i. - J ' .
)v Indy! 3rd?“ . Que
‘.. .i ,' . ." ."lv
if . ill! ul’biul mgfi‘l’ii‘el- ignite" all:
pu ' with owner of the truck house
i property alld could alwayu be depended
;upon to amooth lhlnml over when thl‘.
towncr olilet‘teti In having the butldlu:
. r ‘l -' __nl.-.. bird ‘ . .Muuii rii‘, i
8'? id. .‘iiiififi‘ ‘l“l ”EtVlI.: ~ \ \\\‘,\\ ‘, iii‘ " , , ,‘l'ijlt ‘1‘, ,, .
.‘ l..~\-,.-...Ii..l' . ‘..i'f ‘ ,,,“i v/‘r' ,. ’
. ”‘ufidug‘ui ,.l.. “long i \rl‘i ii “iii / i""'ili‘i‘i hp I’ll M "H '
by th. one.” . traveller, . ’ i'fl' ‘ iiii‘w / , V" "WW"
tii‘i thunk.» . nun and - , i‘ , l.
a ay'n‘, mm,- or stop, ‘ ' ‘ ‘ i“ t
iMttc‘ruuarli all g Smith-win ’ .“ t p
‘l’lvut lilo ,a. . .i n. "yhlvfl j . L
' Wilil ‘ilm, .vi.l\ lii‘. fl ou'Ve
a... ._.........‘ -- ‘1 b F «St
till‘ it. act. ”it: it all ya“ ’W \ c 1r ’ .
, *plttll'inmg’ptfl'dv.‘ rd m‘ iith. "We ‘ . rt J”
”Wu ’lslic .in . "Don'lggi' , . , ..
all 'ou in ‘ Smith, an , t ' ' t l i} it.“ ‘ “..
ore atfo {- ‘ hi hi, n l. ’ '
l“, Uli’lm - g. i; 1.1,; '.»("00 :10 l" "
‘, ,, fl icnenau. i... rue lu,\' pupil. no " '
'4 . ’i‘ forgave our one particular
‘ it “norm. is. .. ‘i-.,aun'attorney,‘
.nuplnluod
lino MHTI'Pl-i
mm. .iudnl
. ‘oviag'tllc -
,, Wily. one; i"
_ 1 who truth. \
~ [In C , ‘l at“ _ -‘ h? I
.dltt‘a luring
. .dge Light, to brink
ill the 1pm.. "Do
ll lift”;
iliui to ply the
v will you think- of
cured you
Judgment.
i‘l' of his first effort.
pimple. lui the company del-
’ , ‘t-u swlhe-~i«.,ur'to present‘"‘lo a
. Rip. hp country a duo trumpet.
g on c h-Jflll' the vast concourae
'i country “”5. i ”a Inst-tics, he lost hit-l
no u litiid .l-li Mild, “Mr. Fore‘
tit" and after a rural repetitions of
liq ." the to ruminant. ”The Depart-
nt." l: .y I nugget-it that something
nerd lunch-«war v much—totty-wlae
"c It) m-lde.”»n.euftlcient self-re-
ovcr our achievements,
i’l’wate J. (1. Holland who said, ,"The
. than: men is div {at lnto two claw-u:
1 who go Laud accomplish
' ‘ . otblng, and t 5p ,who sit still and
' Im.i.f‘\\'hy and! .it not. done some
i-way'.”,'. .
naervatixm is proper, Just criticism
m be courted, but it proper appre-
, and crammed of that appre-
. _, for wi‘lld‘eudcrcd service ill
fitting. Till 'r to reason for pride in
. r1, nlry. at": film Nutmeg state.
'aw‘hrc p lud'a, ti‘ mcordof our
' ', mOItWeolI-li. Ma, '» not reason-
ably trj-‘it t it ' 1 our .s l of South Nor-
jinlk hm ho -- and i. .ll anceeaafully
' in it. ~. tried d. nrtments?
.. ". i hat" it ‘u on its rolle—
nmua‘ali ya. a lr'. bun banned or is un-
, ndhiluu: I
_, i may. lion .‘I-z'.
\f-L'y Clllilll.l« . ily U
‘to‘ our mm.” until.
municipal wntwr m . .5, o .uod by our
puphltte". All at. proud . ’ them,
Another aim- or -n|r (‘t n eilatlon—a
b‘uht llitl‘lw‘illitl‘ don» .ho South
it: ix'i. .. llep .,ni. at. lean lpeak
'i ’ it any .x'nthii -,l country,
i to in no can it jufltice.
