St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-25

ing Masquerade.
Not for many years in st. Paul has
there gathered together such an i'm
mense concourse of people az that
which found its way through the vari-
Gus entrances into Fort Karnival last
night to witness the stCf.hing of the
crystal fort of Rex Borealis by the
Fire King and his cohorts of red
legged devils. IT was an orderly crowd,
too, and barring the confusion incident
to the congested condition of affairs at
the gates and at the street car cor
ners after the evenings fun was over,
there was not the first thing to mar
the complete success of the glorious oc-
casion.
Minneapolis turned out royalty and
came to Fort Karnival to see her pet
son and his legions conquer the king
of ice, and humiliate the Queen Glcr-
lana by relegating her to her former
occupation.
From early in the evening until long
after the last spark of the pyrotechnicar
display had died out the stream of per-
sons, clad for the most part in car
grounds and selected positions from
which they could b,st enjoy the mag
nifcent effects produced. The grand
stand, the towers al either end of the
toboggan slides, the spacious music
stand, ali were literally packed with
good-natured people out for a pleasant
evening and bound they would have it.
Nc detail of the evenings entertain-
T.,
| the fancy skating and hockey games
at one end of the grounds, to the antics
of the Indians in their tepees at the
| other. to say nothing of the sensational
| display of fireworks just inside the
main entrance, where the arrogant Fire.
King had just entered with blood in
his eye and no mercy In his soul. 1t
was simply great, and as startling eff
! fects followed one another in rapid
succession the crowd sent up salvos of
applause. During TIE fireworks the
! slides were closed, but when the wicked
Vaccinations of the Fire King were
found to have failed OF success the
members of the defending cohorts laid
| down their torches, and went about
having a good time OF their own to
! celebrate the victory CT their faithfu
! monarch Rex Borealis. The crest-
fallen Fire King was led away dis
gruntled and sad at heart, and in the
presence of large number of people
formally welded to the Oldest Dakota
Sioux squaW in the Indian band, the
event being celebrated with character
lstic formalities. The chill night airl
the cold ground and the light snow fall
made standing still for any length Of
time a thing not to be thought of, and
as result the warming rooms were
quite desideratum.
The directors were hither and thither
attending to the execution of their
carefully laid plans, and to their credit
be it said there was not the first hitch
in any of the proceedings After the
tickets had been roughly gone over
and the crowd sized up from different
points in the enclosure, it was esti-
mated that there were about Is, 900
people In the place.
Chief Marshal w. w. Price made his
parade arrangements so well that with
| commendable promptness the tremen-
! dous line was swung into place very
| shortly after the appointed hour The
| starting point was Smith park, and
from that point the procession, headed
| by the mounted police and carnival d.
rectors, marched to Fort Karnival in
| four well filled divisions.
These were headed by Mai. Price,
Capt. Hardy Assistant Secretary John
j. Ryder and Lieut.. Whine, and with
the many well membered clubs there
must have been several thousand peo-
pie keeping step to the martial music Of
the several bands, drum and fife corps
and buglers.
! SO admirable was the plan of assign-
ing places for the different clubs to rest
until their locations in the line Of
| march had been reached that there was
no delay, and in ten minutes after the
van Of the line was in motion the whole
parade was a moving body. The route
was from Smith park up Sibley street to
Seventh; thence to st. Peter; then on
to Wabasha and on to University to the
carnival grounds. The First division
was halted after being drawn up in a
strategic position in the rear of the
fort. Behind it came the valiant Second
division, fanked by Col. Jack Ryder's
noble legions and Lieut. Winne's brave
| warriors as a rear guard.
At the signal the onslaught was made
and in a trice the whole fort was In pos
session of the gay-costumed incursion-
lists who forthwith prepared to make
war upon the opposing forces. 1t was
noble struggle, the like of which was
never witnessed in any former carnival
and one which will last I'M the memory
of those who witnessed the attacks and
repulsion of the hated fire kings forces.
Glutted with victory the armies of Rex
Borealis gave themselves up TO all
manner of sport and will continue to do
so nutil the fire king again seeks to
overthrow Rex Borealis. The line was
made up as follows:
Platoon of Mounted Police.
Bugle Corps.
| Directors Club.
Carnival Queen.
! Borealis Rex's Chariot
Boston Clothing House Club.
Redmen's Club and Float.