The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-18
NEW YACHT LAUNCHED
WAWASEE HAS A BEAUTY IN THE
MONoQUET ON TURKEY LAKE.
Bottle of Wine Broken On the Candi-
dates Bow and General Fes-
tivities Following.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

WAWASEE, Ind, July 1I-WaWasee Inn
is now fairly filled with guess and by Mon
day, the second regatta day of the season,
everything will be at full tide. The cot
tages around the lake. including many new
ones built this spring, have been full since
late in June, but the hotels have filled more
slowly. Many visitors are now at Vawter
Park, Lakeview and Oakland, and there are
now at Wawasee Inn from Indianapolis:
Judge and Mrs. W. p. Fishback Mr.. r. NJ.
Fshback, Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. Kappes and
daughter Mary Mr. and Mrs. William
Fortune Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Wilkinson, Mr..
and Mrs. w. 5. Wynn and daughters, Miss
Mary Hicks Mr.. Frank T. Holiday and
son, Mr.. and Mrs. A f. Potts, Mr.. George
L. Barney, Mr.. Gaylord Hawkins, Mr.. f. c.
Fairbanks Mr.. George ,Pattison, Mr.. Chas.
S. Tucker and Mr.. Rudolph Leeds.
Lafayette is represented by Mrs. Beasley
and nieces, the Misses Rhinehart and Mr..
and Mrs. A. H. Curtis Mrs. George Woods,
of Lincoln Neb., is Mrs. Beasleys guest
From Richmond are Mr.. and Mrs. s. S.
Strattan, jr., and son, Mrs. w. w. Gaar,
Mr.. James Gaar, Miss Jessie Surface and
Mr.. Frank Braffett.
Ft. Wayne people here are. Mrs. +. M.
Combs Miss McG5lll{p, Miss Alice Combs
and Mr. h. ii. Combs.
Other guests are: Mr. P. c. Sneed super
intendent Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, with
Mrs. Sreed and son; Mr. and Mrs. H. j.
Hall and daughter of Chicago Mr. and
Mrs. w. z. Bloom, of Columbus, o.; Mr..
a. H. BeardSley and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Turner, of Elkhart; MIR. Ed Reuckleman, of
Cincinnati and Or. Ed Chittenden, of An
derson.
At the Durand cottage are Major Elliott
Durand, Mrs Durand and family Mrs.
Monroe Heath and MRS. Arthur Heath.
AT the Lilly cottage are Colonel and Mrs
Eli Lilly. Miss June Jagwith Mr. and Mrs
j. *. Lilly, Eli Lilly, IT., and 10 Lilly, jr.
The greatest ACTIVITY now prevails in the
shape for the event of Tuesday. Mr.. Frank
HendryS new Racine boat Doris, which
had walk-oyer IN the race OF july {, Will
find plenty of business on her hands as
DR.. Wright has rerigged his winner of last
year the Problem, and Mr.. Robert Fish
back has his Mary Louise in fine trim.
These will be supplemented by the old tim
ers, but fast, La Cigale Cynthia and Wa
vase.
Mr.. j. K. Lilly's new yacht, which has
been under construction here for the last
two months. She was designed by Mr.. II.
$. Hicks, subsequent to the drafting of the
Mary, of oyster bay fame and the con-
struction has been under direct charge of
Mr.. Charles Richter, of Racine, Wis. Her
timbering of white oak is very light, the
plankng of three-eighths white cedar being
secured throughout by copper rivets, while
the deck is OF white pine strips, thus CIV
ing very strong, but light boat. The mast
ard spars are hollow spruce, blocks of
aluminium, Union silk sails, and in a word,
the entire equipment is thoroughly up-to
date. She is twenty-nine feet six inches in
length over all. with eight feet extreme
beam and seventeen feet four inches on the
water line, carrying 800 feet of sail and
SX-foot dagger center board of steel,
weighted with lead bolted Her lines
are very fine, and DR.. Wright, as well as
every yachtsman who has seen her, pre-
diets that she will be very fast. She Will
be sailed in the races by Mr.. Josiah X.
Lilly at the helm, with a crew consisting
of Mr.. A. II. Beardsley and Mr.. John Tur-
ner, of Elkhart.
She was launched, gaily decorated with
small silken flags and fully rugged this
afternoon. in front of the Lilly cottage
Miss Lucille Stimmel, the young daughter
of the manager of the inn, breaking the
regulation bottle of wine on her bow
christening her "Monoquet," after the old
Indian chief whose reservation was To-
Gated short distance south of Wawasee
The following is list of the yachts en-
tered for Tuesdays race:
Problem. ......................D DIR. J. F. Wright
Mary Louise. Robert M. Fishback
Doris. .......................... Frank Hendry
WaWaSee. .......,........,....La Lafayette Fargo
Syntnla. ...'..'..'....-....,...t En- Lilly
Monoquet.. .....................J Josiah K Lilly
Mr.. A. A. Wilkinson, of Indianapolis will
sail in the crew of Cynthia, whose only
high wind and plenty of live ballast. On
Tuesday evening the inn will give a re-
gatta hop in honor of the Indiana Yacht
Club and friends. Under the inspiration of
Mr.. Henry Harris orchestra these occa-
sions are greatly enjoyed but the quieter
nightly hops to the same music from to
10 o'clock is reserved for the guests of the
inn.
The present series of races will be sailed
out in four more events, occurring each
Tuesday and Saturday until completed. The
yacht making the best record in the series
will be awarded an elegant silk burgee now
on exhibition in the rotunda of the inn
The other yachting events for the season
are the annual fleet IuaneuYerS Aug. 10, and
a series of three races during carnival week
in August for the WaWasee Inn annual
trophy, an elegant water set. which goes
absolutely to the winning yacht.
1t must not be supposed that yachting
and dancing are the only amusements here
The boating and bathing, and, for a few
To those patient and observing men who
know where to look for the big fellows in
the shades of the deep water there is no
better sport at this season of the year than
at WaWasee, while in the shallower waters
the perch and redeyes are found in abund-
diana Institution for the Education of the
Deaf and Dumb, is the best specimen of a
summer deep-Water fisherman ever on these
lakes. on the 18th inst he caught three
wail-eyed pike and two bass. with aggre-
gate weight tWenty-four pounds. One of
the pixies weighed ten pounds was exactly
three feet long and sixteen inches in girth.
The walI-eyed pixies were first planted in
Wawasee by Col. Ely Lilly in 1890. Profess
sor Morrow has caught nine pickerel with
in the last four days, and last Saturday
took four Wall-eyed beauties weighing
four pounds each. lie fishes only for two
hours in the afternoon and reports better
fishing here than ever before and has been
here twelve summers and is familiar with
the habits and haunts of the big fellows
He anchors over water thirty 10 forty feet
deep. uses a steel rod. wire snood. a No
II indiana bass hook and for bait small
perch about i've inches long.