St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-15
MINNETONKA BREEZES.

Mrs. ex-Gov. Davis is stopping at the Lake
Park hotel.
Sundays arrivals at the Lafayette filed
four pages of the register.
E. B. Phillips, of Cleveland, Ohio, is
domiciled at the Lafayette.
Mrs. c. H. and Miss Cora Mcconnell, OF
Chicago are at the Lafayette.
The legand ''For Rent adorns several
cottages at various points on the lake.
A 'blind pig'' is among the best adver-
tised attractions of the village of Wayzata.
Patterson's Birch bluff cottage is occupied
by d. L. Howe and family of Shakopee.
R. J. Mendenhall and family, of Minneap-
oils, will occupy their cottage in few days.
The guests of the Lafayette will Chop. this
evening to the music of Prof. Kosts or
chestra.
Work on the long promised and long de-
ferred new Narrows is at last under way and
progressing finely. "
''Encampment week'' will be long re-
membered as the most prosperous period in
the history of Minnetonka.
Among those quartered at the Lake Park
for the season are: Mrs. j. Bronson and
family, of Fort Scott. Kas.
The .Lotus" has been oyerhauled and re-
painted, and is now one of the handsomest
as well as the pleasantest of the smaller lake
steamers.
L. NJ. Rumsey, of st. Louis, the Spring
Park pioneer is on his way up the river with
large party of friends and will arrive in a
few days.
Commodore Stetson, of the Blue line fleet,
is arranging for series of Sunday afternoon
concerts to be given at Excelsior.
A game of base ball between mines from
the Lake Park and Lafayette will be called at
the latter hotel grounds, at $3.50 this after
noon.
The Lake Park and Lafayette hotels revel
in the possession of lawn tennis clubs, and
a match game for the championship of the
lake is on the tapis.
The base bail craze has struck the lake
hard, and the hotel or boarding house that
does not boast its "nine'' is considered very
low in the fashionable scale.
st. Louisans, consisting of DR.. C. D. Stevens,
Mrs. c. w. Stevens and Miss Ida Stevens,
who will occupy cottage on Gideon's bay.
John D. Davis and family, Mrs. H. s. Pot
ter and FIRMLY and Miss Mary Lionberger, of
st. Louis, have taken possession of cottage
on Carson's bay, where they will remain
through the summer.
larger, finer and more numerous than ever
before, and the daily and nightly concerts
fill the wooded slopes of Minnetonka's shores
with mirth and melody.
j. H. Stewart, general manager of the
Washington, Baltimore d Cincinnati rail-
way. accompanied by his wife and party, ar
rived at the lake in a special car, Friday, and
spent few days at the Lafayette.
The Minneapolis SSt. Louis railway has
taken the initiative in the matter of cheap
tran sportation, and announces that from
July 20 to August /, the round trip rate from
Minneapolis to Lake Park and return will be
reduced to fifty cents. The. other roads will
probably be obliged to follow this good ex-
ample. and the steamers should wisely fol-
low suit.
The employees of the Manitoba shops en-
joyed an excursion and picnic on the Ar
nngton house grounds Saturday. They ar
rived on train of eighteen cars early in the
morning, and spent the forenoon IN the
little social pastimes so incidental to picnics.
The afternoon was given up to sports. A
games of base ball between the mechanics
and boiler makers was won by the latter with
a score of to l, other sports followed, while
the Great Western band stationed in the
Arlington DINING room furnished music
for dancing. The party went home at z
o'clock well satisfied with the day.