Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-28
TO MAKE WELK|N RING
Local Youngsters Plan for the
Glorious Fourth.
REAL REC-LETTER DAY HERE
New District Building Will Be
Formally Dedicated.
BIG DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS
Evcnrsions fo Ra11v McElrOv and
BIG DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS
Excursions to Bally McElroy and
Elsewhere-Flag Presentation.
Army-Navy Union Exercises.

Next Saturday will be real red-letter
day in Washington.
The glorious Fourth of July will be
ushered in with the cracking of firecrack-
ers and the banging of other noise making
pyrotechnics
The small boy will have the time of the
year and the small girl will join with him
in the sport Together they will make
the welkin ring.
To the grown-up folk will come memo
ries of the soldiers in buff and blue who
fought and bled in Washington's armies
that this republic might be freed from old
world tyranny. There will be patriotic
celebrations and speeches galore. and the
Declaration of Independence will be read
in many places.
Here in Washington a pyrotechnic dis
play of magnificence has been planned In
connection with the formal dedication OF
the new District building. There will be
speechmaking in the daylight hours. Al
night the heavens will be painted In the
most lurid hues with modern fireworks
that have taxed the ingenuity of their de-
signers The fiery display will be made
from the grounds surrounding the sky
reaching Washington Monument. The
tall, white shaft, erected to the memory
of the Father of His Country, will reflect
the blazing rockets, wriggling snakes OF
flames and other patriotic fires in many
unique designs. Great clouds of brilliant
hornets and bees will buzz their flaming
swarmS through cloudland, twisting and
kissing in midair. The sky pictures will
be the finest ever seen .hereabouts. it is
predicted.
Pilgrimage to Bally McElroy.
Many members of the patriotic societies
Of the District will make the pilgrimage
to Bally McElroy, down in Virginia. near
the home of Washington, as guests of Col
John McElroy. Others will HE them
selves to the nearby resorts, where Fourth
Of July programs will be followed.
Mrs. Emma L. Newton, president of
the Woman's Relief Corps of the G. A. r..
announces that the organization will pre-
sent to Col John S. Walker, commander
of the Department of the Potomac, G.
A. R. a silk flag five and one-half by
six and one-half feet in size as token
of the esteem of the patriotic women of
Washington. The presentation will be
made at Glen Echo. July 4. at 4:30 o'clock
pm. Mrs. NJ. A. Dow stated last evening
that there will be an appropriate pro-
gram, under the direction of Patriotic In
structor J. Emma Evans, consisting of
recitations, an original poem and atriotic
songs.
By Army and Navy Union.
For the first time in many years there
will be a genuine old-fashioned Fourth of
July celebration in this city. 1t will be
held in G.. A. r. Hall Friday evening,
July 3, under the auspices of the Army
and Navy Union. The assemblage will
include soldiers young and old. civil war
veterans, those who wore the blue and
gray. and those who served in the Indian
campaigns with the regular army, as we'll
AS the veterans of the Spanish american
war. 1t will be a soldiers love feast"
The reason for celebrating on the eve
of Independence day is in commemoration
of the victory won by the United States
fleet off Santiago July B. 1898.
Among those who are expected to be
present are Commander Walker of the
Department of the Potomac, G. A. R.,
and his staff: Maj. ]. Mcdowell Caring
ton, commander Of the Confederate Vet
Grams, and his staff; Capt John NJ Hick-
ley of the Confederate Association; Rev
Zed H. Copp and others.