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In Summer Days. 
 
 NIAGARA FALLS, MACKINAC ISLAND, 
 
 THE ST. LAWRENCE, 
 
 THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, THE HUDSON, 
 
 THE ADIRONDACKS 
 
 AND THE SEA, 
 
 \'IA THE 
 
 M ichigan CI knt^raIv 
 
 ■ I'HK NlAGAHA FaM^S KoUTE." 
 
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 They come! the merry sumiitrr months of beauty, song and flowers; 
 
 They come! tlie ghidsome months that bring: thick leafiness to bowers. 
 
 Up, up, my heart, and walk abroad, fling cark and care aside; 
 
 Seek silent hills, or rest thyself where peaceful waters gliile ; 
 
 Or, underneath the shadow cast of patriarchal trci. 
 
 Scan through its leaves the cloudless sky in raut-traMquillitv 
 
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 WITH COMPLIMENTS 
 
 General Pa.ssenc;rr Department. 
 
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 M ichigan C entral 
 
 "The Niagara Falls Route" 
 
 From Chicago to New York, 5 
 
 Saratoga, Lake George axd the Adirondacks, . .22 
 
 From Albany to Boston, 24 
 
 To Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec, 28 
 
 The St. Lawrence, 33 
 
 The White Mountain-s, 38 
 
 Mackinac and Northern Michigan, 44 
 
 St. Clair, Mount Clemens and South Haven, ... 51 
 
 Steamer Connections, . . 52 
 
 Index, 55 
 
 H. B. Ledyard, E. C. Brown, 
 
 I'resideiit and Oen'l Manager, Uen'l Su)>erintendfnt, 
 
 DETROIT. DETROIT. 
 
 0. W. RUGGLES, 
 
 Gen'l Tassi ;iiiJ Ticket Ai,-!, 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 P^K)LE Bros. 
 
 PniNTERS AND KnORAVK 
 
 Chicago. 
 
The Niagara Falls Route 
 
 FROM CHICAGO TO NEW YORK. 
 
 Five times a day one may see a throng of travelers gathered 
 within the walls of the Michigan Central Passenger Station, at the 
 foot of Lake Street, in Chicago, as the hour approaches for one of 
 the finely appointed express trains of this favorite line to pull out on 
 its rapid journey to the rising sun. All classes of the population 
 
 
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 are found there and representatives of every nation and every peo- 
 ple of the globe; but, in the summer-time, from the first appearance 
 of civic dust and heat, the predominating element is the summer 
 tourist — quiet, well-dressed, intelligent, knowing the best places to 
 go to and the best means of getting there. For the American, man 
 
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 or woman, is a traveler and knows how to travel, and finuing him- 
 self or herself at that wonderful center of teeming life and in- 
 dustry, the Garden City of the Lakes, goes eastward by the Mich- 
 igan Central, "The Niagara Falls Route," to the thousand places of 
 natural beauty and sublimity, of fashion, of health and of trade, that 
 crowd the eastern and northern portions of our country. And 
 grouped here about the long train of superb coaches led by the iron 
 horse of glossy coat, powerful and quivering in readiness for the 
 race like a thing of life, the scene is one of interesting activity. The 
 pyramid of baggage rapidly disappears in the portals of the capa- 
 cious baggage car; the uniformed conductor shouts "All aboard!" 
 the last farewells are hastily spoken; the iron horse snorts as he 
 leaps forward toward the mountains and the sea, and Off We Go. 
 
 The traveler usually sees but the seamy side of the cities he 
 passes through by rail. Not so of Chicago, as he looks through the 
 clear plate-glass of the Michigan Central Palace Cars. For miles 
 as he speeds along with accelerated motion, he sees on the one side 
 the lovely lake, placid, rippled or storm-tossed, according to its vary- 
 ing moods; on the other, verdant lawns and blooming parterres, pala- 
 tial mansions and villas half hidden in trees and shrubbery, telling 
 of the wealth, the luxury and the taste of the wonderful city arisen 
 from its ashes. Then come the charming suburbs of Hyde Park and 
 Woodlawn Park, the busy, interesting town of Pullman, on Calumet 
 Lake, and then the broad expanse of level country. We have a chance 
 now to look about us, and, though the softlj'-cushioned seats of our 
 elegant coach, replete with all the comforts and conveniences that in- 
 genuity can suggest and skill can furnish, woo us to luxurious rest, we 
 hunger, as do all travelers, and seek tlie Dining Car. We find it a 
 palatial hotel on wheels, with all its appointments elegant and taste- 
 ful, scrupulously neat and clean. The accomplished chef prepares, 
 and the active waiters serve, a sumptuous and admirable meal that 
 incites us to valiant trencher duty and causes us to marvel at the 
 moderate charge. We linger long at table, for the pleasure of a good 
 dinner is enhanced by the charming panorama that glides swiftly 
 by, and adjourn to the comfortable smoking-room of our palatial 
 Sleeper to crow n our enjoyment with the reveries of a cigar from 
 the Dining Car's superbly stocked coffers. 
 
 At Michigan City (fifty-eight miles) we get our last picturesque 
 glimpses of Lake Michigan, bordered by curious lofty sand-dunes, 
 and with a sturdy looking light-house far out at the entrance of the 
 harbor. Ten miles farther is New Buffalo (sixty-eight miles), 
 worthy of note only as the junction of the Chicago & West Mich- 
 igan Railway, which takes through cars and sleepers of the Michigan 
 
 * Mileage given in tliis diaiiter ih frmii OhicHpi, 
 
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 Central through the great fruit region of Michigan to Grand 
 Rapids and Muskegon, famous for tlicir furniture factories, plaster 
 quarries and lumber 3'ards. Passing Buchanan (eighty-eight miles), 
 whence a branch road runs out ten miles to Berrien Springs, we 
 soon reach Niles (ninety-four miles), on the St. Josepli River, a hand- 
 some and well-built city of nearly 5,000 inhabitants, in the midst 
 of a riih agricultural region. The Air Line Di\ision to Jackson 
 diverges here and upon it, two miles beyond the town of Cassopolis, 
 is the delightful summer resort of Diamoiul Lake. From Dowagiac 
 (107 miles) stages run to Sister Lakes, a very pleasant summer resort, 
 ten miles from the railroad. As we pass on through Michigan we find 
 all the way to the Detroit River a more rolling and picturesque 
 country, full of fine farms, pretty villages and prosperous towns, with 
 neat stations along the line. The country that the first surveyors 
 pronounced utterly unfit for settlement and habitation has proved, 
 under intelligent agriculture, to be of almost marvelous fertility. 
 Kalamazoo (142 miles), but recently incorporated as a city 
 with 14,000 inhabitants, is regularly laid out, with 
 
 broad, fA isJ'> well-shaded streets, and contains 
 
 nany fine business blocks, 
 nuinerous manufactories 
 and costly residences. 
 The spacious and impos- 
 ing buildings of the 
 State Lunatic Asylum, 
 a Baptist College and 
 Female Seininary are 
 located here. Nowhere 
 in the world does cel- 
 ery grow larger, whiter, 
 more tender or more 
 delicate in flavor than in 
 the deep black soil about 
 the city, and nowhere is that 
 toothsome vegetable grown more ex- 
 tensively. The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad 
 crosses the line at this point and a branch of the Michigan Central 
 runs out forty miles to South Haven, a charming smnmer resort 
 on the shore of Lake Michigan. 
 
 Battle Creek (165 miles) is a well-built city of 10,000 inhabit- 
 ants, at the confluence of Battle Creek and Kalamazoo River. It is 
 famous for its splendid water-power and its manufactures — particularly 
 of carriages, w-agons, threshing machines, agricultural implements 
 
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 and flour- — which are more extensive than those of any other town 
 of its size in the world. It is also the headquarters of the Seventh- 
 Daj Adventists, who have here their large publishing house, printing 
 books, newspapers and periodicals in a dozen languages, an excellent 
 college and a magnificent sanitarium of high repute occupying a 
 noble, elevated site. 
 
 Marshall (178 miles) is a pretty little city of 4,000, famous for its 
 flour, for the valley of the Kalamazoo is a noted wheat region. 
 Albion (190 miles) is pleasantly located at the confluence of the two 
 branches of the Kalamazoo in one of the richest farming sections of 
 the State, ships flour of a high reputation and is the site of an 
 excellent Methodist Episcopal College. We leave the river at 
 Parma (199 miles) and in a few minutes stop at Jackson (210 miles), 
 a busy manufacturing city of over 19,000 people, on the Grand 
 River, at the intersection of six railroads. One division of the 
 Michigan Central runs down the valley of this river ninety-four 
 miles to Grand Rapids, the second city of the State, while another 
 runs northward, through Lansing, the State capital, to Saginaw, 
 Bay City and Mackinaw, on the strait of the same name, and a third 
 forms the Air Line to Niles, running through the thriving towns of 
 Homer, Union City, Three Rivers and Cassopolis. Through cars 
 from Detroit run over the former and from Chicago over the 
 latter. The city is regularly laid out and substantially built. It 
 lies near the edge of the coal deposits of the State and the 
 mines can be seen from the cars. The spacious stone buildings of 
 the State Penitentiary are located here and the Michigan Central 
 Passenger Station was the finest in the State until the construction of 
 the company's fine building in Detroit. 
 
 Ann Arbor (248 miles) is built on both sides of the Huron River, 
 has a population of 8,000 and is noted as the site of the University of 
 Michigan. This is one of the leading institutions of learning in the 
 west, and with no distinction of sex, very low fees and a high 
 standard of scholarship, attracts students from all parts of the 
 country. It has eighty-three professors and 1,380 students in all its 
 departments. The grounds are extensive and thickly planted with 
 trees. University Hall is 347 feet long and 140 feet deep and is occu- 
 pied by the departments of literature, science and art. There are 
 nuinerous other buildings, including a new fire-proof library, large 
 and valuable museums and, on a hill a inile distant, a fine observatory. 
 
 Ypsilanti (256 miles) is a thriving city of 5,300 inhabitants, 
 noted for its flour and paper mills and other factories, its valuable 
 saline springs and excellent sanitarium. The State Normal 
 School, with nearly eight hundred students, is located here and 
 
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 liere also many Detroit business men have their suburban homes. 
 Detroit (2S5 miles) is reached in another hour and the traveler 
 tinds it a flourishing, prosperous city of 150,000 inhabitants, whose 
 seven miles of 
 lined with 
 with gi- 
 
 
 DETROIT, 
 
 FROM WINDSOR. 
 
 magnificent water front, 
 
 shipping and crowded 
 
 gantic elevators, 
 
 ing foundries 
 
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 p 1 iimetl 
 
 furnaces, 
 
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 for the fine 
 
 business 
 blocks, imposing 
 public buildings, 
 elegant churches and magnificent broad avenues of 
 palatial residences not always found in cities of more pretension. The 
 central point of the city, from which the avenues radiate, is the Campus 
 Martius, where stood the old frontier fort built by Cadillac in 1701 and 
 in which Pontiac besieged the English for eleven months — surrendered 
 by Hull and won again by Harrison. Facing it is the City Hall, a 
 handsome structure in the Italian style, ornamented by marble statues 
 of men famous in the long and eventful annals of the city. Oppo- 
 site is a fine monument in granite and bronze to the memory of 
 Michigan's dead in the war of the rebellion. The guide books state 
 that "the freight depot of the Michigan Central is one of the most 
 noteworthy structures in the city. It stands on the wharf and 
 consists of a single room 1,250 feet long and 102 feet wide, covered 
 by a self-sustaining roof of corrugated iron." The new Passenger 
 Station of the same road is probably the finest building of its kind 
 in the State and is one of the architectural features of the city. The 
 \ isitor to Detroit should not omit the United States Marine Hospital, 
 just above the city, which commands a fine view of the Canada shore. 
 Fort Wayne, a bastioned redoubt on the river bank three miles below 
 Belle Isle, the city's beautiful island park, and Grosse Point, which 
 projects into Lake St. Clair seven miles above the city, at the end of 
 a beautiful drive. 
 
 At Detroit close connection is made in the company's magnifi- 
 cent Passenger Station at the foot of Third Street with its Bay City 
 and Mackinaw Divisions, which run 290 miles northward to the 
 straits, the Toledo Division bringing more passengers from St. Louis, 
 Cincinnati and the South, and with the Flint c*i: Pere Marquette and 
 
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 Detroit, Lansing ilv: Northern roads, which traverse the State to the 
 northwestward. Here anotlier Palace Sleeping Car for New York 
 or for Boston is attached to the long and heavy train that our un- 
 wearying courser pulls along with seeming ease. On gigantic ferry- 
 boats of steel, propelled by the most powerful engines, we cross the 
 great river, picturesque Avith its busy craft, and find ourselves in Can- 
 ada. The officers of Her Majesty's Customs pass through the cars, 
 but their sole duty seems that of hurriedly but courteously affixing to 
 each piece of baggage the little label that passes it free of search or 
 duly through Her INIajesty's loyal Dominion. Wonderful speed we 
 make here over the long tangents, but so smooth are the 
 
 steel rails and so perfect is the construction of 
 
 the cars, that we find no unpleasant 
 jarring as we read our paper or our 
 book. And, however great the 
 speed, there is the utmost safety. 
 The Michigan Central has always 
 enjoyed a singular immunity from 
 serious accidents — an immunity 
 due not merely to good luck, but 
 to perfect construction, admirable 
 discipline and incessant Avatchful- 
 ness. Science has invented a hun- 
 dred curious automatic devices that 
 ^ btand between us and danger and the 
 vigilance of the man at the throttle is 
 unabated. At St. Thomas (39S miles), 
 a busy, prosperous and attractive city with a population of about 
 12,000, and the junction with the St. Clair Division of the Michigan 
 Central, the Toronto sleeper we have carried from Chicago is taken 
 by the Canadian Pacific and carried to Toronto, the Ontario metrop- 
 olis. Here it connects with a magnificent Parlor Car running 
 through, via Peterborough and Ottawa and down the wild-rushing 
 Ottawa River to Montreal, and also with other cars for that wild 
 and lovely region of the Muskoka Lakes, a very paradise for the 
 angler, the sportsman and the lover of the untamed beauties of nature. 
 Meanwhile, by day or by night, we hasten onward to meet again 
 the waters we saw at Chicago's front, and flowing majestically past 
 Michigan's chief city, Detroit. At Hagersville (457 miles), a neat 
 little town of i,aoo inhabitants, connection is made with the North- 
 ern and Northwestern Railwa^ys for Hamilton and points North. At 
 Welland (498 miles) we cross the famous ship canal which has made 
 possible the carriage of grain from Chicago to Liverpool without 
 
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 breaking bulk, and, seeing the lumbering old craft in its basins, in- 
 wardly contrast the old with the new. Ten miles farther the Michigan 
 Central has very extensive yards at Montrose (508 miles) where is 
 handled the immense quantity of freight brought into and through 
 Canada h\- the Niagara frontier. 
 
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 HO/?itStfO£ FALL, FROM GOAT ISLAND. 
 
 "In a few minutes," writes Col. Donan, "the conductor calls: 
 'Falls View!' and one of the grandest scenes on earth bursts upon 
 the gaze of a train-load of delighted passengers. The mighty river 
 of blue-green waters surging and dashing and tossing its white arms 
 of foam amid the mad rapids, then shuddering on the brink of the 
 awful precipice, and plunging headlong into the yawning chasm 
 below. The whirling and swirling of the floods. The thunderous 
 
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 roar that shakes the solid earth. The vast sheets of spray and mist 
 and the sunbeams that, cauglit in their liquid meshes, die like aerial 
 dolphins in a blaze of many-tinted pain. The rainbow that casts its 
 resplendent arch across the majestic cafion. The glorious Horse- 
 shoe, the American Falls, and all the lesser divisions of creation's 
 greatest cataract. The tiny green islands that look as if any moment 
 might see them swept down into the dizzy depths. An ocean pour- 
 ing over rocky battlements into a bottomless hell of waters. And 
 through and over it all the everlasting thunder of the falling flood. 
 
