Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-18

a two days session, "Wednesday in | Providence. In the opening address | Eat. Rev. James De Wolf Perry, bishop | of the Episcopal diocese of Rhode Is- land, said the suicidal quest of selfsh | desire was the cause of the European 1 war. In God is to be found the ulti- mate solution. The peace that He 1 offers, until now rejected, is the only basis on which men shall find inter- national and social unity.
 Bishop Perry reported that during the year he had confirmed 1057 cam didates, 425 men and boys and 632 priests and five deacons in the dio- cese, besides six licensed to offieiate. There are five postulants and six can- didates for holy orders, five deacon esses and 55 lay readers
 Treasurer Charles A. Tompkins re- ported balance of $121419, with total credit of $15,S59.65, and a total expenditure of $I4.6f5.4s.
 It was voted that the canons of the diocese be so amended as to provide that all parishes in the diocese, be- fore carrying through any changes in or additions to the buildings of the parish, must first consult with the commission on church hrchitecture, and that all missions must also ob- tain the consent of the commission, before making any such changes or conditions. This vote is in the ir- terests of a more harmonious church arCh1tecture.
 Officers and committees for the en- suing year were elected as follows: President, Rt Rev. James ,DeWoIf Perry, s. T. D., D. D.. secretary, Rev. William Pressey; registrar, Rev Jo- seph M. Hobbs: treasurer, Charles A. Tompkins.
 Deputies to the general convention follow: Clerical, Rev Arthur M. Au- cock, D. D., Rev. Albert M HiIliker, Rev. Frederick J. Bassett, D. D., Rev. Stanley c. Hughes; lay, George c. King, Rathbone Gardner, Charles T. Dorrance and James A. Pirce; cleri- cal alternates, Rev. s. M. Dorrance, Rev. Emery H. Porter, D. D.. Rev. George McC. Fiske, D. D., Rev. Frank Appleton; lay alternates, John P FarnsWorth, Charles c. Mumford, AL bert Babcock and Charles A. Tomp- kins.
 Standing committee: Clerical, Rev. Arthur M. Aucock, D. D.. Rev Fred erick J. Bassett, D. D., Rev George MeC. Fislke. Rev. Emery H. Porter; Gardner, Charles c. Munford and James A. Pirce. Cathedral corpora ton, Charles c. Mumford, Charles T. Gardner, George G. King, Darius Ba- ker and H. Anthony Dyer.
 After the Westerly Fire district au- ehorized committee to purchase rnotor-driVen apparatus for the Alert
 Hook and Ladder. and not confined
 to any specific appropriation, there arose a complication that may result Tn delay of purchase, or, perhaps, re- suit in no purchase of the mueh-de sired new hook and ladder truck. The impression prevailed at the meeting that the Alerts had previously agreed
 that if the fire district provided a motor apparatus, that the present
 company owned and horse drawn ap-
 no faf afTTcy I.-1
 trict, and thereby lessen the cost of
 the new machine. H. Everett Barns
 or the committee, having heard re-
 port to the, contrary, asked for infor-
 nation, and Foreman George Capron,
 foreman of the Alerts, was prfvileged
 to explain, although he had no legal voice in the meeting. Foreman Capron | said he could not understand why there should be any misunderstand- ing on that point. He said the com
 pany voted to turn over the hook and ladder truck and a set ofCold ladders
 to the district. It was expected that the district would take over the set | Of new ladders and reeompense the company for the same. This led MT. Burns to remark that, as he under stood the situation, the Alerts were to give the district nothing of any
 value in connection with the proposed change in apparatus, as the present truck and old ladders were of little l or no value in exchange, but that the
 new set of ladders could be used on
 the new apparatus and the cost there 1 of deducted.
 This feature of the proposition
 seemed news to the great majority of | those at the meeting, but Chief Cot treH did say at the annual meeting
 when the proposition was first made,
 that it would be but fair to reim- I purse the company for the new lad | O1TS T has hnaT1 ,i-
 misunderstanding can be amicably ad- 1 justed, as the concern that furnishes | the new apparatus to the district
 would cheerfully deduct the cost of
 the ladders from the price of the ma chine, if the committee insisted that
 the ladders now owned by the Alerts l be placed on the new truck
 1 By vote of the district the commit tee has full authority to purchase any
 make of fire truck, which in it's iudg-
 ment IS the most advantageous to the I district, and therefore the committee l will do more Investigating before reaching decision. ! The Alert Hook and Ladder com
 pany was organized as an independ-
 ent fire company about thirty years | ago, and for several years was in real ity a strictly independent company, and existed without any assistance l from the fire district. The company
 owns the present apparatus and Squ1pLnenC For more than twenty years this company has had quarters in the district fire house, has received
 yearly allowances, just the same as l the other companies, and the district has furnished the horses to draw the company-owned apparatus At the
 present time the Alerts are independ . ent, in comparison with the other kcompanies, only to the extent that the
 truck and equipment is not the prop- ] erty of the fire district. It sure is a 1 fact that the company owns the lad ders in question and, if they are suit 1 able as part of the equipment of an
 up-to-date hook and ladder motor
 driven apparatus, the matter of their
 purchase. ought not to prevent the in stallation of a modern truck in the
 place of the, present anticipated ma chine in a modern fire department. Hardly had the accommodation train i from Providence to New London l reached the station at Westerly at | 1O.46 Wednesday morning, an hour be- hind schedule time, when the cab ot 1 the locomotive became enveloped in 1 flame. Both engineman and fireman 1 jumped from the cab, the former rush l ing for line of hose in the tender and getting stream of water on the |