Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-07-05
Lake Superior the Great Summer
Resort.
Some Of the Trout Streams Of
the South Shore.
What Ashland and Bayfield, offer In
the way Of Inducements to the
Pleasure Seeker, Tourist
and Sportsman.
From the Ashland Press.

and Sportsman.
From the Ashland Press.
It is the purpose Of this article to
call the attention of tourists and
sportsmen, as well as persons SEEK
ing to restore their wasted strength
and health, to the many advantages
offered by Ashland, Bayfield, and the
surrounding country, as a place of
resort during the coming summer
months. In the first place there is
not spot on earth that enjoys a
purer climate than this section, or
that possesses more lovely or roman.
tic scenery than can be found along
our coast, among our islands, or in
the recesses of our forest glades, our
beautiful valleys, or our gently slop-
ing hills and mountains. Not only
do we possess a most delightful, cool,
bracing climate, but bays and inlets
as beautiful as eyer the sun shone
upon in fair Italy or Southern
France. The sweet-scented zephyrs
from the pine and fir tree, will give
strength to weak lungs the bracing
atmosphere will renew the anguish
ing appetite; the exercise of boating,
sailing, fishing and driving, will re-
store the wasted body, strengthen
the overtaxed nerves, and weary
brain,-in fact, renew the worn out
man or women, and bring back the
rosy cheek, the sparkling eye, the
fresh and healthy complexion, the
we'll rounded figure, aud build up
anew the shattered constitution, and
the wonderful machinery of the hui
man frame.
Fashionable watering places on
the sea beach, where dress and ex-
pensive Injuries must be INDUCED in,
in order to keep up the necessary
style demanded by aristrocratic cir
Giles, ending invariably in over indul-
genco in snobbish dissipation, will
not do this They are only health
resorts in name, they are in reality
simply the gilded palaces of Satan,
full of snares for the innocent, and
Dealers in deadly poison. both to the
body and to the soul. These places
are crowded every season by adven-
turers, who pollute the very air they
breathe, making the season very dis,
tasteful to the plain, honest citizen,
or sick and tired traveller. 1t is the
quiet, romatic, health-giving resort
that such persons desire when they
seek the Saratogas of the East; but
they find. by experience that it is
verse than q delusion.
'sIf thou art worn and hard besst
With SORROWS that thou woudst forget;
If thou wouGst learn lesson that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills No tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears"
It's an old sonnet, but it contains
wise advice, which should always be
needed. Lake Superior is the place.
"No tears shall dim the sweet look
that nature wears, "here. Every thing
is pure and fresh, healthy and free
from fashionable vice or evil associa.
tons. Then come and drink of Ma
lures charms, SO Iavishly bestowed,
and judge for yourself whether or
not we have overdrawn the picture.
SOME OF THE INDUCEMENTS:
In the first place Ashland and
Bayfield, afford good accommodations
at m oderGte rates. The visitor pays
only for the real comforts, and is
charged nothing for style, " hich in
nine cases out of ten, at the fashion,
able seaside resorts, is calculated to
take the place, in great measure, Of
substantials, or rather to- excuse the
lack of them. One does not have to
pay every man whom he looks at a
dollar for the privilege lie is not
cheated and swindled by sharpers
and gamblers. The people here are
plain, honest citizens, and unschool-
cd in the arts and devices of the
professional hangers or, attacks of
the noted Hamburgs of America.
The stranger is "taken in" it is true,
but he is only taken 10 to be cared
for as be desires, made-to feel that
be is a human being, and if be has
the right disposition himself, he soon
finds himself cat home" among
friends.
Our hotels are not gilded. or ten
stories high. But they are neat and
clean, plain and homelike, and set
good tables, whore game fish are
served in style that discounts Del.
monico.
OUR SCENERY
is the wonder and delight of every
visitor. The eye never tires of gaz-
ing out over the clear blue waves
of "Gitehee Gumme." The beauti-
full Apostle Islands, set like emeralds
in crystal, with their lovely bays
and wooded shores, casting their rich
velvety shades upon the placid
waters, and forming an almost end.
less panorama of Natures most love.
| ly landscapes, that never fail to fill
the soul with rapture aud delight. A
sail among these inlets of pleasant
summer day, will leave upon mem.
ory's tablets an impression that will
remain as long as life remains, q
pleasant and agreeable picture sus-
pended by the silken web-the hu-
man mind.
Our magnificent bays and harbors
the lovely Chequamegon-with it,
lighthouse and its bold headlands
affording delightful picnic grounds
Madelaine Island, with the ancient
| village of La PoInta. whara the oId