Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...larger local entertainments given during the winter, and the program will be one of the most varied, representative and entertaining given in Boston during the last few years. The University Musical Clubs will play, S. Baird '03 will give several impersonations, and the closing number will be given by firemen who were on duty in Chelsea at the time of the fire...
...Program will include the best features of all the larger entertainments given during the winter by amateurs in Boston, Cambridge and Brookline. There will also be several selections by the University Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, impersonations by S. Baird '03 and a closing chorus by some of the firemen who were on duty in Chelsea on the day of the fire...
...Sargent was formerly president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and a member of the arbitration board appointed by the Civic Federation in 1902. That same year he took an active part in aiding President Roosevelt to secure arbitration in the coal strike...
...escaped from the burning house, re-entered the building in order to rescue his room-mate, and was so severely burned that he died soon afterwards. The fire was discovered at 4 o'clock and was beyond control before any fire apparatus was at hand. Three of the volunteer firemen were killed by a falling wall...
James Irving, one of the firemen, was cut about the ankle by falling glass from a broken window, and carried to the house of Doctor Whoriskey, Quincy square. Doctor Whoriskey stated that the man's injuries were not serious...