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Show OUK FIRE3IEX. My H!;r,!:n;-, ks been cilled to parngrab- in lu-i city ppera of the 22lJ, lust., whertio it h t tiled a pair of bcoU was taken from tho Eagje Houe, the individual arrested and fined, and that he wjb a fireman. I seriously regret auch an assertion having been given publication, as it has conveyed the idea that myself, aa proprietor of the Engle House, made tbe accuaation and prosecutijn, which leaves a stigcua on tbe general fire department ol this city without cause. I published a caid the pact week, thanking the fire department, etc., and will low more plainly etite that I did not accuse, arrest, or proeecute any peiaon, nor looee any boots as ' stated. The Eagle House was controlled con-trolled and protected during the fire by men who behaved like gentlemen, who have large, whole souls, and have tne finest teeliuga and moat sensitive honest nearts thai were ever covered by a fireman's UDiiorm. Nearly every one of tUem i personally known to myeell, and their efforts prove tbey are frieoda in sincerity and in time of need. They, with several business men of this city and their employed, with the assistance of of my own, u?ed gigantic efforts in tbe saviug ol property to the individual benefit ol myself, without a question aa to the benefits derived from insurance insur-ance companies. When the fire was extinguished I solicited some of the firemen to return and help rtmnve, dry and put in vi good condition aB possible tnat which was damaged and needed immediate attention. I consider tbe chances for total destruction of property very much lessened indeed since tbe completion of the water works, and naaDy thousands thou-sands of dollars worth ol property j must have beeL destroyed but for tbo o tlicers and men of the fire brigade. Certainly a great contrast to the lime piior to our water works, nnd the organization of tbe fire brigade. These men, now, as wim one heart, respond uight or day iff the call to the rescue of cur hard earned earnings. I have been a witness in the past to the efforts of thee men dragging their baud engines and hose carta through snow knee deep in the middle of the night to tbe rescue of lamilies where tueir ail was at stake. Would tbey do this for tbe paltry compensation compensa-tion alone which is allowed them? No, they would not; but they were j prompted by their love and sympathy to do a gocd act and a gocd deed, i These men have a reputation at stake; their bomea are with us; they mostly have families to care for; they have a living to seek; and when you grasp tbe band of a fireman you take, without with-out exception, the band of a man whose whole inatinct is imbued with I the proud position that he holds. If; you whisper m his ear in tbe dead of , the night ihe magic word "Fire," it j is like a Bpark ot electricity striking through his system. His whole energy en-ergy is arouBed; be springs from bis bed and dons bia suitable uniform in any weather or at any season, and never, no never, permits a thought n mlt IU k .,ll encounter will permit bim to return ; alive to those from wbom, on tbe Hpjr of the moment and by the toll of tbo bell, he is called; yes, from all that are near and dear to him on this earth, to defend he knows not what till be arrives at tbo scene of bia lators. My expressions are baaed on persooal observations of our Salt Lake City Fire Brigade. I owe a debt of gratitude to those men for their whole souled promptitude to my interests at different times when my properly has been at stake. I do not wonder at their leseutment against such epi thets publicly applied on the streets, and am pleased to read their attempts at vindication, and with the generosity of the pres for giving puhlicatiou to the same, as those comments of severity were without with-out foundation and uncalled for. Yours in sympathy, S. P. Teasdel |