Whitmore Lake

Whitmore Lake is Ann Arbor's summer watering place. Situated a little over eleven miles distant by a good road, and iu daily mail and stage communication with town t aflbrds a healthful ind restful retreat from business cares or household duties. Two hotels make comfortable headquarters for strangers. From these places sail and row boats are to be obtained. The fishing is not especially good, but the bathing is fair both as to water and beach . Scarcely a day passes but the place is visited by picnic parties from Ann Arbor, Dexter, Brighton and the other circumjacent towns. Visitors usually cross in boats lo the grove on the bluff on the eastern side and there pass the day in reading, cbatting, resting in hammocks, sailing, bathing, fishing and in the general " sweet do-nothingness " of a happy picknicer. It has always been peaceful and quiet, even being beyond the shriek of the steam whistle, but this is soon to be partially changed by the advent of the Grand Trunk railroad which is being pushed along its northern shore. The road is now being graded and it is expected to have the trains running on it by next winter. As a matter of history it is interesting to note that the Lake had a narrow escape from being called Independence Lake, for one 4th of July the early settlers had a picnic there and resolved to call it by that patriotic name. However, subsequently, in 1830. the surveyor of the county called it after the name of a friend, Mr. Whitmore, a farmer near Ann Arbor, and this latter appelation still abides. It is not a fashionable place, but it is well adapted for affording solid comfort provided one has a congenial friend. a book and a quiet nook.