Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-07-29
ports of the treasurer and the secretary
were adopted.
l.. G. Grant offered these resolutions,
which were adopted

were adopted.
L. c. Grant offered these resolutions,
which were adopted:
Resolved, That this association tavors an
| international tournament to consist OF hose
races, hook and ladder races, drills. hose
coupling and hand engine contests, to take
place at Chicago during firemen's week OF the
great Columbian exposition, and the con
| each state each Territory, each province OF
Canada and each foreign country in each
naSs of % races sag al t company 70 oe ~ @
hereafter made; and do appoint l.. Z. Grant OF
Burlington to represent this State in com.
mittee consisting of two from each State,
Territory, province and country wishing to
participate in the contests, and we further
approve OF the secretary OF the National as.
sociation of Fire Chiefs, Henry A. Hills OF
Hartwell, o., acting as chairman OF that COM
mittee when formed.
Resolved That this association is OF the
opinion that the suggestion OF a national but
ton tor active and exempt fremen, as pro
posed by the Fireman's Herald, is a proper
one and we heartily endorse the No; ! (fre
the Herald, as 1t has been chosen by large
majority OF those who have examined the
designs and expressed their preference. We
also approve OF the Fireman's Herald being
the sole distributor of the buttons, as they
are best calculated to make rules to govern
their distribution, and we will do all we can
to have law passed by Congress (similar to
the one now in force relating to the Grand
Army button( to protect the fireman's but
ton, as we believe the f1remen OF this country
are rs worthv OF protection as any class OF
citizens we have.
D. F. Carmody of Fair Haven, Law
renee w. Grant, editor of the Fireman's
Herald, New York, and F. E. Allen of
Fair Haven were made life members of
the association.
Editor Clark was called out and made
a short speech, in the course of which
he spoke of the need of legislation for
the establishment of benevolent organi-
cations for tiremen and offered his SER
vices in this connection whenever they
might be required. He thought there
was no doubt that there would be fire.
mems week at the Columbian exposi-
ton and that the international tourna-
ment would come off.
X. X. Hannum, delegate to the nation
al association meeting of last year, was
called upon for his report, but said he
accidentally left it at home and would
send it to the secretary for publication.
J.E. Slattery of Rutland intimated
that some of the companies that were
to contest in the hose races has imported
professional runners for the occasion, aud
he thought they ought to be barred.
The secretary read the list of appoint
ments made by the executive committee
at its meeting in the forenoon, as fol-
lows: Hose race-F. ii. Winch of Mid
dlebury, starter \. Calhoun of Middle
bury, hydrant Judge; X. X. Hannum of
Rutland, pipe Judge: j. j. Thompson of
Rutland, c. y. Chapman of FerrisbIrgh
and G. Fl. Williamson of Middlebury,
were to serve also in the hose.coupling
contest, the hook and ladder contest and
the l50-yards dash. In the hand-engine
contest the judges were to be, at the en-
CINE, j. NJ. Davis of Rutland; at the
pipe, E. r. Green of Rutland; at the
stream, Alex. Crosby of Burlington.
1t was voted that the association pay
the expenses of the delegate to the ma
tional ass ociation meeting.
j. j. Shea of Burlington moved, and
it was voted, that the chair appoint
committee of three to draw up suitable
resolutions on the death of George
McCue of Middlebury, send copy to the
family and have them printed in the pa
pers. The chair named as such commit
tee D. J. Foster and L. c. Grant of Bur-
lington and E. d. Moore, the secretary.
The drawing for places in the various
contests of Thursday occupied the re-
! nd Of tho caccinn u-hioh did
end till 6 o'clock. The names of the sew
eral organizations were written on sep
arate tickets and placed in hat and po-
sitions were assigned them according to
the order in which the names came
out.
THE DOINGS YESTERDAY-BIG CROWDS
AND LOTS OF FUN-REsULTs OF
THE CONTESTS.
Yesterday was, of course, the great
day of the gathering. The trouble began
early indeed, there was more or less of
it all night. Rooms could not be had by
some of the men, who took up their quar-
tiers in the parks and under the trees in
door-yards and tried to sleep, but with
little satisfaction. 1t was hot and more
or less people were astir every minute.
Then contingent of firemen arrived
from Brattleboro on the :3S New York
train and marched uptown, headed by
an excellent drum corps, who woke up
the fraction of the town that had dropped
asleep. The late arrivals did not secure
quarters and put in the rest of the night
travelling up and down the streets. The
first special train reached here from the
south with the Rutland and perhaps 9TH
er companies at As. Soon another spe-
cal came from st. Adams; at 8 80 there
was another long one of ten cars from
Rutland, bringing the Whitehall and