Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-03-06

HE SOLINlEEh rA1tENIaNs
out. When got to FIRE was I'LL het
up and could not do anything for quite
awhile. Once was fined IS for not 80
ing up into burning loft in the night to
rescue large heavy girl whom I had
never even met and who was in her bare
feet.
A volunteer fireman has too many So
cial strains to stand for the salary he
gets. Another time was fined for not
attending a fire because was asleep at
the time 1t occurred. l was very angry
when learned that was fined again,
and Tor such trivial offence, too. !
them .ffered my resignation. What you
want. lsaid with scathing aud searching
scorn. lis son,nambulist. am not one
of those. Search elsewhere for your
firemen. am not lacking in courage,
bat am not constructed according to
your plans and specifications"
f>nro ! was fined also for seeing q
younX ladv nome a1.er the ai.lr-a = 10
had been given. Iappealel. but lost my
case, and had to pay for simply an actof
common gallantry. Others, presume,
would leave bright young lady stand.
ing in the street, where the cars might
run over her, and rush wildly of to fire,
but could not do that. never could.
Socially was great triumph - .
volunteer fireman, and no one in the his
tory Of CONGREGATIONS and hairbreadth
escapes could ''call off, better at q fire
mems ball than l. but when I would get
smoke in my lungs and retire to the
orchard to cough, the foreman would
curse me bitterly and say that 'he
wouldn't be likely to take but little
more of me-" Then he would report me
and fine ME. I was found s that way
three times.
There are two sides to the great war
on Staten Island, but in the mean time
an occasional honse burns down before
the Perth Amboy fire companytcan come
and chop = hole in the roof.
Possibly before this is printed the
trouble may be quieted in some way, and
all be again At peace. Otherwise ! SEQ
no way but tor few OF the wealthy
taxpayers to meet at my slosh. opposite
the reservoir, and form . company OF
volunteers to be called the Damp and
Noiseless Squirt Company Of the Kills.
As it is now, can point out = thousand
young villages Of the new west with
1900 people that would easily shame this
wealthy md populous town Of over ten
times the population and . dozen times
the wealth.
My own experience 40 . volunteer
fireman teaches me that we cannot hold
= volunteer fireman down to the same
rigid requirements that we can 4 faid
department, and possibly the best way
out of the trouble is, after all, to unite
with the United States at the same time
that Canada comes in. ,...-
Staten Island has many very attract
i've features aside from her Gre depart
ment, fisheries, night blooming cereus,
oil refineries. Constable Hook (and Lad
der company, Sabbath baseball, suicide
and summer street railways, which run
when it is not too stormy. All these and
many other reasons are urged why we
should enter the Union, adding South
Beach. tho great Newport Of Richmond
county, to the desirable watering places
for stock especially. which the United
| Statee could then claim. With Z large
cool tunnsl open at both ends and con.
Meeting us with Brooklyn We might b
come On important factor Of the FUTURE
great metropolis The present United
States minister to Staten Island. d
course, Is . good man, hut o . citizen
and taxpayer. also Vsritas and Pro Bons