San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-12
AMERICAS FIRE LADS.
They Will be the Feature of Lon
don's International Tour
nannent,

congress of the firemen of the world
begins here today, with represen-
tation from almost every civilized
nation on the face of the globe.
The tournament is under the
auspices of the National Fire
Brigade Union, of which the Pres
ident is Sir Eyre NJ. Shaw, K. c. B.,
eX-chief of the London MetrOpOli-
tan Fire Brigade; the district pres
ldents are the Right Honorable
Lord Wolverton and Sir John III.
| Puleston. The chairman is Lieu
| tenant Colonel SeabroOke, chief Of
ficer of the Rugby Fire Brigade.
| One of the most valuable depart
ments of the union is the Widows
and Orphans fund, the patrons of
which are His Grace, the Duke
of Rotland, G. c. B.; Right Hon
Earl of Dartmouth and Niscount
Curzon, NJ. P, and the trustees the
Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl
| of Denbeigh and the Right Hon.
Lord Wolverton.
The United States must rest its
hopes for national distinction not
upon it's metropolis, but upon Kan
sas City, which alone has sent a
team. The fire department of New
| York, however, will have worthy
representative in the person of
| Commissioner Purroy, who is now
in Europe and will go to London
in time for the congress. Boston
is sending Fire Commissioner JnO.
r. Murphy, but no apparatus nor
any members of the rank and file.
While mentioning the foreign Wis
| itors to the London congress, it is
noteworthy that Major PaXin, a
prominent member of the st. Pc
tersburg fire department, has ac-
copied and invitation to be present.
France is represented by full
team, who bring along their en-
gines and other apparatus just on
the same principle as that adopted
by the Kansas City delegation, for
the Frenchmen are bent upon up
holding their reputation before all
corners.
The honors of the American de-
legation are quite easily borne by
| Kansas City, whose citizens have
displayed an amount of enterprise
fairly emitting them to the dis
tinction. 1t may cheer the Mis-
souri, firemen to know that their
efforts stand an excellent chance
of adequate reward, as they bring
horses with them, and the success
Of the AldershOt contingent at
Havre last year were largely due
to their having been the only Wis
itOrs who made horses feature of
their outfit. The AldershOt bri-
gade possesses remarkable fine
roam team capable of unusually
good work. The Kansas delegation
is in charge of Chief George c.
Hale, and its program includes all
the difficult featS in which firemen
are trained. The team is composed
of picked men, whose eyes are sure
and whose nerves are steady as
steel wires. They are among the
best in the fire fighting business
and will achieve wonders to make
their hosts open their eyes in
amaZement. Few men are better
known among firemen and the
great public that delights in honor
ing them than George w. Hale
the chief of the Kansas City (MO.
Fire department. Chief Hale was
born in Cotton, st. Lawrence cOun
ty, this state, in lS49. In 1861 he
went to Kansas City and entered
, the firm of Lloyd & Leland, who
retired from business some years
5 ago. In 1866 he took charge of the
machinery of the big bridge
that spans the Missouri river
and remained there until the com
Q pletion of the bridge and it's cele
g bration July 4, 1869. In 1871 h
S was appointed engineer of JOIN
t Campbell, Engine No. l, the frs
e engine belonging to Kansas City
B In 1887 he was appointed foreman
B of the hose companies. In 1889 h
Il was made assistant chief unde
Colonel Frank FOsser, and upOl
the retirement of the latter tool
e up the duties of chief. The frs
l. event on the official program O
If the congress will be an inspection
n of his great invention, the Hal
water tower.
The Kansas City men will hav
post Of honor, and Immediately
after Royalty has opened the eS
g. hibition will begin the exercis
k according to the following pro
gramme:
EXERCISES OF POMPIER CORPS.
|, Ground drill,