Car Blaze Routs Cruising Student

Two hose trucks, a hook and ladder, and two police cars beat a path to the door of a red Plymouth yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field Road, after the undergraduate owner of the vehicle had tried unsuccessfully to suffocate a back seat bonfire with a baseball glove.

Some half a hundred residents of the Business School's Hamilton Hall gathered to watch what had originally been a policeman's request for "a piece of apparatus" materialize into a full-dress motorcade.

Police had first experimented with dried-ice extinguishers, but then called on the fire department, disregarding the suggestion of owner John G. Simon '50 that they toss the seat into the Charles.