Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-24
Council Bluffs
SANE FOURTH MAYORS ORDER
Executive Signs Proclamation that
Will Stop Much Noise.
PROMISES TO ENFORCE IT
small BOY VIII he Obliged, for
safety of Community, 60 Con-
fine His Efforts to Ordinary
ways of Celebration.

Council Bluffs Is TO have another So
called safe and sane Fourth" The
American spirit OF the genuine Yankee boy
will be curbed as the officials care or
even dare to restrain K.
Mayor Maloney yesterday told the boys
just how far they could go and still be
patriotic and not criminal. He issued his
Fourth OF July proclamation defining the
privileges that would be granted and re-
straints that would be imposed from now
until the close OF the great national ami
versaTy. The proclamation Is as kind as
the mayor can make it. He remembers
the time when. freckled-faced barefooted
and full of intense enthusiasm. his great
est ambition was to make a noise that
could be heard in China OF set off a flash
that would be reflected in surprise by the
moon.
The mayor originated in the immediate
vicinity OF the scenes of Mark Twalns
boyhood. and he was real Tom Sawyer
and a Huckleberry Finn in the good old
days spent in the environments Of Warsaw
and Hannibal along the Mississippi river.
where the very spirit that brooded over
water and wooded hills made 1t impos-
sible not to disobey the mandates of father
and mother.
He recalls the time when he blew up
the cowshed with keg of blasting powder
which quarrymen had thoughtlessly left
unguarded. He still sees the flash, and
the echo of the glorious roar has never
ceased to thrill upon his ear drums He
is only thankful that it all happened before
the days of dynamite and high explosives
for he feels sure he would now have to
use at least one wooden leg, an artificial
arm or at least a glass eye.
He read the proclamation over seven
times yesterday after it was typewriter
before he could muster the courage to sign
it. Here it is, with the mayors humble
apologies to the genuine American boys in
Council Bluffs, and the 'badest bad
feature OF It is that it is going to be
strictly enforced but with the regret that
every adult man and woman and family
horse, also family dog is not blessed with
the kind of nerves that tingle TO the en-
thusiastic ambition of the real boy.
All citizens are warned by the chief of
police not to indulge in premature celebra-
tons. The laws regarding the use and sale
| of fireworks are stated in the following
proclamation issued today:
! By direction of the mayor the following
Is hereby published for the information of
all concerned:
Chapter 1885, laws of the Thirty second
general assembly, reads:
! No person shall use, sell, offer for sale
UT Keep lot safe Nllnln. the state any TOY
lrevolvers, caps containing dynamite, blank
cartridges for toy revolvers or toy pictols,
| or firecrackers more than three 49, inches
In length or three-fourths of an inch in
diameter.
Section 2. Any person violating the pro-
visions OF this act shall be fined not ex-
ceeding $1O0 or Imprisonment in the county
jail not exceeding thirty days
The discharge OF cannons, guns. pistols,
lrevolvers canes or other fire arms. dyna-
mite or cannon firecrackers is hereby alb
solutely prohibited under a penalty OF SO
for each offense.
All bonfires upon any of the streets al
leys or public parks within the city limits
are hereby absolutely prohibited under PEN
atty of the law.
The loan or gift of toy pistols or metal
caps to children is a wrong, and parents
are especially requested to protect children
| against danger resulting from the use OF
such toy pistols, percussion and other dan
gerous explosives.
street railway or upon the rails of any
railroad within the limits of the city OF
Council Bluffs any torpedo bomb, or other
article containing any substance of an eX-
plosive nature, is absolutely prohibited I'M
der a penalty of not less than SO or more
than so for each offense.
There shall be no fireworks of any de-
scr1ption whatever exploded within the city
Of Council Bluffs, nor any display of fire
works on any streets and sidewalks before
the evening of July 3, 1911.
THOMAS MALONEY,