United labor bulletin., 1910-10-06
MAMMOTH ELECTRIC SHOW
Will Be Given At the Auditorium satur
day Night.

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The Colorado Electric club, an organ
ization whose membership is composed
of the entire electric industry of Colo
rado, will open its first annual electric
show at the Auditorium, Denver, next
Saturday evening. This show, which will
continue through the week to October
18th, will mark an epoch in the history
of the electrical Industry IN the West.
1t will be celebration of the progress
made in electrical enterprises as applied
to the vast resources of the state. Many
of the mining properties which have re-
manned idle since the territorial days of
Colorado have been opened and are now
operating at capacity through the appli-
cation of electric power. These regions
have been converted into thriving min
ing towns through the introduction of
electric power and the adoption of cleo
trio drive has added millions of dollars
to the resources of tie state. There vii
be exhibited at the electric show actual
demonstrations of electrically operated
mines and the entire mining industry o.
the state will have an opportunity to see
what can be done through this medium.
Every type of mining machinery will be
shown under operation and electrically
propelled.
Colorado possesses an abundance of
ground that has heretofore been waste
and void of any vegetation except the
natural wild growth. Fully 100000
acres of this arid land has been re-
claimed and put under cultivation
through the agency of the electric pump.
These pumps which draw water either
from the subterranean or surface flows,
have played an important part in the re-
clamation of these dry tracts and exhlb-
its of the advantages to be gained by the
adoption of the electric pumps on the
farm will be displayed. Companies who
have had experience with them will be
able to furnish the farmer with statistics
that will be convincing of their value in
irrigating.
The street lighting during the show
will be the most Spectacular ever seen
in the West. The streets leading to the
Auditorium will be decorated with the
most gorgeous lighting effects ever pro-
duced and will be on par with the great
Illuminating features that electrified
New York City at the Hudson-Fulton ex-
position. The Oldest continuous resident
of the state. Capt. VIM. H. Green, a man
who blazed the way across the plains be-
fore the state was known, will push the
button that will flood the Auditorium
with more light than has ever been wit
messed this far West. On opening night
there will be a state wide blowing OF
whistles, firing OF guns and ringing of
bells, which will announce to the people
of the entire state that Colorado's first
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The decorations at the Auditorium will
be the most lavish ever witnessed in the
state. The exhibits, of which there are
neighborhood of 100000 and will be
the most complete demonstration of the
various forms of electrical devices ever
given. Every phase of the industry will
be shown. The most weird applications
of electric current will be displayed in
the electrical vaudeville theater in the
basement of the Auditorium. Here some
of the most freakish whims of the cur
rent will be shown.
Each evening the Auditorium will be
darlSened for ten minutes and a Pixies
Peak sunset win be initiated. Three
thousand lamps will be used to depict
this illusion. This setting is the most re
markable engineering feat ever at
tempted and will be striking realism of
Rocky mountain sunset Franklin's
kite and the Liberty bell lavishly lighted
will soar high above Denver's tallest sky
scraper and will show the remarkable ad-
vancement made in electricity in the
West.
Innes' orchestral band, the most re-
nowned musical organization of the
country. has been brought West at an
expense of $1,000 to furnish the music
| for the show. ~
Innes' recognition as leader was IN
nounced when he was selected from a
field of assembled musicians at the
worlds fair at Seattle, Wash, last sum-
| mer, as director-in-chief OF the entire mu-
sical forces. His selection on this occa-
sion is a fitting tribute to his skill as a
director. He has intimated that the musis
to be rendered at the Colorado Electric
attempted by bandmaster in America
Miss Van Loon, one of the most re.
nowned grand opera singers on the
American stage, will be with Innes and
will sing every evening at the show.
A scholarship prize contest for boys
has been opened and the exhibits that
will be made by the future inventors will
attract widespread interest Wireless
telegraph instruments, aeroplanes and
various other forms of electric machinery
will be displayed by these young In
ventors.
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