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...McAllister thought he smelled smoke at 3:15 o'clock and, verifying the message of his olfactory organ, notified the Fire Department immediately. An enthusiastic group of spectators urged firemen on with cries of, "Come on you, break it in!" directed at several smoke-eaters who were climbing up to the third-floor windows. However, the firemen did not comply with these demands. Shouldering their axes, they entered the building the usual way: by opening windows...
...HAVE NO DESIRE TO MEDDLE IN RUSSIAN OR INTERNATIONAL POLITICS BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW AS AMERICANS IF THERE IS NOT A DANGER TO OUR OWN COUNTRY IN THIS BACKHANDED ASSISTANCE TO FASCISM UNDER THE GUISE OF MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR TROTSKY. AS WE UNDERSTAND IT FIREMEN ARE NOT USUALLY EXPECTED TO BLOW UP THE HOME IN ORDER TO SAVE THE OUTHOUSE...
Though plaster fell from the walls, the firemen tore down no partitions and broke no windows. Colonel Apted reported "No Damage." Seven engines and a "Black Maria" attended...
...they "had one simple, brilliant idea. This was to pay 10% of the net profits to the charitable fund of the San Francisco Fire Department and to mark all buildings insured by the company with a metal "house plate." Since they had a financial interest in the company, firemen were expected to surpass themselves putting out fires in these buildings. Whether aided by this or not, the new company did so well in fiery San Francisco that two years later it decided to get along without the Fire Department, donated $5,000 cash to the fund and abandoned...
Back to Chicago, fortnight ago, went railroad labor in the persons of 450 delegates of the five big railroad Brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen). After nine days of deliberation, they determined to ask railroad managements for a 20% blanket wage raise. No one expects that they will get it; the 20% figure is for bargaining purposes. But they will undoubtedly get 2½% to 5%, for several good reasons...