The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-29
PROGRAM OF FIRST TWO wEGKs
OF ST. PAUL CARNIVAL.

February /. Reception of Visiting
Clubs and formal opening of Ice Palace.
Feby. 9 Opening of Slides and Kinks
and dwelling of Ice Statute. Promen-
ade Concert.
Feby. 3. Arrival of Ice King. Grand
| Parade and Reception OF King and
Queen at the Carnival Hall.
Feby. 4. Forenoon: Curling Match
for Challenge Cup at Carnival Grounds;
open to all. Afternoon: Grand display
of elegant winter equipages and beauti-
full costumes on Third Street. Evening:
Arrival of the Fire King; Declaration Of
War; Assault on Ice Palace; Defense
by Ice King; Repulse and Retreat of
Fire King.
Feby. 5. Forenoon: Skating Tourna.
ment ut Carnival Grounds. afternoon
Grand Toboggan Parade; A Novel and
Elegant Display. Epening: Grand Car
nival Masquerade at Carnival Hall.
Feby. q. Forenoon: Novel and in
teresting Street Parade of Esquimaux
Dog Trains and Band of Indians in full
war array. afternoon: Trials of Speed
| by Trotting ana Pacing Horses on river
track for Prizes. Ecening: Grand and
Varied Entertainment at Carnival Hall
by Winnipeg Branch of st. Georges
Snow-shoe Club.
Feby. 8. Forenoon: Exhibition of
robogganing ut all slides by experts.
| afternoon. Match Game of Polo on rink
in Carnival Grounds for Prize and
Championship of Northwest; Snow shoe
Races on the course IN the Park. Euen.
ing: Second Entertainer mt by Winni-
peg Branch of st. Georges Snow-shoe
Club at Carnival Hail.
Feby. 8. Forenoon. Indian Sports at
the Encampment i'm Carnival Park. A.
ternoon: Grand Prize Burlesque and
Grotesque Masquerade Parade through
principal streets. Euening: Brilliant
illumination of the Ice Palace by colored
fires and gorgeous dissolving lights:
Prize Sports within the Grounds.
Feby. 10. Forenoon: Prize Exhibi.
ton by Scandinavian Ski Clubs at Car.
nival Park. afternoon: Speeding OF
gentlemen's driving horses on river
track. Erening: Entertainment by ST.
Paul Ideals at Carnival Hall.
Feby. IL. Forenoon: Snow-shoe con.
test between white men and Indians
afternoon: Grand Reception of Shat
tuck School Cadets by Juvenile uniform
ed clubs. Epening: Saturnalia at Car
nival Park; all sports IN progress; Daz
| ZllHB llluulllldtlOnO Vi Ice fdlace; UranU
pyrotechnic display and release of two
hundred mammoth fire balloons.
Feby. -. g. A. r. day. Forenoon
Reception of Visiting Posts. afternoon
Parade of G. A. R. Posts, Military Com
panIes and Uniformed Clubs. Euening
5 StormIng of Ice Palace by G. A. r
Forces; Defence by Ice King and win
ter clubs; Capitulation of Ice King ant
taking of the flag; the Victors and Van
pushed in Procession.
Feby. Is. Forenoon: Exhibition b,
r Indians and Dog Trains at Carniva
Park; Dances, Races and Games. AT
ternOOn: Children's Dav at all Slide
and Kinks. Erening: Grand Rally ant
Torchlight Procession; Novel Illumina
, ton of the Interior of the Palace ant
the Park.
Tobogganing slides, skating and curl
ing Kinks, Indian village, booths, ETC.
: inside the Carnival grounds. Contest
D ny sporting clubs every day. Palac
brilliantly illuminated nightly. Elec
trio lights and colored fires.
u Excellent entertainments ut Gran,
b Opera House, Olympic Theatre and tn
| Dime Museums. Balls, concerts, etc.
a Program for whole of February SINH
lar 10 above