The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-25

German schools made by j. Z. Nor
gan and other connoisseurs have been
assembled and are now open to pub
lie view in the galleries of the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art.
E The parades of street floats down
Fifth avenue and through the court Of
honor, past the reviewing stands. have
been planned two years in advance
and worked out by great staff of
artists. sculptnrs. costumers and de-
signers, night and day. in specially
designed factory. Captain A. H.
Stoddard, master OF the Mardi Gras
parades that made New Orleans the
carnival city of the world. has been
brought to New York and placed in
full charge of his speciality.
.~.s- ..,.@+ " Aviation.
But impressive as the naval parades
will be, and coiorful as will be the
nageants, there is no question but
that the greatest popular interest at
taches to the airship flights that will
be made from Governors island some
time during the first week of the cell
ebration. Just what the performance
will be must depend on the condi-
tions of the atmosphere and the will
ingness of the asiators, but the pro-
gram calls for a flight from Cover
nor's island up the North River,
across Manhattan island in the neigh
borhoad of Spuyten Duyyil and down
the East River, under or over the
four great bridges that now span it,
back to the starting point. Nothing
so daring before has ever been at
tempted. but both Wilbur Wright and
Glenn II. Curtiss, his most formidable
American competitor. have signed
contracts To attempt at least as much
of 1t as their Judgment will war
rant.
lluminations.
Busy as will be the days, the nights
will be perhaps even more beautiful.
For a week, during tine Hudson Fulton
celebration the city of New York in
all its boroughs viii be the most bril-
istntiy Illuminated in the world. The
decorative uses OF electricity were first
realized on a scale worthy of their
possibilities at the Worlds fair, in
Chicago. in 1898, and from that time
on every succeeding exhibition has
been more lavish in its appropria-
tion for lighting, until this year it Is
estimated consersatisely that. in aa-
dition to the regular lighting nj the
city and exclusive of the contracts
placed by private firms for adsertis-
ing display. there will burst into
blaze. on the night of september Is.
Il. Z60. 0ee candle power.
fS,
as nearly as can be determined, be-
tween the four horoughs as follows:
1.5o1 600 incandescent globes. 1000 arc
lights. 3,00a flaming ares and two bat
teries of ~searchiights-one of four
lights, aggregating 100000 candle
power. and the other of II lights, ag-
gragating 1.7no,Ogo candle power. The
smaller battery will play continuous
~ from all sides on the white marble
af Grants tomb. high above the river
On the Manhattan shore of the Hud-
son. and the great battery nj |. aOa. 900
candle power will light up the river
itself In both directions from its far
thest yisable upper reaches to the
lower harbnr. All the United States
'battseships and the ships Of war of
other nations lying in the roadstead
will likewise be outlined in fire from
stem To stern and draped with in
eanaescent festoons from their top
masts to their hulls
The Singer tower. the white shaft of
the new Metropolitan tower. the Flat
iron building, the Times building and
all the better known and more con-
spicuous municipal buildings. will be
made the objects OF special display
Hidden searehlights will play on the
white marble until they will stand
out against the night glowing the
luminous as if from within, through
transparent walls.
The four steel spans across the East
river between New York and Brooklyn
the oueensborough. the Williams
burg. the uneompietad Manhattan and
the Brooklyn bridges-will all be out
lined from end To end The route -
the parsdes will be hordersd on both
curbs with festoons of incandescent
globes. and the Washington arch and
the reviewing stands aill punctuate