Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-25
STATE fiREMAN's TOURA.
MENT AT COUNCIL BLUFFS.
An Original and Spectacular Pre-
gram With Prize A9Sregtins
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The twenty-seventh annual
tournament of the Iowa Fire
mems State association will be
held at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on
June 6, Z, 8 and 8, 1905. A per
usal of the program prepared
for the great four days tourna-
ment as it has been hearlded
abroad in the newspapers and
the billboards, gives evidence
that the managers of the big
event have determined to make
this one of the most interesting,
the most attractive and specta-
cular of any tournament ever
pulled off at any time in this or
any other state.
A n elaborate program of
events, printed and bound in a
book of fifty pages has been fur
nished to all the companies that
are eligible to participate in the
tournament.
The preparations for this tour
nament commenced last winter,
Immediately after the decision
was made to hold it in Council
Bluffs, and the work has been
vigorously pushed for the past
six months, resulting in an UNI
dertaking that easily eclipses
anything of similar kind ever
ATTEMPTED in the West. The cit
izensof Council Bluffs, toa man,
have co-operated with the COM
mittees having t he work in
charge and the magnitude of
The occasion may be judged by
the fact that a larger fund has
been subscribed for the tourna-
ment than has ever been pledg-
ed by the citizens of Council
Bluffs for any great public oc-
casion. not excepting the reu-
MON Of the Army of the Ten
nessee held in Council Bluffs in
1894 or the great patriotic event
in 1900 celebrating the return
Of the Fifty-first Iowa regiment
from the Philippines.
Cash prizes aggregating 3d.
500 will be given for merits in
some twenty special races, drills
and parades.
There will be special runs to
fires, involving races between
paid departments, showing COM
panies in their stations, horses
in stalls, men in their hunks.
The alarm is given, departments
make hitch, run one-half mile
and lay hose. Complete repro
duction of runs to fires will be
given.
There will be sensational hub
and hub races by the best teams
of the state.
Illuminated street runs will
be given by the Council Bluffs
fire department at night. These
runs will be among the most
thrilling spectacular exhibitions
during the tournament. For
these purp oses, the largest, the
widest and the best paved streets
have been selected. The depart
ment WAGONS will be illumina-
ted with haring torches and the
runs made with terrific speed in
the presence of thousands of
people who line the streets on
both sides.
Covolt's famous Lake Manawa
band will furnish the music.
At ten o'clock a. M, on We'd
nesday, June Z, will occur the
grand parade in which every
company participating in any
way in the four days tourna-
ment will have a place. Two
thousand five hundred fire figh-
tiers and fifty trained fire hors-
es, with their equipments, will
be in line.
All the distinctly fremen's
stunts will take place at the fair
grounds, within a few moments
walking distance from the heart
of the city, while the parades
and Illuminated street runs will
occur on the paved streets of
the city proper.
The program provides for ev-
cry form of amusement, for old
and young, men and women. 1t
will be a carnival occasion from
start to finish, with music, color
and action, and the foreground
throughout the a days festival,
will be the fire fighters in uni
form, beautiful horses, gaily
painted vehicles and glittering
paraphenalla.
Railroads, recognizing the inn
portance and magnitude of the
occasion, have made a reduced
rate of fare. enabling everybody