Word: fire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Toronto University was totally destroyed by fire last Friday night. It was probably the finest building in Canada, and for its purpose one of the best in this country. When the fire broke out preparations were being made for the annual conversazione, the great social event of the year, and guests had already begun to arrive. The flames spread with great rapidity, and the fine library was soon consumed. The mathematical instruments, and the valuable documents of Sir Daniel Wilson, president of the university, were destroyed...
...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...
...effort was a complete success simply as a business scheme. The improved buildings are built around a large interior court in such a manner that every room has a window. The buildings are arranged with outside stair cases, to avoid the dangers and discomforts of a huge wooden fire blower in the inside of the house and to give every family the domestic privacy secured by a front door of its own and no connection with the other occupants of the building. The pleasure taken by the by the people in these pleasant apartments is a most encouraging sign. Such...
...Fires so seldom occur in the college buildings that they are scarcely thought of in the ordinary course of college life. But this is no reason why the necessary precautions against them should be overlooked. Many of the dormitories are built in very old style with very little provision for escape in case of fire. The stair-ways are narrow and all wood, so that they would make a perfect flue for the flames. It ought to be the duty of the college to furnish every room above the ground floor with a rope or other means of escape-There...
...fire in the University of Minnesota caused a damage of $1500 last Friday...