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The wonders of the lighting achievements are best observed at the close of the day. The first pulse of current adds a mysterious glow to the daylight which still remains. Gradually the Tower of Jewels is seen to rise above the deepening shadows of the night and the prismatic colors of over a hundred thousand jewels lightly suspended about its peak intensify, forming a vision of glowing beauty never to be forgotten.

A mosquito fleet of searchlights with 200 tiny rays brings out the Star Figures in the Court of Honor; the Italian Towers loom above the facades and colonnades which form the outline of a new world where darkness is unknown.

Imagine two fountains in the Court of the Universe lighted with half a million candle-power and yet free from glare. Picture, if you can, fireless fireworks, steam effects and smoke bombs, kaleidoscopic changes on walls and domes, colors everywhere, and over all the "Aurora Borealis" and hundreds of lighting effects produced by the huge Scintillator in the Yacht Harbor, with over two and a half billion candle-power in searchlights at its command.

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