Telegram-herald., 1888-09-27

pleasure TO meet with old friends, but there
were mingled with il recollections of dear
and departed ones. The place was now a
wonderful and beautiful city. He bad
come to Grand Rapids from Kalamazoo the
dsy before in little over four hours In
1896 il took four or five days. People today
can form little conception of the difficulty
of making roads in those early days through
the woods. 1t took two odsys TO get 10 kala-
mszoo. The fordIng of streams, the
marshes, rough bridges and corduroy roads
were yet vividly present TO bis memory.
One incident OF travel be would narrste
In September CT October, 1885, be
was delegate 10 convention
at Schoolcraft, and travelled in the
stage" COMMON two-horse wagon.
In attempting TO cross the Thornspple the
water lifted I'D the wagon so that the king
bolt lost out. letting the horses 20 on while
the wagon fiosted down stream. A man
happened slong in a buggy. which had a.
iron step with a round shank. which was
filed of and made to answer for a king
bolt When he came back man wanted
TO send a horse into Grand Rapids. and he
rode II. In crossing the 1hornspple the
stage horses acted badly, and the wagon be
gan 10 float of and tip over and he Wa
OBLIGED 10 drive his horse out put his arms
around a lady passenger and take her to
tltfes IN eIotl 70 get AtN ttAg6 out II N&e
necessary TO get q yoke of oxen Grand
Rapids wss even then very busy place
In 1886 there were about three hundred in
habitsnts, and The place filed up very
rapidly. Thst old trader. Louis Csmuau
was here. and there was considerable
trafio With the lpdisps. Pork. butter
and other provisions nearly all came from
Ohio. There wss no farming here. il was
very new. Louis Csmpsu had come in 1875.
but II was not until "a tbst population be
gan TO come in. There vss then q great
influx There was the most wonderful
boom ng 81 the town in 1896 ever heard Of
and il wss expected that the land would be
come immensely valusbls The woods
we're filed With men locking ID vaiusbie
ispd The speaker knew sbsut because IL
wss bis business ~ surrey ont the isnd. He
bad spent msBy vesrv davs in the work
which was wonderful devsiopef q spps-
tits Re bsd eaten rsv PORK On ore
Occssi0H be hsd walked tvsafv miles - fn0
= log house rather than sleep on the greUnd,
and had slept on the floor ysile the Hics
crsvled over his face Al that time tber.
vss . great boem ell over ths,Ststs Nichi-
gar uas the nearest sts's 70 The East. sD6
va regarded az good fed By ID, spec7ls
tors. II the Sp-iBg Of y there came
terrisIe reverss-fhs suspension q sDscs
payments, AID utter pTostrstioD ef bDsinsss
Men who bad Dougbt isDd - u 70 Tor raj
its "a zs on mortgages ard often for ths
tsIes And then there vss the yiloc -
curTescy.
Tbs sussksr ss5 thst be wanted sspe-
sally 70 rssnars upon t6s c8ItHrs ssa sn-
tsrpriss sao~n ~ TIE esfi7 rssl0ents. Hs
hsd ses1 ussy Esstern towns. tat none
which sxcsIisd esTlv Grsrd Rapids in tso=s
r-sp>css Ths Grand Rspi5s u todsT. hs
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