New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-12
,UR FIREMEN IN PHILADELPHIA.
Their Farewell Address.


I'VE copy the following from the Philadel-
phia Bulletin: - ' Ee' s
The New Orleans firemen left this city for
New York last evening, starting from the
depot in West Philadelphia. They were ac-
companied to the train by large number of
Philadelphia fireInen. Previous to theft de-
partre they presented to the members of
the Mechanic and Neptune Hose Companies
the following address: q
Gentlemen Of the Philadelphia Fire De-
parfment-We regret that the time has
come to bid farewell to the city of Phila-.
delphia and the Fire Department which
has extended hOspitalities to the citizens of
New Orleans. As our forefathers did in
days OF old, we came to You as strangers
from atar, but we leave kind friends behind
us who shall never be forgotten: Gentle
men, we go home to create an undying love
OF gratitude between the citizens Of New
Orleans and those OF Philadelphia, hoping
that the day may come when the Fire
Departments of Philadelphia and that
Of the Crescent City will join hands
and he held in omnipotence. When
looking around that glorious city from
whence SO much brOtherly love has been
extended to American citizens, it creates an
emotion which can not be expressed by
man. This occasion will cement the love
of Philadelphia and that Of the Crescent
City. Hoping that the fire department of
New Orleans may have the opportunity of
extending the hand Of welcome. to that of
the citizens and department of Philadel-
phia; wishing that you may all live in pros
perity, we will, one and and all, bid you a
kind farewell. "a.
The New York World thus wildly de-
scribes the departure of the firemen of New
Orleans. The World says: ......r .sr
Far down on the levee in the old Third
District or French quarter of New Orleans
stands, facing the quaint thoroughfare
forming the river front of that municipality,
a neat little tw0-story building OF brick,
with gable ends and the merest pretence of
belfry, and with the words "Hope Hook
and Ladder Company No. g." in gilt letters
over its front doorway. A mile or two
further up town, on St. Joseph street, in
quarter cOnsecrated to cotton presses. ware
houses and fOundries, and where through
the hot, livelOng summer days one hears
the stroke OF anvils, humming of machinery
and jar Of heavily laden drays over the.
rough cObble stones, stands another and
similar building of brick, resembling in
most particulars that first mentioned, save
that over its portal one may read "Meehan-
les Fire Engine Company No. g."
New Orleans is proud Of her volunteer
fire department. numbering thirty or more
companies, and yearly, on the fourth Of
March, her people turn out en- masse upon
the streets to do honor to it's members as
they celebrate their annual parade. But
never before has she sent two of her crack
cOmpanies-the occupants OF the little brick
buildings above spoken ola distance Of
nearly two thousand miles away from home,
to display their prOwess and their manhood
among their brother fremen of the other
cities of the Union. And SO it came that
on the twenty-third ultimo hundred
gallant fellows, in red shirts and
fire hats, drew up in line at the
POntchartrain depot and took the cars for
the Lake End, carrying with them a hand
engine, polished to glistening brilliancy,
and covered with wreaths and silver plate,
the trophies of past victories, and truck
Of ladders, s,rmounted by a snow-white
life-size figure of Hope, pointing heaven
ward As the train took its departure
through the wide, shaded Elysian Fields
street to the Lake, a thousand hands waved
them adieu; a'thousand pair of bright eyes
looked them "bOn VOYAGE" thousand
hearts prayed for their safe return to their
Southern sunny home. aa