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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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it can well be said thatthose who love dancing will have such inspiration as hasnever been offered before in the Northwest. The Twin City company will make Big Island Park asaccessible to St. Paul as to Minneapolis, showing in this waythat Big Island Park is strictly a Twin City proposition in-tended for the enjoyment of St. Paul people as well as thoseof the nearer city of Minneapolis. During 1906, the first summer of the Twin City Serviceon Minnetonka, there were any number of private andpublic excursions and picnic parties that journeyed to thelake by electric cars and enjoyed the steamboat service.Heretofore the rates on Lake Minnetonka were almost pro-hibitive, the round trip of the lake being 50 cents, whereasthe Twin City company has cut the rate to 25 cents. Experts who have traveled the world over concede thatthe Twin City company has the most wonderful propositionthey have ever seen. It is not the intention to make BigIsland Park a noisy Coney Island, but a delightful place
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MAIN DECK UF K.XFRESS BOAT, LOOKING AFT for those who love beautiful trees and coolness, yet withenough entertainment given them to help while away thesummer days. Everything connected with Big Island Parkwill be operated on the highest plane possible. MINNEHAHA FALLS AND PARK Minnehaha Falls, immortalized by Longfellow, is truly agem that is unapproached. No cascade has ever been socelebrated in American poetry, and none claims a surercharm for the visitor. The falls are about 40 ft. high, andthe whole region about them has been made accessible byrustic paths and bridges. The falls are maintained in theiroriginal beauty in the heart of the largest park of Min-neapolis, consisting of over 100 acres of hill and dale.Below the pretty falls, which laugh and leap into thevalley, the creek flows through a deep glen for half amile to the Mississippi. At Minnehaha Falls is the oldStevens house, the first erected on the west side of Minne-apolis, in 1850. On the other side of the glen is the

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