Launches of Capt. Oliver Crook

Years previous to having his own launches he was steamboat capt. for Ralph K. & Emma Lord; and after Mr. Lord's death her also became business manager for Emma Lord.

1902 - July - Peerless II"

1902 - July = Aubeenaubee

1903 - Doxie / renamed "Helen" 1904

1903, June - Neeswaughee

1905 - White Swan, Dancing Pavilion

1909 - May - "Charline"

1903 - June 12 - Enourmous Rush to the Summer Resorts

Maxinkuckee

An old and popular character of the Indiana lkaes is Capt. Oliver Crook master of several steamers plying on Maxinkuckee lake.

He is the son of Thomas Crook, a brother of Gen. Crool, the Indian fighter.

Althouth his uncle killed man a redsking, Capt Crook has penchant for naming almost everyting he possesses after Indian chiefs.

The names he has given to several of his steamres had dislocted the jaws of summer visitors who attemtped to pronounce them

For several years he ran a boat called the Au-bee-nau-nee, who was an Indian chief. Nothing in history was worthy of having any kind of boat christened after him, but Capt Crook painted the named in letters reaching from stem to midshipt on each side of the boat.

Old Au-bee-nau-bee was a bad Indian. He had four wives and quanities of fire water, and in a druken fit killed a wife, and, in turn was killed by eldest son. The redman, however. was known to have grit, and Crook stuck to the name untill compelled to build a new boat, for which he promised to choose a new name.

The people of Maxinkuckee joped he would give them something easy, but what was their consternation when they found the new boad had had painted on the bow another jawbreaker. "Hess-wau-gee", was the name. They were not appeased until the captain explained the Hess-wau-gee was a Pottawatomie chief whome every one loved.

. Capt. Crook keeps a book inwhich he records the number of people who have asked him what the Indiana names mean. It's a big book, but it's nearly filled. The captain says he has heard 400 different meanings of the word Maxinkuckee and avers it may mean "gravelly bottom", or may have been the name od a section boss on the Vandalia line, for all her knows. He believes people should be kept guessing. - Chicago Tribunr (Illinois)