The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-23
SUMNER AT BAY VIEW.
Northern Michigan Continues to Grow
in Popularity with Seekers of Rest.

Occasional Correspondence of the Journal.
BAY VIEW, July 2O.-Northern Michigan
has become almost a synonym for delight
full summer climate and enjoyment, and
among all the resorts none is more popular
than Bay View. Hotels are full and all
desirable cottages are taken. If baggage
men count Alright the days that from
seventy-five to two hundred trunks are
landed, one knows that Bay View visitors
have not been greatly disturbed by close
ness in the money market, nor the disar-
engagements in railroad affairs. The new
visitors, among them many from Indianapo-
lis, are delighted, and the old resorter here
is glad to get back, declaring that Bay
View air was never purer, skies bluer, nor
the bay more inviting than now. a sum-
mer school in such surroundings, with the
capable teachers employed, could not be
other than successful. Under the able man.
agement this assembly has proven a sue
cess financially, and can boast of freedom
from Indebtedness. An assembly is not the
outgrowth of few days thought, but has
cost Superintendent Hall the writing of
eight thousand letters, the travelling of seven
thousand or more miles, and fourteen hours
of daily work for ten months in the year,
besides the financial outlay. The university
classes organized a week ago register
larger enrolment than last year. The larg-
est in numbers is a class for teachers in
elementary sciences, indicating the en-
thuSiaSm and popularity of teaching these
branches in the lower grades Of the public
schools. Children are happy to find that
Mother Nature is rich in treasures for them,
and older people are beginning to feel that
inheritance by never coming into close rela-
ton with the secrets of the wonderful world
we live upon.
1t is interesting and amusing to watch
the boys and girls, from eight years old
and upwards, in the Sloyd classes, push the
plane, work the saw and sandpaper the
wood. They regret that the -hour-and-
a-half lesson does not last all day. The in
spiration they get in the class shows itself
in the home work with nails, boards and
hammer. The work aims to give physical
culture, to teach skillfulness with the hand
accuracy to the eye. to form the habit of
being busy, and to strengthen powerful
link between home and school. Sloyd orig
mated at Mas, in Sweden, introduced
into this country about ten years ago, and
is now taught in the State normal schools
of Pennsylvania, also in the schools of New
York, Boston and some other Eastern
cities. Supplementing the university work
is that offered by the assembly programme
in the way of the very best lectures and
entertainments, there are three of these
daily gatherings, often filling the immense
auditorium. The lectures now calling forth
the largest interest are delivered by DR..
Behrends, of the Central Congregational
Church, Brooklyn. He has for two pre-
cedng years held the highest interest of
the people during the assembly. The forth
coming lectures on Egyptian monuments
will form a very entertaining and popular
course.
The w. c.. T. L. Institute now in session
in Evelyn Hall, hall erected especially for
WOman'S work. has called together promi-
nent temperance workers from Illinois,
Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. Promi-
nent among Temperate people here is Alex
ander Cooper, the first man 10 put his
name to the pledge circulated in the Muir
ply meetings in Pittsburg in 1876. Mr..
Cooper for a time worked with Mr.. Muir
ply, and is at present actively engaged in
temperance evangelistic work. a library
for reference and circulation, of over two
thousand volumes, furnishes good reading
to the visitors. and the reading room and
nucleus of library in the Epworth Home
| give the promise of what it - be. H. l.. L.