The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-18
AS BRIGHT AS THE SUN
The Greatest illumination That
Has Ever Been Planned.
SPECTACLE WILL BE SUBLIME


trio Lights During Hudson-FuIton
Celebration. Millions of Lamps
VIII Blaze Everywhere, and There
VIII Be One Big Bonfire From
New York to Troy.
NEW YORK-During the two
weeks of the Hudson-Fulton celebra.
ton this fall New York will be the
most brilliantly lighted spot on the
surface of the earth. No ilIumina.
ton SO stupendously magnificent and
imposing has ever been planned be-
fore. Every evening at 6:3O mil
lions of electric lights will blaze
forth and continue until half an hour
after midnight. Public buildings, all
the bridges, monuments, arches.
men-of-war, municipal ferryboats and
SO on will be ablaze with electric
lights. More than 100000 mean
descent lamps will be used. In ad-
dition to these there will be 1000
arc lights, 5000 flare arcs, one bat
terry OF IL searchlights, each of 10O.-
600 candle power, and another
searchlight battery of 100000 can
die power. The total amount of ex-
ira illumination will be close to $780,
100000 candle power.
Spectacle Will Be Sublime.
On the big bridges alone nearly
100000 lights will be used. No pub
lie building, no monument, will have
less than 1000 lights. That is the
number, for example, that will deck
the famous Soldiers and Sailors
Arch in Brooklyn. Every detail OF
curve and angle, dome and arch will
be outlined in white splendor. The
lights will be placed IL inches apart.
so that each lamp will be a distinct
etfulgent point near by, and yet part
of solid, glowing ribbon when
| viewed from a distance What the
spectacle will be when all these mill
! lions of white flames will flash out
simultaneously at dusk on the even
ing Of september 25th Inauguration
can only partly conceive.
! One of the most remarkable feat
ures of the illumination in New York
will be the immense battery of
searchlights at One Hundred and
] Tenth street and riverside Drive.
This will be first put in operation
on the night of September 25th, and
will continue to the end of the ceIe-
bration. There will be 16 of these
in all, aggregating nearly 100000
candle power. They will make the
river as light as day for miles in
each direction. When all these great
searchlighrs are brought together in
one single dazzling beam of light, as
they will lie on the night of October
9Th, it can be seen for SO miles.
Four searchlights, with an aggregate
brilliance of 100000 candle power,
will play upon Grants tomb
BOnfires From New York to Troy.
On Saturday, October 9th, the
Hudson will be illuminated from
New York to Troy-160 miles-by
the blazing of enormous beacons of
Irish peat. This is something that
has been done but once before in
the worlds history, when, during the
queens jubilee, the coast of England
was so lighted. In between these
beacons all along the river will blaze
white and colored fires-pyrotech-
mic displays that will burn as stead
lily as the beacons themselves. An
army of men will be needed to tend
this huge chain of signal fires and
keep them blazing until after mid
night.
Out in the Hudson on the night
of September 25th, the date of the
opening of the celebration, there will
be a fleet of men-of-war, the great
est since the assembly at Hampton
Roads as few months ago. There
will be innumerable other craft.
small and large, also 1t is esti-
mated that 1000 boats in all will
be gathered between Forty-ffth and
One Hundredth and Twenty-fifth
streets. Every one of these will be
outlined with electric Iights-every
mast and spar will shine with dag.
cling splendor.
Probably the most striking of the
fortnight's electrical decorations will
be the great bridges that span the
East river. With the lamps but a
foot apart from end to end they will
ibe things of surprising beauty.