Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-07-22
VERMONT'S FIREMEN.
THEY HOLD THEIR ANNUAL CONVEN-
TION AND TOURNAMENT.

The Hose Races, as Usual, Prove the Most
Exciting Featnre-The First Prize Divid- /
ed .Between Nergennes and Winooslti-
Bennington Gets the Next Meeting.
The crowd which was in town yester-
day and Wednesday in attendance on
the convention and tournament of the
Vermont State Firemens association
would have done credit to county fair
time. The number of hawkers, fallrs
and booths on the street also carried out
the parallel. The weather was clear, but
much too hot for the complete enjoy
ment of the occasion, though that of
yesterday was tempered by cool
breeze.
The convention was called to order in
the opera house by the president, J. H.
Sargent of this village who gave way to
Vice-Pres. Miner because Of indisposi-
ton. Judge j.. NJ. Slade made the ad-
dress of welcome in his usual felictiOus
manner, after which the business of the
meeting was taken up.
The annual report of Secretary Moore
of Bennington was read and Indicated
/ llldL lllt dSSOCldllOu Hdu UttH aug
mented during the year by one fire com
pany, two chief engineers and six life
members, besides three honorary mem
bers.
Treasurer Grant of Burlington made
his statement of accounts as follows:
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand at last repo1t..,...,.......S 5O.GS
Net profits Nergennes tournament ..... JOG OF
I Soc, II Tu
DISBURSEMENTS.
George y. Burch, statistician...... ....S 25.O0
+. D. Moore, secretary. ry.................... 10000
Printing reports........... ............... $3.50
Cash on ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ll.u9
Some minor reports and resolutions
were then acted upon, after which new
members were voted i'm as follows:
Foreman Mark Bessett of the Battell
Hose company, Middlebury, to be an
honorary member; Il. T. Owen Of POult-
ney, G. C. Chapman of Bennington and
Z. F. Smith of Barre to be life members.
1t was decided that hereafter members
whose dues remained unpaid on Jan.
of each year should be dropped from the
association.
The vote on the question of place for
holding the next annual convention and
tournament resulted in the selection of
Bennington.
The election of officers for the coming
year being next in order. the voting be-
gan and resulted as follows: President.
Frank NJ. Tiffany of Bennington; vice
presidents, NJ. Z. Orr of Poutney. II. r.
Hope of PoultDey. John y. Norton of
Vergennes. Il. S. Buss of Bennington.
] L L hutchinson Of GnripaEold.
tary, +. d. Moore of Bennington; treas
urer, L. c. Grant of Burlington; eX-
ecutive committee, W. f. Morse of
Burlington. X. X. Hannum of Rutland,
J. II Donnelly of Vergennes, ii. l..
Thomas of Winooski. S. c. Whittier of
Montpelier: statstician, George H.
Burch of Bennington.
Resolutions of thanks to the ladies of
Middlebury for the donation of flowers
with which the opera house was decorated
were passed unanimously, and after the
usual formalites the convention came
to a close.
Thursday morning witnessed a great
throng of people on our streets to see
the parade. There were ten companies
in the line and two bands. The proces.
sion was headed by the local organi
cations, with the steamer as a leader
, The Munsill Hook and Ladder company
of Bristol had its neat equipment in line
and created much interest. OF the uni
formed companies from abroad perhap;
the Stars of Burlington and the Steven;
of Nergennes attracted most attention
for the fine appearance and marching
, The Stars had no band with them, ar
r essential in the contest for the state
p prize. The Vergennes team showed the
! result of careful drilling in its marching
manoeuvres and its winning the prize
q was "A foregone conclusion, even before
, the Judges made the award. The run
/, ming contests in the afternoon were wit
messed by a large crowd. The latenes'
, of our report precludes our giving thu
, details of the different runs but tn,
; time results were as follows
Lafayette, Winooski ................. 59l5 Sec
: Volunteers, Nergennes. 80
: Shamrock, Turner's Falls...,,........ 50 Z"
/ stevens Nergennes s......,............. 5ll5 "
/ Steamer Winooski 80 Z"
- Sherman, Port Henry. 50 Z"
The Volunteers, tied with the Steame
= company for first place, protested agains
!. allowing the latter's time on the ground
that one of the members of the runnin.
=. team of the Steamers had previousl,
: run in another company. After consider
g able wranglng they decided to divd
= first money. The silver trumpet vii
. be contested for again at the next tourna
: ment.
IS Notify the Publisher.
e The post Office department has decreet
h that second third and fourth clas