i S M IMMIP^I SBa SsS WPWawiiW W rj mSnlf0^p?jPS|^ m^Wi p^jm-^rjij^' Jlr*^^ TV ?s-v -5^' '.-Si The St. FMl Winter Carnival. New TJlm Review. THE ST. PAUL ICE PALACE. are (utterly dissimilar anil antagonistic. kingand his forces rode up the streets toward The St. Paul papers are filled with accounts THE ATTACK OBDCBKD. Neither can exist in the presence of the the palace. Meanwhile the Ice King and infinitesimal details of the The contemptuous reply of the Fire King had not been idle. He had heard with other, and, when they come together, there great display of Monday night. It waa a. was an order to his herald to give the signal great displeasure .of the treachery of bitter cold night for a procession. The is a contest for the mastery which can only for the attack, which was done, and immediately JOa BOBLETER, Publisher. his subjects, who had professed so thermometer sank down and down, until, the dogs of war were unleashed. end in the annihilation of one or the other, Graphic Description of Storming much loyalty to him but the day before, and by the time the column was. advertised to Each one of the thousand in the attacking and the straggle between these two great summoned together those who were still NEW TJLM, the Ice Palace with Fire MINNESOTA. move, it had struck 14 below zero. But i party was armed with Bomancandles, which natural elements is attended with phenomena faithful to act as a garrison for the castle. that's what winter uniforms are .for, to were discharged against the building. Distrustful still of his own subjects he chose which shakes worlds and seams and -Works. \L withstand cold weather and with two suits The defense was similarly aroused, and the as his partieular body guard, an alien host, ridges the face of continents. Such a struggle of underclothes, a blanket coat and trousers, Washington territory has enjoyed a that of St George of Winnipee, who led the castle was also abundantly supplied with was symbolized last night In the storming two pairs of hose, moose moccasins defense. The Brainerd. Stillwater, Northfield heavy artillery. The scene was a sublime rapid growth in population. The The following description ol the crowning of the ice palace by the fire king, and a toque,the tobogganer or snowshoer and other visitors were also mustered and the effect was one the lurid splendor of census of 1880 reported that it had spectacle of the St. Paul Ice Carnival, THE ATTACK. in, the king concluding that if those who had managed to get along without much built his castle would not help him defend one. The garrison manned the parapets of which no vocabulary is comprehensive suffering, and much better than thousands by reporters of that city, with accompanying 75,116, and now a population of 175,- it he would turn to other cities for help. the fortress and poured a fiery rain down of people standing on icy sidewalks. The enough to describe,and no pigmentsthat ever illustrations, will be of interest to a 000 is claimed for it. In size the territory upon the opposing hosts below,who promptly whole affair is thus described in the headings smeared a pallette fiery enough to portray A COUNCIti OF WAB. large number who were unable to be present, answered with like fierceness. Thousands of the affair: When the full complement of ten companies on canvas. His majesty, King Borealis, had is larger than all New England. had arrived tne Ice King called a of Boman candles simultaneously belched and yet who desire to hare some conceptions come from the North on the previous day, "In a blaze of glory.The opening of the By virtue of these qualifications she council of war for the purpose of unfolding forth balls of various-colored fire, which of the affairs: St. Paul winter carnival a grand and unqualified and had been acknowledged by hosts of citi- the plan of defense. The St George's Club gleamed and. glistened against the crystal wants to become a state. success.The streets filled with enthusiastic people and thousands of men in brilliant uniforms.A bewildering display of elaborate decorations and illuminations According to General Morin, the along the principal streets.A parade eminent French expert, the proper of magnificent proportions, the greatest ever seen in the northwest.Formal temperature in well-ventilated places opening of the carnival and the ice palace is as follows: Nurseries, ^sylums and under the most auspicious conditions. The pleasant ceremony officially conducted schools, 69 deg. work-shops, barracks by president Finch and mayor Rice. and prisons, 59 deg. hospitals, 61 to Everything in readiness for the reception 6 4 deg. theaters and lecture-rooms, and entertainment of an army of visitors." The Pioneer Press says: St. Paul's ice. 66 to 69 deg. In dwellings in this palacethe first in the United States and country it has been the custom to keep the largest, grandest and most finished ice the temperature at 60 to 70 deg. cast ft in the world, excelling in magnitude and detail the ice structures of St. Petersburg, Russia, and Montreal, Canada Paris has planned a particularly was opened last night. Its formal opening was the occasion of a monster torchlight scientific baby show. Each exhibitor parade, in which 5,000 uniformed will have to fill up a list of questions members of the various local and visiting toboggan, snowshoe, skating, curling and tending to throw light upon the