eatest architectural
beauty are the First Congregational, with a fine Byzantine interior, St
John's Episcopal, the Woodward Avenue Baptist and the First
Presbyterian, all on Woodward Avenue, and St. Anne's and Sacred Heart of
Mary, both Roman Catholic. The municipal museum of art, in Jefferson
Avenue, contains some unusually interesting Egyptian and Japanese
collections, the Scripps' collection of old masters, other valuable
paintings, and a small library; free lectures on art are given here
through the winter. The public library had 228,500 volumes in 1908,
including one of the best collections of state and town histories in the
country. A large private collection, owned by C. M. Burton and relating
principally to the history of Detroit, is also open to the public. The
city is not rich in outdoor works of art. The principal ones are the
Merrill fountain and the soldiers' monument on the Campus Martius, and a
statue of Mayor Pingree in West Grand Circus Park.

The parks of Detroit are numerous and their total area is about 1200
acres. By far the most attractive is Belle Isle, an island in the river
at the E. end of the city, purchased in 1879 and having an area of more
than 700 acres. The Grand Circus Park of 4 1/2 acres, with its trees,
flowers and fountains, affords a pleasant resting place in the busiest
quarter of the city. Six miles farther out on Woodward Avenue is Palmer
Park of about 140 acres, given to the city in 1894 and named in honour
of the donor. Clark Park (28 acres) is in the W. part of the city, and
there are various smaller parks. The principal cemeteries are Elmwood
(Protestant) and Mount Elliott (Catholic), which lie adjoining in the E.
part of the city; Woodmere in the W. and Woodlawn in the N. part of the
city.

_Charity and Education._--Among the charitable institutions are the
general hospitals (Harper, Grace and St Mary's); the Detroit Emergency,
the Children's Free and the United States Marine hospitals; St Luke's
hospital, church home, and orphanage; the House of Providence (a
maternity hospital and infant asylum); the Woman's hospital and
foundling's home; the Home for convalescent children, &c. In 1894 the
mayor, Hazen Senter Pingree (1842-1901), instituted the practice of
preparing, through municipal aid and supervision, large tracts of vacant
land in and about the city for the growing of potatoes and other
vegetables and then, in conjunction with the board of poor
commissioners, assigni