The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-07-06
THOUSANDS TO OTHER CITIES
Two Thousand Attend Old Settlers
Celebration at Paddock Lake and OBJ
servances of the Day at Other Lakes
Draws Crowd-MaIy to Racine.

Kenosha had safe and sane observ-
apce of the Fourth of July on Tuesday
without a single accident being report
ed. Physicians reported four or five
minor injuries to boys and girls who
got too familiar with fireworks, but
not case was received at the hospital
and no injury was sufficiently severe
to warrant a report to the police de-
partment. The only Fourth of July
fire took place just after eight O'Clock
in the morning when the department
was called to house owned by H. ..
Crook on Lester Court. Fireworks had
set fire to- the roof of the building and
a hole was burned in the roof, causing
a loss of possibly fifty dollars.
Kenosha was largely deserted Tues
day and thousands of people from this
city went to other cities where notable
observance of the day had been arrang
ed for. Hundreds of Kenosha people
motored to Lake Geneva to attend the
water carnival on Tuesday afternoon
and thousands went to Racine to at
tend the closing day of the Racine
home coming which ended in a blaze
of fire on Tuesday night. Trains
out of the city on Tuesday morning
were loaded to the platforms and
every lake resort in Kenosha county
had a record hgsa - day.
Two thousand people attended the
annual celebration of the day under
the auspices OF the Old Settlers Club
at Paddock's Lake. The people were
late in coming and it was not until late
III the afternoon that the celebration
there was well underway. There were
bands and orchestras and dancing in
the pavilion and a ball game for those
inclined to sport. Happy children
playing along the lake made up big
feature of the observance at Paddocks
Lake. 1t closed with big dance in
the evening at which more than eight
hundred people were present At Sill
yer Lake there was a celebration of
the day with many people present
In Kenosha the only recognized cele-
bration was the reception to the FFnew
citizens held at the council chamber
on Tuesday morning. There were
hundreds of displays Of fireworks in
the city on Tuesday night, the most
notable being at the grounds of the
Kenosha Country Club. Three thous-
and people gathered about the club
grounds for the annual display
Roads leading out of Kenosha were
simply "black' with automobiles on
Tuesday and the biggest expenditure
for the celebration of the Fourth by
Kenosha people was for gasoline. They
went in all directions fighting their
way through the dust. Racine proved
the mecca for most of the Kenosha
people who went out of town. They
started out of Kenosha to Racine in
the early morning and until midnight
the concrete roads saw one procession
Of automobiles going and coming. It
was estimated that fully FIVE thousand
Kenosha people were in Racine for the
display of fireworks Tuesday night.
Hundreds of Kenosha people found
picnicing places at Larrabee's Bridge,
at Petrifying Springs and at other
groves along the roads.
The bathing beaches in Kenosha drew
their full quota of patronage on the
Fourth and it was one of the first real
days at the places.
cit hasn't been as quiet in Kenosha
on the Fourth Of July in twenty years., ("
said an old police officer "FThe streets
were deserted most Of the day and !
it looked as if everybody had gone
out of town.