. The Street railway journal . spot when breakdowns occur,their testimony and suggestions ought to be more generallysecured. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. io6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 4. THE STORY OF BEAUTIFUL BIG ISLAND PARK ANDLAKE MINNETONKA BY A. W. WARNOCK,General Passenger Agent Twin City Rapid Transit Company,Minneapolis and St. Paul. Minn. Big Island Park, Lake Minnetonkas Resort Beautiful,really had its tryout during the season of igoy! For whilethe park was opened a short time during the latter part of as a picnic resort and as a delightful objective for tripsfrom Minneapolis
. The Street railway journal . spot when breakdowns occur,their testimony and suggestions ought to be more generallysecured. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. io6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 4. THE STORY OF BEAUTIFUL BIG ISLAND PARK ANDLAKE MINNETONKA BY A. W. WARNOCK,General Passenger Agent Twin City Rapid Transit Company,Minneapolis and St. Paul. Minn. Big Island Park, Lake Minnetonkas Resort Beautiful,really had its tryout during the season of igoy! For whilethe park was opened a short time during the latter part of as a picnic resort and as a delightful objective for tripsfrom Minneapolis and St. Paul over the two new TwinCity electric lines. Thus, Big Island really came into itsown when the electric lines were opened to the lake. It is a difficult proposition to lay down a hard and fastrule for creating and operating a successful park. Condi-tions vary widely in different cases and each park mustnecessarily work out its own salvation. The geographicallocation of the park, the length of time necessary to reach. MUSIC CASINO AND PERGOLA, BIG ISLAND PARK the season of 1906, there was no real definite knowledgeof the place on the part of the public until the past year. The history of Big Island Park is so unique and so manyamusement managers as well as electric railway companiesare watching its development that the story of our seasonfor 1907 may prove interesting, and the facts are here givenin response to an invitation of the Street Railway Jour-nal to tell how we got along last year. For something more than forty years Big Island, located it, the rate of fare and many other conditions are mattersof such variation that in the last analysis each parks ownsuccess must be developed from its own experience. Big Island Park is twenty miles from the city of Minne-apolis and thirty miles from the city of St. Paul. I believewe have one of the most superb electric lines in the UnitedStates leading from the Twin Cities to Excelsior on LakeMinnetonka. We have double tracks
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