Word: ups
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Room for the hooks and ladders! The firemen dash up and raise their longest ladder. It is twenty feet too short!
See that stalwart man with a base-ball bat; give him room! He ties the end of a packthread to a ball, which he tosses up, strikes with his bat, and in a graceful parabola it sweeps over the heads of the crowd, and - see! the man on the roof...
"Play!" says the Captain; from the topmost round he holds up his bat invitingly. "Jump!" he says; and the danger-stricken man hangs from the eaves, swings, lets go, is caught in the meshes of the bat, tossed up, caught by the next man below, and reaches the ground, dizzy...
The west, that is, the front side of the building, will contain a centre "bay," which is highly ornamental, in contrast with the general plainness of the wall. In this section also there will be a round arched entrance, ornamented with carved brick. The stone steps leading up to the...
On the first floor a broad hall will extend from the east entrance to the opposite side, bisected at right angles by a corridor running the entire length of the building. The vestibules, opposite each entrance, will be handsomely tiled. The outside main doors will be supplemented by six swinging...