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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-10-28

been eonsumated by the unremitting
efforts of Alderman Dr. Ralston Reed,
chairman OF the fire committee. Dr..
Reed took up the Ematter the first
of the year whenx he found that
horses could not be- secured for the
First Wards. He secured the pass
age by the board OF aldermen of the
resolution providing for the bond
issue to pay share of the cost and
with the sum paid in by the Humane
company towards the auto pumping
engine was able to put the PROPOSE
tion through to a successful termina-
ton. The board of fire waFdens
have agreed to contribute toward
the purchase of an auto patrol wagon
and this apparatus will be in opera
tion by the first OF the year.
Preceding this exhibition there Will
be a parade in which the companies
will show their skill as marchers.
The wardens have new caps to show
off while the Humanes are to be re-
splendent in brand new uniforms to
go with their brand-new apparatus.
Then there is to be the Kilties, the
band of bag-pipers and drummers In
Guiding the wonderful bass drummer.
gram for the day. At one-thirty the
fire-honses and the apparatus Will be
inspected by the board of aldermen.
Automobiles will convey the town
fathers about and Will be in waiting
at police headquarters at one-fifteen
At two o'clock the parade will form
ON he "Jerseyman0 side of the
park. The board of fire wardens will
be in the van wearing their new caps
for the first time since The firemen's
parade in Easton last June The In
dependent Hose company has engaged
the New York Highlander band for
the parade and this organization will
be next in line. This is the same
band the Independents took to New
ton two years ago and which proved
the cynosure of all eyes as well as
of all ears.
The Independents will also turn out
the old hand-engine. Then will come
Resolute Hook and Ladder company
The Norris Plains band has been en-
gagged by the town and will be next
in line. The Washington Engine
company, the Humane Engine com
pany and the First Ward Hose com
pany will follow in order.
An innovation this year will be the
placing of the entire fire fighting ap-
paratus in the rear of the companies.
The warden's wagon will doubtless
make its last public appearance on
parade. Following it will be the IN
dependents automobile chemical en-
gine, the Resolutes automobile truck,
the Washes auto hose wagon and
tractor drawing the steamer, the HUI
names automobile pumping engine as
we'll as the company's old steamer
and hose wagon and the First Wards
hose car.
The parade will proceed down Mar
ket street to Maple avenue, to James
street, to South street to Randolph
Military academy. Thence it will
to Elm street where
\ short stop will be made to allow
.he board of aldermen and visiting !
chiefs to reach the grand stand on
Park place. Thence the parade will
proceed up South street TO Park |
place where it will be reviewed by
he town officials, Then proceed up
SpeedweM avenue to West End hotel
md countermarch to the park and
At four o'clock general alarm of +
ire will be turned in from Box No.
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VAMPS TO FIGHT
MIMIC BATTLE
MOTrISiOwn Firemen TO Show
PrOwess With Autos.

Morristown this afternoon will
see its pride, the fire department,
work amid an atmosphere of gaso-
line fumes and Scotch (No, not
what you think, band). The day
will mark the formal appearance Oh
the automobile apparatus the de-
partment now includes in its equip
ment, an auto pumping engine, hose
wagon and tractor combined and a
hose car being the latest acquisi-
tons OF the department. There will
be mimic alarm, the firemen to
respond TO the cali for aid and the
quenching of an imaginary fire in the
MorristoWn green, eight solid streams
of water to be seen cascading into
the park with the full force of two
steamers and a gasoline pump pro-
pelling them.
The motorization of the department
the need for which was pointed out
by Mayor Todd in Ibis inaugural adj
dress to the board Of aldermen, has
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-10-28
PROGRAM OF EVENTS

