Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-07
FlREMENs ANNUAL PARADE.
The Day Was Perfect and Every Com
 pany Turned out in Full Numbers.

The Day Was Perfect and Every Com
 pany Turned out in Full Numbers.
 If there is one thing that pleases the fire laddies of Waterbury and delights the hearts of their best girls, their sisters and their aunts, it is the annual parade of the fire department. No better day could have been selected, as a nice, cool breeze swept over the heads of the fire fighters as they marched in parade to
 the strains of martial music.
 Promptly at 10 o'clock this morning, Chief Snagg and his assistants, Mayor Webster and members of the board of
 aldermen and councilmen, the fire com missioners and invited guests left in
 front of City ,hall in hacks and 'busses and went on a tour of inspection of the | fire houses. They were all found neat | and clean, but every member Of the | board of comm issioners was-of the opin- | ion that each house sadly needed paint ing on the inside and pointing on the outside. The apparatus was in fair re- pair, but it needs greater appropria-
 tion than there is at present to put the
 houses in presentable shape.
 Bands of music continued to arrive all morning. At two o'clock, when the procession started from the green there l was music enough floating through the air to satisfy every body. The companies | ana InelE Oduus uEe" up III IiIe ou lnS
 north side of the green and were inspec-
 ted by Mayor Webster and the city of- ficials. The march was then taken around the green, to Church street, to IGrand. to Leavenworth, to West Main,
 to Exchange place, to Bank, to Meadow, to South Main, to Mast Main, to Cherry,
 to Grove, to Central avenue, to West
 Main, to Crane, countermarching to
 State. Here the bands consolidated and marched around the green.
 A platoon of eight policemen con sisting of Officers Tehan, Noonan, Reid Ahearn, McAuliffe, Mccarthy, Blake ley and w. Brickel, with Sergeant Thomas Dodds in charge, led the van Following came Chief Snagg and Assis tants Beecher, O'Brien and Byrne, ther came Phoenix, No 1, forty men Y, led by Pope's band of Hartford The steamer and supply wagon from the same house followed. Colts banc of Hartford came next, leading Citizens No 2, 36 men, the steamer and supply wagon bringing up the rear. Wheeler {
 Wilson's band of Bridgeport came mex with Monitor, No 3, 30 men. Tn National band of Wallingford heade Mutual Hook and Ladder Go, 8 5 men. The aerial ladder, drawn b. g three superb greys, followed The cid Tt e liable Second Regiment band, or Amer | Cdn Dduu Ol NeW hdNGuy lL
 Expiration for Protector No. f. Thirt men of the Hartford City band marche '' at the head of Rose Hill Company No. Q thirty-four men, and our own Amer a can band brought up the rear with tn e Brass City No 6, 35 men. Following cam e the hacks containing Mayor Webste
 and city officials, visiting firemen, 1T vited guests and members of the loct lodge of Elks. It was the gener' E opinion that the boys never looked c ,s marched better, and visitors were in
 pressed with the belief that Waterbur a has some efficient fire eaters.
 t. Among the visiting firemen wei 10 Chief George Smith and ex-Chief Davi T. Ross of the Wallingford fire departmen
 Chief Hendricks of New Haven, Chi, D Bradstreet of Thomaston, and Fire Con o missioner Landecker of South Carolin ,e After the parade the Phoenix, Ro 1 Hill and Brass City companies marche as to the West End grounds, where re grand picnic is being held.