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ft NDAY THE Operations Hie The 1 7 and God lads in and mid 110 the Ko 4 Harbor and little limp LIGHTHOUSE DEPOT DETROIT order ITE8QIT: ISLE LIGHT the buoys to fi breakwater near Van Buren street dock to da play all 'aids to Green bay feet sur day feet when nil Trollope on a light live under for homely follows life nines 1 is a fog In they know and the is quite welcome is not always such may have his wife and in connection Hl In front of the The SHOW LIE ESTISG DETAILS LIGHTHOLSE SER house It was first established in 1S45 but the present handsome structure was erected in 180 The light is a fixed white Sir Tames Taget the llsh physician says: want more ambl i tlon for health I should like to see a pw i sonal ambition for renown In health a boon as that for bravery or for beau tv fir for success In our athletic games and field snorts I wish there were such an ambi tion for the most perfect national health a there is for national renown in war or In art or commerce" tji ITH ITS SIGN "No Trespassing" and the iron fence which sur rounds the property the lighthouse supply depot at the foot of Mount Elliott avenue has an impregnable appearance and exer cises a detrimental ef and others of an en This aspect of se of or as topmast: red hull The boat was placed at this station in 1887 At the head of the old cut or western canal through St Clair lats South pass is a range light of the sixth order visible twelve miles and consisting of a small yellow brick tower on a crib The rear light is of the fourth order placed on a structure actically similar to the other and these two lights form a guide through the old cut through the lats There is a bar one and one fourth miles from the front light on th" lower end of the west pier of the ship canal is a lighthouse of the fourth order consisting of an octagonal tower rising from the corner of the dwelling On the upper end is a similar structure The light and front and rear ranges to guide through the cut between Round island and Point Iroquois The Lake Superior chain of lighthouses follow in this order: Point Iroquois White ish Point Big Sable Grand Island Grand Island Harbor Marquette Marquette Breakwater Granite Island Huron Island heard a voice say unto me (two lights) Point of Woods (front and rear) Hen and Chickens (front and rear) Harwood Point (front and rear) East Nu bish (front and rear) Indian Point (front and Duck island (front and rear) Lower Lake George Middle Lake George Upper Lake George Church Point Manhat tan Signal Catholic Mission (front and rear) Payment (front and rear) Point Ridge (front and rear) Partridge Point (front and rear) Topsail island (front and rear) Bayfield Rock (front and rear) Sauit (front and rear) These lights consist of lens lanterns and tubular lanttrs or the most part they are fixed red or fixed white lights They vary in hight from fourteen and one haif feet (Point of Woods front range) to sixty eight feet (the rear range at "Winter Point) They consist of all kinds of structures There is tne iron tower the brick build ing the wooden tower and uprights on a cluster of piles At the north pier of St alls canal there is a lighthouse of ma 'iuii is inR oniv which there is no alloy other pleasures IJeannt Revive an Old Good Story know the story of the man wives and was belli Whether tne wind blows from the south or from the north does not they have io sails to trim and the frolics of the gepnyrs In no way interfere with their daily routine If It Is a northeaster they open tne little cuddy and hoist up the 11 luuunatlug apparatus it It a southeaster Of nwe ecstatic: but th4' enjoyment i' it inatj fudi Anthony family may take Then the light the mercy of the within a solid otfi the "The way to learn what the Bible teacher is to throw Its pages wide open and read it Ith a simple mind and pure heart anx ious only to know its meaning How muck better is this than to legin with a catechism and then go 'browsing to pick out detached verses to confirm the ev oral articles of faith This systematic may be useful nt Inter period in Christian knowledge and Christian life But to begin With It warns the mtn I In It earliest and most flexible state Voting stu dents sometimes get so wedded to flic form and to the very words of confession nf faith that in rending the glorious eighth chapter of Roman'! they will see but one or two verses which thev have been ac customed to boar quoted as Proof texts of certain points in theologv This Is an lustice to the Bible nod to the student him a self whose views will be narrow and In complete But throw the loble wide open and throw open your windows to let In the sun to shine noon It and voti will see that it is full of light and warmth that will quicken your spiritual Ilf" to the elevntlnr of vour character and the saving of your Rev Henry ield 1 the Casino dock on the grounds of the fairr These buoys were to indicate a highway by day and by night for the many steamers plying between the Casino dock guiding