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 Nineteen Hundred and Two: 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 Experience with two previous year books has led to certain 
 modifications and amplifications that seemed to be advisable 
 in the volume for 1902. It has also established the opinion 
 that such a work as this has become a necessity. The files 
 of the daily newspapers are the complete history of the city, 
 county and state in which the particular newspaper is pub- 
 lished. In some measure they are also a history of the world. 
 Improvements in the art of news-gathering and constant 
 enlargement of the field of observation have caused a general 
 elaboration of the newspaper. Its public is not content with 
 a mere bulletin, hint or suggestion of the passing events of 
 the day. It wants elaborate details, and in catering to this 
 demand publishers have produced newspapers whose bulk each 
 day is ponderous, and the files of a year are too bulky for con- 
 venient general use. 
 
 People who keep the records of the times must hesitate 
 to offer storage room to huge volumes which are only occa- 
 sionally consulted, and the year book is compiled to furnish an 
 epitome, index or reference guide for the files themselves. 
 The volume for 1903 is the third in the series. The aim has 
 been to make it very concise, so that the chronological history 
 of the year will be at the service of public libraries, private 
 collectors, newspaper publishers and others who make it their 
 business to keep complete records of the times. A limited 
 edition is offered, and it is hoped that it will fulfill satisfactorily 
 the function for which it was intended. 
 
 THE EVENING NEWS ASSOCIATION. 
 
DETROIT 
 
 NifiETEBN Hundred and Two 
 
 JANUARY 1. 
 
 The new year was ushered in with customary observances. 
 Vvatch-night exercises were held at the Central, Simpson, Preston, 
 Martha Holmes Memorial and Baldwin Avenue M. E. churches, at the 
 Fort Street, Calvary and Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian churches, and 
 at the Plymouth Congregational, Ferry Avenue Baptist and a number 
 of other churches. There were sunrise services at the Forest Avenue 
 Presbyterian church. New Year's Day being a holy day of obligation 
 for Catholics, mass was celebrated in the several Roman Catholic 
 churches as upon Sunday, the day being Wednesday. Social events 
 were not lacking. Detroit Commandery No. 1, K. T., gave a brilliant 
 ball at the Masonic Temple, as did the Harmonie Society at Harmonie 
 Hall. Several other German societies gave large parties, and there 
 were many smaller functions at private houses. 
 
 The University of Michigan foot ball team of 1901 played a post- 
 season game with the Leland Stanford. Jr., University team at Pasa- 
 dena, Cal., the first time the Pacific slope was ever visited by a great 
 foot ball team from the Bast or Middle West. The score was 49 to 
 in favor of Michigan. This made Michigan's season record 550 to 0, 
 her goal line not having once been crossed. 
 
 J. W. Sherwood made general superintendent of the Detroit South- 
 ern Railroad: H. A. Fidler made general freight agent. 
 
 Normandie Hotel passed into the possession of Charles Roe and 
 Thaddeus A. Smith, lessees. 
 
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 JANUARY 2. 
 
 Little Myrtle Garrett kidnaped by her father. Her parents had 
 been divorced and the custody of the four children given to the mother. 
 
 Miss Beulah Wheeler died suddenly from arsenic poisoning, the 
 dose being self-administered, supposedly by mistake for anti-pyrine. 
 Miss Wheeler was a well-known young society lady, and had attended 
 the ball at the Masonic Temple New Year's Eve. 
 
 JANITARY 3. 
 
 Don. M. Dickinson and Elliott G. Stevenson resumed law partner- 
 ship, interrupted some years before. The new firm is known as 
 Dickinson, Sievenson, Cullen, Warren & Butzel. 
 
 JANUARY 4. 
 
 William Hearn, aged 40, golf instructor at the Country Club, Grosse 
 Pointe, for three years, killed by a street car on Woodward avenue. 
 
 The Evening News printed an account of Mrs. Augustine Sielewsky, 
 of 299 Williams avenue, said to be 113 years of age on March 12, 1902. 
 Her son, Albert Sielewsky, with whom she lived, had the official record 
 of her birth in Germany in 1789. 
 
 JANUARY 6. 
 
 Judge William L. Carpenter, of the Wayne Circuit Court, handed 
 down a decree ousting the Detroit Driving Club from its corporate 
 rights, privileges and franchises. The Judge at the same time decided 
 a suit brought by Fred T. Moran et al. against D. J. Campau et al., in 
 which it was charged that D. J. Campau had mismanaged the affairs of 
 the Detroit Driving Club, and asking that he be removed as Receiver, 
 and that a sale that had been had of the property of the club be set 
 aside. Judge Carpenter exonerated Mr. Campau, holding that he had 
 managed the affairs of the Driving Club properly and to the best inter- 
 ests of the organization. The sale was set aside. 
 
 These decisions were incidents in a very protracted and expensive 
 litigation, which was not concluded during 1902. 
 
 Rev. Nehemiah Boynton reported to the Ministers' Union the result 
 of a month's investigation into the Sunday theaters in Detroit. He 
 had visited them all in person on Sunday, and corresponded widely 
 upon the subject. His report was notable for its moderate tone. He 
 
said that he believed that about 60,000 people in Detroit aad vicinity 
 were to be regarded as patrons of the Sunday theater. He said: 
 
 "It would be a narrow and selfish policy that would close the Sunday 
 theater merely for the sake of its effect upon church attendance. As a 
 matter of fact that attendance would not be appreciably affected. The 
 Sunday theater is not a question of church attendance except so far 
 as it creates an atmosphere unfavorable to the higher, more refined and 
 spiritual interests of life." 
 
 At a meeting on May 5, a committee of which Rev. M. C. Hawks, 
 of the Cass Avenue M. E. church, was Chairman, and Rev. A. H. Barr, 
 of the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian church, was Secretary, Rev. 
 Christian Baum, Rev. C. B. Newnan, Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, Rev. 
 E. P. Tuller, Rev. J. M. Barkley and Rev. George Elliott ^being also 
 members, made a report upon Sunday observance in Detroit. One 
 paragraph was as follows: "It is a fact that while thus, for purely 
 commercial purposes, the Sabbath is being illegally invaded among us, 
 it is also being illegally appropriated to games of sport by other classes 
 in our community, supposed to be in earnest sympathy with its higher 
 life, and composed of the very flower of its citizenship. We refer to 
 the growing custom of frequenting and patronizing the golf links upon 
 the Sabbath." 
 
 In concluding, the address said: "The remedy for the condition 
 thus described is primarily neither with the law nor with public officials, 
 but with the people themselves. We appeal to serious citizenship for 
 such personal and sacrificial interest in the election of officers, munic- 
 ipal and state, as shall secure the proper amendment of Sunday laws 
 in the interests of practical and eflacient enforcement. May God 
 awaken the good people of Detroit to the urgency and the ominous 
 prophecy of the present situation. And in every effort may God defend 
 the right." 
 
 State Dairy and Food Commissioner Wilber B. Snow, of Kalamazoo, 
 caused the arrest in that city of Charles H. Thompson, of Chicago, 
 representing the Hammond Packing Co., of Hammond, Ind. Mr. Snow 
 claimed that representatives of the Hammond company had approached 
 him, offering to pay him one-half cent per pound on the total sales of 
 the company of oleomargarine in Michigan, providing Mr, Snow would 
 see to it that there should be no prosecutions of the company's agents 
 under the Michigan pure food laws. The case lingered until Dec. 9, 
 when Thompson came into court in Kalamazoo, pleaded guilty and paid 
 a fine of $l,00a. 
 
 JANUARY 7. 
 
 The famous Lucetta R. Medbury will case came on for trial in the 
 Wayne Circuit Court before Judge George S. Hosmer. The trial con- 
 tinued without interruption and with many sensational features until 
 
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 Jan. 2S, when an agreement was reached among the parties in interest 
 and the Circuit Court entered an order affirming the will. 
 
 The State Suprem.e Court decided the case of Ada Nicholson, admx., 
 vs. City of Detroit for the defendant. Ada Nicholson as administratrix 
 of the estate of Alfred Cope, deceased, sued the city, alleging that Cope 
 came to his death in 1894 from smallpox contracted while in the employ 
 of the city, assisting as a carpenter in tearing down and removing the 
 old pest house. It was alleged that Cope had been told that it was 
 safe for him to do this work by agents of the city. The Supreme Court 
 said that a case appealing more to the sympathy of a tribunal could 
 hardly be imagined, but that the doctrine of imputed negligence did 
 not apply. 
 
 Marriage of Miss Mary Farquhar Chittenden, daughter of William 
 J. Chittenden, to Henry L. Newman. Jr., of El Paso, Texas. 
 
 JANQARY 8. 
 
 The story of how Henry Danim, aged 77, of Hoffman, 111., suddenly 
 found himself apparently the sole heir to property in Detroit valued 
 at more than $100,000 was printed in the Evening News of this date. 
 
 George Thomas, Treasurer of the Maybury Guards, was found 
 lying on the floor of Clawson's Hall, where the organization met, 
 apparently unconscious and with an empty pocketbook near him. He 
 was sent in an ambulance to Harper Hospital, where he remained over 
 night, claiming he had been knocked down and robbed. He was dis- 
 charged from the hospital in the morning, nothing being found amiss 
 with him, and to the police he afterward confessed he had arranged 
 the whole thing to cover up the fact that he had spent $21 of the 
 Guards' money that he couldn't account for. 
 
 Special aldermanic election in the First Ward, to fill the vacancy 
 caused by the death of Walter H. Coots. George P. Codd, Republican, 
 won over Thomas W. Parker, Democrat, by a vote of 833 to 171. 
 
 JANUARY 9. 
 
 rhe Recorder's Court jury in the Woodward avenue grade separa- 
 tion case made its awards as follows: 
 
 Ellen P. Stevens, owner in fee $11,227 54 
 
 Domestic Heater Works, lessee 294 15 
 
 Detroit Galvanizing Sheet Metal Works, lessee 2,079 30 
 
 Caille-Sehiemer Co., lessee 1,057 55 
 
 B. W. Voigt. fee, Detroit Savings Bank, mortgagee V. 070 80 
 
 New York Life Insurance Co., owner in fee 5,160 00 
 
 Charles \V. Rose, lessee 513 58 
 
 Pittmans & Dean, les.see 1,800 00 
 
 Total $29,202 92 
 
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 The claimants had originally asked for a total of nearly $75,000. 
 Woodward avenue was lowered, and the tracks of the Michigan Central 
 Railroad, Bay City division, of the Michigan Southern Railroad, Toledo 
 division, and of the Grand Trunk Railway, suburban line, were elevated. 
 (See "Detroit in 1901," p. 30.) Recorder Alfred J. Murphy in his charge 
 to the jury said that the statute limits the recovery of damages to 
 abutting property, which he construed to mean in this case property 
 upon Woodward avenue between Endicott and Baltimore avenues. This 
 ruling excluded a claim put in by Fred P. Strieker. The Court also held 
 that there was no recovery possible to anyone because of the elevation 
 of the railroad tracks, as the railroads were doing precisely what they 
 had a right to do upon their own property. He said that any damage 
 to property rights occasioned by any physical change in Woodward 
 avenue itself must be compensated for. Mayor Maybury claimed that 
 grade separation at this point had cost the Michigan Central $55,000. 
 On Jan. 2, in the course of the hearing, it appeared that the large 
 factory building belonging to Mrs. Ellen Stevens had been erected 
 across two alleys supposedly belonging to the city, and occupied by 
 sewers built by the city. It was claimed for Mrs. Stevens that the 
 alleys had nevei been accepted by the city, but Recorder Murphy ruled 
 thai, building the sewers constituted an acceptance. The Stevens claim 
 for damages was thereupon changed from a depth from Woodward 
 avenue of 264 feet to one of 150 feet. 
 
 At the annual meeting and banquet of the Merchants and Manu- 
 facturers' Exchange, held at the Cadillac Hotel, D. C. Delamater retired 
 as president and James Inglis succeeded him in that office. Other 
 officers elected were: Vice-presidents, A. F. Peck, M. J. Murphy and 
 Thomas Neal; treasurer. Robert S, Mason; directors, Herman Krolik, 
 C. E. Locke, H. C. Clark, A. H Green and Theo. C. Fletcher. Frank 
 H. Howe, of Columbus, O., addressed the Exchange in favor of munici- 
 pal ownership of quasi-public enterprises. 
 
 At the sixty-seventh annual meeting of the Protestant Orphan 
 Asylum Society, the following officers were chosen: Chairman, Mrs. 
 F. B. Stevens; vice-chairman, Mrs. W. H. Strong; recording secretary, 
 Mrs. Oscar Le Seure; corresponding secretary, Mrs. I. T. Cowles: 
 treasurer, Miss Julia E. Peck. During the year the institution cared 
 for 98 children. 
 
 Thirty years of existence having passed, the Harmonie Society was 
 forced to reorganize. New directors elected: August Marxhausen, 
 George Osius, Henry B. Borgman, Dr. Ben Jacob, Max Schuette, N. 
 Mueller, Philip Breitmeyer. Gustave Behr and Morse Rohnert. The 
 Society owned a handsome club house at Wilcox and Center streets, 
 valued at $70,000, and its indebtedness was $22,000, having been reduced 
 about $6,000 during the year. Improvements costing $3,000 had been 
 made during the year also, and the treasury showed $2,500 cash on 
 hana. The membership was 479, the limit being 500. 
 
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 JANUARY 10. 
 
 The Railroad branch ol' the local Y. M. C. A. held its annual meet- 
 ing. During the year $10,410 was raised and expended. The member- 
 ship was 1,010. Directors were elected: G. Parshall, M. B. Snow, 
 William Strope, J. M. Lawrence, F. J. Hill and R. B. McGregor. 
 
 JANUARY 11. 
 The death of Col. J. M. French, a veteran showman, occurred at 
 his residence, 20 Lincoln avenue. He was born in Connecticut April 7, 
 1821, and left home, poorly educated and without any money, at the 
 age of 20. He ran a general store in Louisiana, a horse market in New 
 Orleans, served in the Confederate army, and was engaged in the cotton 
 business in war timas. Afterwards he was associated with E. W. 
 Wiggins for a time, who on this date was one of the proprietors of 
 the Temple Theater, of Detroit. Afterward he backed the Thayer & 
 Noyes circus, which in 1S67 he attached on a claim of $30,000 while it 
 was showing in Detroit on what is now the site of the City Hall. Then 
 It became French's Grand Circus and Egyptian Caravan. He sold out 
 finally, but kept the animals, leasing them to shows and wintering them 
 at Highland Park. His barns and animals were destroyed by fire in 
 1880. He ran the Grand Central Hotel in Cheboygan until 1892, and 
 then sold out and removed to Detroit. A widow and four children 
 survived him. 
 
 In the United Scales Circuit Court, before Judge Henry H. Swan, 
 U. Grant Grummond was given a verdict against the City of Detroit 
 for $16,366- The city some years previously had used the old steamer 
 Milton D. Ward, belonging to the Grummond estate, for a smallpox 
 hospital. Afterward it was set on fire and partly burned at its anchor- 
 age, off the Water Works. 
 
 .JANUARY 12. 
 
 The Sunday News-Tribune was able to inform the people of Detroit 
 as to the exact financial program prepared by the Everett-Moore syn- 
 dicate for the consolidation and extension if the electric railway system 
 centering in Detroit. An important meeting of the directors of the 
 Detroit United Railway was held in New York, and a few days later a 
 copy of the resolution passed at that meeting came into the hands of 
 Ihe News-Tribune and was printed in full. The opening paragraphs 
 furnished some detailed information as to the bond issues of the various 
 lines and what relations they sustained to one another. These para- 
 graphs were as follows* 
 
 "Whereas, The Detroit United Railway has acquired certain street 
 railway properties in the City of Detroit, and also certain other street 
 railway properties in the vicinity thereof known as suburban lines, 
 and has> assumed or guaranteed the payment of certain existing obliga- 
 
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 tions issued under mortgages by corporations formerly owning said 
 railway properties more specifically described as follows: 
 
 "The Detroit Suburban Railway Co., under mortgage dated Nov. 1, 
 1892, $275,000; Detroit Suburban Railway Co., under mortgage dated 
 Feb. 1, 1893, $140,000: the Detroit Citizens' Railway Co., $7,000,000, 
 under mortgage dated June 19, 1895, of which $7,000,000, $415,000 is in 
 escrow to secure the bonded obligation of the Detroit Suburban Railway 
 Co.; the Detroit Railway, $1,800,000, under mortgage dated Nov. 5, 
 1895; Detroit Electric Railway, $2,800,000, under mortgage dated July 
 14, 1896, $1,800,000 of which is in escrow to secure the bonded obliga- 
 tions of the Detroit Railway; Detroit, Fort Wayne & Belle Isle Railway, 
 $1,200,000, under mortgage dated April 1, 1896; Wyandotte & Detroit 
 River Railway, $200,000, under mortgage dated June 1, 1893; Wyandotte 
 & Detroit River Railway, $425,000, under mortgage dated Dec. 1, 1898, 
 $200,000 of which is in escrow to secure the former bonded obligation of 
 the said last mentioned company; the Detroit & Northwestern, $1,000,000, 
 under mortgage dated May 1, 1901, of which $145,000 is held by the 
 trustees for extensions, betterments and improvements on said lines; the 
 Detroit & Pontiac Railway Co.. $500,000, under mortgage dated Feb. 1, 
 1897; the Detroit & Pontiac Railway Co., $1,100,000, under mortgage 
 dated June 1,1900, $500,000 of which is in escrow to secure the former 
 bonded obligation of said Detroit & Pontiac Railway Co.; the Detroit, 
 Rochester, Romeo & Lake Orion Railway, $1,250,000, under mortgage 
 dated June 1, 1900, $150,000 of which is unissued and to be canceled; the 
 Detroit & Flint Railway. $3,000,000, of which $1,100,000 is to secure tKe 
 bonded indebtedness of the Detroit. Rochester, Romeo & Lake Orion 
 Railway aforesaid, and $500,000 of which is to be held by the trustee 
 for extensions, betterments and improvements of said line; and 
 
 "Whereas, The Detroit United Railway contemplates acquiring 
 certain additional suburban railways connecting with its present system 
 and to assume or issue bonded indebtedness in payment thereof; and 
 
 "Whereas, It is necessary to provide for extensions, betterments 
 and improvements of the United Railway properties now owned by the 
 company, and for the renewal or extension of existing lien obligations 
 upon its respective lines; and 
 
 "Whereas, It is desired to provide equal and equitable protection 
 to all existing assumed or guaranteed bonds, and those to be issued for 
 betterments, extensions, improvements and renewals; therefore, 
 
 "Resolved, That a mortgage be and the same hereby is authorized 
 io be executed by the company conveying to a trust company to be 
 hereafter designated as trustee, all of the properties now owned and 
 hereafter to be acquired by this company to secure bonds in the- sum 
 of $35,000,000 of principal, or such lesser sum as shall hereafter be 
 resolved upon, bearing interest at the rate of iVz per cent per annum, 
 payable semi-annually in gold coin of the United States, the term of 
 such bond to be 30 years from Jan. 1, 1902." 
 
 Further resolutions provided for certain details in the handling 
 .and issuing of the bonds. 
 
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 Protracted revival services began early in the month at Simpson 
 M. E. church, of which Rev. Paul C. Curnick was pastor, conducted by" 
 Evangelists H. W. Kerr and G. B. Johns. The methods used were 
 subjected to criticism by Tom Bawden, single tax agitator, and F. H. 
 Brooks, a man with a phenomenal textual familiarity with the scrip- 
 tures. Dr. Curnick and the two evangelists dared Tom Bawden to 
 attend the Sunday night services of this date and come forward and 
 be prayed for, his complete conversion being promised under those 
 circumstances. An enormous crowd of people pressed into the church 
 expecting sensational developments. Evangelist Johns preached a 
 vigorous sermon on "Hell and the Judgment." Tom Bawden remained 
 standing in an aisle of the church for more than two hours, but his 
 conversion was not announced. When interrogated as to his feelings, 
 he replied that he believed in a single tax God, and that there was no 
 hell hereafter. Evangelist Kerr promised to pray for his salvation 
 chroughout the remainder of the week. These meetings were concluded 
 Jan. 2ti. The number of conversions was placed at 300. 
 
 Death of Francis G. Russell, for several terms alderman and city 
 attorney. He was born in Livingston, Mich. April 16, 1837, and gradu- 
 ated at the State Normal School, Ypsilanti, in 1858. He was a clerk in 
 the Interior Department at Washington during the Civil War. In 1864 
 he returned to Detroit and became first Secretary of the Metropolitan 
 Police Department, holding the position for two years. 
 
 Sunday News-Tribune began the publication of "Gov. Pingree's 
 Story of the Boers," edited by Eli R. Sutton, 
 
 JANUARY 13. 
 
 Oscar B. Marx was elected commodore of the Detroit Yacht Club; 
 J. L. Hudson, president of Board of Trustees of Harper Hospital; Mrs. 
 John T. Holmes, president of the Industrial School and Free Kinder- 
 garten Association; Mother Delaleux, president of the Little Sisters of 
 the Poor; Rev. N. H, Pettit. president of the Permanent Council of 
 City Baptist Churches, and Mrs. C. Reutter, president of the Zoar 
 Society Auxiliary to the German Protestant Orphan Asylum. 
 
 JANUARY 14. 
 
 Alex. I. McLeod, chairman of the Wayne County Republican Com- 
 mittee, announced through the Evening News his plan for nominating 
 the candidates for the party at the next election by holding a primary 
 election in place of the customary caucus and convention. This plan, 
 known as the McLeod plan, was afterward adopted by the Republican 
 County and City Committees, and played a very important role in the 
 fall elections. Mr. McLeod was inspired to develop this method of 
 
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 iiominating the Republican candidates from tlie fact thiat tlie Republican 
 members of the State Legislature of 1901 from Detroit had been pledged 
 to abolish the old caucus and convention system and bring in a primary 
 eleciion law. Twc hills to that end, known as the Colby bills, had 
 been defeated in the Legislature by the Detroit delegation led by 
 Representative J. W. Ames and Senator Arthur L. Holmes. There had 
 been much popular indignation at this violation of the ante-election 
 promises of the delegation. 
 
 Mr. McLeod held that there was nothing in existing law to prevent 
 the party nominations being made by direct vote. Act No. 411 of the 
 Local Acts of 1895, "To provide for, regulate and protect primaries, 
 primary elections and conventions of political parties in the County 
 cf Wayne, and to punish offenses committed thereat," approved May 
 16, 1895, regulated the primary elections in Detroit. This law abol- 
 ished the old-time ward caucuses and provided for the holding of 
 caucuses in all the voting districts simultaneously throughout the city. 
 It provided for the nomination of "ward officers by direct vote of the 
 electors of the party, including inspectors of election and ward com- 
 mitteemen. It provided for the counting of ballots by the election 
 inspectors and for their making a return upon them to the City Clerk, 
 cind to a ward canvassing board whose composition and duties are duly 
 set down. It nowhere provided for a party convention, but required 
 rhe ward canvassing board to furnish credentials in case any delegates 
 to a convention hart been elected at the primaries. Mr. McLeod's plan 
 was simply to allow the electors at the Republican primaries to vote 
 directly for all the county and city officers to be nominated, as well as 
 for the ward officers, supplying ballots to contain the names of all, the 
 canaidates seeking the party nomination. He then proposed that the 
 ward committeemen should meet as a city convention, and the county 
 committeemen as a county convention, and place in nomination the 
 men who had received the largest number of votes at the primaries. 
 This plan was indorsed as entirely feasible and legal by Attorneys 
 T. T. Leete, Jr., Charles D. Joslyn, Prosecuting Attorney O. F. Hunt, 
 ex-Prosecuting Attorney Allan H. Frazer, Jasper C. Gates and others. 
 It was finally adopted and used in the fall elections. 
 
 At Mason, the trial of Edgar J. Adams, Speaker of the Legislature 
 ot 1899, charged with accepting a bribe, was begun in the Ingham 
 Circuit Court, before Judge Howard Wiest. Mr. Adams had been 
 indicted by rhe Ingham Grand Jury in connection with Charles H. 
 Pratt and Land Commissioner William A. French, whose trial was set 
 to follow that of Mr. Adams. It was alleged that Charles H. Pratt, 
 representing West & Co., publishers of a set of law reports, attempted 
 to get a bill passed by the Legislature of 1899 for placing a complete 
 set of these reports in every county court house in the State, at the 
 expense of the State, to cost about $180,000. It was claimed that 
 $20,000 was deposited by West & Co. at St. Paul, Minn., for Pratt to 
 use in putting through the bill. It was alleged that he gave Speaker 
 Adams $6,000 and Land Commissioner French $14,000 to secure the 
 
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 passage of the measure. The bill did not pass, however, and the 
 money was returned to West & Co. Pratt was tried in the Ingham 
 Circuit Court and convicted Nov. 2, 1901. He appealed, and the appeal 
 was pending when the trial of Adams began, Pratt being released on 
 bail and living in Chicago. 
 
 The trial was a sensational legal battle. The people were repre- 
 sented by Prosecuting Attorney Arthur J. Tuttle and Watts G. 
 Humphrey, the latter of Saginaw. Speaker Adams was defended by 
 R. C. Osuander and R. A. Montgomery, of Lansing, with Harrison 
 Greer, of Detroit, as counsel. Pratt came into court attended by Alex. 
 J. Groesbeck, of Detroit, and Q. A. Smith, of Lansing, as his personal 
 counsel. Mr. Groesbeck moved to have the subpena served upon his 
 client quashed, on the ground that his attendance was involuntary; 
 that when he was released on bail at the time of his conviction the 
 bond had required his appearance in court at the time of this trial. 
 He therefore should be held exempt from the service of a subpena 
 and be allowed to depart. Judge Wiest overruled this motion. The 
 Court also ruled that the prosecution could not prove the guilt of Mr. 
 Adams by showing acts that were done after the failure of the bill, for 
 the refunding of the money paid as a bribe. This ruling, it was said, 
 placed the prosecution in serious difficulties, and it was forced to rely 
 mainly upon the testimony of Charles H. Pratt. When that witness 
 was called, after two members of the Legislature — Henry M. Cheever, 
 of Detroit, and Peter Herrig, of Saginaw — had testified, he absolutely 
 refused to give evidence. He said: "Resting on my constitutional 
 privilege, I decline to answer, on the ground that the answer might 
 incriminate myself. I claim the privilege both under the Constitution 
 of the State and the Constitution of the United States." The prosecu- 
 tion urged that, having testified before the Grand Jury, and for other 
 reasons, Pratt had waived his constitutional privileges and could be 
 compelled to answer. Judge Wiest so ruled, and when the witness 
 still insisted, against the explicit order of the Court, in claiming his 
 constitutional privileges, on Jan. 16 held him guilty of criminal 
 contempt of court and committed him to 30 days' imprisonment in 
 the Ingham County jail. The trial of Mr. Adams was postponed until 
 the Supreme Court could be heard from upon the questions involved 
 in the commitment of Pratt for contempt, and on Jan. 21 that tribunal 
 ordered him discharged. Pratt immediately took his departure for 
 Chicago, and when court convened Jan. 22, Prosecuting Attorney Tuttle 
 declared himself unable to proceed further. Judge Wiest directed the 
 jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty. An order of nolle prosequi 
 was entered in the case against William A. French. 
 
 At a meeting of the directors of the Michigan Club, a political 
 organization that had been very prominent in Republican politics 
 lor some years, but which during 1901 had become almost moribund 
 (See "Detroit in 1901." p. 132), it was voted to continue the organ- 
 ization. Capt. Fred M. Alger, who was vice-president of the Club 
 during 1901 and to whose activity the continued existence of the Club 
 
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 was largely due, was elected pi-esident. A committee consisting of 
 Capt. Alger, Judge F. L. Brooke, Gen. H. M. Duffleld and others was 
 appointed to arrange for the annual banquet for Feb. 22. New club 
 rooms were afterward secured in the Butler Block, 82-84 Griswold 
 street. On Feb. 22, however, the Club, instead of giving a great 
 banquet bringing together prominent Republicans from all over the 
 State, to be addressed by eminent leaders of the party representing 
 the administration or prominent for their distinguished political 
 services, as had been the custom for sixteen years, held instead an 
 informal luncheon from 12 until 2 o'clock, attended by about 50 
 persons from the City of Detroit, with no speaking. Capt. Fred M. 
 Alger managed the affair. 
 
 Common Council of Detroit held its first meeting for 1902. As 
 the customary elections of the fall of 1901 had been postponed under 
 the so-called "ripper bills" of the Legislature of 1901 (see "Detroit in 
 1901," p. 25), there were no changes in its membership except the 
 seatmg of Aid. George P. Codd as successor of Aid. W. H. Coots, 
 deceased. Aid. Fred W. Smith, of the Seventeenth Ward, was elected 
 President, and Aid. William W. Magee, of the Eighth Ward, was 
 elected President Pro Tem., by the Republicans — 18 to 13. The annual 
 message of Mayor William C. Maybury was read. It contained a 
 vigorous denunciation of "ripperism." The message said: "No appeal 
 to popular sentiment was made; no consideration of this radical change 
 was submitted to your honorable body. The people and press were 
 ignored. In the space of a few hours laws that have been in existence 
 for years have been revoked and new enactments made at the dictation 
 of individuals. The mere statement of facts carries conviction of 
 danger to the existence of any community. It is the refinement of 
 the abuse of the law-making power. It perverts the dignity and 
 thwarts the purposes of the law. If federal government is to be 
 adopted in Detroit, let it be done openly and honorably, and let it be 
 done at public behest." 
 
 The Mayor's message further recommended a general reassess- 
 ment of property for taxation purposes, the establishment of public 
 baths, agitation for home rule for the city, and it discussed the 
 existing telephone and grade separation situation. 
 
 JANUARY 14. 
 
 In his annual message, Mayor Maybury, referring to grade cross^ 
 ings, said that an effort would be made to settle the perplexing 
 question without recourse to the courts. The Woodward avenue 
 viaduct, he declared, had cost the railroads $55,000, while the city's 
 share was only $30,000. 
 
 Matters hung fire till Feb. 18. A committee including the City 
 Engineer made a junket to Chicago to investigate grade separation 
 in that city. The committee reported that Chicago exercised police 
 power, instead of going to the Legislature. 
 
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 On April 15 the committee submitted a plan to President Ledyard, 
 of the Michigan Central Railroad, for crossings between Woodward 
 avenue and Michigan and Vinewood avenues. The elevations were 
 figured by taking the maximum elevation of the streets, at a point 
 approximately 200 feet on either side of the railroad right of way, 
 on the top of slope, and depressing the street at said right of way 
 five feet below elevation of said top of slope. This gave a clearance 
 of 14 feet on streets where street railways were operating. The 
 intermediate streets are calculated to have 13-foot clearance with a 
 Hiaximum depression of five feet. This plan, in the opinion of the 
 committee and of the City Engineer, could be carried out. 
 
 On May 2 President Ledyard advised the committee that he did 
 not understand that his authority to act for the Lake Shore and the 
 Grand Trunk gave him the right to consent for them to any deviation 
 from the plan approved Dec. 10, 1901. 
 
 On May 27 Chief Engineer Torrey, of the Michigan Central, replied 
 to the report of the committee. Aug. 5 the committee, after many 
 sessions, in which it appeared hopeless to affect a compromise between 
 the report of Dec. 10 and the special report of April 15, decided to 
 employ an expert to consider the entire matter. John W. Ellis, of 
 Woonsocket, R. I., was selected. His report was a deviation from 
 both the others. 
 
 The Merchants and Manufacturers' Exchange has also been most 
 active in looking after the rights of manufacturing industries, as 
 these might be affected by any proposed changes. At a banquet Nov. 
 22 a committee made this strong i-eport, hoping to fix responsibility 
 for delay: "Your committee on grade separation regrets to report 
 that the deadlock between the City Council and the railroads con- 
 tinues."' 
 
 JANUARY 15. 
 
 Annual meeting of the Lake Carriers' Association held at the 
 Hotel Cadillac. William ^Livingstone, formerly proprietor of the 
 Detroit Journal, and once before at the head of the Association, was 
 elected president for the ensuing year. 
 
 Chase S. Osborn, State Railroad Commissioner, and W. J. Hun- 
 saker, formerly managing editor of the Detroit Journal, acquired the 
 Saginaw Courier-Herald. 
 
 Mrs. William J. Chittenden elected president of the Children's 
 Free Hospital Association. The Infants' Ward Association of the 
 hospital elected Miss Anna Thompson president. 
 
 Y. M. C. A. reported a membership of 2,0.37 and that $20,000 was 
 raised and expended during the year. 
 
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 JANUARY 16. 
 
 Eugene A. Bresler took his seat as a member of the Board of 
 Library Commissioners in place of Dr. C. Henri Leonard, whose term 
 of office had expired. 
 
 JANUARY 17. 
 
 Death of Aid. Robert Barrie, of the Sixth Ward, after a prolonged 
 illness. He was born in Scotland in 1846; came to Detroit, 1871. 
 
 The MurJcipal League organized for 1902, with John Davis as 
 president; Frank Main, vice-president; Prank Kennedy, recording 
 secretary; Henry C. Weber, treasurer: S. D. Callender, attorney. 
 
 Building Trades' Council elected George Higginson, of the steam- 
 Jiiters, president; John Shea was re-elected business agent. 
 
 Death of Richard J. Thompson, aged 57, a Detroit contractor. 
 He erected the new postoffice building in Detroit, and for some time 
 was connected with the new county building until his health failed. 
 He put in the structural iron work of the new Wonderland building, 
 and his worry over the collapse of the roof of that structure with its 
 attendant loss of life greatly affected his health. He was born in 
 England. 
 
 JANUARY 18. 
 
 In the Evening News of Jan. 18 and 20 and the Sunday News- 
 Tribune of Jan. 19 appeared the story of the claim of the Pokagon 
 band of the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians to the Chicago lake front, 
 a property worth at least $30,000,000. Representatives of a syndicate 
 of capitalists appeared at Dowagiac, Mich., and purchased this Indian 
 title for $333,900, paying down $33,900, or $100 each, to the 339 members 
 of the tribe gathered at Dowagiac to receive the money. The remain- 
 der of the sum was to be paid when the title should be established. 
 The 339 deeds were placed in escrow in a Dowagiac bank, to be 
 delivered to the syndicate's agents when the remainder of the money 
 should be paid. 
 
 Fire destroyed 184-6 Jefferson avenue; loss $60,000, fully covered 
 by insurance. The building was occupied by Schloss Bros., wholesale 
 clothiers. 
 
 Launching at Wyandotte of the passenger steamer Western States, 
 twir. of the Eastern States, launched some months before. 
 
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 JANUARY 19. 
 The Evening News exposed the Charlevoix avenue graft. 
 
 A bloclv of four buildings, occupied by Crusoe Bros., Imperial 
 Cap Co., Maddocks Glove Co., F B. Neuhoff, Michigan Produce Co. 
 and Hills Bros., southeast corner of Jefferson and Shelby, collapsed 
 at 7:53 p. m., due to an explosion of gas. A sharp report was followed 
 by a shower of debris. No one was injured. Loss, $106,000. 
 
 St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum completed 50 years of existence on 
 tnis day, and during the time had cared for 3,166 children. There 
 were only 38 deaths in the time. The institution was reincorporated 
 for 30 years. President and treasurer, Ellen Farrell; secretary, 
 Catherine Minor. 
 
 Death of Capt. John Quigley, aged 76, veteran of the Civil War. 
 He helped organize the old Twenty-seventh Michigan Regiment, in 
 which he served as lieutenant and captain, and was one of the found- 
 ers of Gen. 0. M. Poe post, G. A. R. 
 
 JANUARY 21. 
 
 Judge Flavins L. Brooke, of the Wayne Circuit Court, ordered an 
 attachment to issue for the arrest of certain persons implicated in 
 the Buhl strike. During the first week in December, 1901, a committee 
 of the molders employed at the Buhl Malleable Co.'s plant, Wight 
 and Adair streets, called upon Frederick T. DeLong, treasurer and 
 general manager, and asked that a committee representing the com- 
 pany meet with a committee of three men representing the molders 
 to consider some changes in the piecework schedule of wages'. The 
 men claimed that they were not able to make the union scale of 
 wages in the Buhl foundry. The company insisted the men could 
 average better than the union scale. On Dec. 7 the works were partly 
 closed down, and on Dec. 9 all of the other molders were laid off 
 except some employed in what was called the gray iron department. 
 It was the beginning of a long contest between the men and the 
 company. 
 
 On Dec. 27, 1901, the company, in the Wayne Circuit Court, 
 obtained an injunction against its ex-employes, order granted by 
 Judge R. E. Frazer. The company alleged that the men on DeC. 10 
 had begun picketing the streets about the plant and loitering about 
 to prevent other men being hired to take their places. On Jan. 16 
 Judge Brooke denied the motion to dissolve the injunction made by 
 Attorneys Tarsney & Fitzpatrick, for the molders. There were many 
 stories of disorder told. Appeals were made to the courts to punish 
 individuals for contempt, for not heeding the injunction. The Police 
 Department was called upon. Men were arrested on attachments 
 issued by the Court and brought in to answer to the charge of con- 
 
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 tempt. While the legal proceedings were dragging along there were 
 frequent sensational incidents. There was a large number of men 
 constantly about the Buhl works, and it was reported that the men 
 within were armed with Winchester rifles and prepared to resist an 
 assault. There were no hostile demonstrations on the part of the 
 strikers, however, to warrant the belief that an attack was meditated. 
 Finally Mayor William C. Maybury, aided by George H. Barbour, 
 president of the Michigan Stove Co., attempted to negotiate a settle- 
 ment of the strike, but the negotiations were fruitless. T. D. Buhl 
 sent a warm letter to Mayor Maybury, demanding adequate protection 
 and saying that if the factory was injured he would hold the city 
 responsible. There was something of a scrimmage over a baker's 
 wagon which attempted to deliver some supplies to the non-union 
 men who were being boarded and lodged in the works, but no one 
 was injured. 
 
 The report was circulated on that day that the strikers proposed 
 to burn the Buhl factory as soon as it was dark. At last Mr. Buhl 
 decided to close his factory down completely and discharge all his 
 employes. This word was conveyed to the strikers by Police Com- 
 missioner Fowle. This gentleman had refused to clear the streets, 
 on the ground that there was no disturbance of the peace to warrant 
 such action on his part, and that the men had a right to quietly 
 assemble and converse on the street corners as they were doing. At 
 Commissioner Fowle's request the men dispersed and the police were 
 withdrawn at 5:30 p. m. At 7:30 p. m. the non-union men left the 
 works and went away unmolested. 
 
 The next day. May 3, Mr. Buhl in a published Interview in the 
 Evening News roasted Mayor Maybury and Police Commissioner 
 Fowle for not giving him adequate protection, and called the Mayor's 
 attempted mediation a purely political scheme. This practically ended 
 the intervention of Mayor Maybury. 
 
 County Clerk W. H. McGregor, aided by Deputy County Clerk 
 John Davidson and John H. Smedley, treasurer of Parke, Davis & Co., 
 then undertook to mediate a settlement. June 1 an agreement was 
 reached. The union was not recognized explicitly, but it was agreed 
 that questions should be settled by conferences between officers of 
 the company and a shop committee of the employes. All the strikers 
 were taken back and the legal proceedings dropped. The men resumed 
 work again about the middle of June. 
 
 The inheritance tax on the estate of John Ward, deceased, was 
 $18,100, which, with interest, became $21,000 when paid. J. Ward 
 Rowland, executor, reported the estate as consisting of $223,765.15 
 personalty and $550,625.47 realty, after the payment of $276,555 in 
 debts and $24,710 expenses of administration. 
 
 At the residence of James E. Davis, 144 Lafayette, occurred the 
 wedding of Alice Mary Davis, his daughter, to Hazen Stuart Pingree, 
 Jr., familiarly called "Joe"' Pingree, son of the late Gov. Pingree. 
 
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 Rev. Edward H. Pence, of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church, 
 officiated. The newly- wedded pair went to California on their wed- 
 ding trip. 
 
 JANUARY 22. 
 
 Death of Capt. John E. King, aged 83, for many years in the 
 clothing business at the corner of Woodward and Jefferson avenues. 
 He devised $18,500 to various public institutions. 
 
 Ice jam in St. Clair River lowered the water in Detroit River by 
 two feet and more. 
 
 Word received by Edwin Denby from Washington that $50,000 in 
 bounty money had been allowed the crew of the U. S. S. Yosemite 
 for the sinking of the Antonio Lopez off San Juan, Porto Rico, during 
 the Spanish War. The Yosemite was manned by the Michigan Naval 
 Reserves. 
 
 JANUARY 23. 
 
 Jan Kubelik, the youthful Bohemian violinist, appeared in Detroit. 
 Bohemian citizens made much of him, presenting him with a souvenir 
 volume. 
 
 JANUARY 24. 
 
 Litigation was begun over the settlement of the Hammond estate. 
 It appeared from the bill in chancery filed by Mrs. Ellen H. Casgrain 
 and George H. Lee, that in 1895 Ellen Hammond, widow of the 
 well-known pork-packing king, George Hammond, deeded the big, 
 handsome Hammond Building, corner of Fort and Griswold streets, 
 to her son Charles F. Hammond, consideration $1. This building, 
 which cost $600,000, was worth $1,000,000 at this time. The biU 
 continued that, coincident with the deed placed on record, an unre- 
 corded trust deed was executed, which place the property in the hands 
 of Charles F. Hammond to manage, directing him to pay to Mrs. 
 Ellen Hammond so much of the income from the property as she 
 should desire during her life. She died Feb. 20, 1898. Her surviving 
 children were Charles F., George H., William J., Florence P., Ethel K. 
 and Edward P. Hammond, and Mrs. Annie H. Casgrain. George H. 
 Lee was a grandson, son of Gilbert W. Lee. The trust deed provided 
 that after Mrs. Hammond's death Charles F. Hammond should contin\ie 
 to manage the property and divide the profits between himself, 
 William J., Florence P., Ethel K. and Edward P. Hammond equally, 
 an arrangement which excluded George H. Hammond, Mrs. Casgrain 
 and George H. Lee. The deed provided for a distribution between 
 the persons named in 1909. The bill of complaint alleged that the 
 
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 unrecorded trust deed should be construed as a part of the recorded 
 deed, and that the two constituted an illegal instrument under the 
 statutes concerning the alionatioii of property. An amended bill, filed 
 March 1, set up as an additional reason for setting aside the trust deed 
 that the Hammond Building was erected partly with money that came 
 into the hands of Mrs. Ellen Hammond as guardian of her children. 
 It was alleged that she used of her own funds $150,000; and $50,000 
 each of the money of William J. and Charles F. Hammond, her sons, 
 and $112,000 each of the money of Florence and Edward Hammond, 
 and $116,000 of the money of Ethel Hammond. The litigation was 
 not finished during the year. 
 
 JANUARY 25. 
 
 Charles Meyers, who stole a tray containing $3,000 worth of 
 diamonds from the store of Horace W. Steere in broad daylight and 
 ran away with them, being captured almost immediately, was sentenced 
 by Judge Phelan, of the Recorder's Court, to three years' imprison- 
 ment at Jackson. 
 
 JANUARY 27. 
 
 At Adrian, Mich., began the trial of Bert Farrington, of Milan, 
 charged with the murder of Jesse Hooker. Bert Farrington was a 
 business man, a butcher, of Milan, generally respected and very 
 popular. Jesse Hooker had been in his employ and had boarded with 
 him. Gossip arose in the little town over the relations of Jesse 
 Hooker and Mrs. Farrington, and Farrington sent Hooker away. Mrs. 
 Farrington also went away, and she and her husband remained 
 estranged for months. Farrington continued to plead with his wife to 
 return. Finally, Jan. 5, Farrington went to Adrian and discovered his 
 wife at the residence of Hooker's father. Looking through a window 
 that evening, he saw Hooker and Mrs. Farrington, and saw them finally 
 leave the room as though to go to bed. Farrington went up town 
 and tried to get an officer to go with him to the house. Finally Sheriff 
 William F. Shepherd consented. They went to the Hooker house and 
 were admitted by the elder Hooker. Sheriff Shepherd went into a 
 bedroom with a lighted match, and found Jesse Hooker and Mrs. 
 Farrington in bed together. Farrington followed into the bedroom, 
 and by the light of Sheriff Shepherd's match fired a revolver several 
 times into the bed, mortally wounding Hooker. 
 
 Judge Guy M. Chester presided over the trial. Jacob N. Sampson 
 was Prosecuting Attorney, and the prisoner was defended by Con- 
 gressman Henry R. Smith; R. A. Watts and Clarke E. Baldwin. Mr. 
 Smith's partners, and A. J. Sawyer, of Ann Arbor. Farrington claimed 
 he did not know what happened from the moment he saw his wife 
 in bed with Hooker until after he was nearly back to the jail in 
 custody of the Sheriff, and his attorneys set up the defense of transitory 
 mania. There was great sympathy for Farrington, and crowds of his 
 
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 friends from Milan were in constant attendance at tlie trial. Acquittal 
 was expected. Judge Chester charged the jury, however, that a man 
 has no legal right to slay the destroyer of his home, and the jury 
 evidently did not believe in the theory of transitory mania. On 
 Feb. 6 the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Far- 
 rington was released on $5,000 bail pending sentence, and was received 
 with an ovation on his return to Milan. Petitions for clemency were 
 sent to Judge Chester, who, March 18, sentenced Farrington to three 
 years in Jackson State's Prison and to pay a fine of $500. Petitions 
 for Farrington's pardon were hastily prepared to be placed before 
 Gov. Aaron T. Bliss and the Pardon Board; but before his removal 
 to Jackson Farrington wrote a letter to his wife, saying that the time 
 would be short and then he would see her again. This letter became 
 known, a great revulsion of feeling occurred, and the petitions for 
 pardon were quickly and quietly suppressed. 
 
 JANUARY 29. 
 The Wabash Railroad opened a new section between Butler and 
 New Haven, Ind., giving Detroit direct through connections with Fort 
 Wayne, Ind. 
 
 Marriage of Police Justice Albert F. Sellers to Miss Maud Van 
 Husan, daughter of Frank G. Van Husan. 
 
 The notorious criminals, Edward and John Biddle, under sentence 
 of death for murder, broke jail at Pittsburg, Pa., assisted by the wife 
 of Warden Peter K. Soffel, who had become infatuated with Edward 
 Biddle. The two men, taking the woman with them, stole a horse 
 and sleigh and drove away. Near Butler, Pa., the two convicts were 
 fatally wounded by pursuing officers. Mrs. Soffel shot herself, but 
 not fatally. The Biddle boys were born and reared near Amherstburg, 
 Ont., and were well known in Detroit. The story of their lives was 
 told at some length in the Evening News, July 19, 1901. 
 
 Death of Ben Fletcher, aged 59, traveling passenger agent of the 
 Grand Trunk Railway. 
 
 JANUARY 31. 
 
 Death of Alex. E. Viger, who had lived in Detroit for over 40 years. 
 
 FEBRUARY 2. 
 Sunday News-Tribune printed a list of the millionaires of Michigan 
 compiled from authentic sources. There were 74 in all, 44 being in 
 Detroit. There were 19 "estates" in the list, 12 in Detroit. 
 
 Agnes Inglis, daughter of Dr. David Inglis, committed suicide at 
 Ann Arbor by shooting herself through the heart. She had been 
 subject to despondency, the only reason ever known for the act. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 4. 
 
 Dr. 0. R. Long, having visited Ionia State's Prison, reported that 
 Harry Hamberger, convicted April 5, 1900, of the murder of John M. 
 Reindel in the preceding December, was obviously hopelessly imbecile. 
 (See "Detroit in 1900," p. 15.) 
 
 FEBRUARY 5. 
 
 The inquest conducted by Coroner John T. Hoffmann into the 
 causes of the Penberthy Injector Co. boiler explosion of Nov. 26, 
 1901 (see "Detroit in 1900," p. 139), which resulted in the deaths of 
 30 employes and the injury of many others, was held at Philharmonic 
 Hall. About 75 witnesses were subpenaed. Prof. Mortimer E. 
 Cooley, head of the mechanical engineering department of the 
 University of Michigan, was the steel expert of the people), and Prof. 
 R. C. Carpenter, of Cornell, for the Penberthy Injector Co. Oscar 
 Texter, a Cleveland chemist and practical steel man, made a number 
 of tests under the directions of Prof. Cooley. Prof. Carpenter and 
 Prof. Cooley held that the material of which the boiler was made 
 was very brittle and unfit for the purpose for which it was used. The 
 case went to the jury Feb. 28. The jury completely exonerated the 
 Penberthy Injector Co., its officers and employes, of all blame, and 
 charged the accident back upon the Pennsylvania Boiler Works, of 
 Erie, Pa., makers of the boiler, holding that it was not up to specifi- 
 cations in materials and workmanship. 
 
 FEBRUARY 6. 
 
 At a meeting of the State Pardon Board at the Russell House, 
 an ineffectual effort was made to secure the pardon of Isaac Clark 
 and Daniel Graham, serving life sentences in Jackson State's Prison 
 for the murder of Anthony Miller, of Norris, in 1878. Ex-Judge 
 Cornelius J. Reilly appeared before the Pardon Board voluntarily to 
 protest against the release. 
 
 FEBRUARY 7. 
 
