Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-10
F,ravor,xs on inc Green.

SpIendfd PYrOteehnfc Display Witt
 messed by FuIIY 3O,OOO People on the |
 Green.
 It rained yesterday afternoon and the in- dividual who dared to say fireworks" to Mayor Lewis, Alderman Munson or other members of the committee was indee 8 rash and misguided person. Those gentlemen had been besieged for several days by in- quiring persons who wanted to know when those fireworks were going to be displayed, until they really got very tired of the sub ject The rain seemed determined to fall during the afternoon. Whether it was 8 scheme arranged by Ben Butler or John Kelly to have the fireworks put of until the night after the Democratic nomination had
 been made, or whether the committee in charge had induced the manufacturer of
 whom the fireworks were purchased to take back the bulk of them, was uncertain. Sev- eral other conjectures were discussed. But they were all knocked in the head by the &C., tion of the sun in coming out and the clouds in taking back seat about o'clock yester- day afternoon. It was evident that the fre- works might be taken from their hiding-plsce in the State House and made to do their duty. The committee had large force Of men at 1 work and by o'clock the alarm ''22'
 people of the city that the fireworks could be seen upon the Green.
 Between and o'clock crowds of people
 were hurrying through the streets leading to l the center of the city. They came by car loads and wagon loads. They came with I their children. They came with their camp
 chairs and their baby carriages. The old
 Green soon filled up, and merrier crowd of people were never seen there. The row of Chinese lanterns around the inner row of stately elms and the electric lights made 8 | fine illumination. The American band George Streit leader, arrayed themselves on | the band stand and played well several selec- | tions which have often been heard before. The crowd was spread over the whole Green 1 except the part reserved for the fireworks, and | they encroached several times upon that, | getting dangerously close to the bombs and ] rockets. The fathers and mothers with little children held them as high in the air as their 1 arms would allow, in order that the little darlings might not miss the sight of one spark Many sat upon chairs and some chil- dren gquatted themselves upon the ground. | The number of young gentlemen with their 1 sweethearts was something quite alarming,
 and the necessities of the occasion seemed to
 demand that each manly arm encircle 8 slen- der waist. Some men used two arms and | then were not satisfied. It was amusing to
 watch the children, and their exclamstions of delight when ''Jumbo'' shook his trunk and l wagged his tail, when the skeleton swung his Indian clubs and wound his legs in the air, l when the old gentleman and lady on the see-saw pitched forward and collapsed, and 1 in fact when any startling explosion was fol- lowed by dazzling collection of gleaming ! balls of light, must have convinced the most dogmatically economical that fireworks pay.
 The pyrotechnic display began shortly
 after o'clock by signal bomb which rever-
 berated and echoed loud enough to call in the people from Branford or Woodbridge. This
 was followed by a grand illumination in l which all the colors of the rainbow and sev-
 eral that were not known when the rainbow
 was established were blended Rockets, 1 triple shelIa, asteroid rockets, Chinese um-
 brella wheels, stars, rosettes, Gothic crosses, | and hundred other strange devices and | fancy conceits in the pyrotechnist'5 art fol- 1 lowed each other in not too rapid succession. The ''Falls of Niagara was splendid piece. l But undoubtedly the finest was the last, the grand finale with eight columns supporting stars, upon each of which appeared a mammoth letter of the name l of the city. bouquet of 400 rockets ter 1 minated the piece. It was magnificent
 beyond description The fireworks were
 certainly very enjoyable.
 1 The crowd soon passed out of the Green. 1 The boys saved the committee the trouble of l taking down the Chinese lanterns. The agony was over, and New Haven's centen-
 nisl celebration closed. Let us hope that the tin horns will now be laid away