Indianapolis, Indiana city directory, 1887, Part 129

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Zwick Mrs F, tailor L S Ayres & Co, res 222 N East.

Zwicker Frederick, shoemkr 476 S East, res 18 Greer.

Zwicker Frederick, clk Kipp Bros, res 18 Greer.

Zwicker Matilda, teacher school No 10, bds 18 Greer.

Do Not Lend Your Directory.

NDIANAPOLIS BUSINESS COLLEGE.

Short-Hand and Type-Writing School.

V ANCE BLOCK. Take Elevator for College. 21 years under the present proprietor. C. C. KOERNER.

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CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY

By reason of its central position and close relation to all principal lines East and West, at initial and terminal points, constitutes the most important mid-conti- nental link in that system of through transportation which invites and facili- tates travel and traffic between cities of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. It is also the favorite and best route to and from points East, Northeast and Southeast, and corresponding points W est, Northwest and Southwest.

The Rock Island system includes in its main line and branches, Chicago, Joliet, Ottawa, La Salle, Peoria, Geneseo, Moline and Rock Island, in Illinois; Davenport, Muscatine, Washington, Fairfield, Ottumwa. Oskaloosa, West Liberty, Iowa City, Des Moines, Indianola, Winterset, Atlantic, Knoxville, Audubon, Harlan, Guthrie Centre and Council Bluffs, in Iowa; Gallatin, Trenton, Cameron and Kansas City, in Missouri; Leavenworth and Atchison, in Kansas; Albert Lea, Minneapolis and St. Paul, in Minnesota; Watertown in Dakota, and hundreds of intermediate cities. towns, villages and stations.

THE GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE

Guarantees its patrons that sense of personal security afforded by a solid, thoroughly ballasted road-bed; smooth tracks of continuous steel rail; sub- stantially built culverts and bridges; rolling stock as near perfection as human skill can make it; the safety appliances of patent buffers, platforms and air-brakes; and that exacting discipline which governs the practical operation of all its trains. Other specialties of this route are Transfers at all connecting points in Union Depots, and the unsurpassed comforts and luxuries of its Passenger Equipment.

The Fast Express Trains between Chicago and the Missouri River are com- posed of well ventilated, finely upholstered Day Coaches, Magnificent Pullman Palace Sleepers of the latest design, and sumptuous Dining Cars, in which elaborately cooked meals are leisurely eaten, "good Digestion waiting on Appetite, and Health on both." Between Chicago and Kansas City and Atchison, are also run the Celebrated Reclining Chair Cars.

THE FAMOUS ALBERT LEA ROUTE

Is the direct and favorite line between Chicago and Minneapolis and St. Paul, where connections are made in Union Depots for all points in the Territories and British Provinces. Over this route, Fast Express Trains are run to the watering places, summer resorts, picturesque localities, and hunting and fish- ing grounds of Iowa and Minnesota. It is also the most desirable route to the rich wheat fields and pastoral lands of interior Dakota.

Still another DIRECT LINE, via Seneca and Kankakee, has been opened between Newport News, Richmond, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Lafayette und Council Bluffs, Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul and intermediate points. For detailed information see Maps and Folders, obtainable, as well as Tickets, at all principal Ticket Offices in the United States and Canada; or by addressing

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Its truthful pictures, by both pen and pencil excite wonder and admiration. A copy bound in a flexible silk cover, embossed in gold, will be mailed by the author on receipt of 25 cents. Lithograph cover, 15 cents.

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The originality of design by the author,

The story of Picturesque Mackinac has caused thousands of strangers to visit our northern lakes. Information and Excursion rates can be obtained at all Ticket offices in the United States and Canada.

Title Page of Revised Edition now in press.

embraces both illustrative and typographical features. This popular work has been newly illustrated.

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Bird's Eye View of Mackinac Island-The Great Historic Summer Resort and Sanitarium-National Park.

1, Fort Mackinac. 2, Fort Holmes. 3, Catholic Cemetery. 4, Military Cemetery. 5, Skull Cave. 6, Quarry, 1780. 7, Limekiln, 1780, 8, Robinson's Folly. 9, Cliffs. 10, Arch Rock, 11, Sugar Loaf. 12, Skull Rock. 13. Battlefield, 1814. 14, Scott's Cave. 15, British Landing. 16, Lover's Leap. 17, Devil's Kitchen. 18, Pontiac's Lookout. 19, Obelisk. 20, Old Indian Burying Ground. 21, Distillery, 1812. 22, Proposed Hotel Site .. 23, Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company's Wharf,

A Beautiful Marine Picture 20x34 inches of Steamer City of Cleveland, copied from an

