INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE ENGINEERS.

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE ENGINEERS.

国际协会的会议Fire Engineers will this year be rendered conspicuous by two salient features—the presence of the delegates at the National capital and the nearness of the place of meeting to the Jamestown Exposition. In connection with the latter feature Chief Kegebein, of the Norfolk, Va., fire department, has extended an invitation to the members to visit his city and make an excursion to Cape Henry and at the same time to partake of an old Virginia roast of the famous Lynnhaven oysters. Norfolk is distant from Jamestown only about fifteen or twenty minutes by trolley, and from Washington to Norfolk is a delightful day trip of twelve hours down the Potomac on commodious and palatial steamers. The Southeastern Passenger association controling rates south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi rivers have announced a rate one fare and one-third for the round trip on the certificate plan. The passenger associations controling rates in all other sections of the United States and Canada, however, will not grant the same reduction, on account of the extremely low rates now in force from all points to the Jamestown Exposition, which permit a stop-over of ten days in Washington, either going or returning. The trunk lines have positively refused to grant any reduction. The Jamestown tickets admit of going and returning either hv the same or different routes, and from New York and northeastern points the ticketholder can go and return by boat or rail or vice versa. From the South and West Norfolk can be reached by way of Washington, returning by the same route, or the ticketholder can return by way of New York over the Old Dominion Steamship company's lines, thence home. All Jamestown tickets provide for liberal extension of time and stop-overs at convenient points, and are based on the following rates: Fifteen-day tickets, one full fare; thirty-day tickets, one fare and one-third. From the Pacific coast the regular two-cent-a-mile summer excursion is available. The Jamestown tickets will be validated at 104 Granby street, Norfolk, Va.; those from the Southern States, at the city ticket office of the Southern Railway, Washington. D. C. To secure stop-over, tickets must he deposited immediately on arrival with depot ticket agents.

除了惯常的tion of the association will be held at Washington, where Chief Belt and his committees are arranging an interesting program for the entertainment of the members and visitors, including a reception by President Roosevelt. The opening session of the convention will be held on Tuesday. October 8, and meetings will be held on the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th. The secretary will be at the Ebbitt house (where the president and directors have engaged rooms) on Monday morning, October 7, ready to receipt for dues and to welcome new members. As the hotels arc likely to be crowded on account of the Jamestown Exposition, those members who desire Chief Belt to reserve rooms . for them should notify him at once. The hotel rat^s vary from $7 to $1.50 per day, American plan (in the case of the Ebbitt house, $2.50 per day, bath and parlor extra), and from $1 to $6 per day, European plan.