New-York tribune., 1908-07-04
FOURTHS EARLY TOLL
ONE TICTIM ALREADY.
Precautions Taken to Keep Dozen
List of Fatalities.

mature patriotism more than large enough for
this city. One child had been killed and many
other persons had been seriously injured When
dusk falls tonight it is expected that these figures
will be small in comparison with the total The
Health Department hopes to keep down the local
list of dead and wounded with the aid of the Fire
and the Police departments. The police were par
ticuarly active in watching for those who used
blank and loaded revolvers display their patriot
ism. Those arrested for using revovers before the
Independence Day celebration appeared to be for
eigners. Up to midnight the list of dead and in
jured for the greater city and its vicinity was:
TUPLEY John thirteen years old. No a12 West 4sh
street; fell from roof while setting off hrecrackers
THE INJURED.
street. Newark: right blown out.
sunpowder explosion; Bushwick Hospital.
street Br1ayn rpneosdsr tmfs od No. 81
nus The Bronx, fractured skull, internal injuries;
GILL old gort vE0sangs Risnm9nf osssl safn
fourteen old Port s. RGh%gnd tiDosni
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JOSEPH. Mary. eleven years old. No. 81 Washington
street; wounded by blank cartridge
Louis thirty years old No s aosSs Mfgfrn
pIosion; st. vincent's Hospital
Mary Joseph was shot in the right leg by
blank cartridge. The wadd1ng was dug out by a
surgeon from the Hudson Street House OF Rehe1-
little while later Michael Bodett thirteen years
old of No 43 Washington street, was arrested
charged with firing the pistol
White. Heys and Gill were injured near a hre-
works company's plant West New Brighton
Staten Island, where they are employed Whhe
carrying a bag of powder in the street. "hch
they had procured to celebrate the day, one or the
boys dropped a cigarette stub into it, Gill is not
expected
william Fischof found canister Of powder and
was playing with it when it exploded. 1t did not
hurt the boy much His mother was cut by
splinters. She jumped out of the window, ana oe-
fore she was taken to the hospital the police re-
serves and the fire department had been sum-
moned by excited and sympathetic nelghoolS-
Meldron Fotz. the fve-year-old boy who was the
first one fatally injured in the celebration. was
setting off frecrackers in his home He was
sitting the fire escape when another BOY shol
off big cracker, and in lodging 1t the chid 1ell
the sidewalk.
John Tupley who met his death. was setting off
frecrackers the roof of his home. He leaned
too far over an airshaft watch a falling fire.
cracker and fell six stories to the bottom
When those caught firing revolvers and setting
off fireworks in the street were taken before Mag
istrate Kernochan in the night court he fined some
and let others off with a reprimand. The first case
called was that of Emil Voght of The Bronx
who had been firing his revolver in the street He
was held for trial.
Park Row last night In the night court they
fined 81 each for not having licenses.
Probably the accident list for Independence Day
Eve was smaller than usual because of the prepa-
rations for visits the country All day yester-
day the tide of travel set countryward, but by
midnight It had not reached such proportions as
last year. One or two roads reported that on
special trains there greater traffic than last
year but the total holiday traffic apparently was
somewhat below that of 1907. Rather less than
ahO he
of traffic left the Grand Central Station yester-
day on the two roads-the New York Central and
the New York. New Haven Hartford. The
Jersey Central had more than the usual number
Of cars on the Buffalo express, but these cars
were taken up by Jerseymen bound for Denver
rather than by holiday celebrants All the other
railroads had more than the ordinary holiday
traffic augmented by the politicians westward
bound The Erie reported that 1t expected to carry
about eighty thousand excess passengers. Their
Western trains rather of them, were run
in from two TO four sections About twelve extra
sleepers were needed for the through travel, and
more than twenty extra coaches were used for the
short haul travel All the late Long Island trains
were crowded and passengers were standing on the
steps.
Although many Of the braves left town for Den
yer yesterday, the Tammany Society will hold its
usual patriotic celebration in Tammany Hall to-
day. The exercises scheduled for 1870 a. m
Ex-Governor Blanchard Of Louisiana and Repre-
sentative Morris Sheppard, of Texas, Will be the
long takers this year. Short talks Will be
made by Representative Charles G. Edwards, of
Georgia: Representative Timothy T. Ansberry, OF
Ohio and John Sales. of Binghamton.
There will be an old-fashioned Independence Day
celebration from the steps of the City Hall at 10So,
the first IN many It is TO be held under the
auspices of the Junior Order of American Patriots,
the JKnior Branch Of the Anti-Profanity League
and number of uniformed childrens organlza-
tions from the Bushwick section of Brooklyn Ad-
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Law, Colonel W. D. H. Washington and General
James Grant Wilson. A. S. Colborne will preside,
and the Declaration of Independence will be read
bv William A. Mattison, descendant of John
Hart ene of the signers.
TO DECORATE STATUES
After the exercises the children will decorate the
starues Of Nathan Hale and Benjamin Franklin
and then march to Bowling Green, Fraunces's Tav-
ern and the Sub-Treasury. where wreath will be
placed on the statue of George Washington.
The boys of the Brooklyn Disciplinary Training
School Eighteenth avenue and 56th street, Brook
1vn will have their celebration in the afternoon.
The Kings Highway Board of Trade will hold
parade and other exercises in the morning. FIFTY
five councils of the knights of Columbus will cele-
brate the day with speeches and music The band
stand at Prospect Park will be used. Justice Luke
D. stapieton will preside and Congressman Bennett
will speak.
NO FIREWORKS AFTER JULY g.
Fire Commissioner Hayes issued order yester
dav warning dealers in fireworks that they must
not he sold after July this year. The permit
given to them last year until July TO- The or
der also says that no fireworks exceeding s25 in
xslue shall be set off without Il permit.
Anticipating a lively business in arrests among
voutbful ceIebrators to-day, police bureau has
heen esta bnshed at the headquarters Of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; at
No 2e7 Fourth avenue. the object of which is
reduce as much as possible the laws delays,
thereby giving parents of the youngsters who may