them numerous shoals making Lake Michigan from the main Cbicagi and clear of the out into shore The board ordered that the plant be temporarily maintained during the period of the expo sition The electric buoys besides being of benefit to the commerce of Lake Michi gan ouid also illustrate to the multitudes of people visiting the exposition this plan of lighting harbors (which has been sue cessfuily operated for six years past in the waters of New York bay) and thus bring the particular merits of the system to the attention of the world NN ithout enter ing into a technical description of the man ner in which the plant was worked it may be stated that on the night of Saturday July 1 1S93 the plant was so put into opera tion with successful and gratifying results as to the brilliancy of all the lamps The current of ten amperes was supplied by a ort Wayne arc dynamo of 2200 volts' be tween terminals This system however had the disadvantage of a liability of burning out the dynamo in case of a ground to the cable On the contrary with the alternat ing current and 'a main converter the dy namo is Independent of such accidents which could only result in burning out a fuse plug at the converter As this length of submarine cable (135 miles) was the longest thus far used in the xiorld for electric lighting the experiments were watched with more than usual inter est by many electrical experts at the fair He a I In a tiH Hn1lt "This habit of reading I make bold to tell you is your pass to the greatest the purest and the most perfect pleasures That God prHparea jor nis sures habit of The details for this brief description of a great lighthouse system in two of the most important districts in the country were furnished The ree Press representa tive by Maj Adams engineer of the ninth and eleventh districts and assistant engineer Woodruff These gentlemen and their corps of assistants have their headquarters at IS Bagley avenue There is a great deal of drafting and clerical labor accomplished in this oiiice The spector of the districts is Commander Mead of the United States navy There are sixteen lighthouse districts the country The lighthouse board was augurated August 31 1852 The board meets nearly every week The lighthouse board consists of nine persons Eacli member is supposed to be an expert in some branch of pharology and for that reason he is de tailed to this duty His value to the ser vice increases as he comes in personal con tact with the local light officers while in performance of their duty and this can be accomplished only by actual journeys to the various districts The theory Is that lighthouse inspectors and engineers inspect the lighthouses lightships lighthouse and buoy depots and their appurtenances and that the members of the lighthouse board inspect the work of the inspectors engineers HE HAD TWO WIVES In the basement of the storehouse on government grounds are stored many kero sene oil cans paints and oils The door is composed of heavy iron and is unlocked by a large key rom the river the storehouse looks something like an arsenal Entering it is like going into a vault Only the tloors of the building are wood and the structure is practically fireproof The different stair ways tire of heavy stone Upon the first floor are lamp chimneys brooms tools an chors lightship lanterns of different sizes and nil kinds of illuminating apparatus Different iron doorsf were unlocked as the custodian ami The ree representa tive proceeded on their tour of Investiga tion The second floor contained lighthouse supplies stationery wicks curtains towels twine cutlery flags aprons feather beds books matches and what not Upon the third floor were general fittings while the fourth story contained miscellaneous arti cles Through the courtesy of the custo dian XV Morris the representative was given an idea of the extent of the supply service for Uncle servants in the eleventh lighthouse district Around the grounds there were few signs of activity A few carpenters were repairing a heavy yawl a number of men were tinkering away In the lampists house but otherwise there were not many Indications of the pressing necessity of industry White ish Point Mar Island Stannard Itock Island La Pointe front range Two Harbors Bells are struck by nr DU" THEIR TOWERS WHERE ROCK OK SHALLOW! arc lying in winter quarters near the wharf The ree Press representative went aboard two or three of them and found a number of men making repairs and getting every thing shlpahape Tnere is a good deal of work to be done on a lightship 'J' lie small er craft require a crew of two and the larger of four In the latter case the crew consists of captain first and second mates und cook but there much difference between them so far as labor is concerned 1 he captain does not wear a glided uni form and stride up and down the promenade deck spy glass in hand but he takes his turn at tne night watch vill polish a lens clean a lamp run at ter the kerosene oil can or peel potatoes if the eook Is other wise engaged