The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-05
TIE MINNEAPOLIS JoURNAL.

Eand lighting long frestie ks as they ran.
I 81 / 4 Moscow = was about to get an aw-
ful blowing up. A .. 's-,.'
What are those big black things
Psercaaed up along the scenerrya,''. asked ash
Those are they answered the la
comic magnate. 9 When they let go
you II begin to figure up your life in
The powder monkeys were again run.
ming along the rear of the 'tpicture, "
bidding assistants to keep tight hold Of
the towers and minarets Of Moscow,
which said assistants dutifullY did with
the AID OF long lines; the word Of com
mand came rolling from the Teutonic
lungs OF the master, pyrotechnist, there
was a flash of quick fuse-and there
followed a ripping of the atmosphere
and a trembling Of the earth that sent
the heart of the novitiate clear up to
the root of his mouth and caused it to
beat violently against the right ear
drum. 1t was something fierce! =. ~,
Engagement Is General.
Battery after battery of the dcvil-
designed destroyers exploded, while the
simple device of releasing some of the
gulde-ropes caused some of the finest
buildings in Moscow to sink in ruins
and lett the, youthful magnate IN an
ecstacy of bliss. 49, ~
There is. a fendishness about tho
system of firing the explosives back of
the Gregory fireworks show that is al
most criminal. The noise of a hundred
bient atmosphere simultaneously is
meat and drink to people who ate fire.
works in the crib and think the smell of
powder is the essenee}of white rose, or
musk, or some other popular, perfume.
It's poison to the noyitiate.
| First, the battery overhead let's 90,
and the unhappy seeker after "color''
mixes to the opposite end of the "pic-
ture. =; About that time the battery
there stationed tears itself loose, and
there is stampede for the center That
battery Furnishes the surrounding terri
tory that instant and the invited guest
retreats to the vicinity of the dressing-
rooms-lust in time almost to trample
on long line of mortars, planted with
/ dynamite and thirty-inch shells. which
the -pyrotechnists therenpon fire in the
| evident hope Of giving the outsider a
| new sensation.
! Mortars Have Records.
He does.
| Nine men have been killed by an ex-
ploslon of one Of these mortars, and
there are a dozen of them sticking out
Of the ground within a radius of ten
feet. The person seeking local color
hops nimbly into the adjoining terri.
tory and finds himself under lattice.
work of demonstrating {. slyrockets
which promptly go about their business
with a rush and a roar and trail of
fire. The novitiate smells something
burning, feels: of his hair and hikes
for the lake in front of, the pic
ture'
This is another case of being Just in
time. For the fountain of fire is lust
spreading itself over the. scenery, the
saucissions are sizzling into the ether
the big one-hundred foot wheel Of fire
is beginning to retolve in several direc
tions at once and Gregory's master
piece, the "Revolving Falls,' is flu
mi minadting the whole face of the grand
! Meanwhile, the several hundreds OF
supers have scampered into places OF
comparative safety and, as fast as they
get their breath, are turning in thei1
suits and getting back their citizens
dress in the wardrobe tent. The noviti