The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-05
BENNINGTON FIRE:
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MUSTER FEATURE
Made Best Showing at State
Tournament
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HAD EIGHTY MEN IN LINE,
Defeated in Water Fight BY
Cramps After Nearly an
Hour and Half !,

Montpelier, Sept 4.-Barre made
cleanup In the sports conducted to
day in connection with the annual
Flremens Muster held here, winning
the baseball game to 0, while in tho
other sports the scores went In favor
Of the Barre boys
After taking grilling for an hour
and 20 minutes in water fight the
Barre team composed OF John Downs.
George Tucker. Robert Fister, Cecil
bowers. and Edward Shallow won
from the Bennington team, whlCk
was composed OF Messrs. Ellsworth
Wilson, Gallagher, Thompson and
Church. The Bennington team had
the best of the fight until the last
few minutes Of the scrape. after
which three Of the Bennington men
had cramps and fell out Of the fight
and the remaining two directed that
the water be shut off. One hundred
pounds pressure had been used in
the fight. The glory is all the more
for Barre because Of the fact that the
Bennington team has not been defeaU
ed before in the four fights they have
participated in this season. The
judges were Chief Sears of BeRsing-
ton. and Ex-Chief Gladding Of Barre.
In the hose race the finish was Barre
City first, AZ IL seconds; Granite
City second 4S seconds and Putnam
Hose. Bennington, third, 80 Ia sec
onds; with F. E. Perkins, Burlington,
w NJ Reed, Montpelier and l.. G.
Grant, Burlington, judges.
In the ladder climbing contest the
winners were Messrs. Dover, John
son, Sierra and OIds, all of Barre,
and when it came to the hose coup
ling contest, the Barre City team was
first, Granite City second and
American Legion No. 10 Of Barre
third. The pumping. contest was not
held BECAUSE darkness had set. In
fact. darkness had arrived when the
water fight was completed. Kiddie
Barrows did some interesting stunts
on the aeroplane during the ball game
and while the water fight was In pro-
gress.
The following officers were elected:
President c. A. Barber. Winooski;
vice president, H. NJ Martin, Enos-
burg Falls. V. p Persons, Montpelier.
James Williamson st, Johnsbury, w.
P Hogan, Bennington, H. s. Dunshee.
Bristol; secretary, f. d. Moore, Ben
nington; treasurer, l.. c. Grant Bur-
lington; statistican. F. II. Ferguson,
Bennington Mr. Moore and Mr..
Grant we're elected for the 93rd time.
Chief Carl Sockwell of the Burling-
ton department spoke on the New
England Fire Chiefs association, Of
which he is yice-president and which
is to meet at Burlington in two yeaI.
The Vermont association will meet
next year at Winooski.
In the morning parade was held.
| The line of march was originated in
the Red Arch bridge, after which
course that led over the principal
streets of the city was paraded. There
was several pieces of fre-hshtng ap-
paratus in the line. including those
in Montpelier and Barre, while two
demonstration machines we're shown,
Maxim and an Oldsmobile, the lat
ter from Barre agency. There were
about 80 men from the Bennington
| fire department in the line. They
were uniformed and made the best
appearance of any in the line. BarN
also had fine showing of members
The sidewalks were lined with sew
eral thousand persons, including a
large number of people who came in
by automobile. Following the parade
the Maxim pumper gave a demonstra
tion, throwing four streams of water
into the Winooskl river from point
near the Red Arch bridge.
This work and the machine we're
studied by the fremen from the diff
ferent companies present. This was
seen by large crowd of people.
Among those who rode in the
parade were Edwin D, Moore of
Bennington, secretary, and Lowell
c. Grant OF Burlington, treasurer, OF
the State Firemen's association.
which held. its annual meeting later
in the day, In the evening Mardi'
gras was held, with open air dancing
/ in the streets.