consanguineous winter sporting clubs generally took part. marriages, and hereditary The parade was made doubly interesting and attractive, not alone by the bright and principle, climate and different methods picturesqueblanket suits of its participants, of nursmg, and will be asked to nor by the variety and novelty of the cos tumeseach club appearing in a uniform send in with the exhibit photagraphs original in its color and combination of of ancestors, or ancestral pictures, and colors, but distinct from the othersbut of near relatives. The ages of the exhibits also by means of the features displayed by the leading clubs in the procession. The will range from one to five members of these associations exhibited years.' their, ingenuity in devising and designing some original display, and as a result float* appropriate in their entirety and design It is reported that the publisher of and attractive in their details were conspicuous objects of the first night's parade. Gen. Grant's Memoirs has given to Mrs. Grant a check for $250,000, as The formal opening exercises of the ice castle were of a brief and simple character. her share of the profits of the hookup They consisted in part of the surrounding to date. This is the largest sum ever of the eastle by the members of the procession, which terminated at that point. paid in one check by a publisher to an In the midst of these gaily-attired winter author or his representative. It is club men, and directly in front of the massive and majestic crystal palace, which appeared said that the amount of returns from to its best advantage as it was revealed the memoirs, which will be paid to in all its details by the numerous electric lights that illuminated its exterior and Mrs. Grant, will be over $500,000. made its way through the ice walls, George This large sum with the $5,000 a year R. Finch and Mayor Rice made a few remarks. voted by congress ought to keep the Mayor Rice, in behalf of the public, accepted wolf of poverty from the door. the glittering and g!e.\niing castle, and, alter congratulating the officials ol the association, under whose charge and A bill has been introduced into the auspices the enterprise had been inaugurated and carried to a successful conclusion, Rhode Island Legislature which proposes he pronounced the first of thirty ice palaces the submission to the electors and carnivals that are to take place in Minnesota's capital city during the next of the State, at the April election this thirty years, open to the public. A volley year, of a Constitutional amendment of shots from the carbines in the hands of extending the right of suffrage tp all the Ice Bear club, long and hearty cheers from the 5,000 torchlight bearers and the A FIEKY SIGHT. zens, with plaudits and shouts, as they welcomed of Winnipeg were stationed in the center Union soldiers and sailors of foreign walla On every bastion and other archi. spectators in attendance, and the formal their liege and paid their homage to In the evening the ice palace was bombarded, and in the right wing. A detachment from tectural projection of the palace was set birth resident in the State,who served ceremonies were at an end. him. He had been declared the lord of the it and the St Georsre's of St Paul and the the spectacle of its illumination by cannon, which, when discharged, filled the realm by the mayor, and a royal pageant, during the war of the Rebellion. Rhode Wacoutas guarded the south and east entrances. heavens with globes of blue and red anc the discharge of thousands of rockets and that would have made any monarch The west and north entrance was Statement in Regard to National Finances. green flame. Tremendous mortars in tlu Boman candles used in the attack and defense, Island still maintains the property proud, had followed him to lojrahis crystal sruarded by the Scandinavian Ski and the outer moat sent up ponderous bombs subjects was grand and picturesque, rivaling home, built for him- by his qualification so far as foreigners are Stillwater clubs. The remaining clubs were hundreds of feet into the air, which, bursting, Washington special: According to the in its beauty and grandeur the fabled accounts The Fire King, old Helios, deified by the placed about the castle and courts, while scattered sparks of all the hues of the concerned, and no citizen of this class, January statement the reduction of the Persians, had heard of this invasion by his of some dazzling entertainment of Companies E and C, M. S. N. G., were stationed rainbow in every direction, and the mag. public debt for January was $8,672,554, ancient enemy of a realm which he had however meritorious his services, can at the entrance to the grounds. nificence of an ordinary pyrotechnic exhibition old. It was a scene, the like of which has and, for the seven months of the current always regarded as his own, and, collecting was multiplied many times by th Having thus completed all his arrangements, never been seen in the worldoutside of St vote unless he has a freehold. fiscal year, $50,331,876 against $41,000, his faithful attendants, made a flying opalescent tint thrown over it all by the the king betook himself to his private Petersburg, Bussia, and Montreal, Canada 000 for the corresponding seven months trip to the North to chastise the crystalline walls of the palace. apartment, and calmly laid The storming of the ice