Seward daily gateway., 1925-06-12
SEWARD PLANS BIG CELEBRATION
 ON JULY FOURTH
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already suggested boat and canoe races sprints and long distance run ning-including a race to the top of Marathon mOuntain-greased pig race, and many others which will be announced later. In the sport events prizes will be given out to the men, women and children participating.
 Both halls will more than likely be procured for the evening of the 4th. This same committee is in charge of the music and in this connection it will be news to most residents of the city that a band leader, w. J. Armstrong, has been in Seward for three months and at the meeting last evening, attended and very kindly offered his help in organizing the brass band. The music was sent for this morning and will arrive in Sew ard on the next train from Nenana MT. ArmstrOng's former home and where he organized a brass band last year. It was stated there were ample musicians in the city but the music and leader were lacking. Sew ard will have them both before the week is ended and before another week has ended, at least a ten or twelve piece band will have been ere ated.
 The decoration committees duties are to talk up the decorating of all buildings along the main thorough fares; that the colors are displayed prominently in all sections of the city and that shop windows are dress ed up in the holiday colors. The streets of the city are to be decorat- ed
 Several business houses have sig nifled their intention of having floats for the Fourth of July, providing a l parade would be held. This will be done and a committee was ap- pointed last evening to get busy on 1 this end of the program, at once. Ii is hoped every car owner in Sew ard will decorate their auto and join in the parade. The brass band clowns, lodge organizations and oth CTS are expressed to be in the line of march,
 The entertainment committee will attend to it that there will be am pie numbers presented. Singers, mu- sic, and vaudeville stunts are but few of the many acts which will greet the public.
 Madam Fatima, the raucious squak of street fakirs; fortune telling gyp- sies; hit the colored gent on the top and win cigar, will be listed among the street concessions, ac- cording to this committee. A nom inal charge is to be made for choice locations, which money will help in swelling the Fourth of July fund.
 The housing committed will have their hands full, greeting visitors to Seward and making the necessary arrangements for their accommoda- lions during their stay shrlour the ! festivities
 The publicity committee will broad cast the news of the big celebration, to the surrounding districts, inviting all to come to Seward and help cele- brate. Novel means of attracting the attention of out-of-town folk to Seward on the Fourth will be pro- noted.
 ! To give one an idea of the num- Der of people who will be in Sew ard for the celebration, it was stat ed at the meeting last evening that the Northwestern will be in port that day with 175 passengers; Joe Imlach will be bringing over from his can- neries at least 50; a number from { Latouche have signified their inten- tion of journeying to Seward for the Fourth; a railroad bridge crew of approximately 30 men will be at work two miles out of town; Knights Island tie crews are coming; about 15 men will come in from Drier Bay; there will be many from up the line; the Bureau of Public Roads crews, one at Moose Pass and the others on the new road out of Seward, will come to town and in addition to this committee is endeavoring to get the cooperation of the Alaska Rail- road, in the matter of special rate, to run an excursion to Seward for the Fourth of July Altogether there should be a number of hundreds of visitors attending the celebra ton. A committee is to call on the local