{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3527", "width": "2562", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "^A\u00c2\u00b0 V\\nO.^^\\nv*^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^o\\n.4.\\nr-. r\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb\\n1*\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fn^\\nV^^\\nV\\n..v^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^o^\\n-A,\\nV^\\ni b.\\n.0\\nt\\nV\\nf*-^\\ny^^\\no\\n5\\n\u00c2\u00b0o\\n.0^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0y, c-*\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2y\\n^O\\no\\n.^^-V.\\ncy\\no\\noif\\n,.s\\n^^r\\nO\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^/\u00e2\u0096\u00a0o^\\nO\\nV\\nI\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2A\\n..O c O\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0*h\\\\^\\n\\\\^^ci4r^^*\\n5.\\nt^.\\n,0\\nc O\\nV^^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21 o\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Y\\nV\u00e2\u0080\u009ev-^\\nV", "height": "3385", "width": "2567", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r.\\no\\nr.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0A V* -i\\nA^\\n.5\\no\\n-I\\nxO-r..\\no\\n...,S\\n4^ ,y/r^,-\\n.0 o o .(O\\n1-. .V\\nf\\n0\\nfU-o^\\n-y\\n0\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^o\\\\:\\n4 o\\n1^\\no V\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2n^o*\\n0^ c\u00c2\u00bb:\u00c2\u00ab- b\\nV\\n0 .TV\\nK", "height": "3375", "width": "2542", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3445", "width": "2497", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Pablis hed by\\noard-ofMpe\\n^E-", "height": "3475", "width": "2507", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "(5RAN\u00c2\u00a9 RAPIBg\\nAS IT IS.\\ni/\\nPUBLISHED BY THE\\nBOARD OF TRADE,\\nQUANT) RAPIDS, MICH.\\nEATON, LYOy t ALLEN PKINTINO CO.", "height": "3485", "width": "2477", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Grt ki|(l qkpicl^ Board of Yi*kcle.\\nOFFICERS,\\nGEO. G BRIGGS, President.\\nL. J. RINDGE, First Vice-President.\\n\u00c2\u00abI. R. COYODE, Second Vice-President.\\nC. W WHTKINS, Tliird Vice-President.\\nE. CROFTON FOX, Treasurer. H. D. C. VAN flSMUS. Secretary.\\nsses\\nDIRECTORS,\\nTHOMAS D. GILBERT,\\nJULIUS HOUSKMAN,\\nMOREAU S. CRDSHY,\\nW. R. SHELBY,\\nJ NO. WIDDICUMB,\\nJOSEPH HEALI),\\nE. B. FISHER,\\nJAMES BLAIR,\\nT. W. STRAHAN.\\nHENKV SPRING,\\nBENJAMIN PUTNAM,\\nA. B. WATSON,\\nj. W. BLODGETT,\\nGEORGE G. BRIGGS,\\nJ. A. COVODE,\\nWILLIAM H. POWERS.\\nCHARLES H. LEONARD,\\nM. R. lilSSELL,\\nCHARLES R. SLIGH,\\nA. B. KNOWLSON,\\nE. CROnON FOX,\\nD. II. WATERS,\\nC. G. A. VOIGT,\\nI. C. LEVI,\\nELIAS M.VTTER,\\nWILLIAM DUNHAM,\\nAMOS S. MUSSELMAN,\\nSIDNEY F. STEVENS,\\nO. A. BALL,\\nL. J. RINDGE,\\nCHARLES W. WATKIN.S.\\n(VipyriRhlnd 1888.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "-^Grand Rapids Board of Trade.-H-\\nSTHNDING COMMITTEES.\\nARBITRATION.\\nJAMES BLAIR, ELIAS MATTER. JOSEPB HEALD.\\nAPPEALS.\\nMOREAU S. CROSBY, SIDNEY F STEVENS. A. B. KNOWI^ON\\nTRANSPORTATION.\\nJNO. WIDDWOMB, C. G. A. VOIGT L. J. RINDOE.\\nPRINTING.\\nE. CROFTON FOX, C. H. LEONARD, BENJAMIN PUTNAM.\\nSTATISTICS.\\nCHARLES R. SLICfH, M. B. BISSELL, A. S. MUSSELMAN.\\nLEGISLATION.\\nIVM. H. POWERS, E. B. FISBER, O. A. BALL.\\nAUDITING.\\nW. R. SHELBY, WM. DUNHAM, T. W. STRAHAN.\\nPUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.\\nA. H. WATSOX. D. H. WATERS, J. W. BLODGETT,\\nC. W. WATKINS, I. C. LEVI.\\nMUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.\\nT. I GILBERT, HENRY SPRING, JULIUS HOUSEMAN,\\nJNO. A. COVODE, WU. H. POWERS.\\nGRAIN AND PRODUCE.\\nO. K. BROWN. C. G VOIGT, E. A. MOSELEY, .l.\\\\ii. KuIVI.S.\\nA. J. BROWN. W. N. ROWE, W. T. LA.MOREAUX.\\nLUMBER.\\nE. CROFTON FOX, B. WHITE, A. G. HODENPYL.\\nPROVISIONS.\\nALFRED BROAD, H. N. MOORE. JOHN MOHRHARD.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS:\\nIn compiling the pamphlet which has been intrusted to your hands by the Board\\nof Trade, it is the desire of that honorable body that you make use of such ma-\\nterial as may be necessary to show to the uninformed person the City of Grand\\nRapids as it is. It is their wish that no extravagant claims be put forth as to\\nthe magnitude of the mercantile, manufacturing and social advantages of the city;\\nthat no wild speculative prophecies as to the future greatness of Grand Rapids be\\nindulged in, but that your work be characterized with facts moderately expressed\\nand which will stand the fullest investigation. The Board of Trade calls your atten-\\ntion to the fact that our fiscal institutions, jobbing and manufacturing trades are\\nconducted on correct business principles; that there has never been an attempt to\\nboom the interests of the city for purely speculative purposes; that it is a hive\\nof industry, a city of homes, a center of culture; that its growth has been steady\\nand solid from tlie day of its incorporation.\\nThese suggestions should indicate to you the character of the matter that is\\ndesired for publication under the above caption. There is no impropriety in stating\\nthis Board invites personal inquiry or correspondence from individuals, firms or cor-\\nporations contemplating or desiring to make a cliange of location, and you are\\nrequested to give space in the work to the mention of such industries and trades\\nas could be established with fair prospects of success in Grand Rapids.\\nYours sincerely,\\nH. D. C. VAN ASMUS,\\nSecretary of Board of Trade.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "fvli^ bigan and l[$ ^$o\\\\\\\\rQQ$.\\nH llIGAN derives ils nnme from the Imlian words\\n.Uih/ii S iU ^ycx iii, which signify lake country a\\njiecuharly appropriate term, since the Stale is, to a\\nconsiderable extent, surrounded by water. From\\nits discovery (al)out 1610) it made very slow progiess\\nin settlement and population up to 1820. Prior to\\n1763, the territory was claimed, or governed, by the\\nFrench. In the year last named it was ceded to\\nGreat Britain; and in 1783, at the close of the\\nrevolutionary struggle, it was transferred to the\\nUnited Stales.\\nUp to the year 1S02 it was a part of the great\\nNorthwest territoiy. Various acts of Congress\\naltered the boundaries, until, in 1S37, when Michigan was formally admitted\\ninto thi- Inion, ils present limits were defined.\\nTHE FIRST SETTI.KMENTS.\\nAs early as 161 2, French navigators skirled the shores of Michigan, and\\nJesuit missions are said to have been founded in the Upper Peninsula in 1641.\\nl-A rilF.R M.\\\\i;qii.ttic founded a mission at .Sault-deSte.-Marie in 1668, and\\nanother in the following year at the point now known as St. Ignace. These\\nare regarded as the first white settlements within the present limits of the\\nState. In 1701, Cadillac arrived at Detroit with a company of one hun-\\ndred men, one half of whom were artisans or tradesmen; and this period is\\n1 liaracterized by Judge Camtisf-LL as the beginning of the settlement of\\nMichigan for purposes of habitation and civil institutions.\\nIn the year 1800, the entire northwest territory contained about 43,365\\ninhabitants; W.iync county contained 3,206 inhabitants, and Detroit con-\\ntained about 300 houses. The only cultivated lands were contained in the\\nstrip, six miles wide, bordering on the Detroit River and the lakes, with the\\nexception of a few hundred acres under tillage in the vicinity of Mackinaw.\\nWii LIAM lIii.T, was appointed Governor of the territory in 1805, and\\nhe rc.ichcd Detroit July I of that year. The difficulty of securing clear titles\\nto the land operated as a serious obstacle to the settlement of Michigan. In\\n1S07, Congress furnished relief by the passage of an act confirming in their\\ntitles all grantees or heirs prior to July i, 1796; no tract, however, to exceed\\n640 acres in extent.\\nLkwis Cass w.as appointed Temtorial Governor in 1812, succeeding\\nGov. Ihi.L. Ill 1S19, the territory was allowed a delegate in Congress, and\\nWilliam Woodhridce, who afterw-ards was chosen United States Senator,\\nwas elected. Hy the census of 1820, it was shown that fhe population had\\ndoubled since 1810. The public lands were opened for sale in 1818, and\\nfrom that time on the growth and development of the territory continued\\nat a steady and accelerating rate.\\nBECOMING A STATE.\\nThe first Constitutional Convention met in Detroit on the second Mon-\\nday of May, 1835. A State Constitution was adopted, which was ratified by\\nthe people, and State officers were elected on the first Monday of October,\\n1S35. The first State Legislature met on the first Monday of November,\\n1835, and on the loth of the same month I.ucius Lyon and John Norvell\\nwere elected L nited States Senators. The final act of Congress admitting\\nMichigan to the Union was approved January, 26, 1837, the State being the\\ntwenty-sixth admitted.\\nTHE COI PER MINES.\\nThe northern peninsula of the State is very rich in mineral resources,\\ncontaining the most extensive and valuable copper mines in the world, and\\nproducing more iron ore than any other Stale in the L nion. Portions of\\nthe Upper Peninsula are also covered with dense forests of valuable timber,\\nwhich will be a source of great wealth in the near future.\\nIn all respects consistent with her geographical location and physical\\nresources, this great commonwealth ranks well up in the sisterhood of States.\\nShe has many natural advantages which others do not possess; vast wealth\\nof forest and soil and mine; a climate remarkably mild for the latitude, and\\nin the main salubrious; a population made up of industrious, intelligent and\\nthrifty people; and a government wisely administered, with its burdens\\njudiciously equalized. nh .nil these and many minor circumstances in her\\nfavor, the future of the coninionweallh, from whatever point of view consid-\\nered, must be regarded as exceptionally auspicious.\\nIn the production of iron, plaster, copper, lumber and salt, Michigan\\nstands first in the list of States. T-ibulated st.-itistics are given elsewhere in\\nthis article, covering a long period of years, and showing the growth of\\nthese great industries from their infancy to the present time.\\nMichigan ranks high as a hcallhy State; only six States had less deaths\\nduring the census year, in proportion to population: these being, in the\\norder named, Oregon, Minnesota, Nevada, Florida, Iowa and \\\\Vest Virginia.\\nMichigan has held her present rank, in this regard, for forty years.\\nThe flouring interest is among the more important in the Slate, the\\ntotal number of mills being 706, with a capital of $7,704,464, employing\\n2,254 men, with an annual product valued at $23,546,875. The Slates of\\nNew York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana and\\nWisconsin are the only ones exceeding Michigan in the value of this product.\\nThe population of Michigan in 1880, as shown by the United States\\ncensus of that year, was 28.5 to the square mile. In 1870 it was 20.6; in\\ni860 it was 13; in 1850 it was 6.9; and in 1840 it was 3.7.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "MICHIGAN HND ITS RESOURCES.\\nThe fullowing summary shows ihe increase of j opulation as dcduceil\\nfrom Ihe State ami L nileil Stales censuses since iSoo:\\navmiai;b\\nANNUAL\\nINCKKASR.\\n1800\\nI81II\\nliOO\\n|H3I\\nIfitU\\nvaa\\nIMIO\\nIMl\\nIH70\\nlfl71\\nI88U\\nIMHI\\nM\\nl,7\u00c2\u00ab!\\n.MM\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0M,es\u00c2\u00bb\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0SIH.KA\\nriW,52i\\n71\u00c2\u00bb,1I3\\ntMs.uei\\nl.l\u00c2\u00bbt,282\\n1,334,031\\nl,\u00c2\u00abS6.981\\nl,K 3,fSS8\\n4.-J1I\\n4.i:u\\nii, 43\\nlh\u00c2\u00abI.H\\n1mS,3h7\\nI\\n1093W\\nI\\niii.sw\\nr4,54^\\n380.621\\nUV.H9\\n302,9f)6\\n218,721\\n1.211\\n764 24\\n421 10\\n4.134\\nhi\\n413.40\\n22,743\\n205 65\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a22,274 30\\n1WJ.\u00c2\u00ab2S\\n570 \u00c2\u00ab0\\n18,(J62.S0\\nI ts.ssr?\\nN7.SS\\n1S.53S 70\\n27.62\\n47 60\\n27,466 75\\n351.459\\n40.265.33\\n7.28\\ntl3,6CT.OO\\n4sri,ie9\\n47.36\\n63,436 83\\n12 64\\n22.71\\n37.437.25\\n452,655\\n50.4M.S3\\n13.24\\n54,1W.25\\nKxlIuuvc of Wayne couD(y, which w.-ift returned with Ohio.\\nt Eicluttve of loldiers in the field.\\nThe whole nunilwr ol families in ihc Stale is relurncd at 403,779, anil\\nthe total number o( duellings at 364,737. The average number ol persons\\nto each family is 4.59, and to each dwelling 4.9. The number ol families in\\ncities IS relumed at 108,^57, and the number of dwellings in cities at 93,661.\\nThe niiml)cr of native inhabitants is returned at 1,357,639; loreign\\nl orn, 486,90s; n.ilivity unknown, 9,051. The increase of native population\\nsince 1880 is 109,110, .ind of loreign l)orn 98,460. The number of males of\\noling age in the Slate is 538,177, of whom 150,178 reside in the incorpor-\\nated cities. The nunilx;r of inhabitants of school ages is 596,893, or 32 per\\ncent, of the total |K pulalion. The number of persons of military age (l8 to\\n45)15419,583.\\nThe number of wage workers in Michigan June I, 1884, was returned\\n.IS 69,027, of whom 64,390 are males and 4.637 are females. The number\\nof males engaged in agriculture is 237,192; females, 1,000. The number of\\nmales engaged in agriculture is 32 per cent., in professional and personal\\nservice 15 percent., in trade and transportation 9 percent., and in manu-\\nfacturing, mechanical and mining industries 20 per cent, of the total male\\npopulation 10 years old and over.\\nTHE SCHOOL SYSTEM.\\nAmong the most imjKirlant factors in the development ol the Male is ii.s\\nschool system. The following table shows the growth of ihc system during\\nthe h.-ilf century Irom 1836 to 1886, inclusive:\\nIKV.\\nIHIII\\nIKV)\\nINIUI\\nih;i.\\nIMI\\nl\\nor SCHOOL.\\nNO OP\\nUlSTKICn.\\nNO or\\nTRACHBRS.\\n55\\nM\\n1..VM\\n1,870\\n102\\nS.IW\\n4,aK;\\n124\\n4.0KJ\\n7.K1\\nIS\u00c2\u00bb\\n.1U8\\n11,014\\nI5tt\\n6.!B2\\nia. HV\\n151\\n1\\n\u00c2\u00ab.1\u00c2\u00bb;8\\n15.ffl8\\nCMILDItRN.\\nTOTAL\\nAHorirr taih\\nT\u00c2\u00abACHKH.s.\\nfUW\\nt *,uo.a2\\n48.817\\n42.310 46\\n132,2:14\\n1 l(i,f^9 is\\n2H1,^ J\\n4i;s.i*sH iO\\nW4,S 4\\ni.aw^Mss\\n--i\\nI.IM .IKJ w\\n2,M2.41)fi IS\\nSchool population\\nSchool eniollment\\nNo. of ungraded school districts..\\nN o. of graded school districts\\nNa of school houses\\nEstimated value ol school property\\nAverage school year in months\\nAverage wages of teachers per month, males\\nAverage wages of teachers per month, females.\\nKevenue l alance from preceding year\\nRevenue from primary school interest fund.,\\nkevenue from one-mUl tax on township*\\nRevenue from district taxes for all purposes.\\nRevenue from all other sources\\nTotal revenue.\\n6U5.904\\n416.751\\n6.536\\n442\\n7.237\\nsiLsaasTioo\\n7 2\\nS4S07\\n31.20\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2l.SOl.451.67\\n762.402.78\\n640.217.02\\n2736.238.81\\n494,133 16\\nS5.634.44S 44\\nCHURCHES.\\nThe total number of church organizations in the .-^taic is reuimeii ai\\n2,864; church edifices, 2,581; and parsonages, 1,117. The following state-\\nment sho\u00c2\u00bbvs the growth of church organizations from 1870 to 1884:\\nNo. ol church organixatioos\\nNo. of parsonages\\nSeating capacity\\nValue of church property\\nIn the following summary is indicated Ihe school population, number of\\ndistricts, value of pro| erly, condition of revenue, etc., at the close of the\\nyear 1KK6. The sliouiiig is particularly gratifying, and is one in which\\nevery ciliicn may justly take pride:\\nI870L\\n2.230\\nisa,.\\n2.864\\n1.117\\n447.476\\n$8,947,491\\n7ffi414\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2IS. 296.151\\nSTATE HNANCES.\\nThe financial condition of the State is excellent, as is shown by the lol-\\nlowing statement issued by the State Treasurer. The 1-cgislature of 1887\\npasseil an act changing the close of the fiscal year from September 30 to\\nJune 30, hence the last report of the State Treasurer covers a period of nine\\nmonths only, extending from Octotier I, 18S6, to June 30, 1887. It con-\\ntains the following figures:\\nBalance on hand Sept, aa 188S 911.997.86\\nThcreceipts were 2.118.334.42\\nThe payments were\\n\u00c2\u00abs.caasn.aB\\n2.165. 543.75\\nllalance in Treasuo W- M\\nThe outstanding bonded debt of the State is as follows:\\nPast due part paid five-million loan bonds. (191000, adjustable at $Si8.S7 per\\n$1,000 (not tearing interest) latSZ.SS\\nWar bounty loan Innds, 7 percent, due in IBBO 2SI.O0O 00\\nThe trust fund debt, composed of balances upon which the State. :is\\ntrustee paj-s interest for educational purposes, now is:\\nAgricultural College fund 30\\nNormal School fund HH 12\\nPrimary School fund. 7 per cent *3.3\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb.9W.6K\\nPrimary School fuml. 5 per cent.... 37K713.92\\n(0.768.710 60\\nVTniversily fund rJB.II3S 80\\nAggre^tate balance i irii^i liind.\\n\u00c2\u00ab2I 72\\nThe total assessed valuotion of property in the State, as equalized in\\n1886, was $945,450,000, of which $710,633,545.20 was on real estate, and\\n5138.287,518.38 was on personal estate. In 1881 the aggregate valuation\\nol real and personal estate was (810,000,000.\\nINDL-STKIES OF THE STATE.\\nAmong the great industries of the Stale that of agriculture greatly\\nexceeds every other, l olh as regards value ol properly, value of product and\\nnumber of men employed. The farm pnxluctions of Michigan are valued.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "MICHIGAN HND ITS RESOURCES.\\nin the census of 1884, at SS5,Sgo,og4. Tl c following table shows, in a\\ncondensed form, some of the more imporlaut facts relating to the extent and\\ncondition of this great industry\\nMANUFACTURES.\\nJUNE, I, 1884.\\nNo. of farms\\nNo. of farms cultivated by owner\\nNo. of acres\\nNo. of acres in each farm average\\nNo. of acres improved land\\nValue of farms, including land, fences, and buildings dol-\\nlars\\nValue of farming implements and machinery dollars\\nValue of live stock dollars\\nNo. of horses\\nNo. of mules and asses\\nNo. of sheep (exclusive of spring lambs)\\nNo. of fleeces of wool\\nNo. of pounds of wool sheared\\nAverage No. pounds per head\\nMaple sugar pounds\\nAcres in apple orchards\\nAcres in peach orchards\\nAcres in vineyards\\nAcres in nurseries\\nAcres barley\\nAcres buckwheat\\nAcres Indian corn\\nAcres oats\\nAcres rye\\nAcres winter wheat\\nAcres spring wheat\\nAcres pears\\nAcres beans\\nAcres potatoes\\nAcres pasture, clover, timothy, etc\\n159,605\\n138,523\\n14,852,228\\n93.06\\n8,974,656\\n571,448,462\\n21,897,486\\n70,626,248\\n446,206\\n4,820\\n2,889,278\\n2,724,789\\n15,337,249\\n5.64\\n1,945,863\\n312,716\\n24,502\\n3,228\\n862\\n54,620\\n26,148\\n1,207,6M\\n891,022\\n51,881\\n1,684.679\\n33,074\\n58,147\\n48,731\\n191,408\\n1,812,385\\nJUNE, I, 1880.\\n154,008\\n138,597\\n13,807,240\\n90.00\\n8,296,862\\n499,103,181\\n19,419,360\\n55,720,113\\n378,778\\n5,038\\n2,189,389\\n2 189,389\\n11,858,497\\n5.42\\n.3,423,149\\nThe following shows the total numlier of pcreons engaged in agriculture,\\nand in each specified branch of agriculture, as returned in the State census\\nof 1884, and the United States census of 1880:\\nApiarists\\nDair men and dairy women\\nFarm overseers\\nFarmers\\nFarm laborers\\nFlorists\\nGardeners, nurserymen, and fruit growers.\\nStock drovers\\nStock herders\\nStock raisers\\nOthers in agriculture\\nTotal\\n1884.\\n149\\n141\\n85\\n178,551\\n55,347\\n122\\n2,489\\n2.34\\n31\\n35\\n8\\n237,192\\n57\\n80\\n89\\n167,141\\n70,845\\n84\\n1,836\\n172\\n42\\n20\\n3\\n240,319\\nIt is worthy of note that much of the finest farming land in Southern\\nand Central Michigan was regarded in the early pioneer days as worthless\\nswamp land. These despised acres have now liccomc the garden-spot of the\\nSlate.\\nAs the leading industries arc summarized separately the following gen-\\nalization will be sufiAcient under this head:\\nTotal No. of manufacturing establishments\\nCapital invested\\nAverage No. of males employed above 16 years..\\nAverage No. of females employed above 15 years\\n-Average No. of children and youth\\nWages paid during year ending June i\\n1880.\\n1884.\\n8,873\\n9,302\\nJ92,9S0,959\\n8136,697,397\\n68,445\\n114,890\\n4,784\\n8,245\\n4,382\\n5,872\\n$25,313,682\\n*4J,213.739\\nThe material used in 2,228 manufacturing establishments, or more than\\none-fourth of the whole number in the Slate, is taken directly from the forest\\ntree. The capiLil invested in such establishments, as shown by the last\\ncensus, was, in 1884, $62,303,000; average number of adult males employed,\\n50,044; adult females, 866; children and youth, 2,431. Wages paid during\\nthe year ending June 1st, 1884, $17,310,227.\\nRAILROADS OF THE STATE.\\nFrom the fifteenth annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads, it\\napjKars that there were in Michigan, on the ist of January, 1887, 5,577.63\\nmiles of railroad, exclusive of 1,292.30 miles of siding, and 89 miles of sec-\\nond or double main track, which would bring the total mileage, computed\\nas a single track, up to 6,958.93, or about one mile of track for each nine\\nsquare miles of our territorial area, and four miles for each township of six\\nmiles square. From statistics on hand at the date of publication of his\\nreport (Nov. I, 1S77), the Commissioner estimated the tot.il mileage of the\\nState on the ist of January, 1888, at 6,295.38, exclusive of sidings and\\ndouble tracks. In addition should be mentioned about 500 miles of logging\\nrailroads. Much of this track is built in a substantial manner, and is util-\\nized for general trafl ic.\\nThe capital stock of the incorporated railways of the State, as stated by\\nthe reports for 18S6, aggregated $276,843,554.\\nThe entire indebtedness oi the railroads, at the beginning of the year\\n1887, was as follows:\\nFunded debt, 92.85 per cent $328,226,163.33\\nFloating debt, 7.13 per cent 25,170,.iM.35\\nTotal $358,396,717.98\\nThe total cost of our railroad proijerties, including equipments, at the\\nBeginning of 1887, is reported at $579,945,425.48, representing an outlay of\\n$51,946.23 per mile of road. The total o[ erating expenses, including taxes,\\nfor 1S86, were $54,216,624.19, and the total revenue of the 67 companies\\nwas $83,898,560.20 an increase of receipts during the year of $5,807,312.67,\\nor 7.436 per cent.\\nLUMBER.\\nThe lumbering industry of Michigan is the most extensive, in productive\\nvalue, of any in the Slate, with the exception of agriculture. It also exceeds\\nin magnitude that of any other State in the Union. This gigantic industry\\nhas grown up, in a large degree, within the last quarter of a century. The\\nlumbering region, proper, of the Lower Peninsula lies north of a line running\\nthrough Sanilac, L.tpeer, Genesee, Shiawassee, Clinton, Ionia, Kent and\\nOttawa counties. In the Upiwr Peninsula, belts of limber abound on the\\nprincipal streams.\\nThe number ol persons employed in the manufacture of lumber and\\nshingles, in the Stale, during ihe List year, is estini.aied al 50,000, receiving,\\nin the aggregate, about $15,000,000 in wages. The capital invested in the\\nindustry is about $60,000,000. The tola, product of the State, last year,\\nwas 4,162,317,778 feet of lumber, valued at $58,370,438; and of shingles,\\n2.677.855,750, valued at $6,673,387.50. Total value of product. $65,043,-\\n825.50.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "MICHIGHN AND ITS RESOURCES.\\nThe following companions show the increase in the lumber and shingle\\n1SS7.\\nLumber (feci)\\nShingle* (piccc\u00c2\u00abj\\nI.182.S17.778\\ni677.8S5.750\\n3.984.117.175\\n2.W9,134.2S2\\n3.578.138.443\\n2.574.675.900\\nThus, it will be seen, the increase of lumber production in 1886 over\\n1885 was 405,978,732 feet; of 1887 over 1886, 178,200,603 feet. The\\nincrease ol shingles in 1S86 over 1885 was 414,448,332; and the decrease of\\n!7 from 1886 was 311,268,382.\\nThe lumber protiucl of Michigan mills, in 1887, is shown in detail\\nbelow: FtrT.\\nSaginaw River milU 779.6fil. i65\\nHuron ^hore m U .555.555.730\\nMichigan Central Railroad (Mackinaw Dirisioo) 124.392.261\\nFlint Pcre .Marquette Railroad 91.441.220\\nCheboj Ran\\nManistee\\nLudinglon\\nMuskegon\\nWhiteLakc\\nGrand Haven and Spring Uike 52.00a000\\nChicago .1 West Michigan Railroad 136.856.750\\nGrand Rapids Indiana Railroad 296.774.246\\nDetfoil. I.ansing Northern Railroad 85.574.032\\nMiacellaneous Lower Michigan mdls 94.495.834\\nGreen Bay (Michigan) mills 38L824.680\\nMi!^cllaneout Upper Michigan milU 348.645.641\\n87.443.000\\n2S8.3S.476\\n137.250.380\\n665.449.921\\n84.323.440\\nTotal\\nThe shingle product of Michigan (or the\\nfollows:\\nSaginaw River mUls\\nHuron Shore mill*\\nMichigan Central Railroad (Mackinaw Diviiion)\\nFlint and Pcre Marquette milU\\nCheboygan\\nMani\u00c2\u00bbtee\\nLudtngtoii\\nMuskegon\\nWhite Lake...\\nGrand Haven anil Spring I,.ike\\nChicago and West Michigan Railn .-itl\\nGrand Rapidi Iniliana Railroad\\nDetroit. l.ansing A Northern Railro.fl\\nMi*cellaneou\u00c2\u00ab mill\u00c2\u00bb, I ower Michigan\\nGreen Itay (Michigan) milts\\nMiuellaneout rotlls. Upper Michigan\\nTotal..,\\n4,162.317.778\\npast year is, in detail, as\\nPiBCRS.\\ni96.SMS.ono\\n5.1.413.000\\n63.500.000\\n175.21 1.2:0\\nu.ooaooo\\n433.131.750\\n79.S57..VX)\\n.520.. .3l.75O\\n52020.500\\n41.275.000\\n136.856.750\\n27.1.208.000\\n351.386.000\\n71. P. I HI\\n11\\n.ii\\n,|...IMII.II4I\\nTHE MIMNC: INDUSTRY.\\nIn the (ollowing table is s.iown the aggregate number of mines in the\\niaic, the capital invested, Ih.- number ot h.imls employed, and the total\\namount of wages paid:\\nAVKR \\\\c.r\\nAMilfN r PAIO\\nCoal 4\\nCopper 2S\\nGrindft|nn\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ypftum, platier md \u00c2\u00bbtur-- p\\nIron\\nUmc and huildinE vtonr\\nSUle 1\\nTotal j 106\\ntAI ITAL\\nINVKSTCO,\\nJT.SSO\\n363\\n2S.3I3.HS0\\n6.296\\nlOKono\\n161\\nMl. 000\\n344\\n11.916. nn\\n5.808\\n25,300\\n223\\n*j 1 1\\nI lO\\nHI.44tV\u00c2\u00abrj\\n13.191\\n71.003\\nS. 164.548\\n55.100\\n91..ViO\\n28M.821\\n10.233\\nSUIOO\\n\u00c2\u00ab,M,1SS\\nThe copper mines of the State are located in the Upj cr Peninsula, and\\nare said to be the richest and most extensive copper mines in the world.\\nThe mines are situated in Houghton, Ontonagon, Keweenaw and Isle Royale\\ncounties. From the following table, it will be seen that the output has\\nincreased about twelve fold since 1855. The product is given in tons ol\\nrefined copper, fractions of tons being omitted:\\nmss.\\nPrevious to 1835 6,992\\n1855 2.904\\n1856 4.1(M\\n1857 4,765\\n1858 4,579\\n1858 4,463 1868 10,467\\n1860 6,034 1869 13,312\\n1861 7,519! 1870 12,311\\n8 492 1872. 12 366\\n6,015 1 1878. 15,0\u00c2\u00bb.-.\\n7,197 1874 17.166\\n8.875 1875 18.019\\n8.763 1878 19.1S. V\\nISn .19.513\\n1878. 50.845\\n1879 21,425]\\n.27,271\\n.28,577\\n1881....\\n1882...\\n1883....\\n1S84 34,297\\n1885 36,093\\n1886 35.000\\n1N62.\\n.6.7931\\n.13,373,1880 31,889\\nThe average price of copper per pound is a trifle less than eleven cents,\\nwhich would make the value of the copper product for the year 1S86 (the\\nlast year for which statistics are available) about seven and a half millions\\nof dollars. The product for the past year is probably in the neighborhood\\nof 40,000 tons.\\nThe iron mining interests of the State are among the most important\\nindustries. The output for 1887 was 4,393,853 tons, valued, in round num-\\nbers, at $23,000,000. The following tabulated statement shows, more\\nforcibly than words, the growth ol this great industry from the earliest times\\nof which any record was kept until the present:\\nTOKS. VBAIL\\nYears unknown\\nfrom the Jack-\\nson. Marquette\\nand abandon-\\ned mines 75.0R3\\n1854 3.000\\n1855 1.449\\n1856 8.790\\n1857 25.646\\n1858 22.876\\n1859. 68.832\\nTONS. VEAB.\\n186a...\\nU4.401\\n1\u00c2\u00ab81\\n49.909\\n1 ^2\\n124.166\\n1*\u00c2\u00abS\\n203.055\\nIflM\\n.217.059\\n1S65\\n193,758\\n1886\\n196.713\\n1867\\n465.504\\n1868\\n510.522\\n18B9.\\n639.097\\nTONS. VBAS.\\n1870 SS0;5O7\\n1871 813.984\\n1872 S48.SSS\\n1878 1.195.234\\n1874 899.931\\n1875 8S1.166\\n1878 993.311\\n1877 1025.129\\n1878 tI27.5J3\\n1879 L430.745\\n133a 1.948,384\\n1881 2.125.728\\n1882. 2.656.923\\n1*\u00c2\u00ab... 2.5ia048\\n1S 44 2.225.145\\n1S\u00c2\u00ab 2205.190\\n1886 3.562.015\\n1887 4.393.858\\n34.84 ig7\\nThe report of State Salt Inspector for the month of Fcbruar)-, 1888,\\nshows the following quantities inspected in the counties named:\\nrorsTiiw.\\nSaginaw 72.882\\nBay\\nManistee.