Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-27
FIVE DAYS At SEA-" )"
Summer Outing of Wisconsin Press
Association is short, but Rich
In Scenic Sights.
Pressure of Campaign Year Gives Editors a
Quick Vacation.

Pressure of Campaign Year Gives Editors a
Quick Vacation.
1t has been said that ''no scenery in
America enjoys a prouder reputation
for mingled beauty and grandeur than
that which greets the eye of the
traveller from Chicago to Lake SUPERIOR"
This may be fact in toto, and it may not,
but whatever is to be said, certainly be-
tween these points along the lakes is a
charming country. Rising gradually
from the dead level of the Illinois
prairie to the rolling islands and forest
clad shores which skirt St. Mary's river
to the $780," the tourists eye dwells
lingeringy upon the far-stretched CLASSY
waters of the great lakes. scattered
heedlesslY IN the midst Of land, like
huge crystal gems in setting of velvety
green.
The REPORTER representative and wife
had the good fortune to be with the
jolly Wisconsin editors this year on
their annual outing for recreation and
rest, which consisted of boat excur
sion from Green Bay to Sault Ste. Marie
and return. 1t was our pleasure to see
a greater part Of the much lauded seen
cry above mentioned along Wisconsin
and upper Michigan shores, where was
found constantly changing panorama
of delightful views. 1t rests with the
poet or the gifted descriptive writer to
do full justice to these resorts Of the
summer people, these handsome spots
of natures own dressing; we cannot do
it IN newspaper narrative. Better than
all, they should be seen to be properly
pictured on memory's tablet. A bare
outline of the short cruise to many
points will suffice for our report of this
pleasant and instructive trip.
Leaving Grand Rapids on Saturday
morning, Aug. 10Th, at 6:45 o'clock, we
were landed in Green Bay at II a. N.
by courtesy of the g. B. & Western R'y.
Press headquarters were at the Beau
mont Hotel, a comfortable home for
the transient, where dinner was taken
and the party gathered in preparation
for the start. After the noon meal the
Wisconsin Press was entertained for a
half hour by Green Bays enterprising
Mayor, a committee from the Business
Mems Association, and Banker Fiske.
The city was shown us by means of q
trolley ride about the principal streets.
Green Bay is growing like a mushroom.
The old town Of few years back is
almost buried by the forms of large
and substantial new business blocks,
pretty public parksand we'll kept public
buildings. A long line of cedar paved
streets, splendid street car service,
squares of neat and costly homes, which
alert and far-sighted business residents
have builded, speak promisingly for the
present and future commercial stand
ing of the "greater Green Bay" Every
visit finds new changes, and if you have
not been there for four or five years
you will get lost in the array of thrift
and constant transformation scenes
while you search for familiar and faded
old landmarks.
The trolley ride ended at docks of the
Hart Steamboat line, where at 2:30 p m.
the excursionists boarded the boat
which had been chartered for their ex-
elusive pleasure, and were assigned
quarters and state rooms. Passenger
steamer "Fannie C. Hart" originally
intended for this trip, was disabled at
Macklnac the day before, its $4,000
engine going entirely to pieces, and SC
its companion boat Eugene CO was
substituted.
The ride of IS miles up the Bay to
| Marinette was without accident or in
cident, except that we wish to call your
attention to the fact that everyone was
up on hurricane deck anxiously absorb,
ing the first sights of water and dis.
tanced land.
Marinette is one of the best lumber.
ing cities of the state, equal to any in
business energy, fair women and brave
men. A squad of big smoke stacks was
first sighted from afar over the water
which on approach proved to come
from the large numbering settlement
whence black, rolling smoke issued
forth proclaiming activity in all of the
sixteen big saw mills at the mouth o+
Mencminee river. About 960,0O0,OOC
feet of lumber is sawed here per season
an average of 100000 feet per mill
At the beginning Of the saving season
logs are piled in an unbroken mass fo-
distance of forty miles up stream, 81
we were told. At present the lumbe
trade is very dull and millions of lum
Der were pointed out to US piled upol
the tramways extending into the river
waiting for sales.
Landing at the docks tie editors wer,
met by a jolly reception committee
Dana's full Third Regiment band and
trolley excursion train. With fin,
music in the head car our party wa
paraded out to Lake Side Inn and beacI
where large tract of land has beer
fitted up for summer park purposes
owned and controlled by the street rail
way company. A heavy rain set il
which made things rather unpleasan
both for visitors and entertainers, bu
it lasted only little time A short rid
from Lake Side brought US to privat