The season at Hotel del Otero is at its height and the guests continue to come in such numbers that there are nights when Manager Hopkins finds the question of sheltering all his visitors a perplexing one. Pleasures to suit all tastes are abundantly provided at Spring Park and a variety of indoor and out-of-door amusements are always within reach. If the weather is fair there are the bathing beach, the steamboat landing, the fishing grounds, facilities for boating and launching, golf, tennis, croquet and every conceivable device to pass the hours.
In rainy weather, the bowling alleys the card tables, the dancing rooms; the parlor musicians and many other features, provide for the wants of visitors. Bowling is the entertainment of the hour, as there is keen competition for tho capture of the silver loving cup which Mr. Hopkins has put up as a prize for the best score made by any woman bowler living at the Point or in the hotel.
Sept. 4th will be a gala day at Spring Park, and arrangements have been made by the Great Northern road for ample accommodations to and from the Minneapolis Trades and Labor assembly picnic. Over six thousand visitors are expected for the day and twenty trains will be required to carry the throngs of people to the lake.
During the noon hour special trains will run every ten and fifteen minutes. Every available steamboat will be at the landing at the picnic grounds and there will be an opportunity for all lake residents to participate in the doings at Spring Park and take part in the splendid program.
On the list of arrivals at the Del Otero are many guests from Kansas City, St. Louis and other southern points. The travel from those places IS heavier than it has been for many seasons and speaks for the renewed and increasing popularity of the beautiful upper lake summer resorts.
The Minneapolis Times- August 21st, 1905
