. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . lt, leather, bridges, and chairs, $1,000,000 each. The sixhundred and twenty manufacturing establishments employnearly forty-five thousand persons and pay out more than$200,000 weekly, in wages. Its twenty-one banks have morethan $9,000,000 capital. Griswold Street is the Wall Street of Detroit, ils financialcenter. It seems narrow beside Woodward and Jeffersonavenues, but an eastern visitor has written of it as being as farin advance of State Street in Boston, and Wall Street in NewYork, as our time is of the last cen
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . lt, leather, bridges, and chairs, $1,000,000 each. The sixhundred and twenty manufacturing establishments employnearly forty-five thousand persons and pay out more than$200,000 weekly, in wages. Its twenty-one banks have morethan $9,000,000 capital. Griswold Street is the Wall Street of Detroit, ils financialcenter. It seems narrow beside Woodward and Jeffersonavenues, but an eastern visitor has written of it as being as farin advance of State Street in Boston, and Wall Street in NewYork, as our time is of the last century. It is a region ofbanks, insurance companies, lawyers, and offices of lumber,mining, manufacturing, and commercial companies, and an airof financial solidity pervades the street. West Fort Street, like Jefferson Avenue above St. Antoinetand Woodward Avenue beyond the Grand Circus, is filled with a long successionof private pal-aces, overhungwith great trees,and seated amidbeautiful groundsthat are parks inminiature. Gen-eral Algers houseis a prominentfeature between. General Algers Residence. 26
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