Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-07
NOVEL ATTRACTIONS
Features Of Night Parade Of Mobiles
Of the Mystic Shrine.
ILLUMINATION OF TEE AVENUE
A Magnificent Display Of Fire
works to Follow.
INTERESTING DETAILS

Pennsylvania avenue will be a blaze Of
glory the night of May o. when the great
parade of the mobiles of the Mystic Shrine.
composed of thousands in evening dress
and fez covered. will march in annual out
pouring. The subcommittee of the execu-
tive committee of Almas Temple, which
has in charge the arrangements for The en-
tertainment of their brethren during the
sessions of the imperial council OF the
order, to be held in the Columbia Theater
May y and %, has entered into a contract
with Pains Fireworks Company for grand
illumination of the avenue the night of
the parade, and great display of fireworks
after the procession shall be disbanded. The
president of the company has also entered
into an agreement that if the illumination
and display are not entirely satisfactory to
the committee, and the public as well, moth
ing will be charged for it.
Details of the illumination.
The program prepared by the contractors
calls for an illumination for thirty minutes
OF Pennsylvania avenue from the Peace
monument to 17th street with Pains patent
pink lights. The lights will be placed on
poles ten to twelve feet high, at intervals of
100 feet and alternating on each side of
the avenue, making the points Of light fifty
leeI apart from lne SldTlIHS W IlillSH1llS
points. The commencement of the illumi-
nation will be announced by two salues
from aerial guns. naroons, fired from the
Peace monument and treasury
During the moving Of the procession bat
teries. candles. floral bombs and saucissons
will be fired from eight different points.
archlns the principal features OF the pa
rade as they pass. For the last five min
utes of the Illumination Pains magical
magnesium compound will be used, making
light which is claimed to be a thousand
times more brilliant and searching than the
most intense electric light. AS the illumina-
ton of the avenue dies out the west front
or the Capitol and the Washington mon
u1nent will be brought into view by the use
at each point of 1000 pounds of PAINS cleo
trical compound, such as shown during the
peace jubilee last year.
Superb Display.
After the dismissal of the parade and at
time and place to be hereafter desig-
mated by the executive committee, mag
nificent display Of fireworks will be given.
This will be ushered in by salute of TWEEN
ty-one aerial maroons, fifteen inches in
diameter. exploding at a height of 500 feet
in the air with loud detonations. Then will
follow no less than forty-four separate and
distinct features. including ascents of bal
looms bearing powerful magnesium lights:
grand flights of rockets, whose varied tints
VIII blend at a high altitude; salvoS of
twenty-four-inch shells, containing all the
latest combinations and effects: batteries of
changing star rockets; flights of novel
bombs; umbrellas of fire, formed by Ray
onet TourbiliOns, and a wonderful variety of
other beautiful effects
The devices will include "WeIcome
Shriners." in electric blue; Grove of Jew
eled Palms" 300 feet long by 80 feet high;
"A Jeweled Cloud attained by flight
of fifty bombs fired by electricity; me.
chanical device showing a bouquet of flow
ers from leaf to bud and blossom; "A Halt
in the Desert showing the pyramids and
sphinx in the distance: a display of aerial
floating wonders. including the southern
cross, aerial sleigh bells. national stream
ers. floating festoons of ever-changing
lights. and SOME new creations including
"FlOwering Al5es,'' which will be produced
by fifty eight-pound rockets
Lantern Display in Trees.
Another picturesque feature which will
be carried out through the entire line of
the night parade, the complete route of
which will be determined tonight will be
the presence Of japanese lanterns among
the branches Of the trees. This idea was
suggested by Mr. NJ Dyrenforth. chairman
of the subcommittee on fireworks.
We propose to request each householder
living or having a business establishment
along the line of parade who has trees
growing in front Of his premises to hang
several Japanese lanterns among the
branches.
mo possible danger or injury can result
to the foliage as the lanterns will be hung
to prevent such possibility. We will
cheerfully furnish lanterns to those who
will hang them as suggested and do not
care to purchase them
Every mail brings to Chairman Frank H.
Thomas letters and literature showing the
wide interest being taken in the events of
Shrine week. In announcing to the mobiles
of Benz Kedem of Charleston, w. Va, the
attractions awaiting them at Washington,
Recorder Joseph Ruffuer says:
1T is designed that special train for
Washington will start from Russell, KY
about g m. on the 21st This early hour
will not in the least interfere with the
habits of our Kentucky brethren, who rise
with the lark to gather their mint while
the dew is upon it,
Police Precautions.
Maj. Richard Sylvester is alive to the fact
that the Mystic Shrine gathering will at
tract to Washington a crowd of Inaugural
ton proportions, and a great deal more i'm
portant when 1t comes to its substantial
character. 1t will be particularly well-to-
do throng, and consequently will be bound
to draw the light-fngered gentry who in
variab1y seek victims on such an occasion.
Maj Sylvester, accordingly. will have
twenty-one detectives from other cities here
during Shrine week, in addition to his own
valuable and efficient force. He Is also for
mulating plans for the service of the rolice
force during the crowds stay in the CITY
and every effort will be made to assure
absolute safety to both The persons and
property of visitors during their sojourn in
the national capital.
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