The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13

not closely bound by business, either
men who have partly withdrawn from
active business life or those whose
steadily the business grind. For peo-
pie Of delicate health, lake life is often,
the most hopeful remedy possible. This
somewhat leisure class makes up large
ly the growing number Of people who
have given up other permanent resi-
dences, but who still close their houses
for three or four months in winter, go
ing either to Minneapolis or to some
warmer climate for that short period.
Season Is L~engthening.
Every now and then some active
business mar of ample means impelled
by a genuine love of country life, makes
the experiment of keeping his lake
house open practically alt Of the year,
making that his real home, and this
number will be increased steadily, but
perhaps less rapidly than among people
who have the motive of both economy
and love of rural life.
With the majority, for many years
yet, the lake will be considered in the
light Of a summer residence, but the
tendency is to make the season as long
as school and business arrangements
will permit. The interest in outdoor
life is responsible for this. A garden
and provision for5all the outdoor pleas
ures is now inseparable in thought from
life at the lake for a large majority of
the summer cottagers. With most of
instinct. The rest interest themselves
in gardening and sports in order to be
in the swim and generally end by devel-
oping a taste for both.
The spirit of rivalry in identifying is
doing much to make Minnetonka a gar
den spot such as nature designed it to
be-. h same spirit of generous emu.
lation is resulting in marvellous and in.
d%ustrial DEVELOPMENT of its agricultural
resources for fruit and truck farming
the new growth f~oreshadowed in the ad:
vent of the trolley will permit these tc
be used to their fullest extent. :
Transients Will Return.
The trolley appears likely to read
Just the balance between the transient
and cottager element at the lake. The
hotels have suffered from lack of tran
ant means of transportation, this will bt
largely increased. This means an in
creasing local market for the products
of the region and undoubtedly boil
within reach Of the lake. terminus .anC
all along the line beyond Hopkins ther.
will be an important impetus to set
Element by market gardeners and fruit
growers who will find a market in Min
neapolis as well as in the increasing
summer population Of the lake. :
In the main, the tendency. Of subur
ban residence seems likely to. be on tn
south shore for the spresent,>as this ii
the region of small. holdings and ais.
of small farming. 1.-THE line of wealth
and aristocracy is largely being draw
between the north and south shore, alth,
there is considerable interminglingN an
Overlapping. The communities on tn
north shore resemble strongly the IF
at country places in the east, Ferndal
being a Newport or Bar Harbor, an
others finding their prototypes in cas-
ern villages.
One Suburban Village.
The most interesting and distinctly
community at the lake and one who's
organization might well serve as a mode
for others, is the village of Minnetonk
Beach. This is made up wholly, so ia