Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1902-06-20
BOMBS FOR THE FOURTH
Nations Birthday to Be Even
Noisier This Year.
NOVELTIES III NERVE sHATTERERs

Manufacturers OF Fireworks Devise
Several Instruments Guaranteed to
Guido Giant Crackers-Toy Houses
and warshipS For Boys To Destroy.
Mont Pelee Eruption May be Re-
produced.
Persons with nerves" may as well
take to the woods when the nation eel
ebrates its birthday on July Of this
year. says the Chicago Tribune. The
fireworks manufacturers have been a
busy lot. New instruments Of noise and
destruction have been devised Till the
giant cracker. the joy of bygone years.
is made to look primitive.
By buying the "house that Jack
built the small boy can indulge his
destructive instincts TO almost any ex-
tent he likes. The house is advertised
as 1.-THE largest and most attractive
novelty on the market" 1t is described
as follows:
'The boy builds his house and puts
In the chimney a firecracker with fuse
end up. When lighted, it explodes and
blows the house TO atoms"
One hundred houses and as many
chimney crackers are sold for 40 cents.
If the boys taste is more warlike than
anarchistic. he can buy n gunboat to
blow up. The miniature man-of-war is
destroyed in the same manner as the
house, although a larger cracker is
needed
A simple looking package of powder
seen in many of the stores is labeled
"grasshopper." When the fuse is light
ed, the imitation hopper springs into
the air and, bounding like its name
sake, makes loud report every time
it strikes the ground.
The cumming fire top" is advertised
as great novelty" This pyrotechnic
toy is an ordinary wooden top sur
mounted by driving apparatus which
makes it spin with great velocity. The
miniature surprise box" is an inno-
cent looking thing until touched with
the punk. Then it has an eruption sug-
gestive of Pelee.
For a penny the twin comets" may
be bought. They resemble Roman
candles in their performance, discharg-
ing both comets simultaneously. An
other novelty Is the "whirling der
vish," which ascends after it has been
lighted and emits rings of fire. Snakes
in the grass" that unwind their canny
bodies promise to replace the old time
"nigger chasers."
The "whistling devil" like the
"whstling cloudburst," is fired from
the ground. There is loud explosion,
which throws whistles into the air in
the shape of serpentine stream of
fire. The cloudbursts whistle when
they come down, which is the only dis
tinction between the two noisy con-
trivances.
The ''whistling cracker jack" is de-
scribed by a manufacturing company
as 'our latest novelty in pyrotech-
MICS" One of the advantages claimed
for the ''whistling cracker jack" is
that it surpasses in effect any cannon
cracker ever exploded, the report be-
ing much louder" The whistling fol
lows the explosion.
A magic snake introduced by one
company is guaranteed to measure nc
less than one yard when uncoiled, and
the kangaroo" which in action re-
sembles a gigantic grasshopper, prom
ises to be a big seller. This pyrotech
mic animal jumps, screeches, barks
and then eXplodes.
A locomotive made of pasteboard
and propelled by force of the explo
sion that sets it in motion is another
novelty. According to dealers, giant
crackers and the death dealing dyna
mite fireerackers do not give promise
of big sale this year. People are
said to fear them more each year.
Few novelties have been developed
in the big fireworks" One firm is
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of repro
ducing the eruption Of Mont Pelee al
the eastern coast resorts, but is moi
certain that the performance woulG
prove popular.