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Show FLASH FROM PIKE'S PEAK 1"; " v greatest Searchlight in the World in Operation Tonight. I CHICAGO, Aug. 29. A dispatch to the Inter Ocean from Colorado Springs, Colo.-,- says: Tonight the greatest searchlight In the world will flash upon thejwest from the summit of Pike's peak. 1 Possessed of twice the power of the lights carried by great battleships, and built upon a track 120. feet in circumference, circum-ference, with rotating contact, this marvelous light will fall upon the Kan-sas-Colorado State . line, the Royal Gorge,' Denver and the Cripple Creek gold fields. Its white beacon will carry 280 pilles through the jagged hill country coun-try of the Rockies. To accomplish this it was necessary to build an electric light station upon Pike's peak which involved the Impossible Impos-sible task of constructing a gasoline engine which could be operated at that altitude. ' Master Mechanic David Jones overcame over-came this difficulty. He figured that an engine, like human lungs, needs more air, the atmosphere becomes rarer, and he planned one which accentuated ac-centuated the air openers to an adequate ade-quate degree. This unique engine works splendidly, and the highest electric light plant in the world will be started tonight. |