The excerpt is of Mr. Webb speaking about the night the police barracks burned in 1915.An exerpt from an interview done in 1955 with Mr. A.B. Webb;an early and long time resident of Jasper. The interview was done by W.C. Cable.Q. ...And what do you consider has been the most humorous incident in your life at Jasper?A. I think the night the Mounted Police Barracks burned down was one of the most laughable things I have seen here. We had a great bunch of characters that were working around here, there was old Jim Campbell, old Davie Hughes, old Fog Log Hilton and there was another one, old Bill Meeley. Every pay day one of them would have a birthday and that meant a big drunk, and one or two of them would be in the barracks next morning. So Otto brothers started a cribbage tournament in the poolroom and, of course, everybody that could play crib, men and women, were playing crib. Well, the ladies' prize was a box of chocolates, and I don't know what the men's prize was, but anyway word came down that the Mounted Police Barracks was on fire, so of course, we dropped everything and the whole town went up there. Captain Sparks at that time was the relieving Superintendent while the Colonel was away to war, and old Jim Campbell was standing right next to Captain Sparks and the Mounted Policeman and he come up there and and he said "Ha, ha, ha, you'll never get me in that place again! Nero fiddled while Rome burned and Captain Sparks he played crib while Jasper was destroyed.