The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY.
Attractions for Summer IdIers on It's
Co0I Waters and Lovely Shores.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal.
WEQUETONSING, Mich, July TO-
Northern Michigan offers welcome refuge
from the consuming summers heat. She
has cool breezes, delicious flowing water,
soft sumbers and happy dreams. Visitors
sail upon her broad waterways, climb her
hills and bluffs, and forget the dust and
tumult of the crowded town. Indiana peo-
pie are no strangers to this land. They
come in numbers every year. from Fort
Wayne, and Muncie, and Evansville and
Indianapolis. Each one has some elect
spot that is to him better than all the
rest. The peculiar charm of this country is
that it suits every one Here are rest and
seclusion for tired people; books and ham,
mocks for the house and porch; yachts and
fishing, boating and bathing, golf and cy-
cling for the open air; wild flowers and
birds, corals and gates for lovers of ma
ture; Bay Views admirable classes and
concerts and lectures for teachers and stu
dents, and delightful social life everywhere
for the gay and pleasure loving.
Every summer adds attractions to the re-
sort country of northern Michigan. This
year there are new cottages al many points
improved hotels and better roads. Wheels
can now spin over long stretches of hard
well-Shaded roadway, where before there
was naught but sinking sand the slough
of despond There are good bicycle roads
from Petoskey to CharlevoiX, or in an Cd
posite direction to Conway, on Crooked
lake. A boulevard has been partially COM
pleted around MacKtnac island, which is
one of the chief attractions of that lovely
place, and another is in process of con-
struction around Little Traverse bay. The
summer girl is here, with her 81 wheel and
her jaunty costume, and every day brings
wheels to the wayside stations. A local cy-
cling club at Petoskey wears a uniform,
and the ladies all appear in Quaker sun
bonnetS
Indiana is represented at all the leading
resorts. Mrs. DIR. Melsheimer and Mr. h.
A. K. Hackett, of Fort Wayne, have a
summer home at Wequetonsing, and
choice location upon the shore of Little
Traverse bay-a home that is always the
center of bounding hospitality. Strangers
will occupy the cottage this summer. Mr..
Hackett will be greatly missed in Vogue
tonsing, where he has been during other
summers the superintendent of the Sunday
school. Mr.. and Mrs. Coulter, of Frank
fort. Ind, are old residents at Harbor
Point. They came north early in the sea-
son, and Mr.. Coulter has built a new and
attractive cottage at the point this sum-
mer.
Bay View always draws Indiana people.
Bay View, with its beautiful location its
woods and waves; its unrivaled sunsets; its
freedom from hay fever; its well-arranged
summer school, it's reading circle and as
sembly. The general programme for 1897 is
already announced. The summer university
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would be impossible for any individual to
follow the entire curriculum. There are
kindergarten and sloid classes for the chill
dren, cooking classes for housekeepers,
pedagogy for teachers instruction in lam
guages, classic or modern, and the oppor-
tunity to make a choice of studies in the
pleasant environments of Bay View The
complete reorganization of the Bay View
Conservatory of Music introduces Mr.. VIII
son q. Smith, of Cleveland, o., as the di-
rector. Professor Smith will be assisted in
the department of piano instruction by
Miss Lila Grace Smart, of Detroit Voice
culture will be under the care Of Mr.. Otto
Engmenson, of Columbus, O. Max Bendix
and his violin have shared for the past ten
years the name and fame of Theodore
Thomass orchestra. Mr.. Bendix now de-
votes his time and talents to teaching, and
Bay View will enjoy the music.
The Bay View Magazine for June is
wonderful picture book and a complete
prospectus for the season. 1t will be sent
to any one who will apply to Mr.. John M.
Hall, Bay View, Mich.
The Reading Circle is really the finest
thing about Bay View. This will be the
German year, and, as a consequence Ger
man music, art and literature find a prom
inent place on the programme.
The assembly promises a well-sustained
series of entertainments. The stereopticon
lectures upon Germany and Holland and
Burton Holiness Grecian pictures will give
much pleasure.
The extreme heat that ushered in our
midsummer month swept over northern
Michigan The old habitues said. I'VE
never saw anything like this before" and
everyone gasped. How hot 1t must be al
home" The trains have brought refugees
from the south to breathe the cool air and
drink from the invigorating springs of the
north.
The fishing never was better. One angler
brought home more than eighty speckled
trout in his basket after one days sport at
Maple river.
Until the present the season has been I'M
usually backward and cold but with the
opening of the Grand on Mackinac island
and the Arlington and Imperial at Petos-
key and new schedules on boats and trains
and the vacations in school and college
people are coming north. and hotel man
ayers say that everything indicates a pros
| n9rOuS summer.