Q. Did you ask for protection?
A. No; I did not see anybody to ask.
Q. Do you know of any protection given to you by the police?
A. No protection at all, sir. If I could have got protection when I first went out to the fire, we could have kept the other cars from burning. We could have pulled them away sufficiently far to stop the oil tanks from setting any of the rest afire, and kept them cooled off.
Q. Do you think that the police force of the city could have protected you so that you could have played on the fire?
A. If they had not been demoralized, they could. If they had had a police like the New York police, they could have kept the crowd back.
Q. How many men would it have taken to protect you sufficiently?
A. After the fire got started, it would have taken right smart, but before that I think that one hundred and fifty or two hundred men could have stopped the whole thing, because police can do more than soldiers.
Q. We have testimony that the police offered to give protection to one engine?
A. Let the police come up and name the engine. I saw that in the papers.