The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-30
Sep York Herald.

Ser York Herald.
Strange and inhuman as it may seem,
there is a large and constantly growing
element in this community that is be-
coming very weary of the p%ost-football
delirium OF the college hordes that in
fest New York's theatres and thorough
fares on each succeeding Thanksgiving
night.
These objectors to the B%acchanalian
reyels of the flower of the youth of our
neighboring colleges are not the old TO-
gies or croakers, but are of that Inauen-
tial class which, while it does not find
anything offensive in innocent fun, is
decidedly and positively opposed to en-
c~ouraging tho development Of the
worst qualities in the young, and de-
cidedly in favor Of protecting citizens
in the enjoyment of their rights against
the insolent license Of any kind OF a
mob.
The sentiment of q majority Of New
Workers is decidedly in favor OF the
abolition Of such preposterous nonsense
as was Haunted in the city's thorough
fares and in places OF amusement on
the night succeeding the Yale-Princeton
football game. Fun and enthusiasm are
always to be tolerated, if not enjoyed,
but when they are mixed up with meal
culable quantities OF whisky, beer and
wine, SO that your intelligent collegian
is converted for the time into a wild
eyed lunatic, shouting profanity and
yelling obscenity, not to speak OF more
vigorous and violent attractions OF
d%ecency, it is time for this great metro
politan city to assert itself. 1t is in
order then to teach the callow collegian
that while he may so deport himself in
New Haven or Princeton, he cannot be
permitted, under any conditions, to
celebrate a triumph with drunkenness
in New York.
ARE COLLEGE MEN TO BLAME2
The friends of the college boys have
been heard to declare that the blame
for the disgraceful riots should be placed
where it belongs-upon the G%reatrabble
OF irresponsible roysterers who, having
not tho remotest connection with any
college, vet seize upon the occasion as
the excuse for i~ndulging in an uproari-
Gus spree. But, Notwithstanding the
communicating presence Of these rank
outsiders, it is still undeniable that the
college celebrators were the prime fac
tors in the noise and ~vulgarity of the
affair. They set the pace, the others
merely followed.
The orderly people who paid for seats
in a theatre on Thanksgiving night
were cheated out of thei: just rights.
1t was easy to sec that many Of these
amusement lovers were annoyed at not
being allowed to witness the play or
entertainment oil their choice without
constant Interruptions in the shape OF
Yale yawps or Princeton yells. At Kos
ter & Balls, where the show was shut
down nearly two hours before the usual
closing hour, there was serious cause for
complaint on the part of the bona fde
box or seat holders.
TIMoRoUs POLICE OFFICIALS.
That the police are fully competentto
deal with this question cannot be
doubted, and that they have not done
so before now can only be assigned to a
fear OF running counter to public opin-
ion. In other words, the superintend-
emit and his aides have hitherto imag-
ined that the people enjoyed the college
boys' "fun" and would feel aggrieved
were it left out Of the Thanksgiving day
programme. .
superintendent Byrnes, like a good
many well meaning people, has proba-
bly, imagined that he was doing the pop
ular thing in suffering Yale and Prince
ton to run the city on Thanksgiving
night.
Butthis is not the sober sense OF the
people, and the belief that the thing is
a nuisance and should be suppressed
has been growing stronger from year to
year. In the future the people OF this
city will expect decisive action on the
part OF the authorities in reference to
this abuse. They don't want it, and
what is more they will not have it.
AS soon as Superintend0n Byrnes re-
Allies this we shall spend u Thanks
giving nights in peace, and also be able
to take our wives and daughters to the
theatre after a football game without
the fear OF their being insulted.
REV. DIR. PETERS SPEAKS OUT.
In the prelude to his sermon last
night the Rev. Madison O. Peters, Of
the Bloomingdalo Reformed Church, ex-
pressed himself freely on this subject.
He spoke as follows:
students must have their times OF
sport, and it is not necessary that We
bring the hours Of recreation under too
rigid scrutiny OF reason. Sin commit
ted in the pursuit of pleasure is rs sin.
full as il done for the sake Of profit.
Thanksgiving Day among the people
generally has moro to do with the
stomach than with the service Of God,
and with the students especially it has,
within recent years, become the day
when lads get on their first spree.
"The sights enacted in our city on
Thursday night by the college men, the
taking possession of saloons, breaking
up theatres. blowing horns in peoples
faces, kissing unprotected women on
the public streets, carrying them on
their shoulders, drinking themselves
drunk, shouting themselves hoarse.
singing with Bowery tough bravado,
Here's togood whisky, drink her down.
were a disgrace to our civilization, and
the colleges and universities which
tolerate such d~epravities should be con-
sistent and drop tho name OF Christian.
SEVERE WORDS.
"a thousand wild Indians or monkeys
turned loose could not have acted worse
than did the respectable sons OF pray
ing mothers from colleges and univera,