A Detroit Builder

LEVI ELSEY TELLS THE STORY OF H!S LIFE. Has Lived in Detroit Forty Years-ïïe Built the Newberry & McMillan and the Campaw Block. A Clipping from the Detroit "Sun" Coneerning Margaret Stenbaugh, now a Beautiful Woman. Once a Puny Little Midget. From the Detroit Evening News. ' Away out Gratiot Avenue, far from the din and turmoil of the business centre, there are many attracti ve homes. The intersecting streets are wide, clean aiul shaded by large leaf-covered trees, and the people you meet are typical of industry, economy anc honest toil. There are many pretty resi dences, but none more inviting in its neat ness and home-like comfort than that of Mr Levi Elsey, the well-known builder ant contractor, at 74 Moran street just off tiot. Mr. Elsey is an old resident of Detroit, having moved here about forty years ago. lie has erected hundreds of houses in different parts of the city, and points with pride to sucli buildings as the Newberry & McMillan and Campaw blocks in which he displayed his ablility as a superintendent. " I ha ve seen Detroit grow from a village to a city," he observed yesterday in convereation with the writer, "and I don't think there are many towns in America to-day equal to it in point of beauty. I know almost everybody in the city, and an incident which recently happened in my life has terested all my friends. "It is now about eight years ago since I was stricken down with my tirst case of illness. One cold, blustering day I was down town and through my natural carelessness at that time I permittedmyself toget chilled right through. When I arrived home that evening I feit a serious pain in my left leg. Ibathed it that nightbutby morning I found it had grown worse. Infact it wasso serious that 1 sent for my family physician, and he mformed me that I was suftering from varíense veins. My leg swelled up to doublé its natural size and the pain increased in volume. The agony was simply awful. I was laid up and nevcr left my bed for eight weeks. At times I feit as though I would grow frantie with pain. My leg was bandaged and was propped up in the bed at an angle of thirty degrees in order to keep the blood from flowing to my extremities. 'I had several doctors attending me, but I beheve my own jndgment helped me better than theirs. After a siege of two months l couJd more around, still I was on the sick list and had to doctor myself for years I was never really oured and sufl'ered any amount of anguish. 'lé m years ag0 r nticed an article jn the Lvenvng Aews about my friend Mr Northrup, the Woodward Avenue merenant In an interview with him he stated that he had used Dr. WiUiams' Pink Pi]Js for Pale People and that they cured him. I knew him very well, having built his house out 'Wood■ward Ave., and I tboughtl would follow his suggestion. I must confess I did so with marvelous success. From the time I bemin to teke the Pink Pilis I feit myself growini; to be a new man. They acted on me like a magical stimulant. The pain departed and I I soon was as strong and healthy as ever Before trying the Pink Pilis I had used any amount of other medicine without any noticeable benefit, lint the pills cured me and I was myself again. 'JWhen a person finds himself relieved and enjoying health he is apt to exposé himself again to another attack of illness. Some three months ugo I stopped taking the Pink Pills, and from the uay I did so, 1 notieed a change in my condition. A short time since Irenewedmyhab'itof takingthem with the same beneficial resulta which met me formerly. I am again nearjy as strong as ever, nlthough I am a man about fiity-six years of age. I teil yon, sir the Pink Pills are a most wonderfuJ medicine and if they do as well in otlier cuses as they did in mine they are the best in the world. I freely reeoinmend them to any suil'crer." A WOMAN'S STORY. From the Detroit Sun. The large, pretentious brick residcnce at 86 Miami Avenue in this city, is the home of the heroine of this interesting story. Pheis Miss Margaret Stenbaugh, and her' experienees during the j)ast four years are published here for the tirst time. Miss Stenbaugh is a pretty girl of about twenty years and is to-day the true picture of the ideal, healthy, robust and jovial American girl. She was not always so, as is proven by the accompanying statement made by her. Four years ago " she said, " 1 was sncli a serawny, puny little midget, pale and emaeiated by an ailment peculiar to us wonien, that my father and mother gave me up to die. The local praetitioner, whose name was Dr. Glassford, (I was at that time living at Scotland, Ont.,) said it was only a matter ofdayswhenl would be laid away in the churchyard. I could not walk. I became so weak, and regularly every night my father used to carry me up stairs to my room. I can distinctly remember my telling him that he wouldn't have to carry me about much longer and how he said while the tears glistened in his eycs, that he would be willing to do it always, if he could only have me with him. " At this time, I read, or was told 'by somebody, of the wonderful cures that were being wrought by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and my father went to Brantibrd, where he purchased a couple of boxes rom W. Wallace. I commenced taking ;hem, and I thought for a time that they did me no good, but very shortly I noticed a great change. They began to act on my trouble and in the short space of six weeks I was able to walk. I continued taking the pills and an six months I was in the condition you see me now. I fully believe that they alone saved me from the grave, and you %vill always find myself and the 1 'alance of our amily ready to talk about the good Dr. AVilliams' Pink Pills did for me." Sworn to and subscribed before me thig 15th day of December, 1893. D. A. Delaney, Notary Public ■ „r-„. ,. wyne Co., Michigan. Dr. V ïlliams' Pink Pills contain, in aconlensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and estore shattered nerves. They are also a pecinc for troubles peculiar to females such s suppressions, irregularities and all forms fweakness. They build up the blood and estore the glow of health to pale and sallow neeks. In men they effect a radical cure n all cases arising from mental worry overwork or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Filis are sold in boxcs (never in loose bulk) t 50 cents a box or six boxes for Í2.50 and lay be had of al] druggista, or direct by mai] from Rr.Williamg'Medicine Companv Soneneetady, X. Y. " '