They are all officers except the cook and he considers himself an of ficer in a way Of course their duties differ materially from those of the working force tt a moving boat and they do not have to The light vessel No 10 has a fixed white reflector was must with a black cage and The lights varied by a white flash every ninety seconds and fixed red There is a steam whistle at Cheboygan Two range lights serve as a guide into the mouth of the Cheboygan river Then comes St Mary's river There is a lighthouse at rying Pan island consisting of an iron tower eighteen and one half feet in hight and another lighthouse at Pipe island established in 1SS8 thirty seven and one half feet in hight with the light visible at a distance of nine and three quarters The latter forms a range with the rying island light for en tering and leaving Detour passage and marks the turning point of the channel Then follow many crib and post lights in this order: Point Round island inter Point (front and rear) Encamp ment Crib east range (front and rear) west range (front and rear) west range TIGHTI TENDER AMARANTH in both houses is placed at a hight of forty five feet and is visible thirteen miles The width of the canal is feet In 1889 were established the lights on St Clair river to the ort Gratiot range lights There are the Lower Reach Southeast Bend island and 'Russell Island lights twelve in number The characteristics of the lights are: ixed white fixed red or fixed red and white They vary in hight from twelve to twenty five feet The structures are of piles or tripods The ort Gratiot front range is an electric light fifty seven in hight fixed on a telegraph pole mounted by a white triangle as a The rear range light is eightv high and the structure consists of a white pyramidal open framework and a tower with the das mark Then come a number of excellent lighthouses At the head of St Clair river is the ort Gratiot light of the third order 82 feet high WHITE SHOA! LIGHTSHIP NO 5t' Ziorne Is the house where Hlumi Hating apparatus is repaired and made ser viceable Methodically laid out upon the ground ae spar buoys for river and lake shoals and big stone sinkers There are also 3500 pound iron sinkers which look so solid that to the uninitiated it would seem as if a buoy fastened with such an appendage would stay in one spot but old lighthouse men know that these anchors are sometimes lively travelers when a storm is raging and the buoys expose considerable surface to the fury of the win! and waves Several anchors are seen an anchor which is as nearly non movable as is possible When several such anchors are thrown out on all sides of a lightship the craft will remain practically stationary during a storm With the part firmly imbedded in the soil It will take a mighty strain to move the anchor percep tibly Such an anchor would be extremely cumbersome for an ordinary craft on ac count of the difficulty of raising it but as a lightship is intended to remain in one place it answers the purpose much better than would the ordinary anchor or that latest patent the stockless anchor Th? Lest half of life is man of 40 if he bo anything of a man work he will do will be done with the hand of a master and not of a raw apprentice The trained intellect does not see as trees walking" but sees every thing clear ly ami in just measure The trained tem per does hot rush at work ilk? a blind bull at a havstaek but advances with the calm and ordered mice of conscious power and deliberate determination To no man is tije world so new and the future so fresh as to him wh has sp mt th early part of his manhood in striving to understand the deeper problems of science and life and who has made some headway toward com prehending them To him the commonest things are rare and wonderful both in themselves and ns parts of a beautiful intelligent whole Hitch a thing as stale ness in life and its duties he cannot under stand Knowledge is always opening out before him 1b tvfder exuansex and rnor? commanding bights The pleasures of? growing know ledge and Increasing power makes every year of 11 happier and more hopeful than the last A Host Day London costermorigers told Lord Shaftesbury that their donkeys which rest ed one day In seven could trawl thii ty miles a day with their Ibads while those that worked seven days in could'' travel only fifteen miles a day" 'There are scores if not hundreds or thousands of such illustrations furnished by experience of the need of rest one day in seven Hu beings anil the domestic animals are bunt in this way so that nature confirms the propriety of th? divine law The rest day is demanded as much by man's term a portil ntcrusts as it is by his spiritual wei fare There are in the eleventh district IGO lighthouses and beacon lights including 18 post lights 20 fog signals operated by steam 4 by clockwork 2 bell buoys and 15G other buoys In speaking of the light house system of the eleventh reference should be made first to the light on Belle Isle It is of the fourth order of light