Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-05

right of the line and the story of how
these displays were wired and lighted
is story in itself. Great trunk lines
carried across the Walnut street bridge
and were swung down upon the flats.
Close to the bridge was the orders
own display-a cleaning replica of
Jove perched high overhead while red
flames licked and curled around his
feet AS the lights flashed on Jove's
/ electrically green eyes glared across
the water. And the tiny spirals Of
steam from many perforated pipes
caught the changing flashes of food
lishts-and one had the effect of
mounting flames in the breeze.
Next was a great glaring tip to
! Boost Harrisburg" picked out in red
electric lights and over this "Old
| Glory" flashed in waves of red, white
and blue light. And then there was
the electric fountain. Rising and fall
ing in mist-like waves that was caused
/ by scores of tiny sprays, an effect of a
cloud of red, green and amber mist
was had from the bank in a way that
you must have seen to appreciate.
Carrying Water and Light
But that wasn't the extent of the
of the long line of decorated boats
reached the South street rock here
and there in the course splashes of
strange light appeared on the surface
| of the stream. And the lights seemed
to come from below. They DID come
from below; submarine light has
been successfully tried out in Harris
burg for the first time.
The Jovians had stretched electric
current and a long line of hose from
the shore across the Walnut street
bridge to the floats to solve the ques-
ton of transportation of light and
water; they solved the submarine
problem in a different way.
Lights From Below
Fifty bright new tin buckets, much
| like the kind the charwoman uses
round the office, were sunk at twenty
foot intervals in the river bottom. The
weight of the water held them down
In the bottom of each a connection
was made with a feed cable that
stretched along the river bed. This
was swung down from the steps. In
| the, bottom of each bucket was a six
teen candle power light. So at a given
signal, a button was pressed-and the
fish who had been hiding on the river
bottom worriedly wondered what on
earth was coming off.
The display of the Jovians was
worked out by Clarence B. Lober, c.
K. Steinmetz and ]. c. Thompson, OF
the Lemoyne Light Company; the
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
financed the scheme and contributed
wiring construction work. steamers,
and Gilbert and Son, hardware mer-
chants contributed gratuitously the
necessary white paint while the c. Day
Rudy Company supplied free of charge
all the colored glass that was used for
the food lights.
The Bell Balloon
So much for the Jovians.
Now for the Bell Telephone Com
pany exhibit. All afternoon the pretty
float had attracted widespread atten-
ton but the real effect was had in
the evening when the lights were
turned on = and great yellow bal
loon scared sky-ward. Across the
waters the musical 1ingnng or IN
Vulnerable telephone bells added to
the effectiveness of the evening. The
big balloon slid upward for several
hundred feet and then as it drifted
about and tugged at it's anchor rope,
an electric sign calling attention to
the fact that the Bell boasts of 11,O29
'rhones in Harrisburg slid up the
rope All evening a big American
flag f1uttered from the balloon rope.
On Other Floats
The pretty detail of the Grecian
court of Dives, Pomeroy and Stewarts,
the Globe, the Strouse store, the Tele-
graph, David Kaufman's, and the
other prettily decorated floats kept a
blaze of light on the river. During
the evening the miniature battlefield of
Bowman and Company's store was
aglow with red lights which gave the
appearance of fleet of liners.
After all however, it was the decor
ated boat parade that gave the real
splendid touch to the river basin.
Hundreds and hundreds of canoes
swung slowly down the line and from
each teetered four or five or six or
eight or ten lanterns The executive
committee of the Navy at last had
solved the problem of the lack of
decorated canoes. In the future the
plan of providing free standards and
lanterns for every canoeist who ap-
plies for the equipment, will be fol-
lowed.
/ While the boat moved past the