The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 2, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 May 1936 — Page 7

THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936

METAL CONTRACTORS MEET IN FORT WAYNE Several Members of Association To Attend From This County. The District Meeting of the Fort Wayne District of the Sheet Metal, Warm Air Heating and Roofing Contractors’ Association will be held at the Wayne Hotel, 119 West Columbia St., Fort Wayne on Friday, May Sth at 6:30 p. m. (D- S. T.) according to announcement by Chas. B. Rundell, district governor. • The meeting will be sponsored by the State Association, but will be open to all "elements of the trade including both member and nonmember contractors, manufacturers, Jobbers, salesmen, manufacturers' representatives, architects, and engineers. The meeting will be In the form of a dinner* at 6:30 p. m., followed by discussions of interest to the trade. The primary purpose of these meetings is to bring together competing contractors and material men on a common ground of good fellowship. The Fort Wayne District is made up of the following counties: Kosciusko, Wabash, Huntington, Whitley, Noble, Allen, DeKalb, Steuben, Adams and Wells. 0 — HISTORY OF SYRACUSE SETTLED IN 1835 I- , 1 The following is taken from the history of Syracuse and Lake Wawasee, compiled by George W. Miles, and printed in the Syracuse Journal weekly, in 1910: Some Dates and Facts Gleaned from A Bunch of Old Newspapers. Eighteen ninety-zix. Fourteen years ago, January 9th. J. J. Burns, who now has cars running in the city of Goshen, and has also come into possession of the city street car lines of Elkhart, will proceed to connect his tracks of the two cities and extend them to Lake Wawasee, by the way of Syracuse. “Hark, from the tombs, a doleful sound!" We had few doubts then that Mr. Burns, who had been a successful promoter, and had acquired much fame and, it was thought, large wealth, through the exploiting of his Buttermilk soap, a large factory for the manufacture of which had been built in Goshen, would succeed in his project of connecting us with the outside world with a trolley line. And when he had finished it some three miles this way from that city, out to Waterford, we had scarcely a doubt at all. But he failed; whether on account of the great panic, which the country had not yet recovered from, I do not know; and his lines were later sold, and passed into other hands. The purchaser of them did connect the cities of Goshen and Elkhart, and also South Bend, the lines in which latter city they had also acquired, but they had so little faith in the extension to the lake that they abandoned it, and tore up the track Mr. Burns had built out to Waterford. Before the Goshen and Elkhart lines had passed finally out of the hands of Mr. Burns, came Nagle,

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Holcomb and Co., of Chicago, a wealthy firm of railroad contractors and builders, who would have built , a road from Goshen to Wawasee if the commissioners of Elkhart county had acted favorably on their request for permission to use the highway, and if they could have made favorable arrangements for entrance into Goshen. But Burns, who had not yet given bp, was able to influence the officials of Elkhart county and the city of Goshen against them, and they abandoned the project in disgust. Thus another good prospect was blasted. Simon Straus, of the firm of Straus Bros. & Co., of Ligonier, later became interested in the building a line to the lake, and with some Goshen gentlemen had a prospectus made and went east with it, but failed to induce capitalists s with whom he was in touch there to-sgree to take the bonds he offered them. Then came the Rothwell Brothers, of St. Louis, with whom was associated Mr. Wilbur L. Stonex, of Goshen. Their project was to connect Goshen with Ft. Wayne, and to build by the way of Syracuse and Lake Wawanee. They had thorough surverys made and spent much money. Subsidy elections were held along the line, most of which resulted in their favor; but after two years of strenuous efforts they, too, were forced to confess defeat. After then came the project of building a line from Ft. Wayne to South Bend, by the way of Lake Wawasee, Syracuse, Nappanee and Mishawaka, promoted by a dozen local people, including Mr. Knowlton, who was the founder of the Wolf Lake Trolley. Again subsidies were voted, and it looked fqr a time as though these gentlemen would succeed, but they fell down, too, as had their predecessors. And last came Weist and the American Engineering Company of Indianapolis, with their plan of building a road from Goshen to Columbia City and later on to Indianapolis. This last is so recent that it is unnecessary to tell the story of it here. They got along further than had any of those who preceded them, which is some reason to hope that possibly the next fellows that tackle the job may accomplish final success. But after spending considerably more than a hundred thousand dollars in actual construction work, and having laid five miles of track and graded nearly twice that distance, the Indianapolis capitalists who were putting up the money got cold feet and laid down. a This is the story of fourteen years of disappointments and hopes deferred. And the end is not yet. For the connection of the principal cities of Northern Indiana byway of Lake I Wawasee must come. And whoever accomplishes it will be abundantly rewarded. To return to our old newspapers: March 26: George Miles is building a new road across The Channel to his newly acquired lands at Kale Island. The Pickwick road that he have heard much of lately. For ten years the public was permitted to use this road, and then, in 1906, it ! was closed to them. The question * of whether it shall now be purchased jby the township and made into a public highway is pending in the Kosciusko Circuit Court. April 9: Two million white fish ■ fry were put in the lake here by the United States Fish Commission. Fourteen years ago, and nothing has

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ever been seen or heard of them. If a single one of them ever came to maturity it has not shown itself, to my knowledge. There is a joke connected with the planting of these fry that was told in one of these papers a month or more earlier, but is worth retelling. Notice had been given to Joseph P. Dolan, then principal of our school, that a consignment of fry from the U. S. Fish Commission would be sent here, presumably in his care, to be planted in the Lake. He had no idea in what manner they would be shipped, but requested Mrs. Dolan to promptly notify him on their arrival. I have told you that the biological station of the Indiana University was then located at Vawter Park. Dr. Eigenman, principal of that school, decided to send here for scientific use ten gallons of good pure alcohol, and without notice he shipped it up from Bloomington to Mr. Dolan, sealed in a square can. bn its arrival Mrs. Dolan promptly sent word to her husband at the school house that the government consignment he was looking for had arrived. Leaving his

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classes he hurried out upon the street, found two gentlemen who were not busy, one of whom happenied to be a prohibitionist and the other a Sunday school superintendent, put the matter into their hands, and hurried back to his work. These gentlemen carried Dr. Eigenman’s alcohol to Black Stump Point, over the deep water out from which place they cut a hole in the ice, and there ; carefully poured it into the lake. The fry from the Fish Commission j came along in a government special car a month or so later. I May 28: John W. Stetler was a second time nominated by the republican convention for representative in the legislature. At the fall election following he was again elected. September 10 is reported the death of Mr. J. M. Blair, agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He had served in that capacity here three years previously, and was exceedingly popular with our people, being, besides an intellectual gentleman, a most genial and likeable fellow. In the closet back of the depot he was attacked with apoplexy

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