Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-08
ELECTRIC SHOW FARMLAND
Brilliant Display Made at Auditorium
at Opening,
PRESIDENT TAFT DOES II
sends wire from white House that
Puts the Great Exposition
Into Operation for
Ten Days.

An electric light snone for every person
who attended the big electrical show at its
opening, Thursday evening. II was esti-
mated that fully 1900 persons visited that
gigantic collection of interesting and in
structive exhibits last night and that
about that many incandesceut and tlng-
stem lamps arc used in lighting and deco
rating the Auditorium. whore the show Will
be the attraction for ten days.
At I:17 o'clock a wireless message from
President William n. Taft was received
on the receiving a%ntennae Of the signal
Corps wireless apparatus installed at the
auditorium, and the big show was official
ly opened. A reply to the presidents mes
sage of congratulation was Immediately
sent back to the White House.
Both messages were sent wireless be-
tween the army stations at Fort Omaha
and the Auditorium. To and from the
White House and the fort, the messages
were by wire. President Taft's message
was as follows;
The White House, Washington, May s,
1909. g. w. Johnston. President Omaha
Electrical Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska
Permit me to express to you, and througn
you to the citizens of Omaha, my hearty
congratulations on the opening Of your
Electrical exposition. / wish 1t all sue
NCbGt dnu lIuSl IL VIII prove a. SOuICG VI
instruction to its many visitors.
WIN. H. TAFT.
In reply to the presidents telo-aerogram
this message was sent:
Omaha, Neb, May g, 1909. To His Ex-
the United States, Washington, b. c.: on
behalf of the Omaha Electrical exposition
and citizens of Omaha. we desire to ex-
press to you our heartfelt thanks for our
Kind greetings upon the opening of the
Electrical exposition. We sincerely trust
that this friendly wireless contact now
established between you and the people of
the state of Nebraska may never expert
ence an interruption.
g. w. JOHNSTON,
J. NJ. GILLIAN, 'oen'
Manager.
GrRnd1y Successful Illumination
A glorious sheen of light. a mass OF in.
ventive and constructive genius, an EN-.
porium of beauty either by day or by night
and a lifetime opportunity for didactic
Improvement and entrauclug enter tainment
the second annual electrical exposition OF
the Gate City is a show that no tne should
miss seeing. That 1t will be fully aJpre.
ciated was indicated by the large attend.
ance on the night of it's opening.
The decorative sch .me Of the show is
both brilliant and skillfully executed. Cit,
Electrician Waldemar Michaelson hac
charge of the installation of the light ant
wiring, the lights being practically the only
decorations. However. the show will have
a gala appearance even IN the daytime
for the various booths and exhibits are
attractlvely gotten up and the general effec
of the decorations is not wholly lost ever
when the lights are not lit.
Viewing the sight from the west. enc
of the Auditorium balcony the spectator
has the whole expanse of haptNly con
structed independent, yet united, shows o
the various exhibitors lying before him
Sixteen large coronas made especially 70
the show, are suspended from the girder
OF the roof and each is rotated continual,
by an electric fan on its top. Many rec
and white lights. the colors OF the slow
shine down from each, and the corona.
pl easingiy top off the beauty OF the hight
below.
Booths extending IN six parallel tiers tn
length of the immense building are sir gt
and collectively Illuminated in eye.easinj
harmony, while at the east erd of tn
Auditorium, a large industrial exhibit oc
cupies the entire stage, with half Il dozel
or more small booths comprising II. owe
the proscenium arch of the stage stretche
the immense sign in soft blue letters, In
dustrial Booth" and the stage itself I
set with vari-colored lights that serve tn
double purpose OF illuminating and decora
ton.
After studying the maze of lights an
the throngs of people below on the mai
floor, the spectators In the gallery ma.
descend to a gallery of wonder in the form
Of electrical i~ngenuities, II they have no
already. inspected the many exhibits Their