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MARKED &!W-- ill -tr I "i 'r i- t.' i'-::. &'y,\~. "5 .SJ'JSJ fftfift' '.I.^-I*- Saturday Evening, Beautiful Lake Resort, of Late Years a Summer Retreat for ^City Dwellers, Will Become a Sub- urb of MinneapolisLife Around Lake Will Be Stimulated and Enlivened. out by nature as a place peculiarly appropriate to her worship, Lake Minnetonka has passed thru several stages of development and is enter ing upon still another new and impor tant one, whose boundary is to be formed by the beginning of frequent and rapid trolley service. The prehistoric era is concerned chiefly with the Indians, "who invested the lake with a legendary charm that is a pity should be almost wholly lost. There is just a slight trace of the white man's trail in the tradition which precedes histoiy. The courreurs du bois who threaded all of the north ern water couises, are reputed to have been visitors at the lake as earlv as the latter part of the seventeenth cen tury, but even tradition holds no defi nite information about them. The near est approach to authentic evidence is contained in the story of the rinding by J. S. Letfoid of Carver of a two storv log cabin in the heart of the forest towaids Excelsior from Carvei. Embedded in a tree overlaid by what TROLLEY'S ADVENT MEANS NEW ERA FOR MINNETONKA was estimated to be 150 years' growth, was found a pistol of French make. The period of exploration began with the visit of a party of lads from Port Snelhng in 1822, and was fairly com pleted in the first year of permanent settlement in 1832. Another decade from this time constitutes the period of settlement. Dining the days of the civil war and threatened Indian trou bles, Minnetonka, like the rest of the state, simplv marked time. Altho S. C. Gale built a cottage at Maplewood in 1869. and a few other cottages were built, tor ten years the lake was the resort of picnickers and campers rather than tourists and summer residents. Hotel St. Louis was built in 1878, and was followed in rapid succession by other large hotels, clubhouses and boarding houses, and up to 1890 the dominant element at the lake was the flitting vacation visitors, whose stay was limited to a few weeks and whose taste was for gayety and society rather than rural delights. Period of Depression. The change of affairs that diverted THE COTTAGEWOOD SHORE FROM K/VTA HDIN. OPENING OF DEL-OTERO CASINO and BOAT HOUSE AT SPRING PARK- SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 13 BOWLING ALLEYS REFINISHED 50 NEW ROW BOATS Hotel is Open for Inspection Formal Opening of Hotel nay 20th. LAK1 MINNETONKA, MINN. OPENS JUNE 22. SUITES WITH PRIVATE BATH, OVER 200 ROOMS, SINGLE OR EN SUITE, ABSOLUTELY FIRST CLASS. RatesTransient, $3 to $5 per day $15 to $30 per week. Special rates to parties or families. First class Cafe, a la carte service. Fine OrchestraExcellent Service Guaranteed. A representative will call upon you wi th diagram of rooms and make rates if you o desire. T\rlte for Illustrated booklet, Lake Minnetonka and the Tonka Bay Hotel. G. H. GODFREE, Manager Will Lake Minnetonka Transportation and Dredging Co., Careful and Competent Pilots. ARTLETT8 HOTEL Ope|tiJori^!ason,^_atM May 27. Newly RepaintedjRemodeled. Ratss $2 per day ST to $12 per week. D^H^CVCU^ Suite SOS Temple Court Building Fleet ccmsists of the steamers Puritan, Plymouth, Mavflower and Pilgrim, launch Buttinski, barge Priscilla. Steamers make connections with trains on the Great Northern, M. & St. L. and C, M. & St. P. By Mound, ^Upper Lake, Minnetonka. THE MINNEAPOMS the throng of southern tourists, which was partly a matter of circumstance and partly due to a changed feeling for country lite, brought many lamen tations from owners concerned in hotel and steamer property, and there was for a number of years a strong feeling that Minnetonka had seen its day but nothing so beautiful and accessible from a large city could fall into per manent neglect, as the wise ones fore saw and all others have seen in the last five years. The cottager almost preceded the tourist, but he only ,came into his own a little more than a dec ade ago, and already there is a newer evolution, to whom the next era be longsthe suburbanite, who will cast his lot with the lake denizens and be come a rural citizen. The suburbanites belong to a variety of classes, all of which are already rep resented in the little nucleus. Two kinds of motives actuate moving from the city permanently, but these are nearly always mingled in varying de gree in each individual. Cheap homes with the opportunity of at least supply ing their own tables with fruit an'd veg etables, have led a considerable num ber to buy a few acres at the lake or near by. This has much force for the man who cannot afford two homes, and must choose between being deprived of some city conveniences and doing with out any real country life. It is probable that comparatively few to whom mon'ey is no object, will actually spend twelve months of the year at Minnetonka, and be obliged to go back and forth to the city daily. The suburban class will for a time at least be made up quite largely of people -Copyright Photo by Sweet. This Store is Devoted Exclusively to Sporting Goods Oscar Mattson 406 First Ave. So. CHAPMAN HOUSE J. A. PEARSON, Proprietor. J^ei^onWednesday,!!? Newly Remodeled, New Pavilion and New Boats. GAS! ABEHOY, p* not closely bound by business, either