The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-01
A PRIVATE EXHIBITION.
The Fourth of July Committee
Have Fireworks.
q Scene Not Down on the Bills-stin Not
Enough Money - The Celebration
Will Be a Success.

There was an abundance OF rhetorical
fireworks displayed at the meeting OF the
Fourth OF July executive and sub commit
tees last night.
Various members Of the committee shot
off sky rockets, Roman candles and burned
red fire, while other members contented
themselves with pin wheels and lesser pyro-
technics. Taken altogether it was any
| thing but love feast. and all the trouble
was caused by the fact that the regatta
committee was not in position to give the
members Of the committee. the secretaries,
the grand marshal and his 2o0 aids, and
their wives, daughters, sisters, cousins and
auntS tickets TO 60 aboard one small tug and
witness the races.
Not that the members OF the committee,
grand marshal and aids could 60 per Sc.
Oh, no.
At the time Of the boatraces they will be
parading before admiring thousands in all
the glory Of red, white and blue regalIa
upon prancing chargers that champ the bit
and shy when the multitude applauds, but
there are the wives, sisters, cousins ana
aUnts TO be considered, and il was evident
that the red fire of last night was but the
reflection of the blaze kiadled upon the
domestic hearths by the relatives who were
ticketless for the tug.
Meyer Jacobs presided. Then the CON-
mlttees were asked TO report
The literary exercises committee reported
the following programme for the entertain
ment t0 be given at Metropolitan Temple at
o'clock in the afternoon. 1t is as follows:
Overture, America" Blum's orchestra;
prayer. Rev. w. ID. Williams; song. "Siar-
spangled Banner" Miss A. f. Cummings; re-
marks, President of the Day Meyer Jacobs; cor
net solo. Miss Pearl Noble; Declaration OF Inde
pendence, Julius Kahn; song. Red White aud
Blue" Mrs. Marguerite Morrow; recitation
llFa kaic N Ana EInu
Anna Daily; music, gavOite, orchestra; ora
lion. Lewis Greer; grand sextet chorus,
"Luce"-Mss Neya Krehmke. Miss Selma Mat
sou, j; w. Mckenzie, A. Walsh. GuStaye Mel.
sing, ID. Mckenzie aud the Mckenzie Musical
Society, with a chorus OF co voices, j. w; Nc
Ksnzie director ACCOMPANIED by George Kau-
"WashinstOU's Farewell 10 His Soldiers" j. X.
Robinson; song, Last Rose OF summer" Mrs.
Thou Day Of Days" Mis- John Petttei Amer
ica," by the audience.
The decoration committee followed, and
MI O'Neal arose and said that the commit
tee bowed Its individual and collective
head TO the edict OF the general COM
mittee cutting down their appropriation
from $500 to Sl25, and that the commit
tee would make the best display possible
under tie circumstances. But Mr.. O'Neal's
seeming acquescence aud humility was,
in the light of subsequent events, only q
bluff, and he laid the foundation thereby
for most vigorous kick, which he landed
with telling effect later on.
The finance committee reported 5000 col
lected and $500 more needed.
The music committee said they could get
along with nine bands at cost of Sl227,
and were applauded. This estimate in-
cudes the orchestra for the afternoon ex-
ercises.
The parade and carriage committee re-
ported simultaneously that IL carriages
would do, and were appiauded.
At r.
when its chairman (Callundan) appeared,
the committeeman led by 0'Ncal and As
sisiant Secretary Mccarthy. "girded up
their loins, set of their firew orks and went
IN for battle to finish. The regatta Coin
mlttee calmly reported progress and the
division of the $3.50 appropriated for their
use in prizes. Then Grand Marshal Decker
wanted to know about tickets for the
sisters, cousins and aunts" of the commit
teemen, etc. Callundan said he was sorry,
bnt lie did not have any left.
FiZz, bang, boom aud away they went
ONeal leading with 8 motion 10 cut down
the committees appropriation S100. Chair
man Jacobs said il was too late; that tile
committee had made contracts. Assistant
Secretary Mccarthy denied that the COM
mittee had any appropriation. Committee
man OConner of The regatta committee told
Mccarthy he was another" and then
there were 16 motions, 90 speeches, and in
j5Gr%ed I'll tte- hnhhf nh tho "eHiin0 we ODD
One of the committeeman said he b ad In
tended to 60 to the prizefght, but was glad
he didn't
Notwithstanding the committee differ
ences, which will prove Of little moment,
the celebration promises 10 be a magnificent
one. The parade will be the finest ever
given in tile city from military and civic
standpoint The fireworks committee have
contracted for the following display, to be
| divided between exhibitions at Sixteenth
and Folsom streets and Washington square
Brilliant illuminatiOns consisting of patri-
| oiic fires; motto, Welcome" 10 feet long.
| with a grand battery; nine union bomb
| shells, which burst 18th display of golden
rain; steam fre-engine of the San Fran
cisco Fire Department at work; a fine dis
play of rockets; Maltese cross CONF osed of
| brilliant Grecian lance work; half-doZen
| parachute rockets; American eagle sur
| rounded by Is stars; half-duZen four-star
| bombshell rockets; California coat-of-arms
| consisting of Goddess Minerva, with a bear
| al her side and a miner al Work; one dozen
| triple-b0uquet rockets; agricultural piece
| consisting of a farmer at work with his
| plow; set piece, The Forty-niner" con-
slsting of a miner, pick and shovel; war
ship San Francisco; Raising the American
| Flag" Washington on horseback: jeweled
| streamer battery, combinations of brilliant
| sparks initiating hundreds of butterflies in
motion; grand battery composed of mann
moth floral shells; motto. Goodnight"