The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-02
BIGGEST FOURTH
FOR MANY YEARS
MINNEAPOLIS WILL GO IN HEAVI-
LIZ FOR CELEBRATING.
Fireworks Dealers Are the Busiest
People on Earth Today and Many
Handsome Displays Will be Seen
Monday Evening - Picnics Will Be
Popular

one of the biggest Minneapolis has
ever seen. Coming on Monday, it
all the workers and the hundreds con-
nected with the grain trade began
their outing yesterday. The gala tone
OF the city began to be apparent yes
terday afternoon, when the baseball
attendance was we'll UP in the thou
sands.
The busiest people in the city today
are the fireworks dealers, who have
all sorts Of extra help and not min
Ne's time. In addition to the public
display of fireworks at Lake Harriet
In the evening, there will be some
elaborate private and neighborhood
displays. Irving avenue, between
Douglas and Franklin, will be the
gathering place for the Green's addi-
tons residents, who have dubbed to-
gether on. pyrotechnics. The street
will be Illuminated and the fireworks
will be set off from one Of N. H. En-
mans lots at Nineteenth street and
Irving avenue. A similar neighbor-
hood display will be given in the
district, near Twenty-eighth street
and Hennepin avenue. Still another
noteworthy exhibit will be on the
lawn at the home Of Charles e. Cook,
$50 Eighteenth street. At 1900
Hawthorn avenue, G. G. Carpenter will
| celebrate the national anniversary
with an elaborate sacrifice on the
pyrotechnic altar. Portland avenue
residents will witness one Of the
grandest Examinations of the evening
at the home Of Marion W.. Savage,
1900 Portland. Other exhibits Of note
will be at the homes of c.. A. Smith,
| 1924 Emerson avenue, j. A. Van
Ness, 4003 Garfield avenue. S. H.
Thurston, 2512 Fifteenth avenue s..
Picnics Of the Day
Picnic baskets will be as much in
favor as f1recrackers, and the fact that
the holiday falls on Monday made
| housekeepers scurry around today to
arrange sandwiches, lemonade and
cake. There will be all sorts of pic
mics, lodge and society gatherings,
neighborhood rallies and family
groups until one will not be able to
throw stone anywhere around Min
nehaha or Lake Harriet on Monday
without hitting a basket of good
things, surrounded by happy children
and patient parents. Minnehaha and
Lake Harriet will be the great city
centers, but picnickers will be found
at the end of every car line which has
| adjacent woods, and Washburn Park
will resound with the patriotic boom
! of f1recrackers.
r The largest gathering will undoubt-
! eddy be on the grounds at Tenth and
Penn avenues N, where Immaculate
! Conception parish will have its fourth
annual picnic. Rain will not be al
making, for the pavilion and dining.
4 hall will be covered. The program
will include all sorts of races and 6
baseball game between the knights
of the Cross and the knights of Co.
/ lurnbus. Prizes will reward the
4 winners, and a brass band will play
I more tunes than the picnickers car
count. The grounds are accessible
by either the Plymouth or the Sixth
avenue N car lines.
The local camps Of the Modern
Woodmen Of America will make
merry In the new park at Robbins
dale. Rev. Donald c. Kolp will reat
the Declaration of Independence at. Il
O'Clock, and A. l.. Sorter, Jr., ant
Arthur l.. Jones will tell what the,
think Of the Fourth. Later there will
be races, games and dancing, and tht
Minneapolis Union band will furnish
music
The m Snn 5s picnic hea Of Ascension ger
grounds, Dupont and Eighteenth av
enues N. Should the weather be un
favorable for an outdoor picnic tn,
parish buildings will be utilized 81
that those who come will be assured
OF a good Tune, rain or shine.
W.. j. Burnett, manager Of tn
Northwestern Hide and Fur company
will treat his force to steamboa
ride on the upper and lower lakes a
Minnetonka on the steamer Acte. !
:. dinner at his cottage at Morse ISLAM
y Park, Big Island, will follow.
; No Business on Monday.
All the city departments will be close
except the police and the fire depart
0 ments, and the health department. while
e will be open in the morning only.
: Librarian Gratia Countryman has or
K dered that all departments of the publ
. library, including the readingroom Of tn
J, central and branch libraries, be closed tn
q entire day.
:, Grocery and butcher shops close tonigh
l. and stay closed until Tuesday morning
q However, liquid refreshments will not b
Q withheld. The saloons and soda fountain
will moisten the threats Of the thirst
y thru the day.