The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-02-11
BIG BATTLE
Is to Be Fought by Many Air
Ships at the Taft Inau-
guration.

Sul dllOll.
WASHINGTON, q. c., Feb. s.
The contract for the display of fire.
works on the White Lot. the eve
ming OF of March 4. has Just been
awarded to the Paine Manufacturing
Company. The program is the
finest that has ever been made up
for any event ever held east of the
Mississippi river. 1t contains fifty
numbers. most of them absolutely
unique.
The program will embrace 1000
rocket bombs, 500 batteries, 900 col
ored lights. two tons of colored fire.
so balloons, 10000 candles and $50
bombs. ranging from ~ TO co
inches.
Among the rockets will be patent
rocket bombs. which have all the
beauties of rockets without the dan
ger of the falling sticks and the
marvellous sun cluster" effects the
unique fireworks invention of 1909.
The star spangled banner will be uE-
furled 1000 feet in. the air and the
letters T A f T will be written ii
letters of fire in the heavens. This
feature will be accompanied bv n
salute of II aerial guns.
One of the big things of the eve
ming will be wonderful pillar of
Hight, 100 feet high, which has Dlr-
fed experts in chemistry and elec-
triclty and which will give day
light effect to the heavens for dis
lance of several miles.
Then there will he batteries OF
lightning candles. with 5000 flashes
and wonderful Crescent repeating
bombs. marvels in themselves. The
first shell will explode but once, the
twenty-first will explode twenty-one
times.
One of the humorous features
will be the whistling coons-some
people will call them possums, and
another 1909 fire works novelty will
be the aerial Device" released from
an immense shell, 1900 feet In the
air.
The spectacular event of the pro-
gram will be battle in the skies
an immense set piece. This will be
the only set piece outside of the fire
portraits of President Taft and
vice-President Sherman. The scene
shows a typical up-to-date city with
its towers and lofty Buildings. An
air ship is seen to pass near the city
followed by smaller aerial craft.
They turn and tack and are met by
the opposing aerial fleet. A terrific
encounter ensues. then. the ships
burn and explode and crumble up.
In the meantime other air ships not
engaged in the aerial battle, have
been dropping high explosives upon
the doomed city. The towers and
tall buildings crumble and burn and
fall until all are utterly destroyed.
1t is predicted that this realistic
piece will be the sensation of the in
auguration. The buildings of the
fire city. some of which will be one
hundred feet high, can readily be
seen by even the outside limits OF
the great audience that will be on
hand while the air ships will be seen
from all over the city. The city will
be more than 500 feet long and 100
feet high.
The concluding effect will be colos-
sal fire portraits of the president
and vice president in Illuminated
borders. followed by the inaugural
boquet, produced by the discharge
of 500 large rocket bobms, by far
the largest number ever fired at any
display. The exhibition OF fire.
works. will commence promptly at
1880 and finish at about o'clock.
1t will cost many thousands of dol,
lars.
Pain has been ordered to go ahead
and prepare the finest fireworks dis
play ever seen in the United States.
While the display is in progress on
the White lot the whole down town
section of the city will be illumin-
ated by colored flames. The day
will have fitting climax in the
great exhibition of aerial pyrotech-
mics that is being prepared.