The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-09-26
DAY OF
THE BIG CARNIVAL
MAKES GREAT HIT
Attendance Exceeds
Opening Day Last
M%ANYPRAlSE SHOW
Mitchell is Voted to be Giving
More for Money Than
Ever Before
MANY PRAISE SHOW
From Mondays Daily.
Crowds are Her"

&IONOS ~ 4
Midst d maze of color and with d
record breaking first day attendance,
the twenty-first Corn Palace carnival
since it was first inaugurated in this
city opened today.
The weather was ideal. 1t was cool
and yet comfortable with just a touch
of gentle Indian summer in the air.
AS early as eight O'Clock the crowds
began surging up and down Main
street and at ten the first band start
ed to play, which heralded in what
promises to be the most successful
Corn Palace year ever held.
Mitchell is lat home all this week
IA the arrival of numerous of the
OIL timers of this locality indicate
that as a home coming week it viii
be a grand success. Everything is
moving without a hitch. The bust
ness houses are all decorated and the
strings of gaily colored II ana
flags across the street make it like
a scene from fairy-land. Tonight the
new cluster lights will be turned on
, for the first time mt they will blaze
? the way to the corn palace building
where the features of the week are
. centered. The show this afternoon
was all anticipated for it and the
public is satisfied that nothing better
r :ould be obtained.
Description of Building.
What is regarded as the handsom-
est and most striking of all the dec
GRATED corn palaces, was finished ir
plenty of time for the opening of the
event. In its new garb the building
has received the praise of the best
r critics, and it is the concensus of OPP
inion that Decorator Gillis, of this
city, has exceeded all former efforts
, in the line of decoration. The whole
scheme is designed with the idea OF
art and Simplicity" and the figures
& and attractive characters are made
resplendent in the different coloreo
corns which have been employed il
y the color scheme.
q One of the first things which at
I tract the vision on the approach IL
the palace is the four East Indian
elephant heads, which are placed or
the south and west sides of the build
ID ing, occupying broad panels. The
heads and trunks are made of whit
corn, with light red for the orna
ments and yellow corn around tn
tusks for the gold bands. The head
are placed in d background OF blood.
butcher. surrounded with a horde
RI, of yellow and red. At the main ent
a rance and the exit on the west sid
n. the back walls are covered with
checkerboard design, made of yelloN
and bloody butcher corn two inche
square, and is a very attractive piec
- of work. In the balconies of the tw
:, places attractive pictures and design
are worked II in a fishing scene
" H. -....~,, L.I o., ln,tnrp
w. strung from trees, and a CLOWN
~ sunset. made of yellow corn. an
re placed on a background of black
re stands out prominently.
The towers on the southeast an
to northwest corners are done j
squares and half diamonds OF a larg
RS type, and these are supported by co
to onial columns of white corn an
he placed on a background of BLOOD
nd butcher. The tops of the overs al
he made attractive with corn, ears Al
-, the punches OF flax and oats and fls
49, heads. The treatment of the base
" the palace is better than. eyer b
fore and adds much to the gener
wv appearance of the decorations. Up
" distance of eight feet from the ba
10 large panel scrolls have been mad
nj which extend clear around the bull
IN ing and within each sugar cane stall
cit are weaved with much deXterity to
center piece, the panels being edg'
The with yellow corn.
lgt Two striking designs are plac'
es over the east and west doors on Z
re south side of the palace, which G
tend to the caves. They are pictur
,i1o of two cranes, done in white corn,
-. a field of red, ~overhanging which a
~ fine illustrations of palm trees. y
az posite these pictures are w lar
"" conventional designs, which a
OF made artistic with corn of differe
we colors and arranged with fine effe
sor The browning effect of the emit
decoration is centered in the app
pirate piece at the southwest corr
Al. of the palace, where King Corn $
on a throne as the ruler of the pl
ductiveness of South Dakota's Sc
With sceptre in hand the king sits
a throne of yellow corn, on each s.
oh of which are two mall elephs
ply heads. upon which rest the colun
ino of the kings court. Above the he
of the king is placed a halo made
it'll isugar cane stalks. which is encircI
with a band of small units OF bloc
this butcher and white corn in altern
ing colors. Throughout the inters
alta lions of the design a drapery of pa
pas mead grass is arranged tt
hon breaks the continuity OF the corn
signs. -.
A great quantity of corn is utili;
=. in bringing out these decorations Z
it is one of the largest parts OF
'pe expense in the enterprise. FIR
twenty to fifty men and boys W
employed in the decorative work
the period of two weeks that it tt
eff to complete the work. On the fr
rop- of the building rows of electric Zig
ma are placed and at night the intel
Their Is primarily Illuminated sisA"e
anne whole a most attracIi'e elleol:
Life On the interior the scene rs =
aurnaSsiug with the artistic