New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-04
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ering up the few loose threads in the
programme plans. AS Alderman Samuel
Marx remarked:
IF any one car point out a more sa-
cred occupation for Sunday than the
saving Of life he's welcome to come up
here and make complete denonstra-
ton. But they've got to show US" he
added. watching 2 street revivalist meet
ing IN Park Row which was arousing
the Sabbath with blast Of trumpet and
shout Of leather lungs.
To be on the safe side, since some
small boys and some grownups are al
most sure to get into harmful mischief,
no matter how many diversions there
are, the National Emergency Service,
under command of Brigadier General F.
Ebert Davis. NJ D, will maintain field
hospitals at Madison Square, Washing
ton Square and in City Hall Park
| These are along the route of the parade,
however and are designed more for the
care Of Frustrated and crushed specta-
| tors and exhausted rarchers than for
the succor of blown UP celebrators.
This service will also conduct the med
zeal emergency work at Washington
Park, Brooklyn, and at College Point,
Long Island An ambulance with full
equipment will be stationed at each field
hospital during the parade
Heat Prostrations Feared.
| The parade, It is feared, will cause the
prostration of many of those saved from
worse fates. In the dense crowds banked
along the route Of march many will
faint, it is expected, from the intense
heat predicted for the day. The little
! children, with their heads buried in the
crowds beyond breath of air. probably
will be victims.
| Although the Weather Bureau holds
out some hope of relief from thunder
showers to-day. the heat is likely to De
! almost as trying as in the last few days
| And another friend Of the long cas-
ualty list. the wholesale bathing and
boating which accompany every sum
ner holiday. will get in even finer work
| than usual now that the flrecracker at
traction which keeps persons on dry
| land has been removed. At least such
is the fear of those who do not think the
| Ella borate schedule Of public celebra-
tons will keep he rurally inclined from
visiting the beaches
| But every sweet hath its sour" as
Emerson once remarked. and the mem
| bers of the independence Day commit
| tee are resigned to the fact that no mat
ter what efforts are put forth to protect
persons the recklessly minded will find
some avenue Of injury. Some Of 'ern
will get under streetcars and autorlo-
bles I suppose" said Alderman Marx.
with a sigh of resignation. And others
will get hit by trains because they are
not home setting off the cannon crack
ers on the front steps
The Journal of American Medical
Association" which has been compiling
statistics for seven years on the cost IN
human lives of the Glorious Fourth"
has word Of cheer.
Good Records in Other Cities
In Baltimore. which city for three
years has prohibited the sale and use of
frecrackers and fireworks only FIVE &C
cidents were recorded last year and no
deaths Neither Cleveland nor Wash
ington, both Of which had similar prohi-
| billions, suffered the loss of one life. and
Washington was free from accidents
Chicago. which passed merely restrictive
legislation on the subject, reported none
killed and is injured.
The first lifesaver here to-day, in point
of time. will be the parade. which will
start at 9 a. m from Fifth avenue and
26th street Regulars, national guards
men, naval militiamen. Spanish War
Veterans. Sons Of Veterans, mounted
police, high school boys, flremen. street
! cleaners and foreign companies will
compose the procession, numbering in all
g bout seven thousand They will march
down to City Hall and be reviewed by
the Mayor. The route will be down
Fifth avenue TO 4th street and then
across TO Broadway and down.
But while the happy populace is still
smiling upon its saviors as they file by
Dr. George F. Kunz will be presiding at
some historic exercises in the Aldernanic
Chamber at City Hall. at which ad-
dresses will be made by John Bigelow,
DR.. Edward Haganaan Hall. Mrs. Will
lam Cummings Story and Arthur w
| Colborne, and poem will be read by
Arthur Guiterman. This viii be at 9: 80
o'clock, and at 10 o'clock children's ex-
ercises will begin in $50 schools.
Mayor Gaynor to Speak
At 10-15 O'Clock the parade is sched-
uled To reach City Hall. where at that
time the review Of the troops will be-
gin. and after the review will come the
exercises on the City Hall steps, at which
the Mayor and Chairman John H Finley
of the independence Day committee will
make addresses. Here Colonel w. D Fl.
Washington will read the Declaration of
Independence and Alderman Marx viii
give the Gettysburg Address
Free athletic games at eighteen parks.