Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-11
The Fourth in Boston.
BosToN, July ath 1s7.

S4A7n" OuoAee Has come to an end
 at last And 1t IS to pay expenses. g af-
 ter all, our New York friends (. .say so. :"
 1t has beer marvel of good management.
 twenty thousand chorus singers and two
 thousand players with their music. every
 one in good spirits, and bound to "see
 the thing through. Nearly four thou sand tickets have been issued to the nress The moro one thinks of the festival the
 grander it appears. There is no city in America, yes, the world, where so great an enterprise could be carried out so suc- cessfully as in the tsHub." The only ob-
 jection has been the, so-calIed, Sacred Concerts. ," We had thought that the for mer demonstration of public sentiment would end all this Sabbath dissertation under the mock name of :. Sacred. D The
 Irish Band played at the concert Sunday night (You would not want to hear them play but once, by the way). 151' Sd! 4 h-i The ninety sixth anniversary of Ameri-. can Independence was ushered in by day of almost perfect splendor. The city au thorities had taken great pains to have the Common decorated in an appropriate man.
 ner and the result was very pleasing. At short intervals along the broad malls the flags of all nations were suspended from tree to tree across the way. Ice water in abundance, free; on nearly every corner could be. seen the hand-barrow and the dirty looking urchin selling his peanuts, F" only five cent a pint. .Hliz H.'s5ae Thousands of people were on the com mon at an early hour, but the two weeks Jubilee just past told seriously upon the enthusiasm of those living in the city. Soon after seven o'clock the declivitiss of the hills near the play grounds were cov- cred with spectators. The goose race was a novel sight to many. and it was perfect success Everything is successful in Bos- ton. As some of your readers have not seen goose race c la Boston, I shall take great pleasure in ...rising to explain A wash, tub is placed upon raft and six geese, all properly harnessed and guided by reins in the hands of the occupants of the rafts. They start together with the 1 word ssGoi" The length of the course is 300 yards. Prizes, $75 and $50 each. They go away in good shape, the geese cackling and the drivers shouting and
 cracking their whips, while the crowd on shore are convulsed at the eonlical dis play. The drivers and their teams got along remarkably we'll, and, contrary to the general custom" and evident desire of the lockers on, did not tip over, but
 went on the course we'll. No ''time' was 1 taken. .... ,r gavss, The Rowing regatta came off in all due
 splendor; thousands of people, bands of music, small boys with peanuts and little
 girls with fans, and mora enterprising an-
 cient maidens and old men, with popcorn
 stands and 'tDolly Warden Lemonade. 2
 One could buy anything from penny
 whistle to horse.' s-s. -
 1 When the balloon Colossus ''bursted. !" l the air was so full of gas that several per- l sons fainted, and were s'carried of the I field for dead" The Professor will loose
 5.OOO besides half years labor. MT.
 Aliens balloon also gave way to the fury
 of the storm, and collapsed. D I was in
 the coliseum when the storm was at its night Not a timber moved from it's place, but the rain came down in torrents;
 people were obliged to open their umbrel-
 las to keep from being wet through. A
 regular panic was caused in the auditori-
 um by the breaking of a window. which
 made considerable noise; but few heads
 were cool, and the English Band stri1ck
 up 'tStar Spangled Banner" which took
 the attention of the thousands, and great
 deal of damage was prevented. .r.F | The fireworks did not come off as was
 expected, but were displayed Friday
 evening, They were very fine and much
 appreciated. --s 4- The oration delivered by Hon. Chas.
 Francis Adams, IT,, was of an exceedingly
 interesting character. The Music Hall
 was packed full, and the decorations were
 finer than they have ever been in years
 gone by. Presidents Day" was one to
 be noted in history. Never was such 8
 crowd of people got together in build
 ing (unless it be at the old Coliseum at
 Rome), yet order prevailed in every part
 of the little world" About S4 ladies
 tainted. *A A very amusing incident oc-
 cured in the farther part of the coliseum
 so far away that was obliged to
 use my glass which brought the parties
 very near. One lady (of large proportions) 1 tainted, but came to little just as the I ''red shirters" (fremen) hove in sight l with 'sstretcher." Seeing this, the lady l drew herself up to six feet and five inches
 in her stockings, and bolted out of the
 building like rocket, amid the wild
 cheers of all the people Several boats
 were upset in the harbor the afternoon of
 the Fourth, and some persons drowned. Two boys were killed in East Boston by the explosion of fireworks. +. rs Several houses were destroyed by the
 lightning, and two churches at Arlington
 lost their steeples. s- - 2 -5
 Litchfeld, Wolcottville and New Mn
 ford were represented by some of their
 s.first men, received calls from them
 at my office, and was glad to welcome
 them to the Hub. They say they got
 their moneys worth in. one day at the Ju-
 bilee. All is quiet this week so far, as
 Sunday night wound up with a Sacred(O
 Concert. H s.ls & 7z. <. et .- e.. ,SIro.
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 tsls .4lk.Eez 4is- taT@s-st-@ A-9
 A young man aged nineteen, while in
 the water bathing at s. D. Platt's mill