The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-09-04

! The grounds are we'll laid out 10 walks and
drives and ornamented with trees and
flowers The Ulcers qusrisrs are two
story houses, built OF brick, with spacious
lawns, and are so attractive they would
inspire the average boy with a desire to be
an officer.
| Thence we drove TO the Falls of Mime
haha, where We spent few hours very
pleasantly The young ladies in our party
went some distance below the fails and
bathed their feet i'm the clear water. One
Of them went back io WISH her free, bat took
the prec.ution to go to different place.
going belOw Instead Of above
We drove hack nv the fort and got there
in time TO see the troops on dress parade
nd hear the coIo;ed band play. On Fri
day our party did the city, and 1T p. IN
went to Lake Minr.tnnk,. AT Wsyzaro
| We left the train and boarded the little
steamer Minneapolis. and in abOu, an hour
landed ut the Hotel ST. Louis We were
met at the door by the familiar faces Of
COL. JAYNEs AND FAMILY,
all OF whom are much improve and look
ing we'll
On Saturday n,,,gning We had a delightful
row on the lake and gathered water lilies
This is delightful summer resort. am
not surprised il is 80 popular. There Hre
about 'w" hundred guests al our hotel and
there has bven as many ~ ur hundred at
ore time. A good Many st Louis people
are here. II seems to b. headquarters for
them. Everybody here s. ems To have come
for good time, for rest and r, creation, and
II they GO away without it, it is their own
fault. They spend The dav in boating aud
fishing, pitching quOits playing cr"quet
and stroliing over the grounds. In the
evening Tie gusso assemble in the spacious
parlors and indulge in games ami listen To
music, vocal and instrumental. The str ng
band witch hes BE- en- here curing the sra
son went awav last week.
The people here do no, pnt on ,oany airs,
nor spend much OF their ime in dress.
They ar quite social, and rev acquaint-
ances are constsutly msde
They have not been troubled here with
m, squiiOes. but SCREENS on all he windows
indicate their liability 10 I've attacked. The
season ha, hen
UNUSUALLY COLD HERE
as we'll as elsew here. so that il has MT been
a very profitable vesr to the hotels. l sm
told that many of them will Lose money.
The Lafayette house claims that they must
have Fix hundred guests 10 psy expenses,
hut al no time have they had more than
half that number.
On Saturday noon Mr.. Beiler and wife
arrived. We parted with them al st. Louis,
but net them again In st. Paul. We had
preaching in the morning and evening IN
The p.flors, both serv ces being quite we'll
attended, IAN, Ms at home the majority did
not attend, but spent the time iu bathing
and slro:ling.
On Monday morning We concluded 10
take tour around the lake, and at 9 =.
m. hoaried the steamer City vi 81. Louis
nj the landing, and steamed to Wa'z,,ta
and landed alongside tine Belle oi MIMI
tonka till The arrival Of the train. These
are thu two principal steamers on The lasr.
he former being 100 feet and the latter 30
feet long Both are frsi-class boats, and
are fitted up with every convenience for
comfort ard pleasure. They run in oppp-
>ition, AMI al times the competition is quite
!ivelv. Whsn the train arrived several
passengers got of and came to the landing
intending To- take the lake trip, but seemed
undecided as to
WHICH BOAT To TAKE,
and while they We're hesitating both boats
pulled in their planks and they wer- LETT.
i;th boat wers anxious 10 make the next
Harding first, ard neither one would 80
back for them.
At Wa,z,tta there is n large three-s,Orv
""tei, called the Arlington house beauti-
iully situated or high ground which hss
not been opened for two years We pro-
..used that a party come up from Sedal'a
next summer and occupy il for The season
W=yzatta is a small village on the x NJ.
rsilroad "u the MOI th-asiern corner If tire
ike Thence We went to Excelsior, another
viiIsge considerably larger, on a southern
point Of the lake. with two railrosd con
nections-the NJ. T. & T. Nj. raiiroad and
the S.; p Il Nj. railroad Here Is located
the Excelsior house. one of the oldest on
the lake.
From here it is but few minutes ride
to the Park hotel, a mammoth structure,
with BEAUTIFUL rolling grounds, covered, as
| re all these resorts, with large t'resS trees.
We stop only long enough to put of and
| lake o. passengers ard then steam ahead
IN noriawes,erly direction to Minuetonka
besch, on which is located the LAFAYETTE
house, which mas eight hundred feet front
md is the iarg. ST ard finest ON the lake.
I II is also beautifully located. JUST In front
oi il runs the ST. p Il NJ. railway Thence
We 60 south,
PASSING THROUGH THE NARRows.
or chsunvl, that has beer made only wide
enough for single steamer, and about half
mile long. AS We pass through the
marshy ground on eilher .ide unduia, s
and some det. ch.d portions foai Oh the
water Piles have been driven on both
sides Of the passage. From the "a rows We
60 in a circuitoGs route, passing Spray
Island, the Shady Island, on which Hotel
Harrow il located, around Enchanted Is
land End up through Cooks Bay t. the
the northern point Of the lake, where the
Chapman house is situated. Here we land
for couple of hours ard :ake our lunch