Show LIGHT KG NIAGRIA i from the rochester post and express an experiment in lighting the gorge of the niagara river which was tried this week in connection with the convention of electricians Is likely to bear important results andaas furnished a spectacle of extraordinary magnificence the illumination was arranged under the personal direction of luther nger the man who designed and operated the illuminations and electric fountains at the worlds fair on the platform car between two open cars he took six monster electric searchlights and a number of colored gelatine screens at 10 in the evening the start was made down the gorge road the searchlights took their electricity from the trolley wire and when they were directed upon the shores and tumbling river and the lights in the open cars were turned the scene was rarely beautiful it looked as though such moon light as never was on land or sea had transformed the scene but as the cars moved on and mr nger changed the screens far more magical wonderful and startling effects were secured now it looked as though one were seeing with dante eyes so red and fierce was the scene and so darkly red the shadowy banks between which the river tossed waves of blood further down beneath the new steel arch bridge where the furious rapids were tossing the spray fifty feet or mae more in the air red and green lights were used then the plain lights were shown again and then where the rapids are strongest and wildest the red screens were used with an effect whose weirdness the contrast vastly heightened so impressive was the spectacle that for several minutes there was absolute silence in the cars and then a cheer of admiration broke out from that point to the end of the road the colors were changed rapidly with beautiful effect and at midnight the party returned to the falls it if is said that the success of the experiment insures the illumination of the gorge by searchlights next season and that means the addition to the attractions of niagara of a wonderfully thrilling night spectacle and one which once seen will not be forgotten former visitors to niagara will recall that when the state reservation was wais private property there was for the last season or two a successful illumination of the upper rapids and of the falls themselves and a heightening of their wildness and weirdness and beauty by a similar use of colored screens the scene was one to remember and niagara visitors have reason to late themselves that private enterprise again proposes thus to enhance the night wonder of niagara por for you may croak as you please about al beauty nature is too prone to her beauty at night and if esthetes TW 1 s shocked at an artificial coloring of ater water and find no compensation compensate 0 n 0 o loss of naturalness in such ing riotousness of color and ness as one can hardly dream of evev they must approve the lights make visible the natural beauty abea darkness would otherwise veil th 1 scene |