The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-06
BY MARY BAEN WRIGHT

road and mining and cannery men de- part; still stand the platforms at the corner of B and c streets to remind us that another Fourth has passed into Cordovas history. And the air has been filled with music from the Philippine string orchestra, punctured by the squawking of toy balloons and the boom of cannon crackers; and the gasboats that have swarmed the bay have got up steam and put-putted anything but silently away. By boat or train, back to their daily work has one the crowd of visitors that has surged up and down Cordova's Broad way (First Avenue) for the last three days, and their holiday long looked forward to, is now long to be looked back upon.
 Some crowd! Prosperous business men, old sourdoughs from the inter- for, coyly peeping out from thickets of whiskers, dapper Filipinos, show ing the latest modes, matrons lead ing children, pretty girls dressed in red, white and blue, whole families of dark-skinned natives, Boy Scouts, sailors, fishermen, sphinx-faced Chin ese, tourists from the two flag-flut- tering steamers in port-a typical Alaskan crowd.
 Straddled as it was, over Sunday, our celebration really amounted to three Fourths
 Somebody has said: "A few years ago we observed the Sabbath; now we spend Sunday" We spent Sun- day-and the Fourth!
 The first event of the day was the shooting contest, which took place at the city dock at 10:30 a. m. Several of the Fort Liscum delegation wore sharpshooter medals and could no doubt have given a brilliant exhibi- tion of skill, but on account of their emi-professionalism they were con- sidered ineligible. Targets had been planted out on the tide flats. H. I. Call carried off the first prize of $2O by securing six bulls-eyes out of ten shots.
 The next events-the reading of the Declaration of Independence, and the firing of the National salute, had been put in charge of the members of the American Legion. Neither of these scheduled events took place, so that the fundamental purpose of the cele- bration seems to have been overlook ed. But if the soldiers were enjoying their holiday too we'll to remember their part of the program We can readily pardon them by remembering how substantially they had show their loyalty to America in their readiness to make the supreme sacrifice on the fields of France.
 By 2:30 great crowd had as-- sembled at the ball park to see the Radio boys cross bats with our town team. From the time the first inning was chalked up-six to noth- ing for Cordova-it was plain that the game was listing heavily. The navy boys were plainly outclassed, which was no wonder, considering that they had no place to practice. Not broken spar or a life preserver was left to mark the spot where they went down.
 The boat race at five o'clock damned the city dock with spectators. The committee in charge-A. J.. Mo- Cornell, Dr. Chase, and Harry Atchi- son, in Captain Blacks Lily" gave the signal for some fifteen gasboats to scoot off down the bay towards Hawkins Island. When they had gone about a mile AtchisOn lowered the flag as a signal to return. On the home stretch they were required to spin around the target post which test. The finish was spectacular, Wm. Urquhart who had apparently first place cinched, was nosed out at the very last by 8 clever maneuver on the part of Taylor, who cut in ahead in turning the corner and won by four or five feet.
 Howls and squeals from the throng on First Avenue at eight o'clock told how the tug-of-war was progressing. Eight pile-drivers hooked their heels over the c1eats and glared at eight Liscum boys facing them. The army men at last got the upper hand, the long end of the rope and the big end of the money.
 Monday brought an almost contin- uous fine drizzle-just enough to lay