Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-03
LAKE ERIBWARD.

end Put-in-Eay-A EEemInIseenee Of
Jay Cookies sfsetter Days"
CINCINNATI, May 81, lsT5.-How beau
tiful dead-heading is in the gain of "Ex-
change of COurtesieS." How eminently
practical The amenities Of life when a dol
lars worth thereof is given for S1.5O worth
There are the dead beat, the dead head
and the guest. and these three classes con-
stitute the army of sEFree Lunchers" on the
turtle soup Of industrious humanity. The
bead beat is the thief Of courtesies, whose
principal victim is the Ingenious journalist.
He is out-lawed by outraged generosity(g).
The dead head is the king, president, gen
eral superintendent, journalist, etc, whose
brains or money, or both, sustain the en-
terprise which does him homage as a ser
want. The guest is entertained solely for
the pleasure of his company and the good
influence of his presence. When anything
else is expected of him he becomes a
dead head. This is why journalists suffer
more from dead beats than all Others COM
bined, who are victimized by the church,
the world and the devil as if they were
GIliBlGS ferre, are so often dead heads, be-
cause they are expected to not only herald
forth every courtesy they receive to the
glory of the giVer, but TO adOrn the cour-
tesy by the sPlendOr of their genius. These
are the reflections. which came to my mind
as gaZed on a gorgeous and pressing in
VitatiOn sigOed by officers Of railroads
and steamboats, and hotel keepers to 90 to
the Lake Erie Islands, handed me a few
days since. A seductive programme ae-
cOmpanied the invitation and the elaborate
arrangements were stated to be "planned
withathe object of demonstrating to edi-
tors and their patrons (readers) the great
attractions Of the Lake Erie Islands as a
summer resort, and the superior advantages
Of the route via Cincinnati, Springfield and
Sandusky Railroad as a means Of getting
there Having accepted the invitation
with condition above named, l will prO-
coed to detail the demonstration.
THE PREPARATIONS
for the excursion, visible Wednesday morn
ing at the Plain street depot, weretwo new
and sumptuOus parlOr cars, a smoking car,
a car Of something good to take, and an
engine that made forty miles an hour mere
play. The excursiOnists were prompt, and
at 9:45 A. NJ. the parlor cars were filed
with intellectual looking editors, their
amiable wives and promising children,
some hotel keepers and grand railroad Off
Gals, and few distinguished correspon-
dents.
Horace Brooks, the Oldest engineer of
the Dayton Short Line, held the lever:
Maj. Vim. II. Mills, Jr., the most-sought-for
man IN the party, was in charge of the
precious baggage car, with its one trunk
and innumerable cases of Mills "Sans
Parcil," and the rest Of the train was in
charge of a generally difiused conductor.
Hnaa ell had winrtnN
over the open road at the rate of fortymiles
an hour, from Cincinnati to Sandusky.
without a jolt. The special time table
was run to a minute-run so fast, in fact,
and so smooth, that it seemed steady and
hOme-like in the parlor cars. Editors were
resting, thinking, or interviewing Mills,
while the wives we're nodding, chatting
with their neighboIs, or gently caring for
their spOuses, and the railroad officials for
got their cares in looking after things in
general.
Of course L set the example. of noting the
luxurious appointments of the cars,-the
even track and the country through which
we passed. There were miles of splendid
farms, with fine houses aud great barns;
clean, strong fences noble, woodlands, Il
did not see an open field that was not un-
der cultivation); thrifty villages and cities
with the invariable great manufactures,
really metropolitan residences and solid, /
busy-loOking business buildings. There
are many public edificeS, asylums, etc, on |
the line, and other interesting features |
that would like to give in detail, but l /
knew them not, no one told me anything !
about the outside, and all the managers OF !
the excursion seemed to care for was the /
individual inside, in a word to get US full. |
There were no introductiOns or fraternizing !
worth speaking Of, except through Mills, |
who was everywhere with his effervescing |
beverage, which mildly cheered but did not |
intOXicate.
At Bellefontaine a most wholesome and /
Well-served lunch was set at the Branham /
House, and / am told this was regular fare.
Nothing mitigates travelling more than such /
fresh, clean, wholesome food, served so 1
neatly. We reached Sandusky about p. 1
N. and went on board the steamer jay j
Cooke, a pleasant craft that took Us the
twelve miles TO Kelley's Island in less than
an hour.
The fishing boats were just coming in,
each fisherman with thirty 20 seventy-fTe
bass. The boats, the tempting lake, all in
smiles from a delicious breeze, seduced
many Of us into rowing big blisters
On our hands before supper. There was
aIge fishing party at the hotel, and tackle,
nets, rods, hooks, flies, spoons, etc, COW
cred the walls Of the bar-rOOm. The fish
No continues fns-as high as 40 bass be-
NJ taken by one line in a days. These bass
weigh from two to five pounds, and have q
,Fisp, juicy meat that, well cooked, fairly
nelts in the mouth. l have not time to
peak Of the characteristics scenes Of Kelly's
Stand of the judges, lawyers, doctors,
merchants that come here TO fish and bronze !
themselves with the strengthening sun and
Wind, (yOu would not recognize them in
heir fishing jackets, tOp-bOOts and big
tTaw hats), of the broad vineyards, the !
immense wine cellars, etc. The hotel is |
allied the Island House, and is clean and
MKT MORNING,
he Jay Cooke again took us aboard, and |
teamed around to Put-in-Bsy, where we !
ound ample hotel accommodations. Here
ye spent the day in fishing and boating ex-
UrsiOns, for which there is most liberal |
nd excellent provisions; or looking over
he island, which, like Kelley's, is largely
urned into vineyards. Everything here is
Iedited to Commodore Perry or Jay
JOOle. Perry fought his great battle Op-
,Osite this island-he "put in" at this bay,
lie discovered the little cove, he sent a dis
atch from here, saying We "met the enc
ny and they are ours Ga shorter letter /
han the one | am writing, you observe), !
nd did thousand other things immortal [
zing spots for beer and wine saloons, bath
nc places, etc. Jay Cooke, who by the
7ay is now on the island, staying in a very |
modest cOttage-in the palmy syndi-
ate and North Pacific days, bought the
sland Of Gibralter, which lies half mile
istant from the hotel, and built his sum {
1er residence thereon. The island slopes Z
n the lee side up to about forty foot
huff fiOuting the lake, contains about five '
cres and is rather picturesque with its a
andsOme stone building and tower, like a '
Immature castle, but the house is closed 6
OW. A sou Of old John Brown, the L
martyr" keeps it, while the yacht is
Inken, the pier deserted and the preacher
lnkets here no more. You know. this is [
he place that the great banker dead-headed I
ergymen. c
Bay Island is one Of three Islands I
slled Bass Islands. Grouped about it a
re a number of islands, which are a
Irtially under cultivation and to o
hich short and pleasant excursions II
lay be made. There is nothing (,
riking or grand in the scenery, such as v
az be easily found in our Tennessee o
n.a-H farna ants