Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-18
F|REMEN PINNED
FOR SPEED TESTS
No. % Engine Company, Now
Holding Record, Out to
clinch Trophy.

Washington will set out week
from tomorrow to strengthen Its claim
to having the fastest fire engine com.
pany In the United States. The pos
SCISSOR of that title. laurel that was
lifted from Baltimore's crack head
quarters company, Is No. % Engine
Company, located on G. street near
Twenty second street, which cleared
its quarters on a regular alarm In
LIS seconds from the time the gong
first began to. strike
AS a result of that achievement
No. 20 won the first leg on a hand
some silver loving cup offered by The
Evening Star to the Washington en-
CINE company which could leave Its
quarters in the least space of time on
an alarm of fire. Now, under the rules
Of the contest, No. % must defend
its claim TO possession OF. the cup for
another year by again proving It's
superiority over every other engine
company in the District OF Columbia.
Truck Company Record,
At the same time Truck Company
No. 6, located on Park road near
Thirteenth street, established the fast
est time for a truck company by
leaving its quarters in eight seconds.
and thereby won possession Of another
large loving cup, this one presented
by the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association. No. Truck will be call.
ed upon to defend its title, too, at the
same time that the engine companies
are again striving for the honor OF
being the National Capitals crack
outfit.
The tests will begin at . o'clock
Monday morning, July 20. II the
schedule of last year is attained they
Will be completed within three days.
The judges in the contest VIII De
the same as last year. including Q
reporter for The Star; w. w. Dean,
fire prevention engineer for the war
Department, and Battalion CHIEF -,
F. O'Connor. They win follow exactly
the same rules that were laid down
last year so that all companies win
have an equal chance again.
stop Watches Used.
Briefly stated, these rifles are: Each
piece OF apparatus is stationed 90 that
its rear is SO feet from the door. An
alarm for Box No. Is ie then sounded
on. the big gong In the regulation
manner. All of the men must DO
toward the rear Of the engine house.
Stop watches are set running the IN
slant the first stroke OF the gong De.
gins and they are not stopped until
the rear OF the apparatus has actually
other words, until 1t 10 really on Its
way to the fire.
It was under these rules that Balti-
more's crack company set o new rec
ord and stole the laurels Of victory
from Detroit. Baltimore's best time
was 10 seconds, and when the tests
were decided upon here the same rules
were laid down 80 that washington
would be justified in claiming the rec
ord II It bettered Baltimore's time.
The results showed that IL engine
companies and o truck company
euualed Baltimore's record time, while
10 engine companies and truck COM
panies bettered It.
Must win Third Time.
The winning company happened to
be the last to run. At the time the
Judges visited No. 20 two other COM
panies were tied ct eight seconds each
Mo. ~ Engine and No. 8 Engine.
No. Truck Company, incidentally,
had made the same time, but since
it was competing for q separate prize
Il would not have figured in the rum
OF between the engine companies had
not No. 70 clipped four.flfths Of Sec
ond from the time and hung up rec
ord that viii be hard for any company
to equal.
II No. % wins the contest again
this year It win have two legs on the
big loving cup and third victory VIII
give 1t permanent possession OF the
trophy. Each winning company has
its name and time inscribed on the
cup as q permanent record ana IN al
dition is presented with q bronze
shield which the Fire Department has
authorized placed on the winning APP
paratus as q sort Of chevron' Of honor.