The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-03
IN HOLIDAY DRESS.
Fourth of July Celebration
Opens With Success.
LoNesHoREmEN WIN THE TUG.
Thousands See Them Defeat the Sail ors
Prize Drill Postponed-Pro-
gramme for the Day.

There was no question 70 anybody who
passed along the streets last night that se-
attic was celebrating. Strangers poured
in from up Sound, down Sound and across
Sound on every train and steamer. and
strolled through the streets taking In the
sights until the sidewalks of the main
business thorouehfares were crowded.
Electric lights made the stores and streets
brilliant, and the triumphal arch on Front
at the foot of Cherry street excited we'll
merited EXPRESSIONS of admiration. Bunt-
ing, flags. flowers and evergreens bedecked
almost every store, and frecrackers kept
up a continual cannonade TO the delight Of
small boys and the horror of nervous
women.
All this was the preliminary squirt Of
the Fourth OF July celebration, and was
just hint of what is 10 come. The city
was fairly bubbling over with anticipatory
delight. Great crowds came in from all
the surrounding towns and from many an
isolated ranch in the woods, and showed
by their open-eyed delight, by the tanned
faces of the men and the rosy cheeks of
the women that such spectacles as greeted
their eyes were only occasional in their
lives. Groups of men in military uniform
and of men-of-war's men in their pictur-
esque costume told OF the presence of an
unusual body of militia and of the white
hulled cruiser Charleston.
An unfailing sign of the Fourth of July
is the shooting Oh firecrackers by men as
well as boys. the youthful love of noise
always prompts The boys TO indulge in
this respect, but al times of popular merry
making the men become boys again and
indulge in such boyish amusement. Last
night vas no exception. for hundreds of
whiskered men tossed crackers among the
feet Of the slowly moving crowd and
laughed with mischieyous glee at the
scattering they caused.
Such scene would not be complete
without music and this was not wanting
The Rainier band. composed of eleven
West Seattle boys. made its first public
appearance and played on Pioneer place
10 an appreciatiye audience. 1t will per-
form again this evening. The Salvation
army furnished another kind of music,
marching along the crowded business
streets, the band at the head and the
women dressed in white.
With thousands of people already here
from the whole Sound country iilling the
hotels, with music. bunting and fire.
crackers, making the streets redundant
with color and sound, with the sports for
the occasion already opened in the pres
ence of great crowds, the celebration is an
assured success such as the city has never
yet seen.
The tug-of-war in the evening al Pioneer
place between teams from the Longshore-
mems Union and the Coast Seamen's
Union, crowded the space in the triangle
aud the doors and windows of the ada
cent buildings 10 their fullest extent 1t
was victory for the longshoremen after
stubborn struggle for seventeen minutes.
As the opposing teams, each composed of
ten brawny, horny-handed fellows, sat
down between the cleats nailed TO the
planking OF the street and braced them
selves for work il would have been diff
cult indeed TO pick q winner, so well
matched did they seem in weight.
Once the pulling commenced, however
the superiority of the longshoremen made
itself apparent. They handled themselves
with more judgment and pulled better to-
gether, while their captain urged them on
with encouraging shouts. Ii was no easy
victory for them, but there seemed some
thing lacking in the sailors work. The
chief criticism among the spectators
was directed against their anchor, who did
not seem TO know how TO handle himself.
Instead Of bracing himself squarely in the
regulation style he lay down on one side
and was thus at q disadvantage.
II was not q walk-away by any means
for the victors. They had to work hard
for every inch of ground. Gradually. how
every, they pulled their opponents from
81, = l., 81 a
middle of the rope slowly bat surely crept
up 10 the winning mark, and finally
touched it. W. II. Goodwin acted as
starter and c. ". Austin and 4. NJ. Hurd
a. judges.
The winning team which carried off the
prize Of $50 Is made up as follows: George
Moore, captain: Sam keenan,, W. Dough-
erty, Sam Cunningham, Luke Fox. u.
Council. ID. Sharkey. {. Jensen, NJ. Houli-
han. J. Donovan and 4. Peterson, anchor
The sailors seemed greatly chagrined at
their defeat, and mos; Of them were I'M
willing to Admit that II was due 10 any
thing bat accident. 80 far did their feel
ings extend that they refused 10 give the
names OF the men who pulled.
The competitive drill of the companies
OF the First regiment, which was 10 have
taken place Al Madison street park be-
ginning ~ 3 n. dld not come oil. con-
trary 20 general expectation. The Sc
attic companies did not arrive IN the city
from the encampmenr AZ Murray until
about / o'clock yesterday morning. They
were lhen utterly worn ont by the hard
work of packing up their tents and bag.
GAGE and the Journey home. As they
could not expect - tie III any condition by
the hour set fer the drill, II was decided
TO postpone il. No notification of this
change Vas. however. given 70 the news
papers. and quite a number of people
went out 20 the park before discovering
that there was - be no driu.
There Was considerable talk of holding
the drill today. owing 20 the difficulty oi
crowd.us all the drilling Of the companies
of the tNo regiments into tomorrow after
noon. but. owing 70 the strong opposition
70 having it on Sunday, the idea was
abandoned. The drill will therefore De
held At the Madison street park, beginning
tomorrow 81 I ?. N. The purse Of 81, epo
has been divided equally into two prizes
one for the First sud one for the Second
regiment. The companies who will com.
pese are Z. u. f ana /. Of the FIRST. ana
A, Z. u. L and &. Of the Second. No ad-
mission % the grounds wlu he charged
The iud9es VIII BE- Lieutenant w. p. Good.
win, lieutenant ", \ kiJabaN and Lieu.
tenant {. Il. Martin. Of the Fourteenth
United States infantry.
The visiting companies s-e al Quartered
az the Arinory, which presents = very mill
itary aspect. The door @. the great hall is
Uttered with canvas co.'s, w,,h stacks ot