Evening star., 1921-11-11
FESTIVAL OF LIGHT
;EQBE MAGNIFICENT
S,:.
Whole City to Glow in Vast
iTs>.:' Flood of Brilliant y
Illumination.
PLANS UNPRECEDENTED
Glittering Portal and Rays. of
~. Aurora to Shine in Beau
ae.rs.. teous Display.

aivsrsary. and in welcome to the con-
ference on the Limitation OF arma-
ment. which opens on that date, the
nations capital will throb with a
mighty glow and thrill with mag
nihcent illumination the nights OF
November II and IL.
A great jeweled portal. approached
through an avenue Of light. gor-
seous with illuminated banners and
Roman lamps. will stand as spar
kHna threshold to the conference
famous Capitol will be seen against
the rays of an impressive aurora
borealis, visible afar throughout the
city and beyond. And the towering
Washington Monument will be shaft
of cleaning light from top to bot,
tom, while edifices of note Will stano
out in glow Of whitest fioodilsht.
.tl,.c 1850, 900 900 CandIepower.
Battery upon battery of search
lights and floodlights will be trained
upon. these various spots. They Will
represent. IN their inconceivable vol
ume OF light, the combined strength
of -4.95o,000.o00 candles: More than
thirty searchlights will play upon
the jeweled portal, setting a-sparkle
jewels of many coiors.
Even the wonderful lighting effects
of the Panama-Pacifc international
exposition will be surpassed In some
respects by this spectacle So de-
clares Director OF illumination w:
D'A. Ryan. illuminating engineer OF
the. General Electric Company. VINO
also planned the lighting effects at
the exposition.
For the Washington display Mr.
Ryan Is working with the illumlna-
tf6n. committee. Of which Howard S.
Reeside is chairman. The celebra-
rion has been arranged by the LIS
1rict Of Columbia. Districc Commits
sfoner c. H. Rudolph is chairman or
the general committee.
Ieweled Portal at 18th and b.
The dazzling central spot of the
Illumination will be the jeweled por-
tai at the intersection OF 18th and
building. and close to the official home
of the Limitation of armament con-
ference.
There a gateway of radiance: Of
Roman design. but more brilliant
than Rome ever knew, will be con,
rise eighty-five feet. and between
them. will be suspended a splendid
jeweled curtain over a span of eighty
six feet six inches.
Upon this tapestry, in great CEN
trail sunburst. will be seen the flags
and the coats of arms of the eight
visiting nations participating in the
conference-Belgium China, France
Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Neither
lands and Portugal.
The curtain will bear scheme of
interviewer designs. traced in jewels
in the sun by day and in the flood
lights by night. OF these jewels
$4,000 will be in crystal and jonquil
and $500 in ruby, aquamarine, anne
thyst, topaz and emerald.
Eour-Burner Lamps to Line Way.
- The street that leads to this arch
way Of light and color will be IL
blocks, as the Avenue of Light. Rows
Of four-burner Roman lamps. with
fiaring, torchlike flames, will line
both sides from the Corcoran Arr
Gallery to the conference building
This effect will be produced by il
display will be accomplished by cleo
Other unusual effects will be seen
at this point In front of the Pan
American building. the building OF
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, the Red Cross building and
the District of'Columbia building on
Pennsylvania avenue will stand six
teen heraldic banner standards. SIM
liar to those which were erected i'll
the South gardens of the Panama
Pacific international exposition. These
hI1dings will all have illuminated
fronts and their porticos will be
batIed in concealed. rose-tinted rays.
while all flags will be food-lighted.
The illumination of the jeweled
curtain and the obelisks will be pro-
vided by thirty eighteen-inch arc
&c In, r.
teen each, supplemented by six sixty
inch =. open-type army searchlights
operated by Cadillac generating
equipment which were made in the
Lynn works Of the General Electric
Company.
Monument to Shine.
'The Washington monument will be
literally washed in light. Four bat
teries Of eighteen-inch searchlights
witt be located at the base of the
nioiitlment Their rays will shoot
straight up each side of the shaft
and will go on into space as far as
human eyes can see.
From the top of the monument
sixteen eighteen-inch arc searchlights
wi1f illuminate the White House. the
Lincoln Memorial. the dome of the
Capitol, the United States Naval
Observatory. the amphitheater at
arlington. the Soldiers Home and
the building of the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing. AS the monu-
arent is but a few hundred feet away
from the site of the jeweled arch, all
these lights will link together the
principal sections of the city.
Superimposed upon this rich dis
play will be the particularly specta-
cular Tight Of the states" which will
appear as an aurora borealis. This
will be located in front of the Con-
grsssional Library, and so set that
it's main axis will coincide with Penn
sylvania avenue. With the dome Of
the Capitol as it's center, the aurora
will spread outward and upward over
the entire city and will be visible
for miles around.
sAurora to Have 1.92O,OOO.OOO c. v.
The combined beam candlepower of
the fights in the aurora borealis will
be equivalent to the light Of 1,920,-
100000 candles. The eighteen Inch
searchlights in the various batteries
Will throw a combined light equiva-
lent. to that of 630.o00,00O candles:
While the six sixty-i1ich searchlights
light Of 2.4oO,O00,000 candles. The
total combined power of all the great
searchlights and f1oodlights will be
equivalent to the light Of 4,950,000,00
candles. ~
Electric power for operating the
the eighteen-inch searchlights will be
provided by twelve Cadillac sets.
Power for the light Of the states will
be: furnished by the electric power
plant Of the Capitol. The rest Of the
power needed win come from the
Potomac Electric Power Company.
The gas required will be furnished
by, the Washington Gas Light Com
fha portal. which will resemble a
goteeous necklace Of jeweled lace