Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1911 — CEDAR LAKE RESORTS [ARTICLE]

CEDAR LAKE RESORTS

Will Have Slim Picking If This Report Is Correct. Crown Point, Ind., March 22. —From present indications Cedar Lake will be as quiet as a deserted church this summer as far as the Monon railroad picnics are concerned and reports from reliable sources are to the effect that not a single picnic has been booked for the Monon park for the Coming season. Should this report prove authentic it will spell disaster to many of the lake resorts, whose chief source of revenue was derived from the Sunday and mid-week picnics of Chicago people at Lake county’s summer resort. The change in the management of the railroad and their policy against catering to the class of trade which has characterized the majority of the picnics from Chicago is said to be the chief reason for a discontinuance of the picnics. In the event of the rethe dark cloud* which hovers over the - Cedar Lake resorts will have its silver lining, as many people who have heretofore shunned the lake on account of the presence of Chicago “bruisers” will now patronize Lake county’s beauty spot, as was done in days when the Chicago “tough” picnic was a thing unknown.