 The ."innual report compiled by General Superintendent Joseph 
 Ripley, of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal, showing the traffic passing 
 through the American and Canadian canals at Sault Ste. Marie for 
 the year 1901, placed the total freight for the year at 28,403,065 net 
 tons, value $289,906,865. This was the maximum business for the 
 canals to date, and exceeded the total business of the Suez Canal by 
 approximately 19,000,000 tons. This was an increase over 1900 of 11 
 per cent. Of the total freight traffic, 90 per cent went through the 
 American canaL Vessel passages were 20,041, as against 19,452 in 
 
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 1900. There was a diminished cost of transportation, the rate being 
 82 cents per ton in 1901 and 97 cents in 1900. 
 
 Meiko Meyer, Socialist party leader, was acquitted in the 
 Recorder's Court, charged with "creating an unlawful diversion upon 
 the Campus Martins." It was alleged that he used words derogatory 
 to ex-Gov. Pingree on the evening of the funeral, saying, "If the 
 people should treat him as he deserved, they v/ould drag him from 
 his grave by the hair of his head." Meyer was roughly handled by 
 the crowd before the police interfered and placed him In custody in 
 the Central Police Station. Meyer insisted that he had never used 
 the words quoted. 
 
 Death at St. Mary's Hospital, following an operation, of Jerry 
 Connor, who at one time owned 100 houses in Detroit. His extensive 
 enterprises went to pieces during ihe panic of 1893, and afterward he 
 drove a hack. 
 
 FEBRUARY 8. 
 
 Patrolman James Nelson stopped Albert, or Alphonso, Dempsey, 
 of 163 Twenty-second street, and Frank J. Hines, of 285 Seventeenth 
 street, near the latter's residence, about midnight, and asked them 
 their names. A hot fight ensued between the three men. Patrolman 
 Nelson was thrown to the ground and very roughly handled. In the 
 scrimmage the officer shot Dempsey in the head, fatally wounding 
 him. He then arrested Hines. Dempsey was taken to Emergency 
 Hospital and operated upon. He lingered in a semi-conscious condition 
 until Feb. 15. At the inquest 48 witnesses were subpenaed. The 
 inquest became very sensational from the fact that a vigorous effort 
 was made to show that the officer had no reason for shooting and 
 should be held on a serious criminal charge. Nelson was exonerated. 
 
 Death of Harvey C. Clark, member of the drug firm of Farrand, 
 Williams & Clark. He was born in Cuyahoga Falls, 0., Nov. 22. 1839; 
 was educated at Western Reserve College, and immediately after 
 graduation, in 1861, came to Detroit, entering the employ of his uncle, 
 William Farrand. 
 
 FEBRUARY 9. 
 
 Judge W. L. Carpenter, of the Wayne Circuit Court, in a paper 
 read before the Business Men's Club of the First Congregational 
 Church, deplored the reluctance of business and professional men to 
 serve as jurors, and said that it was a real danger to the system if 
 any one influential class of citizens should persist in not being repre- 
 sented upon juries. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 10. 
 
 Failure and closing of the City Savings Bank. The directors 
 affirmed that the failure was due to Frank C. Andrews, who was 
 vice-president and real executive head. The Detroit Clearing House 
 expelled the bank, alleging 'criminal irregularities." Frank C. 
 Andrews was arrested that afternoon on complaint of T. Hawley 
 Christian, president of the Board of County Auditors, the county 
 having funds on deposit. Bail $10,000 furnished. Andrews resigned 
 as Police Commissioner. 
 
 The board of directors of the Detroit Chamber of Commerce at 
 a meeting at the Detroit Club passed a resolution to the effect that 
 reciprocity with Canada was worth more to Detroit than with the 
 entire South American continent, and appointed a committee to dis- 
 cover the sentiment of other lake cities on the question. 
 
 Newspaper artists' exhibition at Russell House, convention hall, 
 participated in by 12 well-known cartoonists and illustrators of the city. 
 
 George W. Fowle appointed Police Commissioner by Mayor 
 Maybury, vice Frank C. Andrews, resigned. 
 
 FEBRUARY 11. 
 
 Warrant for the arrest of Cashier Henry R. Andrews, of the CLty 
 Savings Bank, issued, but not served, owing to his health. Bill for 
 a receiver for the City Savings Bank filed; George L. Maltz, State 
 Banking Commissioner, complainant. 
 
 Common Council transferred $85,000 of city money to the Board 
 of Education and to Library funds, on account of City Savings Bank 
 failure. 
 
 The will of Fr. Amandus Van Den Driessche filed for probate by 
 Eli R. Sutton, having been withheld by him for some time. It was 
 admitted to probate by Judge Durfee. It left five acres of land at 
 Connor's Creek to endow a home for aged priests. 
 
 Death of Mrs. L. E Ellis, wife of Dr. L. E. Ellis and sister of 
 Admiral Sampson, U. S. N., at Dr. Ellis's residence, 908 Military 
 avenue. 
 
 Death of Mrs. Louise Strong Pitts, wife of Thomas Pitts, wholesale 
 lumber and salt merchant, at Oak Grove Sanitarium, Flint. 
 
 Death of Mrs. Catherine S. Smith of hemorrhage and heart failure. 
 She was the widow of Barclay Smith, tea merchant, who dropped dead 
 at the corner of Wayne street .and Lafayette avenue about a year 
 previous to this time. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 12. 
 Union Trust Co. appointed receiver for the City Savings Bank. 
 
 Much discussion ensued throughout the year 1902 concerning the 
 building of a plant for repairing asphalt pavements. The Council 
 ordered $10,000 worth of machinery from Hetherington & Berner, of 
 Indianapolis. It finally became clear that Commissioner Moreland 
 was opposed to the installation of the plant. A special committee of 
 the Council on asphalt site finally asked to be relieved of further 
 duties. Reports on sites were likewise beaten on a close vote. 
 Finally, on the resolution of Aid. Codd, a lease was entered into with 
 the Grand Trunk Railroad for a site at the foot of Rivard street, 
 rental $1,000 per annum, for one year, with the privilege of five. In 
 the meantime the contract with Hetherington & Berner had been 
 unfulfilled for so many months that that company started suit, refus- 
 ing to deliver the goods, claiming extra pay to compensate for the 
 rise in materials. At the close of the year the suit was still pending. 
 
 At a meeting of the State League of Republican Clubs held in 
 Grand Rapids, Frederick R. Fenton, of Detroit, was elected president 
 over George Clapperton, of Grand Rapids. 
 
 Death of Hiram Stansell, aged 68, retired commission merchant, 
 at his residence, 543 Trumbull avenue. 
 
 FEBRUARY 13. 
 
 Prof. Frederick G. Now, of the ITniversity of Michigan, lectured 
 before the Wayne County Medical Society, upon his newly discovered 
 germicide, benzozone. or benzoyl acetyl peroxide. One of the house 
 physicians at Harper Hospital had been slightly injured by an 
 explosion of a bottle of the new remedy shortly before Dr. Novy came 
 to explain its manufacture and qualities. It was claimed that the 
 new germicide would destroy the germs of many diseases without 
 injury to the tissues of the body, and was explosive only in hot water. 
 
 Mrs. Henry F. Lyster elected president of the Colonial Dames of 
 America Society, of Detroit. 
 
 FEBRUARY 15. 
 Death at Bay City of Andrew Crosby Maxwell, aged 71, a prominent 
 citizen of that city. He was a member of the Michigan Legislature 
 in 1864, and Circuit Judge in Bay County, 1894. 
 
 Second warrant issued for the arrest of Frank C. Andrews on 
 complaint o*" George L. Maltz, State Banking Commissioner. The new 
 
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 bail for $15,000 Andrews was unable to furnish, so he went to jail, 
 where he remained for 14 weeks. 
 
 Lafayette avenue bridge over the Michigan Central Railroad tracks 
 was barricaded by order of Commissioner of Public Works, being 
 declared unsafe for public traffic. The bridge was new, having been 
 built in 1894 at a cost of $29,815.32. There was not enough money 
 in the repair fund fo do the work, and it remained closed for the 
 remainder of the year. 
 
 Launching of the excursion steamer Greyhound, built for the 
 White Star Line. 
 
 Michael Follraer, convicted of an atrocious crime committed in 
 Springwells, was sentenced by Judge Morse Rohnert to 15 years' 
 confinement in Jackson State's Prison. 
 
 FEBRUARY 17. 
 The affairs of the Granite State Provident Association were wound 
 up by Walter S. Harsha, clerk of the United States Circuit Court, as 
 special master in chancery, who mailed each investor a check for 18 
 per cent of his investment as final payment. 
 
 Story in the Evening News of Frank C. Andrews's business 
 methods. 
 
 F. C. Andrews's attornej^s attempted to furnish the bail ($15,000) 
 required for his release, but desisted on notice that Prosecuting 
 Attorney Hunt would move to have the amount required increased 
 to $25,000, and if bail was furnished would cause Andrews's immediate 
 rearrest. 
 
 FEBRUARY 18. 
 The famous Battle Creek Sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., 
 presided over by Dr. J. H. Kellogg and managed by a committee of 
 the Seventh Day Adventists, was destroyed by fire. There were over 
 1,000 people in the structures consumed when the fire broke out at 
 4:30 a. m. But one life was lost in consequence of the fire, however — 
 Abner Case, of Bath, N. Y., aged 87, a very infirm man. Mrs. H. C. 
 Daniels, of Eldorado, Ark., had a leg broken jumping from an upper- 
 story window. Ira D. Sankey, the famous evangelist, was staying in 
 the institution, but escaped unharmed. It was estimated that the 
 losses in money, jewelry and clothing to guests amounted to $500,000. 
 The loss to the Sanitarium in buildings was also placed at $500,000; 
 insurance, $148,500. The necessary funds were quickly raised, and a 
 new building was erected on the ruins of the old. 
 
 A deed was filed by the Detroit Southern Railroad which conveyed 
 to the railroad from the Solvay Process Co. 51.67 acres of land on 
 
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 Zug Island, reserving the mineral rights to the Solvay Co.; price 
 $93,397, or nearly $1,800 an acre. The Solvay Co. had purchased this 
 as part of a much larger tract of the River Rouge Improvement Co. 
 a short time before at the rate of $2,600 an acre. 
 
 Arrangements made with fiv€ banks for furnishing money to the 
 Board of Education and to the Library Commission to enable them 
 to pay their employes for the remainder of the fiscal year, they being 
 without money on account of the City Savings Bank failure. 
 
 Evening News printed the story of Frank C. Andrews's overdraft 
 account with the City Savings Bank, showing its curious connection 
 with the fluctuation in value of the Amalgamated Copper stock. 
 
 Death of Calvin C. Burt, aged S2, at his rooms, 84 Michigan 
 avenue When a lad he became an office boy to Gen. Lewis Cass, and 
 later on was the General's private secretary. In 1840 Gen. Cass and 
 he were initiated, he claimed, into the Egyptian Masonic Rite of 
 Memphis, and received their degrees in the Masonic Temple of the 
 Orient of France two years later. Burt graduated from the Harvard 
 Law School, went to Chicago to practice law, and was elected to a 
 judicial position. Afterward he went to St. Louis and started a 
 Democratic paper. His opposition to slavery resulted in his printing 
 office being mobbed and destroyed at the outbreak of the war. Later 
 on he became Prosecuting Attorney of St. Clair County, Michigan. 
 He was mixed up in the Fenian raid, captured in Canada and sentenced 
 to be shot. An Indian aided him to escape. He spent much of his 
 life trying to introduce Egyptian Masonry in America. He was three 
 times married. 
 
 An inventory of the estate of the late Gov. Hazen S. Pingree 
 sliowed it to be worth $332,254. The interest in the Pingree Shoe Co., 
 formely Pingree & Smith, was placed at $272,824. The residence, 
 1020 Woodward avenue, was placed at $45,000. The Governor left 
 $140,000 in life insurance besides. 
 
 Detroit & Deadwood Mining Co. stock, a concern that disposed 
 of considerable stock in Detroit through Frank C. Andrews, treasurer 
 of the company, was offered at 4 cents per $1 share, at thisi time, -with 
 no takers. Malcolm McCallnm, who was one of F. C. Andrews's 
 bondsmen in the criminal proceedings, was prominent in this company. 
 
 Death of Rev. Romuald B. Des Roches, pastor of the First French 
 Baptist Church. He was born in Montreal in 1826; was educated for 
 the priesthood, but left the Roman Catholic Church at 19 years of age, 
 joined the Baptists, and came to Detroit to found a French Protestant 
 congregation. 
 
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 FEBRUARY 20. 
 Statement of Banking Commissioner George L. Maltz as to the 
 financial condition of the wrecked City Savings Bank. 
 
 FEBRUARY 21. 
 Third warrant issued for the arrest of Frank C. Andrews and a 
 second one for the arrest of Henry R. Andrews were issued, on new 
 complaints prepared by Prosecuting Attorney Hunt and Assistant 
 Prosecuting Attorney Merriam. Bail of P'rank C. Andrews on the new 
 charge was fixed at $50,000 and not furnished. 
 
 Owing to difficulties over the exhibition of November, 1901, the 
 Detroit Poultry, Pigeon & Pet Stock Club became divided into two 
 factions. One party, called the Zenner faction, finally incorporated 
 under the name of the Detroit Poultry & Pet Stock Association, electing 
 A. H. Zenner president, Feb. 18; the other, called the William H. 
 Mercer faction, met and incorporated Feb. 22, taking the title Detroit 
 Poultry, Pigeon & Pet Stock Club; W. A. Jones was elected president. 
 
 The Michigan Society of the Sons of the American Revolution held 
 u banquet at the Russell House, at which addresses were given by 
 Lieut.-Com. F. W. Bartlett, U. S. N.; Rev. A. H. Barr, of the Jefferson 
 Avenue Presbyterian Church; Maj. W. H. Bixby, U. S. A., and others. 
 Alfred Russeil presided. 
 
 FEBRUARY 24. 
 Union Trust Co. as receiver for the City Savings Bank began a 
 civil suit against Frank C. Andrews to recover his indebtedness to 
 that institution, and served writs of garnishment upon a number of 
 the banks and broke^-s and business men of Detroit. 
 
 H. R. Andrews arraigned in police court on both charges. Bail 
 on the first charge fixed at $1,000 and his personal recognizance taken. 
 On the second charge bail was fixed at ?20,000 and furnished by J. 
 Wilfred Thompson and Frank L. Bromley. 
 
 Judge J. W. Donovan appointed appraisers of the assets of the 
 City Savings Bank on motion of the Union Trust Co., receiver. 
 
 FEBRUARY 25. 
 Application for writ of certiorari made to Supreme Court on behalf 
 of Frank C. Andrews to have the subject of mitigation of bail brought 
 before that court. Writ granted. 
 
 FEBRUARY 27. 
 H. A. Taylor, a young Boston capitalist, was found guilty of 
 bribery by a Grand Rapids jury. This was the second trial in the 
 
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 series resulting from the Grand Rapids water scandal. It was said 
 that the deal had cost Taylor |150,000. The jury was out 32 hours. 
 (See "Detroit in 1901," p. 68.) The confession of Stilson V. McLeod, 
 who was involved in the case, was printed in the Evening News Jan. 3 
 and 4, 1902. 
 
 Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake Michigan Rapid Railway Co. began 
 suit against Frank C. Andrews for $100,000; and the Detroit Construc- 
 tion Co., engaged in building the same line, sued Andrews for $25,000, 
 beginning suit by attachment. (See March 8.) 
 
 FEBRUARY 28. 
 
 A bronze tablet to mark the original site of the Univereity of 
 Michigan, Bates and Larned streets, was unveiled. D. M. Cooper, 
 pastor emeritus of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, was elected 
 president of the Alumni Association. 
 
 Police Court examination of Frank C. and H. R. Andrews adjourned 
 to April 4. 
 
 MARCH 1. 
 
 Through the Evening Newr. the public learned that Frank C. 
 Andrews while Police Commissioner had from his own pocket been 
 paying Capt. John T. Spillane, of the Central Precinct, and Lieutenant 
 Detective Tuttle, who watched Griswold street, $25 per month increase 
 in salary. Why Mr. Andrews paid this increase himself, instead of 
 charging it against the funds of the department, was never explained; 
 lie had full authority to fix salaries. 
 
 Gov. Bliss reappointed Dr. J. B. Kennedy a member of the Deti'oit 
 Board of Health. 
 
 MARCH 2. 
 
 Frank F. Humphrey, aged 59, prominent in the woolen manufac- 
 turing business in Detroit for many years, died at his residence, 85 
 Joy street. 
 
 R. McDougail Campau, aged 45, one of the organizers of the 
 Peninsular Stove Works, died at his residence, 189 Parker avenue. 
 Mr. Campau was a son of Alexander M. Campau. 
 
 MARCH 3. 
 Young Women's Christian Association acquired title to the Temple 
 Beth El property, Clifford and Washington; price, $40,000. It was 
 intended to build at a cost of $70,000. 
 
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 Judge Donovan met the attorneys representing the intervening 
 petitioners in the City Savings Bank case, and made a number of 
 important rulings. 
 
 A long-standing trouble between rival musicians' unions was ter- 
 minated by the union atiiliated with the Trades Council turning over 
 its effects to No. 5, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, 
 and a list of 40 names was prepared who would be received into No. 5 
 on payment of $5, one-half the regular fees. 
 
 MARCH 5. 
 Judge George P. Wanty, of the United States District Court for 
 the Western District of Michigan, sentenced Lant K. Salsbury, formerly 
 City Attorney of Grand Rapids, and Stillson V. MacLeod, formerly teller 
 of the Old National Bank of Grand Rapids, each to two years' imprison- 
 ment in the Detroit House of Correction for violations of the national 
 banking law. MacLeod fraudulently certified to two checks drawn 
 upon the bank by Salsbury, each of $10,000. Assistant Cashier Clay H. 
 Hollister, of the bank, discovered and secured the return of the checks. 
 The transaction occurred in connection with the famous Grand Rapids 
 bribery scandal. (See "Detroit in 1901," p. 68.) Both men pleaded 
 guilty in the United States Court. MacLeod had confessed the whole 
 affair in connection with the criminal proceedings in the State Court 
 where Salsbury had already been convicted, Dec. 4, 1901. (See Even- 
 ing News, Jan. 2 and 3, 1902.) 
 
 Fourth arrest of Frank C. Andrews and third arrest of Henry R. 
 Andrews. Both arraigned in Police Court and each required to give 
 his personal recognizance for $1,000 on the new charges, the bail 
 otherwise remaining unchanged. April 4 again fixed as the day for 
 the examination. 
 
 MARCH 6. 
 Death of Edward K. Norton, a prominent broker. 
 
 John H. Kaple, vice-president of the Michigan Savings Bank, died 
 suddenly at his residence, 61 Garfield avenue. He was born in Massa- 
 chusetts in 1817 and came to Detroit in 1854. From 1861 to 1865 he 
 was register of the Wayne Probate Court, and from 1866 to 1875 he 
 was Postmaster of Detroit. He organized the Detroit Casket Co., of 
 which he was president at the time of his death; was also a director 
 of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Co. 
 
 MARCH 7. 
 
 Death of William S. Sheeran, aged 50, a prominent attorney. He 
 was born in Detroit; graduated from the University of Michigan, class 
 of '73; was twice City Attorney. 
 
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 MARCH 8. 
 
 Death of Mrs. Alfred Russell, wife of Alfred Russell. As a daugh- 
 ter of Noah B. Wells, St. Albans, Vt., she was a descendant of the 
 first Governor of Connecticut. She was prominent in church and 
 charitable work in the city, and also in the ladies' patriotic organ- 
 izations. 
 
 Arrangements made for completing the big apartment building 
 at the corner of Woodward and Forest avenues, begun by Frank C. 
 Andrews and interrupted by the City Savings Bank failure. 
 
 Evening News printed the story of the financial difiiculties of the 
 Grand Rapids. Holland & Lake Michigan Rapid Railway, due to the 
 manipulation of the bonds of the road by Frank C. Andrews. 
 
 MARCH 10. 
 
 Detroit Typographical Union, No. 18, celebrated its fiftieth anni- 
 versary. 
 
 MARCH 14. 
 
 A committee, of which Carl E. Schmidt was chairman, decided to 
 locate the Pingree statue upon the southeastern corner of the western 
 half of Grand Circus Park. The pedestal is to be granite, 22 feet square 
 by 7 feet in altitude, the entire statue to stand 22 feet high. 
 
 Account in the Detroit Evening News of how Frank C. Andrews 
 juggled with a big check drawn by County Treasurer Charles A. Buhrer 
 and covered up his overdraft at the City Savings Bank in time for the 
 examination, Oct. 14, 1901, made by the State Banking Commissioner. 
 
 MARCH 15. 
 Official statistics prepared with reference to the Baptist churches 
 of Michigan showed that there had been a decrease of 1,300 in member- 
 ship in the denomination in the State in three years, while there had 
 been an increase in the value of church property during the past year 
 of $175,768. The total value of church property of the Baptist denom- 
 ination in the State was $2,071,045. 
 
 Announced that Dexter M. Ferry had given the University of 
 Michigan 20 acres of land in Ann Arbor to increase the facilities of 
 the students for athletics. The enlarged grounds were named the 
 Ferry Athletic Field. 
 
 MARCH 17. 
 Beginning of a series of hearings before Circuit Court Commis- 
 sioner Samuel L. May in the garnishment proceedings instituted by 
 
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 the Union Trust Co., receiver in the City Savings Bank case. These 
 hearings continued for the remainder of the month and into April, 
 and disclosed a great deal of information concerning Frank C. 
 Andrews's business methods and the extent and variety of his deals. 
 
 MARCH 19. 
 
 Officers of Hazen S. Pingree Command, Spanish War Veterans: 
 Captain, George T. Gaston; first lieutenant, Thomas J. Barrett; second 
 lieutenant, O'Brien Atkinson; chaplain, Rev. Francis M. Kelly; ser- 
 geant of the guard, Charles Johnson; quartermaster, Ernest Hamilton; 
 adjutant, Alfred H. Chittenden. 
 
 St. Andrew's Parish case. City Savings Bank failure; story told 
 in the Evening News. 
 
 Easter Sunday was set as the day for the formal separation of 
 the North Congregational Church from the First Congregational 
 Church, to which the North Church had hitherto been related as a 
 mission. Rev. John W. Sutherland, assistant pastor of the First 
 Church, was selected as the first pastor of the North Church. 
 
 Death of Sydney Corbett, Jr., aged 36, head of a prominent firm 
 of bankers and brokers. He was for a time on the staff of the Evening 
 News, but was forced to abandon newspaper work because of failing 
 eyesight. He started in the brokerage business in 1895 with Joseph 
 N. Low. 
 
 Aaron Davis, aged 81, whose clothing store was for 30 years a 
 landmark on Michigan avenue opposite the City Hall, died at the 
 residence of his daughter, Mrs. A. Oppenheimer. 
 
 MARCH 22. 
 
 Three young girls — Miss Ernestine Gowdy, niece of O. R. Baldwin; 
 Miss Marguerite Werneken, daughter of Frank S. Werneken, and 
 Miss Florence Bowden, daughter of J. A. Bowden — were driving on 
 the North Boulevard. Their pony took fright at a team driven rapidly 
 past them, and ran away. The cart was overturned and Miss Gowdy 
 sustained fatal injuries, her skull being fractured against the curb. 
 She died at Harper Hospital some hours later. Miss Werneken 
 sustained a compound fracture of the left leg, and Miss Bowden was 
 badly bruised and shaken. 
 
 Union Trust Co., receiver for City Savings Bank, brought suit 
 against the Detroit, Rochester Romeo & Lake Orion Railroad and 
 Detroit Construction Co. 
 
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 MARCH 24. 
 
 There were eight candidates in the race to succeed Aid. Robert 
 Barrie, deceased, as Alderman from the Sixth Ward. The Democratic 
 candidates were: Thomas H. Grose, Robert J. McClellan, Eugene 
 Reynolds and Bartholomew A. McGraw, known as "Batty" McGraw, 
 the last named being a superintendent of sewers under the Department 
 of Public Works. The Republican candidates were: Hugh R. Burns, 
 City Estimator and receiving teller of the Michigan Savings Bank; 
 School Inspector Orrin J. Price, Walter C. Robinson and Peter 
 McConachie. 
 
 On March 5 B. A. McGraw received the Democratic nomination. 
 His own precinct, the Seventh, gave him 170 votes to 13 for all other 
 candidates. Hugh R. Burns received the Republican nomination 
 March 6, winning by only six votes over Orrin J. Price. The Evening 
 News made a special examination into the vote in McGraw's precinct 
 and discovered some astounding irregularities. (See Evening News 
 of March 7, 9 and 10.) 
 
 At the election held Monday, March 24, Hugh Burns was duly 
 elected. 
 
 Death of Joseph P. Fee, a well-known tobacco manufacturer. 
 
 MARCH 25. 
 
 The rise and fall of water on the Great Lakes was made a special 
 inquiry by the United States Weather Bureau, and on data furnished 
 by Observer Norman B. Conger a bulletin was issued entitled "Wind 
 Velocities and the Fluctuations of Water Levels on Lake Ei'ie, by 
 A. J. Henry, Professor of Meteorology." 
 
 New complaints filed by Prosecutor Hunt in the Frank C. Andrews 
 and Henry R. Andrews cases, and new warrants issued. 
 
 Defense of Frank C. Andrews in the Grand Rapids, Holland & 
 Lake Michigan litigation. Story of the three notes, aggregating 
 $330,000. Disclosure of Dr. J. B. Book in the garnishment suits 
 collateral to the City Savings Bank case, telling the story of how 
 Frank C. Andrews obtained his and A. L. Stephens's endorsement to 
 a note of $100,000. 
 
 Sensational revelations of Cameron Currie & Co. in the garnish- 
 ment proceedings collateral to the City Savings Bank case. 
 
 MARCH 26. 
 
 Remarkable disclosures of P. P. & .T. T. McLaughlin, brokers, in 
 the garnishment proceedings collateral to the City Savings Bank case. 
 
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 Common Council allowed ?3,000 for special aid for Corporation 
 Counsel, to collect back taxes. 
 
 MARCH 27. 
 
 Judge Speed, as a witness in a railway suit, incidentally admitted 
 that his fee in hastening the proposed $17,500,000 street railway propo- 
 sition, during the Pingree regime, was $3,000. The Judge said he 
 did not put in over a month's actual work. 
 
 MARCH 28. 
 
 Tabulation published in the Evening News showing the extent of 
 Frank C. Andrews's dealings in Amalgamated Copper stock for three 
 months, as revealed in the disclosures of Cameron Currie & Co. and 
 P. P. & J. T. McLaughlin, brokers, in the garnishment proceedings 
 collateral to the City Savings Bank case. < 
 
 Detroit's Easter floral bill said to be $60,000. 
 
 MARCH 29. 
 
 The Evening News printed a brief personal sketch of W. P. Fitz- 
 simons, a Detroit boy who had risen to prominence in railroad circles. 
 Mr. Fitzsimons had just removed to Buffalo to assume charge of the 
 Lackawanna-Grand Trunk Fast Freight Line. 
 
 First report of the Union Trust Co. as receiver for the City 
 Savings Bank. Petitioned for leave to sue stockholders for full stock 
 liability. Partial report of the appraisers. 
 
 MARCH 30. 
 
 Dr. Kiefer showed that opium in cough mixtures occasionally 
 caused the death of infants. The matter provoked discussion, but was 
 allowed to lapse. 
 
 MARCH 31. 
 
 The philanthropic disposition of C. A. Black was shown in Police 
 Court, where he was a juror. He convicted a woman, then turned 
 around and paid her fine. The case was a sad one. The woman had 
 been brought to trial for not sending her child to school. Mr. Black 
 said: "She was guilty, but perhaps had not the time to give her 
 child the necessary attention." The woman sat huddled up in a corner, 
 weeping. Instead of drawing the $12.50 due him for services, Mr. 
 Black paid her fine and turned over the remainder to Judge Sellers 
 
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 for the purpose of paying the fine of some other worthy but unfor- 
 tunate being. 
 
 Detroit Bar Library, sold to the Detroit College of Law, was 
 removed from the Hammond Building to the new county building. 
 
 Corporation Counsel T. E. Tarsney applied for an order to show 
 cause before Judge Donovan, City Savings Bank case, claiming the 
 funds of the Board of Education and of the Library Commission on 
 deposit in the City Savings Bank were trust funds and should be 
 paid in full. 
 
 F. C. Andrews's horses sold in Mt. Clemens under an attachment. 
 
 APRIL 1. 
 
 City Assessors decided to raise rates. Detroit United Railway was 
 increased from $10,500,000 to $13,700,000; David Whitney, Jr., estate, 
 $3,000,000 to $9,000,000; Detroit Transit Co., $18,960 to $75,000; D. M. 
 Ferry's personalty, $298,250 to $666,200; Dr. Oliver H. Lau, $300,000. 
 
 Judge Donovan, in the Michigan debenture case, suit having been 
 brought by debenture holders for an accounting, decided that the 
 chief attractions of the enterprise (capital $250,000, shares $50 each) 
 were "a promise of S per cent, and a hope of more yet," with $50,000 
 deposited by W. A. Fungs in the Preston Bank to redeem debentures. 
 As the $50,000 check was frequently referred to in advertising, the 
 Judge held that the money belonged to Michigan Debenture Co.'s 
 creditors. The Judge concluded: "The scheme never could succeed, 
 has proven a failure, is a losing venture, must now end, and must pay 
 in full to those who were deceived by its circulars." 
 
 C. A. Black, who did jury duty in the Police Court, explained that 
 the thought of what he saw "made him blue." "Whisky, vice and crime 
 go hand in hand," he said. "One of the saddest things is the query 
 of the prosecution, 'Were you ever arrested before? How many times?' 
 This always has great weight with the jury. The jurors say, 'Well, 
 if he has been arrested before he must be a bad man. It is our duty 
 to imprison him. To my mind this is wrong. We are not trying to 
 find out what he was, but what he is today. I noticed that someone 
 always tried very hard to get in this damaging question." 
 
 APRIL 3. 
 Patrolman James Nelson, who in self-defense was forced to shoot 
 Albert Dempsey, resigned from the Police Department. "I can't stand 
 
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 it any longer," he told his chief. "Everywhere I go I'm pointed out 
 as the man who killed Dempsey." 
 
 James McMillan 2d, grandson of Senator James McMillan, died at 
 Colorado Springs; appendicitis. 
 
 Mrs. William H. Coots died suddenly; heart failure. 
 
 APRIL 4. 
 
 Dr. C. W. Burrows sued for |50,000, charged with alienating the 
 affections of Mrs. Charles D. Lewis. 
 
 Police Court examination of Frank C. Andrews and of Henry R. 
 Andrews adjourned to April 18. 
 
 Lieuts. Avery and Ashbridge were drowned while out fishing near 
 Fort Wayne. Trumpeter I'uomey clung to the overturned boat and 
 was rescued. The bodies were recovered later, Avery's on May 11. 
 
 APRIL S. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Normoyle's eight-foot store, 95 Michigan avenue, shows 
 a rental cf $30 a month for nearly 30 years. She inherited through 
 Michael Dohaney, who bought the land in 1838. 
 
 The Pingree & Smith Co. was defeated in a Supreme Court decision 
 in the shoe strike case. In denying the firm's contentions the Court 
 upholds the State Court of Arbitration. Pingree & Smith contended 
 that the award of the Court was invalid. Chief Justice Hooker decided 
 that, to hold that the Supreme Court can review the Court of Arbitra- 
 tion, on the ground that it did not follow rules applying to ordinary 
 judicial proceedings and reverse its awards would be to thwart the 
 purpose of the act. 
 
 APRIL 9. 
 The Council confirmed the reappointment of Fire Commissioner 
 Fred T. Moran and Public Lighting Commissioner Edgar H. McCurdy, 
 as well as the nominations of Sidney T. Miller, Conrad Pfeiffer, James 
 T. Lynn and John M. Dwyer for members of the Municipal Gas 
 Commission. 
 
 Articles of incorporation were signed by the members of the North 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 E. F. Chapman, manager of the Michigan Inspection Bureau, issued 
 a circular to all insurance agents in Michigan, advising them oflacially 
 
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 of the increase of 25 per cent in insurance rates in this State, which 
 went into force on April 14. 
 
 APRIL 12. 
 
 The New York Sun printed a screed against Col. Gardener, calling 
 him a Socialist and intimating that his views on political affairs are 
 so radical that his report to the Senate Committee on the Philippines 
 was not unexpected. The Sun also says that Gardener was forced out 
 of the Yondoiega Club because of Socialistic and Populistic views. 
 
 APRIL 13. 
 
 The President sent to the Senate for confirmation the nominations 
 of William D. Gordon for second term as United States District Attor- 
 ney at Detroit, and W. R. Bates for a second term as United States 
 Marshal. 
 
 James Daly, former Alderman of the Ninth Ward, died at Chicago. 
 
 Louis Busch was fined $1,400 by Judge Swan for the prisoner's 
 connection with diamond smuggling. The total cost of litigation to 
 Busch was stated in open court as |15,000; therefore Judge Swan waived 
 imprisonment. The fine was paid at once. 
 
 APRIL 14. 
 
 Joseph Scott, colored, arrested for the murder of Matthew Smith, 
 a teamster in the employ of the city, who was pulled off his wagon 
 on Sherman street and fatally injured. Scott was found guilty and 
 sentenced to life imprisonment. 
 
 Maj. Charles T. Witherell, a veteran of the Civil War, was on 
 trial at Fort Wayne for duplicating pay checks. He was charged with 
 trying to secure payments on his "retired pay" illegally. Prisoner set 
 up that his retired pay was a vested right and could not be disturbed. 
 His counsel was Sam W. Burroughs. The major's troubles arose from 
 playing the races. A guardian was finally appointed for the major, 
 whose pay was continued. 
 
 Detroit Stove Works employes, to the number of 1,000, objected to 
 pay checks, claiming that in order to cash same they were often obliged 
 to spend a portion of the check in saloons. Those cashed at the branch 
 Dime Savings Bank were discounted 10 cents. This resulted in a 
 peculiar sort of strike on part of the men, who, however, returned in 
 a day or two, satisfied that the company would change the system, in 
 the interest of all concerned. 
 
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 APRIL 15. 
 
 Mayor Maybury recommended $15,000 appropriation for the 
 expenses of the Gas Commission for the ensuing year. Sidney T. 
 Miller is to serve one term; J. T. Lynn, two terms; Conrad Pfeiffer, 
 three terms; J. M. Dwyer, four terms. The appointments were made 
 under an old law that had never been enforced. The Commission has 
 never done official business. 
 
 C. H. Wiltsie, Rochester, N. Y., bought 1,000 tax titles, involving 
 $30,000. 
 
 APRIL 16. 
 
 Detroit street car men wished the "tripper" matter to be deter- 
 mined finally, and decided to ask for an increase in pay to 25 cents 
 an hour, from 21 cents. 
 
 Decision of the Wayne Circuit Court in the City Savings Bank 
 case that the affairs of the savings and commercial departments of 
 the bank should be kept separate, and certain real estate mortgages 
 be set aside for the particular benefit of the savings depositors. This 
 order was sustained by the Supreme Court. 
 
 Mrs. George H. Carlisle, secretary of the Protective Agency for 
 Women and Children, in an address declared that 425 cases were 
 reported last year, involving 670 children. One hundred children were 
 placed in different institutions. Rabbi Leo M. Franklin said ministers 
 and officers of the law should not marry persons moi^ally or 
 physically unfit. 
 
 APRIL 17. 
 
 Judge Brooke issued a writ of mandamus asked by James H. 
 Pound, requiring that forthwith the Michigan Telephone Co. furnish 
 to the Detroit Telephone subscribers the same service, at the same 
 rates, as the company accords to its own subscribers. An appeal 
 was taken. 
 
 Edward T. Hawley was s5hot and almost instantly killed by his 
 brother James in a dispute over money matters. The crime was 
 committed at 814 River street at 6 o'clock in the evening. James gave 
 himself up, but pleaded not guilty, and was released on $5,000 bail. 
 Mrs. James Hawley, wife of the man who murdered his brother, blamed 
 her husband's brothers for the tragic affair. She stood by Jim, saying 
 that he was good-natured and without bad habits of any kind. Judge 
 Phelan ordered Hawley's rearrest. After a sensational trial in 
 December, lasting a week, the jury concluded that Hawley acted in 
 self-defense. 
 
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 Judge Frazer heard the caee of Jessie Leckie vs. the City, for 
 damages sustained on a defective sidewalk. The plaintiff's application 
 for damages presented to the Council said the accident took place at 
 Fourth and Warren avenues, whereas it was really at Third and War- 
 ren. The case was hung up a year by the Council, before Attorney 
 Charles Flowers brought suit. The Corporation Counsel raised the 
 point that the statute allowing suits of this nature has been very 
 strictly construed by the Supreme Court, and then showed that the 
 place of the accident had been wrongly described. 
 
 Thereupon Judge Frazer directed a verdict for the defendant. He 
 scored the Council for hanging up a claim of this kind for a year, and 
 also expressed himself as not believing in the Supreme Court's policy 
 of construing the statute so literally as to deny a woman relief on 
 such technical grounds. He said that it was his duty, however, to 
 follow the law as th*> Supreme Court lays it down, but he would be 
 greatly gratified if that Court could find some way around its ruling 
 to reverse his finding and order a new trial. 
 
 APRIL 18. 
 
 Police Court examination of Frank C. Andrews and Henry R. 
 Andrews begun before Police Justice John B. Whelan. Banking Com- 
 missioner George L. Maltz first witness for the people. Continued day 
 by day until May 1, when an adjournment was taken until May 19 at 
 the request of the defense. Examination resumed May 19 and ended 
 May 22, when both were bound over to the Recorder's Court, bail being 
 fixed for each at $30,000 and furnished. 
 
 APRIL 19. 
 
 W. T. P. Burton, after living eight years with a broken neck (he 
 wore a plaster cast), died at 521 Lincoln avenue. He was at one time 
 a member of the Board of Estimates and was a staunch adherent of 
 Mayor Pingree. 
 
 Marcus Pollasky applied to Common Council for a franchise for 
 a railroad tunnel, involving an expenditure of $3,000,000. He planned 
 to connect the depots. The matter was bitterly fought by the rail- 
 roads, also by the Common Council committee. Pollasky asserted that 
 he had Eastern backing, but did not give names. April 25 Homer 
 Warren expressed himself as believing that Flint & Co., of New York 
 City, were behind the project. Pollasky declared that the Vanderbilts 
 wanted the tunnel, but President Ledyard offered a direct denial. 
 May 12 :he Merchants and Manufacturers' Exchange remonstrated 
 against the tunnel plan. May 14 the Pollasky ordinance was passed 
 by a vote of 18 to 15. May 20 it was vetoed by the Mayor. 
 
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 Joseph H. Berry sold to Gen. Alger and son, Fred Alger, two lots 
 in Grosse Pointe for $18,300 each, located west of the Country Club 
 and having a frontage of 190 feet on Jefferson avenue and 900 feet deep. 
 
 Michael F. Dinan. aged 80, died at 72 Abbott street. He had lived 
 in Detroit for many years. 
 
 APRIL 20. 
 
 Edwin F. Conely died at his residence, 36 Davenport street. Mr. 
 Conely was of scholarly attainments in law, history, general literature 
 and languages. For many years he was among the leading members 
 of the Detroit bar. His Supreme Court cases fill about ten volumes. 
 
 APRIL 21. 
 
 John Graves, United States Circuit Court Commissioner, died at 96 
 Canfield avenue west. He was 73 years of age, and had served the 
 government in various capacities for approximately 40 years. 
 
 In a lecture given at the Church of Our Father, Dr. W. A. Polglase, 
 superintendent of the Michigan Home for Feeble-Minded, estimated 
 the number of feeble-minded and epileptics in the State at 9,000. The 
 Lapeer institution can accommodate but 500, and Dr. Polglase favored 
 a colonization of the unfortunate class, saying that a bill providing for 
 this would be introduced at the next session of the Legislature. 
 
 The opinion of the Baptist ministers of Detroit on the daily news- 
 paper was that it was indispensable and the greatest educator of the 
 common people of the twentieth century. These views came out after 
 the presentation of a paper by Rev. G. H. Waid on tHe theme, "The 
 Daily Newspaper as a Factor in Common Life." Rev. S. B. Meeser, 
 of the Woodward Avenue Church, said he always takes all the daily 
 papers of the town in which he is stationed. He could not adequately 
 treat of public affairs unless familiar with the papers, because they 
 acquainted him with the life of his people and their ambitions and 
 interests. He regarded the editorial page as the most interesting 
 portion of the paper. Rev. E. H. E. Jameson had been in the business 
 for 15 years, and defended the modern newspaper, saying it faithfully 
 represented life as it is today. E. P. Tuller said the newspaper was 
 getting better, and this view was supported by several other ministers, 
 among them Rev. C. A. Votey. 
 
 Frank C. Pingree became interested in astrology through losing a 
 pocketbook containing $40 and a diamond pin, a gift from Gov. Pingree, 
 on the Saturday preceding the failure of the City Savings Bank. 
 Advertising in vain for the recovery of the property, he sought the 
 aid of local spiritualists and soothsayers, likewise without result. One 
 
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 of these was an astrologist, who, not aiding Mr. Pingree to recover 
 what he had lost, convinced him that astrology was not altogether so 
 vain and frivolous as he had hitherto supposed. 
 
 Rev. James F. Conover passed away at his home at 25 Elizabeth 
 street west from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, from which he 
 had suffered about two years. Rev. Conover was born in 1830 in 
 Cincinnati. He came to Detroit in the '60s and was an editorial writer 
 on the Post and Tribune. Afterward he was an Episcopalian rector 
 at Owosso and Kalamazoo, and later labored in the Episcopal missions 
 of Detroit. W. C. Conover, publisher of the Plymouth Weekly, was 
 a son. 
 
 APRIL 22. 
 Joseph Rhode, aged 84. a resident of Detroit for 50 years and 
 prominent in German circles, died at 475 Gratiot avenue. 
 
 E. J. Lynn, a well-known lumberman, died at the Verona Flats. 
 He is survived by a widow and five children; Mrs. Lawrence B. Far- 
 num, Mrs. D. E. S .veeney, James E. Lynn, Mrs. Catherine Provost and 
 Mrs. Patrick O'Neil. 
 
 APRIL 23. 
 In the Circuit Court, John H. James was given a verdict for $280 
 against Patrolman Lewis Isham for false arrest and for injuries 
 received. One night in September, 1901, Isham heard the discharge 
 of a revolver, met and searched James on the street, whO' chanced to 
 be in the vicinity. James resisted arrest and was shot in the leg by 
 the policeman. Judge Brooke declared in his finding that an officer 
 has no right to make an arrest, without a warrant, for a misdemeanor, 
 unless he actually sees it committed. The Court also held that any 
 citizen has the right to resist arrest. Superintendent Downey declared 
 that it was not at all times possible to follow the letter of the law. 
 
 APRIL 24. 
 Annual election of the Detroit Christian Endeavor Unions: Presi- 
 dent, Edward Bradley; vice-president, Rev. J. W. Sutherland; recording 
 secretary, Arthur Mitchell; corresponding secretary, Miss E. C. 
 Oliphant; district presidents — western, A. J. Dodson; southern, J. A. 
 Hays; eastern, Alex. Stuart. 
 
 Workmen excavating at the corner of Jefferson and Van Dyke 
 avenues unearthed a skeleton probably buried during the War of 1812. 
 From the effects discovered, the man was probably a British soldier 
 In full uniform. A solid silver visor, with a dragon crest, and two 
 wide bars of silver bearing the British coat of arms, a tomahawk and 
 clay pipes of ancient design were found. 
 
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 APRIL 25. 
 
 The estimates for the fiscal year 1902 were reported at $4,471,603.47; 
 less liquor moneys, $340,000.00; total for tax rolls, $4,131,603.47. 
 
 The price of meats advanced 15 to 20 per cent, with a general 
 rise in provisions. Proprietors of Detroit restaurants decided to 
 form a pool. Sugar was, however, somewhat cheaper than in 
 1901; tea higher on account of a 10 per cent war tax; canned 
 goods generally higher; coffee cheaper. At highest mark during 
 the year prices were: Bacon 20 cents, increase 5 cents; hams 
 16 cents, an increase of 2 cents; pork loins 15 cents, an increase of 
 1^4 to 2 cents; lard 13 cents, an increase of 2 cents; barrel pork, $3 
 to $4 per barrel higher; sirloin steak increased from 12 to 16 cents per 
 pound, retail, to 16 to 20; porterhouse, from 121/2 to 18, to 18 to 25; 
 rib roasts 10 to 15, to 15 to 22; boiling m^ats 4 to 6, to 6 to 10; veal 
 10 to 16, advanced to 15 to 25; mutton, 20 per cent increase to July 1, 
 then gradually lower. The price of vegetables, fruits, etc., was from 
 10 to 25 per cent higher throughout the larger part of the year. The 
 year will be known as an era of high cost of living. Milk advanced 
 to 7 cents per quart. 
 
 The body of Robert L. Peddle, a despondent tailor, who leaped 
 from the Belle Isle bridge Nov. 22, 1901, was found off Zug Island by 
 Oscar Lav/son, of Delray. 
 
 APRIL 26. 
 
 The residence of the late ex-Gov. H. P. Baldwin was transformed 
 into a home for aged people by Rev. C. L. Arnold. The new home 
 will accommodate about 80. 
 
 Supplemental report and inventory of the Union Trust Co. as 
 receiver for the City Savings Bank filed. Real estate report. 
 
 President Frank C. Pingree, of the wrecked City Savings Bank, 
 testified in the Police Court at the examination of Prank C. Andrews 
 and Henry R. Andrews. 
 
 APRIL 28. 
 
 Detroit Physicians' Association elected officers as follows: Presi- 
 dent, Dr. Daniel Kerr; vice-president, H. L. Obetz; secretary, W. J. 
 Cree; treasurer, S. H. Knight. 
 
 APRIL 29. 
 J. W. Habbard, of Pittsburg, who Nov. 14, 1900, married Cora M. 
 Pack, widow of the late Albert Pack, was defendant in a sensational 
 
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 suit in Pittsburg, brought by Margaret A. Miller, of that city, for 
 $10,000, for the support of a three-year-old child. In her bill the 
 plaintiff alleged that prior to March, 1899, she had lived with the 
 defendant as his wife 
 
 APRIL 30. 
 Police Commissioner Fowle honorably mentioned Capt. A. Baker, 
 of the Grand River Avenue Station, for clever work in connection 
 with the arrest of Miller for the murder of Carrie M. Jennett. 
 
 Jas. A. Randall began suit against the Detroit & Northwestern 
 Railway, claiming an equity in one-third of 260 bonds of $1,000 each. 
 
 An investigation by the Evening News showed that Detroit had, 
 on this date, 1,136 barrooms and 19 breweries; total licenses, $568,000. 
 
 Ensign B. B. Heazlett came to Detroit to take charge of Salvation 
 Army work. The Army also proposed to have a trained nurse on its 
 staff, to care for the sick. 
 
 MAY 1. 
 
 Judges Murphy and Phelan disagreed concerning the conduct of the 
 Recorder's Court. Judge Phelan charged Judge Murphy with ordering 
 a case in court for trial while he (Phelan) was investigating it. Murphy 
 made disclosures concerning Phelan's lack of dignity. An amicable 
 understanding was reached concerning the apportionment of cases, 
 and the little dispute ended with restored good feeling. 
 
 The "White Hats," a political organization to push Stearns for 
 Governor, was formed by Homer Warren and others. 
 
 MAY 2. 
 Robert McMillan, the veteran grocer, died at his home, 77 Wash- 
 ington avenue. He started the firm G. & R. McMillan in 1864, and at 
 the time of his death was one of the city's oldest merchants in 
 continuous service. 
 
 MAY 3. 
 
 Carrie Nation visited Detroit to lecture on the saloon iniquity. 
 She made no "hatchet" demonstration while here, but contented herself 
 with giving a strong moral lecture at Simpson M. E. Church. Her 
 visit did not excite much interest and her audience was small. 
 
 Ed H. Doyle's home visited by a "genitlemanly burglar," who 
 politely asked to be escorted to the valuables. 
 
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 MAY 4. 
 
 Herman E. Klipfel, a veteran actor well known in German circles, 
 died at his home. 700 Gratiot. He had lived in Detroit since 1856. 
 
 Henry Haigh, a former Detroit druggist, died at Yonkers Park, 
 N. Y. He came to Detroit in 1849. 
 
 MAY 5. 
 D. C. Whitney and Charles Stinchfield, for the D. Whitney, Jr., 
 estate, asked Judge Rohnert for a writ of mandamus to compel the 
 City Assessors to strike from the rolls an assessment of $9,000,000, 
 on the ground of non-residence of trustees. On June 11 the Supreme 
 Court affirmed the judgment of the Wayne Circuit Court, and the 
 $9,000,000 assessment was wiped off the booksi. No decision was filed. 
 
 MAY 8. 
 Labor troubles continued. Work on the Stevens Building was 
 stopped and the police called to quell disturbances. A parade of 
 laborers followed, and as strikers passed any building on which work 
 was in progress sympathizers joined the procession. There were about 
 400 men in line. 
 
 The reorganized Commercial National Bank was capitalized at 
 $1,000,000. The Preston Bank, founded by David Preston, 1852, was 
 absorbed by the Commercial National. The new Commercial National 
 moved to the former Preston offices in the Moffat Block. The Preston 
 National Bank found itself in close quarters owing to its relations 
 with Frank C. Andrews; hence the consolidation. 
 
