The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-15
SUMMER TRAVEL
ON INLAND SEAS

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Especial correspo ndence Of Tie Times.
3i Dispatgh.) t$tS.s III sa ID. a 5$ss
Il BUFFALO, Aug. IA When Russell SAGE
tannounced that man did not need es d d 81 q
lsfvncation he stirred up a storm Of protest est
which proved that he was ~ the nope
LESS minority,SSiThis Is the vacnt Ion sea-
I son. and III as safe; to say that OF the,
eighty million Americans at least forty
million will manage to get some kind %
nm u Oh ting during the r summer or IA "
The old saying tina t all good a mcricans q
20 to Paris before they die has ceased
$to be representative y OF 4 the as ira tons
|Eof the Yankee globe trot ter. y he 10 ve o.
outdoorRlifes Is finding eX ession in new
sro,1tns taken n BY tourists through Euro
mean countries and the stay-at-hones on
this side Of the wa are slio wing more
and more a%dlsposltlon TO N wand err hr.
I aneld Instead OF settling down Tor TWO
L or three weeks in the seaside hotel or the
iScountry boarding house. aS5 Il.
s3G Tho wealthy, who are 81 ven 70 8 ope-S
I4trotting,. are crow az rs the outgolhs A. ~
I4lantic liners. Americans are wandering
throughinll highways and 5nearl y az ~
I the hyways OF the Old n World They
have followed the Arctic explorers n or th--ff
ward toward the pole. Some $nre a ne
North: Cape In N orrayi o theirs, more pa
trioiic, @ &ho want to- know something
about the wonders of5 the Western II ennis
y sphere, are sailing Inward TO distant s1,ll
"a laska. Ky nv, " 5t
s$8sg IN fact, Americans are finding that
iEtheir own land offers many attrac tons
to the slghtseer whlch III were ove CROOKED
by the summer travels OF a decade ago.
This new spirit has led 10 the discovery
OF sttl,c Great Lakes Everybody M, has
known In general way that the Inland
chain OF waterways formed a. grea t COM
mercial highway IL ewspaper readers are
aware that the traffic through the 500.
q Canal is greatly In excess of that which
masses Through the ditch which DeLes-
Sseps dug across, the Isthinus of Suez, al III
though Hrf the 500, business is done
only eight months O the year. But II
4 remained for our English cousins to q Is
cover he charm which the $Great Lakes
have for the lover OF nature and the
person in search Of inyigorating ana
$health-giyIng 8Yaca ton experiences. Con-
SUI tutlon8 or literary indexes shows thai !.
4 many more English writer's have seen
Mt to describe their travels. Especially on
lakes Huron and Superior. than have
Americans. For man years Eng linen
travelling in the Dominion OF Canada have
as a regular part Of their trip taken
some one Of the little Brl fish steamers
5that ply from Georgian Bay among the
islands 81 the northern shore Of Huron
through the fSoof' and along the north-5
FERN coast of Superior stopping at little
trading Villages, once the posts Of the
4 Hudson Bay Company. Now IN increas-
ling army OF Americans Is following this
advance guard Of EnSlishmen.
Lake Superior never falls to possess
the Imagination Of hose who make the
"trip across It. The traveller who has
boarded a steamer&at Buffalo, Cleveland
Sorl Detroit, leaves pretty almost pastoral
scenery behind as he passes out Of Lake.
st. Clairsand Detrolt's famous American
Venice, the Flats, where summer homes
lin thousands have been built on low
Gtangledi tslands. Lake Huron serves rs
IAN %iutermedlat approach. 81 Is large
and n tormy,$5 but its waters are bright
green, as are those OF all tho lakes except
Superior. 8aE, " l44$3t3 is.s 9 u WI
AS the tourist leaves the en- nails at the .a
he is embarked on me Largest
of the worlds bodies OF Il fresh water;
From Its outlet to- Duluth, where the ST.
Louis River 5tumbles Into the waters a
the head Of the lake, It is 430 miles long.
100 miles broad, with const line OF 1,bO0
miles and an area Of 81, 900 square miles
more than equal to that OF New lamp
shire, Vermont, NJ assachuset 70, ~ lfhode
Island and Connecticut. Tho great pas
| singer steamers which now ply upon Is
SURFACE rliflo waters which are so deep
lSthat the bottom OF the lake lis abou AN
|4feet3below tho level Of New York harbor.
Seamen WI tell you thnt there arc 5plac es
where the dark blue wat IS 5tinfa thorla-
|sble, "The bottom as fell out. sir, ''as said an
English sailor, when the plummet falled
| to strike anything. The authoriti les say.
however. that the Ike is Whero smu 81
more than 1000 feet deep, which as US
surface is 627 feet above sea leyel, mean y
that IL the inland sen could be Or WI DIS
i realty into the ocean there Y0l!d " y
he aslake nearly 400 feet deep In the CEN CEN
Travel ION the lakes has much OF I the
charm to the lover Of the sea which is
/ AFFORDED by a Yoyagei upon the ocean,
y essels run far from land, v There 3is re
| in the breeze, and at times the waves roll
Thigh enough to show what the lake can
| III when its anger Is aroused. But during
| the summer season severe storms are or
| IN re occurrence and fear of seaslcknesss
| need not disturb Travellers here
While yoyaging on these summer seas,
the slghtseers inds abundant evidence
|3that the captains ct INDUSTRY long .ago
| discovered. tho value Of the lakes, Great
| oral and grain-carriersH are cons antly
passillt,. and most of these craft fly llAcle
SAINTS ziiag, IA condition IN marked cons
i tras st to that which exists on the ocean,
| Only about ten per ,csnt oS the vessels
on the lakes are British. i53s
With the discovery OF the lakes them
selves has come the discovery ol Nearby
4 localities. Many tourists take q side trip
/ Ia the Pictured Rocks In Schoolcraft
county, Michigan, about 100 miles east
4 from tho 500, " here the winter mort n
west winds flashing the waves have
y,,,,o,Irft tle sandst one sciiff into strange
aud fantastic forms. lsess ~ yYays sxs' y