The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
FIREWORKS SELL
LIKE HOT CAKES
People Buy smaIlerExpIosives.
but Purchase Often, and Gel.
citrate Enthusiastically

Me no selem the beeg one; but
selem plenty leetle one. Make heap
mloney, all samee"
Thus said the urbane Celestial as ne
stood with stolid face at the entrance
TO Quong Gin, Lung & Co.'s store last
nlght and watched between almond
SNAPPED but keen eyes that no "Mer-
can man with lighted cigar gained
entrance to place that looked as
though it had been swept by a Kansas
cyclone
The Chinaman late last night ex-
planned in pigeon English that while
the sales We're of smaller amounts and
smaller explosives, the total receipts of
the day would not fall short of last
year, and that ON the whole the day
had been fairly profitable. 1t is esti-
mated that citizens and small bows OF
st. Paul spent not less than S15O,0OO
for fireworks in celebration of the ma
tional holiday.
wholesale dealers in the pyrotech-
MICS that go to make UP a genuine
Fourth of July celebration were well
satisfied with the trade, and one of
them said, in answer to an inquiry.
that not in many years had the sales
y,
the aggregate was fully up to the rec
ora OF previous years.
No Giant Crackers
The order from the police DEPART
ment curtailing the weight of tbe
armament to be used by patriots in
celebrating the day prevented the sale
Oh the giant crackers, but the small
boy kept coming, and before night
overlook the town the wholesaler had
smut up shop and the retailers sup
plles had been nearly exhausted
Another dealer said that Young
Americas standby, the ordinary fire.
cracker of his elders blessed memory.
was sold by the hundred thousand.
and that its potency to please was as
evident as when he himself was a
boy, Judging from the demand for this
species of Fourth of July goods Fire
crackers, canes" loaded with a mix
lure Oh potash and powder, lizard"
pieces and score or more animal fig
ures which do funny stunts when fire
Is applied to their loaded anteriors
constituted the bulk of the youngsters
investments, while the Weather peo-
pie made purchases of more preten-
tlous set pieces, and on their lawns
Pleased the little people and many of
their elders with displays that were
tfu1y marVels of pyrotechnic SKILL
FIREWORKS on the Hill
From the homes on the Hill. from
darkness until long after midnight,
there was a constant display of fire
works. The rockets red glare" and
bombs bursting in air" lit up the sky,
and while the well-to-do paid the cost,
the citizens of the lower town wards
shared in visions of the illumination.
More people were on the streets of
the downtown district last night than
on any night of the Fourth in the his
tory of st. Paul. Following a light
shower in the afternoon, the sky
cleared, the stars came out and the
night was neither too warm nor too
cool for out enjoyment Thou
sands thronged the streets, and the
exploding fireworks, the Roman candles
and hundreds of bursting skyrockets
combined to produce a scene suggestive
OF mardi gras in Southern city.
The bombardment continued until
long after midnight, but the city finally
capitulated to sleep, and when the
guardians of the peace were making
their o'clock rounds st. Paul had
yielded to continued attacks and was
again normal American city.