Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1901 — PROFUSION OF LIGHT. [ARTICLE]

PROFUSION OF LIGHT.

More Tlinn Three Hundred Thousand Lamps at Pan-American. It has been said that the Pan-Amer-ican Exposition will be a Rainbow City by day and City of Light by night, and if this be true it should prove the most beautiful sight of its kind ever created for the delectation of the human vision. Much has been written about the illuminations of the Exposition, but the public is scarcely aware of the magnificence of the scene which is to be created by the use of incandescent lights in such generous profusion about the main court of the Exposition and the buildings immediately surrounding it. When one says that 300,000 of these lights are to be used, the figures look large, but they are nevertheless true. Nor does this include all the lights that are to be used in the general illumination of the Exposition, for on the Midway several concessions, such as the Thompson Aerie Cycle, Streets of Mexico and some others will use as many as 2,000 lights each. In the buildings and about the border of the grounds will be arc lights, while incandescent lamps will also be used by many individual exhibitors. Thus the figures 300,000 will be considerably increased. The illumination of the Electric Tower is going to be not only astonishing and novel, but truly artistic.