. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . AMERICAN FUR CO. OLD DESK. attic chests. The new owners of the buildingsat length felt indisposed to longer give themhouse room and after more than a generationhad passed, several laj^ge packing boxes, filled withthese old documents, were oj^ened and freely dis-posed of to any of the village people who cared totake them away. The historic or memorial interest 96 EARLY MACKINAC. not then being very strong, the papers were usedin various ways, such as lighting fires or puttingtil em around the garden cabbage plants as protec-tion against th
. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . AMERICAN FUR CO. OLD DESK. attic chests. The new owners of the buildingsat length felt indisposed to longer give themhouse room and after more than a generationhad passed, several laj^ge packing boxes, filled withthese old documents, were oj^ened and freely dis-posed of to any of the village people who cared totake them away. The historic or memorial interest 96 EARLY MACKINAC. not then being very strong, the papers were usedin various ways, such as lighting fires or puttingtil em around the garden cabbage plants as protec-tion against the cut-worm or a summer frost, andin the kitchens of the good house-wives they wereserving to line cake-tins with. In 1863, and again in 1870, portions of these. AMERICAN FUR CO. OLD SCALES. old papers and record books, which by that timehad become interesting relics, were rescued byan enthusiastic lady visitor on the island, and pre-sented to the Chicago Historical Society. la thegreat fire which swept over that city in 1871, thesecollections were destroyed. In the Astor Houseon the island there are two large copy-volumes ofletters written from the Companys office at AMERICAN FUR COMPANY RELICS. 97 Mackinac, and dating from a period the mostflourishing in its history. These old books in-terest many of the summer guests to-day. Alsobelonging to the same Hotel, and preserved asrelics, are an old fashioned high-legged desk atwhich one of the clerks used to work in the Com-panys palmy days, and an old-style scales-or balances, which was used in weighing thepeltries as they were packed and bound for storageor for shipment. CHAPTER IX. In the early days, even as in the present, thetime of greatest stir and animation on the islandwas the summer seas
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