St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-05
STORMED THE LAKE.
White Bear the Center Attraction
for Sanity Citizens. ~

for Sanity Citizens. ~
AT White Bear the day of patriotism
opened with roar, brought with It
horde of roarers and closed in anpp-
roar. The day dawned bright and clear
and still, which brought joy to the null
titude, but unutterable sorrow to the
yachtnen. After o'clock in the fore
noon hourly trains, crowded to a degree
OF recklessness. rolled INCREASINGLY iHto
the lake stations, pouring forth a tide of
humanity exceeding anything seens at
the lake for years. Train load after
train load of pleasure seekers. bright and
rosy maidens, gay and joyous youths.
staid elderly people, romping childreh,all
bent on enjoying to the utmost every
minute of the day. In the forenoon the
crowd was not even noticeable, but
alters O'Clock 1t became oppressive. the
shores OF the lake seemed literally lined
with people, while its bosom looked like
fly paper, that had been placed OH the
retired list. At Wildwood the electric
line brought out hundreds. They over
flowed the grounds, swarmed out to-
wards Maht0medi, and in the other, di-
rections trod all the grass off E. &.
'Handy's lake side property. The steam
erS ran from shore to shore unceaS-
8 ".
The peanut stands were there in abund-
ance, the balloon men were out in force,
the wooden horses of the merry-go-
round made life burden in the neigh
borhoOd, the saloons fairly 1oated in
beer, rOwboats could hardly be had any
price. but with all that, the scene was
incomplete, for the hOt-waffle man was
conspicuous by his absence. At the
pavilion the crowd flowed unreStrain-
eddy over everything. They filled the
groves, lined the dock, crowded the YER
andas and took possession of the entire
building. The orchestra played after
noon and evening, the dance hall was
a rainbow in colOrS,
AT White Bear proper the village cit
liens had All old-time hurrah. The
band played almost increasingly from
noon unit far into the night. The pro-
gramme opened with an industrial pa
rade. and was followed by a series of
sports, in which the. following were
winners: Sack race, James Bacon;
lean mans race, Frank Rosenboom;
wheelbarrow race, John O'Haron: fat
mans race, Harry Getty; creased pig,
Gust Suffering; pie eating contest,
Jake Hauser; pony race, William Hop
klnS. Cash prizes were hung up, and
the entries were numerous.
AT DellwOod an unusually large num-
Der were gathered, all the club MEM
bers being present with many of their
friends. About 5 O'Clock start was
made and regatta attempted, but none
OF the yachts got further than the penin-
sula. In the evening about two hundred
enjoyed the hospitality Of the club for
the first time this season, and two hours
were most charmingIy passed in
dancing, first enjoying an elaborate dis
play of fireworks in front of the club
house.
On the other side of the lake the COM
bined display of fireworks of DR..
Wheaton and Will Dawson was far SUI
perior to all others, and was gotten up
on gorgeous scale.
The day passed off without an acct
dent, though nearly every male being
large enough to wear pants went about
with loaded revolver in his possession.
One gay individual, who had the CLEAN
of alcohol in his eye, was discovered
calmly walking about the floor of
the dancing hall at the pavilion
with loaded 3S-caliber self
cocker in his hand. He was
Immediately interviewed on the o. S.
The crowd, which had continued in
creasing all day, gradually, seemed to
want to go home on one train, and the
consequence was that those who did not
take their stand at the station at'abOut
5 o'clock in the afternoon spent the
greater part of the night in being
crushed nearly to death at the stations.
1t was nearly daylight when the last
load of tired and dusty. sleepy and joy
Gus, tattered and torn eXcursionists was
we'll Oh its homeWard way.