St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-08-09
KING CORN COMING IN STATE
His Palace This Year Grauder Than
Ever Before.
A GREAT AUDITORIUM ADDED.

More than twice as large as any of its
predecessors, different in design and scope
from anything ever before conceived, the
Corn Palace of 1890 will be not only q
thing of beauty, but it will be wonder,
even to the people of Sioux City. The
strongest argument that anyone ever used
against the perpetuation of this great fes-
tival was the fear that it might grow old,
might get monotonous and fail to attract
the necessary crowds because there were
no people left who hadn't seen it. That
was on the theory that all Corn Palaces
are alike But no one has ever seen the
like of what the Corn Palace of 1890 Is to
be. None of the many thousands who
have gazed with wondering admiration at
the fruits of Sioux City genius as shown
in the three previous Palaces, can claim to
have any idea what this Palace is, unless
they come here September 25th next to see
it, and they will need to stay to the close,
October 18th to see 1t all.
The executive committee got down to
business at it's session last night, and the
magnificent design prepared by architect
Brown was gone over piece by piece, and
the plans of the architect were found
admirably complete, many original and
attractive features having been worked
out in the mind of the architect, assisted
by the practical suggestions of the COM
mittee.
To begin with, the Palace of 1890 is to
be 1854 feet square, or more than twice as
large as last years Palace, which was 1870
by 240. It will cover nearly the whole of
the block cornering northeast on Pierce
and Sixth streets, last years location. The
central building will run up to the impos-
ing height of 172 feet, the upper 100 feet
being q dome. This main building will
be in the form of an octagon 1865 feet
across In the center will be an open
space 70 feet across, without q post or any
thing to interfere with view of the whole
interior decorations. This space will run
up sixty six feet with an artistically paint
ted sky at the top, studded wSth stars
made Of incandscent electric light.
The gallery in this Palace will be clear
around the interior of the rotunda, A feet
high and will be % feet wide. Dispens-
ing with the high gallery feature will be
good news to nervous people, for 1t will
entirely remove the danger that has been
felt before from crowding them. For
everybody wanted to get as high as posi-
BILE. This gallery will give everyone an
opportunity to see all there is to be seen,
and it will be adorned with various ex-
hibits as we'll as overlooking all the rest
of the Palace. Five wide stairwsys lead
ing to the gallery will remove all chances
for jam.
East of the main building, opening into
1t by two gates, will be an auditorium to
seat 1000 to 1900 people. The band stand
will be between this and the rotunda, SO
that the music may be heard by everyone
in the Palace, while those who desire can
rest and listen to the music undisturbed
by tramping feet. A sounding board will
be erected above the band stand to throw
the sound into the auditorium. This
building will be about forty feet high, and
will be built back of the houses now stand
ing on Sixth street. In front of them.
covering the whole, will be wall forty
feet high, giving the whole the appear
anoe of solid building.
At the north of the main building will
be another lower structure running back
100 feet. This building will run around
back of the main building to connect with
the auditorium, and will be 100 feet deep
clear around, rooted and concealed by
battlement the same as on the Sixth street
side. All the buildings now on this
ground. except the Spaulding house on
Pierce street, will be removed and the
space used by exhibits of all kinds, and
some special features that, as entirely new,
will delight and sstonish those who have
seen all previous Corn Palaces no less
than those who have never seen one.
There will be grottoes, beautiful and
original ideas worked out in corn and
showing the wealth of the great agricultu
raj Northwest as we'll as the ingenuity and
artistic taste of her people. One of the
wonders in preparation is O miniature
Niagara Falls, located so that it will be the
first thing to greet the eye of the spectator
as he enters the building. Here he will
look down to the fsrthest part of the great
structure, 272 feet from the main entrance
with an uninterrupted view 48 feet wide
and A feet high. The space of one side
of the octsgon, 48 feet, which is the
entrance to the back part of the Palace,
will be crossed at the gallery floor by
rustic bridge, from which all parts of the
Palace may be seen.
The decorations this year, both interior
and exterior, will be projected on scale
grander and more elaborate than ever
before. OF course, all these things mean
money, and lots of it-more than any pre-
vious Palace has cost; but it isn't the
Sioux City way to stop to count the cost
too carefully when the reputation of the
Corn Palace city of the world is to be
maintained.
The management has innumerable en-
tertainment features in sight. 1t will be
difficult to crowd them into the fifteen
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