Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-05
FIREWORKS SHOW
ENDS DAYS FUN
Capitol Hill Display Lasting More
Than an Hour Was Big
Feature.
BALLOON ASCENSION FAILS,
Cloth Goes Up In Flames at Liberty
Park-aftcrnoon sports Keep
The Crowds Happy

The festivities Incident to yesterdays
observance OF the Fourth OF July were
brought to close by splendid fire.
works display on Capitol hill last night.
The display began shortly before Q
o'clock and continued until 1880 ana
vas witnessed by several thousand
people who had congregated on the
grounds besides many thousands Of
others who were able to see the aerial
pieces from their homes. An expert
was in charge and the pyrotechnlcs ne
produced put Hallcys comet and other
aspiring meteOriC bodies entirely In the
shade. There were rockets. flower pots,
spinning wheels. Roman candles and
colored fire galore. there were set
pieces, the most beautiful ~ which as
the sheet Of falling fire stretched across
upper state street and representing the
Niagara falls; there was portrait ~
fire OF Mayor Bransford there was a
monkey on a horizontal bar, doing all
kinds OF athletic stunts which made
the little children-and the big ones,
too. for that matter-shout with
laughter; there was the combined
ooh" Of thousands Of threats at
the appearance OF each successive burst
Of fiery flakes, and with the noise, the
blaze and the smoke produced every
body went home with that feeling OF
content which indicated the conclusion
of a most satisfactory Fourth Of July.
BALLOON ON FIRE
Tho balloon ascension at Liberty park
was somewhat of a disappointment,
and narrow escape from suffocation
was the substance OF the affair. 3
Austin and II. Christensen, who were
assisting in initiating the balloon with
hot air, stepped inside TO hold up the
thin cloth so that It would MI the more
readily While they were under the
cloth somebody yelled FIRE" and IL was
found that the flames from the furnace
had caught the thin cloth covering ana
In a short time the balloon was burn
ing The two men scrambled from
under the cloth but not until they had
been nearly suffocated with smoke,
The parachute which was being arr
ranged for the descent also caught iire.
:. Christen sen, the aeronaut, gives his
loss as $3.50.
AFTERNOONS SPORTS.
The sports In the afternoon at the
park were enjoyed by great many
who remained 10 see the fun. There
was a basketball game between the
boys teams OF the Poplar grove ana
LAFAYETTE schools, which was won Dy
the former by score Of "a to 7; an
other basketball game between the girls
OF the Lincoln school and those of the
wasatch. the Lincoln girls winning by
a score OF II TO T. The baseball gamt
between the Lincoln and Tralnlne
school teams resulted In victory foi
the Training school by score OF y
In each OF the bail games the win
ners were given prize Of $40 and the
losers received IS.
The chase after the creased pig and
the climb up the greasy pole were fea
lures which delighted the hearts OF
many a small boy, and the youngstei
who successfully grappled the sllppety
norker bv the hind leg and claimed the
nis, as hts prize, declared he d.d not
have any resin on his hands. The
drst lad up the creased pole got 70 ano
the next one $50.