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Page 26 text:
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in jHemortam Grim, mute you stand with crumbling walls outlined against the sky, One spire still raised in silent supplication, wondering why Things are no longer as they were. The winter wind shrieks round you with an eerie wailing sound, The ivy that clung to your walls lies lifeless on the ground. The friend we loved so well is gone. Wordless, heart-sick we view the mass of shapeless blackened stone. Embalmed within those ashes is the life we called our own, Qur Alma Mater and our friend. Some day again thy stately walls up from the dust shall rise, Some day we hope to see thy spires kissing the summer skies. And ivy climb upon thy walls. Helen Bromley, ' 31. Twenty-live
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Page 27 text:
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TBe Story of the Cfire On that beloved spot where once stood our picturesque and handsome Plattsburgh State Normal School building, today there remains nothing but bleak, ice-covered ruins, the walls alone standing uneven against the horizon, mute evidence of the tragedy which swept the building and left it a heap of charred destruction. The fire of Saturday which was thought to have been the result of spontaneous combustion in the boiler room, started at about ten o ' clock. It quickly wove its sinuous and destructive path along the basement corridor to the south end of the building, raced up through the stairways to the main floor and then ate its way up the remaining floors to burst flaming through the roof, all this within half an hour of its origin. Fanned by a brisk northwest wind the fire raged in fury, tearing asunder the framework of the building to toss the brick walls to the ground. The lofty tower of the build- ing outlined against the red flames and black smoke endured both but weakened by the falling of its supports, it was an easy prey for the strong current of air and tottering pitifully, fell to the ground a mass of bricks and slate. News of the fire sped quickly throughout the city. The black smoke that sailed high into the heavens could be seen from surrounding towns. Hundreds of people rushed to the western section in vain hope that the building might be saved, but the fire had made such headway in so little time that it was abso- lutely impossible to prevent it from totally destroying the school. The fire from its early moments sped beyond the power of the fire-fighting forces and spread before the wind with almost lightning rapidity. At the time the fire started Mr. Street, our music instructor, was directing six children who are members of the Normal School band in the use of their instruments in the southwest side of the school building. The instructor smelled the smoke and investigating discovered that the corridor was a mass of smoke. The children by this time also sensed the peril and attempted to leave the building by the way they had entered but were forced back by the smoke. Mr. Street gathered the youngsters in the men ' s study hall where they were being taught. Next, be broke a pane of glass in one of the windows and. then, one by one he dropped the boys to the ground, a distance of about ten feet. Fortunately, there was no serious injury. After each child had been removed from the building, Mr. Street then jumped to the ground, not any too soon to avoid the falling bricks. The bill providing for the establishment of our Plattsburgh State Normal School was introduced in the Legislature in 1889 by the late Hon. Stephen Moffitt and became a law June 15 of that year. The building that was destroyed Saturday was erected during the years 1889 and 1890 and was en- Tiuenty-six
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