Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-13
The Fire Trouble

The supposed casus belli. the ball suggested,
did not get further than a suggestion, and but
for the overweening desire of the JOURNAL to
find cause for offense, nothing more would
have been heard of the incident.
The Ne,os does not agree with the
Times in this statement, in proof
whereof the JOURNAL will quote the
paragraph showing ohat had been accom-
plished before the JOURNAL printed
a word. 1t is headed THE Firemen's
Ball :"
Last night committee fiom the Cumber-
land Hose Company met a committee of the
Pioneer Hose Company and the two COM
mittees visited the meeting then in session at
the South Cumberland Hose Company's
engine house. The object of the joint con-
ference of the two companies was for the
purpose of requesting the third company to
appoint committee to meet them at an early
date and discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of giving a
grand tiremen's ball at the Academy of
Music during the convention, which will be
held in Frostburg in June next. Fire COM
panies from all over the State will be present,
and if such ball is given it will no doubt be
one of the most brilliant affairs of its kind
that has ever been held in this city. The
South Cumberland company appointed
committee which will meet the other COM
mittees at the Pioneer engine house hall on
Thursday night of this week.
That suggestion" travelled a good
way-for "a suggestion" Two COM
mittees had not only got "strong
enough to sit up and look around"
but they actually got out of bed and
walked over to request a third COM
mittee to help them get up scheme
that would draw "fremen from all
over the State" then "present" in Frost
burg, and make it zone of the most
brilliant affairs ever held in Cumber-
land" Then we learn that the two
committees actually induced the third
company to appoint a committee, and
that all three were to meet, etc.
What the three committees did the
JOURNAL has never heard.
But the probability is-the bomb
shell the JOURNAL threw in their
ranks didn't leave enough remains of
''the grand ball suggestion" to war
rant burial.
But even as "a suggestion" it was
an unfraternal one. All crimes
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way. ga suggestion" resulted in the
death of Abel, and later in the sale of
Joseph to the Egyptian merchants,
and as the Times intimated--lf the
JOURNAL had kept still. who knows but
that the Frostburg firemen would
have been sold out, lock, stock and
barrel by their tender hearted Cumber-
land brethren?
1t was a narrow escape.
But the amusing independent says:
The Journal did very imprudent thing
by commencing the squabble and it would
have been better for the Ne,rs to have left the
JOURNAL fan the wind alone
The Independent is not posted.
AS has been seen, the JOURNAL did
not commence the squabble.'
Hence, the independent appears to
feel as did the British when the Amer
leans revolted. Indeed, an English
historian to this day holds that the
Americans started the Revolution
But the Neacs must be taken up
again:
The tiremen of this city have proceeded
slowly and deliberately. They have been
somewhat Injured to the generally offensive
bearing of the county press toward the people
of Cumberland, and have treated it with con-
tempt for the reason that they have never
believed the press represented the honest
sentiment of the masses in its unmanly and
ungenerous attempt to array the people of
the county against the people of the county
seat.
That is shirk. If "the county
press" ever assumed an offensive bear
ing toward Cumberland that was not
provoked by grab, the JOURNAL can
not recall it. The Cumberland hand
is foreve, in this regions pocket under
some pretext or other. All here knOao
it, because they feel it. "Seeing is
believing" but feeling is the naked
truth.
But IN the present instance their selfrespect
has been wounded, and they propose to re-
sent it in way that will not soon be for
gotten, unless proper disclaimer is made.
The Times speaks of the JOURNALS
castigation of the latest demonstration
of greed as ian insult" but the Nesos
thinks the proposed victim shall be
chung drawn and quartered," because
for once he has not laid down to be
robbed and kicked.
How else we are to be punished for
memory's sake the JOURNAL does not
know, but for Itself it would adopt
the challenge of glorious old Patrick
Henry:
If this be treason, make the most oft
Coming Events.
The Independent Band will hold a
fair and festival in Ravenscroft's Opera
House for one week, commencing
Saturday evening, April 20. Under