castle was the result of the preceding fiscal year. The reduction presumptuous usurper. He arrived in down to sleep to await the attack. A PALACE OF FIRE. of a desire on tbVpart of the Fire King last month was in the current liabilities Samuel Scully, the rich Irish-Englishman, The castle was of ice no longer. It was and in the increased cash in to wrest the huge edifice from the possession palace of phosphorescent fire, now white, who owns a great share of Logan the treasury. The interest-bearing debt of the ice King. In carrying out this desire now blue, now green, now red, gleaming anO has not been effected,and remains the same county, in Illinois, and leases it out the Fire King and his followers stormed the glittering, every turret shooting up a fanlike as on Jan.l. Thegreater part of the January local habitation of the Ice King, and the tongue of fire. The smoke of the pow on the grasping and merciless "Irish reduction was in the interest account, the der that was burned rose to heaven, and re latter and his loyal subjects repulsed the attack liabilities for which were reduced $5,000,- landlord" plan, is known in Logan fleeted the flames beneath. Througl with vigor and effect. The uniformed it all the musketry kept up a continuous 000. Silver certificates were redeemed during county as "Lord" Scully. He lives in members of the many toboggan, snowshoe roar. To the spectators at i the month to the amount of $3,400,000 and skating clubs acted as the soldiers of the great style in England, and visits his distance the sight was even more beautiful. and these two items mainly make the reduction contending monarchy They, divided up, The gleaming castle, with its beautiful con reported. Thebonds called for redemption vast American possessions once in a figuration, stood out, a silhouette of man3 fought well and valiantly, and in their enthusiastic on Ft-b. 1 do not figure in the January great while. He hires his land to colored lights, against the black sky, and tin statement. Of these bonds nearly $7,000,- attack and defense contributed fc blazing volleys which shot from it and toward 000 were paid. Compared with Jan. 1, small farmer tenants at exorbitant not a little to the grand and realistic effect it made a picture of lurid splendor, which tc th? gold fund shows a loss of $2,000,000, of the mimic battle. The palace was surrounded rates, and makes the tenants pay the a reader of Milton must have conveyec tht total of that fund now footing up by the forces of the royal inmate, a strong reminder of the attacl taxes besides. All he does is to own $25.',371,562, a gain of $14,000,000 over of Lucifer upon the castle of heaven early in the eveniDg, in anticipation of an Jan. 1, 1885. There is an increase for the the land and exact every drop of While this bombardment was going on th attack. They filled the castle and occupied month of $10,000,000 in outstanding gold Fire King rode his charger up and down th all the available positions about the towers blood he can get out of his victims. certificates, reducing the netgold to $136,- lines, urging his forces to redouble then I and babblements. 086.610,against$148.000,000heldonJan. efforts, and the more hopeless his caus seemed the more wrathful and furious h 1. The silver fund shows an unusually large A NIGHT PICTOBK. The castle and its surrounding defenders grew. But it was of no avail. The ammuni In the national House of Representatives, gain during the month. The number of tion of his troops was diminishing with dis was a picture of quietness. The besieging silver dollars now held is over $109,000,- Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, couraging rapidity, and, seeing that ther 000, an increase of $3,356,195. There is forces marched up to the castle, and the Fire was no hope of capturing the castl introduced a bill providing for an a reduction in outstanding silver certificates King demanded its surrender. At each of he reluctantly gave orders to ceas of $3,400,000. The number of silver the four main entrances to the castle he amendment to the Constitution by firing, and made overtures foi dollars now held, not covered by certificates, made his demand, his troops following, thus peace. They were gladly received. Borealii which the President and Vice President is $79,321,776, an increase of nearly forming a second circle about the castle, the again appeared at his castle door, and ai 7,000,000 since Jan. 1. Thus the shall be elected by the majority armistice was declared. The noble litth inner circle being the military subjects of treasury received the entire coinage for garrison which had defended the fortrest the reigning monarch. The demands of the of the people, abolishing the Electoral STORMING THE PALACE. January, and nearly 3,000,000 in addition. marched out and were received with cheeri Fire King are refused, and the battle begina College and regulating the method of the city shortly after 8 o'clock. His The Fire King,failing in his original intention From the outer circle go up scores and hundreds THE DEFENSE. royal car was eminently fitted to perform of surprising the garrison and taking it unawares counting the votes by the two houses and thousands of Boman candles, sky by their late adversaries. The Ice Kin( such service. It was in the shape of an was nothing daunted by these preparations President Cleveland on Office-Holding. rockets