“r ‘m llis t'erenco to
" hall x~ -ter on no
i
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'..-il
‘opriety and
. pi at and our
, I'dlmllfliillil oi it"; She Ni ii: none.
, line 5."? is. Loh ‘d h. ; id judge for
. yoursdt. .'l'ln ii» -or i. :o ”'3’, Every
:"t..'
it a thirty years
i. of young
one kilowatt Li]~"3l'
This duput'tlu. n' i .
pith. In the. ._ m . l'
manhood. But:
. . “'9' litre in deeds, ,ltol
_ In. thoughts, not hrl at ‘i
.lln feelings, not in dg. -. on a. dial.
‘ And measured by this o..- not these
thirty years auction in .r't lpprohatlon?
. The example of the old: members has
been":auch as to sttnluh the younger
‘ ‘ and-we may for:
ads are but bi-i. .lt
' But Where Brent d0ttls..ll‘t' done
‘ ‘A power phidds .‘ ,
Transferred from sh’i
So the personnel of
. is excellent... Some 01‘
ight have‘made a it r-r berry than
the strawberrm'hut hl‘ tr' not. Posei-
Y theremrihe a d- it ‘i .ient super.
for inputs”: If there in» in not yet of
endliltd‘its history it .a r is unwrit-
"it. Aa-tho editor on -ll. My “it is not
i in the public ..» ' \nd it is a
iun' r tit‘pll’inl.‘ll. i we appre-
hat‘tactfl» 'i‘,. . n in voiun r-
itually. um. ill at. itlel to
1'
are,
to Hill."
a department.
.:.5 said, "God
{i e our propd _.n .. r rescue our
‘ unit; l.-‘n . (X ad to danger.
'l think enthusiastic
.liliiOt‘t-anl L . lbexyouto
, . «V ira'wu‘glnl l ;hel toiilef.
51.41“!“ in. "fluid till then . Walla
» ‘pl dghy «meta-slid a ows init. that
. un.b’i«noayi.:ictzet; i; roman great
' _ lit-his . int-W1“ a are, there are
. ,.,Mltlt0wi elitism: (nee. batman
“cadmium I'l('.'~‘ C n: ‘eer then that
Ignited out ..n- ..o'u rty area 'tlielr
' "ilIilll tthoiil‘nct-x
f. l in: ; H "a i "-meixnoderate.
my. in t i be you to join
, 9.5! in. or .' “Depart
ton e.
1.4 J ')
meat"
Th -e buildess max-
i'i) lit lgated:
vi 2915.,
.rtc_ (‘Ni ii
at. having ua
1' who tly of r;
usual mini,-
. awe l pg in 38133.” cont.
' fur '~'. dio
.‘ '* In Jltlona,‘
, . nd.h.ving eaid
,‘i :sn no; :‘stop distur-
n mid; ‘f _ pr or.
ill stand‘vtlhrlgt t'." no I
‘ .01,
.‘A
«g-rrunaounced _' wan
aw i the
. th'
vat In ten
your Drllla- j
.. ,ugcd me for tell- 4
than afi'aapealter to. .
‘ ,tltto: and totalling his little
ouch. h.-' i'llfil (WT quite naturally—T
*r. Furl-.nan. h re. take your —-~»;
. it 3 or attention.
udcht‘thu the
list.
avlng»
y 'tlt~ Omit.
, 'tl" one
‘ . blown
“an h’dd‘ti
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a man to Vbt‘dfifllla burdens the more
easily. and the memories of this occa-
slon will remain green ill our memo-
ries ill-l long nu‘we live, He \t‘il'S heart-
ily upplnudcd‘,
Toastmaster Smith ilhiii'ti ltr. llilv
loll for some more of the wit which in-
wus rtll't' he had up his r'lt‘t‘ti‘, and
Mr. lllllon was certainly itoi
wanting.
Mr. Smith turrmtllt-wl .\ttoiln_v l.l".i
Darla. «flying by way of remark that
Oil] Well lloolt alld Ladder Company
was always very‘ealwtul in who it al-
lowed as members.
audience that Mr. liavh wax not a law~
yer When he was allowed to collie in.
and the. fact was something for which
Old Wet; Hook and Ladder (loinptluy
was in no way to ldamr for. Mr. lia-
Via spoke oloqurutly a» follows;
signed to the lineman. Supcrlnteudcut
partment.". and Colonel Wade about to
I am at n loan what to say in i't'KlltlilNl'
to‘tho toast “Our Min," without cou-
tlictlng. '
Plutarch. in his idie‘lll' Auwiluua.
king of Spima. relates that on a cer-
tain occasion an ambassador on a dip-
ovcr his capitol.‘ and expressed sur-
prlae. when he aileron-ml there were
no Willis around the chiwf towns.
