Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-03
FOURTH TO Be BIG DAY
Many Celebrations and Fire.
works Displays.
AT MUNICIPAL BUILDING
Exercises to Be Held in Morning, Be.
ginning at 8 O'Clock.
ILLUMINATION OF AVENUE
Special Observance Planned at Many
Places-Excursion Routes An
ticipate Big Business.
ILLUMINATION OF AVENUE
"Fizz, Pop! Bang!"

With the breaking OF the dawn tomor-
row the small boy and others will get
busy. There will be much burning OF
gunpowder.
Features Of the day and the night will
be much noise. some patriotism and bar
rels of fun and frolic. The patriotic So
cieties will maintain a leaven OF the love
Of country SO that the days of the revolu-
ton and the events that followed will not
be lost sight of in the merry melange OF
fire. smoke and racket.
Conditions today were remarkably quiet
as compared with July of former years.
Strict orders have been issued to the
police. They were on the qui vive today
to prevent any premature celebrations
with noise-making fireworks.
On the day before the Fourth the pop
ping OF frecrackers has been almost in
cessant in some parts of the District. To-
day the order Of Maj. Sylvester is ap-
parently enforced.
Municipal Building Opening.
Clearly the headliner OF tomorrow's
which will mark the formal opening of
the new Municipal building. The exer-
cises will begin at o'clock in the morn
sist of patriotic speeches. singing Of ma
tional anthems and music by the United
States Marine Band.
Order Of Exercises.
The order OF exercises is as follows:
Musical selections. by the Marine Band: o
a.m.-"The Star Spangled Banner" by the
Marine Band, special chorus and audience
joining: salute of twenty-one guns:
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man of executive committee, presiding:
invocation. by Rev. NJ. Ross Fishburn;
reading of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, by Gen. John NJ. Wilson, on behalf
Of the Oldest Inhabitants Association:
address, by II. b. F. Macfarland. presi-
dent board Of Commissioners: address. by
George B. Cortelyou. Secretary Of the
Treasury; music, selected, by the Marine
Band: address by Adds B. Browne, on
behalf Of the Board of Trade: recitation
Of THE Star SpangIed Banner by
Charles B. Hanford; address, by Chaplin
Brown. on behalf Of the Chamber Of Com
merce: musical selection. America" by
Marine Band. audience Joining in the
chorus.
Henry B. F. Macfarland. Henry L.
West and Maj. Jay ]. Morrow. Commfs-
sioners of the District OF Columbia. Will
hold a reception in the new District
At 1 o'clock. at the New Willard Hotel.
a luncheon will be given by the executive
committee to those participating In the
program and visitors from other cities.
Henry L. West will preside.
Evening program: $3.50 p.m.-Fireworks
on the Monument lot. $50 p.m.-Illu-
NINA ton of Pennsylvania avenue.
The business men who comprise the oec-
Grafton committee for the celebration OF
the opening of the new District building
tomorrow are engaged today In beautify-
ing the front of the structure at their
own expense. The space In front or the
tvafr los
effect. with its carpeting of green and
other pretty features.
Ten wagon loads of evergreen trees have
been brought in from the surrounding
country to assist in heightening the pic
ture that will be presented tomorrow.
Along the coping in front of the white edi-
flee will be placed fifty bay trees. About
the main entrance Will be groupings or
palms and other tropical growths. which
will add to the picturesqueness of the
scene.
The committee is composed OF F. III.
Kramer George H. Cooke. William +.
GUIDE & Bro, George Shaffer. u. ID. Black
istone James Phillips and Wallace Kim
nell. The committee returned thanks TO
the Knox Express Company for the free
use of two large wagons which hauled the
greens from the country to the new struc-
ture.
The pyrotechnics in the evening. be-
ginning at $50 o'clock on the Monument
lot. will be one of the most imposing
displays ever given here. II Is said. 1t
will be followed by great iliuminat1on
of Pennsylvania avenue and nearby
streets A clever arrangement of lights
in front of the new building has been
put up. and will show the structure on
to fine advantage after nightfall
Day at Bally McElroy.
Col. John McElroy has sent out many
invitations to patriotic men. women and
nd Individuals N ha
his guests tomorrow at Bally McElroy.
twenty-three miles from this city on the
Washington Southern railway. The
Invites" are printed In the colors OF
the fiag-red. white and blue-and bear
the headline: "One Hundred and Thirty
Two Years of National Growth and
Glory
The exercises at "Bally" McElroy will
be patriotic Hot coffee. lemonade and
spring water will be served.
Patriotic services and a basket picnic or
the old fashioned brand will be given at
Jackson Grove. near Odenton. Md. by a
number of washingtonians There will be
addresses by Rev. S. A. White OF this
city and s. S. Ford of Baltimore. and
music by the Gospel Trio. 4 display of
fireworks will be given in the evening.
Glen Echo Celebration.
An old-tme basket picnic will be given
by the Department of the Potomac. Wom-
ans Relief Corps. at Glen Echo. All pa
triotic people and societies have been in
vited to attend. At 4:30 O'Clock Depart
ment Commander John S. Walker will he.
presented with silk flag by the women
of the corps.
The management of Glen Echo Park
has arranged a celebration of "the
Fourth that will accord with patriotic
of the day. Proprietor Shaw
will have the park gates open unusually
early tomorrow morning.
Out at Chevy Chase Lake there will he
special features. including the high diving
act. and during the afternoon there will
be dancing. including a concert by the
Marine Band In the evening.
The National base ball park will be a
center of interest tomorrow. Two base
ball games are scheduled between the
New Yorks and Washingtons. The first
game will begin at 1870 am. and the Sec
ond at pm.
Special Fourth of July programs have
been arranged at River View and Mar
shall Hall The steamer Queen Anne