Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-07
oTTUMWA HOLDS MAMMOTH
CELEBRATION IN coMMEMo.
RATION OF EVENT.
HON.LAFE YOUNG SPEAKS
Booming of Cannon and Roar of Crack.
ers Ushers in the Glorious Fourth
Thousands of Visitors in the City
to Attend Festivities.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
The Fourth of July, the country's
natal, day, was appropriately celebrat-
ed IN the city today and the day was
success in every particular. Early
TINS morning the booming of cannon
and the loud report of the firecrackers
awakened the sleepers and all day
long the sport was continued. The.
program for the day opened at 8
o'clock with music by the Fifty
fourth regimental and Schwabkey's
bands on the streets and in the stands
erected on the principal corners and
at the same hour the shows on the
carnival grounds were opened and
tie people poured in to make the last
day of the carnival big success. At
ii o'clock a large throng assembled
at the city park to listen to the ora
| ton of the day by Lafayette Young,
the editor of the Des Moines Capital
~ the afternoon the carnival enter
tanned the large assemblage and this
evening there will be grand celebra-
ton at the carnival ground as fitting
| close to the days celebration.
Many Visitors.
The day started in cloudy and re.
NAMED SO during nearly the entire
day. The rain of yesterday afternoon
and early this morning tended 10 puri-
| fly the atmosphere and the day was
delightfully."- cool for a July day Last
| night and this morning every train
| entering the city brought it's quota of
| visitors to the city for the celebration
and the clost of the carnival week.
| There is a noticeable lack of the
rowdies on the streets today and this
was also a feature of last evenings
celebration. The best thing seen on
the streets last evening was the mem
bers of the Fifty-fourth Regimental
orchestra fitted out with a few tam
bourines, triangle, clarinet and
base drum and playing Midway mus
>ic while Harry Sutton, dressed up in
woman's clothes, did the dance Ev-
| eryone were good natured and all were
having the time of their lives.
The Morning Program.
| The morning program at the city
park attracted the larger part of the
| crowds on the street and an immense
throng was present when the celebra-
ton proper opened. National melodies
by the band were first heard and this
was followed by the reading of the
declaration OF Independence by Ralph
Coen. The speaker of the day, Hon.
Lafayette Young, was then introduced
by j. K. Dysart, chairman of the en-
tertainment committee, and he
4 held the closest attention of the
crowd as he delivered an eloquent
Fourth of July Grafton. Mr.. Young
spoke In part as follows:
Gleanings From Mr.. Young's Address.
4 Il feel quite at home in Ottun.wa.
lived i'll Eddyliile when Aaron Me-
lick published the Star and when OF
tunlwa was second in Importance to
J Eddyville. These two Wapello towns
were the only points in Iowa during
t the civil war At these two places
4 the coaches of the American Stage Co.,
| arrived and departed, taking the sol
4 dierss to ard IRON the war. My old
!, employer, Melick, in whose family I
lived, has gone to his final reward,
but he lived to see Ottumwa become
a thriving city. To many boys in
southern Iowa Ottumwa is historic,
; because mere they nrs5 saw the cars.
: Some of them saw their first steamboat
at the Ottumwa wharf.
The Discovery of America.
| y
two great events affecting the world,
, the birth of the Savior and the discov-
cry of America. 1t is singular that
this continent lay unoccupied for more
than one hundred years after it's dis
covery The people of the old world
, evidently did not know good thing
when they heard about it. The ex-
plorers at the time of Columbus were
looking for gold, not for real estate.
st would have been a great thing
, to have been the first surveyor in the
!, timber west of Plymouth Rock.
In the Early Day.
"The discovery of America was
timely. The old world was in dark
ness and in many places oyercrowd-
ed, The new world gave it vent. For
more than hundred years after the
i landing of the Pilgrims, several ma
; tionalities or governments of the old
world were represented in the new
. world: the English had their portion;
, the French theirs; the Spaniards
theirs and the Indians had a great
empire of their own. 1t seems provi-
/ dental that all these different controls
, ing powers were finally banished and
J the revolution ended with authority
) mainly vested in the new republic.
France and Spain remained with de-
) Tendencies and the British retained
Canada. Afterwards by purchase and
conquest, the French and Spanish
We're sent away and only England re-
NAMED on the American continent,
}. which now seems to have been the
only mistake of our governmental en-.
0 terprise, in its beginning.
!, The Revolution.
: "One event after another followed