St. Paul daily globe., 1884-09-15
MILWAUKEE LETTER.
Opening Of the Exposition--Its
Noticeable Features.
The Political Atmosphere Getting
Warm for Republicans.
The Pythian Celebration--A Joke on .Erial
Nayigators---A Catholic Shrine.
Especial Correspondence of tAs alobc.l

MILWAUKEE. Sept. 13.-The exposition Of
1884 opened this evening. For weeks car
penters and laborcrs have been busy in the
big building, and, judging from the appear
aucc Of things, have made good use OF their
time. The floor is crowded With booths,
pagodas, show cases, etc, every available
inch OF space having been utilized. The
number of exhibitors is far in excess of any
year since the exposition was instituted, and
some of the late corners have been forced
into the upper gallery. The facilities Tor
lighting the vast hall have been augmented
by the addition of ten large arc lights which
are suspended in row in the center OF the
building. With these new additions there
are exactly 100 arc lights in operation, be-
sides 100 incandescent lights in the art gal
lery-light enough. seemingly, to make
doubly brilliant the unusually fine display of
wares. The art gallery, feature Of much
interest to thousands Of people in the north
west, contains many choice painting, which
are sl1illfully displayed at best advantage by
Mrs. Ely. who has full charge this year. Wm.
Bradford, the celebrated artist, has special
exhibit of Arctic scenery. Mr.. Bradford,
who is a polar enthusiast, has made seven
VOYAGES to the frozen north and spent up
wards of SIS, 900 to crafty his taste for ex-
ploration.
BIG FEATURE.
The most prominent feature of the expo
| sition is . monster panorama OF the battle
of Lookout Mountain, which occupies the
conservatory at the south end OF the building.
| It is con structed on the same principle as
the famous panorama OF the battle OF Gettys-
burg and siege of Paris, at Chicago. The
canvass bearing the picture is stretched IN
semi-circular form, and is 125 feet long and
| 80 feet high. The picture is as near correct
/ in every detail as art can make 1t, an artist
having taken the sketches for the work on
the spot where the memorable struggle oc-
Cured. The scene depicts Lookout Noun
tain on the right, with the Tennessee river
flowing along its base. A broad county road
which winds around the foot of the pine-cov-
cred mountain is filed with ambulances (said
TO be a historical facD and soldiers are fight
ing, falling and dying in adjacent fields
Manager Mercein has made ten-strike with
this happy thought, and in choosing the bat
tie Of Lookout Mountain as the subject, has
recognized the fact that Wisconsin's brave
soldiers bore conspicuous part in the en-
gagements in that vicinity.
WILL NOT OPEN SUNDAYS.
Ever since the big show was inaugurated
efforts have been made at the commence
ment Of each annual exhibition to have the
building open on Sundays, but without sue
cess At meeting Of the board of direc
tors of the exposition on the 1st of the pres
ent month petition OF the personal libert.
league for Sunday exhibitions was thorough.
discussed. OF the fifteen directors, only tel
were at the ballot, which resulted in tie
Messrs. Brand, Pabst, Ulhlcim, Hansen an'
Wendell. voting in favor Of the proposition
and Messrs. Goodrich, Stark, Plankinton
Cottrin and Mathews against it. A numbe
of ballots were taken, and finally at a lat
hour. the opponents OF the Sunday privileg
carried their point by vote Of SIX to four
1t was then decided with only one dissent
ing vote TO submit the question to the stock
holders for action before the next annual ex
hibition. The friends of the Sunday move
ment are encouraged by the closeness of thi
years vote, and confidently predict victor
next year. If there is any virtue in persis
tence they will certainly succeed. And VIII
notl Milwaukee is peculiarly constituted
and it seems no more than right that tn
wishes Of her large German population
should be recognized. There certainly ca
be no harm in Sunday view of an expos
ton whose object is to instruct, elevate an
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