New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-06-20
sFirenlen 5 Convention.

ISllleH. s CONVENTION.
The delegates TO the annual meeting
OF the states firemen's association &C Wi.
mons returned Friday even moro jnbi-.
liant than was expected from the fact
that Whereas they had only hoped to se-
cure the convention for this city ID 1903
they succeeded in foreafalIing that data.
by one year, and the convention of 1909
will be held in New Ulm. Following
are the officers elected Plesident, Thom-.
as Morris, Crookston; vice president,
Henry Engel, New Ulm; second vice
president, Louis II. Stohlman, Brainard;
secretary, R. 0. Strong, st. Paul; treas
urer, Frank =. Joy, Saltwater; statistic
cian, p. F. Kelley, Faribault. The re-
ports Of the secretary and statistician
brought out some very interesting facts.
There are now 10 fire departments, re-
presenting 208 organizations, against
10s departments and 1se organizations
last year. There are 200 towns IN the
state having fire departments, and of
these 1873 reported to the statistician.
The amount Of losses reported from
the 1873 towns was $1,7s7,s24.ss, over
100000 more than for 1885,. OF tie
2,597 fires reported the causes are given
az follows: Supposed incendiary, 102;
defective chimneys, 1926; children with
matches, Sc; lamp explosions, 90; other
explosions, 1905; matches, 66; spontan-
eous combustion, 3S; accidental, 1873;
carelessneas, 1853; ove1heating, AS; cleo
trio wires, 81; lightning, 80; fireworks,
81; sparks from chimney, 1906; sparks
from locomotives, 50; other known caus-
es, 812; unknown causes, 270.
The total of maintaining the fire SER
vice last year as reported was 1871 ,577,-
904, while the annual amount invested
in fire department property exclusive of
water supply, is sl,5e2,se5,7s0; there
are in use in the several departments SO
steam fire engines, 90 chemical engines,
s87 hose wagons and carts, 3s3,086 feet
of hose, 172 hook and ladder trucks, CTS
paid men, 1901 volunteers.
Mrs. E. G. Topper and Miss Anna
Sterile, of St. Paul, are in the city the
guests of Mrs. W, G.. Alvin.
h. ANIME is preparing plans for new
residence for A. J. Meyer and is also
making the plans for the new Lutheran
school.
Rev. George R. Fritze, pastor of the
NJ. E. church, and delegation of about
twenty went to Fairfax last Thursday to
attend the summer assembly being held
there.
Miss Birdie Mullen returned Sunday
afternoon from South Bend, Ind, where
she has been attending Notre Dame
college, to spend her summer vacation
at home. Her mother, Mrs. NJ. Mullen,
met her at Chicago on her return.
Albert Pfaender, who has for somo
time past been in the office of Joseph
A. Eckstein, has reaped the reward of
his close application to his work by be-
ing admitted to the bar upon exam1na-
ton and is now full fedged attorney
and may practice in all the courts of the
state.
The game of baseball tween New Ulm
and Madella vas not only the first game
that has been played on the home
grounds this season, if we except that
memorable encounter between the fats
and the leans, but 1t was also very ex-
citing, and in consideration of the little
practice the home team has had, very
good game and merited a much larger
patronage than it received. While the
game was not marked by any especially
brilliant plays neither was it marred by
that of the yellow variety. The batteries
were, for New Ulm, Haas and Flor, for
Madelia, Noonan and Fitzsimmons.
Haas was credited with seven strike-outs
and Noonan two. The score by innings
is as follows:
Madelia 8 0 O 90 8 1 O O-7
New Ulm 8 o 90 rs
Following is the location and num-
bers of the fire alarm boxes put in on
the new system. The numbers COM
mence with twelve on Valley and Front
streets, and with thirty one and fifty one
on Minnesota and State streets, respec-
lively. The series embracing the, num-
bers between twenty and thirty, and
fortv and ffty are left for German and