The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-20
AT BAY VIEW CAMP.GROUNDS.
Many Indianians Now Summering at the Pleas
ant Resort on Lake Michigan.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal.
BAY VIEW. Mich. July l9.-Bay View. by
it's summer camp-meeting has made itself
headquarters for Michigan Methodism.
The present is the sixteenth consecutive
annual meeting. The period involved is an
important one in the local history of the
church. The Journal correspondent Sc
cured talk with Rev. ID. f. Barnes, ID. D.,
now presiding elder of this tKalamazooD
district. and as such superintendent of the
camp-meetlng.
Il was a member of the original fifteen"
said Mr. Barnes. who discovered this site
and closed the deal which secured it to the
Michigan Camp ground Association of the
M. 4. Church. We had heard something of
the site, but its formal inspection amounted
to q discovery and determined exactly
it's boundaries. Notwithstanding the
tangled underground We found the sue
cessiOn of natural limestone terraces at the
head of Little Traverse bay rising, one
above another. to an altitude of two hun
dred feet We noted. especially, the level
stretches intervening. particularly the
main one, a mile long by quarter. of a
mile wide. We could not look far enough
into the future then, but IL looks now as if
the Lord had smo0thed that plateau for a
site for camp-meeting and summer uni
versIty. There Is but one swell in it. and
how admirably that serves for the audi
torium."
In this encampment park are located also
the i've buildings of the summer univer-
sity, the national home for the Woman's
Christian temperance Union and now the
Epwortb League. Then what an admira-
BILE front for the many lovely cottages sur
rounding ii. Beyond the park are the sec
Ond, third and fourth terraces, and
away off in one corner is the highest
point of all that commands the
whole situation. There is scarcely one of
the four hundred improved lots where you
fail to obtain a good view of the bay and
to catch the lake breezes. Nature was APP
parently In the proper mood when fashion
ing the site of Bay View.
The Grand Rapids q Indiana Railroad
Company" continued Mr.. Barnes, "and tho
citizens of PetOskey gave US three hundred
acres of land and 81. 600 on conditions that
q camp meeting be maintained here for
fifteen consecutive years and that 5000 be
expended on Improvement. Inc fifteen
years we're up last year. We had met the
conditions and absolute ownership was in
vested in US. an event duly celebrated. The
name was changed to the Bay View Camp
meeting Association. Our camp-meetings
have been limited to week or ten days.
especially since the advent of the assem-
bly,, six years ago. but the meetings have
been successful. and a number of eminent
ministers have labored from time to time.
and large number of conversions have re-
suited. With the camp-meeting and the
summer university and assembly, Bay
View will Undoubtedly become to the West
and Northwest what Ocean Grove is to tie
East"
DR.. Barnes was at one time pastor of
Roberts Chapel. Greencastle. but was trans
years ago. He is we'll known in Indiana.
and is among the able preachers of tho
church.
The present camp-meeting Is growing in
interest. Rev. Nj. Swadener. of Marion,
Ind. breaches nightly. while Rev. Mr..
Waltz. of the North Indiana Conference,
and others preach at 1880. Meetings of q
social nature are held from o'clock A. NJ.
throughout the day. The services to-day
included sermons by evangelists DIR.
of conversions have resulted, and
the meetings are among the most
successful ever held here. In the number
of visitors here Indiana ranks next to
castle, indianapolis. Brazil Crawfords-
vile. Shelbyville. Frankfort and other
cities and towns are well represented.
Among others are the following: Dr. C. s.
+. G. Sheldon, Franklin Miles. Misses
Marion and Electa Miles and Mr.. Charles
Miles. of Shelbyville: Professors Mills and
DeMotte, OF DePauw University. Green
annapolis; Capt. &. +. Mosier and family. of
Elkhart. Indlanians at other points near
here are: Mr. III. ii. Hanna. Bement Ly-
man and family. Mrs. A. X. Heathe. Mr.. j.
H. Holiday and family, of the News. and
Mr.. Newton Claypool and family. of Indi-
annapolis, at WeGuetonsing; Mr.. w. ID.
Wales and family, of Indianapolis. and Mr..
Allen Jay, of Richmond. at PetOskey.
The summer university is in full swing.
with large enrolment in it's seven schools
and thirty Departments On July % the
assembly opens with programme embrace
ing long list of lectures. concerts store
opticon entertainments. etc. The Epworth
League Hall will be dedicated on the Goth
inst, by Rev. DR.. j. +. Berry. of Chicago.
DR.. A. j. Palmer, of New York. will deliver
his celebrated Die No More" lecture on
National day. Aug. ). Throughout, the
programme will be of great interest.