New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
PLAN GREAT CELEBRATION
BroOkIynites Arrange Elaborate
Programme for Sane Fourth.

The glorious Fourth Is TO be celeora aleu-
IN BROOKLYN according to the new style OF
on the pre- umption. as recent writer put
q that &c cane Fourth makes a happ'
e,tb" Even the small boy, robbed OF MS
onnortunity of dealing out injury ana
Death now sees the light and seems Will
inc IN accept sanity instead OF the oldtime
| exnlosiveness for the observance OF the
dav II sneaking regard, as the irish
saw. for the old way of whooping up Things
and OF exploding crackers and bombs SUI
fingers In boyhood's mind. there is not the
! slightest doubt that the police. es-
pecially those in Headquarters VINO year
by year had to make record OF hundreds
| of accidents and OF some deaths. and the
| ambulance surgeons of all the hospitals
who were kept on the jump all the day,
are glad of the new order of things.
Throughout Brooklyn there will be ex-
| hibitions Of fireworks concerts in the az
| ternoon and evening, celebrations in forty
OF the public schools, games in parks and
in athletic fields and countless number OF
out-of-town excursions.
At the Borough Hall at 10 O'Clock in the
morning Shannon's 22d Regiment Band OF
sixty pieces and the United Singers. con-
sisting Of so voices, will give concert
Borough President Steers will preside, in
PRODUCING as the speakers Colonel James
d. Bell. deputy corporation counsel. and
others.
on Brooklyn Heights the celebration
will be divided into zones, so that each
class OF citizens will have neighborhood
exercises. In these Colonel Michael j.
Dady, Major John W. Tumbridge, Miss
Mary Moore Orr, Miss Susie G.. HarkIns
Carl Won Pustau. Louis II. Pink and Will
lam H. Downes are interested
The committee in charge consists OF Al
dcrman Downing, L. =. Roberts. DR.! l..
c. Ager. Mrs. Catherine Stowe. Louis H.
Pink. Edward Barr. Mrs. Elizabeth Ben
nett and the Rev Leslie W Sprasue.
The residents and business men OF the
Bedford -Tilden- Flatbush section. who have
general organization, have prepared a
programme which includes music, dancing,
free refreshments and large number OF
athletic events, for which valuable prizes
have been provided. In the games the
I inevitable Brooklyn baby carriage is 10
figure. a parade Of baby carriages being
one OF the features.
The committee IN charge consists OF c.
| A. Grunbok. jr., A. Koppel, DR.. Edward
/ :. Smith James Scott, G.. Roschlau. Her
man Bayha, d. l.. Gray and J. Murtha. ST.
/ In the old Red Hook section there will be
/ a big fireworks display. Alderman Cum
ninghsm succeeded IN getting the Board OF
Aldermen TO appropriate 500 for this cele-
| bration. In the afternoon there will be a
! parade. speeches. music and athletic games.
/ The exercises will be held under the au-
| spices OF the Erie Basin Board OF Trade.
/ The afternoon celebration will be in Coffey
/ Park and in the evening the fireworks ex-
hiDition will De in Walcott street, near
| Dwight street.
There will be a variety Of games in Pros
/ pect Park under the direction OF Z. c.
1 Mills. athletic director OF the Prospect Park
/ Young Mems Christian Association.
There will be fireworks in Che evening
at the Borough Hall the Manhattan Bridge
| Plaza. Fort Greene Park. Red Hook Park,
the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza, Patchen
and Jefferson avenues. the playground In
/ jefferson avenue, Sunset Park. Carroll
/ Park. Prospect Park Plaza, the Eastern
/ Parkway and Bedford avenue, Washington
Park. Porter avenue. near Johnson ave-
/ nue.: McCarren Park. Greene and Tomp-
| kins avenues Bushwick Park. Irving ave
nue. and Halsey street, Monroe avenue ex-