"Sire." ho >liill. “ll-harl- \‘lni'it’tl most.
of your principal iowu- and find no
walla reared for defense. Why is
this?" "indeed, Sir Alilllitsedlltii'.” rc-
pllcd the king. “thorn; caust not have
looked carefully. (‘ome with nlc to-
morrow morning, and I will show you
the walls of Sparta." _
0n the following morniut: the king
led his guest out upon the
where his army .was drawn up in fllll
bottle array, and» pointing proudly to
the sel‘t‘ied hnet, he Milli, “'l'ilere. sir.
ten thousand in
brick!"
We have a company of over lute llun-
tired men, and way man a lull-k.
in the early dayaoi‘ ill.“ company
when We had not. the influinrc with
the police tot-er \vhicll' We imagine we
have today our men llnlu-d on Havi-
land street with a strinu. using 1'0"!
for halt. One of our neighbor». a high:
iy eathuablr tally. it'liiit‘.~ an incident
"it. and t‘l-‘t‘_\' titan a
ing in the road when one at them ftnpe
put her wings and flew dlrm-tly in Oil]
Well llook &, Ladder (un‘npanya witt-
dew. The next night there
chicken supper at Old Well. ilut that
was in the Illly.‘ when Colonel Wade
and our tonatznttawr were both. mottl-
away from the temptations of Colonel
fellow. while Colonel \Viltlth‘fl‘tl‘. from
the. evil influence of our toastlnnater.
has grown to heal very good fellow;
nBut the boys of tilt‘ id‘s-are our men
0! today. The- hardships of out faili-
,era. the lack of wealth'a-ud luxury“.
have worn oi! the rough corners to
form character, and not only“ environ-'
‘ment, but education has made our men
.what they tum—typeset our best Am-
erican citizens. .“v .
r; Where inllhe wurld onll’you find a
.people whose lllit'f‘litOl‘fl toiled as did
the Pilgrim Fathers. and where can
you find a section of country equal ill
hello to our New England which has
.produeed as much brain anti genilla'!
Many of our atateameu have been
born timid the hardship»: of a western
[threat or the then-.unculttvated South.
it was men of this class who. with
onewail Jackson won tho battle of
.Bull Run. [will] of ,our great men of
*the past and look at our able states-
men it" today. America atandsdlltc a‘
bulwark omens the nations. Our men
are. likesmooth polished-rocks. They.
hammer. on .aytnmetrioel.——-oply a small
napalm. could be drawn up in bat-
‘ e, autumn forni- a wall as solid as
atrna= Aguiiaua. But our men are
[Mudflaaod modeled to fit in any
place. Our country cauiboast not only
of idiots, but of echolaca. autumn.
' and men or large huatness
Little Connecticut in
.men site an reared. and
k is equally proud 0: her
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- 'a writer-ct”, twain: l
. . “may.
i ' , Va. juhigmear‘a.
limit:
3. ,
he . .
an; up a» meet
"i Ah"
M lazily.
,
2"»;
”unto
them
vill convince you of its nonunion-lily and fragrance.
flu [inf hundred will prove their uniformity.
flu fim thou-and will lubltlllllllt ii“ llL‘l um it is
found ,
l
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“ Olga
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a cigar,“ never tire tit—'0. _
here was Ed. ltcard the account man
in the company to actually own I the»
hilll. and Charlie Watkins. who at that
turly tluv bull forgotten more about
aniline. a boat. than all the rest of tilt
put member over knew.
which rtad its t‘illou "lial'c gone
out; you will find the key under the
front door nint."i But i was told to
stick 'to my subject. (lur city can
bum-t ot' [cw soldiers. iilli we llllvi- men
who ate talueuch. staunch and trln,--
men who “it“ been successful in itllfi' 'l‘hv-lc was (.‘llurlie Smith, who never
.lllt’fir and social life, apd \vllilr a ten minute six loud words during all the
of our lltt‘ltliill“ illl\'li,'wll.'lt is termed _\i.’||i (‘Iiliilll melulu-rahip. and who thus
in political parlllule, "aim run,“ many . gained the title of "Noisy Oakley.“
tilllt'i’.‘ have been Siltil'tSl-iiti ill polltl- ‘i‘bele \va.- Fl‘llllk(,'.(‘l'flW. who wait
t‘ti lite and ham- ably served the city onto l‘nlkely accused of stealing cigars
in various rupuehil‘w. and sure-a». ‘uheu mun l~\'cr_\'lillli,\"a friend Staddlcr. and
dircetut ill the proprr paths with ' finally to hut-ll) the matter up. paid tell
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With the subject “tltlr t'olnpdny" zls- .
respond to “Our Men of thu- Seventies.“
iomntlc mission was shown by the king:
plains ‘
lie assured the.
