Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-07-10
THE EAGLE
 SCREAMED
Rebuilt on the Ruins of the HaSsyamper Town, New Prescott, With Blare of TrumpetS aud Patriotic DemOnstra- tiOn, Celebrates the Event.
Large Attendance From Neighboring Towns and Mining Camps-Phenix SweIIs the Crowd With Train Load of Citizens.

Thursday was an ideal day for
 Fourth of July celebration. While
 the sun was warm, as a Fourth of
 July sun is expected to be, there was
 a cooling breeze blowing and the
 shade was delightfully."- cool.
 The celebration commenced on Wednesday night by the discharge of
 fire works and firing of guns and was
 kept up till about l o'clock in the
 morning when the town seemed to go to sleep, but by , o'clock a portion of it was awake again ushering in 'the day we celebrate" by its din and noise and preventing all others from enjoying their morning nap.
 Hotels and lodging houses were all filled to overfowing on Wednesday night and the arrivals on the Fourth experienced considerable difficulty in securing accommodations.
 The Phenix band which had been engaged for the occasion gave a con- cert on the plaza, as prelude to the days programme, and 1t was greatly enjoyed by all. The literary exer- cises were held from the porch of the court house, and were as follows:
 Selection by the band.
 National anthem by the school children.
 Prayer, Rev. L. O. Lewis.
 Reading declaration of independ- ence, by Mrs. Thos. Bate.
 Grafton, Hon. Eugene S. Ives.
 America" by the band.
 The oration of Senator Ives was a very able and profoucd one and was listened to throughout by the vast as semblage with marked interest. It was remarked by those who had the pleasure of listening to it that it was one of the very best Fourth of July orations they had ever heard. It showed careful and deep thought and a harmonious grouping of the ideas of the speaker, and an eloquent de- livery.
 In the afternoon occurred the hose races on Montezuma street, on the west side of the plaza, team number one winning the record in the wet test.
 As a sort of filler for the program, the Elks had their Midway in full blast and received a good patronage. A refreshment booth, presided over by ladies, was quite an attraction on the plaza in this department.
 The most exciting event of the day, though, was the balloon ascension by Miss Hazel Reyes in the evening. It was down on the program to take its departure at ' o'clock, but it was TAO 1 before it was cut loose from its moor ings. The furnace through which it 1 was supplied with hot air to give it l buoyancy was constructed on the l southeast corner of the plaza, and | like the balloon itself was built under the personal direction of Miss Reyes, i a portion of the work being done by her own hands. The monster air ship swayed to and fro as it was be- ing filled with hot air, tugging at the ropes as though anxious to get away. | It was held down by about twenty | men until inflated to about two-thirds | or three-fourths of its capacity when Miss Reyes strapped herself to the trapeze, and to the crowd and those who were holding the balloon she re- marked: "Good bye all; let her go," f when all hands let go and the balloon shot upward with a sudden bound. rising to height of 5000 or 1000 feet, when the daring aeronaut looked no larger than bird suspended in mid air. Just asthe balloon left the earth one of the ropes broke and it was feared it might result in an accident. but it soon righted and continued its ascent, being carried by the wind in an easterly direction. After passing the Citizens cemetery, Miss Reyes, while yet at height of from 200O to 1000 feet, cut herself loose from the balloon and her parachute opened and the descent was com At first it came down very slowly, but in the meantime Miss Reyes had selected a place of safety to light, and to accelerate her descent swayed the parachute from side to side, when it descended more rapidly. She came down about mile and half east of Prescott, lighting in clump of bushes and was dragged short distance by the parachute. scratching her face slightly, but other wise was uninjured. 7
 The balloon, after being released rom its human freight, swayed back md forth for a short time, finally f entirely, when the hot air ' md smoke was discharged from it md rolling itself up into big ball of muslin it struck the earth about a nile east of town, or abouta half mile rom the lighting place of its owner ;
 Miss Reyes had scarcely touched l he ground until three men, who had c her on horseback, were by a Ter side ready to render her any as a istance, but fortunately none was | leeded further than to assist her in a reeing herself from the parachute. t Ter first inquiry of them was as to i he condition of her balloon, fearing Ii hat it might have been injured in the C Iescent. l
 Just after the balloon ascension the a of the Horribles. with their z 7eird band and grotesquefgures, ap- n 'eared on the streets to the great de r ght of young America, as well as n he amusement of the older ones. u
 The festivities and amusement of e he day closed with a pyrotechnic dis Il lay on the plaza lasting until 10 Il clock at night. The committee se- sI ecting this certainly exercised good W Idgment as it was the best ever la iven in Prescott. b