Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-27
CORRESPONDENCE.


The Trip Among the Great Lakes.
 DULUTH, July 19.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 After night of discomfort in the so called sleeping car (dreadful misnomer) your cor. respondent landed in Buffalo to be immedi- ately surrounded by bowling mob of omni- bus and hack agents, each one of whom claimed to be the only authorized agent of the Lake Superior Transit Company and therefore entitled to our coupons or, as the above mentioned drivers insisted in calling it, ''cowpons" We concluded finally that the one who offered to take US to the steamer company's office, liar within D if it was not all right must be the man, as he relied so completely on his right The Lake Superior Transportation company is in it's fifth year, and now has eight steamers in addition to two freight steamers. The line at the outset | expected to succeed through heavy freight, ing, but owing to the untiring efforts of MT T. F. Carpenter, formerly of the Red Star Line of Philadelphia, and now general pas 1 senger agent of this company, it carries | large number of tourists every summer. Last year h. arly 25,00O passengers experienced Mir. Carpenters kindly interest in their be- half, and I may here add that all the em ployes of the company, from the captain to | the waiter seem animated by a desire to do | everything possible for the comfort and pleasure of the passengers. Our steamer | was "Nyack," one of the newer boats and | as all are built on the same general plan a brief description of her will do for all. There are cabin accommodations for 40 passengers, but this involves disagreeable crowdlng of three persons to each state
 room, some of which have three single l berths, and others one double and one sin gle | berth. The only excuse for such an ar rangement Is the great number of travellers anxious to avail themselves of this mode of | travel. On our trip there were some fifteen | unfortunates who occupied cots Set up in stray corners of the boat, among whom, by the by, was a millionaire three or four l times over. In addition to these are the <" deck passengers /" that is emigrants to the | Northwest who for $5 receive transportation
 from Buffalo to Duluth, and provide them
 selves with provisions and beds. The wom en
 and children have hunks, but the men fare as
 best they can, on the lower deck. Coffee is
 supplied them by the company. The cabin
 passenger generally knows nothing of these
 fellow voyagers. The dining saloon is on
 the saloon deck, and consequently airy and
 well lighted The table is good. except the
 meats, wkich seem to have been tempered to
 steel like hardness. The delicious fist
 caught in these lakes are, however a wei come substitute. One most agreeable feature } is the cosy and homelike ladies' parlor The statereoms are all on the saloon deck, and
 have all large windows commanding tho ] scenery one passes The external appear
 ance of the steamers combines about equally 7 the features of an ocean and of a Sound
 steamer. There are no guards or paddles
 and the bow is built far above the water
 while the long narrow shape and solid side
 all remind one that, like the Atlantic
 steamer, these are built to encounter heav, weather. It resembles our Sound boat through the white color and large window of the saloon deck and the hurricane decl some thirty feet above water would neve endure an ocean storm
 n The day at Buffalo can be well spen
 among its fine avenues, at it's new, but prom ising pa,k, and in the superb county cour B house. as fine building of the kind as cal 3 | be seen anywhere. Seven o'clock the hou ! of departure, saw us amid hurrying crow, 1 of passengers and friends bidding them '60, UoyGge" The scene from the mouth of tn , Erie canal, the steamers sailing point, wa most picturesque at this darkening hour
 Quaint buildings with steep gables. line
 with rows of windows and projecting stories
 reminded one rather of Nuremberg than o - so practical thing as grain elevator. Be 8 sides these picturesque affairs, which are fo f the most part private, there were hug
 square ones, decorated with the legend " EIt J. vator," in large white letters, capable C r" holding hundreds of thousands of bushels s Here the bulk of the wheat from the Nortl f west is brought largely by this line (
 steamers, and from these elevators is 1oade S upon the Erie canal boats The harbor e Buffalo IS eiaborately protected by 8 serie a of fine breakwaters over which the spra