The Moore Messenger. (Moore, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 2, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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-1 HAT fireworks In general are hardly
I ri T~l I more than highly differentiated fire-
II U erac'ter8 might be said with almost
II "■ literal truthfulness. Inasmuch as
practically all of the pyrotechnic toys
employed for the purposes of celebra-
tion on the Fourth of July depend
primarily upon the paper tube loaded
with combustibles of one sort or an-
other, as the fundamental element,
go speak, lu their construction.
Even the great "set pieces," which
might be called fire pictures, and -
which are erected upon scaffoldings
•ometlmes as much as a hundred feet In length,
depend for their effects wholly upon such paper
cylinders, no bigger than good sized firecrackers,
«tuck all over the lattice work of the Bkeleton
structure employed by the flre-palnter in lieu, as
one might say, of canvas.
Something more in detail about these fire pic-
tures will be said later on; but meanwhile it may
be as well to speak descriptively of the processes
used In the manufacture of the more simple and
familiar kinds of fireworks—such, for example,
mis roman candles, bombs, rockets, pinwheels and
the like All of these, excepting the bombs, are
•substantially nothing more than cylinders of
pasteboard, filled with combustibles and fash-
ioned In different ways.
One of the greatest fireworks factories In the
•world Is located on the outskirts of Brooklyn,
but the stranger who passes by It on a trolley car
on the way to Coney Island would scarce sus-
pect the character of the outfit, which is scat-
tered over about twenty acres of land In a series
of small buildings, some of thera being so tiny
as to accommodate only a single workman. The
object of this arrangement Is to minimize the
■consequences of accidents. If the lone man who
occupies any one of the tiny houses should hap-
pen to be blown up he alone would suffer.
It naturally happens that the only building
•of considerable size on the premises is one in
■which no explosives or other lively combustibles
are used. Here, in fact, is where all the paper Is
stored, tons upon tons of It, for the outer wrap-
pings of the fireworks. Pyrotechnic toys, of
course, must be pretty to look at, else they would
mot sell to advantage and the papers utilized for
the purpose are of all colors of the rainbow aud
a great variety of ornamental patterns. For
•extra fancy goods more or less gilt and silver
paper is employed.
Upstairs In the same building all of the pa-
per cylinders are made, the process adopted be-
ing so exceedingly expeditious that one person
can turn out as many as 18 gross of them in a
day. Of course they are of all lengths and diam-
eters according to kind and size of fireworks
lor which they are Intended and though the
rocket cylinders are rolled by machine all of the
•others are made by hand. With the aid of a long,
round stick of metal and a pot of paste the oper-
ator converts sheets of thin, brown pasteboard
Into neat and compact tubes at the rate of three
or four a minute.
A dozen work people engaged in this occu-
pation can turn out an Immense number of cyl-
inders In a day and the manner In which they
are utilized In the manufacture of different kinds
of fireworks will presently be explained. It might
he well to say incidentally, however, that in this
same department are made the bombshells, which
are stamped by a machine out of papier-mache
In halves. When they have become dry the
halves are joined by strips of thin canvas soaked
in paste, each sphere thus produced having a
round hole at one end for loading.
Bombs are among the most interesting and
beautiful of fireworks and some of them are of
great size—as much as five feet in diameter.
They are discharged from mortars and, reaching
a height of 1,000 feet or more, explode with a
.great noise, liberating showers of many-colored
stars or golden rain, or sometimes parachutes
carrying trains of stars. Some are made as
small as two inches In diameter—baby ones,
•suitable for family use.
The method of their construction is always
the same and Is at once simple and Ingenious.
The papier-mache shell is filled with "stars"—
that is to say, with little pieces of cylindrical
paper tubing packed with different chemical com-
positions. Beneath the shell thus loaded la at-
tached and firmly glued a paper receptacle con-
taining a slow-burning composition similar to
gunpowder. Then a fuse Is so fixed that being
Ignited at the Instant of the bomb's discharge it
•will burn just long enough to explode the shell
■at the moment when the projectile has reached
Its greatest height In the air. When this hap-
pens the paper shell is blown to pieces and the
stars, Incidentally Ignited, are thrown far and
■wide. Being light, they fall slowly and the effect
produced is very beautiful.
