The Wayne Hotel, Detroit

This hotel was completed and opened by a banquet to the nevspaper men in December, 1887. With ita furnishings and fittings it cost upwards of $250,000. It was owned by the heirs of the Cass estáte and was first leased to W. P. F. Meserye, who engaged Mr. James R. Huyes as manager. Sometime after there was a change in the proprietorship and Mr. Hayes becamelessee and proprietor. The original lease expired last montli, but it was renewed and Mr. llayes seeured the house fox a long tertn of years. When built this hotel was considered complete in every detail, but the march of progresa has affected hotels as everythiug else, and of late the Waynebas lacked some things needed tor tne utmost comfort of ita guests. o one recognized this fact as fully as Mr. Hayes, but he coukl not put his ideas of improvement into execution until he had secured the lease. As soon as the new lease was signed he started the improvements that will not only make the Wayne what it was at its opening but far surpass this. Among the many improvements, and they will be very thorough when complete, is the laying of a new tile floor in he lavatory, ttie snppiying oí nou wuuji vhere there has been none before, and ;he complete renovation of the gentleneu's toilet room where the oíd wooden ïttings and appurtenances have given ivay to m'arble and the latest sanitary ippliances. The bar room has been entirely refuruished. The next move was the refurnishing of the dining room. Here also marble tile flooring replaced wood; the ceiling and side walls were repainted in lighter and more dainty tints, and new silver table service was provided. Nor was this all ; the old staircase, leadiug from the office to the dining room floor, which was of wood and had an abrupt aud awkward turn at tlie bottom, was torn away and in its place is now seen handsome rnarble stairs, of broad tread and easy rise, with wide landings of marble to make more easy the ascent. The improvemenst alreaily made have cost $25,000. Alarbe number of bath rooms are to be added to the house aud the latest improved steam heating system be put in and every room supplied with a lieater. These improvemenst, when complete will make the Wayne rank favorably with any hotel in the whole country. It is to the newly fuinished Wayne thatMr. Hayes welcomed tlie newspaper men of Michigan, to whoin he has already shown bis bouudless liospitality, Mr. Hayes' invitation to the recent banquet carried with it the cordial assurance tbat the Michigan press will flnd is warm a welcome waiting at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, of which Mr. Hayes is also proprietor and manager. The budget oí the University of Chicago for July 1, 1895 to July 1, 1890, gives the University $602,426 for current expenses, applied as follows : Administration and general expenses, $43,958 ; faculty of arts, lit. and science, $288,211 ; the divinity school, $44,125; the academy, $35,981 ; university extensión, $40,008; libraries, labor and museums, stí7 ; printing ana publismng, .fzi,iau; physical culture and athletics, $5,475 ; affiliated work, $1,140; buildings and grounds, $57,890 ; miscellaneous, $20,631. Governor Rich seems to have a partiality for U. of M. men in his appointments, if tliose oE the past few days are any index in the matter. Three members of the Detroit liealth board are U. of M. men. Harlow P. Davock graduated from the University in 1870. He was a literary student. Dr. Oscar LeSeure, of the same board is a homeopathie alumnus of 1878. Dr. Howard W. Longyear also studied here in the medical school in '73-4, graduating, however, from the New York college of medicine. J. J. Goodyear, too, of this city, whoin the governor has just named for trustee of the Eagtern Michigan Insane asylum at Pontiac was a medical student here in '74-5, graduating from the Cincinnati College of medie