The sun., 1912-07-04
IO.DAY'S CELEBRATION
CENTRES AT CITY HALL
1tll Bc the Biggest and Maybe
the SancSt Fourth We've
Yet Seen.
4 $4,000 PROG GR A NJ NJ +
Paradcs. 1lluminatiOns and
Carefully Directed Fire
works in 1t.


as IT, promoters like to call IL. II will
bcrin officially at 9:3O A. NJ. and will he
gong until late in the evening. What
ever the small boy misses in his banished
firearms and explosives will be more
Than made up to him. those behind the
new movement say. Judging from the
programme nc will lie surfeited with
rsradcs. music. fireworks and oratory.
# ho likes that.
This will I've the third attempt at a sane
Fourth on the part of Father Knicker-
booker In 1909 only twenty cities. in
cudIng New York. tried the scheme of
deriving he small boy of his firecrackers
and noisemakers and giving him some
hing ,nnocuous in their place. Last
wear lsi cities adopted ii. This year
The number will be greatly increased.
with New York leading the procession
20 far as lavishness in a sane Fourth
programme goes. II will cost 35O, 900
10 provide all the fun.
As usual the biggest show will he at
tho Ci,y Hall. II will be in three parts.
beginning with the parade. L. is expected
,nat there will he 10, 900 men. women and
children ins'his. Forming az Fraunces's
ton read his Farewell Address, the line
Of March will bc up Broadway TO the City
Hall
The parade will start AT $40. II will
be reviewed AT the city Hall by the Mayor
and his invited guests. Col. John Il.
Holland, a. grand marshal. will lead the
trs, division. al the head of which will
ride the Mayor and members of the Fourth
Of July committee.
Alter the carriages will come a com
pany Of infantry from Governors Island
with band. representatives of the Society
Of the Cincinnati. the Sons Of the Revo-
lmion. the Veteran Corps of the War
Of 1872. with color guard and drum corps,
the Sons of the American Revolution. the
order oi Founders and Patriots and the
Grand Army of the Republic. followed
by d ru'. .pany of the SiXty-ninth Regi-
ncn'. National Guard, New York. in
ckarso Of Capt. p. j. Maguire. This
division viii stop a, Trinity and at ST.
Paul, - pay homage 10 historic graves.
IN" .econd division. led by Lieut. Charles
} Mn"rn. will consist of city employees.
Then VII come the third division. con-
,l-'.ug of the Parade Of All Nations.
which made such hi, last year. Col.
v l. II. Washington will head This unique
acgrrga on. II will include n company
of l'lsh bagpipes. ten companies of tho
Gaelic Society in football costume, Mo-
hawk and Seneca Indians, New York
Turn Vorein. two companies of the Young
Greek Association in costume with band.
Chinese societies with flag of the new
Chinese Republic. Scotch highlandcrs
with hagpipes. Finanders. Hawaiians.
fii" and Drum Corps of Our Lady of
Soacc. delegation from Hebrew Orphan
Asylum. Italian societies. Hungarian
eocicti"s. Turn Vercin. Federation of
Oriental Hebrews and tn, Young Peoples
League for International Federation.
In all thirty nationalities will be repre-
scn'ai
The exercises at tho City Hall will
include an invocation by Bishop Charles
s Burch. addresses by the Mayor, Presi-
dent McAneny and Comptroller Prender-
gas' the reading OF the Declaration of
Independence by tol. Washington and
al Grafton 10y Jacob 4. Cantor. As soon
Ih'sa are over thcre will be exercises
az the Nathan Hale statue. which has
been placed in front OF the City Hall
Col Henry W. knight will deliver the
ord'lon.
Th. third part OF the City Hall celebr;i-
tion will occur at = p. NJ, when there will
take place the patriotic song rally ar
ranged by Prof. Henry T. Fleck. A quar-
'et composed of Marie Stoddaro, So
prsuo; Mary Jordan. ccntralto: John
Young. tenor. and Grant Odell. bass.
will sing ell Of the patriotic songs and
every one in the park will be asked TO
accompanied by band Of fory-fve
pieces
Tho illumination of the park will s'lrpass
anything ever seen before. Thousands
" electric lights and Japanese lanterns
viii convert the park into a fairyland.
m" drcora, ions are the work of the Edi-
toA company.
All Of inc boroughs will be illuminated
,hls evening ~ part of the programme.
In addition there will he scores of fire.
WORKS displays provided by the com
mt'"", THIS will take place at r. NJ
wi hn At Battery Park. atharinc slip
ard Cherry street. Corlears Hook Park.
lWupklns square Park. the park foot
"f East Seventeenth street. st. Gabriels
p.rh, on Fifty-ninth street between
fi,' avenue and Avenue A. John Jay
Par., Washington Bridge. Colonial
PARK a. 2Hh st rect and Lexington avenue
AID - Mary's Park.
Their" viii be displays also at the fol-
LOWING places: 2lsth street and White
IhlrS avenue, 23Uh street ana White
Plans avenue, West chester Square.
Amethyst street near Morris Park avenue,
cry Island Crotona Park. Macombs
BAN Park. ST James Park. Clarernont
PARK, Echo Park. in front of Borough
H@ll. Brooklyn; Manhattan Bridge Plaza,
!g'"v Park Greene avenue between
Mary and Tompkins avenues. Sunset
Park. carroll Park. Eastern Parkway
ami Bedford avenue. Brooklyn baseball
grounds ~ junction of Johnson. knicker-
hooker and Porter avenues; McCarren
l.rn Blshwick Park. Irving Park, on
Broadway and Throop avenue, Terrace
Iarn. Astoria, l.. l.; Ridgewood. Corona.
Pushing, Jamaica. Woodhavcn and at
t'lr u,Ao"- ON Staten Island.
ih"r" viii he many local celebrate ions
a. ~" old fashioned Fourth kind. Over
~ ~" East Side II committee headed by
I's"' Barond"s- and DR.. Henry Mosko-
VIZ Ia, Eud ONT II programme for Seward
a'i Hamilton Fish parks for the morning
"Nd evening and exercises Ia many schools
~ ~" afternoon. Henry, Rivington.
Ntui streets and the Bowery are to be
dominated There will he an Irish cele-
i.'l'n IN Celtic Park including athletic
" H'"-'s No less than forty athletic
'n'', Iav" been arranged m all ~ part
~ '' "''l'AI programme.
bftut p Tomb "a woman will have the
I-' h'I.u Of reading the Declaration Of
l'"''l d"uc" at the morning exercises.
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