Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-09-17
FIREMEN'S DAY AT WINOOSKI
Inspection Of the Department,
Parade and Sports.
Several Tied for First Place In Ladder
Climbing neutrality-suspicious. In
jurcd showing Oh-Receptions
and Speeches.

Saturday was rremans day at
Winooski and with ideal weather and a
big crowd 1t proved one of the best
for number Of years. Shortly after one
O'Clock Chief Marshal f. A. Burdick and
aides. Dr. A. S. G. Hin and Chester II.
Graves, with a platoon Of police and
Sherman's Military band escorted Chief
Lavalee and the village officials to the
Lafayette Hose company where the
annual inspection of the company and
equipment was made. The company then
marched to the steamer rooms. and at
the conclusion Of the inspection there,
the parade was formed as follows:
Chief marshal and aides: platoon Of
police: Shermans Military band; Steamer
company No. /, 20 men, Foreman G. II.
Stevens. assistants, Matt Holloran, Jr.,
and 5. Snyder; steamer engine. old
Volunteer hose cart. and hose cart
Hastily decorated with evergreen and
bunting: Lafayette Hose company, IS
men. Foreman Charles Barber, as
sstants. Louis Provost and Henry
Homeister: Lafayette hose cart. decorat-
ed: Chief I.avalley in fire carriage; VII
laRe President +. II. Chicoine and
trustees in carriages. Ira Allen. the first
foreman of the Steamer company in 1870,
was the guest Of the village officials for
the day and occupied one OF the car
riaGes. Chief Newton OF Bennington,
Chief Eddy OF Northfold and chief Niles
of Burlington fire department guests Of
the day, rode in an automobile kindly
rendered b.. @. H. Chavcy. The first
section OF tho parade was in charge Of
First Assistant Engineer James Holloran.
and the second. in charge Second As
sistant Paul Kirby. mounted
SPORTS OF THE DAY
The line of march was down Main to
Canal. to Center, TO Malletts Bay ave-
nue.. 10 Spring. to East Allen. to Main
and to the steamer hose rooms where the
boys were served refreshments and Gig
ars. At $3.50 o'clock one tap of the fire
he'll was sounded and the fremen and
village officials gathered IN front Of the
Winooski block for the field sports. Some
of these were holly contested, requiring
two and three runs to decide winners
The first event was the 1OO-yard dash
which was won ny Henry Homeister. sec
ond by Louis Provost, and third prize
went to Fred Cote all members of La
fayetie Hose company; time, II seconds
In the ladder climbing contest several
men tied for first and second place. The
finals resulted as follows: Daigle, Lafay-
cite. first. 1-2 seconds: Reed. lafayette.
second, 6 IL seconds; st. Peter. steamer.
"a seconds Tho conditions of this
event were to run 50 feet and climb a 81
foot ladder.
Potato race, Guyette. Lafayette, first
Daigle. Lafayette. second. ST. Peter.
steamer. third.
2Oo-yard dash. tied between Provost and
Homeister who agreed to divide first and
Guyctte.
Breaking contest. Provost and Homeis-
ter first: St. Peter and villemaire. Sec
ond; Reed and Kirby. third.
Fat firemen's race. Louis Abair. first:
Frank Bergeron, second; Levi Demars.
third.
1OO-yard dash. open to non winners Of
previous events. Daigle, first. Bassett.
second and Bruyor. third.
RECEPTIONS IN EVENING.
In the evening receptions were held
al the hose rooms, the village officials.
out OF town guests and members of the
steamer company first going to the La
fayetta rooms where remarks were made
by Chief Newton of Bennington. Chief
Eddy OF Northfeld. Chic: Lavalley of
the loc,, department. president of the
village. Peter II. Chicoine, d. r. O'Sul-
Ivan, clerk OF the village trustees,
James E. Timmins. Mitchell Seymour
Roasaire Piche and Patrick McGreevy.
Other speakers were c. II. Stevens, fore
man of the steamer company Charles
Barber. foreman of the Lafayette COM
pany, Or. Strapp and G. G. Allard. The
company then adjourned to the rooms OF
the steamer company where refresh
ment were served and a smoke talk en-
Joyed. In addition to those already men.
toned Sidney Snyder of the steamer
company. contributed to the speech
making Of the evening. The speakers
paid high tribute TO Chief Iavellee ant
his assistants for their untiring effort:
in making the day a huge success. an6
the village officials were loud In thei
praise Of the members Of both companie
IN the handsome showing they mad
during the day and the condition o
their equipment
CHARBONEAU HURT ON LADDER.
A shocking accident occurred Jus
previous to the starting OF the iadde
contest. John Charboneau, one OF tn
spectators. remarked to several OF hi
friends that he could mount the ladder
Before he could be prevented he ha
forced his way through the crowd an
WAS part way UP the ladder. going u
the under side. He was called on I
come down but continued. Reaching tn
top round. he swung his leg over an
started on the way down. He then plac
ed his feet In between the rounds an
tried to come down hands first. whe
ne lost his balance and fell the remain
ing distance about 10 or 10 feet to tn
ground striking on his head. He wa
picked up and carried into the store c
Stanley & Estey ana physicians sun
moned. Drs Dunn, Heath, Strapp. Shes
han and Sabin responded and gave II
man temporary relief. after which /
was taken to tho Fanny Allen hospit;
where he was reported as resting con
fortably.
A epeCifC for Dain-Dr. ThOma