New Britain herald., 1915-06-03
$500 NEEDED FOR
FOURTH OF JULY
Chamber Of Commerce Selects
Program for Fireworks

New Britain's Fourth of July cele-
bration will be as good as in former
years and will contain enough orig
inal features to lend variety to the
general program. The public amuse-
ment commission will direct the gem
era1 athletic program and the band
concert of the afternoon and the
Chamber Of Commerce will be re-
sponslble for the band concert and
the fireworks display of the evening.
The concert will last from to
O'Clock and the fireworks will last for
at least an hour
The sum of 5000 is needed for the
display and concert of the evening
and this is practically the sum that
has been expended in former years
for this purposes A meeting of the
entire committee will be held tomor-
row night when further arrangements
will be made.
Fireworks Contract Awarded.
At the meeting of the general COM
mittee on the celebration last night
the contract for the fireworks display
was given to the Connecticut Fire
works company. The general COM
mittee is composed of ]. r. Andrews,
chairman; G.. III Dyson, William Cow
lishaw. J. s. Bennett and g. r. At
water, and the following sub-comnit-
tee has been appointed to assist in
making the arrangements and in rails
ing the funds: J. M. Marsland, q.
*. Macauley. ]. A. Anderson, James
III. Curtin. j. Az Erickson, p. X.
Rogers, F. w. Pelton, G. p. Spear,
A T. Hancock, G.. S. Neumann, Oil
Yer Judd, Thomas Devine, f.. d.
A u u Il
Stone; A. It. Eichstaedt, L. r. Tay-
lor, III Brown, r c. Twitchell.
New Britain is one of the New
England cities which has retained
the old plan of celebrating the 4th.
that of making it community ar
fair. In this respect the city has
been remarkably successful. the
attendance at the fireworks displays
in the past nas been about 10000
and such results are, in the opinion
of the chamber of comerce, worth
working for.
The program of fireworks furnish
ed by the Connecticut Fireworks COM
pany includes 80 display shells,
twenty amusement shells, and thirty
set pieces. The program includes
novelties in the form of animals and
comic pieces. The fireworks will
begin with the discharge of six spe-
cial bombs and fourteen large can
non shells which can be heard a great
distance. The set pieces include i'll
lun1inants, g. flying eagle. a Chinese
fan. novelty fish, tree of liberty, rain
bow wheel, kicking mule, Aztec foun-
tain, coat of arms, signal lighthouse,
star of America, wonderful waterfalls,
comedy bicycle, basket of Jewels, pea
cock, anchor emblem, cannon in ac-
ton, jeweled spray, jardiniere OF
flowers, elephant, new moon, first
quarter, half moon, three-quarters,
full moon the last FIVE set pieces
form one of the best arrangements
of the season., Uncle Sam and the
star spangled banner, the setting |
sun.
The shells will be discharged i'm |
the following order: Northern star,
the wild jack, golden cloud, prismatic !,
fountain, willow tree rocket, cascade |
rocket, colored parachute rocket,
prize comet searchlight rocket star
rocket, red, white and blue, japanese
jardiniere, lightning and thunder.
twinkling star, green electric shower,
yellow electric shower, red electric
shower, parachute rocket, the golden
spider, shooting star-rocket, pearl
shower, colored aerolte, peacock
plumes, the eagle screams, golden but
teries, the American manderin, spe-
ciaf discharges, Aurora Borealis, Nj
agara battery, geysers. special Per-
sian bombs discharging to show Per-
sian rug in many different shades,
telescope repeating bomb, the grand
finale consisting of discharge of $50