Show w ECHOES OF THE rOUFlTH The birthday iff the Republic wan celebrated in the national capital 1 with the usual accompaniment of crackers cannon and oratory Under a burning blue sky I At Humboldt park Chicago the posts of the G A R and of the United Confederate Con-federate Veterans held a reunion of the I blue and gray Gen Joeph Wheeler was the chief speaker and central l figure fig-ure of the occasion rho obstrvncc of Independence day In New York followed the usual pro I I gramme About ane hundred and fifty men and women gathered at the battery i at lGO ti in to witness the patriotic custom of raising the flag a custom il hat has been observed since tho de purture 6t the British forces from the icily c icilyThe The terrible heat caused most of those who celebrated the Fourth In I Chicago lo go to the suburban parks and pleasure resorts leaving the city a comparatively quiet place for the Fourth of July At the University of Chicago a thousand students attended a flag raising and took the oath of allegiance alle-giance |