St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-16
MINNEAPOLIS EVENTS.
Exhibitors Will Storm the Exposition To-
Day-Putting on the Finishing
Touches.
q Oolored Soldier and Drunken Cooper
Arrested For Treating Their
Wives Badly.
aow the New Democratic Club Mem
oers Will Live in Luxury--ReaI
Estate Review.
Ahe New Short.Ltne Route--PoIfticaI
POINTERS and Person al Gossip
All Sorts.
THE EXPOSITION.
The Building Ready for Exhibits
The Cleaning UD ReeiuS

hO Stedulns u u Begins.
The sound of the hammer and saw re-
sounded in the Exposition building all yes
terday, and busy workmen were actively
engaged in building the framework for ex-
hlpltS. and putting on the finishing touches
mere and there. The building may be said
to be practically done, and most of the
Workmen will be discharged to-day. A
small portion of the first floor remains to be
lald and some of the stairWays are unfin-
lshed. Considerable painting needs to be
done, but owing to the lateneSS of the hour
much of it will of necessity be omitted.
Yesterday the railing was placed around
the light well, and chairs are being placed
in the amphitheater. The rockery
is about finished. Steam was yesterday
started up. and the trial proved
satisfactory. The towers on the roof are
yet to be covered with corrugated iron, and
the exterior will then be finished. What
remains to be done is in the nature of a
GENERAL CLEARING UP
of rubbish from the grounds and building
A force of men is already grading Second
street, and a wide tile sidewalk is being
laid. The dingy walls of the Cataract en-
CINE house are receiving coat of red paint.
The Main street front is already beginning
landscape gardner, and the green slope to
the street with its bank Of green, flowers
and winding walks presents very attrac-
tive picture. The Ortman street approach
in its present condition is simply hdeous
A great pile of wood, the back
yards of a group of small dwellings
and the half-graded street. forming COM
bmation that is the reverse of pleasing. A
large force OF mon will to-day be put at
work, and an energetic effort will be made
to have the approach made as presentable
rs possible, although the surroundings will
prevent the possibility of all approximation
to what it should be, OF will be as soon as
the projected park is laid out and the I'M
slightly buildings are removed.
1t is expected that exhibits will come
rushing in to-day pell-mell. The manage
ment has announced that it means what it
says in requiring that all exhibitors must
have some portion of their displays on their
space to-day to retain it. This rule, it is
stated, will be positively adhered to.
THE MEXICAN BAND,
with ffty-seven members, will arrive
Wednesday. Secretary Byron last evening
left for Kansas City, where he expects to
meet it tomorrow Quarters have been
secured for the members at 403 Central
avenue.
The program for the opening exercises
will probably be arranged to-day. 1t is
likely that DR.. D. G. Marquis of Chicago,
who IS in the city, will be invited to offer
the invocation, followed by Mayor Ames
who will deliver an address Of welcome.
S. c. Gale, as chairman of the building
committee, will give brief history of the
Exposition and then formally turn it over
to the board Of directors. President W.
d. WaShburn will make the response. The
Grafton will next be delivered by Hon.
Cush K. Davis of st, Paul. An address to
the president of the United States will next
be read and telegraphed. 1t is expected
that the president will make fitting
response which will be received over the
wire. At an agreed upon time President
Cleveland will touch the button, at WASH
ington, that will start the machinery of
the Exposition. The Mexican band will
play several selections during the exercises.
Some second-rate musical organization is
masquerading about the country as a Mexi-
can band. advertised as ION its way to the
Minneapolis industrial exposition" A
gentleman in Wheeling, who wrote 9 to
friend in this city to know if this was the
genuine band, and added; ut is a very
snde organization and not worth hearing"
1t is needless to say this is not the Mexican
band, which will give its first music in
Minneapolis, but some contemplate fraud
on the public. The Mexican band will play
first and only in Minneapolis.
NOTES FROM THE BUILDING.
The Exposition building committee claims
that there is not any danger of the shafting
for the machinery giving away through tho
insufficient strength of the hangers as stated
in the Wood and Iron. If, however, there is
the slightest cause for apprehension, abund-
ant precautions will be taken.
The committee on arrangements, consisting
of w. S. King, A. J. Blethen,W w. E. Steele and
D. NJ. Cough, will meet at the mayors Office
at 10 o'clock this morning.
The party to whom the restaurant privi-
lege was awarded having failed to comply
with the contract, bids will be received for
lunch counters or booths.
Mayor Ames has detailed four policemen to
guard the property that has already been
placed in the building.
A broom brigade and an army of window
cleaners are at work.
The hanging of pictures in the art gallery
begins to-day.
All the interior painting will be finished by
tomorrow.
Suits will be placed in the amphitheater to-
day.
The great glass skylight is finished.