The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-08-18

Did tho Asm6srs Of tho Mich,gdn
Editorial association.
Resume of What They saw and Enjoyed ON
Their Recent Trip.

what a delightful captivity they
might enjoy, the oft repeated injunc-
ton would lose it's terror. Halifax
sounds entirely foreign and so distant;
so also do Sydney, Nova Scotia, and
Cape Breton. But we who have been
so fortunate as to enjoy the hospitality
of these neighbors of ours know now
what it means to be met with open
arms and with genuine hospitality.
Our faces and hands are burned to
a crisp; but what does it matter, we
have seen the beauties of the st.
Lawrence. We are footsore, but the
Garrison City" has shown US many
charms. We are weary in body, but
memory will always revel in the
scenes of mountain and bay. No one
who has missed the trip will realize
what has been missed until he has
been over the ground. No one who
went can ever satisfactorily describe
it.
The Michigan Press association to
the number of $50 met in Detroit on
the evening of June 10 TO be ready the
next morning for the annual trip of
the association. 1t was the good for
tune of the members TO have the most
excellent accommodations in the city
as the proprietors of the Griswold
house and the Wayne hotel had made
all arrangements for the comfort of
the many guests. That evening came
the first experience of getting &C
quainted with many members of the
party, as the Detroit Free Press gave
an elaborate banquet to the associa-
ton at the Griswold. Before its close
all were chatting as if they had been
friends for years and the first chapter
had begun. The real start was TO be
made Saturday morning June II, at
seven, over the Grand Trunk. Now
it is usually true that someone is late,
but the managers of this expedition,
Messrs Hopkins and McKinnon, in
sisted that seven o'clock did not mean
seven thirty so every one was there
and the start was made on time; a
practice which was followed in nearly
every case on the entire trip.
The success of the first part of the
journey was due to the excellent SER
wee furnished by the Grand Trunk
X. X. in putting at the disposal of the
association, special train which took
the party to Toronto. Imagine if you
will a clear sky, cool weather and no
dust and this jolly party speeding
away past villages and fertile fields
through highland and lowland, now
skirting the edge of the blue st.
Clair, now passing inland through
some peaceful valley.
The province of Ontario is indeed
beautiful, but one notices little differ
ence between the we'll kept farm in
the states and that in Canada. The
Canadians pay little more attention to
ornamentation, perhaps. Almost every
house however humble has it's garden
well kept. We miss Il few familiar
advertisements along the fences,
''Heins one of the 81 being the only
familiar one. At Junction Cut a train
feel a little strange, but no great
change of scenery comes until we
pass through the beautiful Dundas
valley not far from Toronto. Here the
train carries one on a high hill and
beneath, stretching in cool green
silence, lies the valley with here and
there town like huge dot, or a
thread of silver stream. The tourist
has only moment for this panorama
for the train swerves around curve
or two and there is Toronto.
At Toronto the steamer Kingston
was in waiting. Staterooms had been
previously assigned on the train, and
after depositing our baggage there
the party came on deck TO enjoy the
ride across 70 Ontario Beach, n. Y,
and afterwards on to Kingston. No
one will ever forget Toronto harbor
and that delightful ride. Everything
that could be done by the Richelieu &
Ontario line TO make the guests COM
Portable had been done and nature did
the rest.
The air was fresh and invigorating.
AS the boat made for the entrance of
Lake Ontario a regetta crossed her
path with all canvass spread, a ferry
boat followed in the wake, and far
and near were crafts of all sorts. As
the Kingston passed the fog horn it
began its heavy warnings and we
feared that the fog might settle and
make our trip across the lake unpleas-
ant in a way, but by the time we had
reached open water it had lifted and
we sped onward without care. At
Ontario Beach, where the passengers
landed for few hours, there was a
fine vaudeville entertainment for the
visitors.
At III we left behind the twink
ling light of the summer resort. The