Telegram-herald., 1889-07-22
BIGGEST SEASON YET
TIE Resort Season ~ the North
Opens Swimmlngly.
BAY WEN GETS A WARRANTY DEED
The thirteenth Year 81 The CsUp Meet
iEE-Nans imProte ssae q ts-blsfsops
a2d Preachers = boiing
the sleea-A Boulevard.

= newspaper correspondent soloDlD-
ing 81 Peto-key writes as follows
Our resort season is on the verge ot
faA growth BOW. A few days more
aud every h1tel and cottage NIL IT
oyeghoalng unless Il SHOWS, which
i has been known % DO almost
as late as this 1ihis l. the
last year of compulsory cpmp-meetmg.
Hereafter t wiA he only matter of
cho.ce. The Bay View Associations gets
warranty deed OF the grounds this
year froul Tie Grand Rapid, a Indiana
railroad. after thirteen years vi camp
meeting.
When Bay View was given 70 the
MethOdIsts thirteen years ago, they
promised 10 hold camp meeting for
thirteen years and 10 spend certain
sum for improvements. They have
held the camp meetings the agreed
number Of years, and have spent more
/ than ten times the amount promised
Tor improvements, with the result that
BAY View j. now one OF the finest SUM
mer resorts, in POINT OF equipment, IN
America. Tins year sees oJu cottages
| finished up, quite city IN itself. linen
there are two good hotels. the Loud
! schOClhOuse, tne finest summer school
/ house IN the States, the anlphltheateI
OF which VII seat more people than
, the University hall IN Ann ArbOr; the
Chautauqua cottage, the bookstore,
the Old chapel. and last the new sun
day-schOol Normal buildings, the most
complete and expensive building OF Is
kind in the world. The pennies OF the
/ Sunday-schOol children from all over
the country butt tins, and splendid
testimonial 1t Is 10 their generosity.
This year bids fair 10 be - per cent.
better than last ID the attendance at
the Chautauqua school, and If we only
have warm weather this Will be the
greatest season the Little Traverse re-
sorts have ever experienced. The rail-
road has made the half-fare tickets
good for a week longer than ever be-
fore, and the people appreciate more
and more the delights of our cool
breezes and the absence of mosquitoes
and flies.
We-que-ton-sing has sprung up won
derfully IN the past two years. Some
very handsome cottages are occupied
for the first time this season, and con-
tracts are signed fOra still greater num-
Der in 1890. We-que-tOn-sing has never
been so crowded and full of life. | do
not dare try to tell how many preach
ers and bishops there are there. but
they are thick enough TO make things
extremely lively. They gambOl on the
green-I mean white sand-likea lot Of
colts, and have taken TO sitting up late
,ol I'll
ing stories.
HarbOr Point IS the most aristOcratic
place on the bay, and an immense sum
of money has been put into cottages |
there. There IS but little room left for |
new cottages at HarbOr Point, and |
property IS extremely high. There is |
not a resort in all the Northwest where |
old and young have as much fun as
they do there. Just now they are III
the market for an orchestra. They had |
one, and tried hard to have a few hops, |
but Just as soon a the music (?) started
the people all went home, so they are
now in search of some good music.
You see | leave PetOskey till the last,
not because it is the least, but because
almost every man, woman and child in
this Western country knows where and
y
TO hunt agates on its beach some day.
We are getting TO be quite metropolitan
and are talkingOf building boulevard
from here 10 lIarbor Springs along the
shore. | expect the mere mention OF
tins fact VIII send the real estate men
in Detroit UP here in droves to gobble
up all the land along the proposed
route. They had better not come, for
local Spectators have a shotgun loaded
for every man.
THIS spring the crOakers all said this
would prove the worst season PetOskey
ever experienced, but as usual they are
mistaken, for we shall certainly have
the most sat -fact0ry season ever known.
When times are duh over the country.
people can easily get away TO seek re-
creation and health at the resorts. and
dull times or no dull times PctOskev
and It's surroundings never were 50 well
patronzed on July - as they are this
season.