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.n -1 John ll. Wad", . Mr. Smith intro.
“ltighl” as the \\'tttell\vord.msures».- l4
evolyrhlng. I believe it wan (‘llarlcsl
Spillaeou who said:
"All hall to illl man, who leads in thei
vou '
lie the struggle of brain or of lulu-i
t'l":
For what lln- world nm‘h l~ the maul
Who l-illt't't‘t (is.
.\nd come: out atop in the tu.~~iw.
't he ucvt toast upon thr- prograui wa~
'tlld “'eli iii the Seventies ” Tile Seli-
tilllt‘lll was "(ltllll‘, but not t'ot'itotteu."i
and tin ‘flt'ilkt‘l Wits Lieutenant t'oto-
Ilurmi llilll ill a Very witty manner. and 3
Mr. Wade responded as follows;
.\ir, t‘hnlrulau. Ladies lllld (leulle
. lncu : .
l have been honored with an invltu
lth to K‘Ilt'ilix to sou oi" the (lid Well
Hook & Ladder (‘oinpnuy as it was
in the Tim As the Company was not
luaulzed until li~".‘i. that leaves but six,
years for me, if i click to lily text. bllt
llu-u l.lit- events of llione nix years were ’
so l|i|iilt'l‘tlll-= and an nu‘tmuoun that'
they thillil have made it mighty good
allowing if they haddmeh spread over
an entire decade.
The original members~ of the (‘tuu
your were for tho innit-t purl t‘ormcr
cents a piece for tit‘ty cigars when only
h:.|t a dozen lire centers were mitt»
ill‘l.
'l‘lll-lc was William Warren. whom
to.» per.- so into; ilitil‘lt‘ never had to
llw a ladder at a the. and John A. Wat-
hills, who had the ill't'lli maid fortune.
in illtt‘i‘ years, to become nlv brother
ill-law.
And there was Frank N. Ferris.
whouo laugh aouuded like a child with
tho croilp.
In: hard boiled eggs.
'l‘hlrc was Alonzo W.
Smith, who
in ell to tell no of at horse that ilt,‘ was
personal!" acquainted 'with that alone
and unaided could draw a load of bay
1 twelve bales long and forty eight bales
liluh with anow' up to the hubs of the
wagon win-ell»
There was a brother of mine. Willie.
"shady" (‘raw‘a partner in crime. 00
tlm night that Inner-soil's house was
i z.) pod l wrung out ot‘ bell ill. the sound
lo.’ the alarm and uropcd ill the dark-
uevi. for an old pair of trouaers that
i wore on such invasions. After the
' lit e r. as out and till trouaers were ruiu‘
. l lumud repair. I made the intern-at-
i'ilt discovery that they were my broth-
ci' ilt‘i'll one»: tlo duna me for the
u' in nt‘ them to lhll llfl)‘.
thou beholdeat the walla of Spllrtll.--».
where her l'lllt'itt’lis were uuinlly food-1
won it?
bers of tilt company. amt Mr, Smith"
‘ we do nothing, by halves, an m
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than .
Stittitll muted. 'iil‘rttolial” friends and us~
MINIMUM“. moat of its young fellows of
flour is to 20 ream. There were
t'it't‘ix“ and eal'pentcr'u and butters and ,
I .~lioi-liiakcl-a and oystermcu. and a few
E who were too strong to work at any-
ibiun. but we were In truth a build of
' lilolllt‘l'fi amonu whom‘ut all times and
:under all circumstances the utmost
‘halniouy prevailed. in all the year!
