Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-05
A QUIET FOURTH.
Augusta Made No Unusual Demonstra.
ton, This Year.
many attended Celebrations in Other Cities
Good Races at Park.

quie.er Fourth of July was nevel
seen in Augusta. The small boy cele
.brated the victory Of Sampson ant
Smarter at Santiago. in the usual way
burning ION Of powder. and having {
good time dong it, but Il wasn't a rea
out ana out enthusiastic Fourth, Their,
We're not enough people IN the city t
allow it.
Ietiaps we nave had so much cele-
nfatihs' TINS Tear, that IT Is getting
10 De an ora stry, and. perhaps it was
too warm, any way there was trouble
somewhere.
The fire alarA nj . litt,e mast II
eioch' SUNDAY Night. served to wake
those of the boy who were planning
TO make Rome howl and in conse-
sequence the ceAbration commenced
rather earlier thaI9t was he intention
OF the authorities allow it.
All but the mde enthusiastic kent
still until II o'clek. and they oniy
eooted an occasiohl horn or fired A
cracker or uWo. Wien the clock struck
u II was a slgnal pr the firing to be-
gin' ana II Shaiterlmen did any nois-
er work at Santiaap they deserve re-
ward Tor water steet was kept alive
uhtii altef CLOCK when the bells be-
gan to send forth tAir sonorous tones
caused by sthe boys ulling at the bell
ropes.
| From that time ur&l daylight. there
was plenty of noise, I'D lots more than
some wished. 1t wasp hot night any
| way, and the people ia not as a rule
| retire very early. Eyn after retiring
| sleep came to only hose who were
[ really tired.
1t seemed to somethat they had
| hardly got into a goodsleep before the
bells begun to ring. hen there were
courses not loud but dep that arose
from all parts of the citg and the noise
loving boy was the cauSof them ALL
The usual business oithe day was
begun at the usual hod and it was
carried along until noon,yhen all but
the drug stores We're closl, and they
closed at o'clock. for all ~.
The usual number of te crackers
were kept exploding throghout the
day, but the city boys Wei the ones
who did it, as there We're butew in the
city from outside.
About IS people awaited theselves OF
The opportunity to visit Portl,d, going
on the morning train SO at they
would net miss any of the cebration
About $50 people went to Fainld and
Skowhegan. nearly all goinson the
regular train that leaves us,lly Al
80, but was about a quartz of an
hour late.
The special that was to hay gone
through the city with the crewSf the
competing fremen for the muir al
Fairfield, at $50, was over an hoVate.
The steamers that went to tn
bay and the islands were we'll Id.
Many people went in teams to he
of the ponds.
Others staid at home and dee4
themselves to keeping cool, enje&f;
the shade of the piaZZas or the S
trees, and probably Of all these
pie enjoyed themselves as much asy
for though the day was not as w
as Sunday, it was very mot in the s
The average heat reported reGiste|
10y thermometers, in the shade, Y
90 degrees. The only way that
. heat Of the day was prevented from
ing as oppressive as the day bef(
was because of the cool breeze t
would occasionally blow.
The fire alarm at noon sounded IL
the box on the Granite Bank, str
terror into the hearts of all as a
is most dreaded in the business sect
of the city 1t proved to be nothing
a brush fire on the bank of the RI
below the laundry.