A. They did their duty. By Mr. Lindsey: Q. You say they saved the city? How? A. In the first place, when we went into service, opposite the round-house or the machine-shops, there were a lot of frames or tenement houses that were on fire. Well, we put out this fire, and we kept on following the fire down Liberty street, and kept the buildings wetted down. The fire was very intense--very hot, and it was a continual fight with fire all the way down Liberty street. Q. The crowd of rioters and pillagers were ahead of you? A. Sometimes they were ahead, and sometimes along with us; sometimes the rioters kept ahead of the fire, and sometimes they were among us. Q. They didn't break open the cars and pillage them until the fire started along? A. There were places on Liberty street where no man could have stood, even to wet the houses down, and where they couldn't have pillaged, because it was too hot, and occasionally along Liberty street there were a lot of coal dumps and some oil bins, and where that occurred the heat was very intense. We had to keep things wetted all the time. Along there the pillagers would sometimes be very plenty. Q. I suppose all the private property burned caught from the heat of the railroad cars? A. Yes; the only private property that was burned was on Washington street. Q. Did those houses catch fire, or were they set on fire? A. They caught from the Union depot. Q. You saved the private property here by wetting down the buildings? A. Yes. Q. Did you receive any protection from the police force? A. No; we did not. Q. At any time? A. No; not to my knowledge. Q. You were with the department? A. I was. Q. At any time did you receive any protection from the police? A. No. Q. If you had been protected by the police, could you have cut the fire and stopped it? A. We could, at any place. Q. How many men would it have taken to protect you? A. I think twenty-five or fifty men, at the outside, could have stopped that burning on Sunday morning. I say that, because there could have been no mistakes. Because, if they had shot some of them down, they could not have made any mistakes. They had no business there. By Mr. Means: Q. Did you see the mayor there during the day? A. I saw the mayor there. By Senator Reyburn: Q. Was the mayor making any effort to keep back the crowd? A. I did not see any force of policemen that day, but the mayor appeared to be moving up and down Liberty street. I saw him talking to the rioters. By Mr. Means: Q. After the Philadelphia troops left the round-house, how long was it before it was on fire? A. It was, I think, on fire when they left, because we went up there right away. By Senator Yutzy: Q. You say that the round-house was on fire, but we have evidence that it was not?