Show baisas noisemaking noise making devices for the fouth of july that cost much money Q the mating of ale works has rapidly in america and we are not now dependent upon china and japan for our firecrackers our red lights and our noise making nerve destroying devices time was when a few roman cedles and some skyrockets furnished the larger portion ot the fireworks for the celebration of the fourth of july in the smaller towns but modern eatn otisa does not stop at that nearly every citizen of a town will lav out considerable mone for his supply of fire and it is not in frequent that a private family will spend from 50 to 5 in order to mal e a dig illumination on the na eions birthday set pieces such as were formerly much prized at cele orations brat ions in the average towns are now quite often seen on the lawns of private individuals tor the american workmen have learned how to make them and that means that they are to be obtained more cheaply the day when the small boy and his big brother had to pay ten cents a bunch for crackers has long passed by machinery has been invented to mold the paper cylinders and oad them with powder at the rate of 1 and more a minute they can be manufactured at about two cents a hundred IP large and retail at a profit at five cents the comb nation of powder and various chemicals which the fireworks man has succeeded in mixing allows a program to be given at night which can be 1 ept up tor three or four hours if desired with something different almost every nute ons can get up a family ce lebrat on on the curb stone in front of the house which will include not only rockets and roman candles but pinwheels m nes bombs spitting devils and other things wi ich are apt to wriggle around among the spectators and the entire cost will not be over 5 from this figure the prices range all the way up to a carload of set pieces containing a ton of powder and costing 10 COO in some of the elaborate at the resorts nea new york and other large cities pa per powder and chemicals are turned into shirks flame and smoke at the rate of 5 an hour more than the highest priced opera singer in the world charges for be services the rocket which whizzes into the air and breaks into a stream of pend ants or is turned into a single star amid the and aha of the spectators is still used but it has been wonderfully changed in recent years it still whirrs in it aerial flight leaving a trail of sparl s behind but at the end of the journey may burst into a golden shower resembling sem bling gome familiar flower perhaps from the cen er falls a rain of red white and blue balls floating gracefully until they al most touch the earth others form a cluster of long delicata lines what similar to a rainfall on a sum mer day and thus they are named the rain comes at a rate of from 15 to 30 a fall muan more costly than the natural shower the most interesting feature the boy is the rod et which sends a group of cery serpents down among the crowd this year a number of new ideas in rockets have been angi bated one of which is called the jew pled streamer really a very beamut fill piece the columns of sparks burst into a golden spray from which issue three balls of v anous colors each ball discharging what are called pendants they remain in the air fully a minute another new idea is called the d mond chain which consists of a dozen or more links each containing a star A novelty is a compartment which contains either one large or several small balloons in the form of am mals do ans and other comic feat ures by an ingenious contrivance hot air is forced into the paper by one of the ons and the animals go floating aay by a flaming torch beneath similar to the common fire balloon this Is perhaps the most remarkable des sn which has yet been invented n what is call ed aerial fre most costly piece of this set however is known as the japanese night bombshell and Is the invention of a japanese worl man in a large fire worl s factory in new york adte the bomb itself ranges tron twelve to th arty inches in diameter at the end of its flight it explodes no less than seten times actually wo every color of the rainbow in the form of streamers shooting stars comets serpents golden rain para chutes whirlie gs and spreaders one of these bombs forms a whole hibi tion in itself as the illumination lasts fully three minutes before the last design fades away the large bombs cost 60 apiece owing to the rare chem cals which arp used and the amount of work upon one for the various comp rt ments contain over feet of fuse every inch of which has to cre c re fully placed in a certain so that it will not ignite before he proper time and spoil the effect s dealers sa that mines and batteries will be popular this year on account of their lesem olance to volcanoes th recent eruptions have actually caused a boom in this feature of fireworks as the people desire to eoa the resemblance ot a volcano in miniature they can be procured in one or half a dozen colors most of them produce fiery scales and balls but a new resign combines stars with the balls they have taken the place of the roman candle to a large extent and the ordinary piece which is held in the hands Is gradually going out of use one reason Is that it Is so dangerous on account of the shower of sparks falling over the person who holds it the days when the patriotic citizen went to the fireworks dealer and pick ed out his rockets pinwheels and other pieces are about over the fire works man saves him all this trouble by packing assortments in cases so that he can buy his celebration at so much a box or as already stated by the car load it desired suppose people in the neighborhood club together and raise for the evenings entertainment they can get large rockets a dozen large mines a halt dozen imitations of a windmill and have the choice of three or four set pieces such as july 4 the maltese cross a mammoth revola ing star 1776 and the bust of a hero or statesman if they desire the features of president roosevelt will be reproduced in glittering points eyeglasses and all not only in this country but in the philippines for some ery large orders containing rep of the president were sent from agn francisco to manila several weeks ago the fashion n set designs has i changed considerably the familiar patriotic mottoes such as peace prosperity and freedom the day we celebrate etc are not so much in demand as formerly the people prefer comic and curious ideas but the most popular are fire pictures ot men prominent in the public eye it must be confessed that the american populace are becoming for gerful of the father of his country on independence day for only a few pictures of washington have beer pro pared in the combinations which have been ordered ot course the set pieces are tar more expensive than any other kind of fireworks the goddess of liberty and the united states coat of arms are among the most costly at each one of the most elaborate de signs Is a fiery see saw in motion with revolving ferris wheels at the ends the price of this mechanism Is |