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Show FIREWORKS AT CAPITAL Brilliant Display Greatest Great-est Ever Attempted in City of Washington Washington March 5. Aerial fireworks, fire-works, with the sweeping, wide-flung ras of many searchlights revealing the outlines of the white dome of the Capitol and other historic buildings, made Washington a scene of beauty and brilliancy in the closing inauguration inaugura-tion fcsthitles last night. Never, it is said, has so brilliant a display of fireworks or an Illumination Illumina-tion of such magnitude been attempted. attempt-ed. Iarge searchlights threw their rays along the avenues and on public buildings, while at the monument grounds the crashing of thousands of aerial bombs, and the flaming light from large set pieces Illuminated the ski But it was not alone a riot of bombs and flashlights The entire display was significant of the arrial cf the new executives, with set pieces showing the president and Ice president pres-ident and many designs of "Wilson" and "Marshall." Illumination at Sunset. The Illuumination of the city began shortly after sunset At once every part of Pennsylvania avenue, from the capltol to Washington circle, was ablaze with light Peace monument stood out in bold relief and the avenue ave-nue from end to end was transformed Into a fairyland of light b hundreds of incandescent lamps spanning the street in graceful arches. On the roofs of the senate and house office buildings, a number of powerful electric searchlights played upon the dome of the capitol, making the Statue of Liberty that crowns it stand out as of a living figure. Peace monument, oricinally intended for a fountain, was tonlEht performing that function for the first time since the last Inaugural. I'pon Its waters were thrown, by several boxllghts, different differ-ent colored rays weirdly beautiful. Central Point. The court of honor, in front of the I White House was a central point of! Illumination tonight as it had been of activity during the day, the replica i of Jefferson's home at Montlcello be-j be-j Ing the chief feature of the display Facing the replica a huge spotlight threw Its rays on th Jef feronlan mansion, hrlnginc its portico, columns i and colonial outline into brilliant relief re-lief against the background of cedar i trte6, their branches studded w ith I countless minaturo electric bulbs giv-i giv-i ing the effect of thousands of fireflies winging their way through the native pines which surround Monticello. Thousands Witness Spectacle. From the time the illumination? ' began thousands poured through j Pennsylvania avenue to w itness the brilliant spectacle. But when the aerial pyrotechnic display started two hours later the great mass of human-manitv human-manitv turned i's attention to the monument grounds The display opened open-ed with a flash which gave place to la bomb sicnal Immediately a host I of e-mail balloons and airships floated gracefully across the sky, made brilliant bril-liant by the ascent of many rockets nn-i other illuminating pieces. Salute of 101 Guns. Following the opening flash and j bomb came the salute of 101 guns I fired from steel mortars Then came I a brilliant illumination of the White ! House grounds and the monument f;rf'nnds through the ascent of bombs i that, upon explosion, release,! fires 1 that burned the national colors The effect of this upon the surrounding white buildings and the Washington 'monument was spectacular. t Intervals, pieces were shown that reflected against the sks the red white and blue of the national flair ell her In the form of a shield or the flag itself The crowning effect of the display was the "Transformation Device," which began with a mam-I mam-I moth bouquet of roses that changed lntc an immense American flag and then transformed into the portraits of President Wilson and Vice President Marshall, This was by far the most elaborate piece of the entire efnine and the largest aerial set piece ever attempted, it was said. The device covered more than 2000 square feet of space Gigantic Bombs. Just betoro tnis piece was released I gigantic bombs ascended, and when they reached a great height exploded and formed in Immense letters the words. "Wilson" and "Marshall" The last piece was entitled "Good Night" an.l Ecu do Joi," which brought the display to a close At midnight the streets slowly laps. cd into darkness. The searchlights winked one after the other and the white dome of the capltol merged Into In-to the darkness from which it had Stood out ith such conspicuous brilliancy bril-liancy onl a moment before. Tho sUnder shaft of the Washington monument mon-ument disappeared suddenly. The peace monument ceased its splashing and its fountain of light wont out Pennsylvania avenue merged into Its usual dimly-lighted self The Illumination Illum-ination and the fireworks were at an end. |