The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-12

Il am gong 10 tle circus say :
Mrs Anna S, Randall, a resident
or Detroit for 60 years. y want "a
compare it with the nrst circus
ever went ta-----That was in 1884,
whom Detroit was little more than
village"
81 had just come from New York
with my parents. all my little broth.
ers and sisters, horses, carriages,
servants. furniture and everythins
We possessed TO begin life anew IN
the far west
we came from Buffalo on the
boat. and there was nothing very
comfortable about he boats in those
days We all had 20 sleep on the
floor and benches as there were
only a couple or staterooms. but
Aunt Emily Ward had one. and she
gave II up 10 my mother and her
babies.
II was a little girl. but old enough
70 be impressed by all the strange
sights FOR We had come from a very
cultured little place on Long Island
where VIC were well acquainted with
William Cullen Bryant Richard
Dana, james Gordon Bennett Mar
garet Fuller and all the celebrities
OF that day, but my mother wanted
70 pioneer. she thought II the best
way 10 bring up her children and
so We came west.
We went 10 the old Michigan
Exchange on Jeferson.ave and made
quite stir for my uncle and his
family were with us and we We're
party Of N children. three grown
people. besides our faithful irish
servants who refused TO be left be-
hind We filed M a good part Of
the hotel and there wasemuch com
motion about tho horses and all the
luggage which had been sent weeks
before by the canal boats across
Now York and had just arrived
"Tho morning after our arrival
my father took my sister ana mo
for walk end we went up Wood
wardave 10 the Campus Martius
The city hall small building.
stood In the middle OF what Is now
Michigan ave, and the lower part
OF q was used for n meat market.
Across Tho street. where the be
tro.t onera house now stands. was
the Railroad hotel, the terminal Of
the Grand Trunk railroad. There
was y big sand bank in the rear 20
stop the trains in case they should
run amack Everyone who came
m on that railroad was elven q
dinner free and he needed IT, for
Sc took half day to come from
Pontiac
The streets from the city hall
down TO the river. and from Bates
to Wayne ST.. were paved WITH
cobblestone, bu, beyond that il was
just black mud
While we were looking about
what should we see making its diff
fcult way down Michlgau.ave. but
y circus procession. a very poor
little procession u was. but my sis
ter md ] were filed with delight
and dragged my father across the
street ip between the farmers wag
ons and The old-fashioned carriages
10 get nearer
There was an elephant and d
camel covered with red and gold
trappings: there were ladies In
green velvet very much splashed
with mud, on horseback: there was
a band and some gilded wagons and
there were some Indians on Indian
ponies We had been told that we
WOULD sec Indians way out west.
md SIRE enough. there they were.
we followed them about town
which was not vcEy far. and on the
campus they stopped and put up
slack wire while one Of their Nom
beers performed
The people came ont of all tho
little stores. leaving no one behind
90 Wait upon customers and no one
20 guard their wares II was not