 MAY 9. 
 James H. McMillan died at Colorado Springs; tuberculosis. He 
 served his country as a captain in the army during the Cuban War. 
 The funeral was held in Detroit May 13; also the interment of James 
 H. McMillan 2d, son of James H. 
 
 MAY 12. 
 
 Don M. Dickinson was one of the arbitrators to decide the claim 
 of the San Salvador Commercial Co., of California, against the San 
 Salvador government. Mr. Dickinson laughed at the report from 
 Washington that he carried a gun and was guarded by secret service 
 men, as a result of threats reported to have been made against him 
 by San Salvador sympathizers dissatisfied with his decision against 
 the Saa Salvador government. 
 
 "Is the report true, Mr. Dickinson, that you carried a gun?" 
 
 Without replying, Don M, said: 
 
 "I was then, as always, able to take care of myself." 
 
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 MAY 13. 
 
 T. J. Kent, superintendent Peninsular Stove Works, died suddenly, 
 1087 Jefferson avenue. 
 
 Union Trust Co., receiver, began foreclosure proceedings against 
 the real estate transferred by Frank C. Andrews to the City Savings 
 Bank, holding the deeds to be properly mortgages in effect. 
 
 MAY 14. 
 
 The nomination of John Schroeder to succeed Joseph J. Noeker 
 as Water Commissioner was confirmed. 
 
 Story in the Evening News to the effect that Frank C. Andrews 
 had involved the Preston National Bank about $675,000 in the course 
 of his financial manipulations. The bank held his certified check for 
 $100,000; held a check drawn by Cameron Currie & Co. for a like 
 amount, the pciyment of which was disputed, it being claimed that 
 Andrews had made a fraudulent use of it; there was also a note of 
 $100,000 of the Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake Michigan Rapid Railway, 
 some New York drafts amounting to $180,000, it was said, and other 
 paper amounting to $195,000. 
 
 In 1901 Commissioner Moreland advertised for bids on repair 
 asphalt work for "1.000 square yards, more or less." The Barber 
 Company secured the contract at $1.05. On May 14 Aid. Beamer 
 objected to the Department of Public Works spending $30,000 for 
 repair or patch work. This brought a clash between Moreland and 
 the Common Council. On May 28 Moreland attempted tO' cut down 
 the paving repair bill by making it a "patch" job. He sounded 
 Woodward avenue from Jefferson to Witherell, and concluded that 
 12,000 yards would need replacing. Moreland urged, furthermore, that 
 the work should be done by Ihe Barber Company, which contract the 
 Council refused to confirm. An injunction was taken out and the 
 work stopped. Judge Rohnert held that "1,000 yards more or less" 
 could not be stretched to mean 12,000 yards. For three blocks 
 Woodward avenue was unsurfaced for two weeks or more. Then by 
 arrangement the Barber Company finished the uncovered portion; 
 but the Trinidad Company secured the contract for the remainder. 
 
 MAY 15. 
 
 Union bakers wanted drivers to be affiliated with the Team 
 Drivers' Association of America, in order that a union loaf might be 
 delivered by a union driver. But as union wages for drivers were 
 less than those paid by private firms, drivers refused to join. The 
 strike lasted for several weeks. 
 
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 The Catholic EJcclesiastical Court, sitting at Chicago, refused to 
 grant an ecclesiastical divorce to Arthur H. Gaukler from Marion 
 Loomis Gaukler. Mr. Gaukler appealed to Archbishop Elder at Cin- 
 cinnati. The case was extremely sensational. Archbishop Ellder 
 reversed the decision of the Chicago court, and the case was sent to 
 Rome. A decision may be expected at any time within the next two 
 years. A civil divorce was obtained by Gaukler in Detroit. Marion 
 Loomis was married May 16 in Chicago to William McLain, who was 
 Miss Loomis's sweetheart before the marriage to Gaukler. (See 
 "Detroit in 1901," p. 20.) 
 
 MAY 16. 
 
 Mayor Maybury called a meeting to aid Martinique survivors. 
 Over $4,000 was subscribed. 
 
 This criticism of the site for the Pingree statue appeared in the 
 Evening News: "Is it a fact that the committee to locate the monu- 
 ment to Gov. Pingree has decided upon the lower point of West Grand 
 Circus Park as the best place for it? Much comment is made, as 
 that position will place the back of the statue to those using the 
 park seats — those that Mr. Pingree called the 'common people.' While 
 alive that was not the Governor's position. With all due respect to 
 the committee, it is suggested that near the upper end of Washington 
 Boulevard, facing Park street and the Grand Circus, would be a much 
 better position, even from an artistic view. Cannot the matter be 
 reviewed before the circumstances of the Soldiers' Monument are 
 repeated?" 
 
 The parochial school of the Church of the Holy Redeemer was 
 dedicated by Bishop Foley. 
 
 MAY IS. 
 
 John G. Martz died, aged 63. He was a former president of the 
 Detroit Brewing Co. The company when first organized was known 
 as Martz Bros., and John G. was the first vice-president of the firm 
 when it was reorganized under the newer name. Deceased was one 
 of the earliest German settlers in Detroit. 
 
 MAY 19. 
 Death of Peter Thomas Murtagh, former captain of Montgomery 
 
 Rifles. 
 
 MAY 22. 
 "Every year 50.000 pupils are sacrificed to our educational system — 
 health gone, minds overpowered," said Dr. C. A. Devendorf. A sen- 
 
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 sational challenge of Dr. H. L. Obetz to the School Board concerning 
 the health of the pupils in the High School aroused widespread but 
 divided comment among his professional brethren. 
 
 Frank C. Andrews and Henry R. Andrews bound over to the 
 Recorder's Court. Bail in each case was fixed at $30,000. Bail for 
 Frank C. Andrews was furnished by Malcolm McCallum, of Chicago, 
 who signed three bonds of $10,000 each. Robert Murray, F. C. Miller 
 and H. J. Miller together qualified upon one bond of $10,000; W. Louis 
 Graulich qualified on a second bond of $10,000, and Thomas Sheahan 
 qualified on the third. The bondsmen of H. R. Andrews were 
 Frank L. Bromley and J. W. Thompson. 
 
 The body of Louis H. Cronenwett, who mysteriously disappeared 
 December, 1901, was found in the river at the foot of Junction avenue. 
 
 MAY 23. 
 
 A strike of 1,200 cigar girls at Brown Bros.' factory lasted several 
 weeks. The resignation of Manager Brown and the absorption of 
 the business by the Cigar Trust led to the labor trouble. 
 
 Story in the Evening News showing that Frank C. Andrews's 
 income was not les? than $30,000 a year from his rents. Although 
 he had deeded all his real estate holdings to th«> City Savings Bank, 
 the deeds were considered by the Union Trust Co., receiver, to be in 
 fact mortgages, and the rents and profits to belong to him until such 
 time as they should be foreclosed. 
 
 MAY 25. 
 
 The fifth annual Congress of the North American Skat League 
 held a three-day session. Between 1,000 and 1,200 players from all 
 parts of the United States were present. There were 105 trophies, 
 valued at $4,000. Fred Guenther, of Detroit, was elected president 
 of the American Skat Congress. 
 
 MAY 28. 
 
 Judge Brooke decided that city employes could assign their 
 salaries, and declared that the ordinance to the contrary conflicted 
 with the statutes. Lewis Golden, the tailor, had sued James W. Smith, 
 a lineman employed by the city. 
 
 Judge Donovan sentenced Frank Wilson, John Johnson and Tim 
 Spellman, who robbed the safe at Sibley's Stone Quarry, to 10, 12 and 
 14 years' imprisonment. 
 
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 MAY 29. 
 Natioual Conference of Corrections and Charities met at Central 
 M. E. Church. Many important topics were discussed — housing the 
 poor, State control of charities, etc. In one of the papers, A. W. 
 Wilmarth, of the Wisconsin Home for Feeble-Minded, made the 
 astonishing statement that "Idiots and large families are closely 
 related.'' 
 
 MAY 30. 
 Memorial Day morning saw the unique ceremony of dropping 
 rases from the Yantic, to the memory of sailors lost at sea. Prayer 
 was given by National Chaplain A. S. McWilliams; an address by 
 the Mayor; "The Navy, Old and New," by S. S. Harris; an address 
 by Prof. Mandevllle. W. P. Sumner was chief marshal of the G. A. R. 
 parade. 
 
 MAY 31. 
 
 The Evening News reproduced a fine illustration of the painting 
 
 at the French Embassy, Washington, entitled "Louis XIV. Delivering 
 
 to Cadillac the Royal Ordinance Creating Detroit." The picture was 
 
 later brought to the city and put on exhibition at th^ Mayor's office. 
 
 JUNE 1. 
 Detroit's tax rate was fixed at $16.65 per ?1,000 assessment. 
 
 JUNE 3. 
 
 Cliarles H. Wiltsie bought -$100,000 of 1901 tax titles. He also 
 had $118,000 for 1900. 
 
 The marriage of F. F. Palms's daughter, Martha, to Count 
 Laurent de Champeaux was solemnized by Bishop Foley at his chapel. 
 The Count's best man was his brother. Baron de St. Marc. The 
 ushers were: Paul Bagley, A. W. Chittenden, Harry Worcester, Alex. 
 Wetmore, Detroit; Sam Davies, St. Louis; Norman Dike, Brooklyn. 
 A reception to 250 guests was followed by the departure of the 
 young couple to their new home in the south of France, near Monte 
 Carlo. 
 
 Echoes of the sc-called "military scandal," involving Gen. Will 
 White and others, continued to be heard at various times during the 
 year just closed. On June 3 Gen. White recalled vividly public 
 interest by making a confession involving Eli R. Sutton and Arthur 
 F. Marsh, declaring that the share of each man in the odious trans- 
 action had been $10,000. "It's no use for me to say anything," said 
 Sutton, indicating that he wouldn't be believed, anyway. A demand 
 
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 was then made that he resign as Regent of the University, but he 
 insisted on retaining the position. On June 7 warrants were issued 
 charging Sutton and others with perjury. Thereupoai Sutton dis- 
 appeared. The last thing he did was to consult the list of countries 
 •n which he could not be extradited. A rumor gained strength that 
 he had goae to South Africa. From time to time reports were printed 
 that he had been seen in this or that place, but he is still at large. 
 On June 14 Mrs. Sutton packed her goods and left the city to go to 
 her husband, who had located in the City of Mexico. 
 
 JUNE 5. 
 
 Tom Beggs, coal dealer, claimed that he was prevented from 
 buying coal in Buffalo by the Detroit Coal Club. There was oppo- 
 sition directed against all who were not members. The situation 
 called forth a three-quarter-column article in the Evening News. 
 
 JUNE 10. 
 
 The maj'riage of Miss Margaret Chittenden to W. T. Barbour 
 occurred at Grace Episcopal Church. The six bridesmaids were: 
 Miss Sallie Brewster, Rochester; Miss Olive Holbrook, San Francisco; 
 Misses Josephine and Helen Chisholm, Cleveland; Stella Barbour and 
 Grace Hmchman, Detroit. Best man: George B. Russell. Ushers: 
 G. H. Barbour, Jr., H. W. Standart, A. H. Sibley, A. W. Chittenden, 
 J T. Nichols, R. G. Lothrop, Detroit; Leeds Mitchell, Chicago; 
 A Howlett Durston, Syracuse. 
 
 H. D. McMillan, second son of Hugh McMillan, died of Bright's 
 disease in London, England. 
 
 JUNE 11. 
 
 Mrs. David S. Carter died at Harper Hospital as the result of an 
 operation for appendicitis. 
 
 James Findlater was elected Grand Commander of the Michigan 
 Knights Templars; Grand Junior Warden, C. A. Warren, Detroit; 
 Grand Prelate, F. A. Blades, Detroit; Grand Captain of the Guard, 
 A. J. Brow, Detroit. 
 
 JUNE 12. 
 
 W. H. May bury announced that William C. Maybury would again 
 be a candidate for Mayor. 
 
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 JUNE 13. 
 
 H. S. Sibley, of the Sons of the American Revolution, having 
 learned that a United States flag was used for advertising purposes by 
 a cleaning house in this city, called on the Mayor and 'entered a 
 protest. The Mayor ordered Secretary Cotton to investigate. 
 
 JUNE 14. 
 
 Flag Day observed in Detroit, on proclamation of Gov. Bliss. 
 
 Daniel O'Keefe, patrolman and Recorder's Court officer, was sent 
 to jail for 15 days for contempt of court for misconducting himself 
 in 1901, while in charge of the Ascher jury. H. G. Poupard, a juror, 
 was given 30 days, withotit the alternative of a fine. The Court held 
 that no permission had been given to O'Keefe to use liquor while 
 in charge of the jury. 
 
 A sad case of destitution was that of Annie Van Deusen, aged 13, 
 of 331 Greenwood avenue, who died at the Children's Free Hospital. 
 The Coroner declared that she had been neglected by her natural 
 guardians. The child's father had not been home for four months, 
 having left his wife and eight children because of a quarrel over 
 money matters. The neighbors said that the child slept in the 
 woodshed. 
 
 Miss Inez Perrin, of Detroit, was married to Lieut. W. B. Day, of 
 Mansfield. The marriage was somewhat romantic. Miss Perrin had 
 taken a tour abroad, met Day, and within two months became 
 his bride. 
 
 John Lucker, veteran musician, died at St. Mary's Hospital. 
 
 JUNE 15. 
 
 The corner-stone of Sha'are Zedek Temple was laid with much 
 pomp and ceremony. 
 
 A violent electrical storm burned out four generators at the 
 power houses of the Detroit United Railway, and 156 "tripper" cars 
 were put out of service for several weeks. Superintendent Farmer 
 broke all records in making repairs. Experts were brought from 
 other cities, who co-operated with the local staff. The power house 
 has had a wonderful record for efl^iciency — only one shut-down in 
 eight years. 
 
 JUNE 17. 
 Prof. Harry D. Wright, Latin department. Central High School, 
 resigned to carry out a long-projected plan, believing, it was reported. 
 
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 that man thrives best away from great cities. Prof. Wright bought 
 a small island in the Georgian Bay and took up his home there. 
 
 JUNE 18. 
 
 Annual returns for 1901 showed 7,440 births in Wayne County. 
 There was a decrease in twins. The rate in the First and Second 
 Wards was also low. The figures: First Ward, 260 in 1901, 531 in 
 1900; Second, 93 in 1901, 47 in 1900; Third, 489, 596; Fourth, 188, 18; 
 Fifth, 409, 351; Sixth, 194, 243; Seventh, 510, 630; Eighth, 309, 440; 
 Ninth, 944, 987; Tenth, 395, 409; Eleventh, 496, 364; Twelfth, 410, 562; 
 Thirteenth, 300, 455; Fourteenth, 358, 479; Fifteenth, 208, 274; Six- 
 teenth, 573, 648; Seventeenth, 259, 196. Total for 1901, 6,195; total 
 for 1900, 7,325. 
 
 The local branch of the American Car «& Foundry Co. brought 
 180 Servians and housed them in 72 rooms in one terrace. Neigh- 
 bors soon began objecting to the filthy habits of the new arrivals, 
 who, it was said, bathed in puddles in the back yard and were seen 
 after dark almost in a state of nudity. The men all ate off a long 
 pine table, using a couple of forks and a tin can. A stabbing affray 
 occurred in the colony. The Car Company declared that it was forced 
 to hire them, as labor was scarce in the city. They were popularly 
 spoken of as Hungarians. 
 
 The Second Battalion, Fourteenth Regiment, U. S. A., arrived at 
 Fort Wayne. The regiment has a brilliant record, being one of the 
 fighting force at Manila. The men also saw other valiant service 
 during the Spanish War. 
 
 JUNE 19. 
 
 Third Assistant Postmaster-General E. C. Madden, formerly of 
 Detroit, revisited hiB old home and was the guest of honor at a dinner 
 given by the Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 JUNE 20. 
 
 Director Haynes, Seamen's Union, sent President Roosevelt a 
 handsome English terrier bull pup; also a similar one to Senator 
 McMillan. 
 
 JUNE 21. 
 
 F. Martz, Sr., brewer, died, aged 84. He was born in Steiweiler, 
 Bavaria, came to Detroit in 1837, and was in the brewing business 
 since 1868. 
 
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 JUNE 22. 
 After an absence of 14 years, Haxry Selano called on his mother, 
 574 Baker street. During his long disappearance he had never 
 communicated with his family. After a few days he went to Boston 
 to go into the real estate business. He gave an account of wander- 
 ings over Australia, Hawaii, and other remote points. 
 
 JUNE 23. 
 
 The romantic marriage of Miss Winifred Oomstock, daughter of 
 A. W. Comstock, 712 Jefferson avenue, to Dr. C. D. Aaron, a Jewish 
 physician, was followed by a European tour. The marriage came 
 as a suirprise to friends of both parties. Dr. Aaron, a specialist in 
 stomach troubles, was called some months before to treat Miss 
 Comstock. The young people fell in love. 
 
 JUNE 24. 
 
 A special article in the Evening News detailed many traits of 
 ex-Mayor Alex. H. Lewis, who had attained his eightieth birthday. 
 
 JUNE 26. 
 Carl Thompson, alias Rogers, attempted to "hold up" Jeweler 
 Schwegler; pulled a revolver and created a scene. He afterward 
 explained that he meant it as a joke. He had been reading dime 
 novels. 
 
 JUNE 29. 
 
 Many members of the Detroit Bar Association attended the funeral 
 of the late Justice Long, at Flint. 
 
 The crew of the Yosemite held an outing, with the distribution 
 of medals given by the Legislature to the soldiers and slailors who 
 represented the State in the Spanish War. 
 
 George F. Moore's baby boy was baptized at Palestine lodge. 
 This was the first incident of its kind known in a Masonic lodge room. 
 Rev. W. S. Sayre, chaplain, performed the ceremony. Many women 
 were present. The lodge now regards itself as a godfather to the child. 
 
 JUNE 30. 
 
 Detective Sergeant Elias Baker was promoted to lieutenant for 
 good work in connection with the Jones case. Honorable mention 
 was given Capt. James McDonnell, Elias Baker and Detective Ser- 
 
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 geaxits John L. Shepherd, Ferdinand Palma and Jabez O. Fenton; 
 also to Signal OfiBcer Henry Carney for expeditious work in capturing 
 John Coling, the slayer of John Rheinhardt. Detective Sergeants 
 James Cotter and Frank Wilkinson were mentioned for capturing 
 John Hall, an alleged horse thief. Patrolman Charles Ryan was 
 appointed doorman at Trumbull. 
 
 City Treasurer Thompson reported that only $80,000 unpaid 
 general taxes remained on the list. When he assumed oflBce the 
 sum was $405,000. The average decrease was $116,000 per annum. 
 Uncollected "specials" dwindled from $196,000 to $93,000. The Even- 
 ing News said of Mr. Thompson's work: "Among cities of its size, 
 Detroit can show pretty nearly the cleanest report with reference to 
 uncollected taxes. Detroit has been pulled out of the rut, as shown 
 by the annual report of City Treasurer W. B. Thompson." 
 
 JULY 1. 
 
 A. B. Atwater, for many years with the Michigan Central, rseigned 
 and went West. 
 
 JULY 2. 
 
 The School Board election resulted in the choice of Dr. L. C. 
 NewtOii for president. 
 
 Frank C. Andrews arraigned before Recorder Alfred J. Murphy 
 and a plea of not guilty entered. 
 
 JULY 3. 
 
 A severe electrical storm was accompanied by 2.28 inches of 
 rain, occasioning washouts on various electric railways in Detroit 
 and vicinity. 
 
 JULY 8. 
 
 Speaking July 8 at the annual dinner of the Harkwicke Society 
 in London, Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit, referred to Joseph H. Choate, 
 the United States Ambassador, as a possible candidate for the 
 Presidency of the United States. The company consisted of several 
 hundred members of the English bar, lords and judges. Mr. Dickin- 
 son took Choate's place as the guest of honor. He prefaced his 
 proposal of a toast to the English bench by a tribute to Choate. 
 
 "Mr. Choate does not belong," said Mr. Dickinson, "to my party 
 or to my government, but it is very near the hearts of the American 
 
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 people that he shall go from the Court of St. James to the Presidential 
 chair, and I wish he may get there." 
 
 Dickinson eloquently voiced the joy of the American people at 
 the certainty of the recovery of the "illustrious and beloved King 
 of England. "We rejoice," continued the speaker, "with you in your 
 joys and sorrow with you in your griefs. That feeling has been 
 expressed by no one more truly than by President Roosevelt, who is 
 as close to the people of America as has been any President in the 
 history of the republic." 
 
 Dickinson compared President Roosevelt, amid the enthusiastic 
 cheers of those present, to Sir Philip Sydney, "Sans Peur et Sans 
 Reproche." Dealing with international feeling, Mr. Dickinson said: 
 "We of the United States have long since ceased to boast that we 
 alone are the champions of liberty." He cited the recent dispatch of 
 Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, declaring that the Con- 
 stitution of Cape Colony should not be suspended as an instance of 
 Great Britain's love of liberty. He concluded by siaying: "Great 
 Britain and the United States can make the world's freedom wider 
 yet, not by alliance, but by an understanding that we, the English- 
 speaking nations, mean well by the rest of the world, and that the 
 other nations must not attack either one of us." Mr. Dickinson was 
 loudly cheered. 
 
 Beginning of the trial of Frank C. Andrews in the Recorder's 
 Court. The entire July panel of jurors dismissed by the Court. 
 
 JULY 9. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, widow of the late Judge Samuel T. 
 Douglas, of Grosse Isle, died at her home. She was born in Buffalo, 
 1819. Her father was .Judge Henry M. Campbell, her brother Chief 
 Justice James V. Campbell. She came to Detroit in 1826. She lived 
 at Grosse Isle since 1861. 
 
 JULY 11. 
 Attorneys complained to the Evening News that Judge Rohnert, 
 of the Wayne Circuit Court, was practicing law, contrary to Section 
 1111 of Miller's 1899 Compiled Laws, which specifically forbids a 
 Judge of a Circuit Court to practice in that court during his term of 
 office. Judge Rohnert admitted that he had examined Fr. Van Dyke 
 in court concerning a certain real estate deal, but declared that it 
 was an ex parte matter. He denied that he practiced law, but 
 admitted that, to accommodate a few friends, he had looked after 
 some law business that had accumulated before he went on the bench. 
 
 JULY 12. 
 Mayor Maybury expressed himself in the Evening News con- 
 cerning the federal plan, saying: "I believe in the federal system. 
 
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 The Mayor should be the executive head not only of the city, but 
 ex-oSBcio of all the City Commissions. These Commissions should 
 consist of one person. The Departments of Police, Fire, Health, 
 Water, Public Lighting and Public Works should be controlled each 
 by one Commissionei , appointed by the Mayor and removable by him 
 at pleasure. The several Commissioners, with the Mayor, should 
 constitute a Municipal Cabinet, with certain powers to exercise as a 
 body, and in all things to be advisory. I think each city should 
 have a Charter in the nature of a Constitution. The Charter should 
 be brief, simply announcing certain principles and investing each 
 department of the city with its power to operate. The carrying out 
 of this local Constitution should be by ordinance and by laws enacted 
 either directly through the people or the people's representatives, the 
 Common Council." 
 
 Dr. Phil Porter advocated, in the Evening News, that persons 
 should take two teaspoonfuls of building sand, per day, for the stom- 
 ach's sake. "I believe in the sand cure. I tried it on myself once 
 after a hearty dinner, and found good results. I got the sand from a 
 near-by skyscraper. The chemical effects are produced by the silica 
 The sand grinds the food and offers substantial aid to the digestive 
 processes," he said. 
 
 JULY 13. 
 
 The Detroit News-Tribune printed a long review of the history 
 ol Detroit lodge, 34, Brotherhood of Protective Elks. 
 
 JULY 17. 
 
 The Trades and Labor Council re-elected Charles Ege to the 
 presidency. Re-elections were also handed to the following: George 
 W. Duncan, recording secretary;; David A. Boyd, treasurer; Miss 
 Rose McBrearty, librarian; Miss Josephine Walsh, assistant librarian. 
 Other officers chosen; Vice-president, A. A. Poole; financial secretary, 
 Otto Zimmerman; sergeant-at-arms, James Clark; delegate to Central 
 Labor Union, Frank J. Walther; statistician, Joseph Woodruff; trus- 
 tees, John Shea, Frank Toomey and Charles H. Johnson; executive 
 board, William A. Cootes, S. E. Jones, William McLogan, Francis 
 Fildew, William Ege. 
 
 Jury drawn and actual trial of Frank C. Andrews begun. It 
 continued without interruption until Aug. 16, when he was found 
 guilty. 
 
 JULY 18. 
 S. J. Murphy's long business career was made the subject of a 
 special article in the Evening News. 
 
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 In a hearing of the air-brake matter, before Judge Phelan, the 
 Detroit United Railway rested its defense on two points — that the 
 ordinance deals with matters outside of the jurisdiction of the 
 Common Council, and is unreasonable, inasmuch as it insists on air 
 or electric brakes, which, it was claimed, cannot be used to advantage 
 and are not in use in other cities. On Sept. 13 Judge Phelan held, the 
 ordinance relative to air brakes on street cars to be valid. He found 
 the company guilty of violation, and imposed a fine of $50. 
 
 JULY 19. 
 
 Henry Heames, a former President of the Common Council, was 
 found dead in a vacant house next to his late residence, at 896 Fort 
 street west. He had been stricken with heart failure. Mr. Heames 
 was born in England, Nov. 18, 1823. At 24 he was engaged in building 
 a part of a railway which runs from Havre to Rouen. For many 
 years Mr. Heames was engaged in the construction of railways and 
 in general contracting work. He was for a time in partnership with 
 Charles Stange in building work, and later was superintendent of 
 part of the locks of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal. About the close of 
 the war Mr. Heames returned to Detroit, and shortly after became 
 superintendent for the Detroit Gas Co., in which position he 
 remained for 12 years. Over 25 years ago Mr. Heames engaged in 
 the handling of building material and the manufacture of lime, and 
 became interested in the flour mills on Woodbridge street. He had 
 continued his connection with his various interests, but of late years 
 the active management has been in the handsi of his son, William E. 
 Heames. Mr. Heames was the first Alderman from the Twelfth 
 Ward. During his second term he was President of the Council, and 
 for many years he was a valued member of the Poor Commission. 
 
 Philip Christa, the oldest dealer in marble in Detroit, died at his 
 residence on Fort street west. He had lived in Detroit since 1855. 
 He was at one time a marble cutter on the present site of the City Hall. 
 He was born in Holstadt, Bavaria, in 1831. 
 
 JULY 21. 
 
 E. B. Ward, who declared his residence to be Detroit, filed divorce 
 proceedings in Chicago against his wife, Victorine Amelie Herault, 
 charging desertion. His name did not appear on the books of the 
 City Assessor in Detroit, although Ward was reputed to be worth 
 $15,000,000. He was alleged to have paid his first wife $3,000,000 to 
 gain a separation, before he married Mme. Herault. 
 
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 JULY 24. 
 
 Miss Gertrude Hemme was drugged with chloroform and robbed 
 in her own home, 1017 Field avenue. The affair, shrouded in mystery, 
 proved baffling to the police. 
 
 JULY 25. 
 
 S. Alexander, park botanist, traced the dying off of hickory trees 
 on Belle Isle to a small black insect. He suggested a special report 
 by the Michigan Agricultural College. 
 
 JULY 26. 
 
 Theo. Hoeninghausen, an old Detroit tea and coffee merchant, died 
 at his home, 308 Frederick street. He had lived in Detroit for 48 years. 
 
 JULY 27. 
 
 Driven by a high wind, a traveling crane at the Detroit Ship- 
 building Co. left its place and struck the car ferry Transport, 
 smashing her cabins and paddle boxes and injuring her wheel. 
 Damage to the boat, $15,000; to the crane, $10,000. 
 
 The Sunday News-Tribune issued an illustrated Detroit River 
 Edition, giving historical and statistical matter covering the growth 
 and development of the down-river district. 
 
 JULY 28. 
 
 Muir B. Snow became division superintendent of the Michigan 
 Central, Middle Division, a most important position and a brilliant 
 advance for a youth of 28. 
 
 Miles Business College, 94 Miami avenue, was the scene of a 
 strike. Sixty pupils sympathizing with Mrs. Miles adopted resolutions 
 declaring that they (the students) had confidence in her. This was 
 the beginning of various charges in the divorce courts. A decree 
 was given to Mrs. Miles. 
 
 JULY 30. 
 
 In a vivid dream of a collision, William Brown, head of one of 
 the departments in the C. A. Smith Shoe Co., dived head foremost 
 from an upper-story window, 410 Champlain street. His escape from 
 
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 death was almost miraculous. Sixty-six stitches were required to 
 close wounds in his right arm. The window was fastened, and he 
 plunged through glass and sash. 
 
 The contract was closed with the Jenks Shipbuilding Co., of Port 
 Huron, for a new steel boat, 122 feet long by 25 feet beam, and of a 
 molded depth of 13 feet. The contract price of the hull was $48,500. 
 The hull will be fitted with the entire machinery plant of the fireboat 
 Detroiter. The old Detroiter is 105 feet long by 25 feet beam and 10 
 feet molded depth, and was built in Toledo in 1S93. The new boat 
 was christened the James R. Elliott. 
 
 In his annual report, City Treasurer W. B. Thompson, aside 
 from the usual statistics, made valuable suggestions on the general 
 conduct of ihe office as follows: He made a plea for some method 
 of notifying as far as possible persons interested in property against 
 which taxes are due, and pointed out that delinquencies are frequently 
 the result of people not knowing of the existence of the tax liens. 
 He said that during the month of January, of 1,374 notified of tax 
 liens all but 80 paid up. 
 
 "It is my ambition," added the Treasurer, "to continue this work, 
 to the end that the City of Detroit may occupy the novel position 
 of showing a clean page and not a dollar of taxes on the books. Much 
 upon the records is worthless and should be canceled. I am preparing 
 a schedule of all unpaid entries, and when it is completed I am going 
 to ask that it be published. This would assist in perfecting the 
 records and would let every property holder know just where he 
 stands. 
 
 "Another matter to which I wish to call attention is our cumber- 
 some method of collecting taxes. I have studied the methods 
 employed in a large number of leading cities and personally inspected 
 many. Of all the systems Cleveland appears to be the most business- 
 like. The Cleveland system collates all taxes of every nature — state, 
 county, city, special, fee and license, except water rates — and taxpayers 
 settle their entire tax bill at one office, making semi-annual payments. 
 This system eases the payment of taxes to a large degree, and would 
 also tend to discount the accumulation of back taxes which is bound 
 to occur again under the present system. I eiarnestly appeal to your 
 honorable body to take at an early date steps to secure the necessary 
 legislation in order that some modern system of tax collection be 
 adopted here." 
 
 JULY 31. 
 
 The Democratic State Convention was held in Detroit. On the 
 fourth ballot Hon. George H. Durand. of Flint, was nominated for 
 Governor. The strong sentiment in favor of the Judge overrode 
 his personal wishes. Again and again during the early summer he 
 refused to make the run for the office. However, in various interviews 
 
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 in the Evening News, he had expressed himself in opposition to all 
 forms of "ripperism" and voiced the desire of the people for a purer, 
 more democratic form of State administration. In placing Judge 
 Durand in nomination, T. E. Tarsney said: 
 
 "One man stands forth as the man of the hour. I present to 
 you the name of an able jurist, a good citizen and a good statesman, 
 a man who will poll every vote of the Democracy of this State, who 
 will carry the essential element of 25,000 Republicans who are tired 
 of boss rule^" 
 
 Lee Joslyn, of Bay City, declared that there was not a single 
 resolution in the platform for which Durand did not stand and which 
 he would not carry out. "I believe he will accept the nomination if 
 it is given him," he said. S. W. Burroughs, of Wayne, seconded the 
 nomination of Durand and replied to the covert attacks on Durand's 
 Democracy. M. J. Cavanaugh, of Ann Arbor, spoke for Durand, and 
 Judge Moore, of Ionia, said: "I deserted the Democratic party for 
 a while, but I am now ready to vote for any candidate you may 
 name." E. 0. Wood, of Flint, finally turned the tide by his enthsui- 
 astic endorsement of* Durand. urging eloquently for the eminent jurist. 
 A scene of wild enthusiasm followed, and the Judge was nominated. 
 
 A tablet commemorating the Battle of Bloody Run was unveiled 
 on Jefferson avenue, between Adair and Leib streets. The dedication 
 was attended by delegations from the Society of Colonial Wars and 
 the Sons of the American Revolution. Among the speakers were 
 Director A. H. Griffith, of the Detroit Museum of Art, who contrasted 
 the wilderness existing at the time of the memorable battle with the 
 present bustling city. 
 
 AUGUST 1. 
 
 Merchants experienced much annoyance on account of increased 
 switching rates on the part of the Michigan Central Railroad. The 
 charges were raised from $3 to $5 and $6. The railroad officials denied 
 that the public vras interested and said the raise in rates meant 
 that the Michigan Centra!! had millions of dollars' worth of terminals 
 all over the State and proposed to realize an income thereon. 
 
 The Evening News began a popular series of week-end excursions 
 to Buffalo on the big steamers Eastern and Western States. The fare 
 was placed at an extremely low figure, and many thousands of readers 
 availed themselves of the opportunity for a fine outing. 
 
 De Witt H. Taylor succeeded Homer Warren as chairman of the 
 Republican City Committee. 
 
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 AUGUST 2. 
 
 A delegation of Detroiters went to Flint to take part in an 
 ovation tendered Hon. George H. Durand. The Judge in an address 
 said: "I liave concluded, considering the manner of the nomination, 
 that I would accept and therefore place upon myself the burden of 
 proving that there is at least one man in Michigan who believes that 
 the people have the right to say how the government of this State 
 shall be conducted." 
 
 AUGUST 3. 
 
 S. B. McCracken, aged 78, who died at Harper Hospital, had been 
 flor many years prominent in State journalism, was present at "The 
 Oaks" when the Republican party was formed. Later he came to 
 Detroit, where for 25 years he was an occasional contributor to the 
 press. His best-remembered work was of a statistical nature. He 
 compiled many reports for State and county use, especially a digest 
 of election laws. 
 
 AUGUST 5. 
 
 The annual report of the Poor Commission showed that fully 
 5,000 had been aided; expenses, $56,903.64. The city expended |25,000 
 for provisions, bought 1,600 tons of coal, 400 cords of wood, buried 
 153 paupers, and gave out 21,000 free prescriptions. 
 
 AUGUST 7. 
 
 Corner-stone of the Preston M. E. Church laid, Twenty-third 
 street and Lambie place. 
 
 AUGUST S. 
 
 Isadore Greenberg and "Butch" Wagus, prisoners, escaped from 
 the county jail by cutting the bars. Grace Mather furnished the 
 tools, was arrested, but was subsequently discharged. 
 
 AUGUST 10. 
 
 Death of United States Senator James McMillan, at Eagle's Head, 
 his summer home, at Manchester-by-the-Sea. The body was brought 
 to Detroit in President H. B. Ledyard's private car. The funeral was 
 held Aug. 15. Business was generally suspended during the hour of 
 the funeral. In an editorial on the day of his death the News said: 
 "A remarkable feature of Senator McMillan's control of State politics 
 is that he was enabled to maintain it, although apparently giving 
 so little personal attention. His great ambition was given to national 
 
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 affairs, particularly the District of Columbia and the beautifying of 
 the City of Washington. As a Senator he was accredited a man of 
 power, of the distinguished coterie of Senators that controls all mat- 
 ters of national legislation." The banks, financial interests, the 
 Common Council and other public boards passed appropriate reso- 
 lutions. 
 
 James McMillan was born in Hamilton, Ont., May 12, 1838. His 
 parents v/ere poor, and emigrated to Hamilton from Scotland in 
 1836. The boy James left school at 14, and was apprenticed to a 
 hardware merchant whom he served for four years. Then he came to 
 Detroit and became a clerk for the hardware firm of Buhl & Ducharme. 
 He was discharged during the panic of 1857, but soon obtained 
 employment as a purchasing agent for the Detroit & Milwaukee 
 Railroad. Samuel C. Ridley, railroad contractor, later employed him, 
 and in 1861 tried to induce him to go to Spain with him on some 
 railroad contracts. James McMillan had recently married Miss Mary 
 Wetmore, so he declined Ridley's offer and returned to his old position 
 with the Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad. By a fortunate investment 
 he made $12,500 in one year, and this was the beginning of his fortune. 
 In 1864 he was invited to become a partner of Dean & Eaton, the 
 combination reorganizing as the Michigan Car Co., John S. Newberry 
 becoming a member of the firm. This company built freight cars at 
 the rate of one a day at first, and the government took the entire 
 product for a time at a handsome profit. By 1875 the firm occupied 
 a leading position in the business, and erected other car works in 
 St. Louis, Mo., Carbridge, Ind., and London, Ont. From this time on, 
 Mr. McMillan's business interests increased rapidly, until at the time 
 of his death he was a stockholder in 44 important business enterprises, 
 banks and trust companies, car and foundry companies, railroad and 
 steamboat lines, electric street car, gas and power companies, insur- 
 ance companies and similar enterprises. 
 
 His first appearance in politics was in 1874 as Estimator for the 
 City of Detroit from the Seventh Ward. He succeeded Zachariah 
 Chandler as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee in 
 1879. In 1886 he appeared in the field for United States Senator, but 
 retired in favor of Frank Stockbridge. In 1889 he was again a 
 candidate and was elected, and continued in office until his death. 
 
 In Washington he was made chairman of the District of Columbia 
 Committee, and practically directed the aft!airs of the City of Wash- 
 ington. He became a man of great influence in the Senate. Although 
 not an orator, he was regarded as one of the five men who practically 
 controlled the deliberations and policy of that body. 
 
 He founded Grace Hospital in Detroit, and gave to it liberally. 
 He made considerable presents to the University of Michigan at Ann 
 Arbor and to Albion College. 
 
 At the time of his death Senator McMillan was easily the leading 
 citizen of the State. 
 
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 AUGUST 11. 
 Annual cruise of the U. S. S. Yantic to the upper lakes. 
 
 A Recorder's Court jury awarded $54,414.11 for opening and 
 widening Lafayette avenue. 
 
 AUGUST 15. 
 
 The Washington Post declared at considerable length that it was 
 known to a select circle that Gen. Alger had been "vindicated." The 
 beef scandals of the Spanish War had been investigated and a report 
 favorable to the General had been filed, but suppressed, because other 
 high authorities were involved. Only a very small edition was cir- 
 culated, amounting to a practical suppression of the report. The Post 
 added that the public printer had orders to melt down the stereotype 
 plates. 
 
 AUGUST 16. 
 Frank C. Andrews found guilty. City Savings Bank case. 
 
 AUGUST 17. 
 
 Edward Lenahan died at Emergency Hospital from the bullet 
 wound inflicted by Patrolman Frank J. Lemond while the officer was 
 pursuing Lenahan and three other men suspected of attempting to 
 rob Grocer A. Halloran's store, 134 Brooklyn avenue. 
 
 The Detroit Tribune began a series of articles calling attention 
 to the necessity for improvements at Fort Wayne. It was pointed out 
 that Congress should aid Michigan. The article said in part, in 
 conclusion: 
 
 "Fort Wayne is still lighted in spots at night with kerosene oil 
 lamps. Daring the past 12 years there have been two sets of barracks 
 and but three sets of officers' quarters erected. The majority of build- 
 ings at Fort Wayne are of frame construction. They are inadequate 
 for the needs of the families occupying them. The Commandant is 
 obliged to live in quarters designed for a Captain's family. The one 
 occupied at present by Col. Stephen Jocelyn is hardly sufficient for 
 his family. He is expected to entertain lavishly, but his quarters are 
 so cramped that he cannot. The house is entirely too small for his 
 furniture, most of which is now stored in the gymnasium. He is 
 thinking of fitting up one of the empty frame buildings so when 
 prominent military men visit the city he can take care of them." 
 
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 A jury before Judge Phelan awarded $20,829.28 for the opening 
 of Beech street. The Judge set the award aside. 
 
 AUGUST 18. 
 Recorder Alfred J. Murphy sentenced Frank C. Andrews to 15 
 years' imprisonment in Jackson State's Prison. Motion to admit to 
 bail denied. 
 
 Appointments by the Board of Education: Valeria P. Schisler, 
 domestic science; Marguerite Taylor, domestic science; Berthold 
 SeifCert, physical director at the Eastern and Western High Schools; 
 John Collins, physical director at the Central High School; Amelia 
 McSweeny, assistant at the Eastern High School. 
 
 I ■ AUGUST 19. 
 
 Soon after the death of his father, William C. McMillan was 
 "brought forward as a candidate for United States Senator. After a 
 week or two it developed that people all over the State were^ not 
 enthusiastic. In an editorial the Evening News, Aug. 18, opposed 
 Mr. McMillan for the following reasons: It would savor too 
 much of heredity in office; it would be a distinct loss to Detroit to 
 have him go, as he is one of the city's leading financiers; he is not of 
 the stuff of which practical politiciajis are made; for him to enter 
 the Senate would be to sacrifice an honorable business career for a 
 political failure; he had no political record, has never served the 
 public. The editorial concluded: "If Mr. McMillan is wise, he will 
 retire from the field." Aug. 19 Gen. Alger issued a letter to the 
 public, announcing himself as a candidate for the office. Sept. 6 
 W. C. McMillan told the News: "You may say for me that D. M. 
 Ferry is a candidate for United States Senator, and that he is a can- 
 didate to win." Two days later Mr. Ferry also wrote a public letter, 
 saying that he would take the position if his friends were willing. 
 
 From this point on, the cartoons in the Evening News played a 
 most important part in the campaign, and. in the opinion of many, 
 finally led to Mr. Ferry's retirement. The general idea was to show 
 that the McMillan "machine" was to be transferred to McMillan, Jr., 
 through Ferry. Day after day, the power of wealth in politics was 
 good-naturedly but with stunning effect shown in this brilliant series 
 of cartoons, to the discomfiture of the "machine" forces. One day 
 Ferry was represented as a patient in bed, with Dr. J. B. Kennedy, 
 his manager, acting as surgeon, pulling his leg. On another day Ferry 
 •was shown seated in an automobile, on a scow, while across the wide. 
 rapid river stood W. C. McMillan, impatiently awaiting the "poor 
 ferryma,n." The machine was loaded down with members of the 
 
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 political gang. Still another cartoon displayed W. C. McMillan opening 
 a jack-in-the-box, from which out popped "Ferry." After Ferry had 
 withdrawn, the same idea was used again, but the box was closed. 
 A cartoon called "Stanley Turner's Oil Wagon" gave a satirical refer- 
 ence to the use of money in politics. The campaign was briskly waged, 
 but terminated abruptly at the Grand Rapids Judicial Convention, 
 Sept. 24, where the fight became a contesit between Gen. Alger and 
 the "machine" forces. The endorsement of Gen. Alger for Senator 
 caused Mr. Ferry to withdraw, Sept. 26. Gov. Bliss, Sept. 28, appointed 
 Alger to be United States Senator. 
 
 Supreme Court granted the order for a writ of error in the Frank 
 C. Andrews case. 
 
 A singularly pathetic love story was that of the Syrian girl, 
 Alexandra Youssef, the sweetheart of Josef Abodeely, of Iowa. 
 A wedding had been planned; the girl came over the ocean to meet 
 her intended husband. At Detroit she was taken in charge by the 
 health authorities, who alleged that she had trachoma, a contagious 
 aflaictlon of the eyes. It afterwards appeared that she had been 
 detained for the same cause at Montreal for five months. Josef was 
 brought before the District Attorney for aiding in violations of the 
 customs regulations, but was released. 
 
 On Sept. 25 the distracted girl committed suicide near Newport, 
 Mich., by leaping from the window of a car while en route to New 
 York City to be deported to her old home. She did not understand the 
 actions of the governmental officials who had her in charge. The 
 Evening News espoused the dead girl's cause and in a number of 
 articles bitterly arraigned the government's stupidity and cruelty, 
 declaring that the young woman's death was traceable to official red 
 tape. A wide sentimental interesit in her case was developed. 
 
 Edward F. Marschner was confirmed as City Assessor. 
 
 AUGUST 20. 
 Chief Engineer Augustus Torrey, Michigan Central Railroad, died 
 at Harper Hospital. Death was caused by an accident while in the 
 line of his duty. He had been ten years with the road, siucceeding 
 J. D. Hawks, 1892. 
 
 AUGUST 21. 
 The Evening News gave a sketch of Capt. Eber Ward. 
 
 AUGUST 22. 
 The coal situation in Detroit became serious about Aug. 22. A 
 careful investigation made at that time by the Evening News showed 
 
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 that there were only 12,000 tons of anthracite in the entire city. Coke 
 had gone to $6, whereas it ordinarily sold for $4.50. Soft coal began 
 climbing toward $5 and $6 and $7.50. Hard coal, quoted at $10 and 
 $12 during the late fall, fell to $8 about Christmas, but few dealers 
 were able to fill orders. Hardwood became a luxury, selling as high 
 as $9 a cord. The Board of Education invited tenders for coal, and 
 received but one bid, that of J. Calvert's Sons, who asked $10 a ton 
 for hard coal and $6 a ton for coke. Rev. John McDowell, pastor of 
 the Second Avenue Presbyterian Church, who had experience with 
 the coal mining industry, said in the Evening News that the coal 
 police were thugs. He also gave a fervid reply to "God Almighty 
 Baer." On Oct. 20 the Evening News, in a long article, commented 
 favorably on the position taken by Charles A. Dean, of the Pittmans 
 & Dean Coal Co., in practically refusing a fortune of $40,000, which 
 the firm might have made had it marked up the price of anthracite. 
 Pittmans & Dean had 10,000 tons of anthracite on hand, but instead 
 of marking it at $10, $12 and $15 a ton, held it at $7.50, the price on 
 May 12, when the coal strike began. It was sold in ton lots to old 
 customers. Conditions remained unchanged throughout the remainder 
 of the year. 
 
 J. C. Griffin, formely a hotel keeper in this city, removed to Cork, 
 Ireland, where he opened the "Hotel Detroit." 
 
 AUGUST 26. 
 
 News of the death in Buffalo of Ivy Mattice, of this city, was 
 investigated by the Evening News. She went to Buffalo with a 
 Detroit doctor. 
 
 The "Julia Turner" letters attracted much comment in the Evening 
 News. A shower of replies involved such questions as "Are wages too 
 high?" "Is the workingman improvident?" "Does he drink too much 
 beer?" "Are the rich really the happiest mortals on earth?" 
 
 Rev. Fr. L. Kellinger. of Cincinnati, succeeded Rev. Fr. Foley as 
 president of Detroit College. 
 
 Miss Christina Greenstidel. a Detroit school teacher, spent a year 
 and a half in the Far East, in travel, rest and study. Her last address 
 was Advaita Ashrama. Mayavati, via Almora, Kumaon, Himalaya. 
 
 AUGUST 27. 
 
 John Fleming, of Amherstburg. a guest at the Normandie, lost 
 his $75 diamond. A bell boy, Herbert Hawkins. 141 Madison, found 
 
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 the stone, and not knowing to whom it belonged or its value, sold it 
 for 25 cents to the first man he met. 
 
 Russian Grand Duke Boris passed through Detroit, but did not 
 stop over. 
 
 AUGUST 28. 
 Pingree Memorial Fund reached $10,947. 
 
 AUGUST 29. 
 
 Joseph J. Hogan, who frankly admitted having three wives, told 
 a reporter of the Evening News: "A man can't be wifeless." His 
 wives refused to prosecute. 
 
 Mrs. John Moulton, 185 Fort street east, by a heroic effort saved 
 little Hazel McCarthy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James McCarthy. The 
 child was snatched from the front of a street car. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 1. 
 
 Labor Day parade was unsurpassed by any similar effort ever 
 made in the city. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 2. 
 Application for a new trial in the Frank C. Andrews case. 
 
 Death of John C. Edmunds, a prominent Detroit liveryman. 
 
 The illness of George H. Durand, of Flint, who was stricken with 
 paralysis, came as a shock to friends all over the State. For several 
 days death seemed inevitable. On Sept. 23, on the advice of his 
 family and of his physicians, Judge Durand finally dropped out of 
 the race for Governor, sending his resignation to Chairman Whiting. 
 
 G. W. Bissell, aged 81, died at Harper Hospital as the result 
 01 a runaway accident, while driving on Lysander street. He was 
 one of the city's oldest forwarding merchants. He began life in a 
 business way with his uncle, Augustus E. Bissell, foot of Shelby 
 street. Mr. Bissell was one of the first to build steel boats for the 
 ore trade. He was also the owner of the schooner Augusta, which 
 was in collision with the Lady Elgin Sept. 8, 1860. perpetrating the 
 
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 greatest horror in the history of lake navigation. The Elgin sank 
 in 300 feet of water, 10 miles from shore, and only 98 passengers 
 escaped; 287 were lest. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 7. 
 Corner-stone laid, Church of Messiah, East Grand Boulevard and 
 Champlain street. 
 
 Death of Adolph Kayser, vice-president of the Ekhardt & Beeker 
 Brewing Co. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 10. 
 In a special article, the Evening News showed that, of all divorce 
 bills filed in the Wayne Circuit Court, fully 20 per cent admitted 
 Windsor, Ont., as the place where the unhappy marriage was con- 
 tracted. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 11. 
 Hearing begun on the application for new trial In the Prank C. 
 Andrev.-s case. It continued from day to day until Sept. 18, when a 
 considerable interval followed because of the absence of an important 
 witness Recorder Murphy refused to grant a new trial. 
 
