The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-30


 30. lSil. was held the annual parade Of the city fire department-the various | engine companies In uniform hhally l assembling upon the green to try their | skill in throwing water upon the splre of Center church, and large crowd or spectators was In attendance. The engine hose lay across the usual play ground of the students. and AS they were engaged in football, it was oe- casionally trodden upon by them. whereupon they were somewhat per emptoriiy. and as they thought inso- lently. ordered to desist. and as they were rather slow about obeying, the ball was seized by the iiremen. A rush being made to regain 1t, three students were arrested for breach Of the peace and held before the justice In the lower part of the town, where ball was given and the trial adjourned. the whole body of firemen. i've hun dred or more. acting as self-constitu- ted constables to escort the three stu dents before the justice. and bandy- ing complimentary epithets with the crowds of college men who followed along beside them. Later In the day. when the firemen had assembled in their supper hall, stones were hurled against the door of the same, either by students or. more likely, by town boys, who wished to encourage hostilities. and squads of iiremen rallying forth vented their rage upon the few solitary collegians whom they chanced upon. The outrage being reported to head | lac Ia fever heat, and at midnight large crowd of students assembled, stormed the nearest engine house and drove on the watchmen with a shower of brick bats, then overturned and smashed the engine cut up the hose and scattered the fragments in the college yard. Meanwhile the watchmen raised the alarm of fire, bringing an immense throng of excited and hostile men upon the spot; but by the exertion of the city Authorities on one side and the faculty on the other, what threatened to be a serious riot was averted, and by day light of Sunday morning the crowds were made to disperse.
 A fruitless investigation before a grand jury was thrown up unfinished at the end of nine days, but the excite ment over the matter lasted much longer than that, and the riot was the all-absorbing topic of town talk for month or more. In opposition to the Yale Banner, which served as the stu dents mouth-piece, the flremen or their friends put forth a diminutive four page sheet called the City Guard and Moral Scavenger" which made three appearances-Novemb 13, 20 and De- cember 3. The heading bore repre- sentation of the blind goddess" with the motto Justice to all" and the price was four cents per copy. While the Banner devoted itself chiefly to censuring the unfairness. illegality and needles brutality shown in making the original arrests, the Guard paid espe- cial attention to the assault on the en- zine house; though both devoted much space to the interchange of personal compliments and the calling of names. one being called the ''city blackguard and immoral scavenger," and the other the "banny." The three students who were arrested, after having their trial postponed two or three times-seeming- | might prejudice their r-cases--were made to pay fines and costs, though apparent ly they should have been paid damages for the brutal assaults committed on them by the firemen
 It was a dozen years later. that the next town and gown outbreak hap pened-on the night of Friday, March l17, 1854 The evening previous half dozen students had attended theatri- cal performance at Homan's Athenae- um, in the Exchange building, corner of Church and Chapel strets, and one or two of them on rising to adjust their shawls, had been greeted with cries of Down in front" from the gods in the gallery" To this some such response as when we get ready" was made and replied to by growls of Hustle out the monkeys!' groans and so on. At the close of the performance the students on reaching the street were pitched upon by large crawd of town ies and knocked down, though not un- til they had made a good resistance and drawn friends to their rescue by their cries of "Yale!' Vale" The pp- lice soon restored order by the arrest of the rabble's ringleader and one or two others, all of whom were dis charged an hour or two afterwards on their promise to keep the peace. ':sc
 On Friday night forty or fifty stu dents attended the theater and sat down~in a body, while ten times that number of townies gathered outside the building, and by raising an alarm of fire just as the performance was about to close, increased their number to 1900 or 1,5O0 Meantime with shrieks, Iyells and cries they dared the students l to come out A paper was passed around among the latter requesting them to remain after the close of the show until the rest of the audience had withdrawn. Then, at the direction of the captain, of police, they formed two by two and silently marched out and crossed to the sidewalk on the south side of Chapel street, the rabble follow ling close upon them with shrieks, hoots and imprecations. The students kept Ion their march towards the colleges funtil opposite Trinity church, when, fupon their beginning to sing "Gaudea- Emus," the mob which filled up the street brought them to, halt with a tshower of stones, clubs and brickbats, tby which several of their number were knocked down and badly injured. Picking up the wounded they again moved on, only to be stopped by a q T.