its characteristic being what is termed "fixed red It is visible about thirteen miles RY NIGHT THEY LEAD HIE JIAKI EH INTO PATHS OI SAETY frlTS DETROIT REE PRESS: SUNDAY SfARCTT 18 1894 kX feet northwesterly of buoy on Windmill Point of Lake St Clair is a light visible fourteen the structure being a conical white tower with red brick dwelling detached and fog signal buildings in front of the station There is an 8 inch steam whistle blast 8 seconds with a silent interval of 52 seconds The light is fixed white varied by a white flash every two minutes The ort Sanilac lighthouse is of the fourth order 69 feet high It was established in 1S86 The Sand Beach harbor of refuge is guarded by four lights two at the east and two at the north entrance The south and west lights are placed on skeleton iron tripods 27 1 2 feet in hight The main light at the east entrance Is located on a conical brown iron tower and flashes alternately red and white every five seconds There is also a Id Inch steam whistle Three of the lights are on the breakwater while the main light is on a rectangular crib just outside the north side of the east entrance to the harbor At Pointe aux Barques is a lighthouse of the third order with a light S9 feet in hight flashing white every ten seconds This marks the turning point for entering Sagi naw bay There is a life saving station about 2)0 yards south of the lighthouse The Port zNustin reef coast light was established in 1S7S and Is of the fourth order There is a fixed white light for one minute followed during the next minute by five consecutive red flashes at intervals of twelve seconds The hight Is SO feet and the light can be seen sixteen and three fourths miles A first class steam siren is located here and has a blast of seven seconds and a silent interval of eighty seconds To the lands man the is more entrancing during the intervals for its music is not so charm ing as the melodious harmonies of the sirens of the Homeric period And yet it may be presumed that these blasts bring joy to the heart of the mariner teiiing him where his bearings are It will be of interest in this connection to speak of the electric buoy plant established near Chicago in Lake Idiehigan The Unit ed States lighthouse board by its letter of March' 8' 1893 directed the Inspector of thethird lighthouse district on account of his ith electric iishted Ian for lighting the lighted buoys for The ninth district includes navigation on Lake Michigan and tributary waters and the Straits of Mackinac west of a line drawn across the straits from 011 Mackinac Point There are 95 lighthouses and beacon lights in this district 3 lightships in position 19 fog signals operated by steam and 7 operated by clockwork 13 electric lighted buoys and 85 other buoys in position The buoys in this district are attended by the tender Dahlia except the Bank Point buoy in Lake Muskegon the buoy at the entranceto St Joseph harbor Michigan those in Green bay south of Long Tail point" and the channel buoys in ox river between Green Bay City and De Pere Wis Two spars were placed on shoal spots inside and outside ox Island shoals Iake Mich igan A line of thirteen electric buoys was placed between Chicago Breakwater light house and the air casino wharf These electric buoys are in midchannei and marked a fairway for the steamboats running between Chicago and the exposi tion When these buoys were first estab lished the steamboat people were inclined to ignore them but they soon recognized their merit and took advantage of them Besides their usefulness they were an im portant feature the fair In this district the lighthouse at Grosse Point Evanston is of the second order It is 119 1 2 feet in hight and the light can be seen at a distance of about twenty miles It has a fixed white light varied by a red flash every three minutes The third order of lights in this district are: South Manitou Grande Pointe au Sabie Petite Pointe au Sable Chicago river Wind Point Twin River Point and Cana Island Hock is a superb lighthouse order It is erected on a northern end of Stannard The light flashes white every thirty The light is 102 feet above the At the dock here are seen a number boats devoted to the service and more less pretentious in appearance as well several lightships which will soon be placed where they are assigned to go preparatory to the opening of navigation There stands the Marigold waiting for the sea son service to begin She is the boat for the eleventh district Near her He the Amaranth and the "Warrington as well as the Hayes the boat in the tenth district Several of the lightships from Bar Point Drosse Pointe and the Lime Kilns Crossing Do you had two asks Walter Besant in the Queen His name was the Count von Glelchen he was a Thuringian and it happened early in the thirteenth century The count went forth as was customary to fight the Saracen who proved as too often happened the better warrior and took him prisoner There fore the count was carried off to the palace of Noureddin where he was