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Show FIREWORKS AT THE FAIR GROUNDS SUNDAY EVENING V . : Display Will Be Grand and Will Be Witnessed by a Great Crowd-Children Crowd-Children and Others Will Be Kept at a Safe Distance Intermountain Fair Association in Charge. On next Sunday evening the Inter-Mountain Inter-Mountain Fair Association will fire off its long delayed fireworks which the rain stopped at the Fair last fall. In a letter just received from Detwiller &, Street, the leading fireworks manufacturers manufac-turers of the world, the statement is made by them that the fireworks sent by them last fall will be just as good this ear or next year as they were the day they were shipped from the office, providing they have been kept dry, and as the fireworks have been kept in a dry Condition, the public will witness the greatest display of fireworks ever seen in Ogden. There will be Roman candles of every ev-ery color, sky rockets, weighing as heavy as eight pounds each, sending all sorts of stars, streams of fire, pictures, pic-tures, etc., in fie sky. There will be parachute rockets, golden rockets and diamond chain rockets. There will be beautiful floral and other variegated varie-gated effects from the rockets. There will be batteries, dragon's nests, fountains, foun-tains, niagara batteries and repeating bomb shells. There will be several beautiful set pieces. And all will be inside of the centerfield of the race track. The people will be kept back on the racetiack proper and In the grandstand, grand-stand, and around the track twenty policemen will be on hand to keep tho people, and especially the children, from the centorfleld Tho centerfield Is a one-half mile circle. A great many of the fireworks will be discharged from -a mortar. They are dangerous tilings to play with. So there will be twenty policemen to keep tho children chil-dren back. Any child or person entering enter-ing the centerfield from any side will be arrested and sent to jail. There will be ten people in charge of the fireworks, and they arc the only ten people who will be permitted to jump the fence into the centerfield. Aim on.? can see the 'fireworks better bet-ter from as far away as the grandstand grand-stand aud the race track enclosure, but there wll be no objections to people standing on the race track proper, providing they don't Jump the second fence. There will be no accidents at the Fair grounds on next Sunday evening because ,tho Fair Association is npt going to permit any one inside of the second or infield racetrack fence. The fireworks. Instead of being shot off the same as last year close to the grandstand, will this year be fired ' from the north side of tho centerfield. j in order that the people sitting In the grandstand may see the effect of the I beautiful eight-pound rockets and nth- J er fireworks discharged that go high ; up into the heavens. j The admission fee is only 25 cents j for grown people and 10 cents for children chil-dren under twelve years. The grandstand grand-stand will bo free, excepting two hundred hun-dred seats only, which, will be reserved reserv-ed and will be sold for 2"i cent3 each with a cushion. ' The boxes In front of the grandstand' will also be reserved and each seat will bo sold for 25 cents each. Tho reserved seats of the grandstand grand-stand must be purchased hoforo Saturday Sat-urday evenlogiid can be had at the Standard office. Last fall every time these fireworks were announced it rained. It is to be hoped thete will be better success this year. The evening of the Fourth will give the people an opportunity to see such fireworks display for 25 cents for which in the eastern cities 50 cents to $1 Is charged. |
