Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-14
THE EMPIRE AT CHAMBERsBURG.

Their Part in the FIremsn's Parade. There
The parade of the Cumberland Valle
firemen in Chambersburg yesterday wa
all that its sanguine management expecte'
for it. The town put on holiday garl
and the country turned in to witness th'
spectacle. During the whole day tn
streets were thronged with people, but tn
best of order prevailed. Though unit
nearly midnight marching companies, sere
nading bands and departing guests made
the town lively. there was very littlt
drunkenness, or any other kind of disorder
or decentralization.
The special occasion Of the display wa:
the centennial anniversary of the Friend
ship company and to make it success
every town in the Cumberland Valley con.
tributed representatives of firemen and
citizens. Harrisburg, Carlisle, Hagers.
town, Shippelhburs and Martinsburg, be-
| sides Lancaster, Norristown and Frederick
| Md, had companies and bands of music
| i'll the line, which was made up of six
| divisions, including some eighteen compa-
nes and nearly as many bands and drum
corps.
AS whole, it was one of the cleancst,
neatest and most gentlemanly bodies of
firemen ever seen in line. About one
thousand equipped men paraded. Their
uniforms, apparatus and style of marching
were such rs to excite most favorable COM
ment all along the line. Governor Hoyt
rode in an open barouche in the hook
and ladder division and review
ed the parade in the square. The
Lancaster boys marched admirably and
presented a strikingly handsome appear
ance. Their truck was by all odds the
finest machine in line Clemmens's band
carried OF the honors OF the day and the
Empire was the favorite company. Clayt.
Myers, John COPELAND, Ferd. Demuth and
Abe Keller formed the advance file and
created great merrment by the "solid
front" they presented. One old fellow
who came to town said, 81 vas much dis
appointed dat de guvnor made no speech,
abcr sees Won sing | never secs-dem four
Lancaster mems vat Weighed a TOM
The line of march measured about four
miles and after its end was reached the
different companies made short street
parades.
Last evening about twenty of the Ian
caster, boys with brooms, tin horns, whis
ties and toy drums, marshalled by "Budd''
Metzgcr, on a white horse, made bur-
lesquc procession over the town, to the great
delight of it's citizens.
This morning they visited the reservoir
and water works, saw trial of tho Fred
erick company's steamer, and of the pres
sure of the local water works Oh the fire
plugs, enabling the Chambcrsburg people
to throw over their highest buildings will
out an engine.
Three or four of the local companies
had elegant spreads last night in the pub-
lie halls, to all of which the Empire we're
invited, and which they acknowledged by
visiting first one then the other, in body.
The entertainment has been inexilausti
able in its hospitality and all the citizens
OF Chanbersburg feel themselves hosts of
the occasion.
At o'clock they left for home and will
reach this city at 6:25, when they will lie
received in accordance with tho programme
previously published.
The alarm bell in the tower OF the En-
pire fire company will be sounded this
evening at halfpast 3 O'Clock as a notice
to those who intend to participate in the
reception of the Empire boys on their re-
turn from Chambersburg to "get ready
Chief Marshall McMell;n requests his
aids to report to him at Crcmer's Globe
hotel. North Queen street, opposite the
depot, at six o'clock for instructions.
The companies intending to participate
in the reception of the Empire will form
in regular order at 6:15, on Chestnut sire, t,
right resting on North Queen.