The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-07-11
AsSUkEDLY A. SUCCESS.
Our Fourth cf .uly Celebration was
Success, as Everybody is
Periodically Aware,
Although Efforts Were Made to Pre-.
vent Its Being so by Keep
ing People Away.
What St. Joseph Paper Has to Say
in Regard to the Celebra-
tions at Kansss City and
leavenworth.
From Sunday Mornings Daily.l

From Sunday Mornings Daily.
LONG To EE REMEMBERED DAY.
As long as the metropolis shall continue 10
be the celebration Of the national anniyer'
sary of 1873, will be remembered with JUS
tifiable pride. 1t was truly q great occasion,
and one worthy to hold q place among the
great celebrations OF the country: There
through out with which fault could be found,
with one single exception, and that was the
Keeping away from Leavenworth by parties
nj Kansas CITY OF a thousand or more excur-
s!cni>ts from the southern part OF the State,
who were told when they arrived at thai
point that
THERE WAS NO TRAIN
coming to this city. However, We can stand
IL and not suffer materially, although we
would have liked TO have had the people OF
the southern part OF the State celebrated
with us. All OF the papers throughout the
West agree that the celebration in Leaven-
worth, taken as whole, was "A much inner
one and upon a more extensive scale than
the one at Kansas City, and that we extern
ded no cheap-catch- penny arrangements to
draw the crowd. The st. Joseph Reporter,
which had representatives in both cities,
speaks thus OF the celebrations in the two
towns:
THE FOURTH AT LEAvENwoRrH AND KANSAS
CITY.
"A great many people LEFT yesterday to at.
tend the celebration ut Kansas City, think.
ing 1t would be the grandest affair ever wit
The procession consisted of a respectable in.
dustrial exhibition, embracing nearly all the
trades and business houses in the city. A cir.
Gus brought up the rear OF the procession.
The crowd then walked out To the fair
grounds, or those who could, rode in crowded
street cars. AT the grounds the people watch.
ed man walk a tight rope. One Of the
many unpleasant features of the grand fizzle
was that those who wished TO see the races
had 10 pay rfty cents. A greater part OF the
people went 10 Kansas City in preference 10
m IN
races that were advertised so extensively
and were di>appoint"d when il was made
known that AN extra admission f e would be
charged.
SERIOUS CHARGE.
Another serious charge that Kansas City
VIII De called 10 answer, Is one OF grave i'm
porance, which Will be- thoroughly invest
gated and II proven true with have q taint ol
Disgrace q resting upon her IL is reported thai
the committees held trains from the south
containing passengers who wished to 90 tC
Le,Venworth, ty taking station at the -pot
aha teillns Leavenworth bound Passengers
mat no trains were run north, and hustlinp
them out 10 the fair grounds as fast AS pO,si.
bic. III was sneaking, mean, underhand
tllck, and II Kansas City persists in resorting
10 tr cks Of this character IL will soon exbaus
It's already furnished reputation for fair MIA v
IN the evening there was "A small suppIy o
ureworkS, and then the people left for home
dissusttd with the hospitality offered then
at that barg.
AT LEAvENwOETH
things were quite different. The chief fea
| lures of the ceiebration at this place was tn,
great Industrial procession, representing al
the chief local business houses and manufac
fories, forming pageantry six miles long
ana uneNceiled in the annals of that city il
point OF nagnitcence and grandeur. Ate
passing through the principal streets OF tn,
city the procession took up It's line of marci
| for the Arsenal Grounds, n delightful grow,
situated about two miles west OF the city
Here a most sumptuous dinner was spread
and TO which almost a legion sat down, par
| taking OF the many delicacies with "A heart,
| relish; all the more SO, as everything wa
| rendered gratuitously. Particular attention
was paid 10 strangers, and those who wer
present from neighbOring cities scarcely re
| CO lect more hO,pitable reception anvwher
| than was accorded them by the people O
| Leavenworth. Deaightful music enlivent,
| the happy occasion, and the numerous patti /
| otIc exercises, altogether, constituted oae o
grandest celebrations ever known To have Ia
| ken place in the West.
AT 1ve o'clock the procession returned Il
| the city where another sumptuous repas
was served at Odd Fellows Hall.
| Alter supper, the streets began TO b.
| thronged and a grand display OF Chi nese Ian
| terms was made down Delaware and shaw
| nee street,. The lanterns were placed Oh
| both sides OF the pavement at regular inter
walls OF i've feet an enormous number o
| flags and green boughs fiuttered and wavet
| from the cupalO OF the court house and III
windows OF private residences and houses o
| business, forming scene of magnifcenc'
| that realized, probably, the boasted brillian
| cy OF public fete in ancient Rome. Hall
| OF amusement were thrown open To the Low
pleasure reigned in undiSputed sway. Thi
| closed the festivities at Leavenworih, ths
grandest and most gorgeous ever witnessed
| in the West"