Year: 1879

such wOrk-the open matches, a two ton
boiler suspended from the derrick rising
through the upper deck, swinging out
board and settling carefully on to the YES
sci, the steam pump following in the same
manner, then the attachments and final
ly the fuel, and presently the machinery
is in operation and furious stream of
iron cOlored water is pouring down the
vessels deck and over her side; add to
this the glare of the furnace fires, the
kissing of the steam and the black drift
ing clouds from the smoke pipes, alto
gether making the night wild, weird and
well nigh hideous.


On the next day at noon we were pass
ing Cheboygan with the vessel in our


wake, with steam at both ends of the tow
line. We stopped at Sand Beach for coal


and reached Detroit without accident,
other than that the writer hereof had his


head-gear carried away by Lake Huron
zephyr and found himself minus his


n,eetin' hat. We spent the remainder of


that day in Detroit near the Windsor


ferry docks, and had the benefit of the


music from the ferry bands till late in


the evening. These ferry boats are util-


lied i'm the hot season by the sweltering
citizens and their families, for an airing


and cooling off, gossip with their ac-


quaintanceS and lemonade or perhaps


something less innocent while enjoying


the breeze and listening to the music. 1t


is cheap enjoyment, too, as you can


ride back and forth as long as you please
/ fiva nfC nta
with their fast teams for a ride down


the Canada side. That night l played


checkers on a coal dock and over a coal


scale among the coal barrOws, and when


at two o'clock the next morning the


game ended i'm loss to the coal men


of their coal 'pile," we cleared for home.
| The following day was fine and afford


ed the most favorable conditions for


viewing the sheen and shore of that


much admired and much written about


river er-perhaps the most beautiful in the
| wOrld-the st. Clair. Certainly no lam


guage can portray its lOveliness as it ap-
pears in its summer attire. tits indeed


a perfect Eden of beauty, the broad sweep


of steadily flowing water. .margined with


rich meadows, gentle slopes "fair fields


in living green" fiecked with the golden
tinge of the ripening grain, innumera-


BILE fruit orchards, thickly wooded ridges


and trees singly, here and there, and i'm
groups, lifting their leafy limbs to lend
added lOvliness to the landscape. / do
not know whether tourists have caught
the inspiration from this enchanting
scenery that here was the veritable par


adiSe of Adam the First, and that but
delicate tension of the fancy might 10


cate his headquarters at particularly


charming grove about midway of the


American river bank, where the first
father might have been seen, ON a mild


summer day like this, taking his after


dinner siesta, On his back veranda and


meditatiyely putting his merschaum pipe
| while Mrs. Adam is busy at her sewing
, machine upon some new article of dress
of the latest importation of fabrique and
figure, and now and then glancing
furtively at her two little boys, Cain and
Abel, who are playing leap frog and
turning somersaults in the road, to the
imminent peril of their little boots,


breeches and buttons. Or, perhaps they
never had the vision of Uncle Sam and
John Bull, having selected each the most
beautiful bit of country in all their do


miniOnS, laid them down here side by
side, with only this dividing st. Clair be-
tween them, for perpetual exposition
7 of the beautiful and material character
, iStics of the two countries.


!, The new cut through the st. Clair flats
is greatly beautified by fine growth
of willows all over the piers ON both
3 sides, giving the passage the appearance
{ of an avenue mile or so in length, and
it occurred to me that it might be named


'the grand marine boulevard"


We reached ChebOygan at IL a. m. yes
s terday, after run of seven hundred
s miles, and are again ready for another
q call i'm the same line.


A wrecking trip on the Leviathan Ovel
L summer waters, under summer skies, ac
= cOmpanied by summer breezes is as en-
r joyable as the gayest kind of a picnic
+ excursion. G.. B. X.