The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-11
A Beautiful and Popular Resort
Which Lies Amid the st.
Lawrence Waters.
How to Picnic-ClaytOn and its
Magnificent Fishing Ad-
vantageS.

ter as is well known are situated or
the St. Lawrence river, stretching
along from Cape Vincent to Aiexsn
dria Bay and beyond the channel, in
some places being twelve miles broad
and are veritable gems of beauty
above eighteen hundred in number
1t is because of this latter fact thai
they are known collectively as the
Thousand Islands.
They vary in size from a small mass
of rock seemingly burdened to lift
ats bosky crest above the deep clear
water, to the picturesque islands, miles
an extent and covered with rich and
luxuriant vegetation.
Within a few years many Of the
most desirable islands nave been pur-
chased and elegant residences and
villas erected, which with the magnifi.
cent hotel accommodations at S.. Vim
cent, Clayton. Round Island park,
Thousand Island park, Westminster
park and Alexandria Bay have made
this region the most popular pleasure
resort on the continent.
During the summer season the is
lands TEEN with life and the channel
of the river is fecked with little sail
ing yachts and pleasure boats which
ply among the islands like gondolaa
among the palaces of water bound
Venice.
"Like white wings clouds they float away
A zephyr's breath upon the bay"
Nor does the scene close as the day
dies away in ruddy splendor, as the
last rays of the setting sun fall like a
rain of gold on the nestliag isles and
the evening shadows, gray and grand,
steal on apace, the glow Of lights from
one island is soon followed by the
friendly response of another and yet
another until the Illuminated specta-
Gle rivals even beautiful Venice her.
self in all the magnifcence of her car
nival costume
The opportunity for sporting, both
with rod and gun, is unsurpassed, the
excellence and variety of the game
yielding the tourist, as well as sports
man, fine returns.
The atmosphere is delightful, pure
and salubrious and since valuable
mineral waters have been found here,
this place is equal to the Spa or the
famous Baden-Baden for the invalid.
The fsherman's sport is thus graph
ically described by Mr.. Howard Pyle,
who is equally at home with the gun
or the pen:
"One of the great features Of enjoy
ment to the casual visitor to the
Thousand Islands consists in OCCASION
al picnic dinners, not the ordinary pic
mic dinner where table cloth is spread
upon the ground, and cold meats and
sundries upon the table cloth, where
long legged spiders and centipedes
career across the viands, or drop into
ones cup of luke-warm coffee, but
dinners as luxurious in their bill of
fare as any of the hotels can afford,
combined with the unfettered gayety
incident to such an al iresco meal.
A days fishing is normally the back
bone of the expedition, around which
the days pleasure is actually built.
We will suppose that the party of a
dozen ladies and gentlemen is formed
and the day planned for the expedi-
dition arrived-a clear sunny one with
not a ripple disturbing the CLASSY sur
face of the stream. Six boats are
hired, gentleman and lady going in
each under the superintendent of a
fisherman. Perhaps if the fishing
ground be distant, a steam yacht is
engaged, the boats stretching in a
long line, are taken in tow and off the
jolly party starts, the flags flying
merrily.
At length the desired spot is reached
ann the sport begins, each party fish
ing as if their lives depended upon it
and all internally praying that if a
monster pickerel or muscalonge is
caught they may be the particular
ones selected bv fortune as the catch
ers thereof. But whether
such a capture is made
or not, the fishing is fine and so ex
citing that the dinner hour approach
es without notice; until warned by the
shrill whistle of the little steam yacht,
they wend their way from all quarters
to the dining place. The luncheon Is
not made up according to the simple
bill of fare presented at the hotel
desk, composed of mere neccessaries
such as eggs, bread and butter, coffee
and fat pork; but under the supervis-
ion of the overseer of the lunch room
at the hotel, it crops out in verious
extras and sundries in the shape of a
tender chicken or two, juicy steaks
and aha,o 20 and