St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-15


again been displayed. The main en-
trance being directly under the grand
tower, the room is broken by the massive
supports into a central rotunda, fianked
on each side by great squares cores
ponding to the side extensions OF the
main building. Rising from either side
of the main entrance are broad and
easy staircaSeS leading to the gallery.
This is thirty feet wide and extends en-
tirely around the building. The neighth
of this gallery from the main floor is
seventeen feet, and the first floor space
is divided into booths that are assigned
to exhibitors. These will be decorated
and trimmed as suits the fancy of those
who occupy them, it being one of the
conditions that the walls and ceilings
be completely covered so as to hide the
roughneSS of the architecture. In the
center of these two great square rooms,
too, there will be places for the exhibit
ton of the larger and more bulky arti-
Giles. In the center, back of the main
entrance, is the band stand, where the
SIXTH REGIMENT BAND,
of New York, consisting of Seventy-tWO
pieces, will morning, noon and night
discourse music. The gallery will be
used also for display of lighter exhibits,
a promenade twenty feet wide being
retained next to the inside rail. Occu-
plying a space sixty feet square on the
third floor is another gallery, and di-
rectly under it is the passage to and
from the main building. Not foot of
this vast space will be left uncovered,
and the covering will be the products of
the fields, woven into shapes of beauty
that the pen cannot describe. To the
curious it may be some satisfaction to
know that the various colOred corn is
used, and also wheat, oats, rye, sage.
broom corn, sugar cane, PUSHES, cat
tails, asparagus, hops, pepper. fax, mil
let, bitter. sweet, golden rod, gourds OF
various sizes and colors, pumpkins,
flowers and shrubs, and everything be-
longing to the vegetable kingdom that
is raised here and can be woven by deft
fingers into designs of beauty. And
OF the exterior is all done by men and
boys, who mount tall ladders or swing
on frail supports from the high towers.
But their work is intended to
STAND THE WEATHER.
and not to bear close inspection. Inside
the palace, where thousands are ex-
pected to pass in admiration, the work
is all done by the ladies. Just think of
it. All this vast space, these thousands
of square feet of rough walls and col
umnS and supports wrought into things
of exquisite beauty by the ladies of
Sioux City. Oh, they are workers!
They did the work two years ago, and
again last year, and when the call for
1889 was made they responded without
a second notice. About 100 of them met
one afternoon in the parlors of the
Y. NJ. G. A. and organized the Ladies'
Corn Palace Decorative ASSOCIATION. A
president was elected, and vice preSi-
dent, and secretary and board of di-
rectOrS. Then the books were opened,
and it was made known that $50 work
ing members were wanted. In less than
a week the desired number had been
found, and there were no drOneS among
them. Industry was the first requisite
to membership. The next Monday morn
ing this army marched on the corn
palace and took it by storm, and have
held possession ever since. The ma
terial to work was there, and the aSsO-
citation has bought $50 bright new tack
hammers, and actually whole wagon
load of tacks, brads, small nails, fine
wire and stout linen thread. The ladies
divided into groups of from four to ten,
and each group chose director, who
was to be in charge of the work of those
under her. And then the work began,
and for over two weeks it has been kept
up from early morn till dusk stops the
nimble fngars.
THE LADIES NOT ONLY DESIGN
the work but executed it. The men are
useful in carrying loads of corn and
material, and in placing step ladders,
and in using a saw and chisel when a
frame for some !aIciful design is de-
sired, but the ladies are doing the work.
One takes section of wall and builds
thereon, out of the products of the
earth, beautiful landscape, perhaps
Another takes rough support under
the gallery and makes a column that
would be the envy of sculptor. An
other mounts ladder and on a space
on the rough ceiling makes picture
that the best decorator in the land could
not begin to make. And so it goes, and
this vast ampitheather, having more the
appearance of Yeritable beehive, is
fast assuming an appearance of beauty
that is not rivaled in the Orient nor the
Occident, nor anywhere except in a
corn palace, and the only corn palace in
the world is largely the work of these
ladies. But the building, which is
show in itself, is one feature. The eX-
hibitS
WILL BE THE FINEST
ever gotten together in the Northwest.
The various counties in Iowa. Dakota,
Nebraska and Minnesota that have con-
tributed to the success in former years
know that great benefits are derived
from thus having their products and re-
sources brought to the notice of the
world, and are preparing to make eX-
tenslVe and in many eases elaborate
displays. The Black Hills region will
show its mineral and agricultural treas
ures in great profusion, and fine exhib-
its will come from Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah and California. Kansas, Missouri,
Texas and the Southwest will also be
represented, space having already been
allotted to many associations and indi-
VIduals. Probably the most extensive
and surely the most interesting display
will come from the South. Capt. Mer-
ry, of the Illinois Central railroad, has
been in Mississippi and Louisiana for
over week, stirring the people up to
the advantages of making a showing
here, where thousands of Northern peO-
pie can see and study the products of
that land that is asking for Northern
people and Northern capital to come
and improve the thousands of acres of
fertile land and work the rich mines.
He has run a special train through
these two states, holding meetings in all
THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS
and the result has been request for
double the space originally allotted that
section, with the assurance that every
foot of it will be occupied with an eX-
hibit such as was never before brought
from the South. Excursion trains will
run from all directions. Arrangements
have been completed for Vestibule
train from Boston, carrying large
party of Eastern capitalists, who will
stay full week at the corn palace.
There will be other features of interest
to visitors. Parades have been arranged,
including military, industrial, civic and
others, for which elaborate preparations
have been made, and each day will be
devoted to special programme in that
line. Arches have already been erected
at all the principal street intersections,
and the illuminatiOns will give a grand
spectacular show. Everything in the
city will be decorated. and two full