Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-12
QUE sunMER RESORTS.


has about ended. a majority of the guests
from the East and South have taken their
departure for home, as a rule we'll pleased
with the few weeks they have spent in the
glorious climate of Minnesota, and de-
termined to come again next summer if
some of the objections that were 80 prcmi-
sent this year are removed by the opening
of the next season. One of the principal
faults found has been with the inadequacy
of the hotel Accommodations at the various
lake resorts in the vicinity of St. Paul.
There are several fair hotels at Lake Mime
tonka, but the means of reaching them are
inadequate. In view of the experiences Of
the past there are few who care to risk their
lives on the insecure tubs, misnamed
steamers, which are almost the only means
of communication between the various To-
eaIities.
The enterprising owners of the st. Paul
d Manitoba road are remedying this defect
however, by building line of road around
portion of the lake, and next yea. no one
will need to take an accident policy in one
hand and their lives in the other to visit that
beautiful natural spot.
Lake Elmo is, practically, the only real
resort we now have. 1t has large hotel and
is excellently managed and convenient Of
access. For family purposes it is all that
can be desired, but the size OF the lake is a
drawback which the tourists cannot easily
overlook. Besides no one resort can accom-
modate the thousands who seek Minnesota
for health and pleasure during the summer
season.
White Bear has all the necessary attrae-
hons furnished by nature but is wofully
deficient m hotel accommodations. It is
splendidly located and apoharming body of
water, but visitors need something more.
The hotels, such as they are, have been
greatly overcrowded all through the season,
and thousands of persons who would have
spent the season there were driven away be
cause they could not obtain the accommo-
dations they desired.
Prior Lake and Forest Lake have fair
country hotels, but both are not satisfac-
torily accessible as the trains have heretofore
been run. To visit them requires full
days time, which is more of an isolation
than either home guests or tourists desire.
If the railroads should render them accessi-
bic the hotels would be utterly inadequate.
A host of other beautiful lakes, ranging
within radius of from five to forty miles
oh toll xuifhovf h<,
tells at all, and visitors are obliged to rely up
on the hospitality of farmers in their vicin-
ity if they desire''to spend few days there
abouts.
In order to make Minnesota popular
summer resort for the people from the East
and South it is necessary that proper means
be employed to attract them. The majority
of summer visitors to this section have
money enough to pay for frst-olass accom-
modations, and are willing to pay any rea-
sonable sums for proper entertainment. but
they are not willing to pay even small sums
for Indifferent accommodations. If they
cannot have what they want they will stay
away. II is manifest, therefore, that the
several resorts surrounding st. Paul should
provide, between the present time and the
warm season of 1881, by the erection of
commodious hetels and comfortable cot
tages, furnished especially with view to the
entertainment of the class who seek this eli
mate during the sultry days of June, July
and August. There should be two frst-class
hotels on the shores of White Bear lake, one
additional on Prior lake, the same at Forest
lake, and at Lake Johanna, and several on
the Ohissgo lakes, which promise to be
favorite resorts in the near future. Beauty
of scenery, abundance'of game, and all
other natural advantages will not compen-
safe for the absence of suitable hotel accom-
modations, and those who expect to retain
the patronage of the public while affordine
only Indifferent accommodations, will find
themselves grievously mistaken. If Mlnne-
sofa desires to be regarded as favorite
place of resort for summer tourists, her
citizens must see to it that all who
come are we'll provided with first
class entertainment. The men who estab-
fish good hotels at the principal lakes in this
vicinity before the opening of the next sea-