The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-25


The department of Massachusetts will
hold a reception at the Windsor hotel
for Mrs. l.. A Turner, national presi-
dent of the Woman's Relief corps, and
Mrs. HI. S. Reed, national secretary,
Tuesday evening, from Z to o'clock.
The work of hauling tents to Camp
Mason begun yesterday. large crew
the tents and setting them up under
the guidance Of Capt. Hart.
Newspaper Row Is the first of the
newspaper offices to set the pace. Fes-
toons of bunting are suspended from the
windows, the effect being enlivened
with American shields and flags and
pictures of Grant and Lincoln.
The Merchants hotel has, in addition
to the festoonings and flags, large
streamers of red, white and blue de-
pending in graceful folds from the top
of the building to the lower story.
Dyer Bros building, on upper Fifth
street looks unusually gay and attrac-
tive in a brand new suit of decoration.
Among the encampment visitors will
be Mayor Pingree, of Detroit Of po-
tato patch fame, Gen. John c. Black,
ex-pension commissioner, and Gen. e.
8. Bragg, Of the famous Iron brigade,
now in Wisconsin politics.
The committee on stands has made
an iron-clad contract with those who
are to conduct the stands along the
line of march, covering the prices that
can be charged. These prices range
from 30 cents to 81 for a single seat.
depending on the location Of the stand.
There Is but one stand where q dollar
will be charged and that Is in the
stand opposite the review stand.
Saturdays concert, beside affording
the people Of st. Paul their first op-
portunity to see and hear the living
flag chorus will include many interest
Ing features. In the vocal line the
Cecilian Ladies' quartette. the Men
delssohn Male quartette; Miss Jessie
Turner, soprano, and others will fur
nish selections, and the ST. Paul La
dies Mandolin and Violin club will give
two numbers. This last organization
Is composed of twenty-eight ST. Paul
ladies. and, while unprofessional, it's
playing is highly artistic.
The committee desires to impress the
public that this concert will furnish
the only opportunity Of hearing the
singing Of the Children's chorus. They
will be heard from the grand stand on
the occasion Of the parade, but the
conditions at that time will be any
thing but favorable for the public to
get even a fair notion of the capabili-
ties of the little ones.
The survivors of the Ninth Mime
sofa will hold their annual reunion at
the capitol Tuesday at 10 o'clock. At 1
they will take cars for Fort Smelling
in company with the other Minnesota
volunteer organizations.
DR.. c.. A. Van Duzee is hard at work
on the details Of the arrangements for
the bicycle parade which is to form
one of the spectacular features of
Grand Army week. In response to re-
quests from people on ST. Anthony hill
who desire to view the parade without
coming down town. the line of march
has been altered. The formation will
be at Dayton avenue and Grotto street.
The line Of parade will be on Dayton
to Western, on Western to Summit, on
Summit to Oakland, on Oakland to
Pleasant, on Pleasant to Sixth. and on
be made up as follows: first division,
clubs, commander, Archie Matheis;
second division. "Sherman's Bummers'
and other comical features, command
er, Tom Bird: third division, fancy
costumes and wheels; fourth division
tandems. triplets, quads, quints and
sextets, commander, A. J. Holmes;
fifth division, individual wheelmen
commander, Clarence Bunker with
Powers Dry Goods Co. No wheels will
be allowed in the line except those
which are decorated and which carry
lanterns. The ladies' clubs will be
given a division by themselves, i'm
mediately following the first division
Clubs, organizations, groups and indi-
xyiTI 1o1- ,tx-tx.
the division commanders or to w, T.
Hutchins, " Mackubin street, not later
than Friday noon, as it is hoped that
the official programme can be made up
on that day. The invitation to wheel
men to participate in this parade is a
general one and not limited to ST. Paul
The divisions will form for the parade
as follows: first division on Grotto
north of Dayton; ladies' division on ST
Adams, south of Dayton; second divi-
sion on st. Adams, north of Dayton
third division on Dale, north of Dayton;
fourth division on Dale south of Day.
ton; fifth division on Kent north Of
Dayton. The procession will move
sharply at o'clock, and no wheelmen
will be allowed to join the parade after
it starts. Chief Goss has promised
ample police protection so that the
crowd may not in any manner inter-
fere with the parade and in addition
the streets will be roped at the curb.
Every effort is being made by the man
agement to obviate all the causes of
failures in the past The street sprink-
lers will make their last trip over the
streets on the line of march early
enough so that there may be no danger
of mud.
The women's headquarters of the G.
A. r. is fast being gotten ready for the
coming visitors and the skillful hands
of the women on the decorative COM
mittee are turning the old Kittson
home into such a maze of brilliancy
and splendor as it's former occupants
never dreamed of. So far the details
OF the interior decorations have been
kept a secret by the women who have
proved beoynd a doubt that a woman
can keep secret and keep it we'll.
And the secret will be kept safely from
the public for a few days more for it
is almost an impossibility for any one
| other than the members of the COM
mlttee to gain admission to the head
quarters, which is under strict military
guard, and one has to run the gauntlet
of dangerous looking gun in the
hands of veteran in G. A. r. uniform
before one reaches the threshold even
Even after the escape from the guard is
made a special policeman and pa ge
from. the Boys brigade take one in tow.
and 1t is only after deal of difficulty
and red tape that one is at last ad-
mitted to the committee rooms within.
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The entertainment committee of the
Women's committee of the CA. r.
met yesterday morning with the chair
man, Mrs. F'urness, at the women's
headquarters and perfected some Of the
details of the work for next week.
There was a large and enthusiastic at
tendance.