MANISTEE  , a

city and the county-seat of Manistee county, Michigan, U.S.A., on the Manistee river (which here broadens into a small lake) near its entrance into Lake Michigan, about 114 M . W.N.W. of Grand Rapids . Pop . (189o), 12,812; (1900), 14,260 (4966 foreign-born); (1904, state census), 12,708; (191o), 12,381 . It is served by the Pere Marquette, the Manistee & Grand Rapids, the Manistee & North-Eastern, and the Manistee & Luther railways, and by steamboat lines to Chicago, Milwaukee and other lake ports . The channel between Lake Manistee and Lake Michigan has been considerably improved since 1867 by the Federal government . There is a United States life-saving station at the harbour entrance . The city has a county normal school, a school for the deaf and dumb, a domestic science and manual training school, a business college, and a Carnegie library . Manistee is a summer resort, with good trout streams and well-known brine-baths . One mile from the city limits, on Lake Michigan, is Orchard Beach, a bathing resort, connected with the city by electric railway; and about 9 m. north of Manistee is Portage Lake (about 2 M. long and 1 m. wide), a fishing resort and harbour of refuge (with a good channel from Lake Michigan), connected with the city by steamboat and railway . Manistee has large lumber interests, is the centre of an extensive fruit-growing region, and has various manufactures, including lumber and salt' The total value of the factory product in 1904 was $3,256,601 . The municipality owns and operates its waterworks .

Manistee (the name being taken from a former

Ottawa Indian village, probably on Little Traverse Bay, ,Mich.) was settled about 1849, and was chartered as a city in 1869, the charter of that year being revised in 189o .