The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-14

MARQUETTE AND THE UPPER PESINsULA-HOw
1T WAS DISCOVERED AND NAMED.

MARQUETTE AND THE UPPER PESINsULA-HOw
1T WAS DISCOVERED AND NAMED.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.I
Marquette, August 0, 1883.
| reached this "jumping-off" place by
the WAY OF Cincinnati, 81. Louis. Chicago,
and Milwaukee. The only objection |
have to these great cities-not Marquette
is that they make our incompatible Rich
mond seem, in boatman language, "short
and slow" In a recent speech ut Chicago
a southern divine said it made him tired
Just looking ut the rush OF the people.
But, lover as | am OF the Old Dominion.
were young man, con business bent"
/ would certainly make for the "great
West"
Marquette belongs to Michigan, but it
has no land connection with it. II is the
principal town OF what is called "the
Upper Peninsula" which, in the shape Of
a great flying fish. stretches along Lake
Superior some three hundred and fifty
miles, with an average width OF about sixty
miles. 1t is attached territorialy to the
northern boundary OF Wisconsin, and de-
tached from Michigan on the south by the
Strait OF AIackinaw. The Upper PENN
sula should be separate State. and ineyi-
tably will be the State OF Superior. 1t has
a population OF only eighty or ninety thou
sand. but it realizes annually from its three
leading industries OF copper, iron, and
lumber S33,5O0,000.
Marquette has seven thousand inhab-
itants, and rises up gradually from the
watcr-edge until il crowns the highlands
with its splred churches, its elegant resi-
denceS, and its stately public buildings,
and commands a magnificent view of the
Queen Of Lakes. dotted with islands, and
spreading out beyond the ken OF human
vision. 1t derives its name from Father
Marquette. who established. in 1915, mis-
sion among the Indians OF the Peninsula,
and whose death is tOuchingly described
by Bancroit Erecting an altar, he said
mass after the rites OF the Catholic Church;
then begging the men who conducted his
canoe TO leave him alone for half an hour,
"'In the darkling wood,
Amid the cool and silence he tnet down;
And offered to the Mighticst solemn thanks
Aud suppicatiOn.'
" At the end Of half an hour they went
to seek him, and he was no more. The
good missionary, discoyerer OF a world,
had fallen asleep on the margin Of stream
that bears his name. Near the mouth the
voyagers dug his grave in the sand"
This little city, noted for the culture,
taste, and wealth Of its citizens, is quite 4
place OF summer resort. Last year there
were no less than thlrty.fye hundred visi-
tors, many of them fleeing from hay-feyer,
that mysterious disease for which Lake
Superior is said to be specific. The mean
temperature in July for the last ten years
has been G5o Fahrenheit. 1t is in the lati-
tude OF Montreal.
Huge trout are caught here daily by the
thousands and shipped to Chicago, De-
troit. and more distant cities Of the coun-
try.
For beautiful things for the eye and
good things for the palate, for bracing air
and manly rccreatonS, for cultivated So
ciety and elegant attentions to strangers,
few can be more highly commended than
Marquette, of the Upper Peninsula OF
Michigan. L.