meadow, field and
dale
Thy sylvan beauties never pale,
Log Cabin farm, Log Cabin
farm
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TIONS
Much interest, of
course, centers
around the Indian
history connected
with the Oakland
county lakes else-
where spoken of.
Mr. Dow remembers
gatherings of Indians
at various times to
the number of several
hundred who made
their camping ground
near his place. There .
village of some seventy or eighty lived
on the island in Orchard lake, ruled by
an old chief named, or nick-named,
* Goody Morning’ (Gute-maw-nine :)
He had two sons, who were very intel-
ligent. The Indians were very peaceful,
and so truthful that they could always
be relied on.”
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OLD BUT HAPPY
Born with the century, under the
institution of slavery, at Vicksburg,
less than a year after the death of Gen-
eral Washington, and during the presi-
dency of John Adams, a jocky riding
winning horses at the age of seven
years, and for fifty-five years a resident
of Detroit, this is the record of George
Brown, an aged colored man, now a
pensioner of the Little Sisters of the
Poor.
The old man was sitting on a bench
in the pleasant yard of the home,
smoking a briarwood pipe, and appar-
is an old Indian
burial ground at
the South-west cor-
ner of the lake
where the famous
chief Black Bird
was buried. All
authorities seem to
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agree that this was
a rallying point for
Pontiac in his wars
upon the whites,
and that he made
it a place of retreat
after his failure to
reduce Detroit by
siege.
In the History of
Oakland County,
published in 1877,
page 72, it is said :
‘‘The Orchard lake
Indians were a kind
of in dependent
band, not bearing
allegiance to any
chief.” And again
at page 307; “Shi-
awassee and Sagi-
naw Indians lived
in this part of the
territory in consid—
erable numbers and
traveled all through
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ently well-pleased with his surroundings. In answer to a question as to his age, he said,
pleasantly, and to the musical tones of his people, that he was 95 years old two weeks past.
“An’, please God, I'm as well as I ever was in my life. I haven't taken a drop of med-
icine since the wah.”
“Which war, uncle?” asked one of the other old men.
“De wah ob de South. Oh, he, he, I specs youse jokin' me now 'bout de old Mexican
wah. I reck on my
master, Colonel Head,
of Vicksburg, and Sam
Davis, was both in dot
wah. I minds me Suah
dey was. Mr. Jeffer-
son Davis lived right
back ob us, I disre-
member if Sam was his
father or his brother —
he were one or t'other.”
“What was your
work as a slave, Mr.
Brown P’’
‘‘ I rid de horses at
de races at Natchez.
I can recomember I
was so little I had to
be helped on. I was
drest up in red clothes, EVENING ON THE HURON RIVER
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ROCKS AT PUT-IN-BAY
dem hosses and rid to
win. Yah, yah .. "
“Can you remem-
ber the names of the
horses P’’
and Ijest hung on to
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do my own. Dere
was Whip, and Bert-
rand and Lady Elgin,
an’ Colonel Head he
own dem all.”
“How did you
get away from the
South P ''
“I jest came,” said
the old man quietly.
“I’ve lived fifty-five
years in Detroit. I
uster cook on the
Cincinnati, that was
an old lake boat
“Jes as well as I
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BURIAL GROUND OF THE SLAIN IN PERRy’s VICTORY, AT PUT-IN-BAY
under Captain Sweet, and I cooked on the Empire State. I
was on the lakes when the Detroit river run right up to Wood-
bridge street plumb. I tell you, chile, dat's all made land from
Woodbridge street to the river.” -
“Can you walk pretty well, Mr. Brown?”
“Fust rate for a boy of my age. I go out for a day every
two weeks, and I regular walk down town an' back, 'bout three
mile. An' I want you to say this — I'se a temperate man. I
neber yet abuse myself, and dere warn’t neber a key turned on
me in all my life.
No, I'se neber ben
locked up. I'se
work hard, but de
good Lawd he neber
let me make a fool ob
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Y myself no how.”
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JAY COOKES CASTLE, GIBRALTAR — PUT-IN-BAY
Mr. Brown can neither read nor write, but he has
very sensible views of the events of the day, and expresses
himself well. He has worked in the past for such men
as Captain Hunt, Major Forsythe, General Brady, and
other well-known Detroiters. He has for twenty years
been employed by one family on the market, and it is
only within two years that he has been an inmate of the
Home for the Aged Poor.—Detroit Journal.
A FAMOUS HUMORIST
Detroit's famous humorist, (“M. Quad") who now
lives in New York, deserves more than passing mention
in a work of this nature. Harper's Magazine, not many
years ago, paid him this pleasing tribute : -
“M. Quad" is not a humorist “artist,”—a boss
mechanic who manufactures jokes as a carpenter does
packing-boxes, with saw and jack-plane and much exu-
dation of perspiration. He is naturally and spontaneously
funny. Humor gushes from him like champagne from
an uncorked bottle, bubbling and effusive, and drenching
us, whether we will or not, with laughter. And there is
wisdom with his wit — strong, homely, common sense
mixed with a racy, unctuous humor which makes his
wisdom as graceful to our taste as whale oil is to the
palate of the Esquimaux. He is not a product of the soil,
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with a local flavor. He is of universal relish, as is witnessed by the wide
popularity that the Detroit Free Press owes to his contributions.”
It is not generally known when or where he was born, nor is it a matter
of much consequence, since his career did not begin till he was blown up,
some fifteen years ago, on an Ohio river steamboat. He is perhaps the only
example of a man who has been lifted into fame by being tossed a hundred
feet into the air, and coming down, more dead than alive, to tell the story.
He did this. Standing at his printer's case, when he was so far recovered as
to limp about, he put into type, “How it feels to be blown up,” and the
whole West burst into laughter. That laugh made “M. Quad" famous.
He was then transferred from the composing-room to the editorial department,
and ever since short extracts from the Free Press have been copied into every
MACKINAW, LOOKING EAST FROM THE FORT
and each one has, during a period of many years,
given delight to millions.
The man is precisely what we are led to expect
from his writings. He is by turns “His Honor,”
“Bijah,” and “Brother Gardner" with the dry
humor and quaint wisdom that is peculiar to each
character. “If there is an odder man than he
is in the country” said a Detroit gentleman to me
not long ago, “we would like to have him sent
along with the circus.” His looks, his manner,
even the tones of his voice, are peculiar and eccen-
tric. He talks as he writes, and always without
SUGAR LOAF, MACKINAw any seeming premeditation. His “den,” as he
journal throughout the country.
He invented — or rather created
– “His Honor” and “Bijah,” and
“Brother Gardner' of the “Lime-
kiln Club”— characters totally dis-
similar, but each as natural, original,
individual and ludicrous as any in
American literature. “His Honor”
presides over a police court, and
makes sage reflections upon men
and things as they come into his
field of view. “ Brother Gardner’”
is a shrewd and quaint gentleman
of color, who has all the idioms and
characteristics of his race, but is
not a burlesque of our colored fel-
low-citizens; he handles his own
people gently, but satirizes the
foibles, frailties and weaknesses of
the whites inimitably. His sayings
might be termed explosive wisdom
— the reader is sure to imbibe a
wise thought, but it is certain to
explode within him. “Artemus
Ward ” created one character; “M.
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calls his “sanctum,” in an upper story
of the Free Press building, is a curiosity
shop, filled with odd mementoes and
knicknacks, but the oddest thing in the
room is a slender man of about forty,
with close-cropped gray hair, heavy mous-
tache, keen, intent eyes, and an earnest,
somewhat eager expression, who sits at an
old-fashioned table, and looks up with a
smile of welcome as a stranger enters his
apartments. This is “ M. Quad,” known
among his personal acquaintances as C. B.
Lewis; and he works away at that table
eight hours in a day, writing at high pres-
sure, short paragraphs or political leaders,
and now and then seeking relaxation in
a little merriment with “Bijah '' and
“Brother Gardner,” for his best work is
done as a relief from the daily drudgery
of journalism.
GooD HUMOR. — Gayety is to good
humor as animal perfumes to vegetable
fragrance. The one overpowers weak
spirits, the other recreates and revives
them. Gayety seldom fails to give some
pain; good humor boasts no faculties
which every one does not believe in his
own power, and pleases principally by
not offending. Johnson
Robinson's Folly
EARLY FRENCH WATER WORKS
from the nature of the work, but from the lack of space.
found room for quite a number of our distinguished and eminent per-
sonages who are, or have been, identified with Detroit's history, or
bear more than a local reputation.
BESSIE, DAISY AND BEAUTY, IN CLOVER
DETROIT’S NOTED MEN
In a work of this kind portraits must be the exception, not alone
Yet We have
In our crowded and limited space we cannot give individual mention
VIEW ON THE STRAITS OF MACKINAVV
of each and every personage or portrait, but only
in the main and in a general way, passing notice,
of the following:
The late Lewis Cass, as a statesman of national
reputation ; Austin P. Blair as he looked when he
was Michigan's sturdy and patriotic war governor;
the late Alanson Sheley, Jacob S. Farrand and
John Owen, old and greatly esteemed citizen
merchants, who amassed large fortunes, but lived
plain, pure and blameless lives—and who when
alive gave largely and liberally of their means and
time to the good of their less fortunate fellow
beings. The late John J. Bagley, big hearted
philanthropic and patriotic governor that he was ;
the late H. P. Baldwin, another governor, able,
upright and greatly respected ; the late General
Hugh Brady, whose name and fame are insepara-
bly connected with Detroit's early history. Then
there is Colonel John Winder, gray-haired and
bent with his many and venerated years, still
with us, yet vigorous of mind and body withal.
The late Judge Campbell, finished scholar,
poet, historian and most able jurist; Judge Brown
occupies and honors the bench in the Supreme
Court of the United States, and is noted
for a recent decision defending government
control of monopolies; G. V. N. Lothrop
is one of our most esteemed citizens and a
most successful lawyer, once Plenipotenti-
ary and Minister Extraordinary to the Court
of Russia ; Zachariah Chandler was the
stern and sturdy father of Republicanism
in the state of Michigan not only, but a
mighty power in the U. S. Senate and
throughout the land. Genial Senator
Thomas W. Palmer, ex-U. S. Minister to
the Court of Spain, and was the President
of the World's Columbian Fair; Don M.
Dickinson is eminent at the bar, and well
known the country over as one of our
greatest national Democratic leaders and
party managers; Senator James McMillan,
is one of our leading and most successful
manufacturers, and now represents our
Commonwealth in the Senate of the United
States; William E. Quinby is publisher and
manager of our leading newspaper, the
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Detroit Free Press, and was recently appointed United States Min-
ister to the Hague by President Cleveland. Henry T. Thurber is
private secretary to President Cleveland. Bronson Howard is the
polished scholar, eminent novelist and famous playright; C. B.
Lewis’ (‘‘M. Quad's") humorous writings are known and enjoyed
wherever the English language is read.
Robert Hopkin is one, if not the greatest, of living marine
artists, many of whose pictures are to be found in this work; the
late J. M. Stanley, whose fame as an Indian character painter is
world wide, has a reproduction of one of his most famous pictures
used as frontispiece to this work. The late F. E. Cohen was one
of Detroit's early artists, whom doubtless many of our old citizens
will recall from our portrait.
James F. Joy is our leading railroad magnate, who by the way
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has really benefitted Detroit and Michigan more than any other man
in good practical results, by bringing and influencing great railroad
lines to our doors. General R. A. Alger was a brave soldier, a Presi-
dential possibility, and a millionaire who knows how to do good
with his money while living, as our newsboys can readily testify.
The late E. A. Brush was one of our greatest realty landlords. The
late D. Bethune Duffield was an eminent lawyer, a poet of no mean
order and a man greatly beloved in the community, whose memory
will always be cherished.
The Right Rev. Bishop John S. Foley, Catholic Bishop of this
Diocese, scholarly, advanced and liberal, is always to be found in the
advance guard of charity, good works, enterprise, and on the right
side of all public questions of the day.
Right Rev. Bishop Thomas F. Davies, Bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of Michigan, and Bishop W. X. Ninde, Bishop of the M.
E. Church, Michigan Diocese, are typical Christian gentleman, greatly
beloved and respected by all classes.
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BLACK RIVER ISLAND, NEAR MACKINAW
THE LOVER'S LEAP, MACKINAW
J. B. Angell is President of Michigan's University, the pride of our great state; Gen. George A. Custer is America's
beau ideal of a brave and chivalrous soldier, who lost his life in one of our country's most famous battles and by his death
made his name immortal and known the world over. Gen. O. B. Wilcox left Detroit as Colonel of the First Michigan
Regiment raised and sent to the war; Gen. L. S. Trowbridge served his state and country in the late war with great
honor and distinction, as did also that brave and dashing calvary officer Brig.-Gen. R. G. H. Minty, who left Detroit in
1862 as Colonel of the famous Fourth Michigan Cavalry, whose record is among the best of Michigan's fighting regiments
and whose special glory it was to capture the confederate president, Jefferson Davis. -
SOME INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
Some of Detroit's inventors and inventions deserve mention in this work. Burt's solar compass, one of the most
valuable of inventions, was perfected in 1850. It was examined and commended by Sir John Herschel in 1851, and
received a prize medal at the World's Fair of that year. It is called a solar compass, because, by an ingenious arrange-
ment, the rays of the sun are utilized by the instrument, which enables the surveyor to determine exactly the position
of a due north and south line.
By its use survey can be accurately made in mineral districts where the old style of com-
pass would be almost useless. Its value is so thoroughly
appreciated by the government that it is required to be used
in government surveys; and without it a large amount of
government land could have been properly surveyed only by
the outlay of more money than the land was worth. The
OLD INDIAN AGENCY, MACKINAW
Calumet and Hecla mine of Lake
Superior, the largest and most
productive copper mine in the
world, was discovered through
the use of this instrument.
Thomas A. Edison, while a
train boy on the Grand Trunk
Railroad, was frequently in
Detroit, and divided his time
between the Telegraph and Free
Press offices and the public
library. While here he formed
the idea of reading all the books
in the library, and beginning
with those on the lower shelf,
he actually read a row of books
occupying a shelf fifteen feet in
length before other plans and
duties caused him to desist.
Among the books on that lower
shelf were Newton’s “Prin-
upia,” “Ure's Dictionary,”
and Burton’s “Anatomy of
Melancholy.”
With his name that of Charles
Van De Poele should be men-
tioned ; his electric light was
first publicly exhibited on July
6th, 1879. The astronomical
clock invented by Felix Meier,
was a remarkable invention,
superior to many others, but a
description of it here would
occupy too much space. In
connection with this clock men-
tion may be appropriately made
of the clock set up by the firm of
F. G. Smith, Sons & Co. on the
outside of their store on the cor-
ner of Woodward avenue and
State streets. It occupies the
front of the second story and is
both a curiosity and a public
convenience ; the dials are five
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ROCK AT ST. IGNACE
LOCK ON THE SOO CANAL
feet in diameter, and are illuminated at night. There are two life size figures in connection
with the works, one representing a smith with his hammer, and the other emblematic of “Father
Time,” the figures together symbolizing “Smith's Time.” Upon bells hung in full view both
figures in quick succession give one stroke every quarter of an hour, two every half hour, and
three strokes a quarter of an hour before every full hour ; four strokes are given every hour, and
immediately thereafter an appropriate number for the particular hour. The clock and its fittings
cost $6.000, and were first shown Feb. 27th, 1884. This clock is the only one of the kind
in the United States, and
there is but one similar to it
in the World.
FRONT OF THE LOCK OF THE Soo CANAL
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SANITARIUM HOTEL, MARQUETTE
A REVERIE
As we approach the end of this work in seems not
inappropriate to indulge in a measure of historical and
moral retrospection, especially as it comes in line with
certain important pictures in this book.
MOONLIGHT AT MARQUETTE
IN THE CANAL,
MARQUETTE
THE LARGEST ENGINE IN THE
Every Detroit schoolboy, if not every American schoolboy, is supposed to be familiar
with the story of Pontiac, and it is hardly worth the while, in a work of this character,
to recount the facts of history for the benefit of the purely ignorant, for such will not be
apt to look very far, either above or below a picture for explanation. The story of how
Pontiac was foiled by an Indian girl, in his attempt to oust and massacre the English,
involves a lengthy preamble of cause, in which, if conscience is not stifled, it must be
admitted that the red men had good cause for liking the French people and hating the
the English. If our ancestors or progenitors on this continent had met with what would
WORLD, AT CALUMET AND HECLA MINES, NEAR HANCOCK
THE LONGYEAR RESIDENCE, MARQUETTE
seem to have been righteous
punishment for their cruelty
and deceit of the aborigines,
they would have been wiped
Out, the whole course of
history changed, and this
Country would have been
nursed by Gallic blood in-
stead of Saxon. But as
“Love rules the court, the
camp and grove,”
so the heart of an Ojibway
maiden opened before the
keen, searching gaze of an
Englishman's eye. Cold,
cultured, refined thought
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ENGINE HOUSE AT THE SOO
superior, quick mental divination which laid bare his cunning plans and intended treachery. BoATS IN THE Soo Locks
Let us do the red man justice, as the last remnant of his race disappears over the farthest - -
western mountains. The testimony of history is strong to the effect of the cruelty and
deception which the “untutored children of the forest” met with following the landing of the
white men on these shores. The cold analyst of sociology and the evolution of races and
nations will defend, doubtless, all that led up to and followed the episode pictured in our
frontispiece by Stanley, as “the survival of the fittest ;” but above and beyond all this is the
goal of human endeavor—individual, moral endeavor, toward which all should be working,
to bring about the spiritual Kingdom of Man.
