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...Manhattan, private Detective Ervin J. Smith, vice president of the International Secret Service Association, recalled that he was hired to investigate the Black Tom blast immediately after it occurred. Said he last week: "The real story of the explosion is this: The watchmen employed to guard the millions of dollars' worth of War materials, sugar, salt, flour and explosives were bothered by New Jersey mosquitoes that infested the swampy land about Black Tom. They had built themselves a smudge fire to drive them...
...spark from this fire ignited some excelsior which had been left carelessly under a box car on a siding less than 100 feet from the watchmen's shanty. The freight car was loaded with small shells which exploded and set fire to other cars. Finally a car loaded with black powder in the very centre of the yard exploded and after that everything went...
...Washington University (Washington, D. C.) came new and astonishing light on the Tramp Athlete. Eleven members of the freshman football squad appointed a spokesman-Carrol Robinson of Salem, N. J., crack tackle-to present to Coach James Ebenezer Pixlee their demands: that the wages which they earned as janitors, watchmen, waiters be given to them for spending money, that their board and tuition to which their earnings are normally applied be given them gratis. Coach Pixlee, unable to meet their requests, was considerably embarrassed when the cream of his team walked...
Hotel workers, men acting as bellboys, desk clerks, night watchmen, bus-boys, and waiters, earned one-seventh of the total amount last season. The number of men securing hotel jobs has been steadily increasing, and such work has seemed to many men both profitable and enjoyable. Musicians can usually find employment in hotels, but the requirements are strict...
...recent anti-prohibition furor is the report of dry campaigning in the University of Michigan. This year, at least, the success of Ann Arbor's gargantuan and perennial Prom will not depend upon the quality of the neighborhood boot-legger, for when the long expected day arrives, College watchmen reinforced by local police will guard the dark corners where erring stags were won't to drink their fill. It is said that none but the brave deserve the fair and brave indeed will be the undergraduate who under threat of expulsion finds means whereby he may overlook the canker...