St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-02
uINNETONRA.
The Busiest Day OF the Season at
the kSiE Water.

The Busiest Day OF the Season at
the BiE Water.
The week which has just closed has been
the livelieSt of the present season.
Nearly every hotel and boarding house at
the lake is filled, even to overlooking. The
Excelsior house has turned away would-be
guests nearly every day, and at the Lake
Park last evening at o'clock every availa-
able room had been taken and late corners
could not be accommodated. At the Lafay-
cite there are about four hundred guests,
and there is room for 800 more. The
weather yesterday was of a delightful char
acter, and the first really comfortable day of
the week was enjoyed.
The most important event yesterday was
the evening excursion of the st. Paul, Min
neapolis q Manitoba railroad employees,
from Minneapolis. \ special train left
Minneapolis at o'clock with 500 merry ex-
curSionists on board. On arriving at Way
Zata, the Belle of Minnetonka was found in
waiting to convey the party around Lower
lake. BrOOke's full band accompanied the
excurSioniStS, and the affair proved to be
one Of the most enjoyable railroad excur-
sions of the season. Excelsior Lake Park
and Hotel Lafayette were the points Wis
tied during the evening, and with music,
dancing, ETC., q very pleasant evening was
passed. The able committee of arrange
mentS, to whose labOrs much of the sue
cess of the occasion is due, is as follows:
f. l.. lockwood, Charles Deering, L. G.
Lakewood, r. DudgeOn and John KEYS.
TO-DAY'S CONCERT.
The following is the program for the La
fayette concert this evening by Prof.
Thiele's orchestra:
March, Egyptian. ...................S Strauss
Overture, ''Jubileum" .............Kear Bella
Hungarian Dances. ..DVOrak
Selection, "Dinorah' .-........... .Meyerbeer
In memory of U. S. Grant.
PART II.
Overture ''FreischutZ' ........... Weber
Finite solo, ''Swiss Boy .BOehm
Mr.. l.. +. Armbrecbt.
s'Song Of thesSpirits" Haydn
Fantasia, s'Trovatore" Verdi
Polka Franchise, Alpenglocken.. .Eileuberg
NOTES.
The fifth in the series of ball games be-
tween the Lafayette and Lake Park walters
was to have been played yesterday after
noon at Lake Park, but owing to the La
fayette boys" being discouraged, having
lost the other games, they decided not to
play. They will play their last game this
season with the Lake Park nine at the La
| IdNelle lO-uOIIOW dlIclIlOOiI.
Mr.. Swain and family and Mr.. and Mrs.
Clark of New York. Mr.. Baker and family
of st. Louis, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson of Nash
vile, Charles Pratt, Charles Mccormack,
| W. G.. AdertOn. j. G. AdertOn and A.
Shopleigh of st. Louis. are among the eX-
pected arrivals at the Hotel st. Louis the
| frst of the coming week.
| The Acknowledgment excursion party,
mn harinC fbiTfy-tXVn nRpnIp with Luther
Holden of the Boston Journal as director,
arrived at the Lake Park yesterday, en-
route to the Yellowstone park. The party
made tour of the lake and will remain
over Sunday.
William LorenZ, the clerk of the fast pro-
| peller Lotus, has arranged for an excursion
! for the benefit of the officers of the boat to
occur next Wednesday evening. A rate of
| - cents has been made for the occasion,
and very pleasant excursion will be the
result
/ The Long Lake Base Ball club will re-
enter the diamond after harvest, and pro-
/ pose, in the language OF prominent men,
/ Der. Ito sweep the lake clean before the
close OF the season." So mote it be.
/ II. II. Hunt has resigned the professor
| ship OF music of Excelsior academy, and
has accepted the position of musical in
! structOr in the state asylum for the blind
at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Among the guests at Joy cottage during
/ the week have been Miss Spinney of Mil
waukee, s. ID. Howe and NJ. Sullivan of
/ Marshall. Mimi, and Mr.. and Mrs. Howe
of ShakOpee.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis road will
/ take a party of about 500 people. the men,
bers and friends of several knights of
Pythias lodges of Minneapolis, to Lake
Park to-day.
Fiddle Hill camp" has had as guests
during the week, Miss \. Ovitt, Waterloo,
Ia; Miss Minnie Several of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, and Mrs. Henry Plant of Sandwich,
Ill.
The Star. Virgie and Minnehaha were
pressed into the Hotel ST. Louis service last
evening, and they were loaded with passen-
gers to attend the Lafayette hop.
The full dress soiree at the Lafayette
last evening was the most brilliant social
affair of the season and was participated in
by over one hundred couples.
Rev. L. ID. Boynton, who has been visit
ing friends at Nashua, Ia, is expected to
return to Lake Park soon. He is vely much
improved in health.
II. A. Gray, auditor of the Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis Il Omaha railway, st.
Paul, is at the Kalorama cottage, Excelsior,
with his family.
Miss Annie Snyder and Edward j. Ferter,
guests at Pleasant grove, Excelsior, were
united in marriage by Judge +. B. Bailey
last Sunday.
DR.. A. NJ. Eastman and family of St.
Paul have moved into the "Clydesdale''
cottage, Lake Park, for the remainder of
the season.
H. Alden Smith and wife and I. C.Seeley
and wife of Minneapolis have taken rooms
at the Lake Park for the remainder of the
season.
F. K. Orris, the famous plow manufac-
lturer of Dixon, Ill, and wife, are guests OF