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...Bangor extension ladder fifty feet long, with raising poles. Basement window, marked "Fire Ladder," in the south end of Weld. No lock...
...Bangor extension ladder sixty feet long and common ladder forty feet long, with raising poles. - Basement window, marked "Fire Ladders," in the southwest corner of Appleton Chapel. No lock...
...Ladder thirty feet long and ladder forty-five feet long in the basement of Harvard Hall. Door usually locked...
...story is told by the Cambridge firemen which ought not to miss getting into print. At the recent fire in the Cambridge car-shops, in Dunster street, one of the engineers wanted help in raising a ladder, and, seeing a man standing on the sidewalk near by, he called to him, "Here, you, give us a lift." The man responded with alacrity, and a moment later when the engineer took a better look at him he discovered that his assistant was President Eliot of Harvard University. An apology was begun, but the president graciously declared it was all right...
...runs the picturesque ventilator, which might be converted into an elevator for passengers to the tower (two cents a trip). After much climbing we reach the balcony (where the pigeon holes are), and here the elevator ends and the misery from coal-gas begins. After climbing an almost perpendicular ladder for about thirty feet through the "top-loft," we pass through the last of the many trap-doors and stand upon the summit of "our boarding house." Although it was raining at the time of our visit, yet the "view" made us wish to camp up there for a week...