Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-06
GORGEOUS SPECTACLE.

| special features that will be presented
this year will be the Examinations, the
statue of Liberty Enlightening the
| World, and the grand arch over Grant
| statue on Twelfth street. The illuml
| nations will be on the grandest scale OF
| anything known in this country. When
the lights are turned on st. Louis will
be the most brilliant spot on the face
of the globe. Fifty thousand lights IL
all is the number to be employed, at &
cost OF from $4,000 to 100000. The
contracts to get these lights all II
readiness have been let and the con
tractors have bound themselves to have
everything completed by September 1.
| The trial illumination will be on Au'
gust 20.
There will be about dozen illumina-
tons in all. The first will be on Sep
TENDER 2. There will be others on the
| 10th and nth and October 6 and s. The
other dates have not yet been decided
on. The plan of illumination is differ
ent from any other plan that has been
employed or Suggested heretofore.
| Fourth street from Lucas avenue to
| Clark avenue will have curbstone arches
| and gas clusters over the sidewalks.
| Broadway will be illuminated in the
same way from Franklin avenue to
| Clark avenue. Olive street, from Fourth
| to Fourteenth street, will have gas clus-
ters and at the corner of Fourteenth
and Olive there will be an arch with
! cathedral glass transparencles. -Four
| teenth and Thirteenth streets, from
| Olive to Washington avenue, will have
| gas-lamp clusters and electric arc-light
| Examinations.
| AN INNOVATION.
! On Washington avenue, from Four
teenth street to the bridge, there will
| be a pronounced innovation in the way
| of illumination. There are no net
works of telephone, telegraph and
| electric-light wires on the sides of the
street to hamper the illuminators as
| there are on the other streets. There
will be a variety of designs, such as
! trees and clusters and arches, over the
| sidewalks. The principal design will
| be n symmetrical electric tree. 1t Will
| consist of 200 lights and in shape resem-
| BILE weeping willow. These trees
will be placed above the car wire poles
in the center of the street. There will
| be one tree to each block, and they will
cost 81. 600 each. The design is Il most
| beautiful one, and the effect of the 200
| lights of which it is composed will be
most brilliant. Over the poles where
| there are 70 electric trees will be cluS-
| ters of gas lamps arranged in geome-
trical figures.
! ON TWELFTH STREET.
| Twelfth street from Washington ave-
|rl--
| been reserved for the supreme effort of
| the illuminators. 1t is here they have
| planned to create the most dazzling eff
| feet Here they will have two rows of
| arches extending from the sidewalk to-
| ward the center of the street. Each
| arch will be 80 feet from base to base.
| Two hundred gas Jets will flash from
| each arch, forming of the whole a per-
| feet arcade of light. At one end OF the
| vista formed by the two rows OF arches
| will be the statue of General Grant. AT
| the other end will be the statue OF Lab
| erty enlightening the world. The statue
will be 25 feet high, standing on pedes-
| tai of wood and granite 20 feet hlgh.
| High aloft in her right hand she Will
| hold a Grecian torch. from which will
| pour a stream of burning gas rising
! from four to six feet high. The ar
rancements have been perfected by
| which the lighting of this torch will
cause the simultaneous lighting of al
| the lets along the whole extent of the
! two rows of arches, giving the scene
| the aopearance of a sea of fire. The
contract for the making of the statue
| has been let and work will Immediate
| " commence. 1t will be made OF IRON
wood and plaster, and will be covered
over with a kind CT gum composition tc
make it last for number of years.
The most beautiful design which IL
| luminators have is that for the trium
| phal arch over Grants statue which
stands vis-a-vis to the Liberty statue.
| 1t will extend from east to west. In
| gold letters, two feet high, with a
| background of black smait will appear
| the motto, Let Us Have Peace.
| adapted from the famous saying OF
| General Grant. The motto will be IL
| Illuminated by electric bulb lights set in
| holes cut through the board on which
the motto is painted They give it the
| appearance by night of being studded
| with Jewels.
The keystone which will be double
| oil painting of peace" is illuminated
by electric lights of sufficient power be-
| ING placed inside to make the peace fig
| ure stand out in bold relief, and pro-
| lucing an effect which would be hard
| TO describe.
| PRIVATE ILLUMINATION.
| In addition to these Examinations all
| the large business houses in the city
| which have sufficient electric power
| are preparing to give illustrative il
| Nominations in different colors repre-
| senting business. trades, mechanical
| and historical displays. There is con-
| siderable rivalry among them as to
| who shall secure the three prizes of
| 1900, $500 and 800, which have been
| offered by the Festivities association
| for the three best designs The com
mittees have all worked hard, and the
| attractions they will present in illumi-
nations alone will surpass anything
| that has ever been witnessed in any
| city in this country.
4 Murderess in Male Attire.
At st. Joseph an unknown woman
n male attire entered a disreputa BILE
house at an early hour and cut the
throat of VOLTA Glow, and escaped.
The Fall Illumination at st. Louis.
Active preparations are being made
in st. Louis for the fall illumination.
1t will be on q grander scale than ever
before, and well worthy viewing.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge 1. o. O. L.
Active preparations are in prog1 ess at
st. Louis for the meeting of the Sover-
! eign Grand Lodge of the Independent
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