The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-12
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The Increased Cost Of Paper Makes
Fourth Of July Equipment
Expensive.
The Old Fashioned, Small Cracker
Is Enjoying a Return to
Favor.

Love Of liberty will be an expensive
emotion for the American boy on the
coming Fourth of July. Fireworks will
cost 10 to 20 per cent more than they cost
a year ago.
''The rise is due partly to the in
creased cost Of labor said A. w. Paris
president of the Paris-Murton company,
"and chiefly to the high price of paper
and pasteboard. Paper pulp has gone
up about 80 per cent.
But if the price of the flrecracker is
growing, the cracker itself is getting
smaller The anarchist bombs former
ly sold as giant crackers" did not leave
a child sufficient fingers to shoot his
.'nigger- chasers' in the evening, nor eyes
enough to see the rockets when they
busted Parents have become dis
satisfied They have expressed increas
ing desire for smaller and more amicable
crackers. for paper cannons that might
terrify horses and keep invalids awake
without separating a father from too
much of his family.
Only a few novelties will be for sale
this year, notwithstanding the fact that
all the fireworks. except the smaller
crackers, are the product Of American
In one branch Of pyrotechnics some new
demonstrations will be made in favor Of
free government. The "pinwheel, at
whose irridiscent circles James Madison
yelled ''bully!'' is to be aided this year by
the cyclone wheel, the chrysanthemum
wheel, the fairy wheel, and the Japan
csc bouquet wheel. The cyclone wheel
is a horizontal stick, at each end Of which
| rises something like the candles with
which little Romans used to play. The
| stick revolves on a central pin, but the
angle of the candles is such that they
whirl about as fast as wind In
| Wichita The chrysanthemum wheel is
| cip liar. will rtriHpa''
lends. The ends Of this continuance emit
| their fireworks horizontally. When I'm
| der full Roadway the wheel embroiders
Japanese blossoms across the night $
| kimono. A fairy wheel is like cyclone
! Wheel but explodes downwards as well
| as upwards. Its decorations are none the
less gentle as BELTS a salvo for the ear
| of Queen Titania. The Japanese bou-
| quet wheel consists of a long stick to be
| set upright in, the ground, and a short
cartridge pinned near the top to the side
| of the stick. Lighted at both ends the
attachment whirls, with results as flora
as they're fiery. ..~-... ~. F.
The silver fountain is a long, cracker.
like continuance plated with tin foil
When one end is in the ground and the
| other end is burning paint box OF blaz
ing tints roars upward to the jealous
stars.
The '.Long Tom is a combination
L .
sarsaparillas, to benefit all the famil.
from grandma to the baby. 1t is a sticl
with niger chaser at one extremit,
and an aerial bomb at the other. TIL
middle of the stick is festooned witt
crackers, Snakes torpedoes and every
thing that's sudden. You telephone
surgeon and set the Long Tom off on tn
veranda.
But every foxy grandpa" must carr
a suitable cane when he walks down tow
on independence Day, to watch the littl
folks have fun. Last year his cane ex
ploded torpedoes one torpedo at a time
after the old gentleman had loaded hi
artillery. This year a favorite grand
son will bring in the celebration, read
made and waiting, when he fetche
grandpa's hat. The cane may be loade
now with thirteen blasts Of dynamite
Grandpa will thus discharge the severs
shots wherever they can cause the mos
alarm and import a separate shiver fo
each of the original states.