Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-01
POLICE AND FIREMEN
Annual Parade of City Departments
Next Tuesday.
ADMIRAL DEWEY TO REVIEW THE LINE
Order in Which the Several CON-
panies Will Appear
CONTEST FOR THE FLAG

| Next Tuesday while the male residents of
| most of the large cities will be at the polls
voting. the people of this city will be given
| an opportunity to view the annual parade
| of the police and fire departments. Both
| these departments of the District govern
ment will make a good showing, and there
| will no doubt be an immense crowd of peo-
pie along the line of march to witness the
| display.
| First in line will come the police depart
| ment, with Major Sylvester and staff lead
| ing. Captain Austin and Inspectors Cross
| and Pearson will participate members of
| the majors staff. These officials will be
| mounted, will squad of the officers who
| do mounted duty in the county. Among
/ those who will appear in the line will be
some of the original members of the force,
| although there but few of them left.
| Then there will be a display made of patrol
wagons and ambulances, and these vehicles
| Will be under the supervision of an officer
| who will be selected from the ranks Some
| of the older officers, who unable to
stand the test of marching, will be permit
| ted to ride in these vehicles With the pos
| slble exception OF a few punches of flowers,
| there Will be no attempt at decoration on
| the part of the police. the men will be
| kept in readiness to answer to an efner-
| gency call should one be made. The detec-
| tive corps will not be represented. except
| OIL lile S4teNdIkS. ana tneN VIII be expected
| to see that pickDOckets make themselves
| scarce. Members of the force who are to
| appear in line are getting ready for the
| event. upon their showing depends the
| disposition of the flag donated by Commits
| Sioner Wight. The contest for this trophy
| begins today with the drill of the men of
| the first precinct. 1t will be carried a the
| head OF the command which shall prove to
be the victor in the contest. President Nc
| hinley will not be present on the reviewing
stand in front of the White House for the
he at hot a
TO deposit his party ballot. 1t is understood,
however, that Admiral Dewey will be in
rlted to take the Presidents place on the
stand with the Commissioners and other
officials.
Line of March,
The line of march will be from Washing
ton Circle TO the Peace monument by way
of Pennsylvania avenue and 18th street
Music will be furnished by the United
States Marine Band. Members of the po-
lice. department will appear in line by pre-
cincts. as follows:
First precinct-Lieutenant Amiss Ser
geants Moore, Shilling and Sprinkle; Pr-
Yates Adams Aud, Barry, Berman, Boyce,
Doyle. Emmert, Fraser. Hill, Hooper,
ly, MeIlen. Mechanics, Murphy, Orian Pc
terson, Purks, Riley Stenhouse. Samson,
Sanford, Vanderwalker and Voc.
Second precinct-Lieut. Heffner, Sergts
Jordan. Kaucher and Hartley; Privates
ot4pSIi. t1tHuTlChS. bDuc. NIlDSOn, donovan,
Wheeler. Parker. HoIlidge Coombs. Ben
nett, Jennings, Trumbo, hewitt, McGrath
Evans Raedy. McCort. Halter Father
Martin. Green. Seaman, Luton. Willis,
Smith. O'Dea, Johnson. Sawyer, Clifford
Wall. Brkenmeyer and Stroman.
Third precinct-Lieut. Boyle, Sergts. Sui
livan and Judge; Privates Barte. Bryan,
Boland, Buckley q. IT,, Buckley (S.WD
Buringame. Cooney, Curtis, Elgin English
Edwards. Fields. Flenneken. Heare Hester
Hollnberger Houser, Hughes, Jack. Lynch,
Lee. Newton. O,Bren Patrickl. O'Brien q.
j.. Owens, Ricketts,. Riley. Rickles Rowe
Russell. WOrtZ and Smith.
Fourth precinct-Lieut. HolIinberger.
Sersts. Dunnigan and Williams; Privates
Hayden, Cowne. Banagan, Ais. Reinhart,
Holz. Bassford Wheeler Hawkins, Sulli-
van. Auguste, Herbert, Osburn. Baum
cambridge, Smith, Sanford. Carlin, DER
kolph Kemp, Stewart. Anderson, Shan
tai, McGrath, Wegner, Mcnamara and
Baker.
Fifth precinct-Lieut. McCathran, Sergts.
Mulhan and Schneider: Privates Arendes
Andrews, Brown, Brennan, Bum, Buck
master. Clinton, Culiinane, Dent, Fitton,
Foster. Hibbs Hayes. Haycock. King. Lee,
Mccarthy, McLucas, Martin, Morgan, OPP
penheimer. Osterman, owens, Rover, Rea-
gan, Ryan. Stewart, Stahl, Smith, Wan
nall and Ward
Sixth precinct-Lieut Kelly, Sersts-
Byrnes and McNeeley: Privates Bateman.
Bloom. Bergman, Brady, Bray. Brennan,
Coghill. Collins, Costello, Curry, GaIpin,
Gardner. Hanley. Langley Lynch ID. j.,
Lynch (MichaeD, MuIvey, Murphy, New
kirk. Nussbaum, Payne. Quinlan. Reh,
Robey. Sanders, Schrader, Skinner, Steven
ton Turner. Walsh. Whalen and Witt.
Seventh preciuct-Lieut. Swindells and
Sergts. Keefe and Conlon will have charge
of the company representing this precinct.
There are not enough officers in the pre-
cinct to form a company. and men will be
taken from other precincts.
Eighth preCinct-Lieut. kenney, SergtS.
Elliott Kraemer and Mcdonnell; PriVates
Kennedy. Leavall. Norris. Lester Hoag
land. Pearson, Brown, Draeger Kelly
(GeoD. Kelly 4. b. Garvey; Coffin ker-
stem. Barrett. StoH. Tribby. Hixson. Lynn,
Gier SHERMAN, Tapscott. O'Rrien, Carroll.
Hauze. Jett Murphy, Fugett, Bryarly,
Ehlers. Sears, Speer and Mitchell
Ninth precnct-Lieut. Daley Sergts. Fail
vey and Wright. Privates Anderson, Bat
son Babo. Bradley, Dorset, Gleason. Gee,
Hebrew. narrower, Hayden. Kraemer Lar
rick Mccormick. McTaggart, Morris,
Rockford, shlpley. stahl. schultze. Tracy,
Wall. Wilson. Wiggans, Welsh and Yates.
Fire Department..
The fire department will form the second
division of the procession. As everything
pertaining to this department Will have to
be kept in readiness for response to an
alarm of fire, no decorations of any kind
will be permitted. All the fremen will
appear in uniform and every company will
be represented According 10 arrange
ments, the companies appear in order of
their number
Chief Engineer Paris viii be al the head
of his department. Following him will
come w. 7. Belt, first assistant chief engi-
neer; J. d. kurtZ second assistant chief
engineer: Col. w. O. Drew, fire marshal
and ]. j. Membert, superintendent of re-
pairs
Engine Company No. &c. S. Boss fore
man; T O'COnnor, assistant foreman w
a. Shedd. J. NJ Wooster. S. E. Edwards
j. f McGinnis. J. F. Rick, E. Gregory j.
c. Dreamer, c. II. MCDueh.
Engine Company No. 2-J. Darlington
foreman: W. ]. SeitZ, assistant foreman;
]. d. OConnor. c. w. Sears. A E. Easton
d. O'Couuor, c.. Nusstaum, e. S. Allan, NJ
Dorsey. G.. w. A. Dixon.