Which has gained an enviable reputation as an invalid’s home. Although
not originally designed as a summer resort, its facilities in that
direction have made it a favorite summer home for many who would hardly
call themselves invalids. Here may be found a remedy for one great
drawback to the success of summer vacations in general, which are often
robbed of much of their sanitary benefit by poor food and inattention to
the laws of health. While the _cuisine_ of this establishment is of the
most bounteous character, it is especially ordered with reference to
healthfulness, and is in itself one important element of the great
success of the institution in curing the sick.
[Illustration: MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SANITARIUM.--MAIN BUILDING.]
The facilities of the SANITARIUM for the treatment of disease are the
best known to modern medical science. In addition to baths of every
description, including Turkish, Russian, vapor, electro-vapor, thermal,
etc., the employment of massage, Swedish movements, and the various
forms of electrical treatment, are provided for by costly appliances,
some of which were designed expressly for this institution. When we add
that the medical superintendent, Dr. J. H. Kellogg, is a member of the
State Board of Health, and occupies a position of great prominence as a
writer and lecturer on sanitary matters, and that a staff of educated
and intelligent gentlemen and lady physicians are constantly caring for
patients and visitors, we have indicated some of the reasons for the
marvelous prosperity of the institution. Our illustration gives a view
of the main building. A large number of cottages and other buildings
make up the facilities of the SANITARIUM for taking care of its guests.
The leading hotels of Battle Creek are the Lewis House and the Williams
House, the Sanitarium being also a favorite transient home with many
travelers.
Shortly after leaving the station at Battle Creek, the train comes to a
halt at the crossing of the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway, at the
station named Nichols, the location of the extensive works where are
manufactured the celebrated Nichols, Shepard & Co.’s “Vibrator”
threshing machinery, engines, etc. This is one of the most important
industries of the city, giving employment to a large number of skilled
mechanics. Just beyond are the railroad shops of the C. & G. T. Company,
which also furnish employment to a goodly number of men.
MARSHALL, the next important station, is a pleasant little town, the
county seat of Calhoun county, with some manufacturing interests, and
considerable wealth, being the center of a large and prosperous
agricultural district. It is widely known among travelers as the dining
station of the Michigan Central Railroad. The day trains still make
their stops here for dinner, and the hours of midday are among the
liveliest the people of this quiet place witness. It is the boast of the
managers of the dining-rooms that a failure to provide chicken pie for
their guests has occurred but once in seventeen years, although fabulous
prices often have to be paid for the feathered bipeds to perpetuate the
time-honored custom.
The Tontine, Forbes and Tremont Houses are the principal hotels.
ALBION is the next town of much importance in our journey, and is really
a thriving place, some of its manufactures being widely known. It is
also the seat of Albion College, a flourishing denominational school,
under the management of the Methodists. Our road here intersects the
Lansing division of the Lake Shore Railway. The principal hotels of
Albion are the Commercial and the Albion House.
Our next important station is JACKSON, the largest city in the interior
of the State. As the central point of heavy railroad interests,
important manufactures, and extensive commercial enterprises, the city
is well known. The State prison is located here, and is of itself a
manufacturing establishment of no little importance. The railroad shops
of the Michigan Central give employment to nearly a thousand men, and
thus contribute largely to the city’s prosperity. The mineral resources
of the vicinity are of no small magnitude, comprising coal, salt, fire
clay, etc.
It is the terminus of the Grand River Valley, Air Line, and Saginaw
divisions of the Michigan Central Railroad and the Fort Wayne and
Jackson branches of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.
Passengers change here for the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan,
_via_ the Mackinaw Division of the Central, with which connection is
made at Bay City.
The Hibbard House, the Hurd House, the Commercial, and several smaller
hotels, take good care of travelers who have occasion to tarry in
Jackson.
Thirty-eight miles west of Detroit, the train halts at ANN ARBOR, the
county seat of Washtenaw county, which has a resident population of
about ten thousand, not including the students of the State University,
which number nearly fifteen hundred. The city is pleasantly situated on
both sides of the Huron River, its streets being wide, finely laid out,
and adorned with shade trees. The Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Trunk
Railway gives the place a north and south business outlet, while the
Central takes care of the east and west business. The Huron River
furnishes excellent water power, and the flourishing industries of the
city show how well it is improved.
[Illustration: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.]
In addition to all these, its reputation as an educational center places
it among the most important of Michigan cities. Its local public schools
are of a high order of excellence, especially its High School, which
occupies an elegant building costing $50,000. But its chief importance
in this respect is from the fact of its being the seat of the University
of Michigan, with its departments of literature, science and arts, law,
medicine, pharmacy, dental surgery, and engineering. This institution
has almost a world-wide reputation as one of the foremost schools in
the land, and indeed many of its students are from abroad, attracted by
its fame, and the excellent facilities at their command.
The St. James, Cook, and Leonard Houses, are the principal hotels.
YPSILANTI, eight miles distant from Ann Arbor, is the next stopping
place, and is a pleasant town of some five thousand inhabitants. The
fine water power of Huron River is here utilized by several
manufactories, among which that of paper-making is brought to a high
state of excellence. In addition to the railroad facilities afforded by
the Michigan Central, it has southerly communication by means of a
branch of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. It is the seat of
the State Normal School, which occupies an elegant building, and
beautiful grounds, the latter donated to the State for the purpose.
There are many fine residences here, some of them the homes of business
men of Detroit.
[Illustration: STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.]
The Roberts, Lewis, and Hawkins Houses, the European, and several
others, furnish adequate hotel accommodations.
From Ypsilanti, the train speeds swiftly over the smoothest of tracks,
past pleasant villages, through verdant fields, and in view of snug
farm-houses, the next important stopping places being WAYNE JUNCTION,
where connection is made with the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, and
SPRINGWELLS, formerly Grand Trunk Junction, three miles beyond which is