The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-07-12
FOURTH OF JULY AT GREEN
WOOD PARK.

WOOD PARK.
The great natal day of this country,
the 4th of July, was fittingly observed
at Greenwood Park. All day throngs
of people poured into that beautiful
resort, until it was filled with teeming
thousands. 1t was a model holiday
gathering for there were no disagree
able episodes to mar the occasion.
Everybody seemed bent on getting all
that was coming in the way of pleas
ure and enjoyment. All kinds of at
fractions were on hand-attractions to
suit every mood and temperament of
a holiday crowd-ludicrous minstrels,
Enthusiastically dressed, gave free exhibit
tions in the vestibule of Amusement
Hall before each performance, as an
advertisement of the show holding
forth within; the skating rink was in
full blast with its merry skaters, both
the experts and the "clumbsies" (nov-
ices) furnished an attraction for hun
dreds who enjoyed looking on at the
sport; the merry-go-round had hun
dreds and hundreds of pastors and
spectators; canvas with the head of
man sticking through hole in the
center and wearing a mask furnished
sport for many who watched strong
armed men and boys throw balls at it
so many balls for five cents, with a
prize for the one hitting the head so
many times out of a given number of
throws on the plateau beyond the
springs the white tents of colored sol
diers of Co. G, National State Guards, |
where they were bivouacked for their
annual ten days encampment, and
many hundreds of people visited them. |
The great event scheduled for the
day was the sham battle. This took |
place between and o'clock in the
afternoon. It was anything but a spec
tacular success, owing to the fact that |
the soldiers could not reconnoitre nor
affect their maneuvres, nor could they
charge, deploy nor countercharge on
the account of the thousands of people !
doing the same thing the soldiers at
tempted to do Instead of the people |
leaving the field open for the soldiers |
they crowded right upon them so as
to utterly destroy the grandeur and
effect which all would have enjoyed
had every one stood back and let the
soldiers initiate dread wars fierce and
fearful game.
The management of Greenwood
Park has made it a beautiful resort.
A splendid driveway crosses the park
and there are many walks for prom
enading made of fine gravel and rolled
down.
There were Jacobs ladder" con-
Germ run by two whites and a corn
popping machine by another in the
park. this was commented on by many
who emphatically objected to the pres
ence of these men under any circum-
stances. The writer called on the
head of the management, Elder Pres
ton Taylor and asked was it the in
tention of the management to coun-
tenance the presence of white men by
selling them concessions?
Elder Taylor after explaining how
the men had got on the ground
through colored men and without his
knowledge that white men were con-
cerned, said, "Please say for me that
Greenwood Park is owned by colored
Deople, run by colored people for col
ored people." There will be no repeti-
ton of white men being on the ground.
It should be said that there was no
serious difficulty during the day, and
that is commendable for a crowd
which numbered anywhere from seven
to nine thousand people.
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