Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1927, Page 11

D a, 30, 1927—PART 1. l Guides “Y”” Plans | 11 ADVERTISING MAN DIES. Harry Rascovar Falls Dead in New ‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON T WILL OBSERVE TTH ANNERSHRY |President May Attend Elab-! | orate Ceremonies at Audi- torium Next Sunday. OCTOBER gether with its present spaclous head- quarters at 1736 G street. Present Officers of Association. Present officers of the association, in addition to Mr. Thrift, are: Cole- man Jennings, first vice president; Dr. | A, C. Christie, second vice president; Two Youths Wreck Train to Qualify For Bootlegging| ... ..o % | Harry Rascovar, lent of Al- tert Frank & Co., which handles ad- vertising for J. P. Morgan & Co. and other large financial interests, died today just as his elder brother died two years ago, dictating a letter at his desk ‘When Albert Rascovar, also an official of the adverti diec aj his work from a heart Ha r was so 1 ne neve ed. Today | tack brought death to h Rascovar in his car! sociated with the gathe nt news. e was a fou rs' Club and FIREHOUSE IS 100 YEARS OLD BIRTH OF FIRST FIRE COMPANY MARKED Members of No. 16 Engine Crew Look Back Over Rec- ords of 100 Years. October 29 (). vice pres George W. surer; John B. Larner, counsel; Wiliam Knowles . general secretary, and Leon- . DeCGast, associate general sec- Oftutt, By the Associated Press. JONESBORO, Ark., October 29.— In order to win their spurs as desperadoes so they could qualify as bootleggers, two youths are said by officers to have confessed to an attempt to wreck the Kansas City. Florida Special, crack St. Louis & San Francisco train, at Hoxie, Fri- who board of directors consists of wall, M. O. . H. Hill, C. Lewls, Col. | Guthrit on, William Montgome: Z. D. Bla kistone, seventy-fifth anniversary of of the Washington Christian The the founding Young Men's will be celelnated with elabor |monies in the Washington Auditoriu | next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, |according to an announcement by | William ~ Knowles Cooper, general Members of No. 16 Engine Com- pany, on D street, near Twelfth, are observing the 108th annivers of the organization by loo back through the century to the days when their company, then known as the ¥ranklin Volunteers, made the whole town sit up and take notice. ia the good old days of fire fighting, rding to the records, Washing- ton’s volunteers did not confine them- selves to fighting fires alone, but frequently made things interesting along Pennsylvania avenue by fight- ing one another. A good fight be- tween fire companies responding to an alarm was regarded as better en- tertainment than the fire itself, until the town council took a hand in the 3 f B ot ot s other situation and ruined the sport. 3 fCoure e No. 16 Engine Company not only / 3 ‘ Tan is the oldest fire company in the Dis- Just Part trict of Columbia, but it occuples what {:‘u.(‘kw Sion is probably the oldest fire house still e e in active service. Over the entrance pal 2 . special officer of 1 the road, said confessions had been 1 obtained from Teddy White, 17, and | Harlin Morris, 19, and that the name of a bootlegger, to whom they were to demonstrate their nerve, was given. A warrant was ¥ilison, C. L. Otis Smith and Houston Thompson. FLYER FORCED DOWN. CURTISS FIELD, N. Y., October 29 (). —Geo A. Weiss, en route from Detroit in a plane in which he purposes to establish a new world duration record here, was forced to lind at Buffalo today, flying officials | were informed by telegram. Weiss is piloting a Stinson-Detroiter, 7 | similar to the plane in which Wil 1732 G |liam Brock and Edward F. Schlee re- propefty | cently flew to Toklo on their attempt- | yelation, to- zht around the world. | The Hish-Grade Stieff Pianos Sold Direct From the Factory Warerooms 1340 G St. N.W. Full Line of Brunswick Panatropes & Records J. C. Conliff. Mzr Established 1812 [ Raziys Epftne. and Mrs. Coolidze have expressed interest in the obs nee, |and they expect to attend the exer cises, to which 6,000 persons have been linvited. Others who will tak 't in | [the celebration include mer of s 8 |the Cabinet, foreign diplom: Jus R K | | tices “of the United eme = | o Morris, it was said, made over- tures to the bootlegger and was asked how much nerve he could show. He was reported to have volunteered to “wreck the fast train or do anything desperate.” The train went throush an open switch and crashed into the line of | box cars, but the engineer suc ceeded in checking its speed and no injuries resulted. | issued for his arrest. l | | | os public and | Columbia Athletic street was acquired. still 18 owned by the Club Tl of Chief M. C. A Taft, son He will be introduced to the venerable brick building is a stone bearing the inscription, “Frank- Un F. Co., Instituted 1827. Records Are Scanned. Records in the office of Fire Chiet George Watson disclose that the old Franklin Company played an impor- tant part i a life of the Capital. In 1800 Washington was just a cluster of villages and until that year there had been no fires of any consequence. A destructive fire in November of that vear razed a three- story house at Pennsylvania avenue and_ Twenty-first street, occupied by the War Department, and focussed at- tention of Government officials on the ed for fire protection. . m'r?:: agitation continued until 1803, when the city council adopted Wash- ington's first fire ordinance. The regulation compelled property owners to equip their houses and buildings with as many leather fire buckets as there were stories, and $50 was ap- propriated to furnish with books and ladders, free. Later the rules were amended, fire wards were created and organization of fire companies was provided for. In August, 1804, the Union e pany was organized, near Western Market, with James Hoban, architect of the Capitol, as president. In Sep- citizens tember of that year the Columbia Com- | pany was formed and housed at the east front of the Capitol. The Anacos- i Company appears to have been the | xt organized, followed by the Alert Fheine ‘Company. in 1814, quartered south of the Treasury. The Alert Company is presumed to Bave been the immediate predecessor of the Franklin Company. The Alert engines are said to ha stroyed by the British, 1815, appropriations were made for new engines to replace them, one was Jocated in a frame house on Thirteenth street, north of the Avenue, and calied the Star Company. A few months later it was removed to Fourteenth street and the Avenue and reorgan- §zed under the name of Franklin. Charles T. Coltman was elected presi- dent. Moves to New Building. The Franklin Company remained at Fourteenth and the Avenue until 1857, ‘when its new building on D street was erected. This is the building still occupied by the company, long since renamed No. 16 Engine Company. Capt. Robert Hayes is now in charge of the unit. The building was.