men who have partly witdrawn from active business life or those whose health will not permit them to keep up steadily the business grind. For peo ple 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 Lengthening. Every now an*d then some active business man of ample means impelled by a genuine love of country life, makes the experiment of keeping his lake house open practically all 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 an'd 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' for all 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 these delvers in the soil it is a natural instinct. The rest interest themselves in gardening and sports in order to be in the swim and generally en"d by devel oping a taste for both. The spirit of rivalry in beautifying is doing much to make Minnetonka a gar den spot such as nature designed it to be. The same spirit of generous emu lation is resulting in marvelous and in dustrial development of its agricultural possibilities. With the finest natural resources for fruit and truck farming the new growth foreshadowed in the ad vent of the trolley will permit these to 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 sient business, but with easy and pleas ant means of transportation, this will be largely increased. This means an in creasing local market for the products of the region and undoubtedly both within reach of the lake terminus and all along the line beyond Hopkins there will be an important impetus to set tlement 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 df subur ban residence seems likjply to,be on the south shore for tfee presentr as this is the region 'of sm&ft' holdings and also of small farming. ''The line of wealth and aristocracy is largely being.drawn between the north and south shore, altho there is considerable intermingling and overlapping. The 'communities on the1 north shore resemble strongly the life at country places in the east, Ferndale being a Newport or Bar Harbor, and others finding their prototypes in east ern villages. One Suburban Village. The most interesting and distinctive community at the lake and one whose organization might well serve as a model for others, i themade villagep owholly, Minnetonka Beach. This is so far 1 LAKEMIMETONKA CASINOCO. Finest Pleasure Resort in the Northwest EXCELSIOR -_ MINN. Bowling, Billiards, Dancing and Convention Hall. Concerts afternoon and evening during season. Steamers Excelsior and Helena owned and operated in connection with Casino. VIGTOR E. JONES, Agt. fc Su Fishing Tackle Finest Assortment of Rods, Reels, Lines, Nets, Hooks and Everything for Fishermen in Northwest FOR MINNETONKA WRITE OR CALL FOR PARTICULARS TO? I. Em BURT, Manager. Entertainment Provision. Lafayette club affords accommodation for the frieuds of the residents and the entertainment for these residents, forming one of the b^est-managed and most useful country clubs in this section of the country. The club is a neighbor hood affair and opens its door freely to all residents of the communities having access to it. It is the center of all north shore social life that is not purely personal. For lesidents at other points on the lake anv.if-ement is provided at the two boat clubs, the casinos at Excelsior, Tonka Bay and Spring Park and the HAWKINS EUROPEAN. HOTEL AND CAFE EXCELSIOR, MINN. Hotel and furniture new and up-to-date. Table Unexcelled. Automobile parties given special attention. Hawkins European Hotel and Cafe, Excelsior. Minnesota. Hotel and Furniture New aid Up-to-date. Tables Unexcelled. Automobile Parties Given Special Attention. G0NET ISLAND HOTEL. Under the Old Management WW Open May 27th. Da Patea- MOUND, Upper Lake Minnetonka. Write for terms- Ail communicatioaa promptly answered. LIGHTINB HOMES "Colt" and that have recently ordered, are, Mr. Titus Mareck, Mr. 8. A. Eeed, Mr. G. F. Haglin, Mr. Geo. W. Bestor, Mr. E. A. Hart, Mr. James Mar- shall, Mr. Chas. Gluek, Mr. John Gluek, Mr. J. Eobitshek, Mr. F. B. Long, Mr. John Nelson, Com. John B. Johnson. The "Colt" is certainly the, beBt gas systemrequires no mantlespro- duces a clear, steady, white lightno smoke, no odor, no danger. Approved by Chicago board. Recommended by best architects in America. fo The machine used in the very finest homes and in the largest summer hotels in America is the "Colt," manufactured in New York City. A few of the Minnetonka nsers of the $ iJ 2 Pe Kate Defective Page $8 and $10 Per Week. B. ZEALOT, Prop. Postetfice: Waconia, Minn. SEE! SEE! Those two new modern homes, cor ner Irving avenue and Twenty-fifth street, with unobstructed view of Lake of the Isles. Open from 2 to 4 p.m. NORTHLAND INN Under Management of MBS. J. ABEAM, WAZATA, MINN., Now open for the season coolest and finest location on the lake. House new and modern. Write for terms. The Metrostyle Pianola. Large Stock of MUBIC. jHanoId*tfor Heat May ATI!'