And this brings us to the sombre and pathetic, but inspirational picture of “Pontiac's
ON THE SOO River
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FROM THE BAY
THE SITE OF GLADSTONE IN 1887,
ALONG THE ORE Docks, GLADSTONE
LOOKING OUT ON THE BAY
GLADSTONE, 1887,
THE SITE OF
NEAR GLADSTONE
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HOTEL HAWARDEN"
LANDING Flour AT THE Docks
COAL DOCKS – GLADSTONE
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THE world's FAIR LoAD of MICHIGAN Logs
Reverie,” by Elbridge Kingsley. The past is
gone, but it should not beforgotten. Of the
aborigines, it is as a tale that is told—vanished
away—but for the new, present and coming
race, it is full of warning, suggestion and
inspiration. The wonders of the Great City,
builded on western prairies in this Columbian
year, marvelous and beautiful as they were,
were probably as nothing in the sum total
possible — and yet to be figured up — of
human material achievement before the great
human race now in process of evolution shall
have performed its work. And this in turn
shall have been and become nothing — all the
future vast accretions of material beauty—
when finally all matter shall, as it must,
crumble and change its form, into some ethe-
real substance, and flee away like the clouds
of the morning, to be known no more as the
grovelings of earth once delighted to know it.
The question then resolves itself to the old
THE DINNER CALL
one, “What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” The daily press of the times teems with
accounts of the profligacy, the brutality and sensuality of man, the debauchery of legislatures sworn
with solemn oaths to protect the people; public and private business is made a game of shuttlecock and
battledore between desperate men and factions, and the “public-be-damned" policy of corporations
“It's wicked to waste wood like This”
is accompanied by the “everybody-for-him-
Self-and-the-devil-take-the-hindmost rule of .
the individual.
Yet who is there of the myriads seemingly
content with material achievements merely,
that does not, at some time, have moments
of regret, and confess that what he flattered
himself was a ripe consummation was, like
Dead Sea fruit, at the last, and turned to
ashes on the lips ? History corroborates the
theory that the early Indian was compara-
tively a mild and peaceful individual until
the white man's brutality and treachery
cultivated in him a frenzy of savagery.
That the great chiefs of the race saw the
inevitable end is now no less certain.
Legend and authoritative speech teem with
evidence of it. When the hour of reverie
came, it is quite certain that the Indian must
have longed for the “happy hunting
grounds” where human greed and avarice
could pursue and taint him no more.
“Greater is he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”
and it ill becomes a great people to give itself up to mere vain-glo-
riousness over a departed race. It is but a few steps from the times
of Cadillac to the consummate flower of this Columbian year, and
while there is, on the whole, more to be proud than to be ashamed
of, as a people, self-examination is good for the individual soul. It
is well, in these days, when the glamour of refinement and pure
HALF A Dozen “whoppers.”
intellectuality makes temptation so bewildering and enchanting, to
pause occasionally, and ask, “Is it I?” of the soul so often in
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FIRST TELEGRAPH LINE IN DETROIT
Detroit's first telegraphic communication was with Ypsilanti, in 1847, by the
Speed line, and some of the stories connected with its introduction are amusing.
The office was in the rear of the second story of a building owned by Mr. Newberry,
on the north-east corner of Jefferson avenue and Cass street, afterwards the Garrison
House. There was no manager as such, but there were plenty of instruments and
batteries, and a number of young operators from the east, who had obtained a knowl-
edge of telegraphy on the Albany and Buffalo line, or its branches, were congregated
at Detroit in expectation of obtaining an office when the line was fully opened.
These lads, in the absence of Mr. Wood, the temporary manager, had things pretty
much their own way, and seemed to use all their ingenuity in hatching mischief.
Among their implements was an electrical machine with two brass balls, one to be
held in each hand, and so arranged that when the current was turned on it was
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THE Boss LoGGING TEAM
impossible to let go of the balls. One morning a burly Irishman came in and said he wanted
to look at the “telegroff" and see her “wurk.” The boys were quick to see their opportunity.
They put the brass balls into his hands, turned on a light current and asked if he could see it.
“Yis,” he replied, “she's wurkin.” A little more electricity was then applied, when the man
cried out, “Holdther, boys, holdther She's wurkin' hard. Och holdther, I say. Bejabers!
she's got me hard.” A stiff volume was then applied, and the man began to jump and yell.
“Why don't ye holdther? Oh, by the Holy Vargin ye’ll kill me dead ' " Just at this moment
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LoADING THE THIRTY-SECOND LOG
Mr. Wood appeared at the door. The boys dropped the connecting wires and ran for the battery
room, and the delegate from the “ould sod" hurried down stairs, muttering to himself that he had
“seen enough of the dommed telegroff.”
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MICHIGANIA
It is probable that, in proportion to its population, Detroit, and, in fact, the entire state of Mich-
igan, has a larger percentage of New York and New England people than any other western city or
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state. At one time it seemed as though
all New England was coming. The emi-
gration ſever pervaded almost every hamlet
of New England, and the following song
was very popular and is known to have
been largely influential in promoting
emigration :
Come all ye Yankee farmers who wish to change
your lot,
Whö’ve spunk enough to travel beyond your
native spot,
And leave behind the village where Pa and Ma
do stay,
Come, follow me, and settle in Michigania –
Yea, yea, yea, in Michigania.
I’ve heard of your Penobscot, way down in
parts of Maine,
Where timber grows in plenty, but darn the bit
of grain ;
And I have heard of Quoddy and your Piscata-
Qua,
But they can’t hold a candle to Michigania —
ea, yea, yea, to Michigania.
Then there is old Varmount ; well, what d'ye
think of that ?
To be sure, the gals are handsome and the cattle
very fat;
But who among the mountains, 'mid clouds and
snow would stay,
When he can buy a prairie in Michigania –-
Yea, yea, yea, in Michigania.
A HARVESTER AND HIS CROP, AT TURTLE LAKE
Then there's your Massachusetts, once good enough, be
Sure,
But now she's always laying a tax upon manure;
She costs you pecks of trouble, which the de'il a peck can
Day,
While all is free and easy in Michigania —
Yea, yea, yea, in Michigania.
There is the land of blue laws, where deacons cut your hair,
For fear your locks and tenets will not exactly square,
Where beer that works on Sunday a penalty must pay
While all is Scripture measure in Michigania —
Yea, yea, yea, in Michigania.
Then there's the state of New York, where some are very
rich ;
Themselves and a few others have dug a mighty ditch,
To render it more easy for us to find the way,
And sail upon the waters to Michigania-
Yea. yea, yea, to Michigania.
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STATION NO. 2 ON THE RUNWAY
But when you come to view her,
I’ll be bound you’ll say
She falls quite far below our
Michigania —
Yea, yea, yea, our
. Michigania.
Then there is Indiana and
Illinois too,
Besides the grand Missouri
which rises to our view,
All these are fine indeed, and
stand in nice array,
But they must all knock under
to Michigania —
Yea, yea, yea, to
Michigania.
Upon the Clinton river, just
through the country back,
You'll find, in shire of Oakland,
the town of Pontiac,
Which, springing up a sudden,
scared wolves and bears
away,
That used to roam about there,
in Michigania —
Yea, yea, yea, in
Michigania.
And if you follow downwards, why Rochester is there,
And further still, Mt. Clemens looks out upon St. Clair,
Besides some other places within Macombia,
That promise population to Michigania —
Yea, yea, yea, to Michigania.
If you had rather go to a place called Washtenaw,
You'll find the Huron lands the best you ever saw ;
The ships sail to Ann Arbor, right through La Plaisance Bay,
And touch at Ypsilanti, in Michigania –
Yea, yea, yea, in Michigania.
Or, if you keep a going, a great deal further on,
I guess you'll reach St. Joe, where everybody's gone;
Theſ; everybody, like Jack's bean, grows monstrous fast,
they say, -
And beats the rest all hollow, in Michigania —
Yea, yea, yea, in Michigania.
Then come ye Yankee farmers, who've mettle hearts like me.
And elbow-grease in plenty, to bow the forest tree,
Come, take a quarter section, and I'll be bound you'll say,
This country takes the rag off, this Michigania—
Yea, yea, yea, this Michigania.
THE HUNTER’s REVERIE – FROM PAINT ING BY HoPKIN
“SAY WHEN ''' – TURTLE LAKE
THE CAMPUS MARTIUS
The reader, not “to the manor born,”
will notice, with some curiosity, doubtless,
frequent reference in these pages, to the
“Campus Martius,” and wonder, perhaps.
just what this locality is, and what are its
limits. The Campus Martius can hardly be
called a park, for it is paved with stone and
asphalt and is in the midst of the business
part of the city, with none of the verdure
of nature about it. It faces the City Hall,
and in its centre is the soldiers' monument,
designed by Randolph Rogers, and erected
at a cost of sixty thousand dollars. The
figure of the Indian maiden which sur-
mounts it is intended to symbolize the
state, and the inscription it bears tells that it
was “Erected to by the people of Michigan
in honor of the martyrs who fell and the
heroes who fought in defense of Liberty
and Union.” The confines of the Campus
Martius may be readily determined now by
reference to the pictures showing the mon-
ument and City Hall.
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HINTS OF THE CHASE
were banished
be cause they
favored the rebel-
lion. The last
named was com-
GIRTY THE RENEGADE
Just previous to and during the Revolutionary
war, Detroit was in possession of the English, and
all rebels against “his Majesty,” George III, who
expressed their sentiments within hearing of the
British commandant at this point, had to suffer
severely. Citizens known to be in sympathy with
the Americans were subjected to many annoyances.
Garret Graverat, a leading merchant, was com-
pelled to give bail in 4400 not to give Americans
aid for the space of a year and a day. James
Sterling and John Edgar, well known tradesmen,
A waRM CORNER AT TURTLE LAKE
pelled to leave all his goods
and go to Kalkaskia. Con-
gress, in after years, gave
him 2,000 acres of land, to
help make up his losses.
Other citizens also were
compelled to leave and some
were compelled to work on
the fortifications. Those
who tried to escape were
put in irons by the order of
Governor Hamilton. This
Hamilton was a fien8 incar-
nate and used the Indians to
make war upon the “rebels”
in the country round about,
paying them so much money
for every scalp they brought
into Detroit. At one time
Hamilton boasted a pile of
human scalps higher than his
head.
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HOTEL AND BEACH AT HARBOR
traitors and renegades. American
sympathizers had to leave Detroit and
a number of loyalists and renegades
came to live in the city, among them
those half savages, James, Simon and
George Girty, Simon, however, being
the most prominent. At the attack on
Fort Henry, now Wheeling, Va.,
Hamilton issued a proclamation, which
was read aloud to the defending garri-
son by this Girty, promising humane
treatment and protection if they would.
lay down their arms. His force, con-
sisting of but twelve men and boys,
VIEW AT PETOSKEY
BIRDSEYE VIEW OF BAY VIEW AND HARBOR
refused to surrender. Girty's force,
consisting of 400 Indians, after a brief
attack, withdrew a short distance. As
the stock of powder in the fort was
low, it was resolved to attempt to get
a supply from the house of Mr. Zane,
sixty yards away. Several of the men
desired to go, but Elizabeth Zane, who
was at the fort, insisted on going her-
self, and although the bullets whistled
about her, she went and returned
unharmed, and, soon after, the Indians
retired.
The next attack was made upon the
ill-fated village of Wyoming, and the
English and Indians composing the
attacking party were largely from
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ROLLING IN AT BAY VIEW
IN THE GLEN AT FOREST PARK — BAY VIEW
THE WALLEY WATER JET
Deep within a quiet Valley
Burst a fountain forth to light,
Burst, and sprang instinctive upward,
For its source was on the height.
But its bright and eager waters
Gained not far their upward track;
Bonds invisible detained them,
And they fell exhausted back.
On that fountain's emerald margin
Musingly I sat reclined,
Ilistened to the fountain's music,
Wished I might its chain unbind:
Thought, though earth with subtle fingers
Still drew back its silver rain,
Summer sun's would soon release it,
Soon as mist 'twould mount again.
Thus within my bosom's valley
Bursts the fount of life its sod,
Bursts, and springs instinctive upward,
For its lofty source is God.
But that striving spirit-fountain
Gains not far its upward track :
Bonds invisible detain it,
Oft it sinks exhausted back.
On that fountain's vital margin
Sits a spirit, still — reclined ;
Radiant now, with silver pinion,
But a soul, from earth refined.
Still that gentle spirit watches,
Waits till mine shall rend its chain :
While, at times, its wings unfolding,
Lure my soul the height to gain.
From “Pen and Lufe,” by A. Storrs IV:///s.
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 143
BARCLAY COTTAGE AT BAY VIEW
SCENE AT BAY VIEW
UNIVERSITY HALL AND PARK
A streET AT BAY VIEw
Detroit. The party Consisted of about 300 white men and soo plumed and painted
Indians. They appeared before the place July 3d, 1778, and demanded its surrender.
The inhabitants paid dearly for being faint-hearted, for the entire settlement was destroyed
and all the people massacred or carried into captivity. - -
THE RAILWAY CENTER AT PETOSKEY - -
Before evacuating Detroit, the British are said to have destroyed the windmills and filled the
well at the fort with stones, leaving the key of the garrison with a negro. This may be true, but
Farmer's history declares it a matter of official record that immediately after the evacuation the British
commissary at Chatham was authorized to lend fifty barrels of pork to Mr. O'Hare, the United States
commissary, as he had not enough for the American troops at Mackinaw. Simon Girty, the renegade,
remained behind when the British troops took their leave. When the boats laden with American
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144
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SAM
A COUNTRY IDYL
A country boy by the old stone wall,
That keeps the meadow and road apart,
Stands handsome and manly and strong and tall;
And sturdy is he as the maple tree
That's by his side. For Sam is young
And his honest heart is as light and free
As the bird that sings in the summer skies.
He looks far off o'er the distant hills,
While a soft lightshines in his hazel eyes;
And leaning there by the meadow wall,
He gives this sweet, familiar call:
“Co’, boss co’, boss co’, boss 1'.'
Now to manhood grown, and the bells sound sweet
As the cows come slowly from out the wood ;
“A country boy by the old stone waſ "
EvKNING
“'Twas a day in ºne szech as Žoets Zoze”
And he leaves the wall and hurries to meet
The mild-eyed creatures, for they all know
The hand that strokes them as they pass
Along the road where the daisies grow.
And each one stands by the cow-yard bars
Seeming well content with the strong brown hand
That milks them there 'neath the summer stars;
And Sam's eyes look love as he sings again
The well-remembered, sweet refrain,
“Co', boss' co", boss co’, boss'
'Twas a day in June, such as poets love,
There by his side a fair girl stands,
And the flying clouds in the sky above
Seem to play at forfeits with the sun.
How well Sam knows that a lover's heart
Throbs 'neath his coat, and that every one
Of the clover blossoms in the field
Is breathing to him an old love song,
And that everybud a joy can yield. .
So the maiden there by the broken wall
Takes up and sings the old-time call,
“Co', boss co’, boss 1 co’, boss' "
Once more Sam stands by the meadow bars
With his wife beside him, and her arms
Enfold a dear form, whose baby prate
Is sweeter to them than the brook's gay song
As it flows away at the foot of the hill.
Happy they wait, for they know ere long
The cows will come from the meadow side,
So Sam caresses his little son,
While the young wife looks with joy and pride;
And a piping voice o'er the old stone wall
Just breathes in baby notes the call
“Co’, boss co’, boss co’, boss' "
ALBERT HARDY.
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and fife and ginger-
bread of training
day , and those
who prepared the
soup for the sol-
diers, which was
served in iron ket-
tles, enjoyed them
be cause of the
emoluments of the
occasion ; others
enjoyed the rough
merriment always
caused by certain
reckless and unruly
spirits. Mrs. Wil–
liam Y. Hamlin has
preserved this story
of one of the most
awkward captains
of an awkward
squad of that pe- -
riod. His name was Jean Cecire. He was full
of conceit and exaggerated self-importance, and
when dressed in the uniform prescribed by General -
Hull was, in his own eyes, hardly second to the
great Napoleon. Jean went frequently to see the
regular troops drill. Their wondrous discipline
and military exactness Sorely puzzled him, but he
thought it must be owing to the fact that the
words of command were given in English, and
that there was some hidden magic in the language.
