Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-16
UP AT MINNEToNKA.
What the West Virginia and Ohio Excur-
sionists Are Doing.
N, AZ Eiitnr Of Ihs PeuisAcr.

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HOTEL LAFAYETTE, LAKE MINNEToN-
KA, July l1.-This beautiful spot is now
in dourishiug condition, though the
breezes that fan our damask cheeks might
be triAe cooler without discomfort. The
mosquitoes might be less numerous and
less annoping, but they are not. AS you
sit on the yeranda in the cool of the even
ing they come without a warning whisper
and sit down upon you and get there in
great shape. Iprefer the sweet singers of
the Ohio Valley to the sullen vampires of
Minnetonka. There is something in
wild, pyrotecnic reach Tor villainy even if
you grab nothing.
Tomorrow the Columbus excursion will
visit the city of Minneapolis and there
''thaw and resolve itself into dewe," get
home. The tickets are good until August
3lst, so number will visit the Devils
Lake and Yellow Stone Park, but the ma
iority, together with your innocent travel
ler, will return to their base of supplies.
L have seen good deal of fishing, in my
time, but never saw place before where
fishing, and successful fishing, was too easy
for gooti sport Except the black
bass there seem to be no gamy fish. You
can drop in a hook almost anywhere and
haul in bull-head catfish because he is
too lazy to get out of the way. But the
black bass are the same old dandies that
inhabit our West Virginia waters, and
they give you all the employment You
want, but you get your pay.
Real estate and railroads are about the
only active paying businesses. Merchants
are conducting their trade upon n plan rs
conservative as that in the East and q
good many who are in business would be
glad to be safely out of it.
But it must be confessed that Minneapolis
and St. Paul are wonderful towns. The
Touring mills of the former place have
world wide reputation. PittSburg "A"
turns out 1000 barrels day and the build
ing itself is the nObleSt specimen of mill
architecture in the world. The West
Hotel is perfect gem and we cannot think
its architectural beauties and the stylish
finish of its interior will ever'be surpassed
in a hotel building This is fascinating
country, despite its long winters and its
dumb mosquitoes and its whirlpool storms
Success in business depends upon 4 full
supply of gall more than upon moral char
acter "Oh he's too honest to succeed in
this country" is remark you often hear
dropped. Not that man must be a
thief, but he must always try to get more
than the worth of his money.
Have met q number of Wheeling people,
but not all who are living here. 1t is as
tonishing the number of people you STUN
BILE upon who have passed out of sight and
out of memory "in the days of Auld Lang
Syne."
/ am happy to note the reported pros
pcrity of Our West Virginia people who
have come h, re to live To the traveller
this is but q triiling distance from Wheel
ing, but yet Minneapolis and st. Paul,
with their beauty, their life, their gaiety,
and prosperity, are a long way from Wheel
ing. The two cities are rival, deadly foes,
almost, but they are nip and tuck in the
race. Minneapolis seems TO be ahead, hut
that may be surface show ST. Paul has a
solid, substantial look that its rival city,
despite It's hustle and life, has not yet at
tanned. This country, with its
thousands of lovely lakes and
beautiful prairies is redundant with nat
ural charms. So the once famous Falls of
st. Anthony have been dropped out of the
list as useless except for the purposes Of a
mill dam. To practical mind fifteen or
twenty thousand barrels of -four day are
more beautiful than falling water. St.
AnthOny's Falls have gone the way of the
ancient DOdO but Minnehaha remains eter-
nally set like gem in the land of Hia-
watha.
Mr. Eliingham is about to trade his end
of the grocery for coroner lots and our
Councilman says he will stove pipe these
towns or bust Thus does a wild and
fiery energy suddenly burst forth when
ever West Virginian shifts the Mime
sotian breczcs or feels the poniard of an
assassin mosquito of Minnetonka. Nj