New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-03
.FESTOONS OF LIGHT
SANE FOURTH FEATURE
Hosting of Flag at Old Block
house at Sunrise to Start
Celebration.
GREATEST EVER, is PLAN
War of 1912 in Moving Pictures
at Parks, Speaking at City
Hall and Flag Raising at
Battery on Programme.

Electric displays at various points
throughout the city, baseball games, ath-
letic meets, and moving picture shows,
telling the story Of the Revolution, from
Lexington to Yorktown. will go to make
to-morrow's Fourth of July celebration
the most extensive In the history Of the
city.
The day will be ushered in by a sunrise
meeting at the Blockhouse, near 10th
street, in Central Park. with the raising
of the Stars and Stripes and the reading
OF the Declaration of independence. At
10 o'clock will come the official borough
celebration at City Hall. at which Mayor
Gaynor and DR.. J. Soyeda, of the Asso-
ciated Chambers of Commerce of Japan,
are to speak. other features will be the
reading OF special message from DR..
Lauro Muller, Minister for Foreign At
fairs Of Brazil. and addresses by William
A. Prendergast, the Controller and Bor-
ough President George McAneny.
Through the courtesy Of Lorillard Spen-
Ger, commissioner Of the Boy Scouts OF
America for New York. one hundred Of
the boys are to act as guards and attend
ants. Mr. Spencer said yesterday that
the boys were eager for some form of
public service. and that he thought the
Fourth was a good day to give them
chance.
During the celebration at City Hall the
Sons of Liberty will raise a flag In Bat
terry Park at the spot where the British
nailed their ensign on evacuation day,
previous to embarking.
Patriotic celebrations at Fort Washing
ton and Carl schurz parks will take
place also at 10 O'Clock. At the first sew
eral aldermen are expected TO speak, and
the singing at the latter place Is to be
conducted by Bohemian singing societies.
Other patriotic exercises will be held at
10 o'clock at the Washington Heights
Hebrew Orphan Asylum and at the
Pennsylvania ferry house at 23d street
and the North River. 1t is expected that
suffragette addresses will be made.
At Washington Square, Hamilton Fish
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be Of more extensive nature, those at
Mount Morris including a salute of TWEEN
ty-one guns by Battery A and a pageant
by Iroquois Indians. The roof garden on
the Kessler Theatre will be the scene at
1890 Of purely Hebralc celebration.
At noon the guns op Governors Island
will boom their salute of forty-eight
guns.
Band concerts will be held at Morning
side and Fort Washington parks and
greensboro Bridge at 4 o'clock. A sec
ond Hebraic celebration will take place
at the Kessler Theatre at that time.
The evening programme will include a
band concert and Examinations at Grants
Tomb beginning at o'clock, and songs
and Nominations at Chelsea Square. Al
Hudson Park moving pictures Will give
the surrender of Yorktown. and at ABB
ington Square they will tell the story
OF Barbara Frietchie and various Civil
and Revolutionary War battles.
Tompkin's Square. Seward and Column
bus parks will also be illuminated and
will afford concerts and patriotic ad-
dresses. Practically all of the other
parks In the city will be the scene OF
band concerts and Nominations. The
Mall. in Central Park. will be decorated
with Japanese lanterns and festoon OF
electric lights.
The Mayors committee was the guest
OF the New York Edison Company last
night, in a tour of inspection. taking in
the features OF illumination in Manhattan
that have been contributed free to the
city The party, in ten automobiles, WIS.,
tied Chelsea Park. the Old Pennsylvania
Station, the city Hall. the Soldiers and
Sailors Monument and Grants Tomb.
These are only few Of the fifteen
places in Manhattan and The Bronx that
will blaze forth with 1900 electric bulbs.
giving a total burst OF 10000 candle pow
er between 7:3O p. m. and midnight on the
evenings of July 4. . and 6.
The City Hall and Bronx Borough Hall
will glitter in outline. Washington Arch
and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument
get some treatment and Grants Tomb
Is set out by four hundred lights.
Most Of the parks. including Seward,
Lambert, Thomas jefferson, St. James,
St Mary's and Mckinley Square have
been festooned with streamers OF lights.
In the party of inspection last night
were DIR. j. Soyeda and b. Kaniya, OF
the Toxic Chamber of Commerce.
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