A. They started out, and three or four officers were put on the engine. After they started, some parties got on the track and waved their hands, and the engine stopped and the engineer jumped off. The officers were still on the engine after the engineer got off.
Q. You simply called for volunteers when you went out to hunt up those men?
A. Only one man refused to go.
Q. Was any demand made on the night force that afternoon?
A. The mayor instructed me to hunt up all the men I could find, both the men on duty and the men dropped, and I did so.
Q. The men on regular duty went out, did they?
A. Those that I found. At that time we only had one hundred and twenty men, including lamp-washers and station-house keepers.
Q. How many men did you get that afternoon on actual duty—the night force?
A. To my best recollection, five or six, but I won't be positive. I only sent in the bill for the men not on regular duty—twenty-nine the company paid for—for those men on duty we sent in no bill at all. It was only for the men not paid by the city.
Q. How long were those men on duty there?