Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-08-24
THE FIRE ladies
PUT IN A BIG DAY DOWN AT BELL
ARE.
The Wooster Hooks Win in Their Contest, and
Martins Ferry Takes the Hose Com
pany Prize

MdlunS FeITy taxes Inc hose Com
pany Prize.
The second and closing day of the Fire
mems Tournament at Bellaire was all that
could have been desired by the fire laddies
Old Sol got out early, and continued to
shine forth all day At an early hour
Union and Belmont streets were crowded,
and as the time for the first of the races ap-
preached trains on the B. * o., c. * p.
and B., Il. & c. emptied hundreds of visit
ors into the city II was nearly noon when
the hook and ladder contest took place The
/ New Philadelphia and Wooster hooks en-
tered. The race was very exciting and
change from the usual order of contests of
/ the fire ladies The course was 30 rods,
with truck weighing 1000 pounds. The
/ New Philadelphia team, with fifteen men,
ran first, and made the distance and sent Il
man TO the tOpmost round OF the ladder
raised by the running team at the end of
the race course in Just 3515 seconds. They
were followed by the Wooster team, who
covered the same distance, with twenty
one men, and sent their man to the top
round of just as long ladder in 2S$4 sec
Onds
The names of the boys in the New Phila-
dephia team were: Frank Stow, fore
man; Frank Albert, secretary; Dawson
Derrick John White, w. II. Swihart, ..
/ =. Wages, John Miller, John Warner, Otto
| Hinsel, ID. A. Kaerman, Geo. Kaerman,
5. Compton, VIM. Shawtier, VIM. Beckold,
/ Ed Marbet, Ed Butts and Ira Cordrey.
The boys are u Jolly lot. On account of
| their being steadily employed in the vari-
IONS Lrch "A home N
get as much practice as they would like,
but they are feet of foot. They had not as
many men by seven To pull the truck as
/ their opponents but they made very
creditable showing. Next year they will
/ be in better shape forucOntesting and will
make Wooster look TO her laurels.
The team from Wooster was made up of
the following gentlemen: A ID. Miller,
Foreman; w. b. Potts, Secretary; Ed.
| Snavely, Assistant Foreman; Lee Smith,
r. Baker, Jas. Fisher, Geo. kestler, L.
Stevens, A. Mcdonald, Fred Edgar, Chas
Shamp, Jas. BrOwnick, VIM. Burbet, NJ.
Limb, Ed. Bates, Harry Cassidy, Chas.
Cuttou, Frank Blandford, B. Spar. VIM.
Roth, and Geo. Thompson, The boys are
mostly college chaps, who take great pride
in their work. They are out most every
day for practice and have never been
beaten in contest They captured
500 by the display of skill, and
would probably have taken another sum as
large in the hose-reel contest had they not
| been barred from competing. The timers
/ for the races We're VIC. Bergundthal, w.
/ c. Cochran, and b. T. Jones. The judges
were James T. Kelly, ID. II. Darrah, and
John X. Cow, and the teams were started
I by John Z. Flynn and Ed. Stegar.
An unfortunate accident happened 10 one
/ of the Orrville runners while the team was
racing A gentleman named Waumer was
/ thrown down and run over by the reel He
was picked up and carried 10 the Central
House. where he is confined TO his bed.
/ This was the only occurrence that marred
the visit of the tiremen. The Bellaire fire
department did all that was in its power to
successfully entertain the visitors, and il
is hoped that the boys all had royal good
good time. The denizens of the Glass City
feel more kindly toward the fire ladies in
/ general, now that they have had occasion
TO see that they are not half SO bad as they
/ are generally claSsed.
The decision of this contest gave entire
satisfaction, but trouble occurred during
the afternoon.
In the afterdinuer contests seven hose
companies took part. Five of them be-
lOnged 10 the Association. but Martins
Ferry and Marietta were not members and
the Bellaire BOYS were compelled 10 give
10 the Northeastern Association $40 TO al
low them 10 enter and the former took the
prize money, while the latter got there for
second houOrs. The thirty rods were
covered by the companies as follows:
Seconds.
Martin, Ferry Company ................ 35is
Defiance Marietta .....--.... .......... g,
Eagles Canton ....... ... .-.....-.. 81
independent. Salem Observation-Disclosures. 81
Monitor.
McFarlandS. OF Well>yille. accident.
Deluge. of Salem, no time, ON account of 90 loose
coupling.
The Eagles. of Canton. raised protest
as TO their taking third place. They were
after second money. but failed To get il.
After the above race the Wellsville fire de
partmert gave an exhibition. President
Van FaFcen, of the Northeastern Associa-
ton, resides at WellSvillc, and he is Justly
proud of his companies.
The Martins Ferry fire department is 4
comparatively new organization. 1t is com
posed of some Of the best citizens of Mar
tins Ferry The bows came down enmasse
and captured the 50 prize for the largest
number of fremen in attendance. The
boys who pulled the reel TO success are given
below: Chas. Swartz. Allen McKee, Dan
Woods, VIM. Cattell, Jos Ali, Jas.
Winters, Thomas Sanders, Il. c.. Mont
gomery, William Thomas, Milton Hager,
John Moore, W. j. Lynch, William Jud-
kins, Patrick Moore, James Clark, Ellis
Lash, f. w. Shreve, T. II. Heslop and
Stanley Gibbons. Foreman. The winners
were proud of their victory. They have
Just purchased a new sporting reel, which
they expected to contest with, but owing
TO the strike on the New York Central
railroad the wagon did not arrive in town.
Last night Bellaire was painted slight
shade of vermillion. The days contests
over all Joined in having Jolly, big time.
The products of Schmulbach and Reymann
suffered, but there We're no disturbances of
any consequence. Indeed everybody re
marked that the days events had passed
of much more quietly than was antici-
pated Some pickpockets We're in town,
and a countryman named Hart had his
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