Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-09-08
IDEAS MUST Be
NEW IN DISPLAYS
Of FIRE WORKS
The Critical Public Demands
Something More Now Than
Flash and Noise Wilson
WIT Produce the Goods,

I'm ~ recent letter te W r.. Ne
crrrbt who has charge of the fire
,orss displays at the approaching
bi- state fair. which will open here
October tl and continue during that
week. VI. II. Wilson, of the Wilson
Fireworks company Los Angeles
writes that the fireworks exhibitions
h. Will put on here will practically be
tha same he gave at Electric park.
Kansas City. Mo. the same that he
b9s shown at both the san Francisco
and san Diego eNpositions, except
that he promises to have a few new
and extremely interesting set pieces
here and which his experts are now
working out Visitors to the state
fair In october and thousands viii
come from all over the southwest. will
witness the graudest exhibitions Of
fireworks ever given anywhere in the
country
In commenting ON the Wilson fire
works In Kansas City. the Star Of that
city had this to say:
Apple Center can work up a world
of excitement over the annual display
Of rockets and roman candles but the
tlase fireworks spectators of the big
cities demand more than a flash ana
noise for their amusement
wv 81. Wilson of Los Angeles.
began trying many years ago to give
the city people what they wanted in
the way Of fireworks, and some of the
results of last winters study by Mr..
Wilson have been on view this week
at Electric park Wilson had his
early training at the Crystal Palace,
London IN fireworks The greatest
speetacles Of this kind are put on
year after year for the amusement Of
the English and they take more than
childish delight in the displays.
There are bombs IN Wilson's rep
ertoire thar can be thrown into the
water Hshted without eXtinguishing
the blaze in any why or marring in
any way the volume of flames thrown
up, fountamlike, from The water.
others float i'm the air with several
ounces OF magnesia burning intensely
white for a minute without showing
any signs Of coming down and then
float away i'm a charred mass at the
same altitude they had when first
burned
~ is in the moving picture i'm
flames that the modern inventor of
fireworks cXcels Whether it is sew
eral cruisers built of fuse and other
clmhustible matter that sail gaily
over water to attack a fort of similar
material or a cannon That is wheeled
automatically into action against a
soaring airship, it is seemingly all the
same to the inventor The inventions
perform with the certainty of a cir
Gus horse and an illusion is created
that is satisfying and a bit mystify-
ing.
I'm order to produce any sort Of
illusion in moving fireworks, every
thing must operate like clockwor5. If
there is, for instance, tweve-foot
Indian shooting an owl, the bird must
be Tapping It's wings and the arrow
shot by the Indian must hit its ob-
ject Furthermore, after being struck
by the arrow, the owl must drop.
Looks easy, and sounds easy but
'rhe same is true with william
Tell shooting the apple off his sons
head II wouldn't do at all for the
arrow to muss UP the boys features
This is not an outside possibility for
the arrow must travel fast to create
the Illusion of having been shot from
the bow Being composed only Of
powder and frame and the boy him
SELF q creation of the same material
missing inevitably would result from
any hitch or bad direction Of the ar
row
Mr. Wilson has. too. several big
spectaelos One Of them The Discov-
cry Of the North Pole only an ola
hand at the fireworks business would
try TO represent a region of snow and
ice with flames
The possibilities Of color effects
IN the aurora boreaiis We're irresisti-
ole In this spectacle there also Is
shown explorers, dogs, sleds, snow
storm with swirlng masses of white
and other little features that popular
imagination associates with that desc
late suot'