made a slave and set to cultivate the delicious shallot Ascalon in the garden of the Cairene Caliph His good looks and the knowledge th ai he was a great noble in his own country attracted the attention of a certain princess daughter of the sultan She heard his simple story she wept for him he opened his arms she wept with him She offered to effect Ills escape for him on one that he should marrv her or your royal high nesii or vour illustriousnpws? whatpupr wna the stvle and under ruin of the "I cannot" he replied home there languishes for me a wife and tender "Why" she asked in maldenlj surprise "what alls the num? As it another wife or two would be an obstacle! Do not the laws of the prophet (whose name fie blessed!) and the customs of the Cairene Caliphate allow it man to have more than one wife?" He yielded he promised she was as good as her word in a few days they embarked together in a ship engaged by herself and they arrived at Venice in safety Oh! Christian could this noble knight desert the princess to whom he owed his freedom? Never He re paired to Home he laid his case before the pope His holiness after considering the matter granted him permission to keen both wives and to lie legally married to both Which was don? anj the storv goes on to say that they all lived the greatest happiness the Turkish lady being childless and loving' hr sister wife's cldl dreii as much as if thev were hT own' know not whether this Count Glelchen was an ancestor ot the Count Glelchen of our time If so it is a long lived family tor the man of the two wives traced his line back to Charlemagne The story is in Bavle fie says it must be owned that he considers the fact as doubtful What Are we to give up a good stOry because it never happened Certainly not One must preserve some regard for history Although the court of Austria is commonl known as the most aristocratic in Europe no monarch is easier to reach than the Em peror rancis Joseph Hehaa certain audi ence days when any of his subjects high as well as low are Te milter! to call tu with him any affairs which they hoose the last reception of this kind an'old neas ant Mio wi hcl to ser ur" the interv lition of his majesty in a lawsuit appeared at the rfofburg with a little pig one month old in her arms As she entered the palace th master of ceremonies told her leave the pig behind She insisted upon car rjirg it howr ter saying that it was a rre mt for her emperor" It with ur at hfliculty that th sqnaiin i't'i rnal was taken from arng The oArin had her interMow but a as obliged mm to lg sorrow to carry the pig taiktoi un let stand yl'y majesty not accept prewnt'3 of tU'ir kind from his subjects 01 taat feet upon small vl uiajMjyMiion elusion is In no way diminished by the small house of the custodian resembling much the lodge in the corner of an English through the yard of which the visl 'tor has to pass before he enters the govern ment grounds used for the purpose of a supply station The eleventh district is an important one comprising the navigable waters from the River Rouge to the head of Lake Superior and covering the Ameri can shores and waters above the Rouge of the Detroit and St Clair rivers Lakes St Clair Huron and Superior St Marys river and the portion of the Straits of Mackinac eastward of a line from Old MackinacPoint The depot for such an important dis trict It can readily be seen must be ex tensive Entering the yard to the right are many tiuoys of all kinds from the first class can buoy to the third class buoy The former are six feet In diameter and about ten feet lung Then there are nun buoys tapering and more graceful than the can buoys and bell buoys Nearly in the center of the grounds is the fireproof storehouse half of which is for the use of the inspector and the other half for the engineer and in it one may see everything almost from a fceedie to an anchor Behind the But the Spectacle Reef lighthouse is one in which Michigan navigators feel especial pride It is of the second Order which is very nearly approaching the best light houses in the World It is located on a square crib on the westerly edge of Spec tacle Reef northeastward of the Straits of Mackinac The light flashes alternately every thirty seconds and is eighty six feet in hight above the lake level It can seen seventeen and one quarter miles The lighthouse consists of a conical gray lime stone tower Upon the crib are two white frame fog signal houses and a white frame boathouse The ten inch steam whistle has a blast of three seconds with alternate silent Intervals of twelve and forty two sec onds The Detour lighthouse is of the third or der and the light is seventy five feet in hight showing at a distance of sixteen and one half nines The structure consists of a white skeleton iron tower with a fog signal station east of the lighthouse The Bois Blanc Cheboygan anil Cheboy gan crib lighthouses belong respectively to the fourth fifth and fourth orders and are t3 37 and 35 feet In hight are fixed white 1 he structure consists of a