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...supply of sweaters, Jerseys, knee tights and hose. Also an assortment of travelling bags...
...supply of sweaters, Jerseys, knee tights and hose. Also an assortment of travelling bags...
...necessary to wait for another blaze before taking the needed steps. The great trouble in case of fires in the college buildings (spectators of the Matthews holocaust must have noticed it) is the absence of a hydrant in the yard and the consequent necessity of extending a line of hose from the engine stationed a block or more away from the scene of the conflagration. As things now are, the firemen have to run the hose around corners of buildings and through the entries to take a short cut to the fire. Harvard Square becomes the repository of a mass...
Shortly after 4.15 yesterday afternoon an alarm was rung in from the box in Harvard Square, and a few minutes afterward the engine and hose carriage came tearing into the college yard and drew up before the front of Matthews. Another engine with accompanying hose carriage and hook and ladder company meanwhile was stationed in the Square. The cause of the excitement was a slight blaze in the basement of Matthews. Had not the fire been accidentally discovered, however, it would have soon done much damage. Mr. Blum, '90, in going to the south basement, noticed a cloud of smoke...
...alarm was rung in from box 59 yesterday morning for a slight fire in 22 College House. No damage was done beyond the burning of a lambrequin. The appearance of the fire engine and hose carriage, however, excited considerable commotion in the recitation rooms looking out upon the square...