The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-03-06
Washington
IN GaLAaTTIRE:
MONDAY NIGHT
ILLUMINATION MOST GORGEOUS
I'M THE HISTORY OF THE MA
TiONAL CAPITAL -A ALL PUBLIC
BUILDINGS ABLAZE.


wide avenues and public buildings, the
beams Of many searchlights playing
ON the dome of the capitol Peace
Monument ard the Court OF Honor,
and the artillery OF a mammoth pyro-
technical display at the Washington
monument grounds tonight brought
the inaugural festivities to a close.
Pennsylvania avenue was a broad,
bright line Of yellow light, a mile-long
colonnade set with illuminated courts
at five points between the Capitol and
the White House. At each of these
Courts of State" the avenue was
bridged with festoons Of glowing bulbs
sweeping in graceful lines rom tall
pillars of white and intertwined with
eyergreens. All public buildings were
ablaze with lights and many of the
larger private buildings also were
aglow.
The white dome Of the capitol stood
out boldly, a silver patch against
the sky. The famous Bartholdi foun.
tain in the Botanic garden was bathed
in light and the clear-cut lines of the
Peace Monument seemed to nave writ,
ten into them the spirit Of life by the
long silver pencils Of many search.
lights.
At~-the Washington monument
grounds, where a great crowd saw
the fireworks display, the night was
a riot Of bursting shells and color.
Peace and war scenes We'd for the
ascendancy in the program, the burst
ing shells alternating with cascades of
silver fire, waterfalls in the clouds,
and splendid color fantasies portray
ing in fire vast gardens and blossoms.
"Spiderland' was represented by
lthe simultaneous bursting, half a
mile in the air, Of fifty bombs which
spread a silver web against the sky
over which countless fiery insects
crawled Wheels of flame skidded
from the earth into space. breaking
into clusters of many-colored stars. IL
Illuminated parachutes dropped from
bursting bombs, floating gracefully
into darkness and ashes. Wilson
Peace Bombs" eighteen ffteen-inca
shells broke above the heads of the
throng, showering thousands Of stars
which turned alternately red white
and blue.
\ spectacular feature was the repro.
duction In flame 1000 feet in the air.
of huge American flag, 500 feet
long. "The Field Of the Cloth Of
Cold with forty.eight rapid fire ex.
plosions spread a yellow mantle 1,2OO
feet long over the heads Of the crowd.
A field bombarlmont represented by
the simultaneous discharge of 1000
rockets, shot 10000 colored stars into
the sky
Niagarl Falls, 100 feet high. was
reproduced In silver nro. followed by
Sunset in the Alps" gorgeous color
study against 2 background Of snow.
clad peaks. The Southern Cross. in
flaming rlory was projected in hugo
dimensions against the heavens. a py
rotechnical scarchlight PLAYING its
lights upon It as It melted into dark
ness Sixteen electrical fountains
Ie1outing fire, were portrayed stimuli
nncously followed ny a mammoth
bouquet Of roses, painted IN changing
I colora.
The on'igo city at enc stage Of the
program was lighted by the BURSTING
Iof hundreds of large bombs. fred a
mile into the air.
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