The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-04
UNCLE SANS BIRTHDAY GIFT.
-,z ,uVHIONs OF DOLLARS TO GO
~ IN POWDER AND SMOKE.


.toD Under the SUN Assists.
..Nelfcan Calendars" on the Banks
90 the Yang-tse-kiang Tell Celes-
-. of the Day-Their Greatest
,..Dne From Our Annual "Bang
Bang"
49,. york July 2.-To salute the nations
,--tt5.v costs more than it did TO conduct
o.mnaign under Washington; five times
os much as the value of the commerce
-,bi,b semmes destroyed in the PACING
,.har he was cruising around there in the
,,.bana and one-third of the money
30 United states got from England on
count of the Geneva award, which
award covered all the damage once done
- tho merchant fleet of America by
cruisers built in England.
The powder burned in firecrackers alone
This YEAR would make monument higher
,oan the washington monument at the
nations capital, and it would be four
fines as broad at the base. The Fourth
of July is as we'll known in China as it
is in the United States, for the celebra-
ton of the festival of freedom is in this
country one of the sources from which the
er7nire of the Descendants Of the Sun"
and the first cousin to all the fixed stars,
draws a great and steadily increasing
yearly revenue. BY the banks of the
Yane-tse-Kiang they keep watch of the
calendar and prepare their cargoes of fire.
crackers against the Mclean mans
much bang-bang."
The last two weeks in June see fleet
OF sailing vessels come gliding in through
the narrows-big clippers, such as used
TO make Columbia, the Gem of the
Ocean, and such as it does yankee
heart good to see even now. And these
great ships are from Far Cathay." laden
down 80 that the water runs back in long
curling waves from the chain plates with
the spois of the east in the shape of the
frecrackers of our youth.
Don't you remember how you used to
put them under a tin pan or in a barrel,
so that they would sound louder when
they went off? That was years ago; but
from the time that the Chinese first
found out that the Mclean man. had
a day set apart in the calendar upon
which he desired to make a noise every
American boy has been paying tribute
to the Tartar who sits on the throne of
China, He Is glad to do it, too. 1t
pleases him quite as much as paying
tribute to the German family which sits
on the throne of England.
The 100000 which we burn up in
powder to celebrate the Fourth of July
is so much greater than the tax i'm
posed upon the colonies by the STAMP
act that there is little comparison. OF
course, England never got the revenue
she designed from the passage of that
iniqutous bill, but if she had it would
not have amounted to a 1.-THE of what
We now expend in burning powder
yearly
In Park place, in New York city,. there
is sold every year fireworks worth at
least 100000. The ships unload their
German fireworks in the harbor and the
crackers are temporarily stored there.
On Monday, June 1S, there arrived the
bark Penobscot with a cargo composed
of frecrackers entirely. She is of more
chan 1000 tons burden, and she was only
one of the many in the firecracker feet.
On the shores of the East river there
Is great storehouse which is filled
with Chinese frecrackers. The ships
come in and unload there, and the cargoes
are stored up against the coming of the
Fourth of July.
1t is called the Carey stores and nobody
except the proprietors of the establishment
know just how much of the contribution
OF China is stored there. But it is by way
OF San Francisco that the great stores
come Whole carloads of Chinese fire.
works, fresh from the oriental steamers,
are started from Frisco for the interior
A carload of fireworks may cost 81, 600 or
II may cost 5000, according TO the kind
OF Fourth of July stored therein.
Pieces planned for special displays
sometimes cost $3.50 each, while the packet
OF torpedoes packed in sawdust costs only
cent to the wholesale dealer and five
cents to the small boy.
BESIDES ali the powder which is burned
up IN fireworks on the Fourth of July,
mere must be taken into account the
amount of powder which is used in salutes
an over the country
livery little village fire a salute to the
Ha1oh birthday, and some of them ex-
Pehu as much powder as do the big cities.
~ ~ those places where the immediate
Ieeu OF things has not carried away the
eHorts and the souls of the inhabitants
burned anu "'0ie Po"uer Is
20 1re small cannon takes 81 in DOW
- 10 nre one of the size needed for a
In oi l"VO Inhabitants takes IS worth
l., po1"uer at least. So town makes a "se-
80 OF less than thirteen discharges of
f'-'ion' ana you can figure up the cost
men again there are forts scattered over
w country and the fleets Of the nation
ssdllered over the world and wherever
sNeIe Is a ship and wherever there Is a
to.t mere IS powder burned on Indepen-
w. gay. So 1t all counts up. and when
."e shadows gather on the Palisades and
~ iohs purple streamers Of half-fadinr
az, are thrown across the Hudson. pow
worth 100000 will have been burned
~, 49, as salute to the mighty mistress of
"eS'erh seas. Harvey Lincoln.