The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-30
THE SUMMER RESORTS
PLACES IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN
HAD A PROSPEROUS SEASON.
Indiana Visitors Cha and EngaE-
ing Cottages for Next Year
AT other Points.
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never KNOWN more prosperous SedSOH
The weather has been fawless. Everybody
has been responsive to the eXhilaration OF
this pine erfumed atmosphere. Social life
has been wholesome and varied. Athletics
have thriven. The season has proved d per-
feet satisfaction. AS a consequence of the
pleasant summer many who came this year
for the first time are completing arrange
ments to come again. Cottage rentals and
refusals and transfers of real estate have
been many. AT Wequetonsing there has
been a perfect furore over the purchase of
choice lots. Everybody wants water front,
and naturally the number is limited To
stand upon the bluffs at Harbor Springs at
night and see the chain of golden lights
encircling Little Traverse bay one might
suppose that every such location was al
ready pre-empted. AT the east end of We
quetonsing several new lots have been sold
to ST. Louis and Cincinnati purchasers. Adj
ditional acres in the same vicinity have
been bought for later development pri-
Vate investments.
AT Harbor Point the waves forever place
their limitations, but the beautiful resort,
if it cannot grow within its own borders,
will reach along the shore of Emmett Beach.
Much improvement is observed at Cedar
FEELS and Idlewilde, both Indiana colonies.
over at Day view lIle SAINT etCllNIly PFC
walls. Mr.. Philip Goetz, of the Indiana BIZ
cycle Company, Indianapolis, is guest at
the Bay View House and late arrival Mr..
Goetz came here for the first time this
summer and for a limited stay, but he has
already caught the fever and says he is
inclined to engage a cottage and anticipate
the pleasure of a long summer for his fam
lily in these beautiful surroundings during
1888. There is always something going on
at Bay View after the close of the assem-
bly,. On Monday evening there was a
charming amateur muScaIe. The leading
performers were Mr.. Edward Munger, of
New York, on the piano; Mr.. Paul X. Pope,
of Steubenville, O., on the violin. and Mrs.
Philip Goetz, of Indianapolis. Mrs. GOetz's
clear soprano voice pIe3ed every one Her
vocal selections We're rom oraJor;o. They
were Judith" and THE Holy City" The
concert gave much pleasure and was
benefit for the Bay View library.
People have heard of Petoskey and
Mackinac island. They learn so much from
history and geography. The secret charms
of Wequetonsing and HarbOr Point and
Omena and Charlevoix are reserved for
those happy tourists who, coming, see and
believe. Much Of the success of the present
summer is due to the admirable facilities
for transportation and the excellent hotel
accommodations everywhere within reach
The approach of school days and the re-
vival of business and social and church life
Andrus will leave Wequetonsing this week
for indianapolis. The resorts will remain
open IOf some Tune. Inc NUMBER OF people
who come by boats and trains does not
diminish. The G. r. x l. excursion on
Wednesday brought fully six thousand to
various points in this country.
Harbor Point has given an entertainment
for the benefit of the Wheelway fund.
Mesdames Enrique c. Miller and j. S. Hol-
iday, OF indianapolis were among the lady
managers. 1t was very pretty affair, held
in the Harder Point amusement hall, with
the usual accompaniment of beautiful flow
ers and good music. The entertainment
| consisted of tableauX representing the titles
of popular songs The performers were the
younger young people. Her Golden Hair
was Hanging Down Her Back was repre-
sented by Fay Claypool, Highland Mary
by Miss Graydon, .Rosie O'Grady' by Vir-
ginia Shaw. "See-Saw, Marjorie Daw'' by
Agnes Claypool and Marian Miller and
TWO Little Girls in Blue by Ethel and
Wequetonsing to Roaring brook is as pop
ular for summer trampS as for wheels
Mr.. f. A. Miller and Mr. J. S. Holiday,
of Indianapolis, have recently joined their
families at their cottages at Harbor Point.
Miss e. c. Thompson, of Charlottesville,
Ind, is at the clubhouse. Mr.. and Mrs. c.
S. Opperson and family from Ladoga Ind,
are registered at the Arlington, in Petos
Key Key j; n. RIGHTS ie; wife and SON from In
or wabash, Ind are also at the Airing
ton. Many Indiana people are at the diff
ferent hotels in PetoSkey. These are re-
cent arrivals on the late excursions
The Indians celebrated the annual pioneer
picnic at Cross Village on Wednesday. The
tracted not only the abOrgines but many
visitors. Cross Village has been for many
years an Indian rendezvous. Some time
very early in the history of French explo-
ration a cedar cross thirty feet high, was
planted by some Jesuit priest of that gem
GRAFTON upon the bluff overlooking Lake
Michigan. 1t is easy to believe that it was
the indirect work of Father Marquette.
The cross still stands upon the bluff 1t
has been replaced whenever the eXigencies
of wind and weather have made 1t neces-
sary. 1t remains a landmark along the
shore Records of early proceedings in this
country did not always receive very ten
der care, and much history in northern
Michigan depends upon tradition. An
cursion the Thomas Friant to Cross Viii
lage was in past summers one of the pleas
ureS of the season, but since that stanch
little steamer has been transferred to more
no other way to reach Cross Village than
by by drive of sixteen miles along the shore.
Village 1t pays to visit him.
In 1854 Father John Weikamp, a Francis
can priest came into this country to estab-
lsh a convent. He bought from the In
dams, for 500, the land now occupied by
Harbor Point. Later he sold his purchase
to parties prospecting for resort property
north and gathered his Indian followers at
Cross Village. Visitors at the convent a
few years ago were taken by Father Wei
kamp over its cultivated fields, into it's fair
gardens and through its halls and chapels.
There was an air of inexpicable mystery
about it. Father Weikamp would descend
with smiling serenity into his open grave
where he was supposed to spend. in the
presence of skull and cross bones hours of
profound meditation. For thirty-five wears
he was autocrat of his little realm but
since his death. a few years ago, the con-
vent has been closed and the members scat
tered. 1t is rumOred that this work will
be re-estabished in Petoskey. At Harbor
Springs there is an Indian Industrial school
known as the Holy Childhood" in charge
of the Franciscan Fathers and Sisters of
Notre Dame. There has been an attend
ance of from $50 to two hundred Indian
children for several years They are taught
general school exercises, music and manual
art. The HarbOr Point Association after
their purchase from Father Weikamp sold
the extreme point of land to the United
States government for $500 for a light
house and bell tower. The bright red light
upon the point is one of the interesting
features of the bay. and visit to the
lighthouse always open for inspection on
Thursday. is one of its real attractions
The summer is already waning. but none
who come late will regret a visit to these
shores. There will remain for weeks to
come the quiet joys of home and cottage
life and the opportunities to make excur-
sions along the shores and bluffs Many
cottage people choose to stay until snow
flies, which is still a long way off
Personals from West Baden.
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WEST BADEN, Ind, Aug. 29.-Mayor