 "The Michigan Central is the only real 'Niagara Falls Route' 
 in the country. It is the only railroad that gives a satisfactory view of 
 the Falls. Every train stops from five to ten minutes at Falls View, 
 which is what the name indicates — a splendid point from which to 
 view the great cataract. It is right on the brink of the grand cafion, 
 at the Canadian end of the Horseshoe, and every part of the Falls is in 
 plain sight. So long as the waters of that mighty river thunder 
 down to the awful depths below, so long as the rush and roar, the 
 surge and foam and prismatic spray of nature's cataractic masterpiece 
 •remain, to delight and awe the human soul, thousands and tens of 
 thousands of beauty-lovers and grandeur-worshipers will journey 
 over the only railroad from which it can be seen. There is but one 
 Niagara Falls on earth and but one direct great railway to it." 
 
 At Falls View the Michigan Central will soon erect a building of 
 large proportions and of an architectural character entirely in har- 
 mony with its purpose and surroundings that will add. greatly to the 
 convenience and enjoyment of travelers. This place was formerly 
 known as Inspiration Point and of the scene from it Howells wrote: 
 " By all odds, the most tremendous view of the Falls is aflforded by 
 the point on this drive (from the Clifton House to the Burning Spring), 
 whence you look down on the Horseshoe and behold its three 
 massive walls of sea rounding and sweeping into the gulf together." 
 
 "After leaving Falls View the train sweeps along the edge of the 
 mighty chasm to Suspension Bridge, giving constant and ever-chang- 
 ing views of the cataract and the surging, boiling river, as it madly 
 rushes and rages between the perpendicular walls of stone, three 
 hundred feet high, that form the great cafion of Niagara." 
 
 A little way down the river is Niagara Falls, Ont. (511 miles), 
 where, on a bold projection of the river bank, is the Clifton House, 
 from which very extensive and impressive views are obtained of the 
 whole amphitheater and its rocky and aqueous walls. Just before 
 reaching this station the traveler who is on the lookout for it catches 
 a most charming glimpse of the snowy American Fall through the 
 leafy vista of a sunken road. From a point near the Clifton stretches 
 
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 the gossamer thread of a suspension foot-hridge 1,268 feet long to 
 the American side of the river and of the views from which 
 1 lowells gives an admirable description in Their Wedding 'jfoitriiey. 
 A short distance below the station is Wesley Park, a kind of Can- 
 adian or International Chautauqua. From Falls View to CliktoN 
 (512.:; miles) the road passes alon'i^and through the International Park 
 
 AMERICAN FALL. FROM BELOW COAT ISLAND. 
 
 now being laid out by the Canadian commissioners. Here diverges 
 the Niagara Division of the Michigan Central, which runs down the 
 river to Niagara at its mouth and there connects with steamers 
 across Lake Ontario to Toronto. One of the most charming outings 
 for the citizens of Bulfalo or sojourners there is had by taking one of 
 the double dailv trains on this Niagara Division at the Union Depot or 
 Black Rock, crossing the International Bridge and following the 
 
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 Canadian shore of the river, passing Chippewa and Lundy's Lane, 
 stopping at Falls View, following the river canon to the Cantilever 
 Bridge at Clifton, then making a detour through the hills to Queens- 
 ton, within sight of Brock's monument on the heights, and finally 
 taking the delightful sail across the lake to Toronto. 
 
 Continuing the main line we cross the canon of Niagara River two 
 hundred and fifty feet above "the angriest bit of water in the world" 
 by the Cantilever Bridge, one of the most famous triumphs of modern 
 engineering skill and daring. It is 895 feet in length, built wholly of 
 thoroughly tested steel, and, slight as it is in appearance, sustained 
 upon its double tracks, when tested, the enormous weight of eighteen 
 locomotives and twenty-four heavily loaded gravel cars with a tempo- 
 rary deflection of but six inches. In passing over it there is a mag- 
 
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 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF NIAGARA RIVER AND VICINITY. 
 
 nificent view of the Falls, the Rapids and the rocky walls between 
 which the surging waters pour, while below is seen the Lower 
 Rapids and the Suspension Bridge. 
 
 At Suspension Bridge (513 miles) connection is made with the 
 Niagara Falls Division of the New York Central, running to 
 Rochester, via Lockport, and with the Rome, Watertown & Ogdens- 
 burg Railroad, whose Sleeping Cars run through from Niagara Falls 
 to Clayton, near the head of the St. Lawrence, Fabyans, in the heart of 
 the White Mountains, and Portland, on the sea-shore. An attractive 
 little village has grown up here, with several good hotels and a sani- 
 tarium of merit, and a horse railroad has been constructed to the 
 Whirlpool, a mile or two down the river. Leaving the station, the 
 train backs down on a Y and then runs up the river to Niagara 
 
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 Falls station (515 miles), sometimes so close to the edge th;it one 
 may look down upon the madly turbulent waters far below and get fine 
 viev.s ot' the Cantilever Bridge, the American and Horseshoe Falls 
 and the foaming amphitheater into which they pour. As on the 
 Canadian side, the road skirts the new International Park which the 
 State of New York, now being seconded by the Dominion, has, with 
 wise liberality and an expenditure of a million and a half of dollars, 
 made free to the world for all time to come. The American por- 
 tion of the park embraces some three hundred acres. Unsightly 
 buildings have been removed and the surrounding shores are 
 gradually retaking the wild natural beauty they wore when Hen- 
 nepin first gazed upon them two hundred years ago. Howells has 
 graphically described 'the village as well as the falls in Their 
 Wedding Journey., with which every tourist to Niagara should be 
 fainiliar, and we will not linger here. Passing on, glimpses are had 
 of the white-capped rapids and green islands, with the clouds of 
 spray rising in the background; of the ri\or above widening out 
 until the distant shores lose their sharpness of outline and distinct, 
 ness of color, with its broad placid bosom giving no token of the 
 irresistible power of its current, nor of the fate to which it so 
 smoothly glides; of fine farms, prolific orchards, neat villages and 
 prosperous looking homesteads. At Tonawaxda (526 miles) the 
 Erie Canal is crossed, and soon we pass the International Truss 
 Bridge of the Fort Erie Division of the Michigan Central, the model 
 water-works, the commodious harbor at the head of the ri\cr and 
 enter the city of i Buffalo, halting in the splen- 
 
 did Union Depot on Ex- 
 change Street, 536 miles 
 ti om our starting point. 
 Our entrance into 
 Bufl^lo is a fit pend- 
 ant to our departure 
 from Chcago. We 
 ^ee nothing of the 
 squalor of the city, if it 
 exists, lint only cheerful \-iIlas, 
 broad pkasanccs and blooming par- 
 terres on the terraced heights on one side, 
 on the other the broad harbor out of which 
 Niagara tlows, picturesque with its shipping and the delicate blue of 
 the lake! stretching into an horizon of turquoise and amethyst. 
 Bufi:alo is the third city in size in the State and contains about 
 250,000 population. It is well and handsoinely built, and is famed 
 
 UNION DEPOT, BUFFALO. 
 
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 for its extensive lake commerce, for its gigantic elevators through 
 which run unfailing rivers of grain, for its manufactin^es of metals, 
 for its malt and beer, and as the converging point of ten diiferent 
 lines of railway. Within the huge carapace of the depot, which 
 seems alive with puffing of engines, transfers of baggage, bustle of 
 passengers ever coming and going, close connection is made with the 
 New York Central isi Hudson River, the only four-track railroad 
 in the world, the West Shore, and the Buffalo, Rochester it Pitts- 
 burgh roads. Two of the Central's tracks are set apart for the 
 immense freight traffic of the line and two for the passenger trains 
 that fly over the steel rails with lightning speed, yet with perfect 
 safety, and the traveler soon feels that his chance of realizing on his 
 accident insurance policy is too slight to be thought of. The Sleeping 
 Cars leaving Chicago for Syracuse, Boston and New York run 
 through without change, and the traveler is undisturbed bv the brief 
 transfer at Buffalo. 
 
 All the way across the State we look from the windows upon farm- 
 
 stead and croft, 
 
 orchards 
 
 fields 
 
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 blooming gardens, fruitful 
 and waving grain- 
 shimmered by 
 tie breezes, 
 lazily- moving 
 canal-boats, 
 rippling 
 brooks, cool 
 pastures 
 and verdant 
 hillsides dotted 
 picturesquely with 
 sheep and cattle — a thousand scenes of 
 
 quiet pastoral beauty such as Birket Foster loved to draw. All along 
 and near the line are resorts that tempt the traveler to halt. Lakes 
 Chautauqua, Keuka, Canandaigua, Seneca, Cayuga, Owasco and 
 Oneida ; Genesee, Ithaca, Taghkanic and Trenton Falls ; Clifton, Avon 
 Richfield, Ballston and Saratoga Springs ; Watkins Glen, Canandaigua, 
 Ithaca and numerous other delightful places are not far off. Populous 
 and prosperous cities, too, appear and disappear. Passing Batavia 
 (574 miles), a pretty village of 4,000 people, with broad and 
 beautifully-shaded streets, the site of the State Institution for 
 the Blind, we come to Rochester (606 miles), a busy city of 
 90,000 inhabitants, noted for its beautiful falls of the Genesee (about 
 a hundred yards from the railroad bridge), with which are associated 
 Webster's postprandial speech and Sam Patch's fatal leap; its flour, 
 
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 its boots and shoes, its engines and boilers, its agricultural implements 
 and its nurseries and seeds, its splendid university and lovely ceme- 
 tery, wiiile Their Wedding Journey has thrown about it a tender 
 roseate glow of delicious sentiment that induces the sojourner to 
 seek the veritable hotel that Basil and Isabel foimd so charming. 
 The "old road" diverges from the main line at Rochester and runs 
 via Canandaigua, Clifton Springs, Geneva, Ithaca and Auburn to 
 Syracuse, 104 niiles. 
 
 Lyons (639 miles), the center of the dried fruit industry, is passed 
 and the train halts at Syracuse (6S6 miles), whose extensive salt 
 springs and works will forever preserve it in history and whose 
 pleasant location at the end of Onondaga Lake, important manufac- 
 tures and fine public buildings make this city of seventy thousand 
 people a memorable one. Chittexango (700 miles) is noted for its 
 iron and sulphur springs. Oneida (712 miles) is six miles from the 
 lake of the same name; at Verona (716 miles) is another mineral 
 spring, and at Rome (725 miles) are railroad shops, rolling mills and 
 an important lumber market. 
 
 Utica (739 miles) is a large and handsome city of 35,000 inhabit- 
 ants, on the side of old Fort Schuyler, possesses extensive and 
 varied manufactures and is an important railroad and canal center. 
 Northward to the St. Lawrence runs the Rome, Watertown & Ogdens- 
 burgh Railroad, through a remarkably picturesque countrv, with num- 
 erous gatewavs to the lake region of the Adirondacks along the line. 
 Eighteen miles from Utica are Trenton Falls, one of the most en- 
 Irancingly beautiful and graceful series of cascades upon earth. At 
 Utica we are in the rich and picturesque Mohawk Valley and we con- 
 tinue its descent through Richfield Springs, Little Falls (760 
 miles). Palatine Bridge and Fonda (whence a little railroad runs up into 
 the Adirondack region) to the old Dutch city of Schenectady (817 
 miles), once the council ground of the Mohawks, later a Dutch frontier 
 trading-post and fifty-five years ago the terminus of the Hudson & 
 Mohawk Railroad, over which ran the first train on what is now a part 
 of a great trunk svstem. Union College is located here and the citv 
 counts 14,000 inhabitants now. At this point the Saratoga and 
 Champlain Division of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co's Railroad 
 diverges to Ballston, Saratoga, Lakes George and Champlain and 
 the Northern Wilderness. Half an hour later we roll into the quaint, 
 historic city of 
 
 Albany (S34 miles), the capital of the Empire State, with a pop- 
 ulation of nearly a hundred thousand. The terminus of the Erie 
 and Champlain canals at the head of navigation of the Hudson and 
 the center to which several important lines of railway converge and 
 
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 river and then, 
 cent iron 
 course 
 
 with many great manufacturing industries, Albany is a live, active, 
 prosperous city and occupies a proud commercial position. But it 
 celebrates this year the two-hundredth anniversary of its incorpora- 
 tion and has a flavor of great antiquity to most Americans. Rich in 
 its traditions of Dutch and English sovereignty, in its historic asso- 
 ciations with the Revolution and the birth and infancy of the Re- 
 public, in its literai-y and scientific accumulations, in its magnificent 
 triumph of modern architecture and interior decoration that crowns 
 its lofty Capitolian Hill and in its lovely vistas of the lordly Hudson 
 that bathes its feet, it is full of interest to the observant traveler 
 and worthy of a lengthy halt. 
 
 Here separate our Palace Cars that started from Chicago and have 
 journeyed so far together. One Sleeping or Drawing-Room Car, as 
 the case may be, goes directly eastward over the Boston & Albany 
 Railroad through the Taghkanic and Berkshire Mountains to Boston. 
 We watch it deviously climbing the beautiful green hills beyond the 
 
 also crossing the magnifi- 
 bridge, follow the 
 of the no- 
 ,£,blest stream 
 In the world 
 through 
 a h u n - 
 -, dred and 
 fifty miles 
 - of grand, 
 » beautiful and 
 ' ever -vary- 
 ing scenes, 
 not one of 
 which is uninteresting. At first the river 
 is shallow, filled with islands, picturesque with great white groups 
 of ice-houses, bordered by broad meadows and lined by jetties 
 and break-waters to confine to its channel the waters that would 
 too idly linger by the wayside. We can see the Overslagh where 
 the Half Moon anchored and Hendrik Hudson took to his pinnace 
 nearly three hundred years ago. Beyond to the westward loom up 
 the solid blue masses of the Helderbergs, full of caverns and fossils, of 
 mystical tradition and of memories of the war of the Anti-Renters. 
 Gradually the meadows narrow and sometimes disappear and the 
 numerous bold headlands rise more abruptly from the water. 
 
 At Hudson (S63 miles), the head of ship navigation, and once an 
 important whaling port, but now a quiet city of 12,000 people, inore 
 
 ALBANY. 
 
 FROM ACROSS THE RIVER. 
 
 
V/A MICIIKiAX CENTRAL. 
 
 19 
 
 neat, well-tilled 
 most of 
 from 
 
 noted for its iron manufactures, the river has swollen into greater 
 proportions of depth and breadth, and we gaze upon the strikingly 
 beautiful panorama of the Catskill Mountains beyond it. On a 
 lofty promontory near the city is the home of the artist, Church, and 
 from Prospect Hill, 500 feet high, the view of the Catskills is 
 incomparably fine. Four miles below is Catskill Landing, the point 
 of departure for the mountains, and the view of them is varied with 
 every curve in our course and every change in the atmospheric con- 
 ditions. Round Top is 3,800 feet high and only eight or nine miles 
 frorn the Landing, whence the little railway runs to the Kaaterskill 
 House. All along the country is full of old Dutch homesteads, 
 
 modern farms and costly villas, 
 which, however, are concealed 
 view by the high bank under 
 which the railroad is con- 
 structed along the water's 
 edge. More and more 
 giandly do the hills 
 ai ise from the oppo- 
 site side. More and 
 more grandly does 
 the river flow on 
 between its con- 
 fines or expanii 
 - intolake-likebajs 
 bearing on its bo- 
 som a picturesque 
 fleet of steam and 
 Passing the vast and 
 of the Hudson River 
 
 sail. 
 
 stately buildings 
 
 Insane Asylum 
 
 * -• on a commancmg emi- 
 
 nence, the train halts for refreshments at Poughkeepsie (903 miles). 
 From the station one sees little of the city, which is a large and 
 handsome one, built on an elevated plateau and possessing eight im- 
 portant educational institutions, one of which, Vassar, is probably the 
 most noted female college in the world. Fourteen miles from New 
 Paltz Landing across the river is the delightful summer resort of 
 Lake Mohonk on the Shawangunk Mountains, i ,243 feet above the sea. 
 Fifteen miles below Poughkeepsie is Fishkill (917 miles), where 
 a steam ferry runs to Newburgh, a handsomelv-built city of 18,000 
 inhabitants on the west shore, where an old gray stone mansion, in 
 which Washington had his headquarters, is still preserved. Just 
 below the broad expanse of Newburgh Bay comes to an end and we 
 
AY SUMMER DATS 
 
 come to the famed Highlands of the Hudson, entered under the preci- 
 pices of Beacon Hill and Breakneck, with the massive granite crown 
 of Storm King (Butter Hill we called it when we were boys) tower- 
 ing opposite 1,529 feet above the water. On the steep side of Bull 
 Hill we see Undercliff, the old residence of George P. Morris, and 
 just beyond pass Cold Spring (923 miles), with its famous cannon 
 foundry immortalized on the canvas of Weir. Opposite, between 
 Storm King and Cro' Nest, is the lovely highland Vale of Tempe. 
 We cross Constitution Island near the spot where Arnold and Andre 
 met, and stop a moment at 
 
 Garrison's (926 miles), where Col. Comstock of Grant's staff was 
 killed. For two or three miles, rounding the point above where 
 the river makes a short turn at right angles, we 
 have had a splendid view of West Point with 
 its great piles of buildings that constitute the 
 National Military Academy — its barracks, 
 academic hall, library, observatory, 
 etc., its level parade, Kosciusko's 
 monument, gleaming white under 
 the trees, and Sedgwick's and 
 Scott's, of which only glimpses 
 can be caught. Just below the 
 feny landing from Garrison's, 
 but on the lofty bluff 
 just beyond the Acad- 
 - I emy grounds, is Cran- 
 J ston s (formerly 
 Cozzen's), a famous 
 summer resort. Near 
 by Buttermilk Falls 
 tumble over the ledges into the river, and way abo^•e on Mount 
 Independence the crumbling walls of Fort Putnam can still be dis- 
 tinguished. Just below Garrison's we pass Beverly's house, whence 
 Arnold fled to the Vulture on hearing of Andre's capture. Every foot of 
 the v.-ay here and onward is historic ground. Soon we run through a 
 long tunnel under Anthony's nose, and emerging into daylight, sweep 
 around the head of Peekskill Bay, with the imposing granite height of 
 the Dunderburg on the opposite point, and lona Island in the sharp 
 bend guarding the southern portals of the Highlands. At Peekskill, 
 the home and birth-place of Chauncey M. Depew, the river broadens 
 to an inland lake. The mountains spread apart, culminating to 
 the westward in the solid masses of the distant Shawangunks. 
 The banks are still rocky, but less precipitous, and beauty succeeds 
 
 ANTHONY S NOSE. 
 
