People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — A Grand Sight. [ARTICLE]

A Grand Sight.

One of the greatest spectacular performances at the Cotton States and International exposition thi§ fall will be the reproduction in fire-wdrks of the storming of Wei-hai-wei. in the recent war between China and Japan. The performance will begin with the first night of the exposition and continue every night for nearly a month. Immence scaffoldings will be erected on the north end of the lake, on whidh will be stretched the painted scenery of the company. The position is one that may be plainly seen from almost any part of the grounds. Hundreds of real Chinese and Japanese will be in the production, and the sight will be extremely realistic. The attack of the Japs will be made from the lake in ships modelled after the Ja panese war vessels. The storm

ing parties will land in the face of a terrific cannonade and the city of Wei-hai-wei will be taken by storm. Over a thousana dollars’ worth of fireworks will be burned at every performance. It is probably the grandest and most realistic scenic production of the age, and will be one of the greatest attractions in the spectacular way at the exposition.