Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-23
READY FOR FOURTH
Small Boy Saving NickIes and
Pennies for Great
Holiday.
GOOD TIME GUAGED BY FUNDS
Many New Kinds of Devices to Craft
fy Their Patriotic
ArdOr.
GOOD TIME GUAGED BY FUNDS


already sounds in the distance, for
in less than two weeks Independence
day will be celebrated and the small
boy of Rock Island is full of gleeful
anticipation, and is daily count
ing the pennies and nickels which
he has been boarding zealously
all spring to eXpend for
ing zealously all spring. to eXpend for
crackers, torpedoes and other instru-
ments of torture on the Fourth. The
boys happiness is measured by the
amount of money he will have to
spend for fireworks, and ''how much
are you going to have for the
FOURTH is a question often repeated
these days among the smaller popu-
lation of the city.
The manufacturers of fireworks
have kept pace with the age, and each
year number of new and startling
devices for making noise are sprung
on the long-suffering public. Last
years instruments of torture showed
big lead over those of the previous
year. and there will be new ones more
horrible than all the rest this year.
The local dealers have commenced to
receive their stock of fireworks
Variety in stock.
The stocks will contain complete as
sortments of fireworks. new and old.
OF course the first crackers will not
be absent; crackers small and great.
from the size that sells at two bunch
es for nickle, and go off with a spite
full little snap. to the giant siX-inch
cracker that eNplodes with a report
that may be heard across the river.
and scareS all the horses in the vicin-
ity into fits. Roman candles will be
sold in abundance, also sky rockets,
pin wheels and torpedoes. The deal
ers will sell silver star candles, which
throw forth balls of light; meteor
candles that discharge yellow stars
and showers of fire; colnred star
candles of assorted coIors, which have
pointed wooden handles and are firm
ly planted in the ground before they
are touched off; rocket candles. SINH
larily equipped. not intended for hand
use, and discharging great yellow
rings of fire, filling the air with Il
flood of light and resembling sky
rockets in their general effect; SNOWY
.electric and brilliant star candles and
SKY rockets constructed with double
short sticks with feathered ends, Civ
ing them n rotary motion when they
are fired, and carrying them to a
great altitude; fancy headed. colored
headed, parachute aerolite, columbia
star, golden spreader. willow tree and
whistling rockets with dozen other |
varieties; mines that are filled with |
colored and silver stars, groups of eX
ploding Serpents, meteoric star show |
ers, saucissions, colored gerbs, Jap |
anese fire, ct cetera, and the whole |
discharging in n great cloud and with |
a tremendous report, and scattering |
their contents in every direction; bat
teries of all descriptions, jack in the |
box, devils among tailors, floral shells, |
bomb shells, torbilliOns, or revolving |
rockets, silver and colors; golden |
and every other kind of fountain bo-
uquets, flower pots, flying pigeons,
whistling bombs, siren wheels lance |
wheels. saxon wheels. triangle wheels, |
and many others; Chinese flyers, col |
ored sun wheels, scroll wheels, Yes |
uvius fountains. Bengora cartridges |
that burn for ten minutes; cOlored |
lawn lights, torches, beacons and ship
lights, floating lights. water snakes,
which on being lighted and thrown in
to the water perform curious con-
tortions; joss sticks, iron pistols and
caps. and balloons.
Part of Evening Display. III,
Many of the pieces above en-
umerated will form the grand pyro-
technical display of fireworks" which
will mark the closing of Independ-
ence day in Rock Island. The cele-
bration usually commences a month be-
fore the Fourth, coming to a grand
climax on the nations birthday, at
which time it behooves the man who
is troubled with nerves to take to the
woods. This year, however. precau-
tions are to be taken to restrict the
celebration to the Fourth day of
July alone. Everything goes on the
Fourth, but the boys will have to re-
strain their Impotence until that day
and will not be allowed to discharge
fireworks promiscuously about the
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