The Aline Chronoscope. (Aline, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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riAT fireworks In general are hardly
T "1 more than highly differentiated fire-
II LI cracer oilght be said with almost
M " literal truthfulness Inasmuch aa
practically all of the pyrotechnic toys
employed for the purposes of celebra-
tion on the Fourth of July dep‘nd)
primarily upon the paper tube loaded
with combustibles of one sort or an-
other as the fundamental element
so speak in their construction
Even the great “set pieces" which
might be called 'fire pictures and
which are erected upon scaffoldings
sometimes as much as a hundred feet in length
depend for their effects wholly upon such paper
cylinders no bigger than good-sized firecrackers
stuck all over the lattice work of the skeleton
structure employed by the fire -painter 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
as roman candles bombs rockets plnwheels and
the like All of these excepting the bombs are
substantially nothing more than cylinders of
pasteboard i 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 scarco sus-
pect the character of the outfit which Is scat-
tered over about twenty acres of land in a series
of email buildings some of them being so tiny
as to accommodate only a single workman The
object of this arrangement 1b to minimize the
consequences of accidents If the lone man who
occupies any one of the tiny bouses should hap-
pen to be blown up ho 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
not sell to advantage and the papers utilized for
the purpose are of all colors of the rainbow and
a great variety of ornamental patterns For
extra fancy goods more or less gilt t and silver
paper 1b 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
for 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 lo 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
be well to say Incidentally however that in this
same department are made the bombshells which
art stamped by a machine out of papier-mache
In halves When they have become dry the
halves ore Joined by strips of thin canvas soaked
in paste each sphere thus produced having a
round bole at one end for loading
Bombs are among the most Interesting and
beautiful of fireworks and some of them are of
great size — as muoh as live feet in diameter
They are discharged from mortars and reaching
a bright r 1000 feet or more explode with &
great rsise 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 is at-
tached and firmly glued a paper receptacle con-
taining a slow-burning composition elmllar to
gunpowder Then a fuse Is so fixed that being
ignited at ihe Instant of the bomb's discharge it
will Ijirn juet long enough to explode the shell
at the moment when the projectile has reached
Its g eatest height In the air When this hap-
pens the paper shell Is blown to pieces and the
stars Inc-id n’allv Ignited are thrown far and-
wide Teing light they fall slowly and the effect
I minced is very beautiful
Even e :firs 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 cuts them by
the p-mints with a small circular saw taking a
handful cf paper tubes of small diameter and
using the saw to chop them Into short pieces of
equal lmgth Then the little sections are filled
wiih 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 ami (oddly enough) parts 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 widely
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 made
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 U achieved by dividing the contalnlng'cyHn-
der Into a series of compartments holding Btars
each 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
paper stars already described and the arrange-
USED LANGUAGE OF FINANCE
Commercial Reporter Did Hla Best on
An Assignment - That Was
New to Him
The exigencies of the occasion com-
pelled tbo city editor to assign the
young financial reporter to write the
account of the ball He waa Instructed
to give particular attention to a de-
scription of the costumes of the ladles
The follow ing excerpts from his report
have been preserved:
"Miss BUmmers was the object of a
good deal of flurry at the opening of
the boil Bidders were enthusiastic
She wore a spangled dress and waa
conspicuous during the season at about
187 preferred"
"Mra Marriem mjde her first ap-
pearance since her last divorce She
has been resting at the springs and
the reorganization sets her at par"
"MIbs Newwun in a simple white
dress was a tentative offering at the
start but within an hour jumped to
275 There was at that time a great
scramble but the lucky bidder who
Is said to have been planning a
squeeze was Mr Dash"
“Miss Boldun wore a cotume that
was 40 30 and 10 off"— Life
Appropriate Hymn
The worshipers in a certain church
had some trouble to keep their faces
straight a short time ago During the
service some commotion was caused
by a gentleman who accidentally Ig-
nited a box of wax matches in his
pocket and was trying to put them
out while his alarmed neighbors
struggled equally hard to help him
The minister being short-sighted
could not make oht the reason of the
disturbance and thinking to diplomat-
ically cover the incident he innocently
said:
“Brethren there is a little nolsq
going on Until it is over let us sing
‘Sometimes a Light Surprises’ "
ment is such that when the paper disk which la
the parachute la 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 elx
feet
It Is a fact 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 Bhutters 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
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Mcvtt) mo
Thus safeguarded against mischance the ions
workman manipulates a machine by the help oi
which he loftds 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 lire 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 la
a Blraple matter to reproduce the lines of this
drawing in rattan so 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 the
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
iampwlck 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 the fire picture will be presented to view la
gorgeous colors
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 so bright jthat 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
“Wlint! 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 bo bald that in a
dim light I can’t tell his face from the back of
his head" — Tatler
THE MISTAKE OF A NIGHT
He saw her sitting In the dark corner and
knew that his chance bad come
Noiselessly he Btole 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 sister"
She stepped out into the light “You silly
fool!" she giggled "I am!"
