Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-13

HENRY RUSTIN.
tChief Of Mechanical and Electrical Bureau Pan.
American EXposition.l
harmony with the general setting, and
though, while in the daytime they
serve no lighting purpose whatever,
at night such supports become all I'M
portant.
1t is intended that the lighting in
the Esplanade. while maintaining the
lighting unit throughout, which is es-
sential for the purpose Of traffic, shall
be increased in decorative effect
gradually from the entrance to the
surroundings of the Electric Tower,
which location has been designed as
the climax of electrical and fountain
effects.
Advantage has been taken through
out the grounds of the different pat
terms of details Of staff to produce an
effect of translucency of the staff
itself. While the light will stand out
plainly, there will be no visible evil
dence of its source.
The fountain displays throughout the
courts will follow the same idea as the
lights, and the climax will be at the
Electric Tower. In short, as the visit
or advances toward the big centerpiece
of the Exposition he will realize that
all the decorative effects increase from
. the quiet to the strenuous, though the
change will be so gradual as to be al
most imperccptible.
The lights and water will he of the
same tone. The Sky lines will be de-
fined by the United States Government
group of buildings on the east and the
Horticultural group on the west. Thus
the effects will be nicely framed.
In the Fountain of Man the motion of
the water will be very quiet. In the
Fountain of Abundance. at the foot of
the Court of Fountains, the motion will
be rapid, giving the effect of n great
quantity Of water, as the name implies,
in order to complete the parallel of eff
fects of light and water. The basin of
the Court of Fountains will be filled
with large jets of water thrown vcrti-
cally and called pillar jets, all illumi-
mated with circles of iucandescent
lights taken up by the projected water
and will be again reflected on the sur
face of the basin by the water in agita-
ton from the falling drops.
In this basin also will be located
groups of water figures, formed by the
manner in which the water is projected
into the shape of large wheat sheaves
and lilies. There will be | / or more of
these water figures, about II feet high,
on the center axis of the Court of
Fountains.
There will be n group of statuary
representing the Genius of Water just
north of the Court of Fountains basin.
In front of this group water will be
made to boil in n manner serving to
carry out the sculptor's idea. 1t will be
in constant violent agitation, rising to
a height of four or five feet above the
level of the surrounding water in the
basin.
The climax of the spectacular light
ing effects will be reached I'm the
basin in front of the Electric Tower
and of the water effects In the niche
in the Tower, which is 20 feet above
the basin. On each side of the central
axis of the structure will be located
two groups of jets of water, with 20
large pillar jets, throwing water to a
height of 80 feet. On the arc of, the
circle whose center is the niche in
the Tower will be located some AZ
large jets, throwing water in parabola
curves toward the cascade in front of
the niche. These jets will be arranged
so as to make n very ragged stream
that is to say. not broken up as much
as in the spray jets. From the niche
itself water VIII be thrown by means
OF deaectoi. breaking the entire vol