 In response to an invitation from old friends, James E. Scripps 
 expressed hifc willingness to make the run for the State Senate. He 
 also set forth his political views in a letter to the public. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 12. 
 
 Sale of the old Pullman car shops property to the Detroit United 
 Railway; price, $70,000. Included in the deal were the brick buildings 
 and the land contained in the block bounded by Monroe avenue, 
 Macomb street, St. Aubin avenue and the railroad tracks. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 18. 
 Elks' Temple dedicated. 
 
 Frederick Muth, aged 53, a well-known German, died at his 
 home, 726 Hancock. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 22. 
 The convention of Spanish War Veterans, Sept. 22-25, was made 
 memorable by the visit of President Roosevelt. 
 
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 Detroit was represented by two commands, namely, the Gilbert 
 Wilkes Command, Capt. S. S. Harris and Lieuts. Edwin Denby and 
 Henry W. Standart, and the Hazen S. Pingree Command, Capt. George 
 F. Gaston and Lieuts. Thomas J. Barrett and O'Brien Atkinson. 
 
 The city was en fete for the President and distinguished guests. 
 The most spontaneous outpouring of patriotic sentiment favorable 
 to President Roosevelt was observable everywhere. Tens of thou- 
 sands of citizens cheered along the various lines of march from day 
 to day. He arrived Sunday, Sept. 21, and was driven to the Cadillac; 
 attended services at Fort Street Presbyterian Church, and took 
 luncheon with Gen. Alger. The only disappointment came when, 
 through a mistake, it was announced that the President would appear 
 on Belle Isle. A multitude assembled there, only to wait in vain. 
 The President's drive to the Central High School and to Clinton 
 Park — where he made brief speeches to school children — was a pleas- 
 ant incident. His address to the Spanish War Veterans was 
 characteristic. A grand military parade, in which the President took 
 part, gave the opportunity for a tremendous outpouring. In the 
 streets tens of thousands added by their enthusiasm to the patriotic 
 fervor of the day. A delightful banquet at the Armory, at which 
 Mayor Maybury presided, brought forth many patriotic utterances, 
 both from the President and from well-known citizens. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 24. 
 Judge William L. Carpenter was nominated for Supreme Court 
 Judge at the Judicial Convention held at Grand Rapids. 
 
 F. J. Thomas, aged 64, died at 176 Palmer avenue east. For 
 upwards of 35 years he was prominently connected with the Grand 
 Trunk Railway. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 27. 
 The death, under suspicious circumstances, of Elma Wilderspin, 
 in a rooming house, 65 Adams avenue east, caused the arrest of 
 Dr. Sheldon Pitcher. 
 
 Commissioner Moreland came into notoriety by calling upon city 
 employes for a political assessment of 5 per cent of their wages. 
 
 Wm. F. Mulkey, aged 70, prominent business man and vice- 
 president of the Detroit Salt Co., died. 
 
 SEPTEMBER 30. 
 L. T. Durand, of Saginaw, nominated for Governor by the 
 Democratic State Central Committee. The vote was: For Durand, 
 
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 14; Charles R. Sligh, 10. The first ballot gave Durand 11, Sligh 6, 
 W. R. Burt 2, John Strong 2, Arthur D. Clark 2. 
 
 OCTOBER 1. 
 
 In a vigorous attack on Commissioner Moreland, Aid. Hillger 
 wanted to know whether Moreland and his "political assassins" were 
 in control, instead of the Council. Hillger also gained considerable 
 reputation during the year for his ironical speeches against the 
 Commissioner of Public Works. 
 
 Congressman Corliss, who opened his campaign with a clam bake 
 at Pfeiffer's Garden, made a lively campaign speech, endorsing 
 Roosevelt and favoring reciprocity. 
 
 OCTOBER 2. 
 
 Edmund Hall won his suit for $71,000 against the wrecking firm 
 of James Reid & Son, Sarnia. The case had been in court for years. 
 
 OCTOBER 3. 
 
 A plan was discussed to form a servant girls' club in Detroit. 
 Miss Clara Avery said many kind words for the girls, and hoped 
 that the movement would spread. 
 
 L. T. Durand, the Democratic candidate for Governor, was given 
 a reception ac the Hotel Cadillac. Democrats from all over the county 
 greeted him cordially. 
 
 OCTOBER 4. 
 
 F. A. Baker advised that a bill should be passed authorizing the 
 government to take possession of any mines in the country, whenever 
 such action was necessary for the public welfare. This was Mr. 
 Baker's idea of settling the coal strike. 
 
 OCTOBER 6. 
 
 Rev. S. 3. Marquis urged that the government should seize the 
 coal mines and end the strike. He said: "We have no need of 
 ceremony in freeing slaves. The present condition is worse than 
 war; operators are as callous as though made of stone." 
 
 James B. Larkins, father of the C. M. B. A. in Michigan, died. 
 
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 OCTOBER 7. 
 
 Application was made to the Supreme Court for bail for Frank C. 
 Andrews, pending his appeal. 
 
 OCTOBER 8. 
 Public indignation was raised to a high pitch by the actions of 
 D. W. H. Moreland, Commissioner of Public Works, who herded 1,000 
 city employes in the eastern yards and urged that they vote for the 
 "ripper" candidates for positions on the Republican ticket. The 
 Commissioner insisted that city employes should vote for Malcolm 
 J. McLeod for Mayor, "Vanderbilt" Holmes for County Treas- 
 urer, and for the slate proposed by "Tom" Navin for every 
 city and county otflce. Moreland pleaded that the continuance 
 of himself in office meant the retention of jobs by the employes. "If 
 you do not vote for my friends, where will you get your bread and 
 butter?" asked Moreland. Navin also harangued the crowd. "Your 
 foreman will see," he said, "that each one of you goes to the booth 
 on the day of the caucus. In order to facilitate matters and make 
 things easy, your ballots will be handed to you and marked in your 
 foreman's presence." A special investigation by the Council followed. 
 Dec. 16 the committee recommended a Charter amendment making 
 the soliciting of political assessments a cause for removal from office. 
 
 OCTOBER 9. 
 Controller Blades urged a "get coal" conference. The Mayor and 
 Council took up the matter and invited Governors of States, Mayors 
 of leading cities and other officials. Oct. 9 the following resolutions, 
 drawn by the Controller, were presented: That the miners should 
 return to work; that the operators should permit the men to resume; 
 that the men, the owners and President Roosevelt should settle the 
 difficulty by conference; that laws should be passed regulating the 
 coal business, that, if need be, the Constitution should be amended 
 to permit the leasing and operation of coal lands by the government; 
 that if a "^ef-lemei-.t s'-^ould not he reached by June, 1903, the &"vern- 
 ment should seize the mines; that the conference had been advised 
 by eminent authority that Congress under the anti-trust act could 
 begin criminal proceedings; that the Interstate Commerce Commission 
 should inquire into rates; that the present combination of coal 
 operators is in violation of the Federal laws: that, if necessary, a 
 receiver be appointed and the President call Congress at once. 
 
 OCTOBER 11. 
 Dr. J. H. Carstens launched his boom for Mayor. Those on his 
 committee were Carl E. Schmidt, Clarence A. Black. Aid. W. H. 
 
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 Beamer, ex-Ald. O. H. Grunow, F. W. Lichtenberg, Albert Albrecht, 
 J. C. Stahl, Editor Curt Hoffman, A. S. Parker, D. J. McCauly, Greorge 
 C. Wetherbee, Otto E. C. Guelich and Dr. Carstens. Dr. Carstens 
 issued his platform, as follows: 
 
 Anti-ripper; strictly for home rule. Reduced taxation by rigid 
 economy; all water and other city taxes to be collected by the 
 Receiver of Taxes. Taxes to be collected semi-annually, this plan 
 having been successful in many cities. Heads of all departments to 
 be appointed by the Mayor, who, being responsible to the people, 
 should have the power to remove appointees subject to the approval 
 of the City Council. All franchises to be submitted to a vote of the 
 people for their acceptance or rejection. The statement concluded 
 thus: "I will veto any street car franchise submitted for my approval 
 which proposes to give a rate of fare greater than eight tickets for 
 25 cents with universal transfers." 
 
 Petition of the Union Trust Co., receiver for City Savings Bank, 
 for permission to declare a dividend of 20 per cent to the savings 
 depositors of the bank. Statement of the condition of the assets and 
 liabilities to that date filed. 
 
 The new Wayne County Building was dedicated. The ceremonies 
 were elaborate; the speeches interesting, reminiscent and eloquent. 
 The entire local Bar Association took part. Among those who spoke 
 were: Attorney-General Oren; Hon. Henry B. Brown, Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of the United States: Hon. James L. Blair, of St. 
 Louis; James H. Pound, Gen. H. M. Duffield, J. G. Dickinson, Cornelius 
 J. O'Flynn, and others. 
 
 The ceremony consisted of a final gathering in the old court room 
 at the City Hall, a few speeches in a reminiscent vein, and the singing 
 of "Auld Lang Syne;" a march in procession to the Chancery Court 
 in the new building; the presentation to the county of oil paintings 
 of some of the most distinguished jurists of bygone days by their 
 families; speeches by legal luminaries, and a reception with refresh- 
 ments in the evening. 
 
 OCTOBER 12. 
 
 Political meeting in St. Francis's School Hall, which occupies the 
 same building as the church. The meeting took place immediately 
 after high mass. Thomas J. Navin, Arthur L. Holmes and others 
 spoke. 
 
 OCTOBER 13. 
 
 The annual report of the Board of Health showed that there were 
 2,501 births during the year — 1,213 girls and 1,228 boys. There were 
 
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 4,454 deaths, of which diphtheria caused 48, scarlet fever 73 and 
 smallpox 4. The medical inspectors during the months of March, 
 April, May and June inspected 80 schools, examined 10,554 pupils and 
 excluded 914. 
 
 Death of Charles H. Chope, Detroit's veteran wagonmaker. 
 
 OCTOBER 14. 
 
 Joseph N. Reynolds was sentenced to Jackson for one year for 
 bigamy. 
 
 OCTOBER 15. 
 Siau Laundry burned; loss, $15,000. 
 
 OCTOBER 16. 
 
 William Jared Chittenden, Jr., youngest son of William J. Chit- 
 tenden, of the Russell House, was married at Trinity Chapel, New 
 York, to Miss May Hampton Stevens, of Cross Keys, S. C. 
 
 A mummy was added to the Egyptian collection at the Museum 
 of Art. It was received from the Egyptian Exploration Association, 
 London. The remains are those of a woman who lived in the Graeco- 
 Roman period, during the first century of the Christian era. The 
 sarcophagus is wonderfully decorated, the design and colors as clear 
 as when painted 17 centuries ago. The mask for the face is of 
 pure gold. The mummy is wrapped in cloths resembling the finer 
 grades of linen, and elaborately decorated by hand in very interesting 
 designs, a portion of which consists of hieroglyphics in black on a 
 white ground, probably prayers or the genealogy of the deceased. 
 
 OCTOBER 17. 
 John Brushaber, a well-known German citizen, passed away. 
 
 Dr. E. B. Smith announced himself as a candidate for the 
 Democratic nom.ination for Mayor against Mayor William C. Maybury 
 However, at the convention, Oct. 17, Dr. Smith's name was not 
 presented and he received only a few votes. Maybury, with a perfect 
 organization, won in a walk. The Mayor proclaimed himself an 
 anti-ripper, declaring that he had spent his time and his money 
 against ripperism. There were no contests for the other city offices 
 on the Democratic ticket. 
 
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 OCTOBER 18. 
 
 The fight for political honors had been warmly waged for several 
 weeks past, resulting in bringing forward the name of Mr. Malcolm J. 
 McLeod for Mayor on the Republican ticket. In one way and another 
 he managed to keep himself prominently before the public, and, by 
 some unexplained influence, developed sufficient sinews of war to 
 make a strong canvass, backed by many alleged Republican labor 
 leaders. There was a strong Republican element, however, opposed 
 to Mr. McLeod on the ground that he had been in the city but a 
 short time; also for other reasons. Finally, at the primaries, Oct. 18, 
 for Mayor on the Republican ticket. Dr. J. Henry Carstens won over 
 McLeod by 5,000 votes. The fight developed into a contest against 
 ripperism, represented by D. W. H. Moreland, Thomas J. Navin 
 and others. 
 
 A notable victory was that of James E. Scripps over Horatio S. 
 Earle for Senator of the Third District. Mr. Scripps's vote was 3,024, 
 Earle's 2,037, E. W. Lowe's 929. Commenting on the situation, the 
 Evening News said editorially: "All in all, the primaries may be 
 taken to show an honest majority against ripperism." 
 
 OCTOBER 21. 
 
 Dr. Carstens uttered this strong rebuke of D. W. H. Moreland as 
 the leader of the rippers: "I don't want Moreland's support. I'd 
 rather have him against me than for me. I'd rather be shot down 
 to the bottomless pit than be elected by him and the city employes 
 he coerces for political purposes. If I had the power I'd remove him 
 from office at once. 
 
 "This is not because I have anything against him personally that 
 I know of, but because he represents principles of bossisln and 
 methods of dictation against which I am unalterably opposed. 
 
 "If I were mayor and had the power I'd kick him out of office at 
 once unless he attended strictly to the city's business and let politics 
 absolutely alone. 
 
 "If I am elected Mayor this fall, as I fully expect to be, I'll 
 guarantee that I'll not reappoint Moreland if the ripper laws are 
 amended so as to give the chief executive of the city the power of 
 appointing Public Works and other Municipal Commissioners during 
 my term of office." 
 
 William Y. Hamlin died at St. Mary's Hospital, a victim of 
 paralysis and other diseases. At one time he was a prominent figure 
 in the real estate business of the city, and through his marriage with 
 Miss Caroline Godfroy Watson, of the Godfroy family, was placed 
 in a position to make a fortune. He platted and sold considerable 
 property and was supposed to have made money rapidly, but reverses 
 came and he died in poverty. 
 
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 OCTOBER 24. 
 
 The question of remodeling tlie City Hall came up from time to 
 time during the year. Feb. 1, D. W. H. Moreland's attorney appeared 
 before Judge Donovan concerning the right of the Commissioner of 
 Public Works to appoint the supervising architect. It was argued 
 that the Council, in making the appointment, was really usurping 
 the Commissioner's rights. The matter was then taken to the Supreme 
 Court, and Moreland's view was sustained. He then selected Donald- 
 son & Meier to prepare and submit plans. Oct. 24 an estimate was 
 given showing that it would cost $375,000. The matter was referred 
 to a committee. 
 
 Hearing on the motion for a new trial in Frank C. Andrews case 
 concluded. 
 
 OCTOBER 25. 
 
 In the mayoral campaign. Dr. Carstens continued to ask Mayor 
 Maybury, "What have you done to stop ripperism?" In turn 
 Mayor Maybury accused the doctor of being the first ripper. Dr. 
 Carstens explained by saying that seven years ago Detroit was threat- 
 ened with an epidemic of smallpox. The local Health Commissioner 
 did not have the confidence of the profession, and the only thing to 
 do was to go to the Legislature to have things righted. He headed 
 the delegation and succeeded in securing a new Health Board by 
 special act. 
 
 W. G. Thompson also took an active interest. At Ross's Hall he 
 accused Mayor Maybury with being a ripper. He said: "Mr. Maybury 
 made a bargain that if the Legislature would extend his term one 
 year, and would increase his salary to $5,000 a year, he would appoint 
 D. W. H. Moreland Commissioner of Public Works. Those bills were 
 passed, and the Mayor entered upon the enjoyment of his increased 
 emolument." Mr. Thompson offered to produce living witnesses to 
 his assertion. 
 
 One of the humors of the campaign was a paper read by D. W. H. 
 Moreland before a Grand Rapids convention, in which he sagely urged 
 members of the American League of Municipalities to "keep out of 
 politics." 
 
 In spite of the savage utterances of Dr. Carstens against Moreland, 
 the Commissioner declared himself for Carstens. 
 
 The Congressional campaign also waxed warmer. Mr. Corliss 
 accused Mr. Lucking of having no opinions on public questions, and 
 Mr. Lucking in reply gave forth the following platform: We favor 
 
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 keeping our promises to Cuba, which. Mr. Corliss opposed all last 
 winter. We believe in a 20 per cent reduction of sugar duties, also in 
 taking off the differential on refined sugar, as a direct blow to the 
 sugar trust; opposition to the ship trust subsidy; to the proposed 
 Constitutional amendment giving trusts into the hands of the govern- 
 ment. In this latter case Congress has full power, when necessary. 
 We favor immediate action. "The proposed amendment is only a 
 trick," said Mr. Lucking, "to delay action. We favor a reduction of 
 the tariff on trust-made goods; we are in favor of criminal proceedings 
 against trusts; also that independence should be granted to the 
 Filipinos when they have a stable government." 
 
 OCTOBER 26. 
 
 The following paragraphs in the Evening News depict Judgo 
 Phelan's occasional methods of passing sentence: 
 
 "David McCarthy, hold up your right hand and repeat after me 
 what I say: 'I hereby swear to the good Lord that for the period 
 of one year I will not visit any saloon or drink any intoxicating 
 liquor; that I pray the good Lord he will strengthen me in this 
 resolve.' " 
 
 This strange oath was administered by Judge Phelan in the 
 Recorder's Court to David McCarthy, a youth charged with robbing 
 a "boat on the river front. McCarthy was injured a long time ago 
 througn a fall that broke his skull, and today he wears a silver piece 
 in his head. For many days his little old mother had haunted the 
 <?ourt room, importuning everyone whom she thought might have 
 influence with the Court to intercede with the Judge for her son. 
 She interceded with him herself. She knelt at his feet and pleaded 
 with him to give her back her boy. 
 
 "Go over and kiss your mother," said the Judge. "She is the 
 only true friend a boy has. Kiss her and go home with her, obey 
 her and keep your oath." 
 
 The son did as he W£is told. 
 
 OCTOBER 27. 
 
 Rev. Charles L. Arnold, of St. Peter's Church, who opposed Dr. 
 Carstens because the doctor was supposed to be an atheist, did not 
 follow up the idea, as announced, for a special sermon. The matter 
 was allowed to subside. 
 
 Mayor Maybury told audiences In various halls that his only 
 desire in seeking re-election was the betterment of the city, to give 
 Detroit grade separation, more factories, and to increase the general 
 prosperity. 
 
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 OCTOBER 28. 
 
 Recorder Alfred J. Murphy held that there must be two bondsmen 
 for Frank C. Andrews, and that each must qualify to the amount of 
 the bond, $100,000. The next day the Supreme Court sustained the 
 ruling and granted an additional 15 days in which the bondsmen 
 might be secured. 
 
 OCTOBER 29. 
 
 Congressman Corliss made a strong campaign. He vigorously 
 attacked the Michigan Central Railroad, urging that its president 
 wished to defeat him because he (Corliss) had insisted that that 
 corporation use air brakes and other safety appliances. A somewhat 
 sensational incident was the discovery that Corliss had used official 
 stationery for a private client, the Michigan Lubricator Co., sending 
 letters to railroad companies and others said to be infringing on a 
 patent controlled by the Michigan Lubricator Co. Corliss explained 
 this by saying that he had bought the paper and had a right to use it. 
 
 Death of Rev. John G. Hildner, a prominent Lutheran clergymair. 
 
 OCTOBER 30. 
 
 James E. Scripps made a stirring appeal to citizens, urging the 
 election of good lawmakers. The positions of Alderman and Repre- 
 sentative were most important, he said. We could get along with 
 clerks and other officials, but we must have good lawmaker. "I 
 promise you," he added, "if elected, to be loyal to the best interests 
 of the people." Taking up the matter of municipal boards, Mr. Scripps 
 said: "Instead of all having the same uniform system, the same 
 uniform tenure of office, we find that some are appointed by the 
 Mayor, some by the Governor, some by the Common Council, and 
 some by other boards. What business has the Governor appointing 
 Detroit boards, handling only local affairs? We want to get this 
 thing systematized. Some people want the Mayor to appoint all 
 municipal boards. I say if we let the Mayor appoint them, he should 
 also have the power of discharging them, because he is then respon- 
 sible for them." 
 
 NOVEMBER 2. 
 
 The Sunday News-Tribune printed a picture and brief description 
 of the Labadie house, on River street near Twenty-fourth, the oldest 
 residence in Detroit. 
 
NOVEMBER 3. 
 
 Mayor Maybury concluded his vigorous campaign, declaring the 
 Bliss-Carstens promises "were suspicious.' The Maybury followers 
 relied for a large East Side vote on the influence of Judge Phelan. 
 Dr. Carstens wound up his campaign in good spirits and declared 
 that, were he elected, he would stop "jangling between Commissions" 
 and would appoint men to office who "knew something about the 
 work, and not confine appointments to political tricksters." 
 
 NOVEMBER 4. 
 
 One of the most ridiculous phases of election day was the attitude 
 Oi the opponents of .James E. Scripps, who endorsed Dr. Suttie, a 
 Prohibitionist. Many saloon men wore Suttie badges. Department 
 of Public Works employes and disgruntled Republicans helped Suttie. 
 The election as a whole passed oft quietly. 
 
 The city election resulted in the success of Mayor Maybury, who 
 was returned for the fourth time. The vote for Mayor stood: William 
 C. Maybury, Dem., 23,391; J. Henry Carstens, Rep., 21.748; Fred E. 
 Britten, Prohibition, 541; Charles Erb, Socialistic Labor, 237; Meiko 
 Meyer, Socialist, 144: Thomas Bawden, Ind., 510. 
 
 Other officials elected were: City Clerk, George T. Gaston, Rep.; 
 City Treasurer, W. B. Thompson, Dem.; members of Board of Esti- 
 mates: (at large) Frank D. Andrus, George M. I.^ne, Homer McGraw, 
 F. A. Rasch, Turner Stanton ; Justices of the Peace, Felix A. Lemkie 
 and Fred E. DeGaw. all Republicans. 
 
 Aldermen — First Ward, George P. Codd and David E. Heineman; 
 Second Ward, Clarence A. Black and Edwin Jerome; Third Ward, 
 William Gutman and William Nagel; Fourth Ward, Maurice J. 
 Keating and Albert T. Allan; Fifth Ward, Alois A. Deimel and Fred- 
 erick Mohn; Sixth Ward, Hugh R. Burns and Robert J. McClellan; 
 Seventh Ward, Anthony Weiler and John Weibel; Eighth Ward, 
 William W. Magee and John Harpfer; Ninth Ward, Louis E. Tossy 
 and Basil A. Lemke; Tenth Ward. Edward J. Jeffries and Patrick 
 O'Brien; Eleventh Ward, Max C. Koch and Herman P. Zink; Twelfth 
 Ward, Philip H. A. Balsley and Otto Reinhardt; Thirteenth Ward, 
 Louis Brozo and Joseph F. Dederich; Fourteenth Ward, William F. 
 Moeller and Henry C. Nevermann; Fifteenth Ward, William H. Mahs 
 and Charles H. Wieber; Sixteenth Ward, Hiram L. Rose and Edmund 
 Atkinson; Seventeenth Ward, Fred W. Smith and William Hillger. 
 
 Contests were begun in the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, 
 Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seven- 
 teenth Wards in connection with the Aldermanic elections, none of 
 which were finished during 1902. 
 
 Estimators — First Ward, William W. Hannan and DeWitt H. 
 
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 Taylor; Second Ward, James B. McKay and Fred A. Robinson; Third 
 Ward, Walter Beckwith and William H. Butterfield; Fourth Ward, 
 William H. Wetherbee and Thomas Hislop; Fifth Ward, Anthony J. 
 Schulte and William J. Ruedisale; Sixth Ward, Willia)m Dupont and 
 George E. Hutton; Seventh Ward, William A. Schneider and Martin 
 Braciszewski; Eighth Ward, William W. Robinson and John A. Gray: 
 Ninth Ward, Peter J. Keuler and Joseph Neubauer; Tenth Ward, 
 Charles H. Appelt and Charles Ege; Eleventh Ward, John F. Behlow 
 and John J. Mundt; Twelfth Ward, Joseph Tuchocki and Arthur E. 
 Howlett; Thirteenth Ward, Louis E. Lempke and William H. Reich; 
 Fourteenth Ward, C. Henry Kempster and William Husen; Fifteenth 
 Ward, George W. Mutter and Robert M. Frost; Sixteenth Ward, 
 Albert Gadde and John S. Thompson; Seventeenth Ward, John Owen 
 and Harry J. Lowther. 
 
 The county officers elected were: Sheriff, Henry A. Dickson; 
 County Clerk, William H. McGregor; County Treasurer, Frederick F. 
 Snow; Register of Deeds, Orrin F. Gulley; Prosecuting Attorney, 
 Ormond F. Hunt; Circuit Court Commissioners, William H. Corlette 
 and Sam L. May; Coroners. Charles A. Harrison and John T. 
 Hoffmann: County Surveyor, H. R. Smith. 
 
 The Senators elected were: First District, William P. Scullen; 
 Second, Charles C. Simons; Third, James B. Scripps; Fourth, Solon 
 Goodell. 
 
 The Representatives elected were: First District, Joseph Greusel, 
 John L. Batchelder, S. J. Colby, D. M. Ferry, Jr., George W. Duncan, 
 Edwin Denby, John Shea, Fred A. Hunt, W. C. Robinson, Noble 
 Ashley and W. N. Siggins; Second District, John S. Dohany; Third 
 District, Frank S. Neal; Fourth District, Peter B. DeLisle. 
 
 For the first time in ten years the Democrats elected a Congress- 
 man in the First District in the person of Alfred Lucking, law partner 
 of Mayor Maybury. The fight was probably the bitterest of the 
 whole campaign, but Lucking carried some of the very strongest 
 Republican wards from Congressman John B. Corliss. 
 
 The Congressmen elected in the other districts of which Wayne 
 County is a part were: Second, C. A. Townsend; Sixth, Samuel W. 
 Smith; Seventh, Henry McMorran. 
 
 Wayne County gave L. T. Durand, the Democratic candidate for 
 Governor, 32,292 votes, against 21,659 for Gov. A. T. Bliss. 
 
 NOVEMBER 5. 
 
 Charles Ege. president of the Trades Council, resigned to take 
 a Federal job at $1,000 a year. He was succeeded by A. A. Poole, a 
 colored man, and a highly esteemed member. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 8. 
 
 Health Board ordered general vaccination and declared for an 
 expenditure of $50,000. Attorney Speed said: "There is no statute 
 in the Siate authorizing compulsory vaccination, nor any statute 
 requiring vaccination as one of the conditions of the right or privilege 
 of attending public schools. Oct. 31 the Common Council Committee 
 on Health recommended a resolution for $50,000, only $20,000 being 
 allowed. Nov. 11 the resolution was rescinded and $10,000 allowed. 
 Later $5,000 was voted, and on Bee. 23 $10,000 more given. 
 
 NOVEMBER 9. 
 
 James E. Scripps withdrev/ his name from the Citizens' Telephone 
 Committee. As soon as he learned that the franchise ran to the 
 committee and not to the company in escrow, he withdrew his support. 
 
 Michigan bankers attended the annual meeting of the American 
 Bankers' Association at New Orleans. 
 
 NOVEMBER 10. 
 
 Wayne County's proportion of primary school money was reported 
 to be $215,373.90; school children, 102,559. Detroit received $172,972.80. 
 
 NOVEMBER 11. 
 
 The Legislators-elect met and discussed Charter revision. The 
 following 12 points were brought to their attention: Municipal 
 elections should be held annually, on the first Monday in April, 
 one-half of the Aldermen to be elected at each election. That the 
 fiscal year begin May 1 and the terms of city officers begin on that 
 day. That heads of departments be appointed by the Mayor, without 
 confirmation by the Council, the power of removal to be in the hands 
 of the Mayor. That there should be one head for the Poor Depart- 
 ment, Fire, Lighting, Water, House of Correction, Health, and 
 Assessment, the Board of Works and the Police Departments to 
 continue as one-man Commissions. That civil service be instituted. 
 Thai no political assessment of employes shall be tolerated. That 
 the Legislature shall not fix salaries of city officials. That the basis 
 of indebtedness be real estate alone, and not real and personal 
 property. That all bond issues must be approved by the Board of 
 Estimates. That June appointments be done away with. That the 
 Board of Education consist of nine members only, three of whom 
 shall be elected at large. All city funds to be deposited in the city 
 treasury. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 12. 
 Bail not having been secured, Frank C. Andrews was taken to 
 Jackson Prison and locked up there as No. 7743. 
 
 NOVEMBER 13. 
 Death of Mrs. Charles B. Hull at Pelham Manor, N. Y. 
 
 Gen. William Booth, of the Salvation Army, paid a farewell visit 
 to Detroit. He was given a welcome at the Central M. E. Church, 
 where he told of the grand work of the Army. Gen. Booth was 
 accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Booth-Tucker, and by a numerous 
 staff. 
 
 NOVEMBER 14. 
 Dr. Hiram A. Wright, in a paper read before the Wayne County 
 Medical Society, urged that public school pupils be taught psychology. 
 He argued that the "brain is not the mind," also that the "purely 
 material theory of the origin of thought is untenable." 
 
 NOVEMBER 15. 
 Alfred Lucking, Congressman-elect, denied that he had been 
 aided by "the combine's money." Corliss had made the charge that 
 the funds of the sugar trust and the cable combine were used in the 
 Lucking campaign. 
 
 NOVEMBER 17. 
 Thomas McGrath, who fled to Cheyenne, Wyo., was identified as 
 one of the men who made a murderous assault on Horton Warren, 
 of the Goderich House. Detectives brought him to Detroit, where 
 he was charged with murder. 
 
 W. P. Rand appointed superintendent of the White Wings. 
 
 NOVEMBER 18. 
 Death of Mrs. Sarah E. Scripps. widow of the late George W. 
 
 Scripps. 
 
 Henry A. Mandell took oaih of office as Judge of the Wayne 
 Circuit Court. 
 
 NOVEMBER 19. 
 Miss Kate Doody appointed a special factory inspector. 
 
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 NOVEMBER 20. 
 Death of Lawrence Nolan, an old citizen of Detroit. 
 
 NOVEMBER 27. 
 
 A public Thanksgiving service was held at the Detroit Opera 
 House. The services were opened with a selection from the Scripture — 
 an invitation to worship — by Rev. H. P. De Forest. The Orpheus 
 Club followed with a well-rendered sacred selection, "God Is My 
 Guide." Rev. H. P. De Forest, of the Woodward Avenue Congregational 
 Church, v/ho presided, introduced Mayor Maybury, who delivered an 
 introductory address. Rev. John Matthews, of the Warren Avenue 
 Baptist Church, led the responsive reading, in which the audience 
 participated, and Rev. Frederick W. Hewitt, of St. Thomas's Episcopal 
 Church, read a selection from the New Testament. 
 
 Judge Alfred J. Murphy, of the Recorder's Court, who was invited 
 as a representative of the Catholic churches — Bishop Foley being 
 unable because of special services in every parish to assign a clergy- 
 man — read the President's Thanksgiving proclamation. 
 
 Departing from the regular form of religious service, a program, 
 the general theme of which was "Thanksgiving and the American 
 Spirit," had been arranged and assigned to the ministers of four 
 different churches. Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, of the Temple Beth El, 
 spoke of "Thanksgiving in the Home;" Rev. Lee S. McCollester, of 
 the Church of Our Father, on "In the Church;" Rev. John Brittan 
 Clark, of Westminster Church, on "In the State." and Rev. Nehemiah 
 Boynton, "In the Market." 
 
 NOVEMBER 29. 
 The Evening News reported that there was abundant reason to 
 believe that Wayne and Monroe Counties, in the region on both sides 
 of the mouth of the Huron River near the shore line of the Detroit 
 River, are as rich in oil lands as the Chatham, Ont., district. 
 
 NOVEMBER 30. 
 Frances gift to Detroit, the painting showing Louis XIV. giving 
 letters patent to Cadillac, was displayed in the Mayor's office. The 
 Evening News says of the picture: "The scene is located in the peace 
 room of the palace at Versailles. There are 11 personages represented, 
 with a key to seven of them attached to the frame. In the foreground 
 are, of course, Chevalier de Cadillac and King Louis XIV. The latter 
 is presenting to the famous explorer the letters patent which gave 
 him the right to found the City of Detroit in the name of the King. 
 About in the center of the picture and behind the King stands Louis 
 Boucharet, Chancellor of France, dressed in a beautiful pink costume. 
 
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 To the right are five Ministers of State. Four of them are: M. de 
 Barbezieux, Minister of War; M. Tozcy, Minister of Foreign Affairs; 
 Louis Philipeaux de Pontchartrain, Sr., of the Department of Finance; 
 Jerome de Pontchartrain, Jr., of the Department of the Navy. 
 
 "The three persons who occupy the left side of the picture are 
 not designated, but are evidently muslteteers of the King's Guard. 
 The King is ornamented with all the colors of the rainbow delightfully 
 blended, and Cadillac is dressed in a suit of light green. 
 
 "The painter's name is Fernand le Quesne, and he resides in Paris. 
 Underneath the picture are the words: 'Presented in the name of 
 the French republic by his excellency, M. Jules Cambon.' " 
 
 DECEMBER 1. 
 
 Rev. John Matthews, pastor of the Warren Avenue Baptist 
 Church, strongly opposed ostentatious display at funeral services, 
 such as an overabundance of floral offerings. "Flowers," he said, 
 "are things of life and mar the solemnity of death. It is wrong for 
 a widow to smother herself with a heavy veil and other heavy 
 mourning garb, as a sign of affection for her deceased husband. It 
 ruins her health and does not heal her broken heart. A simple dress 
 of mourning would be just as well as a sign of respect." 
 
 Wayne County appointments by the County Auditors: Aid. Edward 
 Wildman succeeded C. F. Beck, and Supervisor John Crowley, 
 Democrat, of Taylor Center, appointed to succeed 0. P. Gulley, 
 resigned. Drs. Sanderson and Polozker were reappointed county 
 physicians. The Auditors reappointed George C. Lawrence book- 
 keeper, John C. Lodge chief clerk, and John Troy detective. 
 
 The well-known dramatic critic, George P. Goodale, was married 
 to Miss Katherine Brigham Molony, at Ann Arbor. 
 
 DECEMBER 2. 
 
 Gen. Alger was sworn in at Washington as United States Senator, 
 to succeed the late Senator James McMillan. 
 
 DECEMBER 3. 
 
 Mayor Maybury began a crusade against chattel mortgage loaners. 
 His attention was called to exceedingly high rates of interest charged 
 by this class of loan agents. Various men and women who had had 
 bitter experiences called on the Mayor and urged that he help them 
 out of trouble. It was found that 10 per cent a month was the 
 usual charge, also that heavy fines and other extortions were 
 
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 imposed. The Mayor declared for the better protection of the public 
 and urged that violators of the ordinance should be prosecuted. He 
 also aided a number in having mortgages settled. 
 
 Isaac G. Worden, aged 74. died at the residence of his daughter, 
 Mrs. Thomas Hunter, 57 Eliot street. Mr. Worden, was a member of 
 a historic family, being a brother of the famous Admiral John L. 
 Worden, the hero of the great Monitor-Merrimac naval battle. His 
 grandfather, Isaac Graham, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War. 
 When Mr. Worden first came to Michigan he was appointed registrar 
 ot the land office at Bast Saginaw under President Andrew Jackson. 
 Later he served a term in the Detroit Postoffice. but resigned to take 
 the office of assistant paymaster in the United States Navy. In 1863 
 he served with Admiral Porter at the siege of Vicksburg. After 
 serving for two terms as City Treasurer and seven as City Recorder 
 of Bay City, he was appointed United States Consul at Wallaceburg 
 on March 20. 1886. 
 
 Anonymous letters to Rev. C. L. Arnold and wife considered by 
 vestrymen of St. Peter's Church. 
 
 DECEMBER 4. 
 
 Secret service operatives raided a counterfeiters' den and arrested 
 three men, Henry E. Busenbark, Neil Hurd and Frank McTague, the 
 latter living down stairs in the house used by the counterfeiters, on 
 Buena Vista avenue. Highland Park. The operations of the gang 
 were said to be extensive, the capacity of the plant being 300 coun- 
 terfeit dollars per day. 
 
 DECEMBER 5. 
 
 Judge F. L. Brooke, of the Wayne Circuit Court, directed the 
 jury to bring in a verdict for the defendant in the suit brought by 
 the Union Trust Co., receiver, to recover upon three notes of Frank 
 C. Andrews held by the receiver as part of the assets of the City 
 Savings Bank. These notes, two for $100,000 and one for $130,000, 
 were held void. It was claimed by the defendant, the Grand Rapids, 
 Holland & Lake Michigan Rapid Railway, that these notes were 
 delivered blank to Frank C. Andrews for a certain purpose and used 
 by him fraudulently for his own purposes. 
 
 The Wayne County delegation endorsed the Municipal League 
 measure for primary election law. 
 
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 DECEMBER 6. 
 Mayor Maybury vetofid the resolution of the Board of Education 
 adopted Nov. 25, increasing the salaries of principals of different 
 schools. 
 
 DECEMBER 9. 
 
 Judsou Grenell, for 18 years connected with the Evening News 
 and News-Tribune, resigned to become editor of Boyce's Weeicly, of 
 Chicago. Mr. Grenell was given a banquet at the Russell House by 
 his associates. 
 
 In announcing his temporary retirement from politics, Aid. R. P. 
 Joy told a reporter of the Evening News: "I retired from the 
 Council simply for the reason that my private business demands 
 more of my time. I found that my duties as Alderman took more 
 of my time than I could spare, and while those duties were agreeable 
 1 was forced by my private business to relinquish them. I will not 
 permanently retire from politics, and although I am not prepared 
 to say when I will again enter the arena, I will say that I have 
 ambitions in that direction." 
 
 DECEMBER 10. 
 
 On June 30, 1900, James E. Scripps filed a petition in the Wayne 
 Probate Court for general administration of the estate of George H. 
 Scripps, who died at Mirimar, Cal., April 13, 1900. At that time 
 Probate Judge Durfee appointed Robert T. Gray special administrator. 
 Oct. 15, 1900, after a portion of the testimony had been taken, tending 
 to show that George H. Scripps, deceased, was legally domiciled at 
 the time of his demise, in Wayne County, Judge Durfee refused to 
 hear further testimony, insisting that James E. Scripps should go to 
 Cleveland, Ohio, where ex parte proceedings had been begun for 
 the probate of the will of the deceased, which in a measure estab- 
 lished the domicile of Mr. George H. Scripps as in Cleveland, and 
 there affirmatively show that the Cleveland courts had no jurisdiction. 
 Judge Durfee held that until James E. Scripps and the others inter- 
 ested had successfully undertaken this burden he would refuse to 
 hear any proof in support of the petition filed by James E. Scripps. 
 The effect of this ruling would have been to concede the jurisdiction 
 of the courts of Ohio, and necessarily involved the concession that 
 the finding by the Probate Court for Cuyahoga County as to the 
 domicile of George H. Scripps, deceased, was correct and binding in 
 the forums of this State. 
 
 Thereupon James E. Scripps, by his attorneys, Stevenson & 
 Butzel, filed a petition for a mandamus in the Wayne Circuit Court 
 to compel Judge Durfee to entertain proof and proceed further with 
 
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 the taking of testimony and the handling of the petition, irrespective 
 of whaL some foreign tribunal at Cleveland had done. 
 
 The petition came on for hearing before George S. Hosmer, Circuit 
 Judge, who sustained Judge Durfee and denied the application for 
 a writ of mandamus. Thereupon the attorneys of James E. Scripps, 
 by writ of certiorari, reviewed the entire matter before the State 
 Supreme Court at Lansing, and after a full oral argument, supple- 
 mented by printed briefs, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed 
 the orders of Judges Hosmer and Durfee, and granted the order for 
 the writ of mandamus, compelling the Probate Court to entertain the 
 petition of James E. Scripps as an original petition and to disregard 
 what had transpired at Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 The effect of this holding was to cause the question of the domicile 
 of George H. Scripps at the time of his demise to be settled in the 
 Michigan courts in the ordinary way, as an independent proceeding. 
 It meant that if George H. Scripps had his legal domicile in Detroit, 
 the administration of his estate, whether testate or intestate, would 
 be In Michigan. The trial of the issue as to his domicile was begun 
 in the Wayne Circuit Court in December, 1902, and was in progress 
 at the close of the year 1902. 
 
 DECEMBER 11. 
 
 The City Lighting Commission's report showed that the main- 
 tenance and operating expenses for the year totaled $99,087.16, just 
 $7.46 less than for the preceding year, notwithstanding the increased 
 cost of material, the fact that many of the employes were given a 
 raise in salaries, and the extra amount of lighting done. The output 
 was 4,323,859 kilowatt hours, in comparison with 3,973,350 kilowatt 
 hours for the previous year. 
 
 Pietro Mascagni, the Italian composer, with his Italian grand 
 opera company and orchestra, appeared in the Light Guard Armory 
 for a matinee performance, presenting the composer's famous opera, 
 "Cavalleria Rusticana," and a miscellaneous program. He achieved 
 an enthusiastic success and returned for a second performance the 
 following Sunday evening. At the time of his Detroit visit Mascagni 
 was in the midst of his unfortunate troubles with his first American 
 managers, the Mittenthal Bros., and a week later finally abandoned 
 his tour in Chicago, owing to a multiplicity of suits and writs against 
 his person, occasioned by the mismanagement of his tour. His com- 
 pany returned to Italy. 
 
 DECEMBER 12. 
 Minute particles cf ice settled against the intake screens at the 
 Water Works and caused a water famine for seven hours. The 
 
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 accident was unprecedented, and the situation was relieved only when 
 the screens were forcibly destroyed. 
 
 DECEMBER 14. 
 
 Joseph Heuser, aged 90, a citizen since 1847, died at 189 Benton 
 street. For 30 years he operated a brewery on Gratiot avenue. 
 
 Death of Jex Bardwell, aged 79, and a resident of Detroit for 
 60 years. He was born in London, England, was educated at the 
 Polyclinic Institute, and was an expert chemist, more especially in 
 the chemistry of photography. After coming to America he super- 
 intended the building of the first gin distillery in New York City. 
 He was later interested in the distillery business in Clarkston, Mich., 
 and brewed the first beer in Michigan; but he never liked the business 
 and soon got out of it to take up photography, to which he was 
 devoted throughout his life. He produced the first ambrotype photo- 
 graphs and was the first to discover the uses of bromide in photography. 
 Just before the war he opened a gallery in this city, and among the 
 most valuable historical data of that period are a series of photographs 
 of local scenes during those stirring times. 
 
 DECEMBER 16. 
 Death of Joseph Sparling, for 30 years a prominent Detroit dry 
 goods merchant. 
 
 Dr. James Peebles, 82 years old, before Judge Swan was charged 
 with the fraudulent use of the United States mails. Peebles, with 
 W. T. Bobo and Charles Green, was charged with advertising to cure 
 diseases through alleged psychic power of Dr. Peebles, by the absent 
 treatment, no matter where the patient was located. The patients 
 were instructed to lie down at a given time twice every week, with 
 their faces to the east and a glass of pure water within reach, and 
 their hand on Dr. Peebles's signature in letters sent to them; then, 
 placing themselves in a receptive mood, they would receive the healing 
 influence from the doctor. The testimony was extremely sensational, 
 Peebles likening himself to Jesus Christ. The doctor was found 
 guilty; an appeal was taken. 
 
 DECEMBER 17. 
 
 John L. Sullivan was forced by the management of the Avenue 
 
 Theater to give up an engagement because of drunkenness. He then 
 
 began a two days' sensational carouse. Sullivan was arrested in 
 
 the Russell House and taken to the Woodbridge Street Station, but 
 
was released after several hours' confinement. John L. asserted that 
 this was the first time in his history that he had ever been locked up. 
 
 DECEMBER 18. 
 
 Mrs. Aristine Anderson, well-known newspaper woman, was 
 stricken with apoplexy, which paralyzed her right side and destroyed 
 her powers of speech. 
 
 Attorney Jasper C. Gates prepared for the Society for the Pre- 
 vention of Cruelty to Children a bill providing for the establishment 
 oi a Juvenile Court in Detroit. The general purpose of the measure 
 as declared is "that the care, custody and discipline of a child shall 
 approximate that which should be given by its parents, and that in 
 all cases where possible the child be placed in an approved family 
 home, and become a member of the family, by legal adoption or 
 otherwise." 
 
 Death of Mrs. Cynthia A. Mills. She was the widow of M. I. Mills. 
 
 DECEMBER 20. 
 Death of George Renaud, veteran hotelkeeper. 
 
 DECEMBER 22. 
 Clarence A. Black read a paper before the Business Men's Club 
 at the First Congregational Church, charging that a spirit of com- 
 mercialism was rampant in churches. 
 
 DECEMBER 23. 
 Bias for an approach for a new bridge to Belle Isle were opened 
 by Controller Blades. 
 
 DECEMBER 25. 
 Charles Henry Burr Crosby returned to his home in this city 
 after an absence of almost 30 years. He arrived in Detroit Thanks- 
 giving morning, and after a good deal of trouble found his son, Othello 
 Crosby, who lives in the rear of .516 St. Antoine street. The Evening 
 News printed a long narrative tending to show that Charles H. B. 
 Crosby is a son of Aaron Burr. 
 
 Sergt. Pierce H. Hanrahan was promoted to the rank of captain. 
 The Evening News gave a sketch of his career. 
 
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 DECEMBER 26. 
 Death of James S. Conkling, a veteran Detroit jeweler. 
 
 DECEMBER 27. 
 
 In the Wayne Circuit Court, the State of Michigan was made 
 defendant in a suit for $0,000,000, brought by the Michigan Central 
 Railroad. The case was the outgrowth of the repeal of the special 
 charter of the road. 
 
 DECEMBER 28. 
 
 Death of Silas Farmer, aged 63, who was found dead in bed at 
 his home, 51 Selden avenue. His "History of Detroit and Michigan" 
 was issued in 1884, after ten years' labor. It has remained the 
 standard authority. He was also one of the first Board of Directors 
 of the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Parmer was born in the Farmer homestead, 
 Farmer street and Monroe avenue. His father came to Detroit in 
 1821. Silas Farmer followed his father's business, that of map-making. 
 The local and state maps of Silas Farmer attained a national repu- 
 tation for accuracy and painstaking endeavor. Deceased belonged to 
 many literary and historical societies, and for a number of years held 
 the honorary otfice of City Historiographer. 
 
 DECEMBER 29. 
 
 The movement for a new Public Library, exploited throughout 
 the year, was not endorsed by the Board of Estimators, who refused 
 to allow an issue of $500,000 bonds to provide sites for a central and 
 branch libraries in order to secure an offer of $750,000 by Andrew Car- 
 negie. The condition laid down by Mr. Carnegie was that $75,000 a year 
 maintenance should be pledged and appropriate sites secured. At 
 the election in November, on the proposition to issue library bonds, 
 7,574 voted yes, and 4,730 voted no. 
 
 Republican Aldermen in caucus decided in favor of Aid. Max C. 
 Koch for the next President of the Council. 
 
 DECEMBER 30. 
 
 Annual sale of pews. First Congregational Church, netted $12,000; 
 first choice, $250. 
 
 A $35,000 fire occurred at the Jefferson avenue car barns. 
 
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 DECEMBER 31. 
 The jury disagreed in the case of the Preston National Bank vs. 
 Cameron Currie & Co. This was a suit growing out of one of the 
 last business transaction of Frank C. Andrews on Feb. 8 preceding. 
 It was alleged that he induced Cameron Currie & Co. to draw 
 a check for $100,000, representing that he would take the check to 
 the Preston National Bank and secure the release of certain securities 
 deposited there as collateral, and deliver them to Cameron Currie & 
 Co., to be sold upon the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Andrews 
 placed the check in the Preston Bank, and it was there partly applied 
 upon his indebtedness, and no securities were released. As Mr. 
 Andrews did not return, Mr. Currie stopped payment on his check 
 at his own bank, so that the check did not go through the Cleaxing 
 House the next day. The Preston Bank sued upon the check. Mr. 
 Andrews took a cashier's check for $50,000 from the Preston Bank 
 to the Detroit National Bank as a part of the transaction, but Judge 
 Brooke held that this did not enter into the consideration, as tha 
 Detroit National did not part with value in accepting it. The latter 
 bank applied the sum upon a certified check of Andrews upon the 
 City Savings Bank for $110,000. Judge Brooke indicated the belief 
 that the Preston National should not have paid the Detroit National 
 the amount of this cashier's check. The Judge charged that the jury 
 might consider the good faith of Cashier linger, of the Preston Bank, 
 in accepting the check which Prank C. Andrews had obtained from 
 Cameron Currie & Co. by fraudulent representation. The jury stood 
 7 to 5 against the Preston Bank. 
 
 Joseph Boyer bought the King residence, 637 Woodward avenue, 
 for $40,000. 
 
 The Wayne County Auditors celebrated Dec. 31 by retiring $50,000 
 worth of 4 per cent bonds. They constituted the entire Issue of the 
 county asylum bonds, which had been running for 15 years and fell 
 due Dec. 1 last. 
 
