New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03

Parade. Games and Like Fill
Day, Fireworks the Night.
FUN EVERYWHERE FOR ALL
Hardly a Park Where Something
Safe and Sane" VIII Not
Be Doing Tomorrow.


Final arrangements for the safe and
sane celebration OF the Fourth OF July in
New York were completed and announced
Yesterday by the Independence Day Com
n7ittee appointed by Mayor Gaynor, of
which Dr. John H. Finley Is chairman
The military and civic parade. with some
thing over seven thousand marchers IN
line. VIII start south from the corner OF
Firth avenue and 18th street at a. N.
continuing down Fifth avenue to 9Th street,
10 Broadway. TO the City Hall Plaza and
across TO Park Row. where it will disband-
From q specially constructed grandstand
n front of the City Hall steps Mayor Gay
nor viii review the parade with delegations
from patriotic societies and the Grand
AIRY Of the Republic as guests OF honor.
L is estimated that the head OF the
parade VIII pass the reviewing stand about
1o-I5 O'Clock and following the parade,
probably st about 11:S0 O'Clock. the exer-
cises on the City Hall steps viii be started
These VIII include. besides the music Of
the hand and the Peoples Choral Union,
addresses by DR.. Finley and Mayor Gay
nor, the reading Of the Declaration OF In
dependence by Colonel ". D. H Washing
ton. and the reading OF Lincoln's Gettys-
burg address by Alderman Samuel Marx
Preceding the arrival Of the parade his
toric exercises VIII be held In the alder
manic chamber OF the City Hall. at which
Dr. George z. Kunz VIII preside Addresses
VIII be made by John BigeIow, Mrs. VIII
lam Cumming Story. DR. Edward HagaInan
Hall and Arthur W. CoIborne. and Arthur
Guiterman viii read q poem These ex-
ercises VIII start at $3.50 g. N
Boys Races on the Speedway.
Beginning at 10 a n, there VIII be chill
dren's entertainments IN more than TWO
hundred and fifty schools and recreation
centres A letter from Mayor Gaynor VIII
be read at each Of them. and simultaneous
: u on the Speedway relay teams Of twenty
boys from the five boroUghs will contend
for the borough championship medals Of
the Public Schools Athletic League.
Al 2:3O p IL there VIII be free athletic
games a. eighteen parks, under the direc-
ton Of James z Sullivan, with gold. ST.
yer and bronze medals as prizes. In Man
haitian these games viii be held in Seward,
TonpEns Square, Hamilton Fish, St. Ga
briefs, De Witt Clinton. Chelsea and Thorn
as jefferson parks. at the Pastn4e Athletic
, Clubs grounds and at Columbia Untver-
sitys South Field
In Brooklyn the games will be held IN
GreenpoinI and Mclaughlin parks the
Brooklyn Athletic Field and Commercial
and Nacouob's Dam parks. In Queens they
viii be held At Astoria Field. and n Rich
rlond at the Curtis Athletic Field at New
Brighton
For those who do not care 10 so 10 any
Of the parks there viii be an interborough
flag relay race for forty blocks down Fifth
avenue, from Tooth street TO Goth street
Twenty runners from the champion public
school team Of each borough Will contest,
each boy carrying the flag two blocks
Each boy on the winning team viii earn a
silver cup, and the team prize viii be g
large six 7as given by Mrs. Clarence
8Iackay.
With all these safe and sane" plans for
the days celebration. the small boy popu-
lation Of the greater city need have 10
fear that he IS going 10 miss fireworks al
together. because the committee has made
arrangements for q series Of pyrOtechnic
displays at night which VIII cover practi-
caIly every possible park and open space
IL the i've boroughs-
Generous with Fireworks.
These displays VIII be started at ?. m
and from the length Of the programme, as
announced yesterday by the committee, It
viii take something over Two hours 10 set
them al of.
OF course, there viii De all the old-fash-
toned wei known pieces, such as rockets,
colnTed stars. flower pots and Roman can
dies, but The history OF the last year viii
also be touched upon emblemaucaily with
such reminders as The Haley comet rocket
bombs and the North Pole batteries
In Manhattan the fireworks displays viii
start at g O'Clock in the following parks:
Battery. Tonpkins Square. De Witt Gin
ton. East River, Thomas jefferson. Seward,
Hamilton Fish. Mount Morris, Madison
Square. Riverside, Chelsea and Washington
Square.
Throughout the evening the City Hall
viii be illuminated and there VIII be a dis
play OF fireworks there
The Brooklyn fireworks display IL the
evening VIII Be held at the following parks
in that borough: Prospect. Fort Greene,
AIcCaren. Williamsburg Bridge Plaza, Irv-
ing Square, Washington Park baseball
field, Lincoln Square, Highland Park, Red
Hook. Sunset. Kings Highway and Carroll.
IN Queens the evening displays VIII be
ned a. the following centres Bayside bail
grounds. Jamaica. Ridgewocd. Far Rocka-
v-sy, Corona Park and the bridge plaza
in Long Island City. IN The Bronx they
VIII be at Mckinley Square, ST. Mary's
Park, dacomb's Dam Park, CIaremont
Park Echo Park. washington avenue and
1881 street, Fordham Square, Williams
bridge, and WestChester Square, and n
Richmond Borough at Port E-chmond sta
pIet0n and Totteuvile.
Patriotic music win be played ia all The
recreation parks and piers in the early
evening, ard singing societies VIII furnish
special programmes at most Of the after
noon games and entertainments.
Early Morning Flag Raising.
Probably the earliest feature of the day
viii be the exercises of the Patriotic So
ciety Of Van CortIandt Park, which VIII
re held AZ o'clock on the morning Of the
Fourth on the Indian Field in that park,
near the 238th street entrance. The rails