Calling the roll was also serious business to him,
as his own and his sergeant's knowledge of English
was almost as limited as their use of the pen, but
his ingenuity conquered the latter difficulty. The
names of the members of his company having
- been printed in
order, a pin was
used to punch a
hole after the
names of the
absentees. His
tongue, however,
so easy to control
in French, could
not be drilled to
speak other than
the most broken
English. Assem-
bled on parade,
Captain Jean
ordered the Ser-
geant to call the
roll. He pro-
ceeded to obey,
the Captain
standing by in full
glory.
ºf - - -
Sergeant – “Attentione, Companie
Francais Canadians ! Answer your name
when I call it, if you please. Tock, Tock,
troops appeared in sight he became so much
alarmed that he could not wait for the return
of the ferry-boat, but forced his black mare
down a steep bank into the river, and, at
the risk of drowning, made for the Canadian
shore ; and, as he rode up the bank, he
cursed the United States government and
its troops, with all the oaths his fury could
inspire. When the British were again in
possession, in 1812, he returned to Detroit,
and his end was deservedly ignominious,
his grave being under an ordinary pig-
stye on Bois Blanc Island.
A STORY OF THE OLD “MILITIA"
Livernois.” No answer, at last a voice
says, “Not here, gone catch his lambrener
(fast-pacer) in the bush.”
Captain to Sergeant – “Put peen-hole
in dat man Go 'head ' "
Sergeant—“Laurant Bondy 1" “Here,
Sah.” “ Claude Campau !” “Here,
Monsieur.” “Antoine Salliotte P’’ Some
one answers, “Little baby come last night
at his house, must stay at home.”
Captain – “Put one preek on dat man's
name.’’
Sergeant – “ L'enfant Riopelle "
The militia parades of the olden time
were alike the joy and dread of the inhab-
itants, so Farmer's History tells us. The
children enjoyed them because of the drum
-
-
‘‘ Here, Sah.” “ Piton Laforest "
“Here, Sah.” Simon Meloche Pº “Not
here, gone to spear musk-rat for l'argent
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Captain to Sergeant – “Take pen and scratch dat man.”
After the roll was called and the absentees pricked, the Captain proceeded to drill his company.
Captain – “Marchee, men comrades, deux et deux, like oxen, and when you come to dat stump, stop.”
They all made for the place and got there in a heap, looking with their various colored dresses, like a rainbow on
“And gally guided the boat goes by "
amused themselves by sitting on the grass,
and telling about the races. The Captain
called them to try again. This
time he said, “Marchee as far as
dat soulier de boeuf (old shoe)
in the road, den turn Right
gauche, left about ! Shoulder
mus-keete Avance donc, back!
Drill fineesh ' ''
CHILD LIFE IN THE
COUNTRY
I
(SPRING)
Sing us a song of your State, so
wide,
Merriest children of Michigan ;
Nature is waking on every side
And blossoming sweet again ;
Leap every rill,
Climb every hill,
Happy is he who can.
(SUMMER)
Blue is the lake 'neath a summer sky,
Slumber the waves on the sedgy shore,
“ O'er stories of liſe ’’—
While fast and faster the frolics go
“ Leap every rill’
And gaily guided the boat goes by
Where lily buds bloom galore ;
Free as the air,
Who thinks of care,
Sailing the waters o'er.
(AUTUMN)
Flashes the forest in lines of flame,
Straw time and apple-time now appear,
While boys and squirrels hold rival claim
To fruitage from tree tops seer ;
Eatable hail
Sent by the gale,
Lies in the grasses here
a spree. Disgusted at their
awkwardness, the Captain gave
them a few minutes' relaxation.
Instead of resting au militaire,
they rushed off, one to smoke
his beloved pipe, another to
polish his carbine, whilst others
Springing o'er brooklets
which prattle by,
Daring each other to climb
So high,
Dancing away through the
long bright hours,
To come back wreathed with
Sweet Wild flowers.
Bending with mingled
wonder and pity,
O'er stories of life in the far
off city,
Then tossing away the
printed sheet,
To match the speed of their
“Daring each other to climb so high ''
restless feet.
(winter)
Whistles the West wind and
whirls the snow,
But childish voices laugh out in
cheer,
To chase off the flying year;
Over the ice,
All in a trice
Quickly they disappear.
LAURA SANDERSON.
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* * *
“The country boy cries jump on
CHILD LIFE IN THE COUNTRY
II
The pavement patter of childish feet,
Mid the tramp and roar of a city street,_
Can never appeal to the heart within,
Like the country children's merry din.
“The sweet new cider thro' a straw "
The ground pine fruit is a fork, two
tined,
The ash tree seed is a knife so fine,
The mud pie baked in the sun on a
leaf,
Is a delicate morsel for hunger's relief.
The poppy seed is a teapot rare,
The crook-neck squash a lady fair,
The oak tree furnishes saucer and cup,
The squirrel and field mouse are asked
to Sup.
Or strolling home they stop at will,
In the shady nook by the cider mill,
And choosing places gaily draw
The sweet new cider thro' a straw.
When ling’ring summer and autumn
are past,
When Winter sounds his warning blast,
The children shout as away
- they run,
“Jack Frost is here ! What
glorious fun '''
“In the shady nook by the cider mill ''
When the snow lies deep, the
country boy
Cries, “Jump on " " and the
girl cries back in her joy,
“The very best part of all the
year
Is the time when Christmas is
drawing near.”
MARY DAWES WARNER.
THE INDIANS IN 1825
In 1825, the Indians, who, in
Detroit and vicinity were sup-
ported by the government,
became so troublesome that
the City Council, through the
Mayor, sought aid from the Governor of the state, to quiet and control them.
When the city finally came under American control, Colonel Cass was obliged to
feed great numbers of the Indians. In one communication to the war department he
states that for several years he fed an average of four hundred Indians a day. Between
1814 and 1817 he disbursed $200,000 for their benefit. All the year round they came
and went, and the agent's family was “driven from one end of the house to the other
by them.” There was always some excuse for their coming, and citizens were not
surprised at any time to see a swarthy face at the window-pane; oftentimes the click
of the latch was the only warning of the entrance of one of the nation's wards. The
squaws were not left behind, for there was always
some burden for them to carry, and the procession
ceased on one day only to begin on the next.
Indians lazy and Indi-
ans drunk, Indians
sick and Indians hun-
gry, all crying “Give,
give " After receiv-
ing their payments,
hundreds of them
would lie about the
city, stupidly drunk,
until taken or driven
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PICTURESQUE DETROIT AND ENVIRONS 147
MARCH
Bleak are Michigan's forest wilds
And winds blow fierce in wrath
Delaying still the glad spring-tides,
Yet giving time for last sleigh rides
Along each country path.
| THE MONTHS
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VERSES BY M. A. RYAN
ILLUSTRATED BY CLIFTON JOHNSON
JANUARY
Clear is the air to the ringing
Of the first of the year's twelve strokes
The wind o'er the white fields bringing
Sounds of the wood ax swinging
Courage and strength invokes.
APRIL
Soft warm rains the wild flowers know
Sent from low gray skies ;
Streams swell broad in onward flow,
On willow limbs new leaf buds grow,
Harsh winds become mild sighs.
FEBRUARY
What though the brooks are all fettered
By the bonds of the Frost King bold
What care has the life snow-sheltered –
A covering not to be bettered - - -
While winter continues its hold : - MAY
In orchard lanes are blossoms white;
Fair earth says, “List child, play :
For the world is bright
All day, all night
When the year clock rings out May.
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SEPTEM BER
JUNE Then Earth has its fullest and ripest days
Brief rest between summer and fall ; NOVEMBER
A gleam of gold in the grasses And yet with a boding of end of ways,
Where the daises love to grow ; For old Earth's fullness never stays, Once more tell the Puritan story
And roses, whose short life passes But ever must follow Queen Nature's call.
Of the trials of the fore-father's days.
In peace and in plenty we glory,
While the maize guards the hillsides hoary,
And prepare for the Thanksgiving praise.
Where the bee his honey amasses
On the hillsides all aglow.
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OCTOBER
JULY -
Time of harvest now draws nigh, Color glories where green leaves grew, DECEMBER
The grains to ripeness grow, And ripe year's fruitage all. -
And through the golden fields of rye Trees spread gay banners, and 'tis true, - Sound long the note of December,
The reaper goes in rich July These days of splendor have their due Last of the twelve-stroked chime.
And lays the tall heads low. For nurture spent from bud to fall. Christmas glories long to remember
Are out-borne on this fading ember,
And the year yields up to time.
... "
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THE END
AUGUST
The torrid thunder storm comes on,
Bred in the languorous skies.
With flashing eye and sullen tone
It rushes on, bursts forth, is gone,
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SOME REPRESENTATIVE DETROIT BUSINESS
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
A book relating to Detroit would certainly be like the play of “ Hamlet” with Hamlet
left out, if a
important institutions, the Detroit Free Press, which, through the popularity of many of its
considerable mention were not made in it of that one of its most
contributors, has become known all over the country.
Perhaps one of the best indications of the popular
|NTERESTS
In passing from Manager Quinby’s room to the main exit one goes through the pleasant
little office occupied by Assistant Business Manager Edward A. Meiser. His connection with
The Free Press has lasted for eleven years, and few men could be found so well equipped for
the responsible place in which he is now employed.
Directly opposite is the wire-framed office of the cashier, Charles W. Lokie, a man who
left the position of receiving teller of the American Exchange National Bank to accept the
important position he now occupies.
Back of and facing the office of the cashier it
faith in this great newspaper was the crowd (with its
expression of approval and satisfaction) which attended
the reception at the new house of the paper June 16,
1894.
and when the place was first opened to the public
A picture of the building shows on this page
great many people were in the city, attending the
ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the Chamber
of Commerce, but the visitors divided their time
between the two buildings and commented kindly
and approvingly upon the enterprise of the Free Press.
These assurances of approval did not come from
Detroiters alone, for none spoke in kindlier tones of
appreciation than did those from various sections of
The
They seemed
the state who were taking an outing in Detroit.
Free Press was evidently their paper.
to depend upon it for their news, their information,
and their entertainment, if not for their political views.
Its coming— to them – must be looked for as that of
an old friend, and to miss it must be as distinct an
annoyance as though a favorite guest had failed to
arrive at the appointed time. Traveling men dropped
in in accordance with their custom of seeing all that
is worth seeing, and the sentiment frequently heard
from them was : “Everybody knows The Detroit
Free Press. Get any distance from Michigan and no
other Detroit paper is heard of We find it on all the
news stands from New York to San Francisco. It's
a great paper and a hot favorite.” More than once
an hour this remark was heard in fact or substance :
“I’m a Republican, but I can't get along without The
Free Press. I sometimes get my back up at an edi-
torial that rakes against the grain, but it's a newspaper, clean, fair, reliable and entertaining.”
A schoolteacher said as she stood admiring the artistic quarters of the president : I use The
Free Press as one of my authorities in teaching current history. It is bright, affords a carefully
selected variety of matter, keeps right up with all of importance that is transpiring in the world.
And then, you never encounter anything objectionable in its columns.”
The home of a great newspaper and its occupants are always an object of interest to the
public, and a brief description of the quarters occupied by The Free Press and the busy men
in them will doubtless be appreciated in this connection. The exterior of the handsome block
shows for itself in the engraving, and the interior is simply devoted, throughout, to the many
departments and conveniences which now enable the management to daily evolve such
superior news-product. First, one naturally passes, from the outer rooms, to the handsome
office of H. W. Quinby, the secretary, treasurer and business manager who has all business
Mr. Quinby has been in
charge ten years and has acquired a fund of experience as valuable to the public as to the
matters on hand under a system like that of a train despatcher.
paper he serves.
that of the manager of the advertising department,
Charles F. Waterman,
oldest man now in the business department, having
In point of service he is the
commenced work for the paper seventeen years ago.
In the counting-room, conceded to be one of the
finest in the country, is shown the progress of the
paper since it first went into quarters corner of Larned
and Shelby streets, where a six-foot counter was
adequate for the transaction of business. Now one
four times that length is required and room about it
to match. Under the general supervision of Mr.
Waterman, the daily details of the work are looked
after by Chief Clerk George H. Waltensperger, who
began his career with The Free Press as a mere boy
and in ten years won his way to the front.
In the rear of the counting-room is the office of the
accountant, Ed. R. Hopper, Charles Bassett and
Robert Kimball being his efficient assistants. Mr.
Hopper is entering upon his tenth year with the
paper, Mr. Bassett has been with it for seven years.
Following are others who are employed in the busi-
ness department, with their respective positions:
Chas. B. Wagstaff, advertising solicitor; W. H.
Pettibone ; Otto G. Mrosewski, entry clerk; Fred.
Eaton, collector; E. T. Billings, collector; Theo.
Clark, messenger; Robert Mills, watchman.
Upon the editorial floor is a handsome reception
room and in the west front room presides the editorial
chief of the Free Press and the president of the busi-
This is Wm. E.
Quinby, for thirty-five years connected with this
ness corporation which controls it.
paper, from the position of reporter upward, until now it is unnecessary to consider
him as other than an old friend and acquaintance of the people of Detroit and Michi-
gan. Mr. Quinby’s room is an elegantly furnished one and ornamented with tasteful
decorations.
To the east of Mr. Quinby, is the tastefully furnished room of Judge A. G. Boynton,
who has been with The Free Press and its political editor for the past twenty-two years, a
period covering some of the most eventful epochs in the country's history.
Theodore E. Quinby, vice-president and managing editor, occupies another room. His
inviting room presents a unique feature in having the walls covered with matrices of The Free
Press, each of which is the original of some page of the paper appearing in years past.
Other rooms are occupied by C. C. Colbrath, telegraph editor, of long experience on the
paper; T. H. Moran, night editor, also of long service; John C. Lodge, day city editor; Phil
J. Reid, night city editor; and one room is used by the busy local reporters who attend to
specified departments.
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special correspondents and general writers, some of them in constant service and others on
whose work this paper has first claim. Prominent among the regulars is Robert Barr, who is
in personal charge of the London edition of the Free Press and whose varied accomplishments
- The
Detroit Free Press issued from its London office, is read wherever there is civilization on the
as a writer over his nom de plume of Luke Sharp have given him a world-wide fame.
eastern continent, no one contributing more directly or more effectively to its success than
does Mr. Barr.
In charge of the Free Press bureau at Washington is F. H. Hosford, who is also
its correspondent from that point. Few men have a wider knowledge of political
affairs of this country or of the men most prominent in shaping the course of our public
affairs. -
Among the other well-known contributors to the Free Press is Mrs. M. L. Rayne, a lady
whose productions have secuted a strong hold upon the popular mind. For eleven years Mrs.
Rayne has been a constant contributor and to-day her name is a household word.
The Free Press is also accommodated with first-class art and telegraph service, on its own
premises, and other rooms are devoted to the use of several telegraphic instruments, photo-
graphic apparatus, etc. .
Still other rooms accommodate the literary editor and his stenographer ; the sporting
A veteran in the type-setting department, who has not yet been displaced by the
machines, is Henry R. Durney, who has been with the paper thirty-eight years. There are
otherlong-time employes on the mechanical force of the Free Press, and this paper is singularly
fortunate in being able to so boast in this respect.
Those who are admirers of fine machinery would be specially interested in visiting the
basement of the main building. In the rear to the left of the central passageway is the boiler
room, made fireproof with its brick walls and arched ceilings of the same material. Here are
two huge steel tubular boilers of the most approved pattern and finest workmanship, built by
John Brennan & Co., of Detroit. They have the New York consolidated injector valves,
the American injector water columns and the Ashcroft steam gauges, and are constructed to
carry one hundred and twenty pounds of steam. Oil is used exclusively as fuel. The supply
is carried in a seventy-five-barrel oil tank of steel built in a small apartment immediately
adjacent, and supplied to the furnaces by Way's hydraulic system of feeding.
Almost directly across the passage is the engine room. Here is a large vertical engine of
one hundred and thirty-horse power. There is no finer piece of machinery in its class, as the
workmanship is the finest and all approved appliances of the most modern date have been
used in its construction. There is also an automatic horizontal engine of sixty-five-horse
power, to which the same words of commendation as above must be given. They are
editor, dramatic writer, state news editor and assistant, etc. It is hardly necessary to state
that all apartments are well furnished, many of them elegantly, and that toilet conveniences,
telephones, annunciators, and in fact, all the accommodations demanded by modern enter-
prise are at hand in The Free Press building, but the great newspaper office of the present day
is such an advance upon that of even a quarter century and a decade ago, that some mention
should be made of those important forces in labor-saving inventions which have revolutionized
the make-up of the paper. Most important of all is the type-setting machinery which has
displaced, in a great measure, the deſt fingers of the old-time “sub,” and here the Free Press
is fully equipped, eighteen type-setting machines, arranged in three rows on a platform in the
room devoted to their use. The head machinist is N. A. Larkin, who came with the machines
when delivered to the Free Press, August 8, 1892, by the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. From
the time they were placed, when many newspapers of the country were skeptical as to the
outcome, the machines have given perfect satisfaction and have devolved even a greater
degree of efficiency than was then claimed for them. The seventeen machines have a capacity
of 6,000,000 ems per week in actual work, about equal to the work of 125 old-time men
“compositors.” Such is the perfection attained in the machines that on any of them six
different varieties of type can be used, and all display news headings, except the top lines, are
set by them.
