The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-05-12
ARE you GONG
WHITE REGIsTERT OcAMP ALGONAC.
RUSELL'SEAND, MICH.

steamer transportation, board and
lodging, will be but $1,000.
Where are you going to spend your
vacation this summer As time rolls
on and as civilization becomes more
and more highly developed, people
generally are coming to realize that
every individual who works for liv-
ing is entitled to vacation brief
respite from toll at least once each
year. This custom is becoming gen
orally popular until there are but few
people steadily employed who do not
now plan scientifically their vacation,
and of late years the outing goes
hand in hand with the vacation.
There is great good to anyone in
change of scene. The annual vaca-
ton and outing has become fixture
in American civilization and, having
come to stay there is yearly recur-
renee of the question: Where shall
| 90 to spend my vacation?" This
question is, generally speaking,
pcrplexing one as the cost must al
ways be figured. The rich may go
anywhere and at any time, but the
great mass of moderately well-to-do
people must count the cost. The
Register believes everybody is en-
titled to vacation and a summer
outing and, realizing that such or
dinarily comes as hardship financial
ly to most people, set about to find
some way by which the very best in
vacations and summer outings could
be produced at slight cost.
Russell's Island, Michigan, proved
to be the place selected as the site
for summer camp, and Camp Al
gonac came into being. The season
of 1909 will be the third for Camp
Algonas. Each year improvements
have been made all toward the end
of making the camp an ideal one in
every particular. In anticipation of
this more than 81 10000 have
been spent in improvements until
now the camp has practically all the
conveniences of modern city. 1t is
laid out in streets; it has sewers; it
has ample illumination it is enclosed
with high wire fence; it has post
Office; police system; pavilion ;
a dining hall; splendid water; APP
proved sanitary arrangements and,
above all it has one of the most mag
nifcent settings of land, foliage,
water and activity ever dreamed OF
by any artist. Russell's Island is
called by tourists the Gem of the
Great Lakes. If there is a more
peaceful or beautiful spot in the wide
world books do not record it.
The route is via rail to Detroit,
Mich, thence by one of the elegant
steamers of the White Star line to
Algonac, Mich, Russell's Island be-
ing reached by naptha launches across
a mile of crystal water. The Eng
lish language contains no expressions
fttingly describing the trip from De-
troit to Algonac. The Detroit river
opening out into Lake st. Clair
beautiful lake itself across which the
steamer passes, getting all but out
of sight of land; the U. S. ship
canal; the Flats called the Venice
of America = the St. Clair river with
its numerous cottages and clubhouses,
and then Algonac, Mich, and Rus
sells Island, where the tent city
CLEANS enticingly in the sunlight.
This is the trip and, to the inland
bred, it alone is worth the entire cost
of the outing.
But the trip is nothing as compar-
ed with the joys of the camp. There
is bathing upon one ofthe finest fresh
water beaches in America. There is
boating, fishing, athletics; in fact OPP
portunity for every kind oflegitimate
and wholesale amusement. There
are the side trips to Port Huron, to
Mt. Clemens, to Wallaceburg,
Canada, to Walpole Island, all at
slight additional cost ranging from