Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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16 THE LOYOLA ANNUAL The contrivance let me down a story and then refused to go any farther. The flames were so pleased with my visit that they came out to meet me and some of them in their joy even licked my hands and face as well as the chain on what I depended. Aware of the fact that I could be arrested as a tramp for having no visible means of support, I determined to inform the firemen below that I contemplated making a descent. So. taking out my notebook, I dropped them a few lines (perhaps it struck some of them funny) to the following effect: Airy Castle, Hot Springs. Associate Firemen. Dear Sirs — Will you kindly turn the hose on me at your earliest convenience? I’ll try to keep cool till help arrives. Also, if not otherwise engaged, stretch a blanked beneath me to prevent injury to the cement walk. I won’t keep you wait- ing lon g when I once get started. Yours truly, Jacob Fricassee. Either the firemen did not receive my correspondence or (what is more probable) they were busily engaged in saving something valuable; at any rate, when I hit the pavement, three stories below, there was no blanket there to receive me and even now, as I lie in the morgue, I am greatly disturbed as to the outcome of the damage suit brought against me for destruction of property. Unfortunately my visiting cards were damaged by smoke and fire beyond recognition and I am still awaiting identifi- cation. Anthony C. Rolfes, ’13.

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THE REVEREND STEPHEN A. KELLY, S. J., President of Loyola, 1870-1877.