Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-07-16
The Fourth I'm SAN Francisco.

the coming of the "glorious Fourth" Juvenile
San Francisco commenced a week before to
MAIN and multilate itself by dscharging gun,
powder from cast-iron pistols, and some half
dozen 6ngerless hands early attested the danger
of allowing the young idea to shoot. Every
small specimen of humanity from baby in nurses
arms TO baby's big brother etdt ten had been en-
thusiasticly waving miniature star-spangled ban
ners, and the popping of crackers, bursting of
bombs and general warlke nosiness of Saturday
and Sunday, were a fitting overture to the great
performance of Monday. Former national
niversaries have been so marred by political diff
ferences that it was with feeling of relief that
the public hailed the appointment of General
Cazneau to be marshal of the day, confident that
under his direction the celebration would rise
above petty partisanship and be worthy of the
Queen City of the Pacific That these antcipa-
tions have been more than realized is the uni
versal verdict and San Francisco congratu-
late itself on having had the grandest patriotic
demonstration ever this coast. Early
on Sunday flags, banners, streamers and ma
tional devices were thrown to the breeze, and in
many cases stores and private residences were
gaily decorated. Throughout the afternoon and
| evening small DOyS Dullt small STANDS on the
principal thoroughfares and drove a thriving
trade with other juveniles in crackers, bombs
| and fireworks, and it was with great difficulty
| that the feeble church.bels could be heard above
the din of EXPLOSIONS teebly ringing their usual
Sunday evening invitation to service. On Sun
! day night small army of workmen commenced
/ a systematic decoration of Montgomery street,
and though many a time has our local ' Broad
way" put on holiday attire, all former attempts
at adornment were as nothing compared to this.
Montgomery street was Il hutterng mass of flags.
They waved from every flagstaff, foated from
every window, and draped over every doorway,
were strung in rows from house to house, and in
addition several thousand small banners were
stretched at regular intervals across the street.
! Immense arches had been erected at the corners
! of Montgomery and Market, Bush and jackson
street, and from there the nations colors
displayed in profusiOn, while the fronts of many
of the buildings, from roof to basement, were
literally covered with the starry banner. 1t is
so very difficult to do say ythng original in
connection with the great anniversary that the
originator of new idea deserves special credit,
and such must be awarded to General CaZneau
for the happy thought that induced him to have
fac SMILES of the signatures appended to the
declaration of independence, painted in large
letters and stretched across the street. 1t was
early on Monday morning before these prepera-
tions were completed, and the guns of Acatraz
were already laundering salutatiOn to the day
when the last tired worker gathered up hammer
and nails and hastened home to don his holiday
garb. Long before the had dispelled the
usual morning mist, the streets began to he busy
with the unaccustomed traffic of pleasure seek
eTs The early boats came in crowded with
country visitors the San Jose railroad was al
most unable to accommodate the rush from its
way stations, and every road into the city was
thrOnged with stream of miscellaneous vehicles
each one loaded in manner that showed an
trayagant estimation o. what Il reasonable horse
could pail, BY seven O'Clock the streets were
thronged with people, staring with astonshment
| at the transformation Montgomery street had un-
dergone, strolling round the city front looking
at the gay wreathing of the shipping, or pro-
yidenty taking time by the fOrelOck and select
ing choice positions to view the procession
Soon after eight, struggling uniforms began to
appear mounted aids, besashed with many
cOlOrs, TO gallop recklessly to and fro and stout
musicians carrying all kinds of geometrcally-
shaped instruments to hurry to their rendezvous
Half an hour afterwards the musicians, consoli-
dated into brass-bands, drummed and trumpeted;
the struggling uniforms, now consolidated into
companies to the corner of Market and kearny
streets, where these still further conso-
dated into regiments, and these into divisions,
and these again into procession that must have
been two and a-haf miles in length If it were
possible to say anything about this procession
that has not been said about every similar pro-
cession for nearly century-if it were possible
to describe 1t as being something different from
any of the family of professions that for twenty
one fourths of July have paraded Montgomery
street-if it possible to use more brilliant
word-paintng, nicer-rounded sentences, or more
comprehensive adjectives in writing of this the
latest born of patriotic professions, than has
been already written of that the first born of II
anC every succeeding one then my willing pen
would gladly attempt the task, but if IA Shak-
mi a nif.l-a
the descriptive field and spur their genius to its
greatest effort the result would be merely a
repetition of what others have written as well
before, for all that it is possible for mortal man
to write about ndependence-day procession has
found its way to paper and print, and until
greater than Shakespeare or Dickens drinks in a
new draught OF inspiration, poems, Orations and
professions must be annually rehashed from old
efforts. 1t was cODgomeratiOn of cavalry, in
fantry, artillery, lrish-American, American-Irish
benevolent societies, temperance societies. re-
ligious societies, brass-bands, fire department
goddess of Liberty, schooIboys, butcher wagons
and harp of Erin, welded into IA mass by patriot
ism at ten o clock, disinegrated into individuals
by appetite at three. The goddess of Liberty
was there seated, of old, in her trumphal
car, looking as fresh and blooming if this was
her fifteenth instead of her ninety-ifth birthday
Jack Stratman was there, perfect moustached
hero, leading brigade of schoolboys on their
hTst mdTcn Oon mooney was tnefe, at the head
of the fire department, in all the glory of new
uniform and dignity. The American eagle was
there, so badly stuffed that its internal anatomy
of Saw-dust ran out, and the unfortunate bird
dropped and collapsed into skin and feathers
The other Mooney was there, riding in carriage,
his eyes beaming insurance, and his tongue talk
ing savings and loan society. The clergy of
both the fallible and infallbe churches were
there, looking meekly pious and orthodoxically |
foolish and nor last nor least his exceeIcy |
Governor Haght was there, looking for all the |
world like decent citizen and an American
gentleman. OF course Grafton followed process
sion, garnished with poetry and prayer, and of
course the orator-Mr Lottery Barnes-the pro- |
jector of the great Mercantile library gambling