The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-08-27
iu!de Books with endless round Of resorts more

Guide Books with endless round OF resorts more
or less important Then there Is Appleton's
summer Book"-full OF outdoor life both In
text and Illustrations. In all Of these the charms
OF the east take precedence, OF course.
Then there are the railroad Summer Books
In mechanical view many Of item are superior
TO those OF the publishing houses. Indeed few
publishers turn out neater pamphlet than that
OF the Grand Rapids x Ind, the Fishing Line, ~
railroad. OF the lot sent us by seven railroads
that Of the Pennsylvania road Is the most pre-.
tentious--a large book OF lG8 pages, illustrated
with views OF scenery, hotels, &c, and with maps
OF railroads, cities, &c, About 1909 excursion
routes with fares from New York arc given, with
descriptions Of the special Textures Of hundreds
OF different localities. The Detroit E,tning Ns,c,
excursions also send out handsome book, with
a handsomely ornamented cover In coIor.--a
shell and fungus being the design. The route
to the White Mountains ria the Grand Trunk r.
r. and New England resorts is the subject Of the
book, and is treated very thoroughly. The
Fitchburg X. r., "lIoosac Tunnel Route" send
us pamphlet OF 50 pages, illustrating New Eng.
/ land resorts. One hundred and seventeen routes
are given with prices from Boston. Another In.
tsrestng book is the y. & O. summer Resort
Book guide to the mountain, valley and
seaside resor:s" on the B. & o. road Washing
ton and vicinity, Old Point Comfort, the noun.
talns OF the Virgnias, Cumberland, Deer Park,
White Sulphur, &c. The location OF "a spring
resorts OF various kinds Is pointed out. Few
roads offer so many attractions to the summer
tourist seeking an out.ofdoOrs or fashionable
"resort"
| Even the south Cincinnati and st. Louis--of-
fer the bait to the tourist. Cincinnati, however
tcmpts the traveller to the southern mountains
MA the Cincinnati Southern, which issues the
book. Between Cincinnati and Chattanooga. Al
resorts OF various qualities are named. AS hand
some as any Of these little works is that OF the
wabash" system" Pleasure Resorts Of st.
Louis and vicinity" In some So pages. 1t is hard
10 believe, yet outside OF st. Louis some 10 or -
miles quite attractive resorts are mentioned, and
have claims to present.
And now We come to the north, the features
OF which are Northern Wisconsin and Northern
Michigan, described by the Wisconsin Central
and the G. X. Il Ind. roads. Both books are
handsomely gotten up, though that of the G. Il.
Il Ind. road 10 the finer. In both the claims of
climate as cure for asthma and hay fever are
stoRgly put and both offer endes. sport for the
fisherman or hunter. To either or to the loun'
ger these books offer temptation hard to resist;
and II We believe our Ottawa friends who have
been ION the ground" In both states the claims
o! these roads are hardly over.estlmated. Last
Of all comes the "wec little" book OF the Lake
Superior Transit Co., Of Buffalo, with III routes
to Lake Superior, Thousand Islands, &c.
All these books are handsomely illustrated and
provided with accurate maps OF the particular
localities described in the text.
With such an array OF material, 1t is no won.
der the summer tourist Ia vexed 10 spirit, and
ands the answer, where shall we co." more
than half the journey. With some people win
ter Is but o dividing line between trips. The last
10 talked Of until January; from that time the
talk 10 Of the next. u the reader has had his
trip, here 10 material from which to select the
location OF tho next!