Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-05

Oakdale club. Rock Island; second. John
Hoffman of the Davenport Turner's; third,
Walter Lancaster of the Oakdales, and
fourth, Will Schumacher of the Rock ISL
and Turner'S.
t. Judges were A. 81. Wilke of Frees
port. E. NJ. Wright of Omaha, E A.
Vaughn OF Cambridge, W lillian Harding of
West Chester, la. Joseph Harding of Aims
worth, Ia, and DR.. j. H. Rsiter of o.
borne, III. The bicycle race was post,
poned and will be held on the grounds
later and the hose cart race was declared
off on account of the poor track.
THE AFTERNOON FIREWORKS.
The exhibition of the Hirsysma Jspa.
nese day fireworks had just fairly COM
menced when the rain came down. and
the display was at an end. what part of
the features that was not used being de-
stroyed. The novelty was greatly appre-
cisted as far as it went, and included
number of comical and curious forms,
such as human beings, dragons, animals,
globes stresmers, etc., which floated in
mid air aud descended slowly to the
ground.
A GORGEOUS DISPLAY.
The GROWING feature of the days
events was the pyrotechnic display at
night. The elements which had inter-
fered SO disastrously with the other por-
tions of the programme could not have
been more propitious. Thousands of
people thronged the grounds and occu-
pied the seats in the amphitheatre. The
exercises opened with the Songs of the
Six Hundred with Prof. Palmer Hart
| sough as director, the excellent training
| of the great chorus of adult voices being
as were the features of the morning pro-
gramme. in the highest sense compliment
tary to Prof. Hsrtsough, The musical
numbers in their order were: Hear the
Mighty Music. My Own Native Land,
Banner of Beauty" and Lift Up Your
Heads"
Then came the fire works features COM
| posing in all the richest and most gor-
geous exhibit of pyrotechnic wonders
and novelties ever Witnessed in this sec.
ton of the country. The display was
furnished through the agency of McNevir
s. Gansert, of Rock Island. and by the
Consolidated Fire Works company Of
America. Nick Young, special expert
came from st. Louis and directed the ex
hibit. 1t would be impossible to describe
in detail the various pieces, the pro-
gramme which was carried out without 6
hit b or halt being presented in full:
Salute of Aerial Maroons
Magical Prismatic Illumination.
| Set PieCe-"RoCk Island and Moline, Consolidated
opulation 1900, 10000
| Grand display of Large Rockets.
| Set Piece-"Gattling Battery
| "Ftght of Geysers, or Umbrellas of Fire. -
| Exhibition OF Fancy Display Rockets
| Discharge of Flo-al Bombshells.''
| Set PieCe-'July 4th.'
| Exhibition of Dragons Nests, or Sancissions.'
| Flight OF Coordination Rockets.'
set Piece-"Tree of Liberty"
| bouquet of Mines"
| Grand Set -"AmeriCan Eagle"
| Display of Exhibition Trumpeters
| Releases of Imported japanese BombsheIls >
| Passage of Mammoth Rockets.
| Grand set Piece-"shield of America"
! Masked Bombette."
| Combination Flight of Mammoth omSshells anC
Battery Effects.
| Grand Set PieCe-''Gamh rinus ."
Grand Set Piece Prosperity
| A Magnificent Temple Piecc-"Coumbus anC
Washington
| Grand CombinatiOn-"GoOd Night"
The result of the celebration, taking il
all in all, will undoubtedly be the perma-
nent establishment of The Twin City Col
umbian association, and the immediate
conversion of the grounds into shape fol-
the purposes originally contemplated for
exhibition, fair, park and genera public
| gatherings.
CRACKERS,