St. Paul daily globe., 1891-09-22
ONLY One MORE DAY.
Then the Harvest Festival
Will Burst Upon the Gaze
Of the World.
Winding Up Of the Arrange
mentS for the Bewilder-
ing Parade.
Barns and Horses in North
west Minneapolis Burned
Yesterday.
Special Library Board Meet
Special Library Board Meet
ing--PresS Club Arrange
mentS.

| plINdlc DuSlutSS HdS Uctl lOl luS
time being laid aside. The men who
are, as a usual thing, most attentive to
| business and most regular in their at
tendance at store or Office are now TO be
seen rushing mady about the streets be
decked with badges and attending as
siduously to the duties assigned them IN
| preparation for to-morrow's dem0nstra-
ton. An inquiry for prominent citi-
zen at his place of business is sure
to meet with the reply, "Gone
to the committee meeting,' OIL
"Out booming the harvest festival
| Nearly all places of business and many
private buildings OH the principal streets
are already being tastefully ami elabo
rately decorated, and by tomorrow
every leading thoro ughfare will have
| been transformed into bower OF
| beauty. At the corner Of Fifth and
| Nicollet a double arch is in process of
construction. This arch will contain
1,400 feet of lumber, and will be seventy
| five feet from either base Giagonaly
across the street. When the framework
is completed it will be interviewer with
| grains in such a manner as TO leave
| nothing else visible. and at each of the
tables and fruits.
The number of floats as far as can be
| ascertained will be 200. About seventy
five new ones were added TO the list
yesterday. The central committee held
all important meeting yesterday morn
| ing, at which number of the details
were arranged, and this morning at 8
will hold its last session.
At l2:40 precisely salute of ten guns
will be fired. under the direction of the
head gunners of the "Siege of Vera
Cruz" At l O'Clock sharp the process
sion will move, and Capt. Gilmore an
that hour will he obliged to fall in at the
rear. or take back seat, so to speak.
By This evening every person having
beSpoken space for float will have re-
ceived postal. card assigning him to
his place III line. it was announced at
the meeting that the list of floats had
reached 927 and George A. Bracket
agreed to see that the number was raised
to 1000.
One of the most brilliant features of
the parade will be the bicyclists to the
number of 1000. who are requested to
form on Nicollet avenue with right
resting OH Fourth street. The proba-
biities are that the wheelmen will go
ahead of the procession about half an
hour, in order to give the spectators
hint of the beauties to come, as well as to
display to advantage their own drilling
and maneuvers. 1t is believed also that
the wheelmen going ahead will facili-
tate the movement of the entire pro-
cession. Both Tenth street and Nicol-
let avenue will be very elaOOrately dec
Grated and with due regard to the APP
propriatenesS of the OCCASION. George
l1oip nf "a
tee on displays and arches, reported
this afternoon that flour exhibit would
be displayed along the entire length of
Tenth street. This exhibit will consist
of cOlOnnade of flour barrels. and Will
be feature of the Incidental display.
The parade committee yesterday
mailed LOCO postal cards as follows:
Parade Committee, Harvest Home Festival,
Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 81. 1S9l-Sir: You
will please be prompt in having your floats
and wagons in front of beginning att NO. =
street. avenue south. which has been assigned
them for parking purposes. preparatory 10
parade, and from which they will form in
line in proper division. See to it that they
are parked as above not later than IL 30
O'Clock a. m. on Wednesday, 23d inst, and
earlier il heavy and cumbersome. Unless
they are prompt the space may be utilized
by others and your display be forced into un-
desirable position.
1Ou Will plcdSc lUSlrllCI your uTINSTS tildJ
Fourth and Fifth streets south will be kept
open for free passage. and that on arriving
at the place assigned, they are to report to
the marshal's aide stationed there designated
by red badge before taking position; also
that they are under no circumstances to
leave the float or parade after it commences,
until so directed by proper officer. Have
your driver go out OH streets beyond his as
signment, and come in so as to face north on
an avenue, or west if on a street.
Please attend to this and mail acknowledge
ment of receipt of this (at once) to Ed A.
Stevens secretary parade committee Temple
it. Respectfully, Ed A. STEVENS.
Important-Give this card to your head
driver and have him show it to marshals
etc, as voucher for right 10 pass, etc.
G. H. Chadbourn proposed to put the
first house built In Minneapolis into the
parade. 1t now stands on Sixteenth av-
enue south. between third and Fourth
streets. Mr.. Chadbourn wants to plant
it on the Exposition grounds and pre-
serve it for future use.
r. p. Russell, the first man to be mar
ried in Minneapolis, who landed with
his father at Fort Smelling seven years
before Col. Stevens put up the first
house oil this side of the river, was
added to the list of old settlers this
morning, with Mrs. Charlotte 0. Van
Cleve, the mother of Minneapolis.
The members of the council met in
| formally at the council chamber yester-
| day afternoon to arrange for the enter
tainment of the city officials from
| throughout the state who shall come to
| Minneapolis tomorrow to participate in
| the Harvest Festival. A committee of
| seven, consisting of City Attorney Rus
sell, City Clerk fancy, City Engineer
Rinker and Aid. Flanders, McGowan,
Bradish ana Blichfeldt, was appointed
to meet at the West hotel in the morn
| ing, receive the visitors as they come
and provide them with badges. At IL
m. all members of the council and all
visiting officials will assemble at the
city hall and proceed to the grand stand
| at the head of Nicollet avenue, from
where they will view the parade.
| Aid. Farnsworth has in preparation a
float to rep esent the police department
in the great parade of tomorrow, which
| he confidently asserts will fully equal
anything in the procession. The float
| will be built on one of the patrol
wagons, and will be generously deco
rated with flowers. 1t will be drawn by
the fine gray horses owned by the de-
partment, and they, too, will be deco
rated.
The ladies from Fort Smelling who
will visit the city tomorrow for the
harvest festival will be the guests of
Mayor Winston and wife. The mayors
residence, which is on the line of
march, has been handsomely decorated
and platform ten feet wide and run
ming the entire length of the broad
shady lawn has been erected and fitted
up with chairs to enable the visitors to
view the procession without sacrificing
their comfort.
Mayor WinstonYspent nearly all day
yesterday IN reading responses to the
invitations sent by the Harvest Festival
committee to municipal officers out OF
town TO be present at the celebration to
morrow, and in nearly every instance
the invitation was accepted. The city
clerk of Anoka writes that at least half
the population of that city will be In