The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-04

~ ARSTON CAMPBELL has
N bought for the Carnival the
= steam fireworks apparatus Of the
Pacific International Exposi.
ton. The octopus, the snakes, the
plumes, the feathers and all lie here in
storage, ready to squirrn and writhe and
wiggle and wave ON the, last night of
the Carnival. They will be turned loose
pageant of illuminated ,sampans, floats,
motor boats, pulling boats, and canoes,
and display of aerial pyrotechnics
which will be an exact duplicate of
Edison Night at the San Francisco fair.
This is the New Years surprise Mr..
Campbell told the Carnival directors a
few days ago he had been saving for
the public. No steam fireworks Of any
sort ever have been seen here. and the
hombardment of maroons, dynamite
bombs, giant rockets, and ge star
shells which win constitute the final
salvo Of the aerial display will be so
much more brilliant than anything else
ever attempted here that, for purposes
of comparison, 1t is undefstAtement TO
say that the effects will be wholly new.
Magical and Beautiful
All operations will be in charge of
W. f. Priestley Of the Hit Fireworks
Company, Seattle, who personally super,
Intended the exhibition given at the
fair in honor of Thomas A. Edison, on
Edison Night, October 81. San Fran
ciscans who saw every fireworks display
given during the life of the fair pro-
nounced Edison Night the most magical
of all. Islanders who were there that
night say it was wonderful and beauti.
ful beyond imagination. All Mr.. Camp
hell 5 friends in whom he has confded
his plans have cOmplimented him on OBJ
tanning for the 1916 Carnival the best
drawing card ever offered in Honolulu.
Locomotives Furnish Steam
At the San Francisco fair. the steam
was supplied by Southern Pa
cife locomotive blocked up on
the Marina. Three engines lent by
the Oahu Railway and Land Com.
pany . will u, furnish the steam
here The apparatus itself will be
mounted on the oil barge Bennington,
lent by Castle & Cooke, agents for the
Matson Navigation Company, owners Of
the Remington. And the searchlights
are the gift for the night of the army.
Without this cooperation, the produc-
ton would be impossible. ...
The snake and octopus effects are OBJ.
tanned by the pressure of the steam as
1t gushes through perforated lines of
hose. The flexible tubing writhes and
thrashes about, as a fire hose may some
times be seen to do when the fremen
have difficulty in holding the nozzle
true. Huge pinwheels of iron piping
are built on the same plan as the fami-
liar garden water-sprinkler. Plumes
and feathers are initiated by jets from
MOBILES and perforated piping.
Rare Spectacle In Colors
As the wheels spin. the snakes writhe,
and the jets and plumes wave in the
night air, the shifting beams of cOlOred
light playing on the aeecy steam and
thick smoke give blended tones Of
translucent color comparable only to
those of the rainbow.
The night s program will open with
salvO of ten dynamite maroons fired
simultaneously. At the same mOmeut,
the, steam fireworks apparatus will be.
gin, to hiss and the battery of search,
lights will shoot its dazzling rays on
the, rising clouds of smoke and vapor.
In the distance will appear the illum
mated flOtilla of the water pageant,
slowly nearing the judges stand. Across
their path and above their heads, the
aerial display will continue to burst in
streaks and spatters of fire.
Kamehameha In Robes
As the flOtilla passes in review, there
will be a pause in the bOmbardment
and, while the water craft withdraw to
their stations, Kamehameha the Great,
spear in hand, and clad in Burning
robes, suddenly will blaze out against
the background of the darkness.
His image will fade into the night
and the closing salvo, consisting of the
simultaneous explosion Of $50 gigantic
dynamite bombs and flight of twenty
four huge rockets, will burst forth,
while the searchlights will play again
on the spOuting columns of steam and
smoke. Then another hush.
Booml SiZz! bang! and, high In the
skies, the American flag will font in