The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-16
VANGUARD OF FIRE CHIEFS
SEVERAL ALREADY HEBE-CON-
 TENTION OPENS TOMORROW,

LATED Nartles EXpeCte0 IO-uay-Cnleh
 swenie of Chicago will Arrive This
 Evening-The Grand Illumination on
 the Green Begins Tomorrow Night
 Exhibitions of Fire Apparatus.
 During the week New Haven will en- tertain as her guests several hundred fire chiefs, including in their number some of the most famous fire fighters in the United States and Canada. These heroes of many a disastrous con- fagration will be welcomed by all New Haven and if the arrangements now made are carried out everything possi- tion and entertainment here such that they will always have pleasant recol- lections of their visit to the City of Films. Elaborate plans of entertain- ment have been prepared by the gem eral committee in charge of arrange ments for the convention and nothing now remains to be done but to carry out their plans, which promise reoep- ton well worthy of New Haven and one that will compare very favorably with that given to the chiefs by other cities in which former conventions have been held. M
 Some of the visiting chiefs have al. ready arrived, but 1t is expected that nearly every train arriving in the city to-day will bring more and that by to- night great proportion of those ex- pected will have arrived. A party of 15o is expected to arrive on the steamer Richard Peck this evening and Chief Swenie of Chicago with delegation from that and other western cities Is expected to arrive on the o'clock train from New York tonight. The Chicago party will come over the New York Central to Albany and go down the Hudson from that city to New York by steamer.
 Those visitors to the convention who had already arrived last evening are. Chief McFall of Roanoke, Va, Henry A. Hills of Cincinnati, secretary of the International Fire Engineers associa- ton, and wife, Assistant Chief Carl M. Roemer of Montgomery, Ala, Chief T. w. Haney of Jacksonville, Fla, Chief J. H. Osborn of southington, and Ex- hibitors F. A. Berry, A. Robart of Cambridgeport, Mass, and w. H. Wright and John H. Melouin of Bos- ton.
 The grand illumination on the Green which will last during the four nights of the convention will begin to-mor- row evening.
 The grass plot in front of the central fire office has been profusely set with fine potted plants and palms in honor of the visitors. One of the most in- teresting features of the convention will be the exhibits. In the store at 887 Chapel street. formerly occupied by Ewen Mcintyre, and the use of which Mir. Mcintyre has kindly donated for that purpose, will be 6 complete exhibit of small fire appliances. In the show windows of the same building will be an interesting and valuable exhibition of about 15o old fire relics. On thebroad pavements at the front and rear of city hall will be a large exhibit of fire rolling stock
 Tomorrow morning the convention will open at il o'clock. At that hour there will be an assembly in front of the city hall and the assemblage will proceed to Warner hall in the follow. ing order:
 1-Genera1 committee of arrange~ nents acting as escort.
 2-Old Guard band.
 3-President and officers of the as< sociation.
 4-Ex- presidents and guests.
 5-Chiefs, associate and honorary members.
 6-Exhibitors and others.
 Upon arriving at Warner hall tha convention will receive the formal well come by His Honor Mayor Fred B. Farnsworth, and others. Responses. Organization for business, transaction of business and discussion of topics and papers
 Regular order of business. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the convention to the general public will be the illumination on the green. About 1,2O0 incandescent lights will be- used to illuminate the entire lower half of the green. The power to supply these lights will be furnished free of charge by the Fair Haven and Vest vile Railroad company which has a large reserve power. A considerable power will be required to run the large number of lights and it is probable that for this and for the increased passenger traffic on the road during the conven-