The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-05
CAIRO'S FOURTH.

the nations birthday, and although the
time allotted to this organization in which
to prepare for the grand event was very
short, yet the affair was success in nearly
every way, even beyond the expectations of
the leaders. Considering the short notice
given of tie intended celebration, the
crowds of people in attendance was sur
prise. Strangers came in by boat-loads
aud train-loads from all directions, from
earl y morning unit evening. The first del
egation was from Hickman and way points,
broughs here 10y the steamer Ella Kim
brought at o'clock and landed amid the
clarion notes of Hickman's own brass band.
After tins trains brought them in nearly
every hour. The st. Louis g. Cairo, the
Wabash, the Mobile & Ohio, the Missis-
sippi Central, the Iron Mountain, the st.
Louis IL Texas and the Illinois Central rail
roads, each had reduced the fare and
brought in hundreds of strangers from
cities and towns many miles away. The
ferryboat Three States was loaded down at
nearly every trip, and the Gus Fowler came
IN with large delegation from Paducah
and way points.
The procession was not so imposing one
as had been expected and as it ought 10
have been. Of the five fire companies in
the city only one, the Roughs, turned out,
and of the many other organizations, only
one, The Halliday Guards, helped to swell
the pageant But such as it was, headed
by the band of which Cairo is justly proud
and followed by the fire apparatus of the
Roughs, it was very attractive. The Halli-
day Guards looked splendid in their ele-
giant uniforms and the tiremen ditto.
The procession marched to the park,
deviating somewhat from the line of
march laid out in the programme because
OF the extreme heat, followed and pre-
coded by throngs of citizens and strangers
The park was reached about II o'clock and
the interesting ceremony appropriate to the
occasion was gone through with, evidently
to the genuine delight of the assembled
multitude. Prof. Storers band produced
several patriotic airs in its most charming
manner, and then Miss Minnie Bri-
bach, who has won quite an
envable reputation among the Cairo pub
lie, as an eocutionist, read the Declaration
of Independence admirably and with vis-
BILE effect. Rector Davenport followed with
the Grafton for the day and he proved him
self to be a stump-speaker of more than
ordinary ability. His time for preparation
was very limited in fact his effort may be
said to have been extemporaneous. His
Grafton was beautiful In thought, in delv
cry fluent, in diction often eloquent. His
hearers were held deeply interested from
beginning to end.
The ceremony over, the peo
pie scattered over the park
to patronize the many refreshment
stands, and to witness and take part in the
different games and means of amusement
provided for the occasion. In this way the
greater part of the day was spent, but in
the afternoon the races monopolized the
attention for while.
There was the usual delay about getting
the horses started and the first race was not
run until long after the hour set for it,
But two were run when the black cloud |
and windstorm interrupted the festivities
and nearly everybody was induced to come
down town and seek shelter from threaten
ed rain which fortunately did not come.
The first race, a running race, half mile |
heat, best in 5, that was to have been run |
al 30 did not take place until about 3 |
o'clock. The first prize $3.50, was won by |
a Bandville horse. The first prize, $75, in
the second race, pacing or trotting in har.
ness, mile heat best 2 in 3, was won by |
a Paducah horse. The threatened storm
broke up the races at this point and in the
confusion which followed it was imppossi-
BILE to learn further particulars. The races
will be continued to-day, the weather per
hitting,
One remarkle fact in connection with the
is that not single arrest was
made throughout the day and no disturb
lnce occurred anywhere. Although the
city was tbronged with people of all classes
from everywhere. there was not demon
stra,ion of ill feeling in any quarter all
day. But it must not be inferred from this
that the officers were idle, for they were
not. Under direction of Chief Myers they |
pursued liberal policy toward the strangers
who had come to enjoy themselves. They
moved constantly about among the crowds,
meeting slight trespasses of the ordin ances,
the result of ignorance mostly, merely with
gentle repremands which were always