The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-23

on Wabasha street. Suspended from
each of the six floors and from every
window are deep colored rosettes and
national flags. The effect is very pref
ty, and street of such decorations
would present an extraordinarily
beautiful aspect Another hotel al
ready decorated is the Brunswick,
upon which much taste has been dis
played.
The Union Depot company has made
an appropriation of several hundred
dollars for the decoration of that big
structure from top to bottom. 1t is
the intention of the company to give
the visitors a sensation the moment
they arrive in the city, and as the de-
pot Will naturally be the first building
they will see, the effort to produce q
sensation will be successful During
the past ten days there has been a
small army of painters at work on the
interior of the building and not an inch
or surface has escaped the brush, not
even the roof of the immense train
shed.
Smith & Taylor, of the Manhattan
building, Fifth and Robert will erect
mammoth electric star of variegated
colors at the entrance of the building.
and also an illuminated G. A. r. badge
upon the corner. There will also be
another G. A. r. emblem 18 feet square
at the Wabasha street entrance to the
court house, and another on Sixth
street near Robert. The electrical COM
pan1es have made preparations to pro-
vide an unlimited number of arc and
lncandescent lights during encamp-
ment week.
The Golden Rule store will erect at
It's own expense a large arch across
Seventh street, upon which a military
band will discourse martial music every
evening. Chairman Strickland. of the
committee on decorations, reports that
there will not be a single portion of the
city which will not display it's patriot
ism III suitable decorations West st.
Paul will be alive with flags and bunt-
ing, thanks to the ladies' All alone
the interurban line, as far as Merriam
Park and the Midway district, flags
and bunting and army emblems will
be seen. Holly avenue people are keep
ing little secret all to themselves and
1t is expected that that avenue will
show some enhancing effects. The
committee on decorations has placed
L. d. Wilkes and J. E. Williams in
charge Of the Fourth street work, c.
r. Smith in charge of the Fifth street
decorations, and Maj. Geo. l.. White
has volunteered to keep an eye upon
Jackson street.
The state capitol building, city hall.
market building and other public edi-
hces will be elaborately decorated. but
work will not commence until it is alb
solutely necessary.
The final round up Of the work Of
the ladies will be held at the last gen
eral meeting of the month, which will
be held Tuesday at 10 o'clock The
secretary, Mrs. j. W. Edgerton. will
receive any inquiries which may be
sent in, and the same will be answered
al the meeting.
There will be great doings on the
mounds Saturday evening, when flag
raising will come off under the au-
spices of the good people on Daytons S
Bluff Chief Jackson, of the fire de-
partment, has presented the patriots
over there with forty-five-foot flag
staff which will be planted on the
highest point of the mounds.
Dr. G. G. Higbee believes there are
no people on earth so dear to him as
the members of his old regiment. and
ne will have the boys as near to him
as he can during the encampment.
The doctor will provide the members
OF the regiment with tents and lodg-
ing on East Ninth street near his res
idence.
Garfield Post, G. A. r., at its regular
meeting last Ipgnt mustered in five COM
rftdes, namely, Maurice A. Wurts. Carl
f. Metz, Peter H. Beckendorf, John
Neff, and Thomas Jefferson. Several
applications for membership were re-
eeived during the evening, the ST. Paul
Marine band dropped in and serenaded
the post.
An adjourned meeting of the Mime
sote. Association of Union Prisoners
of War will take place in court room