The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-09
AT LAKE MAXINKUCKEE
PIONEER COTTAGERs AND MANY
NEW ONES PRESENT THIS YEAR.
Indiana People Who Arc Spending
the Summer at the Resorts in
This state and Michigan.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

along the coast of Maxnkuckee, and
nowadays the fleet of steam launches that
wait for the trains at Culver formerly
Marmont carry heavy loads of visitors
and scatter them along the shores of this
beautiful Indiana lake. The cottage popu-
lation is the feature of Maxinkuckee, not
w:thstanding the excellent accommodations
afforded by the four principal notes.-the
Lake View. the Bay View. the Palmer
House and the Arlington. This cottage
life has grown from a beginning of many
years ago when a few enthusiastic fisher
men from Indianapolis and other places
tourneyed by stage line over miles of dusty
roads to reach the old town of Maxim
kuckee, which was then the nearest point
to a railroad. Summer after summer these
men angled in the cool waters of the lake,
and summer after summer new cottages
went up along the high bluffs that line the
east shore Here most of the Indianapolis
people are found When the Terre Haute
Logansport Railroad skirted the north
shore and built station at Marmont hotels
and cottages sprang up on that side Of the
lake and now, at night time, an unbroken
bright crescent of lights, extending more
than half around the entire water edge,
greets the eye of the visitor alighting from
the train The Vajens the McOuats, the
Peirces, the Baggs and the Judahs were
among the Indianapolis pioneer cottage
builders. To this colony many others have
been added.
falling off in the yachting spirit, COM
pared to that of other northern lakes is
perceptible, and while the cause of this is
not readily apparent the facilities for
courses being fine, it may be due in part
TO the perfect steam launch service The
hosting of a signal will bring one of these
fleet craft to pier in a few minutes, and
what few yachts are on the lake are sel-
dom used for mere transportation purposes.
Every cottage however, has one or more
rowboats, some having a half-dozen In
the cool evening the water is dotted with
these small craft, manned by oarsmen lazily
dipping their blades into the CLASSY sur
FACE. On many parts of the lake the sunset
effects are particularly gorgeous
For their lake the observation-disclosures claim
all things cool, air as well as water.
Bree2es even al midday when the cities
are broiling in the sun, bring to the lake a
plessedness sucn as Indianapolis could onlv
uIeam OF IN the last week Countless
springs spring al the bottom of the lake and num-
SFous arteslan wells on the shore keep the,
lake cool and pure, and in the winter time
form the famous Maxnkuckee ice The
temperature of the water makes the bath
ing lhVigoratlng. Each cottage has a beach
OF It's own, while near the railroad station.
h tne me tne Lake view Hotel is public bath
may DC made to the lily ponds on the west
side of the lake
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
The hotel accommodations at the lake are
much better this year than they have been
IN the past. The Lake View House, which
is owned by the Vandalia Railroad Com
pany is in charge of Manager Scofield. an
old time Indianapoltan. who gives careful
attention n he MIA
spent considerable sum on the house
and among the improvements is a large
airy reception hail. also used for dancing
well-shaded graveled walk winding
around ravine, leads to the hotel from
the railroad station. To the east of the
hotel are number of small cottages owned
Dy the company and leased for the season.
Among the present occupants are Mr. and
MRS. John B. Elan of Indianapolis, At
Mrs. Early of Terre Haute S. p. Sheerin
OF Logansport. this season bought two
hundred-foot strip of ground a short dis
lance beyond these cottages. The Bay
View Hotel which is on the east shore
was formerly clubhouse. 1t is now in
restaurant man of Indianapolis, who is
spending his first season at the lake. The
capacity of the house is we'll taxed. Mr.
Porter and family, Mr. and Mrs Horatio
c. Newcomb Miss Kipp, Miss Ernestinoff
and other Indianapolitans are there now
cial life on Saturday night the dances
the given at the Lake View Last
Bay View. Just beyond the Bay View is
the PIERCE cottage, which is occupied this
year by Mr. and Mrs. Charles +. SayIes
and Mr.. and Mrs Herman Sayes and
families, of the Hoosier capital The Vaien
and McOuat cottages are further down the
The people living around the lake were
much amused when they read in the Jour
nal of the sea serpents antics at Wawasee
a
through the shore in escaping is Still visible
just back of Tie Arlington Hotel. The ser
pent remarked before leaving that he
getting little dry under the fangs and
@'Vawasee, where he might stock up on a
fresh brand of poison. Maxinl1uckee was
very glad to speed the parting guest How
ever in passing. it might be well to men
ton another unusual occurrence which has
caused some little excitement at Maxim
would enthuse even the versatile Mum
chausens that summer there.
MAXINKUCKEE TURTLES.
Every on9 who has taken a boat ride
from the Lake View TO the Bay View Ho-
tel this summer has had occasion to note
the great number of turtles in the water
A raft anchored about 200 feet off the Palm
er House leach is a favorite summing place
for these armored inhabitants of the deep
and at any hour when the raft is not in
use by the bathers, from forty TO one hun
dred turtles may be seen the raft, with
necks craned up TO catch any venturesome
fly that may abandon feeding grounds
ashore. The splash of oars in close proxi-
nifty scarcely dsturbs the turtles and at
times ii is almost necessary for the bathers
to scrape off the raft. The conditions at
this spot are only similar TO those else
where over the body of water Just at twi-
light the lake is almost fecked with the
sinuous heads that rise a half inch above
the surface. Having become somewhat
domesticated, these turtles have abandoned
many of their snappy ways reaching such
state that the small boy no longer trem-
bles for the safety of his great toe. Being
treated with consideration by the cottageIs
and visitors, the turtles have shown a most
commendable spirit in return, the effect
of which is almost manifested in their con-
duct towards their neighbours the perch
the bass the catfish and the carp all liv-
ing together in an amicable and truly hap
py relation. That this ideal state mig hit
have continued without any interruption,
there is no doubt, had Ii not been for the
antics of a Wall-eyed pike, who for a brief
season imagined he was the only thing in
the pond. To the little turtles he was a
frightful tormentor while the larger tur-
ties found him the source of much annoy
ance. 1t was sport for him, coming behind
one of the padding youngsters to suddenly
poke the infant under the soft side of the
shell, upsetting the little one and iSighten-
ing it. This sport grew tame after awhile
The pike began to poke his sharp nose un-
der the shells. On one occasion he tackled
a lusty turtle and withdrew with his own