The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-06

Norfolk. November 5.-(Special.)- 1.-The l electrical illumination at. the Jamestown | er-CentenniaI will be the most unique and extensive ever installed at any expo sition held In the United States. It Will | surpass that of the Buffalo and St. Louis expostions and promises to be one of l the great featuyes of the big fair to he held next year on the shores of Hamp- l ton Roads.
 The installation and maintenance of this work will cost almost as much as the | buildings that are to be erected by the 1 exposition company.
 More than s5O00o lights will be used in l Illuminating the exposition grounds, piers
 and amusement devices, and many pro-
 jectors from lofty positions will make the harbor and miles of surrounding country
 as bright as day.
 This work is under the direction of w. M. Dixon, chief of the department of electricity He is one of the busiest men | now employed in the designing and con- struction work of the exposition. With a. corps of skilled electricians Mr. Dixon is pushing the installation of elec- I tricity as rapidly as the conditions VIII I permit, and the wiring in some of the | buildings is already complete. l The Auditorium or Administration build | ing, which is fast approaching It's m ishing touches, will be one grand blaze 1 of light, inside and outside and the cleo | tric wires are now ready for the bulbs | that will be placed in position as soon as J the structure is completed.
 l The illumination of all the buildings will be the conventional decorative N- l feet. and incandescent lights will be l used through the entire main court and l government pier. Many novel schemes I for this lighting have been designed py l Mr. Dixon, and it is the general belief | of those familiar with this line Of work 1 that it will eclipse anything eyer beiofe | attempted in the way of electrical illum- 1 ination.
 | On the government pier alone will be 1 strung 3O.OCO incandescent lights and 620oO ] will dispel the darkness on the main | court. Besides the incandescent lights | there will be the projectory effects. These | will be in keeping with the naval features I and will keep the grim fighters and other 1 craft at anchor on the waters of Hamp- 1 ton Roads plainly descernible even In l the darkest hours of the night. l Fifteen thirty-six-inc projectors, or searchlights, will be located on the main l court. and on the top of a high tower | will be placed an eighty-inch protector, 1 one of the largest ever built.
 l The main court and pier will be a 1 treatment of the ornamental standards of l illumination, giving mild, even dis l tribution of lights. The majority of these l lamns will be concealed from view, but l the light will be diffused in q soft glow l that will be pleasing to the eye.
 l On the "Warpath" the lighting will be 1 extremely spectacular.
 l It is contemplated to erect steel tower 1 sixty feet high at the head of one of the l streets on the "Warpath," and from this | thirty-lnch projectors will flash out their | piercing rays. This tower will be pro- | vided with automatic color screens, and l in revolving the lights will vary from | red and green to white and blue. In ad- | dition to this feature the front of the
 | building on the "Warpath' will be a
 | blaze of flaming arc lights
 l complete system of patrol lighting l will cover the flower fence that cncioses
 l the grounds. and numerous arc lights
 1 will be placed at suitable intervals
 1 throughout.
 On the canoe trail and Filtration Path
 will be installed the most unique scheme
 of lighting. This will be in keeping with