 Commissioner of Police George W. Fowle redistricted the territory 
 lying between Fourth avenue on the east and Twentieth street on 
 the west, and between the river on the south, and Bagg street to 
 Sixteenth, to Butternut to Humboldt on the north. He thus consti- 
 tuted a new police precinct known as the Fifth, with headquarters 
 at Trumbull Avenue Station. He ordered ex-Supt. John Martin taken 
 from the retired list and .ippointed to active service as captain of 
 the new precinct. The order continued: 
 
 "All thai territory lying between Fourth avenue on the east and 
 Humboldt avenue on the west shall constitute the Sixth Precinct, 
 with headquarters at Grand River Avenue Station. The territory at 
 present known as the Sixth Precinct will hereafter be known as the 
 
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 Seventh Precinct, with headquarters at Vinewood Avenue Station, 
 and the territory at present known as the Seventh Precinct is to be 
 the Eighth Precinct, with headquarters at Scotten Avenue Station." 
 
 Consideration, total deeds. 1902, Wayne County, $14,090,004; 1901. 
 $13,594,579. Total mortgages, 1902, $7,709,823; 1901, $6,409,627. Num- 
 ber deeds filed, 1902. 11,432; 1901, 10,222; mortgages, 1902, 3,982; 
 1901, 3,680. 
 
 The fire losses for the year 1902 were $447,571; insurance, 
 $3,136,000; fires, 1,064; value of property endangered, $4,744,121. Losses 
 for 1901, $729,638. 
 
 The leading real estate sales of the year included the transfer 
 
 of the Whitney Opera House Block from Stephen Baldwin to E. D. 
 
 Stair, $250,000; Hoban Estate to Waldo Avery, a strip of land on 
 
 northwest corner of Congress and Griswold streets, $105,000; W. A. 
 
 Moore to T. W. Palmer, land on Adams avenue west near Woodward, 
 
 $60,000; St. Paul's Church site to S. J. Murphy, $49,000; Biddle House 
 
 property to J. L. Hudson, $45,000; 0. B. Cook et al. to S. J. Murphy, 
 
 75x120 feet, southeast corner Shelby and Congress, $40,000; William 
 
 Thomas to C. W. Marvin, Columbia Hotel, $30,000; A. H. Gaukler to 
 
 C. J. Keilly, 60 feet on Gratiot near Antoine, $20,000; F. L. Smith 
 
 purchased the old Peninsular Iron Co. site, $40,700; D. W. Simons, 
 
 Detroit Match Co. site. $20,000; A. C. McGraw sold to Henry Wineman, 
 
 Jr., the Jefferson Flats, $70,000; Henry Porter to George A. Steel. 
 
 Alberta Flats, $60,000; Lester H. Cheeseman to J. W. Thompson, 
 
 Wilbert Flats, $40,000: H. W. Holcomb to W. C. and F. C. Stoepel, 
 
 Warren Apartments, $35,000; Estate of David Rust to M. J. Brabb, 
 
 residence 651 Woodward, $65,000; W. A. Avery to C. A. Newcomb, 
 
 625 Woodward, $53,240; John N. Bagley to Paul N. Bagley, interest 
 
 in Bagley homestead, $30,00C; E. W. Voigt subdivision to a New 
 
 York syndicate, $700,000; Field Estate to T. and J. S. Newberry, land 
 
 on Field farm, $175,000; Mary L. E. Wesson to Joseph H. Berry, 900 
 
 feet on Jefi^erson avenue to harbor line, $160,000; River Rouge 
 
 Improvement Co. to Solvay Process Co., 27 acres, Delray, $55,000. 
 
 The building operations for 1902 involved an outlay of $6,038,700; 
 1901, $.^^,977, 400. Some of the leading structures were: S. J. Murphy, 
 power house building, 39 Congress west, $90,000; A. Chapoton, five-story 
 store, 35 Larned east, $50,000; R. E. Raseman, four-story brick for 
 Calvert Lithographing Co., 152-4 Grand River, $80,000; gas works for 
 Detroit Gas Co., 895 River, $75,000: S. C. Falkinburg, eignt-story brick, 
 62 apartments, 38 Madison, $125,000; M. L. Smith «S: Son, ten-story 
 brick and stone, Jefferson and Dubois, $100,000; Detroit City Gas Co., 
 gas tank. Twenty-fourth street, $140,000; A. C. Chapoton, brick church, 
 800 Fort street west, $45,000. 
 
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 Receipts of flour, 1902, 373,300 barrels; wheat, 3,319,474 bushels; 
 
 corn, 2,069,537 bushels; oats, 4,318.734 bushels; barley, 1,841,982 
 
 bushels; rye, 774,113 bushels. Shipments; Flour, 252,700 barrels; 
 
 •wheat, 1,032,030 bushels; corn, 593,973 bushels; oats, 745,795 bushels; 
 barley, 102,270 bushels; rye, 694,167 bushels. 
 
 The city's finances at the close of business, 1902, showed an 
 assessed valuation of $249,503,720; bonds outstanding, $5,800,000; cash 
 in sinking fund, $310,592; sinking fund securities, $1,690,257; net 
 general debt, $3,799,149: special assessment, $597,257; total debt, 
 $4,100,465. 
 
 The balance, Dec. 31, 1902, in the county treasury was $629,129; 
 receipts, $2,649,152; disbursements, $2,879,340. 
 
 New divorce cases, 1902, 705; marriage licenses, 3,600; law suits 
 filed, 1,073; chancery cases, 1,360. 
 
 In speaking of the smallpox conditions in Detroit, Health Officer 
 Guy L. Kiefer said: 
 
 "The present smallpox outbreak is much more serious, as far 
 as a possible far-reaching epidemic in Detroit is concerned, than 
 was the former outbreak. In the former there were in all 86 cases, 
 from Sept. 16, 1901, to Aug. 14, 1902. Nearly all of them were 
 imported, and in each case it was possible to find and protect all 
 persons who had been exposed. The present outbreak began on 
 Sept. 9 of this year, and up to Jan. 1 there were 425 cas,es, 3 of 
 these resulting in death. On Dec. 31 there were 34 cases recorded. 
 At a rough guess, these cases have cost us about $16,000. It has not 
 been as easy to protect exposed persons this year, owing to sup- 
 pressed cases. A general vaccination is the safest way out of the 
 difficulty; it would be cheaper in the end." 
 
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 Business Review for 1902. 
 
 January 4 — The Detroit, Howell & Lansing Railway was projected, 
 to connect the cities mentioned; work was under charge of the Detroit 
 Construction Co. The road will be 87 miles in length, with a single 
 track, double overhead system; power, 15,000 volts transmission. 
 
 January 4 — The Michigan Rock Salt Co. filed articles of incor- 
 poration; capital stock, $600,000; office, Ecorse; directors— George N. 
 Skinner, E. D. Carter, John Russell, Ralph Loveland, Don M. Dickinson, 
 E. L. Collier, and others. 
 
 January 11 — The Physicians' Pharmacal Co. was organized; capital, 
 $75,000; paid in, $42,000. Organizers— J. B. Book, J. J. Mulheron, 
 Charles L. Finch, B. R. Hoyt, C. H. Bryan, M. L. Pierce. The purpose 
 of the company was to provide standard preparations for the profession. 
 
 January 12— M. H. Chamberlain & Co., an old wholesale liquor 
 house, was sold to C. H. Ritter & Co. Mr. Chamberlain was in busi- 
 ness continuously since 18G7. 
 
 January 12 — The Michigan Steel Boat Co., formerly of Kalamazoo, 
 came to Detroit. The concern will employ 100 men and turn out, in 
 season. 20 steel boats daily. 
 
 January 14 — The Detroit Machine & Valve Co. was organized; 
 capital, $10,000. Organizers — Eugene H. Sloman, A. P. Born and 
 William A. Griffith. 
 
 January 15 — George H. Russel and H. C. Potter, of the State 
 Savings Bank, became directors of the First Commercial, of Wyandotte. 
 The Detroit River Savings changed its name to the Marine Savings 
 Bank. 
 
 January 15 — The Dr. Reed Cushion Shoe Co. was organized; capital, 
 $50,000. paid in, $30,000. The stock was divided among J. B. Book, 
 S. E. Whitney, F. D. Rolison and S. E. Whitney, trustee. 
 
 January 16 — The Lake Carriers' Association convened. William 
 Livingstone was elected president; H. L. Brown, of Buffalo, secretary. 
 
 January 17 — The Lumber Carriers' Association met, and F. W. 
 Gilchrist, of Alpena, was elected president; H. E. Runnels, of Port 
 Huron, secretary-treasurer. 
 
 January 21 — A report was first printed that the Pere Marquette 
 had obtained the Lake Erie & Detroit River Railroad. This would 
 give the Perc Marquette a direct outlet to Buffalo via the Lake Erie, 
 210 miles. The latter road belonged to the heirs of Hiram Walker. 
 
 January 24 — The Norris Collar & Cuff Co., manufacturing 8,000 
 collars per day, increased its capital stock to $25,000. T. C. Sherwood 
 
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 was elected president; George E. Norris, vice-president; F. H. Norris, 
 secretary and general manager; R. S. Dodds, treasurer. On March 20 
 the company increased its capital to $100,000. 
 
 January 25 — The Delta Lumber Co. finally wound up its business, 
 through John T. Rich, trustee. He was appointed In 1896. Every 
 debt of the company was settled and 49 per cent in dividends declared. 
 The capital stock was $300,000. When Mr. Rich took hold, the assets 
 were $1,432,911.76; liabilities, $939,568.76. 
 
 February 1 — The Detroit Southern Railroad bought the Iron 
 Railway, of Ohio, thus obtaining a connection with the Norfolk & 
 Washington for through business to the East. This gave the company 
 a route across Ohio, from Detroit and Lake Erie to the Ohio River. 
 
 February 8 — Detroit Steel Casting Co. was incorporated; capital 
 $100,000, paid in. 
 
 February 19 — At a Stock Exchange annual, at which George H. 
 Russel was elected president, the board of governors chosen were: 
 George H. Russel, S. Hendrie, Cameron Currie, George M. West, 
 W. E. Moss, R. E. Plumb, H. W. Noble, J. T. Shaw and C. L. Palms. 
 
 February 19 — Kreutler Bros., manufacturers of shoe lasts, incor- 
 porated; capital, $50,000; paid in, $35,000. 
 
 February 20— The Soluble Desiccated Egg Co. increased its capital 
 from $12,000 to $150,000. S. B. Dixon, president; Charles G. Anderson, 
 secretary; S. R. Dixon, Charles G. Anderson, Angus McLean, George M. 
 Schettler and Alfred J. Murphy, directors. 
 
 February 20 — Standart Bros., wholesale hardware, filed articles of 
 association; capital, $250,000. Stockholders, Joseph G. Standart, Robert 
 W. Standart, George G. Bogue, Edward A. Fowler, J. J. McLeod, D. L. 
 Swasey and W. E. Standart. 
 
 February 21— The Anchor Line decided to built a new dock and 
 warehouse east of First street. 
 
 February 25— A "run" on the Dime Bank started because of a 
 legal holiday sign in a branch office. An ignorant foreigner, noticing 
 the words "Bank Closed," spread the report that the bank had followed 
 the example of the City Bank. The "run" reached the main office. 
 The bank had $711,984.87, and met every call promptly. After a few 
 hours confidence was restored. 
 
 March 1 — On petition of Baldwin & Squiers, creditors. Judge J. W. 
 Donovan, of the Wayne Circuit Court, appointed John Ballantyne 
 receiver for the wholesale grocery house of W. J. Gould & Co. A trust 
 mortgage was given the receiver by the company for $84,740. W. J. 
 Gould, the founder of the business, died Aug. 11, 1901. Prior to that 
 time his son, Clarence H. Gould, had become president of the company, 
 and Lewie H. Thompson secretary and treasurer. Clarence H. Gould 
 claimed that the financial difficulties of the company arose from the 
 fact that his father during the last 12 years prior to his death drew 
 out $288,000 from the capital of the concern. Total assets were eaid 
 to be about $120,000. 
 
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 March 1 — Articles of association were filed of the Consolidated 
 Ice Co.; capital stock, $6,000: life of the corporation, three years. 
 Charles A. Dean was president; Charles F. Osborn, vice-president; 
 Roubert Houghten, treasurer; J. F. Hacker, secretary, and Edwin 
 Labadie, assistant secretary. These officers, with Simeon L. Miner 
 and Walter Schweikart, were trustees. This combination included the 
 biggest ice companies of the city — Houghten-French Co., J. L. Miner 
 Ice Co., Pittmans & Dean, Hacker & Mackrodt, Schweikart's Little 
 Four Ice Co. and Crystal Ice Co. A. Y. Malcomson had gone out of 
 the ice business some time before. 
 
 March 4 — Pingree & Smith reorganized under the name The 
 Pingree Shoe Co.; capital $500,000, paid in. Frank C. Pingree, 
 president; Hazen S. Pingree, vice-president; J. B. Howarth, secretary 
 and treasurer 
 
 March 7 — Penberthy Injector Co. bought a new factory site, 4.67 
 acres, located north of the Michigan Central Railroad tracks, on the 
 west side of Greenwood avenue: price, $22,000. 
 
 March 14 — The settlement of the controversy between A. R. Lee, 
 manager of tli 3 Star-Cole Line of steamers and one of the executors 
 of the Cole Estate, and the Williams Transportation Co. resulted in 
 the steamer Darius Cole being brought back to Detroit. It had been 
 sold by the Cole Estate to the Williams Transportation Co. for $75,000 
 cash, and some notes were given for large amounts. The Williams 
 Co., which ran five steamers upon Lake Michigan, claimed later that 
 the Darius Cole could not make the speed guaranteed, and litigation 
 arose over the settlement of the matter. S. J. Dunkley, of Kalamazoo, 
 a wealthy fruit shipper, bought out the Williams Transportation Co., 
 securing the steamers City of Kalamazoo, H. W. Williams, Easton 
 and Glenn, and then made an arrangement with Mr. Lee for the 
 Darius Cole to revert to the Star-Cole Line. The price paid to the 
 Williams Co. was said to be under $1,000,000, and the Star-Cole people 
 were said to have retained the whole of the $75,000 paid down. 
 
 March 15 — Announced that articles of incorporation had been filed 
 for the Hospital Association of the Detroit Teachers' Association. Its 
 object was "To raise funds for the benefit of sick and disabled teach- 
 ers, and to invest and manage such funds for that purpose; to endow, 
 own and control beds in hospitals for such teachers," etc. The Detroit 
 Teachers' Association had already about $7,000 on hand, raised for the 
 designated purpose. The control of the affairs of the organization 
 was vested in a board of seven trustees, elected on the first Sunday 
 after Easter in each year. 
 
 March 18 — Detroit insurance firms, according to a general agree- 
 ment, advanced insurance rates 25 per cent on account of losses in 
 business for several years previous. 
 
 March 21 — Three Providence, R. I., fire insurance companies refused 
 to pay losses on the Penbeithy Injector Co. building, destroyed by 
 jire resulting from the explosion of the boiler (see "Detroit in 1901," 
 
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 p. 139). on the ground that their policies contained clauses exempting 
 them where the buildings foil in The Detroit Merchants & Manu- 
 facturers' Exchange took up the matter, and a committee consisting 
 of M. J. Murphy, A. H. Green and R. S. Mason was appointed. The 
 insui'ance companies agi-eed to leave the matter to this committee, 
 which reported that the insurance ought to be paid. The checks were 
 duly received soon after by the Penberthy Co. 
 
 March 22— The New England Pie Co.. capitalized at $50,000, called 
 the pie trust, consummated a consolidation of the pie-making business 
 in the City of Detroit. The president of the company was William 
 Van Syckle, state agent of the Home Life Insurance Co. of New York. 
 H. .1. Boerth, long identified with the pie-making business in the city, 
 was secretarj'' and treasurer. Five different concerns were thus 
 brought under one management. 
 
 March 28— The Sanitary Refrigerator Co. formed; capital, |250.000. 
 Incorporators, N. L. Murphy, M V. Mclnnes, N. B. Harding, George J. 
 Worthy, Robert L. Aldrich and George C. Perkins. 
 
 April 1 — Farrand. Williams & Clark filed articles of association; 
 capital, $200,000. 
 
 April 4 — Ex-Comptroller of U S. Currency Charles G. Dawes spoke 
 before the Bankers' Club on 'Asset Currency." 
 
 April 5 — The Michigan Central executed a trust mortgage for 
 $13,000,000, bO-year gold bonds, to take up bonds; interest at 3V^ 
 per cent. 
 
 April 7 — Syracuse capitalists decided to invest $750,000 in Zug 
 Island blast furnaces. 
 
 April 10 — The Standard Screw Co. increased force from 400 to 
 500 men. 
 
 April 11— The Pond Fork Coal Co. incorporated; capital, $150,000. 
 of which W. C. Yawkey, of New York, holds $99,000; W. H. Yawkey. 
 of Detroit, $50,000, and Charles H. Freeman, of Detroit. $1,000. The 
 same principals also organized the Yawkey & Freeman Co. for mining 
 business in West Virginia; capital, $300,000. 
 
 April 16 — The Amphitheater Co., capital $12,000, which erected a 
 summer theater on the grounds of the Scenic Railway, filed articles 
 of association. 
 
 April 25 — Proprietors of Detroit restaurants decided to form an 
 association and raise prices because of the high cost of food. Pork 
 was said to be 50 per cent higher, beef almost 10 cents higher than 
 prices quoted a year ago. 
 
 April 30— The E. W. Voigt farm, with 1.035 feet on Woodward and 
 30,000 feet on Boston and Chicago boulevards west, was sold for 
 $800,000 to a syndicate of New York capitalists, headed by J. H. Gordon, 
 of the Manhattan & Yonkers Land Co. 
 
 May 23 — The purchase of the Ann Arbor Railroad by the Wabash 
 makes possible new Eastern connections for Detroit. By means of 
 
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 the Wheeling & Lake Erie there will be connection with Pittsburg, 
 and after a number of minor links are completed, connection with 
 Baltimore. 
 
 May 24 — The Detroit & Mackinaw road bought by H. K. McHaarg, 
 a director of the Wabash. The capital stock is $3,000,000, of which 
 ?2,000,000 is common and $1,000,000 preferred. 
 
 June 1— John F. Eby & Cu.'s printing plant sold to R. L. Polk & 
 Co. C. W. Lloyd became business manager; many improvements 
 were made. 
 
 June 15 — A consolidation of the Parkhill Land Co. and the New 
 York syndicate formed the North Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Real 
 Estate Investment Co.: capital, $1,2.50,000. President, A. L. Stephens; 
 vice-president, Charles R. Hannan; treasurer, George H. Russel; 
 secretary, J. P. McLaughlin; general manager, J. H. Gordon, New York. 
 The object of the company was to give people an opportunity to buy 
 real estate stock. 
 
 June 28 — The fJnion Trust Co. declared a half-yearly dividend of 
 2 per cent, also added $50,000 to the surplus, making the total of that 
 account $225,000. 
 
 June 28 — Williams & Bro., of Detroit, joined the pickle trust, which 
 has a capital of $30,000,000. 
 
 June 29 — Detroit banks paid dividends running from 2 to 4 per 
 cent semi-annually. 
 
 June 30 — Detroit capitalists to build a $1,000,000 pulp mill at 
 Cheboygan. 
 
 July 7 — At the annual election, F. A. Forbes, resident director of 
 the Michigan Telephone Co., failed of reappointment to the board. At 
 one time he was general manager, then president of the company. 
 
 July 20 — Crusoe Bros., Ltd.. owaers of stock in the buildings at 
 120-122 Jefferson avenue, that collapsed last January, began suit against 
 11 insurance companies for insurance carried by the companies on 
 the buildings. 
 
 July 23 — The management of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation 
 Co. bought $100,000 worth of stock around 821/^. par being 50. 
 
 July 25 — The Detroit Trust Co. bonded a number of steamers for 
 a total of $950,000. 
 
 July 25 — The Briscoe Manufacturing Co. acquired the greater part 
 of the property on the west side of Woodward, between Baltimore and 
 the railroad tracks; price, $60,000. Senator Palmer purchased from 
 William A. Moore 125 feet on Adams west, not far from Woodward. 
 
 July 27— The Detroit Iron & Steel Co. let contracts for a big plant 
 at the Rouge, the furnaces to turn out 300 to 350 tons of pig iron per 
 day, using 600 tons of ore daily. M. A. Hanna & Co. will furnish the 
 ore and take the product. 
 
 August 2— The Wallace Manufacturing Co., capital $25,000, incor- 
 porated to make specialties in iron and steel. 
 
 August 27 — The Detroit Southern announced a direct connection 
 
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 with the seaboard. By the absorption of the Iron Railway, the Detroit 
 Southern added an important link to its system. From Ironton the 
 Southern will build a line through the Big Sandy Valley to Lincolnton, 
 N. C, where it will join the Seaboard Air Line. This will give the 
 Southern direct connection with the great Pocahontas coal fields. 
 
 Sept. 11 — ^C. M. Swift, W. C. McMillan and others organized the 
 Detroit Bag & Paper Co.; capital, $150,000. The company proposes 
 to erect a modern plant to make jute and paper bags for the various 
 salt, sugar and alkali companies. 
 
 September 23 — P. McArthur and P. A. Ducey, of Detroit, bought 
 10,400 acres of timber lands in California, said to contain 400,000,000 
 feet of yellow and sugar pine, for $144,480. 
 
 October 24 — New brake beam factory announced for Delray, output 
 300,000 beams per annum. Prom.oters, R. B. Plumb, T. H. Simpson 
 and W. Hay, representing the Chicago Railway Equipment Co., 
 capitalized at $2,500,000. 
 
 October 24 — The Great Lakes Paper Co. organized; capital, $800,000. 
 Leading stockholder, Edward V. Douglas, trustee, Philadelphia, 79,950 
 shares; scattering, 40 shares. 
 
 October 26 — Many Detroiters became interested in the Summit Lake 
 Mining Co., of Canada; capital, $3,000,000; owns 500 acres in the 
 Manitou district. 
 
 November 9 — Detroit capitalists became interested in Honduras 
 through the organization of the Ulua Plantation Co., backed by the 
 Honduras Commercial Co. The Detroit company owns 700 acres in 
 the San Pedro Sula Valley. Charles A. Buhrer, president; Col. Fred 
 Farnsworth, vice-president; Alfred W. Chase, attorney, secretary and 
 treasurer; Messrs. Farnsworth, Buhrer, Chase, Fox and Joslyn, directors. 
 
 November 15 — Monarch Coupler Co., capital $150,000, organized; 
 chairman of the board, W. C. McMillan. 
 
 November 16 — A national malleable iron combine was reported, 
 in which W. C. McMillan was chairman of a committee to arrange 
 details. It was reported that 14 firms, including the Michigan Malle- 
 able Iron Co., of Detroit, had signed. 
 
 November 17 — The charter of the Detroit National Bank expired 
 Nov. 17. The corporation was succeeded by the Old Detroit National, 
 with a capital of $2,000,000; surplus, $400,000. Stock sold at $120 a 
 share, $20 being for surplus fund. The Detroit National was organized 
 as the Second National in 1863 by C. H. Buhl, James F. Joy, H. P. 
 Baldwin, Nathaniel Adams, Duncan Stewart, Eber Ward, Chauncey 
 Hurlbut, Allan Shelden and John Stephens. The capital, $500,000, was 
 increased in 1865 to $1,000,000. H. P. Baldwin was the first president. 
 When the charter expired in 1883, the bank reorganized as the Detroit 
 National. H. P. Baldwin was again president, C. H. Buhl vice- 
 president, and H. P. Baldwin, C. H. Buhl, Frederick Buhl, John S. 
 Newberry, W. C. Colburn, R. A Alger and Chauncey Hurlbut, directors. 
 Mr. Baldwin resigned the presidency Oct. 31, 1887, and was succeeded 
 
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 by C. H. Buhl, W. C. Colburn becoming vice-president. Mr. Buhl 
 retiied Jan. 14, 1891, and Alexander McPherson, the present incumbent, 
 was elected. The present directors are: Alexander Lewis, Alexander 
 McPherson. Charles M. Heald, A. W. Wright, Oren Scotten, Theodore D. 
 Buhl, Henry F. Baldwin, Heni-y Stephens, Fred C. Stoepel, Henry B. 
 Joy. Stanford T. Crapo, James Davidson of Bay City, and E. W. 
 Meddaugh. The officers are: Alexander McPherson, president; Irvine 
 B. Unger, assistant to the president; Theo. D. Buhl, vice-president; 
 William T. DeGraff, cashier; A. W. Ehrman, assistant cashier; Charles 
 F. Lawson, auditor. From the organization in 18G3, the Second 
 National paid dividends on its capital until succeeded by the Detroit 
 National, and the latter never missed a quarterly dividend, always 
 earned during the same quarter in which declared. The total dividends 
 paid by the Detroit National w^erc $1,695,000. 
 
 November IS — Detroit's retail cigar and tobacco stores were organ- 
 ized to fight the trust. C. J. Holton was elected president. 
 
 November 28 — Charles Moore, former secretary to Senator McMillan, 
 was chosen to be Clergue's manager at the "Soo." 
 
 December 9 — P. P. & J. T. McLaughlin, brokers, 90 Griswold street, 
 decided to move to Seattle, and sold Detroit business to their brother, 
 W. A, McLaughlin. 
 
 December 9 — Menzies Shoe Co. incorporated; capital, $40,000. 
 
 December 11 — Articles of association were filed by the Detroit, 
 Monroe & Toledo Shore Line Railway Co., capital $3,000,000, which 
 will build a line from Springwclls to Toledo. Incorporators — C. A. 
 Black, J. M. Mulkey, A. E. F. White and E. H. Flinn, of Detroit; 
 Arthur Hill, of Saginaw; Matthew Slush, of Mt. Clemens; E. M. Fowler, 
 of Pasadena, and Charles R. Hannan, of Council Bluffs. Officers elected 
 were: Matthew Slush, president; Clarence A. Black, vice-president; 
 A. E. F. White, second vice-president; C. J. Reilly, secretary; C. R. 
 Hannan, treasurer: C. J. Reilly, C. R. Hannan and J. M. Mulkey, 
 executive committee. 
 
 December 9 — The News said, concerning Detroit's prospective 
 automobile manufacturing trade, 1903: "Inquiries at the three big 
 factories show that the expected output of this city for next year is 
 10,000 automobiles." 
 
 December 12 — William Livingstone, president of the Dime Savings 
 Bank, commenting on Detroit's financial stability, said: "Some people 
 seem to think that, financially. New York is the universe, but the 
 day has gone by when any enterprise must leave the city to seek 
 capital. The statements of the Detroit banks, issued recently, aggre- 
 gate about $80,000,000." 
 
 December 19 — Oren Scotten, president of the Hiawatha Tobacco 
 Co., resigned; succeeded by Edward C. Way. 
 
 December 27 — Wayside Tales Co. incorporated at Dover, Del.; 
 capital, $150,000. 
 
 December ^28 — C. H. Michell grocery stock sold to Peter Smith. 
 
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 December 30 — Noble. Moss & Co., brokers in the Union Trust 
 Building, established an exchange office between the banks in Detroit, 
 The charge is five cents a thousand. 
 
 December 30 — Charles L. Jacobs & Co. announced a new clothing 
 factory, with 75 machines. The active manager is Charles L. Jacobs, 
 Jr., backed by his father, C. L. Jacobs, formerly connected with A. 
 Jacobs & Co. 
 
 December 31 — At a site selecied below the Rouge, the Great Lakes 
 Engineering Works announced its intention of building four ship-berths 
 and a floating drydock. This was not a new company, but an outgrowth 
 or reorganization of the present Great Lakes Engineering Works, and 
 the corporate name remained unchanged. The capital of the company 
 was $1,500,000, with a $500,000 bond issue. The officers were as follows: 
 Antonio C. Pessano. president and general manager; George H. Russel, 
 vice-president, and John R. Russel, secretary and treasurer. 
 
 December 31 — The syndicate owning the Edison Electric Light 
 Co. acquired, through R. M. Grindley, 30 acres owned by M. J. Murphy. 
 Price paid, $4,500 per acre. 
 
 December 31 — The Detroit Clearing House Association's figures for 
 1902 were $536,613,652. A comparison of totals for the past six years 
 showed: 1902, $536,613,652; 1901, $575,485,647; 1900, $427,800,392; 1899, 
 $415,073,499; 1898. $346,806,348. 
 
 December 31 — Other important business concerns incorporated 
 within the year were; Detroit Rubber Co., capital $25,000; Beals & 
 Selkirk Trunk Co., $50,000; Northern Manufacturing Co., $30,000; 
 Henry L. Walker Co., $100,000; Brown & Brown, $100,000; C. Pfeifter 
 Brewing Co.. $150,000; Burns & O'Shea Brick Co., $30,000; Standard 
 Carriage & Wagon Co., $25,000; William M. Finck & Co.. $40,000 
 G. N. Skinner Salt Co., $25,000; Detroit Iron & Steel Co., $1,500,000 
 Ideal Toy Co., $35,000; Revere Beach Scenic Railway Co., $100,000 
 Hiawatha Salt Co., $100,000; Pioneer Woollen Mills, $25,000; American 
 Ginger Ale Machine Co.. $100,000; Crusoe Bros. Co., $25,000; Sunrise 
 Mineral Paint Co., $250,000; People's Ice Co., $75,000; Lee Injector 
 Co., $40,000; Adams Transportation Co., $115,000; T. E. Clark Wireless 
 Telegraph-Telephone Co., $250,000; Buhl Sons Co., $600,000; National 
 Fulton Brass Co., $400,000; Cabinet Letter Press Co., $25,000; C. W. 
 Warren & Co., $25,000; Detroit Realty Co., $25,000; Wayne Iron Co., 
 $200,000; Buckley-Hart Manufacturing Co., $40,000; F. A. Goodrich 
 Iron & Steel Co., $50,000; Michigan Steel Casting Co.. $300,000; Hennepin 
 Iron Co., $100,000; White Manufacturing Co., $50,000; Great Lakes 
 Paper Mills Co., $800,000; Proctor-Raymond Manufacturing Co., 
 $30,000; Electric Railway Switch Co., $100,000; American Box & Lumber 
 Co., $150,000; Santa Barbara Plantation Co., $300,000; Avenue Theater 
 Co.. $40,000; Superior Match Co., $250,000; Fibre Mache Manufacturing 
 Co., $35,000; Meier & Schuknecht, $100,000. 
 
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 Svddcn and Accidental Deaths. 
 
 The record for the year 1902 included 17 deaths by street cars, 
 21 by steam cars, 13 murder or manslaughter cases, 35 suicides, 23 
 drownings. A summary of suicides shows these methods of self- 
 destruction: Revolver, 8; carbolic acid, 9; hanging, 7; rough on rats, 
 4; paris green, gas, strychnine, cyanide of potassium, opium, cut 
 throat, burning, 1 each; total, 35, being 27 men and 8 women. 
 
 January 1 — J. H. Taylor, aged 3; fatally scalded. 
 
 January 2— Miss Beulah Wheeler, 805 Second avenue; arsenic 
 poisoning self-administered, supposedly by mistake for anti-pyrine. 
 
 January 13 — Stella Peck, aged 4, 467 McKinstry avenue; scalded. 
 
 January 17 — Grace Nichol!, 814 Trumbull avenue, bookkeeper, aged 
 27 years; accidental poisoning. 
 
 January 18 — John Turczynski, aged 2 years 7 mouths; scalded by 
 boiling water. 
 
 January 20 — Body of John Schneider found rear of 114 Fifteenth 
 street; suicide by strychnine. 
 
 January 22 — Investigation of death of Miss Jennie McFadyen, of 
 440 Grand River avenue, attended by Dr. H. C. Judson, assisted by 
 Dr. W. E. Anderson. 
 
 January 27— Fred Masuch instantly killed while walking on 
 Michigan Central tracks in Delray. August Masuch badly injured. 
 
 January 27— Michael Oberbillig, aged 25, 253 Twentieth street; 
 fatally injured by falling at Pfeiffer's brewery. 
 
 January 27 — Frank Demries. aged 32, 190 Hale street; crushed by 
 cars at the American Car & Foundry Works. 
 
 January 30 — ^W. M. Holton; run down by carriage, Woodward and 
 Columbia. 
 
 February 5 — Fred C. Canfield, car inspector, aged 23; head crushed 
 by cars in Michigan Central yards. 
 
 February 4 — Henry Oldenburg: fatally injured by a bursting saw 
 at Seamless Tube Works. 
 
 February 5 — Mrs. M. L. Whipple, aged 54, 15 Poplar street; fell 
 unconscious on Eighteenth street. Died at Grace Hospital. Apoplexy. 
 
 February 7 — Alonzo Barrows, aged 65: fell down stairs at Con- 
 tinental Hotel. Apoplexy. 
 
 February 11 — Mrs. Catherine S. Smith, 155 Twenty-first street; 
 heart failure, on Michigan avenue car. 
 
 February 12 — Phillion Jenkins, aged 31, 51 Horton avenue, traveling 
 salesman; overdose of morphine, self-administered. 
 
 February 13 — Miss Abigail Price, aged 45. 125 Congress street east; 
 asphyxiated by gas. 
 
 Februarj' 1.5 — Alphonso Dempsey, aged 20, 163 Twenty-second 
 street; shot by policeman. 
 
 February 19 — Michael Justus, aged 45. inspector for the Union 
 Terminal Co.; crushed to death by cars at Union Depot. 
 
 February 22 — James McGlashen, aged 38, foreman for the Michigan 
 Telephone Co., and an unknown woman, supposed to be Isabella Ward, 
 found asphyxiated by gas in Empire Hotel, 59 Park place. 
 
 February 23 — Frank Williams found unconscious in barn. Second 
 and Congress streets, supposedly from accident. 
 
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 February 25 — Jacob Kobus, poisoned by carbolic acid taken with 
 suicidal intent in a saloon at 94 Gratiot avenue. 
 
 March 1 — Peter Perry, aged 38, drunk and jealous, fatally shot 
 Mrs. Sarah Tillman, a widow, in saloon at Franklin and Antoine 
 streets, and then killed himself. 
 
 March 2 — William N. Sample, aged 78 years, 1506 Jefferson avenue; 
 scalded at above number. 
 
 March 14 — Frank Taylor, aged 50, committed suicide by taking 
 cyanide of potassium in front of McGregor Mission. 
 
 March 19 — James A. Clancy, aged 53, died at Harper Hospital after 
 six weeks' illness, from a wound self-inflicted with a revolver. Route 
 agent for Michigan Central. 
 
 March 22 — Charles Ehlert, aged 44, leaped from Emergency Hos- 
 pital window while suffering from delirium tremens. 
 
 March 22 — Fireman George S. Hough, of Chemical No. 1, died at 
 Harper Hospital of burns received at a fire in the Michigan Patent 
 Brush Co. works, 1087 McKinstry avenue. March 13. 
 
 March 22 — Miss Ernestine Gowdy, aged 12, niece of 0. R. Baldwin; 
 killed in a runaway accident on North boulevard. 
 
 March 23 — Vincent Clark, brakeman, Michigan Central; crushed 
 between water tank and cab. West Detroit. 
 
 March 24 — Prof. J. H. Hahn drowned in Lake Constantine, where 
 he had a summer home, Ingleside. Much mystery surrounded the 
 immediate facts that led to his death. Prof. Hahn was bom in Phila- 
 delphia Dec. 1, 1847. He located in Detroit in 1872, from which time 
 on he took a leading part in local musical affairs. At one time he 
 was president of the Music Teachers' National Association. 
 
 March 26 — Mrs. Anna Chaddock. aged 22, 52 Rademacher street; 
 accidentally burned in a bonfire at the above number. 
 
 March 27 — William L. Adam, beer peddler, 666 Chene street; 
 by revolver shot at above number. 
 
 March 29 — Guy Herbert Dynes, aged 7. 92 Columbia street east; 
 accidental opium poisoning by taking cough medicine. 
 
 April 1 — William J. Gardner, superintendent of telegraph, Detroit 
 Fire Department, died at St. Mary's Hospital. He accidentally inhaled 
 illuminating gas while sleeping at fire alarm headquarters. 
 
 April 4 — Joseph Owocki, laborer, aged 39, 111 La Salle avenue; 
 broken neck at Detroit Steel & Spring Works. 
 
 April 7 — Daniel Lau, a milkman, killed by a Lake Shore train at 
 the Michigan avenue crossing. 
 
 April 9 — Carrie M. Jennett, 1191 Wabash avenue; murdered on 
 Thirteenth street, south of McGraw avenue. 
 
 April 10 — George H. Heywood, bookkeeper, aged 48 years, 34 
 Amherst street; murdered on Amherst street near Junction avenue. 
 
 April 13— Matthew Smith, teamster, aged 60, 103 Plum street; fall 
 fi'om wagon on Sherman street, between Russell and Riopelle. 
 
 April 13 — A. T. Sharpe. traveling salesman for Parke, Davis & 
 Co., stabbed to death at Memphis, Tenn., by an unknown man in street 
 altercation. 
 
 April 14 — Mrs. Edward Manley. 975 Hudson avenue, through a 
 mistake, took a fatal dose of wood alcohol and corrosive sublimate. 
 
 April 14 — John Kolashinski Jr., shot by Saloonkeeper Martin 
 Nowakowski; prisoner claimed self-defense. 
 
 April 14 — William Findlay accidentally suffocated by gaS, 92 
 Columbia east. 
 
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 April 16 — Shamed by her mother's rebukes and resenting the 
 accusation of laziness, Mary Felkner, aged 16, of 919 Hancock avenue 
 east, deliberately drank carbolic acid and died two hours later. 
 
 April 17 — William Schimmelpfennig, a former Detroit boy, killed 
 by cars at Youngstown, 0. 
 
 April 17 — Edward T. Hawley, stevedore, aged 41, 632 Lafayette 
 avenue, murdered. 
 
 April 21 — Florence M. Breitenbecher, aged 12, 324 Hastings street; 
 shock due to fright. 
 
 April 24 — Aug. Kloss, Jr., 727 Riopelle street, collided with load of 
 hay while riding bicycle. 
 
 April 24 — Pauline Becker's hair caught in whirling machinery at 
 137 Beaubien street, causing almost instant death. 
 
 April 27 — Thomas Marshall, well-known character and a student 
 of mathematics, died at 89 Labrosse street. Conducted "mathematical 
 column" in Sunday News-Tribune. 
 
 April 27 — George Burge, aged 3, 751 Riopelle street; burned to death. 
 
 April 29 — James W. Parker, hatter, aged 46, Grand Central Hotel; 
 drowned. 
 
 April 30 — Mrs. Adelaide Sage, 363 Locust street, prompted by grief 
 at the death of her young son Russell, committed suicide by saturating 
 her clothing with kerosene and setting it on fire. 
 
 May 2 — John Anhut's skull fractured by street car. 
 
 May 3 — Harry Klein, crushed between car and wall in stock room 
 of Olds Motor Works, met almost instant death. 
 
 May 4 — Mrs. Caroline Mahneke, housekeeper, aged 47 years, 310 
 Mt. Elliott avenue; asphyxiated by gas. 
 
 May 6 — Alfred Brennan, 510 Alfred street, drowned off Ashtabula 
 from the new freighter W. F. Fitch. 
 
 May 8 — James Pullybank killed by fall from wheel on slippery 
 car tracks. 
 
 May 11 — Paul Baumgardt, machinist, 29; cut his throat. 
 
 May 11 — William Gudzinski, 56, 800 Livernois; poison. 
 
 May 11 — Mrs. Lidina Trebesch. Ill Atwater; carbolic acid. 
 
 May 12 — Grace M. Allton, aged 9 years, 12 Beacon street; burned 
 to death. 
 
 May 13 — Burt Tallman, aged 13 years, 208 Brooklyn; run over 
 by buggy. 
 
 May 16 — Julius Zube, laborer, aged 43, fell at Rivard and JelTerson; 
 died at St. Mary's Hospital. 
 
 May 19 — Unknown man, aged about 30, found foot Campbell ave- 
 nue; drowned. 
 
 May 20 — William Stabba. aged 23, 91 Lady's lane, committed 
 suicide; carbolic acid. 
 
 May 22 — Ernest Paeschke, 29 Thirty-second street: drowned. Fort 
 Wayne slip dock. 
 
 May 29 — George Peter Humbert, aged 3% : killed by Fort street car. 
 
 June 6 — Homer Moore, aged 68, Redford, Mich.; drowned foot of 
 Brush street. 
 
 June 10 — Patrick Geoghan, aged 60, 82 Congress street west; 
 drowned, foot Cass avenue. 
 
 June 12 — Henry Harrison, aged 70, 95 Illinois street; accidental 
 shooting at 62i/^ Livingstone avenue. 
 
 June 11— Miss Stella Hassa, aged 33; killed by a fall from window. 
 740 Dubois street. 
 
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 June 14— Jacob Guzowski, hod carrier; killed endeavoring to 
 climb up water pipe at Twenty-fourth and Buchanan streets. 
 
 June 16— B. J. Dwyer, aged 17. 405 Franklin street; drowned in 
 Lake St. Clair. 
 
 June 17 — Wayne De Forest: caught in the elevator shaft at Edson, 
 Moore & Co.'s and killed. 
 
 June 27 — Alberta Louise Walwin, housemaid, aged 20, Bayfield, 
 Ont.; burned to death at 120 Watson street. 
 
 June 29 — E. C. Fitzpatrick, former Detroiter, killed in Chicago by 
 fall. From 1867 to 1882 he was the proprietor of a poultry business 
 at 42 Cadillac square 
 
 July 1 — Herman Schwartz drowned at foot of Jos. Campau avenue. 
 
 July 1 — John Lenkeitus and Herman Kolch, laborers, drowned off 
 the Tashmoo while scrubbing paddle-box. 
 
 July 3 — William Oakman killed in a scuffle at Owen's saloon, 198 
 River street. His assailant. Lawrence Hanratty, was subsequently 
 discharged by Judge Whelan. 
 
 July 3 — Engineer William McGregor and John O'Grady, laborer, 
 each of Detroit, killed in a washout accident on Michigan Central 
 near Thomas, Mich. 
 
 July 5 — R. M. Keys, laborer, aged 42, 37 Beech street: fell at 
 Randolph and Bates streets. Died at St. Mary's Hospital. 
 
 July 5 — William Oakman, laborer: supposed to have been mur- 
 dered, 198 River street. 
 
 July 6 — While sailing, three boys drowned at the Flats: Julian 
 Henkel, aged 11, son of Walter J. Henkel, 368 Brush street: J. Conrad 
 Brede, Jr., aged 13, son of J. C. Brede, 177 Alfred street; Oscar Rosen- 
 berg, aged 12. son of E. H. Rosenberg, 121 Columbia east. 
 
 July 8 — Florenz Stickel, tailor, aged 36, 1270 Eighteenth street; 
 asphyxiated by gas. 
 
 July 11 — ^O. E. Reinke, aged 21, shot himself fatally because of a 
 quarrel with Pauline Clark, his sweetheart. 
 
 July 21 — Leverette Owen, aged 29, 464 Baker street; accident at 
 73 Wood war .1 avenue; cause not given. 
 
 July 21 — Norman McCollum, aged 6, son of W. S. McOollum, 136 
 Beech street; fatal fall while "playing circus." 
 
 July 22 — William Behrendt, or Burns, shot and killed in a saloon 
 row, 268 Williams avenue. 
 
 July 23 — A. J. Symington, young attorney, drowned while passing 
 ashore from the yacht CantaUita, foot of Chene street. 
 
 July 24 — Alex. Smith, drowned while making a high dive from 
 crosstrees of schooner Maria Martin 
 
 July 24 — David Dawson, aged 24. 64 Cherry street; alcoholism, at 
 Gaffney's saloon. 
 
 July 24— Edward M. Kanter, aged 25, eldest son of Charles E. 
 Kanter: drowned at Huronia Beach. 
 
 July 26— Harry Whitehead, a painter, 599 Dix avenue, fell 35 feet 
 and sustained fatal injuries. 
 
 July 26— Mrs. Catherine Bush, aged 50. wife of Norris road farmer; 
 killed in a runaway accident on Erskine street. 
 
 July 28 — Frank Schwopsik, a laborer at Solvay Works; overcome 
 by heat. 
 
 July 29 — Miss Louise Geraldine Smylie, aged 30. 212 Burns avenue, 
 former inmate of Dearborn Retreat, drank a fatal doee of wood 
 alcohol because of poor health. 
 
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 July ol— Miss Jeannie F. Brown, a teacher in the Field School; 
 drowned while attempting to save a companion at Hull, Mass. 
 
 July 31 — Edward Broderick, horseshoer, aged 41, 230 McGraw 
 avenue; accidental opium poisoning at the above number. 
 
 August 3 — Charles Josl and Joseph Huettemann, Detroiters, 
 drowned near Sandwich. 
 
 August 0— Katie Puchalska, aged 16, fatally injured by a shaft 
 accident at Carhartt's overall factory. 
 
 August 8— Anthony Becker, bricklayer, aged 60, 189 Sheridan ave- 
 nue; killed by a fall from a roof. 
 
 August 14 — Charles T. Brommer, storekeeper, aged 67, 350 High 
 street; fell at Fort street and M. C. R. R. bridge. 
 
 August 17— Edward Lanahan, aged 21; accidentally shot at Brook- 
 lyn and Porter. 
 
 August 17 — Fearing a surgical operation, Mrs. Ida M. Bray, wife 
 of Albert Bray, 292 Second street, committed suicide by taking 
 carbolic acid. 
 
 August 18 — Three-year-old Paul Seewski, 521 Leland; burned to 
 death while playing with matches 
 
 August 19 — Joseph Grunert, 533 Ferdinand avenue; killed by train 
 at foot of Twenty-fourth. 
 
 August 20 — Augustus Torrey, chief engineer M. C. R. R., aged 51, 
 174 Henry street; hurt by cars at Albion, Mich.; died of shock at 
 Harper Hospital. 
 
 August 26 — Carl Dunker, motorman, aged 57, Port Huron; drowned; 
 body found at foot of Shelby street. 
 
 August 26 — Edson Mann, epileptic, aged 24, 479 Brainard street; 
 blew his brains out with a shotgun. 
 
 August 26 — John Freudener. aged 80, 185 Division street; shot 
 himself because of an incurable malady. 
 
 August 27 — Ethel Lewis, aged 5, 112 Catherine street; fatally 
 burned. 
 
 August 28 — Irvine Retzloff, aged 0V2. 146 Lyman place; strangula- 
 tion at 355 Trombly. 
 
 August 29 — Paul Linsky, aged 50, 385 Riopelle street; drowned 
 near Belle Isle bridge. 
 
 August 31 — Gustave Truening, molder, aged 24. 433 Hendricks 
 street; drowned at Water Works dock. 
 
 September 1 — Anthony Elfner, 710 Gratiot avenue, committed 
 suicide; drowning. 
 
 September 2 — George W. Bissell, capitalist, aged 82, 144 Lafayette 
 avenue; received fractured skull in accident at Brooklyn and Lysander. 
 
 September 5 — Charles C. Smith, janitor Light Guard Armory, aged 
 about 50; received injuries at Jefferson avenue and Belle Isle bridge; 
 cause unknown. 
 
 September 6 — Frank Miller, aged 10; drowned in the slip of the 
 Great Lakes Engineering Co.'s plant. 
 
 September 9 — Edward Close, deckhand, aged 17, Harbor Beach, 
 Mich.; drowned from steamer Houghten at foot of Dubois street. 
 
 September 12 — Miss Sarah Hurst, housekeeper, 409 Third street, 
 hurt at Highland Park; skull fractured. Died at Harper Hospital. 
 
 September 16 — August Bender, coal merchant, aged 28, 1184 Can- 
 ton avenue; accidentally shot. 
 
 September 16 — Charles Sherman, aged 46, Dearborn. Mich.; 
 received fractured skull at Klink & Krauss's. 
 
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 September 18— Anthony Molaski, laborer, aged 45, 734 Wesson 
 avenue; injured at the American Car & Foundry Co. Died at home. 
 
 September 21 — Dr. George E. Metcalf, veterinary surgeon, died 
 at Harper Hospital; hydrophobia. 
 
 September 24 — Leo Leddy, newsboy, aged 12, killed by a train on 
 Michigan avenue, near Detroit Steel Works. 
 
 September 27 — Gus Felska,. f.76 Erskine; died of injuries received 
 by being struck by a bicycle. 
 
 September 28 — Edward McCaffery, retired farmer, aged 62, Strat- 
 ford, Out.; fell from street car on Fort street near Fifteenth. 
 
 September 28 — Infant daughter of August Fett, 233 Hunt street; 
 scalded to death. 
 
 September 28 — Grace Elma Wilderspin, aged 21, 65 Adams east; 
 criminal operation. 
 
 September 29— J. F. Schaffran, aged 54, 662 St. Antoine; injured 
 in accident at Canfield avenue and Riopelle street. 
 
 October 1 — Mrs. John Katon, aged 65; died at Emergency Hospital: 
 accident at Lafayette and Cass. 
 
 October 1 — Joseph Freda, aged 53, 634 Maple street; "rough 
 on rats." 
 
 October 5 — Jacob Otto Beir, ironworker, aged 35, Kremer Hotel; 
 asphyxiated by gas at the above hotel. 
 
 October 8 — George W. Smith, boarding at 25 Rowland; took over- 
 dose of laudanum. 
 
 October 9 — Alexander Gurkiewicz, laborer, aged 24, 1048 Dubois 
 street; injured at the American Car & Foundry Co. Died at Grace 
 Hospital. 
 
