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Show Street Illuminations. The illumination of the streets and elaborate designs the past week were most unique. The Salt Lake Electric Supply company was awarded tho contract for placing the lights, and tlieir manager designed many of the beautiful set pieces and festoons displayed. Their store was decorated with a "Welcome Elk" sign, automatic electric clock, continually striking eleven; flag in colors, illuminated Elk head and festoons from top to bottom of the building. There were 850 lights on the building, all in 'flashes. The streets were festooned with a dazzling mass of colored lights. The most unique display ever seen in Salt Lake was that of the Inter-Mountain Electric company. com-pany. The letters "B. P. O. E.," in colored lamps, was a special feature, cutting in and out automatically. automat-ically. Under these were borders of colored lamps forming a border of the sign. A gorgeous bee-hive with over 100 amber-colored lamps adorned the top of the third floor. A six-foot star with border and red lamp center formed a beautiful design. A magnificent colored flag waved mechanically was the most beautiful design in the city. Over 700 lamps were used by this company in its display The power for handling this magnificent system sys-tem of illumination was furnished by the Utah Light and Power company of this city, whose building was lavishly decorated from top to bottom bot-tom with festoons of lights, stars with attached many-colored streamers radiating from the centerpieces cen-terpieces and brilliant hanging lights of every color and style. The company connected tho illuminations il-luminations directly onto alternating current systems sys-tems by using the ordinary lighting transformers connected in series. The power represented amounted to 500 horse-power for 5000 lights. This load, thrown suddenly on the system, would drop the voltage and otherwise cause a serious disturbance of the system. By an original find daring but absolutely successful scheme originating orig-inating in the fertile brain of Manager Hayward of tho company to bring the lights up to full candle can-dle power gradually by use of water resistance, tanks were used similar to the scheme at the Pan-American. No difficulty was experienced in carrying special illuminations, which were divided into two circuits on two phases of the company's three-phase system. No out-of-balance effects or bad regulation was noticeable on the system during dur-ing the entire illumination. |