The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-03
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York.--Park Place, down near the Woolworth Building, Is America's Firecracker, Row. Here are headquartered several of the worlds largest dealers in pyrotech- nics. And this year they tell me with broad smiles that business has boon literally booming.
 Pains is the oldest in the poof- zizz- bang business: started in Lon don 205 years ago and moved to New York in 1880. Henry J. Pain, last of the direct line, lives abroad now, and Q genial fellow named Jack Moore runs the concern. He says fireworks have been selling 40 per cent better than last year, es- pecially "set pieces" such ,as "Wel- come AL" Hall to r. D. R." (with portrait), Niagara Falls by Moon- fight" American Flag Waving" and "Good Night" (with bombs).
 Clubs and parks and such are still going in for Blue Eagles (com. pletc with scrcam) and Roosevelt pictures. Millionaires with country estates are not burning as much powder In the cause of patriotism. however. They like reproductions of yachts, race horses and lady friends. on July {, f933, the big. gest private show hereabout cost $7600, not counting 12 mon to do the shooting, at $26 each. and q big tip which each of them received. This year. though. there were scv- erai orders for 5000 displays.
 Shooting the Works
 One Newport playboy, who used to pack his villa with Broadway and Hollywood guests for an Inde. pendence Day party. has married recently and settled down. Time was when he'd send Jack Moore as many as 20 portraits of friends to be reproduced in colored fire. And last year he had surprise exhibit of shapely bathing girls diving into tho sea from his private pier. No such plans Weroemade thls season mot even q portrait of his bride. He had to content himself with star-bursts and prismatie foun tains.
 For several successive Fourths a wealthy woman has ordered . modest $25 display for her chil. dren. But she also hires two of Pains speciaiists--at s25 each plus travelling cxpenses---one to do the shooting and one to watch the youngsters. The whole thing Is in' sured for $25.000.
 Counting the Fourth of July and Christmas in the south, MT Moore estimates that the country will spend about SS.000.000 for fre- works, this year. He doosnt know what to think Of tho Middle west; I..iu (tltxg s.ta n AVnAA1An its 1933 sales by 300 per cent.
 pyro- -gadgcts is the sticklcss rock of with many.vaned cardboard tail. After spilling it's stars and fire an explosive blows the case into smlthereens, leaving nothing to fall back on unsuspccting heads. Moore knows q lot about rockets: Edison once called him into consultation for three days. Also he's amused by experImcnters who are plan. ming interplanetary hights. Says any good fireworks man can shoot n rocket four times as high as the learned professors have done.
 Banner Year
 This has been a good season for Amin and Co, too. They're the big gest flag making concern in the world, and range all the way from the tiny flags used for table decora- ton to onc-made several years for store in Detroit--that was 96 feet wide and 160 feet long. The stripes were seven feet wide and tho cloth alone weighed 500 pounds
 The company was founded in 1847 by a couple of Scotsmen who got off. to good start by making flags for our war with Mexico They also made the inaugural flag for Zachary Taylor, and they and their descendants have fashioned banners for every subsequent pres. ident. They'll design flags, too, for lodges, foreign revolutions. eXposi- tions or clam bakes. The flag of the City of New York Is an Amin job,
 Yachtsmen provide the company with considerable business because each boat carries national flag. a club flag, an owners flag, and lot of pennants. There's even special flag which means owner Dining" and a cold welcome awaits any vis- itor who comes alongside in spite of that signal. I'm thinking about getting one for my Apartment.