The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-11-15
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New York, October 80. 1854. >
Seventy hundred and one Narrow

New YORK, October 80. 1854
Seventy hundred and one Narrow
i street.
i 1 am not known by the cognomen of
:" Mosei nor do I,answer to the name OF
4 +. r Syksey''-neither general thing do l
promenade the middle of Broadway with
my pantaloons tucked into my boots Still,
by way of new excitement lately join
ed The Fire Department, and connected
\ mysezs@ith the company of Engine 81.
Bought my uniform, treated the COM
pany, took up my quarters in the bunk
room, where [ slept by night in bed
occupied in the day time by big yellow
boots on, ready for an alarm. At last it
came--seized the rope with the rest of the
boys; started on run tugged and toll
ed till we got her into the lth district,
four miles and half fl om home; found
the alarm had been caused by barrel
of shaviugs, and the confagration had
extinguished itself; had to drag her clear
back tired most to death i: WASH t fun
ny at all !; turned in i; half an hour, new
alarm !; started again-hose so laid in
the same alley, got our. apparatus jam
med on the corner fight 81 victorious; I;
got ouf machine out, and carried off the
forewheel of SOS carriage on our tongue !;
reached the fire big nigger standing on
the hydrant; elected myself appraiser
and anctioneer; knocked him down with
out any bidder; took water; got our
stream; on the FIRE; fun; worked till my
arms aached; let 60 to rest, foreman hit
me over the head with trumphet, and
told me to go ahead thought d-n, but
kept at it; children in the garrett her-
rible situation gallant fireman made
rush up the ladder; battled his way
through the smoke-re-appeare with
child in each arm, and his pocket full of
teaspoons. asi sss.l ..f.a:
Old gentleman from the country
much excited wanted to help, but didn't
exactly know how i; he rushed into
fourth story bedroom; threw the mirror
out of the window franticly endeavored
to hurl the dressing table after it; seized
coal scuttle; hurriedly put in the poker,
bootjack, and pair of worn out tslippers,
carried them down stairs aud deposited
them in place of safety four blocks
away came back on run into the par
lor; took up the door-mat, wrapped up
an empty decanter in it, and transported
it safely into the. barn of the nearest
neighbor; he kept at work; by dint of
heroic exertions, he at various times de-
posted, by piece, the entire kitchen cook
ing stove In the next street, uninjured
aud at fstst, after kDecS@ipg the piano to
pieces with the axe, in order to save the
lock, and filling his pockets with the sofa
castors, he was seen to make his final exit
from the backyard, with lenght of
stovepipe in each hand, the toasting fork
tucked behind his ear. and two dozen
muffin rings in his hat, which was sur
mounted by large sized frying pan,-oa
During the next week there were sew
eral alarms-fre in big block, full of
paupers-frst man in the building; car
ried down stairs in my arms two helpless,
undressed children, thereby saving their
valuable lives; on giving them to their
mother, she, amid q whirlwind ofthanks,
impaired the gratifying intelligence that
one was afflicted with the measles, and
the other had the Michigan itch Fire
in borading school dashed up a ladder
tumbled through; window entered a
bedroom; smoke SO thick couldn't see
OduSu' up III LII HyallnS q lCmlniiO III d
long gnight-gownigo back to the window
tried to go down; ladder broke under me;
stuck. adhesiyely to the young lady; and
after unexampled exertions, deposited
her safely in the next house, where dis.
covered that had rescued from the de-
vouring element, the only child of the
black cook Fire in storehouse-I
went on tile roof; explosion found my
self in somebody's cellor, with one leg in
a soap barrel, and my hair full of frac-
tured hens eggs; discovered that I had
been blown overA Church, and had the
still remaining in the rear
of my demolished pantaloons Fire in
a liquor store-hose burst brandy ly-
ing round loose" gin convaynient,'
and old Monongahela absolutely begging
to be protected from further dilution;
Croton water too much for my delicate
carried home on a shutter
Fire in a Church, Cathhlic-littIe
marble images all round the room in
inches :: wall began to totter, statues
began to fall: st. Andrew knocked my
fire hat over my eyes; Saint Peter threw
his whole weight on my big toe; Saint Je-
rome hit me clip over the head which |
laid me sprwling, when picture of the
Holy Family fell and covered me up |
like a bed quilt, Fire in big clothing |
day our foreman supported |
a new silk velvet vest, seven of the men |
exhibited twelve dollars doeskin pants, |
and the black boy who sweeps out bunk /
room, and scours the Engine had new
hat, and a famingnew eravat, presented,
asI heard, by the proprietoa of the stocks
of goods, as an evidence of his apprecia-
tion of their endeavors to save. his prop
erty. / didn't get any new breeches; on
the contrary, lost my new overcoat, and I
got damaged myself Tell you how
fire out, order came " take up 81 ~ took
eff the hose turned her round, got the
boys together, and started for home
corner of the street hook and ladder 100 I
dutch j engine 73, Irish y hose SO,
Yankee and our own company came /
in cantact; machines got jammed poly
got swearing by the strength of the com
panies; got all mixed up; fight; one of I
5S's men hit foreman of hook and ladder |
100 over the head with spanner; 97's
engineer clipped one of 1875 men with
73is retaliated with paving
stone ;7men of all the companies went.in I
to {" go in myself, went in
went out again as fast as / could with a I
black eye, three teeth (indigestible, 1
have every reason to belieVe) in my
intermingled with my supper,
my red shirt in carpet rags, and my knuc-
kles skinned, as if they Aad been pawned I
to Chatham street Jew; got on hy