Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-12
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Myriad of MuIti-CoIored Electric
Lights and Gay Flags to Make
Downtown District Of City Rival
Magic Cities Of Old Legends.
Official Decorator for Imperial
Council, Here, Starts Prep
arations for Decorations Which
Promise to Surpass All Others.

Down Marietta street a shop is in
operation whose work soon will turn
Atlanta into a~city Of as many colars
as any rainbow mat ever glittered- II
is the laboratory Of Charles W. Good
man. of Seattle, official decorator Of
the Imperial Council Of Shriners that
will meet in Atlanta May 10. And in
it is being planned Atlanta's expendi-
ture Of $500 for decoration pur-
poses.
It will not be long before Peaehtree
and Whitehall will become a thor
oughfare OF mosques and minarets.
On every white way post on the
main streets a tower OF many spires
will be raised. On the others theirs
will be huge electric lighted swords
and erescents. glittering pyramids.
and flags and bunting draping the
whole
Buildings To BE Draped.
Every building Of any size down
town viii be draped in bunting. Mr..
Goodman estimates that in the deco-
ration scheme more than $4,000
American flags, each from six to If
teen feet long. will be used, and about
rs, 600 yards Of bunting of red, yel-
low and green, the official colors Of
the Shriners Already the decorate
ors have contracted with the owners
Of office buildings, store buildings
and the largest hotels from the Ter
minal and Union Stations out to the
Georgian Terrace.
The scheme of decoration in each
case is elaborate. About every wins
dow and door of each building viii be
draped in festoons of red, yellow and
green intertwined with American
flags. On each facade there win be
many of the gay Shriner shields and
the huge Shriner emblems, each to be
lighted by dozens of electric lights.
decorations Costly.
But the browning and costly feature
of the decoration scheme will be the
arrangement of the downtown lamp
posts. From each Of the posts the
FIVE white globes will be removed. and
electric lighted Shrine emblems will
be placed instead The emblems will
vary On the lamp posts along White
hall and Peachtree streets miniature
temples will be placed-and they are
not so small at that, being about three
feet square and five feet tall. Trans-
parent celluloid in the sides Of the
temples furnish a means for the ennis
sion of light. In the center of the
open space Of each temple a plaster
camel, one foot high, is placed. and
each temple bears the name of GER
tain Shrine organization. Of which
there are 1877 in all This decoration
will cost $40 for each post, it is este
mated
On the other lamp posts about tho
city the globes win be replaced by tall
pyramids of plaster, punctured by
holes in the shape OF stars and cres-
cepts as outlets for the light still
Others will bear electric designs Of
scimitar-and- crescent shape.
Yaarabs Give $4,000.
Yaarab Temple has donated ap-
proximately $4,000 to pay for street
decorations. and 1t is likely that of
ace building managers, downtown
hotel companies will ex-
pend twice that much for the decora-
ton Of their buildings.
In the laboratory Of the official dec
orator, at No. So Marietta street. ar
lists are at work sketching each Of
the larger buildings of the city In coll
ors, painting in the decorations OF
lights and bunting as they will be dis
rosed. Thus there will be a definite
architectural scheme Of decoration ton
each building.
The decorations are being prepared
in the workshop, the electrical designs
made by the combined efforts Of cleo.
tricians, painters. and plaster scuip-
tors. Artists are there. also, to draw
huge canvases in water color. de@
picting scenes OF the desert symbolic
Of the Ancient and Arabic Order
A force OF no less than 100 men
will be employed in the decoration OF
the streets and buildings, once the ae-
tual work of executing the designs il
begun Il is likely that they win be-
gin placing the decorations May 3. =
week before the shriners basin to a.
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