The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-08-02


grass growing and clover producing re-
gion being stored. We saw pastures
where sheep were cropping the juicy un-
dergrowth in feed above their heads, sup
erfiuous grass that in many years would
have been considered richly worth cutting
and curing for winter use. The fine
wheat crop, extensive in acreage, favora-
bly, harvested was being taken from the
fields or in some instances threshed in 1t,
the portable engine doing duty at safe
distance from the barns. Potatoes were
never so largely planted and look very
promising The corn-ffelds on the flats of
thdHuron river in their forwardness eclipse
all we had heretofore seen this year, but
we saw the next day just as good fields,
one or two in Penfeld, on the high clay
soils east of Black river. We also saw
splendid, even fields of oats in that town.
ship, though not as ripe as those ON the
hills of Huron county near the lake. The
lands between Milan and Huron have ex-
cellent natural drainage, and can therefore
be titled earlier in the SpriRg than the
more level farm lands hereabout. Our
fathers in an early day used to drive
through to Norwalk, "a small village four
miles from Milan" and thence TO the lat
ter place after their lime; sometimes buy
ing it at the kilns between Milan and San
dusky. Milan had a ship canal from the
lake, and it was place of some import
ance as point for shipping wheat. The
rlo IN he
eastern parts of Lorain county though
purchased at shilling bushel, involved
considerable outlay in tedious drives over
much bad road, and two nights out before
getting it home.
Milan has fallen behind Norwalk in
her prosperity, and the ship canal has
long since gone out of use. From there to
the lake the w. s. L. E. track skirts the
side of the Huron river, which in its tortu-
Gus windings is never out of sight. In
freshet it must make quite show of
water. Now it flows quietly within full
banks, bordered with water lilies and
blue flag and a back ground of willows
are reflected in it here and there. In the
wide marshes beside the track are frequent
patches of the broad round-leaved pond
lily, and many a royal flower did We see
temptingly beautiful, but inaccessible.
These have the white blossoms, while the
slender-leaved variety growing by the
deep water has the yellow flower. and is a
much handsomer plant with peculiarly
rich, dark, glossy leaf.
The landing at Huron is very near the
terminus of the track, and the little
steamer Louise was waiting to take US to
Lakeside and Putin-Bay. This staunch
little craft is considered one of the safest
that plies between the Islands. 1t was
built four years ago in Sandusky by the
engineer who runs it John Kaercher, every
part of it intended to be OF the strongest
material conscieniously put together. Its
length is SO feet, breadth of beam 1877,
depth of hold o ft., and is built to carry 81
TONS burden. Its high pressure engine is
20x20, and the boat is owned by Post s.
Co., of Sandusky. Capt. Dwelle, Master,
is as courteous as he is cautious, and will
not take aboard more passengers than he
| is perfectly certain the boat can safely car
~, should she be caught in a squally sea.
More than once have we watched her
leave Lakeside with her load of precious
freight when no other vessel went on regu-
lar trips; yet she with her better shape and
lesser height defied the wind and waves
and presently was skimming away like a
bird. She is in the Canada fishing
trade in the Spring and Fall, but no taint
of anything fnny fingers about her during
the passenger season She was as cleanly
the other day as any careful woman,would
have made her own house when at its
very best There was not enough motion
of the boat to jar down the triangular
arrangement of knife fork and spoon on
the table neatly set for the crew and its
kitchen and cook have been models of neat
nese on the occasions of our chance in
spection. Many housewives and domes-
tics might take lessons to their advantage
of male cooks if they all kept things as
systematic, and brightly clean as this one
of the Louise.
/ The lake route from Huron to Lake
side is more direct and has deeper chan
mel than the one from Sandusky. When
we were drawing only seven feet four
inches of water it ought to have made us
easy as 10 sufficiency on that score to know
that there was forty-five feet of that Gle
ment beneath US for a margin. At the
left Cedar Point, and by and by Kelley's
Island to the right, with Johnsons Island
| in front are the lands we see until we
round the Peninsula and begin to make
out the landmarks of Lakeside, the light
house on the Point and then the Life
Saving Station the Hotel, the row.
boats, and white sails of the lit
tie craft hovering about the shores
of the encampment. The elegance of the
new cottages, the improved attractiveness
of the Dining Hall, the better facilities for
wat0r, and the testimony of everyone con.
cerning the excellence of the lectures and
entertainments are things observed on
reaching there this year. The bells are
down near the shore, not so intrusively
noisy as they were last year.
Besides ones friends, one sees many OF
the same children a little larger grown,
the same studious and interesting faces at
the lectures, and great many new peo
pie everywhere. Every year the place
looks older, the accommodations grow
better; and certainly one sign of civiliza.
ton advances with each row of cottages
built, the grass grew last year where it was
woodsy the year before, and we noticed
that this year it had made great strides in
taking the place of ferns and moses and
infant seedlings of every tree and plant
indigenous to the native soil. Mature
never stands still, nor souls either; they
ever go up or go down." When we reach
ed the pavilion Rev. c. II. Stocking was
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