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s
s
models of mechanical art and can be used singly or the united power can be employed
if desired.
Back of the boiler room and on the same side are the dynamos. Two of them have
a capacity of three hundred and fifty lights each, and combined they supply the building
when all lights are going. Should they temporarily fail, the office has connection with
the Edison plant. They are compound machines in which the most advanced knowledge
The
building is fitted with miles of wire and with all lights on, in front and throughout the build-
of construction is exemplified, and are furnished by the Fontaine Crossing Co.
ing, the dynamos are called upon for their full supply. In the rear of the same room is the
elevator engine, built by the Michigan Elevator and Engine Co., as is the handsome steam-
hoist elevator which runs in the rear centre of the building.
The superintendent of the mechanical department is A. J. Whitmore, who has been in
his present position since 1866. He came from the navy, in which he served his country
during the war, and at once found employment with The Free Press. The office was then
on the corner of Woodbridge and Griswold streets. It had one small engine, an old three-
revolution press, a trifling circulation compared with that which it now employs in its three
editions—Daily, Weekly and Twice-a-Week. This gives some idea of the wonderful develop-
ment of The Free Press, which has come to be the most widely known paper of Michigan.


The Evening News Association is, without possibility of successful contradiction, the
strongest and most influential organization of similar character in this part of the country. It
publishes The Evening News, the Daily Tribune, the Sunday News-Tribune, the Evening
News Weekly, devoted to commercial interests, and the Weekly Tribune, in Detroit, be-
side being largely interested in the publication of a number of the most successful newspapers
in various other leading cities of the country. The establishment and growth of this mammoth
news disseminating enterprise forms one of the most striking business chapters of the past
quarter of a century. From modest beginnings, it has steadily grown, until to-day its power
in influencing public opinion, as well as in a financial sense, is almost beyond computation.
The members of the association have thoroughly mastered the always difficult problem of
successfully catering for the masses, and their success is, in consequence, only limited by the
extent of the population within their reach. Their aim has always been to print all the news
of the day, regardless of expense, and place it before their readers at a trifling cost. That
their estimate of the public demand was a correct one, their almost unexampled success is
incontrovertible evidence.
A very large measure of this success must be attributed to the wisdom and sound business
judgment of James E. Scripps, the president of the association. He belongs to a family
who, for at least three generations, have been closely identified wiih successful journalism,
both in the United States and England. The present generation have contributed more
successful newspaper men to the annals of history than any other family in the entire country.
Members of the family are at the present time in control of highly prosperous and eminently
successful newspapers in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Maryland, to the founding
and growth of all of which James E. Scripps contributed very materially, both financially and
from his wide experience. -
He was born in England, and came to this country when still a lad. He settled with his
parents in Southern Illinois, where he was given the advantage of a combined common school
and academic education. He began his newspaper career on the Chicago Democratic Press,
then conducted by his uncle, John L. Scripps, in 1857. After two years of experience, he
transferred his services to the staff of the Detroit Tribune, where his energy and love of the
profession quickly pushed him to the front rank. He speedily acquired a large proprietary
interest in the paper and was made its manager, which position he filled with credit and
ability during most of the thirteen years of his original connection therewith. Under Mr.
Scripps' management, the Tribune achieved an enviable position among the republican news-
papers of the country at that time, and was also thoroughly satisfactory as a business enterprise.
Its conservatism in politics, however, did not please the radical element of the Republican
party. This led to the founding of the old Detroit Post, whose first editor was the afterward
famous Carl Schurz. For a time the rivalry between the Tribune and Post was very intense,
and the business of both suffered more or less in consequence.
Internal dissensions arose, and Mr. Scripps finally retired from the management of the
Tribune. As matters subsequently turned out, this was the luckiest move he ever made.
After thorough consideration, he decided to enter upon the boldest experiment which, up to
that time, had ever been attempted in connection with Western journalism. This was the
founding of the Detroit Evening News, the first two-cent paper ever published with success
west of the Alleghenies. The first number appeared in the fall of 1873, and, despite numerous
and outspoken predictions of certain failure, within two years a most phenomenal success had
been recorded. This was almost wholly due to the energy and superior journalistic ability
of Mr. Scripps. He covered all the news of the day in a nutshell, and gave the public just the
sort of newspaper for which they had been waiting.
From the outset, the paper made a specialty of a thorough state news service, a feature
which is still one of its leading attractions. Expenses before which other less enterprising
newspaper managers quail are always cheerfully borne by The News, in order to daily keep its
readers apprised of all happenings of importance, in even the most remote nooks and corners
of Michigan. Another strong and popular feature has always been perfect independence of
party trammels, and an absolute freedom of opinion on every subject, political and otherwise.
This has created a wholesome respect for the editorial columns of the paper which is not
enjoyed by servile party organs. The business management has also always been exceedingly
liberal and enterprising.
After scoring his memorable success with the Evening News, Mr. Scripps, in conjunction
with other members of his family who had been thoroughly trained in the office of that paper,
founded the Cleveland Press, the Cincinnati Post, and the St. Louis Chronicle, all of which
have been phenomenal successes, both in a journalistic and business sense.
In January, 1891, Mr. Scripps learned that the Tribune, after a long series of business
reverses resulting chiefly from mistaken policies and bad management, could be purchased on
favorable terms. He determined to buy the paper upon which he had done his first news-
paper work in Detroit, and which had held a warm place in his heart since he retired from its
management, and imbue into it some of the life and energy which had made The News one
of the most phenomenal newspaper successes of the age. After less than a week of negotia-
tions, the property from which he had retired with what was for that period a heavy financial
loss was again in the possession of Mr. Scripps. Its editorial and business management was
thoroughly reorganized on a more liberal and enterprising basis, and it soon began to regain
the influence and prestige which had been lost during its vicissitous career. Its principles
were broadened and liberalized, and while its republicanism was still unquestioned, it advo-
cated the subordination of men to principles and measures, and the ambitions of leaders to the
larger interests of the party.
There could be but one result. Gradually, but surely, the utterances of the Tribune
began to carry more weight with them, and the public showed an interest in the opinions and
attitudes of the paper which had long been lacking. The business also increased in the same
ratio, until the Tribune today must be classed among the other successful newspapers which
have had the benefit of Mr. Scripps' guiding hand. It is a thorough newspaper, as well as a
party organ, and enjoys a wide popularity among discriminating readers, not only in Detroit,
but all over the state and country. The same enterprising methods which rendered the
Evening News so phenomenal a journalistic and financial success have been brought to bear
upon the Tribune, with telling effect.
For several years past, Mr. Scripps has had the advantage of the co-operation of George
G. Booth, the general manager of the Evening News Association. Possessed of the same
enterprising ideas which characterize his chief, Mr. Booth has been an invaluable coadjutor
and assistant. Upon his shoulders have rested much of the weight of the more active man-
agement during recent years, and they have never been found wanting. All the details of the
gigantic combined enterprise are constantly at his finger tips. He exercises the most untiring
supervision over every portion of the complicated machinery, and his judgment is always
sound and trustworthy. Still a young man, Mr. Booth is possessed of resistless energy, and
every onward step bears the unmistakable impress of his individuality. The unvarying success
of the enterprises since he assumed his present responsible position furnishes ample proof of
the wisdom of Mr. Scripps in reposing such absolute confidence in his able lieutenant and
associate. - -
The success of the Sunday News-Tribune is now well known to the public. It is con-
ducted on the same general principles which characterize the Evening News, everything
within its pages being condensed and to the point. Mr. Scripps is no friend of windy syndicated
effusions which very few care to read, but prepares a Sunday paper which is conducted strictly
on legitimate newspaper principles. The success achieved by the Sunday News-Tribune is
only another evidence of his correct business judgment. - -
The Commercial Weekly occupies a field peculiarly its own, and, although still compar-
atively in its infancy, is making rapid strides toward the front rank in that class of journalism.
It is designed as the organ of merchants and business men generally, and is faithfully fulfilling
its mission. The same is true of the Weekly Tribune, which has an immense circulation
among both republican and non-partisans, all over the state. -

ow ER I stºnſ,
St Muu Ai E. S. BUSINESS.
ort RNAL READERS
ARE G000 BUYERS
DETROIT, MICH,
FBIDAY,
THE DETROIT JOURNAL.
JUNE 14,
1895.
Something New
ºvery night lºsusjournal's Liner
Col . Lock the ºn
f.
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over for profit
PRIC - Two CENT8.
LAST EDITION
Men who Are in Training to
Make a Race at the
Polis.
MOST OF THEM HAVE OR HAVE
HAD AN OFFICE.
near v Ali Air, into Tirne Fight
---- arºl K re-v- 11 ow to
a -t.
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join Mº i tº ºpal and County
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at-hough thr munriſºn election is
* -- tº mºnt lix ºff and the cºunty
*-i- ºn nºrv i lºun a full yºur further
11, the futurº ranultimºrs for both
city ºwn - 'ºuvr p-r-ţ lºtus ure at ºcking
unt ºr i-ariv - ºut. " "…tv turn. Mºst
er thrºwn are nºw www.u contiidnteº aud
do not car- who knºws they are out
for the offic-, while ºthers are clºuer
“in thr hants ºf their triunila," ur
just terling about to get the lay of
the land. the Journal has been keep
ing tab on the aspirations of the vari
ous idulvittuals who have been men
tioned Thn Qunnºction with anv office,
either city or county, for grºut time,
anti hereafter printº a complete list
They are ull Republicans for, at the
prement outlook, no 1)emocrat has any
busincur aspiring to an office in De
trºit untier either the municipal or
cºunty government
One glance at the list will disclose
the fact that, with one or two ex-
cºption-, all have either held office
In the past or a to now engaged in
serving their couptry in that capacity
As the municipal election comes first
it would probably be proper to show
who are already skirmishing for the
different nominations. Of course only
one person can bo nominated for each
ºffice, unless the split occasioned by
the reorganization of the Repubtican
city committee on Wednesday evening.
is kept up until after election. In
that event there will not be sº many
disappointments by one-half
For mayor, there is Hazen 8 Pin.
gree, who has already served three
terms, buwº is oerfectly willing to
sacrifice personal bushness ſcran.
other two yours, providing the people
are equally willing. Homer Warren
a groomed for the race by Joe W.
who hopes to down Pingrº. In his ann.
inition. Honner, uowever,
the place and has had some asper
trons in that direction, but his friends
1nto tug race :* Pogree, but so
far has not met with any succrº-
For city clerk there he some ques-
tion as to whether the present ºncun-
bent, Charles R. Forster, is a candi
cate to succeed himecht or not Rome
of his n-arvat friends way he is, while
Forster himself insists that he la noº.
He certainly will not bä iſ be is suc-
cessful in being elected county audi-
tor at the next regular meeting of the
board of supervisors, to which po-
sition, 1* ºn salu, he has decided pre-
ferences. The others mentioned for
city clerk are John A. Bchmid, the
present deputy; Winthrop C. Jones,
chief clerk ºn the office, and W.
Wirth, a clerk in the assessor's office.
For city treasurer there are no less
than five candidates, including Louis
B ttwerkeld, who is perfectly wil-
rux denly come to the front. howevor,
and a willing to affirm that Littlefield
has held tra office long enough. Mr.
Parkhnson has been in the offico and
knows all about it. In fact be was
there so long, four terms, that the
Democrats made it an issue when he
was nominated for a fifth term whith
the result that John 8. Schmittakal
was elected without turning a hair.
Axl Orunow is also a candidate, as
well as Charles Daniels. At pre-ent
a deputy sheriff, but thero is still
anotbor who is confklent that he can
beat them all out kn the convention
and that is Theodore M Wolter, a
member of the cq islature. He is sawd
to be awrendy laying his plane for a
king and vigorous campaign.
ºr justice of the peace, J
gan is desirous of succeedºm htm>elſ
and ºbe only other r-a-rnent ºwned
C. tris, now clerk
of the justkºos' counts. -
cºming down tor city appointlve of:
rºcer the first m ling is that of con-
troller the present oontroller, C. W.
moore, says nº ſtors not want the oſ-
rice any longer Hºw deputy. Elºer
Baileº, i-, however kwng out for
a lightning stroke and rºue folks may
be has already becn strkºken There are
still others who would not refuse the
compliment ºf Mayor Pinzree still has
it to dispose of The most prominent
or these is Charles F. Beck, wºo has
never held public office exce
bºr of state coinnisºolw
local manager of the º:
agency; and a thorough business than.
The other is Peter who was
formerly deputy oontroller and for a
tºne tºurn the prett kºr wſ :"º".
rowth a vacancy liv has *
º: for two years and thwa
that a matrºchettº irºvkth of tumº- to
again onter the ranks as an aſtor"
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for city as scavor there we consider-
ble of a question as to whether
- a
e is the
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. . .” -irrºr anxiºus tº be placed
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-- tº wºre rumru'ssiºn
ºr rºu . . tºrrstr ºr waſ nº county
r
1 * :- At-ut 3.1A tido a year, and natu
alry ºut rac's a great #º aspir
nnna a - nºt u above, the election for
cºunty offic lay will not take place un-
iſ a year from next November, but
already there are avveral Inuividuals
whº are in training for the nºmination.
They are all pract tº a pºliticians, too.
ent, whº nº it comes tºwn to the home.
airwich there promises to be the great-
cal exhibition of Greek my c. Ing Greek
that det ruit has ever seen Char'en P
Couns will have enjoyed two full
irrmº hy that time, and that is about
as ruuch as one man is entitled
John archer tax boen undersh-riff for
tue same length of tine, but there is
no salary onnected with that office
and arolwºr is now cut for the stuff
in other words he will be a candl
unºr for aheriff Hw will have as op
pºnents two of the present county aud-
it ºra, Lou Burt and Henry M 8:offet,
but that is not all, for Col. William
A Gavett is also su d tu be after
it hot blocks, and so also is William
Du-L, recently appointed city assessor
to succeed himself
the position of county audiwor is to
be tilled at the next meeting of the
unard ºf county auditors which will
bo held in October. The candidates
arc George C. Lawrence, the presenv
subairman of the board of auditors
who was elected by the people three
years ago. Ak). Otto Goeschel is in
the race, chark's R Forster, city
clerk, is said to hustling, und
archio Grant, who is as cle"er as they
make 'em, when it comes to smooth,
pºlitical work, tº out for the place;
For county clerk there is at present
no opposition to Henry M. Reynolds,
but there ts plenty of time in which to
tkevelop candidates. He was elected
in November 1892, but had to fight
for the office about 14 months before
he was finally installed He spent a
large sum of money in putting the
matter through the courts and is there-
rotz of the impression that he ought
to be continued for a third term He
was re-elected in 94
There is no oppºsition to giving
Ferdinand Marschner a second term
as register of He has made a
nost excellent record so far and has
placed the offloa in first-class business
anape. Itvia mot at all likely that any
other candidate will come up for this
atrioe until Marschner has had two
full terms.
For oircurt court commissioners there
are already three candidates for the
two places with othern still on the
anxiºus Rea- ose who have already
donned their war paint are Ari Wood-
ruff, legislator, ex-deputy" aheriff, jus-
tice of the peace, etc.—ne lives in Ecorse
township; R C. Barnes, a colored law-
Culver, who has run befere,
SIGHS FOREIS MOLLIE
EDw ARD WARING CANNOT
FIND HIS sweeTHEART.
Therefore he Gets Her Friend
to Apply for a writ of Habeas
y Corpus—The Cruel Parents Are
Obdurate.
Appºkeation has been made to Judge
Donovan for a writ of habeas corpus
for the body of Mollie Burke, the
young girl who was spirited away to
pravens her from marrying Edward
H. Waring, and the judge has granted
in the application was made by:
Loretta Doulus, an aunt ºf the nits sing
girl, whose sympathies are not with
the “cre-uſ-cl par-ients "
Burke, pater, is commanded to bring
the person ºf Miss Monke into court
nerv Monday afternoºn at 2 o'clock,
and show why she is distrained of her
liberty, but he won't Ervin Palmer is
Mr Burke's counsel, and he said to a
reporter:
“I am informed that they told the
court Mina May—her name is May, or
Mary, not Mollie, that she is detained
the house of refuge Well, she
isn't there, hasn't...boon there.
I told Judge Hosmer, when they ap-
piled to him for a writ, that the
young lady was out-of this jurisdic-
tion, and what's all I can tell Judge
Donºvan or any wherever
the girl w, she will probably remain
until she gets over her infatuatkou for
ºaring.
roR ring REB POTATOES.
clerks and Deputy Sheriffs Will
Play Ball Tomorrow.
