New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-29


mad vng tc tho error of tho hntss mi Mobile frisads
paid tot thef lodging although yor Committee scpts,-
plated pay for what they had themselves ordered The
occurred in regard to the railroad fare the
conductor (r. Noble) being positively Informed that
would pay it. Our Mobile friends suffered here again.
Your Committee feeit their duty state those facts
that their action may DO placed fully and fairly
fore you.
On Tuesday morning your Committee met at nine
oclock the purpose " making such arrangements
would carry out year views and also accord with your
reputation tor hospitality hoping that the
harsh treatment your Committee had received the previous
evening had afser nights rerose been forgotten by
| guests, as 1t had been by u.s. W.
Your COMMITTEES completed the arrangements TINT they
deemed would be most convenient for your guests the
day Of their departure, and repaired to Louisiana Hose
House, for the purpose of rendering the same to
guests through their foreman
We reached the house at quarter to ten o'clock and
found No Of Mobile in meeting assembled up stairs
where We sent for their foreman but he was not there
We waited some twenty minutes until he came I'm
mediately on his arrival your Committee through Mr.
Risk. their chairman who to this time had been pre-
vented from acting with US account of Iness) ten
dered to the Company No. s of Mobile, through Mr.
Sossaman, their foreman collation. at one of our hotels
on that day at o'clock, and also band of music
| (Which we had engaged through Mr.. Hopf) for the
purpose OF escortng them TO the collation. and hence
the railroad and boat.
| In order that you may clearly understand how this
polite invitations given in your and behalf was re-
ceived give the precise reply of Mr. sosaman to our
chairman He said % He thought came damned late and
did not kno,o anything about it bat teoud tpha his men
aeoHd IN meeting about it. y AT this time the Meeting
Of his Company had adjourned We then asked him il we
should take this answer and he repeated that be
would about it. Your committee bore this uncouth
undgnifed and dscoureous reception with patience
and after waiting about 20 minutes within the precincts
Of the house for anser and receiving none they left
and countermanded their orders for the collation. and
music; not, however, until your Committee had found
Mr. Qugley, the chief Engineer of the Mobile Fire De
partmen communicated to him their interview with
the Foreman No of his City, who him the justice
to say, promptly acknowledged treatment received
1 from said foreman, to have been improper
We have thus, gentleman, laid before you plain un-
vanished statement ofour acts in the premises but
notconcude without expressing oyou deep mortifca
on at seeing in the Mobile papers, each every one
them of last Thursday morning articles similar import
containing most severe upon your hospitality
kindness, and based they state. upon most reliable
authority" We would recommend, therefore, that th,
statement of facts be published in our own uaners and
those Of Mobile that the public may Judge how much
the censure which mas been heaped you the
| of Mobile, you merit.
Finally, gentlemen beg leave to present for yo,1r
payment the accompanying bills contracted by us fol
| the entertainment Of your guests.
| SAMUEL G. RISK
! 49, -S THOS. G. POOLE.
| JAMES ,I0LLS.
/ ALFRED BEEANGER,
| JAMES 9. KAUFMAN.