The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-22
THE RIVER OF REST
ga RIVER FOR A REST-DAY'-THUs
DESIGNATES THE PIONEER
PRESS THE MINNESOTA
GLOBES EXCURSION ROUTE
The Pioneer. Press Report of It's
Own Excursion, Which VIII BE
Duplicated by the Globe Next
Saturday Afternoon, Under I'm
proved CohditiOns-Chance for an
Enjoyable Afternoons Outing.

EHJOyable afternoons Outing.
The appended report of the Pioneer
Press excursion Of last Saturday will be
read with interest by those contemplating
making the same trip by the G l oh e s
excursion, of next Saturday Before that
time the government work on the sand
bar at the mouth of the Minnesota will
be fully completed, consequently the
Slight delay experienced by the Pioneer
Press excursion at that point will not
be repeated. The Clio b e excursion
has been specially planned for the &C
commodation Of those having only a
half holiday on Saturdays, and will,
therefore, leave st. Paul at 2:30 D. m.
Round trip tickets, which are now on
sale at the Clio b e s business office,
have been fixed at the. low prices of so
cents for. adults. and rs cents for chill
dren. Seiberts popular band will fur
nish music both for dedication Of the
ear"and for dancing ample deck room
for which will be provided by a consort
barge.
This is what the Pioneer Press has to
say of its own excursion over the same
route and by the same steamer as the
G l o b e s:
The lowering skies did not mar the
enjoyment of the Pioneer Press excuC-
sion up the Minnesota yesterday. And
those on the Pauline came back with
the report of such q day of real en1oy-
ment as few had recently experienced.
The rain interfered not in the slightest
degree with the enjoyment of the COM
pany; it only made the foliage. greener
and the haze which softened the outlines
Of the landscape a little more provocative
of dreaminess. AS for the sandbars the
only one found was that at Fort Smelling,
where the Minnesota weds the Missis-
sippt Here government dredge had
been some time at work, and was to
have completed the deepening of the
channel before the day set for the ex-
cUrsion. But owing to some breakage in
the machinery the job was not quite
completed so it took half an hour for
the Pauline to work over the bar.
Beyond Fort Smelling the river has an
average depth of fifteen feet of water
clear to Shakopee, the objective point of
the excursion forty miles, as the river
flows, from ST Paul. The banks de-
scend so sharply from the waters edge,
with such a total absence of mud-hats,
shadows and swamps, that the boat can
land anywhere without danger Of ground
ing. The manager of the Pauline, Otis
F. McGray, is rendering a valuable pub
lie service by showing that the Mime
sofa is really practicable during the
greater part, if not all of the season, for
large excursion boats. The Pauline's trip
yesterday was the first undertaken for a
long time by so large a steamer.
Probably not one in a hundred of the
residents in the Twin Cities has ever
taken a trip up the Minnesota. Yet that
noble river, in the stretch available for
an ordinary excursion from st. Paul,
has peculiar beauties of it's own so to-
tally different from those Of the Mis-
sissippi and the st. Croix as to afford
a pleasing variation in eyes accustomed
only to the two latter streams. The
st. Croix with it's romantic crags and
glens, and yet more the Mississippi, with
its towering bluffs and castellated hills
now receding, now acknowledgement when
clothed in summers greenery, give
the idea of natures forces at war-of a
combat of titans whose opposing for
tresses are the bluffs and whose field
works are the amphitheaters of hills.
But if the Mississippi is the River of War,
even more is the Minnesota the River
Of Peace. Its breadth between Fort
Smelling and Shakopee is remarkably
uniform, reminding one of ship canal
with carefully surveyed lines It has
no islands. It's banks are low with no
bluffs, no climbing banks, no rocky
precipices, only here and there rounded
hill approaching the water. For almost
the entire distance named the banks ara
covered with closely growing trees
willows, box elders, cottonwoods, ETC.
which crowd close down to the rivers
edge; so close that the branches often
kiss the water-so close that the color
of the foliage often overhanging on
both sides IS impaired to the stream In
many places, for long distances, the
wild cucumber and other vines have so
overgrown and knitted the trees together
that it is almost impossible to get a
glimpse of the land beyond the rivers
edge-the stream is literally walled In
with greenery.
And then the way the river bends.
Its curves are so frequent and so short
that one Is constantly expecting the boat