Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09
rpr COMING CARNIVAL,


Plans for the Great Event beginning 20 As
sumo Form--Detaiis OF the Ice Palace--or-
eaniEations That VIII Assist In the Car
nivaI Festivities
The building has the general form Of Latin
ross. covering over AZ, 600 square feet In
lrea, and is 2I7 feet long by l9i feet wide.
Il has o central tower, octagonal In form,
md 90 feet In diameter From the outer
angles Of this tower there are rRdtating and
lying buttresses projecting sixteen feet from
he body OF the tower. The buttresses are
stepped back at the height Of %
leet from the ground and terminate In
,mall fanklng turrets; these are carried up
hree feet above the body OF the tower, which
i i0i feet high. The turret at the southeast
angle Of the tower Is somewhat larger than
The others, and is carried up fourteen feet
above the main tower, and terminates in
pointed roof made Of evergreens, and Is sur
mounted by flag post twenty feet high,
which will carry the carnival flag and also
serve for the weather signals The total
height from ground % ball on Gag post liz
1875 feet The body Of the tower is grit by
belt courses of projecting ~rock ice" at 2s
feet. 43 feet, 90 feet and so feet from the
ground Between these belts there are small
windows in what might be called the second,
third and fourth storieA There Is no roof TO
The tower nor TO any part of the building The
Hrrt intention was to roof over the large
court on the south side of the main tower
and use ID for carnival meetings, dances and
ike purposes, but this idea has been aband-
oned as impracticable, and the building will
stand as monument only. There is y cor
-. - ~ Tao a.sh
stepped OUT several inches beyond the
,ourse under it, and is surmounted by q
,renelated brttlement The walls of the
tower and those of the whole building will
be composed Of courses of solid blocks Of Ice,
Twelve to eighteen inches thick, and varying
from two to six feet In length At the base
81 the tower the walls are i've feet thick.
The tower stands in a court formed by a
wall pierced with narrow, elongated win
lows, or slots" This wall is twenty three
,eet high, and is similarly treated as the
lower. having cornice aud battlement AT
zach angle formed by the walls of this
square or enclosure there are circular and
square turrets of different designs, corniced
and battlemented and surmounted by
fiagpole designed TO carry the
national colors OF England, France,
Germany and sweden. FROM sne fouf SIDES
81 the square spring the arms Of the cross
The entrance at each Of the terminals Of
these arms is double arch six feet wid,,,
banked by square base. tapering into a
,ircnlar turret forty-s seven feet high and
seven feet in diameter At the rear of tie
main building. and toward the north, is an
entrance composed Of large single arch
sight feet in diameter The foot of the cross,
extending in front OF the building and to-
ward the west, is also continuation of the
main wall, and swells into a circle Of noble
proportions, ninety Ave feet in diameter
The wall, and the whole building, in fact.
viii be well relieved and strengthened by
stone buttresseS Thess add to the stability
and cut up the SKY iines as they rise, and
terminate above the wall IN rough chunks of
re that effectively relieve the otherwise