Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-02
NIGHT EXHIBITIONS
At THE YORK FAIR
Great Display of Fireworks; Many
Amusement Features Are
Scheduled

During the night exhibitions at the
York Fair the week of October 8, one
of the greatest display of fireworks
ever given in this section of Pennsyl-
vania will be provided. 1t will last
about an hour and half and will be
bat feature of the night show. The
display will be of bewildering brili-
ance and of immense variety, as a
glance at the following features Will
show The exhibition will open with
a salute of twenty-one nine-inch aer-
ial maroons. The ground will be illu-
minated with thirty-siX big lights,
which will change colors A great
electric canopy will be formed by dis
charging special shells, with forty
five Japanese gold stars. This canopy
will spread over 750 feet of space.
There will also be a canopy of a starry
flag, showing red, white and blue
stars.
This will be followed by floating
arachutes and stars, and electric
spreader batteries; the fountains of
Versailles, spouting whirling fire of
many colors; hanging chains of fire,
parachutes and clouds of diamond
dust, triple fifteen break Toxic bombs
with a spread of 1000 feet; a mann
moth Interchangeable twenty-four
break bomb, which when breaking re-
leases eight shells, bursting into a
canopy with green rosettes the whole
spreading 500 feet; flying eagles, from
two set pieces, which swoop and dart
down and back finally breaking into
a canopy of golden rain through which
dart electric flashes; floral batteries,
meteoric displays, the pyrotechnic cut
tleish of fire with long, radiating ten
tacles, all under silver cloud; the
northern lights; grand flight of dra-
gon files, weeping willows, evening
sunset wheel, heavenly searchlights,
steamship siren with signal flashlight;
American mandarin, jeweled jets,
floating festoons of everchanging
lights, sweet violets, hanging chains
Of Babylon, golden shower battery
device, mammoth interchangeable
forty-fiVe break Toxic bomb
special display which releases a
revolving wheel and finally a tinted
meteor will be a novelty. There will
be mystic wheels. diamond dust bat
teries, special combination bombshells
aerial wonder shells, overs of the
garden, flying eagle. moth and flame
device covering $50 feet of aerial
swans, heavy artillery; the Arabs
dream of silver hued tent with Grim
son stripes; Niagara Falls, squalls
ahead, Old Glory, magn esum wheels,
special exhibit of five electric foun-
tains each twenty feet high: an eight
piece set SHOWING an lnulan rGNOlu-
ton, a battle in the clouds, composed
of four set pieces. with electric foun-
tains, etc, the whole covering $500
feet of space; an engagement on the
firing line. ending In binding cannon
aiding; a battle of airships, aerial bou-
quet, and a final grand cannonade.
The above will be interspersed with
other features. some of them to be
surprises, but enough has been men
toned to show that the display will
be exceptional magnitude and beauty.
The list of free attractions has not
yet been completed. So far as arrang-
ed there will be three orchestras-
Gaul's, of Baltimore; Wallace's, of
Cleveland, and the Springgarden or
chestra, of this city. Other free at
fractions will include Herbert's Fly
ing Troupe of six people in two acts,
| the Four Marvellous Mells in aerial
ring acts; SeaSrets trained horses, the
Florence Hurlsey troup of aerialists.
composed of six men and two women
Carwile Brothers with Miss Grace
| Darlington, aeronaut, who will make
from five to seven parachute drops,
and Fink's comedy mules, which also
compromises a company of dogs, a
monkey and six people. Lafayette
stock farms champion big six horse
team of the world; Lozona troup of
seven people, greatest and largest
troup of live wire performers in the
world.