The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-06-14

Tomorrow night at the Fair grounds
Pains Last Days of Pompeii'' will be
presented as the first part of an evenings
entertainment consisting of an unusually
fine fireworks display. The second part
will consist of many kinds of pyrotechni-
cal stunts, some of which have never
been seen in Birmingham before.
The entire company which supports the
production, consisting of something over
300 people, will arrive tonight from Mont
gomery, where the exhibition has played
to very large audiences throughout the
past week. The exhibition travels on a
special train of nine cars, which will be
switched on to the side track at the fair
grounds tonight in order that the work.
men may commence erecting the scenery
at once.
The stage on which the production takes
place is over 300 feet long, and some of
the scenery runs forty and fifty feet in
the air. Many of the castles used are
exact reproductions of those which have
been discovered under the lava of Vesu-
vius, where they have been buried for
centuries.
The scenery has been so arranged that
although 1t is only a few dozen feet Deep
it seems to run back for miles, Vesuvius
rising in the rear miles away. Much
work has been spent on this feature of
the spectacle, and it is said to surpass any
outdoor scenery in the world.
People who have made study of the
results Of the excavations in and around
Pompeii have stated that the scenery is
very true to the original Among those
who have thus expressed themselves was
Cardinal Gibbons, who witnessed the show
in Baltimore and was very much delight
ed. He has made a careful study of all
found under the ashes of Vesuvius and
was very much pleased with the resem-
blance which Pain has worked out.
The first scene is Of gala day in POM
pefi. There are Roman soldiers in bright
armor marching in solid array around
the open square in front of the palaces
and temples. Many ballet dancers sing
ers and women in the ancient costumes
march through the streets with branches
of evergreen. There are songs and
dances before the volcano commences its
eruption, which buries the people under
its lava and ashes.
There is a representation of the lava
flowing down the side of the mountain,
the clouds of ashes rising high in the air
and falling on the doomed city beneath
and the flames rising from the crater of
the mountain. 1t makes a startling pic
lure and thrills and delights the audience.
Following the destruction of Pompeii
there is a fireworks exhibit which is re-
production of that which Pain presented
at Manhattan Beach for three years. This
display costs in the neighborhood of $1,000
night and includes many features which
are both attractive and dazzling.
The programme for the fireworks to-
morrow night is as follows:
l. Salute of aerial guns.
2. Flight Of balloons, carrying magne-
SUM lights.
g. Canopy, produced by the discharge
of rockets, containing latest tints.
A. ''Jocko," acrobatic monkey.
5. Salvo of 1871, Is, IS and "a inch shells.
6. Twin fiery dragons, flying from place
to place
T. Flight of aerial saucissons.
S. Flight of rockets, 2, and 4pound.
O. Aerial picture produced by display of
24-inch Shells
TO- Batteries of colored stars.
H. Prismatic whirlwinds