Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-08-16

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cd Saginaw Bay and the first shelter
for us was Harbur Beach, fifly-foul
miles to the south, we were in nc
hurry to get another shaking mp.
Sunday, Aug, Tive. awoke to find
at 2 a. m. the wind blowing hard from
the east and raining, a heavy sen wns
rolling in on the beach and we were
very thankful for our qnite harbor and
gladly waited for the tf6ufs <orollfisi
Nenr where we lay were the towns of
An Sable and 0scoda. aelne'tJr fears
ago these two towns together b4jnstod
of IS, 900 people and wsre--doinR a
thriving lumber business, but lumber
Is getting SO scarce here owing to
heavy wasteful cutting of the trees
and the many forest fires that there
is only afout 1, 100 people left and
deserted buildings are all over the re-
mains of the towns and the few mills
remaining will soon have to quit for
lack of trees to cut in a few years. l
was told of q fine home and grounds,
house has eleven rooms with modern
improvements, being sold for $500.
Another nice place sold for $3.50. The
only thing that will be left is some
few fishermen who get their living
out of the stormy waters of Lake
Huron. Yesterday there came into
our little harbor a small sail yacht out
of the lake and lay neal where we
were. There were four young men in
it from Chicago trying 10 take the boat
to Detroit. They had been having o
rough time of it ana were like our
selves, waiting for better weather be-
fore going farther. We invited them
on our boat and tried to make it
pleasant for them out of the rain.
= Aug. 8:-We were up carly, but the
weather did not look any too good so
we waited until Z 40 q. m. when the
wind coming out of the est we
thought that it would bo all right for
us to start, but the farther we went
t 10 rougher it was and half way over
the wind again shifted to the north
east and the sea rose until the waves
we're anything but pleasant to look at.
AS the wind had a long way to blow.
some 100 miles, the sent were SO long
that we rode them like q sea gull and
by the time were nearly to the govern
ment harbor of refuge at Harbor
Beach the wind had fallen and shifted
to the south and the lake had become
fairly smooth and wa were able to
make III, quite harbor in beach. Our
friends in the sail boat left the harbor
at Au Sable about an hour before we
did, but we passd them some miles
before we made the harbor and as the
wind was fair they kept OH their way
towards Port Huron some sixty-two
miles farther south.
Aug. Give left Harhor Beach at
4 80 a. n. with all signs of n fair,
calm day and O southwest wind, but
alas. we were again in it as some
thirty miles from Port Huron the
wind again came from the eastw ard
and made such n sea that we were
plunging into it and washing our
decks as they never were washed be-
fore aud it was a hard pull to get to
PORT Huron, the end Of Lake Huron
uLiob xwa ,aacI,aI ot 10 poou anJ OF
once took on two tons of coal. We
found our friends of the sail boat at
the coal dock ahead of us as they had
sailed all night and had been lucky
enough to get in before the wind
shifted. After coal ing we took the
sail yacht in tow and ran down the
beautiful St. Clair river some thirty
miles to the st. Clair Flats and there
layup for the night.
Aug. 10:-We left the st. Clair
Flats at $50 a. IN. and ran across
Lake st. Clair some twenty miles long
with the sailboat still in tow and ran
inside of Belle Island near the city of
Detroit and anchored in q beautiful
quiet spot at IL O'Clock. We we're
met by u flerco squall from tho north
east just before we passed out of Lake
st. Clair, but we were SO close to
shore that it did not bother us to any
extent.
Belle Island, near where wo were
anchored, is the Central Park of the
city of Detroit aud n more beautiful
park l / have never seem. There is a
bridge connecting it with the city,
but nearly all the people come from
Detroit by II line of steamers that run
constantly during the day and even
ing.
Aug. live lay at anchor all day
at Belle Isle and visited the city of
Detroit, seeing the place of interest