What to see in America . here are sent away meat supplies that go all over theworld. So cosmopolitan are its citizens that each of fourteenlanguages besides English is spoken by more than 10,000people. The city has a remarkable system of small parks and boule-vards, some wonderful residence streets, and excellent bathingbeaches. Pleasure steamers ply on the lake, and so manyrecreations are easily available that it has a good deal ofcharm as a summer resort. The name of the city is of Indian origin. It means Wild 246 What to See in America Onion. Chicago has acquired the nickname of t
What to see in America . here are sent away meat supplies that go all over theworld. So cosmopolitan are its citizens that each of fourteenlanguages besides English is spoken by more than 10,000people. The city has a remarkable system of small parks and boule-vards, some wonderful residence streets, and excellent bathingbeaches. Pleasure steamers ply on the lake, and so manyrecreations are easily available that it has a good deal ofcharm as a summer resort. The name of the city is of Indian origin. It means Wild 246 What to See in America Onion. Chicago has acquired the nickname of the WindyCity. Thirteen miles north is Evanston, where are some ofthe finest suburban homes in America, and at forty-six milesis Zion City, famous as the place built up by the singularreligious society founded by John A. Dowie. The people of the state are popularly called Suckers,a name first conferred on the early Illinois miners who usedto come down from up river each year at the time thesuckers in the streams Mackinac and Its Ancient Fort XXVI Michigan In the narrow sixty-three-mile long river connecting lakesSuperior and Huron is a half mile where the water runs inswift violence over a ledge of rocks, forming the SaultSainte Marie, or, to put it in English, the Rapids of The adjacent banks were a gathering place for theIndians from time immemorial. Here they fished in therapids and portaged their canoes along the shores. It washere, in 1668, that Father jNIarquette founded a mission,which was Michigans first settlement. The great attractionfor the traveler who visits the Soo is the locks. Thefalls were a barrier to the birch-bark canoes of the savages,and likewise to the bateaux, sailing vessels, and steamboatsof the whites, which could move freely on all the lakes belowas far as Niagara. Many wise Americans considered theproject of building the first ship canal and locks at the Soo 247 248 AVhat to See in America
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