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V Colonel M. Kirhoff, Chief cf St. Peters ; Captain A. Pordage, Firemtster of , burg Hre Department Edinbcrgh. venuon is conrined to the reading of pa-- 1 State Laws," Thomas J. pers on pertineut fire fihtin? themes and Ahearn, State Fire Marshal, Albany, By Joseph Johnson, Fire Com- discussion of these - paners by the dele-N- . l. missioner of New YorK City. pates. The subjects already listed to be No. 5 "The Gasolene Moto Pumplnr

: - Engine It-- Defects and Cost of Opera- rOoprrltit. 1313. hy the Nw York Herald Co. All discussed are No. 1 Durabil- tion and Maintenance," Charles S. Searchlight Gear cf Electro "Motor Apparatus: Its Petrol Salvage Tender, pris, Demarest, Chief of Construction, Fire New York City, Saturday. lUcutenant LapoInJc", Paris Fire ity, Efficiency and Economy of Opera- - rn wr 7 rrl.!- - ill J t 1 . t tion," Chief A. V. Bennett, Birmingham, Department, New York. UK prosrosive fire fight- I'jmui. xiiis incuiat4 not oni' a rep-fe- ? vf r Ala. No. G "Inspection of Buildings and crs of to-da- y are thirsty "tentative contingent of firemen from ZSO No. 2 "Fire Insurance and Its Relation Contents by Uniformed Members of Fir r. for knowledge. Thcj over- our own l Department, 1 ire together with to Incendiarism," Chief John Kenlon, New Department," Commissioner W. N. Nash, look no opportunity to iPIaratus, but a large number of voluu-fpe- r Cincinnati, Ohio. ?V--'- s 3 0 'i01"" information boar- - companies from nearby cities and Probably th public will be mos'. inter- exhibition of fire fighting ap ins on proprc-.--s in the, towns. Some of our crack pieces of motor ested in our ft.- iparatus. For this purpose practically all science 'licrhtins. j apparatus will be in of fire this parade. We tried itm TiK5f Bnnrs in fht ClranA Central This is true abroad as well as in the fire! to get one or two of the foreign fire chiefs has been utilized. Modern fire : t. Palace departments of our owr, cities. ... .v ';-- 7 .. apparatus and fire appliances of innumer- makes will be shown, This thirstincss for knowledge Is brin?- - able kinds and abej with mechanisms. inff several fire chiefs from other lands to -- t 4 i . jar,, jmi'va : - 1 We have received rrany letters from New York city this month. Some are al- vV European fire officials accepting our invi- ready here. Others are on their way. r -- v the convention. The first 1 . V tation to attend All are to attend the forty-firs- t annual H visiting to arrive was Divisional R. Dyer, of the London Convention of the International Associa- 'I Chief Arthur Brigade, who came here on August Arthur R. Dyer, Divisional Officer Fire tion of Fire Knineers. Thi3 satherin of 4, accompanied by Mr. Arthur J. Stubhs, August Deering, First Assistant Chief London Fire Brigacfe. the leading fire fighters of the world will assistant engineer in chief of the General Honolulu' Fire Department. Andrew Ten Hope , One of Nine Chiefs take place during the first week in Sep- Post Office, London. They are studying of the Rotterdam Fire Department. telegraph systems of cur tember in the Crand Central Palace, New the fire alarm J. O'Reilly. This year another cup has large cities while waiting for the conven- York city. I doubt if so representative been donated by Mr. Robert II. Mainzer. "To the Men of the tion. Our own system was shown them a tody of fighters was ever brought Fire Department of the City of New York Chief Dyer tells me that the fire On Wednesday evening, September P, the in detail. Who Ht of .Duty, im- dur-conventi- Died the Call be w ill by on fire alarm system in London can together as be entertained us visiting fighters be of 1 - fire will the quests Soldiers a ma- .- in War That Never Ends, proved upon, before adopting any wevk. ...4..; v iN but several theatres. This Memorial Is Dedicated H. B. Lee, Chief of Melbourne (Austra terial changes they wish to ascertain the Twice before New York city has enter- By People City." Ka) Department. For Thursday, September 4, we have the of a Grateful Ftre. most satisfr ctory alar.n system in use in tained the members of the International the United States. arranged an excursion on the steamer But we are getting away from the pro- John-Septemb- er Association, once ir OetoVr of 175 and ' gramme. During the evening of Friday, York; Fire Commissioner Joseph Among others of our