Word: fire-alarm
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...building through the corridor. The heat from the pot became so intense that the scuttle was dropped near the corridor door. The fire was drawn up the stair well and soon the whole entry was in flames. An alarm was at once given by shouting "fire," and an attempt made to ring in an alarm from the box in the rear of University Hall. That the signal was not sounded was due to the burning out of the fire-alarm box connection, or else to the fact that the wires had been tampered with. That the Cambridge fire-alarm wires...
...door is being cut on the east side of University Hall, to connect with a staging in the basement, where two hand carts, each carrying 500 feet of standard three-inch fire hose, will always be accessible. A keyless fire-alarm box has been put on the east side of University Hall, and thirty-five Babcock chemical extinguishers are being hung in the halls of College buildings, a few in the dormitories...
...useful hand book of information, containing full details of all the horse car routes of the West End company, including a time table and distance schedules; railway stations alphabetically classified with times of departure and arrival, trains, fares and distances; location of express offices, post-offices, fire-alarm stations, etc.; list of churches, banks, public buildings, houses and apartment houses. Such a compendium of full, useful information is at all moments handy, and the plan upon which this one is arranged is an additional recommendation on account of its conciseness, its clearness, and its accuracy. Primarily intended for business...
...Yale News thinks that the man who could find the key to a fire-alarm box would "deserve to be the next president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, or of Yale College." The abilities required for one office might, perhaps, be found useful in the other...
...whole University will be delighted to know that the steam-whistle on the Brighton abattoir, hitherto sounded in connection with the fire-alarm system has been discontinued by order of the Fire Commissioners...