The Durham daily globe., 1892-11-08
THE CHIEF TALKS |
r.Joupl Bradshcr Tells His Tale OF
Woe To-day.
=. Wants Mr.. Carter to Think Little
Bit.
..vs HIM TO JOIN THE COMPANY
who Come and GO-Brief Brevi-
tie. Of Interest to All Readers
of The Globe.


tic. of Interest to All Readers
Of The Globe.
tn THE EDITORIALS chief Of the fire
l.,ariment desire to say few words
concerning the fire Monday morning.
was not at the fire-but there were
,.c. who are under me who were.
Mr. Hcartt, assistant chief, was there,
.rd he will bea~ out my statements-and
desire. as chief Of the department, to
make corrections in regard to a state,
mcnt Of Mr. Carter.
presume that Nh. Carter was hasty-
a,t he made statements to THE GLOBE
newspaper which, upon reflection, be
would not have made.
In fact, Mr.. Carter was unfortunate,
aD2rt from a pecunisry loss. His wife
v,. confined to her bed-and he, in his
erdcavors to protect his home, even ran
around in his night clothes-eXcited, as
van would have been or as | would have
been, under such circumstances.
lie tells US, with apparent honesty, and
he no doubt thinks he talks it straight,
that the Duke company had the same
sized hose and that they helped save his
home when the Durham company refused
to DO so.
The facts are that Mr. Ferrell, from the
fire house, drove at once to Carter's home
and placed his hOse-that is he laid his
line while running. The Duke company
had not sufficient hose to reach Carter's
house, and the Durham company loaned
them hose and they used ito turn on
the stream which extinguished the flames.
The Durham company had no chance
to relay its lne-so it turned to save
what was in front of its hose. Yet it
loaned the Duke company hose to save
Cartcr'S hOuse-and the Duke company,
always up to the point, says the Durham
company saved it.
Mr. Ferrell tells me that no alarm had
been turned in, yet when Carter came to
him that he himself Ferrell hitched the
horses and himself turned on the stream
upon the stable which was burning,
and did all lie could. This statement is
substantiated by large number of wit
neSSes Mr.. Ferrell further tells me that
Nr. Carter's statement to the effect that
ne helped them attach the hose was an
other one Of his excited fancies. Fer
TeII himself hitched the hose.
Mr. W. H Hopkins did positively assist
Mr.. Ferrell attach the hose-and after it
was attached, Mr.. Carter came up, and
supposedly imagined that he had assisted
yet he did not.
also want to say to all the people OF
OulAam, that we the fire company is
with the town. We want to do oul
"u'Y' and God knows that the bows re-
cel'e bat little compensation. We want
10 10 our straight duty-and we want tc
W "hat Is right. When a great fire is
burning there must be much excitement
We all know that, yet we presume tha
'1ose who are trained as firemen, know
-"S' aoout as much about it as those who
nave not been in the service Mr.. Carte
was SIMPLY laboring under the delusiol
'nal his house was the only one which
'"e names had placed in jeopardy-bu
0"' hTemen saw that there was othe
BUSINESS on hand. What the boys wan
Is at least decent recognition of thei
NY paid services, and through them ant
'or them desire to state that Mr.. Car
S lmpromptu criticism was no
""o"y true, that it was certainly unius
au0 many of Us believe cruel. However
" Mr.. Carter knows all about the fir
'us'ncsS' he should apply at an early da,
70 The city council and assume control @
'Ae whole business.
w. c. BRADsHER,
Chief of D. F. d.