the columns of the Tower of Jewels and concealed in each of the Italian
towers, as well as in the open spaces in and around the dome of Festival
Hall. These are always turned on first. The Tower of Jewels then glows
with a soft mellow red, less brilliant, but warmer and more colorful
than its incandescence later on. The rich light wells up from the
Italian towers and Festival Hall, and spreads from all their openings to
stain the walls around with deep rose.

Then the ray of a searchlight falls on the Bowman atop the Column of
Progress, silhouetting that heroic figure in the night as though he
floated at a great height above the earth. Beams from other searchlights
cause the Nations of East and West to stand out with startling
distinctness on their triumphal arches; the great bulls of the Court of
Seasons glow against the night; the golden fires are lighted in the
Court of Ages. The tall masts around the palaces softly illuminate the
walls. First one side and then another of the Tower of Jewels is bathed
in white light, until the Tower stands out in ghostly radiance. Two
slender shafts of light shoot upward on either side of the globe atop
the Tower and stand there, symbols of pure aspiration reaching to the
heavens. Behind it all the huge and many-colored fan of the Scintillator
opens in gorgeous color in the northern sky.

The illumination is at its best on a misty night. Then its spectacular
effects become more spectacular. The moisture in the air provides a
screen to catch the colored lights and make them visible in their
fullest beauty. The Exposition recognized this need of a background for
the great beams of the Scintillator when it provided for the clouds of
steam that are nightly sent floating upward through the shafts of
colored light. Nothing brings out the wonder of the Court of Ages at
night like mist or fog. On the first night that all the illumination was