square tower aun to a dwelling both being of red brick On Wind mill are front and rear lange lights The front light is a square pyramidal skeleton structure of wood with uie Jens 7 Thvnf hjiy liUni Nil a AXJIQ lOHUOOt 35fctAck 4 Two Hftrtcpj Mmn Christianity has put before the pufejle mind new ideal of character nn idea of the deepest earnestness of the most serlom purity of unlimited self devotion of the tenderest sympathy for tlie poor and un happy and of pity and care for the weak the needy and the sinner One of the armi ments In its favor is the elevating ind sanctifying influence of its teachings and ne strongest arguments against It is that its disciples are no more earnest and faithful in dally living up to its principle ami their own privileges and Ed wards Ship Canal Pierhead and Grand Marais At ourteen Mile Point a light and fog signal will be established this year About S20000 will be expended in the work which will be pushed rapidly as possible There are range lights at Grand Island Harbor Portage Copper Harbor Eagle Duluth Too Ineonspicuouw I a wanche lf me 1 awald j1Ose savages would twain Indian don't believe thoee so Dr Seward Webb president of the Wag tier Palace Car Co lias the largest J'rivae park in the United States if not in the world He owns about acres of wi'd land me Adirondack rezion of which lo tas inclosed about lonOu acres with awlr fonco Tn modest sVI fe't ng tig wide and ts suri oundr 1 by a spacious veranda This not doctor's only country place He makes bJs regular huire at She bourne on In shores of Lake Champlain where he has an estate of about 4(aj acres He has an other nouse 1:1 city but divides most of his time between his Vermont and Adl roudaejs homes our noblt countersign sure to win! llC iCil JIuilt Little Children little children strayed frog is fetching us back But they do likewise while in calm or storm this task Is unvarying So the life of a sail or on a lightship is different from the la bors of the mariner on any other craft Their work keeps them fairly busy or their existence would be of a lonesome kind It is not without hazard that they remain in their little boats for in time of storm an element ot danger creeps in To be sure the boats are stanch and their anchors tenacious in their grip but for that matter when the wind is blowing sixty miles an hour and their boat is dancing like a cork in the raging seas they would be safer in a stone house on land Many of the smaller lightships are old scows built to last almost forever In the hold is ample room for oil cans and the other paraphernalia for lighting purposes there is also a snug kitchen and berths for the crew that Is the officers The captain have a stateroom for him self by any means and a steward to call him when dinner is ready The berths are all in one room and on the smaller boats that room Is the kitchen The lightship sailor as well as the lighthouse keeper is the guardian of the vessels devoted to commerce and upon the vigilance of these men depends the good fortune of the mighty lake steamers which pass and repass up on the energy of those officials who main tain the system of lightships and light houses rests the safety of many lives and as the steamers become more numerous and the lake and river tralflc increases so the lighthouse board must Increase its facilities The government fully realizes its position and year by year has Inaugurated improve ments and maintained needed repairs in the district under consideration or the Grosse Pointe lightvessel there is a crew of four persons The lighting appa ratus which is in general use on other lightships consists of eight "constant lamps which maintain their equilibrium fairly well in a storm no matter how much the vessel pitches The officers of a light ship do not live in a luxurious manner for they are allowed but a small amount for pro visions and what they expend above this sum must come out of their not too large salaries Anyone who has been ship and has seen how the men stands however what a sauce fare is the sharp appetite which in the open air and appreciates the obvious enjoyment of the men when they have time to sit in a shady corner and light their pipes They are quite isolated around them the waters of the river or the lake the shore is in sight vessels pass at a dis tance or quite near but so far as conversa tion with sociable people is concerned they must content themselves with one another They spin all the yarns visit of the supply boat The lighthouse keeper an isolated mortal He and children with him with the lighthouse proper is a cosy little nest in which he and his a great deal of comfort house is not so exposed to elements the keeper is stiucture while the captain and other cers of the lightship are tossed by fourth miles It is a fixed white varied bv a red ilasii every titteen seconds The structure consists a corneal white tower and red brick dwelling It was established in 1838 and rebuilt In ls73 The hight is 55 feet The Grusse beacon consists vf a cluster ot piles