The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26
A Gale Swamps Two Yachting Parties
and Causes steamer Party to
Spend the Night Adrift.
OTHER SUMMER RESORTS
MANY INDTANIANS ENJOYING THEM
SELVES IN MICHIGAN.
Large Attendance at Bay View As
sembIy-New Resort Established by
HOLSTERS Near HarbOr Point.


| WAWASEE, Ind, July 24LA unique So
ciety frolc was of the sub rosa events
! at Wawasee Inn the past week. The social
| season is in full bloom at the lake and
when the regulation half hundred girls and
women find themselves largely in the ma
| jority at a summer resort their ingenuity
! is drawn on for devising original amuse-
ment. The regatta hop came Tuesday
night, followed on Thursday night with the
annual Wawasee Inn german given by Col.
and Mrs. Eli Lilly. This is always one of
the swell events of the season at Col. Eli
Lily's lake and visitors come from Chicago,
Indianapolis and many intermediate points
! to participate. Dress affairs are generally
held in contempt by outing people, but the
| annual german is made the occasion for
! shaking out the society dresses at least for
| one night and the dancers make merry with
a hard attempt at some social formality.
! Costly faVors for the ball We're brought
| from Chicago and the german was a
marked success. The following day brought
! relaxation and after the regulation night
| hop on Friday the young people at the Inn
| put their heads together for a little con-
| spiracy. 1t is time-honored discipline
| seldom overstepped for guests to quiet
| down after the lights are turned out in the
! ballroom and saunter to their rooms and
| retire with fitting decorum after q day of
| lively exercise. But on Friday night there
was a conspiracy Matched. The cool piazza
! was deserted long before midnight and the
| entire eighteen miles of Wawasee shore
| quiet with the possible exception of
| Beer point, where government refreshments
tap in Bob Experts speak-easy. The
| only living soul supposed to be out of bed
at Wawasee Inn was the night porter doz-
| it,c- in, he off, xrr:tI,
noise the door of No. SO opend in the up
stairs corridor and two ghostly forms
fitted out and down the hall. Along the
row other doors opened as unceremoniously
and other ghostly forms joined the party.
In instant the upper hallway was alive
with women and girls in unconventional
costume and patt4r of slippers was heard
| on the stairway leading down to the BALI
| room. There was q procession long as a
grand march at the skating rink-nothing
! but women 1t would have taxed the guess
ing powers of any husband or father in
the hotel to pick out his wife or daughter
| The elder women were CARRIED like girls of
| sixteen and the young hoydens were in
| borrowed trains. They rounded up in a
! bunch in the dark ball room with much ex-
citement and Unsurpassed laughter.
A MERRY DANCE
Suddenly the big light was turned on and
| there under the blaze stood a well-known
lawyer as master of ceremonies. W. p
| Kappes, of Indianapolis, was pressed into
service at the piano and the ballroom
echoed with a merry two-step. The entire
! house was presently aroused, and when the
gambol was at it's worst a woman rushed
IN with the rumor that the people over at
! Col. Lillys cottage had collected a posse
fYorr To
marauderS. The dance broke up in a shrek
| ana both women and girls fell over one an
! other getting out of the ballroom and
climbing the, stairs, back to their rooms.
! The carousal was hushed as quietly and
| mysteriously as it had begun and the Inn
once more fell into deep repose.
Gayety VIII continue to increase here I'M
| til carnival week, in August when the hotel
| will be damned with visitors. Arrivals the
past week week from Indianapolis We're Mr.. and
! {. Fairbanks, c. A. Wocher, George L.
BBa ar " j. Xix X lilly W. S. Wynn Mr.; and
Margaret and Kate Albert P Smith Rev.
| J. Cumming Smith, who came over from
Winona where he preached last Sunday,
Hicks. w. P. -Kappes, Mrs. j. r Wilson,
| Miss. Mayme Beck, j. G. Van Wrinkle, D.
ty, Frank schaIz, Miss Clara scholz, Mr..
Brown, Mrs. John Wocher and Miss
.Richmond-s. S. stratton, F. ]. Branett,
Mr.; and Mrs. F. A Jockey and son.
Cd F0rf W4a a 95 L. " tCo4mbs. E. II.
5. Sale Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Rebbet, Mr. r.
and Mrs. f. E. Stouder M. A. Webb.
=, Warsaw-Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Lefever and
| c. H. Stephenson.
Other arrivals are Eugene Bundy of New
| Castle, S. A. Nebeker of Covington, John
| d: Ghenevert of Defiance, O.. c. L. Graves
| of Toledo. p. c. Sneed of Garrett, Ind,
Mrs, A. s.. Davenport Mrs, H. B. Sher-
| wood and A. II. BeardSiey of Elkhart, Mr.
and Mrs. n i Hallar0 Mr
| n. Hall and Miss Anna Hall of
n. Y. Miss Alice CoomPs Of Cincinnati and
! c. E. Cowgirl of Wabash.
Returning to Indianapolis the past week
We're Mr.. and Mrs Alfred F. Potts and F.
| w. Halliday. Miss Jessie Surface has re-
| turned to Richmond.
| At Vawters' Park Harry Petit, speaker
of the House, with his brother, ct b. Pet
tit, have completed their cottage and silent
in it for the first time Friday night. This
makes a total of nearly fifty cottages
tons of all sorts, including hotels. farm
houses and the cliff jewellers at Conklin
hill
CAUGHT IN THE STORM.
A panic of fear ragged at Vawter's Park
on Lake Wawasee Friday afternoon. and
the summer visitors to this little strip of
shore land, on the south side of the lake
for nearly four hours had good reason for
believing that two couples from Ind!anapo-
lis with the stanch yacht Wawasee were
lost. For two days a windstorm from a.
clear sky had pounded the usually we'll
behaved waters of the lake into a mass of
angry, beaten waves. Nothing like If
| has been seen here in years. 1t was a temp
tation for the seamen to try the metal Of
the dozen or more yachts around the lake
and with three reefs in the main sail and
the jibS securely hauled in, every yaCht
was out racing before the wind. The LITTLE
crafts fairly bounded from crest to crest
hardly touching bottom in the troughs be-
tween the rushing white-capped swells The
spray from the bows leaped in the air and
fell in showers over the decks About 10
o'clock in the morning the Fargo brothers.
of Indianapolis, took out their yacht Wa
waSee and started up the lake ahead of the
gale The Misses Pangborn, of Indianapo-
lis, about the same time, were in a row
boat in the comparatively quiet water
under the bank at Nawter'S Park and before
they realized it their little boat had drifted
struck them and being unable to return
their only safety lay in keeping straight on
They were soon in the wake of the Wawa-
see and were picked up by the young men
in the yacht. The yacht sped son and was
lost to sight up the lake. Noon came but
the WaWasee did not return and the Vaw-
ter'S Park cottagerS began to fear an acct
dent had happened. By 2;30 in the after
noon there was a panic. When the Annie
sight signals of distress We're waved fran
tically from the shore Captain Jones OBJ
served the women waving sheets and
shawls, while the entire population was on
the beach shouting and gesticulating wildly.
He replied with long whistle and ran the