St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-24
AT COMO PARK.
Five Thousand People Enjoy
! Themselves There.

Probably not less than 5000 people
visited Como park yesterday, to escape
the caloric, which filled the air, and in
sensibly permeated everything. Early
the morning Leople made haste to
quit their homes, and, with baskets
packed with lunch. made their way
from all parts of the city to this beauti-
full spot. The Como avenue line did a
heavy business, and the refreshment
stand had little difficulty in dispensing
soft drinks" to the thirsty multitude.
People who hoped to get cool breezes at
Lake Como, more favored far than the
| spicy gales from Arahv, the blest,n
to the average st. Paulite were, in a
measure, disappointed. Truly enough,
an occasional zephyr would toy with the
lIlacs of some dude with a buzz-saw
hat, or gently wave the puffed sleeves
OF We summer girl, but beyond these,
there was nothing to temper the insult
fferable neat. The grass upon the
lawns had hard time of il to live, for,
between the scorching rays of old Sol.
and the ceaselesS tread of the restless
throng (deSpite the earnest protesta-
lions OF the park pollcemen). it was
burned by the one and ground into tile
earth by the feet of the other.
Probably the busiest place-and the
best patroniZed, too, for that matter
was the pump in its rustic banner OF
green. +5-
TT he writer was repeatedly asked by
various people If there was such an
animal to be found about the park as Il
blind pig" to which he was sorrow
fully compelled to answer nay-thanks
to the wisdom of the city fathers.
Occasionally some picnic party would
drive along the gracefully curving
boulevards. Suddenly they would stop
near some quiet retreat. remove their
lunch baskets, hammocks and some
thing which looked much like bottled
| beer, toward which the longing eyes of
the thirsty and less favored ones would
| be cast.
70 those who have not visited Como
! park this summer a revelation is in
| store. 1t is easy to see the effect of the
| touch of some master hand, which has
/ redeemed this spot from neglect,
| II not ruin and decay. The
neatly sodded banks to the waters
edge. with their soft and velvety green:
the little island, upon which nature
responsive to the guiding hand of man
has caused the beauteous vari-colored
| foliage plants to bloom, producing TIE
words Cosy Land' in. glowing colors,
| III pleasing contrast to its emerald
setting. we'll please the eye. In another
| place pleasing effect is also produced
with foliage plants, in which the word
Como" appears. In still another place
on the side OF a graceful knoll thescun-
ming hand of the landscape gardner has
spelled out III gigantic Letters, with
| foliage plants, the words, Como
Park, 1893" Everywhere handsome
beds of flowers are to be
seen, embracing, among the plants,
! many rare eXoticS from the tropics. In
every direction there are benches for
the weary, but the number of these
might be increased TO the appreciation
| of all. When the pavilion is erected
and attractions similar to those at Lake
Harriet are provided Lake Como will
be one of the most delightful breathing
| spots i'll the Northwest. At present
Como park is little crude. but still the
progress that has been made in redeem
ing this spot from wilderness is aston
iShing.
The musical programme furnished
during the afternoon and evening by
| DAMS orchestra was much appreciated.
| AS soon as the sun had gone down
and the twilight shades had begun to
fall the heated atmosphere began to
| lower gradually in temperature, SO that
1t became fairly bearable.
The move of the Twin City Rapid
Transit company i'll extending its line
over the Western avenue bridge, making
| a loop, via Atwater street with Como
avenue, so that a continuous ride
through from the city to the park is now
| possible. without the delay of transfers,
is much appreciated by passengers.
The crowd that went out on the day
trains was largely supplemented by
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of others
| in the evening.