The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-04
MEET OF FIRE BOYS.
CLOOUET is PREPARING TO EN-
TERRAIN THE VISITORS.
Interesting Topics Will Be Discussed
by Men Who Fight Flames; Parade
Is to Be Feature of Gathering;
Contest for Place on Delegation to
Annual Session of International
Association of Chiefs.

Cloquet, June livery citizen is
busy making preparations to entertain
the largest crowd of people that evel
invaded Cloquet. The annual meeting
of the Minnesota State Fire Depart
ment association will be held here
June 8 and 0, and it is expected that
over 500 delegates, and about the same
number of visiting fremen and city
officials will attend.
The Minnesota association is a bust
ness organization, and Is maintained
by the volunteer fremen tor business
purposes. Fire prevention, water sup
ply and kindred subjects receive full
consideration from the delegates dur
ing the two days they are in session.
The program for this session includes
the following subjects: Chemicals:
Their Uses and Abuses" San Eff
cient Volunteer Fire Department and
How to Maintain It." ''The Equip
ment and Care of Good Village Fire
Departments; "The Village Fire Mar
shall-His Powers and Duties;" Should
Volunteer Fire Departments Organize
Salvage Corps as Adjuncts to the
Fire Department; "The Duties of
Firemen in Protecting Property From
Water Loss at FIRES" Sire Protec-
ton VS.. Fire Prevention and the Du-
&C .ofS Nf rf,,,n ~,
Relation Therefor" cover Insurance
Should There Not Be Closer Com
munity of Interest Between Local I'm
derwriters and Fire Department Off
cials?"; "The New State Law"
Speaker Rockne to Speak.
In addition to these subjects A. j.
Rockne, speaker of the house of rep
resentatives and volunteer fireman
for ten years, will deliver an address
on "The Duties of Volunteer Firemen."
J. A. Hartigan, insurance commission
err, will speak on 'Our Annual Bonfire
Its Cost and Consequence" Ed
ward Peterson, state fire marshal, will
speak on "The Office of State Fire
to Lessen the Fire Los i'm This State"
The Northern Pacific has placed a
special train at the service of the dele
gates from the twin cities and points
from southern Minnesota. This train
will leave Minneapolis at 2 p. m. and
st. Paul at 2:3O on June 7, arriving at
Cloquet at 6:25 D. m.
Minneapolis and st. Paul will be
represented by twenty-five delegates
from each department and there will
be from one to five delegates from
each of the other 325 departments
throughout the state.
Features of the Interesting Program.
The meeting will be called to order
dell. There will be an address of
welcome by Mayor Stokes Wilson, and
a response on behalf of the associa-
ton by F. W. Lyons of Little Falls
w. l.. Case of Cloquet will make a
short address, after which will come
the regular routine business of the
convention.
On Tuesday evening comes the an
nual parade of the delegates and visit
ing fremen. This is the only depar-
ture that the convention makes in a
social way, and it does not interfere
with the business sessions of the meet
ing. Several departments will have
special trains to carry their delegations
70 ho 10 M
home the same evening.
The officers of the association are
President, Charles Wendell of Cloquet :;
first vice president, L. S. Kent of Alex
andria; second, f. M. Twiford of Owa-
tonna; third, j. r. Canterbury of
Minneapolis; secretary, Captain D. L.
Kane of Minneapolis; treasurer, Cap.
tain A. j. Myler of st. Paul; stats
tician, Z. f. Kelly of Faribault.
Many Candidates for Delegate.
The association elects two delegates
to attend the annual meeting of the
international association of chiefs
which convenes this year at Grand
Rapids, Mich. 1t is an honor much
CONtOcu ny UnC NOluhCCCl CuiCls
throughout the state. George Fish
chief of Sank Center, and George EN-,
der, the nestor of the Little Falls de-
partment, are the most talked of men
from the northern part of the state
There are dozen different candidates
from the southern part of the state
among them being Chiefs John A
Boylhart of Rochester, Hart N. Cook
of Redwing, John F. Herzog of New
Ulm, Charles E. Daugherty of Pipe
stone, III. NJ Serle of Fairmont, N. P
Jensen of Austin, r. G. Phillips Of
Mortified, A. c.. Tenger of Litchfield
and H. T. Emken of LIE Sueur.
AS each portion of the state is en-
titled to delegate, there is some log
rolling in prospect for the delegates
south of the twin cities, and it is hare
to pick winner.
Filed Petition in Bankruptcy.
Professor c. c. Owen, the Free Press