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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ILLUMINATED STREET, MILWAUKEE trucks, and lighted by 6000 lights of different colors. Theyconsisted of a variety of subjects, presented without anyaim at continuity of idea, but solely for their picturesquebeauty and scope for fantastic display of form, color andeffulgent light. The first float was a fac-shnile of the battleship Wiscon-sin, and, under the strong lights that focused on the spot,she seemed a real ship afloat on a white sea. Severalmusical chariots, decorated with swans necks, whoseheads extended far in advance of the charioteers, dispersedradiance and music at the same time. The float carrying yo6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVI. No. 31. Rex was draped with foliage of tropical abundance. Theking stood up in the midst of four columns, surroundedby hundreds of lights, which added an effect of royalsplendor to his luxurious and majestic appearance. A striking float was that in which the Goddess of Lightstood on a sun bristling with golden rays, covered with
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VIEWS AT NIGHT OF TWO OF THE ILLUMI electric lights, driving two prancing white horses. On thenext float was a half godlike figure, poised on one foot,readyto fly from the banked clouds of Olympus on someworld-wide errand. Comus, the king of laughter, and Jupiter, the kingof gods and men, were two very attractive floats. A repre-sentation of Hades followed, which gave the public a realis- Another float was founded on the Mother Goose tale ofThe Three Wise Men of Gotham and their nautical ex-periences. The sea, with green and blue waves tossedmountain high, was there, and in the midst, emphasized bya corona of light that came from fifty lamps, was a bowlthat carried the three immortal men. Another float represented a dragon, with its writhingfolds fitted in every joint with clusters of white lights. Probably the most in-teresting of all the floatswas the one that broughtup the rear. It was sym-bolical, and representedthe ideal Prince Carnivaland his court. All raceswere represented in

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