ACATION is a cessation of work, and a diver- sion of the mind into new and pleasant channels. While it may seem like idleness to loll around at the seashore, the country farm or among the mountains, it is a repairing and oiling of the machin- ery, necessary to the better accomplishment of work. If you can find rest and recreation during the sultry months, you gain thereby. A water trip best quiets the nerves, rests the body and afloat, we cut loose diverts the mind. We leave carping cares behind as soon as and drift away from worries and anxieties of office, study, work- shop and household, are interested in the changing scenes and in the enjoyment of solid comfort, float lazily and dream. We revel in the freedom, the dolce far niente, the pure, bracing air, the beauties of sky and sea, watch with fascination the leaping spray at the. steamer's bow, fall to noting the ever-changing billows, and enter into projects for amuse- ment started by others, or, originate them ourselves with the zest of a child.

On board a steamer we live a new, novel and fresh life, such as is never experienced on land, To those who enjoy great Nature's work, we would say:

Mackinac Island is among the grandest and most romantic of spots. Visitors are voluble with story and legend of every bold cliff and cave and fallen rock around the island, and many a pencil, brush and camera are brought to bear on the wonders found. Every section of the country sends visitors annually. The invalid is attracted by the wonderful purity of the atmosphere, the climate being noted as a sanitarium for hay fever and bronchial affections. Great numbers visit this region to escape from orget relief of these maladies; many experience an improvement on entering Lake Huron. No other resort possesses such entertaining features. The surrounding country offers endless attractions to the adventurous. Gamey fish lurk in all the inland lakes and rivers with which the State of Michigan abounds. Its forests are the hiding places of furred and feathered creatures, which afford fine sport.

Mackinac Island is reached by the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, by the pleasant lake route, with a splendid line of palatial iron steamers, the largest, swiftest and most luxurious on fresh water, forming the only comfortable route to this island resort. These floating palaces were recently built especially for the summer tourists' travel. The forward and after saloons, in mahogany and walnut respectively, are magnificently appointed and tastefully decorated, and their elegant rooms and parlors are replete with modern improvements. The lower saloons are devoted to dining halls, which entirely separate the culinary departments from the main saloons, a desirable feature only possible on these large side-wheel steamers. Their bill of fare, which is equal to that of any first-class hotel, includes all the luxuries of the season, and the price charged barely meets the outlay. Berths are in rooms, an upper, single width, and a lower, double width, in each, are fur- nished with wire and hair mattrasses and Pullman blankets. These steamers have water tight compartments, and their feathering paddles give unusual speed, without jar or noise. This water trip cannot be excelled anywhere, and the round trip affords a daylight view of all the route. No more comfortable place can be found outside of one's own home in which to spend the sultry days, than on board these splendidly appointed steamers. The changing scenes and fresh, bracing air, will benefit many who vainly seek relief at physicians' hands, and physicians urgently recommend this particular trip.

Oil Painting by a Celebrated Artist, Lithographed, 14 Colors, Artists' Proofs, mailed, 25c

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ACKINAC ISLAND, the rock girt, fairy isle, sitting like an emerald gem in the clear, pellucid wave, rises gradually and majestically from the crystal waters, which cover but cannot conceal the glistening, white pebbly depths beneath. It is the central point of VANI-CO. STAFRS ROUTE the three great lakes. It knows no land breeze, hence the winds are always cool and refreshing, and seem incessantly tossing balls at each other. They no sooner cease blowing from Lake Michigan than they come from Lake Huron, and Lake Superior is never behind in the contest. Mackinac Island con- tains two thousand two hundred and twenty-one acres, of which the national park comprises eight hundred and twenty- one, and the military reservation one hundred and three acres. The natural scenery is unsurpassed. Nature seems to have exhausted herself in the manifold objects of interest which meet the eye in every direction. The lover of Mother Earth will hardly grow weary of wandering through its shaded glens, and climbing over its rugged rocks, each day bringing to light some new object of beauty and interest. Longfellow, in his poem of " Hiawatha " has put into English verse some of its wild Indian legends, which people every rock and glen with spectral habitants. Hiawatha is the Mena-bosho of the Algonquins, and the Island of Mackinac was considered his birthplace.

If the poetic muses are ever to have a new Parnassus in America, they should certainly ix on Mackinac Island. Hygeia, too, should place her temple here, for it is one of the purest, dryest, clearest and most healthful of atmospheres. The Island shows unmista kable evidence of the water having once been two hundred and fifty feet above its present line. It is a mooted question whether the lake has fallen from its original level, or the island has, from some cause, been lifted up. Springs of water, clear and cold, may be found at the base of the high cliffs, and scattered through other localities.

Mackinac village is a perfect curiosity in itself. Situated at the foot of the bluff, upon the brow of which stands the fort, it extends for a distance of a mile along the beach. The buildings are a mixture of the modern and antique, some of which were brought from Old Mackinaw when the town and fort were removed from that point after the massacre of June 4, 1763. Many of the fences are of the original palisade style.

