Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12

celebrated Elgin military band, Prof. J..
Hecker, formerly bandmaster of the
Eigty-second regiment Prince of Wales
volunteers, director. This band is con-
sidered one of the finest musical organi-
cations in America. The repertoire of
the band consists of 5000 pieces
and they could give two concerts
a day for year and not repeat
a single number. This splendid organi-
cation is made up of seventy skilled mu-
sicians, and in itself is grand card for
Sioux City. There are so many features
in connection with this years Corn Palace,
that space will not permit extended
notice. The trades parades consist of
novel floats representing the various in
dustries of the city and the great north
west. These parades occur in the morn
ing shortly before the noon hour,
and pass over the principal streets
of the city. On days not devoted to
trades parades, there will be the cele-
brated King Korn carnival pageant,
something unique and never before wit
messed in the northwest. The dazzling
and novel pageants will be designed by
the French artist, Francois Dubois, who
has been brought over by the Mardi
Gras authorities to design and equip
| next years carnival at New Orleans.
| It will be impossible at this time to say
just what this parade will be, and, in
Iced, in great measure the matter will
Sc kept secret, but the assurance is
given that no such parade and no such
magnificent costumes and equipments
have ever been seen north OF
New Orleans, as will be witnessed dur.
ling the Corn Palace carnival. Several
hundred costumed horses and plumed
knights, with glittering chariots and
floats will take part in these pageants
and give amusement to the thousands
who crowd the streets. Every railroad
centering at Sioux City, as we'll as al
tributary lines have made rate of one
fare for the round trip, and it is safe Il
predict Sioux City will, between the
Idates of Sept. rs and Oct II, have the
largest gathering of people ever as
lsembled in any Iowa city.
What Is a Corn Palace?
The Sioux City Corn Palace-ant
There was never Corn Palace outside o
ISioux City-is palace covered and EN-.
lbellished, as with tapestry, outside anC
INSIDE, with products of the field, corr
|predominating, ingeniously and fanci
fully arranged. In building the palace
la large structure is first erected of lum
, Der, in shape that will carry and SHOW
to advantage the multiform decoration
with which it is to be adorned. 1t is il
form lofty, with broken lines, pinnacles
buttresses, bridges, gables, ornamental
windows, etc.
, Over every inch of this wooden surfac
are laid cora and kindred plants in al
chitectural harmony, in multi
1 plicity of designs. The corn
: employed in the stalk, the cal
: the kernel, and even the hus
; has it's decorative uses. All the grain
; and grasses of the field lend themselve
, to the identifying of the palace. Til
= walls are covered on the outside wit
. ears of corn, cut lengthwise or eros
= wise, and nailed on in geometrical figure
= !! or other designs. The various colors {
y the cereal permit of wide range
9 shading and coloring, while its artist
D possibilities, developed from year to We;
n in building the palace, admit of the pr
n duction of effects that are as startlir
4 as pleasurable.
High over the entrance OF the pala