Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-06
fine FIREWORKS
PYRoTEcHNIcS WILL BE A FEAT.
URS CT H- ALABAMA STATE
EXPOSITION AT MONT
GoMERY OCT. 1922.
Elaborate and Beautiful Displays Will
Be Given Every Night During
Exposition Week, and Seats
In the Enlarged Grand
Stand viii Be Free.

tainment of the anticipated thou
sands of visitors on the grounds
at night at the Alabama State Expo
sition, which will be held in Montgom-
cry October 1922, the management;
has arranged, at an enormous ex-
lpense, displays of fireworks which will
be the most beautiful and elaborate
ever seen in the South.
These displays will be put on each
night during exposition week, and
there will be no extra charge to wit
ness them, and seats in the enlarged
grand stand will be free.
Besides the fireworks, the fifteen
great free attractions, which will be
on the afternoon program, will be re-
peated at night Special concert mu-
sic will be rendered at night by the
two big bands combined.
Secretary George T. Barnes, of the
Exposition Company, announces the
program for the nightly fireworks dis
play. The program follows:
Fireworks Program.
First-Opening discharge of signal
bombshells, exploding high in the sky
with report that can be heard miles
away.
Second-Grand illumination with a
Wonderlight, the most intense, bril-
liant and powerful light, giving day
light to all objects around.
Third-Device, Dixie Splendor, a
seven-wheel cataract of brilliant gold
en-. spur and electric showers rapidly
revolving around base of changeable
colors, forming beautiful scintillating
fre-wheels that change effects four
times. This display will cover a space
OF 600 square feet.
Fourth-Montgomer brilliant well
come, consisting of number of bomb
shells grouped together and prepared
to fly in a mass, and at one time I'M
pyrotechnic bouquet sparkling with
the richest colored gems.
Southern Glory.
Fifth-SOuthern Glory, a continuous
display of thousands of beautifully col
ored meteors, pearl scintillating stars
with trails of brilliant fire, electric
sprcaders, the whole producing one Of
the grandest effects in pyrotechny.
Sixth-Device, He'll Gate Siren, a
new and surprising novelty and one
of the most amusing pieces of fire.
works ever made, being large wheel
revolving around variegated colored
center, during which it whistles and
in, 1y omit fin o.
sounds hideous, mournful and comical,
terminating with binding fiashlight,
a piece that never fails to please.
Seventh-Discharge of Jacobs Lad
der bombshells, producing a suspend
ed diamond chain rs feet long that
changes color while floating away in
the distance.
Eighth-Sandy Hook flashlight and
bombardment. This piece will give a
very good representation of what
would be seen and heard at Sandy
Hook in case of an attack on that ia
nous stronghold, with its binding
fashlight and bombardments, and is
teresting and exciting pieces of fire
works made.
Ninth-Discharge of twinkling star
bombshells, ascending to great height,
bursts and releases a large cluster OF
variegated stars, and suspended star
OF great brilliancy that changes color
several times before disappearing.
Tenth-Device, great wheel, an i'm
mense revolving cascade of gorgeous
golden spray capriciously changing
directions, forming base to revolv-
ing bouquet of electric arc light stars,
changing into scintillating flashes OF
electric light, terminating in a grand
explosion of variegated meteors.
Mystic Wheel Bombshell.
Observation-Disclosures of mystic
wheel bombshell. This shell ascends
to a great height, releases a suspend
ed revolving wheel of brilliant fire
which, while floating away, apparent
ly becomes extinct, after having burnt
itself out, when suddenly it comes to
brilliant fire. This is repeated four
times before its final extinction.
Twelfth-Flight Of pigeons, pyro-
technic curiosities ascending to a
height of 200 feet, they descend and
ascend again, during which they emit
showers of golden spray and stars of
every hue.
Observation-Disclosures display, aeri-
al commandments, jeweled arches, gi-
gantic tents of silver striped with
crimson.
Fourteenth-Device, jeweled forest,
an immense tree of scintillating spur
fires intermingled with fine prismatic
jeweled drops, while on both sides are
vari-colored cascades of brilliant fires.
BombsheI Display.
Fifteenth-Bombshel display, dis
playing peoples, moon flowers and
golden rods.
Sixteenth-Device, Niagara Falls, a
cascade of falling water in silver and
golden showers.
Discharges of exhibit
ton bombshells, distributing Kissing
scorpions, lizards and Japanese bios
CONS.
ghteenth-Discharge of wonderful
bombshells, discharging at height of
400 feet, suspended ball OF most
powerful light ever discovered, giving
daylight effect to all surrounding OBJ
jects.
Observation-Disclosures of special re-
peating bombshells. These shells are
lS inches, displaying red, green, am
CARNIVAL FEATURES.