The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-10-16
THE HUMANES AT RAILWAY
They Made a Fine showing and had a
splendid Reception.

They Made a Fine Showing and had a
splendid Inception.
Old Rahwiack Of aboriginal days;
old Roweigh OF Colonial days old Rah-
way since the State title Of Nova Ca-
sarea was dropped from New Jerseys
formal legal Documents was refulgent,
r splendent last Tuesday, the occasion
being the annual parade Of the Rah-
way Fire Department Palace or how
81, stately mansion or modest cottage,
all alike wore the gay hues entwined
in flags and bunting The annual
number Of this parade is forgotten, as
the first parade of the department was
held long before Railway was dragged
from ont the clutches of Essex and
.Middlesex and placed as a constituent
Of Union and when the typical uni
form Of the volunteer fireman was
leathern helmet, red lannel shirt,
belt and black trousers
The five local companies had about
all they could attend to, as they had
visiting companies, seventeen ia all,
not including delegations, to enter
tain and the visitors were certainly
we'll looked for.
Humane Steamer Company, No. 2,
OF this city, had received an invitation
from Franklin Hose Company. No. 2,
Of Railway, to be the guest Of that
company and participate il the parade,
and as these companies have chum-
mied together 10! these many years,
the Invitation was duly accepted
And on Tuesday morning the compa-
my paraded forty strong, with num-
Der Of invited guests, under the COM
mand Of Foreman ]. e. Rodermond
and Assistant Foreman Fred. ]. Shar
rette, headed by Nichols Band NUM-
bering twenty-four pieces, and marched
from the company's quarters through
Park Place down South street to Pine,
thence to the Lackawanna depot.
Through Newark, headed by police
escort, the company marched in regu-
lation form from the Lackawanna de-
pot to that Of the Pennsylvania a big
stout mile. At Railway the company
was met by delegation from Frank
lin Hose, and headed by the Board Of
Engineers, marched to F" Upper" Rah-
way, past Franklin Hose house, where
the bells of Rescue Fl. & L. Company,
Of Passaic, jingled merry peal OF rec
ognition and welcome, around to Ham
ilton street to the old Marsh factory,
where Morristown's pride was royalty
entertained.
The parade route, perhaps five miles
in length, was like unto others Of fire.
manic ilk-decorated dwellings, aged
citizens waving their hats, dainty lit
tie maids with gay flags shimmering
in the sunshine and shrilling out cries
of 8 Welcome 1.-THE same story, ever
old, ever new. 1t was a splendid pa
rade--far different from one that oc-
Cured forty-seven years ago, Of which
more anon.
Railway was wide open; everybody
was in the entertaining mood and Wis
itors did not suffer from lack of atten-
tion-it was generous, free-handed,
free-hearted Railway doing the hon
ors. And no further need of praise is
necessary.
The writer of this screed was a mem
Der Of Washington Engine Company,
No. /, of Railway, forty-seyen years
ago, and the remnant Of the old COM
pany forgathered and told ancient
history tales. The bede-rOll num-
bered Silas III. Leonard, James FL.
Manning, Charles A. Vaudeville, An
dries Bartholomew, Benjamin Hughes,
William Keefe, William Z. White
the remainder of the sixty good men
and true' have passed to the Thither
Shore. "reminiscences of the half
century agOne g paddock parade,
when Chief Engineer Joseph II. Catch
ell put a paddock on Washington's
house, locking the apparatus in the
house and the members IN the street !;
Of the old contests at Milton when old
+" Washy,n taking the head of the line,
absolutely refused to be washed !;
when old Railways village ordinance
requiring each freeholder to keep four
leathern buckets filed with water {"
In their halls, ready in case of fire,
was in force all these, and more, float
ed to the surface.
There were no contests, but a dele
cation Of Humane Company brought
home a prize Hubbard squash but
that's another story, as Kipling says