Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fire broke out in the tailoring shop in the rear of the third floor of the Harvard Co-operative Society, gutting the entire attic and most of the third floor before the Cambridge Fire Department succeeded in getting the blaze in hand. Flames were first discovered by the watchman, who turned in a first alarm at 3.27 o'clock. This failed to work and it was not until the whole roof was ablaze that engines arrived on the scene. Three-quarters of an hour was spent before the flames were controlled, and in that time the roof had completely gone...
Probably the damage would have been slightly less, had not the Yard watchman, who was running to send in the alarm, been mistaken for a firebug by a Radio School guard, who held him up as he was running to the box. The necessary explanations delayed the calling of the fire department for a short time...