St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-17
AS IN YEARS PAST,
st. Paul Will Have an lee
Palace and Carnival
Fpolie,
To SurpasS All others in
Extent and Magnifi-
eenee.
Council to Appropriate Ten
Thousand Dollars To-
ward Expenses.
Ways and Means Adopted for
Raising Additional
Money.

If King BorealiS is so disposed there
will be an ice palace and carnival this
winter. A meeting of the directors of
the Ice Carnival association was held
last evening, and it was finally decided
to hold carnival this winter. In
quiries are received dvery day from out
side people anXiously asking if there is
to be carnival. The failure OF the frost
to allow Of a carnival last winter
caused a disappointment that was
keen and widespread. In Brooklyn,
a club of 400 had been formed
to come up and have a good time, and
so on all over the country. Great
anxiety is expressed by people who
want to make arrangements for spend
ing the winter, as to whether st. Paul
will be able TO offer attractions suffi-
GENTLY good to warrant them in arrang-
ing to spend a portion Of the winter
here. To these it may be said that
there will be carnival, always pro-
yided that there is ice. The unanimity
OF purpose visible at the meeting last
night was wonderful. Not dissenting
voice was to be heard, and the opinion
was universal that the affair should
be made infinitely superior to any
thing that ever occurred before.
A long discussion took place over de-
tails, but the final result leaves no doubt
that the carnival will take place, and
completely surpaSs all previous ones in
extent and magnifcence. The pros
pect of the city council devoting $4,000
to the carnival was fully discussed. and
the conclusion was come to that there
was no doubt that the $4,000 would be
appropriated. 1t was considered, how
ever, that appropriation or no appTo-
priatiOn, the carnival must be held. As
Hon. Albert ScheffeI expressed it, the
people both inside and outside st. Paul
expect it, and it is the
DUTY OF TUE CITY
to hold it. Whether the railroads would
be willing to come down with hand
some subscriptions or not caused a long
discussion. and after T. b. Clarke and
Stanley Proudfit, of the Omaha, had eX
planned that the railroads make nothing
Out of it, by reason of the reduced rates
at which they all have to carry pas
sengerS. it was evident to the meeting
that nothing very great could be eX-
pected from them. A letter from II. X.
u. Hamilton, secretary of the contract
OrS' and builders board of trade. was
read stating that at the meet
ing Tuesday night the board had
decided to subscribe 500 towards the
carnival. provided it be opened about
Jan. %. The reason for desiring this
date was that the fourth annual cOnven-
ton of builders is to he held i'm st. Paul
% 1 On i, =
through with their business. and think
the carnival would prove most attract
i've. The manner Of raising funds &C.
cUpied large part of the time of the
meeting, and was finally settled
by the adoption of a resolution
offered by lion. Albert Scheffer, to
the effect that ten members of
the directorate be constituted
committee to solicit subscriptions, and
that the way these are to be obtained is
this: Ten notes at eighteen months are
made out, each for 81 900; each of these
ten is to he signed by forty men, and
they are to be discounted at the banks.
The conditions of these notes are that
the signers shall not be called upon for
all or any part of the amount unless ap-
priatiOns by the city council and state
legislature do not
Gov Ek TIE EABENSES
! over and above the cash receipts, which
will be heavy. The directors under
stand that it is the intention of the city
council to let them | ave $4,000. The
! Hon. Albert Scheffer is confident OF
being able to get bill through the
legislature to provide for any more. 4
| funny question and answer were given
! at the meeting last night in this rela-
| ton, w, A. Van Slyke asked Senator
! Scheffer if he would be in the senate
next legislature. Mr.. Scheffer replied:
II suppose l will go there if 1
want to- If l do not l will pledge
my successor TO get the bill through.
| On motion of Assistant County AttOr-
ney Mum the president appointed a
committee of three to wait upon the
| railroads and raise a. subscription of
$4,000 among them. The president APP
pointed George II. Finch, p. II. Kelly
! and T. L. Schurmeier as the committee.
1t was pointed out that it would
| be necessary TO have a meeting of
| stockholders to elect a new board
/ of directors. so the president, secretary
and Mr.. Mum were appointed com
mittee TO call meeting of all StOckhOld-
erS in the Carnival association for Mon
dav, Oct. ., at p. m, in the parlOr of
! the Merchants hotel, and to solicit
proxies from those who could not attend.
! While George r. Finch was protesting
against being put on the committee to
see the railroads, Albert Sehetfer moved
an adjournment.