The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-29

for the Gorgeous Presentation or
Pains Newest Spectacle, Depict
ing the Events of the Late War
The Scenery Is Nearly I'm
Shape.
Work on the peace Jubilee grounds
at Aurora avenue and Grotto
street continued yesterday and will
go on today for the picture of the
military spectacle, Cuba" that will
be presented every evening next week.
The lake has been dredged out, and
will be cemented today, and work on
the grand stand will begin. Mr. Hoff-
man, Pains stage manager, will be on
hand bright and early to superintend
scenery. He viii bring with him
force of nearly 100 scene painters and
shutters and skilled artisans. Three
days will be required to complete the
pictures. Then fifty-two arc lights
Will be secured, and the picture will
be complete. Nearly 500 speciality per-
formers billed for the production will
arrive this week and begin rehearsing
Immediately.
The picture proper will measure $50
feet in length and S5 feet in height,
and viii cover 1900 square yards of
canvas besides painted wood and iron.
It will be completed next Thursday
Those passing the site after that day
will have an adequate idea of the i'm
mensity and splendor of the scene
which they could never get from writ
ten descriptions, no matter how care
fully WorGed nor delicately expressed.
Theatrical scenery looks wretched
and shabby in the broad daylight be-
cause the water colors give distorted
inv -c-SrN
the scenery in the production of
cuba" will present in the Gay time a
perfect and pleasing picture that will
be worth visit by anybody who ap-
preciates genuine art. The paintings
are all in oil, and made for an entire
season, though used only one week.
The heaviest canvas is used. and in
clement weather. not even heavy rains,
and, in fact, nothing but electrical
storms or cyclones, have any effect
upon its symmetrical beauty, accuracy
OF perspective or artistic finish.
The principal picture of the first per-
rormances will either, at close range
or at distance of several hundred
yards, look like the city of Havana
with its famous harbor and the Cuban
landscape 100 miles back Of the valley
In which the city lies, including the
mountainous country with the dreaded
trochas behind.
As soon as The enclosure is COM
pleted, Thursday or Friday, the ffty-
two arc lights will be put IN place and
the gigantic picture will be complete
In the harbor in front of the stage,
which IS the lake 300 feet long now be-
ing built, will appear first Of all the
ill-starred battleship Maine. 1t will be
assumed for realistic effect, if not for
historical accuracy, that a button was
treacherously pressed on the supposed
friendly shore, and the whole story Of
the awful disaster in which 266 Ameri-
can sailors and marines were blown to
eternity will be told to the senses of
hearing and sight. Besides the United
states legation, with the Stars and
Stripes floating proudly above it, Moro
castle and the Spanish arsenal and
plaza will be seen, with an
army of Spanish soldiers, Cubans, bal
let girl, bull fighters, merchants and
the other elements that make UP Cubas
stronghold, all attired IN the costumes
of the Pearl OF the Antilles
Enthusiasm will be aroused by pa
trlotic music played by one Of the larg-
est bands in the Northwest The STIR
ring performance will begin with the
entrance of the Spanish troops, follow
ed by the events preceding the blowing
UP of the Maine. Consul General Lee
Will appear recOncentrados will be shot.
bUtchery, for which he will be sem
fenced to be shot, though afterwards
saved by wrapping Old Glory around
him; Gen. Lee will leave the unhappy
island with the American flag, and the
American navy will arrive in front of
the Notifications.
When the bombardment is on the
walls will be seen to crurnble away
amidst the rain of shot and shell and
the glare of bursting bombs. After
encountering repulses, the insurgents
VIII effect a junction with American
marines and enter triurnphantly with
the Stars and Stripes waving over
them.
Monday evening, and each evening
following, no matter what central
event Of the war is produced, a. grand
ballet will be presented, in which two
or three hundred beautiful girls will
dance the Spanish fandango; also ma
tional games and pastimes by at least
a hundred high-salaried performers,
among them the five acrobatic Cornell
las, Stirk and Anita, the trapeze dare
devils; the HarInons, revolving ladder
fiends; Sanly brothers, contortionists,
and Blanche LIE Clair, aerial ring ar
fist.
Every performance will conclude with
a grand pyrotechnical display such as
has made the name of Pain famous
When Mr.. Pain made contract with
st. Paul for state fair week he guar
anteed to eclipse all his previous pyro-
technical trfurnphs, and named his
price. 1t will cost $4,000 to intoxicate
the eye of a crowd just one fleeting
moment, but the money will be well
spent. The entertainment will be more
than an entertainment; 1t will be a
marvel. And the war scenes and
events reproduced will be an education.
The vivid impressions conveyed to the
minds of all who witness it will be
such as prose and poetry could not
convey.
There viii be active work on the en-
closure for the great pyrotechnic show
which Pain is to give during Fair week
at University avenue ard Grotto street.
The dancers, singers, soldiers, naval
ard military heroes who are to run the
gauntlet of flame and shot every night
Will arrive during the week, and by
Saturday all will be in readiness for
the great festival
Z. L. Schurneier, Of the citizens com
nnfttee, announced yesterday to a repor-
ter for The G. l o b that the commit
tee was taking the matter of the iubi-
lee in hand and every member had
responded splendidly to the demands
made upon his time and money. The