Tbe potato commission reports an
item of $700 in bills payable. If
Lhe attendence at the M. A. A grounds
totnorrow atternoon to see the two
country nines play ball is at all com:
mensurate with the merits of the
struggle, tubs indebtedness will be
represented by racelpted b \s by
Monday noon. The is no valid rea-
son why there ouldn't be a six-
centre-pole circus prowd. The cour
R" {. fººd; º
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will all adjourn,
al k, t be tumbling and
Wºm
Trilby feet. twº ci
rtunat-
includwig the concert.
scured in gore, and tho
e ball will comin-1-ce to
run the kauntlet at 4 o'clock, Grosew
Twº assiguinents are as
rr, £i 8towers, c.;
-elaird 1 b : Canup il 2bi, Clagº,
tºmottº; sºir, "it; Nicoſ, ºf;
ey, I ſ.
šigitſ:Hasr, p; Green, c, Trol-
lon ib, butler.Tºb Thoston. 8b; Canto,
sa, Hines, 1ſ., Cole cſ, far tººl-ky, rſ
Eºlia iaitºries ūof ---wºº r rºw
anºl - Fºr an Rºd Hoºt, ii
sheritra-Kronrºyer and Horn Cot
vut, auu Bausclºurr.
Two story Building in Fall
River, Mass., De-
mollshed.
FOUR PERSONS WERE KILLED AND
three ARE MISSIN0.
rive othera were Injured, Two
of Them Probably Fa-
tally
The ruins Are Being Searched
for the Missing
Fall River, Mass., June 14 —The
worst catastrophe that has visited
the city since the Granite mill fire
occurred this morning at the Langley
kootu harness shop on Cºunty-st
A new boiler of the Kendall make
exploded in the basement of the two-
story wooden building, blowing out
the entire end of the building, knock-
ing the gap
the upper
the girls
pened.
There
lift, and
The Jallº:
were thro
road. Th
but the la
a total w
control
t ->
remains 0
50-horsep
The thi
was nau
o'clock
titled.
The man who ran the boiler es
caped alive and uninjured. His name
is Lepage. He says the boiler was
tour and a half years old and was
buſi, by the Cunningham Iron works,
t was a tubular boiler, but he could
not give the dimensions. He said be
the boiler about five minutes
beforo it blow up. There was about
four inches of space in the water glass
not tilled with water. The firo had
been going half an hour -
11 90 a m.—The *ico have been
able to account for all but threa per-
non- known to been in the
building
Four dead two die-
ered up to 11 o'clock
LELie HoRTON.
A DELE DUBE, 18
Robf RT MuPRAY 21
UNKNOWN MAN.
Thomas Bury, a 15, and anoth
or unknown man are ºmyobably fatal
ly injured.
The three who are missing are ºup-
posed to be in the debris.
The crºcine -r, Lapºre, has tern
placed under arrest at the instance of
th- tº-dical exami-in-r e has sance
toºd the pºlice that to his knowledge
he - - ot beeu inspected
e
had been r-oov
aged 17
not consent to such an akreement “
rapid tranait in Detroi
found on Grand River-ava., between
Cass-ave.
stretch of track the motors fly with the
speed of the whirlwind In the past
week two doza have been killed and
several
blocks as the result of unsuccesful at:
tempts to board the cars whſke in mo-
tion i
juriea have been inflicted
I
TROUBLE IS IN STORE
It is Reported That Russia will
Support France in Her Pol-
icies in Fºgypt,
Paris, June 14–Tºe Gaulois pro-
resses to believe that Russia will sup
port France in Egypt in return for hºr
assistance rendered to Rutsa by
France in the Chino-Japan protest.
It is also believed by the Gaulo's
that President Faure will accept the
Invitation to be prevent at the corona
tion of the czar at Moscow
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Tom Johnson Tells Why He
Will Not Sign His Em-
ployes' Agreement,
WANTS TICKETS PUNCHED IN THE
PRESENCE OF PASSENGERS.
Trulley Cars Are Being Run Reck-
lessly on Lower Grand
River-ave
This enced the conference, and a
general meeting of the employes” as-
sociation has been called for Sunday
night at midnight to take action on
“We to k. and
that's all there is about it,” said Sºc-
retary Grant, today And there the
matter rebt-
e most realistic exemplificatkon of
t voday is to be
nuud Crawford-st
have ſor
in-en tº ºn dragged
In a few instances
t in we subject of frequent com-
meut that the service is not yet what
it ought to be in othe
eral
car passing, and then three or four
motors will follow rach other in close
order The report has been starteu that
this conditiºn of affnirs is cauced by
ill-feeling between the employes of the
consolidated Grand River and Jeffer-
-on-ave.
r respects 8ew
minutes will el-pse without a
Best Kane Readercd
WHER
Mayor Pingree Deftly and
Neatly Disposes of the
Silver Question.
HE BE NOT A MEMBER OF AN
monBST MONEY CLUB,
Bolieres in Coining All the Gold
—and 8tlver at the Go-
ing Rate-
There Should be No Discrinuina-
tion Pro or Con. •
“I am not a member of the Michi-
gan Hopest Money Club that I know
of," sand Mayor Pingree this morning.
“I don't recollect that I am ''
“What is your position on the money
question?" the Journal asked
“I believe that we should coin all
the goaq and silver we have in this
country be renlied
Ektra Fine Sugar Cured
HAN/ [S
11c lb.
LARD
in’srocks, absolutely pure,
100 lb.
. . . AT . . . .
R. DOWNIE
& SONS.,
r-
TOMORROW THE DAY,
The climax of our zo per cent, off sale—sort of evenuns up the saw.k-
making better prices to do it.
Men's Fine $18.oo Suits
CUTAWAY and
SACK STYLES at $14.00.
Imported Serges, Unfinished Worsteds, Chaviots, Cl Cºlvº sh-
ionable materials. avio's, Clays, Scatch Mixtures and other fash
Clothes that are made and rinkened with all thºse title thinx” of tailor's art that, distinguishes
- 0 ha
our clothinx fronn the urutterary rvaux nºt > zus sn work auout the ſit W ww tuv'
fur all shaped men, the tall, H. short, tho lean, tuv ºtvut º u tuvin
Negligee Shirts—A Red Hot Bargain for $1.o.o.
* whirt you can buy a Deárols ºor Mºks unºy All twº suſ, alyſis]] patterns in Madras
Underwear at under prices,
rine Balbriggwa, 31 00 and, 31.25 quakar, at
with tapa, ww.c. 3. & quaway, at 850. 80& fººwº,
Boys' Clothing—Special sale for Saturday,
. TRAVER
171-173-175 Woodward Avenue.
usurl Wuºlona. Meadºw cowcrºſt
SATURDAY
. . . WILL BE . .
Millinery Dept. -
lºther lºw and frºsh kºt (N Pearl
Brald Hats, worth 16 tath. . . . . 25c
Úrt lot Lºfthorºi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... (5C
Regular ºrace & 1. * *.
OB% lot Lºghorns. . . . . . . . . . . . . 95c
Regularar ºrio e º 1-fºº Co.
OM lot Lºghornſ. . . . . $1.25
Reºr Laasaw" ºr accº & º. f** >.
ANOTHER LOT OF WREATHS.
Daisy Wrºathi . . . 25C
Rae gun a same Parºo-ºº ºdºo.
Miled Flºwer Wrath. . . . . . . . . . . 49C
Pºe ºr Lai ºn a rº-ra aye - 1.
Phú Wrºaths. . . . . . . , , . . . . . . . . $1.49
*r-ºre -- & Q-
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And Fresh.
25c, 49c, 75c, $1, $1.25, $1.49,
In all the rewest colors.
TER, GLENN& HUNTER,
Suit, Skirt and
Shirt Waist Dept.
- 4. > *
test “Cuts" in u. for arr... wool.--or, Berges, Chºwkwa, ºn.-
ºny. Lºay Jackets, with, nickel Ludºks valua. full willu
ur - -
TOuriSt vº ºilets, sold at $10.00, º ---
Suits
$500
Exactly Like Cºt.
Second
Floor.
$5.00
- '''''Asti Six Firsty -1.11:1,
SEPARATE SKIRTS º: pºrt***s in all ill;
*** stylisk in atowiańs- ºg arguºuts
At # 6 ºf tºt Prices. that Grºus wºuaºulº.
912.00 shºr's fear ..
910,00 ſºlºists fur ...
& 4.00 akºrus for ....
cººles of 10,000 Launderº shirt wºu ºn. nº-ºnas.
*d, with Immease what vs. ºt vulnauchalle Ivkºv's
- in u-
Vietnamoºser the ‘frºm mººd Bat Woºdºr:
LºoY 1.-Cºn
qp to 910, for.... -
T 2. — -
*:::::::::::::: ***.”
* sador-Frºmmed Hata ºraeswow,
»t .. --- ------- - ---- --
* *d by ºil for ..
Tritre
MILLINERY ºr SILK DEPT, vºo,
- .#...º.dº: *... *:::: 5 piece 44-rºw l'?... Ia. An ºut, r, r. -
value, for ... . . . . . . --- - -- 486 ww.rth # 72 tº r ºn tº, Maº .. ... - **w- $| |9 -
$| 98 º,”; ºr .* -i > *4 *s ºr + 890 ſt
--
24-inch Elark, ah - ^lm ur-
-------- $7 93 ..º.º.º.º.º.º. 393 yū
$º kład
ºf 490 yd
io9 recoch Pawera ºats, wwºtka
Chenoy Brus.' Bººt Quality ºval ºf Cauwº.
Bilks, wºotb 81 00 t < r yºu l- tº uscu style...
|
verdict for the , City.
since it has
linea.
- - º “That's not the correct explanation,” - -
r not the naayor will reappoint A*- - - At 11.15 the flames were com- - - Tomorrow the choke of all Ladies' Mºhº anºi Cºulºirº's M**.
st anor McIvºnal and thus show a º * .." "...º. * | pºly extinguished and hundrea, said sº º ºf thº, strº IIT-19 |IGHiſ M. AWE. S * suld at Rºe, for ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - M ºr
disposition to kºwtº thq municipal º, wf º the º ‘...tº of volunteers were at work overhaul. º .*.*.*.*.*.*. the “. Ladºs’ pure ºur ifose, Black and Col vs. #1 ºu to 84 59 vºte. At *:::: -
- r o a e is una at t
§.º.º.º.º.º.; " " ... " " "::... tº Lºption: G-g º --→- = −-
a twº ---- nº - - - - -
.."...","...”. '...". º' ºººº "ºº". ris greatest excitement_pºl. [...º.º.º. has put on many *THE Ladies” /// ...Tº } PARASOLS
Pinº rer w thr rºatºat nayor that worx º time. The º of public in the section of the city where tue new" ºn t late. The cºmpany real- |
ever pret lºt ºver a city in this ºr !ºa *...º. º. † *cºntº ºccurrºo and the streets in izes that some ºf ºººººº..." ºn - Cotton Uniºr- O l and
any other tº twº ſins nºne A ſº, "ºº"Hºººº; º; they canº are ſºlº."ºle. over to the Detroit railway compan º
ºr "a rºtºr tºur the only we- || "under pºst and then brought'suit woman in taffºrt, inul, as soon as it? In: "* (* ºperatiºn, g * --- A suº
putter whº wºre to the position | *, revºr money. The cur reported as grad, in a former dis lºº they are gets rug ºr dy to fill -
º"ºr i \ºv - real ºats |tion cºunsel fººd, the pºint, that the pººch, wº, "º º be a ſº, whºm their places. These new men ars, al- atº sacrºciºg U Mºnrºll. As
*..."..." ...","...nº.º.º. ºnºrai. Femoved º. º ºsº.º.º. º.º.º. work 39 gº on ºrial ºth as Cadillac Square :
values and alwºrk ºn the Fort-st Pres- ºniº":...'" ºxº and wº for a long time un-lºº" gº the º, *****, - | Prºces— D - - f H A Liº
byterian church choir, and Thomas Tºerºr for the city y directed | conscious. º i.e.". º: "... !." 0 uaya - | º
Gibson. Inte Alcivu.tr county tras wrer - - trial, then we take them in haud, and ſº or the bºg Red Teapoº | Second Poor ºv - Pºricº–
unvier Alex Ali Ltud NG. A. &W ELL As ºn the "tº rulº.º.grea; "...º.º.”...". "...º.º. | --- |
rur awslatwrit A-----or Rena Th wºre building to order, loss of life had been dissipated, and ºr thern. e is now op- 60% AR ſº N67
sºlicy x-d ºpr.º. rº. N. hºnºr ºl. #ic; be º † was demºnstrated that "only" fºur ºrated we do nºte: that tº º, Tea 4Ild COffee DealCrS | sake Mow Oa - t! Main Finer,
are both said to be castlux longluz ºr into .*.*.*.*.*, *: º: persons had been #º *::: inore º,"...”: **satar aud | - – := | -- tº
- ere missing, and four had been seri- eckl - - - – “tº --> --- -
eyes. - º: "...# # *" §§ º ously injured: º *..."; tºº." º: ‘... 11 t *:::::::::::::: products from - - - --- - -E
For re-civor of taxºs All-rt Stoll as we do in a higher priced oue. The killed are: nº ºne. frº, Pºp!" whº fºr "º" - ºuntrie- -
has nº competition as ºn tº as can be - Qur.º. "._***'. *.*. maid” suſta ſ LELIA HQRTON, aged 17. ºn Crºwº Thº.º.º.º. tº .." **. **.*.*.*º: Yūll Will IEC61ſt Wºlf'ſ MONEY TO LOAN HAY FIVſº
iratned' Flo, 512, sºme cheaper, sºme dearer, ADELE DUBE, aged 18. many, nºt ºces mºrnººn, bringº wº ... yeºra ºxºhe Tº. Ann CAM"RH
**nº presidency of th’incoming school $ºu lºoking every, one...Repºrt, and RoRERT MURRAY. Aged 21 Crawfºrds tºlerº mºke ºf ºf déjie us - --
- press am free Goken, 82-34 Mich ºf ºil i.e. aged ºr l ºwitches” at the junctiºn with is Finest.gºv. 1, Tea", twº ºxhibited at ora zºº ortgag:--- tº ris lºn, Suffºcation-Neural&ks, cte
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SOME REPRESENTATIVE DETROIT BUSINESS INTERESTS
15%
PRESTON NATIONAL BANK
One of Detroit's most important and strongest financial institutions is the Preston National
Bank, a view of whose principal interior is given herewith. With a capital of $1,000,000 and
officered by men of sterling integrity and long approved business ability and prompt executive
capacity, this institution commends itself to conservative investors as well as the man
of exchange.
This bank receives the accounts of mercantile and commercial houses, manufacturing
establishments, private individuals and -
firms, in accordance with the prevailing
custom of similar establishments, re-
ceives on deposit, without discount,
checks and drafts on the principal
cities of the country, and important
places in Michigan and other states,
discounts approved commercial paper
and loans money on satisfactory.
names or collaterals, at market rates,
buys and sells foreign exchange in
large or small amounts, and having
accounts in foreign money centres can
pay the highest rates and quote the
lowest selling prices for bankers' bills
and commercial drafts drawn on for-
eign countries.
The bank has long been an impor-
tant and successful factor in the develop-
ment of the commerce and manufac-
tures of Detroit and Michigan, and the
needs of those keeping accounts with
this institution will be cheerfully sup-
plied when not inconsistent with the
prudent principles of banking.
Capitalists, trustees, executors, ad-
ministrators, guardians, agents and
others, having funds in their possession,
for investment or safe keeping, or
awaiting the happening of certain events,
such as the determination of legal questions, can make favorable arrangements with the bank
for special accounts, on which proper rates of interest will be allowed, on conditions of with-
drawal to be agreed upon.
It has come to be quite a general custom for men of means to place an allowance in the
hands of their wives for the purpose of defraying the family expenses, and this method has
created a demand for banking accommodations and facilities for women. The Preston Bank
has a number of such accounts, and extends every needed facility for the transaction of
business of this sort.
The keeping of a bank account obviates the necessity of carrying money in the pocket,
or the having it in the house, and, of
course, the danger of loss is greatly
lessened. The payment of bills by
checks practically secures a double
receipt, as a check made payable to the
order of the person to whom the money
is due must be endorsed before the bank
will pay it.
Widows and women having separate
estates, desiring to transact their own
financial business, will be afforded
every convenience of the several de-
partments, and assistance cheerfully
rendered in the buying and selling of
investment securities. Information
upon subjects of business, value of
stocks, bonds, securities, &c., will be
given upon application by letter or in
person.
The present officers of this institution
are as follows; F. W. Hayes, President;
A. E. F. White, Vice-President; H. L.
O’Brien, Cashier; J. P. Gilmore, Au-
ditor; Directors : F. W. Hayes, A. E.
F. White, C. A. Black, A. L. Stephens,
Wm. H. Elliott, Jerome Croul,
Jas E. Davis, J. B. Book, Jas.
D. Standish, H. K. White, John
Canfield.
PRESTON NATIONAL BANK —— AN INTERIOR VIEWv
PEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK
Who can estimate the beneficent influence exerted by a good savings bank in
the community, in encouraging habits of thrift, saving, temperance and economy P
Second only to the influence of the church seems to be such an institution, and could
the story of many a bank book deposited at the People's bank be told, it would
be an instructive educator of the rising generation.
