The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-15
NIAGARA FALLS TO
BE ILLUMINATED
Nearly Fifty Large Searchlights Will Be
Employed With Color Scintillators
to Produce Wonderful
Color Effects.

The night illumination of the mighty
! torrent at Niagara Falls Is now assured
and the plan for lighting the mist and
water is unquestioRabiy the greatest
feat ever conceived in electrical illumi.
nation. The great falls, bathed in daz.
| cling light surpasses IN grandeur and
spectacular effect anything Of its kind
ever seen before.
w. D'A. Ryan, Illuminating engineer
has the work in charge and the fall.
were illuminated for the first time the
night Of August 18th, 1907. The light
ing scheme for this enormous under
taking Is on a scale never attempted be-
fore and new invention, the color
Scintilator, is utilized for producing
color effects which make the falling
water far more beautiful and impressive
by night than by day.
A battery .of nearly fifty searehlights,
several Of them the largest Of their kind
and capable Of throwing beam Of white
light 1875 miles, are located below the
falls. A portion of the projectors are
set down near the waters edge opposite
Goat Island so as to play a rising illp.
mination on both the American and
Canadian Falls. Another battery Is
placed on the high ground on the Cana.
dian side to throw a plunging light on
the falling water and flying mist. The
projectors are powerful enough 70 cover
every inch Of the torrent with a brilliant
white light An alone the big search.
lights are an exhibition worth travelling
far to sec, but when used in connection
with the new scintillators the wonderful
effect which can be produced beggars
description.
The color scintillator consists 81 a net
work of steam pipes which will be used
to argument the cloud effects Of the
flying mists. In front Of the Big light
projectors are mounted wheels contain.
ing large gelatin disks which are re-
volyed slowly. With the changing Of
the color disks the beams Of light are
yariegated with Kaleidoscope effect pro.
ducing a color scheme on the mist and
water only excelled by the great North
ern lights. This apparatus was but re-
Gently perfected by the engineers Of the
General Electric company and has never
been used before here or abroad. II.
though it was given a thorough test
few months ago. The color attachments
tint the waters carmine. crimson,
orange, yellow, green, blue violet Of the
purest shades and the rising clouds Of
mist blend the colors into hues and tints
like a glorious sunset. II Is even pos.
sible to produce an artificial aurora
berealis and the colored beams reaching
far into the sky, win be visible in Toron
to and Rochester IN such volume as to
cause comment. The program for illn.
mination viii be changed every night
aud in the winter time the color effects
on the lee, snow and frost coated treas
Of the surrounding country will be
spectacular indeed.
The entire proposition IS TO ilumi.
nate Niagara IN a distinct and dignifcd
manner on Il scale in keeping with the
surroundings. Inc possibilities of the
apparatus installed are limited only by
the imagination of the maniqulators. Il
is possible 10 produce colored figures.
snakes, dragons, Aage and thousand
and one different novelties. The an.
paratus possesses the spectacular effect
of fire works on a grand scale without
the fire hazard and danger.
For many years It was planned To illu-
inmate the great falls bit no scheme
was deemed practical until the General
Electric company submitter plans to
utilize two batteries bf searchlights with
the new color scintillators.