and other pyrotechnic displaya The mounted the Fire King's royal chariot by hii of Congress. While*there is not the oblong platform, bout five feet from the for the defense, but, relying on his invitation, the Fire King rode behind, anc members of the inner circle responded by a The Boston Herald's Washington correspondent ground. At each corner of this platform superior numbers and his own terrible slightest probability of any serious discussion the two monarchs, followed by their men stood a pillar, supporting an open canopy. quotes the president as saying: similar discharge of fireworks, as did their aspect, drew his flashing sword from its made their peaceful progressthrough the city. From the outer edge of the canopy, and on of the proposition, it is nevertheless have tried to be true to my own pledges fellows within the castle. The illumination sheath and ordered an' advance. He was The line of'march was the regular one used each side, hung red lanterns, a second row and the pledges of my party. We both tried closely followed by two companies of the of the many explosions and the red fire one of the straws which indicate for the processions, the reverse order being surrounding the base which supported the to divorce the offices of the country from national guards as a skirmish' line, who within the palace made the scene one of platform. the prevailing course of the political found at the entrance to the castle being used for party service. I have held yard a similar company armed with lines. THE FIRE KING. to my promise, and I mean to hold to it. I wind. In the center of the platform was a throne Volleys were interchanged, but the picket did not propose to hold party service in on which sat his royal majesty, the Fire line was soon beaten back, and retreated Che past in the democratic ranks an King. The entire car, with the exception with their wounded to the castle, firing as aeainst a man. On the contrary, it gave Many of the old warriors are fighting of the pillars at the corners and posts of the they went The Fire King's troops greeted him a strong, equitable claim to office. He throne, was painted bright red. The parts their battles over again through this indication of victory with a roar of deli&rht, had been excluded for twenty-four year* mentioned were gold color. On either side and pressed on to the attack. magazines and newspapers, and the because he was a Democrat. He should be of the car were placed receptacles in which With their flaming torches thev marched remembered for the same reason when a red fire was kept constantly burning. boldly up to the palace, and public mind is getting muddled upon Democrat administration came into power The effect of the whole, as viewed at invested it on all sides, the king and his some of the minor "facts of history." a distance, was excellent, and gave the beholder provided he was a competent man for the car valiantly leading the van. Through the a very clear conception of the personage position to be filled. What I understand translucent walls of the castle there shone A critic says: "When the last who was advancing to attack and by civil service reform, as I am carrving it but little light, and only a faint spark here vindicator has been gathered to his dislodge the king. On a chair behind the and there denoted that a sentinel was keeping out, is that officeholders shall b* king's throne sat his assistant, while four his watch. Soon drums were heard divorced from politics while they fill fathers, and the last echoes of contradiction gherbers, dressed in flaming red and wearing to beat and trumpets to sound, their positions under this government. have died away, if they ever horrible masks, flitted hither and thither lights, were seen to" rush hither and That rule I have meant to stand in the car, and keut the red lights burning thither, and in a few moments the entire do, it becomes an interesting question by. My removals from office, such as are constantly. The car was drawn building was amass of gleaming red flame. made, are made for cause. It would by eight jet black horses, their whether there will be any war annals be absurd for me to undertake to give the harnesses being decked with bright rkL A BEWILDERING SCENE. left, any residuum of facts not disputed country my reasons in all rases because it The effect of fire shining through a block The king, himself, however, scorned the of ice is singularly beautiful, but when, instead would be impracticable. When I have removed luxury of a chariot when fighting was to be by scores of eye-witnesses. It of one block, you build a Republicans for political reasons, done, and rode gallantly on a horse. His would be an awkard outcome of all stately palace of them and illuminate appearance was inspiring. In a garb of or for any other reasons, I would apply the IV?" the whole with crimson fire, flaming red from head to foot, with a mass same rules to my own party. I think Re-* this retelling of the story of the war the result is a sight of amazing grandeur. of jewels blazing from a coronet, his fiery publican senators should be just enough to-*- Even the Fire King and his army were for a \MA to leave it all vindication and no his- eye flashing with rage, he went through the believe this of me. They ought to appreciate moment awestruck, but their business was streets breathing threatenings and