Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-30

Park to he Addressed ny PrOmi-
nent Speakers-The Field Day
Events In the Afternoon.
Next Thursday, July Fourth, is the
time, and Mozart Park the place OF
holding the old fashioned celebration
arranged by the committee appointed
by Mayor Andrew T. Sweeney. That
it will be one of the greatest in the
history OF the Ohio valley is evidenced
by the degree of interest manifested
in the city and neighborhood.
The Mozart Park officials are prepa--
ing to take care OF the thousands in
great style, aud everything will be ready
for the big show by Wednesday nooh.
The incline cars will begin running at
nine o'clock a m. so that all families
who desire to make a Cay Of it may
do so-taEing their baskets and spend
ing the Fourth in the good old way.
The incline cars run every three min
utes and carry comfortably forty per-
sons so that there need be no fear of
not being accommodated. However,
all who can should go early. The big
crowds will be going from one o'clock
on.
At midnight Wednesday there will be
general noise, ushering in the day.
Church bells. school bells, bells of all
kinds will intermingle their sounds
with the noise of footing factory, oco-
motive and boat whistles and the boom
ing of cannon from Chapline hill will
enliven the echoes 1t will be a fitting
greeting to the first independence day
Of the Twentieth Century.
AT one o'clock on the Fourth the
speakers and invited guests from abroad
will be escorted to Mozart Park from
the Mcclure House, and at o'clock the
festivities will begin with the big pub
lie meeting under the trees at the park.
A large speakers stand has been erect
ed, so situated Inat thousands may sit
and hear the patriotic addresses and
singing and music with pleasure in the
shade and amid the cooling breezes.
The programme will be interspersel
with singing of patriotic songs by a
picked chorus of which Mr.. H. R. Bell
has charge, and It Will be a pleasur-
able feature of the day. The members
of the chorus will rehearse at the City
Building Wednesday evening at 1880
o'clock, at which time they will receive
their badges emitting them to seats on
the platform. After yne meeting the
athletic contests will occur Then will
come the exhibition of aJpanese day
light Notwithstanding of a novel
ty here, and certainly interesting Nam
moth bombs are fired from mortars and
at an enormous height explode and re-
lease animals and objects of all kinds
which descend slowly and comically to
the earth.
Besides these features there, will be
dancing and bowling all afternoon and
evening, until midnight, and Meisters'
full band will give a continuous con-
cert, and the orchestra will furnish
music for the dances.
At night there will be the thousand
dollar fireworks display, along with the
magnificent pyrotechnical spectacle,
The Bombardment of San Juan" This
part of the programme will take place
in the extreme eastern portion of the
park, where nature has provided a
grassy incline whereupon thousands
may comfortably sit and view the
fireworks.
The display will be in charge of ex-
perts sent here by the company to SUI
perintend the exhibition, and, judging
from the amount of lumber already
contracted for and delivered at Mozart
Park, the public in general will be
most agreeably surprised at the mag
nitude of the affair.
The programme of the night display
is as follows:
Aerial report shells, announcing the
commencement of the display. After
reaching their altitude they explode
with a loud, cannonlike report that can
be heard for miles.
Grand prismatic illumination, red and
green fires.
Magnificent display of rockets; 100
colored star rockets, to be followed in
rapid succession by twelve two-pound
display rockets, displaying wonderful
combinations of various colors.
Floating star rockets, displaying nu-
merous floating stars, which change
color several times.
Twelve large golden umbrellas.
Flying pigeons, flying from one place
to another and returning to starting
point.
Cascades. very large, throwing high in
the air beautiful fountain of golden
fire mingled with red, green and blue
stars.
Six Japanese musical comets.
Four-pound golden wreath rockets;
as they reach their height explode with
loud report, producing a golden
wreath.
Four-pound novelty rockets.
Ten mines of of sancission, throwing
high in the air hundreds of souirming
and Kissing serpeHts.
Four-pound lightning ascension rock
cts; after describing number of eccen-
trio scintillations, disappear with loud