New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-05
FOURTH COSTS ONE LIFE
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IN the air. fell directly on her head and
instantly killed her.
Over in Newark one man was killed
IN g similarly conducted display. when
an aerial bomb half buried in an iron
mortar. exploded prenleturely, driving
piece Of iron through his body as he was
running away after having lit the fuse.
In both these instances the fireworks
display was stopped immediately and
the police quietly dispersed the crowds.
BROOKLYN furnished two. and the only
two of the probably fatal accidents Of
the dav One man. James Frederick. of
No. SIS President street, was accidental
w shot behind The left ear while watch
ing the display at the Washington Park
baseball grounds. and another George
Newdue of No. % Railroad avenue, was
accidentally shot in the left breast while
Sitting in the yard Of his home.
May Los His Eyesisht.
Probable loss of eyesight, accidents Of
which there was none last year. but ten
the wear before. claimed five-year-old
hoy in Manhattan yesterday He was
plas-ing with A blank cartridge, which
exploded and burned his left eye SO Sc
riously that he will probably lose the
sight OF that eye. His name is Julius
Rather. and he lives at No. 2i5 East
Goth street.
Abraham -3assford. jr, the former ten
mis- champion of Cornell University, mar
rowly escaped death from stray bullet
when he was walking through Both
street, between Madison and Fifth ave-
nues early last night. The bullet whis
tied past him. struck an iron fence and
bounded into the roadway, having just
Erazed his face.
Coney Island. with $4,000. and the
other resorts swelling the total up to
something more than half million, took
that many persons out Of the city, some
of them going to escape what they
thought would be the customary chance
Of accident in New York, others to get
10 some place where they would be free
10 set off fireworks as they pleased.
Up TO midnight there had been no
fatalities reported from the water ex-
cursionists. and the government in
spectors said that steamboat companies
had abided strictly by the rules as to
the number of passengers they carried.
The Halcyon, running to Liberty ISL
end. picked up a man who said he had
fallen from another excursion boat, but
except for the drenching- he was unhurt
by the accident.
Two men were arrested during the day
for selling firecra ckers and six for firing
revolvers. The two statesmen were held
ny police magistrates for examination
TO-DAY.
Even the Small Boy Satisfied
In q general way Mayor Gaynor's
scheme for e safe and sane Fourth
vas carried cut as planned. Parades,
relay races, schoolboy games and exer-
Cises, historic exercises, musical enter
tainments and evening displays of fire.
works filled UP q day which satisfied
even the ambitious small boy population
DIR. Finley's Independence Day COM
rlittee laid out programme which took
account not only of the amusement of
the youngsters, but also of the spirit and
history Of the day as it appeals to their
rlders-tle real Independence Day
spirit.
In the morning the historic. exercises
.n the Aldermanic Chamber Of the City
He'll. the military and civic parade, with
the exercises following it, and, simulta-
neously, the children's patriotic enter
tainment and exercises in some go
schools and recreation centres, brought
into the minds Of young and old the
spirit Of '76 and the spirit of the days of
Lincoln.
The old-fasllioned custom OF reading
the Declaration Of independence, some
what lost sight OF in recent years in
large cities. came into its own again and
was made a part Of each programme Of
The day
Nowhere probably was this spirit more
emphasized than in the earliest exercises
Of the day, the flag raisings and patri-
otto exercises in the historic block house
in Central Park and on the Indian Field |
Of Van Cortlandt Park. In the early !
dawn at each Of these tive places were
gathered several hundred people. intent
upon the historic significance of the day /
end thoroughly attentive TO the cere- |