When Messrs. H. A. Everett and Albert Pack of The Detroit Railway, promised last November to have cars running in Detroit by July 1 the people were incredulous, as they did not know Messrs. Everett and Pack or their ability to accomplish the seemingly impossible. They had been accustomed to the old foggy method of the other lines and this was the basis of their doubt. The Detroit press of last week told how thoroughly they kept their promise and when the same two men promise a pyrospectacle of great magnificence, to celebrate the opening of their lines, that promise must be believed. The pyrospectacle, “Lalla Rookh,” which is to be given in Detroit, is now running in Cleveland and has won for itself the utmost of praise from the Cleveland papers. All kinds of superlative adjectives have been used their [sic] to describe its bewilderingly beautiful setting, tis graceful dances, its thrilling pyro-technical features and the perfection of detail and ensemble which marks the production. To properly celebrate the opening of The Detroit Railway will Tom Moore’s Oriental romance “Lalla Rookh,” environed by all the skill an thrilling accessories that the great Pain can invent, be brought to Detroit and presented on Boulevard Park, 14th and Avenue and the Boulevard, beginning July 23.
[tags]Ann Arbor Register, July, 1895[/tags]