The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-05-29
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

Only five weeks more and the
glorious 4th of July will be here again.
We haven't heard of anything upon
the program in the way of celebra-
ton upon this Independence day.
The patriotism of our citizens seems
to be on the wane, and outside of a
base ball game, a few canon crackers
intermingled with little red rum, the
day generally passes Off unobserved,
and all those who don't take part in
these festivities will seek pleasure and
enjoyment in some other locality.
The base ball ground is beginning
to look somewhat like business, and
the boys will no doubt have plenty of
sport and practice now, as the fine
weather has come at last
Quite a bit of rowdyism was in
dulged in last week around the main
streets in this ward. This gang have
things all their own way through the
day, rs no police are on duty to inter
fere. but now and then one gets run-in
for few days Sometimes we think
if this gang WAS all arrested and SEN
fenced to about six day on the streets,
it might have some good effect, as
they positively will do no work under
ordinary circumstances and condi-
tious.
Quite crowd visited Trenton
last Thursday to see the big show, and
they reported upon their return that
it was grand affair. These large
combinations are about the only
travelling shows worth visiting and to
see them we must visit Trenton or
some other city. as they can not exhi
bit in II town like this.
During my first work ON the
"Sourland Mountain Rocket, which
was away back in the long ago, when
| was II boy of 16, did my reportoral
work for nothing, and it was worth it.
| couldn't write up anything then but
plain facts, and it kept me mighty
busy hunting up the loose facts around
Mount Range and sending them in on
foot to THE Rocket" 1t simply
swelled my young head when | first
saw my name i'll the paper, and at the
bottom of great adventure of Peter
Neyis's oldest daughter milking
goat Next day went forth full of
hope and zeal, determined to run
every news item into hole and crown
myself with wooden halo of glory,
and maybe marry the editors daugh-
ter Inter on. About four o'clock there
was n dreadful explosion of gun
powder back of Hiram SHIFTS, when
lot of men were engaged in stone
quarry, and rushed out with pencil
aud paper in hand, and composing
double column headline rs | rushed
along. On arriving at the quarry, the
men were about to leave the place,
having finished their days work, but
the foreman talked very coelly and
kindly to me and assured me that
there was but one man working ON
the roof of the powder house when it
was blown To pieces The man had
dropped a cigar stub through the roof
and TINT was tho cause of the catas-
trophy. WAS the man hurt bad?" /
inquired, as | wet my pencil point,
and eagerly awaited the foreman's
reply. "Bedad, an we don't know
how bad the poor Greater il hurted-he
hasn't come down yet" Well | wired
the Office the particulars CLEANED from
the foreman that same evening and
they wired back that | should not let
such an item escape, bnt go back to
the quarry and keep strict watch
until the man came down. And | was
fool enough to do it. No, the blown up
man never came back not III chunks
big enough SOS to be noticed with the
naked eye.