New-York daily tribune., 1865-12-21

Engine Company No. g.
Engine Company No. 9.
Hook and Ladder Company No. 4.
Engine Company No. IL
Engine Company No. II.
FOURTH DIVISION.
Marshal
Engineer Peter Y. Everett
Hook and Ladder Company No. &
Engine Company No H.
Hook and Ladder Company Noe.
pyrn DIVISION.
Engineer William W. Rhodes.
Engine Company No. Il.
Enrine Company No. 49,
Engine Company No. ls
Hook and Ladder Company No. !.
sITa DIVISION
Engineer William Banham, j..
fnsine Company No 20.
Engine Company No ~.
| Engine Company No II
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Engineer RoSsls Mss.S.1 \. M.el.y.
Enslne Company No. 2s
Engine Company No. q.
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EIGHTH DIVISION.
Marshal.
Engineer j. Coney.
fns,ne Company No. 20.
Engine Company No 81.
Engine Company No 50.
Engine Company No. -.
Hook and Ladder Company No IL.
FORMATION OF COMPANIES
The companies we're formed in the following order,
with horses heads pointing toward Broadway
Foreman. Assistant Foreman.
Sir Privaes. in One Section.
Steamer tEnginee. and stoker On Ensne).
Hook and Ladder Companies
Foreman Assistant Foreman.
Eight PIiyates. in One Section.
ROUTE OF PROCESSION.
| The procession was a magnificent display. 1t com
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Fourteentb.st. to Broadway, down Broadway, pass.
ing the Fire Commissioners and guests at the
Metropolitan HOTEL continuing down Broadway
| CITY Hall Ills Honor the Mayor. the Boards
of Supervisors. Aldermen and Councllmen, Heads OF
Departments &c. The Iayor:elect, Judge hoffman,
also stood on the steps OF the City Hail. while the pro.
cesson was passing and is reported 10 have expressed
himself greatly gratided with the display. The COM
panes were dismissed to their respective quarters,
from the Park a about 3! o'clock Tie appearance OF a
Freman's parade. composed OF Steam Fre'engines
drawn by horses, novel sight to our citizens.
| A CONTRAST.
| Already has marked contrast been made apparent
between the operation OF the old Fire Department and
the new and is hardly necessary to state with which
| the advantage rests But the magnificent yet quiet
parade Of yesterday affords an excellent excuse Tor
finally noting the strong difference between the two II
for no other reason than TO show up once more the
tyranny which so long forced corrupt ana ineincent
department upon MS, and when noW-at least SO lar as
that department is conccned-is poweress for further
mischief. -
/ THE OLD FIRE DEPARTMENT
OF New York an expensive luxury, n benefce FOR
blsckgnarls political engine always exerted in the
cause of corruption and oppression nursery FOR youth
fnl criminals. and free academy whose graduating
department Sing Sing Prison. with an occasional
galows thrown In by way OF an educational diversity
n Ia merely the repetition of hackneyed axiom TO say
that family mourns the loss OF son throngh IN
temperance other vicious tendencies contracted by
the associations OF the engine house. which was, almost
without exception the avorlto loadng place Of tina!
most contemplate and dangerous character the New
York ''Rowdy," "Rounder,' plug" "Bhoy," or by
whatever other appeaton his yiieness may receive an
infamous distinction.
Even the rum. shop faied in many respects, To pre-
sent the attractions freely offered by the engine
house the first tap Of whose bell might be the signal o
crimnate free lights wherein the rowdy iound MS mos
coDgeninl clement.
| THE FIREMAN THEN
was expected 10 be fireman in Just so much as th'
wearing of re.hat and red shirt and the carrying
a speaking.trlmpet went. Here the consistency o
the name as applied to him, anished at heart he wa
a rowdy, and perhaps something even worse he wa
scourge in frehat; at least. anything but fireman
in the true acceptation Of the word.
He went 10 fires not much for the purpose o.
putting them out az of beating Forysx the road
clapping bigger stream than that OF Twenty
ormore glorious s,iiithe settling Of thai ahclehl
feud with the Sizes. Ito would perhaps wIis Sisv beer
al the brakes well, but, II there was whshy.
tobacco or cigars within block OF the h
ho would frequently hnd some excuse loi .s
windows Of the establishment and deusins ~. bo
with water, after helping bimseii no 10 nnsar,i peT
Guisite. % Tiea he always made all the noise he possibly
| could and raised rumpus geherain. 49,. ,rbiob bc
On eiecfion days he was on hand to vote Wnloa nc
A., "a ~ S same manuer that he put ont hres
and a," m m.osv ", even more damage to the yruous
portion Of tho community On Sar sd 1hfS e r mere SbaSey @sTy
uu nops I .ppycsentation Of the average fireman o.
az loafor blaokguard eardplayer and rum
u5lIoT TV by day sereamer bay fighter ana universe
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