The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-07-04
GLORIOUS FOURTH
IN WAXAHACH|E
Thousands Of People Observe
National Day Of America in
Hearty Fashion.
SECOND ANNUAL PICNIC
Fraternal Societies Of North Texas
Meet Here to Enjoy Two Days Of
Pleasure Music, Uratory
and Firev vorks.

And in the year of the independ-
ence of the United States the one
hundred and thirtyfourth.
That is the way the president of
clude his proclamations for the next
twelve months, for with Monday the
United States passed another year of
it's existence. While hundred years,
as nations count time. is not a long
space still it must be admitted that in
that time, since The birth of freedo n
in the United States, Uncle Sam ha5
managed to make his name and posi-
ton rather we'll known over the
length and breadth of the world
Small wonder is it, therefore, that
the day marking the signing of the
declaration of independence is a day
known and honored everywhere.
Doubtless it can be said of the occas-
ion that it is more generally observed
than any other occasion of political
meaning,
In all this broad lald, over which
the American eagle scars so proudly
there may be some cities which will
pull off a more varied assortment of
entertainments and make more noise
than WaXahachie, but if they do they
will have to get up and go some. The
AZ toI 81 a al OF ~
Sunday and by the time the vanguard
of the visitors arrived Monday morn
ing the business houses were artiSui
cally decorated with patriotic colors.
Small flags were everywhere and
those who had nothing to decorate
could be seen carrying miniature EN-
blems of freedom in their hands. The
banks were about the only business
institutions in the city to close their
doors during the day.
The Chautauqua park was the
Mecca for thousands of people who
were in search of pleasure and recre-
alton. All roads led in that direction
on the Glorious Fourth and it is safe
to say that the park was never be-
| fore thronged with such a large
crowd of merry makers and pleasure
hunters. Various estimates place the
attendance the first day at from five
| to eight thousand, and they were here
| from all sections of North Texas.
Quite number of visitors arrived
! Sunday afternoon to remain the two
days of the picnic, and by seven
o'clock Monday morning people from
| various parts of Ellis county began
| pourning into the park. The early
| train from Ennis brought about two
hundred and the Katy Flyer from the
south brought in a large crowd fro,n
Hillsboro and intermediate points.
| The southbound local passenger train
was loaded with visitors from Dallas
and North Texas points and then
came a special over the Trinity ana
Brazos Valley with several hundred
more. Added to the hundreds who
came on trains they were here in au-
tomobiles from Dallas, Fort Worth,
Cleburne, Hillsboro, Ennis, Italy,
Milford, Corsicana, Ferris and other
| neighboring towns. During the early
+, hours of the morning the streets
were crowded and jammed with peo-
| pie and in order to keep them enter
| tanned the Boys Band from the Odd
Fellows Home at Corsicana gave an
| open air concert on the public square.
! The Bardwell band was also on hand
| and went to the park early to enter
tain the thousands who had already
assembled there.
| The occasion of the celebration
was the second annual picnic of the
| North Texas Fraternal Picnic Asso-
citation. This association is composed
of various fraternal societies having
a total membership of about 250,0OD
! These orders include the Woodmon
of the World, Modern Woodmen OF
America, Fraternal Union Of Ameri-
| ca, United Workmen, Maccabees and
auxiliary societies Of other lodges
The lodges are well represented here
and the members of each view with
| each other in getting all the possible
pleasure out of this annual reunion
Preparations for this Aatherine