The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-28
PAINS GORGEOUS
PYROTECHNICS
PLEASING.
a Vari COL
ored Canopy o f
Beauty Spectators
Sat and Stood in
Alteration.

AN4Ol
Ten thousand people saw the spec
tacle presented by Pain, at the Fair
Grounds last night.
With a crowd full of enthusiasm,
there was little lacking to make the
occasion one of the most notable of
the kind ever seen in Savannah.
Although the programme was not as
elaborate as some that the firm has
arranged heretofore, it employed all of
the modern achievements in the way
of pyrotechnical masterpieces to amuse
the crowd that was present.
From the firing of the first salute of
five aerial maroons to the brilliant dis
play of Good Night" and Ecu de
JOie" the programme was one series
of brilliant effects of aerial and sta
tionary devices.
Smoke in the Way.
The Objectionable feature Of the
evening was the prevalence of Il steady
breeze which brought the smoke from
the explosions directly into the faces
of those in the grand stand and along
the track. and in a measure obscured
the stationary devices.
The display was made in the center
of the race track. at just the proper
distance for the best effects upon the
spectators in the grand stand. The
First Regiment Band. stationed in the
center of the grand stand introduced
the evenings amusement with sew
eral stirring selections, concluding their
part of the programme with the nation
al anthem.
Succeeding the firing of the five aerial
salutes, which went off several hundred
feet in the air with a tremendous re-
port, there was a grand illumination
of the grounds with powerful colored
lights which changed color five times.
The effect was dazzling. and the ordi-
narily commonplace looking field as
stunned the aspect of fairyland.
Two of the meteoric balloons that
were sent up met with mishaps, catch
ing fire before they had assembled any
unusual hight. The other three rose
| majestically and were carried away
by south breeze. Then followed the
polychromatic canopy, batteries of the
Jeweled mines. the grove of jeweled
palms and fifty other brilliant effects.
Acrobat of Fire.
One of the amusing features of the
programme was the aerial acrobat,
who performed a number of amusing
tricks on an imaginary horizontal bar.
Pain is perhaps the greatest manufac-
turer of fireworks in the world and to
those who have seen displays before
that were more expensive, and conse-
| quently more elaborate, the pro-
gramfne may have seemed a trifle be-
low that great firms standard, but to
the uninitiated in the art of later day
amusements the tableaux was a
miracle of gorgeous pyrotechinacl eff
fects, and not few of the visiting ex-
cursionists went into ecstacies when
they gaZed on the spectacle.
The Aerial Display.
The graceful sky rockets soaring
heavenward and then with a curve as
graceful as the arching of the swan S
neck, seeming to hesitate for a moment
before plunging downward, were the
same that have charmed thousands at
Manhattan Beach nightly during The
summer.
The shrieking bombs sent hurting into
the darkness of the heavens, exploding
an effect dazzling beyond the powers
of the subscribing millions of stars
scattered around to put to shame the
faded cloth of the sky, with its sprink-
ling of lesser lights.
The stationary devices were all new
and perfect in outline and suggestive
ness. The elephant, blazing in varied
colors strolled around the place allot-
ted to him as though a thing of life
the acrobat swung the giant swing
skinned the cat" and did other stunts
which provoked shrieks of delight from
the younger folk. The finale device
1.-The Naval Combat" being a repre-
sentation of two ships in action with
the blowing up and sinking of one OF
the combatants, with realistic effect
was magnificent. Few left this
grounds without being pleased with the
programme and thousands left there
who witnessed the greatest show OF
their lives.