-' as its management is concerned, of citi zens whose place of business is Minne apolis but who own and control the village in which they actually reside only from four to six months. The condition of the village is such that resi dence in it is most desirable. Not long since there was danger of an incursion of an undesirable element. The village was not long in acting rather than have any property sold to parties who would put up inferior buildings and would not be pleasant neighbors, the council promptly bought all the" unoc cupied property in the village and is holding it for park purposes. Should one or two desirable purchasers seek to acquire some of this property a sale might be made, but unless there should the village can afford to own the^ prop erty and will keep the title to it and improve it for park purposes. The north shore does not want the trolley nor, indeed, any access to town that would attract transients. There is neither hotel, boardinghouse nor pic nic ground between Wayzata and Spring Park. The residents would prefer to have only the present railway service to inviting crowds of sightseers. The whole region is hedged about with bar riers to the uninvited. Access by lake is denied, for there are no public docks, and the boats make few regular stops on the north shore. 13 during the season. These are largely attended by cottagers as well as by the guests. One of the curious points in Minne tonka history affecting its present pleas ures is that according to several old residents there is no noticeable change in the fishing. Some may be inclined to dispute this and tell stories of won derful catches in old days, but the veteran fisherman knows how to get good strings, and fishing is not the least ot the attractions at the lake today. LAKE HOTEL FLANS Popular Minnetonka Resorts See a Busy Season Ahead. The Tonka Bay hotel will open for the season June 20 with the bankers' national convention, this being the sec ond time this association has been at the hotel. The grounds have been beautified until it scarcely resembles the place of former years Mr. Godfree has been at the hotel the past week superintending operations. Inquiries have been numerous from all portions of the south, especially from New Or leans and St. Louis, and the season promises to be lively. Governor Frank Hanley of Tennessee, a personal friend of Mr. Godfree, will spend his vacation at the hotel with his family. The National Bank Clubs as sociation will be entertained at the hotel and will hold its debate in the hotel diningroom in August. Another large gathering will be that of the Merchant Tailors' exchange of Chicago, the members of which to the number of 200 will be guests of the hotel one week in July. The Western Passenger association has been invited to hold its convention at the hotel in July and it is expected it will accept. The best orchestra ob tainable will be at the hotel and with daily concerts and a number of vaude ville shows at the hotel will be a feat- hotels where many dances are given ure of the lake life appreciated by cot- MINNESOTA 1905' I -SOCIETY. vVA TER FRONT AND CASINO AT EXCELSIOR N. W. Telephone18-2. LEST YOU FORGET JOSUN BROS., I EXCELSIOR, HUN*., Have tho largest and most up-to-date %toek of Hardware, Sporting Goods, Paint Oils, and Boat Supplies ewer carried In ExooMor. A complete new stock to select from* Special attention given to Builder*' Hardware mud rime Tools. Estimates furnished on all kinds of Sheet Iron Work, Tin Roofing, Eave Troughs and Quttersm PRiOES ALWAYS 7ME LOWEST. Joslin Bros. Leading Hardware Merchants Excelsior GALL OR WRITE If You Are Interested in 1 ^iB tagers as well as guests. Mrs. Godfree will be the hostess at the hotel during the season. Mr. Reynolds, late of the National hotel, will be chief clerk, and Louid Garvey, well-known in the twin cities^ has been engaged as chef. The Hotel del Otero promises to be the center of activity for the upper lake. This is one of the hotels thai has never had a change in manage nient and has always been truly pop ular. The new pavilion at the grounds adjacent to the hotel, 48x112 feet, anq nearly completed.fiRminn shdjlu cmfp facing the lake, is nearly completed. It will have a commodious screened porch 16x112 feet, there will be lunch and checkrooms and a ladies' dress ing room. The diningrooms will be. open for the public and also will serve to take care of the outflow from the. hotel so that the regular' guests will at no time be crowded. There will be music each day and evening and a, specialty will be made of caring for, parties of fifteen to thirty couples, who may make appointments for din? ner at regular prices and will be per mitted the floor for dancing with musie without other charge, but by appoint* ment only. Enioy Your Summer. Now is the time to buy your waist sets, belt pins and hat pins for outing suit and have the latest novelties. Why not have your clocks put in order while you are at the lake? We call for and deliver them when finished. Our stock of silver and glass for June weddings is the best in the ci,ty. White & Mae* Naught. The Famous "North Star Limited" Leaves Minneapolis daily at 7:45 p.m. for Chicago via the Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. Solid train of Pullman, Compartment Sleepers, Buffet Librar? Car, Dining and free Teclining Chair cars- Call on J. G. Rickel, City Ticket Agent, 424 Nicollet Ave. LAKE OR PORCH FURNITURE #and want to see some exclusive designs, write or telephone us and our representative will call with photographs of our furniture and samples of do mestic and imported fabrics, all for summer homes. J. A. CLOW & CO. Telephone 1332 L-l. Room 411710 Hicollet AY. /A' THE PIANOLA PIANO Can be played from the keyboard in the ordinary way or can be played by meant of a perforated mvsic roll. Can you afford to pass the summer without music in your home? A Examination Solicited, At the Pianola Department. Copyright Photo by Sweet. -*r3