New-York tribune., 1902-07-04
QUIET BEFORE THE FOURTH
LITTLE SUGGESTION TILL SUNDOWN
OF TO-DAY's CELEBRATION.

There was an unwonted Stiffness over the entire
city yesterday. The day before the Fourth has
rarely been free from the skirmishing shots of
premature enthusiasm. Downtown and uptown,
west and east even in the populous and patriotic
Bowery, the early frecracker seemed to have got
the worm-like Tit Willow-inside. and seldom
heard This may presage the greater outburst when
the d9m breaks to-day when the city is accuS-
toned TO awake perforce with the dawn But yes
terday the noisiest by all odds the pedler.
with his pushcart of patented explosion devices
and labor saving cOntrv&nces to produce the smell
of powder and the diminutive sound of battle.
Toward night, however. there signs that
Chinese customs had not become dstasteful to the
young Anglo-SaxOn. Crackers became more COM
mon with the setting of the sum- as fireflies come
cut in the twilight. Through the crowded streets
of the lower East Side at Seward Park. for in
stance, and in Essex, Rutgers and Monroe SITS. and
East Broadway, and the general region round
about. babies in arms wondered at the growing up
roar of their first Fourth and young rascals
touched the punk to the fuse protrudine from a
paymates pocket
The schedule for to-day is a long one On the
stroke of 10 a. m. Tammany will begin its enter
tainment. At the Battery and at the blOckhouse
in Central Park the flag will rise with the
The New-York Letter Carriers Association will
seek Schuetzen Park. at Union Hill, n. J., play
games and their band will discourse sweet music.
The Society of Catholic Mechanics chose Strack's
Park. Astoria, Long Island. for their outing. The
New-YOrk Scottish Celtic Society will gather at
fledStlnJ Ndlley Hdrk, on the ttudSOn opposite
One hundred d-thrtieth-st. ferry, and dispOrt
themselves with Highland games. In the city
there will be a special concert at the Mall in Cen
trail Park at 2 p. m. At Bath Beach there will be
a ball at s p. m. at the Fort Lowry Hotel, and at
Manhattan Beach there will be extensive display
of fireworks.
Every description of sport will be represented. At
Sheepshead Bay the Coney Island Jockey Club
will hold at 2:SO p. m.-the Lawrence Realza-
ton, the Double Event and the Independence
SteepleChaSe.
Trottng will be seen at Queens Interstate Park,
L. l.. Painfeld. y. j.. and Hohokus, \: J; The
Baseball Club at Englewood. the Montclair Field
Club against the Sacred Heart Academy at Eliza
beth. y. J.; the Metropolitan against the Xavier
a. \. at Equitable Park, SiXty-seventh-st. ana
Eleventh-ave The New-YOrk Cricket Club Will
play at Philadelphia. the Manhattan at Paterson,
the Knickerbocker Athletic Club at the Livingston
mis- tournament will be played at Orange. Polo
will be seen at ROckaway, l.. l., at p. m.
The LarchmOnt Yacht Club and the Hampstead
Bay Yacht Club will hold regattas. the Seawan-
well. and yacht races will take place on Lake
Mahopac. There will be motor cycle endurance
from Boston to New York. There will be
bicycle meets at Vailsburg n. J.. and at Asbury
Park, and the Century Road Club will hold a run
to LynbroOk. L. l., at p. The usual Elizabeth
Railway twenty -fve-mile handicap is scheduled.
at Jamaica Bay. L. l., at II a. m. and al-round
championship athletic events of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union at Celtic Park, L. l., at D. m
There will be many golf contests Actors and
Rochelle, where Augustus Thomas. the playwright,
Will be the presiding genius. Elmhurst will be
Pastor and Edgar Smith that no one shall cele-
bTate unless in costume be carried out.
Many business houses and offices will have a
long holiday till Monday morning