Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-07
IN A BLAZE OF GLORY
InauuuraI Fireworks to Be the
Finest Ever.
PAINS PREMIER EFFORT
Promises to Put All Past Perform
ances in the Shade.
GREAT BATTLE IN THE SKIES
Immense Set Piece One Among Many
Fiery Novelties to Be Seen
for First Time.

of the United States Taft and Sherman
will receive most gorgeous baptism Of
tire the night of March 4.
| 1t is declared by representative of
the Pain Fireworks Company, who re-
Gently conferred with Cuno III. Rudolph
chairman of the inauguration fireworks
committee, that the exhibition of pyro-
technics on the White Lot will be by
far the greatest display ever given in
Washington.
| Mr. Rudolph has just given out for
publication the official program of fire.
works as it was submitted to him by
the Pain company. In a nutshell, it will
embrace 1000 rocket bombs, 500 bat
| teries, 600 colored lights two tons of
colored fire, so balloons, 10000 candles
| and $50 bombs ranging from twelve to
sixty inches.
Among the items of the program viii
be Pains patent rocket bombs. This
novelty has all the effects of rocket.
without the danger of the falling
sticks. There will also be introduced
the marvellous sun cluster effects, the
novelty of 1909.
Flag 1000 Feet High.
The Star Spangled Banner will be
hibition a salute of twenty-one aerial
guns will be given. PAINS marvellous
pillar of light 100 feet high will give
daylight effect to the entire neighbor-
hood. and there will be batteries of
lightning candles with 5000 flashes and
the wonderful repeating bombs with
rapid and repeated changes. A humor-
Gus episode will be the whistling cOons
The aerial device released from an i'm
mense shell is also 1909 novelty.
One of the most important numbers
Will be The Crescendo Repeating Bomb
Display" Twenty-one bombs are fired,
each succeeding bomb giving as many
effects as its number; for instance, the
first bomb breaks once up to the twenty
first, which breaks twenty-One times; this
Is the first time that such an attempt
has been made in pyrotechny.
Battle in the Skies.
The spectacular novelty of the program
will take place in about the middle of
the program. and consists of the
Battle of the Skies" An immense set
piece, showing typical up-to-date city,
is ignited; in the distance Is seen air
ships and aeroplanes coming toward the
city: Immediately they are over the city
high explosives are seen dropping from
the balloons. and the towers and tall
buildings ignite and crumble: magazines
explode and the city is utterly destroyed
with realistic effect.
Among other of the special effects is a
comic device Of the merry widow hat. a
summer storm, the Washington bouquet
produced by the electrical discharge Of
100 bombs. containing stars of twenty
different tints; the aerial silver falls. q
600 meteorites. silver glory, ascent of
four large gas balloons. each bearing
gigantic letter, making up the word
1T A T." and the temple of Flora,
5000 candles being used in this latter
effect; the changing cloud, produced by
the discharge of $50 bombs: the famous
demon shells, octopus bombs, Towering
pampus rocket bombs and other effects
too numerous to mention.
Portraits in Fire.
The concluding effect will be colossal
fire portraits of the President and Vice
President in Illuminated borders, followed
by the inauguration bouquet" pro-
duced by the electrical discharge of 500
large rocket bombs. This is by far the
largest number of bombs ever fired at
any display.
The exhibition will commence promptly
at 1880 and finish about o'clock
Following the fireworks the Republican
Flambeau Club Of Minneapolis. Mimi,
will give their noted fire drill with pyro-
technics, which will continue about one
hour.
The Official Program.
The official program will be as follows:
National salute Of 1O1 aerial guns.
Illumination of the park with $50 pris-
matte fires. changing color five times
Display of $50 Pains patent rocket bombs,
fired from three positions, SO as to blend
the continued varied tints: Pains patent
rocket bombs have all the effects of rock
at w Of fol ;ol>c
Ascent OF twenty-one magnesium bal
looms, lighting up the entire neighborhood
Display of twenty-five 24-inch Pain s
bombs, embracing all the novelties of 1908
and 1909. Twenty-Five nests OF fiery cob
ras, fired from extra large batteries
Flight Of twenty-five sun-cluster rocket
bombs, the brilliant novelty for 1909
Magical illumination Of the strawberries
with 100 pounds OF ruby compound. The
Star Spangled Banner, produced by the
electrical discharge of fifty large bombs.
arranged to depict an aerial national
shield. PAINS marvellous triple pillar of
light, 100 feet high. arranged in five tiers
this intensely brilliant compound was the
sensation of Pains carnival. 1908: one
square mile as bright as day. Display
oftwenty-five S-pound hanging chain rocket
bombs. Ascent of fifty fiery whirlwinds
Battery of 500 lightning candles. As
flashing representing lightning 5000
hashes). most wonderful conceit. Sal
vos of twenty-five mammoth thirty-inch
repeating bombs, with rapid and repeated
changes in midair, 3. 4, and breaks,
each break a different effect. Ascent of
twenty-five Pains prize asteroids: after
changing color repeatedly each floating
light becomes an incandescent star, fin
ishing with a bouquet. The floral bou-
quet produced by the electrical discharge
of fifty bombs (beauty roses and sham
rOcks). Nineteen hundred and nine now
city. the crescendo repeating bomb dis
play-frst shell breaks once, second twice.
third three times, fourth four times. fifth
five times. sixth six times seventh seven
times, eighth eight times. ninth nine
times, tenth ten times, eleventh eleven
times, twelfth twelve times. thirteenth
thirteen times. fourteenth fourteen times.
fifteen fifteen times sixteenth sixteen
times. seventeenth seventeen times. eigh-
teenth eighteen times. nineteenth
nineteen times, twentieth twenty
times. twenty-first twenty-one times.
Third special illumination. with amber
fires. rejecting an eastern sunset AS
cent of twenty five rocket bombs, whist
ling coons: humorous episode. Ascent
of twenty-five rocket bombs, firef1y and
willie '-the-wisp; a most effective aerial
novelty. The aerial device. fired from a
gigantic bomb; the bomb on reaching it's
al tude releases an immense canopy in
red and gold, which changes to light
pointed star with bayonet fires. Spider
charge of fifty large bombs, bursting
into d scene which resembles a score Of
mighty colossal spiders creeping across
the sky, with vivid lightning flashes
Batteries of Pains acroba.ic candles,
bright stars throwing a series of somer-
saults they ascend; clever conceit
The Changing Cloud produced by the
ri. n Of five