I of my active membership I do not now
i recall a quarrel or a serious misunder-
islanlljuu. ll wax a great crowd the
illilN ot’ uhieh we are not likely to ace
I aullili
A! home, amour. my [It more» i have
the old. badge that i port» so proudly
, in illlIM' days. and with it te a small rc-
. [titulllt'litill of a large picture that con-
trons about thirty photographs of
i Members. 1 take it t'ronr its “Hill?” 71".“. um Iliiii Moore.
place once in a while and look upon 1 made “ mum‘s“. M m ivlng a horse by
i ”1" pictured f“““"~ "“""i«",,""“r«" ““0 t holding on to his tail instead of the
i‘“ which recalls to memory some trait i reins. and Henry “0mm“. who collld
“ of character. some peculiarity of “in” irrclte. Shakespeare l)_\' the page; He
i "1th not tot-gm m-ury lil‘llgt-i‘. no
wait always opianled to everything that
l
the matter wall decided auatnut him he
the information that be ‘3
any or thinking all aloi .
brow a «lecoetlou,t(liat was simply do
llcloua. One of the love who was about
. to be married and “as looking for
points. asked lllln our dav how he made
it.
one. quarter .luvu " "But that's' only
.thrce quarters. What do you put in
ifor the other quartet-2‘“
, in any fourth (plat-tor." snorted Banger.
"That's: why i'otkn spoil their coffee,
‘pultlu; in so much."
~.oi' the old days. For instance: i uhoutlvng ‘01.
There was Captain Fred Byxbee. lie i Kingdom for a horse."
got real provoked one night when net
i found that some one had taken a sharp
. knife. and cut it round and mum! from the Saturday night hatchet-rand those
Elbe top of the crown to the brim. As ' who suffered curse him ex. '11 unto “Ii"
' he took it from the table it separated day. He had a brother imam who
Vluto a long spiral like a mammoth i was studying medicine and who felt
‘ express himself in very vlfiomue langu- {hint praicllcc on them.
1 age and the, ruin of ills best but gave] Another old member was George B.
. him an opportunity that he made the l i-lal‘vey. who never cared what color
latest of. flu... necktie was so long as it was a
i There was it. E. Kinney. who once- f bright red, and Matt eorbett who. as
i Saw a ghost. He went into the truck ; judge of a tub race. insisted on award-
i luluse alone and turbo dark one night :ing first prize to the centestant who
while rumbling around fora match dls- would agree. before the race. ‘to buy
turbed the curtain at the rear Wlh‘flhe melt cigars of his firm. . '
i dew. The curtain was on one of thoee. 1 .And then there was Gilbert Edward
5 aprlug rollers and as Kinney brushed t Bogart.‘ Gil was a handy man around
1 against it it went all with a lllilli and ilhe place and had a great head for de-
a rattle. that scared the poor fellow at 1taint. Ho always were good clothed.
; most to death and he ruched! . In the name by a tailor. it‘ there happened to
i; building like a crazy man and could ! be a new tailor in town', and he never
,- not be persuaded to enter it again' wore the. same cravnt two days in auc-
{alone for atlcast at; months. lie al- cesslon. , One New \‘ear'a M7 when
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wan believidjnd he believes to this the truck house crowd was unkind
day. tilt the dilute .ot‘hlll fright was good resolu‘lébna all. when ltld'flxtevhta
the out at a poor woman who was itum. shocked us nii'hy vi‘bmili" ‘0
found dead up 0|!”th Turnpike and : steal something from somehodx._evem
whose bodyfgr want of a’ more .altltz'dai' for a year. v. . " 1 . , . ,-
nble‘place', ha been kept in theiruck _ There wudohn W. Crew. one of
hoilafe the night before while the com: the elder members of the company and
. he;' held": post To"??? k’ h. it‘ll 'a veteran'oi‘ they,“ qmedkebmm
4 on a realm er n 1.8m .j'l‘hehoyam . l. tiring, ., ,
i FMMQAM __ otthohqlhentlre servicighgegnzgr sot father‘awni’
scoomtthee a, ,_ p it “1“:th conscript'elmp lamination
. .3 tugwhut when he came h jg): ,
i: that his long aervlc n- t e field
had made it. but: it '
- rd. er!“
ileepln a beda dhgluaedio
:- mum 5733'; wow; affirm
I“. w . " .
(like. ‘ quiy until his tell: him out,’pad,drove
r . honored
‘9
baths: we: never than into the home. -
“1°:lf‘liaflflmgi £ There was E. Bellini. on
v e r . a . 3:. ..._um
: » flingim'll Jar" br'ami‘fi he”
canoe [attenuated madam
hole Threaded bi- ways and in now hue-fly
sown, to ma better no. He was
— page South Renal, k to
"Why” said llenger. "i take one}
quarter Rio. one mmrlcr Mocha and' kind that lulls people to Bicep. amt at
corkscrew. in those days Fred could ihurt because the boys would not let‘
dented and bent out of allure.
