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Straps and .facts. \ ? Admiral Sampson, with four bat- v tleships and two armored cruisers, are r now on their way from Santiago to J New York. Admiral Schley is also y en route ou the Brooklyn. It is ex- * pected that they will arrive off New j York next Friday night, and it is the ' understanding that they will be order- r ed to at once proceed up Hudson river 1 to the tomb of General Grant and fire m. a salute. After that the vessels will go into drydocks and be repaired as speedily as possible. ; ? Consul Wild man cables the war department from Hong Hong, that General Augusti is there, having escaped from Manila on the previous Saturday. The story is that Admiral Dewey demanded the surrender 01 Manila within an hour. The Span- j iards refused to surrender and Admiral Dewey began a bombardment. . Shortly after the bombardment commenced the dag was hauled down. General Augusti escaped to a German vessel which took him to Hong Kong. There are no further details; but Con- : sul Wildman is satisfied that the above story, so far as it goes, is true. ? ? Joe Wheeler has done another < decent thing in disarming all crili- i cism of General Shafter. In a letter { to a friend?A. W. Willis, postmaster at Nashville, Tenn.?General Wheeler writes as follows: "I think the ( criticisms upon General Shafter were J very unjust. He has had a hard task ? and has performed it successfully and ( well. He is a man of more than ordi- . nary brain power and administrative ability. The criticism that he did not . ?~ l.:colf nn fho firincr line is ridic- ' plttUD U1UJCUI vu vuv mmmO ulous, as on July 1 he was carrying i on two fights at the same time, one at i Caney and one at San Juan. He had t some reserves, and had to place him- . self where he could see both fights and manage the whole affair, which he did 1 efficiently." ? Talk about cold blooded heroism. One of the officers who charged at EI Caney carried a camera in one hand 1 and took a dozen "views" of the scenes 5 about him as he went up the hill. The < New York Press describes the incident | as follows: "He charged up the hill { at the head of his company in the face { of Mauser bullets thick as hail, and with shrapnel shells bursting all around 1 him, and carried in his right hand his 1 sword and in his left a rapid-firing ( camera of his own device. He took j 12 views on the film plates while he , was running, and when he and the standing remnant of his company were { in possession of the top of the hill and ' the Spaniards were flying down the * other, Lieutenant Wise turned to a j sergeant and said: 'I think I've got , some pretty lively pictures this time. If there was only some ice in this sunburned country I'd develop them right now.' " r ? At Walhalla, last Monday, says ' J. Wilson Gibbes, Mr. Featherstoue 1 spoke with vigor. For 14 years he had s been making Prohibition speeches and i his views had not changed one iota. g He had said that he had taken a drink of whiskey as a beverage, but he was none the less qualified to talk 1 prohibition. He had seen the evils of ' whisky and for years had not touched it. He related an anecdote of a boy t holding on to the tail of a running r bull. Some one asked him did he j hoDe to stop the bull, and he replied, t "I'm trying to stop him ; but if I don't, 1 I'll slow him up right smart." That 1 was exactly the attitude of the Prohi- < bitionists. When bespoke of the peo- t pie of South Carolina spending $3,000,- \ 000 yearly for liquor, Colonel Watson ? asked him how much of that came through the dispensary ? "I don't know," he shouted, "and nobody r knows anything about this infernal s dispensary. With its beer privileges, j its blood letting and stealing all over , South Carolina, nobody knows and j nobody ever will." (Loud applause.) ? New York letter to the Atlanta Journal: But there is a risiug star in c the ranks of the Republican party ' which may become so brilliant that all others will disappear into space. I t refer to Theodore Roosevelt, lieuten- t ant colonel of the famous Rough Rid- t ers. He may be elected governor ou his war record. His boom is already 1 ou, and his return here from the San- * tiago battlefields may be the means of t upsetting all political calculations. 1 The people of New York are given to t electing war heroes to office, and they t may turn from the winsome trap set by the wily party leaders and demand ; a new idol?Roosevelt, the fearless, 8 the reformer, the man who rules what- s ever he is connected with or else steps i down and out as he did when assistant v secretary of the navy under Secretary Long, so short a time back, when his individuality got him in trouble be- c cause of his disposition to break away ' from the shackles of diplomacy and r talk out ou matters connected with the 1 war. The campaign in New York for s governor this year may well be watch- t ed everywhere. No matter what the result. New York state will demand the right to name the candidate for 1 president in 1900. 