The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-20

DETAIL OF JET ILLUMINATION.
| pipes. 1t looks like hopeless confusion
down here among these hundreds OF pip 5,
but as a matter of fact all is order, d
every pipe and every jet is under contro. of
the operators. There is one valve which
controls all the water, and there are other
valves which control individual pipes.
Automatic safety valves cut off the supply
/ if the pressure rises above 101 pounds.
Here is pipe three inches in diameter
which the man in charge tells us supplies
/ the central composite or geyser. Its duty
/ is to throw one mighty stream $50 to Us
! feet in the air, the central figure of the
| water creation. Another pipe serves the
| seven smaller Jets which surround this
| central nozzle and through which slender
| streams are so thrown that high in the air
| they mingle gracefully with the larger
one. Still another pipe supplies what is
known as the central ring" of eighty-four
/ jets surrounding the geyser. Each of
these streams is ive-eighths OF an inch in
diameter. There is an outer circle COM
posed OF twenty-four jets, and lesser
streams within independent of those al
ready mentioned) numbering forty-two.
Finally, there are the Jets so arranged as
to throw series of slender streams in ming
ling punches, called wheat sheaves The
number of these is twelve, and as each is
composed of 116 iets the total number Of
streams required Tor their production is
1892. In each fountain there are, there
fore, $40 jets, and the two fountains 10
gether have the grand total of loss water
outlets.
Now that we know in general way how
the water is thrown let US see what they
! do with the electric current. If you count
the number of metal bells or hoods which
project through the platforms and are TO
be seen in the day time when the fountains
are not playing, you will see there are nine
teen of them in each fountain. Each of
these hoods-is the center of system of
Jets, and under each is a search-light of
900 candle-power, the powerful rays of
which are projected upward through a
glass partition, the jet of water and along
the course of the stream as it mounts IN the
airand then falls back again.
This is easily understood. But how do
they introduce the color effects? This
operation, also, is very simple. BY each
search-light stands q six-leafed fan ar
rangement attached to an upright spindle.
Each leaf, which is Of glass, has different
color One is red, another green. a third
blue, fourth green, a fifth sea-green,
sixth ruby. The operator may throw on
any one of these colors, which is instantly
reflected through the stream and in every
drop of spray or particle OF mist overhead.
He NAV cause the fan to revolve and thus
change the coIors with kaleidoscope
rapidity. He may paint one set of streams
in red and another in ruby. He may sur
round a red and vivid central palm with
circlet of a dozen golden wheat sheaves.
He may cause one column of water to rise
in bust of sea-green, and burst into a
shower of rubies Do you begin TO grasp
the wonderful possibilities of this beauty
making device? Do you wonder that we
who have seen it are enthusiastic in its
praise?
How many com binations are possible
with this magic factory: If you care to
figure il, work out the Formulation Of
tNenty-six, the old problem which used to
appear in our arithmetics as the number
of combinations possible in the English
alphabet You may remember working
for DAYS and days at this mathematical
task, covering reams of paper with your
figures, ouly to discover at the end one
little error early in the process had thrown
you several billions out of the way. With
nineteen lamps and seven colors Inclusive
of white produced clear and dazzling
through ground glass; there are so many
possible combinations in this device that a
row OF figures two inches long would not
express their number.
sor is this all The valves in the water
mains and distributing pipes are so ar
ranged the pressure can be projected or
"pulsated the streams thrown with sud
den force. like the bursting Of fireworks,
or be made intermittent in their action
These movements add vastly 10 the effects
Energy measured at !, go horse power pro-
vide= the light, 800 horsepower the
pressure Of water and a quarter az a mill
ion dollars the appliances with which this
unparalleled delight TO the eye IS pro
duced.
From this description q the plant, mea-
ger and imperfect a. it Is. the reader viii
easily understand that when these two
fountains are playing in the mogt glorious /
scene ever contrived by nan-the palace .
surrounded, art-gemmed, electric-dia~ /
rnoned central coErt-the scsae rivals IN /
ones briChtest dreams Of q
tete DAY in the golden city of Underwater, /
WALTER yF&ILGsE.