New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-18
NOISY MEDICAL STUDENTS.
TROUBLE OVER THE RUSH FOR SEATS.
FOUR EMBRYO DOCTORS ARRESTED FOR DISTURB
INa RELIENrE MnsnLIAL nArLENrs.

| FOUR EMBRYO DOCTORS ARRESTED FOR DISTURB
ING BELLEVUE HOSPITAL PATIENTS.
At exactly l. o'clock on Tuesday night solitary
young man with supposittious side whiskers and a
| hypothetical moustachc wandered down East
Twenty-sxth-st and seated hmse f on the steps of
the University Medical College. In Bellevue Hos
pita. opposite the nights burned blue and only
the lapping of the waves against the piles of the
pier at the foot of the street chcercd the young
mans loneliness By-and-bv another young man
sttolcd down the street and said, Good evening
Doctor Then they came i'm groups of twos and
thrccs and each individual was greeted by the title
of Doctor BY 3 o'clock 800 had gathered. and
the crowd began TO indulge in what Is called in }os-
ton discriminating the municipality" and in less
cultured places painting the town red They
sang songs. gave "cat calls" and hovlcd. The
dwelcrs i'm the vicmtv thought that the inmates
of the insane ward al Bellevue had broken loose
hut they were vrong-it WAS only % detachment OF
the students of the University Medical COLLEGE wait
ing for ho doors to be opened that they might rush
In and secure seats for the ensuing college year
The seats in the ampthoatie at the college are
numbered, and the students keep through the year
the seats (which they occupy at tie first lecture
Though the acoustic properties of the ampthc
ntrr are good. and the words of 20 lecturer can hc
heard In every part NJ p desirable especially u the
clinical lectures. 60 gct seat as near thc platform
as possible iu order tn sco tho operations Cousc-
Qurutlv every year the gtuiont councglto iu front
OF the college ou the midnight ptccodug thc opcu-
mo- day and at = o'rock.vhcu the doors are 'pouot.
mahc rush for thc drstrabc seats. Naturally there
is some confusion. ana tho waiting students are apt
90 sc' buistcrnus and o. sing such song, as Laur-
igcr llorltus" and " to-ca.chc-luuk'
Yesterday morning thc lun VT, t,,t and furious.
There are male and female ward. of Erleyu, Hos
ptal near Twenty slXth.st, ami n them hc pa
tcuts suffering from Bughts disease. phod fever
and other malad.cs The noise made by the cul-
byro doctors disturbed the patients. and he captain
OF the night watch went out and asked the rlotous
students to Dee quiet, explaining 10 them that they
were disturbing the sick people IN the hospital.
This having no effect, hc telephonei to Police
Headquarters asking that the rioters be dispersed.
The Headquarters authorities tclcgraphcd to the
Eighteenth Precinct Police station directing that
policemen be sent % the college At 0clocl, four
policemen IN charge of round,nan sw0oped down
upon the di-turbcrs Of the peace. The police
ludIclou- application of the club. ben 10 was
seen chat tine police were lu earnest there was wd
stampede. one student is reported 10 have Jumped
INTO tuc river tD AVOID arrest Four students were
seized and taken 20 tine station. where they ent
What remained OF thc night I'm the morning they
were given front seats at the clinical lecture dciV-
cred By Professor Duly at the lorhvllle Police
Court Justice Duffy l.t the students Oft with
repr.maud. on their promising 10 Dee good, with
S, CHIT intervals for retre,hmeut aul rest all. the To-
ma ndcr of Their lives.
DR. Cooper clerk or the University Med cal Col
lcgr 81 Il yesterday: " The students oongrcgate IN
front OF the college every year on the gllt pre-
ling the opening. and tu,re has never been any
trouble before some 0.H ion, person over at DELL
cyue Hosp tai sent tor tine police las night and four
of tie tudcnt we.e arrested The call for the po-
Ice wa, sent 0uf W thout the knowledge of War
den O'IiOule aud he Na, over here today and sad
that Doe very sorry that DC had been done. Two
the students wore severely ciubhcd bv the police
One mau had hi, head injured, and one his kuee
hurt by blows from a policeman. club
The names of the arrested students were >. BAL
lamauOH Emanuel ~chWartZ, James t.. Weeks. and
j. b. Reader. They were not put with the other
prisoners ia the open n" at the lOrkville Police
Court but were permitted to sit outsiie AZ the re-
quest of Policeman Petty. who sand he wO lid be rc
-pgusI bile for them.