The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-02-04

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send forth on bursting yellow stream
for its leading people away from church.
Not many days after was in the ice
palace grounds, the central sun of the
carnival system, and who should l
meet but another equally good pastor
this one a Presbyterian-Dr. Christie,
of the House of Hope church. Was
DR.. Christie there to get pointers" for
sermon against the ice palace and the
events of the carnival season? Well,
hardly. He was, when 1 spoke to him,
deeply engaged in game of curling!
Being canny Scotsman himself he
loves to "twirl the stanes" in this-to
Scotland's Notwithstanding game, and
here he was on the palace grounds CIV
ing not only sanction but personal en-
dorsement to the carnival. think he
had the right of it. DR.. Dana like,
and he is a power in this city, but
really think he attacked most worthy
institution-one which trust will live
many years-when he pitched into the
carnival.
st. Paul to day is gay, lively city.
Though Northern blood may differ in
its corpuscle composition from that
which pulses in Southern veins, yet it
beats just as responsive to the beauties
of scenes of magnifcence as ever did
the blood of any people in more volup-
tuous climes. And there are many
magnificent sides to this carnival sea-
son. To-day it is splendid street pa
rade with thousands of uniformed men
in line, with a different coloring and
costuming to every division of say forty
or fifty men, with striking and original
floats" drawn by many horses and
representing something allegOrical,
something typical of the cline, some
thing tinged with hum) r, or something
of direct interest to commerce; to-
morrow it may be an equipage display.
The "Corso" as they call it where
there are hundreds of the most beauti-
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ing some of the most elegant as well as
symmetrical and useful sleighs-here
cute little pair of Shetland pony mid
gets gaily decked out with ribbons of
rarest hue; then a stately Victoria
drawn by two powerful roadsters here
natty tandem team hitched to slen-
der cutter; there massive Russian
sleigh with three horses ABREAST, and
over the center one curved chime
of golden bells everywhere nodding
pompons at the horses ears and on the
dashboards, with planes of gorgeous
colors and ribbons that vie with the
most brilliant rainbow hues. To-day
it may be a series of contests at speed
and endurance upon the broad tightly
strapped sno Wshoe; skating bout,
where skill and grace combine; thrill
ing test of nerve displayed by Nor
wegian ''ski'' runners, who, moving at
rapid rate, leap over dangerous preci-
pices several score Of feet in height;
tomorrow it may be an industrial pa
Tade exemplifying in superb style the
varied interests of this great and grow
ing commonwealth.
And then the evenings rare beau
teous ones they are. The streets are H.
Illuminated every night of the carnival
with thousands upon thousands of
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thoroughfares, and crossing the streets
in graceful arches at the corner inter
sections. tits like dream, like Wis
ion from fairy-land, this scene. Stand
ing at place where one can look down
long street, and overhead the lines of
light meet, forming one great gallery
of glowing color-red and ruby and
carnation and pink and blue and orange
and white and rose and amber-all
uniting and blending into canopy of
gorgeous color. Then, too, the ice palace
storming-it is a sight of unusual
splendor, unique spectacle. The
great palace, hundreds of feet in cir
conference, with bastions and turrets
and towers like noble old feudal cas-
tie, is Illuminated early in the evening
with electric lights that from the inte-
rior send forth soft and pleasing glow,
rose colored or mayhap creamy white.
This lighting is of course done by
means of colored globes thrown round |
the electric lights that are scores in
number. High in the air nearly $50 |
feet from the ground, atop of the high
est tower, floats the white and black
banner of Rex Borealis, the ice king, |
who is in possession of the castle. AT |
about 8 o'clock in the evening-as it |
was last night-the uniformed men |
gather from all parts of the city at one
common rendezvous, and in two sepa-
rate bodies march to the palace grounds |
with the sound of fife and drum and |
blaring horn announcing their approach
to the battlefield. Each man is sup
piled with knapsack in which he has
slowed away liberal rounds of Roman
candles. Arrived at the palace gate,
gigantic icy gateway of much beauty,
the forces of the ice king file in and
take possession of the palace while the