Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-22
THE FIREMEN IN READING.
Tho Tiremen's Proposed Insurance Com
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In the state convention Of firemen in
Reading, Lancaster county has been rep
resented by George H. Ettla, Of Marietta,
George W. Schroeder, of Columbia, D. D.
Courtney, of Elizabethtown. Fl. e. Slay-
maker, Jacob Gable, Jacob Herzog, WIN.
Franklin, Samuel B. Cox, 4. S. Edwards
and J. X. Barr, Of this city.
On the matter OF a fremen's insurance
company, the committee appointed for
that. purpose, j. K. Barr, Of Lancaster,
chairman, reported a plan for organiza.
tion. They submitted the necessary
blanks. The capital stock is to be $780,
600, in 1000 shares of $50 each. The
company is to bear the title of the VOiun-
teer Firemen's Insurance Company, $40
per share to be paid at the time of SUBJ
scription, $40 within 60 days after, and
the balance within six months. The
books for subscription to the stock were
opened September 90, at 2 p. M, and will
be kept open during the convention. The
first privilege to subscribe will be-
long to tho companies of the state,
then to the individual members,
and finally to the general public.
Mr.. Barr eulogized the firemen for their
bravery in getting up at the dead of the
night, and saving their neighbors' propertD
at the risk of their lives. In Lancaster he
said, the companies get annually S4OO by
the grace of God and city councils for all
their work, and it is just about enough to
pay off the mortgages on their properties.
ID. d. Courtney, of Elizabethtown, offered
4 resolution that it is the sense of this
convention that the headquarters of the
Volunteer Firemen's insurance company
be in the city Of Harrisburg. On motion
of Alderman Barr, of Lancaster, the reso-
luton was laid On the table, and finally it
was ordered that subscription books for
the stock of the company be opened for 60
days. the Subscribers to name the directors.
1t being agreed that . committee of five
DO appointed who will assign the different
topics to committees for tho preparation
! OF essays to be presented aU tho next
meeting, the following committee was ap.
pointed ]. Lew Rake, Reading W. Ii.
Albright, York G. w. Schroeder, Colum-
bia A. G. Dewalt, Allentown, and w.
f. Desilver, Hollidaysburg.
President McCOol announced the fol-
lowing executive committee Charles
sharpless, Chester Henry A. Dcrr, Nor
ristown Samuel Owen, Shamokin w.
z. Kelley, Scranton ]. X. Barr, Lancas-
ter; William II. Horn, Catasauqua !;
James A. Green, Carlisle NJ. McMahon,
Bradford George w. Crede, jr., Blairs-
vile B. Fleischman, Recalling S. Charles
Seckleman, Bethlehem.
The Parade.
The Shilfter company, Of this city,
headed by the Keystone band and mar
shaled by IL. Smeych, left this morning
and reached Reading in good time for the
parade to-day. They looked very we'll
and marched admirably. The Shiffier was
the third company in the first division of
the parade, the Empire the second COM
pany in the eighth, tho hook and ladder
division
In the parade all apparatus aud colors
were draped in mourning in respect to the
memory of the universally lamented
and sad death Of the president of
the United States, and in view OF the SOL
emn event the companies anil individual
tiremen so depOrted themselves during the
parade, Us to make it an impressive tribute
to the nations sorrow. In the final re-
view and closing of the parade, the bands
as they reached Penn square with muffled
drums, played dirges of music appropriate
to the occasion.
Fell into u Cellar.
To-tlay's Recalling Times
Last evening about half past ten o'clock
blind man, who was being led by a COM
paniOn, while passing up Washington
street fell into cellar that is now being
excavated at the site of the old Junior
engine house. The man was only slightly
bruised by tho unlucky fall, but the accor-
dion that he was carrying at the time was
SO damaged as to be entirely useless. It is
stated that the unfortunate pair are from
Lancaster county, and were lOud in
bewailing the loss of the instrument upon
which they depended for earning a livli-
hood. -