The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-09

The thirty-first annual parade of the
Scranton fire department has passed
into history with a blare of music and
q pageant of well groomad horses, pol
ished apparatus and marching fire lad
dies The too-frequently used and
stereotyped phrase of better than ever
before" can in this case be used truth
fully and to the point. for never has
the fire fighting force of the city bet
ter accredited itself than during this
same yesterday. After it was all over,
Chief Hickey, the prime mover and
head of the big display, was showered
with honest congratulations, which fell,
too, on others who by their executive
aid had helped make the day such a
pronounced success. Tha occasion, too,
included the annual police inspection
by the mayor
The early morning gave promise of
good marching weather and the signs
were not amiss. The bracing autumn
air. tn sunshine and the temperature
We're faultless. 1t was marching wealth
cr par excellence and this fact was not
without its pleasure to the grateful
, paraders and the thousands who saw
them go swinging by The decorations,
too, cut more of figure than had been
anticipated, for during the morning
many a building that had not previous
ly been ornamented appeared cloaked
in sea of bunting and color This
was particularly true of the buildings
along the parade route.
Under the direction of Street Com
missioner \. b. Dunning, jr., the thor
oughfares along which the marchers
passed had been given a pronounced
treatment of sweeping and flushing
Thursday afternoon and night, and the
visiting companies will tell their friends
at home that they marched more than
four miles over asphalt pavement "as
clean as a bah room floor"
KEPT THE CROWD BACK.
The street department during the
morning stretched ropes along the
Lackawanna avenue curbstones and
this served to effectively check the
pushing of the throngs along that
thOroughfare. Nine of the employees of
the street department in their white
wing uniforms and helmets and as
many policemen as could be spared
from the force in the parade, were as
signed to control the crowds at street
intersections. Thy succeeded in doing
their work we'll and in doing it expert
enced very little trouble.
At . o'clock the parade began to form
on Wyoming avenue and the connect
ing streets. The head of the process
sion was at Linden street along which
the parade started at 3 o'clock, on a
given signal a long blow from the
blast furnace gong.
The route was as follows: Linden to
Franklin, to Lackawanna, to Eighth,
to Adams, to Spruce. to Penn, to Null
berry, to jefferson, to Pine, to Wash
ington, to Spruce, to Wyoming, to
Lackawanna, to Penn and Linden and
dismiss.
When the van of the parade, headed
south on Washington avenue reached
Mulberry street, it was halted while
the score or more of carriages contain
ing Mayor Bailey and the local and
visiting officials We're driven to the city
hail. There the parade was reviewed
from a temporary platform erected
over the lower flights of steps leading
to the main entrance of the building.
ALL DESERVED PRAISE.
To mention the deserving incidents
of the parade would be an impossible
task, as something complimentary
might he said of everything in line. Ii
was all good. Attention had for sew
eral weeks been bestowed on the most
minute detail of uniform, equipment
and apparatus, and when the line was
formed the display was fautless.
The following is a correct formation
of the parade as carefully noted by
Tribune reporters:
Mounted Policemen Dyer and Burke
Twenty-thrce carriages containing city
officials and guests.
Chief of Police Frank Robling, jr.
Police in double company formation.
Police patrol wagon.
Old Hand Engine, George S. Throop,'
property of the Volunteer Firemen's
Mutual Benefit association.
Chief of Fire Department u. j. Hickey
District Chiefs Louis Schwass, JOSEPH
Birtlcy Charles Rayner j. j. OMal
ley, Michael McManus, Frederick
Warnkc.
Crumps band, of West Scranton.
huntington Hose company Hunting
con, Pa.
Franklin Engine company, No. /, T.
H. Evans, president; Bert Kline fore
man.
Washington Drum corps, DanviIIo
Washington Hose company DanVillc
Enterprise Hose company, Fores
city; Wilson Hose company, Peck
vile.
L. O. $. of y. Drum corps; Nay Aus
Hose and Engine company, No. l. .
men. Isaac Goodman, president; JOIN
w. Moir. foreman.
Liberty Hose company, No. 2, of Nortl
Scranton, with q men. j. II. Smith
president; Evan Sims, foreman.
Drum corps, Junior Hose company
Chambersburg.
Forest band; Crystal Hose and Engin,
company, No. 4, 80 men. ID. j. New
pFaEiHaOts
foreman.
Palestine band, Allentown; Good VIII
Hose company, of Allentown, guests
of the Neptune company.
Germania band, Neptune Engine com
pany, No. 2, of South Scranton, 8
men, Christian Fickus, president
Charles Wirth foreman.
p. O. S. of A. Drum corps, No 43O, o
South Scranton, and Relief Engin
company, of Petersburg 80 men
Jacob Fries, president; f. Whitman
foreman.
Lawrence and Reading bands; Hampdel
Fire company, Reading; Phoenl.
Chemical company, 30 men; II. n
Shver, president; Charles II. Schadt
foreman; General Phinney Engin
company, No. 4, 40 men. a. r. Sim
rell, president; Fred Long, foreman.
Eagle Hose company, 80 men. Hon. j. c
Vaughan, president; c. Boyle, fore
man.
Columbia Hose company. 80 men; Edwar
Pethrick, president; A. II. Lewis, fore
man.
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