Schoolcraft, who visited it in 1820, says: "Nothing can exceed the beauty of this island." It is a mass of calcareous rock, rising from the bed of Lake Huron, and reaching a height of more than three hundred feet above the water. Some of its cliffs shoot up per. pendicularly, and tower in pinnacles like half ruined gothic steeples. It is cavernous in some places, and in these caverns the ancient Indians were wont to place their dead. Por- cions of the beach are level, and well adapted to landing from boats. The harbor at the south end is a little gem. In it, vessels can anchor and be sure of a holding, and around it, the little old fashioned French town nestles in primitive style, while above frowns the fort, its white walls gleaming in the sun. The whole area of the island is one labyrinth of curious glens and valleys. Old fields appear in spots which were formerly cultivated by Indians. In some of them are circles of gathered stones, as if the Druids themselves had dwelt there. The soil, though rough, is fertile. The Island was formerly covered with a dense growth of rock maple, oak, iron wood, etc., and there are still parts of this ancient forest left, but all the southern limits exhibit a young growth. There are walks and winding paths of the most romantic character among its hills and precipices. From the eminences overlooking the lake can be seen magnificent views of almost illimitable extent.

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The iate Dr. Drake says: "The island is the last, and, of the whole, the most impor- tant summer resort to which we can direct the attention of the infirm or the fashionable. The living streams of pure water, cooled down to the temperature of 44°, gush from the lime rock precipices, and an atmosphere never sultry or malarious, supersedes all necessity tor nauseating iron, sulphur and epsom salts. As a health resort it is unsurpassed. Its cool air and pure water are just what are needed to bring back the glow of health to the faded cheek, and send the warm currents of life dancing through the system with youthful vigor." Its natural beauties and historic associations, together with the innumerable lesser attrac- tions which cluster round about, serve to furnish visitors with so much entertainment and variety for either the robust or weakly ones, that ennui which eventually is felt at most resorts need not be experienced here. In Mackinac you eat with a new relish, and sleep like a child. You row, or ramble, scarcely able to keep your buoyancy within bounds. Dr. Mills, once post surgeon at Mackinac, says: "No better place can be found for sickly girls and puny boys, for worn out men and women, whether from overworked brain or muscle, or for those inclined to hypochondria. A change from the tiresome sameness of home scenes cannot fail to benefit all. From the hour of entering Lake Huron, your feelings will indicate that you have passed beyond the reign of miasma, fever, dyspepsia, blue devils and duns, and you look back upon the whole of them with gay indifference, or a feeling of good- natured contempt, as every turn of the steamer's wheel carries you farther into the temperate and genial climate of the lakes, and away from your perplexities. Under these influences real diseases may abate, and the imaginary ones be forgotten. In the celebrated white fish (classical name, coregonus albus, signifying food of the nymphs), is found a native whose acquaintance is liable to but one objection, that of destroying the taste for any other fish, and which, with the trout and potatoes of the island render all foreign delicacies superfluous. We would caution the gourmand, however, against an excessive use of trout, which are said to produce drowsiness, for those who visit Mackinac should be wide awake, lest some scene of interest should pass unobserved.

Besides the agreeable change of climate on reaching Mackinac, there is the new sensation to one who has not before enjoyed the novelty of an insular life, of having found an island retreat. To his jaded sensibilities all around him is fresh, a feeling of security comes over him, and when, from the rocky battlements of the fort, he looks down on the surrounding waters, they seem a bulwark of defense against the host of annoyances from which he has sought a refuge. Thus the curative state of mind begins to act on the body from the first moment, and this salutary mental excitement will not soon die away, for the historic associations, not less than the surrounding scenery, are well fitted to maintain it, and to make the invalid forget his ailments. Dr. Mann says, "A few whiffs of the air would make your lungs give a hygienic laugh. This air must have been left clear out of Eden, and did not get cursed. Children are crazy with animal spirits, and eat in such a way as to demonstrate the paradox that the quantity contained may be greater than the container." These extracts will no doubt meet with a hearty response from thousands who have visited Mackinac.

At watering-places generally, all the features of the surrounding scenery are soon familiarized to the eye, which then merely wanders over the commingled throngs of coquettes, dandies, dancers and idlers, and soon returns to inspect the real or fancied in- firmities of its possessor. A visit to Mackinac reverses all this. The attractions of the sur- rounding region are of a different and more wholesome kind, and draw to them those who seek health and recreation, and offer a delightful hot weather asylum to all who need to escape from crowded cities or a sultry climate. Besides this, the voyage imparts a pleasing excitement to the faculty of observation, curiosity is stirred up to the highest pitch, and pleasantly gratified by the hourly unfolding of fresh scenes of nature, some new blending of land and water, a group of islands different from the last, or a shifting series of painted clouds seen in the kaleidoscope of heaven afford constant variety, while the frequent trips of the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company's steamers enable you to return as soon as desired.