\\nMidbn.!\\nM.isi n\\nSt CI..11\\nHuron.\\nia787\\n10.816\\n3.070\\nLS41\\n1.088\\n49!\\nTotal 108,458\\nThese figures show a marked falling off in point cl manufacture from\\nthe corresponding month in previous years, but this results from obctltence\\nto the rei)uest of the Salt Association to limit the output during the winter,\\nwith a view to reducing the large surplus on hand. The price of salt has\\nfincluated so widely during the p.-ist quarter of a century that it would be\\nvery difficult to estimate, wilh any approximation to accuracy, the toi.il v.ilue\\nof the product. The following table shows the number of barrels pixnluced\\nfrom lSf o In 1S87, inclusive:\\nv\u00c2\u00ab*\u00c2\u00bb.\\n1 AE.\\nCAIIIIU.-..\\nVKAa.\\nRAIIIIKU.\\n1880\\n4.008\\n1887\\n...474.721\\nWJ4....\\n...MIRfW\\nixil\\nzna.2u\\n1H61\\n125.000\\n1H68.\\n...555.890\\n1875...\\n....l.if-\\n3.tW7.8l7\\n1862\\n243.000\\nlHf\u00c2\u00bb\\n561.288\\n1878.\\n.1.1\\n2.)\u00c2\u00ab4.ff7S\\n1868\\nUVyXA\\nISTO\\n821.352\\nisn...\\ni.Aeaav;\\nIH84..\\n3.161.806\\n1884\\n529.073\\n1871\\n...928.175\\n1878....\\nL8S5.8W\\nI .VT,\\n3,300.000\\n1865\\n.477.300\\n1872.....\\n...734.481\\nim?....\\n...2.066. out\\nX50a000\\n1888\\n....4cr7.on\\n1871.....\\n83.846\\n1880....\\n....2(rr-\\nXD\\nMichigan w.-ui the first St.ite to engage in the\\nannual output is more than double that of any other State in the Union.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "i.llU lSI \\\\11\\\\\\\\ lU AI li,i,,l -ip i i.k. ilMi\\n\u00c2\u00bb;rani KAi ins pi.astku \u00c2\u00bb.s mu.us and UARRit", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "1. Logs piled up against D. G. II. M. K. R. Hriil-c tlraiul R^ipi.ls Chair Cii. lailory iii ilic ai.-^ljiici:.\\n2. Log Drivers at work trying to prevent the destruction of the I\\\\;iilroad Hridge.\\nThe Log Jam dt\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^,troying the R. I. and I.. S. M S. Railroad Bridges.\\nllll 1.1 ii; J.Wl IN (IK.VNI) UIV|:k, .\\\\r (JRANU K.MMDS. JUI.V 26. 1883.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "KKl.lJ LAKl- SUHLKbS UK GRAMi RAlllJN\\n(iKAM) kivKu ruitM p.KiiK.i: sTKir.T imii)(;F..", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "3 i s!mmmsmiiimmim\u00c2\u00ab!mmmmsmmm^^\\nadM3sl(ffil(lMt!fllS)|]MlM),S(fgi:s .Sa^^\\n:i1ie (^ilV of gFaiifl Rapids.\\nIts Location, Early History, Surrouridirigs and the Attractive Features it\\nPresents to those SeeKing to Settle in an Enterprising City.\\n^^y XCE upon a time a solitary horseman might have been\\ntlie oKl fornuihi for beginning a story, required that a\\nlocation, a place for a start, should be provided. In\\nlelling tlie story of Grand Rapids it is hardly necessary,\\nin the business circles of larger cities of the world, to\\ngive its sltirv a location the fame of the town has\\ngone aliroad in all tlie land. Hut, lest there may be\\nsome who may see this who have not yet a clear idea\\nof its location, it may be well to say that it is in the\\nwestern portion of the Lower Pennisula of the State of\\nMichigan. It is the second city in population, wealth and business import-\\nance, and the first in energy and ambition in the State. It is the shire town\\nof Kent county, which is in the fourth tier of Michigan counties from the\\nsouth and in the second row east of Lake Michigan. It lies on both sides\\nof the (Irand Kiver, at the head of navigation of tliat stream.\\nAt this point there is quite a fall in the river, its rapids, whence the\\nname of the city, and to this fact is due one of the important early advan-\\ntages of the city a fine water power, tlio best in the Slate save that at Sault\\nSle. Marie. The city is, by rail, thirty-two miles from Grand Haven, the\\nlake port at the mouth of Grand River; 147 from Detroit, 183 from Chicago,\\n304 from Cincinnati, and 226 from the Straits of Mackinac. As appears\\nfiom the railroad map on the cover of this pulilicalion, it is at the center of\\nthe known earth -a point where the sky, equally distant in every direction,\\nshuts down over the landscape like the half of an orange peel.\\nTHE CITY PROPER.\\nThe city proper is three and a half miles long and three miles wide;\\nbut its suburbs on every side are directly connected by street cars with the\\nbusiness center, and the city really is much larger in size and population\\nthan the municipality controlled by the City Charter. It is in the midst of\\nas fine a section of country as the sun e er shone ujion a region especi-\\nally favorable to the husbandman or the horticulturist, where agriculture,\\nstock raising, dairying and fruit growing are followed with most encouraging\\nresults and satisfactory profits. The soil, a sandy, gravelly loam some of\\nit heavy timbered land, o( beech, maple, oak and elm, other of it oak open-\\nings, still other pine lands with a plenlilul sprinkling of interspersed hard-\\nwood timber furnishes all needful varieties for all manner of vegetables,\\ngrains and roojs, for excellent pastures and meadows, for thrifty, productive\\norchards in short a soil where an honest day s work wins a sure rew.ard in\\nan honest day s returns.\\nrilK I-KUIT BK1.T.\\nIn this same connection, or at this |)oinl, it may properly be mentione I\\nthai Grand Rapids is at the center of what is popularly and very properly\\nknown as ihe Fruit Hell o( Michigan, and ils actual commercial center.\\nMichigan I Vuit has long had a most enviable reputation no bet-\\nter grows. Since the great Centennial Exposition, at which Michigan won\\nfirst honors in pomology, this fact has been recognized throughout the\\nwhole land; and the Fruit Belt s products were what secured this fully\\ndeserved reputation. The annual fairs at Grand Rapids each fall afford\\nexhibits of fruit that cannot be equaled elsewhere in the United States.\\nThese displays include, in home-grown fruits, the very finest apples,\\npeaches, pears, plums, grapes, quinces, crabapples, and a great variety of\\nberries, as blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, black, red and white, blue\\nor whortleberries, and apricots; melons of various kinds are also grown in\\ngreat quantities. These fruits are all of good size, but, more especially, of\\nvery superior flavor and firmness, and have admirable keeping qualities.\\nThe area that may be devoted to this culture comprises many hundreds\\nof thousands of acres; though already large, this interest may be expanded\\nalmost indefinitely, dependent only on profitableness of the business, the\\ndemand of the market, both for present use and either for canning or other\\nmethods of preservation.\\nTHE LUMBER INTERESTS.\\nThe mention of the character of the soil caused some reference to the\\ntimber of the adjacent country. It is apropos at this point to speak of this\\nsignal advantage of Western Michigan, of which Grand Rapids is the\\nadmitted metropolis. It is known of all men that for many years this State\\nhas been the chief producer of pine lumber in the Union; no other Com-\\nmonwealth has placed nearly so much nor so good pine lumber on the\\nmarkets of the entire country for many years past.\\nThe gross product for the year 1887 was well toward five thousand mill-\\nion feet, valued at $65,000,000, and this annual total will not be very largely\\ndecreased lor the next decade to come. Grand Rapids lies at the southern\\nbase of the great pine region Grand River has floated out many hundreds\\nof millions feet of the choicest timber, which was sawed at this point, or at\\nthe mouth of the river; while on the lines of the railroads leading into the\\ncountry north of the city, clear to the Straits of M.ackinac, local mills have\\ncut even a larger total.\\nHARDWOOD TIMHEK.\\nBut great as this wealth of pine has been, and yet is, one of the most\\nintelligent of the veteran manufacturers of lumber in Michigan, a gentleman\\nwho has been identified with its lumber interests for nearly forty years, and\\nhas become a millionaire thereby, sta .cd at the recent State Forestry Con-\\nvention in Grand Rapids that the hardwood wealth of the Stale, yet unde-\\nveloped, is greater than the pine wealth ever was. This hardwood wealth,\\nconsisting chiefly o( beech, maple (including the famous curly or birdseye\\nvarieties), oak, elm, ash, hickory, butternut, birch, basswood, and sycn\\nmore, in the different varieties, is almost innumerable in iiuanlily, and unsur-", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "THE CITY OF GRAND RflPIDS.\\na scd in tjualily. There U also a vast amount of hemlock, cedar and other\\nevergreen timber wealth in Western Michigan. Grand Rapids is admirably\\nlocated to secure the very choicest of this forest wealth. Its railroad\\nconnections, north, south, cast and west, elsewhere described, give it\\nunrivaled facilities for reaching the forests, and at most advantageous rates\\nof freight, cither for the logs or the lumlwr. Its factories, already using\\nmany million feet annually, could increase the quantity required almost\\nindefinitely without seriously trenching on the supply or being compelled\\nto go so far as to find it too expensive.\\nTHE RISE ANIJ GROWTH OP GRAND RAPIDS.\\nIn this ultitarian age the workaday, busy world cares very little for\\nancestry; what they can do in the present, or for posterity, is what chiefly\\nconcerns those who are considering their important interests in life, whether\\nbusiness, social, educational or moral. Yet there s a good deal in blood, in\\nheredity, and this applies to communities as well as families or individuals.\\nA brief resume ol the history of Grand Rapids, so admirably located in\\nsuch an ailmirable region with reference to its agricultural and timber wealth,\\nis of value ;us a suggestion of the inevitable future of the city. What it has\\nachieved anil what it is doing give a sure guaranty of what it will be and do.\\nThe aborigines of Michigan held the site of the city in very high\\nregard. It was one of their most important villages, where they had a corn-\\nfield and a cemetery. Hence it was very natural that the energetic early\\nFrench traders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 those first pioneers of civilization in so many portions ol our\\nNorthwest territory\u00e2\u0080\u0094 came here to the heart of the Indian country to ply\\ntheir business. The year 1827 found them at the rapids of the river, ready\\nto barter for peltry, and almost immediately missionaries followed. So what\\nis now the city was thus a trading post and missionary post several years\\nbefore what was intended lor a permanent settlement ol whites was effected.\\nThat auspicious event occurred in June, 1833, some four years before the\\nSlate became one of the sisters of the Union. These early settlers from new\\nStates had stout hearts and strong hands, coupled with rare good sense and\\nintelligence and unl ounded energy and ambition. While it is in a modified\\nsense that cities grow naturally, where conditions are favorable, yet it is\\nundeniably a fact that the character of the founders, of the early promoters\\nof a community, has much, very much, to do with the growth and success\\nof any city. li they be live, energetic, sagacious, enterprising men, who\\nmake the most of their natural advantages, who push their business rather\\nthan depend on good fortune and those advantages, their town will cert.iinly\\npass many others with equal natural opportunities in the race for position,\\nfor manufacturing or commercial supremacy. Such were the Yankees of\\nfifty- five years ago who founded this city. The bi.is then given the com-\\nmunity has grown with passing years\u00e2\u0080\u0094 its heredity dominates it, and this\\ntendency, this sentiment ol energy, enterprise and thrift has become an\\nessentia] part of the innermost feeling of the people.\\nEARl.Y ENTERPRISES.\\nThose early comers industrious, frugal were quick to seize and make\\nthe most of their advantages. They had the spirit of manufacture and of\\ncommerce. A sawmill was in actual operation here in 1833, and another\\nwithin a year was quickly followed by several others, and by other mills,\\nfurniture and chair factories, flouring mills, lioring for salt and other indust-\\nrial enterprises. And trading h.id l een profitable here for several years\\nlieforc the Indians ceded the whole of what is now Grand Rapids to the\\nUnited States.\\nIn 1836 the first steamboat was built for navigation on Grand River,\\nto supersede the canoes and pole boats that had afforded the only means of\\ncommunication with the b.-ilance ol mankind, save long, tedious, overland\\njourneys. This boat made its first trip down the river July 4, 1837. This\\nsame year another steamboat was built to navigate the upper river, between\\nthis city and Ionia, and as early as 1840 the energetic pioneers had begun\\nupon the scheme of improving the navigation of the river; they proposed\\nan important work, including a canal around the rapids of the river, and a\\nportion of the present East Side water power is one of the legacies of that\\nenterprise. As early as 1 837 the settlers had established a bank and several\\nstores, as well as hotels and other nccessarv requisites for a thriving frontier\\ncity in embryo.\\nTHE POPlL-VTIilN.\\nTheir town and the setllcments in the surrounding country grew apace.\\nThe precise population of the city in 1S40 cannot be staled. Kent County,\\naccording to the United States census, .-ilready contained 2.5S7 whites, a sur-\\nprising growth in seven ytais; the population in 1837 was estimated at\\n1,200. In 1845 the cily conl.tined 1,510 of the county s total of 6,049\\n|x pulation. During the following five years the population of the county\\nnearly doubled--it was 12,016, and the city had 2,686 of these. These\\nfigures for the city grew steadily and rapidly, as may be seen from the fol-\\nlowing statistics: In 1854 it was 4,278; 1860,8,090; 1864\u00e2\u0080\u0094 during the war\\nthe city, which sent a very large nunlber of brave si)IJiers to the front,\\nmerely held its own 8,772; 1870, 16,507; 1S74, 25,933; 18S0, 32,016;\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0884, 42,732. At this writing the city population un(|ui-sliunably exceeds\\n70,000, for the ratio of growth since the State census of 1S84 has l een\\ngreater than in any preceding four years since 1870-74.\\nThe foregoing figures tell their own tale; they reflect, in tangible form,\\nthe practical manifestations of the city s heredity the spirit of its founders.\\nThere has been a steady and remarkably uniform growth, a growth that\\nproves how well ordered and prosperous have been the business enterprises\\nof the city; how finnly they arc founded; how broad and general are their\\nramifications, so that panics, periods of depression, local causes, do not\\naffect them unfavorably to any appreciable extent. It will be seen that even\\nthrough the rebellion decade, and the decade ol the great panic of 1873 and\\nsubsequent years, the population doubled each decaile. The present decade\\nhas not witnessed, as yet, anything approaching the depression ol those\\nI eriods, and thus far the growth, as has been said, has been even greater.\\nThe facts as to population should Iw mentioned in another as| ect. Il\\nis very largely composed ol native-bom |)eople. The United Slates census\\nof both 1870 and 1880 showed that less than one-third of the city s total\\npopuKition was foreign l)orn. While it is uni|uestionalily true that it has\\nattracted a fair sh.-ire of the l est immigration of the past eight years, as in\\nformer years, it is certain that the proportion of native- bom people resident\\nhere has increased. The general character of the people is well portrayed\\nin the facts and statistics given in these pages, of their factories, their stores,\\ntheir banks, their houses, their places of amusement, their educational,\\nbenevolent and religious institutions. These are all indices ol the history of\\nthe city for the past half century. Few other cities can show as rapid, as\\nsteady, as solid a progress during that h.nlf century. None has a belter\\nimpulntion, a more honorable career, or brighter prospects, as indicated by\\nIts past.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "MANUFACTHREg\\nThe Greatest Factor in Building up and Making Renowned the City.\\nRF.VIEW of the history of cities shows that those whicli\\nvuiuain the greatest diversified business interests grow the\\nmost rapidly. The lives of New York and Charleston,\\nS. C, began almost simultaneously. Koth had fine har-\\nbore and great natural advantages for trade and com-\\nmerce when the sturdy Dutchman, the Celt and Anglo Saxon, settled on\\ntheir beautiful bays. But when she had established banks, mercantile\\nhouses and exchanges for produce and commodities of various kinds; when\\nher shipping interests were in a fair slate of developmonl; when her shippers\\nin wooden walls ploughed the seas in search of goods for the home markets,\\nNew York gave her attention to manufactures and encouraged the founding\\nof mills and factories for the production of articles of utility and convenience\\nfrom the native materials which were found in abundance at her very\\ndoors. The city grew with wonderful rapidity under the inspiration of her\\nbusiness men, who not only extended their enterprise to every section of the\\nglobe, but fostered and developed her manufactures, which were to con-\\ntribute so largely to the greatness of the city as a commercial center in the\\nfuture.\\nThe people of Charleston confined their business enterprises to shipping\\nand mercantile pursuits, paying no attention to manufactures, and in conse-\\nquence they h.ive never made a showing in the extent of business carried on\\nin any year, either antedating or since the war of the rebellion, which\\nwould make a respectable comparison with New York.\\nNew Orleans was an old and prosperous city long before the ground on\\nwhich Chicago stands w;is purchased by the government. The former has\\nno manufacturing enterprises worth mentioning and depends almost wholly\\non its trade in colt .n and sugar for the support of its business houses.\\nChicago, filled with factories, is growing so rapiilly as to prove a perpetual\\nsurprise to people who give attention to the growth of cities. Other com-\\nparisons might be given in this connection to subsLantiate the claim set up in\\nthe foregoing, that the cities which grow to greatness in the business world\\nsoonest are those which afford the people the widest variety of occupations\\n(or their employment; but enough is shown the reader, who reflects for a\\nmoment on the condition of the manufacturing centers to-day, to convince\\nhim the point to which attention is directed is well sustained.\\nA FACTORY CITY.\\nThe city of Grand Rapids is known far and wide for the number and\\ncharacter of its manufacturing establishments. Its three hundred and eighty-\\ntwo factories produce goods which are sold in nearly every market of the\\nworhl.\\n11 KM n KK MAKINi:.\\nlis furniture factoiics are unequaled in size by those of any other manu-\\nfacturing center of the world, and the goods produced in them are the best\\nin style and quality that can be found in the marts of trade. So well is this\\nfact understood that Grand Rapids furniture commands higher prices than\\nsimilar goods made at other points, while the government of the United\\nStates, acknowledging the superiority of the work made by the artisans of\\n-Michigan s chief manufacturing city, has entered into a contract with one of\\nthe leading corporations for providing all furniture that is required in the\\nSuvcrnment buildings at all jwinls east of the Rocky Mountains. The most\\nskillful designers, men virhose services command wages larger than the sala-\\nries paid to members of Congress, are employed, an l the business of making\\nfurniture is pushed with skill, vigor and the most satisfactory results.\\nDesigns are changed frequently and the fields of mechanism, science and\\nart are searched continuously lor points and suggestions which may be util-\\nized in the manufacture of goods.\\nFACII.ITIKS l OR QUICK WORK.\\nNo other city produces so many articles for furnishing the homes and\\nbusiness pl.aces ol the people of America, and il it were necessary to make\\na sufficient number of bedsteads lor the use of all the people of the world\\nno city could fill the order so quickly as Grand Rapids. The amount ol\\ncapital employed by the furniture manufacturers is $3,728,000, and the value\\nof the proiiuct during the year 1887 w.as $5,942,000. Four thousand five\\nhundred and forty-nine men, one hundred and thirteen women and seventy-\\neight traveling salesmen, who solicit trade in Canada and .South America as\\nwell as in the United States, were employed.\\nThe business is almost entirely in the hands of Americans, whose\\nactivity, enterprise and liberality affoiils a marked contrast to the slow,\\neasy going, though not less worthy Germans and Swedes who control the\\nfurniture manufacturing business at all other places where it is carried on to\\nany considerable extent. The people of Michigan are indebted for the\\nprominence and distinction which Grand Rapids enjoys as a furniture-manu-\\nfacturing center to these men.\\nTHE WORKMEN.\\nThe hands employed in the factories are mostly peaceable, industrious,\\nthrifty, pious, home- loving Hollanders, opposed to strikes and with no\\ncapacity for mischief-making. Every attempt to organize them for the pur-\\npose of antagonizing the interests of their employers has failed.\\nThe rapid growth of this industry is readily shown by a comparison of\\nthe foregoing figures with the following, the local trade taking all goods\\nmanufactured previous to the year 1864: The value of the output for the\\nyear 1865 was $124,008; number of men employed, 175; amount of lumber\\nused, 40,000 feet. Goods of the value of $1,150,000 were produced during\\nthe year 1877 by seven factories, with an aggregate working capital of\\n$1,000,000, and employing 720 men. The furniture factories now use over\\n50,000,000 feet of domestic lumber (a large share of which is sawed in mills\\nconnected with the factories) annu.ally, and also a very considerable quantity\\nof mahogany .and other fine imported cabinet woods.\\nHARriWOOn TIMIIFR.\\nAmong the many advantages which the manufacturers of Grand Rapids\\npossess is an almost inexhaustible supply of hardwood timber, the amount\\nof which now avail.able to their use is something no man can tell. Singular\\nas it may appear there has been no estimate made by the land-lookers of the\\nrailroad companies, firms or private persons. It has been estimated that at\\nthe opening of the Michigan Central Railroad there was in the State, at a very\\nlow calculation, 200,000,000,000 feet of pine, hile the hardwoods were more\\nthan two-thirds greater th.an this amount. There are thirty counties in the\\nStale which are directly tributary to Grand Rapids in the supply of hard-", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "8\\nTHE CITY OF GRAND RHPIDS.\\nwood timber, commencing al the Indiana Stale line and extending north to\\nthe Straits of Mackinac. These counties average sixteen towns to the\\ncounty, and each town has thirty-six sections of 640 acres each, making a\\ngrand total of 12,000,000 acres in round numbers. Of this, over 8,000,000\\nare of hardwood, suitable for use in the manufacture of lumiturc, agri-\\ncultural implements, wagons, carriages and many other articles of domestic\\nuse. Of these 8,000,000 acres which arc covered with valuable timber, such\\nas cherry, birch, oak, ash, maple, elm and basswooJ, one can make an ap-\\nproximate estimate of the quantity of lumber that will be produced before the\\nsupply is exhausted, which is 614,400,000,000 feet, and experienced lumber-\\nmen declare that two-thirds of this vast quantity is suitable (or manufacture\\nin the articles mentioned in the foregoing. These figures are simply won-\\nderful. Then, if one stops to think that if the hardwood timber on the\\nlands owned by the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad alone (350,000\\nacres) and doubling the amount for each alternate section not owned by that\\ncorporation (in all 700,000 acres) were cut into four-foot wood, taking fifty\\ncords from each acre, it would make a pile four feet high and 54,000 miles\\nin length. To move this wood by rail would require 29,085,715 cars, or\\n1,372,000.28 trains of twenty-two cars each, and would, if placed in a con-\\ntinuous line, reach the enormous distance of 75,118 miles. All this lumber\\nlies at the very doors of Grand Rapids, and one cannot estimate its value in\\ndollars and cents; but it would seemingly require all the wealth of the whole\\ncountry to move it al once or within thirty days. A prominent manufacturer\\nrecently declared that there is sufhcient hardwood lumber in the Lower\\nPeninsula of Michigan to meet all demands for fifty years, and when that is\\ngone OS much more will be available in the Upper Peninsula of the State.\\nThe manufacturers of Grand Rapids will never be without an ample supply\\nof this material.\\nFACILITIES FOR SHIPPINr:.\\nThe geographical situation of Grand Rapids is so central that its manu-\\nfacturers can ship to extreme points east, west, north and south with the\\ngreatest facility and at a minimum expense for freights. This statement is\\nattested by the fact that thousands of buyers of manufactured goods from\\npoints on the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Northwest and the GiUf visit Grand\\nRapids annually to make purchases of slocks.\\nLl MBER MANUFACTURERS.\\nThe thirty-seven firms and corporations engaged in the manufacture of\\nlumber do not employ their combined capital of $3,861,000 entirely in\\nGrand Rapids, but operate quite extensively at various points in Northern\\nMichigan. The luml)er produced at their mills in the city, however, sold\\nfor $4,586,000, as will be seen in the tabulated statement following.\\nIMIK)RTA.ST FACTORS.\\nAmong the largest factories, not specified above is one which produced\\ncarpel sweepers valued al $300,000, and the largest of its kind in the\\nworld; another, pianos worth $125,000, while twelve factories turned out\\nbarrels and kegs to the value of $510,000.\\nMKTAI.-WORKING FACTORIES.\\nForty four factories which manuf.icture articles of the various metals\\nemploy an aggregate capital of $674,000, and 717 workmen. The value of\\ntheir products for 1887 were $1,203,750. The largest of these industries\\nseventeen in number -employ 503 hands and turned out wood and iron\\nworking machines, engines and boilers valued al $706,000 last year.\\nGrand Rapids presents a fine field for metal workers, and the Board of\\nTrade desires to give its aid and encouragement to the founding of new\\nestablishments of like character. The field for business is an extensive one,\\nand the advantages which the city possesses for manufacturing articles of\\nmei.^l iiiiniiiniLn cost will be easily made apparent tu the investigator.\\nMISCELLANEDl s MANUFACTURES.\\nThe number of firms, individuals and cori oralions which carry on\\nmanufactures of a miscellaneous char.-icter is 171. Their capital com-\\nbined is $4,286,800 and the value of the goods produced during the\\nyear 1887 was $8,921,050. They give employment to 2,455 persons, 447\\nof whom were females. Six grist mills produced flour and feed valued at\\n$1,360,000. They grind twenty car loads of grain per day. Hides were\\ntanned and leather manufactured to the amount of $1,030,000. Two boot\\nand shoe factories employed 109 men and 90 women during the year 1887,\\nand the value of the footwear manufactured was $685,000. Other large\\ninterests are the plaster mills, the liclting factories, the brick and tile yards, j\\nthe manufacture of clothing, crackers, baking powders, spices and con-\\nfections.\\nFive plaster mills are located at or near the city, owned and operated by\\nincorporated companies, which have an aggregation of capital to the\\namount of $750,000. The stucco and land plaster produced by these mills\\nduring 1887 sold for $200,000.\\nThe works of the Grand Rapids Barrel Company, in which a great\\nvariety of woodwork is produced, is the largest establishment of its kind in\\nthe world.\\nA machine shop devoted to the manufacture of shingle-sawing machines\\nis the largest factory of its class in the United States, and the same is true of\\nan enormous establishment which is used in the production of tubs and pails.