. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . s,proprietor, on south side of Lake Monona, has onehundred rooms and four cottages for rent, all fittedup in good style. The proprietor of this houseowns
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . s,proprietor, on south side of Lake Monona, has onehundred rooms and four cottages for rent, all fittedup in good style. The proprietor of this houseowns a steamboat, that plies between Madisonproper and his hotel, at such hours of day or night,as may best accommodate his guests. 80 The North and West Illustrated. The Tribune, of Chicago, says : There is no more charming or agreeable routefor summer travel than the one that leads hither bythe Chicago & North-Western Railway, for it runsthrough a country rich in farming privileges, and inwild natural beauty, and through towns and villageswhich are all connected, by their commercial inter-ests, with the Garden City, through that great life-giving artery, the railroad—the second home of allAmerican people. The trip is short and five-hour ride is pleasantly diversified by theoccasional stoppages at stations, the getting off oron of passengers, and at noon by sitting down to agood dinner at Harvard Junction. Even Charles. Mineral Springs, Sparta, Wis., on C. &. N, Dickens himself would have been satisfied with thecooking and appointments. You do not have to boltyour food, or amble up to a high counter and make ashy, hit or miss, at a tall stool, whereon you sit toeat soggy doughnuts and drink inky coffee; but youare seated comfortably, your order is quickly filled,and your food is excellent. * * * * But wehave arrived at Madison. We are running smoothlybetween two lakes apparently, for water, water, iseverywhere. There is a shore, dimly outlined withhouses and trees, a
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