The sun., 1903-11-19
CELEBRATE? WE'LL RATHER!
AID. HOLLERTELLSOF HISGREAT
BRIDGE OPENING PLANS.
DO the People Who Kick at spending SzO''
600 Know what's to BE Done Win h'
Williamsburg Expects Some Fine
Doings, and Is Geing to Have EN-


900 Know what's to BE Done Win lt'
-WilIiamsburE Expects Some FINE
Doip,ss, and Is Geins to Have EN-.
Alderman Holler, chairman Of the COM
mittee on the opening of the Williamsburg
bridge, was somewhat grieved yesterday
that some OF his fellow citizens viewed
with levity the magnificent plans for the
opeping celebration which he has devised
The Alderman has jewelry business In
broadway, williamsburg. and believes that
he has demonstrated his ability az a busi-
ness man enough to insure that he should
not be annoyed by insin,ation that s2o'oOo
which the Aldermen appropriated on Tues
day for the celebration will not be econom-
icaMy expended by him and his fellow
committeeman.
4Twenty thousand dollars too much?"
he said Yesterday. How much nonsense
such talk il! Do the people who talk so
much too much know how long is mile
and quarter, which is the Bridge2 How
much does it take to make proper decoration
for bridge mile and quarter long? You
can spend $4,000 that way and never
know it.
There is this that is TO he remembered
all the time about decorations. This is
bie'city. 1t Is no one-horse show when we
open a bridge which will have so many
people going over It and back as this bridge
Shall we then make people from other cities
say New York is joke; they only do half
way things therep I say no!
>"Are you going to put one little bunch OF
flags here on the bridge and then go long
way and put up another bunch %, OF Il nags, ,,,
just like you wanted to see how little you
could do and didn't want to do 1t!
sNo, Sir! There will be decorations all
over the bridge 20 that every one who can
see the bridge will see that it is all covered
with decorations and that we are big
CITY as only such a city ought to be which
can build a bridge which ought to be cele,
brated by all the people which are Iroud
of the bridge which they have built DO
make it plain about the decorations? l
am. glad of that.
Now, had consultation with Commits
soner Iiindentlial this afternoon. He tells
me that the stand alone, which must be
30 strong that nobody will get hurt.-not the
President or the Governor or any OF the hne
speakers who. will make speeches there,
will cost not bit less than $4,000 You can't
have a big celebration in city like this
for money that would be enough for some
little village Behind the backwoods' We
ought to wake up about ourselves!
Now, again, there must be souvenirs.
We want to have little books printed which
will have all about the commissioners
and the engineers and the history OF the
bridge and pictures 5 Of everybody. Shail t,i;aa
which is not cheap, but which the people
will hold on to and leave for their children
to read when otherwise they might be for
gotten? You can't do things like that for
nothing. We are going to do it right.
"Then we come to the fireworks All
the funny takers they make the fireworks
as if they were joke They are not in
the hearts of the people when they talk IKE
that. Suppose 1t is a stormy day ana colo.
There will be great crowd on the bridge
to see it and hear it. The speeches will be
short to keep down the sickness. But there
will he fireworks at o'clock at night no
matter how short the ceremonies may be
when the speeches are made.
Now. why is this? Because all the
poor people on both sides of the river will
sit in their windows where their houses
can see the fireworks. There will he rive
set pieces, anyhow, and maybe more, but
We don't know yet what they will be about
The people will all be glad and We will have
some public sentiment which all these VS.
people talk about. but don't know how
10 arouse right in the hearts of the peopel.
you don't know how important this
celebration is Over here in Williamsburg
we are full OF enthusiasm about it. wish
you could see the letters which have come
to me from all our prominent societies here
about wagons and floats for the turn YER
einers and the saengcrbund o go across the
bridge I'm specially built wagons which
shall be beautifully decorated or course,
we can't do it But it isn't right for us who
are 80 warm hearted and enthusiastic and
like TO have some sentiment about our
great works to stand up there and be cold
In our hearts and say:
Here is your damn old bridge, Take it,
And then walk off like as if we we're all
satisfied already. That isn't the way for
this great city of New York to do to its
people.
we hope to have soldiers here. too.
! don't know yet. Perhaps one regiment
from Brooklyn. and one regiment from
New York to stand at the entrance and keep
order and let the people through little
at a time so that they will not be crushed
to death Then We will have them march
across the bridge 10 show what fine bridge
it is
"Then the bridge wili'look down on the
navy yard | am going over there to see
the head Commodore and ask him II he
can't do something down in the navy yard
which the people can loot, down on and
enjoy to make part of the celebration.
They ought 10 be glad in tine navy ynrd, eh?
1t is fine bridge to have over your held;
when we get through with this maybe
the people will reali;1 That this isn't any
cheap bridge we have got, but II is worth
making fuss over. Didn't they spend
more than twice $4,000 when they opened
the other bridgn?'
Mr. Holler said that Commissioner Lin
dentilal had assured him that il the weather
held good and the material mon kept up
their supplies, both roadways OF the bridge
would be open in time for the celebration
on Dec. 10. At any rate both roadways will
he open within week after the celebration.
PHIL RiLY. JR.. RFTNDIfTED.
District Attorney Informed THAT lie Re
sunied business at Once.
Phil DAILY. Jr.. whose indictment for
running gambling house at 1875 West
Forty-ffth street was dismissed on Monday