The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-10
sAULT STE. MARIE VISITORS
Find Use for OvercOats While HUI
manity Generally Swelters.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. Aug. 9-The
following Western people are registered
at the Park hotel: J. ]. Town, Elgn,
ILL.,; T. L. Mitchell, Wallace, Idaho; Mrs.
w. c. Wadsworth, Davenport, TO-; Mrs.
M. H. Wadsworth, Rock Island, ILL.,;
Abraham Poole, H. B. Waddams, John B.
Knight, L. A. Wixley, all of Chicago; R.
H. Jesse, Columbia, Mo-; Mr.. and Mrs.
P. c. Freer, Ann Arbor, Mich; H. s.
Clarke. Creston, To-; the Rt Rev and
Mrs. Arthur l.. Williams, Omaha; Mr..
and Mrs. w. c. Whiting, Whiting, To-;
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Bailiff, Bloomington,
ILL.,; Richard Weaver, Waukesha, Wis.
Prof. e. H. Lewis, of the Lewis insti-
tute, Chicago, is down the ST. Mary's
river, encamped at Sailors.
The 500 has long since been the retreat
Of many people from the Middle West
towns. The crowd has not yet arrived,
owing to the cool weather. Overcoats and
fires In the evening are now a source of
comfort.
The attraction here, aside from the cool
lake breezes, is the fishing, shooting the
rapids in the st. Mary's and the wonder
full spectacle afforded at the locks. The
famous government works here, which
pass mighty volume of commerce
from lake to lake. draw a crowd to the
canals night and day. Interesting as
the operation is during the day, 1t Is even
more SO at night, when hundreds of arc
lights illuminate the canals from one end
to the other.
Across the river are the lights Of the
Canadian canal, the constant roar of the
rapids is mingled with the footing of
tugs and steamers. From nightfall to
daybreak great steamers, schooners and
steam barges are raised and lowered In
fleets as easily as q babe is lifted from
cradle. Throngs watch the operation
hour after hour.
The great canal now being constructed
for water power purposes attracts many
visitors. This work will take the water
from Lake Superior through a canal eXca-
waited through the town and empty it into
the st. Mary's river. 1t will turn 800 tur-
bine wheels, run eighty dynamos and gen.
crate 10000 horse power. The work will
cost SO, 1000.
Hundreds of visitors shoot the rapids
in the st. Mary's river. This is the chief
industry of an army of Indian guides
The feat seems to be hazardous in the
extreme, but there are few accidents.
The women are as venturesome as the
men. They are covered up in a water
proof rig and come through unframed.
The Indian guides are adopts, not only
In guiding the boats, but in soliciting
business-as many as six persons are
dashed down through the foam at a sin
gle shoot" The glide charges 80 cents
a person for his services.
Later on the town is crowded with
people who come here to avoid hay fever.
The 500 is a famous resort for this class
Of sufferers. There are many places down
the st. Mary's river where resorters spend
the entire summer, returning to their
homes only when snow flies
The town of South Ste Marie has grown
to population of 1900 It is the county
seat Of Chippewa county and draws trib-
ute from a new rich agricultural section
Beside the steamers which touch here,
hailing from every Important part of the
great lakes, the town is reached bv the
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railway
which connects with the trunk north and
south lines on both sides of Lake Michi
gan.