Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-25

and down the East river, under or over
the four great steel bridges that now
span it. back to the starting point.
Nothing so daring before has even been
contemplated but both Wilbur Wright
and Glenn H Curtiss. his most formid-
able American competitor, have signed
contracts to attempt at least as much
of it as their judgment will warrant
Busy as will be the days, the nights
will be perhaps even more beautiful.
For a week during the Hudson-Fulton
celebration the city of New York in
all its boroughs will be the most bril-
liantly illuminated in the world. The
decorative uses of electricity were first
realized on a scale worthy of their pos
sibilities 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 1t is
estimated conservatively that, in addi-
tion to the regular lighting of the
city and exclusive of the contracts
placed by private firms for advertising
display, there will burst into blaze on
the night of September 25 26,260,000
candle power.
This great aggregate is apportioned,
as nearly as can be determined, between
the four boroughs as follows: 100000
incandescent globes, 1000 arc lights,
5000 flaming arcs and two batteries of
searchlights-one of four lights aggre
eating 400,0 900 candle power and the
other of twelve lights aggregating
100000 candle power.
Continuous Battery
The smaller battery will play con-
tinuously from all sides on the white
marble of Grants tomb, high above
the river on the Manhattan shore of
the Hudson, and the great battery of
/, 100000 candle power will light up
the river itself in both directions from
it's farthest visible upper reaches to
the lower harbor. All the United
States battleships and the ships OF
war of other nations lying in the road
stead will likewise be outlined in fire
from stem to stern and draped with
incandescent 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 private buildings, will be
made the objects of special display,
Hidden searchlights will play on the
white marble until they stand out
against the night glowing and lumi-
nous as if from within, through trans
parent walls.
The four steel spans across the East
river between New York and Brook
lyn--the Queensborough, the Williams
burg, the uncompleted Manhattan and
the Brooklyn bridges-will all be out
lined from end to end The route of
the parades will be bordered on both
curbs with festoons Of incandescent
globes, and the Washington arch and
the reviewing stands will punctuate
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rangement of colored urn topping the
marble shaft of the Martyrs monu-
ment at Fort Greene, in Brooklyn. de-
signed by Stanford White, will burn
a continuous fire of faggots as was
the original intent of the architect,
never before realized.
To lIlumlne Route
And on the closing night of the cele-
bration, beacon fires will flame from
every headland all the length of the
path that Henry Hudson travelled from
Manhattan Island to Albany 800 years
ago.
Educational emphasis will be laid on
all the more spectacular features of
the celebration by arranging that
wherever possible the 100000 school
children of Greater New York shall
have a part in them, and it has been
the design of the promoters through
out to arrange their displays in such
wise that they may be seen by the
largest number of persons,
Great care has been taken to see to
the comfort and safety of out-of- town
visitors. The city will be cleaned of
old offenders; out-of-town crooks will
be looked for with an especially sharp
eye, not only by local detectives but
by details sent here from other cities;
field hospitals and ambulance stations
have been placed where they can be
most promptly Of service in calls of
emergency, and, finally, the information
bureau of the commission, in it's Of
fees in the Tribune building, will give
out a list of reputable hotels and board
ing houses which are not so likely to
be overcrowded 1s those better known
On Friday, october l, will be juno
tion of the upstate and New York city
divisions of the celebration when the
lesser of the ships of war will escort