. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . m a point a little below the waterline back on the keel ; she breaks ice downand forces herself over it. Chief Engineer ONeil showed us allover the down stairs of the big boat,and then we were invited to ride in Cap-tain Boyntons pilot house. Landing at St. Ignace, we bid good-byeto Mr. Keegan, who had come across withus, and got on board a D., S. vS. & A. trainthat was in waiting. St. Ignace is a small place with ore andcoal docks. Like most of the other laketowns, it was settled late in the i6oos bythe
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . m a point a little below the waterline back on the keel ; she breaks ice downand forces herself over it. Chief Engineer ONeil showed us allover the down stairs of the big boat,and then we were invited to ride in Cap-tain Boyntons pilot house. Landing at St. Ignace, we bid good-byeto Mr. Keegan, who had come across withus, and got on board a D., S. vS. & A. trainthat was in waiting. St. Ignace is a small place with ore andcoal docks. Like most of the other laketowns, it was settled late in the i6oos bythe French Jesuits ; here, in the yard of Mr. Meehans father-in-law, is the graveand monument of the pioneer priest anddiscoverer, Father Marquette. He settledSault Ste. Marie in 1668, the first whitesettlement in Michigan. Of him, Longfel-low wrote : the world, and a new canal is cut to it;it will probably be opened next year. Ourpicture of the Xor/h Jlfsi, the largestvessel afloat on the Great Lakes, was takenwhile she stood in the present lock. The road has a small roundhouse The Sainte M.\rie Bucking Ice. Photographed at St. 1gn.\ce, Dec. 14, 1S94. * And the noble Hiawatha,With his hands aloft aloft the sign of welcome ;Waited, full of ,Till the birch canoe, with on the pebbles,Stranded on the sandy margin-Till the Black-Robe Chief, the Pale-Face,With the cross upon his on the sandy margin. From St. Ignace to the big Soo theroad goes through a rather bleak of feet of lumber have been cut offhere ; fires have killed much of the youngtimber, and the land is poor and the coun-try uninviting. There was good sleighing at Sault ; every boy in town had a dog sled,and the electric cars were tied up for thewinter—no Rotary. The Soo Line comes in here, and tliereis a very fine steel bridge across the .straits(or river) to Canada, connecting the roadsof North Michigan with the CanadianPacifi
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