St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-03
EXPOSITION NOTES.
How Well Minneapolis Has Pat
rOnized Art.

Art isn't patronized in Minneapolis?
Well, if you think that you should
have stood near Ticket Seller Woodward
last night during the Strauss intermis-
sion and after the concert was over.
And if that didn't satisfy you, you
could have found all the satisfaction
you needed Wednesday night, when in
twenty-five minutes MI. Woodward sold
LOCO tickets. and this after the concert
was over. These closing days of the
Elk exposition people are crowding the art
gallery as it has never been crowded
before. Last year was considered
pretty good year for the art gallery, but
this year eclpses it in marked de-
gree.
How large do you suppose the attend
ance at the art gallery is this year?
1t would be idle to guess, and the fig
ures are so astounding that it would
seem 'fakey" il the facts did not bear
| them out. There have been up to date
over $4,000 tickets sold. This, mind
| you, is absolute sales, exclusive of all
| passes or complimentary admissions
$1,000 which has come in in 1O-cent
pieces in cold, hard cash. To-day and
tomorrow, if the weather is fair, the at
tendance will come close up to 5000 for
each day. 1t will be of interest to show
| briefly three sample dayS-the first
| three days OF this week-and the cor
responding days of the same week last
year. The figures show this:
1889. 1890
| Monday ..... ...............1, 325 1873
| Tuesday -. .............1,7 $50 1860
| Wednesday, 10O QQdS
| The total sales for last year were
62,55S and. as has been shown, the sales
for 1890 SO far have exceeded this
amount by over 10000, while the total
sales for the season if the weather does
not interfere will foot up to nearly 90
600 more than last year.
Looks as though art was Apr eciated
in Minneapolis, doesn't it?
Last night the gallery was crowded.
People elbOwed their way through the
thrOng as best they could, but an art
| gallery has such quieting, notifying
influence on a crowd, that nobody was
unduly damned, and all had ample OPP
| pOrtunity to see the rare works. To-day
| and tomorrow are the only days left in
which to see this magnificent collection /.
Its equal has never been seen in Amer
lea, and right here at your very door. as
it is. will it not pay you to see 1t, if you
have not seen it. and to see it again if
you have already looked on its w on
drous paintings?
Art Director Smith was in a mighty
happy frame of mind last night as he
looked at the throng of sightseers pass
ing through the galleries i'll which he
takes such great pride.
This afternoon there will be no
Strauss programme, but the manage
ment has not left the musical public I'M
provided for. The Third regime mt mil
itary band, of Fort Smelling. one of the
finest military bands in America. will
present the programme. There are
thirty pieces in this magnificent band,
and, coming as 1t does between two
concerts by the famous Strauss orches-
ira, the members and their talented
leader will be all the more anxious to
do justice to themselves, to their mill
tary post and to Minneapolis. Let no
one think there will be cheap pro-
gramme this afternoon; it will be one
of rare excellence.
The crowd from outside the city
keeps on surging in. Along the lines
of the various railroads leading into the
city north, south, east and west. there
is the same story to tell-more tickets
wanted. Manager Regain has been re-
ceivlng letters asking for more tickets
to be placed on sale to supply the defici-
ncy. Yesterday he received word
from several roads that they had run
out of tickets and what do you suppose
they did? People were in waiting for
their tickets there was no time to tele-
graph for more so hey took blank slips
of paper, made out tickets TO the Elk
| position stamped them with their official
stamps to give them the seal of authori-
ty and sent the people rejoicing on to
Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Expo
siton of 1890 will go down to Exposition
history as the best known and the most
satisfactory of any that has so far been
held.
Last night nice-looking lady stood
at one of the instruments in a phono-
graph booth.
"Hi! there, Charley" she said to her
husband, who stood hard by." they're