V/A MICHIGAN CENTRAL. 2i 
 
 to grandeur. Verplanck's Point, Stony Point, Haverstraw Bay and 
 Croton Point are successively passed; 
 
 Sing Sing (944 miles), with its vast State Prison; Tarrytown 
 (950 miles), with its memories of Sunnyside and Sleepy Hollow, of 
 Washington and Andre, of Diedrich Knickerbocker and Rip Van 
 Winkle; the broad Tappan Zee; the populous suburban city of 
 Yonkers (961 miles); and then, after twenty miles of the grand 
 unbroken precipice of the Palisades, turn from the lordly Hudson to 
 run down the bank of Spuyten Duyvel Creek. We have enjoyed 
 such a glorious panorama as the world nowhere else affords and 
 which remains forever ineffaced in the memory. And we cannot 
 but believe forever afterward with the great traveler. Bayard Taylor, 
 that " there is one river which, from its source to the ocean, unrolls a 
 long chain of landscapes wherein there is no tame feature, but each 
 successive view presents new combinations of beauty and majesty — 
 which other rivers may surpass in sections, but none rival as a 
 whole — and its name is, The Hudson." 
 
 Along Spuyten Duyvel Creek to Harlem, fifteen miles yet from 
 the Battery, we see the building of the city; splendid villas crowning 
 the heights and here and there giving way to the solid blocks and paved 
 streets of the metropolis; theelevated railroads show us the presence of 
 urban traffic; and at last, after several miles of brick-walled sunken 
 way, we rush into the Grand Central Depot, the only railroad depot 
 in the city of New York (976 miles), and one in every way worthy 
 of the great financial and commercial metropolis of the Nation. 
 
/.V .V UMMER DA TS 
 
 Saratoga, Lake George 
 
 AND TllK 
 
 Adirondacks. 
 
 " It is the glory of the Adirondack Mountains," says Wallace 
 Bruce, " that no traveler has hecn able to liken them to any other 
 part of the earth's surface, but that thej' stand alone in their pecu- 
 liar type of sublimity and beauty." This great wilderness of 
 mountain and yalley, lake and forest, within a few hours' ride of the 
 most populous eastern cities, was, within a few years, very difficult 
 of access and but little explored. But New York has now made it 
 a State Reservation or Park and lines of rail surround it, sending out 
 here and there little branches to pierce its fastnesses while the 
 echoes of its solitudes are awakened by the rumble of the great old- 
 fashioned stage-coaches on its mountain roads. The western or lake 
 region is easily entered from a number of points on the Utica & 
 Black River Railroad; the St. Regis region is reached by a narrow- 
 gauge road from Moira or by stage from Malone, on the Ogdens- 
 burgh & Lake Champlain road ; but by all means the best route to 
 reach all the most beautiful and picturesque points of the mountains 
 is by the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company's Railroad from 
 .Schenectady (page 17), via Saratoga and Lake George. 
 
 Fifteen miles from Schenectady we come to Ballston Spa., 
 which, with its valuable saline springs, was widely renowned as a 
 summer resort until overshadowed by its near neighbor. It is now 
 a handsome manufacturing town of 4,000 inhabitants. In two or 
 three minutes more we reach 
 
 Saratoga Springs (22 miles), the most fashionable resort of 
 culture and refinement on the continent. The village, which is 
 exceedingly beautiful, has a resident population of twelve thousand 
 and a summer population often of five times that number. It claims, 
 with a good deal of justice, to offer more attractions than any other 
 watering-place in the world. It is charmingly located, surrounded 
 by beautiful scenery, with blue ranges of distant mountains on either 
 side. There are twenty-eight springs in the village, no two precisely 
 alike; the hotels are colossal and magnificent; the boarding houses 
 numerous and excellent; the facilities for amusement illimitable. The 
 walks and drives are full of interest, that to the beautiful Saratoga 
 
1^/A MTCHTGAN CENTRAL. 23 
 
 Lake, four miles distant, over a fine macadamized road divided 
 in the center bj a row of shade trees, being the most noted. A nar- 
 row-gauge railroad ten miles long runs to the summit of Mount 
 McGregor, which affords extended views of the valley of the Hudson 
 and the battle-fields of Bemis Heights and Saratoga. The main line 
 of "the D. L^ H." runs south to Albany and the Adirondack Railroad 
 follows the upper Hudson to North Creek, fifty-.seven miles from 
 Saratoga, whence stages run thirty miles further to Blue Mountain 
 Lake. The little steamers will take the tourist through Blue Moun- 
 tain, Raquette and Forked Lakes, whence he may return either bv 
 the same route or by the semi- weekly stage. At Riverside trains 
 are met by stages for Schroon Lake, seven miles. 
 
 Seventeen miles northeast of Saratoga "the D. ifc H." crosses 
 the Hudson at Fort Edward, a thriving and handsome town, 
 whence a branch diverges, via Glens Falls, to Caldwell on Lake 
 George. One may descend this most beautiful of all lakes, as many 
 travelers declare, threading the winding channel among its numerous 
 islands to Baldwin, the terminus of another branch which joins the 
 main line at Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. Twenty- 
 eight miles beyond is Westport, the chief gateway of the Adiron- 
 dacks, for from this point stages run through magnificent scenery to 
 Elizabethtown, Keene Valley, Lake Placid and Saranac Lake — the 
 latter forty-three miles from the railroad. Instead of returning by 
 the same route the tourist will do well to make the circuit by White 
 Face Mountain and Au Sable Forks to Au Sable Station, where 
 the branch railroad may be taken around by Plattsburg to Port 
 Kent. From this point it is but a few miles to Au Sable Chasm, 
 no less interesting than Watkins Glen. If the wilderness be entered 
 from the north the route will of course be reversed and the exit 
 made at Westport. Adirondack Lodge, at the northern entrance of 
 the famous Indian Pass, is but a few miles from Placid Lake, while 
 Lake Henderson, at the southern entrance, is reached by stage from 
 North Creek. Connection is made with the Lake Champlain steam- 
 ers at Port Kent and Plattsburg and with the Central Vermont and 
 Ogdensburg et Lake Champlain Railroads at Rouse's Point, fifty 
 miles from the terminus of "the D. & H." at Montreal. 
 
24 
 
 IN SUMMER DATS 
 
 From Albany to Boston. 
 
 The Boston & Albany enjoys the distinction of being the only 
 double-track route between Boston and the Hudson and of the 
 possession of superior road-bed and equipment. But it is also the 
 most beautiful route in New England, 
 
 outside of the White Moun- 
 tain region. As the train 
 climbs the green hills 
 east of the Hudson, 
 after crossing the 
 - - long iron bridge 
 
 from Albany 
 (page 1 8), and 
 before en- 
 tering the 
 defiles be- 
 yond, the 
 traveler has 
 unrolled before 
 him a panorama of 
 I I'-mg extent and love- 
 ? bioad \ alley of the 
 „^ Hudson foi moie than filty miles is 
 
 7 HE BERKSHIRE HILLS. , -^ 
 
 spread out before him like a map, the noble 
 river gleaming in the sunlight, flecked with its numerous sailing and 
 steam craft and sometimes hidden from view by its green islands, bor- 
 dered by velvety meadows and bright towns and cities. To the north 
 the smoke of Troy's furnaces and foundries hovers about Mount Ida 
 like a pall. Further off rises Mount MacGregor, sacred now in our 
 history, against the clear sky of the Adirondacks. Directly in front 
 Albany rises grandly from the waters, with the noblest pile of build- 
 ings of which anv State can boast crowning her Capitolian Hill. The 
 deep azure masses of the Helderbergs are relieved by the paler hue 
 of the western sky. And far down the river the magnificent heights 
 of the Catskills stand out with photographic sharpness and clearness, 
 but with such beauty of color as no photographer can ever depict. 
 It is a scene that will live longer in the memory than many of 
 wider note. 
 
VIA MICHrOAN CENTRAL. 25 
 
 Passing out bcvond the hills of the Hudson the route traverses 
 a rich agricultural region, dotted with many busy, flourishing towns 
 and villages, until it reaches the Taghkanic Mountains beyond 
 Chatham (24 miles*), the junction of the Harlem Division of the 
 New York Central and the Hudson branch of the Boston & Albany. 
 Leaving this sterile but picturesque region the State line is crossed 
 and the region of the Berkshire Hills entered. From this point to 
 the Connecticut River every mile of the way is of enchanting loveli- 
 ness or of remarkable grandeur. Less elevated than many other por- 
 tions of the great Appalachian system it lacks none of the elements 
 of beauty and picturesqueness. Right in the center of this magnifi- 
 cent region is 
 
 PiTTSFiELD (fifty-one miles), a beautiful city of 15,000 inhabitants. 
 It has a costly and handsome station, numerous fine buildings, an 
 interesting history of a century and a half and many poetic and 
 literary associations. Here is the old Appleton mansion in which 
 stood The Old Clock on the Stairs of Longfellow. Here Lord 
 Coleridge declared that "England has nothing more pleasingly 
 picturesque than Berkshire." Here in the city park, called the Heart 
 of Berkshire, a noble soldiers' monument, surmounted by a fine 
 Color Bearer, by Launt Thompson, testifies to the heroism and patri- 
 otic devotion of her sons. Here was the home of Thomas Allen, 
 whose life of rare usefulness and practical benevolence was of more 
 than local beneficence. Extensive manufactures, chiefly of textile 
 fabrics, give employment to thousands, beautiful villas abound in the 
 suburban streets and the lofty Taconic and Hoosac Hills environ the 
 city. A couple of miles distant are Lakes Onota and Pontoocuc and 
 the hills and mountains are full of romantic points. The Housa- 
 tonic Railroad runs southward through "wonderfully picturesque 
 and sometimes splendidly gloomy scenery." Northward runs a 
 branch of the Boston & Albany Railroad to North Adams, in the 
 Hoosac Valley, famous ibr its sheep, its cheese, its manufactures 
 and its glorious scenery. Near by is the marble arch of its Natural 
 Bridge, and towering above the valley is the majestic Grey lock, the 
 highest mountain in Massachusetts and commanding a view "im- 
 mense and of amazing grandeur." 
 
 Leaving Pittsfield the rocky defiles of the Hoosac Mountains are 
 pierced and the scenes of the passage of the Berkshires repeated. 
 The Alpine character of the landscape is frequently very striking. 
 "In approaching the summit level you travel bridges built a hundred 
 feet above mountain streams, tearing along their deep- worn beds; 
 and at the 'deep cut' your passage is hewn through solid rocks, whose 
 mighty walls frown over you." Running down the deep descent 
 
 * Mileajje given iu this cli.ipter iss from Albany. 
 
26 IN SUMMER DATS 
 
 for thirteen miles to Chester we follow the winding course of the 
 Pontoosuc, ever fretting in its rocky bed, cramped between the track 
 and the precipitous granite hillsides, leaping down the precipices, 
 laughing in the dimpled sunshine and hiding behind knotty copses of 
 evergreen. On, down the narrow valleys of the Westfield River, 
 the mighty mountain masses seem tj constantly crowd upon the 
 vision and the wooded heights and bare granite peaks contract the 
 sky above, and when the view broadens out at the lower level there 
 are "on every side rich valleys and smiling hillsides and deep set in 
 their hollows lovely lakes sparkle like gems." Westfield (93 miles), 
 is a busy village, making two and a half million whips and ten or 
 twelve million cigars annually. It has a fine soldiers' monument and 
 the State Normal School. We pass Pochassic Hill and Mount 
 Tekoa on the left and meet the broad meadows of the Connecticut, 
 basking in their rich inheritance of alluvial soil and unimpeded 
 sunshine. The river crossed on a long bridge and we enter 
 
 Springfield (103 miles), a handsome city of over 35,000 inhab- 
 itants, with extensive manufactures of arms, cars, paper, metallic 
 goods, etc., employing more than eight millions of capital and seven 
 thousand hands. Unity, Christ and Memorial Churches, the City 
 Librarv, with fifty thousand ^■olumes, and the granite Court- House, 
 are all vmusually fine buildings. On a park of seventy-two acres 
 stands the great quadrangle of the United States Armory, where 
 nearly 800,000 stand of arms were made during the war of the 
 rebellion. In serried ranks are to be seen 175,000, symmetrically 
 arranged. 
 
 " This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, 
 
 Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms ; 
 Rut from their silent pipes no anthem pealing 
 
 Startles the villages with strange alarms." 
 
 Passing through Wilbr ah am, the seat of the great Wesleyan Acad- 
 emy and famous for its beautiful scenery. Palmer, where the Ware 
 River and New London Railroads diverge, and Brookfield, a large, 
 well-to-do, charming village, we reach Worcester (157 miles), the 
 second city in the commonw^ealth in wealth and population, halting 
 in the Union Railroad Station, an imposing granite building 514 by 
 256 feet, with a graceful stone clock-tower 200 feet high. Worcester 
 boasts many noble edifices and in her Soldiers' Monument, designed 
 by Randolph Rogers, has one of the finest monumental structures in 
 the country. But her chief claim is to the title of an academic city 
 and her greatest pride is in her numerous fine schools and higher 
 educational institutions, prominent among which are the State Nor- 
 mal School and the Free Institute of Industrial Science, admirably 
 
V/A MICHIGAN CENTRAL. 
 
 27 
 
 conducted and richly endowed. It is also an important railroad center, 
 the Boston, Barre A: Gardner, the New York & New England, the 
 Providence & Worcester, the Worcester, Nashua cSi Rochester and 
 the Worcester & Shrewsbury all meeting the Boston «& Albany 
 here. Dummy cars and omnibuses run out to the beautiful and 
 popular resorts at Lake Quinsigamond, past which we go in contin- 
 uing our route to Boston. 
 
