Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-06
The Glorious Fourth.
1t. Observance In thus CITY and vicinity.

Hts Observance In thus City and Vicinity.
The twenty-four hours set apart from all the
year as the time in which to give vent to the
noisy patriotism of the free American citizen,
and of those who, though aspiring, are as yet
untitled by age to perform the duties of citizen
ship, passed off very much as usual in this city
EARLY MORNING.
The combination of strange and startling
sounds which followed close upon the last stroke
of twelve Thursday morning, continued with
undated yigor for an hour or TWO, but finally
died away, like the calm before a storm, only to
begin again with intensified force as the church
bells proclaimed the hour of sunrise. The ring
ing of the bells was the signal that the day had
actually begun, and soon crowds of people, filled
with strange mixture of fan and patriotism,
thronged the streets, and aided, with every i'm
aginable instrument calculated to create noise,
to give audible vent to their feelings. The tOot-
ing of horns, the beating of drums, the firing
of guns and PISTOLS the cracking of torpedOes,
and the thousand and one means of making Il
noise which only the American boy is capable
of devising, mingled together in q din almost
intOlerable to persons Of weak nerves, but Pc
culiarly soothing TO the feelings of the patriotic
performers. The sun rose clear in cloudless
sky, and its rays beat down with traditional
warmth during the early part of the day.
PARADE OF THE sTUDLEFUNKs.
About seven o'clock vast crowd, numbering
probably ten thousand persons, gathered on the
common and in the vicinity of Salem square to
witness the formation of the Studlcfunk brig
AIDE, preparatory to its grand trumphal march.
Shortly before eight O'Clock the motley process
sion started, and wended its way through
streets lined on either side by amused and inter
ested crowds of spectators The brigade passed
from the square through Park, TrumbulI, Front
| aud Main streets to Lincoln square, where it
countermarched through Main street to Elm
street, and through Elm, West, and Pleas
ant streets to the place Of meeting, where
it dispersed. The order of the procession and
the various comcalities and burlesqueS which
went to make up a grand combination of abb
surdities seldom equaled have already been pub
lished Everything connected with the parade
passed off according to the programme, without
unnecessary noise or r0wdyiSm, and in man
ner that reflects great credit upon those promi-
nent in getting up the affair and those who
| took part. The music of the several bands at
tached TO the brigade was special feature of the
| parade, and the artistic manner in which the
national airs of Hail Columbia" and "Shoo
Fly )" to which the efforts of the musicians we've
mostly confined, was enough TO satisfy the most
iastdious. The band also played II sort of med
ley pot pOUrri Of airs, which is as yet without
II name. The different presentations and carica
| lures were got up in a lavish manner. and
| some of them gave evidence of great
| inventive genius on tho part of their
| originatOrs. Gen. Studlefunk and his aids,
as they rode in dignited state at the head of the
column, attracted great deal of attention, and
| their remarkable steeds, resembling the famous
Rosnante of ld,were maguihcently caparisoned.
| One of the very best features of the procession
| was the illustration of the sewer question 1t
consisted Of a representation of section of the
Mill brook sewer, composed of lime casks paint.
ed black in which, at various points along its
| length, pipes of various dimensions were intro
duced. These pipes were each labeled with the
| name OF a street and the rate of assessment
| ranging from the smallest, Harvard street, at
$3.50 per square foot, to Boynton street, the
| az WV SShAo pei iOotg OfNl luC MhOiO
affair was the following inscriptions "Verry-ly
| | say unto you, unto him that hath shall be CIV
| en-, and from him that hath not shall be taken
| away that which he hath" The representations
| of Horace Greeley, the "Woodhull Guards, or
the Women of 1880" headed by Vic and Tennie
in gorgeous array, the base ball nine. and the
advertising carriage of "Mr. and Mrs. Veum-
scratches hinder garten," with the notices
"infants spanked by electricity" and "our aim
the BOTTOM" were especially noticeable. In
fact, there was nothing undressing or tame in
the whole procession, and all of the 225 persons
who took part did their very pretticst, even if
they did not look it.
THE MORNING CONCERT.
| Soon as the procession disbanded the band of
the Father Mathew Temperance Society appear
ca upon the common, and for two hOnrs fur
nshed entertainment for large crowd Of inter
esed listeners, who lounged about under the
trees, enjoying the shade afforded, and compli.
menting the musicians with applause at the end
| of every selection.
THE RAIN.
Soon after noon the clouds gathered big.
black and pOrteutious, and as the clarion voices
| of the bells were revcrberating through the mir
refreshing shower descended, cooling the air
and quoting the dusty streets At tho conclu-
sion Of the shower the street. which had been
cleared of the crowds on either side as it by
magic, retilled again, only to be again cleared by
second burst Of rain, miljer than the first
| which came down with such terrific force that
1t seemed as though Dame Nature, in a fretfu
mood, envious Of the enjoyment of mortals
was bound to stop their fun The rain pour
| ed down in great Sheets which, drift
| ing hither and thithcr at the caprice of the
wind, drove everybody to take refuge under the
nearest shelter and Main street, with its door
ways packed with bedragged and dripping
humanity, presented u vivid contrast to the
gay scenes Of the morning. The wind howled
htlully around corners and exposed places, maxi
ing havoc among awnings and swinging signs,
aud strewing the sidewalks with leaves and
| broken branches from the trees After few
moments of unrestricted violence the wind
calmed down aud steady rain set in, which
continued most OF the time during the remainder
VI the day and evening
Al AGRICULTURAL PARK.
The trotting announced TO come of on the
Agricultural grounds was of course postponed,
and the few people who wendell their way over
TO the track were Obliged to return, wet and dis.
appointed, in the best way they could, The