St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-01
Now 1t Is Out to Make a Rec
ord for the Seventh
Time.
Total Destruction Of the Nell
son Paper Mill by Fire
Yesterday.
Arrest Of the Supposed Old
Coin Thief--Among Pol
iticians.
The Eyposition is omen.


mind for the next four weeks. About
ten months ago II directors of the Min
neapoliS Industrial Exposition decided
that the Exposition should be opened
again. W. NJ. Bracket and w. o..
Byron Immediately began to work in
the interest of the opening. They hired
band and searched about the country
for attractions. They found the attrac-
tons. Then Manager Bracket told the
directors that the season had arrived
when the Exposition should be opened.
President S. b. Janney, of the board of
directors, said all right. he'd open it.
Mr.. Janney is conscientious business
man, a man of his word. When he said
he'd open the Exposition he meant it.
He fulfilled his promise Yesterday.
That's how the Exposition comes to be
opened.
But the opening was not mere per-
functorv turning of key and pushing
of GOor. Quite elaborate ceremonies
accompanied it.
First there was
The Parade
1t should have been started from the
West hotel yesterday at D. H.. but,
like all parades and Joe Manllix. it was
few minutes late. The platoon of
mounted police, which has come TO be a
feature of all civic demonstrations in
Minneapolis, was at the head OF the
parade, of course. Lieut.. Fred Coffin
was at the head of the platoon-of
course. Then came the soldier bows.
Companies a, B and |, and Battery ID.
The boys marched well. and looked it..
The Hibernian Rifles followed. The
members of the board of directors and
the speakers rode in carriages. The
l.. L. Plummer Post drum corps led the
way for the gaudy. gIddy FiambeauX.
Then 125 members of the Minneapolis
hre department and twenty four pieces
OF apparatus passed down the street. As
usual the fremen looked better and
marched better than any of the
paraderS. The lnnes band should have
led the parade: but it did i. The
lnnes band came to town all right, but
by some mistake, the instruments were
left in Chicago. So the lines band
didn't play. for a band. like an English
tourist, can't do anything without its
brOsses. The parade was watched by
thousands from the sidewalks. After it
had passed there was regular Broad
way jam of teams and vehicles on lower
Nicollet and Bridge square.
The Opening Ceremonies
at the building were interesting. Mayor
Janney, w. NJ. Bracket, Z. &. Potter,
ID. NJ. Gilmore, e. p. Lowell, A. J.
Blethen. S. G. Gale, G. l.. Travis. W. NJ.
Regain, William Donaldson. ID. NJ.
Chute and Frank Nickels sat on the
platform. Danz' band, which had tenn
porarily taken the place of the Innes
organization. played selection. j. 5.
Black offered PRAYER. Mayor Winston
welcomed the populace to the seventh
annual Minneapolis Exposition. He
SAID few words about the benefit the
Exposition had been to the city. The
Republican national convention, which
had advertised Minneapolis more than
anything that had ever been done, would
never have been held in Minneapolis
but for the existence of the Exposition
and the Exposition building.
Ladies and gentlemen," said A. J.
Blethen, the next speaker. Il have not
come here to make speech"
Then Mr.. Blethen Smoothed out the
typewriter copy of the speech he was
about to make and which had been AL
ready printed in the evening papers,
aud proceeded to deliver it.
He referred to the day or a Day of
Substitution; he having been substi-
tuted for Judge Rea, called out of town,
as a speaker, the DAM band having
been substituted for the lines. and
Mayor Winston having substituted his,
Blethen'S. speech for the mayoralty
speech.
Blethen's Speech
was much like Winston's amplified. He
referred to the convention having been
brought here through the EXposition's
instrumentality. Since it was first
opened. six years ago, 100000 have
visited it. a part OF its work has been ::
The growth of the annual manufacture
ing output to $90,000,000 an increase of
S63 100000 in ten years; an increase of
the valuation of taxable property slO3.-
100000 in ten years: the manufacture of
425, 100000 feet of lumber and 5000. 600
barrels OF flour last year; the receipt of
72.0OO.OO0 bushels of wheat last year, an
increase over the preceding year of H.
DOC, 900 bushels. He also mentioned the
growth of population, as evidenced by
the presence in the schools of $4,000
children. and claimed that the records
OF The United States census office show
that Minneapolis is as much entitled to
Oc,C0O people under the census of 1899
as Milwaukee to 100000. The exposi-
ton might close in 1893. but it would
open again in 1894. and yield the same
results to the city in increased prosper
ity as it has in the past six years.
Then the mayor took possession of
Blethen' $ manuscript, or his own.
1: b. Janney. president of the board
OF Exposition directors, said:
1T is now my pleasant duty to declare
the seventh annual Minneapolis Indus
trial exposition OPEN"
And that's how the Exposition comes
to be open. Being open, it should he
| visited by every person in MINNEAPOLIS.
| 1t is worth viSit-seyeral of them. The
| exposition was
In Good Condition
yesterday for first day. One ALWAYS
expects to find traces of preparation.
and can find them. But the space was
well filled, and the entertaining features
were all ready, except the Partisan Car
rOussel, not yet in place.
The art gallery is up to the standard
set by former eXpOsiti0nS. Space for
bids mention of the choice pieces in de-
tail, but lovers of painting should go
over there within week, else they
will miss sight ef gem. Gen. r. A.
Ayers $4,000 treasure, Last Hours of
| Mozart" by Munkacsky, must be sent
| back to Detroit in a week. before the
marriage of the generals daughter.
The reproduction or the Moncos canon.
whence came the remains and relics of
the clitf-dwellers, is a marvel of
naturalness. This part of the
exhibit is immeasureably superior
| to that Of last year. LII entertaining
| features this exposition surpasses any
OF It's predecessors. The first grottO,
| better than last year, and the Zoogra-
| phicOn should not be missed.
Last night InneS' band was on hand.
| The instruments came on from Chicago
and the band utilized them. The music
furnished shows that Manager Bracket
made no mistake when he secured that
band. The attendance was excellent.
| much bigger than IL q management av.