Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
VIRGINIA F|REMEN
PLAN RECORD FETf
Alexandria Session Expected
to Draw Large Crowd
for. Merriment.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.


ALEXANDRIA. Va. August 20
The forty first annual convention o
the Virginia state Firemen's Associa
tinn Will be held here four days. be
ginning Tuesday. a record attend
ance of delegates and visitors is eX
lected. More interest is being mani
tested in the convention than has eve
before been displayed and the list O.
accepted invitations is mounting rap
lily Thousands of people throughout
the State will visit here to join in the
nerriment incident 10 every State fire
mems couclave.
Departments attending will incl -
the Charlottesville department, so meH
and band: Rescue Engine and Truck
Company, Newport News. 20 men and
Newport News Band: Shenandoah de
lartment, men: Pulaski depart
Inent, % men; Warrenton Fire De
partment. men; Citizens Company,
No. /, Strasburg, So men: Salem de
partment, . men: Bedford Volunteer
company, 40 men and 40-piece band
Charley RouSs Fire Company. Win
chester, 100 men and band: La France
company, Newport News. Is men and
l5-pieCe band: Orange company, SO
men and Ladies' Auxiliary; Friendship
Veterans Fire Association, Alexandria,
40 men; Chambers company, Ports
mouth, Is men; Wytheville department,
men; Covington Fire Department, 40
men and band: Wythe District r. +. d.
Hampton. 25 men. Two hundred
men and band from Washington
will attend. The Water Witch Hook
and Ladder Company. Annapolis. Md.
20 men and one piece of apparatus,
will attend and Earleigh Heights, Md,
company will be represented by Fire
Chief Z. NJ. Bond.
From Other States.
New Jersey will send Bradley Beach
department, 40 men. 90 women, band
and one piece of apparatus; Salem de.
partment, 140 men and S0-piece band.
Pennsylvania will send Kennel Square
Fire Company. so men and band; Rog.
err Ford department, 40 men.
Six divisions will make up the
parade. which will be staged here
Thursday. as follows: First. State AS
sociat ton, Kemp r. Rush. marshal:
second. District of Columbia and
Maryland companies, Carroll d. Woolf,
marshal: third, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey departments, Nelson T. Snyder,
marshal; fourth. Friendship Veterans
Fire Association of this city and
Ladies' Auxiliary to the Alexandria
Fire Department. j. Kent White,
marshal; fifth, Alexandria Post. No.
"a, American Legion. and Alexandria
Light Infantry, Capt. Thurlow White,
marshal; sixth, automobiles, Robert
g. Carter. marshal
Lieut.. Col. Llewellyn Powell has
been named grand marshal Of the
parade and his chief of staff will be
Capt. Charles j. Deahl. U. S. Army.
staff marshals are to be Maj. T. F..
Dodd, Capt. w. Clyde West and First
Lieuts. P. Boothe Pullman and w. l..
Shafer. A barbecue at the swimming
pool will follow the parade.
Business Up Wednesday.
The first business session of the
convention assembly is set for 9 o'clock
Wednesday morning in the Elk IS
Home auditorium. Following lunch
the visitors will leave from the George
Mason Hotel at 2 o'clock on a sight.
seeing trip of Washington and the
nearby vicinity. A band concert will
take place at 8 pm. at Prince and
Washington streets with the winner to
receive a prize Of 500 and the next
best an award Of $50. The competition
is open to all bands, excepting United
States service bands, which accom-.
pany a fire company or department
In the parade.
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock the
No. Motor Company Of the Alex
andria Fire Department will play the
the Washington Fire Department base
ball team in Dreadnaught Park. A
band concert and block dance will be
held at the intersection of Prince and
Washington streets at pm.
Friday is to be given over to ath-
letic contests. Real races will be held
on North Washington street at 10
am. and at 2 o'clock in the after.
noon swimming meet will take place
IN the municipal pool. A 100-yard
dash will be held on the Hayden Field
track at $50 pm. concluding the con-
yention program. Approximately
81 500 will be awarded