The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-30
THE FOURTH IN GOTHAM.

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THE FOURTH IN GOTHAM.
A Deserted City-How Some Famous Men
Celebrate.
The glorious Fourth i'll New York is
generally celebrated by every one going
out of town for the day Not that the
Gothamite fails in his patriotism-he
IL full of that feeling every day i'll the
year-but, the Fourth being Il legal
holiday, all hands take day in the
woods, i'll the green fields or at the sea
shore. Consequently the streets of New
York are deserted, and the whole of
Manhattan Island looks like an aban-
doned market. The firemen, the men
who drive the ambulanees and hospital
attendants however, usually have their
hands full ON this particular holiday,
for, although the Fourth IS Il day fraught
with all things enjoyable for both
young and old, there Is hardly any one
who does not remember New York
Fourth of July when things went wrong
ut least once and very seriously. From
the aged veteran who goes out to see
the fireworks and gets n spark III his
eye to the small boy who holds his toy
pistol ito see if it viii kick" there are
sure to be casualties more or less seri
Gus.
Ask any prominent man i'll Gotham
for his Fourth of July experiences, and
he will tell you "a good story This is
: especially true of IL. G. Du Val, private
secretary of Chauneey NJ Depew, for
Mr.. Du Val was born ON July 1, He tells
II story about his most unlucky Fourth,
something like this: One Fourth of Ju-
ly, when | was about Z or s, | arose
full of patriotism and went out to have
a good time with my tirecrackers | al
so had number of birthday presents,
which made me still happier. In fact,
the intense patriotism which | have al
ways displayed for the Fourth has its
origin q little, | think, in the fact that
l get many presents on that dav Well,
ON this particular day | went uut with
my presents, such as could be carried.
and my tirecrackcrs and was having
the largest kind of time when a
boy near me- do not now think pur-
posely-threw fireeraeker down the
back of my neck. | wore IA little shirt
waist and Il kilt and it seemed as if the
whole outfit had caught fire in half "A
minute. OF course | was burned, al
though not seriously so, but enough to
make me very cautious how | moved
about and very careful not to get near
the fire again, for that day at least ~
Another famous New Yorker met with
bad luck once ON July 1. when mele
baby. That was Oliver Sumner Teall
and he was but yeiSs old ut the time.
1t is said that people who have passed
l through great dangers can never accu-
rately describe the events as they occur
red, and that is why Mr. Teall cannot
tell exactly about that explosion. Il
was playing with IA pinwheel " said he,
1 when it Went off in some mvsteri
9 GUS way, and. still more mysterious, it
t seemed to carry me off with il. | flew
up into the air, heavy though | was
with five years of chuhhiness. and when
| came down there was less of Ollie and
IA great deal more of howl than there
had been My eyes seemed gone, my
eurls surely Were gone and my little
dress was missing i'll some of its impur-
tant links l lived. But, oh, remem.
hered that Fourth for a many Il long
day "
The veteran caterer Delmonieo SAYS
} he is extremely fond of the Fourth and
always celebrated with the small boys.
Banker ID. q, Mills says the Fourth is
the most glorious day III the year, not
even excepting Christmas, General Ben
jamin f. Tracy says he does not care for
fireworks now, and when he was "A hoy
and hankered after such things he was
too poor to buy them. LAWYER Abe
Hummel invariably celebrates the div
by taking wagon load Of urrtty girls
for drive through Central mark
Richard Croker viii celebrate his
Fourth of July in dear old Iurnon ;"
and there will he more Americans in
England's metropolis 10 remember the
day than in any nreyious vsar The