The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-05

the sod where reposes in peace the ashes of
that genius of eloquence whose hallowed
| fire kindied the torch of our revolution,
| and we will bedew the memories of those
sons of valor whose blood streamed on its
battle fields.
A more vigilant. resolute and undaunted
band was never formed than the august
assembly that gave TO the world the i'm
mortal declaration we have convened TO
! celebrate.
The history of the American revolution
is marked throughout by the most sur
prising and interesting displays Of human
wisdom. prudence bravery and virtue.
1t presents to the world the exhibition
of people small in numbers, weak in re-
sources, but invincible in spirit, graphing
in contest with great, wealthy,
powerful and renowned nation,
Thus in suffering and in sorrow, in
danger and in death, with the torch Of
battle smoking in blood and glazing with
rebellion, in one hand and the banner Of
their country in the other, they rushed
upon the fortress and carried confagra-
ton to the magazine OF foreign despOtism
and by the angry light of its flames, amid
the thurdering horrors OF Its explosion,
inscribed liberty on the flag of the union,
and left it TO wave at Yorktown in
triumph over the blood stained ruins OF
vanquished usurpatiOn.
AT RIVERSIDE PARK.
The afternoon Fourth was to be found
mostly along the Riverside Electric line.
As soon as one crossed the Little river in
the vicinity of Oak street it was quite evil
dent that the park was favOrite. While
the mercury was quite modest as compared
to recent behavior yet the shade was
preferable. Little parties scattered here
and there along the Little river and back
into the trees, all seemingly having
clever time. The crowd was simply i'm
mense. The little parties were crowded
up rather close together but that was no
objection. Everybody wanted to see
everybody and they did. At the grand
stand in the park there was a band and
| orchestra and the well known Fourth of
July dance was not neglected. The or
chestra furnished the music for the dane
| ing while the band was sandwiched in to
make every one hear within mile or So.
The dancing platform was well patronized
and the ''merry- go-round" was going
round all the while. The red
| lemonade and the striped lemonade
were there. They did not create any
commotion as sometimes occurs by using
poison chemicals for it was staight lemon
ade First class water with lemon rind
thrown in for no dram bluff was most ac-
ceptable Fourth of July lemonade. Those
who could not dance, could not talk and
could get no inspiration from a big crowd
may not have enjoyed the program around
the grand stand, but if they could not
some thought il would be due to an I'M
fortunate makeup, with no one else to
blame but themselves.
AT the ball park the game between the
Arkansas City team and Wichita's resulted
in eighteen 20 eight in favor of the latter.
As the score may suggest, it was rotten
game and if any one had had the endur-
ance to have kept an account of the errors
the degree of rottenneSs could be deter
mined. But it was Fourth of July game
and the immense crowd could get their pay
from bowling guying if not from seeing a
good game At the close if there was any
difference the crowd had the best of it.
AT the close of the ball game the usual
foot race put in an appearance. 1t was an
eighty-five yards race for small amount
up between the harness man" and fire
man" The former was G. V. Freund, of
Columbus, Ohio, and the latter Hart Han
ing in a harness shop here some weeks and
in looking around got race He was
looking more for race than for anything
else. even more than for a good job in the
shop 1t seems he succeeded in getting
it and many fellows who were backing the
other fellow were going around broke last
night Frank won the race by two feet,
being ahead from the start to the finish.
At Alamo the packing house employees
were having great time. 1t was genu-
inc picnic and day off, for a pleasant day.
In the evening the dancing at the grand
stand was one of the features of Riverside.
| The fireworks from that part of the city
seemed to be little more extensive than
any other The rockets went up by the
thousands, burning holes in the night. 1t
was a clever sight to see the pyrotechnic
display from Riverside, Paramount, Col
Iege Hill, and away down south and along
the business streets. There was certainly
enough display to show that Wichita was
making clear showing on the Fourth.