San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-03
OUR BIRTHDAY.
THE NATION Is NOW ia YEARS
OLD.
The Star Spangled Banner With
Forty-two Stars, and Long
May 1t Wave-The
Celebration.


Of the American nation has rolled
around, and the patriotic citizen will
celebrate the event in due style. The
preparations for the celebration in
this city are very meagre, but the cit
liens of Lockhart, Bracket and Cas-
troville have made arrangements to
celebrate with some display of liber-
ality. Any point within 200 miles OF
San Antonio can he reached by one.
fare rate over the railroads. and tick
cts can be bought to. day and return
made on the 5th.
The firemen, rs usual, have decided
to honor the anniversary of American
Independence. They will inaugurate
their festivities by large torch-light
procession tonight. They are going
to turn out in full force, with the
boilers, hook and ladder and hose
carts, illuminating the town with $50
torches and lanterns.
In the morning the firemen will as
Sc nble on Alamo plaza, where Chief
Duerler will inspect them, after
| which they take the cars for San Ped
70 Springs. Here they will celebrate
the day by q great firemen's picnic.
The affair will wind up with ball in
the pavilion at night.
| The Ancient Order of Hibernians
will have picnic at Braden's Park.
The start will be made aG $50 from
Meyers hall.
The Sons of Herman will have an
excursion to Taylor.
The Young Mems Christian asso-
citation will have an excursion to San
Marcos where they will take in the
Chautauqua assembly. Tickets to
both of these excursions will be at
one fare for the round trip and the
time of start e viii be found in an
other column.
The Republican League club will
partake Of lunch set out for them by
Messrs. Rheiner and Gaul of the Mis-
sion Garden pavilion. This event
occurs in the evening.
The LIGHT, along with the rest of
the patriots will celebrate by giving
its employees holiday and will issue
no paper tomorrow.
The people of the Helotes precinct
have arranged to celebrate the 4th.
also. They will have q grand picnic,
q prize shoot and q ball. A large
crowd is expected to attend.
New Braunfels will celebrate the
glorious event with three days festiv.
tiles. The attractions for the visitors
are street parades, practice ana prize
shooting, campaign speeches by Hogg
and others, fireworks, theatres, con-
certs and balls. On the third day the
delegations of all the rifle clubs will
meet to discuss the feasibility of Or
ganizing State Rifle club.
AT Castroville the good people will
celebrate the national day with
grand tournament of the national
game, base ball. A number of visit
ing clubs and admirers of the sport
will attend.
The Clippers and Browns base ball
clubs will play match game at San
Pedro springs tomorrow afternoon at
3 O'Clock for purse of $40
IA ndmber of people will celebrate
tomorrow by private picnics out I'M
der the shady hooks of the creeks on
the outskirts of the city. One of these
will be picnic out on the Salado,
consisting of twenty or twenty-five
people.
Another party of twenty or twenty
five couples will repair out to Tells
ranch, eight miles from the city to
picnic to their hearts content.
At the head of the Salado, above
the target range, tinker and a
tailor family will hold an inquest on
keg Of beer.
Tomorrow, being a legal holiday,
the banks, post office, Federal, county
and city offices will be closed and all
others who can possibly take a day
off, will do honor to the event.
In the city besides the firemen's
celebration. the All Seasons club will
meet at night, at 636 North Flores
street.
The San Antonio gun club will
also have great shoot at the Springs
and the Powder Hill gun club will
have shoot at their grounds to-
morrow.
Besides the celebrations already
mentioned, large class of our pa
triotic citizens will celebrate the day
in the true old American style and
the recorder will have to be lenient
with the long procession of blue, Bills
tered, bruised mourners, Saturday
morning.
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