The Washington times., 1923-06-01
LAY On
3 NIGH IS
To MAKE
RECORD
Greatest Exhibition Ever Given
Is Arranged by Shriners.
Crowds Pour Into City.

The greatest fireworks display
ever seen III the National Capital
has been arranged for next week.
Al great display on Thursday
night will eclipse any other ever
seen here ia itself, and III addi-
ton there will be huge displays
Monday and Tuesday nights and
great daylight display Tuesday
afternoon in connection with the
Congress Of the Seas.
Forty truck loads Of fireworks
came into Washington today from
the international Fireworks Conn
pany, which has arranged TIE
programs. The displays win Be.
In charge of Samuel Serpico and
George b. Jackson, heads of the
company and known as the na-
tons leading pyrotechnic experts.
WIN Follow Pageant.
The huge display OF THURSDAY
night will be given Immediately fol.
lowing the Masonic pageant and just
prior to the Dance OF the States. It
will be staged on the EI1ipse, and
number of immense set pieces win
be used.
The display viii begin with the
firing OF 101 aerial salutes, all In one
flight. A huge set piece, which viii
move around the field. viii show q
Shrine candidate mounted on Q huge
green goat, crossing the hot sands
and pursued by three Arab horse
men with spears, prodding him on
his painful way.
This will be followed by q huge
set covering 400 square /, feet and
showing a huge bouquet Of Aneri-
can beauty roses, with the blooms
and foliage in fire Of the natural col.
ors. AS this fades away q monster
illuminated Shrine emblem win ap-
pear.
Other Mammoth Pieces.
Three mammoth set pieces, cover.
ing $50 square feet. will show in
colored fire, pictures Of President
Harding, the imperial potentate. and
IIlustrious Potentate Leonard T..
Steuart, of Almas Temple.
Twelve eighteen-inch shells win
be fired from mortars and will
burst, from six of them coming,
huge silk United States flags and
from the other six, Shrine flags
These flags. attached to parachutes.
will be illuminated by $4,000 candle
power magnesium flares also at
tached to the parachutes during
their slow drop to the ground
The greatest flight OF aerial
shells ever fired will follow. Eight
hundred shells will be fired from
as many mortars by the action or
one fuse, set off by electricity and
will burst. showing flowers, weeping
willows, pl esnratic canopies, and
colors of every kind known to
man.
The whole show will include 1000
shells, four of which will be worth
$4,000.
Monday night and Tuesday night
displays will be staged at the Capi.
tol and Treasury Department
grounds simultaneously. Five flights
of shells will be used, totaling see
in all, divided between the two
nights. For q period of about three
hours each night shells will be fired
alternately from each end at APP
proximately two minute intervals.
There will be ten flights Of twelve
shells each of the twelve inch size
and an equal number of the fifteen
inch. the display including, every
variety of effect. Comets and Jets
are listed and as a sensational serial
"terbs'' will be fired. A jerb, 10 o
shell containing seventy-two gran.
dose niger chasers. which are
fired upon the bursting OF the
shell and fly off erratically In
every direction. There will be an
immense battle-in-the clouds shell,
which will produce LA flashes OF
lightning and detonations.
Among the other pieces Wt4 hoIG