Show SIZE IS LIMITED L TED Washington Wa Will Enjoy Enoy nJ Peaceful a Fourth of July ruly J Post The commissioners have decided de up upon upon on the size of firecrackers which will willbe willbe willbe be allowed to be sold old in the stores and shops of the th district to Young America rica for the coming Fourth of July The and earsplitting e g cele celebration celebration 1 bration of the nations birthday in the district is a thing of the past pastA p st A representative of a prominent firm firmin in the city who handles at wholesale I most of the fireworks firecrackers ackers and other used here in i n the cele celebration celebration bration of the glorious Fourth has made several visits to the sion rs office during the past few f w days I He has submitted numberless boxes of I sample firecrackers firecracker These are rolls of I pasteboard P wrapped in imitation of I Ithe the genuine article Some of these samples are a foot and a half in II length and as big around as a home homegrown grown grawn bologna b logna sausage Then they run down to the size of the ordin ordinary ordinary ordinary I ary firecracker of the thc Chinese trade The commissioners looked over these samples with care They have now unanimously decided upon unon one of the smaller sizes This is a cracker three and inches in length known as the cracker crac er It has a di diameter diameter i ameter of half an inch It is of a make known as the Amer American American Amerlean ican lean cracker In this sort the wrap wrapping wrapping wrapping ping that the explosive medium is made of strong pasteboard instead I of the soft paper which the Chinese use in the manufacture of theirs The pasteboard is wrapped tightly and between each layer is a quantity of glue After the explosive ve veIs Is introduced the end is sealed with a composition resembling clay While W ile the report given by the explosion of one ope of these little cylinders is sharp and de decided decided decided it has none of the deafening roar that characterizes the big brother of the firecracker which is now tabooed from the limits of the district The representative of the he firm in con conference conference ference with the commissioners stated that the explosive used in these crack crackers ers ens is one of the powders and not the ordinary gunpowder or dyna dynamite I 1 mite The explosive force of the pi pl I I crates is well known When When the th charge l in the pasteboard explodes odes it blows the cylinder to bits and the pieces do not catch fire another ad advantage advantage advantage I vantage the commissioners see in the I adoption of this size cracker crack as the th largest size that is to be fired d I The commissioners win 9 mi the I size of cracker adopted as rt s the Ine th maxi mad maximum i I mum to the chief of police and nd it is understood that before the Fourth an n norder order will be issued prohibiting the sale of any larger that than i the prescribed size A number of dealers in fireworks it is understood intend to call can upon the commissioners and a protest against such action but the commissioners rs state positively they will not riot deviate devi from their intended course J |