Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1938 — Page 36

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‘The old Frenzel home, °

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N ew J ersey Strout House Was Howe For F amily That Helped Build City

our One of Five Sons Alive as Residence Is Torn Down.

By THOMAS MENKEL

Breiee, three-story frame house at 226 N. New Jersey St. is being | Dried apart this week, stripped of its covering to stand as a skeleton reminder of nearly forgotten days. This was the home of the Frenzel family. - Today the sons of this line have come to a place of high degree in the City of Indianapolis, and even a home of wood and plaster— doomed to the graveyard of houses

=could be pardoned its pride for

once having sheltered a part of this family, for providing recreation and pleasure for many of the ‘rest. - Although other families had lived there before, and many others since, it was during the days the Frenzels called it home that the old house achieved its greatest measure of fame. Fletchers Next Door

“The next-door neighbors on the south side of the house were the Fletchers, who lived in a great white stone mansion that covered half the block where the Cadle Tabernacle now stands. Not far to the south, the small City of Indianapolis was generating the power that was to raise it to a place among other important and great cities of the country. And much of this power came from the men of Indianapolis who were growing with the City, planning for its future greatness. Behind his glass-topped, shiny desk in the Merchants National Bank today, John Peter Frenzel Jr., president, tilted back “in his ehair while he recalled as much as he could of the days when his grandmother, Mrs. John P. Frenzel, lived in the frame house at 226 N. New Jersey St. “It was quite a while back,” he said, “perhaps as far back as 1893 that my grandmother lived in that

house. She stayed there for almost 15 years, I think. . :

Born on Same Street

“It was a pretty fancy part of the town then. I was born on the same street, a few . houses down. But I don’t think I can remember exactly where. “All of us used to go over to grandmother’s a lot, and we hardly ever missed a Saturday. That was a big day because we always had Zemit Kuchen — that was coffee cake. - “Why some of the kids in the

MCANTS ASSUMES POST OF CLIFFORD

Federal - Business Group Elects Vice President.

Lieut. Col. Samuel McCants, Ft. Harrison, today assumed his duties as first vice president of the Federal Business Association, succeeding the late M. L. Clifford. He was elected yesterday at the monthly meeting of the organization in the Hotel Washington.

Bert F. Deery, Indianapolis Postoffice assistant superintendent, spoke on the development of parcel post service, ¢ “Last year 700 billion pieces of parcel post mail were handled, an average of two and half million pieces a day. Gross revenues from parcel post now amounts to $144,000,000 a year. Parcel post is only 25 years old, and it has not yet touched the ‘areas potentially to be served,” he said, “The mails were opened to some forms of merchandise in President Lincoln’s day,” he added, “but it was not until John Wanamaker on Jan. 1, 1913 mailed the first parcel post package, a set of silver teaspoons for President Taft in the White House, that parcel post was officially established. * Facilities for parcel post now reach all points of

the globe.”

neighborhood used to jump the

fence to get some of that cake.” |

"Mr. Frenzel said he didn’t remember much of the physical character of the house except— “I could still find my way to

the kitchen—if it’s there. And I|§

remember there was a big sitting room in the back. There was a tree on the side of the yard, too. I remember that because I fell out of it once. Didn’t break any bones, but I can still feel the way it hurt.”

Family Gatherings There were those special family occasions when most of the Frenzel family would get together at the

house, too. There were Mr. Frenzel’s brother,

ber of the Indiana Trust Co. There were five Frenzel brothers, four of whom were born in In-

dianapolis, who started tHe present

line. They were John. P., born in

Madison; Otto N., Oscar F., George on and Fred V. The last named now |f& lives in Hollywood, Cal., and is the |

only one living. Mrs. Lillie B. Frenzel, widow of Oscar F.,,and Mrs. Caroline Frenzel,

widow of Otto N., also are living, and in Indianapolis. There will soon be only the plot of ground and the men of the Frenzel family to cherish the memor.y of what once was home.

12 TO TAKE PART IN CHICAGO COUNCIL

Twelve members of the Indiana Commission of Interstate Co-Oper-ation are expected to attend a meeting on the Council of State Governments in Chicago Monday and | Tuesday, it was announced today. Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker is to head the delegation. Frank Finney, State Auto License Bureau director, is chairman and William Treadway is executive secretary of the Indiana Commission.

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