Frostburg mining journal., 1895-06-22
What They Think of Us.

of the Westminster Fire Engine and
Hose company, writes the JOURNAL as
follows:
AT special meeting of our Department,
held this day, ful membership attending,
it was declared by rising vote that Frost
burg outdid any people who have yet enter
tained the Association.
We assure them that Westminster Firemen
and people entertain the warmest gratitude
for the hosptable and kind treatment re-
| ceived, and hope in few years to enjoy the
opportunity of recprocating the same.
The newsboy's letter indicates a
similar sentiment prevailing in Hagers,
town.
The Winchester (Va.) Times, repre-
sented by Capt. j. E. Kiger, president
of the Union Hose company, tells of
the arrival of the company and
welcome to the city on the crest by their
brother tremen and hospitable citizens.
Forming in procession at the depot. headed
by the executive committee of the Maryland
State Firemen's Association and the Frost
burg Fire Department and band, they
marched to their quarters, "The Savage
Mountain Cottages" amid cheers along the
route. They were then escorted to the Fire
mems banquet at Meats Opera House, where
eatables of every description were of an ex-
treme abundance After two
hours march through the principal streets of
Frostburg, amid cheers from thousands on
the sidewalks, the parade disbanded and the
town was turned over to the visiting firemen
by the city officials. Fortunately all of the
Union boys were happy possessors of near
relatives IN the mountain city.
n Frostburg knows how to decorate
its city on big day and how to handle a
large body of firemen. All the boys speak
in highest terms of its hospitality and pretty
girls. Cousins were in abundance
at Frostburg.
The American Sentinel, Westminster,
was represented by John H. Mitten,
member of the Fire Department of
that place. His paper says:
The Westminster Fire Department was
strictly Sin it, at the State Convention of the
land, at Frostburg this week. On every
hand the members met cordial welcome
and were treated with great hospitality. The
Westminster Band came in for share of the
many CourteseS extended.
The Piedmont (W. Va.) Herald
makes an agreeable report. 1t says:
Frostburg, our esteemed neighbor over IN
Alegany county, is having a jubilee of most
joyous memory this week. 1t is the occasion
of the third annual convention of the State
Volunteer Fremens Association. Delega
tons from "all around have thronged in
upon the people and the town until the
lam is great indeed. The town carries its
honors well, and is proving most delightful
host. Crowds, and all in the best of humor,
jostle and sway each other on sidewalk and
road-bed. The elaborate decorations ofhouse,
store hall and street, evidence the general in
terest of everybody, and it hardly needed the
''open gates at the entrance of the town to
publish the welcome at all. The parade of
visiting fremen Oh Wednesday afternoon
was a success, and was feature of the jubilee
that will not soon be forgotten. The march
ing was good the appearance of men and
apparatus was handsome, and the drilling of
the Frederick City, and Homecoming con-
tingents, excellent.
"Philip's Boy" of the Cumberland
AUeganian, looked upon the town and,
in the presence of the JOURNAL, pro
nounced it very good-a compliment
expressed in print this way:
Frostburg was dressed up last week for
visitors. They had them by the thousands
and entertained them royalty.
Col. John W. Avirett was here "off
and on" Once he said in the Cum
berland Times:
The people of Frostburg are to be con-
graduated on their management of the Gel
ebration and it is safe to say that the firemen
not only of Maryland, but of every other
State represented will always preserve a
warm place in their hearts for them. If
Cumberland wishes to outdo Frostburg in
hospitality, she will, indeed, have herculean
task to perform. The people of this city
should resolve to show the tiremen, when
they meet here next year, such a time as they
have never seen before, and the Times feels
sure'they will.
On another day he wrote:
Frostburg can now rest upon its honors.
The universal sentiment is that the tiremens
celebration held there was grand success,
made so by the generosity and good will of
its people.
Ladies' Auxiliary to the Firemen.
The statement below was handed to
the JOURNAL with request to pub
lish 1t will be seen that the ladies
account fully for all the funds passing