\\nFour factories manufactured wall finishing compounds during 1S87\\nvalued at $250,000. The amount of capital employed in the business was\\n$200,000, while the labor attending the manufacture and sale of the goods\\nwas performed by fifty-one men, twenty-seven women and fourteen\\ntraveling salesmen.\\nADDITIONAI. FACTORIES NEEDED.\\nA careful investigation made by the Committee on Statistics of the\\nBoard of Trade revealed the tact that many new factories, if started in Grand\\nRapids, could do a profitable business. They found, among other things,\\nthat malleable iron castings to the amount of 2,033,491 pounds were used\\nduring the year 1887, all of which were obtained from abroad. This fact\\nfully justifies their claim that a foundry for producing malleable iron castings\\nis greatly needed in Grand Rapids.\\nThree thousand four hundred and sixty five barrels of varnishes, valued\\nat $60 per barrel, and thousands of barrels of wood stains and fillers were\\nused by the manufacturers of pianos, furniture, carriages, refrigerators and\\nother wares of wchxI during the year, every gallon of which was made out-\\nside of the city. Over $200,000 was paid for varnishes alone. This fact\\namply supports the claim of the committee that a varnish factory could be\\nestablished u ith an assurance of success in the city.\\nThe woodworking shops also consumed 2,653 barrels of glue, only a\\nsmall part of which was made in Grand Rapids. The committee is of the\\nopinion that another factory for the production of glue could be profitably\\nlocated in this field.\\nOPENINC.S FOR MEN OF BRAINS.\\nThere are openings in Grand Rapids for men with brains, energy and\\ncapital to engage, profitably, in the manufacture of the articles mentioned as\\nfollows: Varnishes, stains and fillers, casket and cabinet hardware, harness\\nand upper leather, brass castings, railroad iron, Uiok, print, letter and wrap-\\nping papers, polished marble, lievelcd and rilvercd mirrors, stoves, ranges\\nand furnaces, railroad and street cars, wire ami iron fencing, malleable iron\\ncastings, builders hardware, cane and wood seat chairs, children s cribs,\\nwhat-nots, parlor furniture frames, woolen cloths and yams, points, oils and\\ndyes, glue and fertilizers, handles for brooms and agricultural tools, organs\\nand sewing machines, road carts, hacks, additional tanneries (us hemlock\\nhark is cheap and abundant in quantity), watches and jewelry, radiators and\\nplumlicrs fixtures, office safes, lead pi|)e and sheet lead, optical goods,\\nsmoking and fine cut tobaccos, lithographs, knit goods and hosiery, fluid\\nextracts, and sjiecific medical preparations, furniture tops from marble and\\ngypsum, photographers materials, wire goods of all kinds, a (.ictory for dis-\\ntilling dry saw dust for wood tar and crude acid the latter producing wood\\nalcohol, turpentine, creosote oil; one ton of sawdust will produce S12 worth\\nof merchantable product.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "\\\\VKST( )X r.1,1 K -CANAL S TRKi:\\nKl.NDAl.l, ni.iK K MoNRMi; SIRKF.T.\\n.::^;^v^4\\niri.l.r.K HLOl K-CANAL AND liKIDGE STREliTS.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "IR\\npi iiiiiiilllH^\\nIt\\nJl\\n.iiiyLliiiii\\nll s\\n\\\\M 1 1 I\\nW llil l 1 iMli II. k.M I I Kl t.ti.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "iijUKi ii i\\\\A I ii i.\\\\Ai, i;aMv\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I. AXAi. AM) i,vt iN siki;i:ts.\\nTilt: \\\\VM. STEELE PACKING AND PROVISION CO.S WORKS AND CATTLE -YARDS.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "l;i;UKl.V a L.AV 1LKMI1.KL; Clj\\nNliLSUN, MAI IKR CU.S KL kMILkK WAKlKi K)M", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "HAWKINS lll.OCK.\\nI.IIONAKI lU 11, HIM. s I Mi NKiiK SlKKKl; 2. I Ul 1 1 N AND sl KiN(; SIS.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "BAkNiiAkT ni.ocK snnii IONIA ANP IdllS STRKKTS.\\ni;i.iii)(,i;rr iiLotK tii i ii ioma iki.i.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "lliirSKMAX I .UILIMXC. LVON AND OTTAWA STRKKTS.\\nTHE LIVINGS l t).\\\\\u00e2\u0080\u0094FUL ION AND SOUTH DIVISION STREETS.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "IIMNAkh r.l.iii K iilTAUA AM Vl AlU -I KM\\nUlliHK I M1 liLlLDlNi.Mi NUdl, AM UA IKKl.i i .sIKl-l.TS.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE CITY OF GRHND RflPIDS.\\nALPHABKTUAL LIST Ol PRESENT FACTORIES.\\nQ\\nB\\nAnimal Traps\\nAsbestine Stone\\nAsphaltum Stone\\nAgricultural Implements\\nAwnings and Tents\\nBaking Powder, Spices, etc\\nBlank Books\\nBurial Caskets\\nBrush\\nBent Wood\\nBoat\\nBrick and Tile\\nBreweries\\nBottling (Soda, Pop, Beer, etc.)\\nBroom\\nBelting\\nBase Ball Bats\\nBarrel and Keg\\nBrass Founderies\\nBed Slat Fastener\\nBoot and Shoe\\nBoiler and Machinery\\nBasket\\nCoffee Extract\\nC nrtain Pole\\nt^ar Shops\\nCracker\\nCarriage and Wagon\\nCornice (metallic)\\nClothing\\nClothes Wringer\\nCider and Vinegar\\nCigar\\nCarpet Weaving\\nCarpet Sweeper\\nConfectioneries\\nDoor Plates\\nElectrotype\\nEdge Tools\\nElectric Motors\\nExcelsior\\nEmbalming Fluid\\nEngravers, etc\\nElectric Light\\nFile\\nFishing Rod\\nFlavoring Extracts\\nFlour Mills\\nFurniture Wood Trimmin):s\\nFire Grate\\nFaucet..,^\\nFly Paper\\nFurniture Clamp\\nFurniture\\nCaimtal\\nEm f LOVED.\\nS 2.000\\n8.000\\n,liOO\\nio.OOO\\n4,000\\n23,500\\n20,000\\n7M.0II0\\n100.00(1\\nxi.ooo\\n3,300\\nKiri.ooo\\n1110.000\\n10.000\\ni.SOO\\n05,000\\n20.000\\n:i72,0OO\\n8,000\\n1,000\\n350,000\\n481,000\\n2.000\\n2,000\\n28.000\\n200,OK1\\n145,000\\n4S2,.500\\n21,000\\n100,000\\n7,000\\n,000\\n205,000\\n5,000\\nliiO.OOO\\n125.000\\n1,000\\n10,000\\n11,000\\n50,000\\n.57.000\\n20,000\\n1.1,000\\n250,000\\n4,000\\n10,000\\n45,0110\\n565,000\\n150,000\\n(io,oa)\\n2,500\\n2.000\\n2.50U\\nI.7a3.000\\nProdl ct\\nFOR 1887.\\nJ\\nS 5,000\\n3\\n20,000\\n12\\n35.000\\n15\\n200,000\\n28\\n11.000\\n5\\n143.000\\n22\\n47.000\\n52\\n125,000\\n66\\n1 (XI. 01 10\\n11.5\\niiO,0(;o\\n34\\n14,000\\n11\\n805,000\\n167\\n600,000\\n180\\n118,000\\n32\\n33.050\\n34\\n220,000\\n44\\n40.000\\n30\\n510,000\\n286\\n80.000\\n28\\n3.500\\n4\\n685.000\\n193\\n706.000\\n503\\n6.000\\nU\\n9.000\\n6\\n40.000\\n41\\n425,000\\n325\\n185.000\\n45\\n787.500\\n425\\n80.000\\n36\\n200.000\\n138\\n25.0C0\\n15\\n25.000\\n9\\n376.000\\n136\\n26.000\\n36\\n800,000\\n211\\n432.000\\n175\\n3.000\\n3\\n20.000\\nS\\n16.000\\n17\\n75,000\\n7\\n110,000\\n58\\n40,000\\n7\\n37,000\\n28\\n250,000\\n35\\n7,000\\n8\\n15,000\\nIS\\n145,000\\n23\\n1,360,000\\n77\\n110.000\\n81\\n17,5.000\\nSi\\n6.000\\n3\\n5.000\\n6\\n4\\n5.000\\n.941.000\\n4.662\\n3\\nGlue\\nGas\\nGranite and Marble\\nGlove\\nHand Screw\\nHarness\\nHat\\nHoop Skirt.\\nInk\\n1\\n37\\n1\\n2\\n2\\n8\\n2\\nij\\n1 1\\n1\\n1\\n5\\n3\\n5\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n3\\nS\\n6\\n2\\n3\\n3\\n1\\n1\\n2\\n1\\n3\\n5\\n1\\n4\\n2\\n1\\nS\\n1\\n2\\n1\\n1\\n4\\nIS\\nKnitting\\nLadder\\nliUUiber and I lanine\\nMiddling Purifier\\nMattresses\\nPickle\\nPacking Boxes\\nPaper Box\\nPiano\\nPortable House\\nPortable Letter Press\\nPatent Medicines\\nPotteries\\nIMaHter 31ills\\nrump\\nPot Ash\\nRefrigerator\\nShirt\\nStamp Stencil\\nSash, DfX)rs and Bliirds.\\nShow Cases\\nSaw\\nSoap\\nSpoon Hook\\nTub and Pail.\\nTrunk\\nTruss\\n380\\nTanneries\\nUpholstering\\nVeneer\\nWall Coating Compound\\nWell and Cistern Brick\\nWire Nail\\nWillow and Rattan Ware\\nWire Works\\nWooden Shoe\\nWheelbarrow\\nWood .Mantle\\nWood Bank and Store Furniture\\nWoodenware ^all kinds)\\nWood Carving\\nWashing Machine.\\nCapital\\nEmploveu.\\nS 25.000\\n250.000\\n40.000\\n1.000\\n2.000\\n26.000\\n1.000\\n2.000\\n1,000\\n15,000\\n600\\n.H.Kti 1.000\\n25,000\\n17.000\\nT.r,. in\\nli .I.OOll\\n7.000\\n85.000\\n5.000\\nIS.tXXl\\n16.01(1\\n6.(1(10\\n750.000\\n25.000\\n2.000\\n7.5.000\\n7.(;(iO\\n().U(\u00c2\u00ab(\\n145.000\\n1,50(1\\nl(l.(Hl(l\\n:i5.fKKJ\\n5.(ni(i\\n250.0(10\\n13,500\\n2,000\\n415,000\\n49,000\\n80,000\\nProduct\\nFOR 1887.\\n$25,000\\n180.000\\n110,000\\n2,500\\n8.000\\n78.000\\n5,000\\n10.000\\n2.500\\n2.5.000\\n2.000\\n4.. J8e.000\\n50,0(J0\\nI\\n75.000 1\\n21.000\\n113.000\\n15.000\\nI\\n125.000\\n20.000\\n15.000 j\\n31.000\\nIH.IKIO\\n200.000\\n6.500\\n8.000\\n100,000\\n41,000\\n26,000\\n21.5.000\\nI7..i00 I\\n21.000\\n1)3,000\\n15,000\\n.vio.ooo\\n4n..5oo\\n5,000\\n1,030,C(I\u00c2\u00ab\\n161.000\\n35.000\\n10\\n30\\n4S\\n6\\n8\\n39\\n4\\n11\\n4\\n681\\n23\\n36\\n10\\n60\\n38\\n101\\n9\\n8\\n19\\n14\\n127\\n4\\n4\\n81\\n36\\n7\\n91\\n16\\n2S\\n17\\n6\\n263\\n19\\n5\\n316\\n54\\n:o\\n200.000\\n2M.00O\\n78\\n2.000\\ni.:m\\n9\\n4.50(1\\n8.2.50\\n5\\ny.. i(io\\n80,000\\n34\\n3.000\\n8.000\\nS\\n1..500\\n4.000\\n5\\n17.000\\n2.5.000\\n79\\n2.000\\n4..500\\n4\\n11,000\\n75.000\\n20.000\\n.W.OOO\\n40\\n2.000\\n5.000\\n5\\n3.000\\n5.000\\n6\\n:15.216.400\\nS24,O4R.800\\n11.110", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "THE JIDBBINS TRA\u00c2\u00a9E.\\nR Brief History of its Growtli iq Grand Rapids\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the MarKet of Western Michigan.\\nIHE history of the jobbing trade of Grand Rapids is a recital\\nof humble beginnings; of gradual growth ill diversity, vol-\\nume and territory; of enterprise which has kept pace with\\nthe advance of an undeveloped region; of aggressiveness\\nwhich has encroached on the boundaries of other markets,\\ncompelling a readjustment of old limits; of a breadth and scope which has\\naccorded the market the admiration of the commercial world.\\nTHE PIONEER JOBBERS.\\nThe earliest record of any jobbing transactions in this city dates baclv to\\n1847, when the late Hon. Wilder D. Foster is known to have sold consid-\\nerable quantities of goods in bulk, to be disposed of in a retail way by the\\nbuyers. From that time until 1S64, when the jobbing trade of the place\\nmay be properly said to have begun, sever.al houses carried on a small\\njobbing trade in connection with their retail business; but no regular sales-\\nmen were sent out by these houses, and no special claims were put forth in\\ntlieir behalf.\\nTo Hon. L. H. Rand.m.i. clearly belongs the honor of inaugurating the\\njobbing trade of this market. When he and Seth Hoi.comb engaged in\\nthe grocery business, in 1857, they advertised to do both a wholesale\\nand retail trade; but it was not until 1864 (two years alter Mr. Rand.vll had\\npurchased the interest of his partner) that the retail business was discon-\\ntinued, and an exclusively wholesale trade begun. A year later, Wm. B.\\nRemington came into the field with a wholesale notion business; and in\\n1S66 the jobbing trade of the town received an accession in the shape of the\\nboot and shoe house of Whitley, Rindge Co. From this time on, the\\ngrowth and development of the jobbing trade was rapid, new houses coming\\ninto the field every year, while comparatively few retired.\\nThe system of selling goods by sample, while not so common as at\\npresent, seemed to be equally essential to the success of a jobbing business\\na quarter of a century ago.\\nThe difference between selling goods on the road now and in the dawn\\nof the jobbing trade here furnishes a marked contrast. The only railroad\\nwhich touched Grand Rapids at that time was the old D. M., so that\\nnine tenths of the goods sold from the city were placed along the line of long\\ndrives in nearly every direction from the place. Tn addition to the comple-\\nment of sample cases, no salesman thought of starting out on a trip of any\\nlength without an axe and a rifle the former to provide against obstructions\\nin the shape of fallen trees and the latter for use in case a wolf or bear\\nattempted to be too familiar. The goods were sold by sample, but instead\\nof being started on their way to the merchant as soon as the order reached\\nthe house, they were held until the purchaser sent in his team for them, not\\ninfrequently a period of two or three weeks. The fartherest point to which\\nGrand Rapids had access was Hersey, then a place of considerable impor-\\ntance as the depot of extensive lumbering operations. Traverse City was\\nknown as a town of some size, but was too far away to have any attractions\\nfor the Grand Rapids jobbers. Working south of this market the farthest\\n]ioint touched was Singapore, now a deserted, sand-covered village a couple\\nof miles from Saugatuck.\\nTHE JOBBERS OF THE PRESENT.\\nSuch being the beginning, what has been the harvest? A remarkable\\nincrease in the branches originally represented and the addition of\\nother and cognate blanches until the jobbing transactions of the market\\namount to millions where they then amounted to thousands. In no branch\\nof business is this more thoroughly illustrated than in the gi ocery trade,\\nwhich is represented by seven strong houses, all vieing with each other for\\nsupremacy, and whose total sales eclipse those of the wholesale grocery trade\\nof either Toledo or Detroit. That so young a market as Grand Rapids is\\nable to make such a showing is the best possible tribute which can be paid\\nto the sagacity and enterprise of those responsible for it. Nor is this spirit\\nwholly confined to the representatives of the wholesale grocery trade. It is\\nequally noticeable in other lines, contributing, in no small degree, to the\\nwonderful strides the market has made as a jobbing center.\\nJOBBING HOUSES.\\nBoots. Shoes and Rubbers\\nHooks and Stationery\\nBronze Monuments\\nClothing\\nCommission and Produce.\\nCrockery\\nDry Goods (wholesale and retail)\\nI rugs\\nGrocers\\nHardware\\nHides, Pelts and Wool\\nHats, Caps and Furs\\nLime and Cement\\nLiquor\\nNotions\\nPackers\\nPaper\\nPaints, Oils, etc\\nPhotographic Supplies\\nRags and Peddlers Supplies\\nSaddlery Hardware, etc\\nSpices, etc\\nYeast\\nCapital\\nEmployed.\\nS200,000\\nlliO.UOO\\n75.000\\n118.0UO\\n165,000\\n585,000\\n165.000\\n675,000\\n300,000\\n50,000\\n25,000\\n25.000\\n150,000\\n35,000\\n73,000\\n112,000\\n50,000\\n10,000\\n10,000\\n100,000\\n25,000\\n3.1100\\nTotal $3,051,000\\nProduct\\nFOR 1887.\\nS325.000\\n300,000\\naooo\\n135,000\\n1. 000.000\\n345,000\\n1,400,000\\n300,000\\n4.400.000\\n008,000\\n800,000\\n60,000\\n150,000\\n500,000\\niso.ofo\\n375,000\\n350,000\\n150.0C0\\n22,500\\n.50.000\\n350.000\\n200.0(0\\n10.000\\nS12,289,500\\nEmployes.\\nHale\\nFemale\\n46\\n33\\n6\\n2\\n102\\n63\\n127\\n39\\n30\\n19\\n140\\n150\\n20\\n2\\n96\\n6\\n105\\n16\\n4\\n5\\n16\\n27\\n6\\n35\\n21\\n1\\n24\\n2\\n8\\n11\\n21\\n2\\nIS\\n2\\n5\\n3\\n878\\n309\\n171\\n29.060\\nNumber of barrels illuminating oil inspected at Grand Rapids during 1887\\nTERRITORY COVERED.\\nCoincident with the advent of new houses, and the constant enlarge-\\nment of those already in the field, has come a gradual increase in the terri-\\ntory covered, partially by encroachments on limits established by other mar-\\nkets, but principally by the development of unsettled sections. Beginning\\nwith a territory 100 miles long by half as wide, the jobbing trade of the place", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE CITY OF GRAND RHPIDS.\\n11\\nnow practically controls the western half of the State, between the Straits of\\nMackinac and the Indiana line. Much trade is secured in the Upper Penin-\\nsula and throughout Northern Indiana, but both fields are as yet disputc l\\ni^iounil.\\nTill NUMBER OF JOBBING HOUSES.\\nNo better index of the remarkable growth of the jobbing trade is offered\\nthan the fact that the three original jobbing houses have increased to seventy,\\nand that the half-dozen traveling salesmen have been augmented to a band\\nof over 400.\\nNEW LINES NEEDED.\\nWhile the jobbing trade comprises an exceptionally substantial and\\ndiversihed class of houses, there are still some lines in which the market is\\ndeficient, which could be added to the advantage of those already in the\\nfield, as well as to the profit of their projectors. In no respect is this more\\ntrue than in the inauguration of an exclusive dry goods establishment, which\\nis needed more than any other enterprise which can be named. To a less\\nextent the same is true of a clothing house, a hat and cap house, a glove\\nhouse, another boot and shoe factory, a butter and cheese house, a tobacco\\nfactory, a cannery for native fruits and vegetables, a vinegar and pickle\\nfactory, an extensive soap factory, a woodenware house, to handle the entire\\nproducts of the numerous factories in the hardwood districts. The open-\\nings in the lines above outlined are such as should command the attention of\\ncapitalists or men of experience seeking new fields of operation. The job-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ng trade, without an exception, always gives newcomers a hearty welcome\\n1 extends the hand of fellowship at every opportunity.\\nThe value of goods imported by the merchants and manufacturers of\\nGrand Rapids during the year 1SS7 w.is $4,778,500.\\nIn conclusion, it is hardly necessary to say that the future of Grand\\nRapids, as a jobbing center, is assured. Sufficient proof of this statement is\\nfound in the fact that Chicago and other cities are beginning to re.ilize that\\nif they expect to do any business in Western Michigan they must come to\\nthe headquarters of Western Michigan which is only another name for\\nGrand Rapids.\\nRKTAII. TRADE.\\nThe extent of the retail trade of the cily is indicated l)y the following\\nenumeration of retail houses:\\nAgricultural implements, 5; bakeries and confections, 30; bird dealer, i\\nbooks and stationery, lo; boots and shoes, 28; cigars and tobacco, 23;\\nclothing, 12; coal and wood, 9; creameries, 4; crockery, 15: dry goods, 38;\\ndruggists, 45; fancy goods and toys, 5; flour and feed, 36; furniture, new,\\n19; furniture, secondhand, 6; general stocks, 3; gents furnishing goods, 2;\\ngrocers, 221; hair good.s, 7; hardware, 39; harness, 15; hats, 3; house furn-\\nishing goods, 9; hygenic goods, 2; laundries (steam), 4; livery stables, 16;\\nmill supplies, 7; millinery and fancy goods, 18; music, 3; news depots, 11:\\noil stores, 7; oyster and fish stores, 2; plumbing and gas fitting, 7; printing\\n(job and book), 26; restaurants, 13; seed stores, 4; sewing machine\\nagencies, 7; sporting goods, 4; umbrella and cane, i; wall paper, picture\\nframes, etc., 13; wood yards, 17.\\nAGENTS, CONTRACTORS, TRADES, PROFESSIONS, ETC.\\nArchitects, 3; building movers, 2, dentists, 29; blacksmiths, 7; brokers,\\n9; building contractors, 42; barber shops, 51; boot and shoe shops, ^C\\nbutchers, 82; carpet cleaning shops, 3; electrical supply houses, 4; florists\\nand nurserymen, 13; undertakers, 5; gold and silver platers, 2; gunsmiths,\\n2; hack and baggage lines, 2; horse-shoeing shops, 14; insurance agents, 31\\nintelligence offices, 4; lapidairian, i; locksmiths, 2; attorneys at law, 94;\\nmanicure, i; manufacturers agents, 3; merchant tailoi-s, 19; millwrights, 3;\\noculists and aurists, 3; photographers, 15; physicians, 143; real estate deal-\\ners, 56; stair builders, 2; steamship agencies, 5; stenographers, 3; taxider-\\nmists, 3; veterinary surgeons, 8; renovators (clothes), 7; bath (Turkish), i;\\njunk dealers, 5; pawn brokers, 4; agents for office safes, 2.\\ngank\u00c2\u00a7 and ganking.\\nGrand Rapids as a Financial Ceqter Clearing House Statistics.\\nRAND RAPIDS can point with a great deal of pride to her\\nbanking institulions. They consist of five National and two\\nSavings Banks, all well managed and doing a very prosper-\\nous business. Grand Rapids is considered the financial and\\nbanking center for Northern and Western Michigan. .The\\nrales of discount are very low, comparing favorably with much larger cities\\nand monetary centers.\\nThe enormous increase in the banking business of the city already indi-\\ncates the steadily increasing wealth of the people. In the spring of 1861,\\nthe city had no b.inking facilities whatever, and it was not until 1863 that\\nthere was an org.inized bank, and that with a capital of but $50,000.\\nTHE I AST AND PRESENT.\\nA comparison with the present banking capital and surplus of $2,854,-\\n000; deposits, $5,750,000, and a line of discounts amounting to $7,036,000,\\ntells the story of permanent growth and strength, and needs no comment.\\nSAVI.SGS BANKS.\\nTlic savings l)anks report that their deposits increased very materially\\nduring the winter months of 1887 and iSSS, which goes to show that the\\nhilraring classes were well employed, and that they are industrious and\\nsaving.\\nTHE CLEARING HOUSE.\\nThe Grand Rapids Icaring House Association was organized Decem-\\nber ;o, 1885.\\nThe reports are very encouraging, and show business is increasing\\nrapidly, the second year of its operation showing an increase of 31 per cent.\\nover the first.\\nSTOCK INSURANCE.\\nA prosperous stock insurance company, organized in 1SS2, with a cash\\ncapital of $100,000, increased the same to $200,000 in 1SS6, and has had a\\ncontinuous record of prosperity.\\nIts assets January I, 1883. were $100,359; S**-* \u00c2\u00b09 79j: S85,\\n$115,670; 1886, $126,257; 1887, $239,501; 18S8, $275,595.\\nSAFETY DEPOSIT COMPANIES.\\n.\\\\mple facilities for the storage of papers and valuables are furnished by\\nt\u00c2\u00abo safe deposit companies, one conducted by a stock company, with\\n$50,000, and the other a private enterprise. Each is equipped with all the\\nmodern safeguards against burglars and fire.\\nBITI.DINO AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.\\nAt present, there are in operation in Grand Rapids five building and\\nloan associations, each having a large membership and enjoying prosperity.\\nIhe associations, in the order of organization and their capital stock,\\nare as follows: CArn-Ai.\\nThe Gr.ind Rapids S 12. i.C\u00c2\u00ab0\\nThe V:,llcy Ciiy 2.au00u\\nThe \\\\Vc5t Side i ltHIUO\\nGrand Kapids Miltil.-il i.nUO.OUO\\nThe Holland 500,000", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "REAL ESTATE.\\nThe Present and Prospective Value of Property\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pointers as to Safe Investrrients.\\n(HOSE who aie in search of homes, business locations, factory\\nsites or of safe and prolitable investment, should visit Grand\\nl-iapids and inspect the superior advantages this city pos-\\nsesses in any and all of these particulars. Prices are low,\\nterms are reasonable, values are steadily advancing, and the\\nnieehaiiic, the merchant, the manufacturer, and the capitalist the man with\\nlimited means and he who has an abundance each can find in this city\\nwhat they desire.\\nThe city includes about eight square miles of hill and valley, and the\\nimmediate suburl)S on every side are rapidly becoming thickly populated.\\nThe streets are substantially paved or graveled. The water system for fire\\nprotection or for use covers nearly Ihe entire corporation; gas mains and\\nelectric light wires extend in all the principal business and resident thorough-\\nfares and avenues, and the street-car lines penetrate every section of the city.\\nRESIDENCE PROPERTY.\\nResidence property is especially cheap and available. Building lots of\\nstandard width and depth can be purchased, ranging in price anywhere from\\nS250 to ten times that amount, and the price payable in any manner desired:\\nfor cash, in weekly, monthly, or in quarterly installments.\\nFor the lowest sum named a lot can be secured within the corporate\\nlimits, a few blocks, at the most, from the cars and in a section of the city\\nthat will quickly improve and develop. A very desirable lot can be pur-\\nchased for from S600 to SSoo on a graded street, near pr on a street railroad,\\nand in a good neighborhood, while for $1,000 to $I,2CX3 a lot can be bought\\nwhich will have included sewers, water, gas, sidewalks and other improve-\\nments, and be within easy walking distance of business. The choicest resi-\\ndence property can be had at prices ranging from $1,500 or $1,800 to\\n$2,500.\\nThose who would prefer to buy houses already built can find what they\\nwant from $1,000 upwaj-d, payable, a nominal sum to bind the bargain, from\\n$150 to $500, and the balance in easy installments.\\nFrom $1,000 to $1,500 will buy a cosy little home in the outskirts,\\neasily reached by street car; $2,000 to $4,000 will buy a neat and commodi-\\nous residence finely situated in regard to schools, business and accessibility;\\n$5,000 to $8,000 will buy something handsome; from $10,000 to $15,000 or\\n$20,000 a mansion with all the modern improvements, and a palace for\\n$25,000 to $35,000 and upward.\\nAt prevailing prices for material and labor, a cottage with five rooms,\\nsuitable for a small family, can be erected for $Soo. An attractive house of\\nsix or seven rooms can be constructed for from $1,200 to $1,500. A fine\\nQueen Ann house, with good interior finisli and many modern improve-\\nments, can be built for from $2,000 to $5, coo. A brick residence, elegantly\\nfinished, will cost anywhere from ^8,000 upward.\\nFor renting purposes houses can be secured for from $8 to $50 per\\nmonth, according to location, size and style. A very desirable house can be\\nrented for froni $15 to $20 per month, conveniently situated and abundantly\\nlarge for the ordinary family.\\nBLSINESS PROPERTY.\\nTransfers of the best business property have been so few within the past\\nvear that it is difficult to form an estimate of values. The last Monroe-street\\nproperty which changed hands commanded about $500 a front foot. On the\\nside streets, immediately off the main thoroughfare, and in the center of the\\nbusiness portion of the city, recent transfers have been made at from S120 to\\n$250 per foot frontage. The choicest parcels now on the market are quoted\\nat from $300 to $350, and very desirable pieces, in locations that are bound\\nto be valuable for business purposes, can be had at $100 or even less.\\nSplendid business sites can be found away from the immediate trade circles,\\nsuitable for stores where families can get their household supplies, at very\\nlow figures from $600 to $1,200 per lot of standard width, on the corner i(\\npreferred, and in the centers of large, rapidly growing and prosperous neigh-\\nborhoods.\\nSTORE RENTALS.\\nSingle store rentals, including basement, range from $700 to $2,000 in\\nthe best localities and from $400 to $900 in very desirable places. Double\\nstores and larger accommodations can be secured a very reasonable rates.\\nOFFICES.\\nFor office purposes a suite of four to six large front rooms, steam heated,\\nwith brick vaults for storage of papers and books, and elevators, can be had\\nfor from $500 to $700. Single rooms rent for from $50 to $250 a year.\\nFACTORY SITES.\\nFactory property can be purchased within the city limits and within call\\nof the fire department, in case of danger, and on the line of two or more rail-\\nroads, for $Soo to $1,500 an acre, and in the outskirts and just outside of the\\ncity at considerably less. These sites are easy of access by graded and\\ngraveled streets, and side tracks can be built from the railioads to any part\\nof the premises, thus furnishing the best possible facilities for handling\\nfreight.\\nSites along the river and the canals are held high, but not unreasonably\\nso from $2,000 to $7,000 will buy the best that are offered.\\nFactory room and power can be rented at .almost any price desired.\\nCOST OF MATERIAL AND LABOR.\\nOn the fii st of March prevailing prices for labor and building material\\nwere as follows: Masons and bricklayei^, 45 cents an hour; carpenters\\nand other artisans, $2 to $2. 50 a day; laborers, $1 to $1.50 a day.\\nConnnon brick, S4.50 to S5 per 1,000; fire brick, S28 per 1,000; foun-\\ndation stone, $5.50 to S6.50 per cord; Petoskey lime. Si; Marblehead and\\nOhio lime, 90 cents; Akron cement, $1.20 per barrel in sacks; Louisville\\ncement. Si. 10; stucco, 40 cents per sack; plastering hair, 30 cents per\\nbushel; mill cull boards, $8 per M; shipping cidls, sheathing or roof boards,\\nS13; stock boards. No. i, $18; No. 2, S16; timber, joist and scantling, 12\\nto 16 feet, hemlock, Sio; pine, $13; pine flooring, dressed and matched,\\n$13 to $20; bevel siding, S12 to SiS; ceiling pine, $12 to $25; Norway, $25;\\nfinishing lumber, pine, $20 to $35 for /s inch, an $40 to S50 for i s and 2\\ninch; lath, $2. 50 per M; shingles at S3. 25 for 16-inch stars, $2. 25 for\\nseconds.\\nOther materials, nails, paints, oils, varnishes and fixtures can be bought\\nhere as cheaply as in Detroit or Chicago.\\nADVANTAGES PRESENTED FOR INVESTMENT.\\nThere is not a city in the country where real estate investment can be\\nmade that will be so, safe and so surely profitable as in Grand R.ipids. The", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "RESIDENCE MAIOR AMASA B. WATSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FULTON AND SHELDON STREETS.