Omaha daily bee., 1915-07-06
CHILDREN MAKING
THE EAGLE SCREAM
West Harvey Street Youngsters
Stage and Garry Out Details of
Safe and Sane Fourth.
HAVE PARADE AND FIREWORKS

A safe and sane Fourth. also
4 noiseless, was designed, managed and
carried out by Riddles residing on
West Harvey street and Dewey av-
enue. between Thirty-third and
/ Thirty-fifth streets. The program in
/ cluded a daylight parade, which the
neighborhood voted outclassed any
think King Ak-Sar-Ben and his
/ minions have yet produced. A
lighted lantern drill, in which fifty
children participated was held at 8
o'clock last evening.
Every home along the blocks in the
district is sally hung with flags and
bunting. and a lane has been formed of
! two rows OF flags all along Harvey
street. Ice cream galore was provided
| by fond parents Immediately following
the children's parade, and picnic lunches
on the lawns were feature OF the
neighborhood.
This is the fourth year that West Har-
neyites have carried out the safe and
sane Fourth" propaganda, but this is
the first time the children have under
taken the celebration. Their elders will
manage the fireworks display tonight
Eligibility requirements entail a prom
Use to give UP all noisy, harmful fire
, crackers ana firearms
Ronald Gladstone was the only boy in
the neighborhood who preferred the old
time Fourth of July celebration, but last
reports from his sister Ethel were that
b., oil Of he
ton were beginning to tell and that the
boy was weakening.
Called by the BuEIc.
At o'clock in the morning reveille was
sounded by Kenneth Norton, whose bugle
notes called all the children TO the George
T. Nickel home, where the floats for the
day light parade. which was in the nature
Of a peace pageant, were decorated. The
parade started from this point.
No to be daunted by the fact that the
Liberty bell is the center OK a large
Independence day celebration in Phil
adelphia today and therefore could not
be feature of the West Harvey parade,
! Eugene Lawson entered a miniature
Liberty bell, a replica of the original
even to the celebrated crack, in the
parade, mounted on his roller coaster.
float, also mounted on a roller coaster.
The float was banked with cannon balls,
which on distribution proved to be rubber
balls for the children.
The Ship of State" Artie Coxs toy
yacht, was thanked by sailors and sailor
esses attlred in MILDLY costume. Mrs.
| George Nickel was called upon in this
connection to decide the delicate point of
I -I.-sH-
and had not MILDLY blouses rather be sub
stituted?
The Ship OF State carried giant fire
crackers filled with candy which were
distributed as favors.
The aerop!ane float bore mounted
airship, from which dozens of toy ball
| looms for the children were suspended.
Three-year- Mary Hartman perched
in her baby carriage and draped in the
! Stars and Stripes. was intended to call
up the memory of Betsey Ross.
There was an Indian wigwam. inhabi-
| ted by a brave and his squaw, Dorthy
| Norton and Kathleen Herdman; numer-
Gus cowboys, clowns, ETC., but no SOL
diers. This was a peace parade and they
were tabooed.
| Marcella Foster. rne peace fairy. was I'm
fairy costume, decorated with red, white
and blue. Devah Clark. Jane Lowe,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Titus Lowe;
/ Katherine Cox, Catherine Coad and
other babies, too small to march In the
parade, were wheeled in their carts,
which were gaily decorated for the oc-
casion.
! Rudyard Norton was an Impressive
/ Uncle Sam, Elizabeth Clark and Jeanette
Wilcox were beautiful Columbus. and
Virginia Herdman an attractive Goddess
/ CT Liberty.
/ Byron Hastings had moved out OF the
neighborhood but was eager to partic-
! ipate, 30 he rode his red white and blue
festooned bicycle i'm the parade. Edward
and Richard Westbrook, Laurence Moore
Ralph Thrane. Edward Hall the flag
bearer; Edward. Edna Elizabeth and
Margaret Carnal. Jean and Lucille Nc
Grath, Alice McCutcheon. Madeline Yard,
Louise Thrane and Vivian Frances. &C
companied the various floats and repre-
sented the different states i'm the union
! Five-year-old George E. Nickel, jr., fur
! nished the music for the parade II was a
small Victrola mounted on a coaster and
dispensed patriotic airs throughout the
| march.
1 ""SS -4NhSi anu 'Nuilel ldru are IN
/ charge OF the lantern drill, which will
furnish the evenings entertainment, the
climax to he fine display OF fireworks
Frank j. Norton. chairman of the cele-
bration in former years; Mrs. Norton and
Mrs. George T.. Nickel have listened to
the childrens woes all during the process
I of preparation for the big event and
they, with Edward Getten, assisted in the
opportionment Of the ice cream and
Goodies.