The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-08
SCRANTON FIREMEN
WILL PARADE TODAY
Indications Are That II Will Be a
Gala Event.
MANY VISITING COMPANIES HERE
Police Inspection viii Precede the
Parade, Which Begins ut 2.3O
O'ciock-- Mayor Bailey win Re-
view the Marchers at the CITY Hall.
Open.House at All the Fire Com-
pany Quarters..Balla at Music Hall
Touipht.

This Is Firemen's Day-and before II
is ended Scranton will have witnessed
probably the most extensive event of
the kind in the city's history. doz-
en- or more of visiting companies and
scores of firemen who were attending
the state convention at Wilkes~Barre
Wednesday and Thursday will be here
and will participate In this afternoons
parade.
Until late last night incoming COM
panies were being received by delega-
tions of Scranton firemen and escorted
to the hotels. Among the arrivals
were several fire chiefs.
The weather indications for today
are: Generally fair and cooler, pre-
ceded by local showers near the coast
in the early morning"
Preceding the parade the patrolmen
and officers of the police department
will submit to rigid inspection by
Mayor Bailey and the joint police COM
mttee of councils. The inspection will
probably take place on Linden Street
opposite the court house. Before the
men leave their lockers in the city hall
Chief of Police Robling, Captain Ed
words and the four precinct lieuten-
ants will satisfy themselves that each
members of the force is flawless as
far as his uniforms and accoutrements
are concerned.
PREPARING THE STREETS.
All yesterday afternoon despite the
rain extra hands were pressed into
service by the street cleaning depart
ment and many of the thoroughfares
over which the parade will pass wers
given a thorough cleaning. Tonight
several finishing gangs will be at work
removing every vestige of refuse and
dirt from the parade route.
AT 1.30 o'clock the parade will form
with its van on Wyoming Avenue and
headed toward Linden Street. At a
prescribed signal at 2.30 o'clock, a long
blow on the blast furnace fire gong,
the parade will begin it's passage over
the following route: On Wyoming to
Linden, to Franklin. to Lackawanna,
to Eighth, countermarch to Adams, to
Spruce, to Penn, to Mulberry, to JEFF
fersor, to Pine, to Washington, to
Spruce, to Wyoming,to Lackawanna,
to Penn, to Linden and dismiss.
Mayor Bailey and the board of fire
commissioners will review the parade
from the city hall. They will occupy
a small platform that is to be erected
over the lower flight of steps leading
to the main entrance of the building.
On the return yesterday from the
big parade in Wilkes-Barre of Chief
Hickey and other Scranton city off,
cialS it was announced that the fol-
lowing visiting companies would be in
line: Huntingdon Fire company, No.
1; Wilson Hose Company, Peckville;
Niagara Engine company, Pittston;
Goodwill Hose company, Allentown;
Junior Hose and Truck company,
Reading; Washington Fire company,
Danville; Hampton Engine company,
| Reading; Lebanon Hook and Ladder
company; Lebanon, Enterprise Hose
company; Forest City, Young Ameri-
ca Chemical company, Allentown.
| Three other companies, the names of
which could not be learned, will also
| be here.
The visiting organizations alone would
make quite q showing but with the
| augmented display by the sixteen city
! companies, eight bands and the galaxy
of visiting chiefs, the display will be
a memorable one.
| Possibly yesterdays rain interfered
with many proposed decorations. In
| any event the use of flags and bunt-
| ing had not up to late last night been
| as general as the occasion deserves
although it is possible that many Ouild-
| ings now bare of fabrice will be orna-
| mented.
OPEN HOUSE.
| From one end of the city to the other
the firemen will keep open houses
some on an elaborate scale that will
| include a running service of liquid and
solid refreshment and others on a
| more modest scale. The most notable
| receptions will be at the Hook and
| Ladder, Phoenix, Franklin, Nay Aug
| Relief and Neptune quarters.
| At Music hall this evening the day
| will witness grand wind-up at a
| firemen's ball to be conducted by
Columbia Hose company of the North
| End.
The Lebanon Hook and Ladder COM
| pany reached here on the O'Clock
] evening Delaware and Hudson train
| and was met by a delegation from
the Scranton Hook and Ladder COM
pany. The visitors were taken to Tur.
ner hall. where the Scranton Hook:
will keep open house today, and were
! there refreshed before being escorted