Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-06-22
THROUGH. STRAICHTS
Stat .iy Little Craft Rites the BilIows of
the lni. n; StaS in a Mar ner WORT y
of Her 0wncr-and the Ptrt She Halls
from Party Expects to L, ave Chicago
Today.
On Board Yacht Oherub.
Chicago, June 10.

CnlCagO, June ".
Editor Evening News:
| We passed. the city of D1troit, June
IL, about 10 a. Ill. We thought
Detroit, from what we coul SEQ of it
in passing by. to be a beautiful city.
We ran close to the Belle Islam
Park and had n good view of it,.
There were many fine public buildings
and little lake with some fine bridges
crossing it and many people boating
on it. It looked much like portions
of Central Park, New York.
To the right of Belle Isle is Walker
vile, Canada, where there is an i'm
mense whiskey distillely that looked
large enough to supply the world with
whlskey. The owner of it had a large
| steam yacht lying at his wharves,
paid for, no doubt, by the money of
the people who drink his rum. We
were soon into the famous Lake St.
Clair and, who can describe this
| beautiful sheet of water? Calm and
glstening in the morning sun. The
run across it, some twenty miles. and
the sail through tho St. Clair cana
and flats was like a dream of fairy
land and will never be forgotten.
For many miles VIC were sailing III
the river st. Clair. The low bankl
of the stream are covered with hotel
and cottages and the grass and the
trees are so fresh and green. Many
private docks with steam and gaso
line yacht moored to them and row
and sail boats beyond counting. t.;
paridise for yacht crank like my
self. We looked at the beautifu
lights as we passed by until our ewes
were tired of looking at the sight
of the river.
There was n current in the river O.
about three miles per hour against III
and it was about & p. IN. when w
reached Port Huron and took OH two
tons of coal before lying up for the
night. We were greatly disturbo,
during the night by large steame,
coming in TO tho dock near Us ant
discharging and Loading a lot o
freight. We all turned out in dis
habbillc to protect our boat but til,
steamer did us no harm.
! Monday, June 13-We were ou
again at 6 40 Il. III. and ran out int,
Lake Huron heading north. The lax
was like mirror and all of us on
joyed the sail to HarbOr Beach som
sixty miles from Huron City, wher
we ran into the breakwater bull
there as refuge from storms for tn
lake vessels, and the only place wher
we could tie up at night until we ha
passed the dreaded Saginaw Bay an
lay up for the night. Spent the aftel
noon cleaning up and visiting I'll
little settlement of Harbor Beac
close by and bought some little thing
and tnrned in early so Us to be read
for an early start in the morning.
Tuesday, June live were und,
way at I 30 Il. IN. There was lit
roll on the lake that soon calme
down and shortly after we passed Il
lighthouse of Point au Barque, sthe eI
trance to Saginaw Bay, quite u thic
fog shut the land completely fro
our view. There was nothing for u
to do but to make as straight as po
sible a course for Thunder Bay Islam
light house some seventy miles away
The lake was calm and at 1 80 p. II
the fog cleared off and the sun sho1
bright and we saw the Lighthouse "
were headed for about two miles O
our port bow. Thinking it best
take the advantage of the lake bein
in such peaceful mood, we kept c
4 our way until 2 n. M, when "
reached Mackinaw City, apout Il
, miles without stopping and tied up I
dock We had not reached the dec
] before the wind came out from II
west and made us shiver in spite