Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — BATTLE IN THE CLOUDS [ARTICLE]

BATTLE IN THE CLOUDS

Pain’s Great Aerial Spectacle | At the Indiana State Fair. ! The most elaborate spectacle ever [offered at the Indiana State Fair will Ibe given the week of September 12, when Pain’s new pyrxiero-milltary display, "Battle in the Otouds” is presented. It will be a big night attraction of the fair, given on and above the infield of the racetrack, where 26,000 people may witness It in comfort. Experience of other years has shown fair management that the crowds cannot all be taken care of at the night horse show in the colteegm, and “Battle in the Clouds’’ has been provided to give pleasure to as many thousands as may go to the exposition in the tvs nlng. “Battle in the Clouds” undertakes to give a look into the mode of w&r fare which may prevail in the year 2,000 A. D., when airships, aeroplanes, herial torpedoes and gas grenades become the engines of human conflict. The spectacle will require a stage 400 feet long, behind which Will be stretched sceneries reaching to sixty feet in height, showing a progressive city °of the time. On its streets will be several hundred men [and women in costumes to enjoy a fete day, with processions, sports and acrobatic pastimes. When the fete is fat its height, wireless messages bring word of the approach of an enemy’s air fleet, and suddenly the scouting vanguard floats over the city. The forts open fire with electric shells, driving the aerial monstesu Into retreat, but soon the main fhset advances and opens the attack. ■ The fort and the fleet open a terrific bombardment of fire sheila, aerial torpedoes and-hursting bombs, filling the heavens with fire, electric flashes and [thunderous detonations. Some of the alrshipß are disabled and leave the ering line; one explodes high In the lr; another becomes disabled and dashes to the ground, its man escaping In parachutes. The airships bombard the city's fortifications with high explosives, fire balls and grenades. BatAery after battery is silenced and finally the magazine is blown up. Towers jand buildings in the city fall and burn and devastation and ruin follows. The spectacle is marked by vividness and thrilling excitement, and Includes elaborate vaudeville. sad firework*.