Evening star., 1937-07-02
FIREWORKS SHOW
WILL Be HELD IN
ELL|PSE Monday
Traffic Difficulties Around
Water Gate Leads to
Change.
MATERIALS TRANSFER
HAS ALREADY STARTED
New Site Will Accommodate Some
$4,000 Spectators-Marine
Band to Play.

Washington's Independence day
fireworks display will be held on the
Ellipse, just north of the White House,
instead of at the Water Gate of the
Arlington Memorial Bridge, as pre-
viously planned. This will take place
Monday, starting with a Marine Band
concert at tbs pm. The fireworks
will actually begin at S35.
Albert Clyde-Burton, director Of
recreation in the National Capital
Parks, today started transferring ma
terials from Theodore Roosevelt Island
and the Water Gate to the Ellipse.
Recreatlonal activities in the Ellipse
will be closed from today until July
Z, inclusive, due to the fireworks.
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen,
chairman of the Washington Fourth
of July Committee, and his colleagues
decided on changing the location for
the fireworks late yesterday after Maj.
Ernest w, Brown, superintendent
the Washington police, and Capt. Pat
rick J. Carroll, head of the park police,
had protested that traffic arrange
ments at the Arlington Memorial
Bridge and elsewhere would be in
tolerable. Boat owners desired to get
as near as possible TO the Water Gate
for the fireworks and considerations
OF economy entered into the decision
to shift the display to the Ellipse.
Ellipse Holds 10000.
Owing to the presence in the Ma
tional Capital of thousands of Boy
Scouts, as we'll as countless visitors
for the jamboree. and the thousands
OF Washlngtonians who want to see
the fireworks, Commissioner Hazen
and his associates thought it best to
make the change. Serving with the
commissioner. in addition to numer-
GUS committee chairmen and various
groups, are Melvin c. Sharpe of the
Potomac Electric Power Co. and Mrs.
Elizabeth K. Peoples. director of the
Community Center Department of the
Board of Education.
officials estimate that the Ellipse
will care for some 10000 spectators
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fireworks will be set up at the north
end of the Ellipse and the spectators
will face the White House at the
southern end. Tickets sold for the
| Water Gate location will be good at
the Ellipse, and tickets are still for
sale at the same places as previously.
A ticket booth will be set up on the
Ellipse at am. Monday.
Capt. Carroll announced that au-
tomoblles with windshield stickers
will enter the parking area by vay
| OF Sixteenth street and Constitution
avenue, at the south of the Elljpse.
| The area south of Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. west of Fifteenth street, north
OF Constitution avenue and east of
| Seventeenth street will be closed to
traffic. No parking will be permitted
on Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets,
between Constitution and Pennsyl-
vania avenues.
Parking Around Monument.
Parking will be permitted, however,
Capt. Carroll said. in the Washing
ton Monument grounds and in Po-
tomac Park The parking area i'm
| medlately IN the rear of the NAVY
and Munitions Buildings will be re-
served for employees of these buildings.
officials said.
Parallel parking will be allowed on
both sides of Constitution avenue
through its entire length.
Traffic will be maintained north and
south on Fifteenth and Seventeenth
streets and east and west on Consti-
tuition and Pennsylvania avenues.
An ambulance and first-aid station
will be maintained on the west side
OF Sixteenth street, north of Consti-
tuition avenue.
Ihre Will be no change in the pro-
gram, officials said A patriotic con-
cert by the Marine Band Monday
evening will initiate the ceremony. At
7:45 O'Clock the Marine Band will
start the official march that will
launch the proceedings actively. Rev.
n. w. Burgan of Hamline M. E.
Church, will pronounce the invoca
tlon at pm, and the Marine Band
| VIII pIdy hllieIlCd. commissions T
Hazen, who is scheduled to preside.
Will lead the Pledge to the Flag"
Senator Duffy of Wisconsin will de-
liver the principal address and this
will be followed by selection from
the Drum and Bugle Corps. Repre-
sentative McGranery of PENNSYLVANIA
will read the Declaration of indie
pendence." The Marine Band will then
play Hail, Columbia" and a march
by the Drum and Bugle Corps will
| follow
| "Adjutants CALI and Retreat" will
follow and then the Marine Band will
play THE Star Spangled Banner" AT
$3.50 pm. will come the Retiring of
Colors," Immediately preceding the
shooting of the fireworks.
Ordinarily, the Fourth of July fire.
works display is held on the Washing
ton Monument Grounds. This year
however, the Boy Scout Jamboree il
encamped on large section OF those
grounds, making the holding of the
fireworks there impractical.