The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-07-09
10000 WATCH FIREWORKS
Fifty Automobiles Take Part in Auto
mobile Parade and P. N. Obertin Gets
First Prize Many People Spend Day
at Picnic Grounds About the City.

1t was the safest and sanest eele-
bration of the Fourth of July ever
known in Kenosha and when the last
blaze of the fireworks died out on
Saturday night and thousands of peo-
pie started away from Eichelman park
there was not child in the city on
the hospital list as result of celebrat-
ing. Two or three minor accidents
were reported by the physicians but
in none Of these cases was it neces-
sary to apply bandage and the ply
sicians admitted that it was the quiet
est day they had ever known for the
nation 3 birthday.
The fact that young America got
away with all of his fingers and toes
intact does not mean that Kenosha
did not have "Glorious Fourth. =
1t was one of the greatest holidays
ever known in Kenosha. The weather
man did his part and the twenty five
thousand people Of the city did the
rest. There were picnics and family
l6uuAOup1 GHOuodHuo lcLb Ou6 ClbJ anu
went to the lake resorts by train and
automobile, hundreds sought the pleas
ure grounds about the city and many
spent the day at home with happy re-
unions of families, many people com
ing from other cities.
The celebration given under the
auspices of the Boy Scouts met all of
the expectations of the promoters. In
the morning the automobile parade
was featured and it proved to be the
most notable thing of the kind ever
seen in the city, Led by County Clerk
Russell H. Jones the procession of some
fifty automobiles all gayly decorated
covered line of march which touched
nearly every part of the city. In adj
dition to the half hundred decorated
automobiles there were many motor
cycles and trailing was the division
given over to horse drawn vehicles.
Flags and bunting were much in evil
dence in the decorations of the various
vehicles and the parade was revel
of patriotism. Many owners of cars
had given lot of pains to the decora-
tion Of them and this made the parade
notable. The first prize was won by
Mr.. and Mrs. P. N. Obertin with an
automobile decorated with flowers and
ferns over which had been hung
canopy Of festoons of red, white and
blue. The second prize was won by
Charles Turnock who had one of the
most beautiful automobiles ever seen
in parade in Kenosha. 1t was com
pletely covered by wonderfully
wrought lavender peoples. Miss Jean
cite Robinson who had car decorated
with daisies won the third prize.
The prizes for motorcycle riders
were won by Mr.. and Mrs. Fritz Rudy,
David Owen and Paul Hilderbrandt.
The prizes for the horse drawn
vehicles were awarded to The Keno
sha Sanitary Dairy, Charles Pfennig
and Max Ladewig, The bicycle prize
was given to Little Uncle Sam. 2
There was no set celebration of the
Fourth for the afternoon and humid
reds Of Kenosha people went to Ra-
cine to attend the performances of
the Ringing Brothers circus and many
went out into the lake on the excur-
sions.
Charles Wilmer, the aviator, furn-
fshed his share of the entertainment
for the day for early Saturday morn
ing he made three flights off Kenosha
and at eleven clock he sailed awav
to the south headed for Chicago. He
left Kenosha just ten. minutes after
eleven o'clock and a telephone mes
sage announced his arrival in CHICAGO
at noon.
The display of fireworks in Eichel-
man Park in the evening won great
applause No less than ten thousand
people thronged the park and the
streets surrounding it. Hundreds of
people came from Racine for the big
display and the streets, were so filed
With automobiles that they were i'm
oassable. The set pieces arranged for
his year were unusually good and the
Big flag piece and the Niagara Falls
Won great applause from the immense
Towd, believed by many people to
lave been the largest crowd ever as
embled for any event in Kenosha.
The display of fireworks continued un-
j. liter ten O'Clock.
II was a glorious Fourth from, every
tandpoint. The fire department was
IN the alert from early morning until
ate at night but not once during the
lay were the fremen called into serv-
ce. This is the first time in many
years that Kenosha has passed
through a celebration of the national
birthday without anyone being ser
ously injured and without call from
he ire department. 1t is certain that
xenosha will be for the Sane Fourth
n the future