The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-15
FIRE CAPTAIN
HAS BIRTHDAY
Captain Hannah Celebrates
by Directing Drill Team
on Monday.
ALL SUPPLE LADIES

Monday, November II, was the
fifty-ninth birthday anniversary of
Captain Frank M. Hannah, and the
captain celebrated the occasion by
directing the drill teams of Fire
engine departments one, two and
three. This was nothing new for Cap
tain Hannah, but part of the usual
round of his duties for the jolly cap
tain is drill master of the department.
When Indian summer came back
again and peeped smiling behind the
frost upon the pumpkin, the builders
rejoiced because they could keep on
building, the golfers rejoiced because
they could go on golfng, the motor
lists rejoiced because they could go
on motoring. and the drill master re-
joiced because he could go on drill
ing.
A Veteran of the Department.
Captain Harmon is an old hand at
the game of drilling and keeping fit.
Fifty-nine years of age and day
today, he has straight a back and as
straight forward an eye as when he
was twenty-nine. He knows that a
straight back, firm foot and a steady
eye are necessary for the fire-laddies
in accomplishing their work of fire
fighting and rescue, and to this end
he has prepared series of drills
which form the basis for their work.
The captain has a disposition that
goes with an old salt, a man that
knows the compass, or follower of
tall timber. Their natures are merry
at the heart. That's why captain Han
nan and Captain T. P. Hanson across
the way in the sheriff's Office are
somewhat alike. Captain Hanson knew
the sea and Captain Hannah for many
years, about thirty, was member Of
the United States coast guard service.
For the last seventeen years he has
been a member of the Kenosha fire
department.
Ladies' Scale the Engine House.
That's why it was with good-nature
mixed with firmness that Captain
Frank M. Hannah took advantage of
the fine Indian summer afternoon of
his birthday in the Indian summer of
his lifetime on Monday afternoon and
stood back of Engine House number
8, directing the fremen. The lads
stood to attention, they right-faced
and left-faced and forward marched
and took up their ladders which they
placed against the wooden walls of the
engine house which fortunately was
not burning.
At the signals of Ready to Mount!
Mount! Halt! Snap In! Unsnap! Step
Over!" they showed how easy thing
it is to climb a ladder if you do it
in rhythm and Systematically.
The ladders were not the regular
long hook-and- ladder ladders, but the
individual ones that each fireman can
carry alone if necessary and which are
used for emergency work particularly
on tall factory or Office buildings.
Each weighs about twenty-seven
pounds. The fremen scaled up and
down them, and practiced also the
representing which is most useful
where person is caught on top OF
burning building Sometimes it may be
fireman himself who is caught at
the top of building, cut off from the
ladders With the help of the rope
tossed to him, he can easily let him
self down to the ground, particularly
the rope and to his own belt.
Fastening his hook in the rope coil
ed thrice, the firemen hangs suspend
ed in the air at the will of the person
holding the rope below, who with a
jerk can hold the one descending in
place or prevent him from making too
speedy descent
Another important drill practiced
by the fremen Monday was the re-
suscitating of a person overcome by
gas or smoke. One of the firemen was
selected to play 'possom,' and he drop
ped down to the canvas spread on the
floor. The firemen showed how they
could rescue him by taking him into
the open air, raising his head upon
his elbow, and pumping the smoked air
out of the lungs and fresh air into
them by manipulation.