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SMITH FIRE MOSTLY SMOKE BUT FRESHMEN MISS LUNCH

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

A little bacon grease and a dirty flue was enough to bring a host of fire apparatus and half the University to Smith Halls kitchen yesterday noontime.

It was during lunch that an unwatched pan, bubbling over with boiling grease, ignited some coal dust in one of the flues and caused a cloud of smoke and a tongue of flame to issue from the roof over C entry of James Smith Hall. Simultaneously the kitchen and pantry filled with smoke and caused a huried retreat of chefs and maids.

Within two minutes the vanguard of the Cambridge Fire department had arrived upon the scene. Five minutes more and there was a grand total of three hooks and ladders, several pumping machines, and two chemical automobiles.

The fire caused no damage. The University's sole loss was 100 chocolate eclairs, which were seized by hungry Freshmen, whom the conflagration hall deprived of their lunch.

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