Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sport that endures through the year is fires. Nowhere north of Halifax on the best authority of seasoned travelers, do such glorious fires take place as in Cambridge, In the dark of the night or the glare of the morn, while the midnight oil is theoretically burning, the deep bell of the fire alarm sounds. And forth from the Yard and the Gold Coast, from Widener and Phillips Brooks, from every shanty, dormitory or palace between Persis smith and Perkins, the rejoicing students rush...
...pajamas or fur coats at night, or in less picturesque garb at day, the pleasure seekers follow the clanging engine. The light of the fire is in their eyes. Their minds are joyous for the sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals...
...Fire which broke out shortly before 8 o'clock last night destroyed the upper floor of the house built by the late Professor Alexander Agassiz '55, at 34 Quincy street, corner of Broadway, which he left in his will to the University. When the fire was discovered a still alarm was sent in and then a regular first and later a second alarm were sent in, calling engines from Brattle and Central squares. For an hour the trolley cars on Broadway were blocked...
Besides the damage to the upper floor by fire, the entire house is water-soaked. The valuable ceilings and mural decorations which Professor Agassiz had there have been removed. The fire was caused by an overheated furnace, according to the Cambridge fire chief...
...blaze worked up, not spreading until it reached the top floor. The south-western corner of the building was untouched. The fire was discovered by Arthur Badger, of Quincy, who was visiting there. The damage is estimated at approximately $6,000. It was found necessary to cut away part of the walls and ceilings of the lower floors to get at the sections where the fire travelled up to the attic...