 October 10 — Charles Stevens, driver; killed by a fall from a 
 wagon. 
 
 October 13 — Edward P. Nette, salesman, aged 33, 194 Erskine 
 street; gunshot wound, received at the above number. 
 
 October 13 — Patrolman R. S. McDonald fell dead in Judge 
 Murphy's court room. 
 
 October 13 — Helmuth Arend, aged 15, 312 Cleveland street; fatally 
 shot himself with a Flobert rifle. 
 
 October 18 — John Meyer, brewer, aged 35, 210 Hale street; killed 
 by fall at Goebel's brewery. 
 
 October 20 — Annie Van Zandt, servant; killed by Fourteenth 
 avenue car. 
 
 October 20 — Mrs. Maggie Brown, formerly of Detroit, committed 
 suicide in Toledo; carbolic acid. 
 
 October 23 — Nelson Purdy, coachman, aged 60, 248 Russell street; 
 injured at Washington Park and Boulevard. Died at Harper Hospital. 
 
 October 24 — Angus Mclsaac, laborer, aged 61; killed in sewer 
 trench near Eighteenth street and Stanley avenue. 
 
 October 26 — George A. Allsopp killed by a Wabash train at 
 Junction avenue. 
 
 October 29 — Horton Warren, aged 27 years, Goderich Hotel;- killed 
 at above hotel. 
 
 November 11 — Ex-Ald. Henry Heck; died of injuries received by 
 a fall from a roof. 
 
 November 18 — Henry Best, laborer, aged 38, Twenty-eighth street; 
 fell down elevator shaft at Williams Bros.' factory, Grand River 
 avenue. 
 
 November 20 — Toney Pawtowski, laborer, aged 53, 413 Forest 
 
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 avenue; injured at American Car & Foundry Co.'s by rip-saw. Diea 
 at Grace Hospital. 
 
 November 21 — F. A. Burrows, while deranged, shot and killed 
 himself, corner of Woodward and Winder. 
 
 November 22 — Louis Mieczknowski killed by a Lake Shore train 
 near Farnsworth street crossing. 
 
 November 27 — Mrs. Mark Rumming found dead in bed at 110 
 Michigan avenue; heart failure. 
 
 November 28 — M. Tyranski, laborer, aged 35; killed by Michigan 
 Central at Commonwealth avenue crossing. 
 
 November 28 — N. G. Ross, a young physician, formerly of Toronto; 
 killed himself with strychnine. 
 
 December 2 — Andrew Povell, aged 21, 972 Wabash avenue; killed 
 by Trumbull avenue car. 
 
 December 2 — R. D. Dean, stove mounter, 167 Beaufait avenue; 
 killed himself with arsenic. 
 
 December 4 — Matthew O'Connell drowned at foot of First street 
 while endeavoring to board the steamer Kirby. 
 
 December 4 — Miss Sadie Carroll, aged 17. 529 Wesson avenue; 
 killed by Michigan Central train at Junction avenue, while crawling 
 under the cars so as not to be late for mass. 
 
 December 6 — Michael Tobin, grain trimmer, aged 61, 136 Seventh 
 street; hurt on Johnston street near Howard. Died at Red Cfoss 
 Hospital. 
 
 December 9 — Sarah Riblet, aged 65, who lived in squalor at 96 
 Baker street, found dead in her room. Said to be a relative of a 
 rich Cincinnati family. 
 
 December 9 — Benjamin R. O'Dell, aged 3, 527 Macomb street; 
 burned at above number. 
 
 December 13 — Adolph Zahnke, carpenter, aged 68, 179 Mack ave- 
 nue; coal gas. 
 
 December 16 — Harry McKenzie, painter, aged 32, 135 Clinton 
 street; fell down elevator in Stevens Building, Washington and Grand 
 River. Died at Grace Hospital. 
 
 December 19 — William W. Douglass, dentist, aged 37, 186 Second 
 avenue; accidentally poisoned by chloroform. 
 
 December 19 — John Hibbler, of Detroit; run over and killed on 
 the Grand Trunk near Flint. 
 
 December 20 — John I. Delaney, former newspaper man, aged 34; 
 killed by street car at Lemay and Jefferson avenues. 
 
 December 21 — Oscar Schwartz found dead at the Cliff House; 
 carbolic acid. 
 
 December 21 — Ottc C. Deginder, conductor, 132 St. Antoine street; 
 killed in street car collision with Pere Marquette train at Dear- 
 born road. 
 
 Decem.ber 21— William F. Haskett, baker, aged 39, 264 Humboldt; 
 stabbed by stepson. 
 
 December 21 — Lawrence E Christopher, aged 40; died of lockjaw 
 from a slight cut on bridge of nose, received by" fall on slippery 
 sidewalk. 
 
 December 23 — Agnes Ewald, aged 27, 180 Superior street; burned. 
 
 December 24 — Emil Born, aged 3%. 92 Howell street; burned to 
 death by striking a match to look at toys on Christmas eve. 
 
 December 27 — H. R. Lansford; heart failure. 
 
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 December 30 — Frank l.esinski, 899 Dubois street; overdose of 
 paregoric. 
 
 December 30 — Sergt. Johrx McKiernon. aged 61, found dead at 
 294 Second street: heart failure. 
 
 During the year 1902, Coroners Forth and Hoffmann answered 
 404 calls and held 145 inquests. 
 
 Notable Crimes of the Year. 
 
 The Detroit Police Department, during the year, was engaged with 
 13 murder and manslaughter cases. With the exception of the case 
 of Charles Connors, alias Clark, all the suspected parties were arrested; 
 two were sentenced to prison for life. On Dec. 31 five awaited trial, 
 four were discharged in the Police or Recorder's Court, one was 
 sentenced to four years, and one to 15 years. James B. Hawley, charge 
 reduced from murder to manslaughter, was acquitted; Sheldon Pitcher, 
 mantlaughter, pending; Martin Nowakowski, murder, acquitted; Joseph 
 Scott, manslaughter, was given 15 years in the Detroit House of 
 Correction; Catherine O'Hanlon, murder, discharged; William M. 
 Jones, murder, sentenced to life imprisonment in Marquette prison; 
 Joseph M. Miller, murder, sentenced to life imprisonment in Jackson 
 prison; Max Robiscoe, murder, pending; Lawrence Hanratty, man- 
 slaughter, discharged; Frank Colling, murder, pending; Martha Scott, 
 murder, four years in the Detroit House of Correction; Thomas 
 McGrath, murder, pending: Forrest Webster, murder, pending. 
 
 February 5 — ^Catherine O'Hanlon, an unfortunate woman, was 
 accused of throwing her infant into a vault at 72 Twenty-second street, 
 the child dying from exposure. She was arrested, and at the trial 
 which followed was acquitted. 
 
 February 8 — Grace Bush, 33 Montcalm street, trusted employe of 
 Morgan. Puhl & Morris, stole $500 worth of velvets and other property. 
 
 February 8 — Patrolman James Nelson shot and killed Albert 
 Dempsey at Seventeenth and Baker streets. The officer found Dempsey 
 and Frank J. Hines standing on the corner. The two men resented 
 the officer's questioning and a fight followed. Hines ran into his 
 house near by and came out with a gun. He struck the officer over 
 the head with the butt, and then jumped over a fence. Dempsey had 
 Patrolman Nelson on the ground, kicking him in the shins. While 
 this was proceeding the officer drew his revolver and shot Dempsey. 
 The wounded man was then taken to the Emergency Hospital, where 
 he lingered until Feb. l.S, and then died. Dempsey had a police record. 
 A coroner s Jury exonerated Nelson. 
 
 :March 13 — Mrs. Sarah TiUman was shot and killed by Peter Perry 
 
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 at Franklin and St. Antoine streets. He then shot himself. It was 
 alleged that Perry was in love with Mrs. Tillman, and his affection 
 was rejected. 
 
 Apinl 9 — Shortly before midnight a citizen returning home from 
 the theater witnessed at some distance what proved to be a murder. 
 On Thirteenth street, between Antoinette street and McGraw avenue, 
 he saw the figure of a man bending over a prostrate body on the 
 walk, and heard a scream. An hour later the dead body of Carrie M. 
 Jenneti, a young girl, was found there with her throat cut from ear 
 to ear. The following morning Prof. J. M. Miller, the girl's music 
 teacher, wt.s arrested on suspicion of being the murderer. Blood stains 
 were found on his clothes, and he fainted while being registered at 
 the police station. The following day Miller confessed to the murder. 
 He had been criminally intimate with the girl for a long time, and 
 his decision to murder her had been made when he discovered that 
 their relations would soon become known. Miller was a married man 
 with a family, and said the girl had wanted him to elope with her as 
 ti solution of the trouble, but that he had refused to leave his family. 
 He declared he cut the girl's throat with a hatchet. Miller was 
 arraigned in Police Court on the afternoon of the day he confessed, 
 and waived examination to the Recorder's Court. Here he made no 
 defense, and the following day, after physicians appointed by the Court 
 had examined him and pronounced him sane, he was sentenced to 
 Jackson prison for life. He was taken there on the evening of April 
 12, three days after the commission of the crime — a record in local 
 police history. 
 
 April 9 — Matthew Smith, an aged teamster employed by the Board 
 of Public Works, was driving his wagon on Sherman street, when he 
 met Joseph Scott, a colored man. Words were exchanged, and Scott 
 pulled Smith from the wagon, throwing him on the ground, where 
 ue kicked him. Scott after the assault ran away, but was captured, 
 convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in the Detroit 
 House of Correction. 
 
 April 10 — The Heywood ca^e was extremely sensational. On the 
 evening of April 9, George Heywood, a well-known citizen, residing at 
 34 Amherst street, went to a. ball, leaving for home shortly before 3 
 o'clock next morning. A few hours later his dead body was found 
 lying on the walk, about 200 feet from his house, with a bullet in his 
 brain and a wound in the forehead, evidently made by a hammer. 
 William M. Jones, a roomer at the Heywood house, and Mrs. Heywood 
 were taken into custody by the police. Mrs. Heywood finally admitted 
 illicit relations with Jones extending over a considerable period, but 
 denied implication in her husband's murder. Jones also denied any 
 connection with the crime. It developed that Mrs. Heywood had 
 become infatuated with Jones, who was a married man with a wife 
 in Nebraska. Jones frequently took Mrs. Heywood to balls, parties 
 and receptions, but it did not appear that Heywood suspected improper 
 
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 relations. After his arrest Jones stuck to the story that he was in 
 bed at the Heywood home all night on the night of the murder. The 
 theory of the prosecution was that Jones, after going to bed, and 
 after Mrs. Heywood and the children had retired, had arisen, and, 
 stealing out, waylaid Heywood and murdered him. The back of the 
 hammer found in Jones's room, which was of peculiar shape, fitted into 
 the wound in Heywood's head, and there were many other incriminating 
 circumstances. Mrs. Heywood took the stand for the prosecution, 
 admitted her relations with Jones, told of his threats against her 
 husband's life, and aided materially in Jones's conviction. Jones tes- 
 tified on his own behalf. The trial lasted a month, and on June 21 
 the jury, after being out 11 minutes, found Jones guilty. He was 
 sentenced to life imprisonment in Marquette prison. 
 
 April 13 — Martin Nowakowski shot and killed John Kolasinski in 
 the former's saloon at 76 Herbert street, after a row that followed a 
 game of dice. It was alleged that Kolasinski asked Nowakowski to 
 set up the drinks, and, being refused, picked up a beer glass, threatened 
 to throw it at the saloonkeeper. Nowakowski claims he fired the shot" 
 in self-defense. The case is pending. 
 
 April 17 — James B. Hawley shot and killed his brother, Edward T. 
 Hawiey, in the Hawley saloon at River and Eighteenth streets. James 
 Hawley had taken no liquor for a long time, and a few hours before 
 drank whisky, which he said was responsible for the shooting. It was 
 alleged that Edward Hawley struck his brother James across the face 
 with a bunch of rose bushes and during the dispute that followed 
 James pulled a revolver and fired. After a trial lasting for some days 
 James was acquitted. 
 
 April 25 — John Reinhardt, of 64 Scott street, was shot and killed 
 by Frank Colling, a 16-year-old boy. It is claimed that Reinhardt was 
 angered because his children had played with the boy, and during the 
 words ihat followed. Colling fired the shot that proved fatal. The 
 murderer was later found on the street and arrested. He professed 
 no sorrow for what he had done. He frequently had been arrested for 
 carrying a revolver. His case is pending. 
 
 July 3 — On this date William Oakman and Lawrence Hanratty were 
 drinking m Owen's ^saloon, 198 River street. They were good friends, 
 but a quarrel started over some trivial matter. Oakman during the 
 row called Hanratty an outrageous name, and Hanratty struck Oakman, 
 knocking him down, his head striking against a foot railing. Oakman 
 was unconscious when picked up, but expired in a few seconds. Han- 
 ratty walked from the saloon and was found a short time after. He 
 declared his innocence, and when his case came to trial there was 
 not sufficient evidence to convict him, and he was acquitted. 
 
 June 9 — Martha Scott, a colored woman, aged 70, shot and killed 
 Albert Dennis at her home, 62V^ Livingstone avenue. The couple had 
 lived together, but did not agree. The trouble occurred in the house, 
 and the shooting was heard by a neighbor. Mrs. Scott did not deny 
 
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 the shooting, but said it was done because Dennis had threatened her. 
 She was sent to the Detroit House of Correction for four years. 
 
 July 22 — Harry Depew, a notorious highwayman, was shot and 
 captured by Patrolman Dan Smith on High street near John R. 
 Depew and a companion had held up and robbed Edward Dangler, a 
 traveling salesman, of Seattle, Wash. The officer found the men as 
 they were pounding their victim into insensibility. One of the high- 
 waymen ran. while Depew showed fight and exchanged shots with 
 the officer. It was not until Patrolman Smith shot Depew in the leg 
 that the latter surrendered When Depew was placed on trial several 
 months after, the jury failed to agree, notwithstanding the strong 
 evidence that he was guilty as charged. A second trial followed, and 
 before the jury reached a verdict Depew decided to plead guilty to 
 the crime of larceny from the person, and was sent to prison for 
 five years. 
 
 July 22 — Max Robiscoe and several other young men, including 
 W^illiam Behrendt, or Burns as he was known, engaged in a row at 
 Domanski's saloon, 268 Williams street. The crowd finally went out, 
 and a block from the saloon the row was renewed. It is claimed that 
 Robiscoe went back into the saloon and borrowed a revolver, fearing 
 he might be robbed. Going again to where the gang was standing, 
 Robiscoe had trouble with Behrendt and the shot was fired. Trial 
 pending at close of the year. 
 
 August 16 — Patrolman Frank Lemond discovered four men entering 
 Thomas F. Halloran's grocery, 134 Brooklyn avenue, and one of the 
 number, Edward Lanahan, was shot through the left hip. A "pal," 
 "Red" Walsh, was also captured and locked up. Lanahan recovered. 
 
 September 23 — Grace E. Wilderspin, aged 21 years, died under 
 peculiar circumstances at a rooming house, 65 Adams avenue east. It 
 was discovered that an abortion had been performed, and Dr. Sheldon 
 Pitcher was suspected. He was arrested, and the case is pending. 
 
 October 28 — Horton Warren was shot and killed by a highwayman, 
 who he attempted to capture after the latter had robbed George Miller, 
 of Milwaukee, a guest at the Goderich house on Brush street. Martin 
 H. Miller, Warren's companion, who assisted, was also shot in the hip. 
 but recovered. It was some time before the police secured a clue that 
 led to an arrest. The crime was finally traced to two men, Thomas 
 McGrath and Charles F. Clark, alias Connors. Weeks after the crime, 
 McGrath v/as arrested in Cheyenne, Wyo., but Clark is still at liberty. 
 The case is pending. 
 
 November 6 — Patrolman T. R. Wilde shot and seriously wounded 
 Alfred Denault as the latter was entering Peter Koenig's coal office 
 at Gratiot avenue and the Belt Line. The prisoner was taken to St. 
 Mary's Hospital, where he finally recovered. Denault, several years 
 before, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for kicking a woman so 
 severely that she died. He was pardoned by Gov. Pingree and had 
 lived an aimless life. 
 
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 November 17— The case of 0. B. Lamb was one of the most 
 remarkable in the history of the Police Department. Lamb was 
 employed as confidential clerk for A. Jackson & Co., loan brokers. 
 For a year and a half he had been embezzling small sums of money 
 from his employers by making fictitious loans. He awoke one morning 
 to the fact that he had reached the end of his rope, and walked over 
 to police headquarters, where he confessed his crime. The amount 
 embezzled was between $4,000 and $5,000. Before the case came to 
 trial Mr. Jackson suddenly changed his mind about the prosecution 
 and decided not to appear against Lamb. He said he was willing to 
 stand his loss and would take Lamb back into his employ. The 
 prisoner was finally released, and the Prosecuting Attorney never 
 pressed the charge. 
 
 November 26 — The arrest of William S. Rose, an artist of local 
 note, and his assistant, Miss Minnie Grams, revealed an interesting 
 love affair. Mrs. Rose declared her husband had transferred his 
 affections to Miss Grams and she was left with a large family of 
 children to support. Before the case came to trial, Rose repented 
 and promised to givo up the Grams woman and go back to his wife. 
 On these conditions Rose was discharged. 
 
 December 4 — Henry E. Busenbark, Frank McTague and Neil Huard 
 were arrested in a house on Buena Vista avenue by Federal officei-s, 
 on the charge of counterfeiting. This was the first arrest of this kind 
 made in the city for a long time. Officers searching the premises found 
 spurious money in an old safe, and a counterteiting outfit. 
 
 December 18 — H. W. Rogers, alias Ramsey, and his wife, alias 
 Delia Cameron, were arrested in Boston for robbing Mrs. Anna B. 
 Wilson at 71 Washington avenue, Oct. 19, of a diamond ring and other 
 property valued at .$1,000. W^hen the case came into court Mrs. Wilson 
 suddenly vanished, and for some reason did not wish to appear 
 against the prisoners. She was finally located by the police in a 
 distant city and brought back to testify. The case is still pending 
 and Mrs. Wilson held as a witness. 
 
 The Failure of FranK C. Andrews. 
 
 The closing cf the City Savings Bank, Feb. 10. was the direct 
 result of the overcertification of checks and reckless business methods 
 of Vice-President Frank C. Andrews, aided by Cashier Harry R. 
 Andrews. Frank C. Andrews's overdrafts were found to be 
 $911,>i99.37; certified checks, $6fi2,937.50. The checks were held as 
 follows: Preston National, $100,000; First National, $175,662.50: 
 Detroit Tru.?t, $70,000: State Savings, $60,500; Cameron Currie & 
 Co., $50,000; Detroit National, $110,000, of which $50,000 was endorsed; 
 First National, additional, $47,275. 
 
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 Frank C. Andrews, five years before these extraordinary trans- 
 actions, had become a prominent figure in Detroit business circles. 
 He was born in Oalcland County, near Romeo, and lived on his 
 father's farm; married and came to Detroit; managed the loan 
 department for Homer Warren & Co.; made money for himself, as 
 well as for the firm; within a few years was reputed to be worth 
 $30,000; then began gambling in stocks and bonds, and finally used 
 false credits at the City Bank, through the aid of the cashier. Frank 
 C. Andi'ews promoted the Detroit. Rochester, Romeo & Lake Orion 
 Suburban Line, and the Detroit & Flint, and was active in the con- 
 struction of the Grand Rapids & Holland system. At various times 
 he was associated with Henry and A. L. Stephens. Three months 
 before his failure it v/as believed that he was worth over a million 
 above all liabilities. He was interested in mining in the West, and 
 owned valuable Detroit real estate. 
 
 On the afternoon of the failure the Clearing House Association 
 issued a statement expelling the City Bank and declaring the failure 
 was the result of "criminal irregularities, caused by the rash specu- 
 lations of the 'vice-president." The Board of County Auditors, which 
 had a heavy deposit, caused Andrews's first arrest; bail ?10,000, 
 furnished by Malcolm McCallnm, of Chicago, and Robert H. Murray, 
 of Detroit. For the next five days Andrews took up headquarters at 
 the Cadillac. 
 
 Feb. 12 the Union Trust Co. was appointed receiver of the 
 defunct bank. Feb. 15 a second warrant was issued for Andrews 
 on complaint of Prosecutor Hunt, signed by Banking Commissioner 
 Maltz, charging misappropriation of $200',000. Bail was fixed at 
 $15,000. He remained in the county jail for 14 weeks, not being 
 able to furnish the necessary bondsmen. One who offered to serve 
 was ex-Sheriff James Hanley. 
 
 Feb. 21 a third warrant was issued on new complaints filed by 
 Prosecutor Hunt. The complaint charged Andrews with issuing a 
 false statement of the condition of the bank Feb. 5. Bail was fixed 
 at $50,000. 
 
 Judge Donovan, on motion of the Union Trust Co., appointed 
 E. H. Butler and W. S. Green appraisers of Andrews's real estate. 
 Mr. Butler declined to serve. M. L. Williams, Charles Warren and 
 George Lawson were then chosen in his place. 
 
 Andrews's attorneys, Messrs. F. A. Baker. J. C. Beaumont and 
 others, applied to the Supreme Court for an order in mitigation of 
 bail, setting up that $75,000 was excessive, but the application was 
 later withdrawn. On March 5 new complaints were made against 
 Frank C. and Henry R. Andrews. In these complaints were set up 
 the drawing of a check of $8,000 with intent to defraud the bank, the 
 charge upon which Frank C. Andrews was tried and convicted. Dur- 
 ing the month of March State Treasurer McCoy sued the City Bank 
 and bondsmen for $100,000 state money that had been in the bank; 
 other suits were begun by the County o* Wayne and by the Board 
 
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 of Education. A long list of intervening petitions was also filea, 
 and many civil suits followed. It was seriously considered whether 
 or not proceedings should be started against Andrews in involuntary 
 bankruptcy in the United States District Court. It was generally 
 believed that he had secreted bonds of great value. Finally, Feb. 24, 
 the Union Trust Co., in order to determine the character of missing 
 securities, began a civil suit against Frank C. Andrews and served 
 writs of garnishment upon various banks. 
 
 Andrews's method of operating was to buy stocks or bonds 
 outright in New York. They would be sent on, with a sight draft 
 attached for the purchase price, to some Detroit bank. He would take 
 up ihe securities with a certified check on the City Bank, bring the 
 securities to another bank for a loan, and with the money take up his 
 check. He might be back the next day with another certified check 
 CO the bank where the securities had been hypothecated, release them, 
 and send them away. The purchases and sales of Amalgamated Copper 
 stock showed that he lost about $?>00,000 in that one stock. For a while 
 before the crash he had been buying and selling all kinds of stocks 
 at the rate of $6,000,000 per month. The total business transacted by 
 him with P. P. & J. T. McLaughlin and with Cameron Currie & Co. 
 reached $35,000,000 for the six months prior to his failure. 
 
 The Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake Michigan Railroad was 
 embarrassed by Andrews's fraudulent transactions. Of an issue qt 
 $1,500,000 bonds, Andrews had used $396,000 for his own purposes, 
 placing $105,000 with the State Bank, for a loan of $95,000; $80,000 
 with the Dime Bank, for a loan of $60,000; $70,000 with the First 
 National, for a loan of $45,000; $71,000 to the Preston, for a loan 
 of $50,000, and $50,000 to A. L. Stephens. It also appeared that 
 Andrews had in his possession three blank but signed notes, to be 
 used by him for specified purposes. The notes, aggregating $330,000, 
 Andrews placed to his own credit in the City Bank. Andrews's 
 attorneys set up that the Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake Michigan 
 Co. was really indebted to Andrews in the sum of $1,000,000; that he 
 was justified in taking the notes. The Union Trust Co. sued the 
 company, but Judge Brooke held that the notes were not valid. 
 
 Another transaction charged to Andrews was the overissue of 
 200,000 shares of Ophir stock, valued at $60,000. A long hearing 
 before Judge Donovan concerning the probable value of the Clyde 
 and the Ophir mines resulted in very discouraging testimony. 
 
 The failure of the City Bank left the Library Commission and 
 the Board of Education crippled for money. The Board of Education 
 had $467,672.40 on deposit; Library Board, $38,315. Five banks— 
 the Commercial National, American Exchange National, Detroit 
 National, Peninsular and Dime — volunteered to loan at 4 per cent. 
 Wayne County was left with only $90,000 to pay expenses, which 
 were nominally $25,000 a month. County Treasurer C. A. Buhrer 
 resorted to various expedients to maintain the credit account. 
 
 St. Andrew's Church parish found itself in a singular predica- 
 
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 ment. Andrews had volunteered to loan $20,000 on a mortgage, but 
 assigned it to the City Bank and credited the proceeds to his own 
 use. Mrs. Andrews came forward and paid the church $8,000, the 
 balance due. 
 
 The City Savings Bank litigation was very largely brought before 
 Judge J. W. Donovan, of the Wayne Circuit Court. He ruled on the 
 numerous intervening petitions. He held that there should be a 
 separation of the savings and commercial departments of the bank, 
 and that the mortgages held by the bank as security for loans made 
 from the savings deposits should be applied to discharging the claims 
 of savings depositors. This order was sustained by the Supreme Court. 
 He also ruled that where depositors had unpaid notes in the bank, 
 whether past due or to become due, at the time of the failure of the 
 bank, these depositors might have the amount of their deposits 
 credited in full upon their notes. 
 
 The Union Trust Co. as receiver finally petitioned the Coui't to 
 be permitted to pay a dividend of 20 per cent to savings depositors 
 as of Oct. 11. There were nearly 7,000 savings depositors, and their 
 total claims amounted to $1,731,190.95. The dividend declared 
 amounted to $346,238.19. There were then on hand besides assets 
 belonging to the savings department appraised at $494,154.81, which 
 assured the savings depositors over 50 per cent of their claims. It 
 was believed at this time that the savings depositors would eventually 
 realize all of 75 per cent. The commercial department of the bank 
 could not make such a good showing. The total liabilities appeared 
 to be $2,860,750.79. Of this total, $733,339.21 was a liability of the 
 commercial department to the savings department. There was also 
 included the item of $662,500 of Andrews's certified checks, which were 
 not admitted by the receiver to be a legitimate claim against the 
 bank. At the time of declaring the dividend to the savings depositors 
 the receiver admitted having collected $941,680.75 of the assets of the 
 commercial department, but on account of claims for preference then 
 in course of litigation, that might need to be paid in full, it was unable 
 to declare a dividend to commercial depositors. 
 
 The Union Trust Co, filed a report upon the appraised valuation 
 of the property assigned to the bank by Frank C. Andrews, showing 
 that his equity in the real estate turned over amounted to $312,249.78, 
 and that the personalty amounted in value to $254,993; a total of 
 $567,242.78. His overdraft at the time of the failure was $911,000. 
 
 Frank C. Andrews's preliminary hearing before Police Justice 
 Vv''helan began April 18. He was held May 22 to the Recorder's Court. 
 Bail was fixed at $30,000, and furnished. He was brought to trial on 
 charge of drawing an $8,000 check with, intent to defraud. The actual 
 trial was begun July 17 and concluded on Aug. 16, the jury, within 
 three hours, agreeing upon a verdict of "guilty." 
 
 Aug. 18 Judge Murphy sentenced Andrews to 15 years' imprison- 
 ment m Jackson State Prison. Sept. 2 a request was made for a 
 
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 new trial. Oct. 7 application was made for bail pending appeal. 
 Oct. 15 bail was fixed at $100,000. Oct. 28. J. Elislia Winder, David 
 Nederlander and James Hanley offered to go on the bond, but Judge 
 Murphy insisted that each should qualify in the sum of $100,000. 
 Winder was declared unacceptable because he was a non-resident. 
 Nov. 12, bail not having been obtained, Andrews was taken to Jackson 
 prison, where he was enrolled "Convict No. 7743." 
 
 Sept. 2, Andrews's attorneys filed a petition to have the verdict 
 set aside, on the ground that Juror Bock had been prejudiced. Mrs. 
 Ada Corby, a very important witness, kept out of the way for many 
 weeks; but her confession to Judge Murphy was used in the heariD|l. 
 While awaiting the Judge's decision, Andrews's attorneys went to 
 the Supreme Court for a new trial, on errors in the record. Recorder 
 Murphy denied the motion for a new trial. 
 
 The Telephone Sitvation. 
 
 The telephone companies that have been organized in the City 
 of Detroit are named as follows: 
 
 The Michigan Bell Telephone Co. 
 
 Michigan Telephone Co. 
 
 American Telephone & Telegraph Co. 
 
 State Telephone Co. 
 
 Detroit Telephone Co. 
 
 Kurtz National Telephone Co. 
 
 Michigan Electro-Automatic Telephone Co. 
 
 Michigan Overland Telephone Co. 
 
 People's Telephone Co. 
 
 New State Telephone Co. 
 
 Co-Operative Telephone Co. 
 
 Peninsular Telephone Co. 
 The Michigan Bell Telephone Co. was organized Jan. 10, 1881, 
 with a capital stock of $250,000. The incorporators were Jajnes 
 McMillan, George W. Balch, William A. Jackson, John S. Newberry, 
 Henry B. Ledyard and Hugh McMillan. 
 
 At the time of the formation of this company there was no law 
 in Michigan especially adapted to such corporations, but one was 
 passed in the spring of 1883, and on Jan. 4 of that year the Michigan 
 Telephone Co. was organized, with a capital stock of $2,500,000, by 
 James McMillan, John S. Newberry and others. 
 
 On the first day of the following October the Michigan Bell 
 Telephone Co. filed amended articles of association and reorganization 
 with a capital stock of $500,000, divided into 20,000 shares, of which 
 12,000 only were issued, and of that number 11.995 belonged to the 
 
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 Michigan Teleplione Co., and the incorporators — James McMillan, 
 John S. Newberry, Hugh McMillan, Ashley Pond and Anson Stager — 
 each held one share. 
 
 There is a statement in the office of the Secretary of State to the 
 effect that the Michigan Bell Telephone Co. was succeeded by the 
 Michigan Telephone Co.. and this is the company that is now trans- 
 acting business in the City of Detroit. The capital stock of this 
 company was increased from $2,500,000 to $10,000,000, Feb. 17, 1900. 
 
 The State Telephone Co. was organized Sept. 17, 1884, with a 
 capital stock of $50,000 the incorporators being Frank G. Smith, 
 Ozias W. Shipman, Elijah W Meddaugh and others. An ordinance 
 was granted by the Common Council of the City of Detroit and 
 approved Oct. 28, 1884, under which the company began the work 
 of wiring houses but did not put up any poles or lay any conduits. 
 The ordinance contained nc pi'ovision regulating rates, but it contained 
 a forfeiture clause in case of consolidation, transfer or division of 
 territory between itself and any other telephone company in tHe 
 city. No further work was done by this telephone company than 
 that indicated above. 
 
 It was ai this time that the Bell Telephone Co. was carrying on 
 Buits for infringements of patents on telephone apparatus, and the 
 State Telephone Co. found itself unable to enter into business and 
 was compellod to abandon its enterprise. 
 
 At the same time that the State Telephone Co. was orgajjized 
 another company appears in the City Directory, called the Michigan 
 Overland Telephone Co., with the same officers and stockholders, 
 organized for the purpose of carrying on long-distance telephone 
 business throughout the State. This company never filed any articles 
 of incorporation either in the office of the County Clerk for Wayne 
 (bounty or with the Secretary of State, and apparently had no legal 
 existence. 
 
 The Detroit Telephone Co was organized Feb. 20, 1896, by Charles 
 Flowers, Reynold A. Brett, William L. Holmes and othei's, with a 
 capital of $1,000,000. It obtained an ordinance fi'om the City of 
 Detroit, and immediately went to work in the installing of a plant 
 by building a switchboard, putting in conduits, etc. The company 
 labored under great difficulties for a long time, but finally became 
 firmly established, with an exchange of nearly 6,000 'phones. The 
 low rates it offered had compelled the Michigan Telephone Co. to 
 reduce its rates a little below those of the Detroit Telephone Co., 
 the rates of the latter being $25 and $40 per year, while those of the 
 former were reduced to $24 and $36 per annum. 
 
 The number of subscribers of the Michigan Telephone Co. had 
 fallen to 2,500. Constant efforts were made to bring the two companies 
 together by the purchase of the stock of the Detroit Telephone Co.. 
 and this was finally accomplished in 1900. On March 31, 1900. the 
 Detroit Telephone Co. gave a bill of sale conveying to the Michigan 
 Telephone Co. its entire property, subject to a mortgage to the 
 Central Trust Co.. of New York, for $1,000,000. The Michigan 
 
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 Telephone Co. at the same time assumed all obligations of the Detroit 
 Telephone Co. and agreed to carry them out. One of these obligations 
 was the provision in the original ordinance fixing the rates at $25 
 and $40, as above specified. Within a short time after this consolida- 
 tion the Michigan Telephone Co. began to urge those subscribers 
 who had both 'phones to permit the company to remove the Detroit 
 Telephone instrument, but it did not increase, or attempt or threaten 
 to increase, the rates for telephone service over the Michigan 
 Telephone lines. There were a few Detroit Telephone subscribers 
 who refused to permit the removal of their instrument or exchange 
 the same for a Michigan Telephone instrument. 
 
 In December, 1901, the Michigan Telephone Co. gave notice to 
 Its subscribers that the rates for telephone service would be increased 
 on the first of the following January to $40 and $60 per annum, with 
 a rebate of 10 per cent for prompt payment. At the same time notice 
 was given to the few remaining lessees of the Detroit Telephone 
 instruments that the connection which they had heretofore had 
 through the otRce of the Michigan Telephone Co. with the subscribers 
 on that line would be discontinued. There were only about 120 of 
 the Detroit Telephone subscribers still retaining their instruments, 
 but their friends and the citizens generally resented this arbitrary 
 act on the part of the Michigan Telephone Co., and began an association 
 for the purpose of contesting their rights to the service which they 
 had up to that time enjoyed. 
 
 The Telephone Subscribers' Protective Association was organized, 
 and Matthew Finn was elected president, John Mahan secretary, and 
 Dr. E. B. Smith treasurer. A suit was brought in the name of John 
 Mahan against the Michigan Telephone Co. to compel it to renew its 
 service for the subscribers of the Detroit Telephone Co., and the 
 case was decided on March 22, 1902, in favor of the Association. This 
 case was appealed to the Supreme Court by the Michigan Telephone 
 Co. and is now pending. 
 
 In the process of the formation of this Association subscriptions 
 of ;$1 each were requested from the friends of the movement, and 
 quite a sum of money was accumulated and deposited in the City 
 Savings Bank. The failure of the bank dissipated the fund, and in 
 the summer of 1902 subscriptions were again commenced for a new 
 fund to carry on the litigation and to take the place of that lost. 
 This movement has been attended with success, and the Association 
 now has sufficient funds for its purposes. 
 
 The action of the Michigan Telephone Co. in increasing its rates 
 drew forth a series of complaints from all telephone users in the 
 city, for it was generally understood that the rates would again be 
 increased as soon as the telephone company felt strong enough to 
 stand the criticism of the public, and as they were not working under 
 any city ordinance they were not limited in the charges they 
 might make. 
 
 In October, 1900, the Kurtz National Telephone Co. applied to 
 the Common Council for a franchise, but apparently the application 
 
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 still rests with the franchise committee, as nothing has been done 
 In the way of organizing the corporation or of doing work in the 
 telephone line. 
 
 The Michigan Electro-Automatic Telephone Co. was organized 
 Feb. 16. 1894, with a capital of $500,000, but up to date nothing seeijis 
 to have been done in the way of construction, and no application has 
 been made to the Common Council of Detroit for permission to 
 occupy the streets or for any ordinance whatever. 
 
 The New State Telephone Co. was organized Feb. 10, 1897, as a 
 !ong-distance adjunct to the Detroit Telephone Co., to connect Detroit 
 with the outside world by various lines. The capital stock was 
 increased on Jan. 2, 1900, to $1,500,000, and the whole affair was 
 turned over to the Bell Telephone Co. at the same time that the 
 Detroit Telephone Co. sold out. 
 
 On Nov. 20, 1900, Mr. J. W. Martin applied to the Common 
 Council for an ordinance to build a telephone exchange with rates 
 at $21 and $36, agreeing to pay 2 per cent of the gross income to the 
 city in addition to all other taxes, and without much trouble succeeded 
 in obtaining the franchise. It subsequently appeared that Mr. Martin 
 was obtaining the franchise for the purpose of organizing a company 
 with capitalists who were at that time ignorant of the passage of 
 the ordinance. Upon submitting this ordinance to these gentlemen 
 for approval, they determined that the rates were much lower than 
 cost, and the ordinance was returned to the Common Council for a 
 proper amendment. The increase was granted, fixing the rates at 
 $25 and $40 for iron wire, and a provision was added so that if a 
 subscriber wished copper service he must pay 80 cents per month 
 in addition to the above rates, thus making the rates practically 
 $34.60 and $49. fO. 
 
 The People's Telephone Co. was organized May 17, 1901, by Arthur 
 Pack, Henry A. Everett, Edward W Moore and others, with a capital 
 of $2,500,000, and the ordinance obtained by Mr. Martin was turned 
 over to this corporation. In the original franchise it was provided 
 that the plant should be in operation within one year from the date 
 of the acceptance of the franchise. This was subsequently extended 
 so that a plant with at least 6,000 subscribers should be in operation 
 by Oct. 1, 1902. 
 
 Under this ordinance the Everett-Moore syndicate, so called, 
 commenced the work of installing a telephone plant by putting in 
 poles and conduits, and the purchase of a building site on the corner 
 of Park and Elizabeth streets and the commencement of a building 
 thereon. The moneys expended by this company up to Jan. 1, 1902, 
 aggregated nearly $400,000 when the syndicate, which was largely 
 involved in other transactions in Ohio and Michigan, failed, and 
 work on the telephone plant in Detroit stopped. 
 
 Immediately after the failure of the Everett-Moore syndicate the 
 Michigan Telephone Co. notified its patrons that on the first of the 
 following January (1902), its rates would be increased to nearly double. 
 Mayor Maybury in a communication to the Common Council called 
 
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 atieuliou to this "act and asked for the appointment of a committee 
 to investigate the matter. It was largely as a result of this letter 
 and subsequent investigations that the Co-Operative Telephone Co. 
 was organized. The Merchants & Manufacturers' Exchange also took 
 up this work and appointed a committee to examine into this business. 
 A report was made which encouraged some of the citizens to demand 
 the formation of another company that should be co-operative and 
 should be conducted in such a manner that telephone subscribers 
 would pay only the actual cost of running the telephone plant. 
 
 A meeting of citizens was called, and an address to the public 
 was gotten up and sent to all of the subscribers of the Bell Telephone 
 Co., asking their opinion regarding the formation of such a co-operative 
 company and seeking encouragement, if any was to be had. About 
 4,000 replies were received, the new project was cordially commended 
 and offers of assistance extended. 
 
 With this encouragement, the Co-Operative Telephone Co. was 
 organized Jan, 21. 1902, by F. F. Ingram, Hamilton Carhartt. C. M. 
 Burton and others, with a capital stock of $250,000 and sufficient 
 subscribers lo stock to guarantee the filing of the articles of 
 association and the preparing of an ordinance for the Common 
 Council. 
 
 Mr. F. F. Ingram was the first president of this association. By 
 the terms of the ordinance which was subsequently submitted to 
 the Common Council and passed, the rates were fixed at $24 and 
 $48 per year. No subscriber outside of the few who were the original 
 stockholders could hold more shares of stock than he had telephones 
 in use, but if the subscriber wished to contribute more money he 
 was permitted to buy common stock of the corporation, which had 
 no vote. The object of this provision was to prevent the accumulation 
 of stock in the hands of one person or one set of individuals, who 
 might seek to sell out the company to a rival concern and thus 
 prevent competition. 
 
 It was further provided in the ordinance that as soon as the 
 plant wab lu full operation the company should convey all of its 
 property to the City of Detroit, the conveyance to be held in escrow. 
 This was another provision with the same object in view: that of 
 preventing the manipulation of stock to avoid competition. 
 
 The gentlemen who entered into this organization were not 
 practical telephone men and the labors that fell upon their shoulders 
 were unforeseen, and the result was one that might have been 
 anticipated by those better acquainted with a business of this nature. 
 
 It was expected that after obtaining the franchise and subscrip- 
 tions to stock from prospective telephone users there would be no 
 difficulty in borrowing money upon these items of security for the 
 purpose of installing a plant. But it soon appeared that capitalists 
 would not invest money upon this security. The number of subscribers 
 to stock aggregated some 1,100 people at $50 each (that being one 
 share), but of those 1,100 only about 600 responded to the first call or 
 any subsequent call for money on their subscriptions. 
 
After obtaining the first installment on the stock suDscriptions 
 the officers were in doubt whether to proceed further or to refund 
 the money they had obtained on this new project. It was resolved 
 to submit this matter to the subscribers themselves, and this was 
 done, with the result that the officers were told to go ahead with 
 their work and commence a telephone exchange with a small number 
 of subscribers in the down-town district, establish long-distance 
 communication with the independent telephones of the state, and let 
 the telephone business grow as new subscribers and new money were 
 obtained. 
 
 With this end in view, conti-acts were entered into for the purchase 
 of a switchboard and other material necessary for the building of a 
 telephone plant. A room of the proper size and location was rented 
 and the practical work begun. 
 
 In order to reach the independent telephones located in other 
 places throughout the State, it, of course, became necessary to have 
 a long-distance telephone company that would build and equip circuits 
 extending from the city to those already established. For this purpose 
 the Peninsular Telephone Co. was organized July 26, 1902, by A. A. 
 Cowles, C. M. Burton. J. C. Danziger and others, with a capital 
 of $25,000. 
 
 Negotiations had been pending from the first organization of the 
 Co-Operative Telephone Co. with the People's Telephone Co. to obtain 
 in some manner the property of the People's Telephone Co. in the 
 streets of Detroit, but the terms of the franchise of the Co-Operative 
 Telephone Co. were such as to deter those connected with the People's 
 Telephone Co. from consolidating with them or forming any combina- 
 tion by which the two could be joined together. 
 
 Nothing whatever was done by the People's Telephone Co. in 
 the way of completing the work on their plant, and the time in which 
 they had agreed with the city to have their exchange in operation 
 passed by. 
 
 In September, 1902, these two telephone companies were finally 
 brought together by Maj. B. H. Rothwell, and after a good many 
 meetings it was at last agreed that they should be consolidated, if 
 permission could be obtained from the Common Council for that 
 purpose, upon the basis of the formation of a new telephone company 
 under an ordinance which should be granted by the city to a 
 committee of citizens consisting of James B. McKay, D. C. Delamater, 
 D. W. Simons and others. An ordinance drawn up to the satisfaction 
 of this committee and of the two telephone companies was submitted 
 to the Common Council for approval and passed. 
 
 After some delay and the addition of a few amendments, the 
 ordinance was finally passed through its third reading on Nov. 25. 
 1902, and under the rules of the Common Council was laid upon the 
 table for 30 days. 
 
 It has been stated above that the Michigan Telephone Co. had 
 purchased the property and franchise of the Detroit Telephone Co. 
 
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 When this purchase was made the Michigan Telephone Co. was 
 already iu hard straits because of the amount of outstanding bonds, 
 stock and indebtedness and the losses it had sustained by reason of 
 competition with the Detroit Telephone Co. 
 
 The Michigan Telephone Co. had given a mortgage for $750,000 
 on July 1, 1897, to the Guaranty Trust Co., and had given a subsequent 
 mortgage of $5,000,000 Jan, 2, 1890. to the Old Colony Trust Co. Both 
 of these mortgages are still outstanding and unpaid, but there is a 
 provision in the last-mentioned mortgage to take up the bonds of 
 the first-mentioned mortgage and pay them. The subsequent agree- 
 ment between the Michigan Telephone Co. and the Old Colony Trust 
 Co. on Nov 1, 1899, for a bond issue of $1,400,000, and a similar 
 agreement subsequently made for a bond issue of $285,000, were not 
 intended to increase the bonded indebtedness beyond the $5,000,000 
 above mentioned. 
 
 In addition to this indebtedness is the assumption by this 
 telephone company of the bonded indebtedness of the Detroit Telephone 
 Co. above mentioned. Not being longer able to pay the interest on 
 these outstanding bonds, the indebtedness of the company and divi- 
 dends on the stock, default was made and an application was made 
 to the United States Court for the foreclosure of the mortgages 
 referred to. The three items — bonds, stock and indebtedness — now 
 aggregate about $12,500,000. The bondholders in this suit are seeking 
 to repudiate the agreement by which the Michigan Telephone Co. 
 assumed the obligations of the ordinance granted to the Detroit 
 Telephone Co. If they are unsuccessful in this, and if the Supreme 
 Court of the State of Michigan confirms the order of the lower court 
 in the Mahan case, the Michigan Telephone Co. will be obliged to 
 give unlimited service over its wires at the rates of $25 and $40 per 
 year. But if this company is permitted to repudiate the purchase 
 of the Detroit Telephone Co. it will shake off the obligations contained 
 in the agreement of purchase of the latter company and will be able 
 to fix its rates without respect to the wishes of the city or citizens, 
 for it is not operating under any ordinance. 
 
 Almost the last transaction of the year was the passage of the 
 telephone ordinance to the Citizens' Committee, which was brought 
 out at a special session of the Common Council, held on Saturday, 
 Dec. 27. A few amendments to the original ordinance were offered 
 and passed. The amendments consisted in giving the Fire and Police 
 Departments right to use the poles and conduits of the company 
 for their telephone wires, and a provision limiting the amount to be 
 charged for telephone service. After these amendments had been 
 incorporated in the original ordinance, the ordinance passed the 
 Council by the nearly unanimous vote of 25 to 4. 
 
 On July 14 the Michigan Telephone Co. published a statement 
 showing its earnings for the first five months of the year to be 
 $621,455.37 and its expenses $688,150.93, a deficit of $66,695.56. 
 
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 Street Railway Review. 
 
 The Everett-Moore failure, Jan. 3, 1902, at Cleveland, involved the 
 Detroit United Railway and the majority of the suburban lines center- 
 ing at Detroit. A committee of Cleveland bankers, headed by H. R. 
 Newcomb, was placed in charge by creditors and given 18 months to 
 clear up obligations. It was decided to leave the active management 
 of affairs in the hands of H. A, Everett, the bankers' committee acting 
 in an advisory capacity. 
 
 The aggregate value of the properties controlled by the committee 
 was $130,000,000. After the failure excitement ran high in Detroit 
 for several days, but it was found that Detroit banks were 
 safe, having made no large loans to the syndicate. Jan. 11, 
 H. A. Everett's bank, the Euclid Avenue Trust Co., closed its doors. 
 Crash after crash was reported in various directions, but Detroit 
 financial interests escaped. It turned out, also, that in a number 
 of cases the Detroit United had not completed terms of purchase. 
 Jan. 14 it appeared that the Rapid Railway system was still in the 
 hands of its original owners, represented by President C. J. Reilly. 
 The sale had been subject to a large money consideration, which 
 had not been paid. The stock of the Rapid Railway was put in escrow 
 till the transaction was finally closed. July 16 the Detroit United 
 completed the purchase. The terms called for $800,000, deposited 
 with the Cleveland Trust Co. , 
 
 Jan. 22 George H. Russel was elected treasurer of the Detroit 
 United; J. C. Hutchins president and general manager, in place of 
 H. A. Everett; H. R. Newcomb was made a director. The purchase 
 of the Detroit & Northwestern, the Detroit & Pontiac, the Detroit & 
 Flint system and the Wyandotte & Detroit River roads was again 
 ratified. A mortgage of $25,000,000 was authorized to secure bonds 
 for a like amount, due 1932, being 4^4 per cent, gold bearing. The 
 mortgage was recorded Feb. 5. The new issue gave a surplus of 
 $6,500,000 for contingencies. 
 
 By the failure of the Everett-Moore syndicate the Monroe & 
 Toledo Electric Line reverted to its original owners, Clarence A. 
 Black, J. M. Mulkey and E. M. Fowler. An arrangement had been 
 completed for this road to be turned over to the Detroit United Rail- 
 way, but it failed to go through. The Everett-Moore syndicate had 
 also purchased the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, and in pursuance of 
 the arrangements a mortgage had been filed in Lansing, and the bond 
 irsue of $3,000,000, secured by the mortgage, sent east to be sold. 
 When the syndicate's troubles began. Contractor W. B. Strang, engaged 
 In the construction of the Shore Line, began suit for a claim of 
 $600,000 and blockaded the line. Judge Swan, of the United States 
 Circuit Court, appointed A. F. Edwards receiver of the line, displacing 
 D. B. Cunningham, appointed by the Monroe Circuit Court; but a 
 
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 compromise was finally effected and Mr. Strang was paid $260,000 in 
 receiver's certificates under an order of the Court. Mr. Strang finally 
 negotiated the sale of the Shore Line to the Grand Trunk Railway 
 Sept. 4. the latter company assuming the indebtedness of $1,500,000. 
 It was said that the equity of the Everett-Moore syndicate did not 
 exceed $100,000. This sale terminated the negotiations for the union 
 ot the Shore Line with the Monroe & Toledo Line. The Black-Mulkey 
 syndicate then organized the Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Short Line 
 and began the work of extending their line northward from Monroe. 
 It was expected to enter Detroit along Fort street from Springwells. 
 The new company was capitalized at $300,000, with $200,000 paid in. 
 The members of the new organization were Clarence A. Black, A. E. F. 
 White, J. M. Mulkey, E. H. Flinn, Simon J. Murphy, E. M. Fowler, 
 C. J. Reiliy; Arthur Hill, of Saginaw; Charles R. Hannan, of Council 
 Bluffs; Matthew Slush, of Mt. Clemens. 
 
