The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-24
PRECAUTIONS FOR
JULY FOURTH
SPOKANE WILL MAKE EFFORT
TO SEE THAT USUAL ACCI-
DENTS DO NOT OCCUR-MANY
DISASTERS EVERY YEAR.

Spokane, May 24.-Fourth of July
celebrations in Spokane will not be
accompanied by the loss of life, limb
and property and nerve-racking
noises in the future if the ordinance
submitted by George F. Brill, Jr., is
adopted by the city council. The
Cleveland plan is advocated, the pur-
pose being to give the municipality
absolute control over the sale and
use of combustible fireworks and all
other means that may be employed
in making pyrotechnic displays with
in the city hmitss as follows:
"No person shall fire any cannon,
gun, rife, pistol, toy-pistol or fire
arm of any kind, or fire or explode
any squib, rocket, cracker or Roman
candle, other combustible fire.
works or make use of any sling with
in the city.
mo person, firm or corporation
shall, within the city, sell offer for
sale, or have in his or its possession
or custody any toy-pistol, squib, rock
ct, cracker or Roman candle, or fire
balloon, or other combustible fire.
works, or any article for the making
of a pyrotechnic display. Provided,
that nothing in this section contained
shall be construed as to prohibit the
board of public service from giving
pyrotechnical displays of fireworks in
the public parks whenever said board
is thereunto directed by resolution of
council.
ANY person violating any of the
foregoing provisions shall, on con-
viction thereof, be fined in any sum
not exceeding 500 or Imprisonment
in the workhouse not exceeding 80
days, or both, at the discretion of
the court"
Probably the strongest and at the
same time most pathetic petition urg-
ing it's adoption is contained in
letter from Mrs J. T. Allison, living
at 270S East Carnehan avenue, in
closing a photograph of her six
years old son Carl, showing his Grip
pied left hand, which was torn by
the explosion of giant cracker.
The boys thumb and second, third
and fourth fingers were blown off at
the first joints ana the index finger
was rendered useless.
Mrs. Allison says that during the
Fourth of July celebration, last year,
someone handed a lighted cracker to
her boy. In childish glee he watched
the fuse sputter while the spark ran
into the core of the cracker. There
was a deafening report, and when
Mrs. Allison found him under a
clump of bushes he was unconscious
and bleeding. Noticing particles of
powder in the wounds the attending
physician rushed the boy to a hos
pital, where prompt action saved him
from death by lockjaw.
Mr.. Brill is making a personal can
vass for signatures to a petition,
which will be presented to the coun-
Gil. when the ordinance, now in the
committee of the whole, comes up
for final reading in June. He shows,
quoting from the Journal of the
American Medical association, that
the total number of casualties in the
United States in 1908, due to Fourth
of July celebrations, was 1923, of
which 1853 were fatal. He said:
In effect, the present day Fourth
of July celebration, the result of a
conspiracy between recklessness and
commercialism, is like those with
which imperial Rome marked not
able events. while the lists OF dead
and injured suggest a terrific bat
tie. There are many who believe
that the genral public must step in
to put an end to celebrations by
means of explosives"