Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-07-10

great columns of fire high in the air and
falling back to the earth in jewel-like
showers. The display was the greatest
ever seen here.
Shortly after dark. the display started
with grand illumination of the exhibit
ton grounds. Thirty-six powerful GRIM
son and green lights threw brilliant
glow over the entire surroundings. After
the illumination. which lasted about ten
minutes. set piece with crossed flags,
bearing the inscription Welcome Home -
was shown.
From then on volleys Of serpent and
gold rain rockets, butterfly shells. bat
teries of 100 colored stars, purple and
gold bombs, followed one another IN
quick succession. The shells, filling the
air with torrents of liquid fire and flame.
made a dazzling and beautiful effect. In
the explosion of the repeating shells,
each shell made five to eight breaks,
each break showing different color.
the whole interminglins high above the
lake.
| The display closed with the bursting
of the largest shells, and set piece with
the inscription Goodnight"
The committee in charge of this part
of the days program was composed OF
C. II. Jones, chairman, Carl ID. Stock
, well. James f. eastman. J. NJ. Carroll
william Louther. Samuel Brisson. II. C.
Wheelock and Mrs. J. H. Middlebrook
j. e. Tully represented Marten e. Wells
| in carrying out the display.
INCIDENTS OF THE DAY
Just before the parade was to start
chestnut horse owned by C. W. Wright
of 1870 North Prospect street became
! frightened on Pearl street above Winoo.
XII avenue by the exploding of f1recrack-
er and bolted. The harness broke and
| the horse dashed down Winooski avenue
at good rate of speed until it came
| to College street and turned down
| towards Church street. There was only a
a very narrow entrance from College
street, autos blocking the way, and the
equine could not make the narrow way
and crashed into the rear of Ford tour.
ing car owned by Perley Hunter of West.
ford. The animal was going with such
speed as to bend the left side of the ton.
neau in several inches and to break oper
the steel body of the machine. cushions
etc. There was no one In the machine
at the time. the party having left only
about two minutes before. The horse
was badly cut and was thrown to the
street by the force of the blow. Pedestri
ans assisted the horse to rise after which
he was taken to Smiths livery stable
on Mechanic street.
! Two boy scouts on bicycles assisted the
chief marshal of the day, Major Fl. Mel
son Jackson, in the work of organizing
! the parade, acting as orderles to the
various sections
Miss Constance Wheeler, daughter OF
Or. J. B. Wheeler, carried tine flag at the
head of the Red Cross contingent in the
parade. Miss Wheeler was in the over.
seas service of the Red Cross for num-
Der of months.
There were 40 gold stars in the flag
which was carried by the ex-service mer
| in the parade. This represents the num-
her of men from this vicinity who lost
their lives in the world war. A handsome
wreath from Green Mountain Chapter
Daughters Of the American Revolution
was presented yesterday and placed over
the tablet of the honor roll for the mer
who lost their lives in the service. The
service flag containing the gold stars was
also hung over the head Of the table,
] following the exercises.
OF course it was hot. Who ever knew
of Fourth of July to be otherwise? And
isn't heat necessary for a typical indie.
pendence day? More than that. it was
the hottest day thus far of what has
started out to be the hottest summer
in years. unless one makes partial ex-
ception of another day last month when
the mercury In the tube also reached
the "a mark. The morning started out
fairly cool but as the sun climbed nigh
err and higher the little column in the
glass went along also, until the maxi
mum was reached at five O'Clock In the
afternoon. But there were no heat pro-
! trations, so far as reported to the po-
lice. and nothing more serious than some
degree of physical discomfort. depending
on the temperament of the individual
occurred.