New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-02
GRAND FIREMENS s MUSTER 1T ALBANY
LIST OF COMPETITORs-AwARD OF PRIZES.

Ff0m The Aftdny Arqus, Ott l.
The arrangements made by our frenen for the mus
ter yesterday were most happily conceived and ad-
mraby carried out to the end
By9 q. H., the competing companies, with their
elegant and powerful machines, began to muster on
the ground and il was not long before the work
menced. From that time until rundown was the trial
continued, and, although some forty companies
tered each nicely jealous Of their rights and IN turn,
were to be afforded equal opportunity to display the
merits Of their respective engines, so admirably and 50
fairly arranged were all the details that each retired
from the contest satisfied that if unsuccessful it was
no fault of their Albany friends.
During the entire day the grounds were thronged
with visitors not few of whom We're Of the gentler
SEX and heard the number of visitors estimated az
high as thousand. There could not have been less
than three thousand fircmen on the field, and it Is
hardly necessary to say that they, Of all others
Oyed the OCCASION From the judges stand the scene
presented to the be0der decidedly picturesque.
A field Of ton acres perfectly level, thronged with
Thousands Of spectators, thiclly sprink.ed among
whom we're three thousand men, in red shirts and
black shining hats and all moving to and fro const!-
tuted picture most pleasing TO the eye.
All who desired TO see the fireman in his clement
praisng, and loving and working Hrs pet machine
should have been there. AL who have heard Of
or seen the Scenes of New-York Life, as mmicked
by Cbanfrau and Miss Albertine, and who would like
to have those represented to the very life,
should have been present at the Muster yesterday.
They would have there, III all his glory the big
listed, big-hearted, "gallus Nose ready to wager
his existence on the success OF his ay0Tlte machine
and ever on the alert to the most convincing argu
ments upon any who might venture to express doubt
as TO her ability TO cope with the best. They would
have there the genuine Syksey, ready TO back
up in his own peculiar way whatever his tried friends
might advance, no matter how e1travagant. They
would have seen, too, the veritable z.-indeed II
score or two of Lizesdressed in all the amplitude of
the fashion of daywt plaid silk dresses of the
broadest and brightest styles low in the neck and
short at the bottom, as if the extremes We're en-
dcavoring to meet-wearing shell bonnets and sunny
c,untenances, frnged with beau-catchers. They
would have seen "Mose and Lizey' and Syksey with
inside their boot legs, promenading arm-inarm, and
occasionally hating at booth, and demanding
lager balognes and Switzer cheese for two-boy, do
"you hear me ?" They would have learned the way
to address the boys to induce them to greater exerton
when the pet machine was in play; such; Now,
start easy boys, every man stick to his work and
"don't look at the stream. Steady, now-steady and
" let the heavy men stand 10y TO spell OIL A little
ster-faser-faster-n0u then sail in my hartcs,
sail in; shake her up lkely-ively, say; give way,
"my boys. Every man Of you work now or never,
&C. the and Of tue chapter, spiced throughout with
somewhat stronger language.
Many Of the engines burst the hose through which
they were playing, at the very moment when promis-
ng TO oyertop the points reached by the winning ma
chimes This the with No. 81 of New-fork,
No. Of Utica No. of Lansingburgh, No. of Lee,
Mass; No Is of New York, and of several others.
The companies who participated in the tournament
will regret to learn that the wind has Frustrated the
gracefully tapering end of the flagstaff, the top OF
which but hour before stood higher than their most
elevated streams. 80
The following is list of the competing engines with
their several scores, reported and decided upon by
the Judges: