Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — Fireworks Cheep This Year. [ARTICLE]

Fireworks Cheep This Year.

Herbert Wycherley, of Parkville, N. Y., a manufacturer of fireworks, said to a reporter: “ Fireworks generally are about one-half this year that they were last year. Even the firecrackers, the cheapest, most obnoxious and least profitable of all forms of pyrotechnics, only bring fifty cents a box this year against $1 a box last year. You asked about novellies, though. Well, there are very few novelties, strictly speaking. There are two, however, that are new in effect, though both of them arc old enough in form. We have a pinwheel in stock that is made up to look precisely like an old-fashioned Uatharine-wheel, as they call it in England; but it is made with magnesium, so that it is almost 100 brilliant to look at while it is burning. Then we have small torches made up in a similar way, that give out a light so fierce us to dazzle the eye. Aside from these, I don’t believe there is anything new.” Fireworks of all kinds arc so dieap this year that, if the small boy’s money holds out, there will be nearly twice as much disturbance around town on the glorious Fourth as there was last year.