There were others, tail that at this
'lnomeut i can not recall anything that
wall not lollielr credit no we will not
“'flitlt‘ any time on them.
The “rat public appearance of UN!
company win at tho inching of
Frank illli'l'itt'u seltlnvnefl syncht ‘ "illn-
telie." wi- won,- it aurlllt'a xuuatr
on that faluoua tit't'tlii on, and with out
now uniforms. ’coi‘irtailn‘r of black
fl‘illiitt‘l'ii. l't'tl rlill'lH and the regulation
lit-latctu we made a brave appearance
.-.~l up dl'eu our in)“; try: in the p!
lull“ in the ship yard oli ) atcr atroet.
i have since had ocohllluu to wear unt-
‘tlilllia‘, some oi" them reuplmltlent L'l
n-ld tau- and embroidery, but i new
. r felt so proud an i did on that. day ill
the lrurk mmpull,"s'flrltt purudc. Lut-
el‘ we adopted a parade uniform of
white flannel, with the monogram of
the company in blue on the Dream of
the Pllli'l_ and ill paradox in llanbury.
.\‘cu Milford, \\‘nlcrbur,v and other
lit luhhorluu towua We usually took the
prize for our line appearance and good
behavior. it was at a parade in Nor-
uulk that Foreman ll. ll}. Kinney gave
his famous order. There wall it HHS
piriou of‘icaiouay between the two But“-
l‘ollv in those data just an i am griev-
id torlearn them in today, and we
«rallied to do things up lll ahape. M
the parade reached Walt street the
sidewalks were. black with people. We
were mart-hint: ill clout- order. but an
lhe urea-t was clear Kinney wanted us
to vprtad out so that the in“: drill!
l't‘lif' would form an elongated 0 reach-
ing almost front curb to curb. Turit'
.iut; around in his poaltlon at the head
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ways made the eotl'i-c. and he. coald‘tJlem.
a
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of the emupauy Kinney placed his big
diver lrnulpei to pin lpa and alloulell
throuult it in n voice i ‘el drowned the
music of the baud. “Straddie the
Track " ~ ‘
For yum: llit- company gnVc an un-
uuul bull. They were the event ’nf the
waxo'l, and no hnudaomcr or more
c'aburntl- ulfuirs of the kind have ever
been held here. Thu first one was held
lll Eiy'r Hall and the members wore
their red alllrts Later. when Music
Hall was available, tllc hallo were held
tllcri-~ tile buys appearing in dress
suits. The man who had swallowtail
eoutu to rent in those days made mon-
ey. if he was ever able to collect from
hi» l-litnts.
.\lll'l‘ the company was: really for
m l‘\'.it't‘ it did seem as illouah we should
never have another tire. The boys
united tuna and patiently for the alarm
lie held the record for eat- I that never came anti illinga were get
tint: desperate. At last patience ceas-
ed to be a virtue in the eyes of the tire-
lucn and thcyutmk matters into their.
own hand“. "racy gathered barrels
and boxes by tho lit-ore and under our-
er of darkness placed them in a huge
pile down on the meadows. The match
war: applied, by previous arrangement,
Who'll liie'oitl depot clock atruck ten,
and tho boyu were lurking in handy
donrwtiya and behind fences, not too
far from tilt‘ truck house, waiting for
the signal. They thus gained at the
rcr,‘ start a reputation for promptnoss
that has clung to them during all the-tr
years. line Sunday night soon utter
lhla first run a rmlnlare appeared in
the heavens to.,the southeast.
alarm was rounded and we dragged the,
heavy truck elcar down to Kcyaer‘s is.
land and tbcn/ discovered that it was
only Ihe full red numu rising over Loni:
the other fellows t:|‘.'ol‘l‘tl and when: inland.
