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

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Mrs. ex-Gov. Dayis.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 villageo 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. Kost's 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 overhauled and re-
painted, and is now one of the handsomest
as well as the pleasantest of the smaller lake
steamers.
L. M. Rumsey, of st. Louis. the Spring
Park pioneer, is on his way up the river with
a 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
tie latter hotel grounds, at 80 this after
noon.
The Lake Park and Lafayette hotels revel
in the possession of lawn tennis clubs, and
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 mine" is considered very
low in the fashionable scale.
Among Saturday arrivals were party of
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Mrs. c. w. Stevens and Miss Ida Stevens,
who viii occupy cottage on Gideon's bay
John D. Davis and family, Mrs. Fl. S. Pot
ter and FIRMLY and Miss Mary Lion berger, of
st. Louis, have taken possession of cottage
on Carson's bay, where they will remain
through the summer.
The bands and orchestras at the lake are
! larger, finer and more numerous than ever
before, and the daily and nightly concerts
| fill the wooded slopes of Mnnetonka's shores
with mirth and melody.
j. H. Stewart, general manager of the
| Washington, Baltimore u 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 &St. Louis railway has
| taken the initiative in the matter of cheap
transportation, 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 viii
| probably be obliged to follow this good ex-
ample. and the steamers should wisely fol-
| low suit.
The employees of the Manitoba shops en-
| lONeu al tAcuIS4Ou duu piCHlC VI lut AT
| lington house grounds Saturday. They ar
rived on a 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 9 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 Gay.