\\nKKS1DENV1-; HON. TIIOS. D. t.ILI .KKT LAKAVl.lTE STREET.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "KKSIDKNCl-; IIAKKV WIDI 1(:().\\\\IB-EAST rLll iN .\\\\M TKi l l T STRKKT-\\nKKSIHKNlK MKS. 1 1 Xll iaUl ii lll(.l WlMl \\\\\\\\Ii il!lKK\\\\ ^IKKKI", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "RKSIDKXCK CAR S W. PKKKIXS FOUNTAIN AND I.AFAYKTTE STRKKTS.\\nKlCslDlMl, Jii-llMl II. \\\\Vi iNDI.KI.V 575 LlIKRKV MUFKr.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "RESIDENCE EDWIN V. UHL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 211 FOUNTAIN STREET.\\nKKSIDEXCE MRS, SARAH A. MoRRlS lHKRKV SIKEET AND OLLEGE AVENUE.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "residp:nce d. a. blodgett\u00e2\u0080\u0094 276 ciikrry street.\\nRESILIENCE W. R. SHELBY. L.\\\\FAVETTE ST.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Rh.slDhNCk. I, ho. W. (,.VV\u00e2\u0080\u0094 j5u I.A.ST KULTON STREET.\\nRESIDENCE COL. E. CROKTt)N KO.\\\\ AXL) CHAS. FO.\\\\, ClIERRV AXU COLLEGE AVENUE.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "o\\nto\\nI\\ni^.\\nZ", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "IIL \\\\1UK1U\\\\.\\nTHE DERBY HOTEL.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE CITY OF GRHND RHPIDS.\\n13\\nprices, to-day, for all kinds of property, business, residence and factory, in\\nthe center of tlie city and in the suburbs, are very low, compared with other\\ncities, and the prices are steadily advancing. There is no boom or fictitious\\nenhancement of value, but it is a healthy, vigorous growth, permanent, sub-\\nstantial and fully warranted by the circumstances. On an average, all over\\nthe city, the prices to day are ten per cent, higher than a year ago, while in\\nsome sections the increase has been 30, 40 and even 50 per cent. As the\\ncity increases in population, as new street car lines are built and new manu-\\nfacturing institutions are established, the demand for property will grow\\nstronger and prices will continue to go up, realizing a handsome profit to\\nthose who have their money invested in real estate. The demand for houses\\nto rent is heavier than the supply, and from 10 to 12 percent, interest on\\ninvestments of this kind can readily be realized.\\nHotels.\\nTIE hotels of Grand Rapids have assisted not a little in\\nspreading the name and fame of the city. In number, size,\\nappearance and general appointments they will compare\\nfa\\\\ orably with cities twice as large in population. By rea-\\nson of the excellent character of her hotels Grand Rapids\\nhas become the recognized convention city of Michigan, and thus she is\\nfrequently styled. The first-class houses are up with the age in everything\\nthat goes to make up the model caravansary. They are supplied with\\npassenger elevators, heated by steam throughout, supplied with electrical\\nbells, both call and fire, and every modern convenience. The Morton has\\naccommodations for 350 guests; Sweet s, 400; Eagle, 250; Clarendon, 200;\\nBridge Street, 200, and The Derby, 250. These houses are all first-class,\\nand it will thus be seen their accommodEtions are for 1,650 people. Of\\nthe second-class hotels the Michigan House has accommodations for 200\\nguests; the European, 100; New Rathbun, 150; Union Depot, 50, and thirty\\nfour others 700, making a total of i ,299. There are also a large number of\\nfirst and second-class family hotels, and of the first mentioned the Vendome\\ncan care for 100 regular patrons; the Warwick, 100; the Livingstone, 325;\\nBrunswick, 125; Irving, icx), and Park Place, 100. The city has estab-\\nlished a national reputation for caring for great conventions and great\\ncrowds, and the traveling men skip many towns, that they may spend theii\\nSundays at one of the city s fine public houses.\\nVital gtati^tic^.\\nTl)e Conditioris -Wl:\\\\icl^ Places Grand Rapids so Higl^ in tt^e List of Cities, as Sl\\\\o\\\\s;n by Mortality Reports.\\nHtn\\\\osp]-ieric Coriditioris.\\nI MO\\\\G the many natur.al advantages this city and surrounding\\ncountry has, there are none which strike the intelligent\\ninvestigator with more force than the peculiarity of its\\ntopography and climate. The surface of the country is\\nrolling, sloping towards channels which lead all flood-\\nwaters quickly away to the river which rapidly flows through the heart of this\\ncity, thus providing for its complete and thorough drainage. The elevation\\nof nearly all of the resident properly of the city secures an .ample supply of\\npure air.\\nTEMPERATURE.\\nThe temperature of this region will compare favorably with any part of\\nthis or any other coun ry. We quote from records published by the Slate\\nBoard of Health of Michigan. The average temperature (or twenty years,\\nfrom 1864, by months is:\\nr\\nFOK\\nJan.\\n1KB.\\nMar.\\nApril\\nMay\\nJlVK\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2.7 83\\nJ.-..V\\nAug.\\nSeit.\\nOct.\\nNov.\\nDec.\\n22.43\\n24.58\\n31.G1\\n45.71\\n58.27\\n71.6.\\n69.1.1 60.16\\n48.33\\n35.30\\n25.50\\nThe average temperature for the 20 years is 46.68\\nThe liiLdicsi temperature for 12 years, from 1S73 lo 1884, was loi*^\\nAugust II, 1SS4; and the lowest 31 below zero, February 8, 1875.\\nVVl.M) A.NI STORM.S.\\nAlllioui^h llio cily is not situated immediately upon the abrupt and ele-\\nvated shores of Lake Michigan, yet this large body of water has a very\\nmarked influence, not only in modifying the teiiipcralurL\\\\ but also as regards\\nt .ic forte- of tlie winds. Storms are, for the most part, broken up and their\\nforce destroyed by the waters of the lake. The oldest inhabitant cannof\\nremember any wind storm that ever did any serious d.amage in this city.\\nRAIXFALI..\\nGrand Rapids is remarkably favored by nature in regard to rainfall as\\ncompared with the most favored localities. Statistics show that droughts\\nand excess are exceptional, and that the average rainfall for twenty years\\nis about thirty- two inches, and that the deep-snow line in this part of the\\nState is about one degree of latitude north of the city.\\nHEALTH.\\nGrand Rapids is naturally favored in the fact that the seasons of heat\\nand cold are not long enough to give any disease that is most likely to pre-\\nvail in those seasons a chance before there is a change which usually checks\\nthem, either by frost or warmth.\\nConclusive proof of the natural advantages that this locality has in\\nrelation to health can be found in the latest statistics of the mortality of the\\nleading cities of the country for the p.ast year, .as furnished to tlie world by\\nthe Boards of Health of those cities.\\nIn this city the average for the past five years was 9.24 per 1,000, being\\nlower than cities of those localities whose climates are celebrated the world\\nover .IS health resorts, Colorado and California.\\nBy a careful inspection of causes of death it is found there is no excess\\nof deaths from causes that can properly be charged to this climate or can be\\nclaimed to be natural to the country. The principal diseases are hereditary,\\nimported by the influx of population, or caused by excesses in their various\\nforms. There is no region of the country where there are more natural ad-\\nvantages in all respects in regaril to liealth and length of life, and nothing\\nshort of negligence or excesses, unless they are already broken down bcfure\\nthey .arrive, will prevent immigrants from enjoying the lull ti;-.ic: alloted ii-.aa.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "RAILRCDA\u00c2\u00a9 FACILITIES.\\nTine Valley City tlie Greatest Railroad Center iq the State\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Roads Centering\\nHere and the Points Reached by Thern-\\n\\\\XD RAPIDS is pre-eminently the railroad center of Mich-\\niijan; no other city has so many actual avenues of entrance\\nl y rail now, or the prospect of so large and important\\nadditions to its present rail facilities in the near future.\\nTliere are now ten actual arteries ot entrance or travel\\ncompleted, another will be finished before midsummer of iS88, while two\\nothers are projected by organized companies with fair prospects of ultimate\\nrealization, and the year iSSS will almost certainly see such extensions of\\ntwo of the existing systeins as will make of them, in practical effect, two\\nmore routes into popiilous, thriving, and hence important territory. These\\nrailroad facilities, as may be seen from even a hasty glance at the railroad\\nmap on the back cover, place our manufacturers and merchants in communi-\\ncation with all the rest of the world, under exceedingly favorable circum-\\nstances. No other inland city offers superior advantages for freights, while the\\nvolume of traffic, rapidly growing, in and out of the city, secures for ship-\\npers not only excellent and improving rates, but superior attention and\\nservice. Railro.id officials feel that the business of the city is richly worth\\nstriving for, worth cultivating and retaining if possible.\\nTHE FIRST RAILROAD.\\nThe first railroad to enter the city, in point of time, was what is now\\nknown as the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee, one of the most important\\nlinks in the Grand Trunk system in the United States and Canada, on the\\ngreat route from Milwaukee to the seaboard. It offers four passenger trains\\neach way, daily, and the number of freights is only limited by its business.\\nTHE GRAND RAPIDS AND INDIAN.\\\\ RAILROAD.\\nThe next in point of seniority, and the most important in its influence\\non the business of the city, the character and relation of its traffic to the\\ncity, is the Grand Rapids and Indiana, which has its headquarters, general\\noffices and chief shops in Grand Rapids, was originated here, and is vitally\\ninterested in the well-being and growth of the city. This road is one of the\\nmost important north and south lines in the country. Built north from here\\ntwenty miles as early as the winter of 1866, and a completed through line\\nfrom Richmond, Indiana, to the Straits of Mackinaw, 460 miles, in 1880, it\\nhandles a vast and growing business, and is of the first importance to the\\njobbing trade as well as the manufacturers of the city. The line has, at\\nthe present, through car service to Cincinnati over the Cincinnati, Hamil-\\nton and Dayton, from Richmond, Indiana, almost as favorable as over\\nits own tracks; but, in connection with other roads of the great Pennsylvania\\nRailroad system, of which it is a recognized and important link, it will\\ndoubtless build its own line into that gateway of the South, Cincinnati.\\nThis road has been the chief factor in the development of Northern\\nMichigan. It has promoted the building of important commercial and in-\\ndustrial centers where but twenty years ago was a wilderness unbroken\\nsave by the lumberman s axe, and those towns with their rural population\\nhave vital interest in and dependence upon Grand Rapids. This company\\nat the Straits of Mackinac has direct connection with the Duluth, South\\nShore and Atlantic system, both to St. Paul and Minneapolis and the great\\nNorthwest, and to the Sault and the Canadian Pacific and other systems in\\nOmaha. Ii s Northern connections are thus almost as important as its\\nSouthern; and it crosses between Grand Rapids and its southern terminus\\npretty much every great east and west trunk line in the United States, and\\ngives the resulting advantages. From and north of Grand Rapids it has\\nbuilt many branches from eight to forty miles long, feeders which greatly\\nincrease its facilities and the commerce of Grand Rapids. This road enters\\nthe timber land, decidious and hardwood, north of the city, and is one of the\\nchief routes for that supply. The most important of its present feeders is\\nthe one to Muskegon, forty miles, where it reaches Lake Michigan and the\\ntraffic of that port. Another branch, twenty-six miles in length, reaches\\nTraverse City. It is contemplated to build still another to Manistee in 1888,\\nto reach another of the most important of La:ke Michigan s ports.\\nSUMMER RESORTS.\\nThrough the able management of this road, the great value of Northern\\nMichigan as a summer resort region, as a paradise for hunters and fishermen,\\nhas become known throughout North America. This interest, already vast,\\nis rapidly growing, and contributes in a marked degree to the volume of busi-\\nness of Grand Rapids.\\nPERMANENT INVESTMENTS.\\nThe Grand Rapids and Indiana Company has its construction and repair\\nshops in Grand Rapids, within the corporate limits. These now employ\\nabout 500 mechanics, and use a large amount of material. In the near\\nfuture they will probably make all the rolling stock of the company, and will\\ngrow to three or four times their present size and importance. This com-\\npany owns what is known as the Union Depot in Grand Rapids, which is\\nused by all its own trains, and also now by trains on the various divisions of\\nthe Chicago and West Michigan, the Michigan Central, and the Detroit,\\nLansing and Northern. It is probable that in the near future the passenger\\ntrains on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the Detroit, Grand\\nHaven and Milwaukee roads will also use this depot.\\nThere are now forty-five passenger trains in and out of this depot every\\ntwenty-four hours, and the coming twelve months will probably see this\\nincreased to between sixty and seventy. The company is preparing plans\\nfor a first-class passenger station to be completed in 1888. To make it con-\\nsistent with the city and its business, it is proposed to spend between $250,-\\n000 and $300,000 on the structure and track facilities.\\nTHE LAKE SHORE .\\\\ND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD.\\nNext in point of time of construction is the Kalamazoo Division of the\\nLake Shore and Michigan Southern system. This division is ninety-four\\nmiles long, south from Grand Rapids, and at its southern terminus. White\\nPigeon, connects with the main line of that system. So it, too, furnishes\\ncompetition as well as facilities for both Eastern and Western business. It is\\nnow running four passenger trains daily, two each way, with through car\\nfacilities.\\nTHE CHICAGO AND WEST MICHIGAN RAILROAD.\\nNext in order of time is what is now known as the Chicago and West\\nMichigan system, which is second on the list in the importance of iis con-\\nnections and business relations to Grand Rapids. Two of its chief divisions\\nterminate here, and a part of its general offices, including the general\\nfreight and passenger offices, are located here.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE CITY OF GRHND RfiPIDS. 15\\nThe most important of its divisions, ending here, is the main line, from The following are the aggregate figures of the business done by the five\\nGrand Rapids to LaCrosse, Ind., 153 miles in length. Reaching that city it railroads and one steamship line centering in the city during the year 1887:\\ncrosses all the great east and west lines of the country north of the Ohio\\nr reight forwarded, tons 397, UGl\\nRiver, with the resultant advantages. At New Buffalo, iii; miles from c- u. j\\nFreight received, tons 58. 624\\n(irand Rapids, the road makes direct connection with the Michigan Central, Passengers outward 297 Vii\\nand at present has such intimate relations with that company it runs through Passenger inward 323 614\\ncars and solid trains into Chicago, si,\\\\ty-eight miles further. This line also I relgtit Trains, daily 28in,3lout\\nconnects with the great southern systems of the country, and also with the Passenger Trains, daily 34 each way\\nbituminous coal fields of Western Indiana,\\nSTRliHr RAILWAY SKRVICE.\\nAnother of its divisions, the Newaygo, runs north from Grand Rapids Next in importance to its facilities for speedy and cheap communication\\nto Baldwin, seventy-four miles, there connecting with the Flint and Tcre with the balance of the world, in every large and growing city\u00e2\u0080\u0094 especially in\\nMarquette system, and thence to Ludington and Manistee. On the route every manufacturing center, where cheap houses, quickly, easily and cheaply\\nare important lumber interests, and at White Cloud, forty seven miles from accessible to or from all points of the municipality are a necessity\u00e2\u0080\u0094 are ample\\nGrand Rapids, is the junction with the Big Rapids and Muskegon division, street railway facilities. In this department the city offers great advantages\\ntifty-five miles long, a very important lumber road. This division is quite already secured, with the certain prospect of their great extension in the\\ncertain to be extended in 188S, probably in two directions, the main line very near future.\\ncontinuing through north to Traverse Citv, the other branch through north-\\nIhere are two companies operating distinct systems here, which will\\nwest to Manistee witli its large local and lake port business. i r 1\\ninsure healthhil competition in the matter of providing new lines quite as\\nThis system has also another division known as the Northern, running soon as they are likely to be needed or prove profitable.\\nfrom Allegan, 103 miles, to Pentwater, through Holland City, where it One of these companies, the Street Railway Company of Grand Rapids,\\ncrosses the main line, twenty six miles from Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, now has nearly fifteen miles of track in its system. All these lines pass\\n.Muskegon and other important points. It also furnishes connection over the directly through the very heart of the city, through the main business streets.\\nJackson and Mackinaw system, Michigan division, via Allegan, between One of the lines, a little more than four miles long, extends from the extreme\\nGrand Rapids and Toledo. This company runs thirteen passenger trains in \u00e2\u0080\u009eorth of the city to and along the extreme south boundary. This line, part\\nand out of the city daily. of the way parallel with the river, connects one of the most important rail-\\nTHE Micillc.AX CKNTRAi. RAILROAD. way Systems and a great manufacturing and residence district with the\\ncenter of town, thence passes south through a mile and a half of business\\nNext in the order of its general completion, though not of its entrance\\nstreets devoted to stores, to a superior residence district and the fair grounds\\nto the city, is the Michigan Central svstem the fourth of Grand Rapids\\nand race track. A second line crosses the city, from the west side to the\\nconnections with the seaboard.\\neast side, uniting the portions separated by the river, and also running from the\\nThis is the Grand Rapids division from Grand Rapids to Jackson, a extreme north nearly to the south. This route also is nearly four miles long\\ndistance of ninety-four miles. At the latter city direct connection with the and passes through the very heart of the city. Two branches of this route,\\nmain Hue is reached, with its more than 1,200 miles of track aside from this in effect, one from the extreme west, almost at the center of the city, the\\ndivision. This company is now running eight passenger trains in and out of other from the extreme northwest, run to the heart of the city only. The\\nthis city daily, and will probably add two more one e.ach way soon. third route of this company extends from the extreme southwest to the\\nextreme east. This line is about three miles long and also runs through the\\nTHE DETROIT, LANSING AND NORTHERN RAILROAD.\\nbusiness center. These pass by or near the chief churches, school houses\\nThe Detroit, Lansing and Northern Company is now running four solid 1 ,i,\u00e2\u0080\u009e \u00e2\u0080\u009e,,Kr\u00e2\u0080\u009e k,.i.i- aii .1 r j 1\\nft s .-ind the pubnc buildings, as well as the manufacturing and commercial\\ntrains (two e.ach way) daily between Grand Rapids and East Saginaw, a j:o.,;\u00e2\u0080\u009e.\u00e2\u0080\u009e \u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009ea t\\\\,.-^.,\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\\\, tu^ \u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e..i\u00e2\u0080\u009e.,\u00e2\u0080\u009e n .u\\nJ J I a districts, and ti^rougn the more populous residence portions. On the east\\ndistance 01 1 15 mi es. jli^^ ^j- ^j^^ ^^y^ t^^.^ routes connect with each other, making a circuit or loop\\n.A.t Edmore, on this system, connection is made with the Stanton line, and also with a steam line a little more ttian two miles long leading to\\nbranch, from Ionia to Big Rapids, 63 miles long. the lakes two bodies of water east of the city, one of them a mile and a\\nhalf long and over half a mile wide; the other nearly half a mile in diameter.\\nThis company, through a new organization known as the Grand Rapids,\\n,,.._.,,\u00e2\u0080\u009e These lakes furnish the chief local pleasure resorts.\\nLansing and Detroit Railroad Company, is liuilding, and will complete early\\nin May, 1888, a line not quite 50 miles long, from Grand Rapids east to The second company, the Valley City Cable and Street Railway Company,\\nGrand Ledge. This line shortens the distance to Detroit and the East a made its first investment in Grand Rapids in 1887, and its fii-st projects are\\ndozen miles and nearly an hour in time, and gives direct connection with the not yet entirely completed, though portions of them are already in popular\\nState Capital, aiu! will prove a most important addition to the facilities of and successful operation. The main stem of this system is a cable line from\\nthis citv and Western Michigan. At least eight through trains daily will run the east bank of the river directly e.ast and up a hill the top of which is\\nover the line. about 140 feet higher than the river level, something more than a mile, on a\\nrRojKCTED RAILROADS. Street which is almost at the precise center of the city north and south.\\nThis line, passing from the business heart of the city, crossing the north and\\nThe foregoing brief sketch gives but a glance at the actual rail advan-\\nsouth lines of the other system at almost the center of town, passes the City\\ntages. Among the proiects for which companies are .already organized,\\nHall, the Postofhce and other prominent public structures, and reaches the\\nwhich have merit, and, hence, arc likely to develop into facts, are these:\\ntop ot a hill on a route wholly impracticable to horse-car service. I his\\nThe Grand Rapids and Chicago Air Line, surmised to be a Grand Trunk r\\nmam stem is connected with, or rather connects, an importaant system of\\nscheme, and the Grand Rapids, Rockford and Greenville Road, now partly\\nhorse-car lines. One of these, already built, passes on top of the hill, to\\ngraded between Rockford (fourteen miles north of Gr.ind Rapids, on the\\nthe north end of the city, through a very desirable and populous residence\\nGrand Rapids and Indiana) and Greenville, and intended, eventually, to\\ndistrict; its cars will all reach the heart of the city t)y the cable line,\\ncross the State diagonally through a most important lumber district to\\nAnother line of horee cars penetrates to the southern line of the city, a mile\\nAlpena, a distance approximating too miles. r\\nand a half from the west end of the cable, and is in operation. A third\\nThese facts show how great are the present and prospective advantages line runs through the heart of the city, thence crosses thi river on a third\\nof Grand Rapids business men in that most important matter, transportation. bridge, to the west, and reaches the West Side a mile and a half distant", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": ":6\\nTHE CITY OF GRAND RflPTDS.\\nironi ihe cable system. This company already has a franchise for at least\\nseven miles more of its cable system, forming a belt line which takes in\\nsubstantially the whole city. It also has a franchise for and will construct a\\nilummy line to the lakes already mentioned.\\nIn this connection, not distinctly as a street railway facility, yet such in\\npractical results, should be mentioned the Reed s Lake branch of the Grand\\nRapids, Lansing and Detroit Railroad. This company, from a point on its\\nmain line a little south of the city, has built a branch about a mile and a\\nhalf long to the lakes and proposes to ran frequent and regular passenger\\ntrains for pleasure resorters and suburban passengers, to the Union Depot.\\nIt is aiding in the development of quite a large suburban settlement, and\\nprobably will provide train service for the entire year.\\nAll the railways entering the city have suburban stations, and they are\\nalready preparing for special suburb.an train service in addition to the stops\\nof all their many regular trains now entering and leaving the city.\\nFrom this outline it will be seen that capitalists have unbounded failh\\nin the future of the city and in this branch of business, and propose to\\ngreatly increase the present facilities at once, so that any who may so desire\\ncan secure homes well out of the city in any direction and still be ex-\\nceedingly near all other parts, because of the cheap street-car service.\\n(Jaritabk ^omQ$ ,0- Hospital^.\\nX the matter of public and religious charities Grand Rapids\\nis not surpassed by any city of its size in the country, and\\nthis fact describes to the thoughtful a population of the\\nhighest and most prosperous type. The charitable homes\\nand hospitals in and about the city are constructed upon a\\nlarge and generous scale.\\nUNION BENEVOLENT ASSOCI.\\\\TION.\\nThe Union Benevolent Association, organized nearly forty years, owns\\nand maintains a home and hospital that is one of the handsomest properties\\nof this class in the State. It is located at the corner of College avenue and\\nLyon street. The building is large, handsome and is fitted throughout with\\nall the more modern conveniences for the care and treatment of the unfortu-\\nnate. In connection with the home is a training school for nurses, and the\\nsociety also maintains an outside relief committee, to supplement its great\\nwork for humanity. Its home and grounds cost upwards of $40,000.\\nST. mark s home and hospital.\\nSt. Mark s Home and Hospital, which is maintained under the auspices\\nof St. Mark s Episcopal parish, is at present located upon Island street.\\nIts object is similstr to that of the Union Benevolent Association to provide\\na home, and care for the aged, sick, poor and infirm. The work of the\\nsociety has so far outgrown its present quarters that a new, large and com-\\nmodious hospital building is to be at once erected at the northeast corner of\\nE.TSt Bridge and Bostwick streets. The site, costing $11,500, has been\\nsecured and plans perfected for a \u00c2\u00a750,000 structure to be completed dur-\\ning 18S8.\\nLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR.\\nThe Catholic churches of the city maintain, under the immediate super-\\nvision of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a home for the aged poor. But one\\nwing of the large and elegant new building projected has been built and is\\nnow in use. The building is a model in plain architectural beauty and its\\nappointments. It is located on South Lafayette street, just south of Cherry\\nstreet. The property has cost $40,000 thus far, and when completed will\\nhave cost nearly Sioo,ooo.\\nHOME FOR FALLEN WOMEN.\\nThe Womans Christian Temperance Union maintains a home and hos-\\npital for unfortunate and fallen women upon East Fulton street. The doors\\nof the institution are also thrown open to women of all classes who need\\ntemporary aid and assistance.\\nCATHOLIC ORPHAN ASYLUM.\\nThe Catholic Orphan Asylum is an institution of the near future. The\\nplans are prepared for a handsome structure, to be of the best materials and\\nto possess all the modern improvements, which shall cost about Sioo,ooo.\\nThe Catholic societies of the diocese have already secured the site for the\\nbuilding, the ten acre tract lying between East Leonard and Carrier streets.\\nNorth avenue and North College avenue. Work upon the structure will be\\npushed the present year.\\nC;TY HOSPITAL.\\nThe city maintains a hospital for the proper care and treatment of\\ncity charges suffering from contagious diseases. It is located upon East\\nstreet, near the southeast corner of the city; it is a brick structure and cost\\nS7,ooo.\\nBesides these there are a number of similar homes and hospitals pro-\\njected, and there are a number of private homes and hospitals that are well\\nregulated and maintained.