Show BATTLE OF MAN lA BAY Great Show and Much Noise at Calders Park I LARGE CROWD ATTENDED it Everybody Present Greatly Enjoyed En-joyed the Scene Fireworks and Booming Cannon With Many C Battery and Militia Boys Lent Interest In-terest to ths Event Which Was a SuccessWheel and Horse Races on the Track in the Afternoon Afford Af-ford Good Sport 1 The battle of Manila as lllustratcd last night by the battery boys and the local National Guard at Calders park was a pleasing noisy and vivid success suc-cess I was witnessed by 2500 people who gathered a very fair idea oi thc i din and excitement that accompany a lively battle Then the fact of its being night and the plentiful discharge of I fireworks also lent weirdness to tho scene I The crowds were so late In leaving I j for the park that at 0 oclock Superintendent I Superin-tendent Webber of the Rapid Transit I f i company phoned down to hold off until un-til the people had stopped flocking to the cars The battle was therefore deferred te ferred until 10 oclock when the buglers bu-glers sounded the charge and the fun began The entire lake and the bridge were lined with people and Gov Wells with members of his staff and ladles slur 1ncle8 I MHJ Grant and ladies and the artillery band vert accommodated in the theater thea-ter fronting dircctJ on the scene of conflict On the lake were very good I representations of lifteen war vessels made out of canvas stretched over I frames fastened to piles and suitably painted six of the vessels being sup posed to be Spanish The building on I tho island was covered with national 1 colors and Hags with a large picture of I ot Dewey in the center and n representation I representa-tion of tho Maine in fireworks at the edge 6f the water On the west shoreS I shore-S was i large representation of Fort Ma I I late The batcl men over fifty strong I wore lined up on the south shore of the lake under command of Lieut GIbbs I wlth two cannon from Fort Douglas nnd the old Spanish cannon while on whie the opposite shore wore some eighty members of the National Guard under MaJ Lund representing the Spanish forces sclnS With the calls from the bugles the opposing forces began firing across the Jake The artillerymen missed their breechloading guns which can he I fired every half minute but managed to get along with the muzzleloaders very well Between tho Incessant discharge dis-charge of artillery on the one side and ft the rifle volleys on the other the racket was terrlflo and this terrlfo and was accelerated acceerated by soldiers In boats coastantly discharging dis-charging sky rockets and Roman can dIes with tho weIrdness heightened by colored fires For nearly half an hour this was kept up and thon followed a graphic assault by flroworks on Tort Palate the burning of one of the Span ish ships and then the Maine was touched offr followed by an illumination illumina-tion of tho island showing the Dcwey w picture and a groupof sailors and sol diers above on the tower around tho Goddess of Liberty as the flnal act I > was an entirely unique scene and the spectators enjoyed it hugely In tho excitement a man woman and child were pushed off tho shore into the lake but they were fished out quickly suf fering only wet clothes It was an or deny gathering and all boisterous conduct con-duct appeared to bo confined to the 5 rifles and cannon The street car company com-pany put on eighteen cars with less than ten minutes service they were packed solid both ways The service t gave satisfaction The entertainment Is h on again tonight j to-night with bicycle and automobile races In the afternoon The committee of arrangements are MaJ Grant Lieut i GIbbs and Messrs Klenkc Cleghorn 1 and Holberg The boys have been to the expense oC100 they say and hope t to pull out even They certainly are giving a great show1 |