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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fire engines sirened their way up to the Kuhn, Loeb building at Pine and William Streets, Manhattan, last week. People went running. There was a fire in the building basement. Firemen on trucks swore at the pedestrians. The smoke was very thick. It smelled catastrophic. Firemen on foot, carrying extinguishers elbowed? passage through the crowds. Policemen were angry. Gum-chewers gaped. There were at least 15,000 Wall Street clerks there, crowded so thickly that they forced Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s employes to fight their way out of the smoked banking offices to watch their own fire...
60th Anniversary. The fire damage was trivial (old boxes, rubbish and wastes in a fireproof sub-basement). Yet it caused more excitement in Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s marbled offices than did the celebration, the same week, ef the firm's 60th anniversary. Bankers of the neighborhood, had sent in some flowers; there were felicitations; and that was all. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. employes are trained to show no emotions. They treated the $3,000,000 of South African gold their company bought last week (the largest purchase of gold from London in several months) as a bookkeeping item. Nor did they...
...architects. The inside will be Romanesque, the outside Gothic. Elevators will run up through 20 stories of women's rooms, sewing-rooms, lecture-rooms, schoolrooms, offices in the tower; stairs will go down to robing-rooms, Sunday school rooms, choir-rooms, locker-rooms, kitchens in the basement. There will be bolwing alleys and a basketball court - details which and do not reflect Dr. Fosdick, but are a counterpart to his prime interest in preaching. In the top of the tower, with four new bells, will be the carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., which last year disturbed...
This unusual phenomon was later explained by the Yard cops whose home office swells the basement of Grays. With the aid of the Tutors in History and Liturature and the Cercle Francais they discovered the animals in the apartments of J. O. Whedon '27, President, and De Witt Endicott '28, prominent member of the Lampoon...
...conflagration was confined almost entirely to the basement, but floors and walls above suffered from the flames and all the finishings and show-cases on the first floor were ruined by the smoke and water...