A. To the mayor. I started out and hunted up all the men I could find, and during my progress I saw the mayor, and he gave me orders to hunt up all the men I could, both the old men and the men that had been dropped. I met him on Fifth avenue.
Q. Did you inform him of the dispatch?
A. I did, and he ordered me to hunt up all the men I could possibly find.
Q. How many did you get?
A. In the neighborhood of twenty-five or twenty-eight that afternoon. I can not say exactly.
Q. What did you do with them?
A. Some went out on a train, and some walked out. I went out with one squad, with Mr. White. We saw Mr. Watt, and he suggested the sending of the men to Torrens station, six or eight of them; the balance of them stayed at Twenty-eighth street.
Q. What time did you meet the mayor on Fifth avenue?
A. I suppose five minutes after the dispatch came. I started out and went down to the station-house to see if any officers were there, but I found none there. I then went two squares, and on my way coming back, I met the mayor on Fifth avenue. It was not over five or ten minutes.
Q. You informed him about the dispatch calling for fifty men?