. Book of the Royal blue . e grounds onthe lake front are beautifully laid out, andthe provision for the amusement and recre-ation of its thousands of patrons is com-plete. A large auditorium with stage,i)Owling alleys, dance pavilion, dining-room,bath houses and the finest bathing beachon the lake, are but part of the many at-tractions. Steamboats ply between thepoint and Sandusky, distance abouttwo miles, semi-hourly and first-classentertainments are provided everyafternoon and evening with a changeof program weekly. Coupon tickets,good for fifty round trips, includingthe entertainments, cos
. Book of the Royal blue . e grounds onthe lake front are beautifully laid out, andthe provision for the amusement and recre-ation of its thousands of patrons is com-plete. A large auditorium with stage,i)Owling alleys, dance pavilion, dining-room,bath houses and the finest bathing beachon the lake, are but part of the many at-tractions. Steamboats ply between thepoint and Sandusky, distance abouttwo miles, semi-hourly and first-classentertainments are provided everyafternoon and evening with a changeof program weekly. Coupon tickets,good for fifty round trips, includingthe entertainments, cost but $.,single tickets 25 cents for the day,or 15 cents for an evening, puts itwithin the reach of all. Nearly 200,-000 tickets was the amount of lastseasons business. •Johnsons Island, two miles duenorth of the city, is noted for beinga U. S. prison for Confederate officersduring the war. In 1864 more than:^,(>()0 were guarded there by Unionsoldiers. Ruins of the old fort andstockade are still to be seen and the. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, PANDUKKV, OHIO, BEAUTIFUL SANDUSKY. 17 cemetery where the dead were interred iscarefully fenced and every grave markedwith a stone, stating name, regiment andState of deceased, though several aremarked Unknown. Each Memorial Daya detail of the local <;. A. K. Post decoratesthe graves with tiowers and laurel, remem-bering them now only as comrades of aunited country. Lakeside, on the north shore of thepeninsula, fronting on Lake Erie, aboutfive miles from the city as the crow flies,surrounded hv old forest trees, is the Chau- Pelee, Gibraltar and a dozen others dot-thesurface of the lake, crowned with beautifulverdure, vineyards and peach orchards, theclimate being particularly adapted for thegrape and peach, and thousands of dollarsbeing invested in their cultivation. Iut-in-Bay claims to be the first sum-mer resort west of the AUeghenies and isparticularly noted as being the scene ofFerrys victory, September 10, 1813. Re-turning th
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