Evening journal., 1892-10-22
The Grandest Display of Fire
works the World Ever Saw.
THE CLIMAX TO THE DEDICATION.

Washington park mt the south, Lincoln
park at the north and Garfield park at the
west. The largest crowd congregated at
Washington park, which was the most
accessible from the heart Of the city, but il
is estimated that no less than 200, ,OOOpeople
saw each Of these displays.
At o'clock the heavens commenced to
assume the fiery canopy that crowned the
city with the most magnificent blaze Of
glory that the world ever saw. The dis
play opened with a salute Of 100 15-inch
aerial maroons, which exploded at an
altitude of 500 feet and sent a shower Of
fire back TO the earth. As this died away
each park suddenly bazed forth in n mag
niilcent illumination from 500 prismatic
lights fired by electricity changing colors
five times and throwing over the trees the
tints Of the national colors and the newly
adopted municipal terra Gotta.
Then 800 5-pound rockets rushed into
the skies from each of the three parks,
blending with their various tints in the
heavens. From time TO time the parks
were brilliantly Illuminated with colored
fires in generous quantities.
Ah' NNAhhhA"h AFoANutAs
One Of the crowning features Of the mar
velous display was the magnificent Colum-
bian bouquet made by the flight Of 1900
rockets, 5000 at the same moment from
each of the three parks. This is the largest
flight of rockets known in the history of
the world, and its beauty cannot be fully
described in words, For two minutes the
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and for miles around it. The heavens
were turned into q sea Of fire in every color
Of the rainbow, and forming the most
gorgeous canopy that ever clothed any city
on either continent.
/ In each of the parks five bombshells sixty
inches in circumference and weighing 10
pounds were thrown from mortars to an
altitude Of ZOO feet where they exploded,
| forming picture of marvellous grandeur,
These were the largest bombshels ever
made of the kind
One of the most novel Of the many
features ON the programme was the
star spanglcd banner in fireworks floating
in the sky at an altitude of 1900 feet. The
flags were 800 feet in length, and presented
"a design mover before attempted in aerial
work. They were attached to balloons un-
der the direction of Baldwin, of Quincy,
Ills, the famous aoronaut, who took one of
them into the heavens himself, When at
the proper altitude the flash fuse was ig-
nited from the balloon, and upon reaching
the suspended flag "Old Glory spread
forth in all its glory, a wonder in pyrotech-
MICS without a precedent. The nag burned
for five minutes, and it is safe to sny that
the American Tag never appeared before in
| "a upaifipu of aueh pVnlfpd GRANDEUR
Nothing Liko II Ever Before.
The set pieces were OF character that
brought out wealth of enthusiasm from
the great assemblies. Upon these the bes,
pyrotechnlcal artists in the world have been
working for six months, and their efforts
were rewarded in the magnificent display
they made.
The first of these occupied 1900 squar,
feet of space and bore the inscription in fir,
Chicago welcomes the nations Of On,
earth, l4g2iH2, supported by two Ameri
can eagips, above which were brought oui
the outlines of the various Worlds faii
buildings
Then SO, piece with an area Of 2.5C
square feet represented in fire the sailin.
of Columbus from palos and illustrating
his hect-the pnta, Santa Maria and Nina
Every few minutes the colors OF the fir
changed. and as il burned the enthusiasm
of the onloOkers was almost wild. Tn.
: was the largest set piece ever burned 30
1 the history of fireworks. Asa companiol
5 piece tle landing Of the great discoverer a.
r. san Salvador was given
Niagara Falls was also given i'm fire, pr,
scnting % cataract 900 feet i'm length q
golden spray, and forming an effect ncve
y before equaled. There were also man
? other devices and designs, and when J
j. O'Clock had passed the most elaborate iu
u works display that was ever burned close
with the great Columbian bouquet OF l5,OD
rockets.
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