Book >Hfe f;. PRESENTED KiT //^ travelers, he invariably seeks the height of his day's enjoyment in the dining-car. The Michigan Central was the pioneer Eastern dining-car line, and has always en- joyed the highest reputation for the quality of its cuisine and the character of its service. It thoroughly comprehends the wide difference between feeding and dining. The menu, though ample, is not overloaded by a wilderness of dishes through which one wanders in search for the palatable ; but the viands are of the choicest, prepared by an experienced chef, and served by skillful waiters, upon dainty chiua and snowy linen, in the most tempting style. Nothing is wanting to the enjoyment of the most fastidious as he leisurely discusses the successive courses, or sips his well-selected wine, glancing from time to time at the pleasing scenery that glides swiftly by the broad plate-glass windo^v, until ' ' Serenely full, the epicure shall say, ' Fate can not harm me, I have dined to-day.' "' (10) MICHIGAN RESORTS. "VTORTHERN Michigan is a I'egion characterized by an air of marvelous -'-^ purity, laden with balsamic odors from the piue forests, giving health and strength to the invalid with everj^ inhalation, and peculiai'lj' cm'ative to hay fever, asthma, and bronchial affections. The clear running streams and blue- green waters of the lakes are full of finny prey, and the forests afford good sport to the himter in the proper season. There is much wonderfully picturesque scenery on 3Iackinac Island, and in the I'egion of which it is the center, including the Cheneaux Islands, the Sault de Ste. Marie, the Pictm-ed Rocks of Lake Superior, and tha lake shore near IMarquette. Reference to the folding map will enable the tourist to clearly trace his route. He will see that there are four lines limning northward from the base line of the Michigan Central, converging into two — the Chicago & West 3Iichigan from New Buffalo, and the Grand Rapids & Indiana from Kalamazoo, meeting at Grand Rapids, whence the latter road imns northward to Traverse City, Harbor Springs, Charlevoix, Petoskey, and Mackinaw; and the Saginaw and Baj^ City Divisions of the IMichigan Central, leaving the Main Line at Jackson and Detroit, and meeting at Bay City, the Mackinaw Division running to Alger, Roscommon, Topinabee, Indian River, Cheboygan, and 3Iackinaw City, whence ferry runs to Mackinac Island, and where connection is made with the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway for Upper Peninsula points. jMackixac Island is now a National Park, has been a military post for a cen- tury, was for forty years the headquarters of Astor"s American Fur Company, has been fought over by French, British, IncUans, and Americans, and more than two hundred years ago was a mustering place of Marquette, Hennepin, Nicollet, and LaSalle. 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 Hiaicatha. It has since been a source of inspiration to many writers. Donan has written of it in characteristic strains of fervid eloquence, and Captain Kelton, U. S. A., has pubhshed its ^ 'story, statistics, and traditions in an invaluable little handbook, while Marion __^rland has printed, but lately, in The Home-Maker, "With the Best Intentions," a story in which the island scenes, society, and spirit are admirably depicted. "The natm-al scenery of Mackinac is charming,'' writes, in Picturesque America, Constance Fennimore Woolson, v\-hose admirable story of Anne is a local as well as a national classic. "The geologist finds mysteries in the masses of calcareous rock dipping at unexpected angles: the antiquarian feasts his eyes on the Di-uidical circles of ancient stones ; the invalid sits on the chff's edge, in the vivid simshine, and breathes in the buoj-ant 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 j^oimg 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. BluebeUs, on their hair-like stems, swing from the rocks, fachng 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 E itish Landing stand the Gothic spires of the blue-green spi-uces and now and then an Indian trail crosses the road, worn deep by the feet of the red men when the Fairy Island was then- favorite and sacred resort. "" On the edge of a precipice of white limestone, 155 feet high, just back of the town, is the fort which, in picturesque beauty of location, has no rival among all the fortresses of the United States. Its position somewhat resembles (11) 12 SiAiiimer Tours. sublimest freaks of ralure's handi- The chisel pinrits. of untold ages that of Fort SneUing, but is much more romantic. Magnificent views of the sui-rounding lakes, channels, islands, promontories, forests, towns, and shipping are to be had from every point of the lofty parapet; and the world affords no gi-ander sight than a sunrise or sunset from the fort, the great globe of crimson and gold seeming at its rising to burst up from the bosom of Lake Huron and at its setting to plunge into the midst of Lake Michigan, casting a milhon prismatic tints of glorious Ught on wave and sky. Arch Rock is one of the wildest, weirdest, work in sculpture, of whirling waters are all over it. It projects from the face of a cliff 200 feet high, a gi- gantic bay- - window of stone, sup- ported b y a mighty arch 149 feet high at its summit. The rim or wall of the bay-window is about three feet wide and it bulges out some twen- ty feet from the cliff, over- hanging the blue-green water of the lake a dizzy depth below. The view from the summit of the arch takes in a glorious sweep of fifty miles. The scene by moon- light from a boat below the arch is most enchanting. From the ruins f^ of old Fort Holmes, on the highest point of the island, is seen a panorama of wonderful beauty and extent. \cross ' a narrow strait Bois Blanc Island looms up with its light-houses and forests of white buxh, w hile 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, varying fx'om 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 swarming with white-fish, bass, pickerel, gamy muskallonge, and lake trout. At both Les Cheneaux and Bois Blanc, summer resort associations have erected club houses and cottages for the suitable entertainment not only of mem- bers and guests, but of visitoi's as well. These are charming summering places, easily reached from Mackinac Island or Cheboygan, and annually attract increas- (13; IS Freelap II .,