The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
st. Paul Children, DR.
To Commercial Club and
Dr.. Justus Ohage 6 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
$4,000
Yet this first rejoicing Of the kind
did more than make the children
happy. 1t provided them with free en-
tertalnment all day long. 1t gave them
abundant luncheon without charge And
especially it kept them "out of mis-
CHER from a. m. until Z p. 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
of their native land-as many girls as
boys. Most of the boys came loaded
with individual supplies of ammuni-
ton, including torpedo canes torpedees
for the canes and a firm foundation of
. 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 Z. P. Slime. of the Commercial
club; b. IL. 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
writing human octopus.
Gimme one, mister! Aw, gimme.
won't yuh?" and "Gimme!" some bows
would keep crying after each of their
protruded hands had seized flag.
You We got one already" declared
I. n n h
VINO wore on one ear sunburned golf
cap.
Fer my liz sister, dat is" explained
the cheerful cherub. Il wants to wave
one myself, see''
Within fifteen minutes the wagon
loao OIL hags had scattered, and the
painting, redfaced committee sat down
In the shade to rest. Feel as If I'd
peen through a wrestling MATCH ex-
planned Secretary Slime
Children Sing Patriotic Sonas
Having their flags to wave. the chill
oren could join more forcefully in the
singing of their patriotic songs. Harry
fhllilps, standing on the federal build
ing steps, led this big chorus His in
Strumentalists were the thirty mem
pers OF the TWenty-f1rst regiment band
winch had arrived early from Fort
smelling, under the lead of Chief Must
clan Charles w. Graves.
Inc band played with its accustomed
Skill But the chorus frequently dis
played more stress than accuracy. Yet
IN the softer phrases of "The Star
SPangled Banner, America" and
Hail Columbia" there were childish
notes whose crystalline sweetness no
prlma soprano could surpass
singing thus beneath the trees the
thousands of white WASTED boys and
girls, waving their brilliant flags. re-
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. eii'
When the band had struck up "Hia-
watha,' and the mounted police under
Sergeant Gerving, started off ahead of
Mayor Smiths carriage, every boy and
every girl made laudable effort to
march beside the band. Col. Bob Senp
chief marshal, with his principal aides
Prof- Carl j. Hermann and Prof. Carl
r. RothfuSS, managed to restrain their
youthful regiments after a preliminary
march around the square. The mar
shais also succeeded in keeping the
boys and girls between the sidewalks.
A Happy Army
But no other formation was observ-
ed amid the mingled, jostlins ranks
and files than filled 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. f. Smith, of the CONNER
cial club, and B. H. Schriber, chair
man OF the Fourth of July committee.
After the carriage walked members
OF this committee, including J. Wat