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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], The position of affairs before the battle of Lookout Mountain. (search)
ore, which was partially burned yesterday, the alarm bell was not sounded to call together the firemen until after one or two companies had reached the scene of conflagration with their machines, and had put streams of water upon the fire. A fireman reports that he went to the station-house to have the bell rung, but finding the door locked and no one present to admit him, he procured a ladder, entered a window, and rang the bell. At a meeting of the City Council some few weeks since Mr. Scott made an effort to secure the appointment of officers to attend the station-houses at all hours of the day, but was defeated. Surely the Council will now see the importance of having these officers, and will appoint them. The city has no place where a policeman can be found at all hours, however urgent the necessity; nor has it any guard at the station houses to prevent prisoners from escaping from them during the day. It needs officers to be in place at all times, and the sooner they are