Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-07-01
City Is Decorated.


Denver, July 1.--As 1.-The City of
Light" Denver will be all of that and
more when the big Democratic ma
tional convention meets here, regard
less of the political gloom which Is
hnuss 70 -~tslS o~~r alt Dut UuO of
the favorte sons.
Noted the county over for the light
ing of her streets and the numbers of
illumined signs, the electrical brill
liancy of the mile-high city will be in
creased a hundredfold for convention
week. Everywhere that incandescent
lights can add to the beauty of deco
rations-and that will be everywhere
in Denver-bulbs of all sizes and col
ors will be placed-thousands already
have been fitted. Hundreds OF spe-
cial designs in banners, business signs,
good and bad pictures of Bryan, fair
and worse faces of Johnson, several
and maybe countenances of Gray, are
being prepared as part of the great
electrical ensemble, though for only
one brief week are the expensive bits
of brilliancy to be seen.
The really big electrical sights will
be the permanent and familiar one of
Welcome Arch on Seventeenth street,
at union station, under which thou
sands of ColOrado's tourist visitors
and homeseekers have passed; the IL
luminatiOnS which various of the no.
tells carry constantly, and the more re-
cent but no less beautiful circles of
colored lights around the gilded dome
of the state capitol building.
And of course the electrical fOun-
tains at the parks, the principal one
of which was designed mostly in view
OF the convention honor which Den
yer thrust herself upon and held tight
with both hands-this fountain cost
the mere bagatelle of $4,000, and
is guaranteed by the electrical light
ng companies TO produce any color
of liquid that political tastes call for.
As at Convention hall, the day dec
orations will be plain red, white and
blue, as far as possible to carry out
the idea throughout the city. one of
the features of decoration in the audi
tOrium consists of 81 stars in the cell
ing, named for the states, territories
and insular possess. .ons, and cOnven-
iently placed for view by leading cam
didates who are not struck favOraOly
by the action of the convention.
Directly over the speakers platform
has been placed a shield l6 feet high,
carrying six flags IL feet long and
draped in artistic folds Under this
will hang a 14x16foot picture of
George Washington, and shield and
picture will be draped with bunting.
jefferson and Jackson will find
places, photographically, under the
shield, and flags 40X60 feet will be
draped on each side of the portraits.
Beyond these pictures and at each end
of the hall will be 10-foot pendants
with designs a la tiger rampant, these
draped in bunting, Suspended above
the platform there will be 20 stuffed
eagles, with red, white and blue
streamers in their beaks. The Gus
tomary stage palms will be working
at the proper time.
Some of the street decorations will
be equally picturesque. The iron
poles on which the group street lights
are will be swathed in bunting, and
flags viii be stretched across the
streets at intervals. Red, white and
blue incandescent bulbs, thousands
and thousands of them, strung on
wires, will add to the beauty of the
city's decorations both by night and
day.