Show 11 I The Sandy Firs Oar morning contemporary in connection with the Sandy fire has assumed to speak for Mr Decker in the premises and in doing EO puts tiiat gentleman in the position of a plaintiff in a suit for damages against the railroad company We are authorized by M Decker to say that whether the fira caught from a spark from the locomotive or in any other I manner ao never contemplated even asking the railroad company to make good his loss and further he does not consider that he has any right to do so His hotel was on railroad land and being so close to the track the company a few years ago wanted him to move i because of tha danger of it taking fire Ha finally obtained permission to let his bouse remain but > with the express understanding that i it burned the loss was to bo his and not the com pangs Mr Decker is not the man to go back on even a tacit agreement of this kind and particularly particu-larly EO in this instance the railroad and he being on the most harmonious terms Be regrets his loss and also that of the company but considers that nobody can be censured on account ac-count of the fire The Tribune will please note that it cannot get up a quarrel ovar this flair |