St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-05

ing to observe, in a retrospective glance,
that the managers have not inaugurated the
winter festival with an explosive boom that
died with its birth; but that. on the con-
trary, the excellence the attractiveness and
the grandeur of the entire carnival increase
as the program unfolds itself With emil
nent truth it might each morning have been
said: Yesterday was the best day of the
carnival;" and no higher need of praise
can be extended to the managers than to
have it expressed, when the final number of
the program is safely and happily executed,
each day was climax and the end crowns
the work. Undoubtedly yesterday was the
best day of the carnival thus far. considered
in any and every possible sense. The pro-
gram was one of surprising attraction, and
had been selected, not only by Minneapolis,
but by numbers of the smaller cities
of the state and by hundreds of people from
abroad, as the best and most desirable to be
seen during the earlier days of the carnival.
That it fully bore out all expectations was
apparent to all participants and will be evil
dent to the readers of the GLOBE, scattered
far and wide over the Northwest, who de-
pend upon the descriptions and accounts
which follow for their knowledge of Min
neapolis day. Everything was better yes
terday except the weather, and it has not
binding sunshine which, though
so BEAUTIFUL,
fell upon the breast of the snow and the
face of the ice with as little effect as the
rays of the electric light upon crystal. But
the increasing thrOngs seemed to give it lit
tie heed. The crowded streets rocked not
Df the Arctic air that surrounded them, and
she pulslng hfe-bl0Od of the Carnival city
only flowed the quicker in defiance of the
cold. And how the people did pour in.
Every train brought them, until the doors
of the depot were propped open and the
stream of humanity flowed without check
from morning until night Elaborate
preparations had been made for the recep-
tion and entertainment of visitors, but ex-
tensive as they were they fell far short of
meeting the wants of that vast cuncourse of
people which found in st. Paul the mecca
of its mid-winter pilgrimage. The sleep
Ing quarters, and above all the eating houses
and lunch rooms, were literally overrun,
and when night had almost given place to
the returning morning, crowds roamed the
streets bedless and homeless, and still
happy over it. Hotels found themselves
undergoing a storm. not SO brilliant as that
the palace withstood, but far NOR deter
mined and registers stretched out to ten
times their usual lengths. When evening
came and the host OF Minneapolis poured
down in solid columns that would have
discounted the tabled forces OF the
Assyrians, the population of st. Paul
seemed suddenly doubled. 1t was Mime
apolis day-the time chosen for the formal
visit of the Flour City. and as the people
OF st. Pau's enterprising twin never DC
things by halves, they made ii, as their
delegation termed it, "a bowling success. y
They came not in trains, or in groups, but
by thousands and lent their aid in making
the night memorable as only whole hearted
Minneapolitans can do. ST. Paul net them
with open arms and beautifully did the
honors and hospitalities. appreciating
sIsTERLY COURTESY IN A sIsTERLY WAY.
And itwas memorable day. Difficult 4
Is to reduce such scenes to cold language
and cold type. The medodious tintinnabu-
lation Of silver sleigh bells in the crisp win
ter air, the coruscation of rockets and
candles and the brilliant burst of fire bomt
against the dark purple velvet of North