Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1912 — DULL TIMES AT CEDAR LAKE [ARTICLE]

DULL TIMES AT CEDAR LAKE

Especially So On West Side Because No excursion Picnics Are BeBeing Run. No excursion rates for picnics at Cedar Lake are being made by the Monon this season, and as. a result the resort keepers, especially the sallotons, are doing a mighty light business. The refusal of the Monon to grant excursion rates for picnics out of Chicago is evidently because of an endeavor to popularize-Cedar Lake as a summer resort for the better class of people from Chicago, and the shutting off of the labor organization picnics from the Windy City will force most of the numerous saloons there to close and thus do much to better the moral conditions of this naturally beautiful plate. It being located only 4 0 miles from Chicago should make it a popular resort for Chicagoans wanting to get away from the city for awhile at a minimum of expense, and in this the Monon is encouraging patronage by making a weekend excursion rate of $1 for the round trip from Chicago, tickets being good gqing Saturday and returning Monday. This is something new, the first tickets being placed on hand last Saturday, and when it becomes generally known in the city, and the resort is “advertised” quite thoroughly by the patrons who go there, no doubt Cedar Lake will become the popular resort that it should be. But this season business is quite dull even for the best hotels, and especially so on the west side where few automobile tourists pass a<. present. The Sigler House had less than twenty-five guests last Sunday when it ought to have had two hundred or more. A new road at the north end h of the lake and efforts being made to divert some of the automobile tourists to the west side will help to popularize the west side and no doubt the hotel will be much better there by another season. The launch and boat owners are also feeling the result of the elimination of the Chicago picnics, and are doing very little business this season. On the east side where nearly all of the automobile tourists pass, business is better, and the Binyon hotel especially is doing a great business in serving chicken dinner

each Sunday. Hundreds of automobilists come out from Chicago t each Sunday and from two to three hundred chicken dinners are served there every Sunday. These tourists, we understand, are charged $1 each for fried chicken dinner and afl go away declaring that ‘the dinner was worth every penny of the price. All the spring chickens in the territory about the lake have been bought up and they are now being shipped in from Chicago, it is said. *The Lassen dancing pavilion on theteast side is also doing a good business each Sunday, but, of course, misses the big picnics of former years. Cedar Lake will no doubt be connected with Crown Point and Chicago fay an electric road ere a great while, and then it will become one so the greatest outing resorts’ in Indiana. Mr. Farmer: Who wants mower and binder repairs. See C. A. Roberts. 1 have a good stock on hand. I have the McCormick agency. If you need a hayrake I have the McCormick self-dump, no better made; easy to operate; long-lived; can’t eat; all steel; could make razor blades from the metal ’t is made of. C. A. Roberts, the Buggy Man Rensselaer, Ind. ts