The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-18
A SPLENDID SCENE.
Omaha Exhibition After
Nightfall.
Architectural Features Outlined In
Myriads OF Incandescent Lights
Turning Night into Day
philadelphia ReeordJ

One OF the principal features Of the
Greater America Exposition at Omaha
lis the illumination after night
fall. For the purposes of this cxposi-
tion the buildings erected for the
Trans Mississippi Exposition are be-
ing used. but the lighting OF the build
inss. which was such an attraction last
year. has been greatly improved on
Last year 10000 lights about the grand
court made scene % beauty such as
had not before been witnessed: this
year $1,000 lights. says Electricity. will
De used. and when darkness falls a
magic city will stand revealed. each
outline drawn in rows OF radiant light.
each classic colonnade and massive
arch defined. Aladdin and his wonder
full lamp never accomplished anything
so marvellous rs this. About the great
quadrangle stand the magnificent
white buildings. veritable fairy city.
bathed in the soft radiance of the my
Rad OF flashing. staT-like lights. IL
is dazzling ia its beauty and magnif:-
Cence. The massive buildings might be
made OF snow so glistening white do
they appear in the soft glow: the
carved facades stand out clear cut and
plain. the rude places sottened and
toned down and merged into exquisite
the lagoon is a row OF cluster lights.
the center circle OF the scene mirrored
and reflected back a thousand times IL.
the clear and ripping water. At the
of the stately Government Building.
the electric fountain sends high In the
air a glittering. shimmering shower Of
diamond drops and misty spray. One
moment the waters are clear white. the
next all the colors OF the rainbow
CLEAN and glow. changing and fading
perhaps into softest shell-roSe t!nts OF
brilliant crimson hues. II Is htting
center to- the brilliant setting round
about.
High in the air the almost countless
lights rival the stars as they flash
from lofty minaret and spire and
Eliueu uOIut. anu Hlstttb e"N
| groups and figures OF statuary upor
the buildings throw them into bold re
lief until they stand out from th'
/ shadowy background like things %
life. Each outline OF the grand couT
: is picked out in lines OF light until on'
sees a great white city Illuminated 7n'
! festooned with light as though touched
iby the wand of a wizard.
J While the buildings about the cour
stand out in snowy whiteness ther'
arc touches OF color IN the scheme
! The fountain flashing in its rainbow
garb furnishes part OF this color. bu
the electrician and landscape garden
er have connived together to- create
series OF fairy gardens which lie at IN
/ tervals about the court between tn
lagoon and the buildings. In thes
Mats are tastefully arranged the plant
land shrubs and flowers Of troptc an'
s,,b-tropic lands. BY day the dee
green of the foliage is frightened an'
relieved by the brilliant hues OF TN
flowers. and ut night the flowers VII
Ibloom again in yet more striking col
ors. More than 5000 electric lamp
have been used in forming cunnin
lclusters of bloom and beauty. The col
Iored shades are nodded in the form
lof roses. lilies. tulips and various 9th
ier flowers. and peep from out the iair
blowers of living foliage. a novel ar
n brilliant work OF art.