Guide and souvenir of Detroit .. . r corporation have special advantages that someone would perhaps copy if attention was called to them,their success is not likely to be noised abroad. Many man-ufacturing institutions owe their prosperity to the stillhunt method of calling attention to their wares ratherthan to the amount of business that they are doing. If itbecomes apparent that any person is doing much betterthan the average, there are a hundred persons who wish toobtain a share of the profits by engaging in the same busi-ness. For these reasons the figures obtained are oftenincomplete, in
Guide and souvenir of Detroit .. . r corporation have special advantages that someone would perhaps copy if attention was called to them,their success is not likely to be noised abroad. Many man-ufacturing institutions owe their prosperity to the stillhunt method of calling attention to their wares ratherthan to the amount of business that they are doing. If itbecomes apparent that any person is doing much betterthan the average, there are a hundred persons who wish toobtain a share of the profits by engaging in the same busi-ness. For these reasons the figures obtained are oftenincomplete, inaccurate or misleading. If, on the contrary, the business of a firm or corporationis not remunerative, tliere is a natural temptation to increasethe credit or business standing by overestimates or thegiving of prospective conditions rather than present estimates, therefore, of this nature are liable to be eitheroverestimated or underestimated, and are of necessityfollowed by an interrogation point; if this mark is not 50. THK THKK always printed its exists in the mind of those who look be-neath the words or figures and is supplied as needed. Some facts, however, are patent even to a casual the eye sees large and wide-spreading factorieswhere it is known that formerly no building existed,observes volumes of smoke pouring from numerous chim-neys, hears the hum and hammer of machinery, and fromtime to time notices hundreds of workers going in orcoming out of a building, it is ocularly and aurally demon-strated that a large amount of work is being further demonstration is desired, the loaded trucks orcars that leave the premises will often supply the evidence. Judged by these positive standards the general prosperityof an establishment may be fairly predicated, and there aremany such in Detroit. There are twenty-one banks, andthey have all told about $10,000,000 of capital. This is located on the southeast corner of JeffersonAvenue and
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