\\nMICHIGAN SOLDIERS HOME.\\nJust north of the city and upon high and beautiful grounds, sloping to\\nthe Grand River, is located the Michigan Soldiei-s Home, an institution\\nestablished and maintained by the State for the care of her soldier wards.\\nThe institution is one of the leading places of attraction in the State, and is\\nconstructed upon a broad and liberal plan. The main structure is of brick\\nand red sandstone and has a total frontage of 250 feet, its greatest depth\\nbeing 120 feet. The central portion of the building is four stories high, 82\\nfeet to the apex of the roof, and the t\\\\^ o wings are three stories high, 48\\nfeet to the eaves. A tower rises over the center of the structure 136 feet. The\\ninterior of the building is similar to other structures of this class and there are\\naccomodations for 450 inmates. There are storage buildings surrounding and\\nthe grounds, comprising 144 acres, afford ample room for the pleasure and\\nprofit of the veterans. The grounds cost $16,500 and were donated by the\\ncity; the main building cost $100,000 and the surrounding buildings, with\\nthe water works, cost $50,000 more. The Soldiers Home is one of the\\nprided institutions of the State, and the citizens of Grand Rapids take great\\ninterest in it. The grounds are reached by a beautiful drive along the river\\nand over one of the finest boulevards in the Northwest.\\nMASONIC HOME.\\nThe Masonic Home, to be erected by the members of the order in\\nMichigan, is designed to afford relief to worthy Master Masons, their wid-\\nows and orphans. The association has located this institution near Grand\\nRapids upon high and rolling land overlooking Reed s Lake. Plans have\\nbeen adopted for the building and its erection is to be accomplished the\\npresent year. The home will be a solid, substantial and handsome structure\\nof red brick and stone, and will cost $5o,ooo. It will be two stories high,\\nwith a lofty attic; of the Romanesque style of architecture, with a tower to\\nextend 100 feet above the ground; will have two fronts, both similar in design,\\none facing toward the north and the lake and the other facing west and\\ntoward the popular driveway,, each front being 130 feet long. Along these\\nfronts are porches and balconies and the building will be one the Masons of the\\nState can take just pride in. A hospital building, detached from the home,\\nboiler house, also detached, and other buildings will be erected upon the\\nhandsome property. The street railway, the cable railway and a branch of\\nthe new Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit Railroad gives easy access to\\nthe home and grounds from the city.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "x.\\ny.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "IXION r.KXF.VULF.NT ASSOCIATION IIOMF. LVON STREET AND COLLEGE AVENUE.\\nLADII.S- I.ITKKARV CLIT: HOUSE.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "O-WASH-TANDNC, lioAT CLin? HOUSK\u00e2\u0080\u0094 REED S LAKE. SUBURBS OF GRAND RAPIDS.\\nPENINSULAR CLUB HOUSE.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "VALHATI^N TAXATKDN.\\nR Point frorr) wliicli Grand Rapids Milst Prove Attractive to Investors.\\niOOD schools are expensive, that is, it requires money to\\nmaintain them, and as tliere are no better public schools\\nin the world than those at Grand Rapids, it must be ex-\\npected that the school tax will be an important factor in the\\ntax rolls. It is the largest item in the municipal budget,\\nis paid without protest or grumbling by all, even speculators appar-\\nintly recognizing the fact that it is a good investment, because excellent\\nacililies for educating the growing generations greatly enhance the value of\\n)roperty of all kinds. For the fiscal year 18S7-8 the total rate of city tax-\\nition on the assessed valuation was .0214, of which .00S3, or a little more\\nhan three eighths, was school tax. This reckoning includes what is known\\n:s the mill tax I mill on each dollar of valuation -with the budget pre-\\nented by the Board of Education. This was a lillle higher than the aver-\\nLge for the past five years, as will be seen by examining the statement given\\nlelow:\\nYEAR.\\nASSF.SSF.D\\nVALL-ATION.\\nCITV TAX.\\nR.ATE\\nCITV TAX.\\nSCHOOL\\nTAX.\\nRATE\\nCITV TAX.\\nTOTAL RATE\\nPER CENT.\\nSS3\\na9.a*4.oi2\\nS227.526\\n.0111\\nS120.510\\n.1)01)6\\n1.77-100\\nsm\\n19.7l: ..G40\\n229.369\\n.0115\\n131,810\\n.00665\\n1.71-10\\n85\\n19.9t\u00c2\u00ab.81l\\n307,335\\n.015\\n120,000\\n.006\\n2.1-100\\nfe88\\n20.328.113\\n228,111\\n.0112\\n143,100\\n.007\\n1.82-100\\n687\\n20.G80.177\\n283,030\\n.0134\\n171.110\\n.008\\n2.11-1000\\nThe extraordinarily high rate of taxation (or 18S5 w-as due to the fact\\nhe bu lget included something over $64,000 for the bridge fund, two new\\nron briilges and a part of another being built that year. There was also in\\nhe budget for 18S5 !-.o, 00 to pay for the site of the City Hall. As the\\nity is now well supplied with bridges, having four of iron, as good as new,\\nnd one wooden one in good condition, such iiems will not appear in the\\nludget again ior many years.\\nThe cause of the unusual high rale for 1SS7 will be learned from the\\nludget for that year given below.\\nA.S.SESSF.D vs. RE.VL V.\\\\LU.\\\\TION.\\nAs will be seen, the reckoning above is made on the assessed valuation,\\nerhiip^ a .latenient based on the real value of property will be more satis-\\nictory lo persons contemplating investments in the city. The result of\\nivestigation in this line, the transfers referred to having occurred since the\\nrst of August, 1S87, is given as follow-s:\\nA piece of business property, a block on Pearl street near the business\\nenter of the city, which sold for $42,000, paid: city tax, S32S.S0; school tax,\\n204; state tax, S60; county tax, ,$50.16. Total, S642.96, or l}4 pc cent.\\nAnother parcel of business property, pr. .ctically vacant, located within\\nblock of Campau Place, was sold in November last for $42,500. The\\naxes for 18S7 were: city, S342.50; school, $212.50; state, $62.50; county,\\n52.25. Total, S669.75, or 1.57-100 per cent.\\nA piece of residence property, sold for $8,500, paid: city tax, $49.72;\\nchool, $30.29; state, S9.20; county, $7.71. Total, S97.12, or a little less\\nlian 1. 15-100 per cent. Another, sold for $6,000, paid total ta.\\\\es $76.62,\\nir 1.27-ICX) per cent. Another was sold for $4,000 and taxed S43.42, or a\\nraction over I per cent.\\nFour vacant lots near the eastern city limits were sold together for\\n2,100. They were taxed $25.28 1% per cent. Two lots in the northern\\npart of the city sold for $900 were taxed $12.20 1^-3 per cent. A vacant\\nlot, favorably situated on the West Side, which sold for $1,850, was taxed\\nS25.48 1. 38-100 per cent.\\nA site for a factory which was turned in at $i8,oco in the organization\\nof a stock company, was taxed $190.80 i. 6-100 per cent.\\nSeven vacant lots in the outskirts of the Fourth Ward sold for $1,330,\\nspot cash, last fall. The taxes for 1887 were $20.02 l^ per cent.\\nIt will be observed that the figures, based on actual sales, include State\\nand county taxes total taxation for a year when the rate of taxation was\\nunusually high higher, probably, than it will be for many years to come.\\nWHERE THE MONEY GOES.\\nThe city budget for 18S7 was composed of the following items:\\nCity Hall interest fund S 6.866.45\\nCity Hall furnishing fund 11,000.00\\nWater Works interest fund 80.560.00\\nGeneral fund S4.C00.00\\nPoor fund 22.000.00\\nLamp fund 32.000.00\\nFire Department estimate Board Fire and Police Commissioners fund 55.849.93\\nPolice Department estimate Board Fire and Police Commissioners fund 53.653.68\\nSuperior Court fund 1,500.00\\nPark fund 3,.i00.00\\nFirst District sewer fund 1.500,00\\nSecond District sewer fund 500.00\\nHighway fund 1,5.000.00\\nFor engine house. Sixth Ward 5.000.00\\nFor the purchase of a lot for engine house in Third Ward 2,.500.00\\nFor construction of piers and bridges over East Side Canal at Bridge street, as\\nper contract 8.600.00\\nTotal 5283.0-30.06\\nIn presenting the budget to the Council the Committee on Ways and\\nMeans said: The substantial increase in the amount necessary to be raised\\nby taxation for the ensuing year can be accounted for partially in conse-\\nquence of the change in the liquor law, which cut off the revenue of the city\\nin this direction one-half, which made it necessary to add $25,000 to the\\nusual amount raised for the general fund; this, united with the prodigious\\ngrowth of our city calling for a corresponding increase in expense, will, to a\\ngreat extent, account for the seemingly large advance in the budget this\\nyear.\\nTHE SCHOOL HUDGET.\\nThe school taxes for 18S7 were appropriated as follows:\\nTeachers salaries 75.000\\nJanitors* wages 13,500\\nBonds maturing 10.000\\nInterest on bonds 0.520\\nFuel 8.(100\\nPurchase of school house sites 5.tK)0\\nGrading and sewers 4.000\\nImprovement of grounds 1,800\\nSchool furniture 3,500\\nHeating apparatus 2,000\\nContingent fund 8.000\\nRepairs S,000\\nSalary Superintendent of Construction 1,000\\nSecretary s salary 600\\nInsurance 150\\nGilbert fund 140\\nPrinting and advertising 500\\nLibrary and board-room furniture and mo\\\\-ing library 5,000\\nLibrary expenses 3,000\\nTotal S152.910", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "18\\nTHE CITY OF GRHND RflPIDS.\\nThe difference in the amount of the school budget and the total school\\ntaxes for 1SS7, shown in the schedule above, is accounted for by the fact that\\nthe I -mill tax is included in the tabulated statement.\\nIn presenting this estimate to the people for ratification the Committee\\non Ways and Means of the Board of Education said: We have carefully\\nconsidered the causes which have led to this increase in expenditures for\\neducational purposes, and by comparing the present needs of the board with\\nlast year s expenditures, we find a large increase in the number of pupils,\\nwhich made it necessary to add seventeen rooms to past facilities in order\\nto meet this substantial increase in the average attendance, increasing the\\nnumber of rooms necessarily increasing the number of teachers employed,\\nwhich items, added to a large deficit oti last year s business, accounts for the\\namount asked for in advance of last year.\\nSALARIES OF CITV OFFICERS.\\nUnder charter provison the salary of the Mayor is fixed by the Common\\nCouncil at not to exceed Si, 200 per year. At present it is fixed at $750.\\nThe City Clerk gets Si. 000 per year and fees, and is allowed such as-\\nsistant clerk hire as the Council may deem necessary. The salary of the\\ndeputy clerk is S750.\\nThe Comptroller is allowed Sl,200 per year, with a small amount of\\nassistance when absolutely necessary.\\nThe Treasurer s salary is \u00c2\u00a32,500, and his deputy receives $1,200. No\\nfees or other emoluments.\\nThe Marshal draws Si, 200 per year and his deputy is paid by the day,\\nhis wages averaging about S740 per year. The Marshal is also allowed S12\\nper week as clerk hire.\\nThe salaiy of the City Attorney is $2,500, with an assistant at S750.\\nThe salary of the Judge of the Superior Court ($2,500) is paid by the\\nState, the city paying the Clerk Si, 000 per year and the messenger $312\\niper year.\\nThe Director of the Poor receives $1,000 per annum, and the keeper of\\n(he city supply store $750.\\nThe Health Officer receives $1,500; the City Physician the same\\namount, and the Secretary of the Board of Health S750.\\nMembers of the Board of Review and Equalization, three of them, are\\npaid $3 per day for time actually spent in the discharge of their duties.\\nThey are required to make oath to the correctness of their claim when pre-\\nsented to the Comptroller.\\nThe Judge of Police Court draws a salary of $1,500, and the Clerk of\\nthe same court $1,000. All other officials connected with the Police Depart-\\nment are paid from the department fund.\\nThe meinbers of the Board of Public Works receive $3 per day while\\nin the active discharge of their duties. Their clerk is paid $1,200 per year.\\nThe City Surveyor and his assistants cost the city about $4,000 per\\nyear.\\nMembers of the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners and of the\\nBoard of Education receive no compensation.\\nWARD OFFICERS.\\nThe Aldermen, two for each ward, draw a salary of $200 per year,\\npaid from the general fund, and receive extra compensation for acting as\\nInspectors of Election and as members of the Boards of Registration.\\nThe Supervisors, one for each ward, are paid $2 per day for the tim\\nactually spent in the discharge of their duties.\\nThe Ward Collectors draw $2 per day from the first Monday in Decen\\nber until January 10, and get a percentage on collections made after tl\\nlatter date.\\nASSETS AND LIABILITIES.\\nA B.\\\\LANCE SHEET WHICH SHOWS GRAND RAPIDS IS SOLID FINANXIALL\\nThe indebtedness of the city amounts to nearly $750,000. It consis\\nof $382,000 in water bonds bearing interest at 8 per cent., due in 1893 ar\\n1895. Two hundred thousand dollars in school building bonds, all bi\\n$28,000 of which bear interest at 4 and 5 per cent. The first installment-\\n$4,000 becomes due June I, 18S8, and the money to meet it is in tl\\ntreasury. The balance of the school bonds become due, a part in eac\\nyear, except 1906, until 1907, the largest installments, $21,000 each, matu\\ning in 1905 and 1907. The City Hall bonds, $150,000, interest at 5 p^\\ncent., are due in 1904. Total bonded indebtedness $732,000, to which m:\\nbe added a few thousand dollars borrowed for furnishing the City Hall, etc\\nto be paid in the fall of 18SS.\\nTo account for its indebtedness the city can show its system of wat\\nworks, which can be sold for $500,000 whenever the citizens vote to do s^\\nschool property estimated by the Board of Education at a cash value\\n5650,000 engine houses and other Fire Department property reported by tl\\nBoard of Police and Fire Commissioners as worth, at a fair cash valuatioi\\n$121,000; the bridges worth, with the approaches and canal bridges, $205\\n000; parks which would sell quickly for $100,000; city hospital just cor\\npleted at a cost, including the five-acre lot, of $6,600; the City Hall, also ju\\ncompleted, at a cost of $310,000, including site; and the equipment of tl\\nPolice Department, including the electric signal system, etc., $9,600. Tote\\n$1,902,100. Less the liabiUties, not over 8750,000, this leaves the city s n\\nassets $1,252,100.\\nRENT.\\nThe rooms occupied by the city offices and Superior Court are rented\\nan expense of $2,400 per year; also the rooms occupied by the Board\\nPublic Works, City Surveyor, etc., at $1,500; also Public Library and Boai\\nof Education rooms. Si, 200, and the quarters occupied by the Police D\\npartment at $1,300 per year. Except the latter item the rent account wi\\nbe closed when the City Hall is ready for occupancy.\\nPOSTAL STATISTICS.\\nThe total receipts of the Grand Rapids Postoffice for 18S7 were $92\\n692.23; expenses, $34,343.67. Net revenue, $58,348.56. Twenty-tw\\ncarriers are employed, and during 1887 the aggregate number of pieo\\nhandled was 10,511,612. Mail letters collected, 2,462,230; mail lette\\ndelivered, 3,804,080. The money-order business amounted in 1887\\n$545,575.23, ol which $149,204.98 was received for orders issued, ar\\n$393,370.25 was paid out on orders received. Notwithstanding the redu\\ntion in the rate and the increase in the weight carried by a single stamp, tl\\nnet revenue from the Postoffice has been doubled since 1877.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "^m A NEWS CENTER,\\nTine Press\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Vast Range Covered by l^e Nilrrieroils Publications\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Telegraph\\nand Telephone Service.\\nOT alone to the natural resources or the indomitable energy\\nof its citizens does Grand Rapids owe its present flourish\\ning condition. In a large degree its newspapers are en-\\nti;lcd to the credit. Puring the years Grand Rapids has\\nbeen steadily pushing its way to a front place among the\\nbusiness centers of the great Northwest the press has maintained an un\\nceasing advocacy of its best interests and advantages.\\nIf the intellectual and moral condition of the inhabitants of Grand\\nRapids is to be adjudged by the facility of gathering and promulgating news,\\nthen certainly no city of the same population, and few even larger, can boast\\nof a higher plane. There are in this city published and circulated no less\\ntlian thirty-two journals of various kinds, and of these 4 are daily, 17 weekly,\\nI semi-weekly and 10 monthly. English, German, Holland and Skandi-\\nnavian are the languages in which they are published. To publish so large\\na number of papers requires the labors of over 300 persons, and the daily\\npapers alone furnish an average of seventy-five columns of reading matter\\nper day. The two greatest news collecting bureaus in the world, Asssoci-\\nated and United Press, supply the foreign reports each d.iy. The weeklies,\\nsemi-weeklies and monthlies cover nearly every branch of current literature.\\nNews, science, politics, religion, trade, manufacturing, building, real estate\\nand fiction are sub erts which these periodicals handle, in some instances\\nexclusively, in all collectively.\\nThe evolution of the newspapers of Grand Rapids has been positive\\nand decidedly characteristic of the many investments in which her citizens\\nare actively enlisted.\\nTo meet the requirements of so progressive a community necessitates\\nthe employing of the quickest methods of transacting business. The tele-\\ngraph and telephone form an indispensable part of every business man s\\ndaily life. No city of equal size offers better and greater facilities for the\\nrapid transmission of messages than Grand Rapids. Three telegraph\\nservices. Western Union, Michigan Postal, and Grand Rapids and Indiana,\\nconnect this city with every point in the civilized world. The number of\\nwords sent from here in 1887 by the Western Union was 125,000; received\\nhere, 124,000; number of words in press report sent 110,000, and received\\n2,250,000. During the same year the Michigan Postal Company sent\\n15,335 received 14,727 messages. The words received by the press on\\nthis line for the same time was 16,000.\\nThe growth of the telephone service since its organization in 1879\\nsomething prodigious. There are now 625 miles of telephone wire stretched\\nin this city connecting with the central ofhce, 1,042 telephones and 100\\ntowns and cities in the surrounding country. The annual report ol the tele-\\nphone company throughout the United States is accountable for the state-\\nment that Grand Rapids has the greatest number of telephones in active use\\nof any city in the world of the same population. The average is a telephone\\nto ever 70 persons. In 1SS6 the increase over the preceding year of tele-\\nphones in use was 15 per cent., and in 1SS7, iS per cent., and for the first\\ntwo months in 1888 over 60 telephones were put in for new subscribers.\\nThis one fact serves to dem.onstrate that Grand Rapids is not retrogressive,\\nbut decidedly and eminently progressive.\\n-S\u00c2\u00a7)=-\\nguildino glalisli^^.\\nThe Visible iWarks of Graqd Rapids Steady GroWtl^ Tl:\\\\e Structural Beauty of tl:ie City.\\n[^^^^^^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^^g^illE character of any city, and the history of its growth,\\nisj; can be determined by a consideration of its buildings.\\nTliey are to the muncipality what the face is to the man,\\nanil in them can be traced the steps from the earliest period\\nof communal growtli up to present, and give undisputed\\nevidence as to whether the growth h.is been through adolescence to a vigor-\\nous present, or, failing of the high purposes of early days, only the p.ast\\npresents anything of worth.\\n.\\\\LWAVs pkoi;ressive.\\nGrand Rapids shows an unbroken record of progress. Turn the pages\\nof her building history and only progress can be noted. Study the present\\nstructures, and, though the representations of the earliest periods are scarce,\\nllie classes of buildings which mark historical epochs can be still found.\\nThe building of the early settle;-, still solid and substantial, fit emblem of\\nthe sturdy integrity of the men who founded with faith that the future\\nwould fill out their foundation to the city they could even then see. Then\\ncomes relics of the village period good, substantial stores and houses, mostly\\nhaving experienced the effects of growth in being relegated to the suburbs\\nto make way for younger, larger and handsomer structures for business pur-\\nposes. The early city days are marked, in an architectural sense, by the\\nresults of the idea which declared four stories in height and plate glass\\nstore front the proper thing in business blocks.\\nTHE BUILDINGS OF THE PRESEV.\\nThe last period, the period of to-day, and which was ushered in when\\nthe city became really metropolitan, breaking the former bounds which con-\\nfined business structures, aside from factories, to a few streets, is marked by\\nthe rising of such edifices as are worthy to be the business blocks, warehouses\\nand factories of a great commercial and industrial center, such as only great\\ncities can either utilize or pay for. The growth is as solid, as great, and the\\nmaterial used has kept pace with other things, so that permanency and", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "20\\nTHE CITY OF GRAND RflPIDS.\\nsecurity from destructive conflagrations has been established as far as human\\nforesight can provide, while the designs of the best architectural talent has\\nbeen used to add to the attractiveness of the work.\\nTHE DEMAND FOR BllLDINGS.\\nThe growth, which has given Grand Rapids at the present time 4,000\\nbusiness buildings and 12,000 residences, has been steady. The demand\\nhas been always, if anything, slighdy in advance of construction, so that,\\nwhile adding about 1,000 structures each year for the past few years, there\\nhas never been an excess over the wants of the expanding population of the\\ncity.\\nA GL ARANTEE OK STABILITY.\\nThe best guarantee of stability is found in the condition of residence\\nproperty. A house and lot not only comprises a home, but is usually a sav-\\nings bank as well. Here are invested a man s savings, invested because he\\nhas confidence, not only in present values, but firm faith in the future. In\\nthis respect, Grand Rapids is thorouglily endorsed; her houses are one of\\nher chief glories. The taste and prosperity of her inhabitants are evidenced\\nin the beautiful cottages and more ambitious residences scattered all over the\\ncorporation.\\nNO FAVORED LOCALITY.\\nTo no one favored locality is confined the handsome residence buildings.\\nThere are no streets made the special show place to impress strangers. East,\\nwest, north and south can be found houses which speak volumes for the gen-\\neral prosperity of the people. While magnificent residences, fit for the\\ndwellings of commercial princes, are plentiful, the middle class houses, thos\\nendorsements of the solvency, integrity and push of the people of the Valle\\nCity, greatly outnumber them, and, with the magnificent public buildings\\nchurches, school-houses and the humbler homes owned by the laborini\\nclasses hostages to the future.\\nCONCLUSIVE FIGURES.\\nIn 1887, the growth in building, save that the cost was greater, was bu\\na repetition as to number of structures of the record of years just passed,\\nDuring the year, 993 buildings were erected and covered almost every cl:\\nof structures known to cities. The 81,127,840 spent for residences was scat-\\ntered through every ward. The following is a brief statement of th(\\nbuilding statistics for the year:\\nNew and\\nClass. Reconstructe]\\nStores, etc $624,050\\nPublic Buildings _ 436,000\\nFactories, etc.... 27il,100\\nChurches and Hospitals 68,000\\nResidences, etc 1.127,840\\nTotal S2.534,990\\nAn analysis of the figures given will surprise even residents of the city,\\nso quietly has the work gone on, and must convince those seeking a location\\nof the advantages of this city as a point of settlement. The tide of\\nprosperity is settling this way, and the fortunate ones, taking advantage of it,\\nwill float on to fortune.\\ngublic J^uilclings.\\nI HE growth of Grand Rapids in material wealth and the\\ncity s prosperity is illustrated more plainly in nothing than\\nill the number and character of her public buildings, al-\\nready completed, in process of erection or contemplated.\\nThese public structures are substantial and imposing; many\\nof them being conspicuous for their superior architectural design, and the\\ncompleteness of their appointments. Among the more prominent of these\\nis the United States building. It is located near the geographical center of\\nthe city and occupies the block bounded by I. yon, North Division, Pearl\\nand North Ionia streets. Its architectural design is in keeping with this\\nclass of government work throughout the country. The entire lower floor\\nis occupied by the Postoffict, the second floor by the offices of the govern-\\nment oflicials stationed here, including the Collector of Internal Revenue,\\nthe United States Marshal and the United States District Attorney. The\\nupper floor is occupied by the court and jury rooms of the United States Dis-\\ntrict and Circuit Courts for the Western Michigan District. The grounds\\nsurrounding the building are well kept and are worth considerable more\\nthan the building itself.\\nThe City Hall, by far the handsomest structure in the city, is located\\nupon the south half of the block bounded by Crescent avenue. North Ionia,\\n1 .yon and Ottawa streets, and faces Lyon street. Its ground dimensions\\nare 160x96 feet, and the building consists of four stories and a high base-\\nment, with a tower at the Lyon-Otlawa stieet corner 140 feet high. It is\\nsolidly constructed, its outer walls being of stone, roughly cut, and the whole\\nstructure being fire-proof, w ood entei ing alone into the flooi-s, finishing and\\ninside frame work. In the structure apartments are provided for every\\nbranch of municipal business, and there are also large rooms set apart for\\nthe city s extensive public library, the city s higher court and a Common\\nCouncil chamber. The building is heated by steam, ample elevator service\\nis supplied, vaults and safes for the preservation of valuable papers and\\ndocuments are provided in the principal offices, and every modern conven-\\nience is al Iiand, the whole making a structure as nearly perfect as possible\\nand the finest of its kind in Michigan. It cost the city, ready for occupancy,\\n$310,000.\\nA large and handsome building site has recently been secured upon\\nCrescent avenue, extending from Kent to Ottawa streets, for a county build-\\ning, and a handsome structure, to cost $150,000, will soon be erected\\nthereon, affording a home for the county courts and officers commensurate\\nwith the dignity of Kent County. The present county building, at the cor-\\nner of Lyon and Kent streets, is not worthy of any special notice.\\nThe County Jail is located upon the corner of Campau and Louis\\nstreets. It is solidly constructed of brick and stone and cost the county\\nabout $60,000.\\nThere are upon the business thoroughfares a large number of buildings,\\ngenerally classed as public structures, that are beautiful in design, massive in\\nappearance and of large proportions. Many of this class are five and ev.n\\nsix stories high, and they are generally supplied with elevators and modern\\nconveniences of such structures built for general public uses in the most met-\\nropolitan cities.\\nCLUB HOUSES.\\nThat Grand Rapids is eminently a social city is manifest, even to the\\nstranger, by the number and character of her social club houses. These\\nclub buildings, in general appointments, cost, elegance and management,\\nare surpassed nowhere in the Northwest, The Peninsular Club occupies a\\nlarge, beautiful and central club house at the corner of Ottawa and Fountain\\nstreets, near Monroe. The building is of red pressed brick and cut sand-\\nstone and is a model in architectural design and the builder s art, both out-\\nside and in. The building, with its furnishings, cost $50,000.