13O specon of fire hou and apparatus by mayor and
board Of aldermen.
200 p mParade forming north Park place follows
Board Of Fire Wardens Foreman William A Leek
Chief Day
Assistant Chiefs Madgan and Hopkins
New York Highlander Band.
Independent Hose Company. Foreman I. Fred Runyon
Resolute Hook and Ladder Company Foreman Ernest
Ward.
Morris Plains Band
Washington Engine Company Foreman William Dugan
Humane Engine Company Foreman William D. Harrison
First Ward Hose Company, Foreman James Higgins
Wardens' Wagon.
Independent Hose company's Auto Chemmical Engine.
Resolute Hook and Ladder Company Auto Truck.
Washington Engine Company's Auto Hose Wagon and
Tractor Drawing Steamer.
Humane Engine Company's Auto Pumping Engine
Humane Engine Conpany's Steamer
First Ward Hose Company's Auto Hose Wagon
Line of MarchMaket Maple avenue street.
South street to Randolph Military academy
up South street to Park place where it will be reviewed
by the officials Then up speedwell avenue to
West End hotel and countermarch to the park dis
band
AGO p mGeneral Alarm from Box AZ Bringing companies
and apparatus to Park for exhibition.
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Chief Day. Mendham; Chief Bartron,
Morris Plains; Chief Scott, Summit;
Chief Gruver, Madison; Deputy Chief
Exall, Newark; Chief Doane, Plain
field; Chief Decker. Westfield; Chief
Williams, Montclair; Chief Markwith,
East Orange; Chief Matthews, orange;
Chief Murphy, Collinsyille Chief
Armstrong, Prudentown; Chief owens
Butler, and Chief Davis, Bayonne.
At five O'Clock the new apparatus of
the companies will be officially housed
and at six several of the companies
will banquet
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sense of these dangers and to an ac-
tive interest in reducing and ul-
timately preventing them, | hereby
proclaim that Tuesday, the eleventh
day OF November, nineteen thirteen,
shall be known and observed as fire
prevention day throughout the state
of New Jersey
Let the observance of this day
be characterized by simple and prae-
tical measures of fire prevention. [
recommend the collection, removal
and destruction of all inflammable
rubbish and refuse
Let all furnaces, heating pipes and
chimneys be inspected and repaired
if found defective in the least de-
gree.
Let all public and private institu-
tions, hotels, factories, theatres, hos
pltals, asylums and other buildings,
other than homes, be carefully in
spected for fire hazards, and let any
change be made at once that will
further protect the occupants from
danger by fire.
Let all easements, cellars, stair
ways, elevator shafts, yards, attics
and other out-of-the-way places where
rubbish may be carelessly thrown. be
thoroughly cleaned out on that day
and let the rule be established that
hereafter they shall be kept clean.
Let municipal authorities give such
attention to matters of building regu-
lations, fire-fighting apparatus and all
other public measures for fire pro-
lection and prevention, as will enable
them to announce a fire prevention
day the inauguration or accomplish
ment of definite measure in this de-
partment Of public welfare.
Lastly. let fire drills be held on
that day in institutions, factories and
in public, private and parochial
schools, and | earnestly recommend
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-10-28

Chief Buys SearchIght.
Chief Wilbur f. Day, jr., has pur-
chased for his personal use an
electric searchlight.
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nelius Tiger and former Assistant
Chief Harry Piper.
Officers of the company are:--Wal-
ter o. Stiles. president; William ID
Harrison. foreman; Watson c. Gne+
in, assistant foreman;, William Wood
ruff, secretary; Clarence G. Hopkins,
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NEW FLOOR FOR HOSE HOUSE.
Truck House "Annex" Proves Con
venient Storage Place.

Truck House Annex" Proves Con-
venient Storage Place.
The automobile chemical engine
has been housed in the 'annex" OF
Resolute Hook and Ladder company's
quarters while cement floor was
put down in the house OF lnde-
pendent Hose company. The truck
house "annex" has proved mighty
convenient place to have handy the
past year. For a considerable time
after the advent of the automobile
truck and the retirement OF the com.
pany's red wagon the house was un-
occupied but the past year has seen
a variety of apparatus housed there
temporarily, including the Robinson
demonstration pumping engine, sew
eral other sample auto apparatuses
and the Washington's and First
Wards cars. When the auto pumping
engine is put into service il is plan
ned to store the Humane companys
old steamer in the "annex"
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of the old Niagara Engine company
With its organization the company in
herited the fourth-class steamer
which superseded the old Niagara
hand engine in 1873 But two of the
charter members are left in the COM
pany, former Assistant Chief Cor
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-10-28

financial secretary; Walter o. stiles.
treasurer; Russell LaRue, steward; /;
Abram P. West, engineer: Jesse Le-
pine, first assistant; Theodore Irving,
second assistant; William Fl. Kinds,
stoker; William w Ridge has been
elected to the position of driver of
the new machine and will be on duty
night and day.
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fire engine. The latter apparatus will
be kept in reserve, The steamer
was purchased by the town in 1898
and is of the LaFIance make and
weighs 7 400 pounds.
The company was organized in 1882
as the outcome Of the disbandment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-22

