The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-10
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY.
Promise OF "A More than Usually Sue
cessfuI summer Season.
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WEQUETONSING. Mich. July Sum-
mer visitors to the resorts of northern
Michigan this year anticipated the season.
Hotels are receiving guests. cottages are
open and there are daily arrivals at all the
resort centers. There was never brighter
promise than this year. 1t is safe to say
, that there will be more strangers in this
country than in any previous summer
There are more new cottages. more old ones
rented and larger improvements in hotels
than ever before. There are new cottages
at all the resorts. At Harbor Point some
very elegant summer homes have been built.
Mr.. Coulter, from Indiana, has a fine new
cottage upon the bluff overlooking Lake
Michigan next to Mr. c. ". Sanderson's
cottage and studio. Casa del Mare. 1t will
be occupied by Mr. Winslow, of Cincinnati.
Many cottages are built for rental.
DR.. H. p. Graydon. of Cincinnati. has
nearly completed a new cottage in the same
location that bears the palm for elegance
and fine finish. At Wequetonsing builders
and painters were busy all the spring An
army of a hundred workmen marched into
the resort grounds every day. and twenty
three new cottages are the result. Most
of these are owned by Cincinnati people,
The new cottages far surpass anything ever
seen before in this northern country. Mr.
T.. A. X. Hackett, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
who is an old settler, will spend his sum-
1ner in California and rent his pleasant sum
rlier nome. AT Bay View, where a fire
early in the spring swept away some old
landmarks. new cottages have appeared
The depot at Bay View has been torn down
and more spacious one has taken its place
Mrs. S. j. McElwee, of Indianapolis. who
has two cottages at Bay View, arrived, ac-
COr0ine n earlV
She found eager applicants ready to rent
her cottages and gave them both up to
At Petoskey the greatest improvement is
seen in the complete transformation of the
Arlington Hotel, familiar to so many In
annapolis people. 1t is a prominent land
mark, as it crowns the terrace at Petoskey
and overlooks the harbor. The hotel has
been enlarged. rebuilt in old colonial style
and turned completely around to front Little
Traverse bay. One indication of the I'M
usual prosperity of the coming season is
that householders in Petoskey have rented
their furnished homes to summer visitors
The summer classes at Bay View are an
nounced to open July Is, while the assem-
bly, programme will begin one week later.
and both will close on Aug. H. Some one
who knows says Bay View ranks second in
point Of numbers, but Is equal to Chautau-
qua in the quality of its university work.
The aim at Bay View. according to Mr..
John NJ Hall. the superintendent of many
summers. is to secure the best specialists
for class instruction and make the work
valuable for teachers. Among the people
who will be heard at Bay View this season
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, of Indianapolis,
Is one of the most widely known. The In
diana University Glee Club Quartet will
sing this summer. Music always forms an
important feature Of the assembly work
and this year a. new and much approved
soprano soloist will be introduced. Madame
Cecilia Eppinghousen Bailey, of Kentucky.
She won much applause last summer at
Chautauqua. There will be recitatons and
readings stereopticon Illustrations and
pleasure and profit combined. as in the
past Bay View has grown more rapidly
as a summer city than any of the resorts.
IL is more truly democratic than any.
Nowhere is there a better opportunity to
meet everybody than at Bay View.
At Charlevoix, the new inn that seemed a
great enterprise last fall is finished and al
ready open. II viii be remembered that a
sudden cyclone made a complete wreck of
the building after the walls were raised but
the accident. serious as it was. proved only
a temporary drawback Charlevoix is a
place of many charms for anglers and
yachtsmen.