Even the stars, you see, are paper cylinders,
though only half an Inch perhaps In length. But
they vary much in size, according to the uses to
■which they are to be put. A man outs them by
the millions with a small circular saw, taking a
handful of paper tubes of small diameter and
using the saw to chop them Into short pieces of
•equal length. Then the little sections are filled
•with chemical mixtures of various kinds, nitrate
and chlorate of baryta being used for green, car-
bonate of strontium for red, oxylate of soda for
yellow and (oddly enough) paris green for blue,
•with various admixtures of chlorate of potash,
shellac, etc.
It should have been said that. In order to
strengthen the papier-mache shells and so to en-
able them to scatter their stars more wftlely
when shattered, they are wound with strong gro-
cer's twine, outside of which the final decorative
paper cover Is put on. There Is, however, an-
other and quite new kind of bomb, which Is liade
In the shape of a cylinder. It Is so constructed
that during its flight through the air It makes
a series of "breaks," sometimes as many as ten,
throwing out each time a shower of stars. This,
as might be imagined, is a very beautiful effect,
and is achieved by dividing the containing cylin-
der into a series of compartments holding stars.
«ach compartment being set off in its turn.
Some of these cylindrical bombs contain par-
achutes, which are arranged like the parachutes
dropped from rockets. Inside of the pasteboard
case is a circular piece of tissue paper, around
the circumference of which are attached a series
of very long strings. To each of these strings
are fastened at Intervals a number of the little
taper stars already described and the arrange-
m
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rtAMZ/C PAf?AOHUT£<3 fOA
fiOWITtJ A/VO BO/1&&
OF
Has Given Six Sons Into Uncle
Sam's Service.
One Son of Mrs. Mary Gorman Lost
In Sinking of the Maine—
Another Died in the
Philippines.
Boston—"Mother of Heroes" Is what
her oelghbors call a certain little old
lady, who, crippled with rheumatism
and almost penniless. Is living in Ja-
maica Plain. Five out of six sons
Mrs. Mary Gorman has sent into the
service of Uncle Sam. "And 1 was
sorry when the sixth didn't enlist to
make It a half dozen." she said.
One of her boya went down with
the battleship Maine In Havana har-
bor. One of them died In the Philip-
pines. One of them lives with her,
his health broken by service In Texas.
The others are married and gone
away.
"Yes, It's a record to be proud of, I
know. Few women can equal It—per-
haps none," said Mrs. Gorman "And
I'm proud that tho two hoys went as
they did. But they're gone." She drew
the bedquilt closer about her—a quilt
made of bits from the uniforms the
two dead soldiers used to wear. She
has a healthy colored, chubby face,
that was Intended for an optimist—
and to tell the truth, this little mother
of heroes has a deep-rooted cheerful-
ness which Is bound to come to the
surface.
THIRD
OPERATION
PREVENTED
By Lydia E. Pinkham's V eg*
etable Compound
Chicago, III —"I want to tell you
what Lydia E. lHnkham's Vegetable
Compound did for me. 1 was so sick
that two of the best doctors in Chicago
paid 1 would die if 1 did not have an
operation. X had
already had two
operations, and
they wanted me to
go through a third
one. I suffered day
and night from in-
llaniniation and a
small tumor, and
never thought of
seeing a well day
again. A friend
told me how Lydia
E. Pinkham's Veg-
ment Is such that when the paper disk, which Is
the parachute, Is thrown out of the receptacle
It Instantly expands and drifts slowly downward,
while the Ignited stars, dangling along the strings
beneath, make an exceedingly pretty display.
The methods adopted In the case of parachute
rockets Is exactly the same, the parachute and
Its attachments being packed Into the "head" of
the rocket. A rocket, of course, consists of two
parts, the lower portion being a pasteboard cyl-
inder, made especially thick, containing the ex-
plosive that makes the thing go up, while the
upper compartment is simply a receptacle to hold
stars, parachute, golden rain stuff, or whatever
is to be liberated when the projectile has reached
Its highest point In the air.
What Is called a "mine" Is a big cylinder of
pasteboard, which may be four or five feet high
and which Is attached to a square wooden base,
In order that It may be stood up. Inside of the
cylinder is put a propelling charge of the slow
explosive and on top of It a paper bag filled with
stars. At the top is an ordinary roman candle,
which serves as a sort of spout. When the
roman candle Is lighted It shoots a few fiery balls
successively In the customary manner, and then,
the explosive inside having been reached, the
whole affair explodes, throwing a multitude of
stars In all directions.
