The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-11

NEW CASTLE Oct. Infringement
are now nearing completion for the
great Flremen's Convention and parade
on Thursday. Although the grentest
labor OF preparing for the visitors has
been accomplished. the members of
the LenRDe company. and especially
of the committee will not give tho II.
nal sigh OF relief until the dem onstra.
tlon has been a thing Of the past. The
members OF tho above company be.
gan the work of securing subscrlp.
lions TO their new engine house about
seven months ago, and since that time
thev have been working indefatlgably
to have tho structuTe completed In
timh for dedication on Thursday, 90.
toher l3, and In few days their hopes
Will have been realized.
The visiting tiremen will be met at
the depot on Thursday morning and
escorted to the Court House, where
they will be welcomed by Mayor Her.
bert, after which they will adjourn to
the Opera House, where the conyen.
ton will be called to order at nine
o'clock. 1t twelve O'Clock the ladIes
of the w. c. T. u. will serve lunch.
cor on Ieslle's lawn, T.h.S parade VIII
10 in tiiIec ii vieian1; anu MI ~! foAdl Al
80 o'clock. The first division wfli
form on South street, the second on
sixth street, and the third on Delaware
anil Sixth.
The route of parade is as follows:
South 10 Pearl, to Delaware. to Union,
to Harmony, to Front to Delaware to
Ninth, to Washington avenue 10 Sew.
enth, to Clyner and conntermarch to
South, to engine house AMI dismiss,
lie tlDdcntion of tho new building
will take place Immediately after the
dismissal of the parade. 1t has buen
estimated that there will be two thou.
sal d visitors in town, this number be-.
ing nenrly half the number of inhabi.
tauts OF this city.
The streets are being cleaned and the
paNeIuents put In order for tho oc.
casion. An arch Eearlng the insclip.
ton, Welcome Volunteers" has been
erected In front of the new engine
| house. Another arch has been erected
In front OF the Rad Mems Hall, the
old headquarters. 10 tho Weceacoe
Company of Wilmington has been AZ.
corded the honor of transferring tho
engine from tho old house to the new.
1t has not yet been decided who will
be tine orator of the day, but 1t will
probably be Alexander b. Cooper or
John ii. Rodney. The proceedings of
the day will DO completed by fire.
mems ball in tho evening. A meeting
was held at the Mayors office last
evening to arrange and provide for
the prizes to be offered
| A telegram receiN ed here last eyan-
| ing announced that Br. samuel Barr
died last evening about six o'cl elk In
| Washington. II. &. Dr. Barr va, ia.
turning to his home in South bake t, ),
I alter spending some weeks with no 10
/ tivss here. He took the so ira n ye
terday morning, and was in his II ,tlal
hea Tn, and his death WAS n great
shock to his friends hero. IIo was a
b. other of Mrs. LAM and George Barr
OF this city. Mrs. Lane left this in orr.
Ing for Washington.
lh' funeral OF Mrs Hannah D.ckson,
which took place In Emmanuel Church
yesterday afternoon, was lary civ al.
tended. The pull-bearers were: Rob.
ert c. Gordon. Henry Holschumaler,
u. d. Blackburn, Thomas Frazer, Geo.
Hewlett and Lewis h. Ellason.
Owing to the untlmeiy death OF Miss
Mary DGGord, who was a member Of
the Stdte Road Sunday school, the
musical entertainment. which was to
have been conducted by Prof. pruck-
enmiller at the chapel on Thursday
evening, has been postponed indett-
nitely.
a Republican mass meeting has been
arranged to DO held in the Opera
HOUSE on Friday evening. The
speaker will be Patrick O'FarreIl and
Hugh q. Browne.
The new librRryonOrange street will
10 thrown open for public inspection.
Ihonas X. Lancaster, tha eornetfst,
viii accompany iyatt's Military Band
TO Philadelphia this evening.