Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-23
GREAT
FOURTH
. OF JULY
Committees Are all Busy and
Arrangements Are Compile
ted for Salem'S Great
est Celebration

The finance comm6ttee of the Fourth
Of July celebration has done some
splendid work, which is nearly com
plete, and it has sufficient funds on
hand in the bank to provide all the
features for glorious celebration The
committee on decoration will show tc
the visitors one of the mos tartistic
and gaily bedecked cities in which a
celebration was ever held At any rate
nothing like it was ever seen in Salem
The chairman of this committee has
succeeded in having the electric conn
pany donate electricity, and strings of
lights will be strung along all the bust.
ness streets, and the entire town will
be brilliantly Illuminated.
The committee on floats has promisel
much in the way Of novel and original
displays. This committee has BEEN as
sisted by the Woman's Club and the
WomeDis Relief Corps, and win have
four very beautiful floats in the parade
The merchants and the county and
state will be represented by private
floats, which, with the other features
planned, will insure grand and i'm
posing pageant.
The committee on music has closed
the contract with the Salem Military
band, Monmouth band, Victor Point
band, Mt. Angel band and the Popcorn
band, and this, together with vocal
music and grand chorus of more than
80 voices, will give the visitors all that
can be desired in music
The committee on parade will not
complete a full program until it is
known just how many floats and lodges
will take part in the procession.
Hon. Theodore T. Geer, former gov.
@nor of Oregon, will make the chief
grafton of the day, and there will be
speeches made by other distinguished
men.
The best amateur teams in the North
west will play baseball on the William
ette grounds at $3.50 O'Clock. The COM
mittee on sports have arranged pony
race, three-legged races, boys, girls,
fat mems, lean mems and egg and po-
tato races. These races will take
place on State and Commercial streets.
At 2:30 another game of baseball will
be played for the championship of Ore
gon between the Albany team and the
Salem colts
AT 1880 the committee on sports will
again take charge of the celebration,
and attractive aquatic sports win be
given on the Willamette.
The committee ON the comic parade
for the afternoon has received three
large cages for the "wild animals''
and imperial monkeys that will take
part in the comic parade. Arrange
ments Were made yesterday for a
+" "hayseed band" which will partici.
pate, but not compete foc a prize.
The large cash prizes that are offered
for the best group, most comical char
acter, best clown, best song, best reel
tation and other things. has stirred up
unusual interest. No doubt the entry
list will be large.
The pretty silver cups for the baby
show are on exhibition in the window
of G. P. Bishop. Cups will be given for
all kinds of babies under two years of
age. Following this villa be the distri-
button of prizes TO fat men and newest
married couple.
A grand free scramble for frecrack.
ers win be divided into two classes,
one for children under 6 years old and
one for children under l6.
On phe river after 1880 O'Clock there
will be launch races, canoe races, tub
races, high diving, etc, for which valu.
able silver cups and other prizes will
be given.
The fireworks display will be given
on the river as soon as it is dark, and
all the time there will be magnificent
given by the five bands that
have been secured.