St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-30

longing eyes, for it is from there that
people come to fill the hotels, and the
hotels must be pretty full all the time
for the hOtelkeeper to make money. AT
best the season is short one. 1t begins
July l, and continues until Aug. 70.
The height is usually from July 10 TO
Aug. 1O-just four weeks. 1t is just
about this time that people who are in
terested begin to prognostlcate about
the brilliancy of the season. Ii one
wants to do this, one sentence Will
cover it all. If the weather is hOt-not
in spells. but cOntinuOusly-it will be
successful season, and the more ambi-
tious the mercury is the more people
will be at the lake. But heaven help
the hotel men if the season is cold. A
day like yesterday is worth barrels OF
money to the hotel man. 1t is when the
mercury goes sky-rocketing without any
previous warning that brings out the
people in crowds. At the lake the
weather is king, and the thermometer is
the shrine at which those interested do
worship.
All the hotels are open and each pro-
prietor announces in a cold clammy
way that things are going to hum in his
vicinity this summer. But their being
open thus far is merely a tormality:
They have a few guests, but none of
them opened their large dining rooms
before yeste rday except the Lafayette,
which had the homeopathic cOnven-
ton to make things lively. By the by,
Eugene Mehl is going 20 run the hotel
upon his own responsibility this season,
The Manitoba road is not interested at
all. except as far as their rental is con-
cerned. He is going to run it to suit
himself, and is pretty confident OF max
ing money. He has been at the head of
the hotel even since it opened six years
ago, and he ought to know how. h. T.
Harrington is again at Lake Park. He
did much last year to revive the pOpu-
larity of the hotel, and expects
to do a good deal more this. The
Hotel st. Louis is IN other hands again
this season, and this year it will be run
By one of the most widely known and
most popular men at the lake, Wallace
w. Wait. who was for many years pro-
prietor of the Excelsior house, which
burned a couple of years ago. Mr..
Wait is hustler. and he proposes to
make the hotel at beautiful NorthOme
what it used to be. The advent of the
Milwaukee road has done much for the
house. Mr.. Wait started in by arrang-
ing for great corps both in the back
and front of the house. and he being
convinced that no one else had any
better cooks and clerks he schemed to
bring people to the lake. And he struck
upon very successful one. Those
buying communication tickets are to re-
ceive discount of Is to Is per cent OF
the amount they pay the railroads if
they are taken to the hotel and
stamped. 1t looks now as if the hotel
proprietors at the lake were going to
make fight for patronage this season.
The real opening of the lake season is
always at the hotels. Upon their sue
cess depends the success OF the season.
While the hotels have received guests,
the real opening is not until after the
inaugural ball. The Lafayette started
the ball rolling last night. Next We'd
nesday the St. Louis will give its OPEN
ing ball, and it will probably be the
most notable event ever known at that
resort. About 5000 invitations have
been sent out. and the indications are
that the capacity of the hotel will be
tested. The arrangements are nearly
completed, and they are upon All elabor-
ate scale. Danz's full orchestra will fur
nish the music. The following commit
tees have the ball in charge.
Committee of Arrangements-Edwin B.
Barber. F. W. Commons, John Osgood,
George S. Palmer, H. A. Smith, Carman N.
Smith. Minneapolis; Charles La Montague.
W. Fl. Hyudman, W. B. Dixon, r. Park Won
Wedelstaedt, Samuel Gilbert, st. Paul.
Floor Committee-W. H. McMullen, Frank
C. NIckels. 6. w. Porter. George K. Taylor,
Charles Nee. Reeve, A. G. Loring, Minneap-
oils; John s. Prince Jr., r. E. Rider, W.
Price, Alex Steel, Irwin Beaumont j. Hal.
Murphy, St Paul.
The opening ball at the Lake Park.
which should have taken place last
Wednesday night. has been postponed
until next Wedesda v.