St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-05
SAINT PAUL MATTERS.
To-Day Will be Celebrated as the Fourth
and Many Attractions are :
Offered.
Look Out for the Crooks that Have Flocked
to the City at This
Season.
The Press Club Meets in It's New
Rooms Rock Camp
Meeting.
Ramb1es Through the City on Very
Sultry Day--The Crusaders
Banquet.
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
Numerous Attractions for the Ce1e-
bration of Independence Day.

Numerous Attractions 1Or the CeIes
bration of Independence Day.
People must celebrate. If by chance
there happens to be somebody who does not
want to celebrate. then the opportunity af-
forded by the successive Fourths of July
during his childhood have been sadly
neglected by those who had him in charge.
1t is hard to tell the age at which boys learn
the peculiar characteristics OF the Fourth of
July-that is the one day in the year to
make nOise-nOise is celebration.
it gives people chance to whoop it up
once year and to vent the pent-up pa
triotism of the other 364 days AS the
Fourth came on Sunday this wear. by gen.
eral consent the next day is voted holt
day in st. Paul-perhaps more properly by
the consent of the police, as tirecraekers
and other noisy Accomplishments of the
Fourth were forbidden till to-day. Before the
Clio BE reaches its millions of readers this
morning they will be wide awake and watt
ing for it, unless they possess the happy
faculty of sleeping through a
cannonade, which can be sue
cessfully accomplished only by those
who have staid up all night. Besides
shooting fire crackers people, as general
thing, must go somewhere on the Fourth,
eat peanuts and drink real lemonade, and
the people of st. Paul will have ample
opportunity for these amusements to-day.
for there are attractions enough to afford
everybody a choice.
The races of the Twin City Driving club
at the fair grounds will close to-day with
the finest exhibitions of speed yet produced,
although the three days races last week
were unusually successful. There will
be three events to-day. a trotting
O,O@
pacing race for $500, 2:25, besides the
for Sc, 600. Entrance will be 81, with no
extra charge for seats CT vehicles.
There will be two league games of base
ball ON the West Seventh street grounds to-
day. At 10 o'clock this forenoon the st.
Paul and Duluth teams will play, and at
4:1O o'clock this afternoon ST. Paul will
play with the Eau Claire club. Trains on
the Milwaukee short-line will stop at the
grounds going both ways before and after
the games.
The Minnesota Boat club will give its
thirteenth annual regatta on the river to-
day to which all friends of the club are in
vited. The program includes the following
contests and features: Junior single, Corn
ing prize; double souls, gold badges: junior
four cared, mayors cup and badges; senior
single, JiEsOn prize; working double, preSi
dents cup, ceremony of naming new boats
by Mesdames George G. SquireS and w. I'll.
Iightner; senior four cared citizens cup
ana badges: acQuatic sports. Parker prize;
tub race. silver tub; swimming race, silver
match safe The eight prizes will be pre-
scented by Il. A. Smith. G.. H. Finch and
Misses Price, Granger. SeiXas, Mann, Dean
and Bunker.
The opening tournament of the Mime
sofa Lawn Tennis club will be played OH the
club grounds at Hamline this afternoon,
and there will be a formal opening of the
grounds. Trains leaving the union depot at
2:39 and $3.50 will stop at Hamline. Sci
bert'S orchestra will be in attendance.
The ST. Paul Lacrosse club now holds
the champ. 0nship cup of the United States,
and this afternoon will defend it against the
New York team, the game taking place on
Leip's grounds at White Bear lake. The
fesHfafrtfajn for White Bear leaves the
union depot at 2:10.
Theoeigarma1er's union will picnic in
Banhoizer's palk, West Seventh street.
st. Patrick's church parish will celebrate
the Fourth as usual, nth picnic in the
grove on Mississippi street.
Capital Legion No. 3. Select Knights. go
to Shakopee to-day to take part in the cele-
bration there.
The annual barbecue will take place on
Pike Island-ox roast and country dinner
The postoffice will be open from to 10
o'clock this forenoon. There will be one
delivery by carrier this morning. The
money order department Will remain
closed
The banks will be closed to-day.
The office of the water board will be
open until o'clock this morning.
Most of the public offices will be closed.
The Fourth will be celebrated at Fort
Smelling with long list of races this after
noon, and fireworks this evening.
Everybody will have fireworks tonight
The steamers Centennial, Longfellow
and Cleon will run to Red Rock every hour
to-day. one of them leaving here on the
even hour.