1 ? There has been some fighting in t l'orto Rico since the signing of the t protocol. On Friday the Americans j made an artillery attack on the Spaniards, who were entrenched in a pass that approaches Aibonito. The ene- [ my had dug a series of pits in the * mountain side, and as the Americans r approached opened upon tbem with r artillery. The range was about 2,000 i yards. During the artillery duel that t followed, one American private was killed, and two were wounded. The Spanish artillery was silenced and the r Americans charged; but the position I of the enemy was too strong to be c taken. General Wilson demanded ^ the surrender of tho town in order to _ avoid further bloodshed, and in reply was told that if he desired to avoid c further bloodshed, he had better stay 1 where he was. This was the situation t when news of peace arrived, and hos- (3 ilities were not pushed further. Gensral Brooke was arranging to storm Arroyo when a messenger reached him vith orders to desist. "You came 15 ninutes too early," said General Brooke to the messenger. The guns vere being sighted at the time and the roops were disappointed. The latest nformation from Porto Rico is unsatsfactory as to details ; but there was easou to believe that there would be 10 more bloodshed. (The ^(orhriUe (Enquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1898. ? The Charleston Cotton Exchange, lometime ago, passed resolutions eniorsing the cylindrical cotton bale. According to the Charleston Post, such i bale was on exhibition one day last veek ; but it did not meet with a very mthusiastic reception in any quarter, [t could not be sampled with much latisfaction, and a well-known stevelore said there was no advantage in lacking in the hold of a vessel. It teems that about all that can be done s to adopt Mr. J. H. Sloan's idea of iniform sized square bales. This will 'urnish some practical advantage in he direction desired?the ability to lack the greatest amount of cotton in l minimum space. ? It costs the Royal Baking Powder company something like $500,000 anjually for advertising. Some one once suggested to the company that it discontinue advertising one year, the oaking powder was so well-known and ldvertised, and place that amount in he profits. The answer was that it vould cost the company three times hat amount to get the product in its jriginal channels again. This is a oretty good pointer to those business nen who imagine they are making a jreat saving when they discontinue a S4 or a $6 a month advertisement a ew months in dull seasons. It never )ays to tear out a dam because the vater is low. HISTORY-ANCIENT AND MODERN. Most newspaper men are human. The makers of The Enquirer are inensely so. As other men, they are subject to all the feelings and resentnent that are aroused by misrepresentation, abuse and slander. But, for )bvious reasons, they have no better vay of protecting themselves than lave other men. Of course, there is no question of he ownership of The Enquirer. The paper is private property. We lave the right to do with it as we ilease. But we never allow ourselves o forget that though under private iwnership, the paper is a public instiiution. That the public cares very ittle about our private affairs, so long is there is nothing dishonorable in hem, we fully appreciate, and as a ule we are much more reluctant to eek the promotion of our personal nterests through fhese columns, than ve are to seek the promotiou of the nterests of other individuals whom ve may conceive to be deserving of :onsideratiou at the hands of the pubic. Many a slanderous fling or insinuaion at The Enquirer, or its makers, hat has not had a shadow of foundaion in fact, has been allowed to pass mchallenged for various reasous that lave appeared to us to be good. Ofen these flings and insinuations have lad their source in malignant hate, or louest, but misguided zeal. Someimes our assailants have been the unvoting tools of designing conspirators, ind again they have been sneaking, mooth tongued incendiaries, working n their own proper persous; but vith an apparent disinterestedness of rnrpose that was calculated to de:eive both the powers of darkness and ight. Why it is impossible to meet in irint all these attacks it is easy to see. The material within reach of an uncrupulous liar is inexhaustible, and he hole in which such a creature can ie finally cornered, does not lie ou his side of the border line of eternity. This is one reason why we have demoted so little attention to the slanders hat have been directed against us. Another reason has been that we have ilways believed that no matter how ' ilausible, how vicious, how malignant, ' low murderous the lie, nor how much 1 uin it might accomplish before it uns its leprous course, iu a country ike this, it would be smashed against i he rockbound shores of truth at last, i That this malignant Hood of mis- I epreseutatiou and abuse against The i 'Inquirer has its source in a common i :entre, nobody realizes better than we : lo. We know all of the different i >etty grudges that have resulted iu a < lommou cause, and we have been cog- I lizant of the many different efforts hat have been made by different in- I lividuals to concentrate this question-11 able influence to the promotion of private ends. We have seen conspi- t racy after conspiracy fall to pieces of their own putrid rottenness, attempted t boycotts smash the heads of those who 1 sought to organize them, and unli- e censed perjury bring to their proper c level those who sought, as a last des- t perate resort, to practice it in high r places. Against all these things has s The Enquirer stood, not alone for it- i self, but for principle and the continued 1 welfare of the people for whom it r labors; and the manner in which we a have been, and are being sustained, r is the crowning glory of a struggle in c the waging of which we hope to be j pardoned when we say we are proud. 