The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-07-10
Without an Accident or
an Unpleasant Feature.
Yale didn't do a thing" but
Attract the Largest Crowd
Ever Gathered Within Her
Confines.
A Splendid Program of Entertain
ment Faithfully Carried Out
Made the Occasion a Red
Letter Day for>our burg.


An almost perfect day, clever man.
agement and fortunate circumstances
combined to make last Saturday "A, day
long to ,be remembered among Iale's
Fourth of July, celebrations.
TO begin with the usual racket from
anvils and giant crackers, which, on
similar occasions heretofore, began at
midn ght and generally subsidized by
daybreak, was conspicuous by its alb
sence. Every would be celebrator
calmly awaited the adyent of the day
to begin hostilities, and then they
opened with a.vengeance.
The days program began with the
ladies bicycle parade ut 9:30, consist
ing of fourteen young ladies in II grand
bicycle march. These with their beau
tifuLly decorated wheels, tasty mortar
board caps, and difficult yet perfect
evOlutions, presented avery interest
ing and graceful" appearance. .Imme-
distely after this came the street
parade headed by Wixom's band. Next
came the Ship of State, ,collosal
wagon with seats. arranged in. tiers on
each side, eliminating with IL platform
at the top. Arranged on the seats on
either side were 30 OF Gale's fairest
maidens representing the 40 states of
our Union, while .on the central plat
form, rising above the others, with her
white arm thrown around the generous
folds of "Old Glory" her silver crown
glistening. i'll the bright sunlight, stood
the beautiful Goddess of Liberty.
| Truly the sight was II most beautiful
and inspiring one. Here we will drop
one regret. that we are not able to re-
cord right at this point II long list of
business and trades, wagons. Through
some eMnaccountable.a p pathy not one of
our generally wide-awake public spirit
ed business men made an effort to
swell the parade. Next in line WAS the
Calithumpians, and OF all the visions
that ever haunted the brain of the
victim of ID. T.'s or accompanied a
dyspeptic nightmare, these were the
most original. We will try to describe
u few: "A ,how-legged Amazon with
long taxen hair.and u face that SEEM
ed taken from one OF the imps of
Dante's Inferno, her form clad i'll the
| habilinents of the late Mrs. BlOomer,
y dashed hither and thithe- on her bicy-
| Gle. A set of rusty old buggy wheals,
4 combined with the gearing of half u
tdozen old moving machines and two
ror three self binders, .made up "a
IStearns Tandem, "the Latest thing
out" and was operated and propelled
about town ,hy an Old man and woman
who looked as though they had JUST
escaped from Fred Koeptgen's care
down on tine county farm. A wagon
labeled yale ,COrnet Band" was filled
witt black little imps with Nin horns
whe appeared 30 haze strayed from
| somewhere IN the confines OG Hades.
1t wG 9 at first thsught.t hat this feature
was arranged by Peter BUSH to get
even sSvith the felk0ws who bleE horns
at the matinee races q few weeks ago,
but WE think this iS wrOEg. Theae were
many &C ther cOHaical arrangements, too
many to mention. The parade closed
the forenoon's program.
About one o'clock WJxom,s iband
|paradedt.he town OH horseback. This
band was. AN excellent ono and their
,Rounted parade was the fisst ever seen
in this vil!sge.
AT 2:30 the bicycle races began.
These with the horse races gave about
thee houEs solid sport to the crowd
thu thr0ngaf every part of the course.
u. u. Noble did the starting in his
USUAL graceful and dasbing manner,
and got difficulty or aeeidentmarredr
the GIternooBIs pleasure. At 7:30 the
ladies' bicycle parade, was repeated byl
speciM request, and was enjoyed by
everybody, partieu larly those who were
unable to see it iD the morning.
The days entertainment WAS to close
with a grand display of fireworks, but
these need an apology. Enough
money was put into this feature to
have it u good one, but the goods sent
were not right. 1t was simply impOs-
sible to get anything to go according
to directions but the rockets and they
were not the best. The management
regret that this difficulty occurred, but
are not in the least TO blame.
Mat Wixom's show in the evening
was well patronized and gave first rate
satisfaction.
Not fight or an accident of any
kind married the day and when this
is taken in connection with the fact
that never before had so large crowd
assembled in the town makes the
thought an impressive one.
The result of the races appear else
where.