St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-08
PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE PROPOSED ICE PALACE

| make the structure symmetrical and pre-
| serve its unity. no style that did not have
| those massive elements could be used to
| advantage.
ALL COLUMNS ARE THEREFORE, SHORT
| and solid, the arches heavy and with broad
| curves, the windows small and the towers
| and minarets rugged. Two curves will be
found, and while the completed structure
| will be pleasing, any few combinations will
partake of diagonal and perpendicular
| forms, even in the ornamentation. The
| style admits of great precision in masonry
and careful execution, but no sculpture.
The profles will be mOnotOnous, in the
| words of the architect, but each piece being
adapted to the place it occupies great dec
| orative effects are possible. The height to
which the walls go up largely determines
the thickness of the walls, and the main
tower rising to height of 100 feet must be
much thicker than the walls that only rise
thirty feet. The whole is designed to give
as picturesque an effect as pos
sible. The center tower is thirty
two feet square, out of which
grows minaret tower, round and twenty
feet in diameter. These walls will vary
from twenty-five to forty-four inches in
thickness. The crushing strength of ice is
from twelve to eighteen tons per square
foot, which means that chunk of ice
foot square, level and supported will crush
when that weight is placed upon it. At no
place in this palace will there be a greater
weight than about four tons, as the tower
weight possible will be about seven thou
sand pounds, reckoning fifty-eight pounds
10 the cubic foot, Of ice. 1t will in reality
be somewhat less than this, owing to the
thicker walls at the base. The entrances
will have short towers about them, with
battlements on top, massive and in harmony
with the general style of the building"
THE BUILDING
is to have length of about 260 feet and a
width of nearly 100 feet. 1t will be divided
into two parts, separated by driveway.
One part will be nearly rectangular in shape,
104 by 113 feet with a hardwood floor.
This will be used as dancing hall and as
an audience room for concerts and other
special entertainments. The other section
will be circular in form, with an ice skating
floor with diameter of eighty-four feet,
around the outside of which gallery will
run. The spaces between this floor and the
central driveway will be used for cloak
rooms, closets, etc., and restaurant and
other booths. 1t is proposed, of course, to
keep this floor in the very best of condition,
and renewed each day. The central drive
way between the two wings of the building
will be thirty feet wide and will run under
meath the tower. This drive will connect
with the driving track about the building.
this course being fenced in by wall of ice.
The palace will be rooted with canvas and
will be heated to temperature of from 40
to so degrees by stoves, the walls in the
uioipitu Of 10 hQinU prntoofo6 hxr
dead walls.
The lighting at night will be, of course,
electric, and one can just imagine the beau
tiful effect of the incandeScent or arc lights
upon this mass of ice. and what number
of pleasing combinations that can be made
of the light shining through cakes of ice
Windows will be made, the panes being
thin sheets of ice. By the skillful use of
dyes the ice may be colored in different
tints, making the effect still more charming.
THE CENTER OF ATTRACTION.
The palace, then, will be the center about |
which all the features of the carnival will |
This carnival, by the way, is |
to be season of gaiety lasting about a |
and beginning the second or third |
week of January. During this time it is |
proposed to have continual round of sport |
day and night to which the world will be |
invited. There will be parties, balls and |
in the palace, fancy, dress and |
otherwise, sleighing on the race course out |
side the palace, snowshoe jOllity, toboggan |
sliding, and everything which invention /
and energy can compass to make everybody |
have good time Special days and nights |
will be set apart for separate forms of sport,
and it is also in the plan to invite excursions
from outside cities to come on special days,
a portion of the receipts to be given to the
charitable institutions of those places.
The different features of the carnival
have not been decided upon yet, of course,
but there will be every form of sport which