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Show Zion Celebrates in Quiet Manner J r$S 2 j Record for Safety Is 100 Per Cent Q CENES at the Central Playgrounds celebration. Above Set for a circuit smash in the indoor baseball game. Below Shooting the jchutes, a favorite pastime among the children. i , -if - t , - 1 ' i : : i ' ' , - f , ' m, ' i .i ' r : ' A. f:J X t - i s f4 JSt 't ! ' J I Resorts Draw Crowds and Streams Attract Desciples of Izaak Walton. WITH the same flags flying that were draped out at the beginning be-ginning of the trouble with Mexico more than two months ago and the firing of salutes on Capitol hill and at Fort Douglas, the one hundred and thirty-eighth anniversary an-niversary of the signing of the Declaration Declara-tion of Independence was observed in Salt Lake yesterday. The celebration was remarkably quiet qui-et compared with those of a few years ago, 'but there was noise enough for the nervous ones at that. It was a safe and Bane Fourth and took on a holiday aspect. With the exception of the national colors flyine and the firing fir-ing ot the salutes, the celebrations were confined principally to patriotic programmes pro-grammes in the parks, on the playgrounds play-grounds and at the various resorts. The saTe and sane plan may lack the noise, and consequently some fun for the youngsters, but the spirit is the same and absence of accidents and disastrous fires is a' great relief to the grownups. grown-ups. 1 The only thing to mar the pleasures of the day was the inclement weather, and even it "joined in the spirit of the occasion and" the rain ceased during the afternoon so that old Sol might smile on evidences of patriotism. Special Band Concerts. Special band concerts and patriotic programmes were given at the various parks and playgrounds of the city during dur-ing the afternoon and musical programmes pro-grammes were to have been given last night, but they were interrupted by the rain. All of the afternoon pro-prammes pro-prammes were well attended by both little folks and grownu with the little lit-tle folks in the majority. Some came bedecked in their Sunday best and others came dressed to get the most out of the swings, slides and the games on the programme. The Central playgrounds, being close in, drew a large crowd for the afternoon after-noon prograjmme. The musical programme pro-gramme was given by the students of the Gustav Schuster' School of Music and Miss Nellie Hasbrouck. The feature fea-ture of the games programme, which began at 5 o'clock, was the indoor baseball game between the playgrounds boys and a team made up of the men visitors. It was some game, and the score well, the boys were chivalrous enough toward their elders to ask that it should not be published. Another milo of the new City Creek canyon boulevard, making about five miles in all, was thrown open yesterday, yester-day, and hundreds of motorists took advantage of the pleasant drive dnrirg the day. Other motorists took longer trips. Some went to Provo, some to Pinecrest and the Hermitage and up the various canyons in the vicinity. Fishermen Fare Forth. The discipFos of Izaak Walton had eonio luck, but the weather was mostly in favor of the dry farmers. The true holiday spirit reigned everywhere. Twenty -foui- hours of ce lei) ration with a 1 (Xi per cent record fur safety was the mark reached last night at '2 0 'clock in Wa It Lr ke by sn f a nd sa nc methods of celebrating the nation 's . natal day, i Not only was Ihe day free from the usual Fourth of July accidents, but from accidents of every-day nature as well. Not once was the quiet of fire headquarters disturbed. Hoping for a perfect record, Fire Chief William H. Bywater watched apprehensively throughout the twenty-four hours. With the day safely past and not an alarra turned in, the chief felt that a triumph had been won for the fire prevention phase of a safe and sane Fourth. Statistics Compiled. Statistics compiled by the American Medical association since 1910 show a 1 decrease of 75 per cent in the years ending with the Fourth a year ago. In the eleven years that the association has been recording the deaths and ac-' cidents, 1792 fatalities have occurred, and the number injured has mounted to 39,488. "This is Independence day in a new way," said Fire Chief Bywater last night. "We have won our independ-I ence from a custom that was dangerous ! to life and property in the extreme and ' the reign of the oriental custom of mix- i ing firej noise and peril as a means of cerebrating is at an end." For several weeks past both the police po-lice and fire departments have kept a close watch to see that no firecrackers or fireworks of any kind should be sold in Salt Lake. Chief Bywater watched to see if any were shipped into the city and was gratified to find that no wholesaler had received any consignments con-signments of celebration explosives. Figures Are Cited. As proof of the progress made throughout the United States by the elimination of the explosives from Independence In-dependence day celebrations, Chief By-water By-water cited the following figures, taken' from the report of the American Medical Medi-cal association: Year. Deaths, dents. Total. : 1903 46 3.9S3 4,440 I 1904 1S3 3.9SG 4,169 1905 182 4,994 5.176 : 1906 15$ 5,308 5.466 1907 64 4,249 4.413 1908 Ifi3 5,460 5.623 1!'U9 215 5.092 5.307 1!H0 131 2,793 2.92H . 1911 57 1.546 1.C03 , 1912 . 41 947 J8S , 1913 32 1.131 , 1.3 63 i Totals 1,792 39.4S3 41.2S0 I |