1 We do not propose to go into many 1 details iust at this time : but we desire U " ? - / here to state that so far as The En- t quirer has been concerned, this long, s and to most respectable people, dis- ? gusting controversy over the so-called < "public advertising," has not been oc- 1 casioned altogether by dollars and ( cents. In partial explanation of this, ( we will state that .for all the advertis- 1 ing and all the job printing that The 1 Enquirer, in the 44 years of its existence has ever done for York county, j has not amounted to as much as $9,000, f and we have not received for it that * much. There are those who have t sought to make the impression, and < there are, no doubt, those who believe ( that the sum has been many times in 1 excess of this amount; but the whole j thing is a matter of record, and he ( who desires to prove or to disprove { this assertion, may go to the records j and do it. However, those who have \ been trying to make the contrary im- * pression, have all the time been aware of the actual facts. Their charges of 1 corruption have only been that they 1 themselves might have the oppor- i tunity to steal. Aitnougn tney Know ? that the record of The Enquirer s and its relation with York county's i officials along this line have been t clean, they have realized that the 1 situation could be made fruitful of t corruption, and hence their struggle. ] This we saw from the first, and though ? there never has been a time when it ? was not an outrage to ask The En- t quirer to bid on equal terms with t any other paper published in this \ county for this work, we maintained i our ground uncomplainingly. It was 1 not to our interest, or the interest of \ the public, to allow the maintainance 1 of an organ for conspirators at public t expense, and year after year, at con- f siderable financial sacrifice, we have 1 firmly stood in the breach. Never 1 but one year did we fail to become < the lowest bidder. That year proved ( conclusively all that is implied above, e At the rate at which the contract was let, the printing that was done should ^ have amounted to $22.11. The amount ( that was sworn to and paid as a just t and true account, was $100.36$. Dur- 9 ing the past few weeks, we have made j this charge repeatedly. We have ^ hurled it at every individual who is j either directly or indirectly responsible r for it, and not one of them has dared i to even attempt a denial. We say c here that we can prove it before a j petit jury, with members of the very v board of county commissioners itself <] as witnesses. <; For years there have been all kinds a of insinuations as to exorbitant charges made by The Enquirer, a We have pointed to the official records t with the assertion that every trans*' ' - action mat/ mis paper nus evci uau \ with a public official is there. That v record is subject to examination, and j our files are open to the inspection of g whoever?no matter who?desires to t investigate them. We defy any indi- v vidual to find a single instance in c which we have failed to do all we have ^ promised, or in which we have receiv- s ed more for work than we were enti- t tied by law or contract. t As the result of the ten years' of t the insinuation that has been made f against us, recently we showed that j the conspirators to whom we refer are c guilty of: 1. Charging and receiving c $2 where they were only entitled to 4 charge or receive $1.50. 2. Charging q and receiving $100.36$ where they t were only entitled to receive $22.11. r The account was sworn to as just. 3. Charging and swearing to the cor- ( rectness of an account of $20 in a case "] where the plain terms of the law a made the amount only $15.47. 4. e Charging and collecting accounts f( amounting to more than the law al- s lows for the publication of advertise- a ments by the sheritF and clerk. 5. a Making insinuations against The En- t,( qui her, knowing these insinuations to be untrue at the time they made }. them. v Of the many similar cases of which h we have knowledge, these are the only oues we have seen lit to preseni ai mis n time. Ho denial of any of them has a been attempted. Guilt is virtually n acknowledged in each case, and an e attempt is made to divert attention 1 from these facts, not by the riugiug of ti a tenth bell, but by the tenth ringing $ of the first bell. In the last issue of p their organ, there is a request for Thk a Enquirer to turn to its files and tell V the people whether, in 1876, it advised d the people to pay taxes to the treasur- fi sr appointed by Wade Hampton or be Republican Chamberlain. We ask pardon for digressing here or a moment. 