 Another matter of great interest in street railway circles was 
 a decision handed down March 4 by Justice Peckham, of the United 
 States Supreme Court. By it the city lost its three-cent-fare tost 
 case. The Council had insisted that the city had the right to redilce 
 fares. The Court held that the railway franchises are to be regarded 
 as contracts, and that therefore the Council cannot compel the 
 company to fix the rate. The opinion said in part: "The rate of 
 fare having been fixed by positive agreement under the expressed 
 legislative authority, the subject is not open to alteration thereaftg^r 
 by the Common Council alone, under the right to prescribe, from 
 time to time, the rules and operations for the running of the road. 
 Nor does the language of the ordinance which provides that the rate 
 of fare for one passenger shall not be more than five cents give any 
 right to the city to reduce it below five cents." 
 
 On May 4, Detroit United employes demanded an increase ,Uj 
 wages from 21 to 25 cents an hour, which demand was refused. 
 Supt. Stanley, for the railway, proposed arbitration. The strike 
 question involved 1,000 men. The Detroit United offered 22i/^ cents 
 per hour, which was also refused. W. B. Thompson was selected 
 as arbitrator for the men, W. G. Thompson by the company, and, 
 after much discussion. President James B. Angell, of the University 
 of Michigan, for a third arbitrator. The decision was for 23% cents 
 an hour. (See page 10.) 
 
 Campus Ordinance Troubles. 
 
 Blanche Cox, a Major in the Salvation Army, arrived in Detroit 
 Jan. 30. She came, she said, to test the right to speak in public 
 about the Campus. She spoke to the people, and was arrested. Miss 
 Cox was brought to trial P'eb. 10 and foiind guilty, but sentence 
 was suspended. Will Allen, another gospel preacher, took up the 
 
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 fight likewise, and so did other officers of the Salvation Army, whose 
 plan appeared to be to speak in turn, night after night, and cause 
 the police incessant annoyance. Feb. 17 Miss Cox was sentenced 
 on a second charge, and preferred to spend four days in the House 
 of Cori'ection rather than surrender her principles. Her fine was 
 only $10. Judge Phelan was unwilling to make any harsh enforce- 
 ment of the law. On Feb. 26, for a third offense, she was again 
 sentenced to pay $5 or serve five days in the House of Correction. 
 Complaint was also made against Tom Bawden. James H. Pound, 
 attorney for Maj. Cox, urged that the matter should be taken to the 
 Supreme Court. Maj. Cox left prison March 1. Ensign Crawford 
 was then sentenced to eight day in the House of Correction. March 
 3 Blanche Cox appeared on the Campus again, but did not speak. 
 The following day she addressed the crowd, was rearrested and fined 
 $12 01- 12 days. The Pastors' Union now demanded a repeal or 
 revision of the Campus ordinance. Crawford was released. March 
 10 Reuben Holstead, of the Salvation Army, was sentenced by Judge 
 Phelan to eight days. March 13 the Supreme Court decided against 
 Maj. Cox, and thereupon Judge Phelan visited the Major in prison. 
 Her sentence was suspended. March 15 Tom Bawden was sentenced 
 to pay a fine of $15 or 15 days. He preferred to go up. Will Allen 
 was similarly fined, but paid. Tom Allen, a popcorn vendor, was 
 sentenced to pay $15 or 15 days. He went up. March 17 a mass 
 meeting was held at the Armory to discuss the Campus ordinance. 
 March 21 Bawden's fine was paid and he was released. Finally 200 
 persons importuned the Council committee in a petition to remodel 
 the Campus ordinance, and its provisions were very materially modi- 
 fied. The Salvation Army was able to hold open-air services on 
 Cadillac square. 
 
 Detroit Museum of Art. 
 
 While the past few years marked a decided improvement in the 
 various departments of the Detroit Museum of Art, 1902 stands pre- 
 eminently as the most progressive year in its history. It requires 
 long years to train that proper appreciation of a city which is a 
 nece.'Jsary quality to the permanent success of an institution of this 
 kind. Diversity of tastes is sure to question this or that movement, 
 which, often small in itself, has much to do with the ultimate success 
 of the whole. There being but one museum in the City of Detroit, 
 it has seemed wise to make its work of so broad a character that 
 each person should find there that material in which he or she is 
 most interested. Its primary object was and is the encouragement 
 of the arts; but art, either good or bad, enters into so many articles 
 made by man that it is difiieult to know just where to draw the line. 
 The ancient Egyptians, and later the Greeks and Romans, made art 
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 household furniture, or utensil, became an object of art. This holds 
 good of the Japanese and many other Oriental workmen today. While 
 every possible effort has been made to secure good collections of 
 pictures for frequent exhibitions which would familiarize the people 
 with the pictorial art of the day, the artist-artisan has not been 
 forgotten! and among those people who have been interested in the 
 general growth of a better taste, the collections in the Detroit 
 Museum of Art are widely known. 
 
 During the past year it has been possible to give the best series 
 of exhibitions of paintings ever shown here before; these coming at 
 frequent intervals have kept up a continual interest in the galleries. 
 Through the co-operation of various societies and the generosity of 
 a few gentlemen, a number of lectures were given by the foremost 
 men in art and archeology. The gi'eat interest manifested has called 
 for greater accommodations in the way of a lecture hall; nor is this 
 the one need. So rapidly have the collections grown in all depart- 
 ments that it has become a serious question just what to do for 
 room for their proper display. The gifts of the Egyptian Exploration 
 Society, and others, to this one section alone, have carried it far 
 beyond the original bounds contemplated. The additions made to 
 the collection of antique casts have crowded the statuary court beyond 
 its capacity. The reception of the Baldwin marbles compelled the 
 removal of valuable material to the storage room until more room 
 can be secured. The gem and coin room has long since overflowed, 
 this material being scattered into other departments. It is also true 
 of every section, even in the picture galleries. Choice paintings are 
 stored to make room for transient exhibitions. Within a few weeks 
 there was placed in the store room a most valuable collection of 
 old Chinese blue ware, containing by far the most important pieces 
 of this ware outside of the famous Garland collection in the Metro- 
 politan Museum, New York. Cases were ordered which will occupy 
 valuable wall space in one of the picture galleries, thus again limiting 
 our exhibition room: and there is no doubt that there are many 
 valuable additions which the museum would receive had it the room. 
 The coming year should, and will in all probability, give us a large 
 annex lo the present building, in which to do better, more satis- 
 factory work. 
 
 The offlcers are: President, Theo. D. Buhl; vice-president, 
 William E. Quinby: secretary and treasurer, Fred E. Farnsworth; 
 trustees, John McKibben, John M. Donaldson, Clarence A. Black, 
 Frank J. liecker, Thomas W. Pitts, George H. Barbour, T. W. Palmer, 
 George W. Balch and D. M. Ferry; director, A. H. Griffith ; assistant, 
 C. H. Burroughs. 
 
137 
 
 Sporting Events in Detroit. 
 
 In keeping with its commercial and industrial advancement, the 
 sporting calendar of Detroit each year becomes larger, until now 
 almost everj' pastime and recreation popular on the continent is 
 enjoyed here. To show to what limit sporting has grown, it may 
 only be necessary to state that over 300,000 looked upon the 
 professional ball games and horse races during the year, to say 
 nothing of the thousands interested in other branches of sport. 
 
 Because it drew the greatest number of people through the 
 turnstiles, it is likely that base ball will be conceded front place 
 among the outdoor pastimes. On New Year's day, 1902, all was 
 chaotic in the base ball world, with the American and National 
 Leagues at loggerheads and the Detroit Ball Club in a rather unsettled 
 condition. A syndicate had bought the holdings of Burns and 
 Stallings, and Frank Dwyer, the old Cincinnati pitcher, had been 
 named as manager. The first important step Dwyer took was on 
 Jan. 26, when he "igned the late Winnie Mercer to pitch for the club. 
 
 The spring meeting of the American League was held here on 
 March 5, and it was decided to charge 75 cents for a seat in the 
 grandstand, which Detroit did for a time, but as the team began to 
 backslide this scheme was abandoned. On March 14 the veteran 
 James McGuire signed to catch for the team, and on the 19th of 
 that month the batterymen started for West Baden, where they 
 remained until April 1, when they joined their team mates at 
 Ypsilanti for spring training. The famous decision by which Lajoie 
 was restrained from playing with the Athletics was handed down 
 by a Philadelphia court on April 21, and upset matters more than 
 they had been. Detroit made a feeble effort to secure this great 
 player, failed, and he went to Cleveland, where he proved a bonanza 
 to the owners, as he doubtless would have done here. 
 
 An April 23 the championship season opened, and Detroit was 
 beaten 12 to 2 at Chicago. Victories and rainstorms enabled the 
 Detroits to take the lead in the race, and they were at the top on 
 April 28. The season opened here on May 1, when 14,183 people 
 paid to see Detroit beat Cleveland 4 to 1. 
 
 The Detroit Club started out well, but could not play with the 
 others, as the ability and head work were lacking on the home team. 
 A glance at the comparative standing of the club shows how it fell; 
 May 1, Detroit had won 3 and lost 2 games, and ranked second; 
 June 1, Detroit had won 16 and lost 14 and was fourth; July 1. Detroit 
 had won 25 and lost 29, and was sixth; Aug. 1, Detroit had won 33 
 and lot 45, and was eighth; rfept. 1, Detroit had won 41 and lost 65, 
 and was eighth; Sept. 27, at the close of the season. Detroit had won 
 
 52 and lost 83, finishing seventh. Philadelphia won the pennant with 
 
 53 victories and 53 defeats, practically reversing the standing of the 
 Detroits. 
 
128 
 
 At times the Detroits played great ball. The grandest of the 
 games was here on June :^1, when Mercer pitched against Young and 
 Boston won. 4 to 1, in the fifteenth inning, there being more glory 
 for Mercer in defeat than to Young, with a strong supporting team, 
 for victory. On July 17 the Baltimore team was sold out, and four 
 days later Miller, of Detroit, jumped his contract and went to New 
 York. On Aug. (> President S. F. Angus, tiring of the manner in 
 which the club was run, bought out the other stockholders and 
 became sole owner of the Detroits. He then sent agents into the 
 camp of the enemy "jnd contracted with some of the best players in 
 the business for his 1903 team. 
 
 All during the fall there were rumors that the American League 
 was to invade Pittsburg and drop Detroit, but these happily became 
 canards. Mr. Angus engaged Mercer to manage the team for 1903, 
 and although men he had expected would play here had gone back 
 on their word, the year ended with the Detroits the nucleus of a 
 strong team. 
 
 The main event of the year in horse racing was the Blue Ribbon 
 meeting at the Grosse Pointe track, which has grown to be considered 
 one of the greatest in the country. John B. Petit was made secretary 
 of the Detroit Driving Club on Jan. 2S during the meeting here of 
 the Grand Circuit stewards, who decided to open the season at Grosse 
 Pointe on July 14. The first harness racing was on July 7. when the 
 meeting began at Windsor, and on July 8 Dan Patch won the first 
 big race of the year from Harold H. On July 14 Direct Hal won the 
 Chamber of Commerce stake at the Grosse Pointe meeting, estab- 
 lishing a world's record of 2:06% for his first race. Next day the 
 blind stallion Rythmic won the Merchants & Manufacturers' stake 
 race at the same track. Rain interfered on the last two days of the 
 meeting, but it was a success for all of that. 
 
 Thoroughbreds held forth at Highland Park from July 26 to 
 Aug. 23, and at Windsor from Aug. 26 to Sept. 27, and both meeting 
 were successful, the racing being interesting and the attendance large. 
 
 There was not much ice racing early or late around Detroit, 
 although in February Port Huron had a good meeting on an ice track. 
 
 Automobiling took a strong hold here during the year, and many 
 hundreds of the gasoline, steam and electric vehicles were brought 
 to the city. They could be found on all the smooth streets and roads 
 during the summer, and the motor cars look to have taken the place 
 of the bicycle among those who can afford them. There was no racing 
 here until fall, and a big meeting was held at Grosse Pointe on Oct. 
 24 and 25, during which Oldfield established a record of 5 minutes 
 and 28 seconds for five miles. On Dec. 1 Oldfield drove a mile in 1 
 minute 1 1-5 seconds on the same track, and five miles in 5 minutes 
 20 seconds, but these records were not allowed because the governing 
 body said no sanction had been obtained. During the year the 
 Automobile Club of Detroit was formed and fitted up swell and 
 comfortable quarters at the corner of Jefferson avenue and Brush 
 street. The club is a social organization largely. 
 
129 
 
 The tirst automobile and sportsmen's show was held at the 
 Armory in February and was a success. The managers decided at 
 once to make it an annual fixture for this season of the year. 
 
 Trap shooting continued all through the year, with several clubs 
 in a flourishing condition The big tournament which brought the 
 experts here was in Grosse Pointe, Sept. 16 to 20, and a number of 
 champion trophies were won 
 
 Chief of the aquatic sports here is yachting, and the season was 
 fairly lively. The big event was the Detroit Yacht Club sweepstakes 
 on Lake St. Clair Sept. 15, when the Cadillac, Detroit, Minerva and 
 Gloriana finished in the order named at the head of a fleet of 11 
 yachts. There were three club regattas of the Detroit Yacht Club, 
 in every one of which the Gloriana beat the Frances A. The local 
 fleet which took part in the Inter Lake races at Put-in-Bay won 
 many prizes, the Cadillac, Detroit, Gloriana, Sultana, Minerva and 
 Showme finishing in front in their classes. A regatta was sailed at 
 Tawas Bay on Aug. 15, 16 and 17, and the Cadillac won the first day, 
 while the Detroit beat her in the next two heats. Early in the spring 
 R. A. Alger, Jr., brought the Red Coat, a Seawanhaka cup winner, 
 over from Montreal, and she took part in many of the races off the 
 Country Club. Twenty-nine power boats raced for a Detroit Yacht 
 Club trophy on Aug. 9, when the little Annie won. On Oct. 1 the 
 Cadillac was sold to a syndicate for $1,850, and a little later she 
 was bought by W. H. Warren, now her sole owner. 
 
 There was not so much going on in rowing circles as in other 
 years, because the Detroit Boat Club was bending all efforts on the 
 completion of the fine stone club house on the island to take the 
 place of the wooden structure destroyed ioy fire. This building was 
 opened on Aug. 5, and the new equipment is the finest on the lakes. 
 DuflBeld and Mower, the senior pair of the Detroit Boat Club, won the 
 Northwestern event during the summer. 
 
 Interest in general track and field athletics is not great here. 
 The Y. M, C. A. gave a big meet on March 27, and while no indoor 
 records were broken, the performances were creditable. Among the 
 schools the Detroit University School team won the local, state and 
 Cleveland meets, there being some very good material on the team. 
 The University of Michigan team won the Western intercollegiate 
 honors at Chicago on May 31. 
 
 Foot ball was played every Saturday during the fall, and the 
 University School team was the best of the locals. Most interest 
 centered in the University of Michigan team, which won the cham- 
 pionship of the West on Nov. 27, when it beat Minnesota 23 to 6, 
 making the total for the year 644 for the University of Michigan 
 against 12 for the opposing elevens. 
 
 On March 14 D. M. Ferry, of this city, gave a large tract of land 
 to the University of Michigan, which has been incorporated with the 
 old grounds and forms a vast athletic park known as Ferry Field. 
 
 The team of the Clark Coal Co. won the local basket ball cham- 
 pionship. 
 
130 
 
 Golf grew iu popularity at both the Country and the Detroit Golf 
 Clubs, and the Detroit boys who went to Chicago, Cleveland and 
 elsewhere did very clever work. 
 
 The year was a rather busy one for the pugilists hereabouts, and 
 many shows were held in the Armory, the Detroit Athletic Club, and 
 at Delray and lesser halls. On Jan. 22, Martin Duffy, of Chicago, 
 beat Art Simms, of Akron, in 15 rounds; March 13, Eddie Burns, of 
 Detroit, and "Kid " McPartland, of New York, drew in 10 rounds, 
 and Joe Cherry, of Saginaw, and Mackey, of Findley, also drew in 
 10 rounds; March 28, Cherry beat Mackey in 15 rounds; May 3, 
 Mackey beat O'Donnell, of Buffalo, in three rounds; Nov. 26, Cherry 
 and Morris Rausch, of Chicago, drew in 10 rounds; Dec. 26, Brusso 
 beat McCune in seven rounds. 
 
 On Dec. 6 it was announced that McGovern and Corbett were 
 to box in Detroit and arrangements progressed with that end in 
 view, but Gov. Bliss prohibited the contest. On May 29, Lavigne, of 
 Saginaw, was knocked out by Britt in California. John L. Sullivan 
 came here on Dec. 15 to fill a theatrical engagement, got on one of 
 his old-time drunks and ended in the police station. 
 
 During the year Detroit produced three very fair boxers, Brusso, 
 Duggan and Beaubien, while Cherry, of Saginaw, added greatly to 
 his laurels. 
 
 The city escaped the odium attached to dog fighting during the 
 year, but there were many cock fights in this neighborhood. 
 
 Bowling has come to be one of the greatest of indoor sports, and 
 there are now a large number of public alleys and many leagues 
 among the banks, business houses and clubs. The Detroit team did 
 not capture anything in the National Congress. In the fall George 
 Hanley. of the Fellowcraft Club, bowled 300 on regulation alleys. 
 
 The only billiard match of importance was on April 3, when Al 
 Hawkins beat John Sweeney, 75 to 59. at the three-carom cushion 
 game. 
 
 Amorg the winter sports curling is very popular, and a bonspiel 
 was held here and at Windsor in January. 
 
 Ice yachting was popular on Lake St. Clair as long as the little 
 craft could get out, and the big regatta at Gull Lake, Kalamazoo, 
 was spoiled by the weather. 
 
131 
 
 Local Marine Review. 
 
 The season of 1902 was marked by an early opening of navigation 
 on the lakes. 
 
 March 15 — Steamer Yosemite, of Detroit, first boat of season to 
 leave Duluth. 
 
 March 18 — Steamer City of Cleveland made first trip, Detroit to 
 Cleveland. 
 
 March 24 — Arundell made first trip to Port Huron. 
 
 March 24 — Steamer Alaska, first boat past city from upper lakes. 
 
 March 24 — Lighthouse engineer placed gas buoys and float lights 
 in Detroit River and vicinity. 
 
 March 25 — Navigation ofiicially opened. 
 
 April 12 — Steamer W. S. Pitch launched at Wyandotte. 
 
 April 28 — Schooner M. P. Barkalow, of Detroit, wrecked at 
 Put-in-Bay. Capt. Robert Pardy and wife and Alexander Morris 
 drowned. 
 
 May 10 — Alfred Brennan, of Detroit, drowned from steamer W. S. 
 Fitch at Ashtabula. 
 
 May 10 — Steamer Columbia launched at Wyandotte. 
 
 May 31 — Maiden trip of steamer Eastern States. 
 
 May 31 — Steamer Admiral, of Detroit, ran down schooner Glennifer 
 opposite Star Island House. Mrs. Capt. Moore and Archie Mysner 
 drowned. 
 
 June 10 — Steamer Frank E. Kirby collided with steamer Wiley M. 
 Eagan near Amherstburg, 9 o'clock in the evening. Kirby badly 
 smashed; no one injured. 
 
 June 14 — New Greyhound made maiden trip. 
 
 June 14 — Steamer Western States made maiden trip. 
 
 June 20 — Steamer Wyandotte sank schooner Dashing Wave near 
 Amherstburg; no one injured. 
 
 July 1 — John Lenkeitus and Herman Kolch, of Detroit, deck hands 
 on steamer Tashmoo, fell from staging on side of boat, and both 
 drowned. 
 
 July 12 — Steamer Eastern States, disabled through breaking of 
 the high -pressure cylinder, made port under own steam; no one injured. 
 
 July 22 — McMillan and Hcndrie estates buy 1,200 shares D. & C. 
 stock at $83.50. 
 
 July 24 — Alexander Smith jumped from masthead of schooner 
 Maria Martin, foot of Dequindre street, and was killed. 
 
 July 27 — Traveling crane at Wyandotte shipyard jumped track 
 and landed on deck of car ferry Transport. Ferry and crane badly 
 •smashed; no one injured. 
 
132 
 
 July 30 — Steamer City of Cleveland broke main shaft 10 miles 
 from Lorain. Towert to Detroit by steamer Joliet. 
 
 August 1 — D. & C. Line announced that they would build two new 
 steamers for the Cleveland division, to be the finest boats on the lakes. 
 
 August 5 — Steamer Fortune sold by Detroit, Belle Isle & Win(fsor 
 Ferry Co. to Clergue interests, for use on Soo River. 
 
 August 27 — Ferry Luna, purchased by People's Ferry Co. for use 
 on Detroit River, arrived from Buffalo. 
 
 September 8 — Steamer Stevens, in command of Capt. J. C. Tyrney, 
 oi Detroit, burned on. Lake Erie. 
 
 September 9 — Steamer Henry Houghten sank, foot of Dubois street. 
 Two members of crew, William Daniels and Edward Close, drowned. 
 
 September 17 — Capt. Harris W. Baker raised sunken steamer 
 Houghten. 
 
 September 19 — Anchor liner Muncy launched at Wyandotte. 
 
 September 22 — President Roosevelt took a trip to Lake St. Clair 
 on the steamer Tashmoo. 
 
 September 30 — Steamer Eastern States laid up. 
 
 October 7 — Capt. Ford, of Detroit, master of Bar Point lightship, 
 drowned from small boat at head of Fighting Island. Body recovered 
 near Amherstburg Oct. 15. 
 
 October 13 — Steamer Lockwood sank near Ashtabula. Ten men 
 drowned, among them Watchman J. G. Wilson, of Detroit. 
 
 October 17 — Western States laid up and Detroit-Buffalo season 
 closed. 
 
 November 5 — Schooner .John Miner, of Detroit, wrecked at Pointe 
 Aux Barques. No lives lost. 
 
 November 5 — John McCallum. of Detroit, fell in hold of steamer 
 Wissahickon at Erie, and was killed. 
 
 November 8 — Steamer Yosemite, of Detroit, sold to Zenith City 
 Steamship Co. 
 
 November 10 — Steamer Packard burned on Lake Huron near 
 Detour, and deserted by crew. Tug Runnels and steamer Thomas W. 
 Palmer put out flames and saved boat. 
 
 November 18 — Last trip of season for steamer Frank E. Kirby. 
 
 November 23 — Steamer Sylvanus J. Macy. of Detroit, lost in Lake 
 Erie; crew of 12 men drowned; W. F. Gregory, Detroit, chief engineer. 
 
 November 29 — Schooner Bay City, of Detroit, sank at Alpena. 
 
 November 29 — Fireboat James R. Elliott launched at Port Huron. 
 
 November 29 — Steamer Chavles Hebard, of Buffalo, wrecked on 
 Point Mamainse, Lake Superior; schooners Aloha, Francomb and 
 V\''armington in tow. Schooners broke away and rode out storm. Crew 
 of Hebard had miraculous escape from drowning. Capt. George Ryan, 
 First Mate Peter Burrell, Second Mate A. Jackson and Chief Engineer 
 William Schumaker, all Detroit men. 
 
 November 29 — Schooner Celtic, of Cleveland, broke away from 
 
133 
 
 consort Runnels in Lake Huron and was lost, with eight men and 
 stewardess. Capt. Jeffreys, a Detroit man, among lo.st 
 
 November 29-Capt. E. H. Gheen, inspector lighthouse seivice 
 Eleventh District, transferred from Detroit office. Succeeded by 
 Commander Herbert Winslow. 
 
 December 10-Lighthouse engineer took in gas buoys 
 
 ^'^ December 14-City of Cleveland 18 hours overdue on account of 
 
 '""^ Dece'mber 15-Anchor liner Tionesta launched at Wyandotte 
 
 December 17-Navigation through Detroit River practically closed. 
 S ember 18-Steamer S. K. Martin, schooners Charles Spademan 
 
 and Belle Hanscamb, of Detroit, upbound, fast in ice m Pigeon Bay. 
 
 ""'TeSm'berTe-Steamer A. L. Hopkins, of Detroit, fast in ice 
 between Ba Point and Toledo Left Detroit Dec. 23; reached Toledo 
 Dec 28. Released by tug American Eagle. Relief expedition in charge 
 of Capt. Duncan Nicholson, of Detroit. 
 
 ABBREVIATIONS. 
 
 T) u R.— Detroit United Railway. 
 
 g'. R. H. & L. M. R. R. Co.-Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake Michigan 
 
 Rapid Railway Company. 
 I o. O. F.— Independen Order of Oddfellows. 
 B. P. O. E.— Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 F. & A. M.— Free and Accepted Masons. 
 K, T.— Knights Templars. 
 
 K. P.— Knights of Pythias. 
 
 G. A. R.— Grand Army of the Republic. '• 
 
INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Aaron, Dr. C. D., marriage of... 53 
 
 Abodeely, Joseph, Syrian 65 
 
 Accidental deaths 101 
 
 Of AUss Beulah Wheeler 6 
 
 Of William Hearn 6 
 
 Accidents: 
 Collapse of buildings on Jeffer- 
 son avenue 18 
 
 Marine 131 
 
 To car ferry Transport 58 
 
 Adams, Edgar J., trial of 13 
 
 Adams Transoortation Co 100 
 
 Alexander, S., on death of hick- 
 ory trees 58 
 
 Alger, Capt. Fred M., president of 
 
 Michigan Club 12 
 
 Alger, Gen. R. A., buys Grosse 
 
 Pointe property 41 
 
 Entertained President Roosevelt. 69 
 
 For U. S. Senator 64 
 
 Vindication of 63 
 
 Appointed V. S. Senator 65 
 
 Sworn in as U. S. Senator &3 
 
 Allen. Will, tests Campus or- 
 dinance 124 
 
 American Box & I.rumber Co 100 
 
 American Oar & Foundry Co. 
 
 brings in Servians 52 
 
 American Ginger Ale Machine Co. 100 
 
 Amphitheater Co., organized % 
 
 Anchor Line, new dock 94 
 
 Anderson, Mrs. Aristine, death of. 88 
 Andrews, F. C. : 
 
 Ads Detroit Construction Co 30 
 
 Ads Grand Rapids, Holland & 
 Lake Michigan Rapid Railway 
 
 Co 30 and 34 
 
 Ads Union Trust Co., receiver.. 29 
 Apartment building arrange- 
 ment 32 
 
 Application for bail 71 
 
 Application for new trial 67 
 
 Application for bail to Supreme 
 
 Court 29 
 
 Arraignment of 54 
 
 Attempt to furnish bail 27 
 
 Bail denied 64 
 
 Bail fixed at $50,000 29 
 
 Bondsmen for 48 
 
 Bound to Recorder's Court. 40 and 48 
 
 Business methods of 27 
 
 Cameron Currie & Co. vs. Pres- 
 ton Bank 90 
 
 Certain notes declared void 84 
 
 Charged with wrecking bank... 25 
 
 First arrest of 2,i 
 
 Resigns as Police Commission- 
 er 25 
 
 Dealings in Amalgamated Cop- 
 per S5 
 
 Page 
 
 Disclosures of Dr. J. B. Book.. 34 
 
 Examination adjourned 37 
 
 Failure of, extended account... 112 
 
 Foreclosure proceedings against. 46 
 
 Fourth arrest of 31 
 
 Garnishment hearings 32 
 
 Goes to jail in default of bail... 27 
 
 Hearing for new trial 68 
 
 Hearing for new trial concluded. 75 
 
 Horses sold 36 
 
 Income of 48 
 
 Juggling with county check 32 
 
 Jury secured 56 
 
 Locked up in Jackson 81 
 
 Manipulation of bonds of G. R., 
 
 H. & L. M. R. R. Co 32 
 
 Mortgage of St. Andrew's 
 
 Church 33 
 
 New warrant issued 34 
 
 Overdrafts of 28 
 
 Paid policemen from his own 
 
 pocket 30 
 
 Police Court examination of 40 
 
 Police Court examination post- 
 poned 30 
 
 Preston National Bank absorbed. 45 
 Recorder Murpihy's ruling on 
 
 bail 77 
 
 Relations to Preston Bank 46 
 
 Second warrant for 26 
 
 Sentence of 64 
 
 Supreme Court grants writ of 
 
 error 65 
 
 Third v.^arrant for 29 
 
 Treasurer of Detroit & Dead- 
 wood Co 28 
 
 Trial of begun 55 
 
 Verdict of guilty 63 
 
 Andrews, H. R. : 
 
 Arraignment of 29 
 
 Bound over to Recorder's Court. 
 
 40 and 48 
 
 Bondsmen for 48 
 
 Examination adjourned 37 
 
 New warrant issued 34 
 
 Police Court examination post- 
 poned 30 
 
 Police Court examination of 40 
 
 Second warrant for 29 
 
 Third arrest of 31 
 
 Warrant for 25 
 
 Angell, P>resident James B., arbi- 
 trator of D. U. R. wages case.. 124 
 
 Ann Arbor Railroad 96 
 
 Annual meetings: 
 
 Christian Endeavor unions 42 
 
 Detroit Stock Exchange 94 
 
 Municipal League 17 
 
 Of M. & M. EJxchange 9 
 
 Protestant Orphan A.sylum 9 
 
135 
 
 Page 
 
 R. R. Y. M. C. A 10 
 
 Trades Council 17 
 
 Aquatic sports 1-^ 
 
 Arnold, Rev. C. L., anonymous 
 
 letters incident **•* 
 
 Home for the Aged ;i3 
 
 Opposed Dr. Carstens <6 
 
 Ascher case, Daniel O'Keefe and 
 
 H. G Poupard sentenced 51 
 
 Ashbridge, Lieut., drowning of.. 37 
 Ashley, Noble, Representative- 
 elect 7^ 
 
 Athletics, track and field 129 
 
 Atwater. A. B., resignation of... o4 
 
 Automobile races 128 
 
 Trade "" 
 
 Avenue Theater Co 100 
 
 John I>. Sullivan incident S7 
 
 Avery, Lieut., drowning of 37 
 
 Averv, Miss Clara, servant girls' 
 
 club '^''5 
 
 Baker, Police Captain A., honor- 
 able mention of ' +1 
 
 Baker, Elias, promotion of 53 
 
 Baker, F. A., on coal strike 70 
 
 Bakers' Union, strike ' — 4o 
 
 Baldwin, H. P., homestead 43 
 
 Baldwin Marbles, in Detroit Mu- 
 
 aeum or Art 126 
 
 Ballantyne, John, receiver for W. 
 
 J. Gould & Oo 94 
 
 Bankers' Association, meeting of. SO 
 Baptist Churches, statistics of.. 32 
 
 Permanent council of ' 12 
 
 Baptist Ministers on niodern 
 
 newspaper 41 
 
 Barber Asphalt Co., repair job.. 46 
 Barbour, George H., in Buhl 
 
 strike 19 
 
 Barbour, William T., marriage of 50 
 
 Bardwell, Jex., death of 87 
 
 Bartlett, Lieut. -Com.. F. W., ad- 
 dresses Sons of American Revo- 
 lution 29 
 
 Barrie, Aid. Robert, death of 17 
 
 Barr, Rev. A. H., Ministers' 
 Union coanimittee on sabbath oib- 
 
 sei^ance ...' 7 
 
 Base ball 127 
 
 Basket ball 129 
 
 Batchelder, John L., representa- 
 tive-elect 79 
 
 Bates, W. R., reappointed U. S. 
 
 marshal 3S 
 
 Battle Creek Sanitarium, tourning 
 
 of 27 
 
 Bawden, Thomas, attempt to con- 
 vert 12 
 
 Beals & Selkirk Trunk Co 100 
 
 Beech street, opening of 64 
 
 Beggs, Tom, charge against coal 
 
 club 50 
 
 Behrendt, or Burns. William, 
 
 killing of Ill 
 
 Belle Isle, bridge 'bids 88 
 
 Beiizozone. discovered toy Prof. 
 
 Novy 26 
 
 Berry, Joseph, sold lots to Gen. 
 
 Alger 41 
 
 Beth El, temple, property sold to 
 
 Y. W. C. A 30 
 
 Biddle, Edward and John, escape 
 of 22 
 
 Page 
 
 Billiards 130 
 
 Bissell, George AV., death of.... 67 
 Black, C A., comments on, police 
 
 court scenes 36 
 
 Juror in Police Court 85 
 
 On Commercialism 88 
 
 Blaok-'Mulkey syndicate 123 
 
 Blades Controller F. A., get-coal 
 
 convention 71 
 
 Bliss, Gov. A. T., re-election of. 79 
 
 Prohibits prize fight 130 
 
 Bloody Run, battle of, taWet.... 60 
 
 Blue Ribbon races 128 
 
 Board of Assessors, increase of 
 
 rates ..." 36 
 
 BO'ard of Auditors, retired bonds 90 
 
 Appointments by 83 
 
 City iBank case 25 
 
 Board of Education, appointments 
 
 iby 64 
 
 Election of president 54 
 
 Five banks furnish funds to — 28 
 Money from 'Common Council 25 
 
 Salaries resolution ivetoed 85 
 
 Board of Estimates, against new 
 
 Public Library 89 
 
 Board of Estimates, report of 
 
 for 1902 43 
 
 Board of Health, Dr. J. B. Ken- 
 nedy reappointed 30 
 
 Medical inspection of schools.. 73 
 
 Report of 72 
 
 Vital statistics 72 
 
 Board of Lighting Comimission- 
 
 ers, report of S6 
 
 Bohemians, reception to Jan 
 
 Kubelik ' 20 
 
 Booth, Gen. William, visit to De- 
 troit 81 
 
 Boris, Russian Grand Duke 67 
 
 Bowling 130 
 
 Boxing 130 
 
 Boyer, Joseph, purchase of King 
 
 residence 90 
 
 Boynton, Rev. N., at Thanksgiv- 
 ing services 82 
 
 Report on Sunday theaters 6 
 
 B. P. O. E., history of Detroit 
 
 lodge 56 
 
 Temple dedicated 68 
 
 Bradlev, Edward, president of 
 
 Detroit C. E. Unions 42 
 
 Brede, J. Conrad, drowning of. . 104 
 Bresler, Eugene A., member 
 Board of Library Connnission- 
 
 ers 17 
 
 Bribery, State Dairy and Food 
 
 Commissioner case 7 
 
 Briscoe Manufacturing Co., pur- 
 chased site 97 
 
 British Soldier's skeleton un- 
 earthed ' 42 
 
 Bromley, Prank L., bondsman for 
 
 H. R. Andrews 29-48 
 
 Brooke. Judge F. L., injunction 
 
 in Buhl strike case IS 
 
 Brown Bros., strike 48 
 
 Brown & Brown 100 
 
 Brown, William, fall from win- 
 dow 58 
 
 Brushaber, John, death of 73 
 
 Bucklev-Hart Manufacturing Co. 100 
 Buffalo', Erv'eniiTg News excursion 
 to ' 60 
 
136 
 
 Page 
 
 Buhl Sons Co 100 
 
 Buhl strike IS 
 
 Buhl, T. D., letter to Mayor May- 
 bury 19 
 
 Building rermits 91 
 
 Burns, Hugh R.. elected alder- 
 man if ram Sixth Ward 34 
 
 Burns & O'Shea Briok Co '.. 100 
 
 Burrows, Dr. C. W., suit against 37 
 
 Burt, Calvin C, death of 28 
 
 Burton, C. M., director of Co- 
 operative Telephone Co — ' l-'O 
 
 Burton, W. T. P., death of 40 
 
 Busch, Louis, diamond smuggling 38 
 
 Bu.sh. Grace, arrest of 108 
 
 Business Review of the Year — 93 
 
 Cabinet Letter Press Co 100 
 
 Cadillac Hotel entertains Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt G9 
 
 ■California timber lands 9S 
 
 Callender, S. D., attorney for 
 
 Municipal League 17 
 
 Cameron Currie & Co. ads Pres- 
 ton National bank 46 and 90 
 
 Garnishment disclosures 34 
 
 Campau, Daniel J., Detroit Driv- 
 ing club case 6 
 
 Campau, R. McDougall, death of 30 
 Campljell, Mrs. Elizabeth, death 
 
 of 55 
 
 Campus Martius, ordinance tested 124 
 Carhartt, Hamilton, director of 
 
 Co-operative Telephone Co 120 
 
 Carlisle, Mrs. George H., report 
 
 of Protective agency 39 
 
 Carnegie library 89 
 
 Carpenter, Judge William L., de- 
 cree in Detroit Driving club 
 
 case 6 
 
 Nominated for justice supreme 
 
 court 69 
 
 On jury system 24 
 
 Carpenter, Prof. R. C, expert in 
 
 Penberthy inquest 23 
 
 Carstens, Dr. J. H., campaign of 74 
 
 Candidate for mayor 71 
 
 Nominated for mayor 74 
 
 Contest with Maybury 75 
 
 Defeat of 78 
 
 Carter, Mrs. David S., death of.. 50 
 
 Cartoons on senatorial situation 64 
 Casgrain, Mrs. Ellen H., com- 
 plainant in Hammond building 
 
 litigation 20 
 
 Chamberlain, M. H., & Co., sale 
 
 of business of 93 
 
 Chamber of Commerce, banquet 
 
 of E. C. Madden 52 
 
 On reciprocity 25 
 
 Charlevoix avenue graft exposed 18 
 Chapman, E. F., insurance cir- 
 cular of 37 
 
 Charter revision SO 
 
 Cheboygan pulp mill 97 
 
 Chester, Judge Guy M., trial of 
 
 Bert Parrington 21 
 
 Chittenden, Miss Margaret, mar- 
 riage of 50 
 
 Chittenden, Miss Mary Farquahr, 
 
 marriage of 8 
 
 Chittenden, W. J., Jr., marriage 
 
 of '3 
 
 34 
 
 Page 
 Chittenden, Mrs. William J., 
 president of Children's Free 
 
 Hospital 16 
 
 Choate, Joseph H., tribute by 
 
 Dickinson 54 
 
 Chope, Charles H., death of 73 
 
 Christa, Philip, death of 57 
 
 Qhriseian' Science, Dr. Pee'bles 
 
 methods 87 
 
 Christian, T. Hawley, signs com- 
 plaint against F. C. Andrews.. 25 
 
 City Treasurer, report of 59 
 
 Cigar trust, retail dealers against 99 
 Circuit court, see Wayne circuit 
 court and United States circuit 
 court. 
 Citizen's Telephone committee.. 80 
 City Committee, republican, 
 
 chairman of 60 
 
 City election, see Elections, city. 
 
 City Hall, remodeling of 75 
 
 City Savings bank, Andrews, F. 
 
 C, and county check 32 
 
 Appointment of appraisers 29 
 
 Bill for receiver 25 
 
 Cameron Currie & Co. vs. Pres- 
 ton bank 90 
 
 City funds in trust 36 
 
 Disclosure of Cameron Currie & 
 
 Co 
 
 Disclosure of P. P. & J. T. Mc- 
 Laughlin 34 
 
 Disclosure of Dr. J. B. Book.. 34 
 
 Dividend declared 72 
 
 Doors closed 25 
 
 F. C. Andrews's apartment 
 
 building 32 
 
 F. C. Andrews's notes declared 
 
 void 84 
 
 F. C Andrews's overdrafts 28 
 
 Foreclosure proceedings 46 
 
 Money for board of education.. 28 
 Separation of savings and com- 
 mercial departments 39 
 
 Statement of banking commis- 
 sioner 29 
 
 City funds transferred 25 
 
 Receiver appointed 26 
 
 Rulings by Judge Donovan 31 
 
 Clark, C. F., alias Connors, 
 
 wanted for murder Ill 
 
 Clark, Harvey C, death of 24 
 
 Clark, Isaac, pardon board meet- 
 ing 23 
 
 Clark. Rev. John Brittan, at 
 
 Thanksgiving service 82 
 
 Clark. T. E., Wireless Telegraph- 
 Telephone Co 100 
 
 Clearing house report 100 
 
 Coal Club, Tom Beggs's case 50 
 
 Coal, situation reviewed 65 
 
 Coal strike, get-coal convention. 71 
 
 Cock fighting 130 
 
 Codd, George P., elected alder- 
 
 iman 8 
 
 Colby, S. J., repre-sentative-elect 79 
 Colonial Dames society, Mrs. H. 
 
 F. Lyster, president 36 
 
 Coling Frank, killing of John 
 
 Reinhardt 110 
 
 Comstock, Miss Winnifred, mar- 
 riage of 53 
 
137 
 
 Page 
 Commercial National bank, buys 
 
 Preston bank ^5 
 
 Common Council air brake case.. 57 
 Appropriates $3,000 to collect 
 
 back taxes 35 
 
 Asphalt repair job 46 
 
 Committee on grade separation 16 
 
 First meeting for year 15 
 
 Granted telephone frandhise.. 119 
 
 Hlllger's attack on Moreland.. 70 
 Money transferred because of 
 
 bank failure 25 
 
 Municipal asphalt plant 2G 
 
 Subway franchise 40 
 
 Vaccination appropration SO 
 
 Conely, Edwin F.. death of 89 
 
 Conkling, James S.. death of — 89 
 
 Connor, Jerry, death of 24 
 
 Conover, Rev. James F., death of 42 
 
 Consolidated Ice Co 95 
 
 Convention, democratic state 59 
 
 "Get coal" 71 
 
 State, judicial, republican 69 
 
 Cooley, Prof. M. E.. expert in 
 
 Penljerthy inquest 23 
 
 Co-Operative Telephone Co. 
 
 'Organized 120 
 
 Cooper, Rev. D. M., president of 
 
 U. of M. Alumni association 30 
 
 Coots, Mrs. W. H., death of 37 
 
 Cope, Alfred, deceased, case of 
 Nicholson, Admx., vs. City of 
 
 Detroit S 
 
 Corbett, Sydney, Jr.. death of.. 33 
 Corliss, John B., campaign of for 
 
 congress 75 
 
 Campaign incidents 77 
 
 Charges trusts aided Lucking. . 81 
 
 Clam bake of 70 
 
 Defeat of for congress 79 
 
 Coroner's inquests, Alphonso 
 
 Dempsey case 24 
 
 Penberthy explosion 23 
 
 Corporations, new 93 
 
 Corrections and charities, nation- 
 al conference 49 
 
 Cost of living 43 and 96 
 
 Counterfeiters arrested 84 and 112 
 
 Country club, death of Golf In- 
 structor William Hearn 6 
 
 Cunty Auditors, see board of 
 
 auditors. 
 Courier-Herald, of Saginaw, sale 
 
 of Ifi 
 
 Cox, Major Blanche, tests Cam- 
 pus ordinance 124 
 
 Cronenwett, Louis H., body 
 
 found ii 
 
 Crosby, Charles H. B.. return 
 
 home of SS 
 
 Crusoe Bros. Co 100 
 
 Crusoe Bros., Lt., insurance 
 
 cases 97 
 
 Curling 130 
 
 to convert Tom Bawden 12 
 
 Daly, James, death of 3S 
 
 Damm. Henry, inherits Detroit 
 
 property 8 
 
 Darius Cole, steamer, sale of 95 
 
 Davidson, John, deputy county 
 
 clerk, in Buhl strike 19 
 
 Davis. Aaron, death of 33 
 
 Davis, Alice Marie, marriage of.. 
 
 Davis, James E., marriage of 
 daughter of 
 
 Davis, John, president of Munici- 
 pal league 
 
 Dawes. Charles G., addresses 
 Bankers' club 
 
 Day, Lieut. W. B., marriage of.. 
 
 Dean, Charles A., president Con- 
 solidated Ice Co 
 
 Dean. Charles A., on the coal sit- 
 uation 
 
 Deaths, accidental 
 
 De Champeaux, Count Laurent, 
 marriage of 
 
 Deeds and mortgages recorded... 
 
 De Forest. Rev. H. P., at Thanks- 
 giving service 
 
 Deleleux, Mother, president of 
 Little Sisters of the Poor 
 
 Delamater, D. C, retires as pres- 
 ident of M. & M. Exchange 
 
 DeLisle, Peter B., representative- 
 elect 
 
 Delta Lumber Co., affairs wound 
 up 
 
 Dempsey, Alphonso or Albert, in- 
 quest upon 
 
 Denault. Alfred, shooting of 
 
 Denby, Edwin, bounty money 
 
 Yosemite 
 
 Edwin, representative- 
 
 Page 
 
 from 
 
 Denby, 
 elect 
 
 Dennis, Albert, killing of 
 
 Department of public works, as- 
 phalt matter 
 
 Depew, Harry, arrest and trial of 
 
 Des Roches, Rev. Romauld B., 
 death of 
 
 Detroit & Cleveland Navigation 
 Co. stock 
 
 Detroit & Deadwood Mining Co., 
 stock sales 
 
 Detroit & Mackinaw railroad, 
 purchase of 
 
 Detroit & Toledo Shore Line trou- 
 bles 
 
 Detroit Athletic club 
 
 Detroit Bag & Paper Co 
 
 Detroit 'ball club 
 
 Detroit bank dividends 
 
 Detroit Bar association dedicates 
 new county building 
 
 Detroit Bar library, sale and re- 
 moval 
 
 Detroit Boat club, boat house 
 
 Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 
 on reciprocity 
 
 Detroit, City of, ads Jessie Leckie 
 
 Charter revision meeting 
 
 Financial condition of 
 
 Gift of painting to 
 
 Legislative delegation 
 
 Tax rate of 
 
 Vital statistics 
 
 Detroit Clearing House expels 
 
 City bank 
 
 Annual statement of 
 
 Detroit Coal Club, Tom Beggs 
 case 
 
 Detroit College, changes presi- 
 dent 
 
 19 
 19 
 
 17 
 
 96 
 
 51 
 
 95 
 
 66 
 101 
 
 49 
 91 
 
 82 
 
 12 
 
 9 
 
 79 
 
 94 
 
 24 
 111 
 
 20 
 
 79 
 
 110 
 
 46 
 111 
 
 2« 
 
 97 
 
 97 
 
 123 
 130 
 
 98 
 
 127 
 
 97 
 
 72 
 
 36 
 129 
 
 25 
 40 
 80 
 92 
 49 
 79 
 49 
 52 
 
 25 
 100 
 
 50 
 
 66 
 
138 
 
 43 
 
 Page 
 Detroit College of Law, pur- 
 chases bar library 36 
 
 Detroit Construction Co. ads, 
 
 Union Trust Co. receiver 33 
 
 vs. Frank C. Andrews 30 
 
 Work on D., H. & L. Ry 93 
 
 Detroit Driving Club, decree of 
 
 ouster 6 
 
 Detroiter, new ttreboat 59 
 
 Detroit, Howell & Lansing rail- 
 way 93 
 
 Detroit Iron & Steel Co 97 
 
 Detroit Iron & Steel Co 100 
 
 Detroit Machine & Valve Co 93 
 
 Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Shore 
 
 Line Ry Co 99 
 
 Detroit Museum of Art 125 
 
 Mummy at 73 
 
 Detroit National bank, reorgan- 
 ized 98 
 
 Detroit, new police districts 90 
 
 Detroit Physicians' association, 
 
 election 
 
 Detroit Poultry, Pigeon & Pet 
 
 Stock Cllab troubles 29 
 
 Detroit Realty Co 100 
 
 Detroit river, lowered by ice jam 20 
 Detroit River Savings bank, 
 
 change of name 93 
 
 Detroit, Rochester, Romeo & 
 Lake Orion Railways ads. Union 
 
 Trust Co., receiver 33 
 
 Detroit Rubber Co 100 
 
 Detroit Southern Ry., bought 
 
 Ohio road 24 
 
 Deed to from Solvay Co 27 
 
 Officials appointed 5 
 
 Connects with seaboard 97 
 
 Detroit Steel Casting Co 94 
 
 Detroit Stock Exchange, officers 
 
 of 94 
 
 Detroit Stove Works strike 38 
 
 Detroit Street Railway employes 
 
 asked for more pay 39 
 
 Detroit Teachers' Hospital associ- 
 ation 95 
 
 Detroit Telephone Co 117 
 
 Mandamus proceedings 39 
 
 Detroit Transit Co., increase in 
 
 tax rate 36 
 
 Detroit Typographical Union No. 
 
 18, 50th anniversary 32 
 
 Detroit United Railway, Everett- 
 Moore syndicate program 10 
 
 Air brake hearing 57 
 
 Demand for higher wages 124 
 
 Election of officers 123 
 
 Electrical storm cripples service 51 
 
 Fire in barns 89 
 
 Increase in assessed valuation.. 36 
 
 Purchase of old Pullman shops.. 68 
 Detroit Yacht Club, Oscar B. 
 
