Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-06
STEELTON OUTDOES
ITSELF ON FOURTH
Two Thousand Men March in Big
Parade; Great Ball Game
Foreign Quarter Celebrates
Steelton outdid itself Yesterday.

Steelton outdid itself yesterday.
Never before in the thirty-five years
OF the busy borough's history was In
dependence Day celebrated in such
rousing manner as yesterday.
Two thousand men marched in the
pig afternoon street parade that fea-
tured the celebration. All the bor-
ough's six fire companies. practically
every fraternal organization and Sc
! cret society and floats representing
every business interest were in line.
Promptly at o'clock the big steam
siren at the Pennsylvania Steel Works
doomed out the signal which set the
line In motion. Through the principal
streets of the town the parade march
ed. Along the curbs thousands of
merry-makers pushed and jostled to
get glimpse of the marching men or
to catch one of the thousands of sam
pies or advertising novelties that were
thrown from the gaily decorated
ioats of the borough's enterprising
head of the parade moved the van
guard began to countermarch.
Parade Big Feature
But the parade was only one of the
big celebrations features. Long be-
fore the sun won its struggle with the
low-hanging clouds and succeeded in
casting its warming rays over the
and preparing for the days activities.
BY 10 O'Clock eight hundred
enthusiastic baseball fans had
tn do battle with the Middletown ag-
gregation for honors IN the Central
Pennsylvania baseball league. Steel
ton lost, the sporting page shows, but
what matters? The crowd saw an ex-
citing game-one of the seasons best
The game was hardly under way
when the borough's Hungarian socie-
ties started a celebration of their own.
Hundreds of folks who didn't climb
the hill to see the baseball game were
entertained by the Hungarians. Their
celebration was in honor of the dedi-
cation of two handsome new silk
| flags.
After the parade finished the cele-
orators had just about enough time to
get to their homes, gulp a little sup
per and return to Cottage Hill, where
Dionlsio Zala's crack Steelton band
played a well-arranged concert pro-
gram at 7.30.
Then the Fireworks
The fireworks display which fol-
lowed was one of the best that was
ever seen in Steelton.
To-day workmen began to remove
decorations and clear up the last
traces of the biggest celebration in
Steelton's history. Members of the
Merchants Association, the organiza-
tion that conceived the idea of a home
celebration, were enthusiastic in their
praise of the success of their affair.
Although there were thousands in
the streets there was no disorder
Burgess Fred Wigfeld had sworn in
six special policemen, who with the
regular force were so successful in
preserving order that not single case
OF laW-breaklng was reported.
The crowd Jared as we'll too so
far as safety was concerned. Only
two accidents were reported during
the entire day and enither of these was
serious Frank Fisher, South Front
street, was burned on the left hand
when a firecracker exploded prema-
turely, and Norman Soulliard, 10
South Second street, was shot in the
left thigh. Both were treated at the
Harrisburg hospital and neither
| wound is serious.