The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-09-08
STEAMSHIP HURoNIC.

ed upon TO have ''time" to offer.
The party had come at 10 o'clock
by steamer time, which is Eastern
Standard. But Port Huron was UNI
der Central Standard, which was 0
o'clock, while the local time used very
generany was $3.50!
b The early afternoon of Friday, Aug.
IS, was spent in strolls about pictur-
esque Sarnia, with last opportunity
for purchasing the handsome souve-
Mrs to be found everywhere. BY $3.50
.p.., M, the party was boarding the
"Huronic" for the return trip, with
plain regrets, and hundreds of Sar-
mia citizens weres at the dock for the
farewells. Capt. c. II. Nicholson, who
had been such a delightful and tire
less travelling companion, was COM
PEELED by pressure of business to re-
main at ~Sarnia, and the good byes
to him showed plainly enough how
popular he had become with the ex-
cursionists and how reluctant were
the partings. ~
At 4:15 the oft-repeated farewells
had been finally spoken, and now
the comfortable "Huronic," bearing
upon its port side mammoth
streamer with the illuminated words:
headquarters of Minnesota Editorial
Association" glided majestically
away amid the futter of banners and
kerchiefs and the hail and salute of
parting, till little by little Sarnia and
Port Huron faded from view.
Soon it was time for the evening
meal and the usual rush for the din
ing room took place. The Northern
Navigation company is famous for its
table, and certainly shows COM
mendable desire to make it one of
the features Of the, fresh-water sea
voyage. The service also was all that
could be desired, and the whole left
very pleasant .taste.", Meal time
was always the opportunity for new
groupings around the appetizing ia
bles of the great and airy saloon, and
many pleasant recollections cluster
around these various rendezvous.
Saturday noon, Aug. 26, the "Hu..
ronic" reached the 500 on it's return
trip. Now came another series of
entertainments, even though the time
was briefer than had been expected.
Waiting street cars Oh the Ameri-
can side, provided by Mr.. Knox of the
enterprising Sault Ste. Marie News,
spun the party about the city and
out to the power canal, and then
back to the $4,000 horse power plant
of the Michigan Lake Superior Power
Co., with It's building a quarter of
mile long filled with dynamos, which
the party inspected.
Then by ferry to the Canadian 500,
in charge, of John A. Wilde, chief en-
"a 81 C,,,oa~s1p N0r.Nnr0.
ton, after which special street cars
took the entire party several miles
to the great steel rail plant and
blast furnaces of the Algoma Steel
Co., subsidiary corporation. 1t
was a@wonderful sight, indeed. Great
travelling cranes, controlled by unseen
hands, rolled back and forth under
the vast ceilings; arms at the ends
of chains seized immense ingots of
red-hot steel as if they were mere
bales OF straw and placed them with
almost human intelligence and accrl-
racy here and there upon rollers to
be taken to monster machines and
drawn into shape. Huge hands
reached out, picked up glowing beams
on all sides and moved them about
like toothpicks, or thrust them into
white hot furnaces that opened their
doors to receive them. It seemed
almost as II great steel giants were
the only workmen, for the hands that
controlled the wonderful machinery
were away up among the steel rafters
of the enormous building.
In the meantime the ''Huronic" had
come over to the Canadian side near
the lock, and here the party boarded
it. The steamer then entered the lock
at the lowest water mark, the water
was turned in, and the great boat,
laden with it's human freight rose
quickly, up, up, as the lock filled,
until nearly 20 feet higher in air,
while the passengers watched the in
teresting sight from the decks of the
monster. Then the gates were opened
in front and the 'Huronic" passed on
and began its trip to Port Arthur.
That Saturday evening, an an