 South Framingham, the Chautauqua of New England, is the 
 junction of the Lowell Division, upon which is Sudbury, the location 
 of Longfellow's Wayside Inn. We pass through the wealthy suburban 
 city of Newton and thence the route is lined with numerous pretty 
 suburban villages. Brighton, the great cattle-market, is passed, the 
 Charles River is approached on the left, the spires of Cambridge and 
 the populous heights of Charlestown are seen, and a fine view is had 
 of the compact and more ancient parts of Boston, crowned by the 
 State House dome, before running into the elegant depot of the line 
 on Kneeland Street, but a little distance from the city's best hotels. 
 The salt sea air is grateful to the traveler's nostrils, and after he has 
 wandered over Boston Common and under the classic shades of 
 Cambridge, bathed in the surf at some of the delightful sea-side 
 resorts near at hand, and steeped himself in the historic and literar\' 
 associations that everywhere surround him from the Old South 
 Wharf and Faneuil Hall to Concord Bridge and Lexington Green, 
 he is ready for the White Mountains, the lovely lakes of New Hamp- 
 shire and Maine, shadowed by green hills and lofty moimtains and 
 swarming with finny prey. The beautiful city and harbor of Port- 
 land, Bar Harbor and Mount Desert — grandest and most delightful 
 of all the numerous resorts on the rock-bound coast of Maine — may 
 be conveniently and speedily reached by the Boston & Maine Rail- 
 road or by the International or other coasting steamers which ply to 
 the ports of Maine and the maritime provinces. 
 
 w ^^^■■W^^^'' 
 
28 
 
 IN SUMMER DATS 
 
 The Canadian Pacific 
 Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec. 
 
 The Michigan Central enters St. Thomas (page lo) over the dizzy 
 ravine of Kettle Creek, by a long, high iron viaduct that has replaced 
 the Avooden structure portrayed in Picturesque Catiada. It is a large 
 and handsome town about half way between the Detroit and Ni- 
 agara Rivers. It owes its prosperity to its railroad facilities and 
 
 easy access to 
 tant, the 
 shore 
 
 Port Stanley, only eight miles dis- 
 chief harbor on the north 
 of Lake Erie. The city is 
 built on an escarpment of 
 considerable elevation 
 and from its western 
 edge commands a 
 magnificent outlook. 
 "As far as the eye can 
 reach, country villas 
 and trim farmsteads 
 stand out in relief 
 against graceful bits of 
 wild wood, or are only half con- 
 cealed by plantations of spruce 
 and arbor vitae. Intervening are 
 broad sti etches of meadow or 
 long rolling billows of harvest- 
 land. Down in the deep ravine at our feet winds a beautiful stream, 
 which has all the essentials of romance, except the name." Here 
 connection is made with the Canadian Pacific which carries a 
 through car from Chicago on to Toronto. 
 
 The way onward to Toronto is through a charming rolling 
 country, crossing successively the valleys of the Thames, Grand and 
 Credit Rivers. It is an old, well-settled region, full of prosperous, 
 solid-looking little towns and some of the finest and best-tilled farms 
 and prolific orchards. There is sweet scenery along by Ingersoll 
 and Beachville and the hill terraces in the heart of the former 
 town are crowned with pretty villas. Woodstock (431 miles*) is an 
 
 MONTREAL, FROM THE MOUNTAIN. 
 
V/A MICHIGAN CENTRAL. 29 
 
 important town with a stately pile of buildings devoted to the 
 Baptist College, and numerous other solid structures. A few 
 miles east is the old forest chateau of Admiral Drew, whicii, fifty 
 years ago, yielded Mrs. Jameson one of her liveliest sketches. 
 On the uplands of Blandford (440 miles) we find the dividing 
 line between the basins of the Thames and Grand Rivers. Galt 
 (451 miles), named in honor of the author of Lavjrie Todd., is beau- 
 tifully located at the crossing of Grand River, just above an oval 
 valley, surrounded by picturesque hills. It is built of limestone 
 and granite and is a prosperous center of industry, containing large 
 flouring mills, machine shops, foundries and factories. On the 
 placid waters of the river are cast the shadows of the lofty and 
 graceful spire of a new Presbyterian chvnxh. We pass Milton 
 (486 miles), the junction with the Northern and Northwestern 
 Railways, and at Streetsville (49S miles), an important railroad 
 and manufacturing town, we cross the Credit River. Its head- 
 waters, up the branch road that comes down here from Orangeville, 
 swarm with speckled trout, while below are caught immense biss 
 and pike. One of the prongs of this branch, which diverges also to 
 Teeswater and Owen Sound, has its terminus at Elora, on the Irvine 
 River, amidst some of the loveliest and most picturesque scenery 
 in all Canada. 
 
 Twenty miles beyond Streetsville, after passing the suburban 
 town of Parkdale and breaking through the environment of hills, 
 we enter Toronto (518 miles), the capital and metropolis of Ontario, 
 which, from a French frontier post, 140 years ago, has grown 
 to a handsome commercial city of 110,000 people. It covers an 
 area of eight or ten square miles, on a low-lying plain rising some- 
 what to the north, where it is bounded by the ancient margin of the 
 lake. The view of it, however, either from the water or from the 
 surrounding heights, is one of great beauty, with its array of dome 
 and turret, arch and spire, and the varied movement of its water 
 frontage. Its commerce and manufactures are very extensive and its 
 churches and public and educational buildings are all well and sol- 
 idly built and in most admirable taste, with greater purity of archi- 
 tecture than is usually seen. The Wesleyan Methodist Church, 
 with its massive tower surmounted by graceful pinnacles, and the 
 Cathedral of St. James, are particularly fine. Osgoode Hall, an 
 imposing building of the Grecian-Ionic order, contains the Pro- 
 vincial law-courts which TroUope said were the m.ost commodious 
 he ever saw. The passages, vestibules and hall are very hand- 
 some. " But the University," continued this observant traveler, " is 
 the glory of Toronto," and is " a manly, noble structure, free from 
 
3o IN SUMMER DATS 
 
 false decoration and infinitely creditable to those who projected it." 
 It is a Nortnan-Gothic building and takes rank, in his opinion, as 
 " the second piece of noble architecture in Ca-nada, and, as far as I 
 know, on the American continent." It stands in a large park and 
 is approached by College Avenue, a mile long and shaded with 
 double rows of handsome chestnuts and maples. The Queen's 
 Park, comprising about fifty acres, part of the endowment of the 
 University, is skillfully laid out and forms a delightful retreat; and 
 "the Island," in front of the citv, is the popular pleasure resort. 
 
 Besides the various branches of the Canadian Pacific and the 
 Grand Trunk that center here, the Northern and Northwestern 
 Railways run south to Hamilton on the lake and Hagersville on 
 the Michigan Central, and north to the Georgian Bay, the Muskoka 
 District and Lake Nipissing. According to Hallock's Sportsman^s 
 Gazetteer, this region is "one of the most attractive in Canada for 
 summer tourists, embracing what is known as the Northern Lakes, 
 and comprising Lakes Simcoe, Muskoka, Rosseau and Couchiching. 
 It is a popular resort for sportsmen and supplies the best bass fishing 
 to be had in Canada, as well as superb trout fishing." Throughout 
 this fascinating region land and water are curiously intermingled. 
 The land is penetrated hy the arms of lakes in every direction and 
 with indescribable involutions, while the lakes in turn are studded 
 with islands, forming ever-shifting vistas of wonderful beauty. The 
 rivers are broken by many falls and the dark fastness of the rocky 
 wilderness relieved by the snowy spray of cascades. The woods abound 
 with game and the waters with fish of rare size. Moreover, there are 
 excellent hotels with mail and telegraph communication, steamboats 
 (see Gravenhurst, page 53) and other craft on the lakes and other 
 accessories of civilization for the comfort and convenience of sports- 
 inen and their families. Much of what is here said applies also to 
 the wild and cotnparatively unknown country lying along and north 
 of the splendid new line of the Canadian Pacific between Toronto 
 and Ottawa, which is one of the finest works of railroad construction 
 on the continent. All about Agincourt (528 miles), Myrtle (552 
 miles) and Peterborough (591 miles), which are junctions with the 
 Grand Trunk, splendid hunting and fishing are to be had, as well as 
 about Central Ontario Junction (628 miles), where the line is 
 crossed by the Central Ontario Railway running from Picton north 
 to Coe Hill, and Sharbot Lake Junction (687 miles), whence the 
 Kingston & Pembroke Railway runs downs forty-seven miles to the 
 head of the St. Lawrence, landing passengers in the very heart of 
 the fine old city of Kingston. From Smith's Falls (725 miles) a 
 
r/A MICHIGAN CENTRAL. 31 
 
 branch runs down to Brockville, where connection is made by ferry 
 with the Utica & Black River Railroad at Morristown. 
 
 Ottawa (769 miles) was thirty years ago selected by Queen 
 Victoria as the Canadian capital and has rapidly grown to a popula- 
 tion of thirty thousand. It is the entrepot of the lumber trade of 
 the Ottawa Ri\'er and its tributaries and has a number of large saw- 
 mills, flour-mills and other manufactories. It is substantially built, 
 containing many stone edifices, among which are the Cathedral of 
 Notre Dame, with double spires two hundred feet high and an 
 imposing interior, and other churches, and the Grey Nunnery. 
 The town lies between two waterfalls. The upper one, or Rideau 
 Fall, is formed by the confluence of a small river with the Ottawa; 
 and the lower fall — so called because it is at the foot of the hill, 
 though it is higher up the Ottawa River, is called the Chaudiere, 
 from its resemblance to a boiling kettle. The Rideau Fall, divided 
 into two branches by an island in the middle, Trollope thought 
 "pretty enough, and worth visiting, even were it further from the 
 town than it is;" but the Chaudiere he considered very remarkable. 
 "It is of trifling depth (forty feet), being formed bv fractures in the 
 rocky bed of the river; but the waters ha\e so cut the rock as to 
 create beautiful forins in the rush which thev inake in their descent." 
 
 But Trollope justly declared the glory of Ottawa to be the Par- 
 liament Buildings, constructed of cream-colored sandstone with 
 arches of red Potsdam sandstone, on the rock above the river. 
 "As regards purity of art and manliness of conception, as well as 
 for beauty of outline and truthful nobility of detail, the work is 
 entitled to the very highest praise. I knov/ no modern Gothic 
 purer of its kind or less sullied with fictitious ornamentation. They 
 look down from a grand eminence immediately upon the river 
 beneath, which is rapid, bright and picturesque in the irregularity of 
 all its lines. The view from the back of the library (a handsome 
 polygonal structure on the north front of the Parliament House) 
 up to the Chaudiere Falls is very lovely, so that I will say again 
 that I know no site for such a set of buildings so happy as regards 
 both beauty and grandeur." 
 
 The Rideau Canal divides the town into two parts and its eight 
 massive locks are worth seeing; and in New Edinburgh, across the 
 Rideau River, is Rideau Hall, the vice-regal residence. A branch 
 of the Canadian Pacific runs south to Prescott, opposite Ogdensburg, 
 on the St. Lawrence. Another division runs up the Ottawa River 
 to Lake Nipissing and through the unexplored wilderness north of 
 Lake Superior, offering excellent facilities for visiting the grand 
 scenery of this region, and the lover of the picturesque will not fail 
 
7,2 IN SUMMER DArS 
 
 to take the ride to Haleys, 78 miles from Ottawa, and thence take 
 stage to Les Chats and the Falls ot'the Calumet. Steamers, however, 
 run down the river to Montreal, but the scenery below, though very 
 fine at times, is unequal to that above. Resuming the main line, we 
 cross the Ottawa, the Gatineau and the Kinonge — the latter at Mon- 
 TEBELLO, the home of the famous leader Papineau, stop at Cal- 
 umet (S31 miles), whence stages run to Caledonia Springs, and finally 
 crossing the Ottawa again, on a long iron bridge of admirable con- 
 struction, enter 
 
 Montreal (888 miles), the metropolis of the Dominion, with 
 a population of nearly 150,000 and a foreign commerce of seventy 
 millions annually. No Canadian city is better known to Americans 
 and many of our readers will need no description of this picturesque 
 town of gray limestone, with tall spires and glittering roofs and 
 domes backed by Mont Real ; its miles of solid limestone quays and 
 locks and wharves lined with shipping; its large and magnificent 
 cathedrals and churches; its spacious market and court-house and 
 city hall ; McGill College and its unrivaled museum, in which, under 
 the tutorship of Sir William Logan, TroUope thought Ihat even he 
 might become a geologist; and the Victoria tubular bridge over the 
 St. Lawrence. All these and the beautiful drive through Mount 
 Roj'al Park and around the mountain are familiar to all readers by 
 innumerable pictures and descriptions. 
 
 Continuing his journey down the St. Lawrence, the traveler will 
 take the Quebec Division of the Canadian Pacific and, recrossing the 
 Ottawa, follow the north shore of the river. There is little of interest 
 en route save Louiseville (74 miles from Montreal), whence stages 
 run to St. Leon Springs, the inost popular of Canadian resorts. Three 
 Rivers (95 miles) on the St. Maurice (page 37) and occasional 
 views of the broad St. Lawrence. 
 
 Quebec (172 miles from Montreal), the oldest, quaintest and most 
 picturesque of Canadian cities, is almost as well known as Montreal. 
 The old city is a walled triangular town three miles in circumference 
 and with five gateways, three communicating with the lower town — the 
 St. Louis gate, a beautiful Norman structure, leading to the Plains 
 of Abraham, and St. John's, opening to Beauport and St. Roche. 
 The leading attractions are the Ursuline Couvent, the great Laval 
 University, the Basilica, and, above all, the superb outlook from the 
 Dufferin Terrace. The drives about the city are very interesting, 
 particularly to the Indian village of Lorette and eight miles down 
 the beautiful Beauport road to the Falls of Montmorenci, 250 feet 
 high. The Chaudiere Falls, nine miles below Quebec, and the Falls 
 of Ste. Anne, are also very wild and beautiful. 
 
VIA MICIIIGAX CENTRAL. 
 
 33 
 
 The St. Lawrence. 
 
 At Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge (page 14) connection is 
 made with the Rome, Watertown ^: Ogdensburg Railroad for the 
 Thousand Islands, Alexandria Bay and the St. Lawrence River. 
 
 THOUSAND ISLANDS, LOOKING TOWARD ALEXANDRIA BAY. 
 
 Most through travelers prefer taking the night train, which connects 
 with the Michigan Central Atlantic Express from Chicago, not only 
 on account of the greater speed, but because Niagara Falls are seen 
 
34 AV SUMMER DATS 
 
 by the morning light and the most uninteresting part of the journey is 
 made by night. Through Sleepers are run on this fast Steamboat 
 Express, landing passengers early in the morning (but not too early 
 for a good night's rest) at Clayton, on the dock of the Richelieu & 
 Ontario Navigation Company, and enabling them, without loss of 
 time, to make the trip through the Thousand Islands and down the 
 Rapids by daylight and reach Montreal before dark. 
 
 Those who have leisure to tarry a little en route and explore this 
 fascinating region will either stop over at Clayton or make their 
 headquarters at Alexandria Bay or at Thousand Island Park, on Wel- 
 lesley Island, the largest of the group. Most excellent hotels will be 
 found at all these points and all afford unlimited opportunities for boat- 
 ing, sailing, fishing or other forms of pleasuring. A delightful trip 
 may be had by taking the Islattd Wanderer, which plies on an intricate 
 route between Alexandria Bay, Thousand Island Pari:, Round Island 
 Park, Gananoque and Westminster Park, through tortuous channels 
 and amidst the islands of innumerable shapes, sizes and character ; but 
 to hire a boat and wander at one's own sweet will through the mazes 
 of this marvelous archipelago results in the highest and most unalloyed 
 enjoyment. According to the Treaty of Ghent there are 1,692 of 
 these islands, but really more than 1,800 are counted, many of them 
 but a few feet of granite rock or with but a single tree laving its 
 branches in the cool waters, but others of a thousand acres in area. 
 Some are bare as the hand, some verdant and grass-grown, others 
 thickly umbrageous with forest trees ; and shelving beaches of sand 
 or shingle alternate with precipitous cliffs rising sheer from the 
 channel. Several of these islands — Pullman's, Little Angel, Comfort, 
 Cherry and Wau-Winet — are owned in Chicago, and very many are 
 adorned by buildings in every style, from the modest summer cottage 
 to the magnificent villa and imposing caravansary, and numerous 
 summei -resort, fishing and canoe associations and clubs have their 
 headquarters here. Game is sufficiently abundant at no great dis- 
 tance and the cold green waters fairly swarm with the gamy mus- 
 kallonge, the nass, the salmon trout and other members of the finny 
 tribe. " During the summer season the islands fairly teem with life 
 and the reticulated channel of the river is flecked with the little sail- 
 ing yachts and pleasure boats which ply among the islands like gon- 
 dolas amid the palaces of water-bound Venice. Nor does the scene 
 close with the wane of day ; as the setting sun gilds the nestling isles 
 with his parting ray and the evening shades draw on apace, the 
 glow of lights from one island is soon followed by the friendly 
 response from another, then another, until the illuminated spectacle 
 rivals even Venice herself in the splendors of a carnival dress." 
 
r/. I MIC UK, AX CENTRAL. 35 
 
 Leaving Alexandria Bay, which is but twelve miles below 
 Clayton, on one of the fine steamers of the Richelieu & Ontario 
 Navigation Company, the tourist enjoys a view of most of the 
 Thousand Islands, Avhich, commencing near Clayton, end with the 
 Three Sisters, near Brockville and Morristown. Although the 
 islands below Alexandria Bay are not so attractive as those above, 
 the scenery generally is of a wild and interesting nature. 
 
