| Show DISPLAY Of S Ss SI PAINS s BATTLE OP OF SA SAN ri mAN GIVEN AT WARS FL r Remarkable Exhibition o of i biton n Ton of Powder Go UP I Smoke Pains pyrotechnic display given fOr forthe the first time at Walkers feld field last I Inight night was by far the grandest e event ent t I of its kind ever witnessed witness ed in the state of Utah It was something new w I something t to excite unadulterated ad admiration for the inventive g genius of the man who conceived it it and wh when n the fame of lat last nights performance through the city the n than may rest assured that the at attendance attendance wl wil be al all and more than could be expected through there the ye the wee weel The display t the Pioneer jubilee three years ean ago thrilled Sal Salt Lake but i it cannot be cl classed ed wih with Pains Pains show Where her were seats for 50 on the and not more than hal half that number of people turned out There was a lack of enthusiasm too which was perhaps because the thing was wass wasso s so novel Te The spectators seemed to know what of them but were too dumfounded to respond They wee went there expecting to se sed the storming of San Juan hi hill and th they y did see i it but while that feature Is IsaU aU all that uniformed men bUrt bursting ng bombs fire smoke patriot music and scenery can make it the batte battle of the show is only a smal small part Te The originator has not slighted de detail I ti tail The San Juan scene is a back background gound ground of his hills wih with block houS houses s scattered at various arious pints points and the production opens wih with the entrance Of I Ithe the SpanIsh troops or more mOn men b being employed in this this While in camp varIous scenes are enacted suc such a as te the burial of soldiers replete wih with priest priests buglers parting and taps ad and soldiers the capture and execution of Cuban A courier brings word of an epe expeCted ted attack and ne me imagine himself on the spot to se see the manner in which the men pr prepare pare for batte battle The The at attack attack tack is made and the real rOal impression of the eyewitness js is that somebody has dropped a match in a hal half do dozen en powder magazines and a tor tory simultaneously The deafening noise was yas heard in all part parts of the The scene Is realistic fronbe from be beginning gInnIng to end But after the batte battle comes the show t that at Is realy really marvelous Pai Pain ha has certainly er tinly mastered the art of c Imagine as many as si six rockets bursting feet above aboe te the ground at atthe atthe the same time and each one having havinga a string of fire which stays In te the air alrand and floats a as though suspended from the heavens by tings Then imagine Niagara falls faUs converted suddenly from water to pouring fre fire and a a of red white and blue stars spreading over an ara area of ten acres and up the surroundings for a couple couple of block blocks and a slight ide idea of one lUp feature of Is p ible The show burned tons and tons of powder weeK lat night ad and wi will do it each nIght this Some e excellent specialties by hers lers and contortionists were introduced mit the le management would do well eU to bt hold them off until after tle battle is over The spectators can an se see n as between acrobats and the soldier soldiers who are at the same time ly lying lying ing arund around fres fires |
