Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-20
WONDERS IN LIGHTING
Great Display Planned For Hud.
son-FuIton Celebration.

All Of Greater New York will be the
treat White Way from Sept. % until
Oct. 8, the period set apart fer the
Iudson-Euitoh celebration, when the
-hree hundredth anniversary Of the
discovery OF the Hudson river and
he one hundredth anniversary Of the
uccessful application Of steam to nav
cation by Robert Fulton are to be OBJ
'erved In New York city. Electric
lights. with grand total of % 28O,O 600
candle power, are to blaze all the way
rom the town hall In Flushing. N. Y.
10 the city hall in New York.
The plans for this great food of
light have been arranged by the illu-
mination committee. Of which VIII
liam Berri is chairman. On the last
night Of the celebration the ITO miles
from New York to Troy will be flu
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-
waite advertising will make New York
for the eight days the most brilliant
ly lighted city in the worlds history.
Grand Electrical Display.
1ncandescent 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 searchfghts aggrega ting
100000 candle power. All Of this
electrical grandeur will fash into use
at the same oment.
In additio ne New Jersey shore
and other p. $ near the city limits
will take part in the illumination.
battery Of sesrchlights will be placed
at 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 OF
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
Is for the Waiting ships. On the even
Ing of Oct. 9 signal fires will be light
ed at Governors island, Fort Lee, Fort
Washington, Spuyten Duyyil, Alpha
Hastings Point, Staten Island, Hooh
mountain, High Tor, Stony Point
Dunderburg. Anthony's Nose, Sugar
Loaf hill. West Point, Constitution is
land. Storm King, Bull hill ana
Crows Nest
To Burn Thirty Feet High.
These fires will be lighted at the
telegraphic signal Of President Taf
and will be SO constructed as to burr
thirty feet high and last for foul
hours. From Newburg to Albany sim
liar fires will start on the same signal
The places and the number Of light
selected for the Eve boroughs OF Great
er New York are: greensboro bridge
$4,000: Brooklyn bridge, 1900; vii
liamsburg bridge, 1000: Manhattan
bridge. 1920; New York city hall
$500; Brooklyn borough hall. 5000
Queens borough hall, 1900; Bron1
borough hall. $500; Richmond borough
hall, 2640; Grants tomb, searchlights
4: Soldiers ana Sailors monument
Manhattan, 1900; Brooklyn Institut,
Of Arts and Sciences. 1900; Soldier,
and Sailors monument, Brooklyn
1900: water tower, ESQ; Washingto,
arch. 1900; Riverside drive viaduct
5000; Manhattan line Of parade, %,
500; Jamaica town hall, 900; Flushing
town hall. 800.