The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-03-28
WATER SPECTACLE,
BEAUTIFUL FOUNTAIN EFFECTS roa
THE PAN-AMERlcAN.
Unexampled sights to He Provided.
For Visitors TO the Exposition.
VIII Use $4,000 Gallons of watc,
Per Minute Fer This Feature.

| FER Minute Fer This Feature.
| When visitors to the Pan-AmericanI
Exposition view the fountain diplays.
they will be inclined to wonder where
all the water comes from, so plentiful
will be the supply. 1t will be with
these fountain displays the same as IL,
| will be with the electrical exhibit.
| There will be point place, at which
the display will increase In beauty andi
extent until the climax is attained inl
and about the Electric Tower and the
basin thereof. So extensive will this
be that all Will recognize the beauty oil
the display and look in wondering ad-,
mlratlon upon the spectacle, which Isl
destined to be one of the most remark
able features of the Exposition.
The pumping plant that will supply,
the water effects will be located in the
Court Of the Machinery and Transpor-
tation building. 1t will consist of III
pumps having a total capacity Of as
900 gallons of water per minute.
The engines are all to be belted to-
their respective pump units, and theyl
will be required to be in service fromI
10 o'clock in the morning until 11I5l
o'clock at night, period of 1874 hours.
Estimating their capacity at $4,000 gall
Ions Of water each minute, It Is evidentl
that each day during the time they are'
to be In service they could pump thel
enormous amount of 27,S25, 900 gallons,
Of water. This water will be used toI
serve the fountain displays at the Elec-
trio Tower and basin and also the,
Court of Fountains, including the
Fountain of Abundance. The water,
will be taken from an intake located atl
the north end of the Court of Fountainsl
basin through 4S inch suction pipe.
1t will be delivered by the pumpsj
through 16 inch and 20 inch pipes at al
pressure of 10 pounds per square inch
to the fountain orifices. From thesel
orlfices the water will stream in ain
shapes from the finest spray jet to the
solid stream inches thick that will rise
high in the air.
At the Fountain of Abundance the
sight will be all the name implies.
There will be an abundance of water, |
and 1t will be in motion. Beyond the
Fountain of Abundance will be thel
Court Of Fountains, and this basin will
be filled with large jets of water
thrown vertically. They will be known
as pillar jets. In this basin will also
be located beautiful groups of water
figures, all formed in the manner in
which the water is projected. The wa
ter figures will resemble sheaves Of
wheat. lilies, etc, and they will average
II feet high. On line through the
center Of the main Court of Fountains
there will be all of 20 of each of these
figures of surprising beauty.
Beyond this still, at the north end of,
the Court of Fountains, will be the
Genius of Water. Here in significant
group of statuary the sculptor will por-
tray his artistic conception of what the
figure is designed to represent. Over
In front Of the statuary the water will
ebulliate, carrying out in most perfect
way the sculptor's idea.
In front of the Electric Tower, in the
basin and in the niche of the Tower
the climax of spectacular water eff
fects will come with n gorgeousness
that will exceed any display of the
kind the world has seen. On each
side of the center of the structure will
be located two groups Of water jets,'
with 26 large pillar jets, throwing
water columns to a height Of so feet.
On the arc Of circle. whose center Is
the niche, will be located some 40 large
Jets, throwing water in parabola curve
toward the cascades In front Of the
niche. These jets will be SO arranged
as to make very ragged stream. This
stream will not be solid, neither will
1t be so broken as In the spray jets.
Then out from the niche itself there
will come a flood of water of 1900
gallons per minute, which, by means
Of deflector, will take the form of an
Immense water screen or veil, the beau
ty Of which will linger in the memory.
ORRIN Z. DUNLAP.