The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-21
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preaching, and he naturally is in no
hurry to have the pounding begin.
There will be about 1000 seats on this
stand, but they will be given to invited
guests. There will be seats on other
stands, however. upon Pennsylvania
avenue where you can see the president
as he passes by in the procession, and
there are hundreds of windows which
are offered for rent along the line of
the parade. The seats on the stands
will be very good unless the weather
is bad. They will cost from so cents
to 81 apiece. Windows will be rented
for what they will bring. The depart
ment of public comfort had about 400
windows registered the other day when
I called upon Col. Wright. l was told
that the prices ranged from $40 to $50
window, and that some single rooms
were bringing as high as $500. So far
1t is the highest priced windows that
have been taken. Among the curious
things L learned was that some of the
best places have been applied for by
colored people from the South. Forty
negroes from Texas, representing a
large club, have written saying that
boarding accommodations
THE INAUGURAL BALL.
The inaugural ball is to be wonder
fully fine. The tickets to 1t are rapid
ly selling. They cost S. each. There
Will be no passes. and the probability
IS that there will be at least $4,000 peo-
pie at the ball. There were that many
at Cleveland's last inaugural ball, and
the night was very stormy. The sale
from the tickets will in all probability
pay all the inauguration expenses. The
ball will be given, you know in the
pension building. This is the biggest
brick building in the United States. if
not in the whole world. It's area is
more than two acres, and it's great CEN
trail court, which is to be the ball room.
covers more than one acre. There is
no such room as this in Europe. Neither
Paris nor st. Petersburg has anything
to compare with it. 1t is so big that
II you should take the plaza of ST.
Marks at Venice and roof it over you
might have something like it, This
great room has corridors running
around it. 1t has three wide galleries
about Its four sides, and enormous
pillars, each as big around as a dining
table, uphold it's mighty roof. The roof
is so high above the floor that you
could put ten-story building inside
the ceiling. There is a fountain in the
center of the floor the spray Of which
will be caught by thousands of In
candescent globes and by a number
of arc lights and turned into dia-
monds.
This vast hall is to be decorated for
the ball. The great pillars will be
wrapped in gold and white Ten
thousand yards of white and gold cloth
will be draped in the shape of canopies
from the ceiling. There will be stands
for the president and his party, COW
cred with cloth, and throughout the
whole hall. hanging in strings of feath-
cry green, wrapping the pillars and
will shine many hundreds Of incandes-
cent electric globes. and the whole will
be very fairy land
WHAT THEY WILL EAT.
Just one word about the banquet
The kitchens are already being built
They are to be used for only one din
ner, and they will cost more than 1000
They are to form an annex to the pen
sion office for the time The dining
rooms will be in the rooms adjoining
the hall, just across the corridors. and
the tables will be such that three
thousand persons can be fed at once