The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-06
QUIET FOURTH HERE
No Accidents to Mar Enjoy ment of Great National
 Holiday.
A SPLENDID CELEBRATION
City's Show on Green in Evening Wit messed by Thirty Thousand
 People.

The Fourtb of July passed off in comparatively quiet fashion In the city and at the shore despite the throngs that visited the various resorts the complaint was that business was far below the normal. The dead list for this city Is absolutely blank and the injured list SO far as there has been any official notice of such has not been added to from the two which were announced Saturday morning as oc curing Friday night. Both victims by tEe way are still In the New Haven hospital in comfortable condition. O'Neil, the West Haven man who had his hand injured by a large cracker did not have 10 have 1t amputatel and his hand is now healing quite well
 For the big celebration which the city gave on the central Green there was an audience of at least 3O,0OO who so packed the Green and the streeets that border it that they looked like one huge mass of humanity and when the brilliant pyrotechnics lighted Jp the scene there was one sea of human faces visible. In front of city hall and In various other buildings crowds eathercd and the display was thor oughly enjoyed. The display iteelf was a good one. fine designs and good colorlngs being approved by all who saw. There was no accident attending the display although one of the aerial pieces lost It's steering apparatus anl narrowly missed some women who were standing at the corner of Elm and Church streets.
 The celebration was carried out ear- Ter than was intended because few drops of rain that looked like the breaking of the long expected storm started the crowd for shelter and the officials thought best to get ahead of the rain and get the works off The band remained after the dIsplay and finished out the concert program. Promptly at o'clock the electrical illumination was turned on and the great crowd looked up in admiration with one expressive "Oh."
 The fire department had some fewer calls than last year and all but one of them were stills. There was no real damage done at any of the blazes for which the hremen were called out. Thirteen still alarms was tho record for the day with one bell added.
 At the undenomnational eervce at the Trinity Episcopal church in tho morning, the address was delivered by the Rev. Artemas !, Haynes of the United church.
 MT Haynes talked briefly but he | impressed all his hearers that no mat. ter what the order of things, the ten commandments shall live Hle text was the preaching of John the Baptist who saw the new order of things with the commerclalism growing between Romc and the cast. John saw the new order of things and he replied that he did not know what 1t would come to, but he pleaded for purer individuality and proclaimed that the ten com. mandments could not die.
 And so,' said Mir Bryan. "as Johr said centuries ago. 90 it Is today There Is q new order of things, but tho ten commandments will live from then ant from now on
 Governor Rollin $. Woodruff, ac- companicd by friend. John T. Dyas of Brooklyn and his executive secre- tary, Charles F. Julln, visited tho United States gunboat Machlas. the Naval battalion's now practice ship ir the harbor in tho afternoon The gov ernor was received by Capt, Frank $ Cornwell, the commanding officer O the Naval battalion. The visit was fo, the purpose of looking over the new training ship.