North Entrance to Court of Ages
“Daughter of Neptune” or “Aquatic Life,” large female figure in north Court of Ages, by Sherry E. Fry.
Planting: eucalyptus, acacia, laurel.
Features That Ought to Be in Noted by Night
Illumination
Three kinds of light used; white arc lamps, extensively behind banners and shields to flood facades of outer walls and Court of Four Seasons; warmer light of Mazda lamps in clear and colored globes; and searchlights concealed on tops of buildings trained on towers and on high groups of sculpture.
Lighting scheme and scope completed long before buildings were up; made possible by advance in illuminating engineering, developed under name of science of lighting and art of illumination.
Chief of Department of Illumination, Walter D’Arcy Ryan, of the General
Electric Company, Schenectady, New York; field assistant, A. F.
Dickerson.
Ornamental details of lighting standards and fixtures, designed by J. W.
Gosling; designs made at Illuminating Engineering Laboratories,
Schenectady.
Keynote of lighting scheme - life and gaiety, without garishness.
Lighting kept subordinate to architecture; walks shaded to throw emphasis on brilliantly lighted facades and to bring out architecture, landscape and flowers. Same lighting principle used throughout; but effect in different courts radically different.
Area of surface illuminated, 8,000,000 square feet; 2,000,000 of wall surface, and 6,000,000 of ground surface.
Number of searchlights used: 373 arc searchlights, in diameter from 13 to 36 inches; 450 small searchlights, called the “Mosquito Fleet”; 250 incandescent projectors for flag lighting.