Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-07-05
FOURTH OF JULY SQUIBS.
A Few Accidents to Several Of the
CitY's YOUNGSTERS.


Fred. Craig, with other foundry en-
ployes. celebrated the Fourth in firing
small manufactured at the
foundry and they made south Albu.
querque noisy. Yesterday Fred. put in
an extra charge and set the powder
can nearby the cannon The shot
shook the foundations for squares anu
sent pieces Of the can whirling In all
directions, a piece OF which struck
Fred's left temple and tore a cash In
the face and head. Il was thought
the left eye was permanently injured.
but II was learned this morning that
the eye will be all right in a few
days. Fred expects to return 10 work
In a week or ten days.
Cortez Quickel. the bright little son
Of Col. Ed. Quickel, was one OF the
Young Americans that believed in a
noisy Fourth. So, on the evening be-
fore the natal day he got himself a
piece of gas pipe and rugged out a
cannon. Al "Hawley's on the Corner
where a lot OF boys mad congregated.
young Quickel planted his cannon in
the street, applied n lighted match and
the reverberations were so strong that
the flag on the p~ostofice waved to and
AAVH 'h' Abh
there was no gas pipe where the can.
non had been set, but an investigation
revealed the fact that the gas pipe had
flown through one Of Hawley's plate
glass windows. barely missing the
head of Raymond Stamm, who was
a clerk at Hawley's.
James II. Wroth. Jr., the interestinp
eldest son of Or. and Mrs. J. IL
NNKAsh nrflI RA.na.Ia ~ -. .
July. 1901. He was up bright and
early yesterday morning and he bonn
barded the corner of Fifth street ant
Copper avenue In good fashion. lie
had all kinds OF fi%re-ciackers and the
little misses of his neighborhood on
We'd him for his bravery. Finally, one
good-sized cracker failed to explode al
quickly .as Jimmie desired and he In
vestigated, with the result that jus
as he was down on his knees To ascer
tain the cause the fre-cracker OK
| ploded and n of Jlmmy's eyes like
wise his face, is pretty badly powder
burned. He will, however, be all right
| n a short time. and will be on hand
| with much larger fire-crackers next
Fourth Of July.
over on the corner of Sixth street
and Tijeras avenu Joe Walton
thought he vas having a regular birth
day celebration, for all the fire
crackers he used were pre-
sented to him by neighbori
and his parents, and he made every
body In that vicinity fear for their life
SO reckless was he in using the fire
works, Besides several fingers burned
he got OF very lucky,
The shop employees, with thei
wives, families and sweethearts, di
vided themselves into several picni,
parties and the day was spent il
Orange" grove. eight miles above tn,
city and in Bear canyon and at Cam
Whitcomb in the Sandia mountains
They report having enjoyed them
selves to their hearts content, nothing
occurring TO mar the pleasure of any
one in either OF the picnic parties.
In the evening several hundred peo
| pie wendell their way to the pretty
Robinson city park on west Copper
avenue, where the new Italian band
under the leadership Of Prof, Is. Rant
req, gave a free concert. The mem
bers OF the band have only been prac
ticing the past few months, and last
night each and every member gave
evidence that they possessed the ma
terial for the making Of a first class
brass band.