day which had come To him for many
years.
He comes upon his first sight of prim-
tive man in his native place. There
he was as at the beginning. and | saw
with n new respect from what splen-
did creature We were derived. He
sees a group Of women bathing in
pool. their figures full. lissom and
rounded. as unconscious of their grace.
they are, as animals. and look 'as
proper with their brown and satiny
limbs and bodies in the secluded and
sunny arbors where the water ran,
framed In exuberant tropical foliage. rs
"A herd Of deer" He tells us If he could
sing he would sing the banana, which
has the loveliest leaf he knows. Some
times the Capella. with the spell
bound reader aboard. passes single hab-
itations on the waterside. \ sad
woman and several naked children
stand. with no show of emotion, and
watch us go by. Behind them the inn
penetrable foliage our purser says:
thought of the precsrious tenure on
earth Of these brown folk with some sad
ness. especially a. the day was going.
The easy dominance Of the wilderness ana
mans intelligent morsel Of life resisting
IL was made plain when We came sudden
Is upon one of these little shacks secreted
among the aqueous roots OF "A great tree,
COVERING as IL were between two OF the
giants toes Those brown babies never
cheered MS They watched NJ serious ana
forlOrn.
In The Sea and the jungle" this IL
one Of the pictures Of the Heart of
Darkness:
The Jungle gains nothing. and loses
nothing, ~ noon. 1t f. only "A sombre
thought still as AT midnight. II is stu.
al noon. so obscure and dumb a presence
that suspect the sun does not illuminate
IL 80 much n reveal our steamer IN It's
midst We are revealed instead. The
presence sees ms advancing into its soil
tudcs "A small busy ard inpudent in
trudcr But the forest does not greet.
and does not resent Us. II regards MS
with the vacancy of large conposure.
with a lofty watchfrlness which has no
need TO show it's mind ! think II knows
our fears Of it's domain. IL knows the
secret of orr fate. II makes no sign
not that infinite line Of lofty trees. dark
ly superior. silently watching MS pass.
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the time 1t is the familiar story OF
Scotch thrift, industry and rigorous re-
lgion. John Muir was an active lad.
He tells us:
was so proud Of my skill as a climber
that when first heard of hell from ser,
want Girl who loved to tell its horrors ana
warn us that II we did anything WronS
We would be cast into II always M
sisted | could climb out OF II. linagli,ru
II was only "A sooty pit with stone Wills,
like those of a castle. and | felt sure
there must be chinks and cracks IN the
masonry for fingers and toes
one night, when John and his brother
David were at their grandfathers are
side. solemnly learning their lessons
as usual, their father came in and saia:
BARNS, you medina learn your lessons
the NIGHT, for we're gan to America
the morn" The boys were utterly,
blindly glorious. In the paradise over
the sea what wonderful birds and their
nests would they find. and sugar ana
gold! Their schoolmates met on the
street that night would not believe the
shouted news. John Muir told them:
"Weel. just you see il | am at tho
skule the morn," The family vOyaged
to the new land in the old-fashioncd
type Of sailing vessel of that day. The
last stage Of the journey was per-
formed with "A team of three yoke Of
oxen. And home was made, a Won
derful and thrilling home to young
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-22
LITERARY NEWS
e. CRITICISM b sa

meeting. the principal of which was
want of confidence in myself
Thus beginning with Austin the
young Adams began to cultivate those
personal animosities which figured so
largely throughout his entire career.
The next object of his dislike anu
scorn was Governor Hancock himseif.
The Governors campaign against play
actors in Boston aroused his scorn. and
thereafter he missed no opportunity TO
criticise him. Referring TO the result
of the fall elections in 1892. he wrote
TO his father: THE unanmity of the
electors in this state was by all ac-
counts a sore modification to his state
majesty 1t angered him to the heart
and he vented his peevishness upon the
first objects that presented themselves
to him. He has affected TO De
much alarmed for his own safety, ana
to be in terror lest mob should attack
his person or his house. But there
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valuable among men was ever achieved
without the cOunterpoise of strong oppo-
sition, and the persecution that proceeds
from opinion itself becomes itself a title
TO esteem when the opinion is found TO
have been erroneous. There are. indeed.
situations in which no service can be rem
dered without the assistance and support
of popularity; but there are others in
which it can be of no public advantage.
and in that case popular opposition is
nothing more than a danger to defy or a
difficulty TO overcome. To say that the
danger may prove fatal, or the difficulty
insuperable, is no more than to say that
a soldier marching to battle may leave
his life upon the field.
There, in his youth, spoke the man
who in his age was destined to wage
through many years an unparalleled
campaign for principle against such OPP
position, such unpopularity and such
obloauy as have confronted few men in
our pation's history, to win at the end
and in the hour of death a triumph of
unsurpassed completeness.
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Scientific
Auction
Bridge
Bv E. Y. SHEPARD.

