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Loup Generator — Fall 2020

The Ruthie cabin cruiser makes a big splash in 1939, the Lake Babcock Amusement Resort works to develop the lake into a "boating mecca", protecting the piping plover and interior least tern at the Genoa Headworks.

The Ruthie cabin cruiser makes a big splash in 1939, the Lake Babcock Amusement Resort works to develop the lake into a "boating mecca", protecting the piping plover and interior least tern at the Genoa Headworks.

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“<br />

Troubles and bubbles notwithstanding,<br />

Leonard Fleischer is going to stick it out on<br />

Lake Babcock . . . It’s a matter of record that<br />

the landlubber mariner hasn’t had clear sailing with his<br />

craft. Not that “The Ruthie” isn’t seaworthy, because<br />

she’s the acme in craft building for her size, but the<br />

elements are another reckoning.<br />

In the special building he has erected to house “The<br />

Ruthie” when not in the water, Cap’n Fleischer has toiled<br />

nearly every weekend for months on end fixing this, or<br />

painting that.<br />

Fleischer’s latest bitter pill came last Saturday night.<br />

“The Ruthie” was anchored on the lake. A heavy wind<br />

came up. Waves lashed against the craft in sufficient<br />

force to crash the rudder so sharply against the side a few<br />

boards were smashed . . .<br />

Doggedly, the process of repair and cleaning out was<br />

pursued this week, and Fleischer optimistically predicted<br />

yesterday his erstwhile study craft will again dip its nose<br />

into Lake Babcock ere another week is past.”<br />

<strong>—</strong> Columbus Telegram, May 24, 1941<br />

Opposite page: The Ruthie at<br />

the Walter Schmid farm near<br />

Richland where it was stored<br />

and reconditioned before it<br />

was taken to Lake Babcock.<br />

Above: Leonard Fleischer’s<br />

in-laws pose by the Ruthie<br />

on the <strong>Loup</strong> canal bank.<br />

Left: A Cabin Cruiser Ticket<br />

from 1940.<br />

Below: Fleischer’s permit to<br />

operate The Ruthie on lake<br />

Babcock.<br />

FALL <strong>2020</strong> 5

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