 Brockville (thirty-six miles), the terminus of a branch of the 
 Canadian Pacific, is a substantial town of 7,000 inhabitants, with 
 numerous fine private properties along tlie rugged river front, and is 
 the prettiest city between Montreal and Toronto. Immediately 
 opposite is Morristown, on the line of the Utica & Black River 
 road. Ogdensburg (forty-eight miles), at the mouth of the Oswe- 
 gatchie, is the largest and most affluent town in Northern New York 
 and is the junction point of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg, 
 the Utica l\: Black River and Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Rail- 
 roads, and has a population of nearly ten thousand, largely engaged 
 in manufacturing and internal commerce. It has pleasant vistas 
 through its beautiful maples and an interesting history. The com- 
 mingling of the deep brown waters of the Oswegatchie with the 
 clear green of the St. Lawrence is a curious sight. Opposite is the 
 solid-looking little town of Prescott, terminus of a branch line of 
 the Canadian Pacific running to Ottawa, the Dominion Capital. 
 Below are the first of the series of rapids, Les Gallopes and the 
 Rapide de Plat, not particularly exciting but serving as preludes to 
 the greater ones to come. 
 
 Leaving Dickinson's Landing, the steamer turns out into the 
 swift current and a mile ahead may be seen the white stormy waters 
 of the Long Sault stretching from shore to shore. There is a sudden 
 cessation of the engine's pulsations and we feel the strength of the 
 current. Extra men are at the wheel and others aft at a spare tiller. 
 We plunge over a cascade at "the cellar" and the spirits, even of the 
 nervous, rise. We enter the vast expanse of broken waters and 
 glancing at the shore note the great rapidity of our passage. In front 
 is a vast billow, seemingly motionless as a wall, of the beautiful 
 deep emerald hue we noted in the center of the Horseshoe Fall at 
 Niagara, and we hold our breath as the gallant steamer cleaves its 
 way, only to meet a second, a third, a fourth beyond it. There are 
 several miles of swift water yet to come, but the passage of the 
 raging billows of the rapids is over in three minutes. 
 
 Eleven miles below Dickinson's we pass Cornwall, the terminus 
 of the ship canal around the rapids, and four miles farther, on the 
 right bank, we see the Indian village of St. Regis, bisected by the 
 
36 
 
 /jV summer DATS 
 
 international boundary line, and take our leave of the United States. 
 Dinner is announced as the steamer emerges on the broad Lake St. 
 F'rancis, twenty-five miles in length. On leaving it we dash down 
 the Coteau Rapids, two miles long, the Cedars, three miles, the 
 Split Rock, most formidable of all these, and the Cascades. The 
 waters and ourselves take breath again for the final plunge as we 
 cross the twelve miles of Lake St. Louis, into which are poured the 
 muddy waters of the Ottawa, at the head of -the island of Montreal. 
 
 From Lachine 
 
 . iTv^-sSSKSiMISI 
 
 we see the bold outline of 
 
 Mount Royal against 
 
 the sky and the 
 
 snowy breast- 
 
 w oi k of the 
 
 lime 
 
 THE LACHIXE RAPIDS. 
 
 Rapids across our path. Opposite the Iroquois village of Caughnawaga 
 the paddles cease to revolve, and, as we drift steadily down, the famous 
 Indian pilot, Baptiste, climbs on board from his bateau and takes com- 
 mand at the wheel, as he has done for forty summers. The current 
 grows swifter and swifter. Down the steep declivity of foam, with rocks 
 and reefs and sunken ledges in front and on either hand, we plunge 
 with an arrow's speed. This side and that the steamer swerves and 
 sweeps, escaping destruction time and again by a hair's breadth. At 
 last, as we glide under the great Victoria Tubular Bridge above the 
 city, we release the tension of nerves and muscles and marvel at the 
 skill and courage that has guided us safely through the perils of the 
 descent. The danger, however, is much more apparent than real, for 
 
y/A MICHIGAN CENTRAL. 37 
 
 the sturd}- pilots have mude these rapids the study of their lives and 
 accidents ne\er happen. 
 
 After one or more nigiits in Montreal (page 32), the commer- 
 cial metropolis of Canada, the tourist may again take one of the 
 daily steamers of this line 180 miles farther down the river to the 
 quaint old city of Quehec. Varennes, fifteen miles below Mon- 
 treal, has valuable mineral springs, but the first landing made by the 
 through steamer is at Sorel (forty-five miles), a small place at the 
 mouth of the Richelieu, with good fishing in the vicinity, and in the 
 autumn excellent snipe shooting. Five miles below the river expands 
 into Lake St. Peter, twenty-five miles long and nine miles wide, 
 shallow, with crooked and narrow channel and noted for its storms. 
 Half way to Quebec is Three Rivers, at the mouth of the St. 
 Maurice, with a population of nine or ten thousand and an important 
 lumber market. Twenty-six miles distant bv stage are the famous 
 St. Leon Springs and thirty miles up the St. Maurice are the Falls of 
 the Shawanegan, with a sheer descent of 150 feet, and second only 
 in magnitude to Niagara. Nothing more of interest is seen vmtil 
 Quebec (page 32) comes in sight, rising majestically from the river. 
 
 Passing the Isle of Orleans, below Quebec, the St. Lawrence 
 attains and keeps a width of about twenty miles, with eighteen-feet 
 tides, and the scene is often enlivened by seals and porpoises playing 
 in the clear salt water. Touching at Murray Bay, Riviere du Loup 
 and Cacoima, the Newport of Canada, the steamer crosses the river 
 to Tadousac, 134 miles from Quebec, and passes up the vast wild 
 caiion through which the Saguenay pours its black waters. Lofty- 
 peaks and palisades tower on either side all the thirty-four miles to 
 Trinity Bay, which is guarded by the majestic Capes Trinity and 
 Eternity, rising grandly two thousand feet above the dark waters six 
 hundred fathoms deep. And up to Ha- Ha Bay, and after reaching 
 Quebec next morning the tourist will read, never to forget, Howells' 
 fine description, in A C/iancc Arquaiutauce, of this impressive scenery. 
 
38 
 
 IN' SUMMER DAI'S 
 
 The White Mountains. 
 
 That experienced English traveler and famous novelist, Anthony 
 Trollope, frankly confessed, after his last American tour, "that there 
 was a district in New England containing mountain scenery superior 
 to much that is yearly crowded by tourists in Europe, that this is to 
 be reached with ease by railways and stage-coaches and that it is 
 
 BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 
 dotted with huge hotels almost as thickly as they lie in Switzerland, I 
 had no idea." Neither have most Americans, though nearly every east- 
 ward traveler has the White Mountains for his objective point. If he 
 lias never seen them he desires to satisfy one of the great longings 
 
I'/A MICHIGAN CENTRAL. 3.; 
 
 of his life. And having seen them he would ever after wish to 
 repeat his delightful experiences, climb again the glorious peaks, 
 explore still farther the mountain solitudes and penetrate yet deeper 
 the wild ravines and picturesque valleys of this marvelous region. 
 
 From the West he will take the Michigaii Central and Canadian 
 Pacific all-rail route to Montreal (page 32), or the St. Lawrence 
 route to the same point. Thence by the Southeastern and Passump- 
 sic Railways to Fabyans, via St. Johnsbury, stopping at Newport 
 (104 miles) not only to dine but to take the little steamer that daily 
 plies to the northern end of Lake Memphremagog and back and to 
 climb the Owl's Head, from which, says Trollope, "the view down 
 upon the lakes and the forests around and on the wooded hills below 
 is wonderfully lovely." A third route is by the direct all-rail line to 
 Boston and then northward; and a fourth is by the all-rail line of 
 the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg from Niagara Falls, running 
 Palace Cars through without change to Fabyans and Portland. At 
 Norwood, where the night train from the Falls stops for breakfast, 
 connection is made with the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain road. 
 
 The scenery becomes wilder and more picturesque as we pierce 
 further into the great north woods and the masses of distant mountains 
 become visible on the horizon. From Moira a branch railroad has 
 been constructed to pierce the Adirondacks, running to Paul Smith's 
 Station within seven miles of that famous hostelry of the wilderness 
 on the St. Regis. From Chateaugay stages run to the Lower and 
 Upper Chateaugay Lakes, on the road to the famed Saranac, while but 
 a mile and a half below is the wild Chateaugay Chasm, its towering, 
 gloomy clifts and snowy cascades rivaling those of Watkins' Glen and 
 the Au Sable. At Rouse's Point connection is made with the Dela- 
 ware ic Hudson Canal Company's Railroad, which follows the western 
 shore of Lake Champlain to Lake George and Saratoga, and witii 
 the Central Vermont. Vistas of the lake and its indented bays and 
 wooded islands and the blue mountains beyond meet the eye at every 
 turn. On the other hand rise the rounded masses of the Green 
 Mountains until the passage through their gaps reveals the majestic 
 "Presidential Range" of the White Mountains, with Mount Washing- 
 ton towering grandly above the surrounding peaks as the distance 
 lessens and the soft shades and outlines become severe and rugged. 
 There is a constant succession of attractive, thrifty villages, modest 
 inns and grand hotels, varying views of the granite peaks, clear, rip- 
 pling streams emerging from dark gorges and disappearing in verdant 
 vales, everywhere enticing the traveler to linger amid their beauties. 
 
 St. Johnsbury, one of the most beautiful towns in Vermont, 
 with busy shops, foundries and manufactories and a literary and 
 
40 
 
 IN SUMMER DAI'S 
 
 musical culture above the average of New England towns of equal size, 
 is the junction of the Passumpsic Railroad with the Vermont 
 Division of the Boston & Lowell. It is well located on the Passumpsic 
 River and has a population of 8,000. At Whitefield, Mount Gar- 
 field and several other high peaks are seen on the right. From this 
 point a branch road runs ten miles to Jefferson, which is in some 
 sense a rival of Bethlehem on account of its elevated situation, pure 
 air and general healthfulness. Sufferers from hay-fever and catarrhal 
 complaints here find instantaneous relief. The outlook from the chief 
 village, Jeiferson Hill, upon the Presidental Range, with Mounts 
 Adams and Jefferson in the foreground, is extremely grand ; and 
 Starr King declared that this place " may, without exaggeration, 
 be called the ultima Thule of grandeur in an artist's pilgrimage 
 among the New Hampshire Mountains, for at no other point can he 
 see the White Hills themselves in such array and force." 
 
 At Wing Road, six miles beyond Whitefield, the White 
 Mountain branch of the Boston & Lowell diverges from the main 
 line up the Ammonoosuc Valley. A fine view 
 of Mount Lafayette and the Twin Mountains 
 IS had from the station. Four miles up the 
 blanch is Bethlehem Junction. A narrow- 
 g luge road diverges here four miles to the chief 
 } istern hay-fever resort, Bethlehem, a beau- 
 tilul little village lying on the Lower Ammo- 
 noosuc River, 1450 feet above the sea, in the 
 e\ ening shadows of Mount Agassiz. "No 
 ' \ illage," said Starr King, " commands so 
 grand a panoramic view. The whole 
 horizon is fretted with mountains." A 
 carriage road has been built to the 
 summit of Mount Agassiz and the 
 ' walk is but a mile and three-quarters. 
 Another narrow-gauge runs ten miles 
 to the Profile House, near the north end 
 of the Franconia Notch, and in the im- 
 ' ; mediate vicinity of Profile, Echo and Moran 
 Lakes, Eagle Cliff, Lafayette, Bald and 
 THE PROFILE. Cannon Mountains, the Flume, the Pool, 
 
 the Basin and the Profile of the Old Man of the Mountain. The 
 ten-mile walk or the stage-coach ride through the Notch is a most 
 delightful one, flanked as it is by the grand mountains and preci- 
 pices and the tumbling waters upon either hand all the way from the 
 Profile House to North Woodstock, where the tourist may take 
 
J '/A MlCHiaAN CENTRAL. 
 
 41 
 
 the Pemigewasset Valley branch of the Boston iV Lowell down to 
 the main line at Plymouth, twenty miles distant. From Campton 
 Village a magnificent view opens up Mad River Valk-v with Tripvra- 
 mid and Sandwich Dome in the distance. 
 
 Continuing southward on the main line from Wing Road the 
 train descends the valley of the Ammonoosuc, stopping at Little- 
 
 'f-^^ t, U\T'^ A-^SHINGTON AND ADAMS. 
 
 TON a prett\ to^\n of 3,000 people, whence 
 stages run six miles to Franconia in the valley south of Mount Agassiz; 
 Lisbon, with 2,000 inhabitants and good hotels (for that matter good 
 hotels and excellent boarding houses with very reasonable rates 
 abound throughout this region); Bath, whence stages run to Swift- 
 water and other points up the wild Ammonoosuc, to Woods- 
 viLLE, where the Connecticut is reached and where connection is 
 
42 IX SUMMER DATS 
 
 made .icross the river at Wells River with the Passumpsic and 
 Montpelier & Wells River roads. For eight miles to Haverhill the 
 views of the winding Connecticut, bordered by rich intervales and 
 enclosed by hills and mountains, are exceedingly picturesque. For 
 several miles further, as the grade is ascended near East Haverhill, 
 one sees Black Mountain and Sugar Loaf on the left and ahead the 
 lofty ridge of Moosilauke with the hotel on the summit. Passing 
 Warren Summit, more than a thousand feet above the sea, the view 
 increases in beauty and grandeur as we glide down to Warren, 
 whence stages rvm to Mount Moosilauke, one of the grandest and 
 most easily ascended view points in the State. There are more than 
 a hundred brooks in the town with numerous fine cascades and fifty 
 iniles of trout fishing. Passing Mount Carr, near Wentworth, and 
 the Graton Hills beyond, we continue the descent of Baker's River 
 to its junction with the Pemigewasset at Plymouth, high hills and 
 mountains rising on both sides of the track all the way. Plyinouth 
 is an important town, the chief dining station on the line and the 
 junction of the Pemigewasset branch to the Franconia Notch. It is 
 quite a famous and popular resort and is located in the midst of 
 beautiful scenery. The intervales here are broad and jiicturesque, 
 with beautiful scattered elms. 
 
 The Weirs is the landing place of the Lake Winnepesaukee 
 steamer, Lady of the Lake, which meets all express trains at the 
 station and plies to Centre Harbor, at the head of the lake, and Wolf- 
 boro, on the eastern side. This charming tour of the lake should in 
 no wise be omitted, even if the tourist does not visit the sequQstered 
 loveliness of Squam Lake or climb the height of Red Hill and 
 Ossipee Mountain for the magnificent views that Avill well reward his 
 efforts. The crystal waters of Winnepesaukee ("The Smile of the 
 Great Spirit") reflect the shadows of several bald mountains and 
 surround nearly 300 islands of various sizes. The poetry of Percival 
 and of Whittier has been often inspired by this romantic region and 
 Everett declared, after his extensive tour in Europe, that his eye 
 "has vet to rest on a lovelier scene than that which smiles around 
 vou as you sail froin Weirs Landing to Centre Harbor." Crossing 
 the outlet of the lake we come to Laconia, another favorite resort 
 on the picturesque shores of Lake Winnesquam. Eighteen miles 
 further we come to Concord, the beautiful Capital of the State and 
 an important railroad center, only seventy-five miles from Boston. 
 
