Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-02-04
OUR ICE PALACE.
A Great Enterprise Quietly Carried to =
Successful Issue.

A Great Enterprise Quietly Carried to =
Successful Issue.
The Ice in the river having attained
the requisite thickness, work was
commenced yesterday on the palace
by the energetic contractors, Clint
Hedderlch aud Geo. Savage. Through
the generosity Of our citizens an
ample fund has been secured for
the completion of the work and while
We cannot hope to compete with ST.
Paul in elegance of design or massive
construction, we will nevertheless have
an ice palace plenty good enough for
Montana while a territory. The &C.
cepted plans prepared by local archi-
tect. who declines to have his name
mentioned until the working out of
the details have proved to be accepta-
BILE, calls for all edifice in the form of a
Greek cross, sixty feet in extreme
length each way, each wing twenty
feet wide, and in height twenty.four
feet, from the centre will arise circu-
lar tower twenty feet high with heavy
mullioned windows and escarpments,
surmounted by bartizan battlement
enfiladed with inverted arches. The
main entrance will be through a Co
rinthian arch fourteen feet wide, sur
mounted by gargoyle supported by
corbels. The peristyle in the centre
of tbs edifice will be surrounded with
twenty-four ice columns sixteen feet
high, Of combined Doric. Ionic.
Moresque ard Corinthian pattern,
each of which will be rendered irridis-
cent by the application of a chemical
compound recently discovered by our
eminent chemist. Carl Peterson. Mr..
Peterson Is also working out an idea
by which he hopes to be able 10 give
to the ice blocks permanent artificial
color, and has been so far successful as
to warrant us In saying that the inter-
ior walls Of the edifice for a beighth of
ten feet will be laid In red, white and
blue blocks. and out of compliment b.
our Irish citizens an occasional block
of emerald green will. be inlaid. The
reason why the whole palace will not
be constructed Of this colored ice Is,
that the cost of preparing it is SO great
that the size Of the edifice would have
to be materially reduced In order TO
come within the limits of the amount
appropriated. As IL is, the colored
blocks for the inside will only be a
veneer Of about three inches thick,
that being the limit of thickness to
which this artificislly colored ice is al
lowed, by the inventor, to freeze. II
we cannot equal st. Panl In the size
aud magnificence of our palace, we
leave her miles behind in the over
whelming stretch of our toboggan
slide, which, when completed, will
reach from the top Of Signal Butte,
at an elevation of $40 feet. down its
smooth but precipitous side, to the
plain below, which gently sloping
downward to the city for a
distance Of five miles gives to the
people of Miles City a toboggan
slide not equaled in the civilized world.
The impetus gained by this mad rush
over constant down grade for this
distance is quite sufficient to enable
the tOboggan to take the dip Of Tongue
river, raise its bank on the other side
and proceed gayly to Fort Keogh. but
1t Is very probable that the toboggan-
ners will when they hava reached
Miles City. come 10 the conclusion
that they have had enough for one
trip, and stop of for supper. The best
feature Of the whole thing 10 that there
10 not q dollar of expense to be put In
the slide, nature has done 1t all, and
done IL 90 well that 1t is believed the
trim can be made from the apex of old
'.signalp toths JOURNAL office In less
than ten minutes. Arrangements
have been made for the hauling Of to-
boQannen and their sleds to the butte
every evening at o'clock. There
will be but one trip made every night
a II IL presumed no one will care to
come down more than once. A future
article will be devoted to the pro-
gnmme Of the carnival and descrip-
lion Of the clubs now forming to take
part In the first winter carnival cele-
bntion ever held In Montana.
Dan Harris. foreman Of w. w.
Wiley's horse ranch, WA In town w.,