Note 48 — XVIII. CHIEFLY CONCERNING A HOLIDAY AT NIAGARA.

Detroit is a handsome and populous city on the banks of a noble river that connects Lake Erie and St. Clair. The company gave two performances at Whitney’s Opera House, to large audiences, by whom they were heartily received. The “Post and Tribune” contained long and complimentary notices of the plays and the actors, with lists of the principal people in the audiences. “The coming of Mr. Irving and Miss Terry,” it says, “was a great event in dramatic circles here, and has long been looked forward to with expectancy. The audience that greeted them completely filled the house, every seat being occupied, while many were content to stand during the entire performance. It was also a fashionable audience, in the fullest sense of the word, all of Detroit’s most pronounced society people being there.”