The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-15
THEFOURTHOF JULY
Pains Manhattan Beach
Fireworks Engaged.
MAGNIFICENT Celebration Arranged by
Junior Order and Chamber of Com
MERGE Committees--Speeches
Original Poem.

The Fourth of July celebration for
Raleigh is a certainty now, and it will
be on a magnificent scale. The com
mittees from the Junior Order of Uni
ted American Mechanics and the
Chamber of Commerce have arranged
a splendid program, to close with a
gorgeous display of fireworks at
night. For this they have placed theis
order with the famous Pain Manu-
featuring company, of New York, the
most celebrated fireworks manufac-
turers in the world, for a magnificent
$4,000 night special program display,
and a daylight display, costing $40.
The night fireworks display will be
on Cameron field, Hillsboro street,
and the daylight display on New
Bern avenue, at the eastern entrance
to the capitol square.
These are the well-knoWn Mammal
tan Beach fireworks. There Will pc
fifty-four separate pieces. including
two mammoth meteoric balloons, the
polychromatic canopy, produced by
the discharge of twenty-five large
rockets, containing Pains latest unts
and electric effects; three batteries OF
jewelled mines, primroses and Vioiets'
pansies laburnum blossoms, passion
flower and heliotrope, revolving foun-
tain. electric rockets. the southern
Cross. ST Louis dedication bombs, st.
Louisan rockets, forming pillars or
fire. shower of pearls, ascent of mann
moth prismatic whirlwinds. Louis
lana Purchase Exposition batteries,
giving in proper sequence the colors
of the Americas, Pains electric sun
bursts, revolving cascade bombs,
PAINS triple chrysanthemum bombs,
the Weird White Falls, 20 feet long.
Pains 1S-inch Manhattan Beach
bomb, Devil among the tailors, Pain s.
aerial novelties, eagle scream rock
cts, national streamers the national
colors in mid-air, fire portrait OF
badge. seal or motto W square feet,
to be selected by committee, Brilliant
sun" Our Empire, Manhattan Beach
batteries the pyrotechnie cuttlefsh,
fire portrait of George Washington,
festooned with national flags and
motto 1.-The Day We Celebrate"
The daylight fireworks will con-
sist of a salute of seven aerial guns,
a dozen groteSque balloons, Montgol-
fer balloons, marvellous cloud Shells
and japanese daylight fireworks.
At II o'clock on the morning of the
fourth there will be a patriotic meet
ing in Metropolitan hall, and the
speakers of the occasion will be: Gov
ernor c. b. Aycock, Chief Justice
Walter Clark and President Geo. T..
WINSTON OF the "A. dilO SollCSNs
Prof. Henry Jerome Stockard, at the
request of the committee, has kind
" consented to read an independence
day poem, composed especially for
this celebration Prof. Wade D..
Brown will train a special chorus OF
one hundred voices for the meeting
and the committee is also trying TO
secure a band.
At 8 o'clock in the afternoon the
display of Japanese daylight fire
works will be sent up on New Bern
avenue, after which the Raleigh fire
department, under Chief Woollcott,
will give a demonstration lasting one
hour, after which there will be ex-
hibition drills by the local military
companies. under command of Major
j. J. Bernard.
The railroads will give special rates
and run excursions to the city for
that day. All Junior Order councils
within a radius of $50 miles will be
invited to participate in the celebra-
ton.