The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-01
FIREMEN ON PARADE.
THE SAVANNAH DEPARTMENTS
SPLENDID TURNOUT.


thousands Witness the Parade and
Exhibitions The Engines of 1880
and of 1890 in Line-Crowds Along
the Line of March-The Aerial Lad
der Exhibition and the Test of the
New Chemical Engine.
the event of yesterday morning was the
6reman's parade. which brought out in
sharp contrast the progress made in forty
wears in the apparatus for combating the
fire fend.
At the head of the column was the old
Pulaski hand engine No. 2, built in 1880,
and which for twenty years was an old
standby Of the volunteer fire department.
IT was drawn yesterday by twenty boys,
commanded by Master Eugene Mouro, son
of Assistant Chief Fireman Mouro
The companion piece, the little hose reel
,hat used to run with the old-time hand
engine. came next, drawn by fifteen boys,
and commanded by Master Johnnie Fitz-
gerald The two ancient relics of fire pro-
lection were labeled 1850" and looked
small and insignificant when compared
with the modern apparatus which has sue
ceeded them.
THE WORKING APPARATUS.
The apparatus now in use came next, the
new Holloway chemical engine having the
post of honor at the head of the line and
CARRYING a banner with '1S90n inscribed
thereon The engine, which was beauty,
was commanded by its engineer. Patrick
O'NeiL. The. other apparatus followed in
the following order:
Aerial Truck and Ladder, A. J. Tosach, Fore
man.
Engine and Hose Reel No. /, P. ]. Conner Fore
man.
Engine and Hose Reel No. 9, NJ Hanley Fore
Engine and Hose Reel No 8, John j. Connolly,
Hook and Ladder Truck No. 2 Engine and
Hose Reel No. 4, Charles G. Steinberg,
Foreman.
Engine and Hose Reel No. 5.
Hose Reels Nos. /. and 2.
Hose Wagon No. 1.
Chief Fireman Puder headed the parade
in his buggy and Assistant Chief Mouro
drove along the line.
The line formed on Bay street, near the
city exchange, and began to move half an
hour earlier than was announced, starting
promptly at $3.50 O'Clock. The march was
from the city exchange on Bay to West
Broad, to Congress, to Bull, to st. Julian
to Drayton, to Bay, to East Broad, to
Broughton, to Jefferson, to Liberty, to
West Broad, countermarching on Liberty
street, thence down Liberty to Wheaton
and countermarching on Liberty to Dray-
ton.
THE AERIAL LADDER EXHIBITION.
At that point all exhibition was given of
the workings of the aerial ladder. Liberty
street and its sidewalks were blocked with
people, and the windows of the De Soto and
the stoopS, balconies and windows of the
residences on both sides of the street were
crowded with spectators. Pipeman
Whitman ran up the ladder when it was ex-
tended to hight of forty feet, and line of
hose ran up from which a stream
der being shifted in rnidair
as the stream was being thrown. After
ward the ladder was leaned on the roof of
three story building, and the next exhibit
ton was rapidly removing the ladder to the
sill of fourth story window, from which
Fireman Whitman, who had gone up on
that floor from the street, made his exit on
the ladder, showing the life-saving value of
the apparatus.
After the exhibition on Liberty street the
procession reformed, and moved north on
Drayton street to South Broad, and to fire.
mems headquarters, where the line was dis
banded, and practical test was made of
the chemical engine, in the presence of
5000 or 1900 people.
THE NEW CHEMICAL ENGINE TEST.
A huge bonfire of 100 barrels, interlined
with straw, and a half barrel of kerosene
poured around the edges and over the top
of the mass of infiammable material, was
fired, and when the entire mass was
wrapped in flames single stream from one
of the tanks of the Chemical was turned on
and the fire was extinguished in two and
half minutes. New barrels were then added
and the other half barrel of kerosene APP
piled, and again the hot flames wrapped the
pile in mass of fire, but in two minutes
the single stream from the chemical engine
put out the fire.
Mr. R. Ross Holloway, son of the manu-
facturer of the engine, superintendent the
test, and refused to permit both tanks with
two streams to play on the fire, as he said
he wanted the fire committee of the city
council and the citizens to see how quick
the fire could be subdued with one line of
hose. Alderman Bailey, chairman of the
fire committee, and other members of coun-
Gil witnessed the exhibition test.
FINE DISPLAY.
The parade of the department was most
creditable one, and the boys had their en-
gines polished until they shone like mirrors.
ard the sleek condition of as fine lot of
horses as ever pulled an engine or a hose
reel showed that the men and the horses are
on the best terms with each other The
horses walked proudly and seemed to enjoy
the crowds they attracted and the music of
Cobb's band and the Brunswick band,
which were the features of the parade