slaughter tory." that I am trying to do my duty. Whr of too serious a nature to allow time for and swearing vengeance on the bold invader, they should continue to distrust 1 do not contemplation of the beautiful, and movement his terrible aspect striking terror into see. They do not come to me, either personally upon the enemy's works was ordered, the very soul of every beholder. The herald The death of ex-Senator Farley of or by committee, to get an understanding aind the attacking party was arranged about of the king was dressed in the same flaming of my attitude or to obtain explanations the castle in four lines, completely investing California is attributed to poisoning of color as his majesty, and carried a bugle over on points of action to which it Before the attack was made the A POPULAR CARNIVAL SPORT. his shoulder. He knew full well that his the blood from excessive use of hair they object. They stand off and question, Ice King himself had been aroused, and appeared, enemy was- entrenched in an almost impregnable with his hoary locks and his robes of never-to-be-forgotten beauty and grandeur. the sincerity of my purposes. fortress, which he could not hope dye. He had abundant hair and fur, at the door of his castle, to inquire who to penetrate with the little force which he The Illumination disclosed the massive ice i beard, and when he first came to had so rudely disturbed his slumbers, The brought with him .?-vx According to the Wall Street DahV palace in all its purity, and likewise revealed POLO ON 8KATES. Fke King approached him, in a glare of Washington it was a yellowish gray. ftews, the real reason whv the Milwaukee the various colored suits of those participating RAMJET) TO HTS STANDARD., light shed from his chariot of fire, and said: & St. Paul has decided to build to Kansas followed. The populace was loval at heart The magnetism of his personality, however, There was much surprise at the next in the sortie, either as friends or foes of City is to divide up the vast lumber business I demand ah immediate and unconditional to its liege Borealis, and testified to its lovalty made the task of collecting an attacking the Ice King. The sight was enjoyed by session when his hair and beard had surrender of your fortress. which the Omaha has had a practical by burning red fire in profusion as the party a comparatively easy one, and many thousands within the carnival grounds To which Borialis responded: procession marched along the streets. As monopoly of for some years. within an hour he had mustered an army of suddenly changed to a glossy black. and by many more outside that enclosure. the troops passed the liyan hearty cheers several thousand, the different companies of The Ice King never surrenders. He is now in It was said the inhalation of the acid possession of this palace witha force sufficiently .were given, as well as at other points on the which had, strange to say, only the day before At last the contending kings hold a conference, Loren ChriBtianson, found guilty of manslaughter large tP hold it aarainst anv force the Fire King route. The streets were lined with spectators, made heaven and earth ring with their at Bismarck, was sentenced used in the dye was the means by during a lull in the battle, and as a result can bring against it. In fact, one cold freezing as usual, who cheered the clubs as they shouts of welcome to their king, Borealis. the pemtentary at Sioux Palls for tweutvfive thereof an armistice was declared, and .breath of the Ice King cannot oulv utterly annihilate which the poison entered his system fcatue'of Cincinnat., i pre passed by. On arriving at the city hall the years. **j The rebels were equally enthusiastic, however, the Fire Kin?, bnt ail those who follow the forces, following their respective kings, 1 procession disbanded. in the service of their new sovereign. but, although he abandoned the use or him. In the interest of humanity, the Ice King an formed into line and marched through the oM5J v. The first to acknowledge fealty to him recommends that you withdraw your forces at of it, and his hair and beard returned sented to Gov. Foraker, who is in the city, principal streets of the city, the torchlight were the Owl and St Paul Toboggan once. If you decline this, then you must be responsible $ 'if articles of impeachment against the police for the consequences. If yon are for clubs, which were given the position of C. B. S. Jones, for many years a steward parade being the reverse as to its line of their original color, he never recov- war your first shot will be a signal for me to let commissioners for bis action under the guard of'"honor. The Windsor club was the on the upper Mississippi packets, and wel march of that last Mondaysnight |5SS4?$. loose my engines of destruction, and I can assure statute in such eases, charging them with emblem of heat and cold next traitor organization, and was followed known to river men from St. Louis to St. you that in two minutes your followers th STORMING OF THE ICB PALACE. wil.lul misconduct in office by refusing to by twenty or thirty others. With blazing Paul, died recently at his home in Galena, ice will be dead upon the, fieldThink well before nd enforce the laws relating to the theatrical J^E? torchesa terrible army with bannersthe age fifty-nine years. you act Vgfl I performances on Sunday. i**v. -,^-_ .?& S& tUP: