Show ELECTRIC MARVELS 7r 0 I Jit Louis and Its Great Ball oi Fire GORGEOUS EFFECTS IN CHICAGO i iI I I fcift fee J Mftdorofthe Noonday Sun the 1 Edison Pleat is a Dream of I Light I lF1Jr THE SDNDAY HERALD Copyrighted l1Z i f9 s > HEN Madison Square garden rt 5 gar-den ablaze with electric j V I lights looked resplendent in lJ J E the most dazzling and bril 1 slant of unique designs there i r f were those who believed that ti S4a climax tad been reached in t the ornamental ends of incandescent r t f lighting i The displays at the Actors 1 Fund > fair certainly surpassed those of tho Lenox r Lyceum but it remains for the marvellous a i > outdoor effects of the Columbian celebrations i celebra-tions in Hew York St Louis and Chicago SSS to make memorable the year and the cen turys greatest achievement It is to New York the nation will look far aa electric climar and It will certainly I J rot ba disappoinedfor the splendor of the Edison float will be without a parallel I bare caught a glimpse of it a glimpse off a t tpi li r4r II i o a w ainn r f R > I 1 c I i A > r i 4eiflui1 r r yqt r n 1 6 1 1 2 3 5 ELECTRIC LIGHT DESIGNS IS ST LOUIS 4 6 ELECTRIC EFFECTS IX Tim SEW TORE COLUMBIAN FESTIVITIES thing so rare so rich so fanciful that it seemed almost like a dream like the imaginings im-aginings of a god run riot Captain Alfred Thompson the designer calls it The Genius of Edison Controlling the Hydra of Electricity n It was drawn with no definite end in view almost a year ago and when it was first suggested that the design could be effectually brought 11 out even the experts In the Edison company com-pany smiled and said Impossible Then a few slight modifications were made and the project began to take shape It was Captain Thompsons idea to have motor attachments at-tachments so arranged that the great dragons 1 drag-ons would appear to be drawing the heavy f float But the granite pavements of New York put that part of the idea out of the question and so the usual gayly caparisoned i capari-soned horses will do the motor act As it will weigh seven or eight tons the horses r will manner sixteen each with its eloctrio torch bearer But a test had to be made and so a float was constructed on tho general plan of the Thompson design the lights were attached and about a dozen people saw the first illumination il-lumination a dingy storage room downtown = down-town And it was a success So the work went merrily on Then it was found that t there was no wagon strong and large enough in New York city to carry the float nnd some one suggested getting Big Tom oi Peterson 1 the only available truck i In the vicinity This also was an easy matter and nottiing now stands in the way of fair dame genius and her conquered dragons IMAGINATION ECLIPSED Four thousand globes will light the great design every line of every form in tho float being brought out purely by colored globe light effects Forked lightning will play startlingly along the course of tho great dragons These are four in number all held in check by winged Minervaliko figures The genius holds a wand of light in her hand and rests on a cloud under which two idyllic figures hold the picture ot Edison Back of this rests a massive sphere filled with myriads of incandescent globes and rests on a group of mythical figures Beneath circle the genii of commerce com-merce agriculture art etc Back of this ana at the end of the float fairfigured lames trumpet the great news to the world whiles circle of great electric lighted phonograph j pho-nograph tubes are ready to herald the work that Is yet to come The electric globes circle through every part of the wheels and great beads of light will hang from all its sides Bat even the white and the colored gentlemen gen-tlemen who made glorious the pageant of El Dorado will be electrified for the occasion occa-sion They will wear armor underneath which and out from which globes will Illume Il-lume the sides of the floats In every case these necessary human adjuncts will be attached I at-tached by wire to tho floats j But the street illumination and the five 1 arch designs will all be resplendent with electric lights and tho work everywhere is 3 progressing finely is The west is however the first In the field with its marvels and St Louis ia just s ROW wondering it is possible to do still iR f better The great pieces in St Louts include in-clude a presentation of the caravel Santa Maria stretched across two great pediments oa wnich the words America and Spain 4 stand out in livid letters Tho masts of i the ship and its complete outlines are fixed by dots of light while varicolored electric globes bring out tho words Santa Maria underneath Then there is a fine painting 4 of Columbus illuminated by electric lights in unique effects Perhaps the most impressive sight is the great globe weighing 10000 pounds and WIth a diameter of twentyfive feet sus penden between the great buildings at the corner of Broadway and OliVA street Two sets of electric motors revolve the globe on i Its axes and control switches giving varied effects in turning lights on aud oft Tho globe Is a representation of the earth the continent and islands being shown oy > banks of inawidescent lamps and the water Toy i dark background Throe thousand IncMdeftOoais lights are used to produce the effect 555 ° ELECTRIC MARVZLS One of runique effects to be produced I ° doting tile UtewTork festivities in October r k1 va I will be that at Madison square and which during the summer has been utilized for advertising purposes T am told it will be changed to contain a number of interesting facts connected with tho celebration But I its arrangement Is worth more than a passing pass-ing notice Tho great sign consists of letters let-ters of galvanized iron oa the face of i which are apertures which give place for 1 tho lamps Seven circuits are used ana In 1 the first line there are 302 frosted white i lamps The letters are sis feet high In the second line 223 red lamps are used and the switching producing such magnificent effects is in control of an operator in an adjacent building Incidentally it might be interesting to refer to one of the marvels cf effective elec trio lighting produced this fall in Cleveland Cleve-land From tho skylight of the Arcade building six Brush lamps each of 2000 i candle power are suspended Along a I railing in front of tho first gallery are finely wrought iron standards supporting i large colored glass shades inside of which are the small bulos of incandescent lamps Over the top gallery these lamps are suspended sus-pended from the mouths of lions and tigers whoso bronze heads aro placed at the ends of the iron girders supporting the skylight and rows of lamps follow the Iron arches above the arch lamps presenting tho appearance ap-pearance of stars afar off I At the Worlds fair the preparation for j wonderful effects in electric lighting are I well under way and the building set apart for electric displays will be resplendent in designs and colorings The work of lighting light-ing the administration building has finally been approved On tho ground floor eight standards will be set up each about eighteen eigh-teen feet high and carrying fifty incandescent incandes-cent lamps In each ot the four entrances to the building will be two clusters of twentyfive lights Within at the levoiaf the mezzaine floor about So feet from the ground floor is the rotunda gallery In each alternate post of this gallery there will be a seven light standard On the cor nice about 130 feet from tho floor and just at the base of the dome a circle of about fourteen hundred lights has been placed arranged in rosettes Just above the falso dome in the space between it and the dome proper a dozen arc lamps have been located lo-cated Their position is such that they illuminate il-luminate the interior of the dome proper from behind the false dome in suet a manner man-ner as to best reveal the beauty of its decoration deco-ration Tho light is shed through the opening open-ing in the false domo by reflection the lamps being out of sight The effect is one of diffusion rather than of the usual painful pain-ful brilliancy All told thirtyseven hundred hun-dred lights will be used In the building I WORK UNDER WAY Thus far fifty miles of electric wire nave been laid in the art and administrative I sN cLc N IthN i wa + I r rJ l THE EDISON FLOAT IN THE SEW YORE PAGEANT buildings alone and fully a hundred miles will bo laid in the structure devoted to electrical elec-trical machinery and electric designs In New York a thousand sin le aro light posts are under way for tho Worlds fair and about half as many three light posts I Singly they are not particularly striking although there will be pretty ornamentation ornamenta-tion on each but thq arrangement will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be such that tbo combined effect will bo unique and impressive They will I beabout eighteen feet high and in colored light designs I had almost forgotten to mention the great combination photographicphono graphic electric display promised us by a Parisian company I have heard nothing recently of their project although its object ob-ject was to reproduce in New York the speeches the buildings electric effects and all on the night of the dedication October 21 They propose to give us something on the plan of tho kinetograph but to forestall fore-stall Edison and to outEdison tho great wizard ot Menlo park If they achieve theIr object of reproducing day after day in all the great centres of the world every feature of tho Worlds fair Chicago mayas may-as well close shop at the very start for its thunder will be stolen |