Word: firemanning
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Harvard College has given $250 to the Cambridge Fireman's Relief Association...
...Cary building is under the charge of Mr. Enright, the janitor, and he employes a fireman, who attends to the machinery...
...industrious class. They are, many of them, country boys accustomed to hard work add patient efforts. Several of them are ready to go back into the field and swing the scythe or take care of horses and cattle. One is prepared by past experience to act as fireman on a locomotive, or conductor on a horse car. Another has been a conductor on a Pullman car and would like to be again, and a third wishes to be a clerk on a steamboat. At least a dozen are ready to be hotel clerks, or even waiters if no better opening...
...burning of the great ice houses at Fresh Pond." This statement is, in a measure, a true one. The Harvard student, as a rule, does display a great fondness for conflagrations, and his encouraging presence does much to promote the efficiency of the work done by the Cambridge fireman. Now this tendency to "run with the machine" may be accounted for in two ways. In the first place, it may be a relic of the student feeling which resulted in the formation of the old "Harvard Engine Company." This supposition has an air of probability from the fact that...
...Pendergrass received $3 per week for his services on the nine last year but we understand his salary has been raised to $3.50 this year. Mullen has been imported only at a great cost. Mayelon is a Schnectady fireman. Layler played on the Gloversville nine with Pendergrass last year. He was afraid that one of the foul tips would break the 'dormitory. winder.' McElwain is a post-graduate. All the rest of the nine are claimed to be college...