The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-03
]FF FOR the FOURTH.
Every Departing Train and Boat
To-Day Is Crowded.
Programme for independence Day
in This City and Brooklyn.
Long List of the Sporting Events Of
the Day.

NV York's railway stations. ferry
houses and steamboat landingst were
s,mp,y damned to-day at the departure Of
every train and boat with people who
we're oft to the country. the seaside, the
,,ountains or somewhere else to spend
the Fourth
Trains were crowded to standing room
only as they left the city, and traffic
managers say that the Fourth of july
exodus was never greater.
There will still be a couple OF million
peopie in town, and Supt Byrnes has
Issued orders to the precinct captains
directing rigid enforcement of the
ordinances relating to the discharge Of
frecrackers and fireworks, the building Of
bontires and the like.
The ordinance expressly forbids any
one TO fire, discharge or set off in the
city of New York any rockets, crackers,
torpedoes, balloons, squibs or other fire
works or thing containing any substance
in a state of combustion; and no person
shall sell or expose for sale, or tlre. or
discharge or set off fireworks known as
snakes, chasers or double-headers.
OF course, nobody will violate this
wise law of the City Fathers. ana the
police will have little to do, but the re-
serve will be on duty tonight and all
day tomorrow. just the same.
All the ash-barrels. boxes and other
combustib!e things collected by the en-
thusiastic youth Of the city during the
past e month r Were g St simply In
They will be used for kinding wood
no doubt.
There win be lot of explosive pa
,ro,ism., however, that city ordinances
backed by the standing army could not
put down, and it is presumed that the
police Will devote themselves. as usual
10 the protection of life and property.
The general parade under Grand Mar
shall |. S. Dickinson, will move at .
o'clock In the morning from Thirty
lonr,h street. down fiIth avenue to
across the Union Square plaza, where
GH-Judge Gedney, OF the Sons Of the
Revolution; Col; John Pryor, Old Guard;
the Grand Army Of the Republic, will
review the parade from the piazza of
Thence down Fourth avenue. through
through Fifteenth street and, down
parade will be dismissed.
The Trinity Church chimes will be rung
at saT nc9g po Messhn III Sso , Sl
stars" Hail COLUMBIA" "Amerl s =
,,onfurl the Glorious Banner and
Brooklyn will celebrate independence
Day in a quiet way. without the pomp
and ceremony of Il public parade or fire
works In the parks. At sunrise there
Fort Greene.
There will be many parades by local
organizations in various parts of the
Foiice Superintendent Campbell. OF
Brooklyn. was busy this morning com
pletlng arrangements for looking after
issued to the Captains he ordered ali
the police kept on duty tomorrow. The
reserves are to be kept ready at mo-
Esney that ay fSr any sedde rdr
cludes with the following, taken from
the city ordinances:
tons is prohibited within the city limits escep,
on the whole of the fourth day Of July in eac,
and every year-providsd, however. that this
as may be authorized by the city authorities
ur such private displays as may be allowed
purpose; and any person Violating any of the
provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay
sum not exceeding Ave dollars for each snt
every such orense.
The discharge of cannon. crackers
Chinese rockets, bombs, double headers
Serpents. 'spit-devils' and Union tor
g"edoes is prohibited, and a penalty OF
sell or use the deadly toy pistol in
which blank or ball cartridge may be
used.
There will be celebrations on more
or less grand scale In many of the
neighboring towns.
At White Plains there will be an old
fashioned jollifica ton on Silver Lake
with speechmaking, a flag raising, pstri
otto music. an outdoor festival under the
direction Of the West Harrison Club
and fireworks In the evening. Luke
tally-ho fronting ST. Johns Hall in thu
evening. and the Good Government
club will have experimenting at sprini
running race and a bicycle meet.
Little, Miss Oracle Ketehamm has beef
selected for the COLUMBIA" and vii
hrston. Hugh \. Camp vii read Il,
".Declara ton" and DIR. Varian. Hosea B
Perkins. De w. c: overbaugh, Rev. An
oTsw s si,, Father oGorman an'
old-tme Aboiitionists will hold re
union and reception to William Lloyt
Garrison at Prohibition Park. Slater
Island, In the afternoon.
In the morning, the Syracuse Prohibi
lion Conventions work will be ratified
Rev. Louis 4. Banks being the speaker
be addresses by several speakers and
nag raising under the auspices OF tn
Rossville Improvement Association. be
ginning al 10 o'clock.
The people of Bay Ridge and For
Hamilton will celebrate on Second ave
nue. and Cedar lane with a fag-rsisin
at O'Clock in the morning and salut
OF twenty-one guns. There will be
parade OF school children at $50; May
pole dance at 10: band concert at 1870
reading of the Declaration of indie
pendenes at II and an Grafton by An
drew W. Gleason, singing by 500 chill
dren. and music by the fun band O
the First Artillery. United States Army
and fireworks at o'clock In the evening