. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . poplar trees throw their longshadows, are fading into indistinctness, and make their dockat the famous Fort Erie Ferry, where coaches are waiting totake summer idlers home by way of the park boulevards. This sketch of summer life would be incomplete withoutthe suggestion that Lake Eries zephyrs have so tempered themidsummer atmosphere that a blanket tends to promote theluxurious slumbers which follow the evening hours spent inthe piazza with ones neighbors. The popularity of this formof pleasuring was voiced by the Buf
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . poplar trees throw their longshadows, are fading into indistinctness, and make their dockat the famous Fort Erie Ferry, where coaches are waiting totake summer idlers home by way of the park boulevards. This sketch of summer life would be incomplete withoutthe suggestion that Lake Eries zephyrs have so tempered themidsummer atmosphere that a blanket tends to promote theluxurious slumbers which follow the evening hours spent inthe piazza with ones neighbors. The popularity of this formof pleasuring was voiced by the Buffalonian who said When Ibuild, I shall build a veranda, with possibly a house attached, Buffalo now ranks among the gayest and most hospitablecities in America. Her commercial growth has been would be no less interesting to note how this has reactedon private habits. Since her earliest years she has been acommunity of great friendliness and hospitality, of compara-tive simplicity in social forms, and of a singularly democraticspirit. Boat House in the Park. 11. The people of Buffalo have prepared in the most ampleway to entertain millions of guests during the Pan-AmericanExposition this season. They point to their abundant facilities ifor the accommodation of great crowds with no little pride^ The electric car service has been ex- 1 K* tended in every necessary way, hun-dreds of new buildings have been f. \i9 1 ^l| Itf 5! ^ ■ T/ie Circle and First Presbyterian erected for the special purpose of accommodating visitors, somefine hotels have been erected having large capacity, apartmenthouses have, for the time being, been transformed into hotels,restaurants are everywhere in abundance, and reasonablerates are advertised by nearly everyone who has entered intothe business of caring for the Exposition traffic. In responseto a call from Mayor Diehl, the householders throughout thecity have prepared to receive into their homes the visitors fromother States and c
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