-remod- eled four years sgo, but the front re- mains unchanged. In the early days of the Fire Depart- “gment the territory of each company ‘was well defined and rivairy between companies was keen. peared to resent other firemen on and fights were not unusual. croachment by A fire company venturing a long ire Com- | Members ap- ‘“home territory,” above the door. Twelfth, which is a century old this year. Note the 1827 date cut in the stone | | ance across the through “hostile” wards of its competitors was likely to find {tself welcomed with bricks, stones and other m! it developed on one occasion, during the administration of President Tyler, that members of the Franklin and Anacostia cempanies, in returning from a fire in Georgetown, came to open hostilities right in front of the ‘White House. A veritable pitched battle ensued and lasted for 5 hours, with numerous casualties. Conditions became so bad that the Fire Department finally promulgated the following regulations, in 1856: “No company. unless prepared with its apparatus to use the water of a pump, fireplug or other water source, shall retain it if demanded by a com- pany thus prepared. Provided, how- ever, that no company thus fully pre- pared shall attempt the violent posses- sion of such pump, fireplug or other water source. ‘Warned Against Disorders. “Each company is required to be cautious in the admission of members, and prompt in the expulsion of the disorderly. In returning from fires, the companies are requested to move with order and moderation, and should they meet anéther company, each is requested to take the right of the street, “No company shall admit minors as members of their respective com- panies without written consent of their parents. The use of intoxicat- ing liquors among the fire companies is required to be entirely discontinued. “Differences and misunderstandings les. Thus | A 3 arising among the fire nies {chall be submitted to t | committee of the Fire Departme: settlement. | “However valuable a be, if he is habitually qu Isome, it w pense with his services fireman | than his continuance should be the {cause of constant broils and disturb- {ances, and it is hereby recommended that every such member be stricken from the rolls of every company. “The officers of the different com- panies are earnestly requested to ac- company their apparatus on all alarms of fires and on their return to the engine house and to promptly check the first indications of a quarrel. In all cases where a riot or disturbance takes place, the company with whom it commences shall be held respon- sible.” The Franklin company, upon for- mation of a rezular paid departm in 1864, became Enzine Company 2, under which dered yeoman service during many of Washington's big fires after the Civil W It was one of two companies which were sent to Baltimore during the great fire of 1878, With the mod- ern growth of the department the company was renumbered to its pres- ent designation. Capt. Hayes has received ant reminder of the anniver: sicn in a letter of felicitation from John J. Peabody of Philadelphia, grandson of the man of the same name comps fireman may turbul 1%y by Hugh A. Thrift, president of the | local Y. M. C. A. | Special Musical Program. There will be a special music with the Inter-Hi val Orchestra and the ¥ Club taking a leading pa musie will begin at 3:30 o'cloc preliminary organ and orchestral s lections. “The formal program open at 4 o'clock with congres: singing, followed by responsive read- | and er by Rev. Frederick | s, president of the Was 1 pro- | chool | i n Federation of Churches. Seats have been reserved in blocks | for large delegations from 24 organi- | zations afliliated with or interested in | the work of the Y. M. C. Some of these groups will wear distinctive cos tumes. Among these will be repre- | sentative units from Walter Reed | Hospital, Gallaudet College and the | Old-Timers Cluh, the latter composed | en who have been members of the | for 10 years or more. | Arrangements for the celebration, scheduled to be the most pr ever held by the local organization, are in charge of a special committee, headed by Geo Otis Smith, director of the United States Geolog Survey and formerly president of the Wash- ington association, a post he held 14 's. Other members of the commit- tee are George A. Lewis, Clarence L. Harding, Dr. Everett M. Ellison, John B. Larner and William H. Hill. Will Complete Plans Thursday. The committee will complete final plans at a_meeting Thursday at o'clock in the Y. M. C. A. headquar- The Washington Y. M. C. A. was or- ganized June 9, 1852, at a meeting of young men in the Old Masonic Hall, at Tenth and E streets. The call for the meeting was issued by three young church workers, Willlam Chauncey Langdon and Thomas Duncan, teach ers in the Sunday School of Trinity Episcopal Church, and William J. Rhees, a roommate of Duncan. At an adjourned meeting a month later A. H. Lawrence was elected president, Rhees was made recording secretary, Langdon, corresponding secretary, and M. H. Miller, treasurer, This was the sixth association in the country The organization progressed and frequently changed its headquarters during the y The first perma- nent home was on the third floor of a building on the east side of Seventh street, near E. S8ix years later the association moved to the Parker Building, on Pennsylvania avenue, be- tween Sixth and Seventh streets. In 1869 Lincoln Hall, at Ninth and D streets, was occupied, and in 1881 the headquarters was removed to 804 E street, and a _vear later to the Cham- berlain Club House, 1409-11 New York avenue. 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