The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-05
GLORIOUS FOURTH.
49, So -HE tf4@ H5f4 IE4h
Patriotic Observance in
Jersey City of the Great
National Holiday.
RAIN HAD NO TERRoRs
Societies Celebrate With Speeches
and Fireworks Some Of
the Unfertunates.

disappointment. and a decreased amount
of the customary small acknowledgements
noise. The pleasure was chiefly de-
rived by the few who delight in the
misery of others, and who detest patriot
ism as exempllfied by the peaceful ex-
plosion of powder, the blowing of whls-
ties. footing of horns and the blood
curdlinE o~rations of the professional
Fourth of July orator. The disappointed
ones were the rest.
Thousands in this city had indicated
their implicit confidence in the patriot
ism of Farmer Dunn. and never
thought for a moment that he would SO
disregard the day-the day of all days,
IS to provide anything but red not W
degree-in-the-shade weather.
JUPITER GETS SQUARE.
So it transpired thai it rained, and
rained hard and rained long. It rained
as if old Jupiter was working out some
grudge against the water supply COM
panies, and had himself assumed the
contract ~ fupend keen FIJI The reser-
yoirs at High Sarviee and Belleville. 1t
rained so hard that dit squerched the ar
DOR or eng sman Soy. Nowaea oue all
athletic sports except swimming, ana
the raising26f the heavy bottle"
Up to about noon cannon, bombs, fire.
crackers exploded with more or less
noise, elbut after that hour the rain
came slowly, giving sure and conclusive
warming that all persons not provided
with gum 1shoes, macintoshes and UNI
brellas had Better remain at home and
rock the babies la TO take long eXcur-
sions from the domestic hearth and their
mothersih-1aw. This warning was gem
orally Needed except in C~eleryville.
wheresthel bucolie inhabitants managed
to make corfsiderable noise, and as the
Oldest inhabitants proudly SAYS
"Greenville dun herself proud"
CELEBRATIONS IN gLGREENVILLE.
The rain came down in torrents and
flooded the streets, but the enthusiasm
of the Greenviliites was not dampened
in the slightest degree. The residents
who had planned trips out of town and
to the various local pleasure resorts did
notu grumbleer when thesorain interfered
with their plans, but accepted the stu
ation -philosophically, stayed at home
and Joined in with their neighbors N
observing the day in proper style. That
Greenville was celebrating the day in
patriotic style was evident from the
noise of exploding fire scrackers. revolt
vers, shot guns and other n~o.se-making
devices. The racket started at dawn and
was kept up necessarily until night ar
rived, when the snappy, sizzling fire
cracker gavesway to sky rockets, Roman
candles, pin wheels and other pyro-
teehnic wonders. Each street contributed
its share to the display, and long before
eight o'clock every dealer in fireworks
in town reported sold out" /.
Many of the residents strung odd
shaped Chinese lanterns around the
porches of their residences and at night
the lighted lanterns made a pretty
scene. "Old Glory" was in evidence
everywhere. The starry flag foated
from residences, the station house. fire
houses and school houses.
PFeNTCS AND PARTIES.
In the evening Mr.. and Mrs. Judson
entertained the members of Mrs. Og-
den Cranes singing sehooluat a recep-
ton at their residence, Winfield and
Garfield avenues. A grand display of
fireworks in the lawn was one of the
features of the evening.
There were no accidents reported to
the Fifth precinct police during the day
and for the first time in years the fire.
men were not called upon to eStinguish
fires caused by reckless handling of fire.
POLITICAL CLUBS CELEBRATE.
At CALIFORNIAN Park the annual games
of the aeaiedonian Athletic Club were
postponed and h athletes ~contented
themselves with. DANCING
The old Q'Neill and Dennis McLaugh-
quietlyJ with special programmes for in
door amusement, and the John R.. Pur-
tell Association did the same.
The Young MenfSe Republican Club de-
stroyed pmaYrefire crackers in front of
their cIuhreem seneGregory street, n
had q display Of freWorks az hlght, a
tations9umusic1ouand songs were ar
ranged andleamong those invited to ad-
dress the as,s c III M and It's sgg gshfs J Uene; ].
i9 THEW Vans amser Club held Similar festivi-
ties; i Msga b das i pand. feature y :
At the Fremont Club a pyroteehnicaII
display was made at night and some red
M ESEfsFR sHfEBHAN's DISPLAY.
Patrick1 Sheehan. who will cease. to be
a taxpaying citizen of this land on August
fail a1 for the murder IF Dietrich II.
CARDS of Bagonne, wasdprominent among
the thousaads in ashe eRee a wyaf fed MS aIm ost
continuously through h bars of the VIM
dow in his cell, am American and an Irish
LIST OF UNFORTUNATES..-
John White, twenty-five years old, OF
No. 50 Morris street, put his fnger IN the
went off. So did the finger and a por-
Michael Robinson, of No. $40 Hender-
son street. had the misfortunate to stop
a bullet with his foot. It was discharged
by some unknown person. The sur
geons at the City Hospital extracted the
bullet and Michael will save it for future
Charles GEM. seventeen years old,
plode in his hands. He is now in the City
Hospital with a face burnt very badly,
eye brows and hair singed off and hands
in an awful condition. 1t was a miracle
that he did not lose his eye sight.
Henry Ross, sixteen years old, of No.
100 Railroad avenue. experimented with
the explosive force of a giant fire cracker
held in the hand near the face. At ST.
Francis Hospital it was said hat he
might be able to leave the institution in
a week. His hands and face are badly
burned. III
of No. 119 Plymouth street, will have but
one finger on his left hand to celebrate
the day with next year. He shot the
charged with powder.
Adago Coweno, SO years old, of No. 436
Second street, while shooting off a can
non at Colgate and Second streets, was
shot in the ankle by some careless per-
son. He was mov to st. Francis
Hospital.
Nicholas Crozetti, IS years old, of No.
401 Adams street, Hoboken, was badly
burned In the face and hands yesterday
by the explosion of a large frecracker.
Nicholas was about to blow up a tin can
with the cracker when it suddenly went
off before he was prepared for It. He