The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-14


rived yesterday were the West Haven
Engine Company of New Haven, Conn.
Hook and Ladder Company No. l, OF
Easton, Pa; Engine Company No. l, OF
Red Bank; Albert Hose Company and
Exempt Firemen's Association of Hack
ensack; Hose Company No. ?, of Long
Branch; Engine Company No. 2, OF
Raritan; Washington Engine Company,
Washington; Butler Engine Company,
Butler: Cataract Hose Company and
the Exempt Association, Hackettstown;
Hook and Ladder Company No. l.
Madison. and Wlccacoe Hose Company
No. l, Bordentown.
The Manhattan and Brooklyn fremen
dined at Achtel-Stetter's today, and 800
exempts from New Brunswick at Els
ner's, in Market street, and other fire
men from that city wen to Union Hall
, The firemen from Hackettstown, Madi-
son and other places on the line of the
Lackawanna Railroad were entertained
at the Continental Hotel The Railway
fremen ate at Metz's Hall and cafe al
Halsey and Garfield streets. The Jer-
sey City men were entertained at the
New Auditorium in Orange street.
The T. j.. Jones Association met the
Bridgeport, Conn, firemen at the Mar
ket street station at 10. 80 O'Clock this
morning. Pacific Engine Company
No. / and the exempt fremen had 129
men in line In red shirts. and the old
volunteers and former chiefs. with a
brass band of thirty pieces and the
Frelinghuysen Lancers' Drum Corps.
About forty men of the present depart
ment were in line. The old hand en-
CINE was sent here in advance. P. y.
Barnum, the great circus man, lived in
Bridgeport and was a VOLUNTEER fireman.
and when he was home ran with the
old hand engine to fires. The pan
pump engine. 81 feet brakes was built
in 1910. The Bridgeport men paraded
up Market street to Broad. to Washing
ton place and street, to High street and
down New street to the Catholic Insti-
tute, where the Jones Association
whose guests they were, gave them a
beefsteak dinner before the big parade.
Chief G. f. Burr, of the B~ordentown
Fire Department. was at the head of
Waccaco Hose Company No. 2 and
Humane Fire Engine Company for that
town, with ninety men in the old vol
unteer uniform and blu caps, when
they arrived this morning, and about
forty eXempts were in line and four
former assistant chiefs in uniforms and
white leather fire hats of old days. The
B~ordentown firemen have a hand en-
CINE nearly 100 years old.
Railway was represented in the dele
cation which reached here at II a. m.
by about forty-fve exempt firemen who
had a fine hand-engine with them and
about 100 men wore red shirts. blue
caps and the foreman carried the fire
trumpet. The men had a brass band.
Nearly a score of former chiefs and as
sistant chiefs were at the head of the
line. Their old-style white leather fire
hats made them noticeable.
Entertnin Railway Men.
The Railway men were entertained
at the repair house in Halsey street
near the house of Engine Company No
4. Their hand engine is only a few years
old. Their big one, built in 1850, was
sold to Metuchen.
When Boonton arrived it had ou'
Harmony engine, with about fifty men
with a hand engine and hose cart. 9
drum corps, n Chief o. B. White
head was in the lead. Hook and Lad.
der Company No. /, of Pennington
had a band and about sixty men, anc
with several former chiefs and assist,
ant chiefs of volunteers in line. En-
CINE Company No. l and the exempts
of Metuchen. made a good showing
They had an old hand fire engine.
Members of the Newark exempt ir
red shirts and black trousers and leath.
er belts received each outside company
of firemen from outside Newark at the
railroad stations this morning and es
corted them to places where they are
being entertained. The New York anc
Brooklyn iremen went to Achtel-Stet
ter's.
/ The grand marshal of the parad'
was Louis Hauser. His assistants wer
Chief Engineer Bernard Higgins. @
Bloomfield; Chief Ryan, of Harrison
and Chief Livingston, of Millburn. Tn
parade was scheduled to form ant
march in this order:
|, Makeup of Parade.
Z First DivIsion-Chief Mathews, OF Or
ange. division chief; New York Exemp
Ftremen's Association, Newburg Engin
Engine Company. Of Cambridge. Mass.
> Atlantic City Firemen's Association. OF At
lantic City; Waccacoe Hose Company
Bordentown; Exempt Firemen's Asso
citation, of Brooklyn; Exempt Firemen'
Association, Hackettstown; Cataract Hos
: Company, Hackettst6wn: Exempt Fire