 Marx, commodore 12 
 
 Devendorf, Dr. C. A., criticises 
 
 public schools 47 
 
 Diamond smuggling case, Louis 
 
 Busch fined 38 
 
 Dickson, Henry A., election of — 79 
 Dickinson, Don M., arbitrator 
 
 San Salvador case 45 
 
 Partnership with Elliott G. Ste- 
 venson 6 j 
 
 Speech abroad 54 | 
 
 Puse 
 
 Dime Savings bank, run on 94 
 
 Dinan, Michael F., death of 41 
 
 Divorce record 68 
 
 Dohany, John S., representative- 
 elect 79 
 
 Donovan, Judge J. W., Michigan 
 
 Debenture Co. case 26 
 
 Rulings in City Savings bank 
 
 case 31 
 
 Doody. Miss Kate, factory in- 
 spector SI 
 
 Doyle, Ed H., visit of burglar 44 
 
 Dr. Reed Cushion Shoe Co 93 
 
 Ducey, P. A., buys pine lands 98 
 
 Duncan, George W., representa- 
 tive-elect 79 
 
 Dunkley, S. J., buys Williams line 
 
 steamers 95 
 
 Durand, George H., nominated 
 
 for governor 59 
 
 Paralysis of 67 
 
 Resignation of 67 
 
 Reception to 61 
 
 Durand, L. T., nominated for 
 
 governor 69 
 
 Reception to 70 
 
 Vote for in W^ayne county 79 
 
 Durfee, Probate Judge Edgar O., 
 
 Geo. H. Scripps will case 85 
 
 Will of Fr. Van den Driessche.. 25 
 Dwyer, John M., municipal gas 
 
 commissioner 37 
 
 Earle, Horatio S., defeated by 
 
 James E. Scripps 74 
 
 Easter Sunday, Detroit's florist 
 
 bill 35 
 
 Eby, John F., sale of printing 
 
 plant 97 
 
 Edison Electric Light Co., buys 
 
 land 100 
 
 Edmunds, John C, death of 67 
 
 Ege, Charles T., takes federal 
 
 position 79 
 
 Election of Representatives 79 
 
 Elections, city 78 
 
 County 79 
 
 Senatorial 79 
 
 Primary, McLeod plan 12 
 
 New law indorsed 84 
 
 Special, in First Ward 8 
 
 Electric Railwav Switch Co 100 
 
 Elks, see B. P. O. E. 
 
 Ellis, John W., report on grade 
 
 separation 16 
 
 Ellis, Mrs. L. E., death of 25 
 
 Estimates for 1902 43 
 
 Everett-Moore failure 123 
 
 Syndicate People's Telephone 
 
 Co 119 
 
 $35,000,000 mortgage resolution... 10 
 
 Excursions, week-end, to Buffalo. 60 
 F. & A. M., Palestine lodge holds 
 
 christening 53 
 
 Farmer, Silas, death of 89 
 
 Farrand, Williams & Clark, in- 
 corporated 96 
 
 Farrell, Ellen, president of St. 
 
 Vincent's Orphan Asylum 18 
 
 Farrington, Bert, murder trial in 
 
 Adrian 21 
 
 Federal system of city govern- 
 ment SO 
 
139 
 
 Page 
 
 Feeble Minded, Michigan Home 
 
 for -11 
 
 Fee, Josepli IP., death of ^1 
 
 Fenton, Fred R.. president oL' 
 State League of Republican 
 
 Clubs 2G 
 
 Ferry, Dexter M., gave U. of M. 
 
 athletic field S2 
 
 For U. S. Senator til 
 
 Increase in tax rate 36 
 
 Withdraws from Senatorial race flo 
 
 Ferry, D. M. Jr., Representative- 
 elect ^3 
 
 Fibre Mache Mfg. Co 100 
 
 Fidler. H. A., general freight 
 
 aeent, Detroit Southern R. R... 5 
 
 Finck, William M., & Co 100 
 
 Findlater, James, Grand Cojn- 
 
 mander 50 
 
 Fires, Jeffer.son avenue car barns. 89 
 
 Liosses from 91 
 
 Siau Laundry 73 
 
 First Commercial Bank of Wyan- 
 dotte 93 
 
 First Congregational Church, sale 
 
 of pews in 89 
 
 Separation of North Church — 33 
 
 Fitzsimons, W. P., sketch of 35 
 
 First Ward, election of G. P. 
 
 Codd 8 
 
 Flag Day W 
 
 Fletcher. Ben, death of 22 
 
 Foley, Bishop John S., dedicates 
 
 school 47 
 
 Marriage of Martha Palms 49 
 
 Foley, Rev. Fr., retires as presi- 
 dent of Detroit College 66 
 
 Follmer, Michael, sentence of — 27 
 
 Food, prices of 96 
 
 Foot ball 129 
 
 \j. of M. vs. Leland Stanford. 
 
 Jr., University 5 
 
 Fort Wayne, Fourteenth Regi- 
 ment at 52 
 
 Improvement of 63 
 
 Fowle, George W., appointed Po- 
 lice Commissioner 25 
 
 In Buhl strike 19 
 
 Redistricts city 90 
 
 France, gives Detroit a painting. 82 
 
 Franklin, Rev. Leo M., at 
 
 Thanksgiving service 82 
 
 Frazer, Judge R. E., injunction 
 
 in Buhl strike 18 
 
 Directs verdict in Leckie case.. 40 
 
 Free Kindergarten Association. 
 
 Mrs. John T Holmes president. 12 
 
 French, Col. J. M., death of 10 
 
 French. William A., bribery suit 
 
 nolle pressed 14 
 
 Gardener, Col., attack on by New 
 
 York Sun 3S 
 
 Garrett, Little Myrtle, kidnaped 
 
 by her father 6 
 
 Gas Commissioners, municipal, 
 
 appointed 37 
 
 Gas explosion, buildings on Jeffer- 
 son avenue destroyed 18 
 
 Gaston, George T., captain H. S. 
 
 Pingree Comnnand, S. W. V — 33 
 
 Election of 78 
 
 Page 
 
 Gates, Jasper C, bill for juvenile 
 
 court 88 
 
 Gaulkler, Arthur H., ecclesias- 
 tical divorce of 47 
 
 Get coal, convention 71 
 
 Goderich house, Horton Warren 
 
 murder 81 and HI 
 
 Golden vs. Smith 48 
 
 Golf 129 
 
 Goodale. George P., marriage of So 
 Goodell, Solon, elected state sen- 
 ator 79 
 
 Goodrich, F. A., Iron & Steel Co. 100 
 Gordon, William D., reappointed 
 
 U. S. district attorney 38 
 
 Gould, W. J., & Co., receiver for 94 
 Gowdy, Miss Ernestine, death of 33 
 Grade separation, awards in 
 
 Woodward avenue case S 
 
 Committee visits Chicago 15 
 
 Plan submitted to President 
 
 Ledyard 16 
 
 Engineer Torrey's reply 16 
 
 Expert John W. Ellis's report 16 
 M. & M. Exchange committee 
 
 on 16 
 
 Woodward avenue awards 8 
 
 Graham, Daniel, case before par- 
 don board 23 
 
 Grain receipts for year 92 
 
 Grand Circus Park location of 
 
 Pingree monument 32 
 
 Grand Rapids brivery case 29 
 
 Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake 
 Michigan Rapid Railway trou- 
 bles 32 
 
 Vs. F. C. Andrews 30 
 
 Granite State Provident Associa- 
 tion, affairs wound up 27 
 
 iGraulich, AV. Louis, bondsman^ 
 
 for F. C. Andrews 48 
 
 Graves, John, death of 41 
 
 Great Lakes Engineering Works 
 
 drydock 100 
 
 Great Lakes Paper Mills Co 100 
 
 Great Lakes, water levels of 34 
 
 Greenberg, Isadore, escape of 61 
 
 'Greenstidel, Miss Christinai, in 
 
 India 66 
 
 Grenell. Judson. goes to Chicago So 
 Greusel, Joseph, representative 
 
 elect 79 
 
 Greyhound, excursion steamer, 
 
 launched 27 
 
 G. R., H. & L. M. note in Pres- 
 ton bank 46 
 
 Griffin, J. C. opens Hotel Detroit 
 
 in Cork 66 
 
 Griswold street, Hammond build- 
 ing case 20 
 
 Groesbeck, Attorney Alex. J., in 
 
 Edgar J. Adams trial 14 
 
 Grummond vs. City of Detroit, 
 
 steamer W'ard case 10 
 
 Guenther, Fred, president Skat 
 
 congress 48 
 
 Gullev, O. F., election of 79 
 
 Hahn. Prof. J. H.. death of 102 
 
 Ilaigh. Henry, death of ' 45 
 
 Hali, Edmund, wins suit against 
 
 wrecking- Arm 70 
 
 Hamberger. Harry, report on by 
 Dr. Long 23 
 
140 
 
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 Hamlin, AVilliam Y., death rof.... 74 
 Hamini'ond Building, litigation 
 
 over 20 
 
 Hanna, M. A. & Co., interest in 
 
 Zug island 97 
 
 Hani-ahan, P. H., proimotion of 88 
 
 Hanratty, Lawrence, killing of 
 
 William Oakman 110 
 
 Harmonie Society, reorganization 
 
 of 9 
 
 Harper Hospital, J. L. Hudson, 
 
 president of trustees 12 
 
 Harris, Capl. S. S., of Gilbert 
 
 Wilkes Command, S. W. V 69 
 
 Harsha, Walter S., Granite State 
 
 Piovident association ease 27 
 
 Hawkins, ^Heiibert, bell boy sold 
 
 diamond Co 
 
 Hawks, Rev. M. C, Ministers' 
 
 Union on Sabbath observance.. 7 
 Hawley, Edward T., killing of. "39-110 
 Hawley, James, acquitted of mur- 
 
 _der ..." 39 
 
 fiealth Board, see Board of 
 
 Health. 
 
 Heaimes, Henry, death of 57 
 
 Hearn, William, accidental death. 
 
 of g 
 
 Hemme, Miss Gertrude, robbery 
 
 of 58 
 
 Henkel, Julian, drowning of 104 
 
 Hennepin Iron Co 100 
 
 Herault, Victorine Amelie, Ward 
 
 divorce case 57 
 
 Heuser, Josepih, death of 87 
 
 Heywood, George, murder of 109 
 
 Hiawatha Salt Co ' 100 
 
 Hiawatha Tobacco Co., changes in 69 
 Higginson, George, elected pres- 
 ident of Trades' Council...' 17 
 
 Highland Park, counterfeiters ar- 
 rested 84 
 
 Hildner, Rev. ^ohn G., death of.. 77 
 Hillger, Aid., attack on iMoreland 70 
 Hines, Fraiik J., in Demipsey case 21 
 Hoeninghausen, Theo., death of. 58 
 Hogan, Joseph J., man of many 
 
 wives 68 
 
 Holmes, Arthur L., at St. Francis 
 
 school meeting 72 
 
 Kolmea Mrs. John T., president 
 
 Free Kindergarten association. 12 
 Holy Redeemer, parochial school 
 
 dedicated .17 
 
 Honduras Commercial Co 9S 
 
 Hooker, Je.sse, Bert Parrington 
 
 trial 21 
 
 Howe, Frank H., of Columfbus, 
 
 0., addresses M. & M. exchange 9 
 Huibbard, J. W., sensational suit 
 
 against a?, 
 
 Hull. Mrs. C. B., death of SI 
 
 Humphrey, Frank F., death of.... 30 
 
 Hungarians, Servians, in fact 52 
 
 Hunt, Fred A., representative- 
 elect 79 
 
 Hunt, O. F., election of 79 
 
 Hunsaker, W. J., acquires Sagi- 
 naw Courier-Herald IC 
 
 Ice trust 95 
 
 Ice yachting 130 
 
 Ideal Toy Co 100 
 
 Ingham circuit court, trial of Ed- 
 
 .gar J. Adams 13 
 
 Page 
 
 Inglis, Agnes, suicide of 22 
 
 Inglis, James, elected president 
 
 of M. & M. Exchange 9 
 
 Ingram. F. F., director of Co-Op- 
 
 erative Telephone Co 120 
 
 Inheritance tax, on John Ward 
 
 estate 19 
 
 Inquests, coroners, number of 108 
 
 Insurance, Crusoe Bros, cases 97 
 
 Insurance rate, advance in.. 37 and 95 
 Iron Railway of Ohio, sold to 
 
 Detroit Southern 94 
 
 Isham, Patrolman Lewis, verdict 
 
 again.st for false arrest 42 
 
 Jackson, A. & Co., case of O. B. 
 
 Lamb 112 
 
 Jacobs, Charles L. & Co., new 
 
 factory 100 
 
 Jail, see Wayne county jail. 
 James. John H.. case against Pa- 
 trolman Isham 42 
 
 Jefferson avenue, collapse of 
 
 bui dings on 18 
 
 Skeleton and curios unearthed.. 42 
 Jenks Shipbuilding Co., new fire- 
 boat 59 
 
 Jennett, Carrie M., murder of 109 
 
 Johns and Kerr, evangelists, at 
 
 Simpson M. E. church 12 
 
 Johnson, John, sentence of 48 
 
 Jones, W. A., president of Detroit 
 Poultry, Pigeon & Pet Stock 
 
 Club 29 
 
 Jones, William M., murder of 
 
 Geo. Heywood 109 
 
 Joy, Aid. R. P., retirement of 85 
 
 Julia Turner letters 66 
 
 Juvenile court 88 
 
 Kaple, John H., death of 31 
 
 Kayser, Adolph, death of 68 
 
 Kellinger. Fr. L., president of De- 
 troit college 66 
 
 Kellogg, Dr. J. H., of Battle 
 
 Creek sanitarium 27 
 
 Kennedy, Dr. J. B., reappointed 
 
 to Detroit board of health 30 
 
 Kent, T. J., death of 46 
 
 Kerr, Dr. Daniel, elected presi- 
 dent of Detroit Physicians' as- 
 sociation 43 
 
 Kerr and Johns, evangelists, at 
 
 Simpson M. E. church 12 
 
 Kiefer. Dr. Guy L., on cough 
 
 mixtures 35 
 
 Report on smallpox 92 
 
 King, Capt. John E., death of 20 
 
 King, residence, sale of 90 
 
 Klipfel, Herman E., death of 45 
 
 Knights Templars, officers 
 
 elected 50 
 
 Kolasinski. John, murder of 110 
 
 Kreutler Bros., incorporated 94 
 
 Kubelik, Jan, appearance in De? 
 
 troit 20 
 
 Kurtz National Telephone Co 118 
 
 Labadie house, oldest residence 
 
 in Detroit 77 
 
 Labor Day 67 
 
 Lady Elgin, accident recalled 67 
 
 Lafayette avenue, opening of 63 
 
 Railroad viaduct closed 27 
 
 Lake Carriers' association, offi- 
 cers of 93 
 
141 
 
 Lake Erie & Detroit Railway.... 93 
 Lamb, O. B., remarkable case of 118 
 
 Lanahan, Edward, shot in hip Ill 
 
 Larkins, Rev. James B.. death of 70 
 Lau. Dr. Oliver H., increase in 
 
 tax rate 36 
 
 Leckie, Jessie, vs. City of Detroit 40 
 Ledyard, Pres. H. B.. of M. C. R. 
 
 R., grade separation 16 
 
 Lee Injector Co 100 
 
 Legislature, state, members elect- 
 ed from Wayne county 79 
 
 Leland Stanford, .T<-.. university, 
 
 foot ball game with U. of M — 5 
 Lemond, Patrolman Frank, shot 
 
 Edward Lenahan 63, 111 
 
 Lenahan, Edward, death of 63 
 
 Leonard, Dr. C. Henri, retires 
 from board of library commis- 
 sioners 17 
 
 Lewis. Alex. H.. traits of 53 
 
 Library bonds, vote on 89 
 
 Lighting- commission, report of.. 85 
 Little Sisters of the Poor, Mother 
 
 Deleleux, president of 12 
 
 Livingston, William, on Detroit's 
 
 financial stability 99 
 
 President of Lake Carriers' as- 
 sociation 16 
 
 Long, Dr. O. R., report on Ham- 
 
 berger 23 
 
 Long, Justice, funeral of 53 
 
 Loomis, Marion, divorce and mar- 
 riage of 47 
 
 Lucking, Alfred, campaign for 
 
 congress 75 
 
 Denies certain charges 81 
 
 Election to congress 79 
 
 Lucker, John, death of 51 
 
 Lumber Carriers' association, offi- 
 cers of 93 
 
 Lynn. E. J., death of 42 
 
 Lynn. James T., municipal gas 
 
 commissioner 37 
 
 Lyster, Mrs. Henrv P., president 
 
 of Colonial Dame« 26 
 
 McArthur, P.. buys pine lands.. 98 
 McCallum, Malcolm, in Detroit 
 
 & Deadwood Co 28 
 
 Bondsman for F. C. Andrews.. 47 
 
 McCarthy, Hazel, rescue of 67 
 
 McCollester, Rev. L. S., at 
 
 Thanksgiving service 82 
 
 McCracken, S. B., death of 61 
 
 McCurdy. Edgar H., public light- 
 ing commissioner 37 
 
 McGrath, Thomas, arrest of, Hor- 
 
 ton Warren murfler SI and 111 
 
 McGraw, "Batty," candidate for 
 
 alderman M 
 
 McGregor, W. A., election of 79 
 
 In Buhl strike 19 
 
 McLain. William, marries Marion 
 
 Loomis 47 
 
 McLaughlin, W. A., succeeds 
 
 brothers 99 
 
 McLeod. Alex. I., plan for nom- 
 inating candidates 12 
 
 McLeod, Malcolm J., defeated for 
 
 mayoral nomination 74 
 
 McLeod, Stilson V., confession of 30 
 Sentence of -".1 
 
 Page 
 McMillan. Senator James, death 
 
 of 61 
 
 Tributes to 61 
 
 Sketch of 62 
 
 McMillan, James 2d. death of.... 37 
 
 McMillan, James H., deatih of... 45 
 
 McMillan, H. D., death of 50 
 
 McMillan, Robert, death of 44 
 
 McMillan, W. C, for United 
 
 States senator 64 
 
 In malleable iron combine 98 
 
 McMorran, Henry, elected to con- 
 gress 79 
 
 Madden, E. C, visits Deti-oit — 52 
 Mandell, Henry A., appointed 
 
 judge 81 
 
 Manitou mining region 98 
 
 Maltz, George L., bank commis- 
 sioner, receiver of City bank. 25 
 Complaint against P. C. An- 
 drews 26 
 
 On condition of City bank 29 
 
 Witness in Andrews's examina- 
 tion 40 
 
 Marine Review 131 
 
 Marine Sa\ings bank, name 
 
 adopted 93 
 
 'Marauis, Rev. S. S., on coal 
 
 strike 70 
 
 Marschner. E. F.. city assessor.. 65 
 Marsh. Arthur F., White's con- 
 fession 49 
 
 Martin, J. W., secures telephone 
 
 franchise 119 
 
 Martinique, disaster, survivors 
 
 aided 47 
 
 Martz, F.. Sr., death of ■ 52 
 
 Martz, John G., death of 47 
 
 Marx. Oscar B., commodore of 
 
 Detroit Yacht olut) 12 
 
 Mascagni, Pietro. visit to Detroit 86 
 Masons, see F. & A. M. 
 Mather, Grace, jail-breaking epi- 
 sode 61 
 
 Mattlce, Ivy, death ot In Buffalo 66 
 Mattehws, Rev. John, flowers at 
 
 funerals S3 
 
 Alay, Circuit Court Commissioner 
 Samuel L.. City Savings bank 
 
 hearings before 32 
 
 Maybury, W. H., announces W. 
 
 C. Maybury for mayor 50 
 
 Maybury, Mayor W. C, annual 
 
 message to council 15 
 
 Appoints G. W. Fowle police 
 
 commissioner 25 
 
 Banquet to President Roo.sevelt 69 
 
 In Buhl strike IS 
 
 Candidate for re-election 50 
 
 Campaign of 75 
 
 Campaign promises of 76 
 
 Chattel mortgage crusade 83 
 
 Dr. Smith takes the field 73 
 
 Election of 78 
 
 French gift to city 82 
 
 "Get-coal" convention 71 
 
 Martinique survivors aided — 47 
 
 Message on telephone situation 119 
 
 On federal plan 55 
 
 Woodward avenue grade separa- 
 tion 9 
 
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 Recommends $15,000 for gas com- 
 
 ■mission 39 
 
 Sibley flag incident 51 
 
 Thanksgiving service 82 
 
 Vetoes salaries resolution of 
 
 board of education 85 
 
 Vetoes subway franchise 40 
 
 Maybury Guards, Treasurer 
 
 George Thomas incident 8 
 
 Maxwell, Andrew C, death of... 26 
 
 Meats, advance in price of 4-3 
 
 Medbury, Lucetta R., will case.. 7 
 
 Meier & Schulvnecht 100 
 
 Memorial day 49 
 
 Menzies Shoes Co., Incorporated. 99 
 Merchants & Manufacturers' Ex- 
 change, annual meeting 9 
 
 Against subway franchise 40 
 
 Committee on grade separation 16 
 
 Penberthy insurance case 95 
 
 Messiah, Church of, corner-stone 
 
 laid 
 
 Meyers, Charles, stole tray of 
 
 diamonds 21 
 
 Meyer, Meiko, acquittal of 24 
 
 Michell, C. H., sale of stock 99 
 
 Michigan Central R. R.. Wood- 
 ward avenue grade separation 
 
 Raises switching charges 
 
 Executes trust mortgage 
 
 Sues state of Michigan 
 
 Michigan club, reorganization — 
 Michigan Debenture Co., case... 
 Michigan Electro-Automatic Tele- 
 phone Co 119 
 
 Michigan Home for Feeljle Mind- 
 ed 41 
 
 Michigan Inspection Bureau, in- 
 surance circular 37 
 
 Michigan, list of millionaires of.. 22 
 
 Michigan Malleable Iron Co 98 
 
 Michigan naval brigade, bounty 
 
 money of 20 
 
 Medals distributed to 53 
 
 Memorial day exercises 49 
 
 Michigan Rock Salt Co 93 
 
 Michigan Steel Boat Co. removed 
 
 to Detroit 93 
 
 Michigan Steel Casting Co 100 
 
 Michigan Telephone Co 116 
 
 Mandamus proceedings 39 
 
 Mortgage of 122 
 
 Statement of 13:3 
 
 Miles Business College 58 
 
 Military scandal, revival of 49 
 
 Milk, advance in price of 43 
 
 Miller, F. C, bondsman for F. C. 
 
 Andrews 48 
 
 Miller, H. J., bondsman for F. C. 
 
 Andrews 48 
 
 Miller. J. M., murder of Carrie 
 
 M. Jennett 109 
 
 Miller, Sidney T., municipal gas 
 
 commissioner 37 
 
 Millionaires, list of 22 
 
 Mills. Mrs. Cynthia A., death of 88 
 Milton D. Ward, steamer, case 
 
 in United States circuit court.. 10 
 Ministers' union, report to, on 
 
 Sunday theaters 6 
 
 Report of on Sabbath obser- 
 vance 7 
 
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 Molony, Miss K. B., marriage of 83 
 
 Monarch Coupler Co 95 
 
 Monroe county, oil fields 82 
 
 Monroe & Toledo Electric line 120 
 
 Moore, Charles, goes to Clergue.. 99 
 Moore. George F., baby chris- 
 tened in Palestine lodge 53 
 
 Moore, W. A., sells real estate 97 
 
 Moran vs. Campau, Detroit Driv- 
 ing club case 6 
 
 Moran, Fred T., fire commissioner 37 
 Moreland, D. W. H., asphalt mat- 
 ter 46 
 
 American League of Municipal- 
 ities convention 75 
 
 Attack on, by Hillger 70 
 
 Declared for Carstens 75 
 
 Eastern yard meeting 71 
 
 Political assessment by 69 
 
 Remodelling of city hall 77 
 
 Mortgages and deeds record 91 
 
 Moulton, Mrs. John, saves child's 
 
 fife 67 
 
 Mulkey, W. F.. death of 69 
 
 Municipal asphalt plant 26 
 
 Municipal gas commissioners, 
 
 appointed 37 
 
 Municipal league annual meeting 17 
 
 Primary election law 84 
 
 Murders, arrests for year lOS 
 
 Of Albert Dempsey 110 
 
 Of Edward T. Hawiey 110 
 
 Of George Haywood 109 
 
 Of Carrie M. Jennett 109' 
 
 Of John Kolasinski 110 
 
 Of Wilham Oakman 110 
 
 Of John Reinhardt 110 
 
 Of Matthew Smith. 
 
 Of Mrs. Sarah Tillman 108 
 
 Of Horton Warren HI 
 
 Murphy, Recorder A. J., at 
 
 Thanksgiving service 82 
 
 Disagreement with Judge 
 
 Phelan 44 
 
 Ruling on F. C. Andrews's bond 77 
 
 Sentence of P. C. Andrews fri 
 
 Woodward avenue grade sepa- 
 ration 9 
 
 Murphy. S. J., life of 56 
 
 Murray, Robert, bondsman for F. 
 
 C. Andrews 48 
 
 Murtagh, Peter Thomas, death 
 
 of 47 
 
 Museum of Art, Detroit 125 
 
 Musicians' unions, troubles set- 
 tled 31 
 
 Muth, Frederick, death of 68 
 
 Nation, Carrie, visits Detroit 44 
 
 National Fulton Brass Co 100 
 
 Navin, Thomas J., at stockade 
 
 meeting 71 
 
 At St. Francis school meeting. 72 
 Neal, Frank S., representative- 
 elect 79 
 
 Nelson, Patrolman James lOS 
 
 Dempsey inquest 24 
 
 Retirement of 36 
 
 New England Pie Co 96 
 
 Newman. Henry L., Jr., mar- 
 riage of 8 
 
 Newspaper artists' exhibition — 25 
 Newspapers, baptist ministers on 41 
 
143 
 
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 News-Tribune, Detroit river edi- 
 tion 58 
 
 New State Telephone Co 119 
 
 Newton, Dr. L. C, election 
 
 president of school board 54 
 
 New Year's day 5 
 
 New York Sun, attack on Col. 
 
 Gardener 3S 
 
 Nicholson, admx., vs. CSty of 
 
 Detroit S 
 
 Noble, Moss & Cot, exchange 
 
 office for banks 100 
 
 Noeker, John J., retires as water 
 
 commissioner 4i; 
 
 Nolan, Lawrence, death of S2 
 
 Normandie Hotel, diamond inci- 
 dent 66 
 
 New lessees 5 
 
 Norrls Collar & Cuff Co 93 
 
 North Congregational church, 
 
 incorporated 37 
 
 Separation from First church 33 
 
 Northern Manufacturing Co 100 
 
 Normoyle, Mrs. Mary, rent of 
 
 store 31 
 
 North Woodward Avenue Real 
 
 Estate Investment Co 97 
 
 Norton, Edward K., death of 31 
 
 Novy, Prof. Fred G., lectures on 
 
 benzozone 26 
 
 Nowakowski, Martin, killing of 
 
 John Kolasinski 110 
 
 Oakman, William, killing of 110 
 
 Obetz, Dr. H. L., criticises high 
 
 school 47 
 
 O'Hanlon, Catherine, case of 108 
 
 Oil fields, of Wayne county 82 
 
 O'Keefe, Daniel, sentence of 51 
 
 Old Detroit National Bank 9S 
 
 Osborn, Chase S., purchases 
 
 Courier-Herald of Saginaw 16 
 
 Poilasky, Marcus, subway fran- 
 chise 40 
 
 Poole, A. A., elected president of 
 
 Trades Council 79 
 
 Pond Fork Coal Co 96 
 
 Poor Commission, report of 61 
 
 Porter, Dr. Phil, prescribes 
 
 building sand 56 
 
 Post, Washington, on vindication 
 
 of Gen. Alger 63 
 
 Pottawatomie Indians, Chicago 
 
 property of 17 
 
 Potter, H. C, director of Wyan- 
 dotte Bank 93 
 
 Pound, James H., Michigan Tele- 
 phone Co. case 39 
 
 Poupard, H. G.. Ascher juror, 
 
 sentenced 51 
 
 Pratt. Charles H., at trial of 
 
 EMgar J. Adams 13 
 
 Preston M. E. church, corner- 
 stone laid 61 
 
 Preston National Bank, sale of.. 45 
 
 Vs. Cameron Currie & Co 90 
 
 Involved by F. C. Andrews 46 
 
 Primary school money 80 
 
 Prize fighting 130 
 
 Proctor- Raymond Mfg. Co 100 
 
 Protestant Orphan Asylum, an- 
 nual meeting 9 
 
 Public schools, criticisms on 47 
 
 Public schools. Dr. Wright on 81 
 
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 Public library, not passed by 
 
 estimators 89 
 
 Pullman car shops, sale of 68 
 
 Pungs, W. A., in Michigan De- 
 benture Co. case 36 
 
 P. P. & J. T. McLaughlin dis- 
 solve 99 
 
 Palestine lodge, F. & A. M., 
 
 christening 53 
 
 Palmer, Thomas, buys real estate 97 
 
 Palms, Martha, marriage of 49 
 
 Parker, Thomas W., defeated for 
 alderman by George P. Codd.. 8 
 
 Parkhill Land Co 9? 
 
 Peddie, Robert L., body found 43 
 
 Peebles, Dn James, in U. S.^ 
 
 district court _S7 
 
 Penberthy Injector Co., coroner's 
 
 inquest 23 
 
 Insurance case 95 
 
 New factory site 96 
 
 Peninsular Telephone Co 121 
 
 Pennsylvania boiler works, Pen- 
 berthy inquest 23 
 
 People's Ice Co 100 
 
 People's Telephone Co 119 
 
 Pere Marquette railway 93 
 
 Perrin, Miss Inez, marriage of 61 
 
 Perry, Peter, shooting of Mrs. 
 
 Tillman 108 
 
 Petit, Rev. N. H., president of 
 permanent council baptist 
 
 churches 12 
 
 Pfeiffier, C, Brewing Co 100 
 
 Pfeiffer, Conrad, municipal gas 
 
 commissioner 37 
 
 Phelan, Judge James, air brake 
 
 hearing 57 
 
 Disagreement with Recorder 
 
 Murphy 44 
 
 On Canipus ordinance 125 
 
 Beech street award 61 
 
 Sentences Charles Meyers 21 
 
 Influence on east side politics 78 
 
 Peculiarities of 76 
 
 Physicians' Pharmacal Co 93 
 
 Pickle trust 97 
 
 Pie trust 96 
 
 Pioneer Woolen Mills 100 
 
 Pingree & Smith, changed to Pin- 
 
 gree Shoe Co 28 
 
 Reorganization of 95 
 
 Pingree, F. C, interested in 
 
 astrology 41 
 
 Testified in police court 43 
 
 Pingree, Gov. Hazen S., story of 
 
 the Boers 12 
 
 Inventory of estate of 28 
 
 Meiko Meyer case 24 
 
 Memorial fund 67 
 
 Monument to 32 
 
 Pingree, Hazen S., Jr., marriage 
 
 of 19 
 
 Pingree Shoe Co 95 
 
 Defeated in arbitration case 37 
 
 Interest in estate of Gov. Pin- 
 gree 28 
 
 Pitcher, Dr. Sheldon, arrest of 69 
 
 Pitts, Mrs. Louise Strong, death 
 
 of 25 
 
 Pokagon band, Pottawatomie In- 
 dians 17 
 
144 
 
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 Polglase, Dr. W. A., talk on 
 
 feeble-minded 41 
 
 Police department, honorable 
 
 mention 53 
 
 New districts 90 
 
 Quigley, Capt. John, death of 18 
 
 Racing events 12S 
 
 Railroad Y. M. C. A., annual 
 
 meeting of 10 
 
 Randall, James A., suit against 
 
 Northwestern railway 44 
 
 Rand, W. P., superintendent of 
 
 white wings 81 
 
 Real estate, building operations.. 91 
 
 Real estate transfers 91 
 
 Reciprocity, Detroit Chamber of 
 
 Commerce on 25 
 
 Recorder's court, air brake case.. 57 
 Andrews's trial. See F. C. An- 
 drews. 
 Awardsi in Woodward avenue 
 
 grade separation S 
 
 Beech street awards 64 
 
 Lafayette avenue opening 63 
 
 Meiko Me ver case 24 
 
 Miller. Prof. J. M., convicted 109 
 
 Murphy and PheLan disagree — 44 
 
 Sentence of Charles Meyers 21 
 
 Regattas 129 
 
 Rhodes, James, death of 42 
 
 Reid, James & Sons, lose suit to 
 
 Edmund Hall 70 
 
 Reilly, Cornelius J., before par- 
 don board 23 
 
 Reinhardt, John, killing of HO 
 
 Renaud, George, death of 88 
 
 Restaurants, keepers raise prices. 96 
 Reu1±eT, Mrs. C, president of 
 
 Zoar society 12 
 
 Revere Beach Scenic Railway Co. 100 
 Revival services, at Simpson M. 
 
 E. church 12 
 
 Reynolds, Joseph N., sentence of.. 73 
 Rich, John T., trustee for Delta 
 
 Lumber Co 94 
 
 Ripley, Supt. Joseph, report of — 23 
 
 Ripperism 72, 74, 75 
 
 Ritter, C. H. & Co., buys bus- 
 iness of M. H. Chamberlain — 93 
 Robinson, W. C, representative- 
 elect 79 
 
 RO'biscoe, Max, killing of William 
 
 Behrendt Ill 
 
 Roe, Charles, lessee of Normandie 
 
 hotel 5 
 
 Rogers, alias Carl Thompson, hold 
 
 up by 53 
 
 Rogers, H. W., alias Ramsey, 
 
 arrest of 112 
 
 Rohnert, Judge Morse, law prac- 
 tice of 55 
 
 Sentence of Michael Follmer 27 
 
 Roosevelt, President, presented 
 
 with terrier bull pup 52 
 
 Visit to Detroit 69 
 
 Rosenberg, Oscar, drowning of 104 
 
 Rose, William S.. arrest of 112 
 
 Rothwell, Maj. B. H., consolida- 
 tion of telephone companies 121 
 
 Rowing 129 
 
 Russell, Francis G.^ death of 12 
 
 Russell, Mrs. Alfred, death of 32 
 
 Page 
 Russel, George H.. director in 
 
 Wyandotte bank 93 
 
 President Detroit Stock Ex- 
 change 94 
 
 Sabbath observance, report of 
 
 Ministers' Union 7 
 
 St. Andrew's Church, mortgage 
 
 to F. C. Andrews 33 
 
 St. Clair River, ice jam in 20 
 
 St. Francis School, political meet- 
 ing at 72 
 
 St. Mary's Hospital, death of 
 
 Jerry Connor 24 
 
 St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal re- 
 port 23 
 
 St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, re- 
 incorporated 18 
 
 Saloon licenses 44 
 
 Salsbury, Lant K., sentence of... 31 
 
 Salvation Armv, new officers 44 
 
 Visit of Gen. Booth 81 
 
 Sampson, Admiral, death of sis- 
 ter of 25 
 
 Sanitary Refrigerator Co 96 
 
 Sankey, Ira G., in Battle Creek 
 
 Sanitarium 27 
 
 Santa Barbara Plantation Co 100 
 
 Sault Ste. Marie, ship canal re- 
 port 23 
 
 Scenic Railway, company organ- 
 ized 96 
 
 Schloss Bros., fire 17 
 
 Schmidt, Carl E., committee on 
 
 Pingree monument 32 
 
 Schroeder, John, Water Commis- 
 sioner 46 
 
 Scott, Joseph, killing of Matthew 
 
 Smith 38, 109 
 
 Scott, Martha, killing of Albert 
 
 Dennis 110 
 
 Scotten, Oren. resignation of 99 
 
 Scripps, George H., will case 85 
 
 Scripps, James E., appeal to citi- 
 zens 77 
 
 Consents to run for State Sen- 
 ate 68 
 
 Election of 78 
 
 In will litigation 85 
 
 Nominated for State Senate 74 
 
 Withdraws from telephone com- 
 mittee 80 
 
 Scripps, Sarah E., death of 81 
 
 Scullen, W. P., elected State Sen- 
 ator 79 
 
 Selano, Harry, return of 53 
 
 Sellers, Albert F., marriage of... 22 
 
 Servant girls' club discussed 70 
 
 Servians 52 
 
 Sheahan, Thomas, bondsman for 
 
 F. C. Andrews 48 
 
 Shea, John, business agent Trades 
 
 Council 17 
 
 Representative-elect 79 
 
 Sheeran, William S., death of.... 31 
 Sherwood, J. W., general super- 
 intendent Detroit Southern R. R. 5 
 
 Siau Laundry burned 72 
 
 Sibley, H. S., U. S. flag incident. 51 
 Sibley Stone Quarry robbery, sen- 
 tence of burglars 48 
 
 Sielewsky, Mrs. Augustine, aged 
 112 years 6 
 
145 
 
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 Siggins, W. N., Representative- 
 elect 79 
 
 Simons, Charles C, elected State 
 
 Senator "9 
 
 Simpson M. E. Church, revival 
 
 services at 12 
 
 Sixth Ward, special aldermanic 
 
 election 34 
 
 Skat League, North American, 
 
 convention 48 
 
 Skeleton of British soldier un- 
 earthed 42 
 
 Skinner, G. N., Salt Co lOO 
 
 Smallpox, report on 92 
 
 Vaccination ordered 80 
 
 Smedley, John H., in Buhl strike. 19 
 Smith, Dr. E. B., candidate for 
 
 Mayor 73 
 
 Smith, Matthew, killing of 38, 109 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Catherine S., death 
 
 of 25 
 
 Smith, Patrolman Dan, arrests 
 
 Harry Depew Ill 
 
 Smith, Peter, buys Michell stock. 99 
 Smith, Samuel W., elected to 
 
 Congress 79 
 
 Smith, Thaddeus A., lessee of 
 
 Normandie Hotel 5 
 
 Snow, Frederick F., election of... 79 
 
 Snow, Muir B., promotion of 58 
 
 Snow, Wilber B., causes arrest 
 
 of C. H. Thompson 7 
 
 Society for Prevention of Cruelty 
 
 to Children; Juvenile Court 88 
 
 Soluble Desiccated Egg Co 94 
 
 Solvay Process Co., deeds land to 
 
 Detroit Southern R. R 27 
 
 Sons of American Revolution ban- 
 quet 29 
 
 Spanish War Veterans, conven- 
 tion of 68 
 
 Hazen S. Pingree command.. 33, 69 
 
 Gilbert Wilkes command 69 
 
 Sparling, Joseph, death of 87 
 
 Spellman, Tim, sentence of 48 
 
 Spillane, Capt. John T., salary 
 
 under F. C. Andrews 30 
 
 Sporting review of the year 127 
 
 Standard Screw Co., increase in 
 
 men 96 
 
 Standard Wagon & Carriage Co.. 100 
 
 Standart Bros., incorporated 94 
 
 Stansell, Hiram, death of 26 
 
 Star-Cole Line, steamer Darius 
 
 Cole 95 
 
 State Dairy and Food Commis- 
 sioner, Thompson bribery ease.. 7 
 State League of Republican Clubs, 
 
 election of officers 26 
 
 State Pardon Board, Clark and 
 
 Graham case 23 
 
 State Savings Bank, directors in 
 
 Wyandotte bank 93 
 
 State Supreme Court, bail for F. 
 
 C. Andrews 71 
 
 David Whitney Estate case 45 
 
 Decides Nicholson, Admx., vs. 
 
 City of Detroit 8 
 
 Pingree Shoe Co., arbitration 
 
 case 37 
 
 Sustains Recorder Murphy's rul- 
 ing on bail 77 
 
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 Stearns, Justus S., White Hats 
 
 organization 44 
 
 Steere, Horace W., tray of dia- 
 monds stolen 21 
 
 Stevens Building strike 45 
 
 Stevens, Miss May Hampton, 
 
 marriage of 73 
 
 Stevens, Mrs. Ellen, Woodward 
 
 avenue grade separation 9 
 
 Stevens, Mrs. F. B., elected chair- 
 man of Protestant Orphan Asy- 
 lum 9 
 
 Stevenson, Elliott G.. resumes law 
 partnership with Don M. Dick- 
 inson 6 
 
 Stockade meeting 71 
 
 Storm, electrical, cripples D. 
 
 U. R 51 
 
 Storm, electrical 54 
 
 Strang, W. B., Detroit & Toledo 
 
 Shore Line troubles 123 
 
 Street railways, Everett-Moore 
 
 syndicate program 10 
 
 Street railway review 123 
 
 Strikes, coal miners 65 
 
 F. A. Baker on 70 
 
 "Get coal" convention 71 
 
 Rev. S. S. Marquis on 70 
 
 Strikes, Brown Bros 48 
 
 Buhl molders IS 
 
 Detroit Stove Works 38 
 
 Stevens Building 45 
 
 Union bakers 46 
 
 Subway franchise 40 
 
 Suicides, of Agnes Inglis 22 
 
 Of Miss Beulah Wheeler 6 
 
 Of the year 101 
 
 Sullivan, John L., visit to Detroit. 87 
 
 Summit Lake Mining Co 98 
 
 Sunday theaters, report of Rev. 
 
 Nehemiah Boynton 6 
 
 Sunrise Mineral Paint Co 100 
 
 Superior Match Co 100 
 
 Sutherland, Rev. John W., North 
 
 Congregational Church 33 
 
 Sutton, Eli R., editor of Pingree's 
 
 Story of the Boers 12 
 
 Warrant for perjury 49 
 
 Will of Fr. Van den Driessche.. 25 
 
 Syrian girl case 65 
 
 Tarsney. T. E., corporation coun- 
 sel, in City Savings bank case.. 36 
 Taxation collection of back taxes 54 
 
 David Whitney estate case 45 
 
 Increase in valuation 36 
 
 Report of W. B. Thompson 59 
 
 Tax rate fixed 49 
 
 Taylor, Dewitt H., chairman of 
 
 republican city committee 60 
 
 Taylor, H. A., convicted of 
 
 bribery 29 
 
 Telephones, citizens' commit- 
 tee 80, 122 
 
 Consolidation of companies 121 
 
 Franchises 121 
 
 Review of situation 116 
 
 Telephone Subscribers' Protect- 
 ive association 118 
 
 Thanksgiving day at Detroit 
 
 opera house 82 
 
 Thomas, F. J., death of 69 
 
 Thomas, George, treasurer of 
 
 Maybury Guards 8 
 
146 
 
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 Thompson, Carl, alias Rogers, 
 
 hold-up by 53 
 
 Thompson, Charles B., pleads 
 
 guilty and is fined 7 
 
 Thompson, Charles H., arrest 
 
 caused by Wilber B. Snow 7 
 
 Thompson, J. Wilfred, bondsman 
 
 for H. R. Andrews :-'9, 48 
 
 Trompson, Richard J., death of.. 17 
 
 Thompsos, W. B., election of 78 
 
 In D. U. R. wages case 124 
 
 Report on back taxes 54 
 
 Report of 59 
 
 Thompson, W. G.. in D. U. R. 
 
 wages case 124 
 
 On "Ripper" bargain 75 
 
 Three-cent fare decision 124 
 
 Tillman, Mr.'^. Sarah, death by 
 
 shooting 108 
 
 Torrey, chief engineer, M. C. R, 
 
 R. on grade separation 16 
 
 Torrey, Augustus, death of 65 
 
 Townsend, C. A., elected to con- 
 gress 79 
 
 Track athletics 129 
 
 Trades council, changes president 79 
 
 Election 56 
 
 John Shea, business agent 17 
 
 Musicians' union trouble settled 31 
 
 Transport, carferry, injuiT to 58 
 
 Trap shooting 129 
 
 Trinidad Asphalt Co. repair job 
 
 on Woodward avenue 46 
 
 Trusts, cigar, fight against 99 
 
 Ice 95 
 
 Pickle 97 
 
 Pie 96 
 
 Malleable iron 98 
 
 Turner, Julia, letters 66 
 
 Tuttle, Arthur J., prosecuting at- 
 torney in Edgar J. Adams trial.. 14 
 Tuttle, Lieut, detective, salary 
 
 under F. C. Andrews 30 
 
 Ulua Plantation Co 98 
 
 Union Trust Co., dividend 97 
 
 Union Trust Co., receiver for City 
 
 Savings bank 26 
 
 Appraisers appointed 29 
 
 vs. Detroit Construction Co 33 
 
 vs. Detroit, Rochester, Romeo 
 
 & Lake Orion railway 33 
 
 Dividend declared 72 
 
 Foreclosure proceedings 46 
 
 Disclosure of Cameron Currie 
 
 & Co 34 
 
 Disclosure of P. P. & J. T. Mc- 
 Laughlin 34 
 
 Disclosures of Dr. Book 34 
 
 vs. Frank C. Andrews 29 
 
 Garnishment hearings 32 
 
 vs. G. R., H. & L. M. R. R. 
 
 Co., verdict 84 
 
 Report and inventory 43 
 
 University of Michigan, alumni 
 
 election 30 
 
 Ferry athletic field 32 
 
 Bronze tablet 30 
 
 Foot ball game with Leland 
 
 Stanford, Jr., university 5 
 
 United States circuit court. Gran- 
 ite State Provident association 
 
 case 27 
 
 Steamer Ward case 10 
 
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 U. S. district court, eastern, Louis 
 
 Busch fined 38 
 
 Western, sentence of Salsbury 
 
 and McLeod 31 
 
 U. S. supreme court, three-cent 
 
 fare decision 124 
 
 Van Den Driessche. Fr. Aman- 
 
 dus, will of 25 
 
 Van Deusen, Annie, destitution of 51 
 Van Husan, Miss Maud, marriage 
 
 of 22 
 
 Vital statistics of Wayne county. 52 
 
 Viger, Alex. E., death of 22 
 
 Voigt, E. W.. farm, sale of 96 
 
 Wabash railroad, buys Ann Arbor 
 
 railroad 96 
 
 New section opened 22 
 
 Purchase of Detroit & Mack- 
 inaw 97 
 
 Wagus, "Dutch," escape of 61 
 
 Walker, Henry L., and Son 100 
 
 Wallace Mfg. Co 97 
 
 Walsh, "Red," arrest of Ill 
 
 Wanty, Judge P., sentence of 
 
 Salsbury and McLeod 31 
 
 Ward, Capt. Eber, sketch of 65 
 
 Ward, E. B., divorce proceedings 
 
 of 67 
 
 Ward, John, estate of, inherit- 
 ance tax on 19 
 
 Warren, C. W. & Co 100 
 
 Warren, Homer, retires from city 
 
 committee 60 
 
 Warren. Horton, killing of 81. Ill 
 
 Water levels of great lakes 84 
 
 Water works, trouble with ice — 86 
 Wayne County Medical society. 
 
 Prof. Novy's lecture 26 
 
 Wayne circuit court, divorce 
 
 suits 68, 92 
 
 George H. Scripps will case 85 
 
 Golden vs. Smith 48 
 
 Leckle vs. City of Detroit 40 
 
 Mandell, Henry A., judge 81 
 
 M. C. R. vs. State of Michigan.. 89 
 
 On asphalt repair contract 46 
 
 Patrolman Isham case 42 
 
 Preston National bank vs. Cam- 
 eron Currie & Co 90 
 
 Sentence of Sibley quarry burg- 
 lars 48 
 
 Union Trust Co., rec, vs. G. R., 
 H. & L. M. R. R. Co., verdict 
 
 directed 84 
 
 Wayne county, new building 
 
 dedicated 72 
 
 Finances of 92 
 
 Jail, escape of prisoners 61 
 
 Oil fields of 82 
 
 Representatives in legislature.. 79 
 
 School money 80 
 
 Vital statistics 52 
 
 Wayne Iron Co 100 
 
 Wayside Tales Co 99 
 
 Western States, steamer, launch- 
 ing of 17 
 
 W'heeler, Miss Beulah, suicide of 6 
 Whelan. John B.. examination 
 
 of F. C. Andrews before 40 
 
 White. Gen. Will, military scan- 
 dal revived 49 
 
 White Hats, political organiza- 
 tion formed 44 
 
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 White Mfg. Co 100 
 
 White Star line, Greyhound 
 launched 27 
 
 Whitney. David, Jr., estate, in- 
 crease in tax rate 36 
 
 Mandamus suit 45 
 
 Wiest, Judge Howard, presides 
 at trial of Edgar J. Adams 13 
 
 Wilde, Patrolman T. R., shooting 
 of Alfred Denau'-t Ill 
 
 Wilderspin, Elma, death of. sus- 
 picious case 69 
 
 Williams & Bro,. join pickle trust 97 
 
 Williams Transportation Co., sale 
 of steamers of 96 
 
 Wilmarth, A. W., at charities and 
 corrections convention 49 
 
 Wilson, Frank, sentence of 48 
 
 Wilson, Mrs. Anna B., lost her 
 diamonds 112 
 
 Wiltsie, C. H., buys tax titles.... 49 
 Purchase of tax titles 39 
 
 Witherell, Maj. Charles T., guard- 
 ian for 38 
 
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 Woodward avenue, asphalt repair 
 
 job 46 
 
 Grade separation awards 8 
 
 Sale of Voigt farm 96 
 
 Worden, Isaac, G.. death of 84 
 
 Wright, Dr. Hiram A., on public 
 
 schools 81 
 
 Wright, Prof. H. D., retirement of 51 
 
 TachUng 129 
 
 Yawkey & Freeman Co., mining 
 
 firm 96 
 
 Yantic, U. S. S., annual cruise of 63 
 
 Yosemite, TT. S. S., crew of, outing 53 
 
 Bounty money to crew of 20 
 
 Y. M. C. A. annual report 16 
 
 Y. W. C. A. acquires Temple 
 
 Beth El property 30 
 
 Youssef, Alexndra, Syrian girl.. 65 
 Zenner, A. H., president of De- 
 troit Poultry & Pet Stock ass'n 29 
 Zoar society, Mrs. C. Reutter, 
 
 president 12 
 
 Zug island, blast furnace 96 
 
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