\\nThe O-Wash-ta-Nong Boat Club, universally regarded as one ol the\\nmost successful and best equipped clubs of the kind in the whole country,\\noccupies p.alatial quarters in the Barnhart building on Ionia street, corner of\\nLouis. The club also owns and maintains a handsome boat house upon the\\nbanks of Reed s Lake, the city s popular summer resort. The boat house,", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "1111)1111\\nfi 1 1 u\\nlhv hall.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "PEARL STREET.\\nIn ilie Pmc Woods o\u00c2\u00a3 Michigan. A Logging-Railroad owned and operated by Grand Rapids Lumbermen.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "MONROE STREET.\\nCANAL STREET.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE CITY OF GRAND RflPIDS.\\n21\\nwhich is also fitted up as a club house, overlooks the rowing course of the\\nNorthwestern Amateur Rowing Association, which has decided to hold its\\nannual meetings here for five consecutive years. The real and personal\\nproperty held by the club is valued at over \u00c2\u00a730,000.\\nTlie Ladies Literary Club owns a handsome club house, constructed of\\nbrick and stone, upon .Sheldon street, near Island. The building embraces\\nassembly parlors, library, auditorium, etc., and cost over $15,000.\\nNearly every nationality represented in the city s population is also rep-\\nresented by a chib building, where the meml)ers, their wives, families and\\nfriends assemble for social pleasures. Among these are the club buildings of\\nthe Arbeiter Verein, on Jefferson street, costing $20,000; the Turn Vcrein,\\nalso on Jefferson street, costing \u00c2\u00a77,000; the Germania, costing \u00c2\u00a79,000; the\\nCasino, costing S9.000; Holland Society s Hall, \u00c2\u00a76,000; PoHsh, Danish\\nand Scandinavian halls, costing from \u00c2\u00a72,500 to \u00c2\u00a75,000.\\nThere are also a large number of clubs, organized purely for social\\n]iurposes, that occupy apartments of no mean or insignificant proportions in\\npui)lic and ]invate blocks of the city.\\nTllli THEATKES.\\nThe city is well ]iroviiIed u ilh public places of amusement and tlie very\\nbest operatic and dramatic attractions appear in them.\\nPowers Grand Opera House, one of Michigan s finest theatre buildings,\\nis centrally located in the Powers building upon Pearl street. The theatre\\nhas a seating capacity of 1,500, is heated by steam, lighted by both gas and\\nelectricity, and possesses all the modern improvements found in buildings of\\nthis natin e.\\nRedmond s Grand Opera House is located on Canal street, near East\\nBridge, and is a handsome and modern play house with a seating cap.acity of\\n1,200. The building, with the theatre furnishings, cost upwards of\\n\u00c2\u00a7100,000.\\nSmith s Ojiera House is located at the comer of Waterloo and Louis\\nstreets, is a model vaudeville playhouse and cost $40,000.\\nThe Wonderland Theatre is on Canal street, about midway between\\nHuron and Erie streets, and is a handsome and cozy amusement\\nstructure.\\nThere are a large number of [niblic halls, located in various parts\\nof the city, that are constructed and well adapted for the presentation\\nof theatricals, operas, concerts, lectures and public entertainments gen-\\nerally.\\n-\u00c2\u00ae6)\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00ae-\\nMunicipal ImproDcmcnt^.\\nTl\\\\e Coriditior) of tl^e Public Streets of tl:\\\\e City Tl^e Sewerage ar)d Water WorKs Systeii\\\\s.\\nlpK i^^PIOOD streets to drive over, good sewerage to carry off the\\nW /i^^^^\\\\^ drainage of the city, and facilities for water supply are\\nA^^^SJl great desiderata in the eyes of the intending settlers. In\\n^iy\\\\j^] these respects. Grand Rapids makes an excellent show-\\nI ing-\\nSTREETS.\\nThe total mileage of streets in the city is 143.012, of which there were\\non January I, 18SS:\\nitlLKS.\\nGr.tded and paved with wood and stone 6.114\\nGraded and paved with wood 1.388\\nGraded and paved with stone 1.178\\nGraded, graveled and gutters paved i3.367\\nGraded and graveled 32.10. i\\nGraded 3.000\\nUnimproved 55 770\\nTotal 1J3.012\\nThe al)Ove statement shows that 69 per cent, of all the streets in the\\ncity have been improved in some manner.\\nThe following talile shows the amount and cost of work done since the\\nyear ending April 30, iZ iz, for each year to date January I, 1888:\\nVFAR\\nAl Kli- 30\\nMII.KS OK\\nsrM::KT\\nIMI KUVl^U,\\n1SS3 1.710\\nI\\nl.it ..875\\n1 -S) i 4.783\\nCOST OP\\nI.MPKOVEMENTS.\\nVKAR\\nIiM lNO\\nAI KIL 30.\\n422.870 73\\n61.748 86\\n72,603 00\\n1886\\n1887\\nJANUAKY J.\\n188S\\nMILKS OP\\nSTKtKT\\nl.MI KOVEU.\\n3.701\\n7.230\\n7.8S1\\nCOST OF\\nIMPROVEMENTS.\\ni 40.020 00\\n112.230 00\\n99.574 00\\nTlie total length of streets impioved during this period is 30.952 miles,\\na cost of 5409,046.59.\\nWAiER Works.\\nIn llie public water works system, there are 28 miles of mains now laid.\\nwhich, with the 296 fire hydrants, gives protection to property over an area\\nof more than two square miles, or nearly one-fourth the area of the city.\\nTliis includes the entire business and manufacturing interests, and covers\\nalso, much of the more valuable of the residence portion of the corporation.\\nPRIVATE WATER. CORPORATION.\\nThe Grand Rapids Hydraulic Company s supply, at present, is from\\nsprings. Steps have been taken looking to a supply of water from a point\\nthree-quarters of a mile north of the city, where a well has been dug. The\\ncompany s system consists of eight miles of pump logs and six miles of cast\\niron pipe, the latter laid last season.\\nSEWERS.\\nThere are 42.669 miles of sewers in the city, as follows:\\nMiles.\\nBrick sewers 17^88\\nGlazed pipe sewers 22 690\\nCement pipe sewers ion\\nWood sewers 1.8.i3\\nIron pipe in river jgQ\\nTotal 42.869\\nThe length of sewers constructed each year since the fiscal year, endin\\n.\\\\pril 30, 1SS2, and the cost thereof, is as follows:\\nYEAR\\nNO. OF MILES\\n1\\nYEAR\\nNO. OF MILES\\nKNULNG\\nCONSTRtrcTF.n\\nCOST OK SAME.\\nE.MJING\\nCONSTRirCTED\\nCOST OF SAME.\\nAI RIL 30.\\nEACH YEAR.\\n1\\nAPRIL 30.\\nEACH YEAR.\\n1883\\n1.790\\nS 9.929 70 1\\n1887\\n2,8. t\\nS17.B40 00\\n1884\\n3.229\\n28.226 31\\njani;arv I.\\n1S85\\n6.114\\n87,376 80\\n1888\\n3.16.1\\n12.463 80\\nThe tot.-il cost for the work in the five years above noted is $155,63661\\nfor a length of 17.152 miles of sewers.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "LIGHTING THE CITY-\\nGas and Electric Lights Filrnisiied by Cornpeting Corripariies.\\nHE Grand Rapids Gas Light Company was organized in the\\nyear 1857, and began operations with one bench of\\nthree retorts, and a storage capacity of 25,000 cubic feet\\nwhich was much more than was then needed. Additions\\nto the plant were made from time to time as the city grew.\\nThe company some years since purchased six acres of land at the comer of\\nWealthy and Oakland avenues, on which has recently been erected complete\\nnew works. Nothing in the city better illustrates its substantial growth than\\nthe fact that such large works had become a necessity. From three retorts\\nand a storage capacity of 25, 000 feet in 1857, to one hundred retorts and a\\nstorage capacity of half a million feet in thirty years, tells the story of the\\ngrowth of the city. The company s plant now comprises thirty-five miles\\nof street mains, and the amount of coal used annually is 10,000 tons.\\nELECTRIC LIGHTIXG.\\nThe Grand Rapids Electric Light and Power Company was organized\\nMarch 22, iSSo, with a capital stock of $100,000. The company purchased\\nits first dynamo (a si.\\\\teen- light Brush) and the requisite lamps and lines in\\nJuly, 1880, placing the dynamo in the basement of the Wolverine Chair and\\nFurniture Company s factory, the company renting power to propel it. The\\nlights were first exhibited in July, 1S80.\\nAt the present time the plant consists of water and steam power com-\\nbined, to the extent of 525 horse power, and twenty-three dynamos, suffici-\\nent to supply 450 arc lamps of 2,000 candle power each, and 1,000 incan-\\ndescent lamps of sixteen candle power each. At the present time the com-\\npany is furnishing to its patrons upward of 250 arc and 500 incandescenl\\nlights, besides a number of motors furnishing power during the daytime.\\nAbout forty-five miles of line wire is in use, covering a distance of ovei\\nfifteen miles of streets. The company is now furnishing for the city i ic\\nstreet lights, the greater number of which are suspended over the centers of\\nthe streets.\\nThe Edison Electric Light Company was organized in 1887, with a\\ncapital of $200,000. Eleven miles of line have already been constructed.\\nThe company has now placed under ground 30,000 feet of copper feeders,\\nweighing two pounds to the foot. The present plant starts up with four\\nboilers, each of no horse power capacity, three engines with 15x18 cylin-\\nders, and six dynamos, capable of feeding 4,000 incandescent lamps simul-\\ntaneously. The company already have stores, dwellings, hotels, etc., wired\\nto the amount of over 3,000 lamps, and accessions to this number are con-\\nstantly being made. This is an incandescent plant only, for the supplying\\nof interior lighting and power. The Sprague electric motor will be used,\\nand power will be furnished, from the same w-ires that supply light, in any\\namount up to fifty horse power.\\n\u00c2\u00a7S\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00ae-\\nPolice and pire protection.\\nHovs^ tl\\\\e Lives and Property of Citizens are Guarded Tlrie Cost of Maintaining tl^e Police and\\nFire Departnqents\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0T )TH Police and Fire Departments of the city of Grand Rap-\\n5y ills are under the control and guidance of a Board of Police\\nand Fire Commissionei-s, composed of five members,\\nappointed by the Mayor, with and by the consent of the\\nCommon Council one every five years. The commis-\\nsioners hold weekly meetings, at which the affairs of the departments are\\nconsidered.\\nTHE POLICE DEP.IRTMENT.\\nThe police department numbers seventy-one officers, men and employes,\\nas follows: One superintendent, two sergeants, two detectives, two court\\nofficers, one truant officer, fifty-one patrolmen, two patrol-wagon men, three\\ndrivers, two clerks, three operators, one janitor and one matron.\\nThere are twenty-seven beats in the city, nine of which are constantly\\npatrolled. The remaining eighteen beats are patrolled from four o clock P.\\nM. until four o clock A. M. The patrolmen are divided into three squads,\\nor watches. The day watch patrols from eight A. M. until four P. M. the\\ndog watch from four to eight P. M., and from four to eight A. M.; and the\\nnight watch from eight P. M. to four A. M.\\nIn connection with beats is the patrol box system, one of the finest fea-\\ntures of the department. There are thirty-sLx of these boxes, twenty-eight\\nof which have telephones. The remaining eight are used to call for helii\\nfrom remote districts not patrolled. The boxes are connected with police\\nheadquarters. Twenty-five miles of wire are used in the system. Each\\npatrolman reports to headquarters at each end of his beat, and the exact\\nhour is there recorded by an operator. These reports are carefully saved\\nand bound so that in after years a person can tell, by refeiTing to the records,\\nwhere an officer was at a certain hour on a given date. If a patrolman\\nwishes help or the wagon, or instructions, he asks for it, and many times\\nreceives instructions from the sergeant in charge of the station through the\\nsame channel. If a patrolman fails to report in a reasonable length of time\\nafter he should do so, another officer is detailed to look him up and ascertain\\nthe cause of the difficulty. In connection with the system is a two-horse\\nwagon, with a man constantly in charge. The wagon attends all alarms\\nfrom the patrol boxes and many calls by private telephone. It also attends\\nall fires, in order to give necessary police protection. There is also a one-\\nhorse wagon, on duty during the day only. It is used in carrying prisoners\\nto and from the jail, sending after witnesses for Police Court, and for persons\\nfor whom warrants have been issued, returning lost children to their homes,\\ntaking sick and disabled persons to the different homes and hospitals, and\\nother like work.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE CITY OF GRAND RflPIDS.\\n23\\nOne oft icer devotes liis entire time to seeing that llie truant law is\\nenfoiceii, and that the factories do not employ help imder the proper age.\\nThe officers are all well drilled in the use of the revolver and club, and\\naie requireil to spenil a jiortion of their time daily in practice. The entire\\nforce is as well drilled as most military companies in the State. The advan-\\ntage of having a well-drilled, well disciplined force can readily be seen.\\nFrom May i, lS86, to May i, 1887, there were 1,472 arrests made by\\nthe officers. Of the number, 1,393 were males and 79 were females, and\\nonly nine of the entire number could neither read nor write. A comparative\\nstatement for the ten months ending March I, 1S88, shows the number of\\narrests to have been 1,493 T respectable showing, when it is considered\\nhow rapidly the population of the city is increasing; that new State laws and\\namended city ordinances made many more arrests necessary.\\nIt costs in round nun^bers 55,000 per month to maintain this branch of\\nthe city s business.\\nIn connection with the lorce, and under the supcr\\\\ isi(.)n of the commis-\\nsioners, is the Grand Kapids Police Relief and Benefit Association, which\\nassists and relieves jiatrolmen when injured in service or who are disabled by\\nsickness.\\nTHi; I lRF nEP.\\\\RTMENT.\\nThis department has eight line brick engine houses, valued at S6o,ooo;\\nseven four-wlicele l modern hose carriages, two chemical engines, four steam-\\ners, two hook and ladder trucks, one telegraph wagon, one supply, and\\n15,000 feet of hose. Forty-four full pay men are employed, and forty-one\\npart-pay men. There are thirtveiglit horses in the department, employed\\nfor its various uses. The full-pay men spend their entire time at the engine\\nhouses, excepting when at their meals. The part-pay men sleep at the\\nhouses, and during the day are at their places of business, which have gongs\\nconnected with the telegraphic alarm system, and in case of an alarm the\\nmen respond.\\nIn the fire alarm system there are seventy-five alarm boxes, maintained\\nat city expense. These boxes are conveniently located, so as to give the\\nquickest and most satisfactory results. Fifty miles of wire are used in the\\nsystem, one large bell in the city hall tower on which the alarms are struck,\\neleven gongs, si.v tower bells and twelve telephones.\\nSomething of the efTectiveness of the department can be seen by the\\nfollowing figures of losses for the past five and one-half years: From Sep-\\ntember 15, 1882, to September 15, 1883, \u00c2\u00a777,581.40; from September 15,\\n1883, to September 15, 1884, $101,327.50; from September 15, 1884, to May\\nI, 18S5, \u00c2\u00a719,798.10; from May I, 1S85, to May I, :886, \u00c2\u00a775,747-38; from\\nMay I, 1886, to January i, 1S87, $26,542; from January I, 1887, to January\\nI, 1888, \u00c2\u00a7254,855, the largest by far since 1875. The loss for 1887 included\\nthe destruction of a large five-story furniture factory, containing finishing,\\nstoring and sales rooms. This loss amounted to \u00c2\u00a7190,000. Aside from this\\none fire, the losses for the year 1887 only amounted to $64,855. Since this\\nfire, a large Button steamer has been added to the apparatus, making the\\ndepartment much more efficient.\\nThe value of the property in the department will closely approximate\\n\u00c2\u00a7125,000, and it costs the city about \u00c2\u00a75,500 per month to maintain this\\nbranch of its business.\\nAs in the case of the police department, there is a benefit association in\\nthe fire department for the benefit ol sick and disabled firemen.\\nsss-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^c @iirt\u00c2\u00a7.\\nTt^e Yanous Brariclies of tl^e Judiciary Wiiicti Belong in Grand Rapids Tl^e LavJyers arid\\nOtl^er Professional iVLeri.\\n=5:^^HE various courts, Federal, County and Municipal, located\\nat Grand Rapids, make it the judicial center of Western\\nMichigan.\\nBy act of Congress, 1863, the Western Judicial Dis-\\ntrict of Michigan was established and the sessions of the\\nDistrict Court are held in the Government Building in this city, except cer-\\ntain terms, which are held at Marquette in the Upper Peninsula. The dis-\\ntrict is included in the Sixth Judicial Circuit, which is alloted to Justice\\nSt.\\\\m.ky Matthfws, of the Supreme Court. The Circuit Judge is Hon.\\nIIowKi.i. E. Jackson, of Tennessee.\\nThe terms of both comts commence on the first Tuesday In March and\\nOctober of each year. All the officers of the United States Courts for the\\nSouthern Division resfde in Grand Rapids except the Hon. Henrv F.\\nSeverhns, whose home is in Kalamazoo. Judge Severens holds coin t In\\nGrand Rapids on Tuesday of each Week.\\nTHE COUNTY C0|:RT.\\nThe County of Kent composes the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of\\nMichigan and the court practically Is In continuous session during the\\nentire year. The business of one term is seldom disposed of before another\\nterm begins. There are four terms of court a year commencing on the\\nfirst Mondays of March, May and December and the third Monday of\\nSeptember. At the beginning of each term It generally takes about two\\nweeks to dispose of the criminal business, after which civil cases are taken\\nup. There are generally about 200 cases on the calendar for each term,\\nnearly one-third of which are appeals from Justice Courts.\\nTHE SUPERIOR COURT.\\nThe Superior Court of Grand Rapids is a municipal court of original\\njurisdiction, concurrent with the Circuit Court In civil cases where either\\nor both the parties are residents of the city. The Superior Court has ex-\\nclusive jurisdiction in all cases where the city or any of its officers is a party,\\nand has exclusive appellate jurisdiction where appeals are made from the\\nPolice Court of the city. It also has original and exclusive jurisdiction for\\nthe prosecution of all crimes and offenses cognizable by a court of record\\ncommitted within the corporate limits of the city. The rules and practice\\nof the court are the same as in the Circuit Court of the .State. Any case\\ncommenced in the Circuit Court which might have been commenced in the\\nSuperior Court can be removed to the Superior Court by petition of the de-\\nfendant on filing a proper bond. Very few cases, however, are thus re-\\nmoved.\\nTHE PROBATE COURT.\\nThe third State court of record in Grand Rapids is the Probate Court\\nof Kent County. This court is held In the Court Block on Lyon street, and\\nis open daily for business. The entire time of the Probate Judge and of the\\nRegister is now occupied, and soon more help will be required as the busi-\\nness of the court Is largely on the Increase. Year by year It becomes more\\nand more necessary that those having business in the court should be repre-", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "24\\nTHE CITY OF GRHND RHPIDS.\\nsented by attorney. The amount of business will soon be so large that the\\nJudge can act only judicially, and the routine work must be done by sub-\\nordinates, while the legal papers for the court will necessarily be drawn by\\nattorneys.\\nTHE VOI.ICE COURT.\\nThe Police Court of Grand Rapids is a municipal court which takes cog-\\nnizance of violations of the provisions of the city charter and ordinances,\\nand has original jurisdiction over cases of misdemeanor and of a quasi-crim-\\ninal nature, and has exclusive original jurisdiction in cases of felony com-\\nmitted within the territorial limits of the city. The practice in the Police\\nCourt is similar to that of Justice Courts. The Police Court has a Clerk, but\\nis not a court of record. The court meets daily.\\nThere are in the city of Grand Rapids four Justices of the Peace.\\nEach Justice has an office convenient to the business part of the\\ncity, and devotes his entire time to his official duties. Every year each\\nJustice has from 5oo to i,ooo cases commenced, of which about two-thirds\\ngo to judgment. From each Justice Court from fifteen to twenty-five cases\\nare appealed to the higher court each year, and each Justice has on an aver-\\nage from two to eight jury cases a month.\\nLAWYERS.\\nThere are in Grand Rapids about 140 lawyers and law firms, but not\\nall are engaged in active practice. Many act as insurance, real estate and\\nloan agents, and while doing a profitable business, never appear in court.\\nQuite a number of law firms have a large collection business which very sel-\\ndom brings them into court, while a few have large business interests and\\nare lawyers only in name.\\nThe Bar Association of Grand Rapids, of which the prominent lawyers\\nof the city are members, is an association organized for the same purposes\\nas such associations are organized elsewhere.\\nThe Law Libraiy of Grand Rapids is an institution recently organized\\nand has very brilliant prospects. It is an incorporated company with a\\ncapital of $20,000. At present the library consists of about 3,500 volumes.\\nIt has all the reports of the United States Supreme and Circuit Courts, and\\nsoon will have all the State and territorial reports. The library rooms are\\nin the new Houseman Block, opposite the new City Hall, a location con-\\nvenient and pleasant.\\nPHYSICIANS.\\nPhysicians and surgeons are well represented in Grand Rapids, both in\\nnumbers and professional merit. There are about 140 doctors in active\\npractice, a few of whom have been practicing in the place since Grand Rap-\\nids was a frontier village.\\nThe Grand Rapids Academy of Medicine is an association of the best\\nphysicians in the citv. It meets once in two weeks for the purpose of dis-\\ncussing matters of interest to the profession. Elaborate papers of literary\\nand scientific merit are often prepared and read at these meetings. Original\\ninvestigation and research form a large part of the society s work. It is a\\nbranch of the American Medical Association and its membership is not con-\\nfined to the city limits.\\nOTHER PROFESSIONAL MEN.\\nThere are about twenty-five dentists in Grand Rapids, nearly all of\\nwhom are comparatively young men, although there are three or four veter-\\nans who have been in constant practice for more than thirty years. The city\\ndentists have a due proportion of patronage from out of town.\\nThere are in Grand Rapids about 175 registered pharmacists and\\nforty-five drug stores, and the drug business is fairly conducted upon\\nbusiness principles. No commissions are paid to physicians, and no physi-\\ncian is a secret partner in any drug store. The pharmacists have an associa-\\ntion called the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Circle which meets once a\\nmonth, and of which every druggist in the city is a member. This associa-\\ntion is considered the model association of its kind in the country, and is often\\nreferred to by the leading pharmacy journals.\\nThe clergymen of the city number about fifty, and among them the best\\nof fraternal feeling exists. The majority of them are young, energetic men,\\nwho have been carefully educated for their work, and nearly all are college\\ngraduates. The Pastors Conference of Grand Rapids is an organization to\\nwhich only evangelical ministers are admitted. It numbers about twenty-five\\nmembers, and holds its meetings every Monday afternoon at the Young\\nMen s Christian Association parlors. Practical topics and questions of public\\ninterest are discussed, new books are reviewed, and the state of Christian\\nwork in the city is considered.\\nThere are in the city three architects who each employ from two to a\\nhalf-dozen assistants. The work of one office, which makes a specialty of\\ncottages and residences, is almost wholly foreign; the work of another is\\nalmost wholly local; while the third office has work both at home and abroad.\\nThe amount of work ranges from $600,000 to $800,000 a year to each office,\\nand each office produces annually from one to two hundred designs.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "ENGINE HlJfSE NU.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "TLRNKK SIRELT SCHOOL.\\nSTkAK^.HT SI KKl.T Mil m l.\\nDIVISION .STREPZT SCHOOL.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "t\\nTHE CITY SeHd^LS.\\nThe Free Public Sclnools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tlieir Maintenance and Cost\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Courses TaUglit\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Private\\nSchools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Free Public Library.\\nHE Public Free Schools of Grand Rapids are second to none\\nin the Stale, either in the broad range of their course of\\nstudy or in the ability and thoroughness of their instruct-\\nors; while the Michigan schools are justly celebrated the\\ncountry over for their efficiency and progressive spirit. In\\nnu other city in the State, perhaps, has there been so much accomplished in\\nthe way of offering opportunities (or the acquirement of an education which\\nwill meet tlie praclical needs of all classes of pupils, whatever their life\\navocation.\\nThese schools are organized, and have been for seventeen years, under\\na special act of the State Legislature making the whole city one district and\\nplacing their control in a Board of Education consisting of sixteen Trustees\\nand the Mayor, the latter hoUiing office for one year. The trustees are\\nchosen for two years two from each of the eight wards one from each\\nward being elected each year on the first Monday in September, thus keep-\\ning politics, in the common acceptation of the term, from entering into\\nthe elections. Nine members of the board, a bare majority, are chosen each\\nyear, thus making the system exceedingly democratic and sensitive to popu-\\nlar control, while the holdiiig over of eight of the seventeen members main-\\ntains a conservative element which the experience of years has demonstrated\\nample to guard against too sudden or too radical innovations. The mem-\\nbers of the board serve without pay, and the great public interest felt in\\neducational matters is well demonstrated by the fact that school elections are\\noften among the most holly contested in the city, although no questions but\\neducational ones enter into them. The qualified voters at school elections\\ninclude first, all voters at ordinary elections (male citizens over 21 years of\\nage); second, all citizens having properly liable to taxation; third, all\\nparents who have children of school age (over 5 and under 20 years). Under\\nthese second and third clauses women vote quite generally, and are also\\neligible as Trustees; as yet, however, no woman has been chosen to this\\noffice, though several candidates have been put in nomination since the law\\nmaking them eligible w-ent into effect in 1S85.\\nThe public schools are wholly free, no tuition being charged from the\\nlowest department to the highest, except to pupils not residenls of the city.\\nThe last session of the Legislature, on petition of the School Board, so\\namended the law as to authorize the board to purchase text-books and all\\nother school supplies and furnish the free use of them to pupils such sup-\\nplies, however, to remain the property of the board. The coming school\\nyear will doubtless see this new system introduced.\\nPRIMARY AND GRAMMAR DEPARTMENTS.\\nTlie public school course includes twelve years the first four in the\\nprimary schools, the second four in the grammar, and the last four in the\\nhigh school department.