St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-28
MINNESOTA RESORTS.

The business men Of the Twin Cities
are to be commended for their intelli-
gent efforts to promote the trade inter-
eStS OF this section, and the or :aniZed
efforts to that end now being made by
the commercial bodies will be heartily
seconded by citizens generally.
There is one department of effort
looking towards our material prosperity
that has, we fear, bean largely over
looked. Little effort has been made to
exploit in the cities of the East and
South the advantages and attractions OF
this region as summer resort. Tens
OF thousands of the better classes in the
large cities aim to spend portion of
each summer at resorts where the air is
cool and invigOrating. and where there
is nothing in their Surroundings to re-
mind them of the heat and dust and
Sitting odorS of the great cities. Those
who have had large experience do not
hesitate to declare that there is more
pleasure to be found during summer
in Minnesota than in any other part of
the continent. Our days are never oD-
presSirely warm; our nights are always
delightfully."- cool and invigorating.
Those who delight in aquatic sports
may indulge Ill boating or yachting on
any one of our myriad of inland lakes.
Those who delight in hunting and fish
ing can find an abundance of wood and
aquatic fowl. while every lake in this
section abounds in the best of game fish
black, white and rock bass, pickerel,
croppieS and pike. while our streams
are alive with beautiful speckled trout.
Fur the most part the roads in this
vicinity are in excellent condition, and
cyclists and coaching parties could not
be better pleased IN any other section.
Our hotels, both at the lakes and ill tine
cities, are Of nigh grade. and furnish
accommodations unsurpassed by those
OF any seaside or mountain resort
Comparatively few people in remote
portions OF the country know of the
manifold attractions OF this region as a
summer resort. The fault is not their
own. but that of our business men and
transportation companies. No concert
ed effort has been made to advertise this
region properly. Some of the railroad
companies have issued attractive
pamphlets dilating upon and illustrat-
Ing our magnificent scenery. but these
have been localized too much to serve
the purposes of the companies Issuing
them. A railroad pamphlet is much like
railroad map. All the stations on the
line issuing them are exalted to metro
politan proportions; all else is dwarfed
into insignificance.
The season is fast advancing, but it is
not yet too late for the Inauguration of a
concerted movement on the part of st.
Paul and Minneapolis to exploit them
selves as the center Of a region unsur-
passed in natural beauty-a veritable
garden of the gods-where tired human
lty can find rest from the WEAKNESS of
toll in the midst of rural surroundings,
and yet supplied with all the luxuries
OF metropolitan life. Nature intended
this region for pleasure ground, and
has been lavish in providing all that
could crafty refined taste and at tue
same time afford means for physical re-
generation that may be found nowhere
else on the continent. Those who
come here once always endeayor to re-
peat their visits. These do not need TO
hear OF our attractiveness. 1t is those
whose experience has been confined to
the Seashore and mountain resorts that
should be approached. And when once
the stream of Summer travel is turned
in this direction it will continue to flow
uninterruptedly year after year, greatly
to the profit of our people and the ben.
eft of the stranger within our gates.
The prize is worth striving for. Let
the effort to attract summer travel
hitherward be made. and the compensa-
ton will certainly repay the cost.