FIRE BRIGADE FETE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1914, Page 2

FIRE BRIGADE FETE.

ON THURSDAY NEXT. (liven fine weather on Thursday next l should be a gay day in Stratford,

! '<ir very complete arrangements>have '.• eii made for the Fire Brigade Garden koto, which is to lie held on the .-•aowgrounds on that day. The whole of the Brigade and all their lady friends set to with a will when the fete was mooted, and have since been busy making all the necessary.arrangements for making the Fete a success in so far as lies in the power of the organisers. The scheme is an ambitious one, but the manner in which it has been taken up and successfully (vusbed forward shows that the mere magnitude of the affair has not daunt'd any of the Brigade’s hard workers, ■ad that the Brigade possesses many members equally efficient and determined in the pursuit of fire or funds has-been demonstrated more than once before now. If the efforts* of the members and of their numerous friends are (•rowned with the-success they deserve tin should be able to purchase enough gear to keep them quiet for another year at least. If Mr Bates acts unkindly, it will merely, mean that the various committees will set to work on the.organisation of another Fete, to be held after the damp season is past. Much public interest has already been aroused in the Fete, and citizens will he disappointed if it lias to he abandoned on account of the weather or for any other reason; but probably the parties who will feel the disappointment most are the members of the numerous committees who have been compelled to devote the hulk of their h'isure to the work of perfecting the details of the big affair. The Man with the Magic Thumb has not yet been caught, but there are -onio who have learnt by heart the magic words with which ho is to he challenged an dhave set out to succeed by a process of elimination—challenging every man, woman and child in the town. May one of them ba sucessful.

A request was made hy a deputation o the Fete secretary, Mr 0. .!. Brad-

ley, to include--in the programme, the items in which will ho found detailed •ui page 8 of this issue, a tug-of-war >twoeh a team of one-legged men and a team of one-armed men; hut Mr Bradley replied that the committee could not entertain the idea, having already declined to insert a tent-peg-ging contest for one-eyed motor-cyclists with not less than eight children. Mr Bradley having sold each member of the deputation an art union ticket, the spokesman thanked Mr Bradley fvew heartily indeed) and the deputation withdrew.