Electric lights and bells. Hot and cold baths on each floor. Hot water heat. Wm. J. De Vol, Prop. Cafe in Connection Mrs. T. J. Price, Mgr. Beautiful Bay View Photographs and many views at other North "Michigan in Summer" issued by the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Which with its connections during the Summer months operate THRU ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED STEEL Sleeping Cars to this delightful region from St. Louis, Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, Richmond, Grand Rapids and other Cities. For copies of this beautiful booklet, time folder, etc. address C. L. LOCKWOOD, General Passenger Agent At Bay View IN the early "seventies" we began hearing about the lake region of northern Michigan, and the reports that those earliest explorers brought back, of a veritable El Dorado of health and great beauty, seemed like the tales of rapture told by the early navigators to the New World. I shall never forget the first time when, by chance, I came upon one of those early descriptions, and was led, on and on, by its alluring pages which were fragrant with the odor of the pine and the waxy wintergreen. It was not long before others, the vanguard of the army of "settlers," took up the trail through the deep forests, or by boats that had begun to make occasional visits to the few lumber and trading points. And all came back with the same enthusiasm, over such inland lakes, such crystal trout streams and majestic forests as they had never before seen. There was a spot they reported on our inland sea of Lake Michigan whose beauty transcended anything their eyes had ever looked upon. THOMAS GORDON, JR. President of the Bay View Association, the municipal organization of all the cottagers; a useful man, and at home, in Howell, Mich., very active in educational and other interests for public welfare. 509 ON TRAVERSE BAY. In the foreground is but a small part of this rather exclusive but pretty summer town of Harbor Point: beyond and across the water on many a hillside is the city of Petoskey; while to the left, but just out of the picture is Bay View. There are not many more interesting sights than this scene by night, when all Petoskey's electric lights flash out amid the shady streets of that fair town. no But until the year, 1874, this region was closed to all save the most courageous, for no railroad had yet penetrated into it. I have heard from the pioneers their experihow ences, and without roads and teams, they had to take apart their cook stoves and carry them and their few household effects to their homes in the woods. But on New Year's day of 1874 the first train over the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad entered the little settlement, where now the beautiful city of Petoskey stands, and the region was open to the world. Then the tourists began pouring in, and during the next few years Bay View, Wequetonsing, Harbor Point, and the score of other pretty resorts that are now found on the numerous lakes, were all founded. To-day the Pere Marquette Railway has one end of its triangular system at Bay View, while all the lines of lake steamers now land at Petoskey, and transfer their passengers to the resorts. Starting from Detroit, from Cincinnati, and from Chicago, these bands of shining rails, like great rockets, take their way to the Northland, rising higher and higher, until at last they converge at Bay View. There, rocket-like, they burst into numerous streams of light, each ending in a resort star of lovely beauty. On many hillsides sloping up from the bay of Little Traverse, is the beautiful |