New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05

nlcny of the raising of the flag and the
reading of the great Declaration which
dates from the 4th of July 1916.
Oldtime Spirit Alive To-day.
1t was the same in the City Hall Park
exercises following the parade. When
Colonel ". H. D. Washington read the
Declaration and when Alderman Samuel
Marx read Lincolns Gettysburg address
the crowd listened as attentively to
every word as they did TO Mayor Gaynor
when he told them that he believed the
spirit Of those times was alive to-day.
The afternoon and evening entertain
nlents were more for the young people.
sort of expurgated and censored cele-
b-ation handled for them. but not by
them. In the free athletic games which
were conducted under the auspices Of
the independence Day committee in
eighteen different parts throughout the
FIVE bcroughs. the medals of gold. silver
and bronze which went to the winners
bore inscriptions commemorative Of
New FORKS first serious effort toward q
real safe and sane celebration of the
Fourth. and in the relay race down Fifth
avenue the object of the race was the
carrying of an American flag from run
ner TO runner
For those of the small boy population
TO whom these mildly commemorative
exercises did not furnish sufficient en-
tertainment the committee conducted
fireworks displays at night in forty-one
different parks and squares throughout
the greater city.
Part Of Small Boy in the Day.
The small boy was not asked about
the matter as g whole, and it is not
known Just how he views the safe and
sane idea The committee provided
substitutes for the oldtine methods in
the shape Of marching soldiers. flying
flags. races and other athletic contests
and fireworks that were certainly more
spectacular than he individually could
hope to have the pleasure of setting
Off under the old way, but except for
the athletic contests his part under the
new regime was only to watch. He was
not allowed to handle things himself,
particularly fireworks, and the safe and
sane argument made scarcely as much
impression upon his young mind as 1t
did on the minds of his elders.
City Hall Park, the centre of the &C
tivities of the morning, was beautifully
decorated with flags, green's and flowers.
Broad canopies stretched from the edge
OF the City Hall roof 10 standards set at
the edge Of the plaza, and covered the
crowd in the reviewing stand and also
Oh i,, 10 or ii
Joining. After the exercises there the
stands were stripped of their floral deco |
rations and the flowers and green shrub |
berry were sent to various hospitals.
Children Delight Patients.
At Bellevue Hospital sixty girls from |
Public School II entertained the 9S7 |
patients with singing and instrumental |
music, arranged for by Mrs. Isaac L. |
Rice.
The night displays. conducted by the |
Pain Fireworks Company IN forty-one |
parks and squares throughout the city, |
gave countless youngsters pyrotechnic |
delights that. they never would have en- |
joyed under the old order of individual |
celebrations. Set pieces of the old IA |
miliar type. flower pots, rockets. colored |
lights and bombs We're there in profu- |
sion, but, in addition, the small boy was |
delighted with the display of more mod |
ern and up-to-date pieces, many of |
which We're commemorative of the his
tory of the last year, such as the Hal I
ley's comet rockets, the North Pole bat |
teries and the Chantecler bursters.
Tremendous crowds greeted these dis
plays in every park, and the small boy, |
though skeptical of the safe and sane |
idea up to and throughout the day,
went 70 bed after the night exhibitions
satisfied with the work Of the committee |
and dreaming of future safe and |
sanes."