Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-22

Norwich Merchants Week reached its third and it's most successful day on Tuesday. with a demonstration by the oNrwich fire department that proved a big attraction in the morn ing and Flower night at the Indus trial and Good Home Exposition at the
 armory, which had crowd that filled the aisles to the bursting point. Union square, where the fire de- partment demonstration was held in
 the morning, was also filled with a big crowd, numbering probably more than 2,0O0 and everyone in the big assemblage expressed themselves as highly pleased with everything that Chief Stanton and the fire department showed.
 The demonstration was conducted on progressive plan, bringing one piece of apparatus into service after another, until in the end the entire 1 fire fighting force of the city was seen | at work and nine streams of water
 were sent shooting up Broadway from 1 the neighborhood of the police sta 1 tion at once
 Besides his announced plan, Chief l Stanton sprang a surprise that was l a most popular move. when he showed
 rescue from the attic floor of the | city hall, from which an inanimate | form was brought down on the exten- 1 sion ladder of the arial truck l The performance began at 10.45 with | a showing of the old Torrent Engine No. 1. the first ever used in Norwich, 1 dating from 1769. It was located near
 a hydrant on Union square, a bucket I line of eighteen men was formed, the | water passed in the buckets to the 1 Torrents tank and then shot out l through the pipe when the big hand | pumps were manned. This was & part | of the performance that excited a | great deal of interest
 !, Then the old relic of bygone days
 was relegated to one side, to clear the | stage for the up to-date work by the ! Norwich department.
 Under the direction of Captain D. | J. Twomey. the center of the stage
 was kept clear by a force of nine DO :
 licemen. this part of the duty being so
 we'll performed that there were no | unpleasant incidents or accidents | When She Torrent was operating an l incautions driver in a buggy started
 to cross the square just in time to
 get under the stream, but he received | only a slight wetting.
 1 First to rash into view for the modern programme was the auto
 chemical, with Driver Henry Taft at
 the wheel, and about eight rubber 1 coated firenen on board They shot 1 up Union street, and back down 1 Broadway. laying hose from a hy-
 drant and then one of the men pull | ed in an alarm from Box B at the 1 Broadway church coorner.
 l This brought out the chief in his buggy with Drover Charles Culver,
 the steamer No 1. driven by Archie
 Corcoran, the aerial truck. driven by | A. M. Herriek, Chemical No. 1, with | Driver Patric Caples and Chemical
 No. ?, with Driver James Ryan in the 1 order named.
 Assistant Chief Adam Bernhard, 1 who was brought from the West Side l cto ~ iy, h; 1 torcyele sidecar also shot into view, | catching and passing Chemical No. l | in front of the Y. M. c. A. building | at Broadway.
 The steamer, with smoke pouring | from it's stack, took station at the 1 cistern in Union square, and in min l utes was whistiing steam up l Meanwhile the other companies had | gotten four streams into operation, the l autochemical and the chemical wagons | driving back and forth to show how | hose is laid in 8 hurry.
 | Ladders were also run up nthe 1 city hall front and the supply wagon, l driven by John Hill was seen to ar
 rive with coal for the steamer. 1 A special call for more help brought 1 the graw horses and Chemical No. 3 l from the Falls flashing down Union | street with Driver Brennan holding ] the ribbons
 Six streams were shooting up into l the air by this time and the people on 1 the Broadway crosswalk found they were about to be flooded off by the water rushing to the sewers. They 1 decided to move.
 Then Chief Stanton sent in the gen. eral alarm, and the GreeneviI1e com l panies responded, William Kramer 1 bringing Engine down in nine min | utes. and in 14 minutes they were ready to pump. Truck No. 2, with | Joseph H. Henderson driving, arrived 1 ahead of the engine.
 1 The autoambulance from Backns hospital reached the sQQare In jpat