Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-02
FUN FOR THE FOURTH.
All the Arrangements Completed fol
the Big Celebration.
A $500 PROTECTING DISPLAY.
The Athletic Contests will Be Worth Going
Niles to See.
HOW THE DAYS EVENTS ARE ARRANGED

The programme for the Fourth OF JulI
celebration has been completed, and every
thing is now ready except few minor de
tails for that great event. The boom o
Battery BIS cannon will first apprise th'
people that their jubilee is open. At 9:3(
O'Clock q national salute will be fred.
At 10 o'clock the grand stand exercises
will begin and continue until noon. Mayor
Gourley will meet the speakers of the day
and the school children who are to form the
grand stand chorus at the Forbes street en-.
trance at 9:45 o'clock, and convey them to
the grand stand in carriages and wagons.
He is particularly desirous that all such be
on hand at that time. A grand accompani-
ment to the children's chorus will be formed
of the four bands of music making one
band Of 120 pieces. The bands will, after
noon, be distributed through the park, the
Great Western at the grand stand, the Sc
lect Knights at the Zoo, the Second Brigad e
Band at the orchard and Hays Post Band
near the entrance bridge.
Athletic sports and Pyrote chnics.
In the afternoon the athletic sports will
begin at 2 o'clock. The entries number
over 100, but the programme is not ready
for publication. 1t will require nearly four
hours to contest the various events, and
then the gold and silver medals, which have
been finished and are now ready, will be
awarded. The contests will equal any ever
held in this city. The juvenile sports will
be contested at the same time at another
point in the park under direction of Prof.
II. w. Fisher, of the Seventeenth ward
public school.
The pyrotechnic display will begin at 8
o'clock sharp. A corps of experts will be
brought from New York by Heyl s. Jones
to handle the fireworks, and set them of.
The Mayors contract for this part of the
programme is for only $3,0OO but Chief
Bigelow has ordered $500 worth more be-
coming responsible himself for the money.
A display far surprising anything ever seen
in this part of the country will be the re-
suit.
The fireworks programme will be differ
ent from that Of last year. The set pieces
Will be fewer In number but much larger
and grander than those of the last celebra-
tlon, and the intervals between firing them
off will be filled in with brilliant illumi-
nations of the park by Bengal lights
The Goddess of Liberty in Flames.
A set piece, ''the Goddess of Liberty"
will be II feet high. A Saxon Pyramid"
consisting of vari-colored fires arranged in
pyramid form, will be 4Ox6O feet. Another
piece Of great beauty will be ''Dazzling
Diamonds, revolving center of fire with
hundreds of lights bursting out from it, the
whole being 40 feet in diameter. A Gothic
cross, 25x25 feet, will present a
pretty effect, and will be fol-
lowed with a collosal representation
In hire of Gusky, the park elephant, 25 feet
long and "a feet high. "Manufactures"
will be represented by set piece of great
beauty and intricate construction fully 70
feet long. The final set piece will be a
brilliant illumination, from which will
gradually evolve five-pointed star and the
words Good night" The balance of the
display will consist of set pieces and every
kind and novelty in night fire.
works, and there will be no stint in the
number of them. It will require about
three hours for the pyrotechnic display.
About 5000 is still required to cover the
expenses which the Mayor has contracted
for Yesterdays contributions were: ]. C.
Boyce, S5; Colonel w. A. Heron, S.; S.
P. Connor, S.; L. Gleiscnkamp, $25; cash,
S100; George II. Bennett & Bros, S15; d.
Herbert Hostetter, S25; G. E Succop, $40;
w. w. Thompson, s.; John O'Neil, SIS.
A Representative Reception Committee.
A Reception Committee was appointed by
the Mayor yesterday. He will be the
Chairman ex-oficio Those appointed were
c. L. Magee, Robert Pitcairn, E M. Bige-
low, j. o. Brown, H. P. Ford, w. II. |
Keech, Evan Jones, A. H. Leslie, j. B. |
Hyndman, John Gripp, B. F. McKenna,
9. E. Succop. A. J. Logan, Felix Nc |
knight, j. G. Bennett, James Mcknight,
Dr.. E A. Wood, s. c. Connor, H. D. w.
English, w. H. House, A. A. Milligan,
Harry Metzgar, Samuel j. Wainwright,
Edward Frauenheim, E. j. Martin, W. 8.
j. NJ. Gufey, Robert Oster-
naier, William Kier, Hugh Finn, A. j.
Pitcairn, Florence Miller, Thomas Mcclure,
R. Terrence, Colonel w. A. Heron and
Ill members of the daily press.
The Oakland Park residents will have q
celebration of their own, and at night they
will put off 81 900 worth of fireworks, with
by the Cathedral band.
All the dwellings on the square will be
decorated and at night illuminated. The
ireworks display will include number of
,retty set pieces
Preparations are being made by all the
raction companies to accommodate the
ravel on the Fourth. Every available car
n the two cities will be on duty all day,
nd there will be less crowding and incon-
enience than last year. An effort was
nade to have the Schenley Park and High
ands Railway, which runs through the
ark, in operation for the national holiday,
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