Identifier: laketourtopictur01detr (find matches)
Title: A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: (Detroit and Cleveland steam navigation co.) (from old catalog) Whitcomb, Cummings D. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Detroit, Mich., O. S. Gulley, Bornman & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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readth of the streets and the prevalence of shade trees,gives the place more of a village than a city air, and contributes muchto its attractiveness as a place of residence. As a healthful city it iswithout a peer. Churches are very numerous in proportion to the population. Theschool system is admirable, bearing favorable comparison with that ofany other city. Society, too, from the less frequent changes thatobtain here, as compared with other western cities, is more settled,refined and truly polite. Thus, as a place of residence it is unsurpassedby any place west of Boston. Indeed, while the business activity andstir of Chicago is lacking, it resembles Boston not a little in its socialand literary atmosphere. The Germans claim a third of the population, and there is stillconsiderable of the old original French element left. In the days ofpro-slavery, this city was noted tor being the headquarters of the under-ground railway, and there is naturally a large population of the colored 30
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A Lake Tour to Picturesque Mackinac race, while Hollanders, Poles, Swedes, Norwegians, Swiss, Italians, etc,represent the European nationalities in.considerable numbers; but thisforeign element is eminently industrious, thrifty and orderly. Ingeneral each family owns its homestead. The savings banks are wellpatronized, and vagrancy and pauperism are perhaps as little prevalenthere as in any city of the same size in the United States. Detroit is a wealthy city. Most of the business operations of itscitizens are based on real capital, owned by the parties using it, and notborrowed elsewhere. This is undoubtedly the result of the extreme con-servatism which borders a little on lack of enterprise, or which at leastshuns speculation. This conservatism, for which the city has been noted,has limited her growth to a strictly healthy and natural one. It has pre-vented over trading in any department of business; and thus we find analmost entire absence of inflation. Real estate is relatively ch

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