The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-17

a fund and have a general display, in soms
public park. They order flights Of rockets,
flights Of bombs and set peces. II Is, ira
Kind With What the trade calls a bouquet 4
rockets that is. a fight of 1000 rockets 80,
on simultaneously For a good 4 qualify -
are much more spectacular and cost about
twice as much for a fight. There are only
100 shells to a flight, but as they burst they
OF two acres or more, Shells, which are yopu-
larry known as bombs; twenty-four inches IN
circumference, are used for his plrpose
Of design, GENERALLY the city or the citizens
committee having the show IN charge sug-
costs the designs TO be- rrodnced u tsrnGs
Hero" or 'Squedunk's Favorite SOP" and nm
expert Is put at work turning the ~honored per-
sons lineaments into lines 81 living rad!hnG".
rate Of 500 a minute or more, or course Wash
ington and Lincoln are always IN demand.
and the designers have got Their lacrs down
so fine that they are always recognizable. In
the matter Of the favorite sons and ,honored
MAYORS. however. il Is commonly judged adj
vlsable to have a title in fiery letters, which =
AFFIXED without extra charge and pfeciudes 'hs
possibility of embarrassing errors.
A. for other set pieces, the big firms keep
a special designer at work for weeks before
the Fourth turning out new designs, ana y
he is a lr-t-claSs man he may turn out four or
Ave good designs a week, For this KIND ~
work a generous salary is Pad, Ih@ de0.gn'5
uTdNN MS ufNlEn~ w w" nv ~ - ''.'.
squares. As soon as tho design il finished
the colors for each light are marked on and
i goes to the factory where skilled ~worknc1
build a frame. This frame II examined and
approved by the designer and y sent ba'N
for the settlers 10 I'll up with, the fireworks.
All this work mus, be done with extreme care.
for an error in the nature OF the explosives
may mean loss of life. That there are 80 few
accidents. and that nearly all OF them are due
10 careless, INEXPERIENCED or reckless handing,
is proof Of The careful work put upon this branch
of the business.
As yet the political orders have not come IN.
but many flreW0rk PORTRAITS Of the Presidential
candidates win be- ordered later. If the eXpeC-
tatiOns of the dealers are not all wrong Nearly,
all the portraits in set pieces thus iar ordered
are Of h,s,Srl'.l h hsH n1I,, 3 no l3 Peal e agmrs thni
II heavily represented in the orders, ana prob
ably the demand for appropriations OF hun
rest upon his war record and picturesque per-
honality rather than upon his political prom
inence. The orders come from all parts OF no
country. Naturally the largest Roosevelt dis
pplay yiii be in 3k,sho ahnu az .n %o Toug in
and Gen, Wood and The represen tation Of the
fb, nEiTIdaimInss. V vii SAb be 'r real and and the ha I Rour if'' RId ere
themselves will act out the charge. There has
been no demand for irework pictures of Dewey.
so one of the partners OF a large fireworks firm
said yesterday, As an instance Of the dying
out Of war representations in fireworks Pains
display at Manhattan Beach this year Will not
concern ITSELF with the war at all, but will show
the eruption of Full Yama. Philadelphia.
which is one Of the few cities TO give n Fourth
of July display with municipal funds. will have
a dollar Performance. In Pitts
burg a big display will be- provided by a cit
iZens' committee.
Novelties in fireworks are hard TO find, One
firm in this city brought out last year a line 81
what were called electric novelties. giving out
a brilliant white light by a process which II
secret, and thi, line Of fireworks has been pop
ular 20 fN this season. Many and wonderful
are the names given 10 various kinds Of fire.
works, but they are mostly old friends in new
frlls. Some Of the titles suggest a mine Of
Ioesy in the trade. as will be noted by n consid-
GRAFTON Of this list selected at random from one
cade. chavlet of roses, true lovers knot, silver
glory, phantom circles. shower of pearls. flow
rrinr aloe, bouquet of gerbes, furilona wheels.
fiery cobras, Indian jugglery, Aladdin's jew
elled tree, Niagara Falls and Mount Vesllvius.
In general the lines of display are divided into
ground. aerial and aquatic displays.