The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16
PEOPLE CAME AND WENT
FIVE TRAINLOADs LEFT THE CITY
AND SEVEN CAME To TOWN.
Indianapolis People Spent the Day
Trying to Keep CooI-The
Parks ~Thronged.

Sunday excursions are more popular this
summer than ever before" remarked a
Union Station official last night. Indian
apolis had a little the best of it to-day, too.
We sent out five trainloads of people and
i'm exchange received seven from other
cities. Excursions have been run to In
dianapolis to-day from Champagne and
Decatur, ILL.,, Cincinnati and Piqua, o.,
Madison and Michigan City, Ind, and
Louisville. Ky. We have been kept. pretty
busy down here handling the crowds, i
can tell YOU"
The man who made the above statement
doubtless thought most of the heat-suf-
ferers in indianapolis yesterday went to
points outside of the city in search of re-
lief. As a matter of fact, the vast throngs
OF people who filed through the trainshed
at the Union depot yesterday morning 10
board outgoing trains were but a drop in
the bucket as compared with the greater
crowds which were conveyed by electric
cars, carriages, bicycles, picnic wagons and
other means of transportation to the many
recreation spots in the vicinity of the city
or a few miles beyond its limits. The GEN.
sus takers might almost lave done their
entire work in one day by making the
rounds of the woods and parks in and
near Indianapolis yesterday. Very few
housewives were put to the necessity of
firing up to get the MONDAY meal. 1t
had been cooked Saturday and was eaten
beneath the delicious shade of a tree a
goodly distance from a cook stove.
Yesterday was a great day for bathing
and swimming. All day long the not I'M
,,,-ioo sLarob,,osS .raI,,oaI hr d;vor-
plunging from the springboard into the
water was heard by occupants of benches
located in the delicious GOODNESS of White
rivers lofty bank near the Aquatic Clubs
houseboat at Broad Ripple. Mingled with
this charming sound were the strains of an
orchestra. waited IN all directions from the
band pavilion in the park. All in all Broad
Ripple was a good place to visit yesterday.
Fairview Park, as usual, drew the great
est crowds of any of the local pleasure re-
sorts. This agreeable place is very similar
i'm the character of its attractions to Broad
Ripple, having the advantage over the lat
portation. The new and handsome merry
go-round at Fairview was kept in a cease
less whirl the livelong day. This seductive
piece of mechanism for the entertainment
of juveniles, primarily, but used largely
by children of an older growth, has not
been set up" long enough TO lose its
novelty. There was also a band concert at
Fairview. which was listened to by an i'm
mense number of people disposed about the
music pavilion in various attitudes of ease
and comfort.
The Garfield Park electric line was taxed
TO utmost capacity by the great throngs
eager TO visit that beauty spot of nature
and man combined" Amusement was found
in roaming through sylvan shades, rowing
on the lake, listening TO excellent music
and reading light summer fiction under the
protecting shade of the grand old trees
found in such profusion in this park.
Even Riverside Park was the mecca of
hundreds of warm-weather junketers yester-
day. despite the fact that the street car line
To the place was not complete and il could
only be reached by a walk of several
squares from the end of the line.
The almost unbearable humidity of the
fore part OF the day was greatly mitigated
by a copious. though brief. downpour of
rain about l O'Clock in the afternoon. For
a few moments IL looked as If postponed
picnic excursions would have to be aban-
doned entirely. but i'm less than half an hour
the rainfall ceased and the exodus from
the city was resumed with increased vigor.