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AT THE PALACE.Everything Getting on In Shape for the Opening Day.SCA few of the decorators and exhibitors will work today tailing up on the general work.The chairs for the auditorium arrived yesterday. Sixty dozen were unloaded and nine will follow.Ottumwa has only ten more games, and two of them postponed. Two victories will anchor the pennant.The waterfall is all right, and on Tuesday the visitors will hear the sparkling Des Moines as it falls into the sewer prepared for it with a low, gurgling splash.Wapello county will have a fine exhibit, thanks to Miss Lettie Baker and her busy assistants. A fine iron fence will keep vandal hands off the mammoth ears of corn, yellow .‘pumpkins and luscious fruit,The main jet of the fountain in the sunken park will spurt to the full limit of the water company’s pressure, and this means 160 feet. Twenty-four -1 small jets, arranged in a circle, will ! encircle this and all play upon the cen--1 tral point. If this isn’t beauty, where’ll you find it.Contractor Reece is flying around the building like a chicken in a thunder shower. It’s a big undertaking to see after all the carpenter work called tor by the different counties, but Billy’s wide awake if he does belong to the city council, and delights in just such jobs.Col. Ballingall is the man Qf energy and push behind the palace project, and don’t you forget it. The “Kunnel” I has taken the sunken park in hand of j late, and he is pushing the work to completion at a 2:40 gate. He was out late last night with a gang of workmen, who wTere kept busy shoveling cinders, laying sod, and sprinkling that part of the ground already covered with nature’s whiskers.Base ball day, or rather evening, at the palace is now an absolute certainty, and it will be a daisy, too, if Cal. Manning is to be believed. Yesterday, Frank Clark, the chief pill-smasher at the Ballingall pharmacy, and secretary of the ball club received a letter from Secretary Brown, of the Chicago league team, stating that “Anse.” and his frisky team of colt would be here on October 7 and 8. Calvin Manning, the base ball crank of the coal palace pushers, has been ruminating on the base ball question of late, and w hen this letter w as received he at once laid his plans. A grand reception is to be given on the evening of either the 7th or 8th and the pennant will be presented to the coal palace boys with appropriate ceremonies. All the officials of the Illinois-Iowa will be invited, besides the “old man” and his colts, and a banquet wdll probably be given, and entertainment furnished in the form of a play or concert. Whoop ’er up for base ball day!Scenic Artist William DeLoog is hard at work with his pot and brushes over the waterfall. The scene will be a beautiful and impressive one, and will be one of the best that Mr. DeLong has ever made. A scene on the mount tins is taken as the theme, and looking at it, even in its unfinished state, one is reminded forcibly of the scene on the Hudson, or that most beautiful of nature’s picture galleries, the Potomac, at Harper’s Ferry. Far away in the distance can be seen a slight mist hovering over the mountain tops like that on the eastern horizon when the sun first begins to show' his cheery face. Curling around between two towering mountains comes a silvery stream, right dow’n to the edge of the waterfall, and there will commence Supt. Feidler’s cascade, drawn right up from the raging Des Moines. The bridge, put up by Fair, Williams Co., the well known builders, will cross directly in front of all this marine beauty, and will add more realism to the scene.ti
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Ottumwa Sunday Democrat
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Sun, Sep 14, 1890
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