St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-07
THE FIRST WEEK.

The first week of the carnival is over.
70 say that it has been a magnificent sue
cess is the mildest way that it can be eX-
pressed. Its success has been SO far be-
yond the expectations of every one that it
is difficult to realize how it was done. Even
the projectors of the enterprise and the
managers of it had no conception of the
vast proportions it was going to assume.
In the first place the ice palace itself ex-
ceeds in beauty anything that we had ex-
pected to see. The artistic features are
perfect and the rare beauty of the struc-
ture as 1t glistens in the light and sheen
surpasses all Imagination. In the next
place the enthusiasm of our peo-
pie exceeds all anticipation. There
never was a population who entered
so heartily into a public enterprise as the
people of st. Paul have exhibited. 1t has
been one solid weeks devotion to the carni-
val-with no let up or relaxation by day or
mand made upon the people which has not
been responded TO promptly and energetic
ally. The uniformed clubs have held them
selves in readiness at ali hours to obey in
structions and to fail into line whenever the
order was given. The parades and process
si0ns have been gorgeous beyond all COM
parison, and the scene Thursday night,
when the ice palace was stormed by the
forces of the Fire King is an event which
will long be remembered by the
100000 people who witnessed it.
And then the number of visitors
has been greater than was expected. Not
only every town and locality of our own
state and of the entire Northwest has been
represented, but there have been thousands
from different states and from the neighbor-
ing Dominion of Canada who have come to
look upon the first ice palace that was ever
erected in the United States. Our visitors
during the week have been counted by the
tens of thousands, and each day only adds
to the swelling number. The hotels and
boarding-hOuses are OVERLOOKING with
guests. Our citizens have been compelled
to open their private mansions for the ac-
commodation of strangers who have come
to see our great show. And yet there
is room for more. Every visitor who
comes to the city will be entertain ed
and provided with lodging if the
people of st. Paul have to move out into
the street to give our guests room. Such is
the hospitality for which our city is proverb-
ial. and such the enthusiasm which exists
at this particular time. So. taking it all in
all, the first week of the carnival has been
the most brilliant success ever achieved i'm
an American enterprise of this kind. And
what is more, it is q success which could
not have been achieved anywhere else ex-
cept right here in the metropolis of this
great Northwest
But as great as has been the success of the
past week the coming one promises to surpass
it. The features will be different from what
have been presented, but they will be none
the less novel and entertaining. A program
has been mapped out which will give ali
the fun and amusement that carnival
could be expected to afford. The probable
tiles are that there will be more people here
this week than last The fame of the past
weeks carnival has gone out to all parts of
the country and people in different sections
are just awakening to an anxiety to see this
great thing which everybody is talking
about. Those who visited the city last
week will return home with such marvellous
stories of what they saw and heard while
in st. Paul that everybody else will want
to get here to see it before the carnival
comes to an end.
Nor will the enthusiasm of our own citizens
be a jot abated. 1t is true that with the
close of the first week they felt a little jaded
and worn down by the continuous strain of