. Mackinac, the Wonderful isle, Petoskey, Traverse City and other northern Michigan summer resorts . RAND Rapids & Indiana Railroad. 14 A LAND OF SUMMER HOMES. pleasures can be made out, tilling the fleeting hours until they pass like amidsummer dream. It is the natural center or radiating point fromwhich trips by land or by water may be made at almost any time to anyone of the score of adjoining summer resorts. The Daily Resorter, pub-lished during the season, is devoted to the interests of Petoskey andNorthern Michigan, and of visitors at the various resorts. Better accom-modations for guest
. Mackinac, the Wonderful isle, Petoskey, Traverse City and other northern Michigan summer resorts . RAND Rapids & Indiana Railroad. 14 A LAND OF SUMMER HOMES. pleasures can be made out, tilling the fleeting hours until they pass like amidsummer dream. It is the natural center or radiating point fromwhich trips by land or by water may be made at almost any time to anyone of the score of adjoining summer resorts. The Daily Resorter, pub-lished during the season, is devoted to the interests of Petoskey andNorthern Michigan, and of visitors at the various resorts. Better accom-modations for guests, in extent and character, cannot well be found. Be-sides the well-known Arlington, whose name has become a household wordand synonvm for comfort and good service among summer tourists, areseveral other hotels, tirst-class in all their ARLINGTON HOTEL, PETOSKEY. A favorite occupation for the thousands who visit the shores of LittleTraverse Bay, is gathering agates. The bed of the lake and bay is com-posed of what has been termed agatized coral, and the action of the waterbreaks off fragments which the waves toss upon the shore. A number oflapidists make the polishing of these specimens their sole business, for it isthe universal rule with visitors to take home something of this kind assouvenirs for themselves or friends. However, the corals are not the onlysuch keepsakes, and excursions into the adjacent forests or to the neighbor-ing resorts provide an ample harvest, not only of memories, but of tangibleobjects, to recall the happy days spent during a holiday upon the shores ofLittle Traverse Bay. A LAND OF SUMMER HOMES. 15 BAY VIEW, which has come to be known as the Chautauqua of theWest, is situated on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad but a short milenorth of Petoskey. Its fame and popularity, already grea
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