Evening journal., 1913-08-22
STATE FIREMEN
in CHESTER LINE
New Castle Ladies' Will Turn
Out in Parade Early in
September

Many members of the Wilmington
Ere department expect to visit Ches-
ter during the week of the Pennsyl-
yania state Flremen's Convention.
General good feeling exists always
between the fremen In the sister
cities of the Delaware.
or course one OF the biggest days
for jAo general public will be Thurs
day. September 4. the day of the pa
rado. This is looked forward TO with
the greatest interest and will be a
strong feature II is expected il VIII
be ,he means of bringing visitors in
TO the city by the tens OF thousands.
The merchants and residents on the
streets which will be traversed by
the marchers have been requested
10 decorate their buildings and the
work along this line has already
been started with the result that by
the first of September Il is expected
thar the city will be one mass of the
national colors. In the center Of
the citv there will be thousands of
electric lights and the streets VIII be
one glare of vari-colored lights at
night
During the course of the parade,
furnish ice water for the spectators,
as we'll as the iiremen and along
the entire foute Of parade there VIII
be water barrels placed in position
al regular intervals. Any business
man or private citizen who cares TO
place a water barrel in front of his
own place and will so notify the
General Committee, or any hremen,
will have it filled with ice free OF
charge. All that is necessary will
be to place the barrel in position and
give due notice and II will be placed
on the list for delivery. The man
agements of the Consumers Ice
Manufacturing Company and the
Penn Ice Company have volunteered
10 contribute and deliver all ice re-
nuired during the entire week. This
donation is looked upon as valu-
able one and will he appreciated by
everyone.
AS to the parade in itself IL is
going to me one grand affair IN every
respect
The Good VIII Fire Company, of
New Castle will be the only company
from Delaware IN the big parade
The Moyamensing Company will
have the fire laddies from "Shad-
Vile" as their guests The New Cas-
tie hremen will wear peaches and
souvenir buttons on which will be
the photograph of a shad The peach
will stand for the Blue Hens Chick
ems while the shad will be an adver.
tisement for the city on the Della
ware where a fleet of nearly fifty
boars and one hundred men catch
$4,000 worth OF shad yearly The
buttons are 10 be an advertisement
pure and simple
The formal program Of the meet
ings aud entertainment for the weel
has many novel features amonl
which will be the boat ride on th'
river Wednesday afternoon. ThI
trip will be made on the steame
Columbia and will go up the rive
as far as League Island Navy Yard
One hour will he passed at tina
naval base and then run will b
made down the river as far as For
DUPONT and return. This river tril
will be something entirely new {,
many of the visitors from up-the
state who have never seen anything
larger In the boat line than a canoe
or possibly a small boat
While on the river trip there viii
be special entertainment on boart
the steamer Columbia and il Is The
intention of the committee i'm charge
OF that portion of The program L
make IT one OF the most elaborat'
excursions that has ever been takei
out on the Delaware.
For the visiting women a river tril
has been arranged for Wednesda,
afternoon on the steamers Of tn
Wilson Line. This will be under tn
auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary Il
the General committee On Thurs
day the ladies will be taken on al
automobile trip out through tn
county.