PEople's SAVINGS BANK — INTERIor VIEw
In January, 1871, the People's Saving Bank opened business with a capital stock
of $30,000. To-day it has a capital stock of $500,000 and has paid out to depos-
itors, during its corporate life more than one million dollars in interest.
The first president and founder of the People's bank, Francis Palms, did much
to give the institution its high character, and his family are still prominently identi-
fied with it.
banking business, receives deposits subject to check, discounts commercial paper and
Besides affording a place for savings, the institution transacts a general
makes loans on approved collaterals. It also buys and sells foreign exchange and
issues letters of credit.
The state banking law of Michigan is very strict regarding safe-
guards for the protection of depositors and limits the quality of secu-
rities in which saving deposits are invested to those deemed absolutely
safe, requires five sworn reports to the Bank Commissioners, of each
bank on such past dates as he may select, and at least one exam-
ination of its condition, each year.
The engraving on this page shows the interior of the bank in
the Moffat block, corner of Fort and Griswold streets.
officers are M. W. O'Brien, president (who has been connected with
The present
the bank since its organization); Anton Pulte, and F. A. Schulte,
vice-presidents; Geo. E. Lawson, cashier ; R. W. Smylie, auditor ;
James T. Keena, attorney, and these directors : F. F. Palms, John
º -
ºù Mark, Joseph Schulte, W. C. Yawkey, M. W. O'Brien, Clarence
Carpenter, P. Fitzsimons, Geo. H. Barbour, Jas. L. Edson, Jer. Dwyer,
F. A. Schulte, W. Candler, F. T. Moran, G. E. Lawson.
This bank solicits the accounts of clerks, mechanics, laborers and
Homer
married women and business men generally. Loans money on real
estate mortgage in amounts small or large to suit the wants of appli-
cants, without any charge for attorney fee or commissson.
A cordial and general invitation is extended to all who desire to
do so, to visit the new banking offices, and to inspect the massive
which embrace in their construction all the most
vaults and safes
effective appliances and inventions known for the protection of treasure.



158 SOME REPRESENTATIVE DETROIT BUSINESS INTERESTS
now has a surplus fund of $100,000. The bank began
business in the Buhl Block, adjoining the Post Office ; but
in 1890, recognizing the pronounced trend of business north-
ward, its managers had fitted up its present quarters on the
principal corner of the Hammond Building. Here it is now
permanently located.
The situation of the bank is most excellent. The south-
east corner of Griswold and Fort streets affords frontage on
two of the principal business thoroughfares of the city. It is
only one block from the new Post Office and is in the very
heart of Detroit's financial circulation, as it were. The
interior appointments are of the very best description, and
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comprise every improvement known in the banking business. sº
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S 1 ATE SAVINGS BANK BUILDING
THE STATE SAVINGS BANK
ADMirABLE LOCATION AND HANDSOME APPOINTMENTS — STRONG DIRECTORATE —NOTABLE.
GROWTH IN BUSINESS
Among Detroit's many excellent banking institutions, none occupies a more
prominent place than the State Savings Bank. It was established in 1883 with a
capital of $150,000. Three years afterwards this was increased to $200,000, and it custo MERs' Lobby
The intention of the management of the State Savings Bank was to make is
permanent quarters equal in elegance and comfort to any similar institution in the
West; and that the idea was fully carried out, is well known to every business
man in Detroit. No device of approved utility was omitted. The result of efforts
dictated by practical experience and a desire to afford every facility for the rapid
transaction of work, as well as to insure the comfort of the public doing business
therein, was to make this bank what it is. The banking room is a model of archi-
tectural and decorative elegance and the furniture is no less magnificent.
Its directorate is especially strong. Some of the most prominent and most
enterprising men in a community noted for so many conspicuous examples of
financial sagacity and moneyed strength are on its Board. These are :
Gen. Russell A. Alger, ex-Governor of Michigan, member of the firm of
Alger, Smith & Co., dealers in timber.
Henry N. Campbell of the well-known law firm of Russell & Campbell.
Wm. C. Colburn, Secretary and Treasurer of the Detroit Bridge and Iron
Works.
Wm. H. Elliott, the well-known successful dry-goods merchant.
Chas. L. Freer, Managing Director of the Michigan Peninsula, Car
Company.
Rufus W. Gillett, of Gillett & Hall, the leading grain commission firm in the
city.
Frank J. Hecker, President of the Michigan Peninsular Car Company.
Henry B. Ledyard, President and General Manager of the Michigan Central
Railroad Company.
Hugh McMillan, President of the Commercial National Bank, Detroit.
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SOME REPRESENTATIVE DETROIT BUSINESS INTERESTS
159
Wm. C. McMillan, Managing Direc-
tor of the Michigan Peninsular Car
Company.
Robert S. Mason, Cashier of the
Bank, a man of long experience in the
financial world.
Geo. H. Russel, President of the
Russel Wheel and Foundry Company.
Henry Russel, General Attorney
for the Michigan Central Railroad
Company.
Martin S. Smith, Treasurer of Alger,
Smith & Co.
Chas. Stinchfield, of Whitney &
Stinchfield, extensive lumber dealers.
The present officers of the Bank are:
Geo. H. Russel, President, M. S.
Smith, Vice-President, Robert S.
Mason, Cashier and A. E. Wing
Auditor.
With such a combination of practical
and trustworthy business talent at the
head of its affairs, it is not surprising
that the State Savings Bank rapidly
developed. From its inception its
growth was not only continuous, but
was marked by immense strides. In July, 1890, its deposits aggregated
a little over $1,995,000. On May 7, 1895, the date of the last state-
ment published, they were $3,889,207 57. The following tabulation is
interesting as showing that the dull season of a year and a half, now
happily passed, had but slight effect on the business of this strongly estab-
lished and favorite bank. Its deposits were on the dates of published
Statements :
May 4, 1894, . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . . . $3,112,933.95
July 18, 1894, . . . . . . * * * * * * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
October 2, 1894, ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
December 19, 1894, ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
March 5, 1895,....................................
May 7, 1895,.................. ...... - - - - - - - - …
Showing that in one year, over three quarters of a million of dollars
were added to its care by its commercial and savings customers.
The resources named in this last statement are:
A TELLER's WINDow
º
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DIRECTORs Room
Loans and Discounts
secured by Real
Estate and other
approved collater-
als, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,415,396.77
Overdrafts, .......... 5,612.44
Furniture and fixtures, 7, coo.oo
Cash on hand and
deposited in other
banks subject to
check, ..... --------- 828,295.81
And the liabilities:
Capital Stock, ....... $ 200,000,oo
Surplus Fund, ....... Ioo, ooo-oo
Undivided Profits, .... 67,097.45
Due Depositors,...... 3,889,207.57
Making total footings of $4,256,405.02
As a depository for savings the
State Savings Bank has been very
successful. It has always enjoyed the
full confidence of the thrifty working
people who know that saving is gain-
ing. A large and rapidly increasing
commercial business is also shown,
until now the State Savings Bank does
a larger commercial business than any
other bank in Michigan under State
charter. The commercial and savings
business is conducted in distinct departments, under the excellent banking law of the State and under the supervision
of the Commissioner of Banking. Around the interests of both departments are thrown the safeguards invented and
approved by conservative and at the same time accommodating modern bankers.
The foreign exchange department of the bank does a large business in letters of credit for travelers. It draws its own
draſts on the principal cities of the world. Its system affords the greatest convenience to tourists and business men,
and its resources in this line are liberally appreciated. Every facility is afforded the individual customer consistent with
the well-being of all the stockholders and depositors.
The State Savings Bank, with its immense money backing, its experienced and courteous officers, its central location
and its magnificent offices, is an institution of which our city is exceedingly proud.
In the new era opening for Detroit
it promises to keep pace with the splendid growth of the beautiful metropolis of Michigan,



160
SOME REPRESENTATIVE DETROIT BUSINESS INTERESTS
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
The First National Bank is a United States depository and receives the accounts of banks,
bankers, corporations, firms and individuals, and will give prompt and careful attention to
any business entrusted to it.
This bank was organized in September, 1863, and began its record of business on Novem-
ber 16 of the same year, and under auspices which have advanced its fortunes to their present
high standard, a hint of which may be obtained from the statement of the bank's condition
and the list of officers given below.
In December, 1864, the charter was transferred to the State Bank of Michigan and the
offices were removed to the southeast corner of Jefferson avenue and Griswold street, where
the business of the bank continued to be transacted until March 1, 1869, when it acquired by
purchase the National Insurance bank, and has since controlled its business interests at its
present location, the southwest corner of Jefferson avenue and Griswold street. The first
president of the bank, and who held that office up to December 27, 1864, was Philo Parsons,
who was succeeded by S. P. Brady, who was president until January 14, 1868, when Jacob
S. Farrand assumed the duties of that office. Prior to December 29, 1864, several change
were made in the relation of cashier, Mr. Emory Wendell succeeding to the position on that
date. Mr. Farrand continued as president and Mr. Wendell as cashier until 1882, when, the
charter having expired, a reorganization took place and a new charter was granted, under
which the bank resumed business June 19, 1882, with a capital stock of $500,000, and under
the following directory : Jacob S. Farrand, Wm. B. Wesson, James McMillan, Emory Wen-
dell, Alanson Sheley, D. M. Ferry, M. I. Mills, L. E. Clark and Geo. V. F. Lothrop.
The following statement (March 5 last) and list of officers will give an index to the char-
acter and capacity of the management.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $3 of 2,361.48
Overdrafts..... -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I3.47
U. S. Bonds to Secure Circulation..... . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I50,000 OO
U. S. Bonds to Secure Deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I5O,OOO.oo
Premiums Paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 35,000 OO
Due from Reserve Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . $434,044 oš
Due from other Banks and Bankers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 256,585.60
Due from U. S. Treasurer.................. - - - - - - - - - - - 12,068.32
Cash on Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . 521,315.86 1,224,013.83
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - ------------ - - - - $5,621,388.78
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $ 5oo, ooo.oo
Surplus Fund and Profits.... . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 215,924.66
Circulating Notes. . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 135,000.OO
Deposits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3,771,364. 12
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,621,388.78
DIRECTORS
Hon. Geo. V. N. Lothrop, Lawyer.
Emory Wendell, President Pro Tempore.
Hon. Don M. Dickinson, of Dickinson, Thurber & Stevenson, Attorneys.
William J. Chittenden, of Chittenden & McCreary, proprietors of the “Russell House.”
Edwin S. Barbour, President Detroit Stove Works.
Lorenzo E. Clark, Vice-President. -
Wm. C. McMillan, Managing Director Michigan Peninsular Car Co.
D. M. Ferry, President.
THE DETROIT TRACK HARNESS
Modern manufacture of carriage and racing track gear has for some time been calling
loudly for an improved harness. The racing rig will find just what it wants in the Detroit
Track Harness, recently invented and patented by M. L. Knowles of Detroit, Mich. Mr.
Knowles is the editor of the Horse and Sporting News, the only paper of the kind in Michigan,
and has invented a humane and valuable article in this harness, which is the only one in the
world without breeching, breast strap or whiffle-tree, and is the best and lightest thing
obtainable in the way of harness for any rig on the racing track. It gives perfect freedom of
every muscle, does not chaſe or gall, prevents kicking, hitching or hopping, quarter-grabbing,
etc., and is as far ahead of all other harness as the pneumatic tire is ahead of the high wheel
sulky. Testimonials go to show that the Detroit Track Harness improves a horse sometimes
loo per cent., contributes largely to the development of his speed and keeps him squarer on
the track than any other harness on the market.
M. L. Knowles, the inventor and patentee of the harness, may be addressed for particu-
lars concerning it at Detroit, Mich., and horsemen will be interested, too, in seeing a copy
of the paper so ably published by him, one of the brightest and breeziest of its profession
in the west. It is a sportsman's journal of international interest, circulating throughout the
United States and Canada. It is a live weekly paper for the horseman, breeder, farmer, and
sportsman, devoted to the horse, his owner and his friend and all outdoor sports. It gives
the sporting news in a nutshell from all parts of the world, and is a high class advertising
medium with low rates. The subscription price is only $1.00 a year. Sample copy will be
sent free. Address Horse News Publishing Co.
MIDSUMMER VOYAGES
BY THE MAGNIFICENT BOATS OF THE DETROIT AND CLEVELAND STEAM NAVIGATION Co.
The engraving herewith given shows the new steamer “Mackinac,” of the Detroit and
Cleveland Steam Navigation Co., one of the five magnificent boats of the fleet which ply
between all the
principal ports of
Lakes Erie and Hu-
ron. All these boats
are of steel, equip-
ped with water-
tight compartments
and all the appli-
ances and conven-
iences which make
a boat safe and
comfortable.
Travelers over
America's in land
*Seas have for years
sung the praises of
the wonderful water
voyage, but as the
ingenuity of man is
ever devising for his
comfort, the steam-
ers of this line have
grown in attractive-
ness every year.
These boats leave
Detroit and Cleve-
land simultaneously
at a late hour every
evening and reach
their destinations
several hours before
breakfast, taking
the traveler over a
nearly airline route.
THE DETRoit AND clevelAND stEAM NAVIGATION company's NEw stEAMER
Sick and tired of the prospect of rail riding in the hot months, habitual travelers invariably
forsake the cars for these steamers.
The summer travel on Lake Huron, always heavy, has shown a steady increase in each of
the last five years that has placed it at mammoth proportions, and the original steamers on this
route proved totally inadequate to care for the vast passenger traffic. The company was therefore
compelled, in 1893, to sell them and build two immense modern steamers to take their places.
| Those steamers—
City of Alpena and
City of Mackinac
cost $300,000 each.
Built of steel, with
a speed of 20 miles
an hour, they are in
the main closely
similar to the Lake
Erie Division boats,
and contain 150
State-rooms and
parlors. ,
These boats
maintain railroad
time and passengers
have learned to de-
pend upon them in
all seasons, while
the courtesy of offi-
cials and employes
of the line is prover-
bial, thus conducing
much to the comfort
of patrons.
H and so m ely
illustrated pam –
phlets will be sent
free on application
by the company.
Address, Detroit
and Cleveland
Steam Navigation
Co., Detroit, Mich.
“ CITY OF MACKINAc''

FRONTISPIECE,
TITLE HEADING, º & -
DETROIT
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
A Detroit Hook and Ladder House,
Business University Building Doorway,
Cass Public School, . e * t g &
Chamber of Commerce Building Design, e
City Hall, Hammond and McGraw Buildings,
College of Medicine, . e tº º & *
Convent of the Sacred Heart Day School,
Detroit Female Seminary, . * tº
Detroit (Jesuit) College,
Detroit Lyceum, . e *
First National Bank, . g g e
Fire Department Headquarters, & e *
Firemen's Hall, D. L. G. Armory and Biddle
House, * e tº & tº *
Government Building and Post Office,
Grace Hospital, * *
Harper Hospital,
Hotel Cadillac, g g
House of Correction, . -
House of Correction Superintendent's Office, •
Lobby at the Exposition,
Main Exposition Building, *
Metropolitan Police Headquarters, . *
M. C. R. R. Depot Yard and Ferry Slip,
Michigan Central Depot Clock Tower,
Michigan Central Depot Yard, . &
Museum of Art, . º e *
New Masonic Templé, tº gº tº
Post Office, U. S. Court House, etc.,
Present Board of Trade Building,
Public Library, . e e g
Protestant Orphan Asylum,
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, . e
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and View,
St. Luke's Hospital and Grounds, e
St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum,
The City's Larder—Central Market,
The Municipal Courts, e e g
The McGraw Building, & g
Thompson Home for Šia Ladies,
Union Railway Station, g
U. S. Marine Hospital,
Water Works and Park, . g * e
Wayne County Jail and Sheriff's Residence,
Western District City Market, * e
Whitney Opera House,
Young Woman's Home, . & wº
Young Woman's Home, Entrance to
The Club Buildings
Catholic Club Building,
Detroit Boat Club House,
Detroit Athletic Club House,
Home of the Detroit Club, .
Home of the Michigan Club,
Michigan Athletic Club House, .
Michigan Yacht Club House,
West End Club House,
P. M. C. A. Building:
Y. M. C. A. Building,
Main Entrance Y. M.
Drawing-Room, g tº
Gymnasium, . e gº e wº g e e
Library, g wº
Reading-Room.
C. A Building,
STREET VIEws
At National Encampment G. A. R.
Alfred Street, g g & g e
A Picture at Foot of Woodward Ave.,
At the Head of Randolph Street,
Birdseye View up Michigan Ave.,
Birdseye View of Fort St., e
Boulevard, from Woodward Ave., . &
Boulevard, West from Woodward Ave., .
Canfield Ave., West from Second, e
Charlotte Ave., near Second Ave., .
