. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. ek is a recognized tourist point, special rates being grantedfrom all parts of the country, and is an all-the-year-round resort,both for invalids and pleasure-seekers. Pursuing our journey, we cross the State of Michigan in a north- easterly direction, passing , the capital; Diirantl, an importantr
. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. ek is a recognized tourist point, special rates being grantedfrom all parts of the country, and is an all-the-year-round resort,both for invalids and pleasure-seekers. Pursuing our journey, we cross the State of Michigan in a north- easterly direction, passing , the capital; Diirantl, an importantrailway center, Flint, Lapeer, etc., and at Port Huron, we reach its eastern houndary, the St. Clair river,which is also the national boundary between the United Stales andCanada. This city is delightfully located on the west bank of the river,and is a place of much commercial importance, byreason of its manufacturing and shipping interests. of the waterway itself, became a que-stion of increasing gravity witheach succeeding year, and was happily solved by the successful con-struction and operation of the wonderful St. Clair Tunnel. The struc-ture is equally interesting as an engineering feat, and its conceptionand completion reflects great credit upon its projectors. It is a contin-. THE ST. CLAIR view of the fact that the St. Clair KiveL is thechannel through which there annually passes a vol-ume of shipping greater than that which enters thejiort of New York, the crossing of the stream, in theinterests of a commerce equal in importance to that nous iron tube extending under tliebed of the river, and with its ap-proaches is nearly two miles inlength, and nineteen feet in diam-eter. Its cost was 82,700,000. A re-cent writer says of it: It seemssignificant that this tunnel permitsthe intersection of this great waterhighway by an equally great railwaysystem, without jeopardizing the in-ternational interests which are in-volved in both, and renders especi-ally appropriat
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