The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-03
WHOLE WEEK Of Fun
ST, PAUL'S FREE ENTERTAINMENT
FOR STATE FAIR VISITORS
WILL BE
THE BEST EVER ARRANGED.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Salts
FLED AFTER HEARING TIE
REPORTS OF OTHERS.
FAIR TO OPEN WITH A CROWD.
Twin Cities to Turn Out
thousands on LubOr's Great
Day.

The executive committee having IN
Ibaree the carnival of fair week met
Yesterday to hear the reports OF the
chair1nen of the various committees OF
the enterta nments on the different
night all of whom reported that their
MANS were being carried out nicely
On Monday night the Venetian carnl-
val at Lake Como will be a magnlhcent
affair. and will Justify the expenditure
of the several thousand dollars maze
for this purpose. The bicycle parade
will also take place on this evening"
and it expected that several thousand
wheeImen will be in line. All the plans
have been perfected for the civic ana
industrial parade on Tuesday evening.
The Wednesday and Thursday night
features will be unique, something the
like of which was before seen IN
the Northwest, and they merit the ap-
propriate name of fire nights" Inc
fortress on Willow island is already IN
course of erection and will be defended
by about a hundred men in arinof' I'M
der command of c.. W. Hall. The at
lacking forces. under command OF
Cant. Bean. Will make a furious as
sault. and the attack will be carried
out without any understanding be-
tween the two generals. The assault is
TO be made in real earnest. The COM
panies Of militia in Merriam Park ana
Zumbrota have been engaged to assist
the local forces, and the defenders OF
the beIeagured castle will be put TO
their best efforts to cope with the al
les. Added to this will be numerous
cruisers. which will pass up the river,
pouring a CALLING
FIRE INTO THE FORT.
In the attack a vessel belonging to
the defense will be burned to the wa
ter's edge. Aside from the fireworks,
some novel fire effects are promised,
and it is expected to be a grand spec
tacular scene. Thursday night the
castle will c%apitulate.
The preparations for the Mardi Gras
carnival on Friday night are going on
apace and some very entertaining and
remarkable features are secured. The
city will run riot with mirth and good
fellowship on this night, and it will be
a fitting windup of the weeks sport.
Mai. Cooley has this in charge and has
secured a number Of assistants equally
enthusiastic as himself. The fire de-
partment will also make an actual run,
with every piece of apparatus, that
evening. Chairman Nichols, of the
Darktown fire brigade, has arranged
for a parade of this remarkable compa-
ny of the finest" on this evening and
has secured a full equipment Of special
apparatus.
Tba avao11tiya OOnmittaa has i0Prp9S-
ed the appropriations for the fire de-
partment and for the military Of the
fire nights spectacles, so that they were
have sufficient funds to carry out their
part of the programme on the most
elaborate scale possible. The visiting
companies of militia will be CHARTERED
at the aTmory.
A request from the committee signed
by Chester R. Smith, chairman, is that
all business men decorate and illumi-
nate their respective places of business
Turing fair week.
STATE FAIR PLANS.
The street cars between the Twin
Cities and the state fair grounds at
Hamline were thrOnged all day yester-
day with exhibitors and workers going
to and fro in their work connected
with the great exhibition. The secre-
tary's office was also thronged with
people arranging for exhibits, and his
mail was loaded down with belated en-