The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-29
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THE CHIEF RON0RS
Her Black Horse Broke a
Worlds Record.
TbF HOSE WAGON RACES
THE HOSE WAGON RACES
Rocky Mounts Engine Wins Long
Distance Prize
ELIZABETH CITY FIRST FOR QUICK STEAM
Raleigh Capital Reel Company Wins the State
Championship, and Raleigh Rescue
Wagon Gels the Third

To Goldsboro belong the chief honors
of the first day of the Firemen s 1our-
nament; for with her two hose wagons
,,1uckv crews and swift-footed horses she
took first and second prizes in the morse
hose wagon races, and broke all "ofloo
records with the remarkable time CT
20 is seconds. The Eclipse wagon ana
the black horse. and Messrs. Nathan fu-
wards and Henry Jones at the nyorah'
end counting composed the combination
tlat broke the record.
Yesterday was a red-letter day in Raj
ei.b Rig crowds had come in the day
before and the day before that; but the
morning trains kept on bringing more
and more. until the city was poSltlVely
running over with strangers.
A big excursion of Greensboro ana
Madison folks got in yesterday ana
added to the big crowd a large lou OIL
good looking, good-natured and happy
humanity with Firemen's Tournament
in their bones.
There were many lively scenes in the
streets. Perhaps the most amusing ana
striking was one group OF fire ladd1es III
white duck uniforms, whose delight 1t
was to peramblate in threes and Tours
with small gayly colored parasols held
ddJntliV over IItll GU
laugh to see them, and the girls laughed;
thew did and the boys were happy: they
looked it.
The narade was scheduled to start at
half past nine, and long before that hour
the route of march was packed with peo-
pie of all sorts and conditions, and every
window and other point OF vantage was
taken and held against all Corners y
wa only q short time after the hour Set
that the long parade was started.
The line of hose wagons hook an
ladder trucks, reels, steam engines, ah'
other apparatus, extended for more tnai
q mile, and it was one OF the largest AM
most complete parades ever seen in tn
State.
The order of march included a platoon
,f nolioe. Chief Marshal J. E. Pogue an
his twenty five mounted assistants, tn
officers of the association in carriages
the State officers, the mayor and cit
officials, visiting mayors Of othef towns
making twelve carriages, the VIRGIN
Band, and the following pieces or appa
ratus from various towns and cities; en-
CINE. two hose wagons and nook ana lau
der from Greensboro; hose wagon lrol
Salisbury: hand reel from Concord; ret
team from Monroe; engine from ROCK
Mount: two companies from Souther
Pines. two nose NdSoHS ohd WV 49,
rools from Durham; hand reel from sper
Ger: hand reel from Tarboro; engine FRO
Elizabeth City; two hose wagons fro
Eliza beth CITY: engine and hose wage
from New Bern; engine and hand re
from Charlotte; engine, two hose Wagon
and two hand reels from Ralelgh.
In the long procession there were MAJ
prominent State officials, offlcers oi II
departments, mayors and delegates III |
carriages among these being Preside
McNciu, Treasurer Green, Secretary v
Claim. and Statistician Taylor, OF I
State Firemen's Association; state Aue
tor Dixon. State Treasurer Lacy, inst
ance Commissioner Young,
er of Agriculture Patterson, Corporatl
Commissioners Mcneil, Rogers and A
bolt, Labor Commissioners Warner, May
Webb. of Kinston; Mayor Mcmillan
Fayetteville: w. f. Peterson, represel
ing the mayor of Clinton; Mayor r..
stevens. of Monroe; Mayor Powell,
Raleigh; Chairman Fire Committee A.
Andrews, Jr, of Raleigh, City Attor1
w. l.. Watson; Fire Chief A. M. Ola
of Southern Pines; Fire Chlef On
Schnibben, of Wilmington; Foreman
A.. Cannady, of Wilmington; Foren
p. N. Flick, of Wilmington; Delegates
Kellum and ]. L. White, of Wilmlngt
Chief P. H. Meroney, of Salisbury; Sup
intendent Water Works J. W. NeaVe.
Salisbury: Captain J. w. Glover,
Salisbury; Delegate Branch Craig,
Salisbury; Captain B. S. Aronson,
Henderson,; Chief J. d. Delamar, of \
Bern; Assistant Chief Charles Reid,
Elizabeth City; Mayor Geo. E. Hood.
Goldsboro; Captain A. J. Gales, of "
ston; Captain w. B. Little, of Whist
Secretary J. H. Holmes, of Whist
Delegates Wilkes Thompson and j.
Allrett, of Winston: Chief Lumsden,
Raleigh; Foreman Andrews. of Ralei
Foreman Lumsden, of Raleigh, and
various other chiefs, assistants and fl
men present in the city
Several of the wagons were beautif
decorated, and all of the men wore
forms. 1t was a beautiful sight.
Wright's Concert Band of II pi
made fine music, and the fifteer
twenty thousand people that looked
checred and cheered and waved
waved as their favorite companies pas
until one wished that he were a
man, to be thus honored and feted
cheered and waved at.
An interesting feature of the pa
was the Durham company, headed /
small negro boy with a large bull
Another feature was the Spencer
which was gaylv bedected with flo
and flags. Two small children
seated on the reel, while suSpc
above them was a cage Containin
rooster. One of the best decor
wagons in the parade was that of G
lotte which was ornamented with v
and green ribbons. The Hook and
der Company, No. 5. Of this city,
also beautifully decorated, and AS
ant Foreman John Pugh carried a
vase of flowers i'll the carriage in "
he sat.
The Tarboro BOYS wore white duck