The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-04
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One Firm Alone in New York Has Sold Nearly Eight Million Packs of Fire Crackers This Year.

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 Nearly Eight Million Packs of Fire
 Crackers This Year.
 New Haven will explode Its share of fireorackers this glorious Fourth. The boys, and some of the boys of larger growth, have laid in a supply of these explosives for to-day and there will be plenty of noise to-day, as usual on this great national holiday.
 Speaking of the big demand for flre- crackers, a New York dispatch says:
 "There will be upward of a million dollars spent for fireworks this year in New York alone" said a prominent manufacturer of fireworks.
 We have never before made such elaborate preparations for the Fourth, and l understand that it is the same with other dealers. Our plant for man. ufacturing fireworks, which consists of seventy buildings, has been busy since the first of the year.
 Some idea of the magnitude of the work can be gained from the fact that we have sold over 150,00O boxes of fire crackers this year, or about 7,50O,OOO packs. People spend more money for | fireworks than they used to.
 Fireworks, by the way, are cheaper
 this year than ever before, due to the
 removal of the tariff by the Wilson bill. Firecrackers sell for about one-half
 what they did a year ago. The greater part of the firecrackers which will be set off tomorrow are the old-fashioned Japanese crackers. A great many crack CTS have been manufactured in America this year. but the imported ones con- tinue to be the most popular. 'The firecrackers we have made have been sold outside of New York. There is a law forbidding their sale In the city because they are more powerful and much more dangerous than the ordinary kind.
 There are great many novelties in l fireworks this year. Among them are
 the Trolley Wheels Magic Fountain and 'Trilby Wheels The new wheels are very pretty.
 "We are selling great many sets of fireworks. We have sets for sale at prices ranging from $5 to $1,2o0. Hun dreds of people who live out of town l have purchased these.
 ''We have received great many or
 ders this year for special designs, and
 many of these are exceedingly elaibo- rate. Among them is the reproduction of the pictures of Columbus discovering America, This particular piece meas ures 80 by 50 feet. We have also arrang- ed d reproduction of the capitol build- ing at Washington, which measures 200
 by 100 feet.'
 DESTRUCTION IN LYNN YESTER-
 TERDAY-FIREWORKs ExPLOD-
 ED-STARTED LIKE THE ExPLO- SION IN THE CITY MARKET
 HERE DID,
 Lynn, Mass.s had a lively time and considerable destruction of property yesterday. The fireworks explosion
 was started In the same way that the one at the city market fire here year ago did. The dispatch says Lynn, Mass, July 3.-As the result hof an explosion of a firecraeker among 1 the fireworks in the store of A. l.. Mayo, 2S9 Union street, here, this after noon, the Sagamore hotel block was completely gutted by fire and adjoin- l ing buildings were badly damaged by water entailing loss of about $t50,- l 900.
 The fire started at 11:15 and burned i so rapidly that the second and third alarms were ring in. as the block is l situated in the heart of the retail busi- 1 ness section of the city. The flames 1 spread to g. N. Jenkins confectionery store, and W. c. Gilman's liquor store 1 from the hardware establishment and 1 then burned up through the hotel to | the roof of the building. The flames 1 also threatened to engulf the building l occupied by Goldsmith & Moore, car pet and furniture dealers at 273 and ! 275 Union street. The adjoining build- | ings were drenched with water. ] During the fire several explosions in { the hardware store deterred the fire
 men somewhat with their work, but
 no one was injured and the flames
 were finally controlled. The fire spread | to the hotel so rapidly that the occu-
 pants of the house were given but a ! short time to get out and several nar- | rowly escaped death.
 | Fireman David Upson rescued Sid- ney Greenwood, an aged guest, from ! the Sagamore, and another man whose ' name could not be obtained, was found unconscious on the top floor of the hotel and was carried out just before | the roof fell in
 i On the way to the fire the police ambulance colided with steamer No. l2 and was wrecked. The engine was not injured and no one was hurt ! The Sagamore hotel was recently re- modelled and occupied three stories of
 the block, while the ground floor was
 devoted to stock The loss is $15O,0O0, with an insurance of about $100,000
 Among the losers in the Sagamore
 building are l.. A. May, house furnish
 ing, loss $50,0OO, insurance $25,OOO A. 1 s. Jenkins, confectioner, loss $3, 500
 insurance $1,500; w. c. Gilman, liquor
 saloon, loss $5,o00, insurance $3,0O0;
 w. Brown, barber, loss s25O0, partially !, insured.
 The damage to the building is esti- mated at almost $65, 900.
 He-Wasn't Browns wife named
 Stone before she was married? She
 and 1t wasn't very suitable name.
 He-What do you mean? She-Oh,