The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
NOWUS IN CHARGE
HE WILL HAVE FULL SWAY IN THE
CAPITAL CITY THIS
WEEK.
FROM ToMoRRowTo TIE END.
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THE CITY WILL BE AFIRE EWlTH
MERRTMENT AND CARNIVAL :
JOYS.
FRIDAY is TO BE THE GILMAN,
When Sixth Street Will BE the
Scene of a Lively Nights
MasIuerading.

One solid week of pleasure will open
in st. Paul tomorrow, the carnival fe&-
lures Of state fair week SURPRISING
anything that has ever been seen in
the Northwest. Hereafter all future
historians will date events B. :. or A.
C.-"before celebration" or latter ceIe-
bration"-and the fame of ST. Paul and
its hospitable entertainment of it's
guests will endure forever.
At the close of Labor day will occur
the Venetian water carnival a. Lake
Como tomorrow evening, for which
over $1,000 has been expended. The
beautiful park will be made even more
delightful by myriads of many-colored
Japanese lanterns Illuminating the
scene, lanterns on the boats, on trees,
on pavilions and surrounding the lake,
making it indeed an enchanting scene
from fairyland. The lake will also be
lighted by expensive fireworks, ADDED
to which are $50 dozen of Roman can
dies, while sweetest strains C music
will be rendered by the Fort Smelling
band. The bicycle parade will also &C
cur this .vening, and reports show that
between 1000 and 5000 wheels VIII be
ladies. This procession will form at
the corner of Sixth and Seventh streets
and proceed directly to the Dark, on
entering which each rider will be pre-
scented with a japanese lantern, aid
then they will pass, in stately pageant,
around the lake. The effect of this cir
Gle of light, cleaning over the y alters,
will surpass all imagination, and no
more beautiful idea could have been
suggested. The bicycle clubs in the
procession will then participate i'll a
competitive drill for prizes.
The civic and industrial parade will
be the feature of Tuesday night, and
as each day passes by it brings more
and more evidence that this will be a
monster event There will be nearly
a hundred magnificent floats in line,
combining artistic, categorical, unique
and representative displays This in
itself will constitute a magnificent pro-
cession. There will be all the famous
bands of st. Paul and vicinity, thous-
ands of men, the secret societies, the
! fire department with all its display of
| glitterfng apparatus and richly capari-
| soned horses-all making a cavalcade
several miles in length. The mail car
riers and their famous band will be in
! line, and the band will also contribute
to the success of Friday nights car
nival A telegram was received yester-
day that the kansas City employees
would be out in force with a big float,
and it is believed that the other rail-
road companies will also be in line
COLI Shandrew will be in command Of
the parade, assisted by Louis Nash,
Maj. E. D. Libby, Maj. c. A. Vanduzee,
Capt. w. H. Hart, Capt. R. L. Whine,
Lieut.. ]. H. Hardy and Capt. c. R.
Smith will be in charge of the six divi-
sions, in their respective order. A
unique feature in the parade is that the
members of the butchers union, to the
number of 300, will be out in full
dress" white aprons and all, and will
be mounted. Court Abraham Lincoln,
/. 0. F., has also made arrangements
to be out, on tally-ho- coaches.
Words cannot picture the beautiful
spectacular effect to be seen Wednes-
day and Thursday evenings, the storm
ing of the fortress on Willow island
by land and water, and its gallant de-
tense It will be a realistic and thrill
ling representation of actual warfare,