The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-12-23
SIX MILLIONS IN SMOKE.
No Falling on In the Celebration of tn
Fourth.


Fourth.
Of late years the impression has been
gaining ground that the old-time celebra-
ton of the Fourth of July was falling into
disuetude, and that in the not-distant
future the bon-fres, fireworks, and
other accessories of the day would be
given up. A visit to the various manu-
facturers tends to dispel the delusion
that fireworks on the Fourth are going
out of date.
''The fireworks season" said leading
dealer yesterday, ''begins early in Feb
ruary, when the far west sends in its
orders. The factories are busy With these
until early in the spring, when the States
east of the Mississippi begin to stock
up. 1t is curious fact that, although
the north, from Maine to California,
LAYS in full stock to blow up on the
Fourth, not dollar is spent by the
people south of the Potomac and Ohio
Rivers. They use them only on Christ
mas day. The demand for all kinds of
goods fell off rapidly for two or three
years after the Centennial, but for the
past five years it has steadily increased,
and this year think will show q gener-
al increase all over the country. don't
believe there was ever before so many
fire crackers exploded as on Saturday.
From all the data obtainable I should
say that there were distributed over the
country over SOC, 900 boxes, worth about
$500, 900. Then the big crackers, which
have risen rapidly to favor, have bee n
more extensively sold than at any other
time the patriotism of the young men
who are too old for the old-time fire
cracker expanding itself in producing
the unearthly din these big crackers
make. OF course l judge at least $500, -
600 more were blown into smoke and
fragments on the Fourth.
'"Ehe fireworks manufacturers do their
best to discourage the consumption of
firecrackers, but the young people ap-
pear to have renewed the loyalty to
these time-honored explosives, and our
opposition seems to have made but little
Roadway. The fireworks now mostly
in demand are of kind decidedly SUI
perior to those mostly in vogue in the
past, and the demand for them is not
by any means confined to the big cities,
but Oregon and Montana want just as
good fire goods as we can make. Of
these, rockets, Roman candles and the
NAElOuS COAOEGQ Hts SeSLu 10 udN0 SIEuCA
popular favor. There has been sold this
year, think, fully $5, 900, 900 worth of
these for consumption on the Fourth
alone, so that Saturday witnessed the
disappearance of fully 100000 in
smoke as an evidence of the patriotic
feelings of the country north of the Ohio
River.
"This does not include the new
tangled Japanese fireworks which are
now extensively used for daylight exhi-
billions. Every visitor of a country fair
now thinks the show lacking if the COM
mittee does not set off between each
heat of the races lot of these Japanese
constructions. Their use, however, is
almost entirely confined to such oc-
casions. But few are sold for the fourth,
as the celebrating patriot of to-day, like
his predecessors of old, want just as
much noise as possible by day and just
as handsome show by night Is money
will buy.-N. y Times.