The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-08-22

Just LOOK over your SeoSrapn! anu huu
where these are.
Aunt Susie aid to me: You have
written nothing for my children in long
time YIu must have an article for them
next week
| have been we'll trained and don't know
how u refuse. but am a little afraid
have written to You previously on the
same subject. and if l have she is re-
sponsible.
On one side of AIackinaw straits is Mack
NAV City. | saw the place. but Il hotel
was nearly all | saw that looked like a
city. On the other side is ST. Ignace. so
named from Father lgnace. Roman
Catholic priest who devoted his life TO
insrructinc and Christianzng thu Indians.
] wish | could tell you all about him,
bur Aunt Susie would not give me space.
1t is enough to say that though long since
dead his name is still held in deepest
reverence by all, especially by the scat
t..ing Indians, who speak Of him with
glowing faces as 'pere Ignace.
] crossed the straits Il number of times,
So that ! will mix summer and winter in
what : relate. My first visit was in win
ter. The ire on the straits was three feet
Thick. The distance between Mackinaw
City and St Ignace Is seven miles and
this trip large iron steamer made twice Il
day. II was So constructed that the bow
Of the boat would slide on top of the
fee and crush it
The channel the boat would cut in the
afternoon would he frozen thicl enough
by morning for a person to walk on
! lad my choice of going over on a
sleigh. on au ice boat that in speed equal.
the wind that blows, or on the steamer.
I did not know which was the safest, but
the big steamer inspired my confidence
and ! went on that. ] stood at the stern
of the steamer as it backed and tried to
turn around. 1t would slide Oh the ice
and crush it down and gradually started
on its way. 1t required one and half
hours to make the trip and you will not
wonder, rs 1t was crushing through
The ice all the way.
a mile from the steamer | saw the
boats almost flying over the ice. and the
comfortable SleiGhs going almost as fast.
| saw several Indians fishing through
the Ice for Macknac trout with large fires
md tent made Of their blanket To keep
the wind from them; tncy fished through
the holes in the thick ice. Sometimes dur
ing the winter in violent storms the ice is
Broken Up and piled thirty feet high, all
frozen solid.
Men are sent out who drill holes and in
scrt dynamite cartridges. and with thes.
the ice is broken I'D. TO your right as YOU
approach ST. Ignace, you see high island.
called Mackinac island. on which Is Il mag
niicent hotel. where people vino are hunt
ing for a cool place in summer can find n
constant breeze. If they want sport there
are ten thousands Of fish. from the muscal-
loHge that fights like a gaint for it's life
TO the most delicate fish of The lakes. The
railroad for some distance runs along the
:;Hore IF Lake Superior. Along the road,
especially near deep cuts, are long walls
made of blocks of snow and zee 10 prevent
the snow drifting from the ice into the
cut, and thus preventing the travel Of
trains
Some time after storm the broken ice
is piled upon the shore like a wall. Then
the waves dash over it twenty feet high
and come down as ice on top of the wall.
There is no mere strange and beautiful
si-ht on earth than one of these rugged
walls sparllin" like jewels OF every color,
IL tic winter sunlight. Al of this country
Is the white pine region. From this section
comes nearly all this very valuable wood
Marquette. 4 beautiful and rich looking
ely. is The port OF almost ali this country.
s't.t i''Ib IL are >iIpp'u Nfdii! LiiliiotH
OF tons Of the finest iron ore
Thcre ar" mare mosquitoes in the northern
peninsula Of Michigan than any place
J EYE saw.
1t W. in June with some snow among
the hills was coming from Marquette
Some ELEGANT peopl" took the train there,
:nt ! heard enc s.:y To another 1T looks
Ike u moSiluito bill" | never thought of
mosquitoes. but Thought those folks must
have come from New Jersey.
noticed that Ill doors and windows
bad screens, but ii is common way in
tie Dorth 10 keep the poor little flies from
getting out in the sunlight; they must be
5n'eGdrl for thai. rs they do not keep the
flies Our Of the house.
We stopped for supper. | had on low
chartered shoes. something to began to
BIC nc. I thought of ileas. but in few
moments we had to eat with one hand and
fight mosquitoes with the other. When
came out to take the train |
inquired from a good Eaturei look
ing citizen. IF there was any time
during the year when people could
here and | continued in the same facetious
are no mosquitoes here. If you take a red
strain. ''ln winter there is three feet
snow on the ground. Now. in June, there
are more mosquitoes than J ever saw III the
SwampS of louisiana" He smiled GOO
humoredly and said lin July and August
We have the most delightful climate in the
world" and then he continued: There
are no mosquitoes here. If you left u red
cow out among the pines and don't make
q smoke in fifteen minutes it will be gray
with mosquitoes" | am prepared to believe
that sill the mosquitoes in this country are
born here and emigrate southwark later in
the summer. Afectionately,
UNCLE WILL.