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We were a dilapidated looking crew of men, on arriving at Summit. Mr. Fillmore and his family were seated in front of the hotel, his foot bandaged and resting on a chair, and his arm also bandaged and in a sling. As I passed him, he returned my salute, with a compliment for the crew's work. Mrs. Fillmore remarked, "Jerome, just look at the condition of those men. If you ever go to another fire on that train I'll get a divorce." Fillmore replied, "If only for that reason I assure you we will never be divorced."

THE AUTHOR

Clarence Marshall Wooster was born at Altaville, California, on Decem- ber 17, 1858, the son of a 'forty-niner, John Marshall Wooster, and died in San Francisco on June 10, 1939. Several months before his death he placed with the California Historical Society a typewritten copy of his reminis- cences, and from that volume excerpts have been published from time to time in this Quarterly. These articles are to be found in Vol. XVIII (March, June, and December 1939) and Vol. XX (June 1941).