Corner Gratiot Ave. and Randolph St.,
Corner Griswold St. and Grand River Ave.,
Corner Franklin and Antoine Sts., . e
Corner Woodward and Canfield Ave's,
Cross-Lots to the City Hall, e e
East on Henry St. from Second Ave.,
East on Ferry Avenue, * &
Foot of Third Street, . g e
Hancock Ave. East from Cass, . º
Jefferson Ave. East from Rivard St. *
Jefferson Ave. West from Dubois Street,
Jefferson Ave. near Toll Gate, . & º
Jefferson Ave. West from Woodward Ave.,
Looking up Monroe Ave., . g » g
Looking Down Second Ave., . e e
Lower End of Woodward Ave. and River,
Madison Ave. toward Grand Circus Park,
Monroe Avenue, . g
Northwest Corner Woodward and Adams Aves.,
On Washington Ave.,
On Winder Street, e g &
On the Hubbard Boulevard, . . ©
Over the Roofs towards Walkerville,
Rowena Street, . & * g tº
Second Ave. North from Henry St.
South on Woodward Ave., & g
Up Second Ave., . e
arren Avenue, East, * e e
Warren Avenue, East of Woodward,
West on Davenport Street, e
West on Davenport Street,
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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS
West on Lafayette Avenue, e *
Woodbridge St. West from Griswold,
Woodward Ave. North from Campus,
Woodward Ave. North from Congress St.
Woodward Ave. from Ferry Landing,
Woodward Ave. from the Grand Circus,
Woodward Ave. from Winder Street,
CHURCHES
Cass Avenue M. E.,
Calvary Presbyterian,
Central Christian,
Central M. E., . e
Church of Our Father,
Christ Church, &
Clinton Avenue Baptist,
Disciples of Christ, . e g e g
Entrance to First Presbyterian Church,
First Presbyterian, g g e g
First Congregational,
First Baptist, *
First Unitarian, . *
Fort Street Presbyterian,
Memorial Presbyterian,
Old Central M. E., e g g
Old Duffield First Presbyterian,
Old First Congregational, g
Old Jewish Synagogue,
Old Mariners g º
Old St. Anne's, . g
Old United Presbyterian. . * *
Presbyterian Church of the Covenant,
Scotch (Central) Presbyterian,
Second Avenue Presbyterian,
Swedenborgian, tº
St. Anne's, *
St. Paul's Episcopal,
St. Joseph's Memorial,
St. Joseph's R. C., tº * g º e
St. John's Episcopal, g e e º
St. Albertus Polish Catholic, g
St. Cassimir, R. C., . &
Sts. Peter and Paul, . e
Trinity Reformed Episcopal,
Trumbull Ave. Presbyterian
Westminister Presbyterian,
Woodward Ave. Baptist,
BELLE IsLE PARK
A Bit of Belle Isle,
A Rain Maker,
An Every Day Meet,
An Every Day Scene,
Arbor, e g *
A Toolhouse, * g g
A Wreck at the Big Bend,
Aquatic Herbarium, . *
Bridge Head of Park,
Central Canal, . e e
Central Canal and Bridge,
Central Avenue, e e
Driveway, gº g
East Front of Casino, .
Government Lighthouse,
Ice Water Here, . * $ e
Impromptu Regatta on the Canal.
Inselruhe Dairy Lunch House, . g tº
Island Approach of the Mainland Bridge,
Log Cabin in Deer Park, . * e e
Looking towards Grosse Pointe,
Main Canal, & g .
Main Canal and Bridge, º º e
Near the New Bridge, * & e tº
North Shore Drive, º e g º
Old Ice House, g e e e g g
Picnic Party, © º * tº e & %
Police Station, g g
Rustic Seat,
Skaters' Pavilion, e
Sunday Afternoon, . &
The City's Navy Yard, * g *
The Bridge Swung Open at Twilight,
The Casino, g e g § *
The First Boathouse, . g
Two Friends at Deer Park,
Two Loungers, . e e
The May Queen, tº
The Mainland Bridge,
The Old Tree, *
The Old Wharf, . e
Under the Iron Bridge,
Under the Elms, . g tº
View Across Lake St. Clair,
View of the Mainland Bridge,
View Sketched in 1870, • * *
View of Bridge to the Mainland,
View in the Park, * g
Watching the Sturgeons, e &
Yacht Club House and Anchorage, .
Young Navigators, e e g
OTHER PARKS AND SPORTING FEATURES
Pa/772e2• Pazº/*
Lake in Palmer Park, Ke
Log Cabin of Senator Palmer,
Percheron Pond, . & g e tº & tº
Senator Palmer's Famous Jersey Creamers,
View at the Log Cabin Farm, g & *
Fort Wayne
A Holiday,
A View,
Barracks,
Entrance, © $
Officers' Quarters,
Page
River Front, g e º * e
Parade Rest, e e 4. * * e
Other Pazº/* Aeatures
All Aboard for Highland Park, .
Fountain in Cass Park, * * g
Fountain in EastGrand Circus Park,
Fountain in West Grand Circus Park,
View in Clark Park, . g e e
The Søorting Parks and Sports
A Ten-Oared Barge Race, . g * * e
Bicycle Race on Grounds Det. Athletic Club,
Detroit Driving Park
At the Distance Pole, º
An Excited Multitude , &
Detroit Driving Club—The Start, . g e
Recreation Park during the Base Ball Season,
The Senior Fours at Detroit, * * *
Views on the (Detroit) Rizer
A Bit Along the River,
A Bit of Moonlight,
Along the Docks,
Along the Wharves, . tº
All Aboard for the Island, .
All Aboard for the Flats | . & *
A Moonlight Tow Passing Detroit, .
A New Bedford Whaler, g g
An Annoying Break-Down,
An Ice Crusher, . e *
A Railway Ferry Steamship,
A River Liner, . g *
A River View, . º
A Whaleback, e g g e e
Building a Mammoth Lake Carrier,
Discussing the Last Tow, * º
Going Out, *
Going Free, . e g º
Just Off for Belle Isle Park, *
Looking Toward Sandwich Point,
Long Wharf and Boathouse,
Mama Judy Light, g
Off for Cleveland,
Off for Mackinaw, e g
Rounding the Stake-Boat. .
Signaling the Cutter, .
Smith's Coal Dock, . º
Steamer City of Cleveland,
Steamer Darius Cole,
The Ice Going, . g * #
The Norsemen's Boat at Detroit.
The Spanish Caravels at Detroit,
The Steel Cruiser “ Detroit,”
The Steamer “Greyhound,”
U. S. Revenue Cutter Fessenden, . &
U. S. Revenue Cutters Johnson and Perry,
U. S. Steamship Michigan, t * te
View on the River, . - e
Wing-an’-Wing on Detroit River,
Winter Ferrying at Detroit,
OLD LANDMARKS, RELICs, ETC
An Old-Time Lumber Barge,
Another View of Campau House,
A Relic of Perry's Victory, g e
An Old Landmark, (Perkins' Hotel)
Buckskin Hunting Coat, . ë e
Burning of the Presbyterian Church,
Campau Homestead, * º g
Cadillac Indicating Site of Detroit, .
Custer Indian Chase Relics, g
Detroit from Sandwich Point in 1837, e e
Distant View of First State Capitol Building,
Father Richard's Autograph, & * º
First Book Printed in #:#, e
French Windmill, e º
High School (Burned), º g
Home of the Old French Miser,
Labadie House, . & g g
Labadie House—Front View,
Old Andirons tº e
Old Brevoort House, g
Old Cass Mansion, e * g º
Old City Hall, Freight Depot, Etc.,
Old Cream Pitcher, g g e
Old Campau Clock, . * g e
Old Desk in L. P. Campau’s Office,
Old DeGarmo Jones Residence,
Old Farnsworth Store, e g
Old Fisheries up the River,
Old French Market, e g
Old French Market Boat, . e g
Old French House on the River Road,
Old Fishery, Head of Belle Isle,
Old Fishery, Fighting Island,
Old Glass Works, {º {º
Old Hamtramck House, e
Old Hamtramck House and River,
Old House on Detroit River,
Old Hull House, 4×
Old Hyde House, . g
Old Kearsley Residence,
Old Log House, . *
Old Map of Detroit,
Old Moran Homestead,
Old Palmer Homestead,
Old Porritt Place, * g g
Old Round-house M. C. R. R., .
Old Scotch Store, # {º
Old Smith Clock,
Old Sugar Bowl, & *
Old Warming-Pan, . º
Old Windmill, Lake St. Clair,
Old Windmill near May's Creek,
Out of the Old House into the New, *
Presentation of Colors to First Mich. Infºy,
Proclamation of Maj.-Gen. Brock, &
Residence of U. S. Grant, e
Russell Homestead, . * e
Stairway and Spinning-Wheel,
Stump of the Pontiac Tree,
The “Bone Yard,” . & $ g
The Burned High School Building, .
The Campus Martius in 1861, g
The Old Boat House, . * &
The Old James Smith Log House,
The Trial of Red Jacket, e
Toll Gate, Jefferson Ave.,
VIEws AT CEMETERIES AND CREMATORY
An Artistic Tribute in Elmwood,
A View at Elmwood, * &
Detroit Crematory,
Entrance to Mt. Elliott,
Elmwood Cemetery Chapel,
Gateway and Lodge at Elmwood,
In Elmwood Cemetery, tº g
Tombs of Cass, Chandler, etc.,
ON THE ROUGE
An Old Elm on the Rouge,
A Pretty Bit of the Rouge.
A Shady Inlet, . e e e
A Tow, Looking up the River, .
Beauty Bits on the Rouge,
Delray Glass Works, . º º º
Fishery at the Mouth of the Rouge,
Muskrat Inn on the Rouge, e
Old Dredge on the Rouge, *
Old French House on the Rouge,
Old Wreck on the º º tº
On the Rouge Back of Woodmere,
Raft Towing on the Rouge,
The Big Bend, . * e
Under the Bridge,
View on the Rouge,
MiscellANEoUs VIEws
Across the Stubble, .
At the High School Fire,
§. Camp, g * g g
Ice House from Connor's Creek, g
One of Detroit's Lumber Plants, e º
Opening of the Boulevard Improvements,
Sibley’s Lime Kiln, , . & & t &
The “Chicago Limited ” Off,
The Lane to the Sheep Pen,
The Old Farm Gate, e
FANCY PHOTOGRAPHS AND SketchES
A Back Yard Study, . * &
An Artistic “Dock Walloper,” .
An Expressive Tail, & g
A Connoisseur in Corn,
Among the Ferns,
A Picnic for One,
A Professional Call,
A Winter Night, .
..Circus Coming to Town,
Cupid and Psyche,
Down by the Stile,
Flirtation, . e
Foreign Missions,
Isn't This Fun ?
I See Papa Coming,
Good Bye, . º *
Just Landed, e *
Looking at the Album,
O, Come Off! g e e g
Out for a Winter Morning Airing,
Peace and Plenty, or— tº &
Right Dress | * g te
Take Something with Me?
The Tally-Ho, g tº
The Home Guard, g
The Old Wood Sawyer,
Trot, Trot, to Boston. * º
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,
RESIDENCE ARCHITECTURE
A Bit of Renaissance, e e e g
A Bit of Renaissance on Trumbull Ave.,
A Colonial Reminder, * e e e
A Home on Woodward Avenue,
A Jefferson Avenue Gem, . e
A Woodward Avenue Home,
A Woodward Avenue Residence,
Home of Gen. R. A. Alger,
One of Many, Woodward Ave.,
Residence of David Whitney, Jr.,
Residence of James E. Scripps,
Senator Palmer's Residence,
PORTRAITs
Gen. Russell A. Alger,
Henry P. Baldwin,
John J. Bagley,
Austin Blair, g
Gen. Hugh Brady,
Judge H. B. Brown,
E. A. Brush, tº
Joseph Campau, . g
Judge J. V Campbell,
Lewis Cass, g e
Zachariah Chandler,
F. E. Cohen, e † g
Rt. Rev. Thos. F. Davies, .
Don M. Dickinson, ſº
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D. Bethune Duffield,
Jacob S. Farrand, g
Rt. Rev. John Foley, .
Robert Hopkin, g
Bronson Howard,
William Hull,
Mary Jacklin,
James F. Joy,
Mary Judge, g
Charles B. Lewis, *
§§ V. N. Lothrop,
Mrs. Nancy Martin, e *
U. S. Senator James McMillan,
Brig.-Gen R. H. G. Minty,
Rt. Rev. W. X. Ninde,
John Owen, . & g
Thomas W. Palmer,
William E. Quinby,
Father Richard, . * *
Arent Schuyler de Peyster,
Alanson Sheley, # &
J. M. Stanley, e
Henry T. Thurber, .
Gen. L. S. Trowbridge,
Sojourner Truth, g
Maj.-Gen. O. B. Wilcox,
John R. Williams,
Col. John Winder,
MONROE
A Bit from the River, * tº
A Crane and Fireplace Utensils,
A Pair of Pets, . g * #
At the Club House, . e * e
A Wing-an’-Wing Tow at the Canal,
A Wind that Follows Fast, *
Beach and Lighthouse,
Boys' Home, e e *
Convent Down by the Bridge,
Court House, e e
Crumbs of Comfort, . e
Down by the Canal House,
Elm Avenue, g e e
Episcopal Church,
Government Canal,
High School,
In the Canal,
In the Shallows,
Kitchen Utensils, *
Lotos Bed in August, . *
Methodist Church, * e
Monroe Harbor Lighthouse,
Old Custer House, g g
Old Sidney D. Miller Home,
Old Spinning-Wheel, º
Old Yarn Frame, e e g
On the River Raisin, . * e *
Pails and Yoke, & &
Plum Creek Bridge, . g * º
Portrait of Maj.-Gen. Geo. A. Custer,
Snow Shoes, tº g º: g $
St. John's Church,
The Cathedral, . e
The Marsh Club House,
Union School, . e
Whoa, January !
Zion Church,
BIRMINGHAM
National Hotel,
Near Birmingham, . . *
On the Road to Birmingham,
Railway Station, . • e
Street View, . * $ &
Under the Maples, * e
GROSSE POINTE
Along the Bank, e
A Grosse Pointe Drive,
A Grosse Pointe Home,
A Grosse Pointe House,
A Grosse Pointe Residence,
Autevelo Street, Clairevue,
Clairevue Lawns, * *
Grosse Pointe Club House,
Hailing the Pointe Yacht,
Milk River Bay, . e &
Main Entrance to Clairevue,
Private Lawn, , g e
The Lakeside Shrine, .
The Shore Road, . & * º
View at Grosse Pointe, & * e e
View on the Davis Stock Farm, º g
WINDSOR, WALKERVILLE, AMHERST-
BURG, ONT.
Above Walkerville, & * *
A Street Scene in Windsor, g 4× e
Elliott Mansion, etc., below Amherstburg,
Road to Tecumpseh-Town, . e e
Windsor Ferry Landing.
SANDWICH, ONT.
Along the River near Chappell's, , .
An Old Rustic Bridge near Sandwich,
Assumption College, . - & *
Bishop's Palace, . g g
Church of the Assumption,
Col. Baubie Mansion, . • •
Essex County Buildings, . & e e
Episcopal Church and Burying Ground,
Near Chappell's, Petite Cote, e e
Near Sandwich, Ont., * e
Old Jesuit Huron Mission House,
Oldest House in Sandwich, e *
Rear View of Cathedral and Palace,
Scene from River to the Cathedral, .
METTAWAS
Casino at the Metta was,
Hotel, e g º
Park
Up the Lake Towards Kingsville,
BOIS BLANC ISLAND
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ST. CLAIR LAKE, RIVER AND FLATS
A Bit at the Flats, g e
A Family Stroll at the Flats,
A Full Sail Breeze, * e * e *
Afternoon Boat Arriving at the Oakland,
Algonac, e tº e º * g *
Along the Embankment,
Along the River Front,
At Algonac, . e *
An Even Dozen, .
A Quiet Sail,
A Summer House, & * g * & *
A Tow Passing the Oakland, . g e e
Camp of Last Chance Fishing Club of Pittsb'g,
Double Cat Fleet at the Flats, . g e e
Drifting Down Easy Street, e
Fishing and Shooting Club House, .
Happy Indians from Walpole Island,
Hard Aground, . & e * g
Head of Government Canal, e *
In Sight from Oakland House Dock,
Lake Freight Steamer “Maruba,”
Lake St. Clair Club House, e
Looking Down the Flats Canal,
Maud S. at the Flats, * -
Mervue Club House, g
Moonlight on Lake St. Clair,
Old Bridge near Algonac,
Old Home of Lake St.
