Guide and souvenir of Detroit .. . the Boulevard to the island at a cost of 1300,000. It wasopened to the public on May 12 of that year, is providedwith a draw, and is a little over 2,000 feet long. Travelerson foot or in carriages are amply provided for, and one ofthe most pleasing views in or near the city is the view upand down the river from the center of the bridge The Boulevard, which at a distance of about three milesfrom the center surrounds the city on three sides, bears animportant relation to the Park as well as to the city. Itsinception dates from 1879, and although not fully opene
Guide and souvenir of Detroit .. . the Boulevard to the island at a cost of 1300,000. It wasopened to the public on May 12 of that year, is providedwith a draw, and is a little over 2,000 feet long. Travelerson foot or in carriages are amply provided for, and one ofthe most pleasing views in or near the city is the view upand down the river from the center of the bridge The Boulevard, which at a distance of about three milesfrom the center surrounds the city on three sides, bears animportant relation to the Park as well as to the city. Itsinception dates from 1879, and although not fully opened,the near future will see it completed, and for all time itmust prove one of the most attractive driveways in or nearthe city. It is from one hundred and fifty to two hundredfeet wide, and will be about twelve miles 34 ^istnvical ^lictch of Detroit Sfiircoly twenty •IrcmUM luivi* )»u^ed since the foundingof Dttroit. During nearly all of the:»e years, and up to avery recent |)eritKl, the }> of the city j^reatlyhindered hy tlie ease-lovin<; and cvtreniely careful spiritof its i-arliest founders, and tlieir cautious descendants. it was this spirit and t ducaiion that provided tlu t-arly-treels of only twelve or twenty fret in width, ami thatrcsisttMl the extension of the city, throu<:h tin- opening ofroads and streets across tlu iiarr<»vv tann- that on eithersidf hernnuMl in the town. This .•qune spirit in latrr owners •.till s«iks its own,liut. tortunattly, it has no loii;^.r powcito hinder tin-citysLTowth and ^ain. In l^<0o, nearly ten decades of years after the city, its swaddling Kamls were loosened l»y the firethat swept away, not only houses and stores, hut streets aswell. This most fortuinite event, which is happily coni-nu inorated in th
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