1876 was 22 years ago. The young fellow who now poses as sditor of the organ of our friends, was |uite a lad then. We do not know :xactly, but we doubt if he was much nore than seven years of age. At that ige he could have hardly been much nterested in taxation. It is not likey that he could have comprehended nuch of what was going on in those tirring times. His question, therefore, nust have been suggested by some ilder head, just as unscrupulous and ust as malignant as his. We do not ike to use harsh terms ; but we put it his way because the request, as made, mplies tbat we were in sympathy with he Chamberlain regime. But, all the ;ame, we print a short extract as suggested. This appeared in The EniUiRER of the 4th of January, 1877, inder the head of "Legitimate State government," and was published in :onnection with a call for a meetirg to >e held in the court house on the folowing Monday : "We reiLerate that it is the duty of the >eople to rally to the support of the Hampton government. If they do not eel able to pay to the treasurer, appointsd by Governor Hampton, the amount isked for in the Constitutional House, let hem pay what amount they conveniently :an. It is the duty of all who voted for Hampton, and believe him to have been jlected, to respond to this call, bringing o his aid the necessary encouragement to insure tin triumph of home rule and lonest government, the principles so iarnestly contended for in the late camjaign. The opinion is generally enterained and expressed by legal minds in be state, that the tax levy of the Bayonet House and senate is unconstitutional, ilegal and void, and cannot be enforced by he Pretender Chamberlain." We could print some more like bis?just lots of them ; but it is bardy necessary at this time. However, f our young friend or his older but jvidently more malignant adviser, delires anything further, we cordially nvite them, or either of them?or inybody else?to come up and take a ook at the records. They may read, bey may copy, they may publish and )rove the Radicalism, the Merrillism md the traitorism of The Enquirer . ? J a?itnam *i?Via oftll hoc anmo. I LI u its tucu UUUCI, nuu OVIU UMO hing to do with its management, to heir heart's content. However, we vould like to know who that fellow s. We would like to know whether le is the same sneaking incendiary vho, a few years ago, wrote those ying sketches about kukluxism in .his section. We don't mean the poor ellow under whose name the writer lid while, under pretense of writing listory, he was defaming The EniUiRER. We mean the real, unprin;ipled, sottish, pharisaical sneak himlelf. Who was he ? Well, while we are on it, just a few vords more about this Hampton govsrnment matter. We have not writen to him ; but Wade Hampton himelf will say today, that if the news>apers of the state had anything to do vith' concentrating the mind of the leople of South Carolina toward him, tot one of them did more than did The Yorkville Enquirer. Among ither things, we remember to have laid James Wood Davidson $20 for vriting a short sketch of Hampton. This sketch was published in The Eniuirer in connection with a portrait, md it was afterward copied in nearly ivery paper of the state. But this is mother matter. It is the Hampton ax we are talking about just now. It will be remembered by those who vere here then. Our young friend vas not a taxpayer then. He was irobably deciding whether he should ;row up an honest man or only to be he tool of conspirators. Anyhow, it vill be remembered that the first call >f the Hampton government was for voluntary contributions. Dr. Robert on opened his books in Yorkville on he 16th of January, 1877; not as a ax collector, but only as the agent of be Hampton government. On the orenoon of that day, L. M. Grist step>ed into the office and paid in his full [uota of the voluntary contribution :alled for. The books remaiued open :0 days. During that time The Entuirer continued to urge the people o respond to Hampton's call, and they esponded most nobly. Just before the ast of the 40 days were out, L. M. Jrist called upon Dr. Robertson again. The collections lacked a few dollars of ggregating $5,000, and to make it ven money, Mr. Grist paid in the difurence out of his own pocket. So it eems that The Enquirer not only dvised the people ; but its owner was mong the first and also the very last, 0 pay. Will somebody please tell us how it 1 possible for any creature to be so ile, so low, as to try to traduce a felaw citizen in a manner like this? But now, in conclusion, before we save the question of taxation, here is nother point along that line that is ot insinuation; but fact. Almost very body remembers the York 'ublishing company?that organizaion with a boasted capitalization of 5,000?which sprung into existence urely from motives of "patriotism," nd to "save the people money," etc. Veil, from the day of its birth to the ay of its death?a period of nearly , re