The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-19
SIX MILLIONS IN SMOKE.
No Failing or in the Celebration of tho
Fourth.

No Failing OF in the Celebration of tho |
Fourth.
Of late years the impression has been
gainingground 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out of date.
1.-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 tie 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 a 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 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 | should
say that there were distributed over the
country over 10000 boxes, worth about
S5OO0O0. 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. Ofcourse Judge at least $780,
600 more were blown into smoke and
fragments on the Fourth.
"The fireworks manufacturers do their
best to discourage the consumption of
6recrackers, 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
ny 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
various colored fires seem to have struck
popular favor. There has been sold this
year, think, fully 5000, 600 worth of
these for consumption on the Fourth
alone, so that Saturday witnessed the
disappearance of fully $6,O00,000 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 country fail
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 JUS
as handsome show by night as money
will buy.-N. Y. Times.