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...soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted firemen came by fireboat and engine. As the rum burnt, its evaporated alcohol made the firemen tipsy. They put on gas masks. All over town Londoners could see the fire's reflection...
Things Thrown. By the fireboat John Purroy Mitchel: eight sparkling plumes of harbor water. By Broadway: 70 tons of ticker tape, wastepaper. torn telephone books.* By other onlookers along the route from Manhattan's Battery to Washington: hats, flowers, confetti, kisses...
Welcome. The Swedish Minister at Washington, the U. S. Minister to Sweden and J. Butler Wright of the State Department took the visitors on a city ferryboat. Governor's Island fired 21 guns. The municipal fireboat sent eight streams of water high in the air. At the Battery a guard of Marines escorted the party to the City Hall. Mayor Walker made a speech. The Crown Prince made a speech?quite professionally?into the radio microphone?departed for Washington...