The Saint Paul globe., 1897-07-04
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Special Correspondence of the Globe

Special Correspondence of the Globe
NEW YORK, July 1.-The genius of
Greek fire and pyrotechnics has out
done himself this season, and a visit
to the places where fireworks are made
experimental with, and from whence
the distribution takes place that sup
plies people everywhere, would speedily
convince the most skeptical that this
is the year of most wonderful fire
works. The names of some of the new
ideas are as strange as the fireworks
themselves. There is the Devil Among
the Tailors." AS his neighbor is Jack
in the Box" Then we have Fiery wag-
gler rockets true lovers knots" and
a dozen others.
One of the newest this season is call
ed "Aladdin's jeweled tree" In itself
before the match has been touched, it
looks not unlike huge cornucopia, but
after you touch the match such a
blaze of beauty spouts up that it fairly
dazzles one. 1 do not pretend to say
how they do it, but I never saw so
many prisms in appearance as are
formed in the growth of this remark
able tree. There is another tree that
is beautiful indeed. 1t is called "the
silver BIRCH Nature has constructed
very pretty silver birch tree, but such
gorgeousness as this one exhibits was
never eQualled by nature, except in the
tropics. 1t is a column of fire at first,
out of which seemingly grows a silver
birch tree of surprising beauty, en-
shrined in a cloud of opalescent hues.
Just imagine what a charm there is in
sight of this sort.
The Indian juggler has been put on
the list this season, and the contriv-
ances that are supposed to give a
fiery representation of the strange
things that he can accomplish are as
wonderful to look upon as the sudden
growth of mango or the mysterious
disappearance of the man in the bas-
ket. Such gyrating and such twisting
of fire is rare to witness. It seems as
if new ways had been found for flames
to dart. The jugglery feats are not
lines of flames, but are formed of
countless sparks which give the desir-
ed appearance of movement without
that of solidity
There is a new fountain of fire that
they call the prismatic fountain Il
darts upward twenty feet with pro-
nounced prlSmatlc effect. n feature of
this new departure is that it burns for
twenty minutes, something almost uE-
heard Of in the line of fireworks To
return to the devil among the tailors.
He is a curious fellow, and just why
the devil sought to practice his terrific
antics among the knights of the cloth
no one has explained. The devil begins
with a triangular battery of Roman
candles. Then comes into view burst
of gyrating, squirming figures, in the
center of which is his satanic majesty
faithfully represented. The tailors are
apparently having a very hot time or
it, and the devil appears to be enjoy
ing himself hugely.
Jack in the box is a concentrated BAT
terry of stars Of various hues These
dart up into the air in a compact mass.
All at once there is a report and on"
sees from amidst this mass of stars
a new installment emerge, of beautiful
colors. Mount Vesuvius is another one
of the new designs, and a very pretty
one. 1t is an exceedingly accurate
imitation of a burst of flaming lava
from the crater of volcano. Then
there are the weeping willow rockets
which display a mass of fire that
finally forms an immense willow tree
whose branches reach the ground
Coupled with this are often what are
known as the peacock plumes, which