Show famous shot tower Is aglow after years baltimore the famous shot gocr still preserved here as a memorial of the Il eVolutionary days daya of 1770 to Is aglow again for the firtik time in more than 0 yours but tills this time the glow Is no the result of a seething caldron of tire for turning lead into liberty bullets for which it originally was used today it represents merely a novel method of illumination to be p permanently 1 erma maintained as a living memorial of fire to the heroism of continental troops clouds of steam are generated below in an automatic boller boiler und and then released from the crest of the tower to be reflected in turn in the glare of cleverly concealed red and limber amber lights the lighting effect according to illuminating lumina ting engineers who designed and supplied the equipment portrays in realistic fashion a fire under a boiling p pot ot of tend lead a familiar scene in the hie heyday of the old shot factory when recently turned on for the first time atme with what appeared to the uninitiated to be flames swirling upward from the crest of the old tower and dense volumes of smoke ascending skyward tho the effect was said to be so realistic that witnesses stood aghast lamenting the passing of a lil historic landmark since completion of the installation t tho I 1 a lighting effects are turned on each night the method here employed Is said to be similar to vint that used for illumination of tho the famous war memorial shaft of kansas city I 1 |