The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-01
FAIRIES WERE OUT.
Halloween Celebrated Royalty
by the Youngsters
ALL MANNER or FRANKS PLAYED
Boys and Girfs Burst Forth In swarms.
CnhEnse Gates. Play "riek Tack
Toe" and Break Hydrauss-

Last night was Halloween. The young
folks were well aware OF the fact long be-
fore. aud they took coed care to remind
the grown folks of il in the time-honored
manner. The prevailing excitement over
the election which IS aifording their elders
rather serious amusement seemed 10 arouse
the youngsters 10 unwonted exertion in
duly celebrating the night when all the
irnps and fairies break loose and play such
pranks. anger the crusty members of So
ciety and Til those of more mercnrial
temper with nerrimenL All over the city
it sas the little folks carnival and how
they did enjoy II
In the vicinity of Twelfth and Madison
gang of $50 youngsters were going about
seeking gates and other brie-a-brac. They
had tin horns, aud the noise made BY these
and their many shouts when they lifted
gate of it. hinges, tore down a clothes line
or rang a door bell sounded like
the applause in a circus when a clown gets
of a Joke that is so ancient that only the
young. who have never heard ii before.
laugh and sholt In few instances girls
OF 8 and 10 were seen with their brothers
clothes on, trying TO talk in boyish tones
and endeavoring TO hide their femininities
tired in a white muslin dress. PLAYED the
girl so well that . fortune is in store for
him if he goes on the stage as femair i'm
perscnator.
At an early hour a mischisvous party of
merrymakers commenced TO hold high
carnival on Ninth street, between James
and Yesler avenue. Sergt. Willard went
to the scene and dispersed the youngsters
before they had carried their marauding
pranks to any serious extent.
At the corner of Depot and Second street
a crowd of boys started an empty cable
spool down the street toward the Sound.
and il ran against hydrsnt on Front and
Depot, breaking II of a few inches above
the ground and causing a stream to hy up
into the air twenty feet high. which COM
pletely deluged the entire vicinity. A
stream of water eighteen inches deep
flowed along the electric railway track,
and 1t was necessary 10 shut of the water
from the main in order TO stop the fiow.
A large t rail vas taken up on the corner
of Depot, near the Front street power
house, aud hurled about promiscuousiy,
but no especial damage was done.
few thoughtful citizens, remembering
former sad experiences on Halloween in
the days of yore. had taken off their front
gates and put them in the cellar. The
yeils OF rage when 1t was found that chill
dren's p-erogatives and Halloween ira
dItions had been thus unfairly interfered
with were something awful to listen TO.
Signs were suspended and hung up to
dry on electric light poles. and the in
genuity of callow minds Was busily emf
ployed in the construction and mainte-
nance of of "tick tack toes" as the little
lads and lasses called them. First string
was tied around q gravel stone, and this
was hung to a door knob or some projec-
ton on the side of q house. Then
another string was tied to the
pendent string In such man
ner that the stone would strike the
door or side Of the house. Then the little
iokers would operate the 'tick tack toe
from a distance until a mystihed house
holder would appear to investigate the
cause of the mysterious tappings. Gener-
ally the little folks were unable to control
themselves, and burst of uncomfortable
merriment would give their hiding place
away.
The fun was fast and furious every
where, and il was not until near midnight
that il ceased. As one little tot expressed
the Joy of the occasion-''it was better'n
circus"
Considering the occasion. things were
strangely quiet at the state university. not
because students have given up their
hilarious custom of making night hideous,
but from the fact that three big guards,
each carrying a club aud pistol, were
stationed about the building. But the
sentries were placed on guard one day too
late, as the students had celebrated the
night previous.
Last Tuesday night q crowd of fifteen or
twenty boys congregated beneath the
shadows OF the trees in the campus and
schemed, knowing that a guard would be
placed over the building the next night.
They proceeded to the school building and
effected az entrance By removing pane
of glass from n window on the east
side. When all had clambered in
they commenced unscrewing the desks
from the floor. One by one desks, benches
and every other removable article of furni-
ture were carried up.tai and piled TO the
southeast corner o: the chapel, aud.
thinking that one of the professors had
sufficient fire in him for the comfort of his
classes, they took the stove away from his
room and added that 10 the heap.
They then took the chapel door from its
hinges and put in on sideways and made
their exit, not forgetting TO replace the
pane of glass which they had removed.
When Jani;or Larson entered the build
ing a. usual al 6. 30 yesterday morning, the
first thing to meet his gaze Was a big
pile of library periodicals in confused
heap in the center OF the main hall He
smellsd rat and sped up the stairs and
into the chapel. The sight that met his
gaze vas not an artistic one. Ga the south
aud east sides of the room on top of the
professors desks we're piled chapel benches
which were beneath huge pile of stu
dents desks, the whole looming Up like
the ruins Of an Rgyption pyramid. The
ianitor vas amazed anu rushed TO the
north ball, where the students sleep.
They we're awakened from sound slumbers
By loud cries of
The chapel is adrift
OF course they we're surprised at hearing
the truth and fifteen Of the bows voiun-
teered 10 lend Thelr assistance They
worked diligently and by O'Clock the
school, rooms were in fairly presentahls
shape.
Yesterday a number OF the students Wis
iteG several West street stores with a view
Of purchasing damaged eggs 10 be used on
the guards. bat the price Of bad eggs had
risen beyond their means