Guide and souvenir of Detroit .. . out 100,000 with it there is a very large and exceptionallywell lighted free reading room, which is liberally suppliedwith current periodicals and newspapers, at an expenditureof nearly a thousand dollars per year. The Library isfree to any person for consultation, and any resident ofDetroit over fifteen years of age may draw books, aftersigning an agreement to abide by the rules, and gettingsome citizen to sign as surety. In the second story thereis quite an extensive free museum which is well worthy ofa visit. ©Y^ooilaoaril ©h^peaue. This
Guide and souvenir of Detroit .. . out 100,000 with it there is a very large and exceptionallywell lighted free reading room, which is liberally suppliedwith current periodicals and newspapers, at an expenditureof nearly a thousand dollars per year. The Library isfree to any person for consultation, and any resident ofDetroit over fifteen years of age may draw books, aftersigning an agreement to abide by the rules, and gettingsome citizen to sign as surety. In the second story thereis quite an extensive free museum which is well worthy ofa visit. ©Y^ooilaoaril ©h^peaue. This avenue is joar excellence the avenue of the city,with one terminus at the rivers edge, and the other reach-ing in a straight line for an indefinite distance into thecountry. Of an unusual width, and with an ever in-creasing number of the most elegant stores and residencesalong its route, it is probably excelled by no avenue onthe continent. It stands as a type of progressive Ameri-can ideas and is eminently modern and stylish. 4. THK ANI» SAlLoRS Returning to this avenue, and going one block north-wards, you will see on the left at the corner of GrandRiver Avenue and Griswold Street, the imposing andelegant building of the Young Mens Christian Associa-tion, one of the very finest structures of the kind in theworld, and it will well repay you to inspect its interior ar-rangements. One block further north at the head ofClifford Street is one of the best of the fire engine houses. Taking the Woodward Avenue line of street cars, andproceeding a few blocks northward, you will see on eitherside the Grand Circus Parks; their fountains and theseats inviting to rest and meditation. Here, especially ona summer evening, large numbers of children and adultsgather to enjoy the cool of the day and the pleasing on the West Park is the elegant UniversalistChurch, built of stone and known as the Church of OurFather. On the right of Woodward Avenue, immedia
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