'i hey were a noisy crowd. tiioee truck
would come Rt't‘elil-ll back at us with 3 boys of the 70's, and it has always been
d been of our , a wonder to me that the. neighbors did
banger al- : not rise in their wrath antlvvannthllate
There “with big platform ill
from of the lruek'housc and the boys
lured to all out there on pleasant sum-
mer evenings and tell lies and alng
doings. Sometimes the singing would
b. soft amt low and soothing like. the
min r times it would be a mighty chor-
us of twenty or thirty voices accompan-
“l don‘t plltill-d by two drums, one of them the big-
gest bass drum i ever saw. it was
a sort of unwritten law that the drums
should never be brought out
lpcrntiou the concert was never over
unlit midnight. i can imagine a rac-
kc: of that kind ill front of the truck
house tonight. Chief of Police Voile
Wade, has grown to be a pretty. good-i l‘i‘l‘nnlent. or some amusing incillt‘tli ‘ dislocated his throat one night while. mer andhiahlrellnzs would dcscei'ld
"A horse. a horse. meiupnn the perform)” with their night
sticks and lug all hands off to a dup;
. There was I. Mortimer ,Hoyt. whoi ltmn cell and in the morning each of?
picked up his hat. a new Derby. and kept adrug store in those daynlle. putti'cnder would get .
iplcac in upltcher of elder tit-one. of: days and costs. it Just occurs to me
what he (teamwork; 30
that \‘ollmer himself could play all
mighty noisy solo on the bass ddurn in
those days. but he was not oblate! poi .-
Ilcc‘ thon.‘tlllintt {courtesy .
This banquet hall with'ltai‘fdeeori:
lions and furnishings, its lights and
flowers and white linen reminds me or
the banquet hell we used to have in
the truck house—because it is so dil-
fcrcnt. When we. decided that it was
absolutely essential to our peace of
mind that We have a place where we
could serve a lunch occasionally we dis-
covered that the only available spot
for it was the cellar. It was a dark.
damp. Kimmy hole down there. full of
dirt and rubbish, but willing hands
madh short Work of cleaning it up and
then tho question was: Where shall
we get the lumber for the. floor and
the tables and the benches and the
closet: and partitions? The city would
not pay for it the owner or the build-
h? turned a MCW to o petition.
l dithereiwcxwere'. It final y dawned
upon. us that if we got the lumber we
should have to buy themselves so one
moderately dark nigh at about 12
o‘clock fifteen or twety of the boys
went down to the lumber yard. The
nmprietor tilde}, , to ‘ there
and th‘ could not-amhedtfiy tcie
. re 0
am: because there ,were pg
ones in thou days. but one of the
am, ‘9’“ genius he “a. mounted a
‘ of amber and naked what he was
lab at ten-foot pine board. The bid-
ding. was "reigned as last as the boy!‘
batch bda‘l'dli “idy‘h'hrrled'wlth them
more.‘ In this pimple .and childll
way the problem of gettinfllwe neces-
1-3; mullet n- halved.
nearby
The ,
before
whoi lo::io o‘clock. but once they were ill
'. ~ . MW .
it to Not the Call of Nature hot the Catlin menu—Wanna. Mon and Women
Who Ratuuto Realize That Their Kldnoya Are Weak and Life ll In Peril.
’ ' ‘ 1 MM...— "
DR. Pililtclii's KIDNEY-Willi nuns consumer
"in October i a'ni; taken with a pliliil Nliill’l‘ CALLS-"l have had to lot
in my little. it pained inc night and up many times at night, and lay llrtne
day aloalltly. i had backache and’w-a Mall coloredlwlth Ibrlcklkl‘tltdo
tutti i ; . , .3 l .; poatt. One bolt 0 of your ‘ noy-
F LH‘T l Etillll to ‘ "INN”. iWort eurml be."~’l‘homas Green, May-
ould not ltp nix amt uovon time! “'ville N. \-
ntxllt, and lil'Vtil'I' cutting pain would ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
follow. My doctor said I ltnd a bad luv . WATCH YOUR WATER
flunmalton of kidney and bladder. and - ”W“ it drip?
, . Stain the linen?
tllut it was inflammation that caused ' mu" )1,“
the Will] it) my aide. Too retldltdl (bloody)?
’ "i could neither eat nor alccp. i took Smells Foul?
his medicine. but it did me little good. . itopy lloatng albumen)?
My atrengtll was gone and i had a ter. . 'l‘oo frequent?
riblo thlrat. i could not alt up all day. - “'llt‘ll it Hifllltlfl 24 11011“! “005 it .
when 1 mm your ndl'crttacmcm‘m . show the
tile paper i got a bottle of Dr, Pcttln~ Brick Dull WIrnlng?
gtll'e'thney-Vt’ort Tablets. and the tlrat
, Any of these are signs that your .
noon.- helped me no mueh [sent for an~ . kidneys and bladder are weak and .
other. .
