The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22
RAILROADS TO JOIN IN THE FES-
TIVITIES OF STATE FAIR
WEEK.
MAY PREPARE SOME FLOATS.
PRELIMINARY MEETING TO TALK
OVER THE PLANS OF THE
CELEBRATION.
THIS MAKES ANOTHER FEATURE.
Committees of the Carnival Promise
to Furnish an UnequalIed Pro-
gramme for the Visitors.

The fair week carnival from start to
finish now promises to be one continual
round of joy, with its taking OF the
fort on Raspberry island, the big in
dustrial parades on Tuesday, WedneS-
day and Thursday evenings, to say
nothing OF the band concerts all over
the city, and the numerous entertain
ments and novelties which are being
arranged for by the carnival commit
tee. The town in the evenings will be
ablaze with splendor. The line of
march of the parades will be dazzling
with colored lights and fantastic floats.
and intermingled with all this will be
a huge miscellaneous crowd Of city and
country folk, and unless fair week Of
1897 goes down in the history of ST.
Paul as the most successful carnival
ever pulled off in the city there will be
a lot of people disappointed. The great
state fair will be the attraction during
the days, while In the evening, the car
nival committee will spread themselves
to make everybody feel welcome and
give them a royal good time.
The big parade Tuesday night, which
is to be the first evening parade of
the carnival will be one of the crown
ing features Of the weeks gayeties. The
floats and industries represented in
Tuesday evenings parade will include
all the industrial floats exhibited in the
big Labor day parade.
The railroad people also have an
important part in Tuesday evenings
parade. A meeting Of railroad men was
held in the Commercial club last even
ing to talk over arrangements. The
meeting was presided over by c. B.
Bowlby, of the Commercial club, who
outlined the programme for the even
ing, and asked the cooperation of the
railroad men in making the parade one
of the crowning features of the week,
as he thought the railroad people could
make one Of the biggest turnouts if
they could get together and organize
right away. There were present sew
eral representatives of the Northern
Pacific, On aha, ST. Paul & Duluth,
Chicago Great Western. While a num-
Der Of roads were not represented they
however, will probably join the others
next week. The matter of floats was
talked over informally and several Of
the representatives Of the railroads said
they were sure their companies would
be represented by at least one float.
c. B. Bowlby extended a formal invi-
tation to the railroads to participate in
the parade. Letters to this effect will
be sent to all the general managers Of
the railroads in st. Paul, asking for
their cooperation, as the representa-
tives present last night said they had
no authority to go ahead without first
consulting the officers of the road
The railroad men appointed a COM
mittee- to visit the shops and general
offices and inform the men as to the
details Of the parade and have as big
a turnout as possible. The representa-,
tive of the Chicago Great Western was
authorized to promise a float
A meeting will be held in the Com
mercia1 club rooms on Tuesday night
to meet with a similar committee of the
Commercial club. to have a final con-
ference on the subject and draw up
plans and arrange the details Of the
parade. This committee will consist of
one authorized representative from
each road.