The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-03

New York. July New York's
/ first attempt to celebrate Independ.
enge Day in a safe and sane" way
pleasing to the promoters of the So
ciety for the suppression OF unneces-
sary noise will be given a try-out
two days hence. Several hundred
/ thousand peoule left town today, and
many mere will shake the dust OF
Gotham from their tootsies on the
morrow. but there will be plenty left
in the big town to pass judgment ol
the program arranged by Mayor Gay
nor's committee So long as the real
big noise, Coney Island remains un.
suppressed. there will be n knock.
ing, except among the kids who
haven't the price of Il trip to Coney
and must perforce so noiselcss
In order that the remainder of the
country may know how to be pa'ri-
otic without waxing efferyesccnt, the
horrible details are given, to-wt, as
fellows:
The first event of the day is the in
yitation reception in the aldermanjc
chamber at City Hall, at $3.50 O'Clock,
to celebrate the first session of the
city government on july T. 1910. A
brief history of City Han viii be read
by Br Edward H. Han, a poem by
Arthur Guiterman and letter from
John Rigelow. There will lee all.
dresses by Mayor Gayn,r and DE-
Finley.
Next come the public exercises On
City Hall steps at 1890 o'clock The
members of the different patrioic so
cieties will appear in costume aai
the Declaration of Independence will
be read by Colonel w. d. II. Wash.
ington. Magma Charta and Lincoln
speech at Gettysburg probably will
be read also, and there will be sing
ing by the Peoples Choral Union.
At the close OF the exercises, the
parade, with General Charles II. Roo
as grand marshal, will swing across
the City Hall plaza to be reviewed by
the mayor. Six hundred high school
boys will take position on either side
of the reviewing stand The parade
will start from Fifth avenue above
Twenty y-siXth street, march d-Wn the
avenue 20 Washington Square,
Fourth street and Broadway to City
Hall There will be in line 1000 o.
the National Guard, police, firemen.
men from city departments, school
boys and societies.
At 10 O'Clock childrens celebrations
viii be held in 240 places. There will
be patriotic exercises and singing, in
cnarge CT a general committee headed
by Dr.. Luther GulCk.
At 1890 the flag relay race for
borough championships will start Oh
the Speedway Each district of eacd
borough has been asked 10 send a
team of twenty boys. The boys viii
be stationed two blocks apart ard
, will each run two blocks, nandine
flag t. the boy ahead. The Gna
race for the championship of he
Greater city, to be run by the winnin.
borough teams, will be started at
O'Clock. The course will be dow
Fifth avenue from One Hundredtl
street. Mrs. Clarence Mackay ha'
donated flag and each boy in til,
winning team will get silver cup.
Athletic meets will be held all owe
the city, medals being given as prizey
There will be Il great parade OF deco
rated automobiles at o'clock on Fiji
. avenue, Broadway and Riverside
: Drive. In the evening there will b.
l displays of aerial fireworks from sew
elal city parks.
Under the leadership of Prof. J. "
) jerks, professor of economics AM
L political science at the Cornell Uni
Il yersity, a summer colony is to b,
pened at Stony Brook, l.. l., whicl
p will be rival or Northfield an,
J. Chautauqua
y II begins today with a civic confer
en-e. 1t will be one of the most in
p portant assemblies that is to NEE
d this summer for the consideration o
q social problems.