The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
st. Paul Children, Dr.
To Commercial Club and
DR.. Jastus 0hage & Go.
One "TIME OF OUR LIVES"

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The "above account when itemiZed,
will represent the city's obligation for
the splendidly successful Fourth of
July celebration given yesterday on
Harriet island under the auspices of
the st. Paul Commercial club and the
men who created an ideal playground
from a barren island.
1t was without doubt the biggest,
merriest holiday that ever delighted so
large a proportion of st. Paul chill
dren. At noon yesterday the number
of little folks on Harriet island was
estimated at $4,000. But crowds of
them were coming as other crowds
We're going, so that the total of
participants in the Commercial club
celebration may easily have risen to
25,000
Yet this first rejoicing of the kind
did more than make the children
happy. 1t provided them with free en-
tertainment all day long. 1t gave them
abundant luncheon without charge. And
especially it kept them "out of mis-
CHIEF from a. m. until Z D. M;
separated them from toy cannon and
mud cans" and brought them through
the glorious day without fracture,
mutilation or permanent Disagreement.
Fun Began Early
The noise began as early.as O'Clock.
AT that hour a cool yet sunny morn
Ing welcomed the boys and girls to the
rendezvous at Rice park. The small
square filled quickly with infant lovers
OIL their native land-aS many girls as
boys. Most of the boys came loaded"
with individual supplies of ammuni-
uon, including torpedo canes torpedees
1oE the canes and a firm foundation of
e the standard firecracker. Nor did any
arrival lack that dominant note of
joyful utterance with which young
America pleasurably eclipses CONT
mental rivals. AS the crowds piccoIo
shrek greeted the arrival of the flags
one boy reproved his comrades. Say"
he protested, cant youse kids yell?
Youse wants to holler so loud you can't.
hear nobody elsei''
The flags were distributed from
wagon in Fifth street before the fed
eral building. The distributors were
President Theo. F. Smith and Secre-
tary {. P. Slime. of the Commercial
club; B. HI. Schriber, chairman OF the
clubs Fourth of July committee; J.
Watson Smith and p J. Metzdorf-all
members of the committee.
Around the wagon the expectant
color-bearers showed and struggled.
thrusting out the hundred arms of a
writing human octopus
Gimme one, mister! Aw, gimme.
won't yuh?' and 'Gimme!" some BOYS
would keep crying after each of their
protruded hands had seized flag.
you've got one already" declared
Mr.. Smith to yellow-headed youth,
VINO wore on one ear a sunburned golf
cap.
Fer my lii sister, dat is" explained
the cheerful cherub. Il wants to wave
one myself. see"
Wlthln fifteen minutes the wagon
load OF flags had scattered, and the
painting, redfaced committee sat down
In the shade to rest. Feel as if I'd
peen through wrestling match" ex-
planned Secretary Slime.
Children Sing Patriotic Songs
Having their flags to wave, the chill
dren could join more forcefully in the
SINGING OF their patriotic songs. Harry
Philips, standing on the federal build
ing steps, led this big chorus His in
Strulnentahsts were the thirty mem
pers OF the TWenty-f first regiment hand
which had arrived early from Fort
smelling, under the lead of Chief Musi
Sldu charles w. Graves.
me band played with its accustomed
SIKH. But the chorus frequently dis
played more stress than accuracy Yet
IN the softer phrases of 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner" America" and
Hail Columbia there We're chiIdisi,
notes whose crystalline sweetness no
prlma soprano could surpass
Singing thus beneath the trees the
thousands of white WASTED bows and
hni lr.iII
called the ailurement of a similar cho-
rus, the Living Flag" which sang the
same airs nearly on the same spot dur
ing the national G. A. r. encampment
of 1896.
When the band had struck I'D "Hia-
Watha, and the mounted police under
sergeant Gerving, started off ahead of
Mayor Smiths carriage, every bow and
every girl made laudable effort to
march beside the band. Col. Bob Sene,
chief marshal, with his principal aides
Prof. Carl ]. Hermann and Prof. Carl
r. Rothfuss, managed to restrain their
youthrui regiments after a preliminary
march around the square. The mar
shals also succeeded in keeping the
boys and girls between the sidewalks.
A Happy Army
But no other formation was observ-
ed amid the mingled, jostling ranks
anu iiie> tiIoH iiiieu the street from
curb to curb, waving flags, shouting.
singing, discharging torpedoes and fire
crackers.
As the parade took shape at last the
converging crowds from all the streets
around Rice park soon demonstrated
the surprising size of this biggest
Fourth of July celebration.
Down Fifth street marched the
mounted police, the band, the carriage
containing Mayor r. A Smith, Presi-
dent Theo. T. Smith, of the CONNER
cial club. and B. II. Schriber. chair
man of the Fourth of July committee.
After the carriage walked members
of this committee, including j. Wat