Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-09

| committee held stop watches on each
| ladder and noted the time required to
! extend each to its limit.
| demonstration of the Gibbs endless
| chain fire escape, which was attached to
the side of the Central Union Mission
! building, proved of great entertainment
| to the crowd. and there were vociferous
cheers as six men, two women. a para
lyzed man and several boys were lowered
to safety"
Almost equal enthusiasm was aroused
by the showing of a Stewart nozzle. the
invention of J. NJ Stewart of this city,
when 1t was demonstrated that a stream
of water could be thrown fully fifteen
feet further with Stewart" on the end
OF the line than with an ordinary nozzle.
other events included demonstrations by
the agents of various pieces of apparatus
which are being shown in connection
with the convention exhibition in the
building at 479 street northwest One
of these was Paradox high pressure
nozzle holder. such as is now In use in
the Philadelphia fire department. and
which enables one man to control three
two-and-one-ha lf-inch lines converging
through three-way Siamese connection
into one two-and- one-quarter-inc stream
of tremendous power.
T. d. Bauscher. patentee and manufac-
turer Of Great Marvel fuel" was per-
mitted to demonstrate the value OF his
fuel in raising a head of steam In fire
engine boiler. The closing feature Of the
/ u
| cial alarm and the response thereto by
! an automobile chemical engine which
was sent to Washington for exhibition
purposes by the manufacturers a Provi-
dence, r. l.. firm.
Incidents Of the Day.
Just about the time the first apparatus
of the fire depa -tment reached the .vicin-
ity of Pennsylvania avenue and 7th street
two men started to ascend one Of the
tall telegraph poles in order to get good
View, those about them envying them.
You'll have to come down from there"
shouted Policeman Smith Of the ninth
precinct. reaching to take hold of one
of the men.
"Nothin' DOM" said one of the men,
we are birds and ws've got to fly
! high"
| The policeman realized that the men
were telegraph linemen and made no
| further effort to stop them.
Mrs. Frank Nesline living at 1881 9th
street northwest. was one of the several
thousand spectators In the vicinity of
Pennsylvania avenue and It'll street this
morning. and when she started to leave
there she discovered that she had been
| robbed. Her pocketbook containing SIT
| had been taken from her pocket. She re-
| ported her loss to the police.
Business Session Tonight.
| A business session of the association
] will be held in Odd Fellows Hail at I 20
o'clock tonight and several papers on
practical fire fighting subjects will be
| read Tomorrow the delegates and their
wives will tour the city and surrounding
points of interest, and another business
session will be held in the evening
Officers will be elected Friday 1t Is
generally conceded that NJ. E. Higgins Of
Albany, n. Y. will be chosen to succeed
President Kellogg. and that Fillmore Ty-
son Will become first vice president 1t Is
expected that Secretary James McFall of
Roanoke. Va, and Treasurer D. c. Lar
kin of Dayton. Ohio. will be reelected
Atlanta. Ca: Springfield. Ohio: Pitts
burg, Pa: Boston. Mass. and Buffalo. N.
Y. are mentioned as places for the next
convention.
On the invitation of Chief Croker of
New York city, number Of the dele
gates will attend the ceremonies incident
to the presentation in New York Satur-
day of medals to members of the fire de-
partment of that city.
The convention will adjourn Friday
Hold Memorial Services.
Memorial services were held last even
ing in the New York Avenue Presbyte-
rian Church in honor of deceased mem
bers of the association. Rev. Dr. Wal
! lace Radcliffe. pastor of the church. read
! address. in which he spoke of the value
| of service. saying the firemen in their
| simple way OF serving their fellow men.
| may we'll be compared to President Abra-
ham Lincoln. who SO quietly, yet SO
| nobiy. served mankind. Rev Nelson Poe
! Cary OF Connecticut also spoke
Chief ]. r. Canterbury Of MINNEAPOLIS
| eulogized members of the asSocta; on who
had died since the last convention. other
chiefs who spoke were Henry Lee Moin
of Grand Rapids. Mich; NJ s. Humphrey
| of Pittsburg. ex-Chief d. E. Benedict of
! Newark. n. j.: Fillmore Tyson Of Louis
| vile. Herbert Heston. fire marshal of
| the Pennsylvania railroad at PhiladeI-
| phia; Thomas W. Haney of Jacksonville.
| Fla. and John A. Mullen of Boston
| list of those in whose honor these
| services were held Is as follows: James
| w. Hodgkinson of East Orange, N. j.:
John s Jones of Westport. Conn; W. G.
Fuller Of Richmond. Va; H. A Nc
Quade of Chattanooga. Tenn: O. G. Mar
jenhoff of Charleston. S. c.: J. ]. Waters
| of Jackson. Miss. and John Brennan
| fire marshal of the Pennsylvania rail-
| road at Jersey City. N. j.