Shooting Club,
On the St. Clair,
On the St. Clair,
On the St. Clair, * *
On the Sandy Beach, . e e *
Railroad Car Conductors' Convention,
Rushmere Club Water Works, . &
Sport at the Flats, * g e
Star Island, g * * e g
Steamer “Promise ’’ in the Ice, * e
St. Clair River, in Front of Sarnia, Ont.,
The Canada Shore, Foot of Lake St. Clair,
The Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery,
The Club House at the Flats, . &
The Evening Boat Due, & &
The Flats Navy Yard, ." * *
The Idlewild on the St. Clair River,
The Lackawanna Bound Down,
The Rookery at St. Clair,
The Rushmere Club House,
The Stop at Rushmere,
View of Sarnia, e - *
Welcome, & & g & - s *
Wheeling on Lake St. Clair, . g &
PORT HURON AND WICINIT
A Group of Residences,
A Huronia Beach Cottage,
A Sun Bath at Huronia Beach,
A New Nose Needed, . g e {º
A Winter Symphony at Port Huron,
Paer Block, . & * & * &
Bound Up Light, e &
Caswell's Suspension Bridge,
Court Street, e º - {º & e
Flint & Pere Marquette Railway Bridge,
International Triumphal Arch, . & g
Lighthouse, foot of Lake Huron,
Looking for a Tow on Lake Huron,
Old Warehouse, e * &
Point Edward above Sarnia,
Sh —I’ve Got a Bite |
So are We . . º e º
St. Clair Tunnel Locomotive,
St. Clair Rapids, e
The Big Four, t e
The Black River, gº e g
The Bridge Over Black River, .
The Pasture Flats, e º
Tunnel Company's Ferryboat,
The Wreck's Monument, g
Clair Fishing and
Our Artist in Silhouette, . e * 86
Pen Sketch of Light and Block House, 87
SUGAR ISLAND
A Bit of Sugar Island, * * e 86
Breaking Camp—Sugar Island Dock, Q2
Sugar and Fox Islands, from Grosse Isle, 85
GROSSE ISLE
A Cross Road, . e e 88
A Deserted Camp, e QI
A Grosse Isle Boathouse, 89
A Grosse Isle Cottage, 87
A Grosse Isle Canoe Sailor, 87
A Grosse Isle Reverie, 89
A Grosse Isle Study, 87
A Glimpse of the River, 89
A Glimpse of the River, . QO
A Glimpse of the West Side, 88
A Road to the River, . g & 89
A Rosebud Among the Thorns, QO
. A Summer Caller at Grosse Isle, QO
Among the Brambles, e QI
Daybreak, . g * 89
Down by the River Side, Q I
Down by the Boathouse, 89
East Side Landing, 88
East Side Roadway, 88
Grassy Island Light, 43
Grosse Isle Yachtsmen, 88
Judge Douglas' Home, QO
Mr. Thrall’s Cottage, * QI
Mrs. Brodhead's Residence, 88
No Landing Here, . º e 89
Railway Station and Old Bridge, 90
Residence of Dr. F. P. Anderson, 88
River Road, - e g 86
Stony Island, 88
The Bars, e 86
The Big Tree, 88
The Cave, 87
The Dreamer, 86
The Office, . e e 88
The Strassburg Cottage, 89
The Steam Yacht ‘‘ Grace,” QI
The Wheelmen's Delight, 88
Three's Company, QI
Water Works, » º º g 89
TAWA ISLAND
Lowrie's Cottage, º e * QO
Lowrie's Vineyard, g Qo
The Frog Hunters, . e QO
We're All in it,
Aort Gratzot
U. S. Army at Fort Gratiot,
The Barracks,
Officer's Quarters,
Parade Ground, e e e
PONTIAC
A Famous Swimming Hole,
A Jolly Inlet, - g
Along the Boulevard, g &
A Painting of Picturesque Pontiac, .
A Pontiac Residence, . e e g
A Pretty Scrap from Oakland County,
A Shady Bend in the River, tº -
A Study, looking up the Street,
Clinton River, near Pontiac,
Impromptu Ferry, * *
Meet me down by the Bridge,
On the Stream, . e e
Old Mill Dam, . º
On the Clinton River,
Pontiac's Reverie,
The Business Center, .
The Canal near Pontiac,
The Clinton Mills, e
The Mullen Monarch, $
The Open Gate of Paradise,
The Sluice near Pontiac,
Unconscious Models, e
Watching the Artist, g t
THE 0AKLAND COUNTY LAKES
CASS LA KE
A Corner on Cass Lake,
A Nook, * e e
Among the Reeds,
Cass Lake Beach,
Camping Group, . º * e
Cass Lake Navy and Club House,
Frazerville, e & • &
ORCHARD LAKE
A Friendly Pair of Sailors, e
A Roadway Along Orchard Lake,
A Glimpse of Orchard Lake,
An Orchard Lake Catch,
Apple Island Ferry, . g e *
Artillery Cadets, Military Academy,
At Orchard Lake, e & * º
By the Only Old Master,
Birch Point, . g {-
Campbell Cottage,
Campbell Island, . * e e
Comfort Point, Campbell Island,
Fun on the Float, º * e
Light and Shade at Orchard Lake,
Michigan Military Academy, , . - *
Michigan Military Academy, three views,
Michigan Military Academy, two views,
Pathway to the Stile, . e $
Shady Side, Orchard Lake,
Smoke-Tree Inn, . º e
South Shore, g e • • e º
Sunlight and Shadow, * & - *
The Doctor's Bench,
The Lonely Dog, e
The Shore Drive, * & g e
The Secret Passage, Campbell Island,
PINE LA KE
A Glimpse of Pine Lake,
A Pretty Turn at Pine Lake, . *
Interlaken Club House, Pine Lake, .
Interlaken Athletic Club, e
Interlaken Fisher Girls,
Pine Lake Shore, g
Pine Lake Fishing Folk, .
Pine Lake from Interlaken,
The Interlaken Navy off Duty,
MiscellANEOUS
A Glimpse of Silver Lake,
Off for a Fish, Oakland Lake,
Sylvan Lake, two views, . tº t *
Through the Openings to Timber Lake, .
ISLAND LAKE
Annual Encampment, Island Lake,
An Island Home, º * &
A Pair of Gloves,
ORION LAKE
A Family Outing at Orion Lake, . s
Orion Lake Hotel, g * * e *
. A Sturdy Stroke Oar, .
Orion Lake Boathouse,
MT. CLEMENS
A Famous Afternoon Resort,
A Jolly Pocket on the Clinton,
Bass Bend, Clinton River,
Clinton River, Mt. Clemens,
Drifting Among the Shadows,
Narmour's Bridge,
On Cass Avenue, two views, . &
Upon the Clinton, near Mt. Clemens,
ANN ARBOR, YPSILANTI, ETC.
Among the Islands, . g *
A Pair of Notables,
A Street in Ann Arbor,
Baptist Church, &
Court House, e e e
Cornwell’s Mills, * g
Evening on the Huron River,
First Presbyterian Church,
High School, * & º
Huron River, g e g
Huron River at Big Bend,
Michigan Central Depot, .
Post-Office, . g . . . .
Residence of Judge Thos. M. Cooley,
St. Andrew's Espiscopal Church, etc.
Unitarian Church, º * &
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Alpha Delta Residence,
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D. K. E. Fraternity House,
Harris Hall, © g &
Library,
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Mechanical Laboratory, . tº e
Newberry Hall and S, C. A. Building,
Nydia, in Art Gallery, * & g
Observatory, e e
Phi Kapp House, & * º
Portrait of Pres. James B. Angell,
The Lost Pleiades in Art Gallery,
University Hospital, & t
University Museum, &
Huron River near Ypsilanti, two views,
Old Bridge at Ypsilanti, . & & g
PUT-IN-BAY
A Bit of Sunshine,
A Rocky Point, g
A Smoky Lee Bow, . & g &
Burial Ground after Perry's V1ctory,
Bound for Bass Island, & g
Gibraltar, g g e g *
Jay Cooke's Castle, Put-in-Bay,
Point Victory, * e *
OCKS, . * e
The Needle's Eye,
MACKINAC
An Old Street, * *
Battlefield of 1812, e &
Bessie, Daisy and Beauty, .
Birdseye View, . g &
Black River Island,
British Landing, .
Contentment, & e * *
Early French Water Works,
Front Street, wº •
Fairy Arch,
Interior of Fort,
Lover's Leap, gº e e
Mackinaw Village from Fort,
Old Fort, e g e e
Old French House,
Old Indian Agency,
Old Mitchell House,
Old Mother Garrity,
Rocky Beach,
Robinson's Folly,
Robinson's Folly,
Sugar Loaf, .
The Sally-Port,
Under Arch Rock,
View on the Straits,
ON THE SOO
A Soo River Perspective, . &
A Whaleback in the Soo Canal,
Boats in the Soo Locks, e e” º
Engine House at the Soo,
Fishing on Soo Rapids, e
Front of Locks of Soo Canal,
Lock on Soo Canal, g
On the Soo River, g *
MARQUETTE
An Historic Stump, e e
At the Jackson Iron Mines,
In the Canal, e g g
Moonlight at Marquette,
On the Docks, e g
Presque Isle Park,
Pulpit Rock, " . ©
Red Sandstone Bank,
Sanitarium Hotel, © g
The Longyear Residence, .
GLADSTONE
A Dewdrop Castle,
Along the Ore Docks, .
Among the Pines,
Coal Docks, . e e
Home from Squaw Point,
Hotel Hawarden, $ g
Landing Flour at the Docks,
Picking Daisies, . e * * *
Site of Gladstone, 1887, from Bay, .
Site of Gladstone, looking out on Bay,
THE MAITLAND RIVER
Down the Maitland,
Maitland Shallows,
Maitland River,
The Big Bend, . - •
View from Maitland Bluffs,
IN THE LUMBER CAMP
Along the Skids, e
Big Log–Big Teamster,
Cutting Log Lengths,
Half a Dozen Whoppers, . g *
It’s wicked to waste wood like this
Just an Easy Jog, e * #
Loading the Thirty-Second Log,
Lumbermen at Breakfast, . e
Not Entirely Easy Sawing, g
Supper Hour Among the Pines,
The Boss Logging Team, . g
The Dinner Call, . * e e
The Paymaster is Due, e *
Wonder when the Ice will go Out,
World's Fair Load of Michigan Logs,
IN THE HUNTING CAMP
A Warm Corner at Turtle Lake, . e
A Harvester and His Crop, Turtle Lake,
End of the Runway, e e º gº
Hints of the Chase, g
One Day's Sport with Bass,
Our Camp at Whitefish, g
Our New Home in the Woods,
Papa's Coming—Whitefish Lake,
Ready for Sport, e e &
Say When • , , , , g
Silhouette at Turtle Lake,
Station No. 2 on the Runway,
The Hunter’s Reverie, .
The Studio at Turtle Lake,
Turtle Lake Club House,
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Pere Marquette Church, I3 I
Pere Marquette Monument. I34.
Rock at St. Ignace, . & s I3 I
BAY WIEW
A Bay View Auditorium, I42
A Brook in Wildwood Park, I42
A Famous Trysting-Place, I4 I
A Group, . * * g 142
A Miscellaneous Fleet, I4 I
A Rustic Cottage, I43
A Street at Bay View, I43
An Ice Study, . g e g I42
Barclay Cottage at Bay View, I43
Bay View House, e e I43
Birdseye View of Bay, I4 I
Farnsworth's Spring, I4I
How Far is it to Bay View 2 I4O
In the Glen at Forest Park, I42
Norton’s Horse and Carriage, I42
One Day's Catch, e I43
Rolling in at Bay View, . e 142
University Hall and Park Scene, I43
- E DITORIAL
A Reverie, e g º tº e I32
Acknowledgment (Art Department,) 33
Detroit's Noted Men, * e I29
Introductory, . & º * e & g 5
Our Offering, e e II
. CONTRIBUTED
An Historical Sketch of Detroit.
C/arence /l/. A zertoſz, 12
Detroit and Her Statistics. /. C. Ferry, 6
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“Is God Dead 2 George l/. C/ar/e, Io9
Legend of Me-nah-sa-gor-ning.
AXr. Samzzee/ W. Leggett, I 17
Sketch of the Life and Times of Fr. Richard.
A’ze/hard R. Béliott, 17
The Logging Camp. Chas. L. Clark, II4
GENERAL ARTICLES RELATING TO DETROIT
A Famous Humorist. g . . 126
A Valuable Jesuit Manuscript, 84
An Indian's Philosophy, e * 3I
An Old Man's Experiences, 68
A Story of the Old Militia, I45
Belle Isle Park, e e & * 26
Cadillac's Official Correspondence, I 22
Detroit as an Excursion Center, 22
Detroit as a Summer Resort, 5O
HARBOR POINT
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Hotel and Beach at Harbor Point, I4 I
Hotel Scene at Harbor Point, I4 I
PETOSKEY
Railway Center at Petoskey, I43
View at Petoskey, . e * * *g I4 I
IN 0AKLAND COUNTY
Gogebic Lake, . * * º I 34
Going up Salt River, e º II 2
Home of Charles Harry Eaton, IOg
Loon Lake, near Drayton Plains, IO4
Summer at the Willows Farm, * {º III
. The Signal to the Ferryman, Salt River, II 2
View at New Baltimore, . e g & 96
Watkins Lake, Drayton Plains, IO4
Winter at the Willows Farm, I It
ON LAKE ERIE
A Sail by Moonlight, 4. & 92
Hickory Island and Lake Erie, 71
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Night Trip Across the Lake for Cleveland, Q2
Rounding Bar Point, g e g * QI
The Old “Zach Chandler,” . * 97
MISCELLANEOUS VIEWS
A Home Near Brighton, . & I2O
Largest Engine in the World, I 32
Michigan State Capitol Building, 44
Signature of Louis Phelypeaux, I IO
Signature of Louis XIV, * I IO
The Griffin, g g * 58
The Haug Poultry Farm, ’ s 87
The Toll Gate near Hudson, . 8o
Wyandotte Rolling Mills, * 92
POEM WIGNETTES
CHILD LIFE IN THE CITY
A Daughter of Poland, 74
Buying the News, g e º $ • 74
Chums, e wº e * & e • 74
Doorstep Friends, * e * e • 74
Evening Devotions, 74
INDEX
Detroit in Romance,
Detroit and Vicinity in 1830,
Detroit's Great Fire in 1848,
Detroit Newsboys, . * tº
First Telegraph Line in Detroit,
Girty the Renegade, * e *
Hennepin's Opinion of the Country,
Indian Associations, g e g
Mr. Campau and the Yankees,
Old but Happy, g g *
Palmer Park, . e * & &
Politics in Detroit Fifty Years Ago,
Recollections of the Pontiac War,
Some Inventors and Inventions,
The Cass Mansion, * *
The Campau House,
The Campus Martius,
The Labadie House,
The Hamtramck House,
The Miser Penreux, . . . .
The Old Red Mill, . g *
Three Notable Market Women,
Two Important Institutions, g *
The “Griffin'' and Lake St. Clair, e e
The Devil's Grist—A Legend of Windmill Point,
The Indians in 1825, g º e g e
This and That,
TO
THE TEXT
TOWNS AND PLEASURE RESORTS DESCRIBED OUTSIDE
OF DETROIT
Ann Arbor, Io?
Bay View, * 97
Bois Blanc Island, • 35
Fort Wayne, . . 22
Grosse Isle, 87
Grosse Pointe, . 27
Gladstone, * g g $ 98
Goderich and River Maitlands, Ioff
Huronia Beach, • * * Q2
Lake Gogebic, . IOO
Mackinac, Ioé
Marquette, 95
Mt. Clemens, 93
Monroe, 76
Orion Lake, e * g g g * IO4
Oakland County, Pontiac, the Lakes, etc., IOI
Petoskey, e * e e e 88
Port Huron, QI
Put-in-Bay, Io9
Sandwich, & 8O
Sault Ste. Marie, 94
St. Ignace, 94
Tawa Island, 90
The Flats, 27
Turtle Lake, IO3
Page
Getting Acquainted, e e
“What's the Matter with Alger ?”
CHILD LIFE IN THE Country
“And, gaily guided, the boat goes by’’
“Daring each other to climb so high”
“In the shady nook, by the cider mill”
“Jack Frost is here!” g e wº
“Leap every rill”
“O'er Stories of life'' g g &
“The sweet new cider thro' a straw”
“The country boy cries ‘Jump on!’”
SAM
“A country boy by the old stone wall,” . *
“And a piping voice o'er the old stone wall,”
Evening, . & e * g * *
“'Twas a day in June, such as poets love,”
THE MONTHS
January, February, March, April, May, g
June, July, August, September, October,
November, December, e º §
Up the St. Clair, * g
Windsor and Walkerville,
PO EMS
At the Regatta, *
Custer, g tº e
Child Life in the City,
Child Life in the Country,
Laura Sanderson,
II. Mary Dazves Warner,
First Decoration Day in Detroit,
L'Argent in Grosse Pointe,
Michigan Flag Song, g
Naming of Lake St. Clair, &
Sabbath Eve at Grosse Pointe, e g &
Sam. A Zbert Hardy,
Spring Ramble in the Vale of Roses, g
The Public Library, g
Latera Sanderson.
The Legend of Mehah-sa-gor-ning, . .
The Months. M. A. Ayazu, 147,
The Valley Water Jet, º * tº e
MISCR LL ANEO US
General Brady and His Famous Duel,
Indian Associations, g & &
Michigan University, e
Michigan's Military Academy,
Michigania, g • .
The Great Tunnel,
ERRATA. — For title of picture at foot of page 50, read “Distant View of Old Capitol Building,” instead of “Old Hospital Building.”
Transpose the titles of Scoond Avenue and Memorial Presbyterian churches, on page 33.
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