Palisadian., 1920-07-10
PALISADES fine INTERPRETATION
OLA VILLAGE INDEPENDENCE DAY:
PARADE, SPEECHES AND FIREWORKS

splendid game. In fact it was due to
his fine and effective work in the box
that the younger boys were unable to
score more. He was particularly effec-
tive during the latter part of the game.
He had good back stop in Mr. Blank
who was an army catcher during the
war. Mr.. Perkins of the married men
played dandy third base. George
Clark held his own at short stop and G.
l. Philips was a good second baseman,
while the ancient Mr.. Logan tried to
hold down first base but the sun being
in his eyes he made two bad plays
although he got two good hits during
the game out of four times at bat.
George Beckman was there with the
goods when it came to hitting and
really won the game with his bat.
The younger boys felt quite chagrined
that they had to lose but they were
good sports and took their disappoint-
ment properly. Young Vanhousen of
Cliffside High pitched for the Younger
boys and did remarkably well. Leo
nard Lane was the back STOP The
outstanding player of the smaller boys
or rather it should be said the two
outstanding players were Mcdonald
and Mccarthy, the former at third, and
the latter at short. Both of these boys
are fine natural ball players and should
have, great future on the diamond.
Mcdonald is particularly bright and
promising>youngster and Mccarthy no
less so. Marty Lyon put up a good
game at third as well.
The really great event of the day
was the fireworks display in the eve
ming which began promptly at nine
fifteen. Yurillo has already given
Palisade number of firework displays
but never anything to compare with
this last one. A gentleman who has
seen some of the most beautiful fire.
Asvnssk n London sassf Rarie ssait3 ~tfaat
he never saw anything to even equal
what was given at Palisade Monday
night by Yurillo. The fireworks dis
play consisted of thirty-one numbers
besides a number of extra pieces not
on the program. 1t is safe to say that
no one in northern New Jersey ever
saw such wonderful exhibition of
pyrotechnics as was given by Yurillo
on this occasion. An interesting fea-
ture of the set pieces was the appro-
priateness of the names of each. The
locomotive, for instance, was almost as
fine an exhibition of an imitation of
locomotive as one could imagine. The
portrait of George Washington and the
American flag both exhibited at the
same time, brought forth salvOs of
applause and loud footing of the auto
mobile horns The flag was made
movable on its staff and was really
creditable performance. The exhibit
.tiOn of aerial bombs was bewilderingly
beautiful and the last piece, Vesuvius,
in eruption, was wonderful picture of
what is intended to initiate the great
volcano. One of the large and inter-
an accident perhaps, was the firing of
a large parachute bomb. This went
high in the air and the descending
parachute came down in the midst of
the high oak trees behind the display
where it poured forth a silver shower
to the delight Of the audience. The
great piece of the evening was Niagara
Falls, 100 feet long and 20 feet high.
The illumination of this wonderful
piece made it possible to make a snap
shot photograph Of the audience. The
natural amphitheater arrangement of
the grounds makes the Palisade play
ground most desirable place for
fireworks display. Taxing the day as
a whole, it was notable event and
particularly so for village no larger
than Palisade.
The local Committee working with
the Legion were: George E. Clark and
Charles T. Logan. The Committee de-
sires especially to thank the people of
the village for their liberal response
to the appeal for funds to carry on so
notable an exhibition and make the
da, so Joyous for the children.
In the afternoon Mrs. Sibley served
fifteen gallons of ice cream to the
children and visiting people at the
ball game and she says that no ice
cream was ever served to better ad-
vantage or more appreciative people.