The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-08-05
STUART TELLS OF
LITTLE TWINS
Well Known Minneapolis Tribune
Writer Gives Interesting Account
of Editorial Outing.
'HUSTLING, PROGRESSIVE CITIES
Refers to Lake of the Woods District
as Possessing Most Beautiful
Scenery Anywhere.
'HUsTL1NG, PROGRESSIVE CITIES

counts OF the recent Northern Mime
sofa Editorial association outing a.
BauueLLe anu Spouner, Was written
by Charles r. STUART, feature writer
OF the A.lnneapons Tribune, and We'll
known IN bemlajl, uavlng made fire.
quent trips to this city.
Mr. STUART ana his wife were mem
~ bers Of the outing party, and together
with pictures taken during the out
ing, the toilowlng story, written by
Mr.. Stuart, appeared in a recent is
sue of the Tribune:
"Witness Spooner and Baudette,
the Twin Cities of the North Border,
risen from their ashes.
Destroyed Four Years Ago.
-Four years ago editors of every
newspaper in Minnesota made pub
lie appeal for aid for these two lit
tie cities, which had been absolutely
wiped from the map of the state by
an all-conquering fire, which not only
destroyed all buildings, but left
many dead i'm it's wake.
Entertain the Editors.
1.-TWO weeks ago Spooner and Bau-
dette, in illustration of the indestruc-
entertained nearly 900 editors, their
families and friends
Remuneration Seen.
The very men who so recently
gave up the columns of their respec-
tive newspapers in appeal for funds
for the fire sufferers witnessed the
new Twins, more vigorous, more en-
ergetic, more confident than before
the mighty forest fire made ashes of
these two border cities >r. S..|..
"The occasion was the annual out
ing of the Northern Minnesota Edit
orial association. Spooner and Bau-
dette wanted the editors to favor the
Twins with their annual outing,
DuI LiC dooOCldL1OA a. uISJ was UOuUL-
full whether these two towns, so late
ly utterly destroyed, could handle a
throng of visitors.
Wrong Idea Prevailed.
'"There was prevalent the idea that
the border Twins could not possibly
be far in advance of the period of
just being able to care for themselves.
But the Twins insisted and the
editors were dumfounded when they
viewed the two cities and even more
so when they experienced the lavish
hospitality of the so lately stricken
cities.
They saw splendid schools, big
hotels, handsome auditorium, beau
tiful residences, thriving business
houses, electrically lighted streets
everything on larger, more sub
stantial scale than prior to the night
the fire came leaping out of the for
ests.
Given Scenic Treat.
And after they had seen the two
little cities which defied the worst
forest fire Minnesota has ever known
the editors were given scenic treat
which only few had ever enjoyed
and on top of that an exhibition OF
Canadian hospitality which put fit.
ting climax ON what Spooner ani
Baudette had done.
"By special arrangement with thu
Rainy River Navigation company
the business men of sSpooner anG
Baudette chartered the steamer Ken
ora and that good ship carried thu
editors 1913 miles over the Lake Of
the Woods to Kenora, Canada, where
the mayor and other officials me-
the party and declared that any ont
who spent any money in Kenors
would be thrown into Jail for life.
"The lure of the north attracted
many editors others than those whose
names are found on the rolls of thu
Northern Minnesota Editorial asso
citation. Also the work of the out
ing, with the long trip on the beau
tiful Lake of the Woods, proved fas
. cinating to others in southern Min
nesota.
Saturday morning the editors ant
their friends saw what so few, Min
nesotans have cared to si,e-beauti
full Lake of the Woods. Many time:
the size of Minnetonka, dotted with
thousands of beautiful islands, de
clared by those few travellers wht
have strayed that way, to be one O
the most beautiful spots on tn.
globe, Lake Of the Woods is really bu
rs little known.
Go Abroad Instead.
They go to Italy, to the Alps t,
France. anywhere distant for seen
cry" said Frank ]. Meyst, manage
of the Western Newspaper Union