years?its property was never i listed od the tax books, and it never J paid one cent of taxes to state, county or town. It never got on the books j until after the outfit bad failed, and a representative of The Enquirer went to the office of the auditor one day to see the amount at which the property was listed. This is the same outfit that is being used today to outrage ^ decency, blackmail weakbacked politicians and generally retard the whole- ( some progress of the community. Although there is no legal way in which to collect the amount, it owes back taxes to state, county and town for a period of nearly five years. Now then, if our young friend wants ^ to give a true history of the reason of the presence of himself and his paper J in Yorkville, let him investigate I the circumstances attending the case of Hugo Schmidt; let him revert back 1 to the time when whisky prescriptions ? sold here at any price they would bring, from 10 cents each up ; let him ^ investigate an occasion when it was 1 necessary for the man who is charged with having advised people not to pay ( the Hampton tax, to have recourse to J a trial justice court to enforce the 8 collection'of an honest debt; let him investigate these things in the light of the pretty-well established fact that the publishers of The Yorkville Enquirer are also its editors, and 1 there will dawn upon him some things that he has not yet fully appreciated. THE WAR IS OVER. t Protocol Signed and President's Proclamation Issued. t The war between the United States 8 and Spain came to a formal end last 8 Friday, on terms that are officially * outlined as follows: I 1. That Spain will relinquish all 1 claims of sovereignty over and title fe to Cuba. 2. That Porto Rico and other Span- v ish islands in the West Indies, and an . island in the Ladrones, to be selected by the United States, shall be ceded c to the latter. 1 3. That the United States will oc- 8 cupy and bold the city and harbor of Manila, pending the conclusion of a c treaty of peace, which shall determine c the control, disposition and govern- k ment of the Philippines. a 4. That Cuba, Porto Rico and other t Spanish islands in the West Indies g shall be immediately evacuated, and e that commissioners, to be appointed within 10 days, shall, within 30 days from the signing of the protocol, meet at Havana and San Juan respectively c to arrange and execute tl}e details of the evacuation. 5. That the United States and 1 Spain will each appoint not more than five commissioners to negotiate and t conclude a treaty of peace. The com- t missioners are to meet in Paris hot later than the 1st of October. 6. On the signing of the protocol, f hostilities will be suspended, and notice to that effect will be given as soon r as possible by each government to the t commanders of its military and naval c forces. r Immediately upon the signing of the . protocol, the president sent orders to the military and naval commanders, j directing the suspension of hostile operations, and then published the fol- . lowing proclamation : "Whereas, by a protocol concluded and signed August 12, 1898, by WiK liam R. Day, secretary of state of the 1 United States, and his Excellency F Jules Cambon, ambassador extraor- a dinary and plenipotentiary of the re- p public of France at Washington, respectively representing for this purpose the government of the United States and the government of Spain, the E United States and Spain have formally d - - - - 1- .L 1 agreed upon ine terms upon wmcu n negotiations for the establishment of e peace between the two countries shall n be undertaken ; and "Whereas, it is in said protocol . agreed that upon its conclusion and 11 siguature, hostilities between the two n countries shall be suspended, and that t notice to that effect shall be given as b soon as possible by each government g to the commanders of its military and naval forces; "Now, therefore, I, William McKin- 11 ley, president of the United States, do, r in accordance with the stipulation of n the protocol, declare and proclaim on h the-part of the United States a suspension of hostilities, and do hereby com- . mand that orders be immediately given " through the proper channels to the P commanders of the military and naval 1 forces of the United States, to abstain o from all acts inconsistent with this y proclamation. ^ "In witness whereof I have here- ^ unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed., Sl "Done at this city of Washington, d this 12th day of August, in the year of tl our Lord one thousand eight hundred 0 and ninety-eight, and of the indepen- ^ dence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. William McKinley." c MERE-MENTION. ii Although the war with'Spain lasted h onlv onlv 114 days, it is estimated that f it cost the government so far $150,000,000 of which $98,000,000 have been actually paid out of the treasury. A cholera epidemic is raging at Ma- " chos, India. A rumor to the ef- c feet that yellow fever has developed ti at Franklin, La., turns out to be a tl mistake. Fifteen people lost their ^ lives as the result of a cloudburst on Beech Creek, Hawkins county, Ky., last Friday. ? . , , t< Until January Int. 1899, For 08 Cents. 