Daily Republican., 1889-07-05
FOURTH EDITION.
FOURTH OF JULY.

Tho Manner in Which the Day Was
Celebrated In This City An Unlimited
Discharge of Fire Works Hut No
Fires.
The celebration of the F urth was
commenced before midnight on Wednes-
dey, and the day was ushered In with the
nring OF crackers, ringing of bells and
blowing of seam whist;et. About 3.3O
O'Clock q. m., an alarm of fire was
sounded from box No. 2, at Twentieth
aud Market streets, to which the entire
department responded, but did not sue.
coed In Ending any fire. The small boy
was out by day light, and as he had full
permiss on TO use his crackers improved
the opportunity, consequently thcre was
continuous din on almost every street.
BY . O'Clock Market street was crowd
ed with people, aud at every corner men
and boys were ding crackers. In sever
al instances horses were frightened, and
only with the greatest fiiculty prevt nted
running away.
The entire police force was on duty
and Mayor Harrington, with Chief Swig
gett Was at police station q day. There
were humber OF arrests, but notwith-
standing the facti that all the saloons
were open. and apparently DID q good
business, there did not seem to be AZ
much drunkenness as Is usual on holi.
da'.
There wers several fights, one oil
which WAS at Second and King streets,
and anoth at Front and West, but in
both cases the participants managed to
elude the police. A numi er OF young
men paraded the streets firing Ievolvers,
and as they used ball cartridges, they
were u constant source OF danger to chill
dren and others.
As the new patrol wagon is not finish
ed, William II. Pierson's Aagon was Sc
cured for the day, and proved of con-
siderable service. Several drunken
people were taken to the hall In it, aud
1t was on the move almost all day.
Another alarm OF FIRE wis sounded
shortly before S o'clock in the morning;
from the new No. box In front of Bo RI
Hotel on Market street, between Eighth
and Ninth. This was caused by a ball
from Renan candle entering the Sec
ohd story window OF house at NJ, 9O2
Market street. The fire was extlngui he'd
without the tiremen going into service,
and the damage was very slight. Al
10. 45 last night an alarm was sounded
from box 32 at Sixth and Tatnall streets.
but the iiremen were unable to find apy
fire.
Quite an excitement was caused on
Eighth street between Market and King
about Loon by a colored man throwing q
lighted pack OF crackers among the lire.
works Gu the Italians iuit stand.
All the fireworks ON the sta d were ex-
ploded and the fruit badly damaged. The
ioss will smouut to at least SIS.
A number OF stores and private resi-
d noes were handsomely decorated with
flags and bunting, prominent among
them being the saloon Of Lew Sas. q, at
No. ia East Fourth street, which was
furnished with aags and Chinese an
terms.
There was general suspension Of
business In all the large workshops, and
the stores which were open In the morn.
ing closed at noon. A the banks and
the postotiice were closed, but there was
a delivery made from the latter In the
morning.
The rain about noon intcriered con.
siderably with the celebra ion OF the day,
aud numbers of perslus who intended
going In the afternoon TO Birmingham
Park, BraLdywine Springs or the Union
Park were prevented doing no by iht
de uge.
i rtunately the weather cleared Of
btiore night and the display OF fireworks
III tue evening WAS one OF the fiuest eve
witnessed In this city. There was not /
street IN which rockets, Roman candles
piuw wheels and cther fireworks were no
fired, and in some instances 1t was KEEP
up until after II o'clock.
| Shortly before IL o'clock last nigh
Chiet of Police Swigsett sent all the OIL
GERS home who had been on extra duty
The majority OF these men had serve,
Tor eighteen hours continuously and wer
tired out. There were but sixteen ar
rests during the entire day, and nearl,
all OF these were for drunkenness.
large number of persons improved
the opportunity to visit friends at dis
tance, and the railroads and boats wer
well patronized.