He fainted — Cleveland Leader
A TRAIN LOAD OF TOBACCO
Twenty-four Carloads Purchased for
Lewis’ Single Binder Cigar
Factory
What is probably the biggest lot of
all fancy grade tobacco held by any
factory in the United States has Just
been purchased by Frank P Lewis of
Peoria for the manufacture of Lewis’
Single Binder Cigars The lot will
make twenty-four carloads and is se-
lected from what is considered by ex-
perts to be the finest crop raised in
many years The purchase of tobacco
Is sufficient to last the factory more
than two years An extra price was
paid for the selection Smokers of
Lewis’ Single Binder Cigars will appre-
ciate this tobacco
— Peoria Star January 16 1009
Surprise for the Deity’
"Papa" said a little girl rushing
into the room with the air of one bring-
ing valuable information "did you
know that the Browns’ little baby was
dead?”
"Yes dear I heard of It Aren't you
sorry?"
"Yes buL papa It was only three
days old"
"I know love"
"And don’t you think God will be
surprised to see it come back so
soon?"
Casey at the Bat
This famous poem is contained in the
Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book for
1910 together with records schedules
for both leagues and other valuable
baseball Information complied by au-
thorities This Interesting hook sent
by the Coca-Cola Co of Atlanta Ga
on receipt of 2o stamp for postage
Also copy of their booklet "The Truth
About Coca-Cola" which tells all about
this delicious beverage and why it is
bo pure wholesome and refreshing
Are you ever hot— tired— thirsty?
Drink Coca-Cola— it Is cooling re-
lieves fatigue and quenches the
thlrsL At soda fountains and car-
bonated In bottles— Eo everywhere
Tongue Twithter Thimplified
"Some of these tongue twisters are
really very hard to enunciate for in-
stance: ‘The sea ceaseth and it suf-
ficed us "
“That’th eathlly thaid" llthplngly
thmiled Mithth Ellthabeth "You
thlmply thay it tho: The thea death-
ed andlt dufflded ud!’M— Life
It Is curious to see how de space
clears around a man of decisive spirit
and leaves him room and freedom—
John Foster
Red Weak Weary Watery Eyes
Relieved By Murine Eye Kemedy Try
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No one need speak of monotony if
only they just Took around for an-
other’s wants — Royston
Men who remain neutral In times
of public danger are enemies to their
country — Addison
Why She Raged
Colonel Falsom waa reading de
morning paper when he exclaimed:
“Whut a terrible misfortune!"
"What Is it — somebody got mar-
ried?" his wife asked
“No but a married woman in a fit
of rage threw a coffee cup at her hus-
band The cup was shivered Into frag-
ments and one of them cutting bis
Jugular vein be died on the apoL The
reporter says the gref of the unfortu-
nate woman was dreadful to witness
She was (fantic wiih remorse and
made several attempts to end her
life"
“Poor creature!" said Mrs’ Falsora
with a sigh “The broken cup must
have belonged to her new china seL"
His Approach Heralded
The pet caL wearing a bright red
ribbon around his neck was chatting
democratically with a stray cat on the
back verandah “I wonder what's the
matter with me Maltese" said the pet
cat “I can't stalk a mouse successful-
ly to save my lives"
"No wonder" said the Btrny cat dis-
dainfully “if all your neckties are as
loud as that you’re wearing”
Most Useless Ever
“Can you Imagine anything more
useless than a comb without any
teeth?"
“Yes golf links without a club-
house"— Birmingham Age-Herald
A torn jacket is soon mended but
hard words bruise the heart of a
child— Longfellow
He patient with everyone but above
all with yourself I mean do not be
disturbed because of your imperfec-
tions and alw-ays rise bravely from a
fall — Francis de Sales
RrodCcfc
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Now and again you see two women pass-
ing down the street who look like sisters
You arc astonished to learn that they aro
mother sad daughter and you realize that
a woman at forty or forty-five ought to be
at her finest and fairest Why isn’t it so?
The general health of woman is so in-
timately associated with the local health
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Women who have suffered from
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Aoy sick woman may consult Dr Fierce by letter free Every letter is
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Timmons, S. C. The Aline Chronoscope. (Aline, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1910, newspaper, July 1, 1910; Aline, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1743711/m1/2/?q=led+zeppelin: accessed May 31, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.