Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-07-01
DESTROYER Wake
HERE ON JULY 9TH
Will be at City Dock for Public
Inspection Instead of the
Nicholson.
TICKETS FOR FREE MOVIES
Will be Given Out at Grammar
School Saturday Afternoon
Big Fireworks Display.
TICKETS FOR FREE MOVIES

The U. 8. destroyer Wake. instead
of the Nicholson, will be on exhibi-
ton here Sunday and Monday next.
July 4 and 5, according to advices
received by Mayor Ferd Garretson
from Brooklyn navy yard officials.
The committee in charge of receiving
the officers and crew held a meeting
last night and outlined a preliminary
program. It has been decided to
distribute tickets to children, admit
ting them to theatres Monday morn
ing at the grammar school. Oother
points Of distribution may be named
at g. meeting of the children's enter
tainment committee tonight. An
nouncement has been made of an
elaborate program for the fireworks
display on the night of July s.
Mayor Garretson announces that
the destroyer Wake is somewhat
smaller than the Nicholson, which
for exhibition on the holiday. The
Nicholson is one of the largest de-
stroyers In the navy department.
The Wake is 290 feet long and It's
extreme breadth is twenty-six feet
and one and half inches. 1t was
built In 1911 by the Fore River
Shipbuilding Company and its speed
Is 1918 knots, showing 1t to be
somewhat more speedy than the
Nicholson. The vessel carries four
officers and eighty-four men. 1t is
likely that arrangements will be
made to tie the craft up at the city
dock, as that Is the request of the
commanding officer, as communicat-
ed by telephone.
The special committee named by
the mayor for receiving officers and
crew of the exhibiting battleship,
outlined an elaborate porgram for
their entertainment at Its initial
meeting in city hall last night. 1t
was held that two officers and about
fifty men would be aboard the craft
while on exhibition here. A dinner
was proposed for the officers. The
remainder of the preliminary pro-
gram would provide for entertaining
the men at baseball game at
Amusement Park, with sending them
an invitation to the State street
mardi gras, inviting them to partic-
ipate In exercises at city hall park
Sunday afternoon, decorating the city
dock, meeting them Saturday after
noon and probably entertaining them
in the Ditmas theatre Saturday
night. There will be final meeting
of the committee to complete the
plans tomorrow night.
All of the Fourth of July celebra-
ton committees are reported to be
working hard. but strenuous efforts
are being exerted by the children's
entertainment committee to render
a list of events which will please the
kiddies to the utmost degree One
of the big features of the day for
them will be the distribution of
badges and Ice cream, and the exhi-
bition of motion pictures IN the
leading theatres of the city. 1t has
been definitely decided TO distribute
tickets for these attractions at the
grammar school. There may be
other places. Details as to all of the
places and time of distribution will
be published in tkz NEWS tomor-
row.
The pyrotechnical displays in the
evening of Monday, July s, will be
elaborate in detail, the committee in
charge reports. The larger of these
will be conducted at the Bluff. 1t
will be opened at 8:15 o'clock and
run for an hour and fifteen minutes,
until $50 o'clock, the committee
states. The salute of twenty-one
artillery guns will be started at 9
o'clock Monday morning. Accom-
these will be daylight
shell, exhibiting an American flag.
The night features Will include
twelve elaborate set pieces and many
other productions. There will be
one device with three hundred
square feet of exhibition space,
lighting up two sides OF a street, |
strong to permit 1t to be
photographed. There will also be |
riple f1fteen-break Toxic bomb,
'preading 1000 feet, together with |
several bomb shells which can be |
leard for eight miles.