New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-07
Fire Department Of New orleans.

TRurH cannot be controversial though thousand re.
ports aud editorials seek to extDgush on the cheeks OF
the offenders, the burning blush OF shame"
To The Fire Department Of the Ctpqf Nsic Orleans GkN-
rLEaEs We regret exceedingly that circumstances re-
quire of u.s. as your Committee to present to you the
positive and unenabe proofs Of acts as detailed in
made at your called meeting Of delegated
senatives adopted by them at that meeting on the
Goth of May, 1854
In again presenting ourselves before YOU in sevindi
cation are indebted to Mobile friends for text
which place at the head Of this report and which your
Committee kept steadily in view in all their proceedings
Truth cannot be controversial, is cardinal principle in
moral ethics and universally acknowledged that when
blazoned forth in pharsaical aduaton gives just cause
in the minds of ALL for suspicion of the motives which
induced much self praise.
In order therefore, that may prove to you that our
previous (and we had hoped only report plain
t,udnshed statement Of acts' represented and not
as charged upon by Mobile friends tissue Of mis-
representaiionS subon tho statements made by
Mobile guests in uItaposen with the proofs Of acts
from which you may judge who has endesyored to conro
vert the truth
q The Committee of Arrangements behalf of No s
informed Mr. H. Wingfeld the Saturday previous,
they did the New Orleans Committee Of Arrangements
the very prior to arrival by Of Committee
that would present ourselves at the Jefferson and
Pontchartran Depot the ensuing morning upon the
| arrival of the mail steamer Oregon
pooi-
lively deny, personally and collectively, having
ceived hearing indirectly of any such arrange
ment on the part of your guests
In the next sentence Of your Mobile friends report they
| say:
SFinding no Committee to receive u.s. of your Com
mittee and the Foreman of No s. Cullums
to make arrangements for breakfast and dinner after
which of the undersigned went to the city for the
purpose of making arrangements for entertainment that
| night
| Int tbeva to
On coming to the city met by Mr.. Poole, who
informed us that Accommodations prepared for at
| the hotels"
And Immediately following, in the same paragraph
they say
I'VE had not the pleasure of receiving visit from the
u9y attentive Committee, but left to act without the
semblance of hospitality or attention.
How direct information given that accommodations
prepared for them can be acting aoou the scm5ancc
hospitality attention. is position directly at variance
with the iuconrovertble principles of truth that your
Committee simply submit to your candid judgment
whether we, in your behalf made Of isrefrse
tdtionSn not when stated that accommodations te
prepared" for your guests.
Luckily, however, Mobile friends, in their nex
paragraph positively inform you that We performed ou
| duty faithfully and well. They say
we held meeting in the meeting room OF the Louis
lana Hose Company and accepting the invitation of thu
New Orleans Committee of Reception and Arrangements
the City Hotel So at the Arcade and the remainder
tn st. Louis Hotel The company then adjourned eacl
| to his respective place of abode"
Thus gentlemen you perceive that preparations 70
your guests accommodation not only made, but il
meeting duly assembled, accepted by them and them
selves detailed in squads to suit those arrangements
reported to them by Mr. 7 C. Poole, behalf of you
Committee.
Immediately following the above acknowledgment OH
Mobile friends say:
when arrived at the hotels designated the clerk
informed us that arrangements had been made By The
Committee and declined accommodating us. 1t was the
twelve O'Clock at night and insisted oecupyin
some place in the hotel at our eIpsnSe,'
Your Committee, in reply to which, can only give tn
following affidavit proof Of their acts believing that
will fully rebuff the assertions thoughtessy made by
guests;
Personally appeared before this day, Thomas c
Poole who being duly sworn doth depose and say, tina
he did, behalf of the Committee Of the New Orean
Fire Department, make arrangements for the lodging
their guests, composed of the members of Washngto
Fire Company, No. s, Of Mobile" with the folowiu
hotels City Hotel Arcade and st, Louis hotels, tn
22d of May, 1852 THOS. G. POOLE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me- this fifth day
June, A. D. 1854. A. RICHARDSON,
Sd Justice of the Peace.
Our Mobile friends again say;