NORTH STAR
Mr. MacLachlan operates the spic and span steamer, the North Star, which plies between the various resorts and beaches skirting Lake Bemidji. The boat he commands touches at Bemidji Beach, the most famous and sandy beach in the West and Northwest Chatauqua Beach, Pine Beach, Lake Side, Oakwood, Highland Park, Lavinia, Birchmont, and other minor points, all ideal places for spending either a day or a season. The boat makes regularly scheduled trips, it is well provided with a sufficiency of life preservers and fire apparatus, and is as safe as a steamer can possibly be made.
Capt. MacLachlan personally manages every trip made by the North Star. He does not leave the responsibility of suitably caring for passengers to subordinates, but directs with his own orders what shall and shall not be done for the convenience, comfort and enjoyment of those who are under his care. He has made a veritable floating palace of the North Star, and there is no modern want which is not available on his attractive boat.
Those who are wise enough to take advantage of a trip on Capt. McLachlan’s boat will be brought to realize the beauty and comfort of Bemidji as a pleasure resort. They will be entranced by the scenery which abounds around and about Lake Bemidji, they will profit by the invigorating and clear atmosphere which pervades this region, and they will, with one accord, elect Capt. MacLachlan one of the most royal entertainers and boats men who ever essayed to navigate a steamboat.
Capt. MacLachlan is a gentleman of polish and experience who ranks among the first of river men. He can be relied upon to supply every element for either pleasure, necessity or emergency, and he is a hearty and hail-fellow-well-met personage. He makes a study of furnishing all needed accoutrements requisite for a genuinely relishable trip and he is noted both as an able boat captain and host. He is also among our most thriving and energetic business men. (Mar 27, 1909)