The Trinity times., 1855-01-20
Doesticlts Runs with the s'NIasheen.o
NEw YoRK, Oct. 80, 1854
SEVENTY HUNDRED AND ONE NARROW

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| STREET.
| am not known by the cognomen
"Nlose," nor do | answer to the name
Sykesy"--neither, as a general thing, do
promenade the middle of Broad way with M
pantaloons tucked into my boots. Still, b
way of anew excitement, Ilately joined tn
Fire Department, and connected myself wit
the company of Engine 81,
Bought my uniform, treated the company
took up my quarters in the bunkroom, wher
i slept by night in bed occupied in the da
time by big yellow dog. First night, wen
to bed with my boots on, ready for an alarm
AT last it came; seized the rope with the res
of the boys; started on run; tugged an,
toiled till we got er into the llth district
four miles and half from home; found tn
alarm had been caused by barrel of shaw
ings, and the conflagraton had extinguishet
itself; had to drag her clear back; tired mos
to death; it wasn't funny at all; turned in
half an hour, new alarm; started again; host
80 laid in the same alley; got our apparatus
damned on the corner; fight; 81 victorious
got our machine out, and carried off the fore
wheel of SOS carriage on our tongue; reach
| ed the fire; big nigger on the hydrant; elect
ed myself appraiser and auctioneer: knocked
him down without any bidder; took water
got our stream on the fire: fun; worked til
my arms ached: let 90 to rest, foreman hi
me over the head with trumpet, and told
me TO 60 ahead: children in the garret; hor
rible situation: gallant fireman made rush
up the ladder: battled his way through the
smoke: reappeared with child ia each arm
and his pocket full of spoons,
A.
cited: wanted to help, but didn't exactly
know how: he rushed into fourth story
bed room: threw the mirror out of the win
dow, frantically endeavored to hurl the dres-
sing table after it: seized the coal scuttle, hur-
riedly put in the poker, boot jack, and pair
of worn out slippers, carried them down
stairs, and deposited them in place Of safety
four blocks away; came back on run into
the parlor, took up a 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 deposited, by pieces, the
entire kitchen cooking stove in the street, un-
injured: and at last after knocking the piano
to pieces with an axe, in order to save the
lock, and filling his pocket with sofa castors,
he was seen to make his final exit through
the back yard with a length Of stove pipe in
each hand, the toasting fork tucked behind
his ear, and two dozen muffin rings in his
hat, which was surmounted by large sized
frying pan. >f
During the next week there were several
alarms: fire in big block full of paupers;
first man in ths Rri!1riafe il!1iafe thereby saving
their valuable lives. On giving them to their
mother, she, amid a whirlwind Of thanks,
impaired the gratifying intelligence that one
was afflicted with the measles, and the other
had the itch. Fire in boarding school:
dashed up a ladder, tumbled through win
dow, entered bedroom: smoke so thick
couldn't see; caught up in my arms femi-
nine specimen in long nght-gown; got
back to the window, tried to 60 down: ladder
broke under me; stuck adhesively to the
young lady, and after unexampled exertons,
deposited her safely in the next house, when
discovered that had rescued from the de-
vourng element the only child of the black
cook. Fire in a store house; went on the
roof: explosion: found myself in somebody's
cellar, with one leg in soap barrel, and my
hair cull Of fractured hens eggs: discovered
that had been blown over a church, and had
the weaihercock still remaining in the rear
of my demolished pautaloons. Fire in lig-
uor store; hose burst; brandy "lying around
loose.n "pin convenient" and old mononga-
hela absolutely begging to be protected from
further dilution: CrotOn water too much for
my delicate constitution carried to my home
on shutter Fire in church-Catholic--
little marble images all around the room in
inches: walls began to totter statues began to
fall: ST. Andrew knocked my fire hat oyel
my eyes ST. Peter threw his whole weigh
on my big toe: ST. Jerome hit me q clip ovel
the head which laid me sprawIing, when .
picture of the holy family fell and covered m,
up like bed quilt. Fire in big clothing
store. Next day our foreman sported a new
silk velvet vest, seven of the men exhibited
twelve dollar pants, and the black boy wh'
sweeps out the bunk room, and scours thu
engine, had new hat and flaming red era
vat, prest nted, as / heard, by the proprietor
of the stock of goods, as an evidence of hi
appreciation Of their endeavors to save hi
property. didn't get any new breeches; OF
| the contrary, lost my new overcoat, and go
damaged myself. Tell you how--fre out
order came ''take up 97;" took off the hose
turned her round, got the boys together, anC
started for home, corner Of the street, hOol
and ladder 10, (Dutch): engine 73, Qrish)
hose 88, (Yankee), and our company, came
in contact; machines got jammed: polyglo
swearing by the strength of the companies
got all mixed up, fight one of sS's men, hi
foreman of hook and ladder 100 over thu
head with spanner: 97's engineer clipped
one Of 1875 men with trumpet, 73 retallat
ed with paving stone; men Of all the com
panies went in: resolved to 90 in myself
went in: went ont again as fast as could
with black eye, three teeth tndigestibe,
have reason TO belieye) in my stomach, inter
mingled with my supper; my red shirt il
carpet rags, and my knuckles skinned, as
they had been pawned to a Chatham stree
jew: got on a hydrant and watched the fun
Ss's boys whipped every thing. 1875 best mai
was doubled up like ack knife, by dig in
the place where Jonah was: four Of 97's fel
lows were lying under the machine wi h thei
eyes in mourning: hook and ladder took hom
two-thirds Of their company on the truck ,anc
the last ! saw Of their foreman lie was lyini
in the middle Of the street with his rumpe
smashed fat, his boots under his head, an,