The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-02
IT WILL Be NOISY.
Fourth OF July Won't Be Less
So Than Usual.
Wholesale Fireworks Dealer
Says There Is No Let Up.
NOT SCARED BY PRICES
Advance Is Over 80 Per Cent
Over Last Year.
There Are a Few Novelties in
the Market.
NOT SCARED BY PRICES

Prepare for all kinds of noise next
Monday. If you have fondly imag-
ined that not as much fireworks were
being sold this year as last, and that
the small boy had lost some of his vim
for racket, prepare to be disabused of
that opinion, for he isn't and things
are going to be noiser than ever-at
! least that's what the men who sell
| fireworks to the small boy and his not
unreluctant father say. Mr.. Coughlin,
| of the Coughlin Hardware company,
who deals extensively in this
particular line of goods, states that
Notwithstanding the rise of about 80
per cent over last years prices, al
most twice as much goods appears to
! be selling to the public. Just at this
JunctUre 1T is interesting to note that
the Coughlin Hardware company is
the only wholesale fireworks supply
mouse in the state, and will do in the
nelghborhood of from s. 5000 to $780,
600 worth of business this year. The
whole state of Kansas seeks a great
share of its celebration from Topeka
There are a number of new things.
IN the market this year, among them
the Wh1stling rockets, the repeating
cane and cap pistol, and one of the
latter built on new lines and war
ranted to be the safest thing on the
market. The whistling rockets and
chasers are the same as the old kind
only they possess a new appendage
namely, one which y screeches when
the fireworks are sent off. Then there
are the WhiStling willies'' which
when placed upon the ground and ig-
n1ted emit a whistling sound through
the agency of number of whistles
sent hurting through the air The re-
peat1ng cap pistol is something which
appeals to the small boy who desires
10 emulate the example of his elder
orother In something which looks and
acts like real revolver. 1t contains
IL "a M Ia Of l.
ing care of so caps maintained on a
roll, and sells for the sum of rs cents
me safety cap pistol contains an ap-
pl1ance or guard on the rear which
keeps the fire from the exploded can
from lnjuring the person dischareine
the pistol. In the more expensive line
are the umbrella rockets, which, for
the 1O-pounders, the largest size cost
81. OF course you can secure smaller
ones, and those of the 6-pound va
r1ety give great deal of satisfa ction
ana cost but $3.50. The Roman can
dies and the skyrockets are old stand
bys. Firecrackers are selling at six
packages for quarter, or 5 cents per
Ihese same kind could be secured
fourteen for quarter last year.
me fire crackers, that is the com
mon sort, are really manufactured in
Canton, China, though as boys we
commonly thought that they were
manufactured back east with the
chinese characters attached on the
red paper upon the outside by some
Yankee clerk at $50 per month The
Heather Chinee' makes them and
they are imported directly into To-
peka from Canton. If it were not
for the import duty the dealers could
almost afford to give them away. so
cheap are they purchased from the
makers.
The cheap revolver of the blank
cartridge variety. or more commonly
known as 'the kid exterminator, -
mas still strong cluth upon popu-
lar approval-juvenile approval. They
can be bought for as low as ten cents
apiece. 1T really seems a shame to
sell thing of this kind said Mr..
Coughlin as he handled one of the
have them and we must supply
them" Continuing he said, 1--WE have
sold over 100000 blank cartridges
thus far and are now entirely out of
them with orders for more. I doubt
if you can secure a No. % or No. 80
cartridge in town."
From all that can be learned there
appears to be no disposition to do
cheap construction.
The canes which were so popular
last year are playing a return date |
this Fourth and are taking on better |
than ever. You insert small round |
wad of dynamite about the appear |
ance and size of a diminutive caScaret |
in the bottom of the cane and by tap |
ping the stick on the ground NOV |
arrangement comes in contact and |
produces the much desired noise. |
There is an Improvement over this in
the repeating can which is new to
Topeka this year. A feeding tube on |
the side of the cane supplies the APP
paratus at the bottom with the dyna- |
mite, providing fifty shots for one |
loading. The ammunition can be
bought at five cents for rs shots and
ten cents for a package of fifty The
cane of this character sells for rs |
cents per and are really mighty |
good thing in this way, they are
harmless and make all kinds of
racket. Though two of the factories
have burned three of the largest are
still running and with great deal of
energy will manager to supply the
bows with heir racket, SO there is no
occasion to be afraid that the supply
will not be on hand though the above
piece of misfortune has caused a ma
feriaI advance on the markets for a
great deal of the supplies.