St. Paul daily globe., 1891-09-23
SOL WILL Be LOST.
This Morning the Sun Will
Think He Has Missed His
Way.
Minneapolis Will Appear as 1t
Has Never in History Ap-
peaped.
For This Is the Day Of the
Great Harvest Festival and
Parade.
Some News Chaff Separated
From the Wheat Of the
City.

AS the sun rises over the state fair
grounds this morning and peeps over
into Minneapolis it gazes upon varied
scenes. Here are carpenters busy with
hammer and saw erecting stands where
the multitude is to be accommodated.
There are decorators hurrying hither
and thither, busily directing their meni-
ais in the work of stringing bunting and
arranging sheaves of wheat, bundles of
rye, bushels of corn, bales of hay, loads
of oats-all for the glorification of the
city In the eyes Of the world.
Off in one corner is small
party of anxious committeeman
who are eagerly scanning the skies,
feeling the wind, watching the insects,
examining thermometers and barome-
ters all with one purpose. That purpose
is to see if it will rain. If ''it" will only
give some sign, some indication of his
intentions in the matter, he will confer
lasting blessing upon a good many
anxious hearts that have known no rest
for weeks, and whose very souls are
bound up in the success of the Harvest
Festival. Then the sun will see teamsters
straining all their nerves and eXercis-
ing all the arts of the stable to
make the horses that are to haul
those resplendent structures called
floats look their very best, hold their
heads at the highest points and carry
their tails as if in disdain Of such pestif-
erouS creatures as flies, for no one must
give hint, even to-day, that there are
such things in Minneapolis as flies.
That is not all that the old Peeping Tom
will see. He will see miles of streets
transformed from streets to avenues of
celestial city. There will be nothing
to indicate that through those broad
thoroughfores flows a daily stream of
humanity every atom of which is bent
upon securing the best that he can
from his fellow man. SordId trade,
vulgar commerce will seem never to
have existed where now nothing but
streamers of brilliant bunting, festoons
of natures fabrics, quaint looking pal
aces built of grass flash back CLEANS
from the eye of the god of day. The old
sun will whisper to himself, Can this
be Minneapolis, the matter of fact Min
neapolis of other days?' Then he will
slyly wink one eye, conclude that the
people of this city are preparing for
brightest Smile-that is, it is hoped that
he will.
1t cost good deal of time, patience
and money to make all these that the
sun gets the first peep at this morning.
Men were at work all night long to do
it. They used up load after load of
wheat and oats and corn and hay, and
mile after mile of bunting. But it is all
spent for the purpose of showing to the
world what Minneapolis can do when
she tries. Standing OIL Bridge square
and looking up NicOllet avenue one can
scarcely realize that it is the same
ferent essentially from other streets in
city of the same size. To-day it is
bower of beauty. The very shop fronts
are hidden from view. The national
cOlOrS are everywhere and III every con-
ceivable form. They drape the fronts
of buildings and they are flying in the
breeZeS across the streets. One would
think that the places where once stood
big structures had been converted into
verticle farms. But grain does not grow
OH verticle surfaces. This transforma-
ton is the work of decorators. They
have done their work well. They have
converted the business district into a
huge corn palace. They worked all
night to do it. Last night every street,
every alley was filled with busy
men who were carrying and binding and
placing the products of the farmer and
the earth. Every window was filled
with something to represent that Min
neapollS is the center of farming country
of the Northwest. the garden spot the
earth. The small boys were already pre-
pairing for the parade, and were getting
their lungs in shape to make the at
mosphere Quiver with noise as soon as
the signal shall be given. Everywhere
was preparation for the greatest dem
onstration this country ever seen.
The moon looked down on many un-
wonted sights last nights. and this
morning the sun will see more They
would better take good, long look. 1t
will be many a day ere they see the
like Of it again.