Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-01

Chicago and from Detroit is such that
one can have a taste of real ocean travel,
view of countless resorts the way,
with Mackinac as a fitting climax.
The trip up from Detroit is glorious. II
one is going to Mackinac, It is worth while
to take the longer route to Toledo and
Detroit, making the rest of the trip by
water. There is nothing else In the world
that can quite be compared with the st.
Clair flats, and there is no NAL de mer
quite so benehcent and, for the time, teri
rfyng, as that which falls upon the vic
tim as his craft fights its way through a
blast out of Thunder bay.
1t was on one of these boats that a st.
Louis couple and a couple from Toledo
were making the trip UP to the lovely
island. AS the vessel neared its destina-
ton, the Toledo lady called to the darby
waiter who had served the party at table,
and who happened to be passing near
where she stood on the dec: Here,
waiter, is that Mack-i-nack?" "Nawl'
he growed It's Mackinaw. Nobody evan
heerd tell oh Mackinack TIL you Ohio
folks commenced to come up heah. Now
we nevah hears nothin but mack, mack,
Mack!nack."
Another name in that part of the world
that has been corrupted from its original
French pronunciation is that of Les Che
neaux, the islands little way to the north
of the Island Beautiful which received
their name because of the dense growth
of pine trees. Now they are commonly
spoken of as the Shows" and so univer.
sal is the name that in a few years the
old French name will have disappeared
from the map and no one will understand
why that particular group should be called
Snow islands"
Mackinac is interesting for so many rea-
sons that one can find something there to
delight him, no matter what his taste
may be. In the first place, 1t is so init
matcly connected with the early history OF
the country, when the French the British
and the natives were struggling for possess
sion of the vast interior of the country.
There is the spot still marked as British
landing and the guide tells how little
band Of English soldiers performed Won
derful feats of heroism at the inner fort,
away back in the hearr of the forest.
Then he shows you Sugarloaf rock and
Skull cave and the arch rock, and all the
other famous spots, including the large
fort that is right out in plain view from
the landing, the picturesque old fort with
its two bockhouses that were used in the
disastrous hand-to-hand conflicts with the
Indians. When you are through with the
guide and his well learned history, you
wander off into the deep forest where,
every now and then, you catch glimpses
OF the billowy blue sea as it rolls and
losses on every side of the island.
Round About Yellowstone Park.
meet me in the land of the buffalor'
That is being coined into the great excur-
sion slogan of the summer of 1906 the first
summer in some years when there are no
worlds fairs or expositons to tap the
family pocketbooks and when those afflicted
with the travel microbe are casting around
somewhat hopelessly for somewhere to 20.
The land of the buffalo is the Yellowstone
which is likewise the land of the unclaimed
bear and of the unpenned elk; the land
likewise of geysers, boiling springs, OF
colored formations and of a grand canyon
that is bewildering splash of all the colors
of the rainbow or prism. One passes
through this great wonderland of the ma,
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