The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-13

fully about the cornices or categorical
pictures painted more or less Skillfully.
But this year the strong, fine lines of
Greek and Romanesque architecture
will be left to speak for themselves,
and except for groups of flags about
that which always flies from govern
mental building they will be entirely
without decoration.
The parks will make up for this de-
ficiency. There are perhaps 100 res
erVationS, large and small, within
| easy reach of Pennsylvania avenue,
and these are all being transformed
into encampment decorations. Near
Gen. Hancock's statue, at Seventh
street and market space, for example,
| the trefoil of the Second army corps
has been done in varicolored flowers,
A triangle in solid colorS in another
park designates Gen. Thomas old COM
mand, the Fourth corps. About the
! pension building are a dozen floral
badges, among which the most con-
spicuous is that of the Ninth corps,
designed by Gen. Burnside. with its
shield, anchor and cannon, admirably
modelled in coleus and begonia plants.
An Illuminated Court of Honor.
These decorations will converge on
| a. court of honor which is to be built
in the space inclosed by Lafayette
square and the grounds of the White
house. Several we'll known architects
are at work preparing a design of
Greek pillars and covered reviewing
stands which shall have the general
effect of a periStyle with a semi circle
of Ionic columns leading to the doors
of the executive mansion, which by
that time will have been completely
remodeled. At night this space will
glow with thousands of colored lights,
Illuminating the smoke which will as
cend from several pyre urnS and
Transforming what is now an open
plaza into structure of the most del
icate beauty.
At night the whole down town sec
ton of the city will take on the pc
culiar charm which attached to the
Buffalo exposition when it's buildings
were outlined with thousands of in
candescent lights and its fountains
transformed by the CLEAN of many
colors. Plans are being laid for SUCH
an illumination of the high, white
dome of the capitol that from every
point of view it shall stand. out in
sharps relief against the black of the
sky. Corps badges and insignia desig-
mating the different Staue headquarters
will be constructed about the different
hotels.
But the chief night display will be
the unusual and pretentious exhibit
ton of fireworks, which will be made
south of the White house and at the
base of the Washington monument. If
the plans of the encampment COM
mittee do not miScarry, and that COM
mlttee is made up of the most sound
and conservative business and pro-
feSSional men in the city, this pro-
gramme of pyrotechnics will surpass
any similar display ever seen here.
There will be the inevitable prelude
of bombs, rockets and co1ored bal
looms. This will be followed by thou
sands of what old fashioned folks call
flower potts." but which are known
| today as "pyrotechnical fountains"
Fire portraits of the great figures
who contributed to the success of the
Union forces will be varied by similar
pictures of those who led the Amer
lean army and navy curing the war
with Spain.
AS a eliminating number for each
nights programme there will be a rep
resentation in fireworks or the fall of
Pekin. A lake of appropriate size will
be constructed to represent the river
Pei Ho. Representations of Chinese
junks and other characteristic Chinese
river craft will be constructed to make
the view of Pelkin as realistic as pos
sible. During the battle 500 young
men will i1nperSonate the soldiers who
scaled the wall of the Chinese capital,
and models of gunboats will depict the
attack made on the city by the fleet
of the allied forces. Admission to the
extended spaces about the monument
will be free, but the committee will
provide several thousand reserved
chairs with boxes for the distinguish
ed guests who are to view the display
the first night.
Many Special Features.
Two impressive dedicatory ~ceremon-
les are to occur at the close of the
encampment-the monument of Gen.
w. Z. Sherman, for which congress
has erected a pedestal at the south
front of the treasury building, and
that to the late DR.. Benjamin F. Steph-
enson, founder of the Grand Army of
the Republic-will both be unveiled.
The former is a pretentious work in
bronze and granite, executed partly
by Carl Rohl-Smith, now deceased
Norwegian, and Lauritz Jensen, a
Dane. The work is expected to prove
one of the most notable memorials in
city already rich in such structures.
The monument to DR.. Stephenson is a
gift to the city by the G. A. R.
When these especial features are
coupled with the exceptionally low
railroad rates to Washington, the low
priced excursions to the battIefieIds
of Maryland and Virginia, the charm
of Washington in October, when the
late Senator Brice said "The CITY
is more lovely than the Rivera" the
beautiful decorations which have been
planned by the city's merchants, and
the interest always manifested in
Washington as the nations capital.
it will be seen that Gen. Terrence spoke
moderately in saying that the encamp-
ment was likely to prove the most in
teresting in the history or the Grand
Army.
To Attend for the Last Time.
It's special significance rests on the
pathetic ground that most of the vet
Grams who are to be It's central figures.
and who made it the center of the
worlds interest in 1865, can probably
never again come to Washington on
such mission. Few of them are now