81 have read all the books on Auc.
ton Bridge. f. V. Shepard's is the
best Of them all | doubt if better
one will ever be written. Other
writer's teach by illustrative hands
which you may never hold. He gives
simple rules for bidding and playing
any hand possible to deal. Every
feature OF the game is discussed in
way to aid both BEGINNER and expert
player. He gives valuable facts con-
corning the game which have never
before been put in concrete torn.
The rules are clear. practical. and easy
10 remember. The work Is not based
upon personal opinion but is founded
upon mathematical facts. Every play
err should own a copy OF this work
A. l.. ROBINSON, NJ. ID"
Vice President.
Knickerbocker Whist Club.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-22
A SCOTCH BOY
John Muir's Memories Of His
Early Life.

THE STORY OF MY BOYiiOOD AND
YOUTH. Bv Jo1n Muir. with a poi-
trait. and illustrations from sketches Dy
the author $40. PIP. pa. The Houghioh
Aliilin Company
II the gentleman who several years
ago wrote that entertaining bit of saw
agery The Unspeakable Scot should
chance To read this winning story OF
Scotch boy. Johnnie Muir, he Will as
he is human. be- ashamed of himself.
Mr.. Barrie and his sentiment was one
OF this ferocious persons great bug
bears. There is something Of Mr.. Bar
ries quaintness in human sympathy IN
this photographed view of John
Muir. But no amount of spleen could
hold ont for five minutes against the
simplicity. sweetness of humor and
natural goodness OF his retrospective
chronicle.
The book opens with an account OF
the authors childhood in Scotland
those auld Ia x syne days he calls
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-22

John Muir, in :hanty in the Wiscon-
sin wilderness. Everything about US
was so novel and wonderful that we
could hardly believe our senses, except
when hungry or while father was
thrashing US" Old Scotch fashions
were kept up in the new home.
In all these pages the reader breathes
a bonnie world He considers the lilies,
indeed. and all things that grow, AMI
that fy and swim and walk and crawl.
The love songs Of the frogs, says
this st. Francis, seemed hardly less
wonderful than those OF the birds.
The frogs tell him their good BiDie
names" in clear, musical tones. Isaac,
Isaac: Yacob. Yacob; Israel, Israel; lie
hears them shout. To John Muir all
living things are Gods people-"all are
warm with divine radium and must
have lots OF fun in them" a Scotch
neighbor he speaks of with affection,
a Mr.. McRath. who always addressed
pet coon in speaking TO II as ny
tie man" The death of Mob. the lam
ilv horse. is a moving death bed scene:
"Au the family gathered about her,
weeping, with aching hearts. Then
dust to dust" The Scotch are a race
rich in what are sometimes called
characters. \ fiddler of this order
neighbor of this Wisconsin farm, IN
remorse for having drunk overmuch
whiskey borrowed a gun. The lender
of the weapon, somewhat alarmed, in
quired: You're no gan to shoot your
sell" Moo" replied the pentent
fiddler. II dinna think that I'll just
exactly kill mysel. but I'm gaun to tax
dander doom the burn (brook) withc
gun and gle mysel a deevil o a ileg
GrighU.'
John was put 10 the plough at the age
Of twelve. He was called in the morn
ing at o'clock and seldom got TO bed
before 9. When he was sick his father,
instead OF calling a physician, always
said that God and hard work were by
far the best doctors. The senior Muir
school. type happily described here
in the phrase IAN all-Bible father
Johns awakening instinct for reading
had much, in a popular phrase, to buck
against Dicks Christian Philos-
opher," borrowed from a neighbor, the
youthful student thought he might
venture To read in the open, trusting
that the word christian" would be
proof against its cautious condemna-
ton. But the father baked at the
word Philosopher" and quoted from
the Bible verse which spoke of
PHILOSOPHY so called" His son argued
that he could not do without at least a
little of the most useful kinds of philos-
ophy. and science. His fathers spec
tacles, for instance. he reasoned with
which he read his Bible, could not have
been made without some knowledge of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-22
CAlIBAN
He Was Shakespeare's Amer
lean Indian.

