The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-06-09
NO. IL,
ANOTHER VIEW.

he. GAzETTE:--Iu the last issue of youf
valuable paper we find quite a serious ats
tack against the goo,f faith of Che L. G. G.
Z. One is first of all led to inquire what
| the writer lrad for his dinner the date Of
the writing, which SO signally disagreed
with him Tor her.} At all events it seemed
to us a most auspicious occasion on which,
to turn back a few leaves iii the history of
the ol lganizatton now assailed, and as we
have been ''in it'' from the beginning, and
did not always take back seat, we claim
to know somewhat of the general history of
the club.
1t is not our purpose to write the entire
history of the organization, although such
an article might be interesting reading:
We desire chiefly to glance back at few
OF the yearly mile-stones which dot the
forward march of said club. In 1884 we
arrived at our first anniversary; we cele.
brated by ball, tickets were ON sale. pub.
| licly, any fireman who "was not iu it. " had
only himself to blame.
! 1855 was also celebrated I'M like man.
, ner. In 1886 our annual anniversary took
the form of social party when banner
was presented TO the firemen, and it would
have been like the play Of Shakesperes
| Hamlet, with Hamlet left out, to imaeins
the tiremen mot in it'' on such an occasion.
A memorable excursion was run to the
| Summit on the date of our 1887 anniversary.
I The invitation was of "a decidedly public
nature. Those fremen who were 'snot in
it," simply were so from choice.
| La 1883 came the picnic at Avery's
grove, where the firemen were conspicuous
by their absence, but it was not on account
of lack of Social popularity" as every eff.
fort was made to have everyone GO.
In 1889, as our public affairs had certainly
not been over well patronized, we held o.
reunion in the H. & L. Hall, and we dis
tinctly remember seeing fair attendance of
firemen and we held this anniversary at the
H. L. Hall by express invitation of the
H. & L. boys.
A moonlight excursion OH the beautiful
Willamette proved very disastrous finan.
cially. The iremen certainly "were not
in it, much to the disappointment of the
L. G. C. C.
Do these pages of history bear out the
testimony of our would be critic as to there
| being Select invitation affars?"
This attack Is really not new growl,
only an old one just little louder.
| Several years ago, we do not recall tho
| exact year, the same complaint was made
i'll somewhat modified form. and as we
were filing quite an important office, we
| personally went to the chief of each de-
partment and obtained correct list of the
entire fire department and took great pains
to see that formal invitation went out.
| Do you want to know Che result? Three
| firemen, among those not usually out to our
'cial meetings. responded. Passing oyer
other years, we will only recall tile fact
that at the celebration of '92, IA leap-year
party, each member of the department hav-
ing special invitation,) two out side
of the regular number responded. 1t looks
as though the firemen were not so badly
treated after all. One fact ought to be-
mentioned in this review of things. No
lady is invited to our socials who is not
either an active or honorary member of the
club. You can at ouce see that.it is rather
a difficult matter toi,invite some firemen
whose wife will not "be i'll it."
| We believe the iremeu not only UNDER
| stand this but see the need of such law
among ourselves. The fremen's wives,
daughters and sweethearts belong in the
club. why are they not there? They Ger.
tainly have not been shut out.
| This last reunion IVES very hastily eots
ten up affair merely that the anniversary
| should not pass by unnoticed. We had
! not planned to have celebration alone
this year, but as: we had been asked to
hold joiut celebration on the Goth witik
the fremen, ON the occasion of the dedi-
cation of their new hall, the ladies' had
| gladly accepted the invitation to celebrate
together, and had waited to do so up to a.
few days prior to anniversary date. when
finding the fisenen not ready, we con-
cuded to hold social in an informal man.
ner and to hold ourselves in readiness to d.
what we could to make the dedicatiora o.
success also to in reality have our big
celebration then.
Positive we are that no thought of sin.
Cling out any favored few was in the minds
Of the ladies, or any slight whatever in
tended. It is always well to remember
| that there is more than one side to any
story. Two MEMBERS OF rsE CLuB.
Mr.. Jen Hawk, of Portland Ore, a nat
ur.lized and highly educated Chinaman,