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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building is constructed after the ordinary firebox system, five stories high, with one entry and staircase, no fire escape whatever on one side and on the other side a ladder which can be reached from one room on each floor. Of course if the tenant of that room is out, the door is locked. There is also a wooden stairway in the air shaft which requires no comment...
...work of the firemen, they didn't do any worth mentioning until the crisis was passed. One ladder-truck was on hand with reasonable promptness, but it was fully ten minutes later before a ladder was raised. In the meanwhile the man had been forced to jump and not firemen but students broke his fall with the life net. In the course of time more apparatus arrived and more men, but even then the lack of training and still more evident lack of capable direction were apparent. There was plenty of shouting by all hands and very little "teamwork...
...One is forced to conclude that disagreeable as yesterday's experience was, the college was fortunate in that nothing worse happened. If it had taken place at night-well, the notion is not pleasant. Two lessons are to be learned. We need better fire escapes, and Cambridge has outgrown her system of village fire companies...
HARVARD MEN.- Ducharme's barber shop is the only one reserved for your patronage in Cambridge. For years with Young's Hotel. Now post office block. At popular prices. Bring your razors for sharpening...
PROFESSOR FOLEY, one of the best teachers of boxing and wrestling in America. Students taught at their rooms or gymnasium. Inquire for or write to Professor Foley at the Hemenway Gymnasium...