a hospital under the immediate control of some ladies of St. Mark's church, and has proved itself of great benefit to many, as its doors are open to all, without distinction of creed. The charges for board and care are just sufficient to cover actual cost, for such as can pay, and to such as cannot and are worthy, no charge is made.

"The Union Benevolent Society" is another charitable hospital, of a more enlarged character, which has been in existence for upwards of fifteen years. It is managed by ladies and gentlemen selected from the various Protestant organizations, and is incorporated. Having an eligible and admirably located lot, steps are now being taken towards the erection of a suitable building to accommodate their rapidly increasing wants.

This city is the acknowledged metropolis of western and northwestern Michigan. Its location is one of admitted beauty, having a rare variety of hill and dale for landscape, while it is noted for its elegant residences, suburban villas, fine business blocks, and the air of activity and thrift which characterizes so many of our western towns. The United States have decided to erect a suitable public building here for its District Courts, Pension Office, U. S. Marshal's Office, Collector, Post-office, etc., etc., and has ordered a free postal delivery system, in accordance with a law of Congress passed at its last session. It should be added that during the season of navigation boats ply regularly on the Grand river to Grand Haven, and a large amount of business is transacted along the shores, which are dotted with thriving villages.

The traveling public are well cared for in several hotels, which are well kept, though the rapid increase of population and the influx of strangers, attracted by the wide-spread notoriety of the place for business, demand increased facilitics in this line, and steps are being taken towards the erection of more hotel room. There are two free bridges and one toll bridge spanning the river-which is 900 feet wide-also two railroad bridges. The wholesale business of Grand Rapids in groceries, boots and shoes, dry goods, hardware and manufactured articles from wood, is large and rapidly increasing. Several of its streets are paved with stone, while wooden pavements are now coming into general use. Owing to the hilly nature of a large part of the city plat and the necessity of much filling near the river, on the east side, the grading and leveling of streets has been a costly undertaking, but it has been accomplished during the ten years past at an outlay of nearly a hundred thousand dollars per annum. The ground forming the plat on the west side is very level, and calculated for a large city, backed and skirted as it is by very bold and delightful bluffs. Situated as Grand Rapids is, in the vicinity of a splendid farming, fruit, wool raising and well wooded country, it must continue to increase in wealth, population and intelligence, and remain in the future, as it is now, the second city of Michiga., and through its

various institutions and enterprises of a business, religious and social nature, must do no small share in moulding the thought and giving tone and direction to the population which is rapidly filling up the great country north as far Mackinaw, and west to the shore of Lake Michigan.

The view which we give of a portion of the city is taken from the Union school hill, looking south and southwest, and covering in the foreground portions only of the first, second and third wards, on the east side, and the eighth ward across the river in the distance.

ADRIAN.

ADRIAN is a beautiful and flourishing city of about 12,000 inhabitants, situated on the south branch of the River Raisin, on high, rolling ground, in the midst of one of the richest farming districts in the State. It is located very nearly in the center of Lenawee county, of which it is the county seat. It is easy of access by rail-thirty-three miles from Toledo, seventy-four miles from Detroit, two hundred and ten miles from Chicago, and eighty-five miles from Lansing.

The site upon which the city is built was located by Addison J. Comstock, in 1825, and a plat of forty-nine lots, comprising a part of what is now the business portion of the city, was made by him, and recorded March 31, 1828.

Adrian was incorporated in 1853, since which time its boundaries have twice been enlarged. It now covers an area of nearly three miles square, and has grown to be one of the most important manufacturing cities in the State. It is an orderly, well regulated city-governed in the interest of economy and good order. Its present officials are Wm. H. Waldby, Mayor; W. H. Stone, Treasurer; F. B. Nixon, Recorder; Simeon M. Babcock, Marshal; George L. Bachman, City Attorney; Daniel T. Anderson, Collector. Aldermen-First Ward-George W. Larwill, Michael Molloy; Second Ward-Lorenzo Tabor, George S. Brown; Third Ward—W. T. Lawrence, Edward Swords; Fourth Ward-C. H. Comstock, James Warner.

The buildings of Adrian are of a superior order. It contains many very elegant residences, and numerous very fine public buildings. Its healthfulness, cleanliness, beauty and prosperity evoke universal commendation. Its church edifices are models of convenience and elegance. Perhaps no city in the country is better provided with churches. The Presbyterians, Methodist Episcopal, Congregationalists, Baptists, Lutherans and Catholics each have large brick church edifices. Other denominations have convenient but less pretentious churches. The increasing importance of Adrian College is a subject of much interest. Its struggle to maintain itself and its final triumph command the admiration of all lovers of education. From a weak beginning it has grown to be one of

the first educational institutions in the State. It is situated on a fine elevation in the western part of the city, overlooking it from the west. It has four fine brick buildings, and an endowment of $100,000.

The school system of Adrian is unsurpassed, possessing as it does the most perfect facilities for bestowing upon all who may avail themselves of the benefits of it, an education at once the most liberal and thorough. The schools are admirably conducted, the corps of teachers being second to none in the State. The instructions are thorough and upon the broadest and most liberal basis. The graduates therefrom are admitted to the University without examination. The school buildings consist of the central building, so called, erected in 1869, costing about $100,000, and four large branch buildings, of brick-one in each ward.

The city is well provided with hotels, some of them ranking among the best in the West, affording ample accommodations of the first order. The Adrian Car Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $300,000, manufactures passenger and freight cars, and employs three hundred men. There is connected with these works one of the largest and most important foundries in the State, outside of Detroit and Wyandotte.

The Illinois Manufacturing Company employs a capital of $200,000 and one hundred and fifty men; has orders from all parts of the country, and is noted for the promptness and dispatch with which it fills them. It manufactures all kinds of car trimmings and brass fittings.

The Adrian Paper Mill Company manufactures wrapping and print paper; has a capital of $75,000, and employs fifty men.

The Adrian Hand Car Company, recently organized, manufactures an improved hand car, and has orders from all parts of the country.

There are three first class flouring mills here in successful operation, two of them being run by water and one by steam.

Boots and shoes, carriages and furniture are manufactured for the wholesale trade to a considerable extent.

There is about to be established a file manufactory, also a factory for the manufacture of all kinds of wooden-ware, which will furnish employ ment for a considerable number of men.

Adrian has four banks-First National, formerly Waldby's Bank of Adrian, long and successfully conducted by Wm. H. Waldby, the present Mayor of the city; W. H. Stone & Co., private bankers; Lenawee County Savings Bank, and the Adrian Savings Bank.

The Michigan State Insurance Company, located here, is one of the best insurance companies in the State. It is doing a large business, and is perfectly reliable.

The first newspaper was published here October 22, 1834, called the Lenawee Republican and Adrian Gazette, afterwards the Watchtower, R. W. Inglass, proprietor.

In 1865, a portion of the Watchtower establishment was purchased by General Wm. Humphrey, now Auditor-General of the State, and he, in conjunction with T. S. Applegate, one of the owners of the Watchtower,

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