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Show TO TURN NEW LIGHTS ON TONIGHT SP 1 0 BIG CELEBRATION PLANNED IN CITY VIEW OF MAIN STREET WITH NEW LIGHTS TURNED ON. ill I1 - ' gwgj-wm tf .wiwy w m vm m mwpu t f i. wn,'.wiif w jUMy.w m ww i ' 'bwwjuu " "w '.ywH w .W maw' mtp mrtm uwmjm m w 1 i v j , v j v f U , H j I ? m f I Three Bands Will Play and Mayor Ferry and Others Will Speak. SALT LAKE will celebrate the inauguration in-auguration of Its new street lighting light-ing system tonight. Preparations are complete for one of the most interesting celebrations of a civic character t lie city has ever known, and when Mayor Ferry closes the switch at 9 o'clock tonight that will turn on the lights in the new Main street system sys-tem thousands of people are expected to be in attendance. The real significance of the celebration Salt Lake proposes to hold tonight becomes be-comes more obvious as news reaches Salt Lake of the big celebration San Francisco Fran-cisco has arranged for the two days and nights of October 4 and 5, when the new street lighting system in that city, patterned pat-terned exactly after the Salt Lake system, sys-tem, will be turned on. W. D'Arcy Ryan, the noted illumination illumina-tion expert, who designed and supervised the installation of the electrical illumination illumina-tion of the San Francisco exposition grounds and buildings and who designed Salt Lake's street lighting system as the first of Its kind in the world, will arrive in Salt I-ake at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon fb witness the turning on of the lights tonight. to-night. This was the Information received by W. R. Putnam, sales manager of the Utah Power & Light company, by telegraph tele-graph late last night. Mr. Ryan is making mak-ing a special trip from San Francisco to Salt Lake in order that he- may be personally per-sonally prespnt when the flrst of the new street lighting system for American cities which lie has designed goes into operation. opera-tion. To Make Brief Talk. Immediately upon learning that Mr. Ryan is coming to Salt T-ike to participate partici-pate in tonight's ceremonies, the general committee on arrangements, consisting of La fa vet te Hanchett, Sylvester Q. Cannon, W. TV Edwards, O. J. Salisbury and Edward Ed-ward Rosenbaum, arranged for Mr. Ryan to make 'a hrief talk to t It e crowd from the platform which is being erected on Main street in front of the Kearns building build-ing and from which Mayor Ferry will turn on the new lights at 9 o'clock tonight. President F. C Richmond of the Salt Lake Commercial club will prestde-on this platform and will introduce as the first speaker tonight former Governor John C. Cutlfr. who will represent the Upper Main Street Improvement association in what he has to say regarding the new-lighting new-lighting svstfm. Then President Richmond will introduce Mr. Ryan, who designed the system. It is expected Mr. Ryan will make an interesting interest-ing talk and divulge more of the details thnt actuated him in designing for Salt Lake a street lighting system that strikes an entirolv new note in the illumination of public thoroughfares and which gives Salt Lake the distinction of being the first city in America to have this new system. President Richmond will then Introduce Mayor Ferry, who. after a brief talk, will reach un and turn out the lights of the present Main street system and. after a moment of darkness, in order that the crowds may appreciate the new lights, will close the switch that will throw the new system into oneration. First of Its Kind. It will be remembered that in the spring of last year Mr. Ryan was invited by representatives of the Utah Power & Light company to come to Salt Lake to confer with local merchants and business men regarding the designing of a street lighting systPTTi that should be unique to this city. Mr. Ryan was so impressed with the width and beautv of Sait Lake's Main street and the possibilities of evolving evolv-ing a new style of street lighting that he pur his genius to work, and the present pvstem i? the result, the first of its kind designed for any city in trie world. Immediately thereafter San Francisco adopted what the San Francis-'o pa pers have called "Salt Lake's street lighting system,'' and as an indication of the en- thusiasm prevalent In San Francisco over the system as it has been installed there comes news that San Francisco has declared de-clared a two days' holiday and celebration celebra-tion for October 4 and r, with great electrical elec-trical parades, hundreds of beautiful floats and most impressive and extensive ceremonies. Mr. Ryan is coming from San Francisco to Salt I.ake for the express purpose of attending the Inaugural ceremonies of the . trect lighting system here this evening. He will return to San Francisco immediately imme-diately thereafter to participate In the turning on of the San Francisco system. Three Bands Provided. Plans for tonight's celebration are exactly ex-actly as outlined by the committee originally. origi-nally. Edward M. Ashton, chairman of . the reception committee, will he on the platform in front of the Kearns building to take care of the invited guests who have been asked to occupy seats on this platform. Three bands will furnish concerts from 8 until 8:11 o'clock on Main street one on upper Main street, another In front of the Kearns building and a third at Broadway Broad-way and Main streets. At S:?,0 o'clock the three bands will combine In front of the reviewing stand at the Kearns building and give a combined concert until un-til 8:45 o'clock, when former Governor Cutler will he Introduce! by President Richmond of the Commercial club, followed fol-lowed by Mr. Rvan and Mr. Fern.', who, at 9 o'clock, will turn on the llehts. From 9 until 11 o'clock the three hands will render concerts- at upper Main street, in front of the Kearns building and at Main and Fourth South streets. Confetti and carnival paraphernalia will be in evidence and the jollification promises prom-ises to be a big one. |