 Seven miles above Bethlehem Junction, on the White Moun- 
 tain branch, is the Twin Mountain House, a famous hostelry. Five 
 miles beyond is Fabyans, but six miles from the base of Mount Wash- 
 ington and the central point of the White Mountain region from which 
 
VIA MICHIGAN CENTRAL. ^3 
 
 all others mav be easily and conveniently reached. Half wav to the 
 base of Mount VVasliington are the Upper Amnioiujosue I'^dls, worthv 
 of a long visit. From Ammonoosuc station to the sunimit it is three 
 miles bv the wonderful Mount Washington Railwav, which has an 
 average grade of 1,300 feet to the mile. It takes an hour and a half to 
 make the ascent, the view constantly expanding and gaining iti beauty 
 and sublimity; but the descent is accomplished much more rapidlv, 
 and both in perfect safety. Only Starr King has given an adequate 
 statement of the magnificent scene from the summit, 6,293 feet above 
 the sea, and his detailed description is unquotable. Across the Great 
 Gulf are seen the massive peaks of Jeflerson, Adams and Madison; 
 and to the southwest the scarcely less elevations of Monroe, Franklin, 
 Clinton, Jackson and Webster. Katahdin and Monadnock are seen 
 in the distance and Winnipesaukee gleams in the sunlight. On the 
 opposite side from the railway one may descend the carriage road to 
 the Glen House, on the left, or into Tuckerman's Ravine, on the 
 right, often finding snow arches still remaining in its wild recesses, 
 unconscious of summer's coming. 
 
 From Fabyans to Portland, the route is by the Portland A: 
 Ogdensburg Railroad, passing through the Crawl'ord Notch in 
 "observation cars," open at the sides and I'urnished with revohing 
 seats, ai^brding a panoramic view of scenery remarkable for beaiitv 
 variety and grandeur. The view from Mount Willard, at the gate 
 of thj Notch near Crawford's, Trollope declared to be unequaled in 
 all the classic Rliineland and Bayard Ta_ylor that "it cannot be 
 surpassed in Switzerland." Near by are Hitchcock's Flume, Saco, 
 Ethan's and Howe's Ponds, Gibbs', Ripley's and Arethusa Falls and 
 Beecher's Cascades. At Glen Station connection is made with 
 the stage line for the Glen House up Ellis River Valley ami through 
 Pinkham Notch. North Coxwav, thirty-one miles from Fabyans, 
 is a village of many attractions and great popularity, in the lovely 
 intervales near Kearsarge Mountain. Passing down the smiling 
 valley of the Saco and through Fryeburg, we skirt the wooded shore 
 and sandy beach of Sebago Lake and soon reach the sea at 
 Portland, ninety-one miles from Faybans, where we may take 
 steainer or rail for Old Orchard Beach, Mount Desert and Bar Har- 
 bor, Eastport and other resorts on the coast of Maine and the mari- 
 time provinces. 
 
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 IN SUMMER DAI'S 
 
 Mackinac #^ Northern Michigan. 
 
 The Michigan Central route to this paradise of the hunter and 
 fisherman, tlie health-seeker and the lover of the picturesque, is via 
 Jacksox (page 8), where the Fort Wayne branch of the Lake Shore 
 & Michigan Southern meets the main line of the Michigan Central. 
 Palace Sleeping Cars leave Chicago on the night train and run 
 
 through without change to Bay 
 connecting with Parlor Cars 
 inaw City. The Saginaw 
 Division runs through 
 a section of the State, 
 dotted with innu 
 merable sparkling 
 little lakes, that 
 a generation 
 
 City, there 
 for Mack- 
 
 ago was considered poor, swampy and almost untillable, but which, 
 under an intelligent system of drainage and good agriculture, has 
 proved wondrously rich and fertile. At Rives Junction (ten 
 miles*) the Grand Rapids Division diverges, and five miles further 
 is Leslie, a handsomely-situated manufacturing village of some 
 1,500 inhabitants. Mason (twenty-five miles) is a stirring town of 
 nearlv 2,000 people and the county seat of Ingham County. 
 
 Lansing (thirty-seven miles), to which the Capital was removed 
 from Detroit in 1847, is beautifully situated at the confluence of 
 Grand and Cedar Rivers near the geographical center of the Lower 
 Peninsula. It has a population of 10,000 and is well provided with 
 
 ^ Mileage to Bay City is given from Jackson , 
 
V/A MICHIGAN CENTRAL. 45 
 
 good hotels, schools and churches. It has hroad streets and avenues 
 shaded with handsome trees. The Capitol is one of the finest build- 
 ings in the West and is a stately structure, 345 feet long and 191 
 feet Avide, costing a million and a half of dollars. Three miles east 
 of the city, on a farm of 676 acres, is the State Agricultural College, 
 a most admirable institution in which the State takes much pride. 
 
 Owosso (sixty-four miles) is an important and thriving city of 
 4,000 inhabitants on the Shiawassee River, with extensive manufac- 
 turing interests, shipping grain, flour, fruit, furniture, wool and lum- 
 ber. Saginaw City (100 miles) is well located at the head of navi- 
 gation on the Saginaw River, formed here by the confluence of the 
 Shiawassee and Tittabawassee. East Saginaw lies on the east side 
 of the river and the two cities, practically one, have a combined pop- 
 ulation of 43,000. The large lake vessels ascend the river and load 
 at docks in the very center of the city. Salt and lumber have made 
 the Saginaw Valley rich and great, the annual production of the 
 former exceeding three and a quarter million barrels and of the latter 
 nearly a thousand millions of feet. The Saginaw branch of the 
 Michigan Central runs eastward twenty-two miles to Vassar, on the 
 Bay City Division, and through Coaches and Palace Cars run over it 
 from Saginaw to Detroit. 
 
 Bay City (114 miles) is a fine city of 34,000 inhabitants, including 
 West Bay City on the opposite bank, five miles above the mouth of 
 the river. It is said to be the most extensive ship-building point on 
 the lakes, and shares with Saginaw the salt and lumber business of 
 the valley. Steamers run to Alpena, Caseville and intermediate 
 points. Splendid fishing is to be had both in the river and bay. 
 Connection is here made with the Parlor Cars and Sleepers for Mack- 
 inaw from Detroit, bringing passengers also from Toledo, Columbus, 
 Cincinnati, Louisville and other southern points. 
 
 Proceeding northward over the Mackinaw Division, we soon 
 enter, and traverse most of the 182 miles to Mackinaw City, tlie great 
 pine region from which come most of the great supplies of lumber 
 that have brought the State much of its wealth and fame. The 
 country seems but newly and sparsely settled, but the soil proves 
 good after the removal of the timber and most of the enterprising 
 little villages we see are the germs of flourishing towns. Much of 
 the game has been driven out by the lumbering operations, but there 
 is still plenty of it in the wilderness back from the railroad, and the 
 numerous streams and lakes are full of gamy fish. 
 
 From PiNCONNiNG (nineteen miles*) a branch road with numer- 
 ous tributaries, in all sixty-three miles, penetrates the lumber region 
 west of the line. At Alger, named in honor of the gallant and 
 
 * Mileajje lo Mackinaw City is given from Bay Citj;. 
 
46 
 
 IN SUMMER DAI'S 
 
 enterprising Governor of the State, connection is made with the 
 Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railroad, now completed for eighty-three 
 miles to Black River and under construction to Alpena. Tawas, Au 
 Sable, Oscoda and Harrisville are important points on this road which 
 offer many attractions to the enthusiastic disciples of Izaak Walton. 
 St. Helen (sixty-five miles) fronts upon a charming lake four 
 miles long, one of the sources of the Au Sable and abounding in bass, 
 pike and perch. The fishing is fine during spring and summer and 
 the duck shooting equally good in the fall. At Roscommon (seventy - 
 seven ^ 
 
 the 
 
 miles) we cross an arm of 
 Au Sable, swift, clear and 
 crooked, its waters alive 
 with grayling and the 
 vast forests along its 
 banks full of game. Five 
 miles by a beautiful drive 
 through the pine woods is 
 Higgins Lake, ten miles long by 
 four wide, ^ "■ ~-*''^'. .^,t\-. surrounded by romantic scenery. 
 The lake has no inlet """ and has been sounded in the center 
 
 nine hundred feet without finding bottom. The water is so clear that 
 a nickel can be seen at a depth of forty feet, and it has the peculiarity 
 of always showing at least four distinct colors on the surface, dark 
 purple, blue and two shades of green. On picturesque points along the 
 shores are groups of summer hotels and cottages, boat and bath- 
 houses and all the evidences of fashionable resort. Tlie water 
 swarms with bass, pickerel, land-locked salmon, native whitensh and 
 perch. A few miles away is Houghton Lake, one of the largest 
 and most romantic of all the inland lakes, in which black bass of six 
 to eight pounds are reported as not uncommon. 
 
 Grayling (ninety-two miles), a thriving little town surrounded by 
 lovely scenery, has an excellent railroad hotel and eating house. Here 
 the main Au Sable River is crossed, and seven miles west is the Man- 
 istee River flowing into Lake Michigan, for we are near the backbone 
 of the Lower Peninsula of the State which culminates in elevations of 
 nearly seven hundred feet above the lakes. Both these streams are 
 famous for their grayling fishing, a fish that in America is confined 
 to the waters of Northern Michigan. This beautiful fish, the 
 thymallus tricolor of the naturalists, is without a peer in American 
 waters. It is of a purplish gray color, with silvery white belly and 
 small bluish-black irregular spots on the sides. The average length 
 of this beauty is about ten inches, but he has the strength and dash 
 and gameness of a young wliale. Utilike the trout, he loves the 
 
V/A MICHTGAN CENTRAL. 47 
 
 clear, sandy bottom, where the water is ]iure and not very swift or 
 deep. " Wade into the stream above them, drop your tiy into the 
 water and let it quietly float down over their pool. There is a 
 sudden twirl, a wild rush in the region of your fly, and you have 
 hooked the prince royal of piscatorial prizes. Carefully give him the 
 line, always keeping it taut, and if you have two or more flies on your 
 line, the chances are that you will speedily have a fish for every fly, 
 and then the battle begins. They fight desperately for life and 
 liberty and rccpiire great skill to handle and land them. When the 
 'playing' is done and the fish tired out with their struggles, they will 
 lie almost motionless on the water as you reel them in. Slip your 
 landing net with the greatest care under them and your triumph is 
 complete. The prettiest and gamiest fish of the world lies an 
 animated prism in your basket." 
 
 From every little station along the line, alive with the whir and 
 
 screech of saw-mills, one may make profitable excursions into the 
 
 wilder- ness with rod and gun. We cross Indian River ami 
 
 'If -•..^^sJ'V-s^*^ ^ TopiNABEE (154 miles) find the North- 
 
 'Tj^fTly-^ ^^ii^'^ crn IIiv Fever Resort on the narrow 
 
 '"^^■^4 ^^^''■*''^'^= ^-~^ — .»«=»=i=s-^=s^ peninsula between Mul- 
 
 " %W¥ ^ > .^ * I 1 f A Ti f T 1 
 
 <i„ - „i^k\ >,';A ^j*" ^ "in let and Burt Lakes. 
 
 mB<^^^^^&^^ Vi^a.*^ The grounds form a 
 1 n -J?" ./Artf^j^-^^Iirs?!— S5~ — natural park, rising in 
 
 Ji! terraces from Mullet 
 
 \^ '^ 'J Lake, covered with tim- 
 __ ^J'^'~S\V'^ '"-• 'i"'J carpeted with winter- 
 
 green,a)Dutus " — " — » =— t:^^^^ and sweet-fern. Thedry, health- 
 fid climate, balsamic odors and outdoor life will infuse new vigor 
 into the most wearied denizen of the city. It is one of the best points 
 for hook and line fishing, bass, pickerel, muskallonge and whitefish 
 being abundant in the lakes, with fin'=' trout and grayling streams 
 near at hand. Mullet Lake is a magnificent sheet of clearest water, 
 twelve miles by six and two hundred feet deep, with sloping beaches 
 of white sand. One of the delights of the season is a trip on the 
 daint\' little steamer that makes the tour of the " inland route," rim- 
 ning from Mackinac Island to Cheboygan on Lake Huron, up Che- 
 boygan River and Mullet Lake, landing at Topinabee and at the 
 excellent hotel at the head of the lake for dinner, thence through the 
 tortuous mazes of Indian River into Burt's Lake, ten miles long, then 
 seven miles through the involuted course of Crooked River and up 
 Crooked Lake to Odin at its head, whence a dummy railroad takes 
 the tourist seven miles to the delightful Lake Michigan port of 
 Petoskev in ample time to dress for supjier. Returning, the steamer 
 
 Civ^'*"-'' 
 
48 IN SUMMER DA VS 
 
 leaves Odin at nine in the morning and arrives at Mackinac at seven 
 in the evening. 
 
 Cheboygan (i66 miles) is a thriving town of 4,000 inhabitants 
 with an important lumber trade and lake commerce. Steamers run 
 to the famous Sault Ste. Marie, Manistique, Traverse City and 
 Petoskej, landing at Mackinac Island, St. Ignace, Les Cheneaux 
 and other interesting points. Trout Brook and Little Black River, 
 near Chebovgan, abound with brook trout, the vast wild-rice fields 
 near the head of Mullet Lake afford splendid duck shooting, and 
 snipe and woodcock are abundant. 
 
 Mackinaw City (182 miles) is a small village at the northern 
 end of the Lower Peninsula and is the terminus of the Michigan 
 Central line. Powerful steam ferrj-boats run in connection with the 
 trains to Mackinac Island and across the straits to St. Ignace, whence 
 the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette road runs to the wonderful 
 iron and copper regions and marvelous scenery of the Upper 
 Peninsula. The famous Pictured Rocks may be easily reached either 
 bv this route or by steamer via Sault Ste. Marie. 
 
 Mackinac Island is now a National Park, has been a military 
 post for a centurv, Avas for forty years the headquarters of Astor's 
 American Fur Company, has been fought over by French, British, 
 Indians and Americans, and more than two hundred years ago was 
 a mustering place of Marquette, Hennepin, Nicollet and La Salle. 
 To the Hurons it was the " Island of Giant Fairies" and the home of 
 numerous legends which Longfellow, who visited Schoolcraft here, 
 wove into the poem of Hiawatha. Of its own wonderful natural 
 beauty our limits will permit but the briefest sketcii. 
 
 "The natural scenery of Mackinac is charming," writes, in Pict- 
 uresque America., Constance Fennimore Woolson, whose admirable 
 story oi Anne is a local as well as a national classic. " The geologist 
 finds mysteries in the masses of calcareous rock dipping at unex- 
 pected angles; the antiquarian feasts his eyes on the Druidical 
 circles of ancient stones; the invalid sits on the cliff's edge, in the 
 vivid sunshine, and breathes in the buoyant air with delight, or rides 
 slowly over the old military roads, with the spicery of cedars and 
 juniper alternating with the fresh forest odors of young maples and 
 beeches. The haunted birches abound and on the crags grow the 
 weird larches, beckoning with their long fingers — the most human 
 tree of all. Bluebells, on their hair-like stems, s\ving from the rocks, 
 fading at a touch, and in the deep woods are the Indian pipes, but the 
 ordinary wild-flowers are not to be found. Over toward the British 
 Landing stand the Gothic spires of the blue-green spruces and now 
 and then an Indian trail crosses the road, worn deep by the feet of 
 
r/. I Miciin;.\x CEyrRAL. 
 
 49 
 
 the red men when tlie Fuirv Islaiul \\as thi-ii* i'avoritt: an^l Naereil 
 resort." 
 
