Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-28
sAvrnG PENNIES roR THE FOURTH.


Celebrate Independence Day.
Baltimore American
The great American small boy is busy
these days saving his pennies.
The great American small boy has a
to sustain for being busy
about something all of the time, but
perhaps at no season Of the year does
he so admirably live up to his reputa-
ton as Just now. The particular field
Of his activity at this time has con
siderable to do with the rapid approach
of the Fourth of July, for the great
American boy is busy securing the
wher ewithal for the supplies that are
essential to any kind OF an observance
Of this day of days.
He is a good boy these days. Never
in his career did he manifest the same
eagerness to run errands. Never before
was he half SO obliging, except, per-
haps, on the eve of the same great day
of national rejoicing twelvemonth
ago. For penny he will do most any
thing that is to be done. and for the
large sum of five cents his energies can
be secured for indefinite periods.
Every one Of these mites helps to swell
the sum he is boarding for the Fourth,
and he counts no effort too great to add
to his total Every additional penny
means that his celebration will be
greater in the extent of its noise and
smoke by tile purchasing power OF that
mite, and hence the new and vast i'm
portance the pennies assume in his
sight.
Meantime the dealer in explosives is
laying deep, dark plot to secure these
same pennies, and In return for them he
is preparing to offer the most desirable
racket, slam bang, hullabaloo Fro.
ducers that genius - American and
Asiatic- has been AZ lie to concoct.
There is perennial prophecy heard
with each succeeding Fourth of July
that the observance of the day is
doomed to fall into disrepute, and,
while thousands agree that quiet
Fourth would be decided boon to
nerve wracked victims of lite uproar,
the fulfilment OF this prophecy will
come along al among other OF the bless
ings that are to come with the looked
| for millennium. At any rate, there seems
little Likelihood that this next is to be
any quieter than the rest, since dealers
everywhere are already reporting large
sales and growing demand for their
goods. There are more big orders this
year than ever before; that Is, orders
ranging from $500 to $4,000, being
mostly for municipal celebrations or
| from citizens committees having IN
charge public demonstrations Then,
too, the big seaside and mountain re-
| sorts have their own celebrations,
which serve to advertise them, aud the
fashion is on the increase of having
Fourth of July displays at private
country houses These hotel and pri.
vate house displays run from $3.50 te
1000. 1t is surprising how good and
extensive a programme OF fireworks car
be carried out by judicious selection
of articles at the price first quoted.
From the viewpoint of the dealer ths
great thing in fireworks is the nigh
| DISPLAY. This takes considerable out
Law, IL the showing is to be mad'
worthy, of the occasion. Probably thi'
country will spend upward of a quarter
i of a million dollars this year In making
brilliant the night of the Fourth. Al
there is a very large discount on fire
works bought in hulk, it IS becoming
more and more tina fashion every yea
for patriotic citizens Of cities of from
%, 600 to $50, 900 inhabitants TO raise
fund and have general display II
some public park. They order flight
Of rockets, flights of bombs and Sc
pjeces. .
In the set pieces there is a great di
versity of design. Generally the city o
the citizens committee having th
show in charge suggests the designs t
be produced. 1t sends photographs Q
"Our Mayor or 1.-THE City's Hero.
or "Squedunk's Favorite Son." an
an expert is put at work turning tn
honored PERSONS linealnents into line
of living radiance. Glory of this fam
ing order may cost at the rate of 500
minute or more. Of course, Washing
ton and Lincoln are always in demand
and the designers have got their face
down SO fine thar they are always recoa
: nizable. In the matter OF the favorit
SONS and honored mayors, however.
is commonly judged advisable to have
: title in fiery letters, which is atfixe
without extra charge and precludes th
, possibility of embarrassing errors.
Novelties in fireworks are hard
t find. One firm in this city brougt
5 out last year lire of what were Gale
. electric novelties, giving out briliiar
] white light by a process which
secret, and this line of fireworks hf
peeu popuiar ~ lar bhiS nph'oht 4""h
r and wonderful arc the names given
3 various kinds of fireworks, but they al
/. mostly old friends in new frills. Son
+, of the Titles suggest mine of poesy
y the trade. as will be noted by a consic
2 GRAFTON of this list, selected at rando
i from one of the catalogues: Sparls]ir
9 caprice. pyric cascade, chaplot OF roses
D true lovers Knot, silver glory, phanto
D circles, shower Of pearls, Towering alo
t bouquet of gerbes, furilona wheel
flying pigeons, golden spray fountai
t nest of fiery oobras, Indian juggler
=, AlAddin's jewelled tree, Niagara Fal
# and Mount Vesuyius. In general, u
X lines of display are divided into groun
9 aerial and aquatic displays.