Excerpt from St. Nicholas, Vol. 29: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks; Part II, May, 1902, to October, 1902 The visitor to the Great Lakes who strolls along the riverside of Belle Isle, near Detroit, may see, almost any time, some part of the grand parade of the lake ships. The shingling and crunching contact of the first steamer's bow is hardly heard in the ice of the Strait of Mackinac. In April before the early starters of this parade are under way from Chicago with the first loads of grain in the new season. While these cargoes are being stored in the Buffalo elevators, the answering crack Of the frosty covering of the St. Mary's River proclaims that navigation is Open from Duluth, and the gates Of the great locks at the Soo swing wide to admit the spring ships from Lake Superior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.