Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22

services OF an experienced, competent
architect required; and if he dis
charge his duty faithfully, which is
often a delicate and sometimes vex.
atious task, to provide all the.accom-
modations and conveniences requir.
ed within given cost, and at the
same time have q due regard to the
proportion, symmetry, gracefulness and
harmony of the general design. In
short, we contend that no one, who
wants to build, can afford to dispense
with the services of competent ar
chitect in the erection of their public
buildings, or, for that matter, even
the simplest cottage.
CHAs. S. WATKINS.
THE CLEAR LAKE camp MEETING
| Dubuque Times Co.respo "a d Pm Z
Shows u Up Tho Camp asronnd u
GiEautic speculaston Of j. Hog arth
Loz Ter 4 o.'A!-The Grocery, Pea
nut stand, Fountain, Hotel, Stables
and Bath II ouses arc aAfs-His Mar .
ngememt Ron adly Denounced.
Correspondence OF the Dubuque Times.
| CLEAR LAKE, Aug. 4.-Clear Lake
is indeed a beautiful lake with beau
tifnl surroundings, and as a summer
resort has not been too highly praised,
but l notice that newspaper COM
mendations just now are principally
confined to laudations of this camp
ground and its management, but a
stay of few days on the scamp
grOunds"-I mean the suburb to
Clear Lake, owned and controlled by
Lozier ct al,-will demonstrate to any
one that the attempt to make their
suburb" the place of resort in or
about Clear Lake will result in fail
nre. The arrangement is too appar-
emily q catch-penny affair to meet
with general favor among all classes of
people, and everything in or about the
grounds is simply spout with the
lower end in Rev. j. Hogart Lozier's
pocket. OF the institutions on the
ground, he owns the grocery, the
peanut stand and the soda fountain,
the hotel, the bath house and the sta
BILE, and is the underlying substratum
upon which rests the foundation Of
every boarding house in the vicinity.
One of his sons runs the grocery, an
other the peanut stand, while two
little chaps, ten or a dozen years old,
also his sons 1 reckon, are utilized at
the bath house by dealing out towels,
about 6xl2 inches square and taking
in the dimes. A hook-nosed old
chap, whom casual observer would
take to be j. Hogarth's hired man,
figures in the bills as "Col." Shaw,
Superintendent of the Grounds, and
upon inquiry turned out to be the
Rev. j. ii. LIS father-in-law. And
when j. Hogarth is deficient in rel
atives to run the different depart
ments, some outside chap works on a
"per cent" The hotel man gives a
percentage from the receipts of his
hashery the butcher from town who
sells the steak on the grounds gives
three cents out of the fifteen cents per
pound for his percentage the milk
man sells his milk at six cents quart
-. Hogarth getting one cent per
quart; the boats that land at the
wharf pay a percentage for all the
pleasure seekers they take out on the
lake, and so on, and so on. Every
unOccupied cottage is rented through
j. Hcgarth or some of his hired men,
and here is the secret of the whole
thing.
The Musical Convention, the Camp
Meeting and the Sunday School AS
semblies are got up by j. Hogarth
and his little ring TO make a demand
for their cottages. Hogarth's hotel,
boarders for the boarding houses,
customers for his peanuts, ice cream,
soda water, bath houses and bathing
suits, and SO on. BY dint of much
advertising and personal endeavor,
four brass bands were got together
at the tournament" just closed.
They paid their own fare and board
ed themselves while here, except a
banquet given them by the citizens of
Clear Lake village and one free
lunch at j. Hogarth's hotel. 1t was
advertised that return tickets would
be sold at one-fifth fare, but this
turned out to little mistake of the
Rev. j. Hogarth's and those who paid
full fare up here have the satisfaction
of knowing that they can either pay
full fare home or take it afoot.
To make matters still more obnox-
ious to the public, the reverend "boss''
has introduced into the management
of the grounds sort of half military
and half State Prison discipline,
which, If it were systematic and rig
idly enforced, would be irksomo and
tyrannicai, but as 1t is, is simply
ridiculous. A bell on the 'taberna-
cle' rings for rising, for breakfast, for
dinner, for supper, to give notice that
j. Hogarth thinks it time to GO to
bed, and to give notice, q little later,
that he expects all lights to be out,
like the "tattoo" and "taps' of our
army days. Every tree on the
grounds has some kind Of sign on
it, either warning people not to drive
here or there, or not to hitch horses
anywhere, but go to J. Hogarth's sta
BILE down on the beach, or calling at
tention to his hotel, ice cream. soda
water, or peanuts. A stranger drives
into the ground and turns up street,
and behind him rushes out j. Ho-
garth or some Of his hired men and
barbados the street. Stranger re-
turns and 10 informed that he can't
drive there. So he goes out some
other way. Yesterday morning the
'boss" took fresh freak to barricade
one of the principal streets with
lunches of shingles and lumber, and he
did II, although 1t took him about
three hours hard labor and large
amount of emphatic talk to make his
blockade effectual. The street had
been open all week, but he evidently
"ached" to show his authority and
make his power felt by incommodine
somebody.
All this can have but one end, and
that will be the organization of Q
company strong enough to put up 9
first-class hotel somewhere about tht
lake, and in saying this insinuate
nothing derogatory to and of the no.
tells OF CLEAR Lake, as never heard 9
word against any of them. Already
many of those who are spending
their time at tho lake are camped in
tents with "none to modest or make
them afraid" and entirely indepen.
dent of Rev. j. Hogarth Lozier and
his police regulation, his peanuts and
his per cents. The rent of one Of the
smallest cottages on the ground il
about $50 per week, and for this you
can buy a good clean duck tent that
Will hold nearly as many persons and
pitch it where you please. think
know of one party of fifteen or TWEEN.
~ persons, who II they visit Clear
Lake again, as they hope to, will try
and give Mr.. Lozier and his suburb
q wide berth.
LOST.
A drab-colored wooden shawl, be-
tween Blakesburg and Moravia. Tht
finder will be paid three dollars by
leaving it at tie COURIER Office.
Nv o. NJ. JONES,
i The RaYmartS Mill