Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-01

moment when the rocket has reached
its highest point so that the stars or
golden rain may be discharged with
the effectiveness necessary TO make
TIC spectators say "G:"
The stars are little packets made or
various compositions so as to produce
fire Of different colors when ignited.
But within the last few years makers Of
pyrotechnics in this country have en-
ormously improved in their art, n
in no branch of 1t have they pro-
crossed so much as in the manufacture
Of rockets. Rockets that liberate para
chutes, each carrying a brilliant star
as IL floats aloft, are already familiar,
and so likewise are those which throw
out flaming golden clouds that drop
streams OF fiery rain. The whistling
rocket ascends to an immense height
and displays Chinese dragons dying
through the air, accompanied by a
loud whistling which a be, heard for
miles.
Many people, doubtless, have WON
dered how high rockets go in their
ascent skyward. OF curse this de-
Ponds mainly upon the kin and quail
ity of the firework, but 1t will suffice
to say that 600 feet of vertical extent
is about the limit. To the eye of the
observer, when the fiery stream shoots
GIL Llks5kl III he illSlll, TIC SASN dlAOlb 1b-
tanned seems fully twice that.
Some High Price Pieces.
The revolving dragon rocket dis
charges fiery dragons. which remain
suspended in the air ana swing In cir
eles in The midst of colored fires These
fiery dragons, which hiss as they dash
through the air, leaving flaming trails
behind them. are quite new and de-
nida1lU i'm nrog0txya Another Lind off
rocket releases simultaneously seven
balloons, each carrying variegated sig
nal stars, which float about and burn
in charming colors. A dozen OF this
sort cost S144. One can spend a. lot of
monev IN a few fireworks nowadays.
Gigantic ffrecrackers are now made
in this country containing a pound or
more OF gunpowder. They are called
cannon safutes," cost sometimes as
much as s84 a dozen, and are extreme
lY dangerous. There are various new
kinds of fireworks which have handles
for holding them-such, for example,
as the wizard Candles" which, start
with a stream of golden spray, followed
by AN explosion of fire balls. then
change into an eruption of silver
snakes. Each candle repeats the per-
Torrance three times. The devil
among the ~tailors" is put IN the ground
to fire. 1t opens with an illumination
of ooiors, succeeded by a fiery stream,
a fountain OF exploding stars, and
finally a burst of dragons.
The "whfstling Jack" is an, illuImina-
ton I'm carmine and emeralds, followed
by an explosion of fiery meteors and
dragons, whistling and screaming, and
"a fusiIade to wind up. The dragons
nest is something new and startling.
1t begins with a discharge of stars,
each star in it's flight separating into
a number of smaller ones. Then fol-
lows a shower of colored fires, ard, as
a finale, an outburst OF kissing fiery
dragons,
There are even par2or fireworks
nowadays, and one of these is the
snake in the grass" When burning Ii
produces a large bunchs of grass. You
can actually ~-e il grow; and presently
"a pfg serpent energies from It and
crawls along the carpet. 1t Rs real
istic. amusing and quite safe, Ii a
grown person superintends n per-
| Torrance.