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Charles Spencer Chaplin, funnyman, picked up a garden hose, squirted it. He was serious. He was helping to fight a fire at the American-Russian Eagle Club in Hollywood, Calif. His efforts were stopped when an explosion of leaking gas wrecked the building and injured eight people. Among those present and unhurt were Jack Dempsey & wife (Estelle Taylor), Richard Dix, Renee Adoree, John McCormick & wife (Colleen Moore), Marquis de la Falaise (husband of Gloria Swanson). The owner of the nightclub, Theodore Lodiginsky, 56, onetime Russian general, was seriously injured...
...respect to physical equipment, the Forest has received from a number of landowners in Petersham a gift of a portable gasoline pumping engine with nearly a mile of hose. This will facilitate the control of possible forest fires and may prove helpful in the protection of our buildings
Firemen tried a hose, could not swamp student ardor. Reluctantly, at last, the police opened fire upon the mob, killing, wounding, restoring order...
...four years. The Board of Transportation at any rate is eager to do its immediate utmost. Said deputy chief engineer Colonel John R. Slattery: ". . . Two methods of preventing trouble from this source have been approved. They are the use of gas masks and the carrying of an extra hose line with which to wet down the drilling surface. The men dislike using either, however, because the gas mask is uncomfortable and the hose line means extra work." South Africa has devised the best remedy. A vacuum pumping system suctions the dust away from the drill point, leaving the air safe...
...certain harbingers of spring as bright golf hose, mud in the Yard, and the April Hours are the Dowse Institute lectures. For a long, long time the bequest of Thomas Dowse has enabled students willing to make the trek to Sanders Theatre to spend a pleasant evening with an exclusive circle, and incidentally to gather more than a little information about poetry one year, art another, music a third. The climax of this year's series, which has been devoted to music, comes this evening in a lecture on Gilbert and Sullivan, with the attractive sub-title "Illustrated...