Comparatively new are the so-called "bat-
teries" of roman candles, which, In proportion to
the number of candles going off simultaneously,
produce a brilliant display. "Gerbs" are cylin-
ders filled with iron filings, which are thrown
out In an Incandescent state by the slow-burning
explosive. They are intended to be tacked upon
a fence or to some such place, at a height of six
feet
It is a tact worth mentioning Incidentally that
all of the marine night signals, which are carried
on every vessel, are made by the fireworks con-
cerns. The Brooklyn factory supplied those used
on the yachts during the recent race across
the Atlantic. They are made on the same prin-
ciple as "bengola" lights, a familiar pyrotechnic
toy, but with a wooden handle. Such a contri-
vance is a pasteboard tube divided into compart-
ments, usually three In number, containing in-
flammable compositions of different colors. Oc-
casionally stars are added. Inasmuch as the
colors—green, white and red—may be arranged
in various ways, one can talk across the sea by
the help of these lights on the darkest night.
In the tiny houses already described all the
filling of roman candles Is done. For this pur-
pose machinery is used and It Is always a possi-
bility that a spark might ignite the gunpowder
and composition, of which considerable quanti-
ties have to be kept Immediately at hand. But
these explosives and also the stars (which take
the form of fiery balls as they are ejected from
the candles) are stowed In cubbyholes protected
by swinging metal shutters. Each time the lone
workman helps himself to stars or powder he Is
obliged to push aside the shutter, which falls
again In place the Instant that he has obtained
what he wants. The cubbyholes open to the out-
side by windows, so that if there were an explo-
sion the flame would be thrown outward from
the building and not into it.
too—he was a fine man. No, I don't
fear anything. When the cholera was
taging in Manchester, England, where
I was born, my husband was lu the
hospital sick with it, and they
wouldn't let me go to see him. But
didn't I Just run past the guard at
the gate and down the ward till I
found him, iu spite of all they could
do!
"My boys"—with a proud look at
the protographs on the walls—
"weren't frightened of anything in
the world.
"My Willie—his whole name was
William H.—was the one that went
down on the Maine. It was his sec-
ond enlistment and I'd Just got a let-
ter from him telling me about the
funny little Spanish soldiers, and the
queer bullfights. He was captain of
the Maine's baseball team—and a
great favorite with his mates,
j "Tommy was the one that died
Thus safeguarded against mischance, the Ions away 0ff in the Philippines. He was
workman manipulates a machine by the help of
which he loads two dozen roman candles at one
time. Into them he puts gunpowder, composition
and stars successively, layer after layer, ramming
down each portion of the charge after the man-
ner of loading an old-fashioned musket. Where
candles that hold ten stars are being made the
operation is somewhat complicated and hence the
Importance of doing as many as possible at once.
Most interesting of all, perhaps, Is the making
of the fire pictures, the construction of which be-
gins with a latticework put together by a skilled
carpenter. It Is made as light as possible, and
upon it Is tacked the rattan which forms the out-
lines of the picture. Rattan Is chosen for the
purpose because it Is pliable and can be bent
Into any sort of curves. The carpenter has be-
fore him a drawing, made by the artist of the
company and executed to a certain scale. It Is
a simple matter to reproduce the llne3 of this
drawing in rattan, go to speak, on an enlarged
scale.
Having thus made the outlines of the picture
In rattan upon a background of lattice work, the
carpenter drives at short Intervals along the rat
tan a series of little nails. Upon each nail Is
to be put a small cylinder, a quarter of an Inch
In diameter and three Inches long, loaded with
some colored fire composition. When this opera-
tion has been completed the artist comes along,
and with his pencil marks upon the latticework
the different colors, "red," "green," "blue," etc.,
that are to appear in flame In various parts of the
design. In obedience to these indications th«
loaded cylinders, which may number thousands,
are stuck upon the nails subsequently by skilled
young women. Finally all of the cylinders are at-
tached together by a "quick match," which Is
lampwlck saturated with a mixture of gunpowder
and starch and threaded through a thin paper
tube. Thus when fire Is set to the fuse It will
run In a few seconds all over the lattice work
and tho fire picture will be presented to view In
gorgeous colors.
etable Compound had helped her, and
I tried it, aud after the third bottla
was cured."—Mrs. Alvkna Speki-ino,
1408 Clybourne Ave., Chicago, 111.
If you are ill do not drag along at
home or in your place of employment
until an operation is necessary, but
build up the feminine system, and re-
move tue cause of those distressing
aches and pains by taking Lydia L-
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, mad®
from roots and herbs.
