HISTORICAL TRIVIA 1936-1940 - Fulton County Public Library

over quarter million dollars a summer. Now, seventy-five percent of
this real estate, as gathered from the tax records, is owned by citizens of
this community and the greater part of this money is spent at home.
This revenue has increased from year to year until most of you hardly
realize that this amount of money is being spent. And. I am afraid that
you would sadly miss it if it were not here. I know that many business
houses in this community could not exist without the summer revenue.
Mr. Smith of The First National Bank will tell you that he is shipping
all of the way from $10,000 to $15,000 out of this community every
Monday A.M. To the Federal Reserve, and during the increased over
the average receipts during the summer season, and every person in the
community, either directly, or indirectly, received some of this money.
Manitou or any other resort depends upon several things to make
it popular. Among them is the consideration and the courtesy with
which the visitors are received by the town people and by the lake
hotels. The class of entertainment that they get when they come here
and the type of accommodations they get at both the cottages and the
hotels are important. You may think that I say these things because our
business has not been good this summer. I may say without fear of
contradiction, that Lake Manitou is just about to close one of the most
successful seasons in the past ten years. And this has not been true of
the larger portion of other resorts in northern Indiana. Most of them
have lost money, and a large portion of the remainder have made no
money at all this season. Now, why is Manitou particularly favored this
year? It is because we have given them the finest entertainment that is
available anywhere in the United States. We have brought to your
door, to yourself and to your children, the highest type of entertainment
at a great expense to Mr. Bradley and to myself. But I want to tell you
that you cannot run a summer resort, even with this outstanding
entertainment, on the same principles that you run a city like Rochester.
And this brings me to the question of lake morals, abut which so much
has been said this past few weeks. The class of people that come to
Manitou is far above the average in intelligence and morals, and each
year the standard gets better. But, people come to this coimmunity to
be entertained in evry sense of the word, and they demand a certain
amount of liberality and they will not come unless they can have it.
Now, that I am coming to the point of my little talk to you, not with the
hope that this late in the season that anything will be done, for it is too
late, but not for the coming year. Let me remind
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