The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-24
FORMATION OF PARADE.

toRMATloN OF PARADE.
Mounted police.
Patrol wagon
Sery!si ser, DUG Of 'hiHf OF fre department.;
Two rlatoons oi poll enneh an command of
Chi'f kou!.ng,
Forest band.
Mayor and council, etc. in twelve car
Chief Hickey and I'si six assistant chiefs.
Crump's band.
Franklin Engine company, No /.
Citizens band of Jermyn.
crystal Hose company of Jermyn.
Nay Aug company.
Liberty Hose company.
Lawrence band
Crystal Hose company.
Neptune Engine company.
Relief Engine company.
General Phinney Engine company,
81. Paurs Drum corps.
Eagle Engine company.
Columbia Hose company.
Niagara Hose company.
PheniX Hose COMPANY
Excelsior Hose company.
Bauers band
Hook and Ladder company.
William Council Hose company.
Ringgod band.
laylor Hose company, No l.
Century Hose company.
Cumberland Hose company.
Old Neptune Hand. Engine.
The line of march was along the fol.
lowing route: On jefferson ayen,In. to
spruce street, to Franklin avenue. TO
LacKaWanna avenue. to Eighth stree
couhtefmarch. Lackawanna avenue. to
ADAMS avenue, to Pine street, tn WASH
ington averhie, to Linden srrcer. 10
wyoming avenue and thence in r.riew
before Mayor Bailey and city oncials
on the Wyoming house balcony.
All along the route there We're thO,l-
M N "a a nd ti,u
1ally along LaCkawdnna avenue,
where ii was found necessary 10 str7,rh
ropes along the curbs to keep the
throngs from Cruwding into the street.
was the number of onlookais very large,
What with the dense pack of onluukers,
the decorations the music and the la
raiders, the event was one calculated
to give patriotic Scrantonians Lartic-
ular tinge of pride.
IN THE CARRIAGES.
With Mayor Bailey in the carriages
and those who later attended him at
the Wyoming house. where the parade
was reviewed. Wele: City Treasurer
BO!and. City Controller Robinson. city
Clerk Lavelle. Mayors Secretary Beam
ish. Chief Etterick of the Pittstvu Fire
department: Chairman Fred Durr, of
select councils fire department commit
tee, Chairman Noone, of common coun-
ellis fire department committee: Street
Commissioner KinsleI. City Engineer
Phillips. Building Inspector Nelson,
County Commissioner Demuth Select
Councilmen Kealney Thomas. Will
liams. Clarke. Robinson. Fellows.
Schroeder. Burns. Frable. Coyne AMI
McAndrew: Common Cuuncilmen Lot
tus. Gordon, Thomas. Gilroy, Regain.
Flanagan, Wirth Sweeney. Nealis,
Zeidler McGrail and Norton. Archi-
tects l.. l.. Brown and Percival Morris,
=. W. Gallagher. Frank Cobb. r. En-
met O'Boyle. John Snyder, of Wilkes
Barre, and NJ. i. Whalen.
To compliment any one company in
the line would he eGuivolent to Civ
ing a deserved especial mention of all.
The apparent proficiency, numbers, per
feet condition of apparatus. appearance
of the men and horses everything, in
fact. conspired to reflect credit on the
head of the department.. Chief p. j.
Hickey. He headed the department
proper In the parade and was attended
by the following district chiefs: John
Tlmlin. First district: Fred Warnke,
Second district; NJ. McManus. Third
district. Louis Schwass. Fourth dis
trict: Charles Raynor, Fifth district.
J. j. O'Malley. Sixth district.
After the marchers had disbanded on
Lackawanna avenue Mayor Bailey and
many of the city officials made an in
formal visit to the Hook and Ladder
company's quarters on West Lacka-
wanna avenue. From there many Wis
tied Franklin Engine company. on the
West side. where a delectable supper
was served. The North End companies
were then visited.
WHAT THE MAYOR SAID.
Said Mayor Bailey to Tribune re-
porter in the Wyoming house a. the
conclusion of the parade:
Il have everything to praise and
nothing to criticize. display of
Scranton's police and fire departments
was always pleasing to me, but this
one, the first In my official experience