0{ The Twice-a-Week Enquirer, filled p with the hestand most reliable up-to-date . news, will be furnished from the date of this issue until January, 1899, for 08 cents. $ LOCAL AFFAIRS. f INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 3. C. Strauss?Talks to you again about his cut prices in summer goods, which means a reduction in the price of all goods in that line except corsets. He can supply gent's woolen clothing suitable for summer or fall wear, odd pants, gent's|sbirts of different kinds, collars, cuffs, towels and table linen, doyles, etc. IV. B. Moore & Co.?Have on band and are prepared to furnish you immediately, a Champion mowing machine or a Bickford <fc Huffman grain drill. Jrist Cousins?Can supply you with a Buckeye mower, a disk or tooth harrow, Thomas rake, Oliver chilled plow, ^ and a Champion grain drill. ABOUT PEOPLE. _ 1 U. T71 11 . / TV 1_ TT511 i i?nss alia rewen, 01 xiock nm is visiting friends in Yorkville. Columbia Register, Saturday : Mr. r. M. Brice, of Yorkville, is at the 3otel Jerome. Mrs. Elizabeth de Loach and daugher, Miss Ida. returned from Glenn's Springs last week. Miss Irene Turner, of Yorkville, is dsiting Misses Georgia and Beula Jichardson, at Stanley Creek, N. C. Mr. J. W. Beamguard returned to Clover, last Saturday, from Florida. Ie expects to remain at home until ibout the middle of September. A FALL MEET. The members of the Yorkville Yheelmen's association held a meetng last Friday night to consider he advisability of giving a big pub* ic entertainment this fall. All of the members present were avorable to the idea, and there were [uite a number of suggestions as to he best means of making the occasion i success. One thing was agreed upon is indispensable, and that was the learty co-operation of every business, >rofessional and other interest of the own. This, there is every reason to telieve, will be secured. The desirability of a big barbecue vas talked. There was also a strikng suggestion looking to the holding if .a wheelmen's tournament; but here was no definite determination is to details. ~ The understanding is that the date ?f the occasion will be sometime in September; that it will be peculiarly i York county affair, and that for a lig and thoroughly entertained time ;enerally, it will throw all previous fforts in the shade. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. . There was a meeting of the town louncil of Yorkville last Monday light to consider matters in relation o the fire department. The principal question involved was he proper recognition and consideraion of the citizens, white and colored, ipon whom the town depends for the irotection of its property against fire. Without the slightest shadow of a ? eflection against anybody, it is fair 0 state that the services of the firenen have never received the general ecognition and appreciation that they leserve. Most of the firemen have ill along thoroughly understood their mportance and responsibility, and tave also appreciated the fact that it s only in time of actual need?while 1 fire is blazing?that a few of the aore liberal and intelligent citizens of he town are disposed to recognize the latriotic motives by which they are .ctuated. There has been no comilaint and there is none now. The subject came up under circum- tances that are quite peculiar. The aaintainance of even a volunteer fire lepartment not only involves time, abor and risk of danger; but also tbe xpenditure of some money. All the members have been contributing the ther matters mentioned uncomplain* agly, and for the past three years, or aore, Chief Cartwright has been conributing the necessary money out of is own pocket. The amount has gured up anywhere from $15 to $20 year?whatever was necessary. The jjustice of this, of course, was appaent, and by way of partial re-imburselent, the town has been supplying im with water without charge. Not long ago, by the action of a mairity of the council, without con ternlation of the fire department situaion, the water privilege of the chief f the department was stopped. Those ,'ho were acquainted with the situalon saw the mistake that had thus een unwittingly made, and as the reult of discussion during the past few ays, there is a growing feeling that he town is under a great many more bligations to the fire department than he fire department is to the town. Chief Cartwright was before the ouncil on Monday night by special ivitation, and at the request of the itendant, be made a statement in bealf of the department. The council ully appreciated the fact that he was lot considering himself in the matter t all, and he made it perfectly clear hat his suggestions were not to be onsidered iu the light of compensaon. The service of each member of he department amounts to more than e was suggesting for all. A number f members to whom he had talked, owever, were of opinion that the )wn should grant, as a permanent recgnition of the fire department, a hone eonnection and water privileges ) the chief, and an appropriation of 50 a year, to be expended for the ben