For thirty years it has been the stan-
"Or else I'd go crazy." she said, con- daf(1 rerae)fy for female ills, and has
tinulng her story: i was always positively restored ihe health o? tiiou-
strong, and not afraid of anything I sandsof women who have been troubled
can remember—and the boys 1 sup- with displacements, inflammation, ul-
pose took after me. After their father, ccratiou, fibroid tumors, irregularities.
iodic pains, backache, bearing-dowtv
feeling, flatulency, indigestion, dim-
ness, or nervous prostration. Why
don't you try it?
WOMAN FINDS A WAY.
Two burglars were on their trial and had en-
gaged a smart lawyer for their defense, who, on
cross-examining one of the witnesses, said:
"You say that on the night In question the
moon was bo bright that you could see the bur-
glars In the room. Was your husband awake at
the time?"
Witness—I don't know.
"Was his face turned toward you or not?"
The witness answered that she did not know.
"What! You don't know? Now, come, tell
me, was his face turned toward you or the wall?"
"I don't know."
"Ah. ha! I thought so" (turning to the Jury).
"She could not see. She who identifies the pris-
oners could not see which way her husband's
face was turned. Explain that If you can."
"Well, sir, my husband Is so bald that In a
dim light I can't tell his face from the back of
his head."—Tatler.
my favorite, I think. Only $30 a
month he got, but he sent me half of
It each time. And even when he was
a grown man, when he came to say
goodby to me, he'd put his arms
round my neck and kiss me Just like
a little boy. Oh, he was so good to
me—and I miss him so! His was a
second enlistment, too—In fact, all
my boys enlisted a second time.
"Tommy was in the hospital corps
when he died. His body was sent
home to me, and in 1904 they buried
him with military honors, here in Ja-
macla Plain."
The tears welled up afresh ana
dropped upon the military bedquilt.
"Here I am," repeated the mother of
heroes, "a tired old woman that they
say did a lot for her country."
THE MISTAKE OF A NIGHT.
He saw her sitting In the dark corner and
knew that his chance had come.
Noiselessly he stole up behind her and before
she was aware of his presence he had kissed her.
"How dare you?" she shrieked.
"Pardon me," he bluffed, readily; "I thought
you were my Bister."
She stepped out Into the light. "You silly
fool I" the giggled. "I am!"
He tainted.—Clevalaud Leader,
His Fears Warranted.
"One of the youngsters in our of-
fice had a bit of a blow the other
day." This was the beginning of a
conversation overhead on the way
downtown the other day.
"Why, how was that?"
"Well, It was like this, you see. He'd
been engaged for nearly a year and
he was having such a good time and
everything was running so swimming-
ly he was beginning to be afraid of It.
The course was almost too smooth
for love of the true variety and he
didn't want any of the spurious ones.
But he ran into his troubles a little
while back.
"Her birthday came 'round, you
see, and he had to do the nice thing.
He worried his head quite a bit as to
what he should buy and it came out a
manicure set. He had the thing done
In style, silver and so on, and 1 think
some JewelB. He felt quite proud of
himself after he had ordered It sent
around. But that was the end of his
romance to date."
"Well, what was the trouble? Did
the kick?" was the question."
"Kick? Why, yes; she kicked
some. It didn't look like silver to her.
It looked like an Insult. And that's
where It stays at present."
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ALL DRUG STORES
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Don't Persecute
your Bowels
Cut rat cathartic* and nirpl
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GENUINE mast bear signature:
Coming In Relays.
Twins were born to Mrs. O'BrienJ
When the first one was born tho nursel
called Jimmy and said:
"Tell your aunt to come right overj
The stork has brought you a little^
brother."
The aunt could not come over irnmeJ
dlately. In a half hour the nursa1
called Jimmy again and said:
"Run over and tell auntie the stork)
has brought you another brother."
Jimmy ran to his aunt's house andJ
said: i
"Auntie, the stork has brought an-
other brother. I wonder how many h^
will bring before night"
A Smooth One.
"You say he was brought up In a re-
fining atmosphere?"
"Yes; as a boy he lived In the olli
districts of Pennsylvania."
The average man can't understand
why he has eDemles.
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