St. Paul daily globe., 1886-08-21

and dotted with handsome homes. The
West hotel, which cost nearly $2. 600, 600,
is by all odds the finest hotel in the world.
The great flour mills Zone of which can and
has turned out over Z, 900 barrels of flour a
day.. whose combined capacity is over 35,-
600 barrels of flour daily. The temple court.
with its glass floors and elevators with a
record OF 1900 passengers in one day.
The magnificent Loan and Trust building,
finished throughout with marble and MeXi-
can onyx, perfectly fire-proof and univer-
sally acknowledged to be the finest office
building in the Union. The great ten-story
Lumber exchange, the chamber of COM
merce, the grand opera and many other
fine buildings will please and interest you.
A nights ride will take you to Duluth,
the head of Lake Superior. The same
time or less, spent in some of the finest
railroad cars i'll the world, will place you
IN Ashland, Oconomowoc, Waukesha, De-
troit lake, Taylor's Falls, White Bear lake
or any one OF the many score of delightful
summer resorts that are all around this
city. Here you will find the most elegant
fishing, glorious boat rides and charming
drives, with days unequaled anywhere and
nights that require comforter on every
bed.
Minneapolis and st. Paul are the gate
ways that lead to the Yellowstone park
and the great wheat farms of Dakota.
DECORATIONS ILLUMINATIoNs
will be general and elaborate throughout
Minneapolis during the Exposition. the
streets of the city will be most elaborately
decorted with flags and bunting, and every
body who saw Minneapolis during the
Grand Army reunion of 1884 or at the time
of the great Willard parade when the North
ern Pacific railroad was opened through to
the Pacific, will testify to how Minneapo-
lis decorates Wllen she starts in.
THE GROWING FEATURE
will be the grand illuminations of Nicollet
and Washington avenues, two of the finest
and broadcast streets in the country.
Nicollet avenue will be most magnifi-
Gently Illuminated with over $4,000 gas Jets
and colored globes arranged in hundreds of
beautiful arches. turning the avenue into a
fairy scene at night and making it grandly
beautiful in daylight
Washington avenue will be most bril-
liantly lighted by an immense number of
electric lights, and both these avenues,
thronged with people as they will be, will
present scene never to be forgotten.
No city on earth ever attempted a more
elaborate illumination and this will be one
of the many attractions the Queen of the
Northwest will offer her guests.
THE GRAND OPENING
will occur on Monday afternoon, with all
the accompaniment of booming cannon,
and janglng bells, shrieking whistles and
cheering multitudes. The guests of the
directors are expected to assemble at the
West hotel promptly at p. M, whence
the procession will go by Fifth street to
Nicollet. and thence direct to the Exposi-
tion building. The procession will be in
three grand divisions, as follows:
First-Capt. D. L. Gilmore, marshal of the
day; mounted police, Mexican band, presi-
dent and vice-president and board of direc-
tors, Speaker of the Day Davis, and the gov
ernor, the mayor and city council of Mime
apolis.
Second-Miltary band, Fort Smelling, Brig
Gen. Ruger and Staff Col. Van Horne and
staff, st. Paul city government, mayor and
officers, governors of states and territories
state officers and ex-governors of Minnesota
judges of circuit and district courts of the
United States and officers, judges of the
supreme court of Minnesota.
Thrd-Danz' band, judges of district courts
of Hennepin and Ramsey counties, ex-mayors
of Minneapolis, senators and representatives
in congress of Minnesota, members of the
press and other invited guests
The order of exercises at the building ia
thus:
Music by the Mexican bau6
Prayer by Bishop Whipple
The mayor of Minneapolis rendering the
hospitality of the city with an address.
Presentation of building by chairman of
building committee, S. @. Gale.
Acceptance of the building by President
Washburn and sending telegram TO the
president of the United States stating the