. out of order. -
“Now I can t-ii uphll day and work ' “Wk mm is w alng that you '
all the time; don't get up but once a ' are in actual lmml 9'“ danger of ’
night, and that pain is gone. i have ui' fatal Kidney Disease. ' ‘
good appetite, nice-p Well. and l mu """"""""""""""""""""""
going to continue. this until l mu weli.!\'()t7 RISK NOTHING. Go to Year
lmd am thankful that there is aomew lirngglsi TODAY. Get One Bottle
thing to help any one. for life to at of Ur. i‘uttlnglll‘a Kidney-Wort Tah-
burden in the way i was. Thanking" leih‘. Take Nothing Else. if the first
you kindly, l remain. youra utncoruly. bottle docs not help you our Conaul~
Mrs. Milly Clark. East l'araoullcld, Mot. ration Department will advise you
Feb. 22." , FREE. '
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on. rumours mournwoar rut: rs
THEY CURL—Back Ache—Brick Duet—Bowel T cubic—Kidney Dlleale—
Thcy Contain h‘t’) ALCOHOL—Nothing lint (.‘oloeutrated Curd. . ~ "
big dinners vial-i considered contpleteiHonda-law. (Jllrtatian Swnrtz, drive her
without v-hlclteumnd so a special coma i chickens in roout. at midday. explaluluK
mlltr-c was usually appointed to proithnt she did not care to have them an-
r’ure the requisite number. Any one‘roclate with the truck boys. Thla'waa
could get elums, and oyalelu null pota- hard on Swartz, for ho had always on-
toell. but it took brains and akill‘fo Joyetl those t'lllckcn,tllulit‘.fl3iifi
get chickens. chcrnlr-resldevita ,of The fun was not alwayswconflned to
llavllund street, kept man during" the the truck houac. Ono CVC‘IUIIK durtn
first year that the bauduct h'all Vt'llltdiio summer when most of the nelg
tilted up. bill for motile reason they lltd : horn were away on tltcll‘ vacations and
not find it protitablc and finally theyitlwrc was not much satisfaction ingot-
t‘iiRDDlit‘tl of what remained of then-Aim: out the drums forthe reason that
Stocks and bought eggs ill file open mar- ‘ there was no one to be'partlculurly die.
ket. it was not an unusual alight llljturbcd by the noise, "the boys sat
{lame days to see a flock of chickens around waitug for something to turn
“Hiding quietly and unsuspiclously luiup. A rather good looking business
he Sll‘l‘l'i. ill front of lllc truck llotlae.;wagoti had been left for the night In
Suddenly one of them would give a'front of the barn. next door. and home
squawk llllli tly right through one oliouc saw in the circumstance an oppor-
thc cellar windows and distiponr from % tnnity for a little excitement. They
its barber‘s sight fort-vcr. There would i took a long rope from the truck, made
he chicken in the bill of fare that night.th fast to the wagon, and fifteen or
The mystery of the strange flight of tWenty of the boyn took hold and
lthe lfowl}: was never fullyl explained, jumped the vehicle around Lute Rall-
lut n a ter years a man w to was ran- road St uarc. it was earl ,t e streets
a‘fll‘lillli: in the cellar found an old filth , were trill of people. and egeryhody had
inc, the rusty hook still bailed with a to stop and laugh at the performance.
" . “P
banquetaMrs. Flynn used to have her‘
Continued on Elshth Page.
coon , men
FOOD? [ ’ ' ‘
(up new ENGLAND RUSK To THE
FRONT AGAIN.
nu FOOD or OUR DADDIES
THE CRISP. brown granules of GOOD RICH FOOD
are made liom whole wheat malted-then mound into
llour. and selentiticailv cooked and prepared.
It IS the old New England Ruskr once so universdlv
used. with the advantage oi being made trom malt flour.
it you give lta Week‘s trial we believe that vou will
ieel as we do——-That NO MliAl. is Glillplcic althouta
portion of (loop .Rlcnfl‘oou
For sale at all the leading grocers. ltlc a package.
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The NewfiEngland Food cog.
'7 -~South ‘Norwalk'.’ 'Corrn.
i t.‘
aim-iii. SE6
Genuine cuntsnuu illlill..Pl-Llii,.mn . an
lac-unit; “ *
gay»? ‘19 < -
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in aligyruck house and cone back tori
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d the sup- i
we used ’to herein that cation;
’ Moumllldfllslfoodofllli
klidn-wal contributed In lavish quad;
Norwalk Chronicler