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It might te said, too, that parties whose business it is to provide for the comfort of visitors, occasionally forget that firemen, arduous and dangerous as are their duties, are quite as veil versed in all the comforts and luxuries of life, as any of us.
In this case ve are constrained, from the numerous complaints, to believe th"t the preparations vere not on a scale befitting the occasion, and that the host failed to supply either the quality of food or sleeping qpartments, the excursionists had been accustomed to, and had just reason to expect.
This assertion is based wholly on the statements of the firemen themselves; but knoving their free hearted and rather rough and ready disposition, ve feel satisfied they vere dictated neither in caprice nor a spirit of fault finding.
First Dav Activities
Breakfast' over on the first day, the command scattered, and explorations by land and vater vere carried on in every direction. Several tried their hands at the tiller, jit and main sheets, and others plied the fishing rod vith no less activity.
An imnromotu Court of Justice, vith Vv. Berci clad in the customary ermine of authority, sent out its emissaries through every au^rter, and for a tire the arrests and trial' for all possitle and impossible offences exceeded those of Trutlin in Ireland’s most rebellious days.
The evening vas devoted to a game of tasetall, in vhich the Biloxians ■Oor a second time triumphed over the department.
Dance
A handsome pavilion covered vith nines and vreathed vith everereens had teen erected opposite the 1'ount Caucasus, and here, towards 9 o'clock, in response to the invitations of the ladies' committee, collected a numter of the daughters of riloxi.
The toys and their friend's vere not long in joining them, and vith a sell-selected band to assist, a dance vas, of course, the most natural event in the -world. It continued until the night vas far advanced, until the revelers, utterly farjHc^ out vith the excitements of the day, gladly sourht a much needed repose.
Saturday Hninv but Active
Saturday morning vas drvoted to bathing and sailing until a heavy rain storm sent both visitors and residents to their houses. It continued until lbng after dark, and at one time it vas feared the Ball, to vhich all ha •; been looking forward vith the greatest anxiety vould be postponed.