Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
fire CUP CONTESTS
TO BEGIN ON FRIDAY
Three ornered Battles Are
on for Possession of Two
Awards for Speed.

Featured by a three cornered con-
test for permanent possession of the
two silver cups awarded annually to
the Speediest engine and truck COM
pany of the District Fire Department,
the 1929 speed tests, which are to be
conducted Friday and Saturday, may
establish some new records.
Engine Company Nos. % and 81 will
compete for permanent possession of
The Evening Star Cup, each having
won it twice in previous contests. Truck
Company No. IA, twice winner of the
Merchants and Manufacturers Cup, is
determined to duplicate its record this
week.
Engine Company No. % won The Star
cup last year, with record of six and
two-f1fths seconds in leaving quarters
other victory was scored in 1925, the
first year the tests were held, with a
record Of seven and one-flfth seconds.
So far as speed records go, Engine
Company No. 81 has an edge on its
rival. 1t won the cup in 1925 in six
seconds fiat and again the following
year in six and two-f1fth seconds.
Rivalry Is Keen
The contest for the Merchants and
Manufacturers Cup during the past
four years has stimulated equal rivalry.
Truck Company No. IA, winner of the
last two. tests, set a mark of six and
four-1fths seconds in 1927, but slowed
down to seven and one-f1fth seconds
last year. No. 6 Truck Company scored
with eight seconds in 1925 and No. IL
company with seven and four-fifth sec
ondS the following year.
The presentation of the cups to the
winning engine and truck company will
be made about two weeks after the
I contests by Proctor L. Dougherty, chair
man Of the Board of District Commits
SionerS.
Each fire company in the District
was supplied with a COPY of the contest
rules last week by Acting Chief Nichol-
son, with a result that the men are
''limbering up" to set new records. The
tests will be timed" officially by a
committee composed of W. w. Deane of
the War Department, Battalion Chief
Engineer Thomas O'Connor, drillmaster
OF the Fire Department, and a reporter
OF The Evening Star.
The committee will start out Friday
morning at o'clock on its rounds OF
the various engine and truck houses
and make two-day job of the tests.
Go on Thirteen.
The test will be started at each quar-.
tiers by striking "1-3" on the big gong
/ AZ UAIG 4I1 81 SGIlkS Oh lie gong members
will Immediately take their places on the
apparatus and the motor started. The
apparatus will not be placed in motion
however, until the officer in charge f1a;
counted the box and has called, boz
| Is. go!''
Rules governing the tests before the
striking Of the fire gong were issued
as follows:
(a) Members of the company will be
stationed at different places on the ap.
paratus floor, with the driver II feet
in the rear of the apparatus seat and
on the side from which he mounts tc
the seat. Where apparatus is started
by hand crank the man detailed there.
for shall be stationed IA feet from the
crank.
(b) In engine companies only one
| piece Of apparatus will be used, anc
it will be optional with company com.
manding officers as to which piece, the
engine or hose wagon. is selected.
CO. The rear step of apparatus in an
engine company is to be placed 80 feet
from the front door sill. If the house
Is not deep enough to allow this, line
will be drawn on the pavement in from
of the door 80 feet from the rear step
In truck companies mark will b,
placed on the truck 80 feet from thu
front door sill.