| Show IN GOOD OLD DAYS v N noisemaking devices used a century ago how tto ane fourth of july 1812 was celebrated according to the new news papers of the period NE of the most interesting features in connection with 0 tho the safe and sano method of celebrating tho the fourth of july now becoming so popular la to tho the fact that it denotes a return to the good old days of our an cretors when the annl anniversary vc of independence was as honored with apparently little noise but with a great deal of para parading dlug consider considerably ablo oratory tho the reading of tho declaration of independence closing with numerous dinners and tho the drinking of as many toasts as there were states in tho the anlou firo fire crackers cap and other splitting car tar devices which have caused ao 80 many of the injuries following in the wake of tho national holiday were unknown a century ago there was wms incentive their to mako make the biggest kind of a racket the country was engaged in a second war aar with england and the younger generation genc radon with the example of tho the revolutionary vete veterans runs before them might have been excused had they given gien vent to noisy according to the newspapers of the time time hoa hu ever zever the celebration of july i 4 1812 vi vas as conducted in a very orderly way the phrase safe and sane was not used in describing the events of df tho the day their substitutes a century ago were genteel or respectable ono of the early celebrations at princeton was thus described tho flag belonging to the town was displayed opposite the front of the tho college at 11 a genteel company of ladles ladies aud gentlemen assembled in the college hall chero they were agreeably entertained by two ex cellena orations suitable to tho the occasion how sate the fourth wafa wah in new york years nto ran mas be judged from one of the newspaper nee accounts which says we are happy 0 to o state that no evil sc eldont happened and that the thi greatest or derand tranquillity were maintained through the day and evening the fourth of july 18 1812 was opened with the raising of the stars stara and stripes over all tho the public buildings and on the shipping in tho the harbor at ten the militia with the members of 0 the tammany society tho the tailors hibernian Biber nian provident co lumblad luni blan and manhattan societies blui wi the and other othor trades met in the park in front of I 1 the city hall which had lately been finished there thoy drew draw up in of parade and after a national bad been fired by the veterans of the revolution re they marched down broadway to beaver deaver street to broad up parl to beckman where here at the cor nor of gold street the assemblage entered st georges church the cas consisted of a prayer reading of tho declaration of independence never omitted in the old time celebrations and an oration by samuel D B ro no maino one of the tammany sachems Sac hems earlier in the day the mili military tarr organizations of the be I 1 city were reviewed on tho the battery park by generals stevens and 31 morton orton and they marched up broadway to chambers street down chambers to greenwich street and back to the battery where it ie to stated after going through gov eral military maneuvers they were |
