The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28

L. Gillett, OF EVanSvllle-Who IS very proud
of personal letter from Rear Admiral
Schley. Captain Gillett is an ex-naval Off
Ger and personal friend of the heroes of
| our recent war. After the victory at San
| tiago he wrote a congratuatory letter to
Admiral Schley, and received in reply the
following letter in the admiraps own hand
writing
''U. S. S. Brooklyn
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Aug. 8, 1893.
my Dear Gillett-Thank you for the let
| ter and for the paper inclosed. ! appreciate
| so much what my dear classmate and friend
! of forty years standing has to say away
| off from the field of battle Think you do
me more honor than 1 deserve. While, in
| my report of July 6, am sure 1t must be
| apparent that l am not responsible for the
| untimely and unfortunate controversy over
| the honors, / am quite content to do the
| best could for the country. without any
| thought of reward.
Thanking you again, my dear old friend
and classmate, and with kindest remem-
branees to Mrs Gillett I am always dTaYT very
IS. P. Gillett, Esq, Evansville, Ind
the much-discussed question OF closing
the Bay View grounds to the public has
been settled for all time in the negative.
Each resort in this country is link in a
chain, and it is argued that. Bay. View
would suffer in the long run from the pol
Miss Mary Krout, of indianapolis, who
has been the guest of Mrs. Irma T. Jones,
of Lansing. Mich, at her Bay View cot
| tage, and has shared Mrs. Joness interest
in the Woman's Council has returned home.
Mrs. ]. S. Sproul and son Marion and
| Miss Pearl Huff, w. A Fox and wife, OF
| Albion, and the Misses Margaret and Ethel
Hanna are at the Bay View House Mrs.
and Mrs w ea nsrpf Of p SnS
are at Bay View. Indiana people who be-
long to the Bay View Reading Circle will
successful this year Mr.. Hall says fully
a thousand new names have been added to
the list of members" It Will be sun en-
Hamilton Mabie, of New York, and Mrs.
Alice Freeman Palmer appear first on the
roll of directors. The 1883 will be the
The railroad excursions, which began
this week, have brought great many -peo-
day six trains on each of the leading roads
reached Petoskey, bringing over a thousand
Peses visitors The hotels nd
House has fifty guests located In cottages.
Among the arrivals at the New Arlington
P. Engart, Goshen: Mrs. P. E. Studebaker.
Mrs. H. S. Studebalzer, South Bend. AT 9TH
er hotels are: e. Bartholomew and c.. r.
n. b. Baker and L. L. Baker, Albion;
Charles Demgan and wife, Castleton; Mr..
soah ME- Bend Rf ba and } BntOn e.
Shortte and wife, Upton. At the Occidental:
John w. Glascock, Harden Glascock, Fred
Carey, of Upton, Mrs. c. g. Weiss, Indian.
apolis; Mrs. A. Greiner, Miss F. Smith, of
Auburn; George Ortleib and Mrs, c. A.
Paul, of Fort Wayne, are some of the new
est arrivals. The social event at Wequeto1-
sing this week was an amateur dramatic
evenings, Wednesday and Thursday, in the
Casino. The play, Love in a Tangle." a
comedy, in two acts, is roaring farce. Mrs.
play and is one of the leading actors The
title suggests the plot and the complica-
tons aTe us W The Ps rep fa f tS
| benefit of the golf links and the Casino, and
will add to next summers pleasure. The
| performance was greeted with repeated
Mrs. S. p. Pray, of Indianapolis, and her
| mother, Mrs. M. M. Gregory, have been
Mrs. Pray furnishes the following list of
| Indiana people who have occupied cottages
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Metcalf and family,
Mrs. Max Leckner and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. j. Appel and family, Mrs. Harry Schlotz--
Miss Margaret. Donnanl Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
| tin Mansfield, Mrs H. T. Conde Mrs. Nav
| ity and her son, Charles Mavity, Mrs. John
| ter. Mrs. Commingor and w. w. Buchanan
and wife are indianapolis people who have
Mrs. Henrietta Kartholl, of Peru. Ind;
George A. Durfee and family, and Miss
Hartman of Richmond William c. Baillel,
of South Bend; Elizabeth Hatten, of Me.
Muncie, are Bay View cottagers. Miss
| Gertrude Taggart. of Indianapolis and Miss
Lillian and Miss Mona Taggart dined at
| Hotel Dewey on Wednesday.
Plans have been drawn for a. large hotel
| at Idlewild-the Hoosiers nest and the
work has has s already been begun by parties
Mrs Hurd and Miss Hurd, of Indianap-
| oils, are at Charevoix Inn, where Hon.
John G. New and other Indianians have also
| been located. DR.. and Mrs. Young, of Terre
Haute, are among the Charlevoix guests
been the guest of Mrs. John A. Carson, at
| cir md TiGG fva hot
and Miss Pearl Haines dined at the hotel
| as the guests of II. H. Dill. Mrs. A. S. Geer
added much to the social pleasure at Hotel
Dewey, have babe farewell to northern
Fishing gains new popularity with the
waning season. Capt. A. Ortiz Benin, of La
fayette. brought string. of 100 rainbow
! trout and held them up to the admiring gaze
| of the New Arlington guests last Wednes-
| day. The phenomenal catch of the season
was made this week by party of six gen.
| tlemen and ladies. who brought to the Bay
| View station two hundred pounds of pike.
! pickerel, bass and muscallonge, caught at
| Burt lake. One fish weighed twenty-five
| pounds and three aggredated over fifty
| and they were not caught with silver
| hook.
| Rev. James Gale Inglish. of Petoskey. has
| issued q handbook of northern Michigan
| which is truly multum in parvo, and cannot
/ fail to be the wade me cum of the stranger
| in this land DIR. Inglis, as a recent Euro
| pean traveller, appreciated the value of Bae-
decker'S guide books. and has modelled his
| manual on the same principle. The book is
| admirably outlined, and presents concsely
/ the facts the tourist wishes TO know. Trans
| portation by boat or by rail is fully ex-
| planned, and the individual charms of each
| resort Indicated.
No summer in this land is complete with
| out q trip to Mackinae island. and a visit
| long or short, at this attractive point. Your
| correspondent Joined the throng on Wednes-
| day. Two long trains carried the excursion
| lists north through the woods and past the
| lumber towns to Mackinaw City. where
| the steamer Algomah ferries people across
| the straits to the island. There seemed to
| be q great many travellers. but those who
| know say there has been no rush this sea-
| son. but constant stream of people coming
| end going. There is an exhilaration in the
/ air and scenery Of the island one meets no
! where else Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Archer of
| Indianapolis: Mrs. M. p Chaplin and Miss
| Mary Chaplin, of South Bend; Mr.. and Mrs
| j. l.. Gilbert. of South Bend; Miss Glenn
| Reed G. r. Grail and Mrs Grail. of Fort
| Wayne: ]. w. Chapman, of Indianapolis;
i Mr.. and Mrs d. W. Gerard. Dr. r. N. Ge-
rard Miss Parks and Miss Halowell of
/ Crawfordsviile; Mr.. and Mrs. j. Edward
Krause and Mr. and Mrs. A. NJ. Baetz were
found registered at the different island ho-
| tells.
| To all appearance the season in this coun-
try is still at its height. Hay fever refu-
gees prolOng the summer, and without Ques-
ton northern Michigan furnishes relief from
| the disorder. One woman who told a story
| of eighteen years OF helpless suffering is
able to breathe freely and enjoy life Bay