The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 4, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 May 1936 — Page 4

THURSDAY, MAY,

THE INDEPENDENT Published Every Thursday at Syracuse, Indiana. Entered aa second-class matter on May 4th, 1908, at the portoffice at Syracuse, Indiana, under the Act of Congresz of March 3rd, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, in advance. 32.00 Six Months in advance -— SI. 00 Three Years, in advance _ $6.00 Single Copies _———— & c Subscriptions Dropped if Not Renewed When Time Is Out. SYRACUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC, PUBLISHERS F. Allan Weatherholt, Editor THURSDAY, MAY, 21, 1»6 PROMISES AND PROTECTION The Town Board, in a special meeting Friday, was advised that the railroad will take action to protect and safe-guard the Huntington street railroad crossing. Representatives of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have promised some relief. The protection will probably be in the nature of a traffic signal and warning light and bell, which should attract even the most careless and reckless pedestrian and motorist However, until definite work is begun on installing such a device, the public must remember that the crossing is still unguarded at night. The watchman at the crossing during the day goes off duty at 4:30 p. m. After that there is no protection except the crossing bell that cannot be heard in an auto. The motoring public must bear in mind, that the little crossing watchman box or house at the crossing does not mean that there is a watchman there at night. While the Town Board found the Railroad Company in a receptive mood toward protecting the crossing, and while th& publie has been aroused and demanded protection, the Railroad Company should'have been informed that a watchman must be placed at the crossing at night, until the proposed signal light is installed. When public life is at stake, there is no time to be satisfied with half-way things, promises, or compromise propositions. The Town Board is in a position tp demand and get protection for the citizens and community it represents. Promises will bring more promises, but life and property will not be protected until the crossing is guarded. The public is demanding action. Thirty days or even ten days delay is too long. There are plenty of men who would welcome even a temporary job of crossing watchman, and the crossing should be guarded al! the time. According to our legal counsel, the Town Board can force immediate action, if it passes ordinances regulating the speed of trains through the corporation limits. Such ordinances can be enforced, and have proven effective elsewhere. The spirit of friendliness or neighborliness have fio place in this proposition. Compromise measures are out of the question. The crossing has been proven a menance to life and the happiness of our comr jnity. Until the condition is remedied, we will not be satisfied. The Town Board is to be commended for its speedy action in the matter when it was placed plainly before them. But we believe they have not been firm enough, nor did they go far enough. The fact that the crossing is still unguarded, regardless of promises or gestures made by the railroad, speaks for itself.

WORK FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT - - 9 I An up-to-date fire department has - three duties. ' First, it should strive to prevent fire, through property inspection and by publicising ways and means of removing the unnecessary and dangerously common hazards that are responsible for the great majority of biases. Second, it must fight fire once it has broken out—and to do this sue* cesefully it must be equipped wiht the best of apparatus, backed up by adequate water and alarm facilities, and must have a trained and efficient personnel. Third, it should carry on salvage work as a matter of regular routine, in odor to save as much property as possible after fire has struck. This last duty to the least known of the three. According to a survey made by the National Board of Fire Underwriters in May, 1935, effective! and regular salvage work was being done by municipal fire departments - in 121 cities, of which 12 maintained separate pieces of apparatus for sal* vago work. In addition, 126 cities - had salvage appliances which were used to a more limited extent. Those cities were largely in the higher-pop-ulated brackets—but even small towns can, at little expense, bring salvage within the scope of fire department operations. The consequences of fire are always bad—but salvage can mitigate thorn. Irreplaceable property can be

New Schedule of Banking Hours EFFECTIVE MONDAY MAY 18th 1936 Banking Hours, Daily a. m. to a. m. 1W m. to 3$ p. m. Closed Daily From llitt a. m. to m. fik |The State Bank of Syracuse \Bjggy Syracuse, Indiana

at least partially saved and losses greatly reduced. The three duties of fire departments are all essential—each fulfills a need vital to any community. FLAG OR RAG? Here's another interesting flag incident. A resident of Battle Creek, Mich., named Dan Keeler, bought a used car arm, as he says, found in it an old American flag, torn and soiled. He was working on the car and, getting some grease on his hands and noticing the torn -t»g. wiped his hands on it. Some critical person noticed it and turned in a complaint to the police, and Keeler was arrested for dishonoring the flag. He explained how it had happened. Justice Will Cady sentenced him to appear every morning for 30 days at police headquarters and salute the flag. The offender duly appeared the next morning, but there was no flag flying from the mast. He complained to the police in charge. They scurried around, but couldn’t find any flag. Then, rather embarrassed, they escorted him over the the poetoffice building, and the culprit accomplished his salute there. Now, this is merely a story—not !an editorial. The editor, feeling around for some appropriate comment, simply doesn't know what to say. Should a good citizen laugh or get mad? And if the latter,whom should he get mad at? TRY A JOURNAL WANT AD

