Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-16
THE NAVAL ACADEMY.
The Annual Report Treats Of the Sub
ject of HaZing.

ject of Hazing.
The annual report of the superintendent of
! the United States naval academy was made
public to-day. The total number of cadets
now at the academy is 237 In May, 1888, II
candidates were examined and AZ passed; in
| September 6S were examined and Al passed
At the annual examination in June, 10 cadets
failed to reach the required standard. Three
| OF these were in the second class, while the
third and fourth classes constituted men
| each. During the year one cadet was dis
missed for bad conduct.
Thirteen of the third class were tried for
| hazing fourth-class men on board the practice
| ship. Nine OF these were recommended for
dismissal by the court, but were pardoned by
the President. Every effort, the report says,
viii be made to wipe out the last traces of this
Objectionable practice, and with this object in
view all class organizations in either the third
or fourth classes have been forbidden. These
organizations have been used to perpetuate
hazing and to compel obedience to the die
tates Of the class on the part of its members,
thus depriving individuals of conscientious
and independent action.
Twenty-three cadets presented themselves
for final examination in May last All passed
the mental examination, but two failed physi-
cally. Concluding, the report says: "Of those
who passed, thirteen have been appointed en-
signs in the navy, and nine have been honora-
bly, discharged. l beg to renew my recon-
mendation that those cadets who pass the final
examination at the end of six years, and for
whom there are no vacancies in the naval serv-
| ice, be appointed to any vacancies that may
exist In the revenue marine"
COMMANDER HARRINGTON ON HAz1Na.
Commander p F. Harrington, commanding
the practice ship Constellation, makes sup
Elemental report, in which he treats of hazing
as follows:
'Hazing usually originates in jocular pass
ages between third-c1ass cadets and those re-
Gently admitted into the academy. 1t is some
times the result of a deliberate assumption of
superiority on the part of the third-class cadet
and an attempt to compel the new cadet to ad-
dress the older one with particular and unusual
marks OF respect and submission. In either
case, when the new cadet shows any spirit of
independence or resistance, he is said to have
too much gall, and the third-class cadet pro-
ceeds to teach him greater respect for his
own position and authority by compelling him
to eat soap, drink vinegar. chew water-closet
paper, or stand him ON his head. If the fourth
class cadet still resists, fight results, though
not between the new cadet and his prosecutor
The third-class cadets choose their champion,
and vigor in the gymnasium, and
usually the new unframed cadet gets a beating.
When these affairs excite inquiry the fourth
class cadets shrink from giving information,
fear of being ostracised or put in coventry
the third-class cadet evades Investigation and
Is often led into falsehood. During the prac-
tice cruise the third class went even further in
supporting hazing, putting themselves as a
class in a position Of resistance to the law.
Many members of the class opposed this action,
but they submitted to the determination Of
their class. This state of affairs brought aboul
a court-martiai, and the conviction of nine
third-class cadets. The practice of hazing and
such as not permitting them to drink milk, or
to visit certain parts of the ship or academy
ground used by the third-class men, is democrat
izing to the older cadets and destructive of the
sels-respect of the younger ones"
A Charge Of HOUSEKEEPING.
TWO YOUNG MEN ON TRIAL FOR RoBBINa A
RESTAURANT.
In the Criminal Court, Judge Montgomery,
this morning, Leonard Fnnecum and Edward
Cunningham, two young white men, were on
trial on the charge of HOUSEKEEPING and the
larceny of $40 from the restaurant of Geo. NJ.
Hoffman, on July last.
Charles Queen, a colored man, testified that
the defendants and others were with witness in
| the restaurant Sunday morning, and in the
afternoon he saw the defendants leaving the
place and went with them to a vacant house,
where they divided the money and buried
some. but the witness refused to take any of it.
On cr0ss-examination by Mr.. Cahiil the wit
ness said that while the three men were under
arrest he told the officers what he knew. He did
not know why they took him to the vacant
house and showed him the money. He denied
that he had broken into the place.
Officer Smith testified that Finnicum said he
would not have broken into the saloon had he
not been drinking.
The defense is that Queen was seen about
the place and that he admitted that he got the
money and the boys could not have been at the
| saloon at the time Of robbery.
In rebuttal, Green was recalled and testified
that Cunningham offered to pay him If he
would leave town.
CHARGED WITH EMBEzzLINa $l0.--Jesse
Gray, colored, was held in $500 bail by Judge
Miller to-day on charge of embezziine ei0
from his employer, Mr.. Lockwood Rines. GRAY
was given $40 BY his employer to purchase
eggs, and it is alleged he failed to return with
either the eggs Or money. A warrant was is-
sued for his arrest, but the officers were unable
to find him until yesterday, when he visited
police headquarters and told Detective Ran
that he had been looking for him for some time.
as he wanted to give him some information
He was locked up in default Of bail.
RANGE or THE THKRNoNxrxR.-Thefo following
were the readings ct the signal Office to-day: 3
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