 On the edye of ;i jireeipice ot' white limestone, one hnndrt'd 
 and lirt-\'-nve teet high, jnst back of the town, is tlie fort ^\hiell, 
 in picturesque beauty of location, has no ri\-al among all the 
 tbrtresses of the United States. Its position somewhat resembles 
 
 ing, but is much 
 
 that of Fort Snell 
 
 more romantic 
 
 Magnificent 
 
 views of the 
 
 surround 
 
 ing lakes, ^,^ 
 
 channels *-\ 
 
 islands - 
 
 p r o m 
 
 ontones . 
 
 forests 
 
 towns 
 
 and ship 
 
 ping are 
 
 to be had 
 
 from e\ 
 
 ery point ot 
 
 the lofty para *' ^^ 
 
 pet; and the ^\olld 
 
 aflbrds no grindei sight *^' l» 
 
 than a suniise or sunser '' 
 
 from the foi t,the gieat globe 
 
 of crimson and gold seeming 
 
 at its 1 ising to bui st up from 
 
 the bosom of Lake Huion 
 
 and at its setting to plunge 
 
 into the midst ot Like Michigan, , . ,/,jii'/ 
 
 casting a million prismatic tints of •'^1 f*),^^ ii 
 
 glorious light on wa\e and sk;) Aich "* ^H A>^ /'' Rock 
 
 is one of the wildest, weiidest, subhmest •<'?c« ro-^k ficaks of 
 
 nature's handiwork in sculpture. The chisel prints of untold ages 
 
 of whirling waters are all over it. It projects from the face of a cliff 
 
 200 feet high, a gigantic bay window of stone, supported by a 
 
 mightv arch 149 feet high at its summit. The rim or wall 
 
 of the bav-window is about three feet wide and it bulges out some 
 
 twenty feet from the cliif, overhanging the blue-green water of the 
 
5" 
 
 IN SUMMER DATS 
 
 lake a dizzy depth below. The view from the summit of the arch 
 takes in a glorious sweep of fifty miles. The scene by moonlight 
 from a boat below the arch is most enchanting. From the ruins of 
 old Fort Holmes, on the highest point of the island, is seen a pano- 
 rama of wonderful beauty and extent. Across a narrow strait Bois 
 Blanc Island looms up with its light-houses and forests of white 
 birch, while twelve miles off to the northeast can be seen the upper 
 part of the Cheneaux Islands, an enchanting archipelago of some 
 seventy-five or eighty beautiful islands, var\ing from two miles in 
 length to mere green specks a hundred feet across, dotting the crystal 
 waters which rush by, fifteen fathoms deep at the shores, and swarm- 
 
 ing with whitefish, bass, pickerel, gamy muskallonge and lake trout. 
 Every floating cloud or gleam of sunshine changes the glorious 
 scene by varying the tintings of the waters, which range through 
 every shade from deepest azure to palest opal green, from pm-ple 
 and lavender to purest silver. 
 
 In such a spot, with the glories of earth and heaven unrolled be- 
 fore the gaze, where the atmosphere is as pure as the gales that 
 wandered over primeval paradise, where the temperature is always 
 cool enough to be bracing and invigorating, where a fly or mosquito 
 never was seen, where the inducements to constant exercise of every 
 sense and sinew are as boundless as the beauties of the place, and 
 where the healing fragrance of the pine and hemlock and balsam-fir are 
 borne on every breeze, dyspepsia, languor and low spirits take flight, 
 hay-fever victims are at rest and catarrhs and asthmas disappear. 
 Well might Horace Mann, writing of the influence of "The Wonder- 
 ful Isle," say : " I never breathed such an air before. I think that 
 this must be some that came clear out of Eden and did not get 
 cursed." 
 
r/A MICIIICAN CENTRAL. 51 
 
 St. Clair, Mount Clemens 
 
 AND 
 
 South Haven. 
 
 The most widely-known and popular watering-place in Michigan 
 is St. Clair, a prosperous, elegant little city of about two thousand 
 inhabitants, pleasantly located on the west bank of the St. Clair 
 River about half way between Lakes St. Clair and Huron. It is 
 rendered easy of access from Detroit either by steatnboat or 1)\- 
 through car over the Grand Trunk and Michigan Central, and from 
 the east b\' the St. Clair Di\-ision of the Michigan Central from St. 
 Thomas, which passes through the remarkable oil region of Ontario. 
 The Oakland is a fine large hotel and sanitarium situated on the 
 river bank just south of the city and near the Michigan Central 
 Station. The river steamers and the ferryboat from Courtright land 
 at the hotel wharf. It is a favorite place for those who wish a quiet 
 and thoroughly enjoyable resort at all seasons as well as for those 
 who seek relief from disease. The water of the St. Clair .Mineral 
 Spring on the hotel grounds is of the same general class as the 
 Saratoga and German JSaline Spas, so rare in this coimtry, but more 
 powerful than most of them. Taken either internally or externally, 
 as necessity may require, it has been found to be very efficacious, 
 while the baths, hot or cold, are no less delightful than curative and 
 result in a physical vigor that gi\cs new zest to life. The walks and 
 drives in the vicinitv are very pleasant antl there is no end to the 
 boating and sailing on the noble river, which affords splendid fishing. 
 But a few miles south are the St. Clair Flats, famous to American 
 and Canadian sportsmen for their vmrivaled duck shooting. Club- 
 houses, hotels and private shooting boxes have been built there in 
 considerable numbers and the fish and game dinners are famous. 
 
 Mount Clemen.s, a handsome town of four thousand peojile, 
 is but twenty miles from Detroit on the way to St. Clair. It is also 
 accessible by boats, being about five miles from the mouth of Clinton 
 River. Its surroundings are not unlike those of St. Clair Springs 
 and its valuable spring waters belong to the same class. The hotel 
 accommodations are of the best, while those desiring more seclusion 
 ■and quiet can find pleasant homes in prisate families. 
 
52 IN SUMMER DATS 
 
 South Haven, a pretty little village of about two thousand 
 inhabitants, is very prettily located on the shore of Lake Michigan, 
 forty miles west of Kalamazoo (page 6). The main portion of the 
 town lies on the south side of Black River, crossed by both bridge 
 and ferry. On the north side is Village Park, a fine grove of oaks 
 and pines crowning the summit of a bluff which conmiands an ex- 
 tensive view of the lake. There are numerous cottages and summer 
 houses for the accommodation of guests as well as private residences 
 of the towns-people. At the foot of the blufl'is a broad beach, whose 
 hard, smooth surface and gentle declivity make it a delightful walking 
 or bathing place. The river is navigable for sc\ eral miles, flowing 
 between banks of quiet pastoral beauty, boats and sailing craft abound, 
 fishing is excellent and the walks and drives througli the fertile fruit 
 and farming country about the town are very interesting. South 
 Haven has enjoyed for many years a local celebrity as a watering- 
 place without any effort or seeming desire for larger fame, but of late 
 years the excellent train service and extensive connections of the 
 Michigan Central have brought visitors from inore distant points. 
 
 Orion Lake, forty-one miles from Detroit, on the Bay City 
 division, is a charming sheet of water, about the shady shores of 
 which are many delightful summer homes. 
 
 There are numerous other delightful resorts and summering 
 places in Michigan, most of which have been spoken of in their 
 proper places in the preceding pages, but among mineral springs, 
 in addition to the saline wells of Ypsilanti (page S), the Magnetic 
 Mineral Spring at Eaton Rapids should not be omitted. The water 
 is of quite a different character from those mentioned, being strongly 
 impregnated with the sulphates and carbonates of calcium, sodium 
 and magnesium and slightly with carbonate of iron, but having no 
 saline ingredients. Eaton Rapids is twenty-four miles from Jackson, 
 on the Grand Rapids Division of the Michigan Central, and its hotel 
 accommodations are excellent. 
 
 For information relative to routes, rates, necommodations, summer resorts, etc., apply 
 
 to any of the following Agents of the Company: 
 O. "W. RUGGIiES, General Passenger r.nd Ticket Asent, .... CHICAGO. 
 F. I. WHITNEY. Assistant General Passenjjer and Ticket Agent, . . CHICAGO. 
 W. R. BUSENBARK, f:ustern I'asseii^'er Atient. No. 57 Exchange Street, BUFFALO. 
 NEWELL PETTEE, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. 57 Exchange Street, BUFFALO. 
 JOHN G. LAVEN, Canadian Passenger Agent. No. 87 York Street, - - TORONTO. 
 P. P. MURRAY, Southern Passenger Agent, No. 209 St. Clair Street, - TOLEDO. 
 
 D. W. JOHNSTON. ;\Iiihii.'an Passenu-er Agent, No. 95 Monroe St, GRAND RAPIDS. 
 W^. H. UNDERWOOD. Western I'assenger Agent, No. 67 Clark Street, - CHICAGO. 
 L. L. CAUFY, Wisconsin Passenger Agent, No. 392 Broadw^iy, - - MILWAUKEt:. 
 W. L. WYAND. Northwestern Passenger Agent, No. 169 East 3d Street. ST. PAUL. 
 
 H. H. MARLEY, Southwestern Passenger Agent. KANSAS CITY. 
 
 AMOS BURR, Pacific Coast Agent, No. 19 Montgomery Street, - SAN FRANCISCO. 
 
 cm PASSENGER AND TICKET OFFICES AT 
 No. 67 Clark St., CHICAGO, No. 57 Exchang-e St.. BUFFALO, 
 
 No. 66 Woodward Ave., DETROIT. Boody House, TOLEDO. 
 
VIA MICHIGAN CENTRAL 53 
 
 Steamer Connections. 
 
 The following- important connections are made by the Michigan Central 
 Tourist Tickets with some of the finest steamboat lines on American waters: 
 AT RA TNTV" C o*-' '/)• D'ly line, leaving- foot of Hamilton St. atS.30 a. 111. (Sun- 
 ____^_^__ day excepted), stopping at the principal landings on Ihu Ihulson 
 RivL-r and arriving at New York at 5.30 p. m. I'cople's line, leaving at 8.00 p. m. 
 (Sunday excepted) and arriving at New York at 7.00 the next morning. Citizen's 
 line, see Troy. M-.-als on European plan. 
 
 ■p A T -Q-nT-r-M" (Page23). Lake (jeorge steamers leave i.oo p.m. (Sunday excepted), 
 .^.^_— __— — stopping at intermediate landings, arriving Caldwell 4.2^ p.ni 
 ROSTOTT (I'ages27aiid42). Boston, Halifax & Prime Edward Island Steamship 
 
 Line leaves Nickerson's Wharf at 12.00 m. every Saturday for Halifax, 
 
 Port Hawksbury, Pictou and Charlottetown. International Steamship Eine leaves 
 Commercial Wharf at 8.30 a. ni. (Sunday excepted); Railroad Wharf, Portland, 5.C0 
 p. m. for Eastport and St. John; at 5.00 p. m. 1 hursdays for St. John direct; at 8.00 
 a.m. Mondays for Annapolis, N.S.,and Tuesday and Friday atS 00 a.m. for Yarmouth. 
 Boston & Bangor Steamship Eine leaves Foster's Wharf at 5.00 p. m. (Sunday ex- 
 cepted) for Xorth Haven, Swan's Island, B.iss Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Bar Har- 
 bor, South Goldsboro', Lamoine, Hancock and Sullivan, and on Monday, Tuesday, 
 Th irsday and Friday at J.o") p. ni. for Rockland, Camden, Belfast, Searsport, 
 Bucksport and Bangor. Portland Ste:im Packet Eine loives India Whaif at 7. 00 
 p. m. (Sunday excepted) and arrives at Portland at 4 or a.m. Steamers leave Eong 
 Wharf 3.0a p. m. Wednesday and Saturday for Philadelphia. Metropolitan 
 steamers leave India Wharf g. 00 p. in. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday for New 
 York. Steamers leave Central \\'harf at 3.00 p. m. Wednesday and Saturday for 
 Norfolk and Baltimore. .Steamer leaves Nickerson'sM'harf at 3.oop. m. 1 hursdays 
 for Sava.nnah. Steamer Star of the East leaves Lincoln's Wharf at 6.0J p. ni. 
 Tuesday and Friday for Augusta and Kennebec River points. Steamers almost 
 hourly from Rowe's Wharf for Nantasket Beach. 
 
 Steamers leave Fall River 7.3 1 p.m. week days, S.30 p m. Sunday for New York 
 on arrival of trains leaving Old Colony depot 6.00 p. m. -week days, 7.00 p.m. Sunday. 
 -DTjpT Tivrprppi-ivT (via Central Vermont from Rouse's Point, pages 25 and 39). 
 l3ur\,uil\U-lvjiN Champlain Transportation Eine steamer^. ir///y„;«xleaves9. i<; 
 a. m. and 5.20 p. m., stops at Port Jackson and Port Kent and arrives at Plattsburgh 
 11.15 a. m. and 6.45 p. m. Leaves at S.40 a. m. and arrives at Fort Ticonderoga 
 12.20 p. m., stopping at intermediate landings. Steamer Reindeer leaves at t3.40 
 p. m. and arrives at Rouse's Point ".i^o p. m., stopping at Port Jackson, Port Kent, 
 Phittshurgh and Islands. See Fort Ticonderoga and Plattsburgh. 
 PATDWTfTT (r''*£re23). Lake Georee steamers leave 9.45 a.m. and 1.30p.m. for 
 \j±^uu W-Ciljlj j>.(]j^^,;n .,j,(j intermediate landings andarrive in three or four hours, 
 p-r A ypQlM- (Page 34). Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company's steamers 
 leave at 6.30 a. m. (.Monday excepted), on arrival of Steandioat 
 Express, and arrive at Montreal at 6.30 p. m , stopping at Round Island Park, 
 Thousand Islands P:irk, A1-. xandria Bay and other landings. Steamboat for 
 Gananoque leaves 10 45 a. m. and 5. 15 p- ni. 
 
 ■cirN-Drn rnTr'n-Nrr\-cpT3nr' A (P'iae2^). Champlain Transportation Eine steamer 
 JHQKI llUUJNDil.KUGrA V>^7„o//ieaves 1.3^ p. m., stopping at Crown Point, 
 Port Hem y, Burlington, Port Kent and other landings arriving Plattsburgh 6.45 p.m. 
 pi -rp-iu-rjiTT A (Page 17). Seneca Lake Steam Navigation Company's steamers 
 V A. j^j.^yg jjj. ,-, ^- jj_ ^ ^j^jj j^^Q p_ jj, .jncl 5.10 p. ni. and arrive at Watkins 
 at 1 1.00 a. m. and 5.45 ancl S.35 p. m. Meals on steamers. 
 
 OV> ATT'TT'MWTTPC'rp (Page 30). Daily, on arrival of mail train for Bracebridge, 
 <jJ^.H.vuiN.n.uri,oi Beaumaris, Port Carling, Port Cockburn and intermediate 
 landings on Lakes Muskoka, Joseph and Rosseau. 
 
 KTNPCJTmNr (f ^&^ 3°)- Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company's steamers 
 lyilN U-0 1 UlN ij.,,vg ^00 a „^_ (except Monday) for Montreal and Quebec; leave 
 S.oo p. m. (except Sunday) tor Toronto and intermediate points. 
 
 T\/r A PTTTIST A P TQT A "Nm (Page4S). H.annah, Lay & Company's steamers leave 
 mAL^n.liNAL» IOIjAINU (^^.^gpt Sunday) at 7.40 a. m. and arrive at Traverse 
 City 9.00 p. m., touching at St. Ignace, Cross Village, Harbor Springs, Petoskey, 
 Charlevoix, Norwood and Torch Lake. Connection is also made with the Detroit 
 & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company's steamers for Cleveland, Detroit and Lake 
 Huron ports and with steamers for Manistique and Green Bay ports. 
 
54 
 
 IN S UMMER DA TS 
 
 HJ A PTTTTJ a lir PTTV (P^R^ 4S)- Steamer Atgomah leaves on arrival of 
 lVl.H.O.i:v.llNAW v^ll I Michigan Central trains for St. Ignace and Mackinac 
 Island, connecting at the former with Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Railroad. 
 Steamer Messenger leaves JNIonday, Wednesday and Friday at 7.00 a. m. for Sault 
 Ste. Marie, calling at St. Ignace, Mackinac Island, Delour, p^ncampment and all 
 points on the Ste. Marie River. Connects at Sault Ste. Marie with Lake Superior 
 and Georgian Bay steamers. Returning, leaves Sault Ste. Marie Tuesday, Thursday 
 and Saturday at 6.00 a. m. Steamer Minnie M. leaves Tuesday, Thursday and 
 Saturday at 7.00 a. m. for Sault Ste. Marie, making same landings, and returning 
 leaves the " So ) " Monday at 5.30 a. m. and Wednesday and Friday at 6.00 a. m. 
 MONTR Ti' AT (I'<if;^s 32 and 37). Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company's 
 
 _i! steamers leave at 7.00 p. m. daily for Qiiebec and the lower St. 
 
 Lawrence. Steamer Miramichi leaves at 5.00 p. m. on June 15th and every 
 alternate Monday; arrives at Qiiebec at 2.00 p. m. on Tuesday and at Pictou 
 (1,009 'iiiliis) on Saturday. 
 