Constance Fennimore Woolson knew the charm of the place when she made it the scene of so many romances, among them being the novel "Anne," and the short sketches.

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This Night Line by water is a Short Cut between the Cities of Cleveland and Detroit.

Miss Woolson's writings have thrown a wierd witchery about Mackinac, and it has been to her a favorite spot for the locale of her romances. In answer to a letter asking for inform- ation, as to the number of times she had written of this place, Miss Woolson says: "I have often alluded to Mackinac in my sketches and stories. The second sketch I wrote (then beginning) was about Mackinac, it was called "Fairy Island," and was purely descriptive. There was, later, a short story of mine in the "Galaxy," called " Flower of the Snow, " whose scene was Mackinac. But these were tentative merely. The first real description I gave of the island in print were two short stories, one called "The Old Agency," the other "Jean- nette," both published in "Scribner's Magazines," now the "Century." Twice then, in my novel "Anne" the island appears again; it is the scene of the first quarter of that story."

Indeed, Mackinac might well be the scene of romances yet unwritten, not only on account of its unique and beautiful situation, but because of its native inhabitants, in whose strongly marked characteristics there is yet unmined material for the book-makers. Here are to be found people who were born on the island, have seen their three score and ten, and never yet stepped foot upon the mainland, those who taught the Indians in the old days of the mission, and the fashionable lounger of to-day. It is full of contrasts and surprises, and has long been called the "Wonderful Isle " from the fascination it seems to hold for all who have ever lived on its shores. One of the most enthusiastic admirers of the place whom we ever met, is an old gentleman now living in Chicago, who was a resident of Mackinac in the old mission days. Since that time he has seen the vast west grow from a wilderness to a mighty empire; he has seen Chicago spring from a smaller post than Mackinac now is, to the proud proportions of the western metropolis; he has been a potent factor in its growth, but he has never lost his affection for Mackinac, nor his desire to visit it often. He could not be persuaded to part with a portion of the land which he owns there, were it not to share the happiness of its possession with others. The Island is as important from a sanitary point of view, as it is attractive and beautiful from the aesthetic.

Happily Disappointed .- Grandma's advice to lone females. An old lady from Cleveland relates her experience of a trip up the lakes, through the columns of the Leader. "I may not be telling your readers anything new in relating some of the incidents of my trip to Mackinac, but there are too few Cleveland people who seem to have found out what an elegant place we have in this beautiful island to which we may flee for comfort and recreation. I must plead guilty to my own ignorance until unexpectedly, (for I had started Tuesday evening with the intention of going in a different direction), I found myself safely on board the steamer City of Detroit, together with two young lady friends, who had hardly recovered from the "set back" to our original plans. We had every attention from the officers of this magnificent steamer, and in the morning at 10 o'clock (Wednesday) we left Detroit, passing up the river with its beautiful scenery, across Lake St. Clair and through the canal into St. Clair river to Port Huron, where we launched out on the broad bosom of Lake Huron, and as there was nothing to be seen from the decks but unlimited green waters, on one hand, and a faint suggestion of land on the other, I gave some attention to the internal arrangements of the floating palace, on which it was our good fortune to find ourselves, and I have no apology to make for thus designating our good boat. It is no stretch of fancy, but a veritable fact, as your readers who have seen it will testify. There is nothing to be desired, or even remotely wished for, in the elegant appointments, and as regards the table, it is fully up to the standard of any first-class city hotel. As night comes on, we retire to the cozy state rooms; there is every inducement to enjoy a grateful rest and balmy sleep. Among my fellow voyagers were a party of over forty gentlemen and ladies, from Pittsburg, on a camp- ing trip to Alpena, also a party of twenty or more young people trom Bucyrus, O., intending to camp on the island. The grand old island is full of interest, but in our short stay only a hurried glance over the whole could be made. Our government has indeed chosen a lovely spot for a national park. Our three days' stay was soon over, and again the City of Mackinac steamed up to the dock, and we bade farewell to the island and soon found ourselves back in Cleveland. I hope that any lone females who may be at a loss where to go for a pleasant trip, will trust themselves to do likewise, and, in the care of Captain Mckay and Steward Thorn, of the City of Mackinac, will derive as much pleasure as our little party, and in so doing, remember GRANDMA."

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Indianapolis, Indiana city directory, 1887, Part 129

Author: Publication date: 1855 Publisher: Polk Number of Pages: 992

Author:
Publication date: 1855
Publisher: Polk
Number of Pages: 992