The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-07-09

~ nom the bad break he made In trying |
70 absolutely prevent fireworks by notice
the day before The Fourth, if he would |
have taken the fine opportunity he had.
bat he would not. BE had presented TO
him . petition signed by seventy
representative business men Frfday
morning bat would not notice IL. and
declared that the ordinance must be en-.
forced, dead letter or no dead letter. No
difference if business men had laid in
hundreds ofdollars' worth of stock, and
young America had expended its savings
fog months for little fun on the Fourth.
But the patrotism would not be bottled.
II some conditional and sensible privi-
Ieges had been granted there would have
been no fireworks on Friday night, and
no such demonstrations, carried to the
extreme. Of course, because of the
ridiculous and sudden attempts to sup
press the glorious Fourth bubbling up
and all ready to boil over. At dark the
crackers began to go of In spots. The
noise increased till the rockets, the
bursting Of fire crackers and the cheer
ing became deafening. Fourth of July
was distanced. In the midst of the cele-
bFstion small boy was arrested and
the crowd iocked about the policeman
till the boy was delivered up. A hundred
police could have scarcely taken that
boy to Jail. The booming of fireworks
around and above the officers and the
mayor was indeed caution, and in the
end his honor was compelled to admit
that he must black water" When he
did 30 is was done completely, and he
even allowed fireworks on Com
mercial street at the sweet will
of all. Emporla is law-abidlng
but 1t is also fun-loving, and fails to see
the point Of bringing up too late Cor any
good an unknown ordinance after nine
years. peaceful sleep among the
archives, all in the face of q strong petit
ton, which the maFor, finally, after the
fun was over. concluded justified him in
giving the desired permits.
A number of exchanges had graphic
accounts in their telegraph columns. We
reproduce few:
YANKEE DOODLE ON TOP.
The following special dispatch from
Emporia appeared in the Globe Demo
Graf of Saturday:
Much excitement has existed here TO-
| day over the mayors attempt to prOhib-
| it the use of fireworks or other explo-
| slves on the 4th of July. He refused to
suspend the ordinance prohibiting such
| demonstrations and instructed the police
force 20 arrest all persons
who exploded fireworks within
the city limits. The result
| was that the people bought out all the
stocks of fireworks in town to-day and
a& dark this evening tremendous fusil.
ade and grand pyrotechnical exhibition
began all over the city, and was especial.
ly active along Commercial street, tht
main business avenue. The city marsh.
al and Q policeman arrested q boy each
for exploding fiTe-crackers, but crowds
took the prisoners from them, and prom
ineDt citizens, including members of thl
city council, exploded FIRE crackers anC
torpedoes between the officers legs, I'm
til it became evident tina
the cid fashioned Fourth oil
July recommended by JohI
Adams could not be successfully pro
hlbited in this locality. The center o
the city became an exploding magazIn
Of fireworks, giant crackers seeming Il
be in unlimited supply, and the fun wen
on fast and furious unit: the mayor con.
cluded to defer TO Yankee Doodle senti
ment and issued his permit to have tn
Fourth observed as usual. At this hOu
(mIdnight) band, with horns, drum
] and boI1a VNarodVOo douyn Cnrn q
street, amid VOciferous cheering, to sere
made the city officials and others VIII
are supposed to be responsible for tn
anti Fourth of July policy.
THE TIMES ACCOUNT.
The following special appeared in tn
Kansas City Times of the 4th:
"The main bushes avenue of Empori
and several side streets have been throDg
ed since dark with boys and men firm
crackers and pistols and otherwise max
ing themselves hilarious as never before
The occasion of these demonstration
was an announcement by the mayor thi
morning that the firing OF fTecrackerl
or fireworks within the city limits Oh
the Fourth of July would be prohibit
ed, and all persons violating the Ordi
nance would have to suffer the penal
ties.
\ The merchants had laid IN his BIZ
stocks and many people had purchased
their supplies tor to-morroW's celebra
ton. The mayors manifesto stirred VI
feeling OF indignation, mainly becaus
notice of such an ordinance had not beer
giveR weeks ago instead of en- the morn
ing before the Fourth
A petition was signed to day by TIA
best business men, requesting the mayo
to permit the general use of fireworks to
morrow, but he would not grant 1t, al
though urged by legal and other goot
authority to give permission of SOM
kind.
| On the streets tonight fireworks wer
simply deatening. A policeman arrest
ed q small boy and took him toward
surrounded and followed the policeman
crying, "let him loose" The crowd in
creased to several hundred, firing hug
crackers, and finally the policeman wa
compelled to let the boy go and the al
was filed with cheers and the booming
of crackers. The mayor and the mar
shall appeared on the scene, but werI
greeted with shouts of banter and burst
ing of fireworks around and about them
Finally the police watched the fur
with no attempt to modest. Bonfirei
| were D0llt 6n0 regular sham battle o
rockets carried On IN the streets. A pro
cessIOn of boys and men formed snC
paraded the streets, beating drums
blowing horns, shooting rockets anL
crackers end cheering. Tho procession
marched TO the mayors house aud eere
naded him in wild sort of way. L
is now supposed that the mayor vii
black water" to certain extent in thu
morning.
The mayor and city authorities are
warned TO keep an eye out towards
"Poverty Ridge" tonight. We under
stand some of the Twelfth avenue folkl
have about $50 worth of the prohibited
patriotism" that they could not shoo
of Saturday on account Of the rain. i
looks az though EmporIa was to have
three Fourth-ot-J ulys this year.
/ -
We heard several citizens remark to
days that if they had charge of the In
dian AFFAIRS there would not be Indians
enough left In three months to cast s
shadow. A few such fellows should &c
to Pratt and Comanche counties.
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