The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-17


Baght and early last Friday morning oai
city was astir, and at O'Clock the csss q
Salssn, loaded down to the guards With living
freight, steamed away from oar whArvss fol
Corvallis. IN due time the boat arrived at
its destination and our people were met al
the wharvcs and welcomed by near the on.
tire population Of our sister-city. After the
excursionists gained terra .tsr4na = process.
sion was formed, and after marching around
considerably the immense crowd was collect
ed together in the grove in the Court House
block. The audience was then regaled by
fine addresses from Judge Chenoweth, W.
s. McFadden, and others, and also had the
opportunity of hearing some soul.inspiring
music from the Corvallis and Albany bands.
In this way time flew by fast until the 9th
order Of exercises came around. This was
grub, and well did the Corvallis folks mp
hold their reputation for hospitality in pro-
viding refreshments for our people. Many
of the excursion;sts had taken along with
them small commissary outfits. but their
Corvallis bretheren would not allow a single
Albany basket tobe opened, but packed every
body of to the tables they had prepared and
then treated their guests in such manner
as TO make moro than one button ily from its
place on the. waist-band In fact our folks
were fed in such wholesale manner that it
was with intense satisfaction that the heard
''Toasts, 4" announced as the 7th order Of ex-
ercises, knowing that they would then have
an opportunity of sitting down and recover
ing the strength they had lost in working
their jaws. After quite number of neat
little speeches had been made the firemen
''nanned the ropes on Linn's steamer and
repaired to cistern on Main street for prac-
tice. Steam was soon up and the Little
Giant" threw two as pretty streams of water
as ever a fireman looked at. After this was
over ths5Corvallis "Hooks" came out and
gave the people an exhibition Of what they
could do, and we must say they are as well
up in their work as any hook and ladder
company we have ever seen. "Big Six"
was then ''manned" by nearly every red
shirted fellow in each department, and
though she is big ungainly looking thing,
her action seemed to be very good when the
brakes were well filed, The valves were out
Of order and for some little time nothing
could be got out of her but wind, but finally
the water started, and then two lengths Of
hose bursted and she was housed, with
out our folks getting a COED opportunity of
seeing what she could do. At the close Of
the drill all the firemen congregated at the
Hooks" hall and had genuine love feast,
and when our boys started for the boat short
i aftsrward, there was not one in the whole
crowd that did not feel that Corvallis was
not only fully entitled to the Yaquina
Railroad, but also the West Side Road, the
Northern Pacific, the Atlantic Gable, Santi-
an Canal, and everything else that could be
upon them by the intelligent peo-
pie OF the United States. After car engine
was put aboard, all the excursionists had been
gathered in, the boat started for Albany and
arrived in good time Thus closed one of
the most pleasant days ever experienced by
any person in our excursion party. Every
thing passed of just as pleasantly as possible,
md that day can never be mentioned to Al
oanians without causing them to remember
with what prineely hospitality they wers en-
sertaiued by their red-shirted boys of their
sister city.