Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1888 — EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD. [ARTICLE]

EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD.

The Sioux City Corn Palace Second Annual Festival. The managers take pleasure in announcing that the Sioux City Com Palace (second annual festival) will be formally opened on the 24th of September, 1888. President Cleveland made his sole departure from his route as pre-arranged in the’fall of 1887, in deference to the entreaties of Mrs. Cleveland, that they might feast their eyes on the wonders of that year’s Com Palace, and at the same time witness the marvelous progress of Sioux City, “The only Corn Palace City of the World.” President Cleveland, in an outburst of admiration, said: “This Com Palace is the first really new thing that has been shown me.” Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, standing with Cornelius K. Vanderbilt and other gentlemen, referring to the Corn Palace, said: “I have been all over the world, and have seen the principal natural and unnatural curiosities, but I have never before seen a Corn Palace.” Encouraged by the compliments of these great men, and by the popular enthusiasm and admi ation that made the Com Palace of ’B7 such an unparalleled success, the business men of Sioux City have formed a stock company for the purpose of repeating it on an immensely grander scale, intent upon making it one of the solid and enduring institutions of the country, and an ' attractive feature of Sioux City. In the light of valuable experience it is their determination that the Cora Palace of 1888 shall outrival in design, construction and beauty any before erected; that it shall be ’he eighth wonder of the world; a temple to Mondamin, surpassing any structure erected by pagan hands to any other of the •deities'. The idea is unique and absolutely original. No other Corn Palace was ever before built, nor was the design therefor ever conceived in the brain of man. ’Tis the one new thing under the sun. Those !who invented it “builded even wiser than they knew,” for the marvelous creation exceeded in beauty, in magnitude,and in originality, all the wildest dreams of the originators. Hitherto the hand of man had erected palaces of stone, and marble, and ice, but the Sioux City Palace was like Victor Hugo’s conception of Waterloo, “A 'change of front of the universe,” an event 'that altered the course of empire and forever crowned Sioux City as “The only Corn Palace City of the World.” It is the realization of an idea that fixes Sioux City ifor all time as the seat of empire of King Corn, the centre of the great corn belt, with its illimitable resources, its tireless 'activities, withits unparalleled prosperity. The Palace will open Sept. 24th and close Oct. 6th. It will be a national event, occurring at the loveliest time of the year lin one of the most interesting cities of the country. Excursion rates will be made from all .parts of the United States, Canada and the South American republics, giving to the people of this continent an opportunity to view the Corn Palace, and to see for themselves the future great city of the northwest, with its wonderful achievements and boundless possibilities.