Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-21

Between Wayzata, the railroad station, and
other points on the lake, several steamers
ply regularly; SO one can take almost hourly
trips In almost any direction. There are
good hotels at the village OF Excelsior, also
at several other points on both the upper and
lower lakes, which are connected by mar
row and crooked channel, known as Halls
Narrows." To the southeast of these mar
rows peninsula extends from the southern
shores of the two lakes, dividing them from
each other, and containing two hundred and
twenty-five acres with shore line of four
and-one-seventh miles, and of such shape
that no part of it is more than eighty rods
from the beach. On this peninsula, incom
parable for the purpose, the "Minnetonka
Lake park association has recently laid out
beautiful park, on the principles of land
seape gardening, to be used for religious,
scientific, literary and moral reform meet
ings, and more especially for an undenoml-
national Sabbath-schooi asscmbly-the first
one to meet on the sixth of the eemIng
August-and as a summer resort for people
In general who have no taste for diSsi-
pating pleasures, but seek a place for
rest and healthful recreation. Many lots
for cottages have already been sold, and
hotel on magnificent scale is about COM
| pleted, where rates will be low. A pavilion.
auditorium, which will hold three thousand
people, is also to be built Immediately. The
hotel is built after one of the most beautiful
! and appropriate designs, for a summer hotel,
| that recollect to have seen. 1t Is four hum
| bred and sixteen feet in extreme length, sur
rounded by broad verandas, and adorned
with four towers, one of which has its upper
| stories left IN open pavilions, where the guests
may sit and enjoy the lovely views on either
hand. The temperance congress of the north
west meets here from the second to the sixth
of August. R. e. Gilmors, Esq, of Cedar
Rapids, is the president of the park associa-
ton, and E. w. Alien, of Marshalltown,
Iowa, is secretary. Hotel Harrow is an ele-
CANT new hotel, about completed, located be-
tween Wayzat2 and Excelsior. Ii is situated
on high ground, at least seventy-fVe feet
above the lake, and commands a beautiful
view of its beautiful eXpaase In all directions.
This hotel Is built by some Kentucky gentle
men, and will be run by one of them, hotel
man well known In Louisville, after whom
the house is named, together with Mr.. jack
son, also, | believe, from Kentucky. This
hotel will accommodate between four and FIVE
hundred guests, Is built and viii be fitted
up with all the latest improvements, and
will be the headquarters for fe bon ton
among the worlds people at the lake. But
| must tell you of the southern part Of the
State, which |. visited On my trip up. |
came ria the Minneapolis and st. Louis rail-
way, which Is a part of the great Iowa
Short line, " from st. Louis, consisting of the
| st. Louis and Rock Island division of the
| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern rail-
way, and the first named road, which is, by
| the way, one hundred and thirty miles shorter
than ria Chicago, and considerably shorter
| than any other route through Iowa. The
Minneapolis and st. Louis railway traverses
| the State of Minnesota fIcm Albert Lea, near
| its southern borders, to Minneapolis, a dis
| lance of one hundred and eight miles. My
introduction to the North Star State" was
a delightful one. fancied the quaint name,
! Albert Lea, from the first, and when the
| beautiful town burst upon my vision, amid
| its groves and lakes, | was enchanted. 1t Is
| located upon an elevated promontory, be-
| tween two lakes, one of which bears the same
name as that Of the town, being that of its dis
| coverer, Lieutenant Albert Lea, of the United
| States Typographical engineers, a dRshing
and brilliants young officer who passed
| through this region in 1858, and in his re-
port pronounced this lake lone of the most
SEEN" Lakes. woodland and prairie
stretch away on every hand, round
dozen of lakes being within pleasant driving
distance of the town. 1t Is, Ia consequence,
quite prominent as a pleasure resort. The
town contains about three thousand inhabi-
tants, maintains fine hotel, and, what is
especially striking, has one of the handsom-
est brick depots In the State. From Albert
Lea, going north. we travel abont forty
miles further through a similar beautiful
park region, whose
Where FIRST Waw-kee-an's footsteps passed.
to Waterville, where we strike the "Big
Woods belt of timber extending across
the State from Sunk Rapids, on the upper
Mississippi to the Iowa line, distance of
over a hundred miles, and about forty miles
In width, with its myriad woodland lakes and
streams, the hunters and fsherman's para
disc. Waterville is the point of departure
roughing it in the woods. All through the
State there are many driedup lakes, now
marshes or meadows, which almost anywhere
else would mean malaria; but it is we'll
known fact that malaria will not float at an
altitude of thousand feet or more, and much
of Minnesota is fully twelve hundred feet
above the sea, so that here these marshes
mean waterfowl in abundance, and no evil
consequences to human kind. After leaving
the town of Waterville, we pass through
the beautifully dive: sifed region of the
Big Woods" until within thirty
miles of Minneapolis, where We again strike
the prairies and presently are at our dest ina
ton, in the beautiful CITY of Waters" with
st. Anthony's Falls in its midst, and the
headquarters and most central point of all
this delightful region. whence all the Dalles
of the st. Louis, near Duluth, Superior with
its thirty thousand islands, the gitcher gum
mel of the Indians, the Northern Pacific
vs.
toba regions, and all the magic northland
are easily accessible. In the immediate VI
entity of the city there are several beautiful
lakes-Lake Calhoun, four miles west of the
city, being the favorite, where there is large
hotel. Four miles east,
- The falls of Minnehaha
Flash and CLEAN among the oak trees,
Laugh and leap Into the valley"
which Is a romantic gorge, quite similar to
the one at Osceoa, and extending from the
falls to the Mississippi, q distance of over a
mile. The night that l was there the falls
were illuminated red, by calcium lights, with
beautiful effect. Here, too, is a good hotel
One of the most romantic rides in the VI
cinity is that to st. Paul UiG the Chicago
Minneapolis and st. Paul railroad, which
follows the course of the river some distance
back from its immediate banks, past Min
nehaha, to the vicinity of Fort SMELL
| ing, where it descends into the
valley, leaving the old gray historic
walls towering far above, and crosses the
| Minnesota at its junction with the Missis-
sippi, following the latter stream under the
bluffs and crossing it at st. Paul All the
way, after reaching the river, the scenery is
of the most striking and beautiful descrip-
ton. Minneapolis itself is one OF the bright
est, pleasantest and best built cities in the
country. 1t Is mainly built of brick and
stone. 1t now contains fifty thousand IN
habitants, and is the first city in the State ia
population. Its business is manly manu-
features, st. Paul still holding the lead as
commercial city, although Minneapolis IS
making rapid strides in that direction also.
1t contains over thirty mills, nineteen of them
Touring mills, four more being in process of
construction to replace those DESTROYED last
May. The 'Washburn A. mill, belonging
to Ex-Governor Washburn, of Wisconsin,
will be, when finished, the largest flourinc-mill
in the world, having over fifty run of stone.
There are two wooden and carding mills, one
cotton mill, two paper mills, six saw-mills,