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Show SHE WANTS A SANE. FOURTH OF JULY New York, March 21. Urging upon Mayor Gaynor and the aldermen the adoption of a uoisele?s Independence day, Mrs. Isaac U Rice of the Society So-ciety for the Suppression of Unnecessary Unneces-sary Noises says In an open letter today, that In the last three celebrations celebra-tions of the Fourth of July. In New York City, more persons have been killed or Injured than in peven of th? famous battles of the Revolution. "Governors of twenty-three stateJ cf the Union and forty-five mayor of the leading cities have consented to become members of a national com-ml'tee com-ml'tee for the promotion of a safe and sano Fourth of July." said Mrs.. Rice In her letter. "The annual list of casualties cas-ualties for this day reached . a -total of nearly 13.000. Yet.- Mr., Gaynor sayg that he Is touched with sympathy for the small boy who desire to hoot off the firecrackers. But with the facts before him. surely Mayor Gaynor will be able to see th other lde." |