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HISTORY OF SYRACUSE SETTLED IN 1835 i —-— The following is taken from the history of Syracuse and Lake Wawaaee, compiled by George W. Miles, and printed in the Sjp-acuse Journal weekly, in 1910: Further Reminiscences of Henry Conrad —of the Lake as a Summer Resort. Two months ago I gave you a pen picture of Henry Conrad, of Conrad’s Island, Lake Wawasee, as T remembered him. And you will remmeber that I said that if 1 had a picture of him I would use it to illustrate my description, but that I doubted whether he had ever _ had one tafcen. Within two days after the issue of the Journal appeared in which that paper was printed there was handed to me not only one, but two different likenesses of Mr. Conrad; one by Mrs. Frank Younce, daughter of the late Jacob and Sarah Ott, and the other by Mr. Daniel Searfoss, our efficient night policeman. Little Miss Ott (now grandmama Younce) was one child who was not afraid of Mr. Conrad. She knew him better than did the rest of us, for he was a frequent visitor at her home, when kindnesses were, shown him. Mother Ott often baked bread for him, and frequently did his washing, and little Sarah becoming a great favorite of his, he gave her this tintype, which she has sacredly kept. Mr. Searfoss is a relative of Mr. Conrad—a great nephew, I believe. I have chosen his picture for reproduction, thought it is the least characteristic of the two, because that of Mrs. Younce is so dim that a good cut could hardly be made from it. I want to set down here to the credit of Mr. Conrad’s memory that he was always a true sportsman, and no violations of the laws for the protection of the fish of the lake were ever charged against him, so far as

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I know. At a time when others paid no attention to these laws and the state made no effort to enforce them, so that their infraction brought little or no risk of punishment, he was content to abide by them, and the lake never in the least suffered on account of his annual presence here. May his memory long survive. Could Henry Conrad ’and William Dillon come back to their beloved lake now they would be much surprised and no doubt displeased at the changes there. The name of it would be strange and unpronounceable to them. And the solitude that they sought about its shores and upon its broad bosom they would not find, for all around on its 20 miles of shores, since have come into being some seventeen villages, containing in all more than seven hundred residence lots, on many of which have been built beautiful homes that are regularly occupied each year by upward of a thousand people. And besides these they would find five large hotels, entertaining half as many more. And on the lake itself, which they were accustomed to see dotted now and then with the row boats of a few fishermen, they would find pTyTdg more than a hundred motor boats. The change has come in a little more than twenty years. Vawter Park was the first lake village, and it was platted in March 1887, by Commodore John T. Vawter. In the original plat there were 45 lots, to which Mr. Vawter afterward added 14. To these have been added 26 by the Stuard heirs and 41 by Mr. Charles A. Sudlow, making 126 in all. And I am counting only lots that have a frontage on the lake. I believe some back lots have also been laid out at Vawter Park, and at a few other places around the lake. In 1888 John Snavely platted Lake View Park, with 15 lots, and A. H. Nordyke platted Nordyke Park, with 21. These latter are now the property of Major Elliott Durand, of Chicago. In 1889 South Park, with 42 lots,

was platted by Milton Woods and Benjamin F. Draper. To these Mr. Woods and Joseph P. Moore afterwards added 33. And the same year William Moore platted 20 lots at Ogden Island Park. To these latter William N. Crow has added 43. John F. Wright, of Columbus, Indiana, having purchased a part of the farm of the late George Bowser, platted Wright Place in 1892. It has 20 lots. Oakwood Park, the summer home of the Evangelical Church, was first platted as a village in 1894. Two additions to the first plat have since been made, and it now has 128 lots, nearly one fourth of which have been built upon. Willow Grove, with 9 lots, was also platted by the Eperts in 1894. In 1896 Kale Island was platted with 58 lots, and in 1897 Ketring and Blanchard platted Ideal Beach, with 57, and Lamb & Moore- laid out Pickwick Park, which has 17. Col. Eli Lilly platted 71 lots at Wawasee Station in 1898, but none of these has ever been put on the market. In 1903 Cedar Point was platted by W. N. Crow and Sarah Sloan, children and heirs of the late William Crow, with 33 lots. In 1904 Truesdell Lodge was platted by Mrs. M. C. Truesdell, R. H. Brunjes and W. C. Hillabold, with 10 lots on the lake. In 1905 Morrison’s Island, so long the home of the .family of William T. Morrison, was purchased by Elwood George, of Ft. Wayne, and Moore & Schlabach, of Cromwell, and made it into a village of 37 lots. In 1906 old Jarrett’s Landing or “Buttermilk Station” was purchased by George and Mrs. Truesdell, platted into 25 lots and given the name of Cottingham Beach. Besides these sixteen villages, with their seven hundred- and sixty-eight lots, there are a number of small cottages on grounds leased from Mr. Nathaniel Crow between Cedar Point and Morrison’s Island, in a colony that Jim McDonald, of the Ligonier Banner, who is at member of it, has given the very appropriate name of Nattycrow Beach (He insists on spelling it with the “W” lopped off—a crime that should not hp permitted.) Such has been the growth of the ake as a summer resort in the comparatively few years that have passed since Mr. Conrad disappeared from it. When the first lots were laid but they were thought to be well sold at a hundred dollars each. Now vacant lots like them are bringing as much as a thousand dollars apiece, that being equivalent to S2O a foot of lake frontage. And the entire lake frontage, at that price worth a million dollars.

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