St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-02
CARNIVAL DREAM.
The Strange Vision That Came to a
Carnival VOtary.

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Carnival VOtary.
Augustus Jones was leading spirit of
one of the carnival clubs. When the asso-
citation was formed he had been present and
had risen in his seat at the call of the chair
man for a rising vote of all in favor of the
motion that an association be formed. He
had been member of the committee APP
pointed to elect a board Of managers
and had been made one of that board.
When the stock books had been opened his
name had been one of the first to be put
down. He was the first man to order q
carnival uniform, so far as the records
show. He had invested an even 500
i'm the first edition of ice palace
Autographs at 10 cents each and sent them
broadcast over the country. He had at
tended the earlier meetings of the winter
club and made suggestions as to the sports.
He had looked up the reports of carnivals
at Montreal and had many valuable sugges-
tions to make as to uniforms, and his adj
vice as to the cost of snowShoes, toboggans,
toques and sashes was generally accepted.
He was made an honorary member of sew
eral of the clubs. He was one of two or
three who first conceived the idea of
bouncing" as an initiatory ceremony, and
had been the first man
TO BE BOUNCED.
Mr.. Jones had been present at the first
meet of the st. Georges Snowshoe club
and had not allowed any Of its subsequent
runs to be made without his presence. Mr..
Jones was very popular and there was no
club meeting into which he dropped but he
was a welcome visitor. He had been the
recipient of three pairs of snowshoes from
admiring friends; he had four uniforms,
md III xunC oO1 l,xvo
ticular club for him to appear in its regala.
The ladies had made him presents in the
shape of scarf pins of carnival designs and
he wore as cuff buttons two small golden
snowshoeS with diamond settings. Mr..
Jones had been presented with a
pair of skis, and the curling club
had made him an honorary member. III e
had watched the growth of the carnival
craze. When the men about town dis
played their shapes in knickerbockers he
was always an admirer and when the city
pastors took the palace for their texts and
found it a fruitful framework on which to
hang their pictures of the pearly gates and
Jasper walls of the New Jerusalem. Mr..
Augustus Jones was an interested listener.
He had carried two torches on the night of
the laying of the corner block of the palace.
On many occasions he had accepted bets
ranging from the drinks to fiVe-dollal
note that the palace would not be done on
time. He was an ardent admirer of the
architect of the palace, and he read every
line of carnival news in the morning pa.
pers. On the opening day he had put OF
his uniform in the morning, and had no
removed it until after the carnival opening
last night He was fully and thor
oughly filled with the spirit of thu
carnival and he declared himself severa
times last evening to the effect that thu
Fire King could have all his clothes If h'
wasn't willing to bow Oh his knees in TIT
snow before his sceptre. 1t was long aftel
the hilarity of the opening evening hat
died away that Mr.. Augustus Jones
HAD DROPPED ASLEEP,
after having placed on a chair near thu
head of his bed carnival suit of a differen
color from the one worn on the opening
day.
~
1t must have been 2 o'clock when Mr..
Augustus Jones was startled from his sleeJ
by the sound of some one opening the doc
of his bedroom, and he rubbed his ewes anC
listened. He raised his head from the pl
low and looked toward the spot from
whence the sounds came. "a sight met hi