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Usually the club produces two plays a year, one in the fall and one in the spring. This fall, it has already been decided to present two plays, and no plans have yet been made for the spring. The first presentation will be an old-time melodrama entitled "The Fireman," and will be presented Friday and Saturday, November 24 and 25, the week-end of the Yale game. This play was written by Samuel Johnson, an actor, and was first produced in Boston...
...Casey, fire chief here since 1916. The station, fitted out with the most modern equipment, may cost up to $300,000. A new electric alarm system, taking up the whole top floor, will in itself cost $100,000. In addition every convenience is to be supplied the men. Each fireman will have a room to himself as in the dormitory system: a central radio will be hooked up to reach every room: a kitchen, equipped with an electric refrigerator, gas stove, and every necessary appliance. Another unforeseen, but worth while expenditure was the purchase of a new floodlight wagon which...
...chuffed by with a load of onions for the Boston market, its whistle going full blast all the way. Conductor D. L. Kent hurried up from the caboose, and still windows lighted, heads popped at every turn. Faster & faster went the 664-16, 17, 18 m.p.h. Her fireman shoveled as he never had before to keep up steam pressure, for the whistle was stuck fast. At last the OB 4 rolled into Boston and as drowsy stationmen clustered in wild surmise, Engineer Harry Brown climbed out, hammered shut his sticky whistle valve...
...course destroyed it and put several towns in darkness. I also had a lady rider come down on some high tension wires. Thought she might strike them so telephoned and had power shut off. She said it was "as easy as a spring bed.'' The city fireman rescued her from her high perch ... I wanted to correct the impression that the Bonettes are believed to be the only hot air balloonists now in the business. I arise to remark there are quite a few of us left...
...week ago last Friday, the efforts of the rescue squad to resuscitate with a pulmotor a small boy who had been pulled out of the Lechmere Canal some minutes before were stopped by the Chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, Casey. According to the testimony of the fireman who was working on the boy, Casey appeared just at the moment when there was every chance the boy might live, and, without consulting a doctor, ordered the squad to stop wasting their oxygen on a case where the victim was obviously dead...