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Show Vacant Chair for Dead lost at Table Old Comrades Made Merry at Special Invitation of Their Deceased Friend. NEW YORK, July 2. It was one of the dying requests of Christian Miller, a member of Washington Hook and Ladder Company, of Guttenburg, N. J., that six months after nis ueam tne mcinuL-ia ui mo company should gather at a banquet In his honor. Mr. Miller died on February Feb-ruary 3 last and the dinner is to be given this evening In Grnss hall, Franklin avenue and Second street, Guttenburg. At the end of the table there will be n. vacant chair, piaced there for the departed host. It was the wish of tho deceased that this should be done. All the arrangements wero made by his widow, and the expenses will be paid from a fund which Mr. Miller sot aside In his will. Besides the forty members of the hook and ladder company thero will be present the officers of the township. The invitations were sent out several days ago und all accepted. The dinner will be served by a local caterer. 'Mr. Miller was an enthusiastic volunteer vol-unteer fireman and never missed a run with his company. He never failed to attend the monthly meetings. These meetings usually wound up with a "social session." and nobody enjoyed these sessions more than he. A day or so before his death he called his wife to his bedside and told that he wanted tho "boys" to have one of these Jolly feasts In his honor after hla death. He confided to her his plans for the entertainment, even to such details as the wording of the Invitations. "Just havo them place a chair there for me," was his final Instruction. |