surmounted by square white house above which rises a mast and daymark of slats There is a lens Un On Lake Huron are a number of import ant lights They are: Range lights for en tering Saginaw river lights at Charity island Tawas Au Sable Pierhead Stur geon Point Alpena Thunder Bay islanl range lights at Presque Isle harbor light house at Isle at Spectacle reef and at Detour The Sturgeon Point lighthouse is of the 3 1 2 order It consists of a conical white tower connected by a covered way with a dwelling It is 69 feet in hight and the light can be seen sixteen miles It was stabllshed in IAj A life saving station is located seventy five yards south of the lighthouse At the Alpena lighthouse is a Hell struck by machinery every ten seconds At Thunder bay island is a 10 inch steam whistle There is also a life saving station at Tawas The Presque Isle lighthouse be longs to the third order is 123 feet in bight and tl light may He seen about twentv It is a conical white tower There siirnni An cc iacii HUU itfiirinh steam whistle is connected with this lUbt home are ready to turn into tiny house and a wifh vv' in our wav inj sit down on ev ry green bank and thi4u much ado to gt us home Baxter Great Men Tlie greatest man is he who choose th right with invincible resolution who resets the sorest temptation from within an without who bears the heaviest burdeni cheerfully who is calmest in storms ana most fearless under menace and frowns' whose reliance on truth on virtue on Gml' la unfaltering Chnuving As 1 sat one afternoon musing bcoidc a Uomv let us journey together to the news? Jerusab I looked up beh ld a large' army of men woin and children clad fur a long Journey to I took up my staff and very rough 'C'i blt God our ath'T zoliowi behind our army watrhim: over 11s with loving eye but at length it ams 0 Inuny Humbled and So nt ills son who jn of troop and lighted our pathway Th rod uep precipe nmj bad 7rzn in ord' to 7 v' "H' ngth wax faint' 'r to give up till hut 7 1 the Son of GJ sull advancing had all thes nn11 v'1'7 tratel ra foilu CU'Sv Upon i IM pnn He would rm trw if arose in my heart 01 levot 'd raptuie at His wnJ'rb'm Aa forev But no I d( 7 continue tIiy jourrmy wl'rh reached a Sfloomv rlvAr crTM 'd and then kt nl 't HI Vi i iy taly om by errUC11 ht! f'T1' Wl1 1 ar 11 loild sink ut HI et voice roboVns arms My earthly md 11 a raiment of white i'r'hr I oy Hm into the realms of a 7 Tt bl" a dream Mt uvnee my divin beader wq felt tn my heart Ethel Gregg upper part enclosed The light is a lantern thirty four feet above the lex el The rear range light is located white structure forty nine feet above the lake Irxtl and belongs to the sixth order It is visible about eight and one hiut miles 1 he range line passes about feet southeasterly of the Belle Isle Hunt ntvi auout One at Time One day nt a time! all It No faster than this is the bard'es faudA lhave thefr however BtKlatethem carly and stretch thm tu One day at a time! the whole of lift Joy are measured then Jjr 01 our Pun'ose our nohul: one TICK TOUK IULtAIIY a little fire 1 shoe and a mussed frock Tlck tock tick tock tick tocfc And there on the floor lies little sock Tick tock tick tock tick tock They re glad I am sure after going a1 1 To rest from the labor and pleasure of Tick tock tick tock tick lock how quietly sleep count the clock! Tick tock ticK tock tick tock Comes in at the door with a knock Tick tock tick tock tick tock With no one to greet him Ho enters and giveth his dear ones ret 'Ilck tock tick tock tick tock Perhaps he is near us while we rock Tick tock tick tock ick toek And soon will disclose his wonderful i Tick tock tick tock tie tock In exchange tor thy store of weariness His bag of dreams he will leave I Tick tock tick tock tick tock 8 Lord in Chicago Record sixth order and at the south pier one he fourth order both serving to guide to the western entrance of the ship canal There are also front arid rear ranges to Kuide through the cut below Round Island THE DETOUR MGHT Stannard Rock Sand Point Portage River Manitou Gull Rock Copper Harbor Eagle Harbor Eagle River Portage Lake Ship Canal Pierhead Ontonagon Outer Island Michigan Island La Pointe Raspberry Island Island Sand Island Su perior Pierhead Superior Day Two Har bors Grand Marais Isle Royale and Pas sage Island The Stannard of the second pier near the rock seconds lake level and the light may be seen at a distance of eighteen and one half miles It is a conical gray stone tower resting on a circular pier There is a fog sign house on the deck of the pier The third order of lights are located at White ish Point Big Sable Manitou and Outer Island These lights can be seen the following distances respectively: Sixteen and one half IS 3 4 17 and 20 miles Steam whistles are located at the following places: Point Iroquois quette Huron Manitou Outer Island Duluth and Passage Island machinery at Granite Island Portage Lake 1 7 mW vM I jEkat Walter i I fei (Mfi 1 4 ir ft4 74 I 25 I ax "Sssssaa' 8 3' 7 2 I I i 1 vMw i' 1 ti ah 4 ts TS.