Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-30
Captain John c. Chapman Explains
 NEW HAVEN, April 30, 1888.

NEW HAVEN, April 3U, IooS. q. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 There has been since Founders day par ade considerable chin music, talk and won- dering what that ''yellow pony" meant that lead in the procession with the Lancas- terian school boys and why I sheuld be the particular one to lead him. For the benefit of the public that did not attend the school will explain. Those who did attend know all about it by the sad experience they had with him. Running across the schoolroom were desks, I should think forty feet long, beginning inthe rear, say four feet high and tapering down to about one and q half feet and painted a deep yellow. Mir. Lowell would, as he walked around the room, when a bad boy was reported to him, blow his lit- tie whistle and tell the school he was going to give (giYing the boY's name) ride on the yellow poi,y and would take that boy, bend him over one of these desks and give 1t to him with 'his rattan on the most prominently exposed portion of the human anatomy so all the school could see it. When he want ed to give us @ more severe whipping, suck as for playing hockey, etc., he would send us to the door of the little room, and sometimes we would stand there half an honr before he would come. I have seen ten boys there at one time waiting for their doses. Then he would take us singly into the room, make us bend over, put our fingers on @ certain crack in the floor, and you can imagine the rest. He used to call both these styles of whipping "riding the yellow pony" The reason why lead the yellow pony in the procession was that rode the yellow pony in one day twenty-four times. inferred that I was very bad boy, which was not the fact, q was always full of fun and mean to be as long as I live, but like many other things that are wrong in this world did bear then and have borne on my shoulders since, and am doing the same to- day, the faults and misdeeds of others. I don't care, my shoulders are broad.
 Now Mir. Lowell was not infallible, he made mistakes like us all, but with his faults, which were few, every one of us boys loved him heartily and do to-day, and I think it pained him much when he was compelled to whip us. The only mistake ever knew him to make was on that memorable day to him and me when he whipped me twenty-four times, for he learned one thing that day, that he could not govern every boy with the rattan, for when he stopped whipping and talked kindly to me after he had whipped me the twenty fourth time he broke me all up and I do not remember of his ever whipping me again while went to his school, which think was two years or more. have thought ever since that you can catch more flies with 'lasses than with vinegar. It is nothing for boy of thirteen to boast of that he got whip ped that many times in one day, nor thing for man of fifty two years of age to be proud of, but when you come to consider that great good came out of it by teaching MT. Lowell or any other person that all boys cannot be governed by the same line of treatment think person can afford to stand it. Now if any one has got idle curiosity enough to see fac-simile of the yellow pony, if they will call at my office, room G. SIS Chapel street, will take pleasure in showing it, and it will be a good time to order case of Hayward's hand grenade fire extinguishers.
 JOHN G. CHAPMAN.
 N. B.-If the boys who did not get Q badge will call will supply them.