St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-28

trip to washington.
Mrs. r. M. Hubbard is quite seriously i'll
at Cleveland, 0.
E. o. Davis has gone to spenda month in
Cincinnati.
Col. William S. King has returned from
the East.
City Clerk SeIah Mathews is quite ill.
MINNETONKA ZEPHYRS.
How the Week was Passed by the
People at the Lake.
The week at the lake has not been a
lively one, and very few people except spe-
cal parties of excursionists and picnickers
have ventured lakeward. The torrid wave
isheaded this way, however, and all who
have aninterest in successful season are
hoping that an abiding place may be found
for the visitor in some OF our cities and
towns. This would surely cOnduce to lake
travel and the hotel keepers and boatmen
would be happy.
The following eloquent tribute to Mime
tonka was given by Rev. Dr.. Dana of ST.
Paul at meeting of Northwestern Chau-
tauquanS Friday:
"Here ON this enchanted isle, in the
midst of this lake, so famed for its pictur-
esque beauty and the varied glories of its
sunsets, we realize how much we miss the
witchery of some wizards pen, like Sir
Walters, to link with legends rare and
stirring this miniature sea. After all, it is
the poems and romances of Scott that have
lent such weird interest to the lochs, the
highlands and glens of Scotia, and made its
history and heroes real to every tourist.
Under the brooding blue of these cloud
fiecked skies, breathing this tonic air, gazing
upon the sheeny waters, cut by the keels of
little shallOps and grand three-deckers,
what need we more than some bard or min
strel such as of yore were welcome On oc-
caSiOnS like this, to weave into song and
story the legends that are now unwritten
of those bygone days when the Sioux war
riOrS dWelt about this lake, sought in its
azure depths for fish and in adjoining and
then unpeopled regions for game. Enough
for us to believe that no other lake, east or
west, rivals this one in its varied charms or
wears name that fits the lips so WELL and
falls therefrom in a harmony so delicious to
the ear. 1t was Goethe who first said that
lakes are the eyes of the landscape and
what would he have said, if a visitant to
Minnesota, where these eyes at last accounts
numbered some $1,000 and were still in
creasing with every census. How comfort
ing the thought, the product of the canny
brain of university professor at the Falls,
that there is heat enough stored up in our
Minnesota lakes each summer and given
forth during the cooling autumn months to
raise block of granite as large as town
ship. and 100 feet thick, to heighth of
over 800 miles above the level of the sea.
Who wonders that the denizen OF this fav-
Ored commonwealth is proud, and who in
this favored spot, where the environment is
so .oongenial, will undertake to say whether
wooded bluffs or retreating slopes or liquid
depths must lure the sight? 1t is not
a scene of seclusion amid the
great forest, shut in by untamed
hills amid the heart of the wilderness, that
Minnetonka inspires. No mountain that
walls abrupt and high curtains us in, rather
large spaces of cheerful light, of yistas of
gently receding shores, of long low capeS of
luxuriant green, give the impression Of
cheerful symmetrical beauty. In the combi-
nation of cones and cliffs and islands, there
is picturesoueness that only the eye can
take in, and we can hardly imagine per-
son firing through whole summer of it's
artistic and infinite variety. In the Tyrol
and in Switzerland, there are lakes exceeding
this one in historic interest, and the charm
that great names and scenes impart. But
in the wedding of land and water in which
one is perpetually approaching and retreat
ing from the other, and each transmutes it
self into overwhelming forms OF grace and
beauty and seem invested with the ease and
freedom of almost musical motion, can any
thing in this Western world Sufpass our
own Minnetonka? 70 learn to see is one
of the.chief objects of education and of life,
and ere went further and ventured to
touch on other themes twas meet, with this
grand object lesson before US, we paused to
take in our environment and appreciate
this projected site for the Northwestern
branch assembly of the G. L. S. c."
MUSIC AT LAKE PARK.
The Lake Park orchestra will present the
following program during the dinner at
Lake Park hotel to-day:
March. .Newburg Centennial
Overture-Me dley-Free and Easy. .Wiegand
Waltzes-Dolce far Niente. ........D ellbruck
Polka-Silver Stream. .............. Robinson
Telephone Solo,. .,..ChafieS E. cooper
Acknowledgements. ....... .Mlllocher
In LAKELETS.
"Old Maids Haunt is the euphonious
title of Stickney's cottage at Fairview
They say it is haunted, but not by ghosts,
unless Misses Carrie Robinson, Florence
Ames. Mamie Hazlehurst, Fife Ames and
Lena Stickney of Minneapolis, and Emma
Coesof Sank Centre are the spirits. The
Young ladies had had no visitors when the
reporter called, but were expecting some.
They will remain until after July 4.-The
Tourist.
At, the White house: G. E., F. D., Ida
i
d. w. Trysler, st. Louis; Mrs. P. S.
Larned. Misses Grace, Madeline, Philo-
mena. Bertha and Gertrude Larned, Misses
j.. d. and N. Fl. Lyman, Mrs. w. A.
Barnes and children, Minneapolis; E. A.
Lord, Monmouth, ILL.,; G. P. White, ST.
Paul.
John Voege's new skating rink and dance
hall at Wayzata will be dedicated next Fri
day evening, with hop as the principal at
traction. Good music from Minneapolis
will be furnished and delegations OF de-
voices of Terpsichore will be in attendance
from all points on the lake. The hall has
been enlarged to 70x32.
Two Minneapolis societies, the knights
of Pythias and the Fifth Presbyterian
church, were at Lake Park yesterday en-
loving picnic season. There were several
hundred people in the two parties.
The first regatta of the season will be
sailed July 4, under the auspices of the
Nlinnetonka Yacht club. A meeting to
complete arrangements will be held at Orono
Tuesday evening.
DIR. S. B. Parsons and family of st. Louis
will arrive at their ''Ingleside" residence
tomorrow evening. They will entertains
Mis-. DR.. Runbolt and daughters of st.
Lofts during the season.
The ladies of the First Baptist church,
st. Paul. will have an excursion to the lake
Tuesday afternoon and evening.