Show A flinoil cow aag 1889 alik stat DARD will you kindly permit roe through tin columns of your paper to answer the charges in an article bubli lied by the this morning ahr contents of it are based on falsehoods or at least the creater portion thereof my for heina BO apparently abrupt in my denunciations is not because I 1 consider the article barly injurious to any private or public individual but because circum lite have demonstrated the any disreputable can go to the corn and report his grievances lo 10 hide hii on a neilt and it is tawn space without the slightest investigation to determine the truth of the the article referred A street fakir has bin grievances abo police lie says that on monday he drew JOO in 20 gold pieces from a city bank and coming out of the bank with the gold in hii hand ho was seen by a private dr tec tive here I 1 wish to say that 1 do not know any part of the above statement to bo true but to the contrary a part of it I 1 know to be utterly false to my knowledge lie wa not seen by a private detective to en er a bank during the day but he as shadow oil on and BBS seen during lie day to exhibit to one of hi friends a number of 20 gold pieces believed to amount to about this went to confirm the suspicion which further investigation chich developed the fact that the had been overheard to say several timea on friday that he was broke the continues ft ho biad him arrested for borne theft in a distant town where 20 gold pieces were stolen the distance of this tonn may be designated by the eacia term in which daiil monk the old california stage driver answered a boston inquirer namely it might be a d m sight farther than it is 81 it is with the distant town in which the was committed the I 1 then goes on to state he was taken from his room I 1 can not deny as he might have considered the west side ol 01 washington ave aue betheen T duty fourth and twenty rufth lna room and narrowly escaped spending the night in the city j ill I 1 dont think the fiur was arrested on any information given by a private detective neither do I 1 believe he was released with the consent of a private detective neither do I 1 think that a private detective wa asked whether or not he had any information to offer in support of the charge I 1 presume the fakir bid adieu to oden and friends at his earliest convenience BO did lyman D collitt Fol litt the morning after his release ia helena mont where be had been arrested on a of embezzlement of 10 and forgery at orand kamida mich now I 1 will conclude by saying if the wishes to take sides wih street faking and eliat element it hsia a large contract on ita hands if it does not it A ill do well to investigate reports and publish facts the ewt recollect that ft hereit makes false accusations on it will be called on to show up all of which entails an expense on the ers in the long run jo tid ilcin firt entire sun an alj dellford Dep lford engine ot the friendship fire of win cheater va las been purchased by U T this city who will put it in order and keep it aa a relic u the the Rapt tord aa built by john It odgers of this city in 1850 for the volunteer fire department after the dissolution of the department it was sold to the independent fire company of frederic md the independent company afterward purchased a steam fire engine and bold the to the friend hip c mi w ho in turn bold it to mr holloway after pur liasing a steam fire engine the will be entered in the hand contest on september 10 to be held in alt vernon altice Il tice it ia a double deck irol lery engine and is n orbed by hand co be properly managed it re quites forty men to handle it it plays one from the kallery and to side aid a considered the beet playing euine in the volunteer department part ment it is cadima of throwing a stream ot water iya fret the gallery has lur oil on the back and executed by a baltimore artist the endine in drawn by hand when in service it is placed directly in front of be fire ami the water is pumped the hose to the engine from the the and box are mounted with brass the department assisted in under cm c m arol the great fire in this oly on april this a as one of the flen esl that ever visited diore and six pei dona perished in the fla naps beveral Cr eruen riia fire in a building on charles street nr lombard and burned olt A voit portion of the property in alie vicinity before it was sab aced the loas amounted to rhe alao did berdica in other fires almoite as be fore the djs of the modern depart |