New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-04
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ii aEENss ANNg5A IL s3EsI.EIsKsATIoN.


The nineteenth arnise Of the Fire Department
Of this city takes place to-day and the programme
laid down for The occasion shows that like prede
cessos il will be very handsome and attractive dis
play equally credtable to the city which is so well
prepared against the dangers of eonlagrations, and
the men who are ready to exert themselves tolessen
the losses arising from the wonton, but destructive
freaks of the firefend.
The history Of the Fire Department of this city is
familiar TO all who have been residents in it; the
varying changes under which it has grown from com
paratye nothingness to its present strength and sta
bity the great amount of active duty it has been
compelled to discharge; the many falsealarns which
have turned out its strength at all hours of day and
night; when the summer sun was searching the beds
Of, former streams, and when icy pendants hung
from the over-charged cutters. Within its annals
can be found history Of the uninching conduct Oh
some who have met death in the discharge q duty
Who has forgotten Trad Ferry, Woodruff and Mcleod!
| Tt cannot be denied that there are members
whorehect no credit on the Company in winch they
i are enrolled and the noble organization 70 Wmch
4 tbev belong but such exceptional instances belong
to every organiza gious social and political
and can be ples by no power other than that
Omnipotent One can change and control human
nature aud the dispositions Of men. The general
j character and conduct the fremen of New Orleans
$is equally honorable themselves and creditable to
i the city that can call out such an array ofzeaous
4 intelligent and intrepid guardians F$ fs#
The grand displays that have been made the Fire
Department on previous anniversaries, are familiar
to- all; when Company after Company, from Algiers
and Lafayette to the lower bounds Of the city had
turned out with full ranks Of uniformed men; with
fine strong horses; with engines polished until they
shone like gold in the sun with the rosy floral
offerings Of fair friends with banners and music;
making the day as ubant and glorious as any within
I the year. l...s
The order Of exercises to-day is analogous to that
former years: a malshaing of forces upon Canal
street. at nine in the morning with the three Number
One Companies Gretna, Algiers and Carrollton-
in the van, followed by the Chief and Assistant En-
gneers, and other Companies in their numerical order
extending from Royal to st. Charles street-making il
all o battalion Of twenty-four Engine and Hook and
Ladder Companies, comprising an average ofseventy
five members to each Company and some reach oyel
two hundred, active and honorary -nearlystwo thou
sand warriors of the flames, who, though neither sala
manders of phoenix nature can face, undauntedly
the element which was innocuous to the former ant
which gave life to thelatter procession, being
formed, will march down Royal to Esplanade street
1 through Casacalvo and Vaudeville to the Levee III
Charities and Camp to Julia; through Carondelet
Apollo, Magazine and ST.. Charles to the St. Charle
Theater where the annual address will be delivered
before them by John S. Holt, Esq. The exempt fire
men, veterans of previous times will reappear
more in the ranks which their presence formerly
graced, and be escorted by their successors to thu
theater where aside from the attractions of the ad
dress and music there will be assembled agreat nun
Der of ladies' for whom seats will be reserved in the
dress circle.
The line Of march will be taken up at ten O'Clock
precisely and the theater will be opened at The
address will probably be delivered about two. The
programme of the celebration is very exact and com
prehensve, and satisfies all the wants of an occasion
which, like the present. deserves to be highly honoret
and held in general esteem; for, if a single act o
daring and philanthrophy, whereby man is bene
fitted deserves praise and the appreciation of the pub
lie, how much deserving are the labors and
rifces the efforts and exertions of great body who
have charge and custodianshp over the more mate
rial interests of metropolis large, rich and
important as the which sits regaly at the mouth
of the great father Of waters and reaches its Briarian
arms to every part of the habtable globe A great
loss here great loss everywhere its prevention is,
therefore, public benefit of inealculable value.
| We trust proper regard will be paid to the occa
sion by all citizens and proof given to the
fire department that their labors and hazards moi
without public appreciation, The evidence is Ger
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