Sir Sidney Lee. in an uncommonly in
terestng paper in THE Cornhill."
traces the creation of Caliban in THE
Tempest" to the opportunities which
Shakespeare enjoyed in London of
studying at first hand the aboriginal
temperament. 1T was composite
portrait" he says. (which issued in
Caliban from Shakespeare pen"
With almost the first year Of the six
teenth century the English explorers
began to bring back to their own land
the natives of our hemisphere, the first
of them being evidently Esquimaus. In
the reigns of Elizabeth and James |
the American Indian was seen on the
London streets. He left, on the whole
favorable impression on the Eliza
bethan mind Not until the end of his
career. Sir Sidney reminds us. did
Shakespeare attempt in Caliban "A full
length portrait of the aboriginal visi-
tors, some of which he undoubtedly
knew. since his patron, Lord South
ampton, took practical interest in
them. The wreck of an English ship on
the rocks of Bermuda suggested. Of
course. the theme OF The Tempest"
AS to Caliban himself Sir Sidney says,
Calibans name is clearly modification
Of Cariban or Caribbean. the designation
of the first American race which set eyes
on Europeans. The Caribbeans, on the
arrival OF Columbus and his countrymen.
fled from their homes In the West Indies
to the South American mainland. There
Raleigh met some Of them I'm Guiana. and
he offered them hospitality In England.
The name was variously rendered In
early reports of American adventures.
The first syllable appears not only as
Car" but also as Cal" and even as
Can" Cannibal is one OF the deriva-
lives. But despite the significance COM
monty attached To that word IL was with
out authority that the imputation Of man
eating propensities was cast I'm early re-
ports on the "gentlekind" Carib. No
such suspicion attaches TO caliban. Cali
bans nurture at times echoes the impress
sions Of gentleness and trustfulness which
Raleigh's Caribbean servants left on Eliz-
ahefhan mind
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Tackling
Matrimony
By George Lee Burton.

Don't try to boss her all the time.
I've been married hitythree years
now. off and on; have had three OF
them; and find they're all alike. You
boss about big things, but let her have
her way in little things. the old man
advised. with a shrewd look.
"'Thank you. Daddy; I'll remember
that | answered.
Ives, sonny. you regulate the
money and the outside matters, but
let her do the fixing and managing IN
the house; don't interfere with her IN
that unless you have to-and you'll get
along"
And their struggles with small
means and their misunderstanding
are related in a story full OF humor
and sympathy.
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(AARPeRS AARPeRS AARPeR4
MAGAZINE 8AZA9 WEEKLY

the science of optics. oh" the father
replied, perceiving the drift Of the argu'
ment. there will always be plenty OF
worldly people to make spectaeles.
The most appealing chapter in tins
engaging book is, perhaps, that dealing
with the young inventor. He is COM
manded To go 10 bed. but tod that ne
may get up in the morning as early as
he likes He rises at | o'clock, ana
glories i'm five whole hours OF his own
He invents self-setting sawmill'
water wheels. curious door locks, Their
mometers. hygrometers. promoters
clocks. a barometer an automatic con-
trivance for feeding the horses at any
required hour, and. among other things
an early or late rising machine. the
illustrations in the book are drawings
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The
| Wings
|of Pride
Bv Louise Kennedy Mabte.
The first time is always the best.

The first time is always the best.
For then comes the JOY of discov-
cry. the glow OF awakened sensation,
the vivid consciousness Of exploring
new fields. Something OF all this we
ask you to share with us in this new
writer and her newborn book. The
old favorites you know-but did you
know them before they were favor
ties and before they were old!
Here you see the very beginning,
the very budding of one. Her story
her story of young loves awakening
is as dewy fresh as the dawn, the tale
OF natural story teller-the setting
American and the plot enticing, charm
ing, delightful Will you be among
the first to acclaim her!