The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.
How the Day we Celebrate was
Observed at Home and
Abroad.

Atlanta, Ga, 5.-Atlanta celebrated
the Fourth, to day. in the grandest style
since the war. Visitors were estimsted
at 10000. There was a procession Of
military, tiremen and wagons represent
ing business and industries Senator
Joseph E. Brown, and others, spoke in
the City Hall Park to an immense
gathering. There was a magnificent dis
play of fireworks in the evening.
| Cleveland, 5.-]he soldiers monumsn
at gainesville was dedicated with impos-
ing ceremonies, including largo mill
Genera. Garfield, General Cox and others.
st. Louis. 4.-Two- boys, hit by stray
Fourth of July bxllets, are dying To-
night.
San Frrncisco, 5.-The national ami
versary was celebrated to-day by a
general suspension of business, profuse
decora ion Of the prir cipal streets and
musical exercises at the Grand Opera
House. Fire alarms have been frequent
during the day, but no damage Of cOnse-
| lusnoo has rosnltad, nor has any serious
accident occurred Many Of the prin-
clpal towns Of the interior have cele-
brated.
Detroit, 5.-A stringent ordinance
having been adopted sometime since by
the common council prohibiting the
firing of any crackers, torpedoes, pistols,
guns or cannon, and previous notice
having been given, the occupation of
small boys and idiO.ic young men wss
completely gone. Scarcely a pop was
heard and such cessation of patriotic |
fusilating has never been known in this |
city before. The change was generally |
vo,ed agreeable.
Chicago, g. Independence day has |
been as faithfully observed to dsy as |
though 1t had not come on Sunday. |
Exchanges, banks and stores were closed |
and the fre-cracker and pistol reigned |
supreme on the streets. Base ball and |
races drew out immense crowds of people, |
and vast numbers sought less noisy and /
populous retreats in the suburbs and \
neighboring towns. Tonight there was
fine display of fireworks all over the |
city, but the display like the celebration |
Of the day, was for the most part indi- |
vldual and not collective. A great num-
Der of accidents occurred, but few were |
serious and still less fatal. Among the |
saddest was the death of Captain William |
Hammond who was shot dead by his son,
while on board the tug Satisfaction.
They were firing at mark and the care
less handing of the pistol caused the |
fatal accident. Charles NIartel, q saloon |
keeper was seriously stabbed in an sfray
with roughs. No fires occurred during |
the day.
Reports from other cities and towns in |
the northwest indicate pretty general |
observance Of to-day as holiday
Cleveland, 5.-There was q lsrge influx |
of strangers to the city to witness the
grand military and trades procession,
yacht regatta and illumination of the |
parks.
Cedar Rspids, Iowa, 6.-Reli.ble in
formation from Troy Mills, q small viii
lage in this county, gives the details of a
terrible fight during the celebration last |
Saturday. The cause of the fight, in
which over 800 persons engaged, was bad
blood engendered several years ago in
voting for tax for railroad. Il began
by the marshal of the day striking q man
for insulting woman, and the blow was
the signal for free fight, lasting two
hours, In which every conceivable wea-
pom was used. The result was, four men
probably fatally wounded, and the seri-
Gus injury of twenty-five others. The
Irish element were the aggressors and
were badly worsted. The best citizens of
Troy Mills participated.
Ue6UraG6u IuIS YuicUl a1n5 az N,rSue1
cloudy and in the afternoon and evening
there was a heavy rainfall. TammaDy
Society and the society of Cincinnati had
their customary celebrations, and veter-
ans of 1912 enjoyed dinner at the Sturte-
want House There was no parade and
no public displays of fireworks. Salutes
were fred at sunrise and the chimes of
Trinity Church rung. The storm was so
severe that nearly all excursion boats
were behind time in reaching their piers.
Brooklyn had an old fashioned observ-
ance of the day. In the morning every
body crowded to Tompkin's Park where
Andrew Mclean, managing editor Of the
Brooklyn Eagle, delivered an grafton.
The list of casualaties by explosions and
fires was much smaller than usual, though
there was no police surveillance in
New York, Brooklyn or jersey city.
London, 5.-There was no public
celebration by Americans to-day of the
national holiday. Hundreds of American
ladies and gentlemen registered their
names st the American Exchange in the
Strand, on the occasion Of its formal
transfer to tie American company in
whose name General Joseph r. Hawley
to-day assumed the presidency of the
undertaking.
Paris, 5.eThe Fourth of July falling
upon Sunday, the anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence was cele-
brated tonight by grand banquet at
the Central Hotel, with Minister Noyes
in the chair Owing to the late hour at
which the company sat down to dinner,
half-psst eight o'clock, speaking did not
begin till the night was far advanced, and
consequently am unable to send more
than brief sketch OF the proceedings.
the principal speeches of the evening,
were those of Ex-Governor Hoffman,
Judge j. F. Black, Governor Stanford,
of California and Consul General Walker.
Ex-Governor Hoffman's speech was in |
admirable taste and elected enthusiastic |
applause throughout That of Judge |
Black was interesting and full of political |
tradition. On the whole thu evening was |
q delightful one and will not soon be for