St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
AT WHITE BEAR.
Anxiety Over Falling Water
Yachting Notes-Personai neI

anxiety Over Falling Water
Yachting Notes-Personai Men
tiOn.
There is matter Whish has been ag-
itating the minds of the more observing
of the cOttagers at White Bear consider
ably this season, and it is matter III
which every summer resident at the
lake should take lively interest, mas
much as it yitaly affects the future of
White Bear as an attractive summer re-
sort. 1t is very apparent TO any one
that the lake is lower this year than ever
before. The water has so far receded
that the west shore is diSfigured by a
long, sandy, Shiny beach some thirty
feet wide. necesstating long docks,
running several hundred feet out into
the lake i'll order that even
rowboat may land. In other por-
tiOnS of the lake new reefs and
sand banks have made their appearance.
greatly detracting from the beauty and
nayigable qualities of the lake. The
mere fact or the low water, taken alone,
would not excite comment, for in GER
tain years the water is always lower:
but, when one considers that Lake
Phalen and most other lakes are much
higher this season than usual, and that
there was more snow last winter than
for several years past, one must neceS-
sarily conclude that water is beiug
taken from the lake in some form other
than by the natural evaporation, which
in dry season is considerable. White
Bear has no outlet, and the water could
not have been drawn off in that way.
The only apparent cause of the scarcity
OF water is that great part has been
carried off in fiat cars by the ice COM
panieS last winter, and this is the CON
clusiOn which those people have come
to. whose attention has been called to
this matter. A gentleman who is in
position to know said that thousands of
carloads of ice was cut at White
Bear last winter and shipped South to
supply other cities. Now, of course,
considerable ice might be cut without
causing any appreciable fall in the
water, perhaps ice enough to fill the
two large ice houses, might be taken
from the lake without causing much
damage. but when it comes TO cutting
acres and acres of ice, eighteen inches
thick. and shipping it by rail to other
parts OF the country, 1t is very obvious
that it must have great effect upon the
level of the lake. Such a business
ought to be stopped. The ice companies
have no legal right whatever to the ice,
and If such course is allowed to con-
tinue, it is manifest to any one that
White Bear will receive irreparable in
jury. Such thing would not be toll
Grated for an instant at Minnetonka.
There the property owners have organ
lied company, and anything which
goes to lower the lake or in any other
way render the lake less attractive, is
instantly stopped. This would furnish
valuable precedent to the people at
White Bear. 1t is exactly what the
lake is in need of, and it would be very
much to the benefit of every one inter
ested in preserving White Bear as an
attractive st. Paul resort, if such COM
pany was organized.
The past week at the lake has been
comparatively quiet, not because there
is lack of people, but because every
one is busy preparing for the lively
season which is just commencing.
Nearly all the cottagers are settled for
the summer. Dellwood's colony is nearly
complete, and received additions this
week in the persons of Mrs. Hewitt and
A. q. Otis. The new club house of the
w. B. 7. A. has been in the hands of
the workmen, the grounds have been
nicely laid out. and the construction of
a large pier, and dock where the men,
bers can haul their boats out of the
water for repairs, the latter being a
thing which has been needed at the lake
for long time. One of the leading ca
terers of the city will take charge at the
club house and furnish refreshments to
the members and their friends.
Mahtomedi shows extensive improve
ments this season. The hotel threw
open its doors to the public Saturday.
1t is under the management of o. ii.
Neiman, who has largely refurnished
the hotel and enlarged it. Tennis and
Mahtomedi will be a more attractive
place than ever this season. A. V.
Teeple and family are the first arrivals
at the hotel. William Dampier is build
Ing fine cottage, and Messrs. HOugh-