Bird's-eye View of Detroit.

IN the office of many a Michigan merchant, manufacturer or banker, and in many a home throughout the State, hangs a large picture called "THE JOURNAL's Bird's-eye View of Detroit".

This picture claims attention both as an historical record and as a work of art. It was made after a painting by John R. Chapin, the celebrated New York artist and magazine illustrator, who is known to several generations of the readers

of Harpers' Magazine.

The picture shows the ex

tent and character of the city;

and gives an accurate idea of the river front and the shipping. Individual studies were made of hundreds of the leading buildings of the city, and great pains were taken to secure exactness. The painting was reproduced by the gelatine process, which secures delicacy and softness without any sacrifice of detail.

The plate was prepared for a printing press, and was printed in New York City. An edition of 53,000 copies was exhausted almost immediately, and a second edition sold readily. No other paper in Detroit has ever attempted so valuable an enterprise or carried it out so completely. The growth of Detroit of late years has been, and promises still to be, so very rapid that such a picture will be prized more highly by each succeeding generation. Also, changes in the style and rig of vessels doing business on the great lakes are constantly being made, so that a record of the appearance of the shipping of to-day will be a wonder in the days to come.

MARRIAGE

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(Telephone 357-1 Ring.)

The Newsboys' Base Ball Club.

THE greatest novelty ever seen in the base ball world was the Newsboys' Base Ball Club, as conceived and carried out by THE DETROIT JOURNAL. In 1887 THE DETROIT JOURNAL team

won all the games it played, and in the two games against the Chicago Mail boys, won an elegant championship banner, the $150 silver cup offered by Mr. N. S. Wood, the newsboy's favorite actor, and the title or champion newsboys' club of the world,

In 1888 THE DETROIT JOURNAL carried its novel plan still further, and astonished the base ball traternity by challenging the newsboys of the United States to combat for the title, cup and banner. The season opened in Buffalo, June 1. THE JOURNAL'S team was made up of B. Dinsmore, C. Gallagher, I. Cohen, B. Cohen, E. Daisey, C. Kellogg, R. Sheehan, Tom McDonald, A. Downer and F. Spranger, with F. H. Wakefield as manager and H. C. Brearley as treasurer. The boys were roy ally received everywhere, and more honors were showered upon them than on any league club that ever traveled. They were introduced to the mayors of every city that they visited, and to Governor Hill, of New York State.

Games were played with the Boston Globe, New York World, Brooklyn World, Philadelphia Call, Pittsburg Leader, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Rochester Post- Express, Albany Press and Knicker bocker, Syracuse Herald and Buffalo News. After their victorious season the Chicago Mail was invited to send a newsboy team to Detroit for a game. The Chicago Mail boys came confident of victory, and made boast of what they were going to do with the little DETROIT JOURNAL boys, but they were defeated 25 to 4.

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The Journal Not An "Organ."

THE DETROIT JOURNAL is an independent paper. This does not mean that THE DETROIT JOURNAL is neutral. Far from it. It does mean that THE JOURNAL avoids the gall and the bitter

ness of the party organ; that it treats every question on its merits; that its one aim is to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about every man who comes under public notice, and about every measure that comes up for public discussion.

In the heat of party conflict, when the organs are exagger ating the merits of their own side and slighting the merits of their opponents, THE JOURNAL gives without bias or prejudice the facts in the case, believing that what readers want is, first of all, absolute truth, so that they may form their own opinions.

THE JOURNAL's trusty correspondents and able editorial writers keep the public informed on all matters of public interest; and the paper aims to form public opinion by giving all sides of a matter in its news columns, and then discussing the question in its true bearings.