Excerpt from How to See Niagara

ON the way TO niagara. The michigan central vestibuled limited.

Therefore, from its depot at the foot of Lake Street, where the lake breezes temper the summer heat, we take one of the finely-appointed express trains of the Michigan Central, if The Niagara Falls Route. Of few cities is the railway aspect so agreeable as that of Chi cago from this line. For miles on the one side ripple or roll or dash in combing waves the waters of the gray-blue lake. On the other, stretches grassy parks with shady nooks and bright parterres of flowers, rich tasteful residences and suburban villas embowered in such luxuriance of foliage as no other great city knows, and then the prairie, rounding the Lake of Calumet with the furnaces of South Chicago belching black smoke from their tall chimneys in the distance.

From between the sand dunes of Michigan City, and again at New Buffalo, we catch pictur esque glimpses of Lake Michigan and then strike into the rich and populous region of South ern Michigan to cross the base of the great peninsula to Detroit. To the observant traveler this is a charming ride by day-light. The rolling country, with its silvery lakes and cool, clear streams, its fields of waving grain and luxuriant pasture lands, varied by occasional forests, by neat villages and prosperous-looking well-built cities, forms an attractive panorama through the clear plate-glass of the car-windows, and even with the most careless traveler divides interest with the latest novel. Nearly all this region is famous for its yield of wheat and the fine quality of flour that it produces; in its pastures graze flocks of sheep and herds of graded cattle and blooded horses with pedigrees of royal length; and its towns and villages are alive with a great variety of manufacturing industries.

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