The New York herald., 1922-07-05
CONCERTS, PARADES
AND GAMES FILL 9TH
Patriotic Speeches in All
Languages Teach Anew
Meaning of Day.
DANCING BIG FEATURE
Fully $4,000 of Fair Sex in
Song Rallies and Flag
Drills.
WAR STATUE UNVEILED
Toy Gifts From Polish Chill
dren for 1000 Orphans in
Hebrew Asylum.

The firecracker-wth scattered and
fitful revolts against exile-was de-
throned yesterday as the emblem OF
the Fourth and in it's place patriotic
concerts, athletic games and folk
dances held the attention Of the chill
dren, while parades and speeches pro-
vided recreation and enjoyment for
the elders who remained in town.
The threatening and overcast sky
that followed the early morning rain
did not mar the days pleasures, but
on the contrary mitigated the usual
Fourth of July heat and made the
parks and Fairgrounds pleasant re-
treats. The wealthy sections of the
city were virtually deserted, but those
who did not go away found plenty
of amusement provided by the city
bureaus and the civic organizations
which keep alive the independence
Day spirit.
Musical programs played a promi-
nent part in the days activities, there
being not fewer than one hundred and
twenty-five concerts in various parks
and recreational centers. Athletic con-
tests held second place in popularity,
the municipal Fairgrounds committee
holding meets in thirty-nine public
parks with an estimated entry of
10000 boys and girls. In seven public
baths youthful swimmers indulged in
all lyin6c of onnafio cports
Folk dances. song rallies and flag
drills were the feminine part of the
populations contribution to the celebra-
ton. about fifty thousand women and
girls participating in these ceremonies.
Evidence that New York took its
Fourth sanely this year was shown by
the comparatively few alarms of fire.
Two Parndes Are. Large.
The knights of Columbus and the
Leag of Foreign Born Citizens staged
separately the two largest parades in
the city, and the X. of c. also held a
celebration on the campus of Fordham
University. Members of the American
Legion of Honor. veterans OF foreign
wars and the Catholic Boy Scouts took
part in the X. of c. parade from the
Sherman statue in Fifth avenue to the
Mall in Central Park, where addresses
were made by DR.. James ]. Walsh of
F'crdham University and Judge jeremiah
Z. Sullivan.
New immigrants were conspicuous in
the East Side parade, which began at
Grand street and East Broadway and
ended in front of a reviewing stand at
Second avenue and Tenth street About
a thousand persons in all, including vet
Grams of foreign wars, and Hebrew Boy
Scouts took part in this celebration and
heard addresses in their native lam
guages on the meaning and ideals Of
Independence Day.
Something unique in the manner of
celebrating the Fourth was the presen-
tation to 1000 children of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum. Amsterdam avenue and
136th street. of gifts made by the chill
dren of Poland for their friends in Amer
lea In gratitude for the relief work since
the war. Col. J. w. Kruger of the Ameri-
can Relief Administration, distributed
the Fourth of July presents" consist
ing of dolls, miniature wooden plows,
carved birds and shrines that had come
all the way from Warsaw
These children, who wanted to show
their appreciation of the relief work
dcne in Poland, conceived the idea OF
making toys for American children out
of what little material they had" ex-
plained Col. Kruger. I'VE have dis.
tributed several tons of these toys al
ready"