The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-04
A GALA FOURTH OF JULY.
Plenty Of AmuSementS in the City and
at the Resorts.

Inc huSsars TO hals0 1h6Ar GdrT1SCh
Flag This Morning-Tybee to Fur
nish the Biggest String of Events.
The Colored Wheelmen's Races-The
Ex.savannah Ball Teams Benefit
This Afternoon-A Day Of Excur-
sions.
Savannah will enjoy a genuine holiday
to-day, and the business portion of the
city will look as if it were Sunday. The
board Of trade, cotton exchange, banks
and all the public buildings and offices,
will be closed. Practically, all the bust
ness houses, both wholesale and retail,
will be shut up.
1t will be great day for the street rail-
roads. Pretty much everybody has ar
ranged to go somewhere-Tybee, Thunder
bolt, Isle of Hope, Wilmington and other
places, and the street cars will be
crowded. Tybee and Thunderbolt out of
town and the base ball games in the city
will divide the crowds in the afternoon.
The most interesting feature of the
day in the city will be the raising of the
flag pole of the Georgia Hussars in front
of their armOry. This ceremony will
take place at 8 o'clock this morning. The
troop will turn out in full dress uniform
dismounted The Chatham Artillery
will be their guests for the occasion and
will fire the salute to the nag. The
presenta ton speech will be made by MIR.
A. r. Lawton Jr., and the pole will be
received by Capt Gordon in behalf Of
the company Little Claudia McAlpin
will raise the garrison flag. After the
ceremony the Hussars will invite their
guests to partake of refreshments with
them.
TYBEE's GALA DAY.
Tybee will be the great center of attrac-
ton. Thousands of people will spend the
day or q part of it on the island. An at
tractiye programme of sports has been
arranged to take place in front Of the
Hotel Tybee. There will be very pretty
trotting race for purse of $3.50, and
running race for a purse of S75. Consid-
cradle interest is taken in the trotting
race. as there is al new horse, Oakland
Prince, TO be placed against A. =. Doyle's
mare, Anna NJ.
The programme for the athletic sports
is as follows:
One-Fourth Mile Run-F'irst prize, gold
medal; second prize silver metal.
One Hundred Y ard Run-First prize,
gold medal second prize gold scarf pin.
Running Broad Jump-Prize, silver link
buttons.
Hop, Step and Jump-Prize silver shirt
studs.
Sack Race-Prize, umbrella.
Wheelbarrow Race-Prize, half dozen
handkerchiefs
Three-Legged Race-Prize, half dozen
handkerchlefs
The entries for all events are; Joe
Guerard, B. r. Timer, George p. Thomas,
G. w Dwelle, Jr., Leon Lynes, S. A.
Torley, r. l.. Williams, j NJ. Johnston,
A D. Krenson. G.. NJ. Lowell, Sam Hew-
lett, c. L. Thomas
Raymond Rembert, for sack race only.
l.. c. Vass, Jr., for 100-yard dash only.
If there is sufficient time, MIR j. w.
Wyness will give an exhibition of heavy
hammer throwing. He will use the a.
pound hammer. The Judges of the athle-
tic sports will be Messrs. Jack Hall and
j. W. Wyness, and it is hoped to com
mence the sport at 2: 80 o'clock.
THE CoLORED CYCLERs.
The Forest City Wheelmen, the colored
cycling club, will have its day at the
| Wheelmen's track. The forenoon will be
devoted to various sports The cycling
events will take place this afternoon.
The following is a list Of the many
! events: Wheelbarrow race, one-quarter
mile; three-legged race, hurdle race,
sack race, running broad jumps, hop,
step and Jump; l00-yard dash, one-quar-
ter mile run, one mile run, tug of war.
Between the tenth and eleventh events
game of base bail will be played between
the well known clubs for prize.
In addition to the events there will be-
also, other sports, such as climbing the
creased pole, chasing the creased pig,
pole ride, etc.
The bicycle events are as follows: One
half mile; one mile, Georgia state cham
| piOnship; slow race two-mile race, Geor-
| gia state championship; one-quarter mile ;
! tWo-mile; boys race, handicap, for boys
not more than l6 years of age five miles,
Georgia state championship; obstruction
race; consolation race
In the Georgia state championship
| races, the first and second prizes will be
! gold and silver medals. In the other
bicycle races, first and second prizes will
! be awarded of a variety Of useful and
costly articles In the athletic prizes,
only first prizes will be given
! OUT OF TOWN EXCURSIONS.
| A number of the members of the Forest
| City Gun Club will 20 over to Charleston
| this morning, where they will take part
| in the anniversary shoot of the gun club
there. Representatives of gun clubs all
! over this section are expected to be in at
| tendance, and al extensive programme
! has been arranged for the shoot An ex-
cursion of about 600 people arrived yester-
| day afternoon from Jacksonville by the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway
TO spend the Fourth in Savannah. The
majority of the excursionists were col
ored, but there were a number of whites
! in the crowd
The excursion train of the Florida Cen
! trial and Peninsular railroad from jackson
| vile reached the city at 3:15 o'clock in
the afternoon. There was big crowd
thirteen coaches being well filled. About
100 passengers got off at Savannah
and about as many more boarded the
train here, which went on through to
| Columbia
| POLITICS IN BASEBALL.
Tammany and the Citizens teams will try
| conclusions at the Bolton street park to-
! day. The friends of both factions will
! be out to root for their favorite team and
it will no doubt be very interesting
! game. AS it is for the benefit of The
| players the fans should show their an
| probation of the good work they have
done by attending to-days game. The
teams are about evenly matched, though
| the friends of the Citizens say their team
| is the winner. Duke will oificiate with
the sphere for the Citizens team while
Ramsey will do the honors for Tammany.
! The admission will be % cents. ladies
free. Umpire Mclaughlin will call the
game at O'Clock sharp. The teams are as
follows:
/ Citizens. Positions Taumanv
Nelch -.,............ c.... ,........ COncy
| JuAch.-.. .....-... ... p ...,........... Ramsey