, 1888-05-17
FIZZ, POP AND BANG.
THE PRESENTATION OF POINTS
OCULAR TO PYROTECHNY.

How Spectacular Combustion Finds y
NIarket-FiraworI,s Mo Longer Monopo-
liz.,d by the Fourth of Juiy-Coliections
for Corporation Celebrations.
One does not have to overhaul his men, |
ory 10 any great extent to reach back to
the time when Independence duy was tho |
one day oil the year when skyrockets and
pinwhccls asserted themselves as u SYM |
Dol Of our country's greatness. Along in
the fall, 1t Is true, when candidates for
public Office sought the suffrage Of their
fellow citizens, the Roman candle supple.
mented the oil torch as an adjunct Of 20.
litical professions. But, AS u general rule,
the fireworks that We're not burned on
Fourth of July night were carefully
packed away for next yenr. II ia not SO
any more. Pyrotechnic displays are prom.
inent attractions at summer resorts all
through the season, and the father Of a
family who takes his boys and girls in the
country to pass the heated months not
unfrequently adds box Of fireworks tc
the I4ares and Penates that he carries
along.
'srhis fireworks package business has
grown to some considerable proportions,
hasn't itf' asked the truth seeker
BOX COLLECTIONS.
Ncli NutSS you tHluR So, TCpIEO
the pyrotechnicinn. eve instituted the
plan Of putting up these box collections
about sixteen years ago. and IL has been
growing moro popular every year. Want
TO know why? Well most people vhd
buy fireworks for n Fourth of July ccle
bration very naturally put Off the pur.
chase until the last minute For that
matter, most purchasers of any kind Of
goods do the same thing, but just stor
and think how the rule applies to fire.
works when you consider what they are
1t Is not to be expected that II man would
want box Of them lying around loose in
his house for two or three weeks. Yes
If there's anything that's bought at the
eleventh hour, its fireworks Then,
again, not ons person in twenty knowi
what he wants. There is general desire
for something that will make show, and
perhaps make II noise, bnt the average
man knows only the commonplace names
of pieces that will produce certain effects.
They know what bengola lights, trianglcs
and mines are, but We can't expect the
president of bank, or a man who has
made fortune in potatoes, to cXpcnd his
valuable time in trying to learn the differ
ence between n saucisson mine and q
tourbillion rocket.
So we, as it were, do their thinking foi
them; and put up collection according tc
our knowledge of results consistent with
the price charged for it. It's very much
cheaper for the purchaser, too. NCE
there's Il collection packed ready for de.
livery. We charge so cents for 1t Just us
it stands. 1t contains thirty peccs-none
of them very elaborate, it Is true, bu,
what do you suppose you'd have to pay
for them if you came in here and puttered
around our stock, selecting this one here
and that one there, and wasting at least
half an hours time in doing it? Well
here's our catalogue, and you can see al
once that, If You bought each ono of those
thirty pieces ut retail. you'd havc to pay
something over 81 fcr the lot. and they
wouldn't he SO conpcctly packed for do
livery either. How could they be, undei
tho circumstances
CORPORATION CELEBRATIONS.
elbow expensive collection do you pui
up,'' '
TO any amount that u customer wants
for that matter, with corresponding rate.
of discount as between wholesale and re
tail prices, but for regular catalogue good,
we have 500 collection. This is nde
quatc 10 complete town or corporation
celebration, and contains goods that would
cost, at retail, just double the money
There are pieces III IL whose prices rang,
| from so to S15 when purchased singly ,
"What do you mean by corporation
| celebretions'Y'
"I'll tell you. There are lots of manu-
featuring concerns that come to us ever,
year and buy collection of fireworks fo
their mills up in the country. Only th
other day mill superintendent came il
and gave INC n $50 order. 1T keeps TIN
boys at homc,' he said, and they spen,
| their money right in town instead Of com
ing to Boston Very frequently the loca
tradesmen chip in with the mills for
fireworks display for this reason.
! But, of course, We don't have to dc
pend upon the Fourth Of July alone TO
business. You know it has become tn
regular thing to have pyrotechnic display
at the summer resorts, and excursion
parties often consider box of firework
as necessary to a good time as basket @
champagne
"What have you to say about fir
CraclSersP'
Fire crackers are no object to ou
trade nowadays. We have to keep them
of course, because they are bound to b
popular, but there is no profit in them
Have you seen that American cnnno
cracker, by the way, that was Introduce
last years There's ono point about then
that's worth consideration. Not tn
noise especially--of course we expect thQ
but tho fact that no danger from tlr
attends their use. When they go off the
go for good and ell, leaving no vestice @
a spark behind them. We're ahead G
the Chinese in this respect at least. ~
Boston Herald.
Mnnotony of farm Life.