At Bay Port--german Charitable Institution In Detroit

To tha Editor of The Register : I, with my family, have returned from Bay Port, Mich., where we visited my son Bertrand and his family. Bay Port is on Saginaw bay. There are three islands about two miles from the shore. One of them, Mason isle, 19 owned by Warner, the ' safe cure ' man who once did business in Ann Arbor. Histerman's isle is owned by a Saginaw club, and North isle by Gillingham, a religious seer who has written volumes of his revelations. Wm. L. Webber, of East Saginaw, has erected here a magnificent hotel in the Queen Annestyle, 96x54, and isnow adding, right in the woods at Bay Port, another 126x64. The basement is in the rock which underlies Bay Port. The first layer is the birds-eye marble, the second the carboniferous limestone; below that a sandstone. Mr. Webber has built the S. T. & L. H. R. E. from Saginaw to Bay Port, and is developing the extensive stone quarries of the vicinity. Lung diseases are not known there, and those ffiicted with them are soonrelieved. I met Mr. Webber, who is now constructing a channel from the hotel through the rock to the bay, tor a per'ect sewerage. He is building a palatial summer residence of the eandstone from his quarries. The eurrounding country, although Bandy near the bay, is a rich clay, and will in time be the fincst garden of the Saginaw valley. I spent a very pleasant Sunday in Detroit, assisting in the celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Zoar Orphanage and Home for the Aged, founded by Rev. Wm. Hanson, and supported by Germana. It is the only Germán institution of that kind in Michigan, and promises to be the best charitable institute in the state. Hanson had no money but lots of faith when he bought thirty city lots eight years ago near the fort. He has now three large buildings erected, and supports 70 persons. The next building will be a workshop and printing office. The institute has many friends in and about Ann Arbor.