The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-15
Two DAYS OF FESTIVITIES
IN CONNECTION WITH THE
CORNER STONE LAYING
p's AT Lexington Park and Boat
hacfng at COmO-Afternoon md
evening Parades-Sixth Street
10 He Given Up TO Merriment and
MUSIC Tor One Night-Ru.,ard
Hurd's Decoration Committee


for One Night-Rukard
Hurd's Decoration Committee.
h'e corner stone ceremonies at the
Nc" state capitol late this month will
attract people from all corners of tbs
Dis commonwealth to st. Paul and
generous entertainment will be provid-
ca Tor them during their stay in ST
Paul -i '''
In connection with the event. the fol-
lowing was sent out yesterday:
c, 10 the Mayors or Presiding Officers of tb4
Sneies ana Large Villages OF Minnesota: You
are respectfully requested to send to ~
committee having in charge the CoIIecrio, ns
aIchlVes for deposit in the corner stoop ~
We me new capitol one unmounted photogfapl
pieseHting an attractive view of Your resnic
i've cites On the back of each pho.oera n
SHOULD De inscribed the name of the CITY it
ttspresehts, and the Photograph should reach
the committee as soon as possible and 80
later than Monday. the 18th of July '-''
C,b,, N. p. Lsngford
CHAIRMAN OF Archives Committee Room 5i2
Endlcott Arcade
yesterday Chairman Rukard Hur1.
OF the committee on attractions ami
decorations, named the gentlemen who
WIN ASSIST him in his efforts to furnish
eucH d programme as will put in the
SIiaue anything yet attempted in the
northwest for Minnesotans. The per-
sonneI OF this committee is considered
Iuiiicleht guarantee that the affair will
Dc an QEequlYocal success at every
Stage; Here are the names: w. H. S.
q iISHt, L. y. Rice, l.. P. Ordway. w.
>. Morton. Fisher H. Tenney. w n.
IIoiIipKlnS Harry Hardick, c. II. Smith.
d nj y. Farker and w. G. Strickland.
Inc festivities will last two DAYS.
July ~ ana 20 On the first day the
n he
the championship bicycle race at Lex
lEston park, and the Minnesota Boat
cluD races at Como late in the AFTER
noon: Both these events are big cards.
the best wheelmen in the Northwest
pelng entered for the track events,
WhlIe some OF the crack oarsmen of
81. Paul will measure sweeps on Come
at shutdown.
The parade of the day, which is to
END at the new capitol, where the GER
emonies take place, will start at Rice
park at p. m. The present plan is
10 nave the route from the Inrk down
sixth to Jackson to Seventh, up Sew
enth to Wabasha. and out Wabasha 10
the new Statehouse. In the parades II
is expected will be the new Fifteenth
regiment, nearly every G. A. r. post in
the state, the various city civic socie-
ties including the Red Men, Woodrnen.
knights of Pythias and several semi
private organizations
Music will not be wanting. as three or
-FOUR bands have been enga ged for the
celebration. AT the conclusion of the
ceremonies visitors may go to Como to
witness the rowing races, after which
the high carnival down town VIII be in
augurated. The whole of Sixth street
will be devoted to the fun. Carriages
Will be excluded from the thorough
fare. Bands will be stationed at Smith
nj
the Ryan hotel. Here also will be the
Judges, who are to determine which Of
the marching organizations is entitled
to the prizes offered by the citizens.
Five paradeS will be started at inter-
walls Of from ten to fifteen minutes,
from Smith park up Sixth, Rice park,
around the park down Seventh. TO Rob
ert, then over Robert to Third. to Jack
son and on Jackson to Seventh and
then back to Smith park, the starting
point.
There will be lavish display of the
state and national colors. and Creek
fire will set off the say scenes. A fire
department run will he mada on Eighth
street from Ninth and st. Peter to
Broadway during the evening. A IA
nous colored singing society of twenty
persons has been engaged and will be
heard along the routes of the parades
on Sixth and Seventh streets. There
Will be crack bicyc'e drill by a dozen
expert wheelmen, under the drecti-n OF
Tom Bird, and a number of other minor
attractions which the committee Will
provide. The first evenings fun VIII
most appropriately terminate will
cake walk by a score or more members
of the local lodge of EIks. under the
lead of G. H. Walker. This will he held
late in the evening on Sixth street be-
tween Cedar and Robert streets
The entire Fifteenth regiment will be
reviewed on the second night, and tn
committee has arranged fer big feat
ure, the particulars of which will be
made public a little later The menu
bers have b5en hard at work and are
determined that it shall be a grear
event in st. Paul.