The evening times., 1901-06-29
FOR The FOURTH OF JULY.
Daylight Pyr0teclnics the Latest
Novelty Planned.
New Century Inventions Which VIII
Add to the CeIebration-A Gun That
shoots Paper Fi6ure-s1iovers of
Light for Night IIIuminations-


PHILADELPHIA, June 29-The season
is now come when fireworks hold a
large place in the public mind and ear.
There are three big houses in this city
that deal in fireworks in wholesale way,
and since May l these houses have been
extremely busy. That, though, is nothing
TO the business which they will do from
now on to July 8.
The pyrOtechnica1 novelty of this year
is the daytime frework. There Is a gun,
and from the gun paper figures are dis
charged that float, with the buoyancy of
balloons, high up in the clear air The
daytime firework is imported from Japan
OF course, there are other novelties. in
cluding the whistiiing chameleon, the
devil among the tailors. the bouquet rock
ct the dragon nest. the bag OF fire. the
wing rocket, the three-break bomb, and
the Niagara waterfall.
The daytime frework is the invention
OF Jinto Hfrayama, an ingenious resident
Of Yokohama, in Japan. There is NOR
tar. set upright on the ground, and IN
this mortar huge cannon balls of paper
are placed On the discharge the paper
balls shoot several hundred feet in the
air, and open out in the shape Of huge
streamers, globes, flags. lanterns. birds,
animals, fishes, dragons, colOred floating
clouds, moons, suns. balloons. and what
not. All these figures are Of brilliant col
ors, and have kind of parachute form
that keeps them aAOaI long time. The
mortars whence they are discharged are
loaned by the dealers. The loads, or balls,
cost from sSe to $50 q dozen
Chinese firecrackers viii be more popu-
lar than ever this year. The Chinese fire
crackers come in red packages, two or
three feet square with eIaborateIy decor
ated covers. The crackers themselves are
admirably made and make a tremendous
noise. They are%usualIy set off all to-
getheT in a string+a string of I0.000 costs
Se-and at the end OF the string q little
pagoda appears, opens and discharges
balls and flowers of fire that explode with
a din that is deafening.
Some of the shells that are fired from
mOrtars are thirty-six inches IN circum-
ference. They rise nearly a thousand feet
in the air and explode there several times,
now in blue shower, now in shower Of
gold and now n a shower of red And
they display, up there in the nocturnal
sky, lilac blossoms, peacock plumes, har-
Iequins, acrobats and the blossoms of the
cherry tree, the wisteFia and the Iabur-
num- The little shells are cheap, but the
big ones cost from SIS to S120 apiece A
small boy, however can have more fun
with & package Of torpedoes and a lot of
cheap nrecrackeTs and pinwheels. than
with 5000 worth OF these shells.
In a first-rate fireworks house the safe
guards against accident are admirable
For instance. in one house. situated down
town, the fireworks building is of only one
story. and the two brick side walls are
tWrnty-six inches thick. The front and
rear walls are nearly all sliding partitions
Of glass, and thus front and rear can be
thrown open, like a we'll built theatres
exits, at a moments, notice, and people
and contents can be rushed out in jiffy
In this building yesterday afternoon ff-
teen or twenty young men and women
We're busy selling fireworks. packing them
and making out bills. The attractive
stock, with its gay, bright hues of red
gold, and blue, occupied many hundreds
OF cubic feet of floor space, and the air
had the pleasant, pungent smell Of pow
der and fresh pigment and punk-the fire
works smell 1t was possible, the superin-
tendent said, to buy there for $3.50 an as
sortmenJ OF fireworks that would make
very enjoyable evenings display for the
Fourth, and it was also possible to buy
for $1.200 an assortment that would an
swer the same purpose more emphatical-
ly.
There is given here sketch showing a
$3.50 assortment. 1t contains eight Shall
candies, four 1S-baH candles that dis
charge three balls at a time two wizard
candles that let off first golden spray,
then tinted gems. then an electrical illu-
mination and then a host of silver ser
pents, seven. rockets, two mines that emit