The sun., 1908-05-10
PLAINFIELD'S FINEST OUT TOO
II or THE >? or THEN GET
MEDALS FROM THE NiiOR,
The ptremeu Also There and Also
Decorated Mayor Fisk's VIE and
Daughters DO the Pinning An Plain
nrld secs the Magnificent Parade.

Decorated Mayor FtSk'S NHe ana
Daughters DO the Pinnlng An Plain
nrld secs the Magnificent Parade.
Plainfeld. n. j.. had police and FIRE
mems parade yesterday. Yes, New YORK
had something Of the kind too, but YOU
ought to have seen Plainfeld's In New
York only three men got medals and the
Mayor pinned them on, while in Plainiield
seventeen out Of the twenty-five police
men we're decorated and nearly all Of the
finemen as we'll, and the Mayors wife and
daughters did the pinning That's Just
by way Of showing that they order those
things better in Plainfeld.
Ii was Mayor c. j. Fisk who gave PLAIN
field its greatest day, He planned the
whole affair. the first Of its kind in tn"
history Of the town; the review was held
on his front lawn he originated the idea
of the medals and Il was in his parlor that
everybody drank everybody's health after
the last photograph had been taken
The parade started at 3 O'Clock in the
afternoon, in order TO give the unlucky
commuters who spend part OF the day
away from Plainheld chance to get home
and brush up a bit before things got going
The firemen, led by Chief Engineer i. o.
Doane started OF irst from their head
quarters on West Second street and
marched down to Watching avenue,
where the band was playing in front oi
polce headquarters. IL was dandy
band. and the way it gathered small boys,
and gray haired ones for that matter
made the Pied Piper look like an also ram
By that time Park avenue, along which the
line OF march lay, to West Seventh street
and the Mayors house was banked with the
populaoe eager to cheer Plainheld's finest
,ookl Here they come now. Led by
Chief Patrick s. Kiely, the whole twenty
two Of the force. clad in their new summer
helmets and white gloves and stepping out
like one man. Behind the Chief marches
Can't. Christian Fredrickson, with Detec-
tive Sergeant John S. Flynn acting as file
closer Of the first rank; Sergt. Herbert
Overbaugh leading the second and Rounds
men Higgins and Dobson lowering on the
tanks. The mighty cheer that goes up
can be heard distinctly on the Mayors
front lawn.
Behind the police come the iremen with
No. 1, No. ? and No. hose and the truck
and steamer. The rear is brought up by
the call men, who are only volunteers
and can be distinguished from the ordinary
citizens only by their badges and the way
they try TO keep step with the band.
Into West Seventh street swing-swung,
that IL, for it's all over now-the parade, ~
perfect alignment and executing a left
wheel into the Mayors driveway. marched
right up 10 the front porch where Mayor
Fisk OF Plainheld, Mayor Samuel Town
send of North PlainAeld the Common
Council and many members Of the Chosen
Freeholders were waiting To receive them.
Every inch Of space that wasn't occupied
hy a Chosen Freeholder or something OF
that sort held pretty girl, 80 that the
chests Of the marchers stuck out even tur-
ther than before. and the band almost
burst itself playing.
When the parade halted Mayor Fisk
made brief speech and then the polio
formed in fours and twos and hollow squares
ana evoluted about all over The lawn IN
the most professional manner, The fire
men didn't show on much because II had
rained 10 hard that the neighborhood was
tired of seeing water. As soon as the
police exhibition was at an end the Mayor
made another little speech and then the
medal pinning began with speeches all
through
Besides the police officers Patrolman
McCue, the veteran Of the department,
who began service twenty-five years ago :
before there was a department got a
medal. Patrolman Saunders, the only
colored member Of the force, got another,
and Patrolmen Saffron, Flynn, Mckinley,
Messler, Kelly, 0'Keehe, Nolan and Nc
Carthy we're also decorated
There were more medals for the fire
men, and then everybody had his picture
taken and the police and firemen marched
on 10 show their glories 30 the other parts
Of the town and everybody who was any