\\nRecognizing that the city is a great and rapidly growing manufacturing\\nand industrial center, it has been the aim of the school authorities to adapt\\nthe course of study in all departments to the practical needs of such a popu-\\nlation, wdiile at the same time affording the most liberal facilities for acquir-\\ning the higher education. The fact, however, that by far the larger number\\nof pupils never reach the high school has caused the most earnest and per-\\nsistent efforts to so organize and perfect the primary and grammar schools as\\nto secure to the great body of pupils the best and most practical education\\npossible, and with the most satisfactory results. At the New Orleans Expo-\\nsition the Grand Rapids exhibit of primary and grammar work won the\\nhighest testimonials, not only from the best educational authorities of this\\ncountry, but from those of foreign nations and these departments are all the\\ntime steadily increasing in efficiency. Special teachers in penmanship,\\ndrawing and music superintend the work in these branches in all the grades,\\nbut it is in the primary and grammar departments the greatest good results\\nfrom this special instruction. Music, as fully demonstrated by experience,\\nnot only exerts a great and beneficial moral influence, but, strengthening and\\nsoftening the voice, it is also a most useful aid in making good readers;\\nwhile drawing, educating eye and hand, lays a solid basis for the far readier\\n.acquirement of any trade or avocation requiring mechanical skill a most\\nimportant matter in a manufacturing and industrial center, as it is the edu-\\ncated eye and hand that marks the chief distinction between the skillful\\nworkman and the botch. In brief, the aim in the primary and grammar\\nschools is to teach thoroughly the essential elements of a sound, practical\\neducation.\\nHIGH-SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.\\nThe course of study in the high schools like that in the primary and\\ngrammar departments is arranged with special reference to the wants of\\nstudents (by far the greater number) who complete their studies here, while\\nat the same time there are courses specially adapted to those wishing to enter\\nthe University of Michigan or other first-class institutions of learning.\\nThere are five district high school diploma courses. Two consist\\nwholly of English studies the English Commercial course, including book-\\nkeeping (in place of the higher mathematics), science, history and English\\nliterature; and the Preparatory English, which differs from the other chiefly\\nin giving more mathematics and thus fitting the graduate for the University.\\nThe Modern Language course includes German, French, science\u00e2\u0080\u0094 is, in fact,\\nlargely elective. The modern languages begin with the first high-school\\nyear, being taught as living tongues, the aim being that the pupil shall be\\nable to speak, read and write them readily as well as gain a knowdedge ol\\ntheir grammar and literature. These three courses have been found to be\\nspecially suited to the practical needs of young men and women whose\\neducation ends in the high school.\\nThe Latin and Modern Language course fits students for the university\\nwith a view to the degree of bachelor of philosophy or of science. The\\nClassical course is the usual one for bachelor of arts, and includes four years\\nof Latin, two of Greek, and a full course of mathematics. Graduates of the\\nhigh school in the preparatory courses are admitted on their diplomas to the\\nUniversity of Michigan without examination.\\nAmong the studies taught, not always included in high-school courses,\\nare zoology, chemistry, geology, botany, astronomy and political economy.\\nThe natural sciences are studied by the laboratory or experimental method,\\nand *ith specially satisfactory results. The Kent Scientific Museum, in the\\nCentral High-School building, is one of the richest collections in the State,\\nits treasures being the accumulation of years of systematic work by the\\nmembers of the Kent Scientific Institute. The Free Public School Library,\\nalso a part of the city s educational system, is likewise an invaluable aid to\\nboth teachers and pupils; but this institution will be described at more\\nlength under its appropriate title.\\nTHE NIGHT AND tINGRADED SCHOOLS.\\nDuring the fall and winter months evening schools, for the benefit of", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "26\\nTHE CITY OF GRAND RHPIDS.\\nyoung men employed during the day (including foreign-born residents who\\nwish to learn English), are conducted by experienced teachers.\\nThe Ungraded or Truant School has been in operation for several years,\\nwith most satisfactory results. Two classes of pupils attend this school the\\nchronic truants and other incorrigibles from the graded schools, and such ot\\nthe class forced into the schools by the truant officer (under the provisions of\\nthe compulsory school law) as are unfit, for any reason, to enter the graded\\nschools. As soon as these ungraded school pupils show themselves fit in de-\\nportment and studies they are transferred to the graded schools in their\\nproper districts. As a means of preventing truancy in the graded schools,\\nand reforming lawless pupils, the ungraded school has proved a most bene-\\nficial agency.\\n.M.\\\\NL AL TRAI.NING SCHOOL.\\nThe proposition to establish a manual training department, in connec-\\ntion with the public schools, has been (or some time under consideration,\\nand a resolution to that end is now in the hands of a conmiittee. The idea\\nis not to teach any particular trades, but to give theoretical and practical in-\\nstruction in the elementary principles underlying them all.\\nPLKLIC SCHOOL Btll.DINGS AND PROPERTV.\\nThe city has twenty three public school l)uildings, with 8,958 sittings,\\nand the estimated cr.sh value of the school property, as given by the ofticial\\nreport of the Board of Education (just issued) is $652,100. With the ex-\\nception of three buildings, coniaining in all twelve roonis, all these struc-\\ntures are subsianiial brick edifices, and most of Ihcm architectural orna-\\nments that are a source of pride to citizens. The Central High School and\\nthe Union High School are the only three story buildings, the former con-\\ntaining nineteen and the latter eleven rooms. The Union is over a mile\\ndistant from the Centr.il, on the other side of the river, and the first three\\ngrades of the higii school course ha\\\\e been introduced in this building dur-\\ning the last few years, the object being to make high-school opportunities\\neasily accessible in all parts of the city. Besides the high-school buildings\\nthere are two 14 room buildings, two 12-room, one ll-room, one lo-room,\\none 9 room, four 8 room, two 7-room, three 6room, four 4-room and one\\n2-room building. They are generally steam or furnace heated, and ventil-\\nated after the iriost approved methods. During the year 18S7 new buildings\\nwere added to accommodate some 700 pupils, and the outlook is for fully as\\ngreat an increase for 1S88. For the last three years the new buildings have\\nbeen erected by the board itself, under direction of its Building Committee\\nand Superintendent of Construction, and with the most satisfactory results\\nboth as to quality of work and economy in expenditure.\\nTI:ACHEKS AM) SALARIES.\\nThere are at present 212 teachers in the public schools, including the\\nSuperintendent, and the salaries for the school year ending Sept. I, 1887,\\nwhen the number of teachers was 204, aggregated $96,975, the salary of the\\nSuperintendent being $2,500 and of the high-school principals $i,Soo and\\n51,500 respectively. The salaries in the primary and grammar schools,\\nboth for principals and assisi.-.nts, have for the last half dozen years been\\nfixed by standing rules based on position and experience. Principals receive\\n$500 for the first room, with S25 for e.ich additional room in the building.\\nAssistants in chr.rge of rooms receive maximum salaries as follows on enter-\\ning tlicir fifth year s ex;icrience in that capacity: Teachers of first and\\nseventh grades, $550; second and sixth grades, inclusive, S500; eighth and\\nninth grades, S600. Cadets receive $200 for first year, S300 for second (if\\nrem.aining so long a cadet j and on promotion to the charge of a room receive\\nS350, which is increased by regular stages each year until the maximum of\\nthe grade is reached. Teachers from abroad receive such credit for experi-\\nence as the board s committee deems just, not to exceed full time for work in\\ngraded schools and half time for ungraded work.\\nThree grades of teachers certificates are provided, the third being the\\nlowest, and in recommending teachers for appointment or promotion the\\nrules require, other things being equal, decided preference to be given to\\nteachers holding the highest grade certificate. The same salary is paid for\\nthe same work, in whatever position, be the teacher man or woman.\\nTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDS.\\nThe public school moneys are derived: First, from the interest on the\\nprimary school moneys received by the State from the sale of the school\\nsection lands in each township, the city s share of which for the last school\\nyear was $14,495, o $i-03 foi ^h pupil of school age in the city, and\\nSl.8l for e.ach pupil enrolled in the schools. Second, the county and police\\ncourt fines, which go chiefly to the library fund, and which amounted for\\nthe same year to $3,223. Third, the T-mill tax, provided for by the State\\nlaw, which must be applied only to payment of salaries, and which should\\namount to some $20,000 annually, the assessed valuation for 1887 being\\n$20,380,477. Fourth, the annual city school-tax budget voted by the Board\\nof Education, ratified or amended by the Common Council, and collected\\nwith the general city, county and State taxes. The board has also power,\\non ratification by the Council, to issue bonds for building or other purposes.\\nRAPID GROWTH OF THE SCHOOLS.\\nSome statistics will best illustrate the rapid growth of the schools, as\\nalso the public spirit of citizens in providing accommodations for the rapidly\\nswelhng school population. In 1878 the city had twelve school buildings,\\nwith a seating capacity of 4,029: now there are twenty-three school build-\\nings, with a seating capacity of 8,958. In 1878 the number of different\\npupils enrolled was 5,039; in 18S7 it was 8,539. In 1878 the total number\\nof teachers was 92; now the number is 212. It has been quite the uniform\\npractice, in erecting new buildings, to raise the money for the buildings\\nthemselves on long time bonds, putting the cost of site and school furniture\\ninto the annual tax budget. The city has now outstanding S204,CX)0 school\\nbuilding bonds, covering a period up to 1907, every dollar of it issued since\\nJune I, 1878 all except $24,000 7 per cents, bearing 4 and 5 per cent, in-\\nterest. The official school annual for 1887, just issued, says: Since 1879\\nthe board has expended $241,000 on ten new bitildings, besides doubling up\\nseveral others.\\nUp to Feb. 24, 1888, the total number of pupils enrolled in the schools\\nwas 8,580\u00e2\u0080\u0094618 more than had been enrolled up to Feb. 24, 18S7, and 41\\nmore than the total enrollment for the school year ending September, 18S7.\\nIt is estimated the total enrollment for the year ending September, 1888,\\nwill be fully 9,189, or an increase of 650 over 18S7.\\nSTATISTICAL, FINANCIAL AND OTHER MATTERS.\\nThe school population, according to the census of 18S6, was 12.775;\\n1887 it was 14,006 an increase of 1,291 for the year. Total enrollment of\\ndifferent pupils in 1S87, 8,539 increase over 1886 of 271. Of this\\n8,539 pupils, 630 were in the high school (about double the number in 1885),\\n2,427 in the grammar, and 5,482 in the primary department. The number\\nin high school over 16 years of age was 231; in the grammar, 63; in the\\nprimaries, 6 a total of 300 pupils over 16. The number under 6 years in\\nthe primaries was 379. Total number of boys in schools, 4,249; girls,\\n4,290.\\nThe rate of school taxation for the year 1SS6-7, including State i-mill\\ntax, was 7 mills on the dollar. The assessed valuation of the city was S20,-\\n380,477, being about one-half the actual cash valuation, making the actual\\nrate of school taxation, for all purposes, only 3^ mills on the dollar. The\\ntotal expenses of the Board of Education for 1886-7, for all purposes, was\\n$183,344, of which $30,935 was for buildings, school sites, school furniture,\\ngrading and sewers and other permanent improvements. The school\\nbudget for 1SS6-7, exclusive of mill tax, $27,475 building bonds and $14,-\\n495 primary school money, was $123,000; the budget estimates for the cur-\\nrent year, 18S7-8, with the same exclusions, are $152,000; total estimated\\nexpenses for teachers salaries, $106,000; estimated per cent, of taxation for\\nall school purposes, including State mill-t.tx, for 1887-8, 8 mills on the\\ndollar assessed valuation, which is half the actual cash valuation.\\nAverage number of pupils to teacher in 1886-7, 34; number of men\\nte.achers, 8; women teachers, 204; average cost per pupil for whole school.", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "y.\\nu\\ny.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0y;", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE CITY OF GRHND RHPIDS.\\n27\\n$19.93; number non-resident pupils in 1887, 153; studying Latin, 22g;\\nGreek, 10; German, 62; French, 32.\\nThe Superintendent of Schools, liis clerk, the teachers, superintendent\\nof construction, librarian and assistants are all employed for one year only:\\nthe contracts are, however, usually renewed year after year. Since the con-\\nsolidation of the city schools under the present system, in 187 1, there have\\nbeen only three school superintendents.\\nPRIVATE SCHOOLS.\\nThe estimated number of pupils in the schools not public, as given by\\nthe public school authorities, is 1,788. These schools are: One Holland\\nRefoniied Church Theological Seminary, one Holland Protestant School,\\nthree English Catholic Schools, one of high grade; one German Catholic,\\none Polish Catholic, two German Protestant schools and one Kindergarten.\\nThere are also three Business colleges, one school for mechanical drawing,\\none for free-hand and artistic drawing, modeling in clay, casting and wood-\\ncarving, two for oil and water-color painting, two vocal music schools, one\\nfor elocution, and one dancing school, besides private teachers of German,\\nFrench, Spanish and other branches. These private schools are generally\\ngood, some being of high merit.\\nPUBLIC LIBRARY.\\nThe Public School Library of the City of t.irand Rapids, more popu-\\nlarly spoken of and commonly known as The Grand Rapids Public Library,\\nis under the control of the r5oar l of Kducation as part of Mr srlionl system\\nof the city.\\nThe library was organized in its present public character, with free cir-\\nculation, in 1S71, and first opened with 4,000 volumes. Since that d.ite it\\nhas slowly but steadily grown in use and usefulness, and on the first day of\\nJanu.iry, 188S, possessed, in its circulating department, 14,036 volumes; in\\nits reference department, 1,542 volumes; and of United States and Slate\\ndocuments, etc., 2,091 volumes. A total of 17,669 bound volumes (besides\\nsome pamphlets and other miscellaneous matter), for use and reference by\\nthe schools and public.\\nThe funds for its maintenance are derived in part from api)ro|)rialions\\nby the Board of Education, $3,000 a year in the past two years, for expenses\\nonly, and in part from the application of crimin.il fines, as provided by\\nState laws; the latter item, varying from $1,500 to $2,000 a year, being\\nusually depended upon for the purchase of books and reading matter.\\nCard holders registered in the present series, 5,220, less 255 canceled;\\nleaving a b.alance of 4,965 in force, which is the nominal number entitled to\\nuse the library at the beginning of the year 1888. Under the present im-\\nproved registration system each book-taker s canl has a life of two years\\nfrom date of issue; at the expiration of which time it has to be renewed, to-\\ngether with its surety signature.\\nDuring the recent library year, ending Aug. 31, 1S87, the circulating\\ndepartment was open but 261 days; in which time 72,986 volumes were is-\\nsued for home use. Daily average circulation, 2S0; largest daily delivery\\n(Feb. 19, 1SS7), 702; smallest (June 8, 1887), 136; largest daily number in\\nhands of readers (March 10, 1887), 2,522; smallest (July 19, 1SS7), 1,586.\\n(Iuk Ik^ .aflf I^ligioiis Iastiluli(Mis.\\nTYie Prorqirierit Derionr|iriatioris Represented fl.r\\\\ Array of Haridsorr\\\\e Edifices Tl^e Nilrqber of\\nCliurc]^ iVLeiTibers.\\nHURCH spires are a sort of inde.x to the moral character of\\nthe community. The membership of the churches indi-\\ncates the religious inclinations of the people, while the\\ncharacter of the edifices indicate their generosity. In both\\nthese respects Grand Rapids makes a creditable showing.\\nA STATISTICAL SHOWING.\\nThe following t.able shows the number of societies, the number of com-\\nmunicants and the valuation of the church property of the difi erent de-\\nnominations:\\nDENOMINATIONS,\\nBaptist\\nChildren of Zion\\nCongregational\\nDisciples\\nEpiscopal\\nLutheran\\nMethodist Episcopal\\nPresbyterian\\nReformed\\nRoman Catholic\\nUnivcrsalist\\n.\\\\11 other churches\\nTotal\\nNO. OF\\nCHfKCHES.\\nCOM.XU NI-\\nCANTS.\\n827\\n300\\n151)\\n8t)7\\n725\\n1.340\\n615\\n4.. itXI\\n10.1100\\n182\\n525\\nVAI.l K OP\\nPKOI EKTV.\\n$118,000\\nlO.fKlO\\n105.000\\n12.000\\nluy.2B0\\n3;l.000\\n112,500\\ntKl.lKK)\\n177.000\\n227.700\\n30.000\\n37.000\\nThe other churches mentioned in the last item include 2 .\\\\frican\\nchurches, I Unitarian, I Swedenborgian, 1 Free Methodist, I Independent\\nGerman and i Hebrew society.\\nThis city is the residence of the Bishops of both the Episcopal and the\\nCatholic churches of Western Michigan, and several churches of other de-\\nnominations are among the largest in the Slate.\\nOTHKR RKLIGIOIS INSTITfTUl.NS.\\nBesides the church organizations proper, there are a number of oig.iniz-\\nations more or less directly connected with the churches and working in\\nconjunction with them. The Young Men s Christian Association numbers\\n450 members and is prosperous and constantly growing.\\nAmong the other religious institutions may be mentioned St. Mark s\\nHome (Episcopal), which has properly valued at $62,000; ihe Catliolic\\nOrphan Asylum, valued at $75,000; the Little Sisters of the Poor Home\\nfor the aged, the buildings of which, completed, will be worth $60,000; the\\nWomens Home and Hospital, under the auspices of the Womens Christian\\nTemperance Union, for taking temporary care of unfortunate women; a\\nHolland Theological Seminary; a Holland Pro .cstaiit school; two English\\nCathoHc schools; one Gernian Cailicilic school; two German Protestant\\nschools; one Roman Catholic school for men.\\n20.931 $i.oai.\u00c2\u00abo", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "mmAL ATTRA^eTKDNS.\\nThe Opportunities for Social and Intellectual Culture Secret and Othier Societies.\\nEW cities of the size of Grand Rapids can boast a more cos-\\nmopolitan population. The wonderful growth of the city,\\nits rapidly developed manufacturing and other industrial\\nresources, and the highly enterprising spirit of its people,\\n=^:^l have gained for it a reputation hardly spanned by the\\nboundaries of the country; and, as a result of this well earned fame, repre-\\nsentatives of many different nationalities have found their way to the Valley\\nCity. The great mass of the population is, of course, of American birth.\\nThe earliest settlers of the valley were New Yorkers, followed rapidly by a\\nstrong New England element, and later by people from the bordering States,\\nand in time by large numbers of the better cl.oss of foreigners. Fully two-\\nthirds of the people are of American birth, and the large foreign element is\\nas strongly American in spirit as the veriest Yankee. The Hollanders out-\\nnumber all others of foreign descent in Grand Rapids. There aie nearly\\n16,000 within the corporate limits. The German population numbers about\\n7,000, and include many of the most prominent citizens of the community.\\nThere are also about 2.000 Scandinavians, 1,000 Polanders, and of all other\\nforeign naiionaliiies perhaps 2,000.\\nSOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS.\\nProminent among the social features of the city are the two gentlemen s\\nclubs, known as the Peninsular Club and the O-Wash-ta-Nong Boat Club.\\nThe former was organized in iSSi and now numbers in its membership 292\\nof the foremost citizens of the place men dis:inguished in business, social\\nand profession.al circles. An elegant club house, costing, with the ground\\non which it stands, nearly $50,000, demonstrates the popularity and pros-\\nperity of the organization.\\nThe O Wash-ta-Nong Boat Club was organized in 18S6 with a charter\\nmembciship of about twenty, and on Jan. I, 1SS8, had grown to niunber\\n706 members, has built a boat house at Reed s Lake valued at $6,000, and\\nhas fitted up a downtown club house at an expense of $11,000. Both clubs\\nare highly popular, not exorbitant in fees and dues, and foim a great factor in\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0he city s social life. The Grand Rapids Fencing Club, a recent organiza-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0lion, has a membership of about fifty young men, and occupies fine club\\nrooms in the Fourth Kational Bank Building.\\nKinnetous smaller clubs and societies, with widely varying aims and\\npurposes, have sprung up from time to time in obedience to the increasing\\nsocial demands of the city. Some of the most popular of these are in con-\\nnection with church organizations, while others are made up entirely from\\npeople of single nationalities, who unite to build family club-houses or re-\\nsorts. Pron.inent among such societies may be mentioned the Arbeiter\\nSociety (German) owning property valued at $20,000; the Turn Verein with\\nS7,ooo worth of property; the Germania, owning a handsome hall erected\\niccently at a cost of $9,000; the Casino Association, owning the Casino\\nl)uilding, worth 59,000.\\nAmong those of a miscellaneous character are the Piurns Club (Scotch),\\nCatholic Young Men s Club, the Philadelphia (German), Swedish Society\\nNorden, German Unterstuetzung Verein, Swedish W orkingmen s Society,\\nOld Settlers Association, Holland Mutu.il Aid Society, and many others of\\nless prominence, all exerting a salutary influence and constituting a part in\\nthe social life of Grand Rapids.\\nLITERARY.\\nAmong organizations engaged in literary jiursuits the Ladies Literary\\nClub holds the first. place, both in number of members and in general pros-\\nperity. This club, organized in 1870, now has a membership of about 31\\nWithin the year p.ist the club has built a beautiful club-house, the propei\\nbeing valued at $15,000, and has furnished and equipped it in a most co:\\nplete manner, making it a delightful resort for the enterprising ladies wh\\nbuilt it.\\nThe West Side Ladies Literary Club is a younger organization, but in\\na flourishing condition and doing excellent work.\\nThree Chautauqua circles are pursuing the course of study prescribed bv\\nthe large and flourishing educational society of which they are branches, all\\nunder competent leadership, and highly beneficial to their membere.\\nThe Fortnightly Club, made up of young people with literary, musical\\nand histrionic tastes; the Monday Club, pursuing a high gr.ade of literary\\nwork, and the Irish-American Literary Society, are among the most promi-\\nnent and active of such organizations now in existence in Grand Rapids.\\nThe Thalia and Alpha clubs are dramatic organizations and give fre-\\nquent and successful exhibitions of amateur theatricals.\\nATHLETIC.\\nThe O- Wash-ta-Nong Boat Club takes the lead in athletics, fosters\\nrespectable sports, and in its finely appointed boat house and gymnasium\\nhas every athletic appliance to be conceived of. The regatta of the North-\\nwestern Amateur Rowing Association has been held with this club at Reed s\\nLake for two successive years, and the association has voted to continue their\\nregattas at the same place for the next three years.\\nThe Grand Rapids Driving Park Association furnishes lovers of horse\\nflesh with fine racing meetings annually.\\nThe Grand Rapids Cricket Club was organized in 1SS7 and has an en-\\nthusiastic membership of over fifty devotees of the English sport, and is\\nrapidly becoming one of the popular athletic institutions of the city.\\nThe Kent County Sportsmans Club is highly prosperous, attractive to\\nlovers of the rod and gun, and numbers in its membership many of the most\\nprominent citizens of the community.\\nSCIENTIFIC.\\nThe Kent Scientific Institute, an ancient and honorable organization,\\ndates from 1865, being a creature of the High School, and has had a suc-\\ncessful career. The Institute has an energetic and progressive membership,\\nand has acquired a fine Museum of Natural History and Arch.ieolog}-. The\\nmeetings are largely attended and are a valuable aid in scientific studies, and\\nin many ways the org.anization is a credit to the city that has always en-\\ncouraged and fostered it.\\nThere are also sever.al informal organizations engaged in microscopical,\\nbotanical and other scientific investigations.\\nSECRET AND BENEVOLENT.\\nNearly all the large secret societies are represented in Grand Rapids by\\nnumerous lodges and other subordinate bodies, and for the most part are\\nwell sustained. The Masonic order has three subordinate or Blue lodges, a\\nChapter of the Royal Arch, Comm.andery of Knights Templar, organizations\\nof the Scottish Rite, 3 Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and a Chapter of the\\nEastern Star. The Odd Fellows have four subordinate lodges, an Encamp-\\nment and a Canton of Patriarchs Militant, also a lodge of the Rebek.ih\\ndegree. There are two Knights of Pythias lodges and a Division of the", "height": "3411", "width": "2345", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE CITY OF GRAND RHPIDS.\\n29\\nUniloimed Rank of the same order. One lodge of the ElUs, two lodges of\\nthe Ancient Order of United Workmen, and a legion of Select Knights\\nA. O. U. W., one lodge of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, three Posts of\\nthe G. A. R., one lodge of IS nai B rith, four lodges of Red Men, two oT\\nKnights of Honor, three of Knights of the Maccabees, four of the order of\\nChosen Friends, four of Royal Templars of Temperance, two of the Royal\\nArcanum, one of the Royal Adelphia, one Temple oi the Patriarchal Circle,\\na lodge of Heptasophs, or Seven Wise Men, a lodge of Knights of the\\nGolden Eagle, a camp of Sons of Veterans, two branches of the Womans\\nRelief Corps, four lodges of Good Templars, one each of the Iron Hall, of\\nthe National Union, Order of Railroad Conductors, and of the Brotherhood\\nof Locomotive Engineers. There are several assemblies of the Knights of\\nLabor.\\nAmong benevolent societies, not secret in their nature, may be enumer-\\nated the Women s Chrislian Temperance Union, with eight branches,\\nthe Young Women s C.irislian Temperance Union, the Catholic Mutual\\nBenevolent Association, Plebrew Ladies Benevolent Association, Dania\\nAid Society, Police Relief and Benefit Association, Firemen s Benefit\\nSociety, Masonic Mutual Benefit Association, Masonic Home Association,\\nand a number of beneficial societies organized among employes of the vari-\\nous factories. In nearly all of these organiz.ations insurance is furnished on\\nthe assessment plan, and sick benefits and other advantages accrue to those\\nuniting with them. Nejirly all have fine lodge rooms, and the various pub-\\nlic and private entertainments given by them from time to time are sources\\nof pleasure and profit to members and their friends.\\nFAIRS.\\nThe Kent County Agricultural Society owns large grounds directly\\nsouth of the city with handsome and commodious buildings, a fine race\\ntrack and all the appurtenances of a well conducted Fair Ground. For the\\npast ten years or more an annual fair has been held at this place, under the\\nauspices of the West Michigan Agricultural and Industrial Association, in con-\\njunction with the Grand River Valley Horticultural Society. These fairs\\nhave been highly successful, drawing fine exhibits in all lines from Western\\nand Northern Michigan, and being especially rich in the display of indus-\\ntrial products from the City of Grand Rapids. The attendance usually ex-\\nceeds that at the State Fair, and in number and quality of exhibits, the\\nsuperiority is marked. A pennanent exhibition will, in the near future, be\\nthe outgrowth of these popular exhibitions of the industrial and agricultural\\nwealth of Western Michigan.\\nMUSICAL.\\nThe St. Cecilia Society, Schubert Club, Maas Choral Society, Oratorio\\nSociety, Harmonie and Germania Singing Societies, are the principal ama-\\nteur musical societies in Grand Rapids. Ihcy are popular, composed of en-\\nthusiastic musicians, and their fraquent entertainments are events of no little\\nimportance to the music-loving portion of the community.