ASSISTANCE AT FIRES.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2774, 8 January 1872, Page 2

ASSISTANCE AT FIRES.

To the Editor. Sip,—l am very glad to see you have once mope (if I mistake not) advocated the formation of a band of specjal constables to render assjatanpe id Jceepfrig order at any d re which may occur, You will perhaps re? collect that the Volunteer companies of this City save very great assistance upon the occasion of the burning of the Royal Oak Hotel and other buildings in the Octagon some seven years ago, and I believe every j citizen was under the impression that their services would be tendered again if required, but I am very much afraid they would be disappointed- Sir, do you not think the fire Brigade' company shopld solipit the aid of thfeir 1 fellow ybluhteers to render assistance an<y to' co-bpehate with ' them again in pasp of ffre,‘ J not the least doubt fbp Vphfntepp Companies wopld pome forward a»d assist tljepi |jcarti}y ip

sucH (QfefSWrgency, when the property, of some of their fellow citisfeife their military drill would 'Wlsislieir services very valuable. The community at large I am sure, feel that thei«ire:;Brigade. require some assistance in their self-imposed and very arduous duties. I simply suggest the above co-operation should exist uutil the formation of an ambulance company, as you suggest, would be completed and rendered efficient to act. Hoping you will excuse my tresspass -upon your time and space, I am, &c., / Hortok.