St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-12
THE ILLUMINATION.
What the People Have Seen and by
Whom the Work Was Done

what the FeOpIc have seen AND Dy
Whom the work Was Done.
The fact that the city of St. Paul is truly
metropolitan is more wildly demonstrated
each day. and the manner in which tht
leading merchants contributed to make the
state fair season success shows their APP
probation of the efforts of the managers
of that institution. The illumination OF
the city during the week was undoubtedly
one of the very finest affairs of it's kind
ever before attempted by any city of the
United States. st. Louis and New Or
leans have been given the credit of having
prepared Examinations during their annual
fetes that eclipsed all former efforts. but
visitors in st. Paul during the fair who
have attended those festivals unhesitat-
ingly assert that st. Pauls display far sur
passed any thing of the kind that they had
ever seen.
Few of the thousands of people who
crowded the streets of our city
during the last week have any idea
of the great amount of cost and labor
attending the erection of those MAN.
moth arches and blocks of connecting lines
of light which reached from Rice park,
through Third street and down to Sibley,
making the whole distance one grand sheet
& Bros, 90 East Third street. the gentle
men who superintendent and constructed the
whole undertaking, we are enabled to give
our readers some idea of the stupendous
task and other facts attendant thereto
There was used for the side Examinations
alone something over $4,000 feet of gas
tubing, outside of the arches, of which
there were fifteen. they alone containing
$3.50 feet. Two forces of men were kept
busy for one whole week, one by night
and the other by day, the two gangs num-
bering $50 men. In the matter of glass
globes there were over 5000 used, and
these. too, were not of all inferior
grade, P. V. Dwyer making a
trip to Chicago, Wheeling. Pittsburg and
New York for their especial purchase.
They are of very fine make and quality.
being selected with view to harmony and
effect, each one having retail price of
$3.50. Absorption of the gorgeous display
is unnecessary. as scarcely man. woman or
child in the city failed to avail themselves
of the opportunity to witness what every
body will acknowledge to be a scene never
to be forgotten, and undoubtedly the finest
illumination ever contemplated. 1t was sue
cess in every sense of the term, and reflects
great credit upon the citizens of st. Paul,
as well as the executors of the work, P. V.
Dwyer & Bros. These gentlemen are
among our younger business men, but since
their establishment in St. Paul have shown
their ability to handle anything in their
line, and have as monuments to their credit
the finishing of some of the finest bust
ness blocks IN the city, as well as numerous
business blocks in other cities in the state
Great credit is also due Col White, SUI
perntendent of the st. Paul Gas Light
company, for the manner in which he came
forward with his extra force of men, being
untiring in his efforts to make the display a
success.
The illumination has been continued
every pleasant evening until Saturday night,
and the whole structure will now be taken
apart and stored until the next winters car
nival season opens, when it will be again
put in place, with the addition of fifteen
more handsome arches, which are now being
constructed by the Dwyer Bros. If such a
result can be accomplished in so short a
time, the people can form some idea of the
showing which will be the result of their
work for the next winters carnival. 1t
might be of interest to state that about one
million feet of gas was used on each illu-
minatiOn night of the fair season.