New-York tribune., 1916-07-03
,bsence of City's Soldiers
VIII Intensity Patriotic
Exercises of Day.
M FIRECRACKERS
IN CELEBRATIONS
,o,iou Pictures TO Give Thrills
4, Sane Holiday, Whose Noise
Makers Will Be Bands.

V,n York's Fourth % July celebra-
.,.morrow will be series Of com
..,r celebrations. each one a mod
-.,,s version Of the old village
,.A-,.ion. The modernized version
..,rs.s the giant crackers, toy can
80. and other noise makers which
..,,,s the youth Of the village st
- and sent not few Of them TO
-! ,oon afterwsrd with damaged fin
-, hair and eyebrows.
i-,.,sd Of the din there will be
Ian PICTURES. But the oratory Of
i, old.fsshioned Fourth remains, as
s.., he band concert Every park and
,.-,-,. even every eongested district
.,. hss neither square nor park. will
ave is patriotic address. its concert
,-3 4, motion pictures. Many Of them
I'm include folk dances. Boy Scout
-,rruvres and singing. Soms Of the
..l,brstions will be psseants present
y historical events.
Mllitia Psrsdes To Be Missing.
last one harmless feature Of the
-rl,r. Fourth will be lacking
,,-,ds Of the National Gusrdsmeh.
=. city has learned this year that its
,.l3.u are no longer parade SOL
a.-,s BY their very absence the Ma
s,-al Guardsmen Of New York will
attribute to the new spirit % patriot
,- which will dominate the city's
Fourth
Every one Of the thousands Of ban
,,-s with which the city will be deco
u.sd and every futtering streamer of
.sr,ing Will proclaim this new spirit
.7S Every flag. every streLmer. is
3. b, y,6. white and blue In former
vsr, the municipal Gag and colors have
80, used 70 decorate public buildings.
This wear Charles K. Lamb. chairman
. the decoration committee Of the
Vsvor's safe and Sane Fourth Com
-.,,ee. asks that only the national flag
s-d colors be used.
This year" said Mr Lamb yester-
isv. there is only one issue before
.ss country. and it IS not a matter Of
he cities; 10 is a matter OF the united
ra.on-America 20 the front and
America first
Big Celebration at Stadium.
One Of the elaborate celebrations will
bs a. III. City College stadium. After
rusc and addresses by George Fred
ercs Eunz and George Gordon Battle,
Howard Kyle, impersonsting Lincoln,
viii review the activities of the negro
race. as represented by men. women and
children IN costume Borough Presi-
den, Marks will speak. and Boy Scout
troops Of the Young Mems Hebrew As
socauon Will present The Pioneer
Spirit 10 the Citizen Of Tomorrow. ."
The National Committee on Prisons Will
present a tsb.sau emblematic Of the
prison reform movement.
Patriotism and preparedness mark
'le programme arranged by the Naca-
ton Association. az SO West Thirty
ninth Street Among those who will
axe part are Mayor Mitchell, Colonel
Roosevelt. George W Wickersham, Po-
Ice Commissioner Woods. DR.. Katha-
n1e B. Davis, Thomas Mott Osborne,
Fr. Commissioner Adamson, J. II.
Htaren and Borough President Marks.
Under the direction OF the Bronx
Open Forum there will be celebrations
a 10 a. n in Union Square. and at s
n. in the Crotona Athletic Stadium.
frank P. Walsh will speak at Union
SQUARE AZ booth in the square in
i'rsction will be given 20 those who
desire 10 become citizens.
New Tetanus Cure Ready.
Flag raising al the Block House,
Central Park, will, as usual, usher in
ias Fourth. One Of the most elaborate
norning celebrations will be in Wash
1gon Square at 10 o'clock At s in
.s evening the Greenwich Village As
seiasOn will take possession Of the
''uare. Most of the neighborhood
n!sbrations will be al s p. m.
Germsn-Americans will celebrate the
1y with a volkfest to be held to-day
iii tomorrow az Harmony Park, Gras-
rsr, Staten Island The principal