Beautiful Bay View!
Five years ago ut the mention of Buy View everybody asked where is t; now it is liow can I reach it, for everybody wants lo come bere. I am not surprifed Ht tlie cüange, for "Wliere ha pleasure ucli a field So rlch, so thrunged, well supplledf " The beauty of lake and landscape, pleusant cottage life and the gay throngs ut the A-sembly seaaon inyest Bay View with a rare chiirm. Ueautiful Hay View! oiie involutitarily uttersa thousand time?. No rom:uice ts Mrauger than the hlstory of tliis delightful pla;e. Twelve years airo it was a dense wilderun :i ihJ thirty Indiana and cliiefs united in tlie deeds of transfer of tbe site oi) whieh Buy View now stands. Today nearly 300 cottage?, soiue as órnate as Newport villas, nestle ainong tbe ampuitheatre and tcfraced groves looking out over tlie beautifnl bay whieh traveleis often liUen to tlie fair bay of Naples. A few days ago the census was taken and over 2 000 people were fouiid spending tlie season in tliis summer city, whlch bas mily three families who stay all the year. Besides, hundreds come cvery day trom Petoskey and surrounding resorts to enjoy the Assembly meetings. In two years the populutlnn has doubled and by 1890 it will be 4,000. Said Bishop Vlucent when uere a few days ago, " There is no limit to the possibilitles of Bay View." Hundreds of newspaper letters have deseribed the place, its cultivatecl society and virled Asenibly attractions til) little can lio written that is Nff, And yet the Báy View of this season is quite another than t':e one of one and two years ago. Scores of new cottages, new avenues, new public buildings and larger Asscmhly plans characterize the progressive l!;iy View of this year. Tne pioneer days are gone aüd the period of elegance and perfection in cottage and park, programs and schools is coming iii. One ts coiitinually impressed with the largeness and frecdom of everythiug. Amule imilic biiildingf, spBCious park?, a beach line h mile and a quarter long, room enough tor city of twenty thousaud and pi tnunfoldlnt; for tho largest summcr resort and umincr university In the land. The Assembly of 188S went out on Wednesday night with flreworks "in a blaze of glory," closing the most successful se'icon in the histoiy of Bay View. The attendance was much greater and the receipts nearly twice as large as last year. What days and nights of rare dellght were enjoyed through that long three uci'U's holiday! Song and eloquence and entertainment in the general program by the most gifted people in the land, BUpplemented popular school! in charge of able Instructora. Every year new plans ate evolved to extend the use of the Awembly. Next year It inny be a V. C. T. U. training school, or a Bible school or a society of flne arts or all three. This year the advance was directed to ihree new departments whose success was unprecedented, and heve attracted wlde attentlon. Eight montlis ago the Summer School for Teachers was first anounced and this season the school teachers took Bay View. Loud Hall, the gift of II. M. Loud, of Oscoda, erectedaiul furnUhed for thisdepartment at an expense of over $4,000, excites the admiration of everybody. It Is a combination of school, home and dormitory, something entirely new, and a great success. Superintendent David Howell, of I-ansing, was at the head of this department with a faculty of such strong educators as Miss M itil.la II. Ross, Alfred A. Wright of Boston, Miss M. Louise .Iones, Prof. Fall of Albion college, Prof. Logeman of the State Normal school, and Supt. Perry of Aun Arbor. A more delighted company I have nevcr seen than the three or four hundred cultivated teachers who oongregrated daily at Loud Hall. Eacli one went home to recruit a large delegation for next year and the leading educators are discn6sing the (iifstion of chünging the anniial state IMOefkdóVl to Bay View during the-summer. Another success was the new Normal Scliool for Sunday Scliool workerc. One hundred and tifteen earnest teachers f rom Congregatlonal, Methodist, 1'rcshyKMÍan, Baptist and Episcopal :-( ¦Iiimiis and seven states registered in the firt class Btifore another year, I hear, a line building may be erected for this departmenr, and equipad with every helpful appliance. Mr. Horace Hitchcock, tlie best kuown S. S. man In Michigan, Is at the head of the school, and ablv assisted by Hev. W. W. Washburn. Wlmr next in Bar View's widening plans? Nothing les than a School of Muslc occnpylng an entire building, with a recital room seating a thousand people, and illustrating daily by instructinn, musical lectures, rehearsah, recitals and coi. certa the best tastes and highest arl in music. Prof. C. B. Cady was director of the school and had for assistants hls hrother, Prof O. B. Cady, Miss Julia I' Carutlieri, and a number of soloists. The A-seml)ly hM ? other departments, eaqh changinj;, expanding aud growing in more fivorevery year. A fnll lett-r could bo devoted to the CliaiiiiiiKiuans of whom tour or tive hundred were at tlm Assembly. Their beitutlfal collage was a favorite resort. and their eominenoenient Sunday and Recoitnltloo 1 iy Hn best days of all the Mason Every d iy was full of good things, from the beauliful Kindergarten to the Cliuicli (Jongiess in swift succession pMted iispliing devotlonal aud happy chlldren't meetings, Bible readings, gweet v 'spers and impressive Sabbatfa services on the beach, excursloni and reoeptions, lectures and ooncerts, classes iu art and oratory. Every nighi I retired with a conscious joy that a day of rare privileges had been well spoot. The summer resort Is an American institution tht has come to ctay and so far as I know Buy View is the best of its kind. In this favored epot the mind is aw akened and enlarjfed by contact with gifted people and all the influences are whclesome. Tlils immense Institution is yet In itó Infancy. It l on the right track, is managtd with energy and haB n grand future. It is making alliance with the church, school and home, exalting religión, intelligence, a taste for purer literature and a better social life. Iu tbe years henee people wlll vlsït the ïent (rrovcs as a sli riñe made sacred and fauious by el nicnce, learnins and genius. Tlien a jireat organ wlll be heard ín the auditorium, librarles and labora torie?, arí galleriea and museums, a bible school, endowmenU and renowned facultiea, silver tongued orators from over the Ma and artists of song and entertainment wlll atti'iict thousands of students and pleasure seekers to Bay Vitw, " grown more beautit'ul with passine vears."
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