New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-05
TWAS A GLORIOUS DAY!
MIGHTY THRONG,S GEL EBRAT-
ED ON BEACH, FIELD
AND BAY.
THE EAST SIDE A CONTINUAL DIN OF
BOISTEROUS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
cry OFFERED on ALTAR.

No rain fell yesterday TO mar the celebrations
OF the young New-Yorker or dampen the dis
plays of fireworks by night. The estimate by
the dealers was that powder would be
burned this year than ever before. But the long
holiday to Monday morning drew a great part
of those on pleasure bent out of town, and left
long reaches Of the city empty and quiet. The
Battery was crowded early with pleasure seek
going out and soldiers coming in The East
Side in its lower populous districts did honor to
the occasion with a din nearly incessant. The
parks We're filled, and the lines of transportation
within the city and ont into the country We're
overloaded. But in the business part and In the
more sparsely filled residential districts it was
plain 10 see that the cheer in the open field was
the greater that the city street subdued
The bursting of the frecracker and the booming
of the cannon cracker often seemed to be around
the corner in the next street. It's year.
though the gross war budget is large the small
boy kept up a bombardment which, broadly
speaking. while not ineffective, was not terrific
DAY FOR THE FISHERMEN
The Fourth of July seems always 10 be the
day for the fishermen. The steamships Angler
and Edmund Butler, that left the Battery shortly
after s a. m, carried a cargo Ominous to the
Inhabitants of the well summed waters of the
Lower Bay and plainly bent increasing
the death rate there. And it evidenced
there and the many other excursion boats
that left the dock for the day low in the water
with celebrants that fishes that tipple in the
deep" We're not alone in that employment.
Every ferryboat and steamer left town with
fun cabins and crowded decks in the morning,
and owing TO the continued fair weather the
travel rather increased than fell off toward
evening. To Staten Island. Rockaway Beach
and Coney Island went hordes of pleasure seek
ers The General Slocum and the Grand Re-
public could each set a fair sized town af1oat,
Yet many cityfuls had to be handled The Iron
Steamboat Company, with its eight big steam
boats, carried every forty minutes about I.0oo
away. The little steamer TO Bellows Island had
a liberal and continual passenger list The VIII
lam Storie TO Midland Beach the Patten boats
to Long Branch and the Sandy Hook Line
steamboats, displaced more water than usual
The excursions on the Pennsylvania, Erie and
other railroads IN Jersey City drew constant
ferryfuls over the North River in the morning
The letter carriers filed the Christopher and
Barclay-st. ferries bound for their picnic at
Schuetzen Park The Erie running twenty
extra trains besides its quota of 100 'subur-
bans" and almost all IN sections. The Pail
sades and West Point suffered more than
usual influx, for the day was one Of the clearest
and pleasantest Fourths in years. Up the
Sound large boats and small boats churned and
puffed with heavy cargOes. And out over the
tracks Of the Central enough people were rushed
TO give the impression that there was some
opening of public lands
THE CONCERT IN CENTRAL PARK.
In the afternoon the concert in Central Park
massed the large crowd that had before been
spread more evenly about, and many heard the
music Of the list Regiment Band The parks
We're pre-empted at an early hour for the cele
brations fitting to the day, and promised to be
F,lg oh I'm 10 he
bivOuac on the benches at night.
The usual flag raising took place at the Bat
terry and at the Block House at sunrise-at the
Battery without ceremony, and at the Block
House with speech by y. D. Gardiner, great
grandson Of John Bigney a soldier of the Revo-
luton. Fort Washington attracted its full
share Of picnic parties. This historic spot is
doomed since It has been bought in individual
parcels. 1t might have made a worthy park,
but it cannot be open ground for many more
Fourths
THE STRENUOUS EAST SIDE.
In the city proper the East Side was the
busiest and most strenuous centre of enjoyment.
IT great day there for the pushcart men.
The business they did in fruits was tremendous.
Halfmoons Of watermelon had the largest sale,
and every child along the district surrounding
East Houston-st. got next" TO the one cent
hunks. The Italian eats watermelon on a diff
ferent system from the negro, who, if he stage
and comic journalism be truthful starts at the
centre OF the semicircIe. 1t is not so with the
typical East Slider, who begins at the extremity
of the rim and eats his way straight around.
Another specially Of the peders yesterday
q camp chair for children, with tiny wooden legs
and seats of white and blue cloth. one of the
most successful hucksters gave object lesson
by inducing fodder Of about four years of age
TO sit in one Of the chairs the top of the cart.
The boy was followed down East Houstoa-st.
by a crowd of his young friends. cheering him
Till the little advertiser became more frightened
than proud of his position. Ping pong belts
were favorites in Pike-st.. where a loin cloth Of
black terminated in a brass buckle with a de-
sign Of crossed ping pong racquets a cellulod
ball.
The streets were damned, and there
siderable noise throughout the afternoon. The
boys of the district where Stanton-st. meets
Pike-st developed an excellent device. Weary
sng of tin cans receptacles for cannon crack
ers. they borrowed the family china. and were
sending up the wash basins and slop jars of the
neighborhood in a spray Of broken crOckery.
One youngster obtained old shoe of many
years standing. from all appearances. but still
durable. for repeated applications of the IA
nous ffrecracker No. lifted it several feet
from the ground but left the leather still in
tact.
TORPEDOES WERE FAVORITES.
To generalize on the method of celebrating the
Fourth. it might be observed that torpedoes
dominated the day. In former days frecrackers
were the basis Of JOY, but this year torpedoes
were found more reasonable and effective. The
Prince-st. line of streetcars. plying through
Stanton-st., had a peculiarly lively time of it..
The route was lined with fine fat torpedoes
and the horses moved TO an unremitting deto-