New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-28
WONDERS IN LIGHTING
Great Display Planned For Hud-
Son-Fulton Celebration.
RIVER OF FIRE, CITY OF LIGHT

New York to Be Most Brilliantly H.
Eliminated City In Worlds History.
Signal Fires Will Blaze on Mountain
Tops From the Metropolis to Troy.
All of Greater New York will be the
Great White Way from Sept. Is until
Oct. 8, the period set apart for the
Hudson-Fulton celebration, when the
three hundredth anniversary Of the
discovery of the Hudson river and
the one hundredth anniversary of the
successful application of steam to nav
igation by Robert Fulton are to be OBJ
served In New York city. Electric
lights, with a grand total of 22,26O,OOO
candle power, are to blaze all the way
from the town hall in Flushing, N. Y,
to the city hall in New York.
The plans for this great food Of
light have been arranged by the illu
mination committee, of which Will
liam Berri is chairman. On the last
night Of the celebration the ITO miles
from New York to Troy will be illu-
minated with huge signal fires, blaz-
ing from every mountain top.
This public arrangement does not
take into account the large private
contracts made by enterprising firms
for additional illumination. The ag-
gregation Of public lighting and pri-
vate advertising will make New York
for the eight days the most brilliant
~ lighted city in the worlds history.
Grand Electrical Display.
Incandescent bulbs will have first
place in the scheme OF these 100000
will be used by the committee. Seven
thousand arc lights and 5000 flare arcs
will supplement their little golden
brothers. The rest of the light family
will include a battery of four search
lights Of 100000 candle power apiece
and twelve searchlights aggregating
100000 candle power. All of this
electrical grandeur will fash into use
at the same moment
In addition, the New Jersey shore
and other places near the city limits
will take part in the illumination. A
battery Of searchlights will be placed
Mt Riverside drive and One Hundred
and Tenth street, making the Hudson
river for miles as bright as day. A
single beam from this battery may be
seen for fifty miles. Another battery
will be at Grants tomb.
All the bridges over the East river
will afford the opportunity for such
brilliant electrical displays as will
make the spans seem to be enlarged
copies Of a queens diamond necklace.
Brooklyn, Queens, Richmond and the
Bronx will come in for bright displays
at every possible point Of vantage.
Steamship men and property owners
have agreed to make brilliant spec
tacle along the water front. Thirty or
forty men-of-war from the American
and foreign navies will be anchored
off One Hundred and Tenth street,
and there will be fireworks on Sept.
rs for the visiting ships. On the even
ing Of Oct. signal fires will be light
ed at Governors island, Fort Lee, Fort
Washington, spuyten Duyvil, Alpha,
Hastings Point, Staten Island, Hook
mountain, High Tor, Stony Point,
Dunderburg. Anthony's Nose, Sugar
Loaf hill, West Point, Constitution is
land, Storm King, Bull hill and
Crows Nest.
To Burn Thirty Feet High.
These fires will be lighted at the
telegraphic signal Of President Taft
and will be so constructed as to burn
thirty feet high and last for four
hours. From Newburg to Albany sim
liar fires will start on the same signal.
The places and the number Of lights
selected for the five boroughs Of Great
er New York are: Greensboro bridge,
$4,000; Brooklyn bridge, $4,000: Will
liamsburg bridge, 11,OOO; Manhattan
bridge, 1920; New York city hall,
$500; Brooklyn borough hall, $500;
Queens borough hall, 1900; Bronx
borough hall, $500; Richmond borough
hall, 2,64O; Grants tomb, searchlights,
4; Soldiers and Sailors monument,
Manhattan, 1900; Brooklyn Institute
of Arts and Sciences, 1900; Soldiers
and Sailors monument, Brooklyn,
1900; water tower, $50; Washington
arch, 1900; Riverside drive viaduct,
5000; Manhattan line of parade, 25,-
800; Jamaica town hall, 900; Flushing