James McMillan gave $100,000 for the erection of a building and later John S. Newberry offered $100,000 as an endowment for operating costs. This was the beginning of the present Grace Hospital, which has two locations in Detroit, 277 West Grand Boulevard and 4160 John R Street. The Herman Kiefer Hospital on Hamilton Boulevard was established in memory of Dr. Herman Kiefer, eminent physician and author. The Henry Ford Hospital was founded with the purpose of making it one of the largest and best equipped hospitals in the country. This large institution, partially completed in 1917, was then turned over to the government for use as a base hospital. After the close of hostilities the work of completing the vast building was undertaken. The institution is now operated as a closed hospital, in that the staff attached to the hospital cares for all the patients. Detroit's municipally-operated hospital located at St. Antoine and Macomb streets cost the city about $250,000 and was opened October 12, 1915. It was established by the Poor Commission, now known as the Department of Public Welfare. It serves as an emergency hospital and clearing house for accident or injury cases occurring on public thoroughfares or of a public nature, and a psychopathic hospital for the safe and humane handling of the mentally disturbed, and is under the control of the Welfare Commission. Other wards of the hospital are devoted to the care of medical and surgical patients unable to pay for treatment in other hospitals. The receiving hospital is of service to the various courts and departments of the city in holding persons for medical care or observation pending a proper disposition of their cases and the saving made thereby is large. Before the Receiving Hospital was opened the cost of caring for the city's sick poor in private hospitals was approximately $110,000 per year, which has now been reduced to about $45,000 per year; the cost of maintenance of the Receiving Hospital to the City of Detroit is approximately $70,000 per year. The Board of Health of the City of Detroit was organized on the first day of March, 1895, under an act of the Legislature approved February 27, 1895, and consists of four members, who are electors and freeholders in the City of Detroit, appointed by the Mayor. Two of them and no more must be graduates in medicine. The Board of Health has authority such as ordinarily pertains to such bodies, has power to make orders and regulations as they shall think necessary or proper for the preservation of public health; and other and extensive powers, especially granted by said act; and also the right to elect a president and appoint a health officer and secretary. Perhaps one of the most notable additions to the facilities of Detroit for the relief of its afflicted is the Detroit Tuberculosis Sanitarium recently completed at Northville. The work on this place was started on March 3, 1920. The Sunday preceding representatives of John Finn & Son, general contractors, visited the site. and laid out roughly where the commissary buildings were to be placed, the construction office and other buildings, such as the blacksmith shop, garage, cement shed, etc. By the middle of the same week two bunk houses and a temporary diningroom building were under roof and the first of the following week a crew of eighty men was on the job. Two weeks later the first concrete footings were poured and the excavations were well under way. The roofs on all the sani tarium buildings were completed by Thanksgiving of 1920 and the entire sanitarium plant was substantially completed by May 1, 1921. The sanitarium plant will be totally completed, ready for full occupancy by early spring. The sanitarium will accommodate both adults and children, about three hundred adults the year around, one hundred children in winter and two hundred children in summer. Dr. A. H. Garvin is superintendent of the sanitarium. Although thirty-three children are already accommodated, to relieve overcrowding in Detroit, the full staff of the sanitarium will not be organized until the first of the year. Other hospitals of Detroit, in addition to those covered under the head of "Charitable Institutions," are: Children's Free Hospital, 5224 St. Antoine. Cottage Hospital, 54 Oak, Grosse Pointe. Detroit Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, 62 W. Adams. Delray Industrial Hospital, 7125 W. Jefferson. Detroit Osteopathic Hospital, 188 Highland. Dunbar Memorial Hospital, 576 Frederick. Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, 3245 E. Jefferson. Fernwood Hospital, 3818 Northwestern. Grand River Hospital, 5964 Grand River. Highland Park General Hospital, Glendale Avenue. Lincoln Hospital, 1051 25th. Mercy Hospital, 668 Winder. Michigan Mutual Hospital, 1366 E. Jefferson. Roosevelt Memorial Hospital, 2920 Mt. Elliott. Providence Hospital, 2500 W. Grand Boulevard. St. Luke's Hospital, 228 Highland. Salvation Army Woman's Hospital, W. Grand Boulevard and W. Fort. Samaritan Hospital, Grand Boulevard and Milwaukee. CHAPTER XLVIII DETROIT IN LITERATURE AND ART BY WILLIAM STOCKING DETROIT'S PLACE IN LITERATURE AND ART THE FIRST HISTORIANS AND CHRON- -MEN WHO COMBINED STATESMANSHIP AND LITERATURE-MANY PASTORS WITH READY PENS-MODERN HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS DETROIT'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO POETRY AND FICTION-THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTITS HISTORY AND PROSPECTS-NOTES ON INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS. In the French dominions of North America every administrative official was a historian and every priest an annalist. The letters and dispatches of the commandants and the seventy-three volumes of the "Jesuit Relations" furnish the basis for much of the connected history that has been written about these regions. Some of the officials were also masters of a more finished literature, and Cadillac, the founder of Detroit, was in the latter class. He wrote memoirs on Acadia, a geographical term that was then applied to a long stretch of coast, and in these he described the coast and islands from Nova Scotia to New York. He wrote a memorandum on Michilimackinac, including accounts of the appearance, traditions and customs of the. Indian tribes of that post and beyond. Of the style of his writings Farmer's History says: "He was equally successful in describing the customs of the Indians, in suggesting means for outwitting the English, and in exposing the malice and intrigues of those who opposed him. His writings sparkled with bon mots and epigrammatic sentences, some of them remarkable for concentrated thought. His reasoning powers were of a high order and his arguments were clear, logical and forcible. His opinions were definite and expressed with clearness and precision. His writings abound in tropes, and proverbs dropped easily from his pen." Among the conspicuous figures that arrived in Detroit with the first British occupation in 1760 was Maj. Robert Rogers who took part in the turmoils here and at Mackinac, having been in command at the latter post for several years. He was a writer as well as a fighter, and was the author of "Rogers' Journal," "A Concise Account of North America," also a tragedy entitled "Pontiac." Col. Arent Schuyler De Peyster was in Detroit as commander of the post from 1779 to 1784. His correspondence, orders and reports are scattered through 300 pages of the Haldimand Papers in the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections. He had a cultivated literary taste and was the writer of many poems and sonnets containing allusions to local scenes and events. Among other poems is one on "Red River, a song descriptive of canoeing or sleighing upon the ice in the post of Detroit in North America." Among his |