The Detroit, published in 1886, was a very simple sequence dance which in theory uses a polka variant, though the 6/8 music feels more like a two-step. The dance was choreographed by Herman A. Strassburg Jr. to music by John E. Fancher. The cover of the sheet music, courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society, is shown at left (click to enlarge).
The dance instructions were published with the sheet music as well as by M. B. Gilbert in his compilation Round Dancing (Portland, Maine, 1890) and by G. W. Lopp in La Danse (Paris, 1903). Both attributed it to Strassburg.
The dance instructions are essentially the same in all three sources, though the internal reference to polka variant is given by Strassburg as the Rush Polka, by Gilbert as the Glide Polka, and by Lopp as the polka coquette. According to Gilbert, and discussed here, all three are different names for the same variation. It's possible they are regional terms.
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