The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-29
FIREWORKS THIS YEAR.
New Things to Please US on
the Fourth.

fireworks this year. Local manu-.
facturers Of pyrotechnics have been
exerting themselves to invent new
features, says the St. Louis Repub.
lie, and they have succeeded 30 we'll
that a man of moderate means can
aft ord to celebrate in a way that
would have astonished the natives
10 years ago.
One of the most elaborate of the
new aerial display pieces is the
"American Flag Rocket" This
inoff snsivel looking aft air is about
90 inches long and 3 inches in di.
ameter. The chamber where the
powder that propels it is stored is
made of the strongest hard ware
paper, glued together in layers until
it is a quarter Of an inch thick. In
side of this circular chamber clay is
packed by hydraulic pressure. In
hole bored in the center of the clay
the powder is placed, and when the
rocket is set off is is lifted more
than 900 feet into the air, leaving
a trail of fire behind it that looks
like tail of nearby comet. At
the top of the rocket stick is a small
cone shaped chamber that holds the
real wonders hf the rocket. When
at its highest elevation this chamber
explodes and an American flag, 90
feet long and 10 feet wide made of
colored fire, hangs suspended from
brilliantly illuminated parachute.
The first rocket of this kind was
made for use on United States Day
at the Columbia Fair. 1t cost an
even 800, but it was such success
that the pyrotechnists decided to
manufacture it for general use this
season, and they have produced
what they call a 10 pound rocket,
that man can purchase for from
IS to $40.
The "World's Fair rocket has
been especially made for this year.
1t is six-pounder and it goes hiss
ing into the air to height of 1000
feet, and when at that elevation
: bursts and fills the heavens with 8
brilliant shower of colored fire tina
: floats slowly esrthward, giving thu
, effect of meteoric shower. Thu
!. colors used in the manufacture o
q this rocket are those represented il
the fl sgs of every country on eartl
t that floats a national emblem. Th
display made by each rocket LAST
II. about two minutes.
9 An entirely new thing imported
= this year from China is the oman
darin,' a small freoracker, bu
+ little larger than those in common
use by small boys, but which bel
lows like howitzsr. The "Man
DARN" is one of the chief feature
of the national Chinese celebrations
7 There is no beauty in it; it is sim
ply noisy, and that to degree
, which has a tendency to provok
bad language.
> These tirecrackers are strung on
string in numbers from l 1000 to 10,
u 900 and when the music is to begil
they are stretced cut on the groun'
and one end of the string is fired
A concatenation of sounds follow
that faithfully represents a redho
. naval engagement A mans patr'
otism must necessarily run high t
. enable him TO thoroughly enjoy thi
ear splitting importation from tn
= Orient. Fortunately the omar
y ;, DARN is placed beyond the reach o
q the average youngster. The prlc
- is $25 pack.
= The Japanese dag she'll" whic
comes under the head of day fire
T. works, is an importation. 1t is a
~ ingeniously contrived affair, mad
=. with view to pleasing childre
% especially. In appearance the da
she'll resembles quart pail. 1t
elected from mortar and ascend
to the height of 800 feet withol
display of color. When its al
=, ward flight ceases, it explodes an
to large figures of various shapes, mad
~ - of thin, tenacious paper, are r.
leased.
Suspended from these figures a.
Da small receptacles of powder that
~ ignited at the instant of the expl