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...Louis fight met with a formidable contender for the center of attention last night when Freshman gymnasts in the north entry of Stoughton Hall broke the fourth floor sprinkler system, setting off the fire alarm...
...entire incident soon fizzled, however, when spectators and fire-fighters discovered that the disturbance resulted from a frozen sprinkler system, which in bursting, had sounded the alarm, and flooded the building's basement lavatory...
Alarmist. In Bloomfield, N.J., Charles Wilhoft, who had installed fireproof walls and floors in his house, hose and water outlets, coiled escape ropes, escape hatches and ladders, self-closing, antidraft doors, fire alarms on the stairs, decided to install a sprinkler system, "just in case...
...only real precautions which may be taken against such a disaster are the use of nonflammable materials in construction, and the installation of an effective sprinkler system which might halt a fire at its origin...
...plaster and licking at closed doors. Whenever a door was left open, death entered. At 3:50, when the 60-piece fire department started spindly ladders up along its scorching walls, the "fireproof," 33-year-old Winecoff, which, like most Atlanta hotels, has no outside fire escapes and no sprinkler system, was roaring like an open hearth...