Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-07-03
NEW YORK TO HAVE
 A LIVELY OLD FOURTH
The Retail Trade Will Be in Full Swing by Thursday-The South to Gel
 ebrate This Year

In Park place, where the fireworks dealers congregate, there is fcverish act ivity, says the New York Times. The retail trade is not yet in full swing. and it will be Wednesday or Thursday be- fore the commuter begins to lay in for the Fourth, but already the stores have as much as they can do in filling ont of-town orders.
 This year the south has added it's de- mand to that of the rest of the Union. Long after the war, commercial depres- sion and sectional feeling made the eele- bration of Independence Day below the Mason and Dixon line comparatively tame affair, but big orders are now coming in from Virginia, Georgia and Maryland.
 It's going to be a lively Fourth for New York. Last year about $l00,O00,- 900 went up in smoke on this holiday, and this week it is expected that $l2,- 000,00O will be expended. About one third of this will be spent in New York and its suburbs. Already there is. n shortage in some of the most popular lines. As many Chinese crackers and balloons were laid in this year as last, but the supply will hardly be enough for the increased demand.
 "We have number of customers who spend $1,0OO on private displays, v said T. II. Newkirk of the Pain ManU- featuring company, yesterday. "A A good many lay out $2,50O or $3,OO0, and there are just few who will go as high as 5000. But people here don't go in for fireworks as extensively as they do in England There they spend pounds to our dollars on celebrations such as a coming of age' Yet we lay it all over them in the fireworks we produce. We send lots and lots of our best goods across the water.
 'People don't realize what it means to be good fireworks designer. There are only three or four frstclass design CTS in the United States and they earn from $3,500 to 5000 a year You see, man has to be frst-class chemist. If he wasn't, he'd blow himself up. Then he needs to have a good deal of artistic taste in order to get the colors in the right combinations, and he must be an accurate mathematician to know exactly how far rocket will go in order that it n burst in the right place. There are very few men who combinte all the qualifications. :"
 Among the novelties this year are Roman candles with repertoire of tum- bling feats. They perform acrobatic stunts in mid-heaven, and throw series of somersaults. Another kind will imi- tate lightning. As the stars ascend they will emit series of dazzling flashes From new type of bomb score of great spiders will shoot out and will seem to chase after each other far aloft.
 A true fireworks enthusiast said yes terday: "Yes, there are several new colors this year, but the ordinary per son won t notice them. You have to exhibit them at the great displays like those at Manhattan Beach to get any recognition. There, as soon as new shade appears, you hear deep sigh run through the crowd They know at once if we've done something new. But most folks want noise and bright ness.
 Therel be plenty of noise anyhow this yea rand new sound is to be added to the bangs of the old-time fire works. Rockets, Roman candles and St. Catherine wheels will whistle as they go aloft. Noise is what the people want and one fireworks man tells of the pres