The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-05
OUR OLD FASHIONED FOURTH
TINI uILIT M PiRtDE AND
SRI ikING ~ CHI NALL.
One ~ the SmartesI street SHOWS In Year
Declaration Of Independence and
GETTY sburg address READ o.
GaynsT on . GON eminent % Laws

eaNneT on "eNe'"ment " AANH
What military experts ~ I'd Was one 81 the
rest military turnouts =sen herr in recent
wears uaraded down Broadway from Fifth
avenue q nj Twenty sixth street u the CT y
Hall yesterday forenoon az the chief Tea
ture ~ New York old "a shionsd Indep-n-
dencs nay EXERCISES These exercises
were planned by a committee IN accord
ance with the IDEAS Of Mayor GaynOr
hut aside from the gathering at each end
Of the line Of march there were few 10
watch the spectacle. and consequently
there Was bout as much enthusiasm a. a
parade oi sunday schools would receive
There was some enthusiasm IN the
nslghborhood Of City Hall Park and the
CITY Hall itself VAS never more prettily
decorated hut many of tho seats pro-
VidCd adjacent TO and opposite the re-
viewing stand We're vacant. Several
thousand persons we're standing IN close
formation along PARK row and the outer
fringe ut ia" park. hut they did not out
number tine crowd at the city Hal that
recently greeted the return Of Weston
the walker
Halt the crowd scattered quickly as
soon as the parade MAS over aud did not
wait for the programme that followed.
even though Mayor Gaynnr was to speak
IL was a crowd that appla uded both the
Declaration If Independence and Lin
coins Gettysburg address at various
stages Of the reading and Expressed
warm approval 81 Mayor Gaynor's talk
Many persons IA the crowd came from
the Jersey ferries and went IN Iowari
Coney Island when the exercises were
over
Mayor GaynoT reviewed the ma rada
from stand covered with branShps and
leaves on the -ast side of the steps leading
to the CITY Hail Large elk hags. with
the Mayor flag IN between. futtered
from the lrout In the reviewing stand
with the Mayor were DIR John II Finley
chairman Of the Independence Day com
mittse. and DR. George p. kunz chair
man OF the City Hall celebration: Comp
troller PrendeTEast. President Mitchell
OF the Beard ~ Aldermen. Borough
Presidents McAneny and Cromwell SUI
perintendent of Schools Maxwell Fire
Commissioner Waldo and Deputy Com
missioner O'keeffe. Police Commissioner
Baker, Dr. & l.. Moorehouse in the uni
form 81 the Washington Continental!
Guard-. and Col. Dewey, grand marshal
Of the Grand Army posts Of Manhattan
In seats along the front of the City
Hall were seventy Grand Army men
chossn from the forty-five posts in Man
haitian 90 represent the veterans at the
celebration
The Grand Army has never had so
splendid a compliment paid to IL a. this
one by Mayor Gaynor- said Col Dewey
a. he pointed To the veterans IA front Of
the City Hail We are usually left on,
hut this time blue PRINT Of the seating
arrangements was brought TO ~ b@fore
n went TO any one else and a. had our
picking 81 the seats
Mayor Gaynor had some little al ficuIty
IN getting through the Gordon 81 police
drawn up along the Brooklyn BndRe
side OF thu city Hall Park when he tined
20 pass IN his way To review the parade a
Policeman touched him and asked him
where he was going The Mayor went
right on, bus turned around 90 Say:
i wonder n that man would know a
thief II h. saw one,"
A. Mayor Gaynor pass.d group Of
hVe policemen standing at the corner u
the CITY Hall they all salut-d which led
him 70 r-inark
You know a LITTLE more than the man
down there think there h,uld nor b..
q policeman on the force who i1.s not
make II a point To know the chief N-r,itive /
~ the city
The Independence nav exercises barar
IN the AliermAnic Chamber q, ~ o'clock
hut the So chairs that hat been m ,v-.d
IN 10 take the place u IN. desks w"r. only /
about hall filed through the ceremonies. ,
and the gallery was empty In M. ruen- |
ing renarks DIR. George r K'iny The prp-
siding Officer said
We are assemhIed here tl-da~ ., com
msmorate a safe SAN and rs t-i,'Ir Fourth
OF July. to think sobCriy and r.yar-n,ly !
OF those who made this day possIbI, and /
who gave their homes ana lrv,s for their /,
country sake. History fails - toll rs /,
81 single one who devoted months - ,h. |
dew loprnent - a brute str, myth ~ he |
pttisd against fellow man for a purs-
gate receipts and moving picture royalties.
Decorating the glorious Fourth
Mrs. William Cumming Story prasitlant
81 the New York Chapter IT tbs Daughters
Of tn" American Revolution spoke on
IN" Women ~ the Revolution. and DR.
Edward Hagaman Hail secretary of the
American S,snic aud Historic Preserya-
ton So"Iety. gave history ~ tin, City
Hall and rrrna rked that the first DIo,.l z
IN the Revolution was shed on the com
mons just south Of IN" present site ~ the
City Hall
IN a paper written 10y John BigeIow on
The city Hall. which Wa. read by Or
William Edward Fitch. MIR BigsIow said
that he approved the sane method 81 ceIs-
hratlng ~. holiday and the d.vandnIiz-
IIing Il the city Hall and 10 birthriEht
mark he said that while 10 WA vision
Tor John adams IN his day To propo..
the celebration Of the Declaration ii Inde-
Tend.nce with -noisy and conbl-tible
sAplo-iv"s 'ecauss IL was necessary 20
Infame ~. military enthusiasm 81 the
country times nave changed now and
We change with them
The address continued
For nearly a century twisting the
British hons tat was pleasing sorc,.ry
with which our aspiring politicians wer.
wont Ia charm the Celtic voter and win
Tor himself that called fame on such
gentle acts a. th.ss But now our typical
nimrod. Will" hunting in the London
Jungle, instead Of twisting the hons
tail he sports not with AmAryllis in the
shsde hut with the tangled Curls Of its
royal Hons terminal
Peace il now ths burden OF that hons
familiar roar. and Senator Root. supported
nv Andrew Carnegie or EIsa veraa haa