A HOARY RELIC OF THE PAST.
有一个indescribable feeling, a charm that holds the heart fast to relics and associations of the past, and as they stand mute before us, what memories do they not recall. Many of our readers have seen the old truck which for a number of years stood on Crockett street, between Milam and Spring. At last it has been dismantled and the woodwork will be carved into kindling. As the axman cut the ladders, which on many occasions were raised to save, had they the power of speech they would have detailed the deeds of devotion and heroism of men who faltered not when duty called.
The old truck in the year 1859 was the pride of Pelician Hook and Ladder Company No. 4 of New Orleans, and was one of the finest and best, costing between $1800 and $2500. It was manned by Alf Lipscomb, W. H. Cook, Tom and Joe McNeil, George Arnault, George Wilson, Henry Parker, the Piffet brothers, Ferdinand Gueringer and other gallant young men whose names cannot now be recalled.
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