Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-07-04
WHERE The NOISE WILL Be
0maLas Fourth of July Celebration Will Be
All Over Its Map.
ATTRACTIONS ARE MANY AND SCATTERED
EsIks VIII Make CrIPpIes of Them
selves at vinton street Park and
Letter Carriers VIII Dc Spe-
cial Delivery Act.


Promised for the Fourth.
Fair. cooler weather all over.
Thurston Rifles drill, Lake CORTLAND.
La Paloma's air dances, krug Park.
Musical festival, Lake Manawa
Ferris Stock company, .Boyds theater.
Letter carriers celebration, waterloo
Young Mems Christian association out
Socialists picnic. Eimwood park
South Omaha P. f. o., Childs' Point.
Maennerchor, Reeds park.
st. Peters society. Twentieth and Dor
Ta6ernsole meeting. Eighteenth and Cass
streets.
when in the course Of human events il
becomes necessary for a thrifty prodigal
to celebrate the day he declared his indes
pendence Of an intolerant parent and de-
termined to take his place among the self
governed, II "accords with the decent
respect to the opinion OF mankind" that he
give some evidence of the way he feels
about 1t. Hence and therefore, Friday is
to be the busy day of the Bing- Bang
chorus, and the street car conductor, Of
! the patriotic orator and the iceman, of the
small boy and the family doctor, of the
! picknicker and the life line, of the habitual
| oelebrant and the corner policeman, of the
| optimist and the pessimist and of those
staid cid friends, Vox Populi Sic semper
] TyTanus and <. Plulbus Unum.
| Omaha has scheduled no central grand
celebration" but it's citizens will rsmble
at will and make their strange noises in as
many different places as the geography
provides.
The sporting editors have announced that
| society will be entertained at the Country
and Field clubs with contests in which ath-
| Iatf mill
pound a rubber ball over 125 acres Of hilly
territory with the fewest number OF
strokes. or which can keep a tennis sphere
on the opposite side Of the net with the
least perspiration. these encounters to be
followed with dances after dark
EIIxs VIII Play Ball.
The Elks Of Omaha are to play the Elks
Of Council Bluffs at the Vinton street base
ball park at p, m, or as soon thereafter
as the sun appears to be as hot as its
| going to be.
The Omaha letter carriers are going to
make a special delivery of their families
and friends at Waterloo, where F. W. Fitch
will read the Declaration of Independence
in loud voice and Nelson c. Pratt will tell
what he thinks Of the same. Afterward
they will dance. The first excursion train
leaves over the Union Pacific at $50 and the
next at 1890. reaching Waterloo before the
ice is all gone.
| At the amusement resorts there will be
hooks for the blaze and special entertain
ment in the open for those who still have
an interest An what. other people can do.
Covalt's Concert band will be the principal
Joy at Manawa and there will be additional
features of no mean merit. The manage
ment announces that by special arrange
ment 1t is in a position to guarantee that
the water in the lake will be wetter than
ever before
At Courtland Beach there is a special
budget of frolic in readiness. There will
be a reproduction Of the historic naval bat
tie between Monitor and Merrimac and, as
an added attraction the Thurston Rifles have
been engaged for a drill IN the afternoon.
They went out last night and this morning
are to play base ball with the old members
OF the company-those who 'veteraniSed"
themselves in the recent war. The Gatling
gun will be kept hot. In the evening there
! will be a big display of fireworks.
VIII Dance on Air.
From Krugs park, at o'clock and 7
o'clock, La Paloma is to ascend in a bal
loon and dance on air as thin as her skirts.
snatches from vaudeville will occupy a part
of the day; an exhibition drill by the crack
I team OF Jue " OOdmon OI LnS WOTiQ Will De
on in the afternoon and at night the Pas
sion Play.
There are to be picnics without number.
The Silentium association is to celebrate
elaborately at Elmwood park for the ben
eft Of the church fund. Waldo H. Roberts
, will speak in the language OF the mutes
and a dozen athletic contests are on the
card The Young Women's Christian as =
sociation goes to Blmwood park also.
The P. e. o. of South Omaha go TO
Childs' point: the Maennerchor of the South
Side to Reeds park. Twenty-frst and Mar
tina; the st. Peters society to Twentieth
and Dorcas, and numerous others to the
local parks. Quite a number of gentlemen
have arranged to camp in small parties
down on the Cellar bottoms near Cork
screw point.
The fans-well. it Is estimated that there
nre two ball games slated for every vacan,
, lot in Douglas county, and the Darlngs OF
e the Northeast Corner will be everywhere
/ in evidence, pitted against the Idols Of the
Southwest Section. At night balls of an
. other kind will be almost as numerous. the
z one TO be given at Washington hall TO have
) special feature in the Ancient Order o
a United workmen drill contest
( Those Of devout tendencies will find
Evangelist J. T. Hatfield of Indiana con-
Q Quoting an aI-day tabernacle meeting a.
= Eighteenth and Cass streetss
Several South Omaha bloods, with a few
y from Omaha. have planned to go to the
4 races at Fremont. The party formed Al
a the court house to go to Kansas City fol
d the Omaha base ball game disbanded wher
its members discovered the error Of the re
port that the fare was to be 81 for the
Z round trip.
There is really q good chance for fsi
| weather on the Fourth" said WeathermaI
Welsh yesterday. The storm center hang
over the upper valleys and the northwest
but will probably pass to the north OF us
II Is clear TO the west and southwest, ant
cooler in the western district In fact
. there Is a drop Of rs degrees at Salt LAX
: City and in southern Utah the lead wen
a down TO freezing point last night"
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