The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13

nestIes the home of the Indianapolis Outing
Club.
1t is an ideal spot, this summer home of
q number of well-known Indianapolis men.
It Is situated the east side of Lake
Planting Ground in Northern Wisconsin,
four miles from the little settlement of
Three Lakes. The club owns six acres of
ground, triangular piece. with frontage
on the beautiful lake of 964 feet coun-
~ road, winding past the club grounds.
leads TO Three Lakes. where supplies are
purchased during the season and where
mall from the outer world is received and
sent. Three Lakes is the Chicago &c
Northwestern, about the only claim it can
advance as a part of civilization. To all
intents and purposes IT is a hamlet In the
wilderness.
MEMBERS OF THE CLUB.
The indianapolis Outing Club is stock
corporation with $500 capital divided into
twenty-five shares OF 500 EACH The quota
CT membership is not entirely filled. there
being only nineteen members at the pres
ent time. Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter,
Dr. Eugene Buehler. secretary OF the Board
OF Health; William A. Bogardus, deputy
city controller; Harry ID. Tutewiler, coroner
OF Marion county; James B. Nelson city
sagineer: David Z. Sherrick. State auditor;
Daniel z. Storms. secretary of state: John
zfGregor. county commissioner; Conrad
Keller. president OF the Board OF Public
Safety: Thomas A. Wynne. chairman of the
finance comraittee of Council; Albert Lieber,
president o., the Indianapolis Brewing Com
pany; Chariss c. Perry, secretary of the
Indianapolis Light ana Power Company;
Fred K. Sawyer. freight agent of the Penn
sylvania Railroad: Attorney Joseph A. Min
turn. w. X. Cooper, j. IL. Johnson OF
louisville. Delos Alig, John W. Bowlus and
Samuel p Stoddard are members of the
club.
The officers OF the organization are: DR..
Eugene Buehler. president; William A. 30
sardus. secretary and treasurer.
COTTAGE BY THE LAKE.
/ A tsn-room cottage on the shore of Lake
Planting Ground, comfortably furnished
with all the requisites of a well-ordered
hunting and fishing box. is the home of the
members when they find time to visit the
lake IN the summer season. A boathouse
| large enough TO store row boats and launch
and an ice house always stored with forty
tons OF Ice. are among the other useful as
sets or the club. An eighteen-foot gasoline
launch Is In constant use during the sea-
son. The pretty little boat puffs from one
and OF Lake Planting Ground to the other.
s. the conveyance of innumerable fishing
parties, and Is indispensable for picnics. The
clubhouse is open from May 1 to Oct. l.
During the summer members take their
| wives and daughters for an outing IF sew
<ral weeks beside the pleasant waters of
Lake Planting Ground. On these occasions
the monotony OF the mems stag parties is
/ delightfully."- relieved by little affairs which
| the women get up for evening entertain
| msnts.
MUSKELLUNGE FISHING.
Lake Planting Ground Is one of twenty
nix other lakes OF the Eagle waters. The
entire water way is sixty miles long, and is
navigabie the entire distance without port
age by launch. Lake Planting Ground is
seven miles long by three miles wide, and
81 one OF the most attractive of all the lakes.
| AL OF these waters abound in the best fresh
water game fsh In the world. Muskellunge
| IS the most sought. and big fellows weigh
ing from fifteen TO forty pounds have been
caught the past summer by members OF
the club who have visited the lake. About
mile In front OF the clubhouse, Jones' s
Point. Ia the best muskellunge fishing. A
sample Of the game TO be found In these