Manana - Hervey Bates & Coffin Cottage  

It is ASSUMERD that this is 1480 E. Shore Lane the Coffin cottage "Portledge" but nothing as yet has been found to defintely claim that it is; more than likely the the extra Bates cottages were torn down

The following news quips below have been found about the activities of "Manana" defintely places as the owner as Hervey Bates

The biggest clue is the shoreline - the street lights -

1904 - Sep 8 - Miss Helen Royse of Lafayette and Mis Mabel Talbott arrivied in an automobile driven by Mr. H. B. Perrin for a visit at Manana

1905 - May 25 Major and Mrs. Hervey Bates have opened Manana for the summer. Hervey Bates IV is spending the summer with his grandparents.

1905 - June 22 - Miss Charlotte Cathcart, Mr and Mrs. John Parrin and Mrs. H Bates Jr.. of Indianapolis, are guests of Major and Mrs. H. Bates at Manana .

1905 - Aug. 10 - Mrs Ada Carsy of Indianapolis is visiting Mr. H. Bates at Manana

1906 - May 10 - Major and Mrs. Hervey Bates of Indianapolis have opened Manana for the season

1906 - Jun 28 - John Perrin Hr. of New Haven is a guest of his grandparents at Manana

1906 - Aug 2 - Harry Schlotzhauer Jr. , who has been visiting Major and Mrs Bates at Manana , returned to Indianapolis this week

1906 - Aug. 16 - Fire at The Lake

Power House at the Bates Cottage Destroyed Sunday Night.

On Sunday evening about 8:30 o'clock the power house at Manana cottage, owned by Hervey Bates of Indianapolis, caught fire from some unknown cause and was completely consumed.

The building was tow stories. The tower story contained a gasoline engine, dynamo and a water pressure boiler. The upper story was used as a repair and carpenter shop by the proprietor.

Fortunately the night was still and other property was not endangered. The loss is covered by insurance.

1906 - Sep 13 - Hervey Bates IV, who has been spending the summer with his grandparents, Major and Mrs. Hervey Bates at 01480_e_shore, went back to Indianapolis Tuesday to attend school

1908 - May 28 - Mrs. John Perrin of Indianapolis is visiting her father Major H . Bates, at Manana .

1908 - Aug. 20 - Major Hervey Bates, after a tend day's sojourn at Indianapolis has returned to Manana

1909 - May 27 - Mrs. James Robert McKee of New York, Mrs. George K Levering and Mrs. H. Bates Jr. are at 01480_e_shore with Major Bates and Mrs. Perrin.

1909 - Jun 3 - Mr. R. W. Cathcaret and her daughter Charlotte of Indianapolis are visiting Major Bates at Manana

1909 - Jul 1 - Eugene L Frasher of Chicago is visiting Major Bates at Manana

1909 - Jul 8 - H. A. Schlotzhauer, cashier of the American National bank of Indiainapolis, and his family are the guests of Major Hervey Bates at 01480_e_shore

1910 - Apr 28 - Major Hervey Bates arrived last week and is now enjoying the breezes at Manana

1910 - Jul 7 - H. Bates Jr. of Indianapolis is visitign his father, Major Bates at 01480_e_shore

1910 - Jul 10 - Mrs. John Perrin of Indianapolis is with her father, Major Hervey Bats at, Manana

1910 - Jul 30 - Hervey Bates and his roommate at Hill school, Fred H. Kelley of Baltimore, are quests of the former's grandfather, Major Bates at Manana

1910 - AUg 10 - Rodeny Heord and Eliss Atkins of Indianapolis are guests of Major Bates at Manana

1911 - May 18 - Mrs. R W Carthoart and Miss charlotte Carthoart, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martindale and son of Indianapolis have been spending a week with Major Bates at Manana

1911 - Jun 15 - Hevey Bates III Is visiting hi s grandfather at Manana

1911 - Jun 22 - Fritz Kelly of Maltimore and Fritz Keith of Chicago are visiting Hervey Bats III at Manana

1911 - Jul 27 - Arthur B. Vance of Jacksonville, Fla., spent the week's end with his uncle, Major Bates, at Manana

1911 - Aug 3 - Mrs Finch and Mrs Cathcart and son Robert of Martindale are visiting Major H. Bates at Manana .

1911 - Aug 17 - On Monday morning a number of the East side young people gathered at Manana to congratualateMajor Hervey Bates on his birthday. A little extempraneous program was given. Migon McGibney and Dorothy Wilson's reciting was very pleasing and the clog dance by Carolyn Coffin and Shontze Shoute would have been more appreciated if better executed. Atfer wishing the Major many more jouyous birthdays they departed.

1911 - AUg 24 - Hervey Bates IV of Oxford, Me. arrived Monday at Manan to visit his grandfather,Major Bates

1911 - Aug 31 - H. Bates Jr. of Indianapolis is visting his father, Major Bates at Manana

1911 - Nov 9 - Major Bate's summer residence is being improved by adding a second story to the kitchen

1912 Apr 25 - Jay Bartlett has completed the improvements on Mayor Bates' summer home. These inculde an enlargement of the rear of the house which gives an additiional room up staits, an extension of the south end of the living room and the repainting of the building

1912 - Jul 25 - Mrs Hervey Bates Jr., Miss Martindale, Miss Carthcart, Robert Martindale and Hervey Bates IV. are guests of Major Bates

1912 - Aug. 15 - Mrs. John Perrin of Indianapolis is visiting her father, Major H. Bates, at Manana

1914 - Jun 18 - Mr. and Mrs Hervey Bayes Jr., Miss Emma Martindale and Hervey Bates IV. arrived Friday to visit Mrajor Bates at Manana

1914, Jul 9 - Mrs. and Mis Cathcart and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martindale and master Robert arrives Tuesdaye to visit Major Bates and Mrs. Perrin at Manana

1911 - Sep 14 - Hervey Bates IV, who has been at the lake with his grandfather, Major Bates at Manana has returned to Indianapolis

1916 - Jun 29 - Major and Hervey Bates Jr. and J. C. Schaf spent Sunday at Manana

1917 - Jul 11 - Mrs Hervey Bartes Perrin of Indianapolis is at home at Manana for the summer. Hervey Bates Perrin is expected from Plattsburg in August

1918 - Apr. 10 - Mjor Bates returned last week from his winter hibernation in Tucso, Arizona, and has opened his lake cottage, Manana .

1919 - Mar 26 - Charles E Coffin will put a new roof on his lake cottage, "Manana " and build a couple of proches this spring.

1923 - Jan 3 - A Gallant Gentleman

All who have had the pleasure of an acquaintance with Maj. Hervey Bates, who has been a member of the Lake Maxinkuckee's summer colony for a long period of years, will apprciate the following reference to him by Russel M. Seeds writing to the Indianapolis Sta from Tuscon, Arizaona: "who appears to have found out here in the desert the fountain of eternal youth. He is celedbrating his 90th Christmas this year., and the way he can hop up two filghts of stairs to hie luxurious apartments in the old Pueblo Club makes me dizzy. The sam courteous, kind gentleman as of yore time, has dealt as gently with him as he has always dealth with human kind"

1922 - Jun 21 - Mraj. Hervey Bates, who has been in Pasadena Calif., much of the time since last fall has arrived at Manana cottage for the summer

1927 - Jun 1 - S. E. Keen has just sold another East Side Cottage, the larger of the Bates cottages .

1929 - Jan 30 - Hervey Bates, Pioneer Cottager, Died at 97.... Mr. Bates had been coming to the lake every year for a long time and only sold his two cottages about a year ago when he became to feeble to make the trip each summer....