Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-05
NO RoWDY1sM AT AIT,
-11NkI" -s -Moth Crowd Saw Fire Works at Park Last Night-Transit Company Handled Crowd With Ease-Fire- Works Exceed Expectations-Soma Features.

The citizens of Pine Bluff have uey- CT had more glorious Fourth than Nhat of yesterday at beautiful Forest K Park, which offered much pleasure Ind many innocent and interesting musements. Early in the morning eop1e began to leave their homes for e Park and the cars were literally mmed from daylight until 30 this prning, when the last crowd of )ncers were making their way home
 The nearest estimate of the awful
 fsh on the grounds through the day
 } in the evening is twenty thousand
 pple. In the evening alone there
 e fully 10000 people enjoying the kyorks and in the Park proper "A tlW groups were here and there, ill \ fact everywhere, until at times it was almost impossible to move either way but everybody was good natured and ready to take his or her share of the push and jostle. Manager F. E. Che rot was on the grounds all day and all evening and personally saw that things were conducted i'll the best manner and there was no rowdyism at any time.
 All the children who visited the Park II tore. noon were given free < Htertain,he merry go-round and were various cd on the swings and with tive to either devices always attrac-
 Both b(ildren.
 ed and eLl Il games were well attend uas statioyed by the fans. The band o.ao in tuned in the auditorium at se,ectionae afternoon and after two pendencei "rhe Declaration of lnde- N-aoce by Twas read to the large audi
 A folloverend w. D. Buckner, LL.
 Rockefek wed by the introduction of ,1s ;s. tnsii Jordan ,aa,ess who .es. s,,s aaea The Value .o Ne Ar, annl Citizen hJuly' Dr. Jordan did this subject htice in every sense of the word As
 Ming close to his talk, the band in .,r Auditorium played Stars and fTipss." ripe. w,. an nnnsn,, day. for there was at least dozen attractions of merit on the grounds at one time ana if seemed each and every exhibition. hall game, and everything else was crowded all the time with people beg ong for tickets. The ticket windows and gates were black with the swarm \, of humanity all day long and until after twelve last night there was no abatement.
 At 3:30 the orchestra began playing in the auditorium for the young peo- n,o who wished to dance and the day \areworks were started on the ball ground at 5:30 D. m., and the immense S Sroyds Hooked to see the wonderful oreations of the Japanese. They were ;naaed new, novel and interesting. About this time the cars were hlllns ,, and were loaded down going both n,ovs from 5 until 9:30. The greatest attraction on the grounds before the ereworks exhibition seemed to be the moving picture shows in the auditor ;rm Four shows were given, but all the people could not be admitted to soe the pictures on account Of the lack of space.
 The grandest fireworks display ever before seen in Pine Bluff was start od promptly at 9:30, and was com n,o+ed without the slightest hitch ln the arrangements. As a general ruie' people do not look for quite all they eaa in an advertisement of fireworks hnt this proved to be an exception to inc rule, for the features offered were far better than expected, and no one