The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-03
THE EDITORS OUTING
THE ANNUAL EXCURSION OF THE
WIS. PRESS ASSOCIATION.
FIVE DAYS ON THE LAKES
Some of the Sights and Scenes Encoun-
tered On the Trip.

has crowded SO upon our time that at
this late day we are almost tempted to
omit the customary :" write up" of the
editors annual outing, but copy comes
slowly these dull, August days and to
fill an aching void in the News and
TELEGRAPH COURIER, if not in the
demands Of our readers, we shall in
fiict brief resume of five very pleasant
days spent with the Wisconsin editors
and their families on the good steamer
Eugene C. Hart, of the Hart Steamship
line sailing from Green Bay.
Arrangements had been made to
make the cruise on the steamer Fannie
G.. Hart; but on the previous evening
that boat had broken erengines while
backing from the dock ut Mackinac
Island, so the steamer Eugene Hart
was substituted The latter boat is a
Urit1e larger than the Fannie, but with
not quite the sleeping capacity, and
the consequence was that from ten to
| fifteen of the young men of the party
were compelled to occupy cots during
most of the trip. Meals were served on
board, SO that tho party were entirely
independent of hotels, and were thus
enabled TO find plenty of comforts and
convenienceS on board and were not
subjected to schedule time in reaching
any particular point Of interest.
After dinner at Green Bay, the edi
toral party was treated to a ride about
the city on the excellent trolley system
which made the Kenosha contingent
feel a tribe behind t. e times in respect
to this particular modern improvement.
The mayor and d committee Of bust
ness men accompanied the party on the
ride and extended every courtesy and
attention which the limited time would
permit. We had never before visited
Green Bay, but were most favorably
impressed with the enterprise of the
place. its excellent business streets and
its most beautiful residences and resi-
dence sites. In the latter respect few
cities could possibly be favored with
more desirable outlook for the future.
The finest of sites for residences, with
magnificent views, are yet waiting for
the growth of the town to make them
available, and Green Bay is destined,
at no distant day, to be one of the most
beautiful cities in the state. For the
size OF it. that much can truthfully be
said today.
At 1:30 the excursionists boarded the
steamer, and, amid the waving Of
handkerchiefs, the lines we're thrown
! off and the boat slowly steamed through
the bridge and out into the broadening
waters of Green Bay. The day was
perfect, and the run nOrthward was
beautiful one. The eXcursiOnists we're
jolly lot, and as the party became
better acquainted the crowd grew mer-
rier, and anticipations of joyful " five
days at sea" seemed destined to be re-
allied, as they certainly were.
~
Marinette was the first stop made.
Here the citizens had prepared enter
tainment and our party was given a
trolley ride to lakewood, followed by a
banquet at the Hotel Marinette, one of
the most complete and elegant hostel
ries of the northwest. The itinerary as
laid out contemplated only a half
hours stop at Marinette, so as to reach
Mackinac by 8 o'clock the next morn
ing. The very enjoyable reception at
Marinette kept the eXcursionists until
very nearly midnight, SO that the boat
cnuII not reach Mackinac until about 3
o'clack Sunday afternoon, but it was
the most cIab rate and pleasurable So
CT / event of the whole trip, and the
eXcurSlonstS were un tinted in their
complimentary references to the en-
jOyable evening they had spent in hos
pitable Marinette.
After a rough passage across the
head of Lake Michigan, which | am
sure will never be forgotten by mem
bers of our immediate family, Sunday
mornings dawn found the boat crossing
the upper portion of Lake Michigan,
with the Beaver Islands in the distance
to the right. About o'clock the tur-
tie top of Mackinac Island came
into view, and picturesque sight pre-
sented itself TO the eXpectant mariners
as the boat came nearer and nearer to
this historic spot, far famed as one of
the earliest stations of the Jesuit mis-
sionaries, the center Of the fur trade IN
the days of John Jacob Aston, and the
gateway to the upper lakes over which
three flags had floated-French, British
and American-and still filled with
historic memories and relics of more
than two centuries. The large hotels,
the magnificent summer homes OF
wealth and aristocracy, the white walls
of the fort on the bill, and the village
neStIino AFT the foot with the WharVeS