The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09

ueS dS IT Tn daylight, but with their
 contrasts enhanced and intensified. will be reproduced in the lagoons up | on the exposition grounds. In the | harbor before the grounds batteries of colore0 .searchlights will throw their rays against the towers and min | arets, picking out the colors, and
 against the refiecting jewels, which
 will reflect and radiate shafts of col l ored light throughout the exposition city. The zone of general illunina- i tion will extend twice the height of | the talIest exhibit palaces.
 l Both direct and indirect or reflected l lighting will be employed at the ex- | position. MT. Ryan is working in accord with MT. Jules Guerin, Direc-
 tor of Color, an artist whose work is
 as popular in Europe as in America.
 Most expositions appear too bright
 and often the sightseer goes away
 with tired eyes. MT. Guerin has con- l ceived a marvellous color scheme 1 through which there will be no dead white upon the exposition grounds. l MT. Ryan has planned that there will l be no glare and no dark places or | black shadows at night.
 l Outline lighting will not be adopted. Although the contours of the build ings is brought out by this method | much of the architecture and most of the finer details would be lost through
 dark shadows. The architectural splendors of the exposition will be
 brought out to the best possible ad-
 vantage in both form and color and maintaining the daylight perspective. By night the exposition in all it's de- tails will be a magnificent picture. All Guerinis colors, the burnt orange, yer
 million, cerulean blue and gold of the
 courts, the gold and blue of the re-
 cesses of the towers, the vast friezes
 of reda. yellow and blue, the red tiles of the roofs, the golden domes and the copper-green minarets will be
 seen at night enhanced and g1orifed.
 There will be four principal sources of light at the exposition. In the
 harbor some six hundred yards off the exposition grounds will be great bat teries of searchlights mounted upon pontoons; masked batteries of search lights will be located upon the roofs of the exhibit palaces; behind @the columns of the colonnades that encir- cle the courts and in recesses of tow CTS, domes and minarets indirect or reflected light will be employed. The thousands of lamps used in the re- reflected light will be employed. The their lights will be cast upon the stat uary, mural decorations, and facades l of the buildings. In the courts and throughout the grounds will be radi- ant groups of statuary.
 The interior of the buildings will be | ngnCeQ with name arcs and OuS arcs and at night the great windows | will shine out with their illuminations. | The direct lighting Twill be the light upon the facades and sides of the i buildings The light behind the col umns will be a warm yellow in the l lower sections, while the upper sec tions will be a bluish purple produc- ing an artificial shadow in the light
 The walls behind the coIonnades in l the grand court of honor, the Court | of Sun and Stars, and in the great | east and west courts, will be decorat- l ed with mural paintings which will be illuminated by electric globes plac- | ed in recesses in the backs of the | columns; the lamps will not be wis ] ibIe from the floors of the colon nades or from the courts. These will be set in the columns at heights of ten, twenty and thirty feet. The n- 1uminatiOn of the paintings will be absolutely controlled by changing the size of the light units and the curva- ture of the mirrors that will reflect the lights against the walls. Kalei- doscopic effects will be obtained by introducing colored bulbs. A special type of tubular lamp has been deveI- oped for huted columns, the lamp and ! reflector being small enough to go into a flute of each column.
 The method of turning on the lights at night will be original At first the visitor will notice myriads of little jets of light throughout the ex- position where batteres of search lights throw their rays against the jewels in the towers and above the figures of the stars around the Court of Sun and Stars; then from behind the columns of the colonnades that line the walls of the buildings the light will break out, flooding the mu- ral decorations with radiance; then will come the great white light throughout the exposition, and finally sc1ntilIators anchored six hundred yards off the esplanade will direct their batteries of co1ored lights throughout the exposition grounds. + These scintillators will be manned by fifty sixty men who are drilled to handle the batteries of lights in much the same manner that artillerymen are drilled. 'The effect says MT Ryan, will be marvellous. The bat teries will go through evoIutions of color, forming auroras in the sky and over the exposition, that will spread like a great lily. On clear nights the shafts of light will be visible for ty or fifty miles,
 The shafts of coIored light meeting in the heavens will produce marvel effects, color painting with the skies as canvas. But he who deals with light rays obtains results far removed from those attained by the artist who works with pigments. The reason IS that the painter in mixing his pig nents is most frequently dealing with Impure colors The painter takes q yellow pigment and a blue pigment,