The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-05
wa. .es |. single accident iisn fireworks.

The colored children Of the city picnioed
at Forman's Grove. John G. RinG0ld pre-
pared . program which proved delightful
TO all who attended.
Notwithstanding the fire which destroy.
cd the theatre at Union street park. the
A. D. H. picnic was held at the park q,
announced and attracted big crowd.
There were lots Of sports all day.
A large number Of young men visited
the rooms Of the Y M. G. a. Thel assoc
citation had open house all day and cold
lemonade was served The rooms were
decorated with the red, white and blue
bunting and flags.
All day psntecostal meetings were held
at the Harvester's Mission. kr0ht and JET
ferson streets yesterday. Tho 'flrst srvice
was held ut 10 q. m. and led BY two boy
evnnGslists. Tho afternoon services were
led by Neal Comfy and caDtstus of the SAL
huoted the evening services. -
The people Of 81. Josoph's pariah on the
Brandywino held celebration In the
grove near the church. Children Of tho
parish held patsaotlc exercises In the morn
ing. which Wurs followed by the reading Of
the Deliberations Of Independence by Rev.
W. j. Berminstsin, tho pastor. A large
dancing pavilion had been erected. The
young women Of the parish had charge Of
the refreshments.
Fires OF THE DAY.
From midnight Monday until midnight
yesterday there were five fires. But two
Of the fires, however, required the service
Of tho Fire Department. The only explo.
sion of fireworks occurred at Front and
King streets. where Hebrew was selling
fireworks. Some one threw burning
cracker into the display, and Instantly
that vicinity was filed with flying rockets
and candles, and exploding crackers fairly
shook the neighborhood. The other fires
were at the paint shop OF Richard Ksll ey,
No. ll6 Shipley street. which was dam
aged to the extsnt Us $500; an ash barrel
In the yard Of No. 822 Walnut street, In
the house Of George Robinson. No. 1871
Rowland street. which was damaged to
near the b. Il o. railroad.
During the afternoon q slight fire oc-
cured ut the DUPONT powder works at
Carney's Point but fortunately 1t was
subdued before 1t had gained headway,
aud no damage resulted. The origin OF
1t Ia unknown. but 1t started OH the out
side Of what is known as mill No. 10,
which contained aquantity OF wet powder.
THERE WERE MANY VICTIMS.
There were more accidents recorded
during the day than there have been for
many years.
By the explosion Of the fire works at
Front aud liking streels, Rnffaio Pol;se,
Dominick Greese and Israel Goldstein and
two colored boys, Perry Hicks aud Ray
mond Salterfleld, were badly burned
about the face Polise, Greese and Hicks
were unable TO See and were sent to the
Delaware Hospital in the Phoenix ambu-
lance.
1t is fenred that the sight OF the two men
will be destroyed. Ii will be several days,
however before The doctors can determine
how seriously the men are hurt.
Charles Bronmal. Of No. 2!6 South
Jack son street, was severely burned about
the face last night while discharging q
match sparkflew into can of powder
alongside him and it exploded.
Martha Anderson, years old, Of No 11l6
Walnut street, was struck on the head
with n tin can which had been placed over
largo cannon last night. A deep cash
was cut in her head. After the wound had
been dressed she was sent to her homo
A young girl who gave her name as
Miss Hardy residing at No. $50 Chapel
street was struck In the head by the ca
rous, al at Brandywine Springs and rem.
dered unconscious.
While trying to jump on Baltimore
and Ohio train before 1t had stopped
small boy nsrrowly escaped being thrown
under the wheels A woman had finger
mashed by tho gate of q car being pushed
against 1t. She tainted and was taken to
the hospital tent at Camp Galley aud cared
for.
Ralph Rose, 10 years old, of No. 500 Ben.
nett street, had his hand badly burned by
the explosion of cannon cracker. His
wound was dressed by lJr. First.
ChnrleS Way of M S35 Morrnw q. raat
had his cheek badly burned by an explol-
ing pistol.
Joseph Raymond, of No $40 Madison
street, had his hand badly torn by tho OK.
plosion of pistol.
Robert Lyle, u boy residing at No. 1917
West street shot away part of his little
finger. Tho wound was dressed by DR.. Il.
W. Bryan.
BY the bursting OF bis cannon Eddie
Glenn, of No. 222 Van Buren, street, near
ly lost an eye and had his face badly burn.
ed and laeorated. Ho went home and had
his wounds dressed.
A little daughter of Clarence Pyle had
her hand badly burned by an exploding
fire cracker.
Physicians were spoken to in reference
to tho effect Of noise on people who are i'll.
They expressed the opinion that the noise
WAS u nuisance and should be prohibited
in the future The effect was to make
sick people much worse and nerves were
considerably shattered.
THE DAYS SPORT ~
There was a diversity Of sport, and large
crowds were Interested therein In the
morning at Front and Union streets, Ito
Brownson base ball team easily defeated
tho North End team OF Philadelphia by tho
score of 25 to ?.
In The afternoon tho Houston team of
Chester was also defeated by the score of
20 too.
Wilmington wheemen captured tho i'm.
portant prizes in the twenty-mile road
race under the auspices Of the Pennsgrove
whcclmen Yesterday.
The first prizs was won by Gabriel An.
son OF this city, who also won tho time
prize, His time was % minutes and 81
seconds. Arson had a handicap of one
minute.
George Hoffman OF Newark, Del, with
q handicap of ~ minutes, was second;
Hickman jackson Of this city, with II han.
dicap of minutes, was third George Davis
of this city, with u handicap of minute,
was fourth, and Clarence Kitchener of this
city, with handicap of hnlfa minute, was
fifth. Elmer Fisher of this city, was
scratch, but he mado q mistake In follow
ing the course, and went two miles Oh Of
his way, which prevented him winning.
Tho Wawaset Gun Club shot two
matches on Its grounds. One was with
tho Hockessin Gun Club, and tho other
with the Clnymont Gun Club. Each man
shot At twenty-five blue rocks. Wawaset
defeated both clubs. Three sweeDstake
matches wore shot, ali the men Of tho
three teams participating.
Tho winners wore: DR.. Buckmnster, l..
MaEldin, II Miller. W. Bucknastor. W.
Bird, W. Foord, A. Edwards.
OUT OF THE CITY.
Andastaka Tribe, |. .. H. NJ, held pa
rade at Newport which formed ut 3 clock
in tho afternoon. Afer tho parade, there
were patriotic speeches by Row. A. S.
Mowbrny and others. A supper was Civ
Ell on She Red Mems lawn and refresh
ments were served in the Rod Mems Hall
from 80 to 8 o'clock last night. At $50
o'clock there was fine display Of fire
works ut the Red Meas lawn. A delega-
ton Of Rod Men from this city took part
in the parade,
Smyrna, Del July 4.-Smyrna had
great Independence Day celebration to-
day, perhaps tho greatest In recent years.
A band was In attendance and onlivened
the occasion by patriotic music. More
than two thousand persons wore present,
and stirring addresses were made by John
9. Gray and tho Rov. i. W. Laylcld.