. The Street railway journal . us another line to the South Shore cottage colony. When we make our entrance into Tonka Bay next sum-mer we are going to find several new problems on ourhands, which will require solution and which will in manyways fit in with the Big Island Park plan very nicely. Thelargest hotel at Lake Minnetonka is the Tonka Bay Hotel,located at Tonka Bay. It is some years old, but still is avery comfortable summer hotel and beautifully management is going to pass into our hands, and wewill be prepared to take care of 400 persons under its roofvery comfortably. Ne
. The Street railway journal . us another line to the South Shore cottage colony. When we make our entrance into Tonka Bay next sum-mer we are going to find several new problems on ourhands, which will require solution and which will in manyways fit in with the Big Island Park plan very nicely. Thelargest hotel at Lake Minnetonka is the Tonka Bay Hotel,located at Tonka Bay. It is some years old, but still is avery comfortable summer hotel and beautifully management is going to pass into our hands, and wewill be prepared to take care of 400 persons under its roofvery comfortably. Near the hotel, and part of the hotelproperty, is a modern roller skating rink, which is a par-ticularly favored resort for the cottagers, young and old,arotind the South Shore. When we secure large picnicparties hereafter, which will require hot meals, or hotelaccommodations in addition to the park privileges at BigIsland Park, we will be able to take care of them at TonkaBay, and, by putting on a boat service between Tonka Bay. STEAMBOAT DOCKS AT EXCELSIOR and Big Island Park, we can shuttle our patrons back andforth between the hotel and the island in a very few min-utes, and give them all the variety of comforts and accom-modations they can possibly ask for. We will thus havethe business of entertaining all the transient people we taketo the lake, and with the equipment we will have on handwe will be in splendid shape to do so. There are also finepicnic grounds around Tonka Bay Hotel, and those whodo not care to make the water trip to Big Island Park— and there are a few of them—will be able to enjoy the cartrip to Tonka Bay and play baseball, roller skate, danceand picnic to their hearts content, with everything to suittheir taste, and still they Dont go near the water. We offer also a variety of other pleasure to the publicwho take advantage of our car service to Lake Minne-tonka from the Twin Cities. We operate what we callThe Forty-Mile Lower and Upper Lake Trip, whic
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