foreign visitors will Grand Republic, which will leave pier 1. frAtVf-- " '"'V man-b- e of a?ain in September of l'.XVJ. I'.ut in those o, the visiting fire fighters will son, New York; Mr. Frank Lock, be Chief Schaenker, the Frankfort Fire the Battery, at eleven o'clock A. M. As entertained at the Jardin de Danse, on ager Atlas Insurance Company, Ltd., New Department; Captain Ilivert and Lieu- years we had not near s much as we Depart- C. E. Bennington, Chief of Pretoria they pull away from the pier our fire top of the New York Theatre, Broadway York. tenant Lapointe, of the Taris Fire have now to interest the visiting fire! Forty-fift- Tordage, of the Edinburgh (South Airier.) Fire Department. boats will perform a spectacular demon and h street. No. 3 "British Motor Fire Engines," ment; Captain fighters. We had then no motor appa - Dyer. Chief, department, and other officials all the stration. In the Grand Republic the fire Fe!ix Mitcre!l,rChief of Cape Town The last business session of the Inter- Arthur Reginald Assistant ratus in our Fire Department. Neither national Association of Fire Engineers Fire Brigade, London, England, way from Alexandria, Egypt, to Mel- to bnn? apparatus with them, but this, fighters will proceed to Coney Island, and (South Africa) Fire Oepartnent. half-pa- st bourne, Australia. had we a I todejre. the best of its kind will be held at nine o'clock A. M. No. 4 "Fire Prevention and Uniform ire pIaa fell throi fa tQ he ,a ex perhaps in the world. In fact tin modern pense in transporting such apparatus Lnni'ji.urui u. uui i,Miuufui UJ I.across the ocean. BOY OF FIVE STUDENT AT UNIVERSITY. 'tt ' not bosun. In connection with our a nre. P para(e fl HE university Impresses Master they blister your hand if you put it on Nuw. we have a Depart-- : s however, Fire mcn-- moilUment, erected in memory of Arthur Edward Rochie Hardy, them, and yet the sun shines no harder mcnt second to none in the world. We xcw York city's fire filters who have five years old, Its youngest on them than on the leaves. These are offec-;io- st no more things that Edward Rochie Hardy can have a high pressure system whose tht.ir livos iu coml)atin? fires, will be matriculated student, the kindergarten does the understand, and he even follows the ex- tlvenras in the districts it covers is un-- 1 lmvoiIeJ am, than at 100th strept IUvers!de ordinary child of that age. planation of the scientific reason, which r.irrassed by that of any other city. We Drjve. IIis IIonor Mayor Gaynor has Neither is he disconcerted by the fact is not so simple. His attention may have a Fire Prevention Bureau which sometimes, but for the most consented to attend this unveiling of the 1 that his classmates are all adults, mostjStray part he is a conscientious listener and seems greatly rcducinj the number of fires. Iu firemen's monument. The Mayor will lof them teachers of little boys and girls to conces- stow away in his little mind the utter- pro-;res-- himself. Ho asks no fact, se have an object lesson in aku welcome the visitin- - fire chiefs at the older than Lis age, follows ances of Mr. Parsons for future use. is seein- - sions on account of but Pivene.s that really worth while j openir- - of the convention on September 1. Sometimes he peeps through the foliage i the lectures and other exercises with a So the forty-firs- t Convention of the Inter-- j The citizens of New York have provided comprehension that bodes well for his and sees many little gardens aglow with bright flowers and wonders Engineers vis-like- if garden national Association of Fire is the funds for the entertainment of the ly completion of the course in good standing. his is going to look like to be more largely The course that this boy is taking is that Then hit far attended than iting chiefs. More than $2,W0 has been thoughts the one on school gardens given by Mr. come back and he assures the any other convention In Its history. Cor-- ; raised by popular subscription, Henry Griscom Parsons in the New York teacher that he understands how the roots tainly the fire chiefs from abroad have The fire fighters will assemble in the University. and stems cf plants draw water up from evinced a keener usual, the soil. interest than and Grand Central Palace on the morning of While course in echool gardens is the Edward Rochie Hardy was five years this in s; ite of the fact that