Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photographs of crews of past years had been religiously removed the entire room was well sprayed. Axes were used to cut holes in the ceiling and corner of the room where the smoke was worst. With great difficulty, because of the ice on the floats ladders were placed and firemen climbed to the roof where holes were made through the tiles and water was poured in. The fire was easily put out and it is believed that little real damage, was done...
...tame and un-destructive would do for the Middle West. With all the recourses of Chicago at their disposal, liquid and otherwise, the students of Northwestern University felt that their football celebration was still too cramped. So they turned pyromaniac and burned and abandoned fraternity house. Even after firemen and policemen dragged them away, and put out the fire, they were determined to burn at least the wooden stands around the old athletic field. No doubt the Chicago Tribune will see in this burst of enthusiasm new proof of the superior virility of western college youth...
Fire insurance companies, praying for a season of uninterrupted defeats at North western next fall will probably fail to appreciate what a beautiful gesture it teally was. It is great sport to fight firemen. Many a college tradition has been established on less comprehensible foundations. If this kind of celebration is to become a North western custom, the frenzied students ought to be guided by a fine arts professor. Under capable direction they can gradually improve the architectural average in Evanston which, as we remember can stand some intelligent pruning...
...inordinate zeal for pumping, three years later, sounded the death knell for the volunteer firemen. At one of the company's drills, either out of malice, or because the chief of the company was not entirely certain of his bearings, the room of the College Regent was chosen as the scene of the "fire". Not until this "fire" had been thoroughly extinguished by gallons of water directed through an open window did the furious pumpers desist, and only when the window was closed by the saturated occupant of the room, was the drill declared over...
...peered in to see fire strutting and pecking there like a great red cock while 200 canaries fluttered on the shelves, dogs pawed their wire stalls, and in the window a Brazil ian parrot cried out over and over in the terrible voice of a man unnerved by fear. Firemen broke down the door, took out the dogs, some alive, some dead; the 200 gay canaries, all dead; the parrot, dead...