The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-28
eLAZEs OF ELECTRIC LIGHT
Beauty ana Extent of the Displays
and Decorations at the Great
Export Exposition.

and Decorations ut the Great
Export Exposition.
Philadelphia, Sept. 19.-The electric
al decorations and electric displays of
a useful and somewhat ornamental
character form a very interesting feat
ure of the National Export Exposition.
At night the interiors of the group
of buildings are brilliantly illumin-
ated by combination of electrical sys-
TENS, the power for which is furnish
ed partly from the power plant in the
exposition grounds and from city cleo
trical companies. Within the build
ings are 400 arc lamps of various kinds
and designs, with "A nominal power OF
1000 candles each. These, with
large number of incandescent lamps,
are supplemented by the electrical dis
plays connected with the numerous ex-
hibits, which in one or two instances
are of extraordinary beauty. The
electrical exhibits themselves are in
no single instance of great magnitude,
but in numbers and variety they are
most interesting and important. They
represent rather those electrical con-
trivances which are unique and use
full and which are of service to the
small and local conveniences of life,
and great and extensive operation.
At night the exterior of the build
ings is outlined in a blaze of electric
light. The Main building will be
specially brilliant from the exterior.
Upon its roofs at regular intervals are
high flagstaffs, from which, during the
day, lutter the colors of all nations.
The top of these fagstaffs, instead OF
being decorated in the usual common
place way by gilded balls, are orna-
mented by large opalescent globes,
each of which is a 500 candle power
incandescent light. About the cor
nices of the buildings. below the flag
staffs, are strung hundreds of other in
candescent lamps, making a line of
fire, which extends entirely around the
structures, marking their outlines
from a great distance. These electrical
effects from above form fine fringe
for the broader illumination below.
The outlines of the windows extending
from under the cornices, almost to the
ground, are indicated by lines of in
candescent lamps, which, aided by the
bright light from within, gives to the
group of exposition buildings the ap-
pearance of palaces of fire.
The grounds themselves about the
group of exposition buildings have a
few but not numerous electrical effects.
The facade of the Main building is
beautifully Illuminated. The arches
below the great columns are outlined
by GO incandescent lamps and the pedi-
ment above them, which holds a rep
resentation of Commerce, 80 feet long
and 10 feet high, is Illuminated by
more than 100 lamps, bringing out on
the darkest night all of the beautiful
effects of that ornamentation. High
above this the quadraga, 16 feet high
to the top of the surmounting figure
of Victory, balanced on either side by
groups 10 feet high representing Trans
portation and Navigation, is shown in
bold relief by another arrangement of
electric lights.
The grand Esplanade in front of the
entrance is Illuminated by system of
gas lamps in large and beautiful
groups, but no electrical light appears
beyond the line of the cornies of the
various buildings which skirt the side
walk of the Esplanade itself But the
faces of the buildings themselves pre-
sent very pretty effect from the nu-
merous varied and fantastic shapes,
into which designs have been made by
the use of small and many colored in
candescent electric lamps.
The power for all these electrical il
luminations is furnished by local COM
panies and by the expositions own
plant, as has been noted.