another fire Monday, September 1, and at noon on that the uni- not one of the most difficult at old on Jun 17, "a Bunker Hill boy" chiefs' convention is held Europe day versity, a comprehension of a Us ieinj in the convention will open. Tuesday it involves New England mother proudly calU Iu taking it little him. ths year. will be given over to business sessions and number of sciences. His parents are both graduates of Boston Edward Rochie Hardy will be learning Sep-wi- ll University, I am sure that our visitors from abroad j memorial services. On Wednesday. and his mother also is a grad- something of botany, chemistry and be repaid uated physician, having before her mar- well for their j uraey. Notjtember 3. fire apparatus will be exhibited mathematics, both theory and the'.r their riage done Important scientific work in only have we arranz.d an exceptionally at the foot of West Fifty-sixt- h street, practice. with the very The lectures start Germany, where she spent fix ycan ore interesting programme for rntertait:-- ! yhere competitive tests of motor fire rn-mer- .t, beginning of plant life, and through the thtir of her discoveries being of very great im- Fcien-tifi- c ; six weeks of the course cover the but the most comprehensive colh-c-- isos and other fire fighting machines portance in the treatment of women. In study and work necessary for of fire fighting apparatus has'wJl 1h? ono chvk P. M. on actual this country, too, she was engaged in tin that Steam Motor , with Crew, Travelling Under Steam- - Paris. gardener. a college trained school profitable laboratory work, in- been gotten together for many years will Wednesday there will be a ladies luncheon jn tte evcnjn? they will be dined at Rei capacity of between five thousand and six Saturday, September 6. That afternoon and was Unless the day is stormy at least one fluential in the work of providing good he exhibited in the Grand Central Palace, at th 1Iotpl Waza, and at three ochvk UPaweber's Brighton Beach Casino. At thousand close by the monument. there will be another baseball game be- lecture is given in the long arbor where milk for the babieu of New York. Her M- - J Ap-'1- '- tIie v.sitors will witness a baseball Department the in connection with the convention. eleven o'clock that night they will start The firemen's memorial has been erected tween our Fire teim and numberless bunches of green grape3 de- great work now Is the rearing of her .on, De-jbac- paratus t is which stvk to demonstrate' cra::i hetweon t,he New York Fire k to Manhattan from Steeplechase with funds raised by popular subscription. Police Department team at EbbeLs Field. pend from the heavy foliage. Such a to which fche has devoted herself sine - hi L half-pas- w o Ma-gonigl- e. t birth. When friends saw the efflcitncy of mo,.Vrn automobile ara- - Iaria:eni ana lze iorii lcc ,rr. 'Its architect is Mr. II. Van Buren At seven P. M. the visiting fire pleasant classroom it is, and the instruc- her pushing the Eb-bet-a why is so especially comforta- baly carriage up the hill ther crs ratus under trying conditions have been 'lament team at Field. Bedford The firemen's parade is scheduled to When this monument is unveiled fighters will be entertained at a banquet tor tells it aghast "You, yo-i- r half-pas- ble on a hot day. It is not only that the with all degrevtl" arranged, and an Interesting programme RT,Tlue antI Sullivan street. Brooklyn, start at t one o'clock P. M. on two marble groups symbolizing Duty and at the Astor Hotel, where wo will wine leaves keep out the merciless sun, but the they exclaimed. "And what has become dU-m- 'ou Kec3 mese two dine them and them good cf ubeu for In ?ha conven-- , inc" ,f nvairy ceiweca rtday. September 5, and at two o'clocK Sacrifice will be disclosed. The sculptor them and wish eaves themselves are cool. The littlest cf your career?' "This is my career,' tin hall h?.a Uen ejrecd upon. te ami. Each year ft orIc cf games Is the firemen's conuEent will be unveiled. is Mr. Atillio Piccirilli. One one side of luck for the ensuing year. member put out his hand to prove th!i she explained, "and thero can be lo We have ahio arranged for a firemen' playoj far a cup donated by Mr. Joseph We hava erected stands with a seating th& memorial appears this inscription: Of course, the serious part of the con- - statement. The stones are so hot that j greater." P