\\nMILITARY.\\nGrand Rapids has just reason to be proud of the three military compa-\\nnies that live and prosper within her boundaries. They are, respectively, the\\nGrand Rapids Guards, Custer Guards, and Innes Rifles. They are con-\\nnected with the State troops and are known as Companies B, I and K, of\\nthe Second Regiment. All are provided with excellently equipped armories\\nand entertain their friends with frequent social gatherings. They are pro-\\nficient in drill, well officered and made up of young and enthusiastic\\nmen. The Brigadier General commanding the State troops and several staflF\\nand line officers reside in Grand Rapids.\\nIn all the various lines of amusement, recreation, culture and education\\nreferred to herein Grand Rapids offers exceptional advantages. There is\\nsomething to cater to every worthy taste and to stimulate every laudable\\nambition, and in the widely varying modes of relaxation suggested by the\\nmany organizations named people of all occupations can find congenial com-\\npanionship and renewed vigor for their daily labors. Thus all tend to the\\ncommon result, the development of the vast industrial resources of the Grand\\nRiver valley.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "LIST OF MEMBERS.\\nAinsworlh, C.\\nAllen, E. C.\\nAmbeig, D. M.\\nAnderson, W. H.\\nAntisdel, A. R.\\nArnott, Geo.\\nAspinwall, S. F.\\nAtwater, A. B.\\nAustin, L. H.\\nBaars, J. Frederick.\\nBaker, H. P.\\nBall, Fred. H.\\n]!aldie John W.\\nBall, Orson A.\\nBall, Frank W.\\nBall, S. S.\\nBarnard, E. M.\\nBarnhart, Franklin.\\nBarnhart, Willard.\\nBarlow, Jno. B.\\nBarth, Jacob.\\nBates, Slarcus W.\\nBaxter, Alfred.\\nBehnke, G. H.\\nBelknap, C. E.\\nBenjamin, Leonard.\\nBenjamin, John.\\nBennett, S. P.\\nBerkev, C. H.\\nBertsc h, C.\\nBevier, A.\\nBissell, M. R.\\nBlack, C. W.\\nBlair, James.\\nBlickley, C.\\nBonnell, J. C.\\nBotsfoid, Jas. E.\\nBrown, O. E.\\nBowne, A. J.\\nBrezee, Floyd.\\nBriggs, Geo. G.\\nBrown, F. E.\\nBrowne, \\\\V. H.\\nBrown, Alfred J.\\nBroad, Alfred.\\nBrooks, A. E.\\nBulklev, W. F.\\nBurch. M. C.\\nBurtch, M. T.\\nBuss, Geo. F.\\nBunting, Charles C.\\nCartwright, William.\\nGary, L. M.\\nCheney, Z. V.\\nChickering, Frank.\\nChurch, M. B.\\nClark, Fred. S.\\nClark, Fred. B.\\nClark, N. B.\\nClay, D. P.\\nCody, Darwin D.\\nCompton, Wni. R.\\nCook, Percy T.\\nCorson, R. W.\\nCovode, John A.\\nCox, Wni. E.\\nCoye, Charles A.\\nCreque, J. P.\\nCrippen, A. A.\\nCrockett, S. L.\\nCrosby, Moreaii S.\\nurliss, John L.\\nDavidson, A. Judd.\\nDavidson, G. H.\\nD.avis, Geo. A.\\n1 )avis, Geo. N.\\nDenison, \\\\Vm. C.\\nDettenthaler, F. J.\\nDewey, \\\\V. C.\\nDickinson, Heni-y R.\\nDikeman, E. B.\\nDonnally, E. H.\\nDoran, Peter.\\nDosker, Cornelius.\\nDregge, John.\\nDrueke, W m.\\nDunham, Wm.\\nDunton, Geo. B.\\nDunton, T hn C.\\nDunton, L. G.\\nDurfee, Allen.\\nPykema, K.\\nEarle, Wm. S.\\nEaton, Charles W.\\nEaton, James A.\\nEmery, W. S.\\nFairman, F.\\nF.alkel, A.\\nFerris J. T.\\nFisher, E. B.\\nFisher, O. D.\\nFitzGerald, Gerald.\\nFollmer, C. Carroll.\\nFord, Edwin P.\\nForrest, George.\\nFoote, E. H.\\nFox, Charles.\\nFox, E. Crofton.\\nFox, J. W.\\nFox, P. V.\\nFralick, Henry.\\nFriedrich, Julius A. J.\\nFreeman, W. L.\\nFuller, Ph. C.\\nFuller, Sam l L.\\nGay, Geo. W.\\nGelock, Wm.\\nGill, C. E.\\nGiftord, Geo. P.\\nGilbert, Thos. D.\\nGoebel, H. M.\\nGoebel, John.\\nGoodri h, Chas. M.\\nGrady, H. B.\\nGrinnell, Henry.\\nGunn, W. A.\\nGunn, W. S.\\nHall, Geo. A.\\nHamilton, E. A.\\nHarris, L. D.\\nHanish, A.\\nHarrison, Wm.\\nHastings, H. F.\\nHatch, I. C.\\nHawkins, L. E.\\nHazeltine, C. S.\\nHeald, Joseph.\\nHeath, L. W.\\nHerkner, Tos. C.\\nHerrick, Wm. H.\\nHerpolsheimer, W. G.\\nHess, Wm. T.\\nHester, Myron.\\nHeyman, M.\\nHeystek, Henry J.\\nHodenpyl, A. G.\\nHoUistei Harvey J.\\nHoops, Wm. H.\\nHorner, Jos.\\nHorton, A. C.\\nHorton, E. J.\\nHouseman, Maurice M.\\nHouseman, Jos.\\nHouseman, Julius.\\nHovey, Wm. G.\\nHuelster, W. W.\\nHugenholtz, Paul Th.\\nHughart, W. O.\\nHunt, Louis E.\\nHunt, Jas. A.\\nIdema Henry.\\nIves, Calvin L\\nIves, Henry.\\nJamieson, John.\\nJenks, S. B.\\nJennings, C. W.\\nJewell, Frank.\\nJewett, John H.\\nJohnson, Guy H.\\nJohnson, N. B.\\nJones, Eugene W.\\nJones, Wm. H.\\nJudd, Charles B.\\nJudd, E. E.\\nKeate, E. J.\\nKennedy, Alex.\\nKenning, Jno. E.\\nKidder, E. P.\\nKillean, Jno. E.\\nKleindienst, F. W.\\nKnowlson, A. B.\\nKortlander, Wm. O.\\nKotvis, John.\\nKusterer, Chas. F.\\nKusterer, Philip.\\nLacey, J. D.\\nLamb, F. J.\\nLamos, H. A.\\nLamoreaux, W. T.\\nLeathers, Don J.\\nLee, Edwin A.\\nLedyard, H. T.\\nLeitelt, Adolph.\\nLemon, S. M.\\nLeonard, Chas. H.\\nLetellier, Francis.\\nLevi, I. C.\\nLewis, E. P.\\nLewis, G. B.\\nLoettgert, Fred.\\nLong, Harry W.\\nLoomis, C. M.\\nLowe, Roland.\\nLuton, A. E.\\nLyon, Chas. D.\\nLyon, Samuel.\\nLynch, Daniel.\\nMacBride, J. G.\\nMain, John.\\nMason, Adolph.\\nMatter, Elias.\\nMay, A.\\nMeech, Charles C.\\nMeigs, Arthur.\\nMerrill, Rob t W.\\nMiller, Frederick C.\\nMills, Fred D.\\nMiner, J.\\nMohl, Ed. E.\\nMohrhard, John.\\nMoore, H. N.\\nMorgan, C. B.\\nMorman, S. A.\\nMorton, C.\\nMoseley, E. A.\\nMoseley, T. F.\\nMowat, John.\\nMusselman, Amos S.\\nMcCallum, P.\\nMcCoy, Daniel.\\nMcGrau, Frank.\\nMclntyre, John.\\nMcKee, J. C.\\nMcQuewan, Chas.\\nMcWhorter, Chas.\\nNelson, Geo. K.\\nNoble, F. L.\\nNorris, Chas. H.\\nOlney, Chas. E.\\nO Brien, T. J.\\nOrr, Rob t.\\nOsterhout, Smith W.\\nPantlind, A. V.\\nP.antlind, J. Boyd.\\nPeck, Thos. N.\\nPeirce, Geo. C.\\nPeregrine, S. W.\\nPenny, Joseph.\\nPerkins, Chas. H.\\nPerkins, G. W.\\nPerkins, Henry.\\nPerkins, W. J.\\nPerry, Geo. R.\\nPerry, Thos. R.\\nPhilbrick, Chas. C.\\nPhillips, J. T.\\nPierce, E. S.\\nPorter, A. B.\\nPowers, Wm. T.\\nPreusser, A.\\nPugh, Jas. A.\\nPugh, W. D.\\nPulte, F. E.\\nPutman, Enos.\\nPutnam, B. W.\\nQuigley, C. B.\\nQuimby, Geo. I.\\nRademaker, J.\\nRaiguel, W. H.\\nRandall, Milo G.\\nRaniville, Felix.\\nReed, Charles J.\\nRee\\\\e, Geo. B.\\nRemington, W. B.\\nReynolds, H. M.\\nRichards, Theo. F.\\nRichmond, A. B.\\nRindge, L. J.\\nRobinson, Wm. M.\\nRood, Chas. F.\\nRosenth.al, J. W.\\nRowe, Wm. N.\\nRowson, John.\\nRussell, Henry C.\\nRutherford, D. M.\\nSchroeffel, Philip J.\\nSchultz, Theo.\\nScribner, W. R.\\nSears, Samuel.\\nScars, William.\\nSehler, John.\\nShanahan, M.\\nShelby, W. R\\nShields, John G.\\nShriver, F., Sr.\\nSimmons, Wm. T.\\nSkinner, A. L.\\nSkinner, Chas. O.\\nSligh, Chas. R.\\nSmith, Walter A.\\nSmith Wm. Alden.\\nSnitseler, John.\\nSpaulding, C. D.\\nSpooner, J. W.\\nSpring, Henry.\\nSlanton, L. B.\\nSteketee, Geo. G.\\nSteketee, Peter P.\\nStevens, Sidney F.\\nStowe, E. A.\\nStow, L. C.\\nStrahan, Jno. Q.\\nStrahan, Jno. T.\\nStratton, F. C.\\nStuart, W. J.\\nStudley, E. G.\\nSwartout, R. D.\\nSwartz, S. P.\\nSwensberg, C. G.\\nTalford, W. D.\\nTateum, Wm. A.\\nTeller, Edward.\\nThomas, J. H.\\nThum, Wm.\\nThwing, Z. C.\\nTower, Itan l W.\\nTuttle, T. Emery.\\nUdell, C. S.\\nVan Asmus, H. D. C.\\nVedders, H. A.\\nVerdier, J. A. S.\\nWagner, G. N.\\nWallin, F. B.\\nWalker, E. E.\\nWard, Oren A.\\nWare, Jas. B.\\nWatkins, C. W.\\nWaters, D. H.\\nW atson, A. B.\\nWeatherly, Warren C.\\nWeston, I. M.\\nWetzell, D. M.\\nWhite, Arthur S.\\nWhite, John B.\\nWhitlock, E. D.\\nWiddicomb, H.\\nWiddicomb, Jno.\\nWiddicomb, Wm.\\nWilmarth, L. T.\\nWinegar, Wm.\\nWinlernitz, Lud.\\nWithey, Lewis A.\\nWolcott, Robt. N.\\nWondcrly, J. II.\\nWorden, A. E.\\nWykes, James II.\\nWykes, Thos. E.", "height": "3436", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "e:-\\nJULIUS BERKEY, President.\\nG. W. GAY, Treasurer.\\nJOHN A. COVODE, Sec.\\nin\\n(Xai\\nWjole^ale Wjanafactui ei\\n^o^ i Q\\nv^\\n.^Al\\nVUvi^e ($0.4\\nn s\\nGRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, i\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0pilTlNCi iRfwirtl^ Au.1 -^/Z.\\n^^^^^IDEtiOAI^U-rie 122-\\nJ DINING TabLC-Mo-^S\\nEASTERN WAREROOMS:\\n17 Eli^abctl? St., -H4 N -^w York (^itV,\\nPAMPHLET OF DESIGNS SENT ON APPLICATION.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "^\u00c2\u00a9RIEL CABINET e(!)MMNY4\\nMANUFACTURERS OF\\nANGY PtiRmTrnt\\n415 TO 435 GANAL ST.,\\nGRANB RAPIDS, MIGH,\\nC. W. BLACK, General Manager,\\nmM^ ^DS.l|cH", "height": "3431", "width": "2487", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "J\\nr\\n\\\\^icl(licomb i furniture\\nffi\\n^^mpan^\\nu\\n_^*^\\nCham^ber Suites,\\nBed-B, Chiffoniers,\\nPop tl2e ipade Ocl^.\\nTables, Etc.,\\nIN OUfiRTERED OflK, flSH, BIRCH AND MflPLE,\\n4^(5rancl Rapids, ]^k\\\\}.4^", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "BiSSELL-:- GaRPET SVEEPER G\\n^]^anufacturer8 of (^arpet gupcepers (t)nl\\\\^4\\n*i\\nTYxe Bissell Brands of S Weepers are\\nKno ^ri i^nd sold in every civilized\\ncoiiritry in ti^e -world.\\nReeo^Rizesl keadcr^ ii2 tl^i^ Isine of\\nQls^nuf achiPe.\\nOiir goods are standard and made under\\nthirty difPerent brands in styles and at\\njsrices to meet the wants of any purchaser.\\nTt)e Largest and Only Exclusive\\nrnan^facttirers of Carpet S-Weepers\\nin ti|e \u00e2\u0096\u00a0world.\\nOf epaUn^ [JoGlep mope tijan Fifty\\ncPatcrst^.\\nAVe own and control the celebrated Broom\\nAction used in our Sweeper, without which\\nno sweeper can be made to adjust itself to\\nany carpet also numerous other valuable\\ndevices on Carpet Sweepers.\\nGENERAL OFFICE AND FACTORY\\n22 MILL STREET,\\nGRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.\\n7 EASTERN BRANCH and EXPORT OFFICE!\\n103 CHAMBERS STREET,\\nNEW YORK.\\nJ. H. WONDERLY, President\\nJ. P. CREQUE, Vice pres l manageh.\\nR. N. WOLCOTT, Sec. i treas.\\nKent Furniture H^anufacturing (Co.\\nIMOS. 674 TO 700 NORTH FRONT STREET.\\n,iiiiiiiiii| lli\u00e2\u0084\u00a2illllillllilllllllil|l|lilllllilllll!!1lfll!li!ltlllli:!!l^\\nSyiiWiiiiit iiiiillliliiia iiilinlHIilll^^^^^^^^ ^!ii: !iilliiiliiiii!iliiilillllllllllil\\nWHOLF.S.M.E U\\\\- iTRERS OF\\nLow and medium priced Chamber Suites, Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, Side-\\nboards, Bookcases and Tables.\\nWrite for Catalogue.", "height": "3436", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "M CLiSeR. MATTER G2.\\n-1- l\u00c2\u00a90 9\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00aea\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00ae? \u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00ae@fflmatBS)\u00c2\u00ae\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^^pp\\n\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00a9\u00c2\u00aeS9\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00ae\\n0^anufactiui E[ of ^urqitoe\\nRAND RAPIBS. niGH.\\nChicaoo Office,\\n267 WHBflSH flVE.\\nJ. W. WHEELOgK, Manager.\\nNew V()rl Office,\\n5 E. 19th street\\nKNAPP STODDARD, Managers.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "Uri^i^^erseil Tripod Company\\nMAN UFACTURERS OV THE\\nUNIVERSAL\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^TRIPOD\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^COAT\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^RACK\\nf^ Useful in Parlor, Bedroorri aqd Hall. Not only useful but graces then-^\\nall. We also manufacture iq additioq to tfie above a fiqe liqe of\\nIII\\nWood Top Tables,\\nPlush Top Tables,\\nShaving Stands,\\nDressing Cases.\\nHi\\nUNIVERSAL TRI POD CO AT RACK.\\nIII\\nFancy Beds,\\nChild s Beds,\\nTowel Racks,\\nEasels, Etc.\\nIll\\nPATENTED 1888.\\nUNIVERSAL TRIPOD CO.,\\n168 to ir4 @nai $^t. ^Q,mM Rapifls, Mi ^l?-\\nH. C. RUSSELL, President.\\nL. H. HITSTIN, Sec. 5 Treas.\\ngrand ^V^^^ ^^s\\n31 S 33 HURON ST\\n*5u/;\\n--s \u00c2\u00ab5J WljoUsak BcaUrs ^9\\n,As\\nA\\nMattresses anb Bed Springs\\nCURLED HAIR, WOOL. HUSKS, FEATHERS, EXCELSIOR, ETC.\\nOurs is the only mattress Uciory in the l.ind using only new sattinet clips shoddy in our wool mattresses, and consequently they may be depended upon to be clean and sweet\\nWe make a ^pcLioJty of furnishing hotels and boats with hair auJ OLhcr mattresses\\nThe above cut represents our DAIHY SPltrXG, which combines the principles of the spiral and the t^-OX en \\\\rire springs. This combination leaves it without an\\nobjection, which can be said of no other bed spring yet invented. The spiral spring is admitted to be the correct principle for a bed spring, hut is objectionable in that it does\\nnot furnish a proper surface for the support of the mattress, causing it, of whatever material, to bunch up. The woven wire fabric with which we cover the I A1KV\\noveri-omcs this ol-jiMtinn, increases the el.isticity of the spring and, in fact, makes it perfect in every particular. It has only to be seen to be appreciated by the intelligent\\npubhc, and wherever it is shown proves to be a good seller, ships three to the loo lbs. and is scheduled second class.\\nWe would like very much to receive your order for a sample lot, if for only one, feeling confident that it will result iu opening up a trade which will be of mutual benefit.", "height": "3436", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "MARTIN MIDDLINGS PURIFIER CO,\\n-SOLE MANUFACTUEEES OF J. B. KABTIN S PATZNT-\\n\\\\1/\\n7\\\\\\\\\\nMiddlings Purifier and Eliminating Flour Dresser.\\nIII\\nMartin s Middlings Purifier\\nWILL PURIFY\\nAVithout waste in tlio dust room, the tinest\\nsoft middlings from the tails of centrifugals.\\nSharp returns from bolts.\\nStock which can not be handled on any other\\nmake of I uriliers without waste.\\nIt is a perfect Grader and rurili( r of Mid-\\ndlings, from the liuest soft middlings to the\\ncoarsest germ, which it thoroughly aspirates.\\nEliminating Flour Dressing Machine\\nTHE SIMPLEST AND MOST PERFECT FLOUR\\nDRESSER IN TriE WORLD.\\nUTILIZES ITS ENTIRE CLOTH SURFACE WITH-\\nOUT DEFLECTION O.^ STOCK\\nSEND FOR TESTIMONIALS AND CATALOGUE.\\nIll\\n(ira^d f^apids, /Tlielj.\\nM\\nICHIGAN\\nIRON WORKS\\nVn. T. POWERS r^\\nS.S0N\\nRAND RAPIDS,\\nMICHIGAN.\\ni^\\nM.iNrF.\\\\CTL Rr.KS Ol-\\nDENSMORE S PATENT ROTARY VENEER CUTTING MACHINE\\nFor Culling Vciieers frcmi .imiiiul llie lug, for Furnilure, l- ruit rack.iges. Cheese ISoxcs, Ilarrel Sl.ivcs, Hoops, Orange Boxes, ele., etc. Machines are very\\nheavy, ami made in various sizes to cut logs from i-nv to feet long. All kinds of Machine and Foundry Work to order. Steam Engines,\\nBoilers, Shafting, Pulleys, Gearing and Saw Mill M.ichinery.\\nOffice and Work:\u00c2\u00ab,\\nKoot of I^oiiis; Street", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "grand i Rapids i Refrigerator i (^o..\\nSOLE MflNUFfiCTURERS OF\\nThe\\nail-\\nLeonard Gleanable\\nBEST GN EARTH.\\nMADE IN HARD WOOD ONLY.\\nRICH ANTIQUE FINISH.\\nElegantly Carved and Orr|an\\\\erited\\nREAL BRONZE TRIMMINGS.\\nTI}e Leonard Air Tigl]t Locks.\\nTlje Leonard Mova ble Flties.\\nTY\\\\e Leonard Solid Iror] Slielves.\\nFive Walls to Preserve t l-|e Ice.\\nWARRANTED NOT TO S WEAT\\nKEEP ICE LON GER A N D FOO D\\nBETTER THAN ANY OTHER\\nDrfiJ Air Refrigerator\\nm 111=\\nPRICES L0W.\\nGreat Variety Manufactured.\\nPorcelain Lined Water Coolers.\\nXXX TIN MILK COOLERS.\\nOur Special Features can riot be\\nObtained in any otiier Refrigerator.\\nFor Sale by tlie Trade Generally.\\nCONSUMERS SUPPLIED WHERE\\nWE HAVE NO AGENTS.\\nSEND FOR CATALOGUE.\\nADDRESS AS ABOVE.\\nGrand P^apids, Michigan.\\nGrrand F^apids Scl^ool FuirnituLre Compar^y\\nMANUFACTURERS OF\\n^chool, Ctiui^ch, Banl^ and Opei^a Houge Furini^hingg.\\nChairs have Hat, Coat or Shawl, Umbrella Racks, Foot Rests and Book Holders.\\nOVER THIRTY STYLES, PLAIN. OR UPHOLSTERED,\\nrjcl for our rjew illu:;tratod Catalogues of Opera House rqd Hall Seatings,\\nShe ^bi^pbgt Puvomatig Sghool Desi^\\nTH- 0NL7 PEACTICAL SELF FOL^INS SEAT DESE IM THE T70SLI).\\ni^K\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-\u00e2\u0099\u00a6h\\nGLOBES and APPARATUS,\\nCHURCH PEWS,\\nBANK COUNTERS,\\nCOURT HOUSE\\nFURNITURE,\\nRAILROAD SETTEES", "height": "3436", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "C. G. A. VOIG7^ CO.,\\nPROPRIETORS\\ngtar I Roller* Mi ls.-^\\nC^PACITV, :}oO BA.HKE1.B.\\nl\u00c2\u00a7l\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJVIanufacturers of the following Brands of piour\\nOUR PATENT. CflLLA LILY, STAR\\nGOLDEN SHEAF. OUR FANCY,\\nWHITE PRINCE. GRAHAM.\\nDEALERS IN\\nRYE FLOUR, BUCKWHEAT FLOUR,\\nGRANULATED MEAL, BOLTED MEAL,\\nBRAN, SHIP, MIDDLINGS,\\nSCREENINGS.\\nTEbEPHONE N9. 337.\\nGrand Rapids, Mich.\\nt\\nt\\nBi^iss Machii^e yiTorkis\\ns^\\nBRANCH SALESROOM, 48 S. CANAL ST., CHICAGO.\\n/mx\\ni^\\nM. L. SWEET,\\nWHOLKS^LE: manufacturer of medium and LOW-PRICED\\nBEDSTEADS\\nHOTEL SUITES, COMMODES, ETC.\\nFAETORY AND SALESROOMS. Cor. of Prescott aud Ionia Its.\\nOFFICES AT FAETORY acd 23 Pearl Street (Sweet s Hotel Block).\\nGRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "tme: leading manufactuf^ers\\nOK\\npine ,0 Medium Jurniture\\nFROM THE LATEST DESIGNS, IN ALL WOODS.\\nPH0CRIX\\nGrand Rapibs, Aighisan.\\nChamber Suits, Dining Room Suits, Book Cases, Wardrobes,\\nHall Stands, Parlor Secretaries, Etc, Etc.\\nt^e FLir^ni^!7in^ of Vp\\\\A^ ^\\\\i^ou^m\\\\. a Specialty\\nSOLE OWNERS HND MHNUFflCTURERS OF\\nTHE PHCZNIX FOLDING BED.", "height": "3436", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Per\\\\ir\\\\sialar Ktirnittire Company\\niiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiniuiiniiiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiii\\noooooooooooo\\nBEDROOM SETS\\nBEDSTEADS\\nBUREAUS\\nLOUNGES\\nFOLDING TABLES\\noooooooooooo\\nmiiunuuumuiminniiniimnnmmniinuimimn\\niiniiiiuuittiiiiuiiuiuuiiiuiiniiniiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiuui\\noooooooooooo\\nFHCTORY\\nComer Canal and Fairbanks Streets.\\nWAREHOUSE\\nComer Kent and Newberry Sts.\\nOFFICE S SALESROOM\\nCor. Ottawa and Fairbanks Sts.\\nERAND RAPIDS, HIEH.\\noooooooooooo\\niimiuiiiiiiinuiiiiMiiniHitiiiiiimiiiiitiiiuiiiiiimui\\nH. RABEnAKER S. SONS,\\nWHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS\\nBa^e Ball Bal;^, Croquet ^et^, Indiai] Glub^, Etc., Etc.,\\nGRANB RAPIBS, MICHIGAN.\\n-o\\nM. C. BURCH, Pkes t.\\nB. DeGRAFF. Jr.. Vice Pres t.\\nJ. P. FIXEGAX. Sec. am. Treas.\\nMake a Specialty of Fine and Medium Carved and T^uisl-worl;\\nGenter Tabled and ^tand^\\nOAK, MAHOGANY, CHERRY AND WAL.NfT FINISH.\\nCatalogues, etc., to the Trade only.\\nOFFICE AND FACTORY 286 288 CANAL ST.\\nGrand Rapids, Mich.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "grand Rapid^ Indiana Railroad.\\nf:\\n(MRCKINflC AND CINCINNATI SHORT LINE.)\\nTO THE DELiGHTFUL\\n^SafflfflER ReseRTs eF Northern Aighigan\\nAND THE CELEBRATED\\nGRAYLING AND TROUT STREAMS,\\nBEAUTIFUL LAKES,\\nAND\\n\u00c2\u00abHyNriNG sReyNDs*\\nOf tl^is Farrioiis Coiiritry.\\nNo rriore p leasant sp ots to spend\\none s siininiei or* vacation can be\\nfound ttian\\nTRAVERSE CITY,\\nPETOSKEY,\\nMACKINAC,\\nand oth[er resorts in t^i eir irninediate\\nvicinity.\\nTiie Scenery of tlie Nortt) Woods\\nand ]!.al\\\\es is very beautiful. Tt|e\\nair is pure, dry and bracing. Tt^e\\nclirqate is peculiarly beneficial to\\ntlriose suffering Witl^ Hay Fever and\\nfistlirnatic affections,\\nNe-W Hotels Wit?) all rnodern inq-\\nproveinents lr\\\\ave been erected, and\\nextensive additions inade to otl^ers,\\nguaranteeing ainple acconnrnoda-\\ntions for all.\\nThe (Jraqd I^apid^ Indiaqa\\nwith its mar|y corjqectioris forir|s a direct\\nroute betweer^ all poiiits iq the Soutl^, South|-\\neast and Southwest, aqd poiqts iq the West-\\nerq aqd Northern portions and Upper\\nPeqinsula of Michiqan.\\nWoodruff Sleepiqg Car s aqd Parlor Chaif\\nCars oq all througf) traiqs.\\nFor descriptive matter and full informa-\\ntion, address\\nO. Xj. XjOCir ^77-OOX),\\nW. O. HUGHART, Ses. Fass. i Tiiket Agi,\\nFres. It Sea. llanager.\\nGRAND RAPIDS, MICH.", "height": "3436", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE ALDINE FIRE PbAGEJ\\nA SANITARY SAFESUARD\u00e2\u0080\u0094 AN EKONOMIML HEATER.\\nThe AIjI UIIK in ronNtructed on Mcieiitilic prinripIeN; It i^l-\\nixeti the teuii\u00c2\u00bberatar and produeeH warm Moors.\\nUnlike any other grate, it has\\na rclurn draught. This insures\\nsUiw and perfect combus .ioii of\\nfuel, economy, perfect ventdalii-.i\\nand distrilnuion of heat. The\\nALDINE is the only grate that\\ncan be piped to common chimneys\\nwilh as gcHid results as if aspeciul\\nchimney was provided. It can\\nbe set and operated with less than\\none-half the expense and fuel re\\nquired by any other grate.\\nSend for Illustrated Circular Caving Full luformation.\\nAddress,\\n^Idiiic JvI^iiiui cK-tiinno (^o.,\\nGRHND RHPIDS, MICH.\\n(^rand j^ipids\\ne\\nPurniture (^o,\\nMA\\\\Ti\\\\ciri ,i: i\\\\i i,i ivn,v\\nJ^edstcacls\\nJ. C. MORE,\\nL. C. STOW,\\nScc y and Tres-\\nt\\nALABASTINE CO\\nSOLE BANUFACTCREES OF\\n^labastine.\\nAlso iVLariiifactures of\\nLaud and felcined Plastar and ^krcb s Bug Firasb\\nAlabastine is a permanent wall coating that hardens on the\\nwall with age, and every coat added from time to time im-\\nproves the wall instead of softening and scaling off, as all Kal-\\nsomine mixtures (inert powders held with glue) do. There is\\nno article similar to Alabastine except Anti-Kalsomine, which\\nis licensed tinder our patents but is not the same. This ex-\\nplanation is made, as some compounds not even similar claim\\nto be the same as Alabastine.\\nAlabastine is not an experiment, but has been on the market\\nfor the ])ast nine years to test its merits, in addition to some\\nyears of previous trial by the inventor to perfect it before\\nplacing it on sale. It is of that nature that time only would\\ntest the utility of each experiment, to arrive at the exact pro-\\nportions, etc., to produce a wall coating that would harden\\nwith age and admit of recoating from time to time without\\nscaling or softening, as all Kalsomine mixtures do.\\nALABASTINE GO.\\nSi:\\\\ti-\u00c2\u00a3cil^oii\\\\ii\\\\e do.\\nMe Manufacturers of\\nflNTI-KflLSOMlNE\\nAND\\nE:. Q. varnish PRESBI lVER\\nAnti-Kalsomine is a permanent coating for walls and ceilings\\nthat a lmits of apj^l) ing coat after coat, from time to time,\\nwithout scaling or rubl)ing off; also the best priming for brick\\nor wood buildings. All Kalsomincs are known to be tempor-\\nary, and that, like wall-paper, they should be removed before\\nrecoating. Anti-Kalsomine saves all this exjjense, being as\\n])ermancnt and similar in nature to the original finishing coat\\nof |)!aster. Has been long tried, and furnishes the best of\\ntestimonials.\\nV E. Q. VARNISH PRESERVER\\nAdapted to and licensed for Church s Patent Oil Surfacing\\nProcess, that produces the finest carriage surface in one d.iy\\nfiom the wood, ready for color and varnish. This surface has\\nbeen thoroughly tested on running carriages more than two\\nyears, and has proven more durable than any surface made\\nwith paint. The best of references given. Is also the best\\nfdlcr for producing a well-fdled, natural wood finish.\\nj^r2hi-+^al jomir2C Co.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "JL\\nJ^\\nThe Foldiiig Sfeir and TaUe fo,\\nMANUFACTURERS OF\\n@nteF and LibraFV ^^ibks\\nStands and Bookcases\\nSend for Catalogue.\\n^grand I^ipids;, ]ilkh\\ni\\nWW. B REMINGTON,\\nPRESIDENT.\\nA. JUDD DAVIDSON,\\n6EC y AND TREA5.\\nWi\u00c2\u00ab- A- W^ M\\nPuFiiitui-e\\nMANUFACTURERS\\nT.\\\\BLt:S\\ngiiK^ i (^abiiicl t\\\\^aFC.\\nWM. A. BERKEY, W. H. JONES,\\nrresuUiit.\\nVice Fresideju.\\nLEWIS T. PECK,\\nSetretiny tuiii Trcasttrer,", "height": "3436", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "w\\niFst-class in all its Appointment^-^\\n$2.50 to $4 00 Per Day.\\niQrancl J^apids, KTicl].", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "T\\nHE ONLY MANUFACTURERS OF\\n-i~\\nABSOLyTELY PORTABLE ByiLDINGS, RESIDENCES,\\nSUMMER COTTAGES, HUNTERS CABINS, CHILDREN S PLAYHOUSES\\njMW\\nGRAND RAPIDS, MIGH.U,S.A.\\nCAMP MEETING COTTAGES,\\nBATHING HOUSES, PHOTOGRAPH GALLERIES, CANDY STANDS, ETC.\\nIts durability and utility commends it to all, while its light weight reduces cost of transportation. Set up and taken dmvn in from three to four\\nhours anywhere. For descriptive matter, address with stamp,\\nGRAND RAPIDS PORTABLE HOUSE CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.\\nw.\\nelc]r[ Koldit^^ Bed Co,\\nT//\u00c2\u00a3 ONLY EXCLUSIVE\\nFOLDING BED MANUFACTURERS\\nIN THE UNITED STATES\\niwiJE^^^^S^^^^^\\nL. W. WELCH.\\nW. S. EARLE.\\nGrand Rapid s, MicHo", "height": "3431", "width": "2350", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Mercantile Collectior\\\\ Agency,\\nH. D. G. VAN AS/nyS, Manager\\n13 Canal Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.\\nI i\\\\ave for tl^e past ttiree years l:\\\\aridled tl^e Collectioris of rqariy of tlr^e Graqd Rapids Mantlfacturers,\\narid anq prepared to do a General CoUectiori Business.\\ng@ I collect Past Due Accounts, Matured Notes, Accepted Drafts, Etc., in any town in the\\nUnited States and Canada, at a very SMALL COST, viz from 3 to 10 per cent, commission, accord-\\ning to the case.\\nMy Collection facilities are the most effective. Not too hard upon the debtor. I act Promptly.\\nMake Low Charges. Prompt Keturns. NO CH AKG-E Unless Claim is Collected\\n(except suit has been ordered, and then only the costs.)\\nWhenever a claim cannot be collected by first demands, it is at once placed in the hands of active,\\nresponsible attorneys, and is FOLLOWED UP with PUSH and PEOMPT work.\\nSEND your Collections to above address. It will save you many accounts that by delay may\\nbecome worthless.\\n(Formerly Clark Hodges.)\\nJVLanUfactiirers of Fine Carved\\nand T-a;ist\\nil\\nGei^t CF Tables, Eedestals\\nand \u00c2\u00a9ffiee Desl5S\\ngrand Rapids ^k\\\\.\\nSEND FOR CATALOGUE.\\n53 A. 55 S. FRONT ST.\\nVENEERS\\nBl/AENSieN\\nAND\\nBeiRL STOCK.\\n1)1\\nN\\nJig\\nASH, BIRD S EYE MAPLE. OAK, CHERRY, BIRCH, Ig^^\\nBASSWOOD AND BLACK WALNUT i^\\nALWAYS IN STOCK SOME VERY CHOICE BURLS.\\nSEND FOR SAMPLES AXD PRICES.\\nGrand I^ajDi^^ Ver\\\\eer ai^cl Parcel Company\\nA. B. WATSON. Presipent.\\nNORTM FROXT STREET.\\nCHAS. B. JL DD, Sec v and Treas.\\nZ. C. THWING, Gen l Manager.", "height": "3430", "width": "2431", "jp2-path": "grandrapidsasiti00gran_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "CHASE-.-BROTHERS-.-PIANOS.\\nTt\\\\e rerrioval of tl^e CHHSE BROTHERS PIHNO\\nFHCTORY to Grand Rapids in dtlly, 1884, gives\\nevidence of tl:\\\\e superior facilities offered by ttiis\\ncity, botl:\\\\ as a rqanUfacturing and sl:|ipping point.\\nTtie reputation of tl:ie CHHSE PIHNO ^4^as estab\\nlisfied over t-wenty years ago and to-day is one of tY\\\\e\\nbest and rqcst favorably Kno Wn Pianos in tl^e United\\nStates. Hrtists -were attracted to tl|ern by t]\\\\eiY fine\\nrepeating action and tl:\\\\e brilliant and resonant quality\\nof tone, -wliile Musical Colleges Use tlierq for tl\\\\eir\\nfine singing quality and durability. Tl\\\\ese Pianos\\nare constructed on purely scientific principles,\\ncovered by ii\\\\any Valuable patents, ttie Sounding\\nBoard being one of tl|e n\\\\ost prorninerit features. Tl|e\\ntrade of ti\\\\e Cl\\\\ase Brotl)ers extends fronq Maine to\\nCalifornia and tl^eir facilities for sl|ipping and tl^e\\nrqanufacture of a first-class Piano are Undoubtedly\\nbetter tl^an tl\\\\ose of any Eastern nqanufacturer.\\nThe tone is clear, penetrating and expanding it comes out firm,\\nprompt, decided and sonorous throughout. Cincinnati Enquirer.\\nHnotl^er Triunqpl] for tlie Musical West.\\nThe Chase Pianos, so fast becoming popular in the musical world,\\nhave been introduced and are now used by the College of Music. Theo-\\ndore Thomas will have none but the best in his college. The Chase\\nPianos combine sweetness with volume of tone, and are remarkable for\\ntheir quality of durability making them well adapted for college work.\\nBrainard s Musical World.\\nThese Pianos have a splendid reputation, and at the Ohio Slate Fair\\nat Columbus took the first premium over the best Eastern manufactures.\\nThey undoubtedly occupy the front rank. Maysvilli Republican.\\nOf all the parts of a Chase Piano, none is treated with more atten-\\ntion than the Sounding Board, which may be called the lungs of the Piano.\\nMr. Chase has given to this important member a vast amount of though\\nand skilllul experiment. The peculiar construction of the Chase Sounding\\nBoard has excited the admiration of all experts who have examined it\\ncritically. The Musical People.\\nGHASt BR0S. PIANO G2.\\nOFFICE AND SALESROOM, No. 92 Monroe St. FACTORY, Nos. 61, 63, 65, 67, 69 and 71 South Front St.\\nGRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.\\nILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES SENT FREE UPON APPLICATION. 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