New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-05
The F'iremen's Celebration.

Though the heavens wore sombre hue yesterday |
and caused unpleasant apprehensons of
rain, the population in general and the fair and ten
der portions of the population in particular mani
tested determination not to let the Anniversary
Celebration of the Firemen pass off with less eclat
than upon former occasions. At an carly hour the
streets were alive with the gallant and trnlydrcsscd
brothers Of the Fire rgade speeding to their respect
i've places Of rendezvous, and with ladies' gentlemen
and children, in holiday attire, crowdng to those
points which afforded the best scope of vision Ca
nal street the grand ralying point in the fore
noon, and as upon previous occasions the neutral
grounds, banquettes, balconies and windows of that
elegant avenue was gorged with the beautiful dresses
and sweet smiling faces of the ladies' and the glossy
beavers and whiskcrs of the sterner the ircmcn
and machines causing the street proper to resemble
living garland of beauty.
AT the proper hour, under the guidance of the
Ma1shas, with banners, streamers aud gar'ands in
full tutter, and music in full blast, the brilliant
in Canal street unwound itself and threaded its way
down Royal street. 1t was long time before the
last company got under way and those spectators
who met the head of the procession and waited to
the tail of it, expended considerable amount of
time, though in manner so pleasantly that they
took notice of its flight AS the procession wound
through the principal streets of the city, from the
Third to the Fourth District, the windows and bal
comics became crowded as if by magic 1t seemed to
us wonder how such crowds could assemble through
out the whole of the long line of march.
The procession was quite as brilliant and imposing
and quite, if not fully, as lengthy any former turn
out of the kind The machines in general were
heavily and beautifully decorated with flowers and
tlp ooia
occupied their usual positions of honor the mem
bers clad with their wontcd good taste and elegance
marched along with military dignity and precision.
The weather frightened up somewhat during the
march, and the procession as it passed our Office,
seemed to vie in every respect with those of former
years. ? a.
1t was headed by the Marshal of the Day and his
Aids on horseback; the members of the Firemen's
Charitable Association, in civic dress the Orator Of
the Day and other gentlemen, in carriages; the toul
No. Companies of Cauoton, Gretna, Algiers and
Milneburg the Jefferson City Fire Company, ani
the Carfollton Hook and Ladder Company. Ther
came the Chief Engineer and his Assistants, followed
by the twenty-fou rCompanies of our city Fire De
partment The rear was brought up by the Juvenile
Young America Fire Company, with their little to!
apparatus and the steam fire engine Young America
handsomely painted and Furnished up, but not deco
rated in the least
There were many pleasing features in the process
SION To describe the manner in which the engine
and banners were decorated, with their notices gar
lands, streamels aud emblems, would require NOR
space than we can well afford.
Mississippi No. q in their princely uniform of whit
and black, marched up Camp street in open ranks
military fashion, presenting very beautiful appear