The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-07
FIREMEN'S CONVENTION.
OYER 5000 MEN TO BE IN
 LINE.

Dollars in .Prizes-Bands. Drum
 Corps and Fire Apparatus Galore.
 The West Haven fire department hav-
 ing in charge the state f1remen's con-
 vention and tournament next week Tuesday and Wednesday has received replies from about ten companies in the state. and it is anticipated there will be about two thousand men in line of march. The grand marshal of the pa- rade will be Robert S. Woodruff, and the parade will start promptly at Il o'clock on Wednesday.
 On Tuesday the business of the con- vention will be transacted. About three hundred delegates from the various fire companies of the state will assemble at the Savin Rock theater at half-past nine in the morning, and the convention will be in session until about seven o'clock in the evening. At nine o'clock there will be banquet to the delegates at the Pleasant View hotel.
 Wednesday is the day of the tourna- ment and the big parade. At the stroke O4 Dll lIiC 4lIG UGll llS pEOCeSSIOIl will move from the Town Hall over the following line of march: Up Campbell avenue to Center street, to Union ave- nue, to Main street, to Fair avenue, to Richards street, to Washington avenue, to Elm street, to Second avenue, to Brown street, to Washington avenue, to Main street, to Union avenue, where the procession will countermarch to the Town Hall and be dismissed.
 Immediately after the procession a banquet to all visiting flremen will be given In the Town Hall, following which the line will again be formed and march to the shore. The tournament will begin at half-past two promptly and the events, for which prizes will be awarded, are as follows:
 Company having the largest number of uniformed men in line. handsome loving cup, value $40.
 Finest appearing company in the pa- rade. silver ice pitcher, value $25.
 Finest apparatus in the parade, onyx table and lamp. value $40.
 Second best apparatus in the parade, marbleized clock, value stO.
 Hose race-First prize, loving cup, value $15: second prize, picture, value $5. Conditions of this race require a run of three hundred yards. to lay three hundred feet of hose, put on nozzle, all connections made. at least three com- plete threads. Time token with water at nozzle, wet race. Competitors to wear company uniform, spikes barred.
 Hook and ladder race-First prize, loving cup, value s15; second prize, clock, value $5 Conditions require run of two hundred yards with appara- tus, removing extension ladder and raising thirty-five feet, with a man at he top round, when time will be taken. The men participating must wear com pany uniform and use of spikes de- barred,
 One hundred yard dash, first prize, silver cup, value $15; second, same, value S3.
 Four hundred and forty yard dash, first prize, clock, value s5; second, sil- yer cup, value $3.
 Sack race, first prize, briar pipe, value s2; second, cigar holder. value s1.50.
 Potato race. first prize, picture, value $3; second, box cigars, value $2.50.
 Wheelbarrow race. first prize, silver cup, $5; second briar pipe, value $1.50,
 Swimming race, first prize, rocker, value $5; second, picture, value $3.
 The races are opened to volunteer firemen only, and all participants must be able to show certificate of mem bership in the company which they rep dated at least sixty days prior to the date of the tournament. Local firemen are debarred, and no entrance fee is to be charged.
 On Wednesday the New Haven-Wa- terbury ball game scheduled for the Brass City, will be played at savin ment, that the firemen from the various towns of the state may visit the game.
 Citizens living along the line of march | have been requested to decorate in hon. | or of the occasion and liberal response | to this request has been received.
 This event will be a gala one for West | Haven, as it is the first time the con- | vention of state firemen has been held | lere. For months the West Haven fire | men have prepared for this event, and | he citizens have heartily co-operated in he arrangement. Last night invita- lions were extended to the town, bor- ,ugh, court and school officials, for which carriages will be provided in the inc of march.
 Every fire company is thus far pro rided with band or drum corps, and among the acceptance received last night were the Burnside Hose compa- ny, Burnside, Conn.,, thirty men, vete- 'an firemen of Hartford, eighty men, Dayton Hook and Ladder of the Annex ire department, thirty-five men, Storm Engine company, Derby, sixtyflve nen, Samuel Fitch Hose, Rockville, ,wenty-one men; Beacon Hose. Beacon Falls, forty men; Fairfield Hook and Ladder, Fairfield, thirty-five men; Quinnipitc Hose, Fair Haven. thirty i've men: Beacon Hose. Annex fire de- 1artrnent, thirty men: Echo Hose, Shel- on, thirtyfour men; TunXis Hose. Bristol, thirty men; Arctic Engine Milford, fifty men; Dicker- nan Hose, Westvllle, thirty-five men; East Haven fire department, fifty men, and Aetna Hose, East Hartford, fifty | nen.
 The veterans of Hartford will bring with them, and present on the line of march their old hand engine Colonel