Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-01-01
LIGHTING NIAGARA.
Wooster searchiIehts aMa Gsiaeins
Screens 10 illuminate the Gorge.

Wooster searcbiIghts a&d Gelntins
Screens 10 illuminate the Gorge.
An experiment in lighting the gorge
af the Niagara river, which was tried
u connection with the convention OF
electricians, is likely to bear import
ant results and has furnished a spec
iacie OF extraordinary magnifcence,
says the Rochester Post and Express.
Inc illumination was arranged under
Inc personal direction Of Luther Site
ringer, the man who designed and op-
Grated the Examinations and electric
fountains at the Worlds Fair. On the
platform car, between two open cars,
ne TOOK six monster electric search
nights and number Of coIored gela-
tine screens. At 10 O'Clock in the even
ing the start was made down the
Gorge road. The search lights took
.heir electricity from the trolley wire
and when they were directed upon the
shores and tumbling river, and the
nights In the open cars were turned on,
the scene was rarely beautiful It
looked as though such (moon) light
as never was, on land or sea-" had
transformed the scene. But as the cars
moved on and Mr. Stieringer changed
the screens, far more magical, wonder
lul and startling effects were secured
NOW 1t looked as though one were see
ing with Dante eyes, so red and fierce
was the scene, and so darkly red the
shadowy banks between which the
river tossed waves of blood. Further
down, beneath the new steel arch
bridge, where the furious rapids were
tossing the spray fifty feet or more
In the air, red and green lights were
used. Then the plain lights were
shown again and then. where the
rapids are strongest and widest, the
red screens were used with an effect
whose wierdness the contrast vastly
heightened. So impressive was the
spectacle that for several minutes there
was absolute silence in the cars and
then cheer of admiration broke out
From that point to the end OF the road
the colors were changed rapidly, with
beautiful effect, and at midnight the
party returned to the falls. 1t is said
that the success OF the experiment in
sures the illumination of the gorge by
sesrchlights next season and that
means the addition to the attractions
OF Niagara of wonderfully thrilling
night spectacle and one which, once
seen. will not be forgotten.
Former visitors to Niagara win re-
call that when the state reservation
was private property there was for the
last season or two a successful illum-
ination Of the upper rapids and of the
falls themselves and frightening Of
their wildness and weirdness and
beauty by similar use of colored
screens. The scene was one to re-
member and Niagara visitors have rea-
son to congratulate themselves that
private enterprise again proposes thus
to enhance the night wonder of Ma
CARA. For you may croak as you please
about natural beauty, nature is too
prone to veil her beauty at night; and
II esthetes be shocked at an artificial
coloring of The water and find no COM
pensation for loss OF naturalness in
such bewildering riotousness OF color
and grotesqueness as one can hardly
dream of, even they must approve the
lights which make visible the natural
beauty when darkness would other
wise veil the scene.