The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-19
THEY WILL NOT DOWN
University Boys Will Petition
for q Boarding Club.
MRS. LARSEN ANSWERS THEM
she Says the Grab L. Good and They
want Tee Much-Ths Beys Again
Make R~jsiader 90 Her.

The trouble among the university boys
over their alleged misuse by their land
iady a. the boarding house on the campus
= ssih rife. and q petition for the abaF-
comment Of the boarding house aud the
restoration Of the club system is shout 80
DC presented TO the president Ii is said
that Il viii be very extensively signsd By
the students who are now living at out
aide restaurants.
Mira L. NJ. Larsen, the keeper OF the
boarding house, made statement of her
SIDE OF the case 70 q PosT-IsrxLIfsEScEa
reporter. which may give the true cause OF
the classification among the boys. She
said:
am surprised 20 see what the young
men nave told your paper about my place.
am very sure that they have not given
the secss- Now, in the first place, there
vas nothing secret in the way I got
possession OF the place this year. You
know that was discharged seven weeks
before the end OF the term last year.
Well. when | had gone, the boys hired
another cook, man. He Was so dirty
that whet he left the kitchen at the end
OF the term. II was sight TO behold and
most horrible smelling place. President
oatch looked over the place and came to
the conclusion that he would abolish the
club system. 80 he gave me the house 10
run. allowing me 70 charge 81 IS per week
for board
When school opened some OF the boys.
who were mad because they had not sue
ceeded IN keeping me out o. the job, went
around among the new students and
warned them against my place. As re-
suit great many went out TO board in the
chophouses outside before they tried my
mouse at ell. ] then put a notice In the
school paper. the Pacific Haze. telling
about my house. j did not intend this for
outsiders to read. | would not think of
putting an adveriisemen. In public paper
IKE yours. AS result got good num-
Der OF boarders from among the students.
The story you have tha. | got a large
number OF outside boarders Is untrue; the
largest number ever had vas three, and
they were friends that | took in for ac-
eommodation only. / have only one Of
them now. and he Is n perfect gentleman
and interferes with no one i have never
had so few as three students for boarders;
have thirteen now and l think they are
satisfied. ! assure you that none of them
were ever crowded out by strangers.
1.-The actual fact is. believe that the
boys who were 50 mean as to work against
me at the end of the last term and the be-
ginning OF this are getting tired of stay.
ing at restaurants aud want 10 come back
again, but are ashamed to own IL, and
so try to get me put out. | can say TO
them that If they want TO come back they
will be made welcome: feel no anger to-
ward them.
II don't mind this complaint about the
quality Of the food give the boys. 1t is
natural for them to complain aud grum-
bic. but they can't expect loin steak and
such for 81 IS q week. with fuel and lights
in addition"
Mrs. Larsen showed the reporter over
the kitchen and allowed an inspection of
the food being prepared for supper. There
vas certainly nothing to be complained of
/ in either the state Of the kitchen, which
was very neat indeed. or the quality of the
food. which appeared to be well cooked,
plain and substantial, roast pork and NUT
ton. boiled potatoes. cabbage and apple
sauce. Mrs. Larsen denies that any boy
was ever refused a meal because he was
late in coming in. and says that she is en-
tirely too good in keeping food warm for
stragglers-
In reply to Mrs. Larsen one of the stu
dents said on his own and his companions
behalf:
while perhaps the reporter was misin-
formed to some extent by the committee
of boys that waited on him. still that arti-
Gle was ABOUT the truth of the matter as
it now stands between President Catch.
Last year Mrs. Larsen was discharged
by the manager of the boarding club be-
cause she did not s1it the boys who COM
posed this club. Upon her removal man
cook was hired and matters went on much
more satisfactorily TO those concerned. /
have been informed by the student who
was steward az that time that the expenses
were iessensd after Mira. Larsens removal.
The students that were boarders there at
that time all testify that the board was
much better and that there was more of il,
The new cook scrubbed the kitchen and
dining room regularly once a week, until
the end OF the term, then after nearly all
the boarders had left for their respective
homes, he hired a man TO help him and
they together took all the shelves out of
the pantry and gave that apartment
thorough cleaning. After he had done
this general cleaning up. which took him.
self and help two days. he asked President
Catch TO at least pay for the hep that he
had hired. which he and the steward
thought was proper, since he had cleaned
out dirt that was there when he took pos
session. This dill was refused.
1.-THE students AZ North hall Simply want
possession of what they think, as students
of this state, belongs 10 them. They can
not agree with Mrs. Larsen. or at least
majority of them cannot, for they do not
like her cooking and think that she is not
economical about the kitchen. As one of
the regular boarders there, can say that
the board has averaged very well. though
sometimes il is quito poor. IL Is not fancy
board that we students want, bat plain
substantial food, we'll cooked, and plenty
OF IL three times day. The last seven
weeks of last term this kind OF board cost
us $3.50 per week. with fuel and lights,
and We do not think IL should cost Us more
than that now.
I'VE think that We should not be
A. l. = n
time this term Mrs. Larsen had five regu-
lar boarders who were not students. Two
different times ! came in a few minutes
after the supper bell had rung and was un-
able % get q seat at either table, my place
being occupied by an outsider, and was
fnrann rail- until snTftn one n Al ranassi