 -M-TTiTXT-RTTDV M W Steamers run thrice daily eight miles to Blodgett's Landing, 
 INJiWauitl, IN. n. Qj.g^^ Island, Lake View, Liberty Island, Pine Cliff, 
 Sunapce Harbor and George's Mill:^. 
 
 NEWPORT VT C^S'S 39)- Steamers leave every morning for Magog, at the 
 iNJi w JTWrxl, northern end of Lake Memphremagoa:, landing at the Moun- 
 
 tain House, toot of Owl's Head , and at Georgeville and Knowlton's Landing and 
 returning same afternoon. 
 
 MT a P A T? A riATT (Page 13). Steamer Chicora leaves for Toronto twice daily 
 INlAljAnii, UlMl. ^^ arrival of trains. 
 
 PT ATT^IPTTRPH C'^S*^ 23). Champlain Transportation Line steamer Ver- 
 jruAj. lODun'jxi ^^^^^^^ leaves 7.00 a. m., stops at Port Kent, Burlington, Port 
 Henry, Crown Point and other landings and arrives at Fort Ticonderoga 12.20 p. in. 
 Steamer A. Williams leaves at 2.45 p. m., stops at Port Kent and Port Jackson and 
 arrives at Burlington 4.45 p. m. 
 
 PnPTT ATSm (^^'iftC43). Steamers Z,<?7cwio» and City of Richmond \eA\e 11.00 
 r-ux\,lUAlNl^ p_ ^_ (Tuesday and Friday), stop at Rockland, Castine, Deer Isle 
 and Sedgwick and arrive at Bar Harbor at noon next day. International Steamship 
 Company ieave6.oop. m. (Sundav excepted) and arrive at Eastport 9.00 a. m. and 
 at St. John about 2.00 p. m. next day; returning leave I ortland in the morning and 
 arrive at Boston about i.oo p. m. Portland Steam Packets leave 9.00 a. m. and 8.00 
 p. m. (except Sunday) for Boston. Star Line steamboats four times daily for Peak's 
 and Cushing's Islands. Steamer Express makes eight trips daily to Peak's Island, 
 stopping at I^ittle and Great Diamond Islands. 
 QTTTjirj-pip (Pages 32 and 37). St. Lawrence Steam Navigation Company's 
 
 — steamers leave 7.30 a. m., arriving at Murray Bay at 1.30 p. ni., Riviere 
 
 du Loup 5.00 p. m., Tadousac 7.00 p. m., L'.\nse St. Jean 9.30 p. ni., Ha-H:i Bay and 
 Chicoutimi, according to tide (best views of the grand scenery of the Saguenay 
 River obtainable on the return voyage). Steamer Mircimic/iiXea^ves at 2.00 p. m. on 
 Tuesdays, July 13th and 27th, August loth and 24th, September 7th and 21st and 
 October 5th and loth; arrives at Father Point on Wednesday, at Gaspe and Perce 
 on Thursday, at Summerside and Charlottetown on Friday and at Pictou (S29 
 miles) on Saturday. 
 
 PnTTC!TP'<^ POTIUT (Pages 23 and 39). Steamer Reindeer leaves t7-oo a. m. and 
 ixwuon o r-wixi 1 arrives at Burlington 11.00 a. m., landing at Islands, Platts- 
 burgh, Port Kent and Port Jackson. 
 
 QTfR A P n T A TfTr (Page 43). Two steamers run daily to Harrison, at the north- 
 OHiDAU-U ijAIVili ^j.^ g^j ^f j[jg jjjl^g^ ^^^ return, stopping at Naples, Bridgton 
 and North Bridgton. 
 
 m/-|-pTTvr A -nTpT^ (Page 47). Steamers on Inland Route to Odin 01 Crooked Lake 
 IKJfll^JXaihth ,^^^ j^ Cheboygan and Mackinac Island. 
 
 T(^RnNT(^ (Pages 1 3. and 29). Niagara Navigation Company's steamer Chicora 
 leaves6.ooa.m.and i.oop.m.for Niagaraand Lewiston, where connec- 
 tion is made with Michigan Central and New York Central & Hudson River Kail- 
 roads. Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company's steamers leave N'onge Street 
 Wharf at 2.00 p. m. (except Sunday) for Kingston, Clayton, Thousand Islands, 
 Alexandria Bay, Montreal and other landings. 
 
 TROV Citizen's Line, leaving foot of Broadway 6.55 p. m. (Saturday excepted), 
 I Sunday nights at 6.00 p. m., stopping at Steamboat Square, Albany, and 
 arriving at New York at 7.00 a. m. Meals on the Buropean plan. 
 WATKTW-? (Pa&"^ I'')- Seneca Lake Steam Navigation Company's steamers 
 leave at 7.00 a. m. and at i.oo and 7.00 p. m. and arrive at Geneva at 
 10.30 a. ni. and at 4.30 and 9.50 p. in. Meals on steamers. 
 
 TT7-nirTDc< (Page 42). Steamers for WoUboro, Centre Harbor and other points on 
 Lake Winnipesaukee connect here with all trains. 
 
I N DK 
 
 NAMES IN KOMAN ARE KAILKOAD STATIONS.) 
 
 Adirondack Mountains, N. V 
 
 FAUK 
 
 22 
 
 Ag'incourt, Ont. 
 
 3° 
 
 Albany, N. Y. 
 
 17-24-53 
 
 Albion, Mich. 
 
 S 
 
 Alexandria Bay, N. \ . . 
 
 34-35 
 
 Alger, :Mich. .' . . . 
 
 • 45 
 
 Ann Arlior, Mich. . 
 
 8 
 
 Au Sable Chasm, N. T. . 
 
 ■ n 
 
 Au Sable River, Mich. . 
 
 ■ 4'1 
 
 Baldwin, X. Y. . . . 
 
 23-53 
 
 Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
 
 22 
 
 JSar Harbor, Mr. . 
 
 27-43 
 
 Batavia, N. Y. 
 
 16 
 
 Bath, N. H. . . . 
 
 • 41 
 
 Battle Creek, Mich. 
 
 7 
 
 Bay City, Mich. 
 
 ■ 45 
 
 Beachville, Ont. 
 
 28 
 
 Berkshire Hills, Mass. . 
 
 • 25 
 
 Bethlehem, N. H. . 
 
 • 40 
 
 Blandford, Ont. 
 
 ■ 29 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 27 43-53 
 
 Brockville, Ont. 
 
 ■ 35 
 
 Buchanan, Mich. . 
 
 7 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 • "5 
 
 Burlinifton, Vt. 
 
 ■ S.\ 
 
 Caldwell, N. Y. . 
 
 23-53 
 
 Caledonia Springs, ^iif. 
 
 ■ i^ 
 
 Calumet, Qiie. 
 
 32 
 
 Calumet Falls, Out. 
 
 3^ 
 
 Canandaig-ua, N. Y. 
 
 ■ '7 
 
 Cantilever Bridge . 
 
 14 
 
 Catskill Mountai7is, N. T. 
 
 10 
 
 Center Harbor, X. II. . 
 
 42 
 
 Central Ontario Jiinction, On 
 
 • ^0 
 
 Chateaugay, X. Y. 
 
 39 
 
 Chatham, X. Y. 
 
 • 25 
 
 Chaiidiere Falls, Ont. . 
 
 • 3' 
 
 Cheboygan, Mich. . 
 
 . 4S 
 
 Cheneaux Islands, Mich. 
 
 • SO 
 
 Chicago, 111. . 
 
 • 5 
 
 Chittenango, X. Y. 
 
 • '7 
 
 Clayton, X. Y. 
 
 34-53 
 
 Clifton, Ont. . 
 
 • '3 
 
 Clifton .Springs, X. Y. . 
 
 17 
 
 Cold Spring, X. Y. 
 
 . 20 
 
 Concord, X. II. 
 
 • 42 
 
 Cratvford Notch, N. H. 
 
 • 43 
 
 Detroit, Mich. 
 
 9 
 
 Diamond Lake, Mich. 
 
 ■ 7 
 
 Dickinson's I^anding, Ont. 
 
 ■ 36 
 
 Dowagiac, Mich. 
 
 • 7 
 
 East Haverhill, .\. 11. 
 East Saginaw, Mich. 
 Eaton Rapids, Mich. 
 Elizabethtown, X. "S'. 
 Elora, Ont. . 
 Fabyans, X. H. 
 Fall's View, Out. . 
 FishkiU, N. Y. 
 Fonda, N. Y. 
 Fort Edward, X. Y. 
 Fort Ticonderogu, N. Y 
 Franconia Notch, N. H. 
 Fryeburg, Me. 
 Gait, Ont. 
 
 Garrison's, N. Y. . 
 Genesee Falls, N. 1'. 
 (jcneva, X. Y. 
 Glen Station, X. H. 
 Gravenhurst, Ont. 
 Grayling, Mich. 
 Hagersville, Ont. . 
 Higgins Lake, Mich. 
 Hoosac JMountaijis, Mas 
 Houghton Lake, ^fich. 
 Hudson, X. Y. 
 Indian River, Mich. 
 Ingersoll, Ont. 
 Jackson, Mich. 
 Jefferson, X^. H. 
 Kalamazoo, Mich. . 
 Kingston, Ont. 
 Lachine Rapids, i^ue. 
 I.aconia, N. H. 
 Lake George, N. T. 
 Lake Memphremagog , V 
 Lake Molionk, N 1'. 
 Lake Nipissing, Ont. 
 Lake Quota, Mass. 
 Lake Placid, N. 1'. 
 Lake Simcoe, Ont. . 
 Lake Winnipesaukce, N. 
 Lansing, Mich. 
 Leslie, Mich. . 
 Lisbon, N. H. 
 Little Falls, X. Y. 
 Littleton, X. H. 
 Louiseville, Qiie. 
 Lyons, N. Y. . 
 Mackinac Island, Midi. 
 Mackinaw City, Mich. 
 Malone, X. Y. 
 Marshall, Mich. 
 
 17 
 
 ^l 
 
 23-53 
 
 40 
 
 43 
 29 
 20 
 16 
 
 17-53 
 43 
 
 ?>-53 
 4" 
 10 
 46 
 
 25 
 46 
 18 
 
 47 
 28 
 
 8-44 
 40 
 
 7 
 30-53 
 3^' 
 42 
 23 
 39 
 '9 
 ,So-3> 
 25 
 23 
 30 
 42 
 14 
 44 
 41 
 '7 
 4' 
 32 
 17 
 
 •1^-53 
 4^-54 
 
56 
 
 TNDEX—Continned. 
 
 Mason, Mich. 
 Michigan City, Ind. 
 Milton, Ont. . 
 Moira, N. Y. . 
 Montebello, Qiie. . 
 Montmoretici Falls, ^tie. 
 Mo Ureal, Que. 
 Montrose, Ont. 
 Mount Clemens, Mich 
 Mount Desert Island, Mi 
 Mount Washinfflon, N. j 
 Mullet Lake, Mich. 
 Muskolca Lakes, Ont. 
 Myrtle, Ont. . 
 New Buffalo, Mich. 
 Newburgh, N. V. . 
 Newport, N. II. 
 Newton, Mass. 
 New York, N. Y. . 
 Niagara, Ont. 
 Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
 Niagara Falls, Ont. 
 Niles, Mich. . 
 North Adams, Mass. 
 North Conway, N. H. 
 North Creek, N. Y. 
 North Woodstock, N. H 
 Norwood, N. Y. 
 Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
 Old Orchard Beach, Me 
 Oneida, N. Y. 
 Orion Lake, Mich. 
 Ottawa, Ont. . 
 OvjVs Head Mountain, 
 Owosso, Mich. 
 Palmer, Mass. 
 Parma, Mich. 
 Paul Smith's Station, N 
 Peterborough, Ont. 
 Pictured Rocks, Mick. 
 Pinconning, Mich. 
 Pittsfiold, Mass. 
 Pittsburgh, N. Y. 
 Plymouth, N. H. . 
 Port Kent, N. Y. . 
 Portland, Me. 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 I'rescolt, Ont. 
 Profile House, N. H. 
 Qviebec, Que. . 
 Queenston, Ont. 
 Richfield Springs, N. Y 
 Riverside, N. Y. 
 Rives Junction, Mich. 
 Rochester, N. Y. . 
 Rome, N. Y. . 
 
 44 
 
 Roscommon, Mich. 
 
 46 
 
 6 
 
 Rouse's Point, N. Y. 
 
 23-39-54 
 
 29 
 
 Saginaw, Mich. 
 
 45 
 
 39 
 
 Saranac Lake, N. 1 . 
 
 23 
 
 ■ 32 
 
 Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
 
 22 
 
 34 
 
 Sault Ste. Marie, Midi. . 
 
 • 4S 
 
 32-54 
 
 Schenectady, X. Y. 
 
 17 
 
 II 
 
 Schroon Lake, N. T. 
 
 23 
 
 S' 
 
 Sebago Lake, Me. 
 
 43-54 
 
 27-43 
 
 Sharbot Lake Junction, Ont. 
 
 30 
 
 ■ 43 
 
 Shatvaneiran Falls, i^w. 
 
 ■ 37 
 
 47 
 
 Sing Sing, N. Y. . 
 
 21 
 
 • 30 
 
 Sister Lakes, Mich. 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 Smith's Falls, Ont. 
 
 30 
 
 6 
 
 Sorel, Que. 
 
 . 37 
 
 • 19 
 
 South Framingliam, Mass. 
 
 ■ 27 
 
 .39-54 
 
 South Haven, Mich. 
 
 ■ 7-Sa 
 
 27 
 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 
 26 
 
 21 
 
 Sqiiatn Lake, iV. //. 
 
 ■ 42 
 
 13-54 
 
 St. Clair Springs, Mich. 
 
 S' 
 
 • 15 
 
 St. Helen, Mich. . 
 
 46 
 
 12 
 
 St. Johnsbury, Vt. , 
 
 39 
 
 7 
 
 St. Leon .S/rings, ^ue. . 
 
 32-37 
 
 • 25 
 
 St. Thomas, Ont. . 
 
 10-28 
 
 ■ 43 
 
 Streetsville, Ont. . 
 
 • 29 
 
 • 23 
 
 Suspension Bridge, N. Y. 
 
 14 
 
 ■ 40 
 
 Syracuse, !N. Y. 
 
 ■7 
 
 • 39 
 
 Tarry town, N. Y. . 
 
 21 
 
 • 35 
 
 Thousand Islands, N. T. and 
 
 Onl. 34 
 
 43 
 
 Three Rivers, Que. 
 
 32-.^7 
 
 13 
 
 Tonawanda, N. Y. 
 
 - 15 
 
 • 52 
 
 Topinabce, Mich. . 
 
 47-54 
 
 31 
 
 Toronto, Ont. 
 
 14-20-54 
 
 39 
 
 Trenton Falls, N. Y. . 
 
 ■ 17 
 
 • 45 
 
 Twin Mountain House, N. H 
 
 42 
 
 26 
 
 Utica, N. Y. . . 
 
 ■ 17 
 
 S 
 
 Verennes, Que. 
 
 • 37 
 
 ■ 39 
 
 Verona, N. Y. 
 
 • 17 
 
 ■ 30 
 
 Warren, N. H. 
 
 ■ 42 
 
 48 
 
 Watkins, N. Y. 
 
 16-54 
 
 • 45 
 
 Weirs, N. H. 
 
 42-54 
 
 ■ 25 
 
 Welland, Ont. 
 
 10 
 
 23-54 
 
 Wells River, Vt. . 
 
 • 42 
 
 41-42 
 
 Wesley Park, Ont. 
 
 ■ 13 
 
 • 23 
 
 Westfield, Mass. . 
 
 29 
 
 43-54 
 
 West Point, N. Y. 
 
 20 
 
 • 19 
 
 Westport, N. Y. . 
 
 • 23 
 
 • 35 
 
 Whitef.eld, N. H. . 
 
 • 40 
 
 • 40 
 
 White Mountains, N. H. 
 
 ■ 38 
 
 32-Sl 
 
 Wilbraham, Mass. 
 
 . 26 
 
 • 14 
 
 WingRo:id, N. H. 
 
 • 40 
 
 • 17 
 
 Woodstock, Ont. . 
 
 . 28 
 
 • 23 
 
 Woodsville, N. H. 
 
 • 41 
 
 44 
 
 Worcester, Mass. . 
 
 . 26 
 
 16 
 
 Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 21 
 
 ■ 17 
 
 Ypsilanti, Mich. 
 
 8