Text Appearing Before Image: system was built a year agoat Monroe, which will serve as an important traffic feeder insummer time. This is a branch 4 miles long leading from themain line to Monroe Piers, a beautiful summer resort uponLake Erie. The accompanying photographs give an excellentidea of the advantages of this location as a watering place,and illustrate the popularity which it developed last summer asa result of the accessibility given it by the entrance of the trol-ley system. Monroe Piers is one of the most popular summer resorts ofthe Middle West, and every summer visitors flock there fromthe South and West. Around the Piers and Monroe, the de-scendants of the old French settlers have made a last stand forindividuality, and there is a halo of romance and adventurespun around the country. In the days before Toledo appearedupon the map, the mouth of the Raisin was famous as a fishingand hunting ground. To-day the different clubs along the RiverRaisin own the thousands of acres of marsh land and the game Text Appearing After Image: ORGANIZATION CHART OP THE DETROIT. MONROE & TOLEDOSHORT LINE is carefully protected. Pleasant Bay, a cove at one side of thePiers, is an ideal hunting ground for ducks; snipe, plover andwoodcock are bagged there during the year. Also, from earlyspring till late fall, fish are plentiful, and the Raisin River andthe lake are dotted with fishing parties. At this point also isto be found the only desirable bathing beach upon the westernend of Lake Erie, which will make the resort especially at-tractive. It is the intention of the company to develop this resort asrapidly as possible. Increased facilities will be provided forhandling passengers and through cars from Toledo and otherpoints will be run to the Piers as travel warrants. The publicin the vicinity of the line have welcomed the advent of thisbranch, particularly on account of the general lack of water-ing places in that country, and the company will anticipate thedemands of this traffic by establishing u schedule which will be
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1905
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bookdecade:1880
bookcentury:1800
booksubject:Street_railroads
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booksubject:Transportation
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