Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-30
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Detroit, Mich, Sept. 29.-Detroit is
spending money like a magnified anG
highly veneered western mining
town!
Spending her money-and getting
her moneys worth.
Rents are soaring to New York
prices-but houses and flats are not
the thin shells built.to-order in most
towns growing rapidly.
Clothes come high, but Detroit fOl
years has boasted of being six OF
eight months ahead of Chicago in
fashions.
Face Massage.
A face massage costs so cents
but covers the upper chest and back
of the neck.
There are three-cent car lines here
but most regular Detroiters pay a
nickel for Accent service.
Detroit claims the classiest night
life between the coasts!
This centers about the Japanese
room in the Cadillac, where run
way provides platform for chorus
girls and dancing and singing prin
cipals to approach the tables closely
Between numbers on the runway, the
patrons trip the latest dances.
Henry F. Stumme, maitre d'hotel
formerly of the Statler in Cleveland
says money flows in a steady stream
in Detroit, and everybody seems te
have it, .'- - ,SFa ftl
There's noisier crowd in the Cafe
Frontenac, under the Berghoff. Here
a pickaninny in gold and brass pulls
aside a silken cord to let you pass
Raging steps are popular. A ma
ture dancer" in filmy cloud, pos
lures and twists for the wine-fed audi.
ence. -'f
The flamingo room of the Pontchar.
trian is as full of ankles as Chicago's
Peacock alley"
Downtown streets are alive with
ogling eyes. Washing1on-blvd, the
great dark way" between the Tul
Ter and the Cadillac, is filled with cou'
pies making dates.
The recently reopened segregated
district is populous and prosperous
Sunday is as wide open as any
other day.
At the same time Detroit has the
largest Y. M. G. A. in the world, with
1900 members.
Billy Sunday There.
After Billy Sunday came to town
one favorite night spot was closed
the roof garden of the Tuller. But
Lew Tuller says Sunday had nothing
to do with this.
Woodward-av.: from the Campus
Martius far beyond the Ford plant
in Highland park, is continuous 10
mile stream of automobiles. So is the
boulevard, which encircles the town.
Tom Waugh, who pulls an express
train to Grand Rapids and back, ex
presses the laboring mans love for
the miracle city"-"lt's the one city
where the man who works can drive
his own car, and afford to-"
Detroit is preparing to spread its
through country clearing house.
that shall act for the banks of the
state, according to Robert Locke
manager of the Detroit Clearing House
association, which is fathering the
new plan.
Theatrical men call Detroit the best
show town in America. A weeks
business of $4,000 is not unusual
B. c. Whitney is preparing to build
a million-dOllar opera house.
Millionaires are made overnight.
or at least between ends of year.
The town is full of young men who
used to be clerks or mechanics, and
who get in right in the auto game,
or stoves or steel or real estate.
Norvell Hawkins and B. F. Steph.
enson, Ford aides, became rich by the
simple plan of buying farm and pro-
jecting street railway through it.
In 1905 there was a real estate
boom. Building lots were sold way
out beyond the boulevard In year
or SO the buyers began kicking them
selves About 20 per cent of the pur-
chasers held on, and took over their
neighbors' property. Today these lots
are covered by fine residences or auto
factories.
Nowadays stenographers and me-
chanics and drygoods clerks are SELL
ing real estate on the side, and many
of them making morey at it.