The Penn's Grove record., 1923-07-06
Salem Holds Gala
Firemen's Parade
Hundreds of Visiting Firemen
Delightfully."- Entertained.
PennS Grove Wins Prizes

The Liberty Fire Company, of
Penns Grove, in the fremen's big
parade, held last Saturday, at Salem,
was awarded the prize for the com
pany making the second best appear
ance from among the entire twenty
hive companies represented, and it was
generally agreed that Penns Grove
n New Castle, Delaware (first prize
wlnners) were in a class by them
selves, with very little by which the
average layman could show a prefer
ence for either.
Many complimentary remarks con-
corning the Liberty Company's excel
lent band were also heard along the
March, and it is generally believed
that they were just barely nosed out
of first place in this division by the
Lyric Band of Camden.
The verdict of the judges that
Woodstown had the best appearing
apparatus in the entire parade was
well received, as was also their YER
dict that they had the best equipped
company in line. For the former they
were awarded a trumpet, and for the
latter their treasury was enriched by
$50 in gold.
Saturday was an ideal day for the
big parade, and hundreds of guests
and visitors lined the principal thoro-
fares in the city and viewed with adj
miration the biggest and best fire
mems parade ever held in South Jer-
sey. Organizations from as far as
Wildwood and as neal as Quinton
We'd with each other for supremacy
in the different divisions with their
spick and span equipment and well
equipped organizations. The com
mites from the four Salem fire or
CARNATIONS acquitted themselves ad-
mirably, and the program went off
with out a hitch. The several hun
bred visiting firemen with their equip
ment were assigned places from which
they could fall in as the line of march
was formed, and at three o'clock in
the afternoon, to the tunes of snappy
airs rendered by the Twelfth Regi-
ment Band of Salem City, the parade
started from the foot of Broadway.
With everyone travelling at a good
pace, and no stops, it required 25
minutes for the parade to pass a
given point.
Marshal Howard B. Keasbey, with
his aides, Erwin G. Ochs, Morris Crist
and Michael Carmody, headed the
parade, and next came the Colors, the
Mayor and members of Council, the
Twelfth Regiment Band and Fire
Chief Oscar Smith and Assistant
Chief Sharp. Then followed the North
Bend Fire Company with their new
pumper which in the evening after
an appropriate ceremony which in
cluded a block dance in front of the
North Bend fire house near Penns Neck
Bridge, was officially housed. Assis-
tant Chief Norris Trulender, and then
came the Washington and Liberty
fire companies and chiefs and their
equipment. The Boy Scouts Band of
Millville followed the Washington
Company and this group of young
musicians were roundly applauded all
along the line of march.
There followed in the order named,
the Union Fire Company and equip
ment, of Salem; the marching unit of
Oxford, Penna., with At men; the
Wildwood Fire Company with equip
ment; the Port Norris company, the
Mount Holly Fife and Drum Corps
and equipment and men, the Billings
port Fire Company and apparatus, the
New Castle, Delaware Fire Company
and apparatus; the Gloucester Fire
Company and apparatus, the Swedes-
boro unit, the apparatus and company
from Mantua the Woodstown men and
apparatus, the Penns Grove company,
band and equipment; the dupont Fire
Company, the Pedricktown Volunteer
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